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what method is best "cwm", samsung, or OTA. anybody notice any differences between the 3? which one is best if there is a best one?
i am also wondering why my header for the thread dissapeared? well i guess someone else will probably ask the same soon.
For me its cwm since it comes out of devs.
the update.zip will leave your apps and settings, but requires you to be on stock di18 with stock recovery and still have the stock apps and so on.
the odin image wipes everything.
the pre-rooted cwm flashable update also requires di18, but not full stock and will leave your apps and settings as well as give you root.
The "best" way is up to you.
I used the odin method straight to eb13 because I was already using dk28 with ext4 and the genocide kernel. Worked like a charm. Now all I have to do is get ext4 working again.
I used the 200mb tool from samsung. Works best imo.
I was already running dk28, so I just used the Odin tar for the modem, and flashed the genocide kernel. Now just waiting for some devs to release eb13 based roms
I did the sammy method on my phone and it worked without a hitch compared to the ODIN pain in the lucky if you get it to work after 10 times method. my wife had the OTA method. both of our GPS worked really good before and now after it takes up to 10 minutes to get a lock. is this to be expected? is there a fix now that sprint ruined my wifes gps, mine is in violation of the warranty now and is the tester phone.
How is your phone in violation of the warranty? If you odin to stock your in warranty unless you dismantled your phone....? Just curious
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I did oden it back to stock but it never really seemed like it did before. I see that the sammy uninstalled cwm so I think its legit again, and ready to send back if the gps doesnt fix itself.
You've probably heard about the Carrier IQ fuster cluck by now and, if you're like me, are up in arms and want it gone if you have it on your phone. I would suggest that you don't use the removal tool yet...
I am rooted using the "stock" method here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728 and just downloaded the tool from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559&postcount=110 to check for CIQ on my phone (it was there) and purchased the license to remove it, which I also did. I then rebooted the phone as instructed but can't get past the SGS2 splash screen.
Can someone please help me... if I have to flash a new rom, fine - I can accept that. I should have been thinking before I did anything but I had only rooted up to this point and didn't have any Nandroid backups or anything and that's my fault. However, I used the internal phone storage or SD as my primary file location and need to access it to grab my files. Is there any way to do this if my phone isn't booting up?
I read another thread (can't seem to find it now I was on my mobile device), where another person did the same exact thing as you and had to ODIN to stock and start from scratch. The phone isn't bricked, but it's not going to boot now.
I'm disappointed because according to Caulkin's ROM CIQ is removed, but I used the tool you are speaking about as well and it states that CIQ still exists. I was going to pay the .99 and have it removed since that tool supposedly works for Samsung devices, but after reading that other thread and now yours - I'll pass.
I'd recommend re-ODIN'ing your phone, not from experience with the issue but just from what I read from the other thread - you aren't going to have much of another option.
EDIT: Here's the link to the thread with your exact questions pretty much and the answers you can expect - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360988
Ugh. Thanks for the reply... this is so annoying. If I go that route, it's going to wipe all of my internal SD memory, too? I've already lost access to the items on my external card because I had that encrypted... but I used my internal for primary storage and have a LOT of items on there of great importance...
Starting from scratch I can deal with - losing all my files I can't.
What package are you on? It works on EG30, but not on EK02. Framework is different.
Worked find on my EG30. Waiting for it to be updated to the EK02 package. Should be around soon.
Not trying to nitpick, but you should always have at least two backups of your internal and external memory. That's at least what I do, usually I backup all my files once a week and do a NANDroid once a week. Saves the headaches from ever happening.
You could try three-fingering to see if you can get into recovery and see what you can do from there, but I don't think you are really going to be able to do much. This method has been tried and proven to soft-brick your phone.
I was going to attempt this method this morning and then did a simple search on XDA and found it had soft-bricked that guys phone I linked you too. That's all it would have taken...
Good luck.
I have some backups, as well as Titanium Media Sync running and Google+ uploading photos, but there are always gaps. Unfortunately I haven't done a 'hard' full drag and drop back up for a couple of weeks, and you can generate a lot of data in that time.
To tell you the truth I'm a little unsure about how or what it takes to have the ability to do a Nandroid backup. I've done plenty of them in the past but what I mean is that since I just did the stock root method I don't know if I needed to install CWM or something like that to get the ability to do a Nandroid. I just haven't had the time to research that fully so I hadn't done one yet.
For what it's worth, the ****storm about the CIQ thing just really exploded in the last 24 hours or less so I didn't think there was anything to look up about the removal tool. I guess I was so distracted about the BS that is Carrier IQ and just wanted it gone, so I ran the tool without thinking there was a database of information on it already. It was my bad.
In the automated rooting thread, you could choose Option C and select a kernel+CWM to install EG30+CWM and EG31+CWM are provided.
update: Fixed. Whew. Thanks for the suggestions, especially, sfhub. Did as you said over in the other thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728&page=26 ... will post followups there but basically flashed the stock rom in odin and phone booted back up like nothing ever happened. Well, the only difference really was the media scanner took a considerable time longer than usual on that first clean boot. Thank you so much, again, and see you over in the other thread w/ a few more questions...
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I read another thread (can't seem to find it now I was on my mobile device), where another person did the same exact thing as you and had to ODIN to stock and start from scratch. The phone isn't bricked, but it's not going to boot now.
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Unfortunately, that was probably me. I freaked out too but just Odin the stock tar and all is well.....other than now being on E31 and now can't get any ek02 goodness.
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Hi everybody!
I figure we should have a thread dedicated to telling horror stories about flashes gone wrong. Whether it's because of power failures, bad USB cables, poorly labeled packages, or pure user error, we've all had that moment of worry: "Did I just turn my device into a paperweight?"
It's my hope that, by sharing these stories, we can help each other realize that we're all human, we all make mistakes, and most mistakes can be recovered from. Don't be afraid to share your stories; we can't learn from each other's mistakes if nobody talks about them!
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My first story is from my Telus SGS3 (I747M, you'll see why that matters in a moment) and is definitely a user-error kind of story.
I've been playing around with CM10 and its derivatives for the past month or two (got my SGS3 on release day and it wasn't running Samsung software 3 hours later) and I'm not new to Android, having run XDAndroid on my HTC Diamond, and bouncing between CM7 and CM9 on my Milestone. The first thing I did when I got my SGS3 was a full block device backup using DD from the command line, which is the only reason I don't have a paperweight today.
I decided to try out Paranoid Android over a week ago and I've been loving it, so I haven't been flashing much lately. But, when I got back from vacation and saw that CM10 had gone into nightly builds, I couldn't resist the temptation to try a clean install. I've got folders on my SD card for ROMs, GApps, kernels, recoveries, and anything else flashable just to make my life easier. Apparently at some point I downloaded an AT&T (I747, no M) modem, stuck it in a "/modems/" folder with the rest of my flashables, but realized that it wouldn't work on my device, so I never used it. I then promptly forgot that I had put it on the SD card, and it had a fairly cryptic filename. Away I went, flashing CM10, GApps, a nice bootscreen, and... the modem.
Dammit. :crying:
At this point, I was running the newest CM10 build, but with a borked modem. I thought I had fallen victim to the IMEI bug that's been going around, but then I remembered something about that modem file not being usable on a Telus device... And had no idea how to get back to a working state. I already knew that none of my nandroid backups would have the modem in them, and the only "stock" flashables I could find were rooted kernels and a nearly-700MB "stock" package that wouldn't download any faster than 10 kb/s. I couldn't wait 20 hours for a download, I wanted my phone now! I tried using Odin with a few of the TAR packages I found, but that only made my situation worse to the point of failing to boot entirely, even restoring a nandroid wasn't helping anymore.
I started digging through the forums in the hope that someone had ripped the Telus modem into a CWM flashable zip, but had no luck. I tried both the Rogers and Bell modems with the same results. That's when I remembered that I had done a block backup, but I had no idea which block device was the modem, and my phone wouldn't even boot up to let me MTP the files over. I was left with CWM recovery as my only option, and had to ADB push 2.5 GB of .img files to the SD card, and DD them one at a time through the ADB shell.
Somehow, it all worked out, and I was back to running Stock Touchwiz with root, and was then able to restore a nandroid from yesterday and amazingly enough Paranoid Android booted up, happy as ever, and in came my emails and text messages. I know I'm lucky that my IMEI didn't get lost in that mess, but it just goes to show that there's no such thing as a backup being "too extensive". You never know when "mmcblk0p99" needs to be replaced with a known working copy.
I do believe im going to flash a stock/rooted ROM and then do a dd backup.
What options do you set for your backups?
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I did as follows:
Code:
cd /dev/block/
ls
(get the list of mmcblk devices from here)
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/dd/blk0p1 bs=4096
...
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p99 of=/sdcard/dd/blk0p99 bs=4096
Obviously you shouldn't have 99 partitions... but you get the idea. I ran each line manually.
Then just move the /dd/ folder off your /sdcard/ and onto some safe storage.
I bought my device off someone from Craigslist 2 nights ago. Went home with device working great. Decided to update from ICS to JB, downloaded everything on the ol gaming machine, go to update using Kies, then BAM! Hung update, bricks phone immediately. Woo....great experience after dropping $400 on phone lol. Contacted Samsung support who told me my update wouldn't work until I registered? I told him it bricked my phone and it wasn't being picked up by computer anymore and I wanted to go back to ICS, he apparently thought waiting 24 hours would fix driver issues. Found JB official rom and learned about Odin. Worked at it until 2-ish am, never worked, woke up, did ICS instead same method, worked immediately, then update worked.
Moral of story? Don't trust Samsung apparently, go with 3rd party everything....
Can we share from other devices? Because I've had a serious one with my nitro HD lol.
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After having my phone on stock rooted touch wiz since day one I was tempted to go jellybean... So months later I'd say Octoberish I finally said f**k it I'm going aokp... So I ran the task and k toonsen romantic for a while until they started porting the t mobile jelly bean stock tw rom... It made me miss tw and it's awesome camera app... So I flashed it after a week or so upon its release... First thing I noticed was the phone would get txts and phone calls rarely (keep in mind I'm in an lte area) and it became un bare able after about an hour. So I reverted back to my aokp nandroid and just figured I'd call it a day... But when I restored my nandroid my service was still messed up.. So after a bit of gooogling I checked my phone status to find my imei to be 0!!! I was beyond upset... So I tried re flashing stock in Odin and everything else I could find (unfortunately the imei restorer wasn't existent yet) and it came to the point where I left it stock and went to the att repair center down the road... The guy didn't know what was wrong with it and I just played dumb... After about 30 mins he came to the conclusion that my sim card slot was broken and I got a new phone...
After getting this one back home I instantly rooted it again
I've been staying away from those ported tmobile roms ever since
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rani9990 said:
Can we share from other devices? Because I've had a serious one with my nitro HD lol.
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I dont see why not. All stories are interesting lol
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No bad flashes .... Yet?
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Alright then,
It was my first day with the LG Nitro HD. My first smartphone (don't comment xD) and I was prepared to root and flash the living crap out of it. Done with rooting, now to install CWM. Simple enough, right? WRONG. This was the one time where google was not my friend. I followed a horribly misleading guide, and ended up with a paperweight. Turns out I flashed the recovery image to the secondary bootloader partition, thereby bricking my phone completely and utterly, irreparably. Had to ship it off to LG, and they fixed it, no questions asked. Thank God for that...
I had an HTC Touch Pro on Sprint. You had to flash a stock ROM before flashing a new custom ROM or the phone would stop working properly after almost exactly an hour. The file system would become completely messed up but the OS would keep running from RAM. It would fail to reboot after that. It was such a pain that I updated my phone every ~3-4 months.
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This one actually just happened this weekend.
So I finally got bored of having stock ICS on my i747 (Rogers), and since I loved cm 7/9 on my SGS2, I figured I'd go with the latest (15 dec) CM10 nightly.
downloaded to phone, rebooted in recovery, wiped data and cache, and installed the new firmware.
booted up and I've got no (or inconsistant) cell service. Figure it's a bug that hasn't been fixed, so no biggie, I backed up a week ago, so I decided to revert back to stock for the time being.
go through the process, and discover I still only have EDGE data.... WTF?
So I do some reading *AFTER the fact, hur dur...* and discover the IMEI wipe issue, and surprise surprise, I didn't do an NV backup, since I didn't know it'd get wiped.
Spent a couple hours keeping the phone / computer away from the 13 month old while I replace the IMEI NV data.... Still stuck on EDGE.... at least my IMEI is showing up though.
Nick
Odin back to stock worked for me when that happened to me.... YMMV.
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The night I got my phone, I rooted via odin and when it booted, I'd get a framework FC every 90 seconds or so. It took me almost two hours to get cwm recovery on my phone to flash AOKP. Not a brick, but since I hadn't even activated it, yet....not happy.
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Each Phone an Adventure
I can completely relate to all of you. Though I'm new as a member (thought I already had an account but apparently I didn't), I've been using the forum for a long time. I have rooted four phones to date, each with its' own disaster story and happy ending. My latest was the AT&T S3. While not a disaster entirely, the no flash counter guide ended up not working out for me. So I paved my own trail so to speak and I found all the root dependencies (Recovery, ROM, the works) by myself. The entire process took me about a day. I also used TriangleAway which threatened explosions if anything went wrong and thankfully nothing did. I'm glad I never had to send a phone back, I've always been very cautious about any type of flashing and always read the forum before doing it.
When I was on the captivate, I really wanted JB so I thought I could grab the Nexus S JB ROM cause the devices were so close to each other. Flashed it via Odin. Good God was that a mistake. I couldn't get back to download mode using the button combo since the button mapping was all switched up. I had this one cable that would give me bad connection, so I jiggled that around in the port for 35 minutes trying to get download mode. Finally, I got it and flashed the stock package. Learned my lesson, will never flash something from a different phone or anything that won't work 100%.
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When I was on the captivate, I really wanted JB so I thought I could grab the Nexus S JB ROM cause the devices were so close to each other. Flashed it via Odin. Good God was that a mistake. I couldn't get back to download mode using the button combo since the button mapping was all switched up. I had this one cable that would give me bad connection, so I jiggled that around in the port for 35 minutes trying to get download mode. Finally, I got it and flashed the stock package. Learned my lesson, will never flash something from a different phone or anything that won't work 100%.
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The thing about the Captivate was, no matter what ROM you flashed, the jig ALWAYS worked. It saved my ass quite a few times, until that is, the memory in the phone decided to die. I could flash through Odin as much as I wanted and it would pass everytime, but never go past the boot animation.
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The thing about the Captivate was, no matter what ROM you flashed, the jig ALWAYS worked. It saved my ass quite a few times, until that is, the memory in the phone decided to die. I could flash through Odin as much as I wanted and it would pass everytime, but never go past the boot animation.
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Flash stock GB with forgot name of kernel baked in. After that in cwm recovery partition external SD card.. then reflash in Odin then install whatever ROM u want
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Trying to use Kies to flash anything. That's always a bad story for me
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Don't attempt to explain to a friend of little flashing knowledge how to root their phone. He hard bricked my phone. Odin is easy if you read but he turned it into rocket science and yeah.. Had to wait for another phone
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Well let me begin by saying I have a Galaxy Nexus and have been flashing roms, etc like it's going outta style. It's very simple to me and I am no newb. So with this logic in mind, I got a brand new GS3 the other day and proceeded to do the same. First, it took my a while to realize there are so many variants of our phone, then when I did a search I saw that there was a i9305 that is LTE....you already know where this is going. I figured that was the correct variant, spent like an hour trying to install a recovery because of the auto wipe feature and thus increasing the flash counter to 10+ (wtf!). Finally I download a rom, flash it. Freezes half way through (knew that wasn't good) and when I pull the battery, BAM, bricked phone.
After some more reading, not only did I find out the correct way of flashing to not increase the counter but also that the Canadian versions are the i747! Luckily it happened a day after I got it and I switched it out for a new one. Moral of the story: If you are flash happy and think all phones are like the Nexus, that's your biggest mistake! lol
I am a new arrival to the SGS3 as of two weeks ago. I came over from the EVO 4G and have been flashing various roms etc for the last year. I rooted my phone, flashed a couple roms on it and now all of a sudden, I see a safe mode happening on my phone. It pops up a little box that says SAFE MODE in the lower left of the screen and some of my programs don't appear in the app drawer, and when I do "find them' they won't run (like Mobile Odin). There are more apps that don't show but that is the only one that comes to mind. Once I had my phone rooted, I copied the contents of my sd card from my evo over to the new phone.
Sometimes restoring a nandroid will "fix" my phone and sometimes not. And so far (the last 4 days) it has not fixed it for long. I'll go to put it in the frame for my case and I'm not sure if I hiit the power button or it random rebooted but when I turn it on or it comes on, it is back in safe mode.
I'm contemplating using mobile odin to flash stock firmware etc on to the phone and then wiping my sd card and starting from scratch. Do I partition my card? Mobile Odin doesn't see or recognize any partitions now and I never intentionally partitioned it. What should I wipe besides sd card, storage? System? Data? All help appreciated. I am a little lost .... make that a lot lost.....
TIA
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I am a new arrival to the SGS3 as of two weeks ago. I came over from the EVO 4G and have been flashing various roms etc for the last year. I rooted my phone, flashed a couple roms on it and now all of a sudden, I see a safe mode happening on my phone. It pops up a little box that says SAFE MODE in the lower left of the screen and some of my programs don't appear in the app drawer, and when I do "find them' they won't run (like Mobile Odin). There are more apps that don't show but that is the only one that comes to mind. Once I had my phone rooted, I copied the contents of my sd card from my evo over to the new phone.
Sometimes restoring a nandroid will "fix" my phone and sometimes not. And so far (the last 4 days) it has not fixed it for long. I'll go to put it in the frame for my case and I'm not sure if I hiit the power button or it random rebooted but when I turn it on or it comes on, it is back in safe mode.
I'm contemplating using mobile odin to flash stock firmware etc on to the phone and then wiping my sd card and starting from scratch. Do I partition my card? Mobile Odin doesn't see or recognize any partitions now and I never intentionally partitioned it. What should I wipe besides sd card, storage? System? Data? All help appreciated. I am a little lost .... make that a lot lost.....
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I'd Odin back to stock using non-mobile Odin. Sometimes helps to start fresh and Odin on the computer is far safer.
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I'd Odin back to stock using non-mobile Odin. Sometimes helps to start fresh and Odin on the computer is far safer.
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Well..... I tried mobile Odin and a stock leak and went through just like the op said in mobile Odin and when I came up I was in a fresh aokp. With factory reset. Opened play store 85 apps d/l on their own. So far, no safe mode. This is weird.
If I wind up in safe mode again I'll try your suggestion. What should I wipe and should I be partitioning??
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In August I bought a SGS2 for my wife, and a SGS3 for myself...
Her phone's running stock non-rooted ICS.
It has some software loaded but nothing too extreme... the ICS update was installed via Kies, and her phone was wiped. - (she wasn't very happy with me when that happened). She uses the stock TW launcher, and stock lock screen, nothing exciting...
Periodically (generally after the phone's been on for several days) the phone pauses and tends to kind of stop... (it'll stop while flipping pages on the launcher)... and it will kind of sit there... and sometimes it requires a reboot... and/or potentially a battery pull...
I haven't pulled a logcat on it yet (not sure if I have the drivers loaded for that at this point think I do... )
She's afraid to let me root the phone because I might "screw up" her contacts, etc...
Thoughts?
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In August I bought a SGS2 for my wife, and a SGS3 for myself...
Her phone's running stock non-rooted ICS.
It has some software loaded but nothing too extreme... the ICS update was installed via Kies, and her phone was wiped. - (she wasn't very happy with me when that happened). She uses the stock TW launcher, and stock lock screen, nothing exciting...
Periodically (generally after the phone's been on for several days) the phone pauses and tends to kind of stop... (it'll stop while flipping pages on the launcher)... and it will kind of sit there... and sometimes it requires a reboot... and/or potentially a battery pull...
I haven't pulled a logcat on it yet (not sure if I have the drivers loaded for that at this point think I do... )
She's afraid to let me root the phone because I might "screw up" her contacts, etc...
Thoughts?
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Back up contacts to sim card or sd card. Then root it and put a good custom rom on it. It should run alot better after that.
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Tell her to save contacts to Google account
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I agree with ArcticFish and then Odin back to Android 2.3.6 or Android 4.0.4 using this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359 . A fresh copy via Odin cures many symptoms. If you take the time to read the thread you’ll have no problems. Of course you can always come back here and ask for help.
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In August I bought a SGS2 for my wife, and a SGS3 for myself...
Her phone's running stock non-rooted ICS.
It has some software loaded but nothing too extreme... the ICS update was installed via Kies, and her phone was wiped. - (she wasn't very happy with me when that happened). She uses the stock TW launcher, and stock lock screen, nothing exciting...
Periodically (generally after the phone's been on for several days) the phone pauses and tends to kind of stop... (it'll stop while flipping pages on the launcher)... and it will kind of sit there... and sometimes it requires a reboot... and/or potentially a battery pull...
I haven't pulled a logcat on it yet (not sure if I have the drivers loaded for that at this point think I do... )
She's afraid to let me root the phone because I might "screw up" her contacts, etc...
Thoughts?
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Grab Call log backup and sms back up from the play store and back them up as well before rooting. Will not lose anything that way and of course backup contacts.
One of her concerns is contacts. (Specifically the joining between those stored in Facebook vs those stored in Google.)
I'd thought I could basically Odin either cwm or tarp, make a nandroid, and then flash a supersu zip, and then use titanium backup to back it up...
Sounds like there's potential value to work on her to let me switch her Rom...
I know the stock Rom Odin file for the s3 doesn't wipe data... does the one fir the s2 wipe the data partition?
Also it's there a Odin file for the s2 that already has root injected like for the s3? (I looked, but didn't see one)
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One of her concerns is contacts. (Specifically the joining between those stored in Facebook vs those stored in Google.)
I'd thought I could basically Odin either cwm or tarp, make a nandroid, and then flash a supersu zip, and then use titanium backup to back it up...
Sounds like there's potential value to work on her to let me switch her Rom...
I know the stock Rom Odin file for the s3 doesn't wipe data... does the one fir the s2 wipe the data partition?
Also it's there a Odin file for the s2 that already has root injected like for the s3? (I looked, but didn't see one)
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Yes there is an Odin file to go back to Android 2.3.6 and root via Odin. Please this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414341 come back with questions I’ll do my best to help you.
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Yes there is an Odin file to go back to Android 2.3.6 and root via Odin. Please this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414341 come back with questions I’ll do my best to help you.
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I just wondered if there was a thread like this for the SGS2... pre-rooted stock odin for SIII...
Ugh.... ICS absolutely sucked when it came out for hercules.
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So it almost sounds like I should avoid UVLH1 on this phone... since I keep getting suggestions to revert to 2.3.6...
Look scifan, ICS 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 updates came through Kies and it corrupted some files along the way. One solution was to clear the cache and that help many people. I think if you wipe your phone properly before Odin. It’s pretty darn stable. This is my observation via trial and error.
This is also how I wipe my phone clean before Odin or flashing any rom.
*wipe data/factory reset
*wipe cache partition
*go to Mounts and Storage and select format /system
*go to advanced and Wipe Dalvik Cache
*Fix Permissions
just do the suggested backups, wipe and flash the newest Jedi rom. Its runs perfectly and looks completely stock
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