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[ACS][Kernel][Odin] eg30Plus Stock, CWM5 and Plus Tweaks (No root & No BB)

Stock EG30Plus Kernel for Epic Touch 4g compiled from source, properly.
Proper initramfs
ClockworkMod 5 (Compiled by bubby323)
Various Virtual Machine, Kernel and Network Tweaks I've been using in my plus kernels for quite some time...
Bootanimation support, either bootanimation.zip or sanim.zip
init.d support
Does NOT install Root
Does NOT install Busybox
Odin the tar.md5 file
Immediately update profile
Made this one for cnz, calkulin, and crawrj
http://www.forums.acsyndicate.net/s...-Plus-Tweaks-(No-root-and-does-not-install-BB)
Source:
https://github.com/chris41g/EG30Plus
Thanks to qbking77 for the how to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kExN-Y2pfxA
Thanks to:
bubby323
Drockstar
Johncorleone
pyrostic
rjmjr69
nubecoder
thefredelement
cnz
calkulin
crawrj

Not sure why but the .tar file is followed by a .md5 extention, so I just removed it and it became a .tar, just for others to know, thanks

the md5 extension is so you know it hasnt been messed with, and so you know the download is not corrupt...
odin flashes md5s and checks the downloads...

What would be the benefit of flashing this versus your other similar kernel? Sorry if this is a stupid question....

Thank you so much. This is perfect. Do have a question. Does this have a new version of cwm or the same one from yesterday? I ask cause the back soft button wasn't working and the storage mounts were reversed. Just checking to see if that has been fixed.
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chris41g said:
the md5 extension is so you know it hasnt been messed with, and so you know the download is not corrupt...
odin flashes md5s and checks the downloads...
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Ok, good to know, thanks for the reply and the lesson

Beejis said:
What would be the benefit of flashing this versus your other similar kernel? Sorry if this is a stupid question....
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It is the same just without root and busybox. He made it for those of us that prefer having root controlled at the system level versus the kernel. You don't lose anything either way. If you use this you have to make sure you are running an already rooted rom. There is less conflict by doing this since most, if not all, roms are already rooted.
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crawrj said:
It is the same just without root and busybox. He made it for those of us that prefer having root controlled at the system level versus the kernel. You don't lose anything either way. If you use this you have to make sure you are running an already rooted rom. There is less conflict by doing this since most, if not all, roms are already rooted.
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Once again thanks for you help. One last stupid question before I retire from stupidity, but how do I know which way I am rooted? I thought the only way to root was FROM the kernel. I ask because I'm specifically on midnight rom v2 and have no clue which way I'm rooted.

Is there any way someone could upload a mirror to a different site? I'm wanting to flash this but I'm at work and my company is blocking the site that the link is for. If you can that would be awesome if not, no big deal. I'll try and get it when I get home.
Edit: Nevermind. Managed to get it from my phone.

I can up it to megaupload if that helps Tiffany.
Link deleted.

crawrj said:
It is the same just without root and busybox. He made it for those of us that prefer having root controlled at the system level versus the kernel. You don't lose anything either way. If you use this you have to make sure you are running an already rooted rom. There is less conflict by doing this since most, if not all, roms are already rooted.
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I already rooted via odin with your Deodex method, if I flash this, I'll have CWM and still keep root...correct? My phone has been running great since using your method.
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rickyq12 said:
I already rooted via odin with your Deodex method, if I flash this, I'll have CWM and still keep root...correct? My phone has been running great since using your method.
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I just flashed this and I have CWM and I kept root so you should be good.
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Tiffany84 said:
I just flashed this and I have CWM and I kept root so you should be good.
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rickyq12 said:
I already rooted via odin with your Deodex method, if I flash this, I'll have CWM and still keep root...correct? My phone has been running great since using your method.
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Yes you will keep root cause the rom is rooted. As long ad the rom is rooted the kernel doesn't need to. be.
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Tiffany84 said:
I just flashed this and I have CWM and I kept root so you should be good.
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Cool, thanks for letting me know. I take it as you were rooted prior to this method. I'll flash once I get home from work.
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rickyq12 said:
Cool, thanks for letting me know. I take it as you were rooted prior to this method. I'll flash once I get home from work.
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Your welcome. And yes, I was rooted prior to this.
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Just curious, if someone has flashed chris' previous kernel, what benefit is there supposed to be? Is it not the same stock kernel with some tweaks? Especially if you're concerned with losing root. Not singling anyone out, just curious as to the rationale.
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Thanks to qbking77 for the how to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kExN-Y2pfxA

Vegasden said:
Just curious, if someone has flashed chris' previous kernel, what benefit is there supposed to be? Is it not the same stock kernel with some tweaks? Especially if you're concerned with losing root. Not singling anyone out, just curious as to the rationale.
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Because kernels that have forced copying of root & busybox cause issues when you start using complete custom ROMs because they overwrite files that are already included. Plus if your including a custom recovery, what the point of including root, etc when the user can now flash what they want?
Also, Chris, the recovery you have included in this won't mount the internal storage or even make a backup to it or recover, it only wants to use the external sd card and since I don't use one because of the delay it causes coming from sleep, I can't do anything except test flash stuff

I flashed this around noon and once my phone rebooted, I updated my 'profile' under 'about phone'. Everything seemed fine, an hour later...I had a LOS, rebooted and got it back, an hour later, same thing...LOS. Rebooted and I updated the profile again, it's fine for now.
Do we have to update profile every time we do a reboot??
Didn't have any issues when in stock.

No roms for our phone in rom manager

Does anyone know why rom manager doesn't list any roms for our phone?
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Cause Rom Manager doesn't support our phone?

So it's never going to support our phone?
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rom manager usually only has cyanogenmod anyways. besides you wouldn't even be able to flash it through rom manager anyways.

Correct, Rom Manager has never supported ROM Flashing for the E4GT

I flash through ROM manager all the time.
It doesn't list roms for the reason the previous person stated. Basically, it only supports cyanogen for that feature. So, even though I use it to flash roms, it is basically useless. The only reason I ever use it is because I am lazy and hate holding 2 buttons down in the far chance that it will boot in recovery and I dont have to reboot and start over. But, with custom shutdown menus being more popular
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kc_exactly said:
I flash through ROM manager all the time.
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What??? What Roms do you flash? I have tried numerous times and it never works for me.

kc_exactly said:
I flash through ROM manager all the time.
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lmao. no you flash through clockwork mod recovery all the time. you cannot flash throughout rom manager. I know because I have tried. if you were able to then how did you do it? or was this a troll comment?

patrao_n said:
lmao. no you flash through clockwork mod recovery all the time. you cannot flash throughout rom manager. I know because I have tried. if you were able to then how did you do it? or was this a troll comment?
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LOL aha that is what I thought he meant, threw me off there for a second though.

Don't the devs have to submit the links to their roms to rom manager? Has anyone done this? Many times the roms on rm aren't the most recent if development is pretty active.

even if rom manager had the roms. currently they can't be flashed through the program. rom manager just hangs. even when trying to simply backup.

Sorry, you know what I meant. I tend to confuse sometimes.

kc_exactly said:
Sorry, you know what I meant. I tend to confuse sometimes.
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its cool lol. I just had a really long agonizing discussion with my brother about it too. he came from a hero as did I and swore up and down he was flashing from the program rom manager not through recovery on this phone.

ROM Manager

I've had Rom Manager Pro for along time now since my first Android and I was wanting to know if our phone uses it at all?
I don't see our model on the list but on one of my other phones we kinda shared one with another phone do we do that if we don't have a main one?
And what's that recovery touch? Has anyone every used that? Sounds pretty cool lolz
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Linux215 said:
I've had Rom Manager Pro for along time now since my first Android and I was wanting to know if our phone uses it at all?
I don't see our model on the list but on one of my other phones we kinda shared one with another phone do we do that if we don't have a main one?
And what's that recovery touch? Has anyone every used that? Sounds pretty cool lolz
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Yes it does. I use it all the time. Do NOT use any form of touch recovery. There is one out there that is safe but right now do NOT use touch recovery.
Touch recovery has been blamed for bricking phones best to steer clear of it altogether.
There are some issues with Rom Manager, I'm sure someone will let you know. FYI, Rom manager uses a v5.0.2.7 CWM based recovery for our phone. Do not use it with any of the ICS based roms, cwm is not compatible with them currently.

Witch ones are safe to use ?
And thank you for your last post
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Linux215 said:
Witch ones are safe to use ?
And thank you for your last post
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The gingerbread based ROMs usually come with a kernel that has recovery built-in so those are safe to use the way they are.
Can't emphasize enough though not to use recovery in ICS though.

Thanks,
but I was more asking is there a sections for our phone in the list in Rom Manager .
Also can I just click the flash recovery at the top of the App and is our phone in the list where you click download roms and it has a list of Rom updates and stuff like that?
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Linux215 said:
Thanks,
but I was more asking is there a sections for our phone in the list in Rom Manager .
Also can I just click the flash recovery at the top of the App and is our phone in the list where you click download roms and it has a list of Rom updates and stuff like that?
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Ah gotcha. First of all, I wouldn't recommend using rom manager to do anything but backups and restores. Yes, you can click Flash ClockworkMod Recovery, make sure you select the 'Samsung Epic 4G Touch'.
Lastly, I have no friggin clue what those roms/rom updates are listed there and how they get flashed or what would happen if something goes sideways so I stick with the XDA known and tried roms that you can get support for.
You cannot use Rom Manager because these need to be flashed according to the instructions posted with each rom. They are almost identical and its very easy to do.
Short version is, I recommend Rom Manager as an easy way to backup and restore your android OS from an interface. Beyond that, I think you're taking unecessary risks. There's a thread around here somewhere about how Rom Manger is very very bad.

I would recommend you read the instructions for any thread you are planning on utilizing closely and follow the directions listed in those threads. Don't assume past Android experience gives a license to skim the reading. Every phone is slightly different and has nuances that can become issues of glossed over. There are often reasons why the instructions are written the way they are.

I've had this phone for a while now, I was just re installing some apps and seen it and just wanted to know if it had a section for our phone that's its
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when I use rom manager to do a back up I have to remove the battery for it to work.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Tungsten c said:
when I use rom manager to do a back up I have to remove the battery for it to work.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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You should not use rom manager, especially if you are on an ICS rom. It needs to install its own version of cwm and could royally mess up the phone.
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Thank you.....is there a way to get its own version of CWM?
Is there a utility that we can use instead or just better to turn of phone and volume up
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Tungsten c said:
Thank you.....is there a way to get its own version of CWM?
Is there a utility that we can use instead or just better to turn of phone and volume up
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Best bet is what you said - Power Off, then power+volume up to get into a recovery. As for recovery Agat's has been great! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721065 and there are some specifically for CM9 and AOKP so if you plan on flashing any of those check those threads.

[ROM][CM9][AOKP] Temporary Stock E4GT from emmc

Epic Touch Blog: Temporary Stock E4GT from emmc
Utility for CM9 Epic Touch
This is a temporary ROM that boots Samsung's Gingerbread EL29 firmware entirely from emmc without making any changes to the ROM currently installed on your phone. When you reboot, you return to recovery where you can re-flash the ROM to return to CM9. This temporary ROM is useful for several purposes.
Update Profile.
Update PRL.
Sprint Activation.
Dial codes and diagnostic mode.
This should be helpful to users of any AOSP-based ROM including CM9, AOKP, etc.
Thanks to noobnl and mkasick for making this possible!

Really nice thanks a lot.

Awesome can't wait to test it out
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. This will come in hand
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wilderckw said:
. This will come in hand
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Its a great tool and easy to use. Was testing earlier today.
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Would this work to flash .zip updates (such as kobridge) or updated ROMs (such as alpha5)?

This definitely will come in handy, can I suggest seeing if you can get a video made of how it works. I can honestly say It seems to help out quite a bit in this forum for a lot of people and does cut down on the crazy questions.
Great job though!

bobjase said:
Would this work to flash .zip updates (such as kobridge) or updated ROMs (such as alpha5)?
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You can use the directbootCWM file to update CM9 yes. Not sure about using it for Kobridge tweaks.
playya said:
This definitely will come in handy, can I suggest seeing if you can get a video made of how it works. I can honestly say It seems to help out quite a bit in this forum for a lot of people and does cut down on the crazy questions.
Great job though!
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Maybe qbking can make one for those who need it.
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I'm sorry but what does this do?
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m0j09987 said:
I'm sorry but what does this do?
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Its for AOSP roms. You currently can't update PRL/Profile, activate your device, or use dialer codes on them so this temporarily allows you to boot stock el29 off the SD card without changing your current rom. You can do what i said from there. Saves you time from doing backups, restoring, etc.
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I'm hoping that someone can help me out as I am unable to boot into the temporary ROM. Here are the steps I followed:
1. I have everything extracted to emmc as directed.
2. I flashed directboot CWM utilizing mobile odin which correctly booted me into CWM version 5.0.2.7
3. I flashed boot_EL29.zip at location /emmc/multiboot/EL29 and received the following messages that appear to be correct.
Finding Update Package...​Opening Update Package...​Installing Update...​Boot /emmc/multiboot/EL29/zImage​Create mount symlink.​Remount partitions read-only.​(Re)mount /emmc read-only.​Unpack kexec.​Load zImage and initramfs.​Sync.​Reboot into zImage.​Install from sdcard complete.​4. At this point I expected the phone to reboot into the temporary rom; however, it just shows the standard recovery menu. No reboot occured.
5. Because no automatic reboot occured, I selected "reboot system now" from CWM. Unfortunately this just brings me back into directboot CWM.
Thanks in advance for any help provided.

I am having the same problem I thought it could have been the downloading or unpacking so I downloaded it again and unpacked it and still have the same problem.

smmlee said:
I'm hoping that someone can help me out as I am unable to boot into the temporary ROM. Here are the steps I followed:
1. I have everything extracted to emmc as directed.
2. I flashed directboot CWM utilizing mobile odin which correctly booted me into CWM version 5.0.2.7
3. I flashed boot_EL29.zip at location /emmc/multiboot/EL29 and received the following messages that appear to be correct.
Finding Update Package...​Opening Update Package...​Installing Update...​Boot /emmc/multiboot/EL29/zImage​Create mount symlink.​Remount partitions read-only.​(Re)mount /emmc read-only.​Unpack kexec.​Load zImage and initramfs.​Sync.​Reboot into zImage.​Install from sdcard complete.​4. At this point I expected the phone to reboot into the temporary rom; however, it just shows the standard recovery menu. No reboot occured.
5. Because no automatic reboot occured, I selected "reboot system now" from CWM. Unfortunately this just brings me back into directboot CWM.
Thanks in advance for any help provided.
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I what having this same issue. There is a different version of direct boot, v3 that you have to use for this.
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All I see is v1 up on the e4gtcm site. Where did you obtain v3 from?

Worked with V3 direct boot Thanks
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just click on the direct boot link and it will bring you to the V3

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All I see is v1 up on the e4gtcm site. Where did you obtain v3 from?
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Nevermind. I found the v3 update. Thanks all!

Anymore questions don't be afraid to ask.
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This sounds pretty cool and I would like to test it... what I don't understand is when I'm done with the temp rom, how do I get back to AOKP? Do I need to reflash the whole AOKP rom? Just the kernel?

epdp14 said:
This sounds pretty cool and I would like to test it... what I don't understand is when I'm done with the temp rom, how do I get back to AOKP? Do I need to reflash the whole AOKP rom? Just the kernel?
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When done updating prl/profile, etc. Just reboot your phone and it will take you back to cwm recovery. From there you can either just reflash the rom or just a compatible kernel so it boots.
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excellent. this could also help people do the gb GPS fix.. sweet man.

Question - CM 10a6 to JB / JellyBean

Hey guys,
I just wanted to start off by saying thank you to everyone involved here - all of the guys answering questions, the coders, the devel guys, the people who sponsor, host the site, everyone involved. I have an SPH-D710 currently running CM 10a6, port by... Darkstar? Something similar to that.
I've read about JBrissen's JB port and I'd like to roll that - it doesn't mention which GApps to flash.
Can anyone tell me which version of GApps to flash / provide a download link?
My main CM10a6 issue is battery life - full battery at 6:30 am this morning, dead battery at 3pm. No real use, calls, or texts; that sucks.
Anywho, if anyone would like to provide a link to the JBrissen & whichever GApps, that's fantastic - if I failed in my search button capabilities feel free to let me know

You failed.
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rovar said:
You failed.
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Jerk.
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Latest JB gapps
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip
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CM9a6 -> CM10
I fully welcomed the fail. I actually work in IT and am used to this kind of thing, but hey, I won't learn by being an arrogant douche, now will I? My work more focuses around datacenter/247 availability. Android is fairly new to me, and mods/roms are new as of ~ 1 week for me. But I digress.
I searched more and think I found what I'm looking for. Has anyone gone thru these steps and bricked?
I'm running CM 9a6 (20120628), kernel 3.0.15 663858. I've been using MobileOdin. I had at some point flashed el29 and rooted, and most recently flashed EL 26, then directbooted CWM recovery, and loaded CM 9a6 from there, wiping data, cache, davlik.
Now, I can boot CWM 5.5.0.4, or I've got a directboot image I can run via mobileodin for el29 v3 something, I've also got stockcwm el26.
My plan is to go to cm10-20120822-unofficial and gappsjb20120726.
Has anyone run thru a similar procedure, and what's the general advice? Just looking to not brick and possibly have the procedure for moving forward should I want to swap roms around.
Let me know if I'm not being clear.

hurrah
so perhaps labeling your images and things correctly is a good idea. I believe I just loaded stock el26 and bricked my phone.
Yay for me. I think I'll leave now before the trolls come out.

Sigh...
If you can enter download mode. Flash the direct boot el26 kernel
Wipe everything
Flash rom
Flash gapps
Profit
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rovar said:
Sigh...
If you can enter download mode. Flash the direct boot el26 kernel
Wipe everything
Flash rom
Flash gapps
Profit
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What he said. You will end up with the yellow triangle... to remove it,you may want to direct CWM flash then go to cm9. Use that triangle remove apk. Then mobile odin flash direct CWM then CM10 though. If you care to remove the triangle.....
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What he said. You will end up with the yellow triangle... to remove it,you may want to direct CWM flash then go to cm9. Use that triangle remove apk. Then mobile odin flash direct CWM then CM10 though. If you care to remove the triangle.....
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Of course wipe between....
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oh, it wasn't just me.
I did some reading, apparently sometimes you need 2 or 3 power cycles.
After 3 power cycles, I'd actually done exactly what you stated above, and I'm now powered by google now.
If I understand correctly, I flashed a kernel that's incompatible with my ROM & recovery, and effectively disabled my phone, sans download mode. Flashing the ready boot el29 gives me the safe recovery for the later rom.
Cheers rover.
Cheers all of xda. With the patience and hard work of this team, forums, and helpful folk like rover and calisro and all of the developers (too many to name), you guys do what Sprint promised and couldn't deliver for 8 months. Finally, a happy customer, and yet what gets me here voids warranties.
Now, to scour how to fix the evil yellow triangle after el26.

Just get to CM9. Then use the triangle removal app in market. Then direct boot CWM and wipe and go to CM10. WINwithout triangle.
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hmm.
do I wipe, CWM to CM9, then triangle, and CWM to CM10? I'm on 10 now
in other news, I saved 2 other boxes. highly wonderful night.

vsfh said:
do I wipe, CWM to CM9, then triangle, and CWM to CM10? I'm on 10 now
in other news, I saved 2 other boxes. highly wonderful night.
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Correct. triangle away doesnt work in JB. If you on jb, nandroid then get back to 9,then restore
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sweet
Awesome.
Question: I've read a lot on modems and PRL and all of that. The JB build I'm using has a 'Check for sprint updates' that wanted to update my profile; is that hte update people were talking about to not do as it caused bugs?
Question 2: ff18/ff30? Not sure on any of this -- there was an update yesterday or hte day before to help battery life. If I'm going to be back on ICS, can I apply this?