Hey guys i know this might be a stupid question but im kinda new to this stuff so try not to get mad.
Yesterday i flashed cm9 and everything went well, but i dont like that way it looks and i want a more stock look so i want to go to FE16. Can i flash Fe16 through odin right now how my phone is with the cm9 or do i need to go back to gingerbread and flash it that way? and if thats the case, whats the best way to flash gingerbread?
If you want to, yes, you can odin the entire stock fe16.
peanut1596 said:
If you want to, yes, you can odin the entire stock fe16.
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Okay so i can just odin fe16 while running cm9.
Thanks alot!
Odin one-click!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658648
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Noob question about returning to stock ei22....
I just rooted, installed clockwork mod, installed set pcu... which I overclocked to 1.4 ghz, and am currently running legendary rom.
If I ever wanted to return to stock ei22 once again, must I odin back to ec05 before installing update.zip once again. By update.zip I am referring to the ei22 manual update and will I be unrooted with stock recovery?
Sent from my 1.4 ghz Epic running Legendary rom 4.0.1 beta
Exactly, atleast until we have the odin for ei22.
Draghar said:
Exactly, atleast until we have the odin for ei22.
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Thanks man! This odin stuff was really confusing at first... but it all really clicks once you finally get it.
once final question. After I installed EC05, will I be unrooted and be back on stock recovery?
alextjen said:
Thanks man! This odin stuff was really confusing at first... but it all really clicks once you finally get it.
once final question. After I installed EC05, will I be unrooted and be back on stock recovery?
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yep as long as its the stock EC05 tar and not one of the rooted ones
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yep as long as its the stock EC05 tar and not one of the rooted ones
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Ok, thanks for the help guys! really appreciate it.
I want to try and flash ICS onto my phone, it is rooted on stock, but is there a way i can back up everything on the phone now to the sd card, try ics, then restore the phone to its previous state?
richyrocket said:
I want to try and flash ICS onto my phone, it is rooted on stock, but is there a way i can back up everything on the phone now to the sd card, try ics, then restore the phone to its previous state?
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Make a nandroid backup in clock work mod. If you dont have clock work, you will have to install that first. Search the dev thread for the CWM recovery threads
Okay, i have cwm and i have it backed up. so if i download ics and flash it i will be able to restore my old data?
richyrocket said:
Okay, i have cwm and i have it backed up. so if i download ics and flash it i will be able to restore my old data?
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you are correct!
WAIT HE'S NOT ON MTD No no no.
You can't do that your on stock rooted bml...and flashing cm9 will put you on mtd restoring bml nandroids will bootloop it/ soft brick it and will need to be re odined to get back to stock.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
Big Goron said:
WAIT HE'S NOT ON MTD No no no.
You can't do that your on stock rooted bml...and flashing cm9 will put you on mtd restoring bml nandroids will bootloop it/ soft brick it and will need to be re odined to get back to stock.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
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WOW WOW WOW!! Thank you! You still can make the nandroid and not worry about anything. You will however, have to odin back to stock and use the victory pit file, to restore said backup!! Sorry, and thanks again Big Goron!
edit: also make sure repartition and auto reboot are checked in Odin!
Its okay sorry my shift key got stuck for a minute there tried to make it look as urgent as possible.
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Big Goron said:
Its okay sorry my shift key got stuck for a minute there tried to make it look as urgent as possible.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
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LOL, I mean the WOW for me being so quick to respond and not even thinking of the file system! I would have felt terrible! But really, he would have just pooped himself a little lol, and no harm would have been done! Again, thanks for saving my dumbness today!
Coycaine said:
LOL, I mean the WOW for me being so quick to respond and not even thinking of the file system! I would have felt terrible! But really, he would have just pooped himself a little lol, and no harm would have been done! Again, thanks for saving my dumbness today!
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One more bml/mtd aren't filesystems they're Partitions just saying..etx4 and yaffs2 are FS's . No problem I tend to forget BML even exists anymore.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
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One more bml/mtd aren't filesystems they're Partitions just saying..etx4 and yaffs2 are FS's . No problem I tend to forget BML even exists anymore.
Sent From My SPH-D700 Running Android 4.0
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If you keep correcting me...lol I'll learn more! What really gets me, is going back and forth between the Epic and Nexus. Both on the phones, and forums! They are sooo damn similar, yet sooooooo different lol! I sent the OP a PM just to clear my conscience a little! And what Im hoping for the OP is he will love CM9, and never want to go back to the BML "PARTITION"! lol look Im getting it already!
THANK GOODNESS! glad I checked back here before i started.
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THANK GOODNESS! glad I checked back here before i started.
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So did you get all that? lol...Do you have Odin installed on your computer?
everything you will need... http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showt...ot-unbrick-the-Samsung-Epic-4G-on-BML-and-MTD
yes i have odin, flashback from when i bricked my palm pre so what all would i need to do to restore back to GB? (if i wanted to)
oops. just saw your links.
richyrocket said:
yes i have odin, flashback from when i bricked my palm pre so what all would i need to do to restore back to GB? (if i wanted to)
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1. Odin
2. Victory.pit file
3. A stock tar
The only reason for this is,it is the way to get back to the BML partition. Once you are back on stock, your back up will work as it should!
edit: If you use a non rooted stock .tar you will have to install CWM again. I am looking for the rooted ec05 tar for you right now.
this is a stock rooted ec05 tar from noobnl. http://www.mediafire.com/?opnq0n0pau8cu01
You all make me so proud!
To the OP you can follow this thread exactly to return to EL30 stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Then Qbking's video to root it again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE
OK! I am so scared to be flashing an ICS rom but I want to take the plunge now, I am on Calkuins E4GT 2.9.2 rom and want to flash AOKP, what must I do before I flash? I also want to know what I have to do to restore back to this rom say if I don't like ICS?
Can you please include the links to anything I need? Thanks
Darrien13 said:
OK! I am so scared to be flashing an ICS rom but I want to take the plunge now, I am on Calkuins E4GT 2.9.2 rom and want to flash AOKP, what must I do before I flash? I also want to know what I have to do to restore back to this rom say if I don't like ICS?
Can you please include the links to anything I need? Thanks
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Make a nandroid backup. Then Odin the stock EL26 build with CWM recovery. From there you can go to AOKP. And use Calkulin's Format All to do the wiping if you use CWM to flash anything.
First off, read this so you know what mistakes not to make:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495
Here's the link for EL26:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416477
And for AOKP:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514665
If you don't like ICS and want to revert back to what you had just Odin One-Click EL26 again, use the Auto Root Package to install CWM and restore the nandroid in recovery. If you do any wiping in recovery mode use Calkulin's Format All. It's much safer than manually wiping.
The link for the AOKP build has a really good how-to included with it. Takes you step by step through it.
Okay I have a question? Why do we have to Odin back to el26? why not EL29? Just wondering thats all...
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Okay I have a question? Why do we have to Odin back to el26? why not EL29? Just wondering thats all...
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Because el26 has the clockwork recovery you need
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Okay I have a question? Why do we have to Odin back to el26? why not EL29? Just wondering thats all...
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Ya it has CWM5 on it that's be shown to be the safest to flash over to ICS. A lot of people ended up with bricked phones to discover that, lol.
I've flashed many times from EL29. It's flashing back that kills it. Wrong partition or something. Going forward is fine. Use Calk's Format all. And try not to restore data. It sometimes breaks things.
I think the issue is that you want to be using a certain version of CWM, and not any other recoveries like Rogue builds (no offense). That being said, I have flashed ICS from EL29 plenty of times. Get Mobile Odin Lite and our flash kernel from XDA (only available from XDA). Get the CWM EL26 kernel that everyone is using. Mobile Odin the kernel and hold the power button and up volume on reboot. It isn't much different or take much longer than rebooting into recovery.
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OK! I am so scared to be flashing an ICS rom but I want to take the plunge now, I am on Calkuins E4GT 2.9.2 rom and want to flash AOKP, what must I do before I flash? I also want to know what I have to do to restore back to this rom say if I don't like ICS?
Can you please include the links to anything I need? Thanks
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Honestly OP there are stickys and instructions in every thread on how to do these things safely and (no offense) but if those were not enough and you still had to make a thread to ask again.... Maybe just maybe you should chill till they come up with a solid no problems method. I believe MeWarning gave you a lot of info as well as a few others.
Also they say to use EL26 but it seems that all recoveries EL29 and lower can be used with out issue. I would follow what the masses are doing though and not question too much especially if you are afraid....IMHO
Cut and dry as long as you flash and do everything you need too out of a GB kernel and CWM you will be ok..
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Honestly OP there are stickys and instructions in every thread on how to do these things safely and (no offense) but if those were not enough and you still had to make a thread to ask again.... Maybe just maybe you should chill till they come up with a solid no problems method. I believe MeWarning gave you a lot of info as well as a few others.
Also they say to use EL26 but it seems that all recoveries EL29 and lower can be used with out issue. I would follow what the masses are doing though and not question too much especially if you are afraid....IMHO
Cut and dry as long as you flash and do everything you need too out of a GB kernel and CWM you will be ok..
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I wouldnt use an el29 rogue repack to flash any aosp ics roms, might be safe for TW ics but aosp all recommend el26+cwm5 because that was the last build with stock cwm actually baked into the kernel and is the safest for flashing aosp ics. Mobile Odin and el26+cwm are 2 good items to keep on your SD card for flashing ics its quick and easy and doesn't take much longer to flash using that method than just booting to baked in recovery to flash
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I'm currently trying to flash an ICS rom to my friends epic touch he has the EL29 build on his device.
I was able to get it rooted and I flashed the rouge recovery successfully.
But I keep reading and seeing in videos that it is recommended to only flash ICS via gb recovery while on a particular rom and thats were my confusion starts..
If anyone can clear this cloudiness Id appreciate it..
Any turorial videos or up-to-date guides would be help-ful
This guide(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24028398&postcount=683) didnt help because the first link for the needed file is down, so that was a no-go.
Thanks in advance..
just use one click odin to flash fe22 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=167135
Read this then read it again!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495
Here is some more good info.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=qbking77+epic+4g+touch&oq=qbkin&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=youtube.1.1.0l10.913.3421.0.5518.5.3.0.2.2.0.213.502.0j2j1.3.0...0.0.UT3HvbIuypI
Then just go right into flashing the ICS rom?
If you do the odin one-click FE-22 it will install a stock ICS rom for you.
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If you do the odin one-click FE-22 it will install a stock ICS rom for you.
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OK cool, which recovery do you suggest?
big nu said:
OK cool, which recovery do you suggest?
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EL26!!!
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big nu said:
OK cool, which recovery do you suggest?
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The one click FE22 will give you stock recovery. If you're going to flash another rom after that you're best bet is el26 but things are changing super fast right now so keep reading through the threads.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671356
Okay so i'm only familiar with flashing on the epic 4g and I just got a E4GT tdy which was already rooted and its on Calkulins E4GT.2.ROM v1.5. The kernel says FD26 with some other letters with it but i doubt important. So yeah I was gonna start with the flashing but i've been reading about people bricking their E4GT and I just wanna be on the safe side and ask how can I update to CM9 or calkulin's 3.0 from this point on? when I go to recovery it just says team rogue's recovery but looks like I can easily flash roms. Just don't want to flash the wrong thing in the wrong provedure and get a brick. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Thank You Very Much!!!
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Okay so i'm only familiar with flashing on the epic 4g and I just got a E4GT tdy which was already rooted and its on Calkulins E4GT.2.ROM v1.5. The kernel says FD26 with some other letters with it but i doubt important. So yeah I was gonna start with the flashing but i've been reading about people bricking their E4GT and I just wanna be on the safe side and ask how can I update to CM9 or calkulin's 3.0 from this point on? when I go to recovery it just says team rogue's recovery but looks like I can easily flash roms. Just don't want to flash the wrong thing in the wrong provedure and get a brick. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Thank You Very Much!!!
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Odin back to el26 with cwm and start over from there would be my advice
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Read the stickies in general, that's why they're there
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Odin back to el26 with cwm and start over from there would be my advice
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yeah I read everything.. just trying to be a bit cautious since I was also reading that it's probable to brick e4gt when on an ics rom.. i was able to get my hands on mobile odin so i can just flash the el26 safe cwm from there right?
(1) Grab the stock el29 tar, install the desktop version of odin and drivers on your computer, and verify odin works. Flash el29. This phone is very soft brick happy, but in almost all cases odin'ing back to stock will fix things. So it is good to have them handy.
(2) Find a rom you think you might like and flash it. Only flash roms intended for the epic touch 4g, international roms will brick your phone. Follow any rom specific instructions in the thread. In general, a zip file must be flashed in a custom recovery, a tar file must be flashed in odin, and an exe file must be flashed in Windows. If it is a zip file, be sure you are flashing from a safe recovery. In general, as long as you have the newest version of chris' or agat's recovery, then it has been patched to be safe.
(3) If your phone doesn't boot or work right after the rom flash, repeat step 1
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y2bangali said:
yeah I read everything.. just trying to be a bit cautious since I was also reading that it's probable to brick e4gt when on an ics rom.. i was able to get my hands on mobile odin so i can just flash the el26 safe cwm from there right?
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Bingo, nailed it
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