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[Q] Bad flash what are my options

Had was trying to flash to Blazer rom and i think i had a bad flash phone stays on Galexy s 2 bootscreen the one with the yellow triangle cant get in to cwm but i can get in to download mode.
Went to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101&highlight=odinand tried this method but phone wont show on computer and the drivers are installed
thanks for your help in advance

first download sfhub's el29 full restore at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
then put your phone in download mode and follow his instructions this will restore your phone to el29 stock everything with root... modem, kernel rom...
having stock kernel means no cwm and you have to flash a kernel...HOWEVER if you just download a kernel and odin it in it will give you that yellow triangle... to keep from getting the yellow triangle download the kernel you want wheter it be from team rogue or who ever else and also download flashzimage.zip from http://chris41g.devphone.org/index.php?dir=EpicTouch/
extract the files from the flashzimage.zip...should be a folder that says "flashzimage"
go to the location of the flashzimage folder open it up u will see a bunch of files...one of the files will say zimage...that is the kernel...which u are REPLACING.
open up the kernel you downloaded...from, lets say team rogue, extract the zimage...you only want the zimage... copy the zimage into the flashzimage folder replacing the zimage file that is already present
next enable debugging and connect your phone to the computer...open the flashzimage folder and click on install.bat
PLEASE NOTE... you will have to pay attention to ur phone because you will need give superuser permission
the phone will reboot when done properly
after you have your custom kernel you can put your phone in recovery mode and flash whatever ROM you were trying to flash in the first place...
if you dont mind the yellow triangle and want a less confusing method...then download the kernel package for odin and flash through odin
ALSO NOTE...you will only have to mess with the flashzimage folder once...and that is when you are putting in a custom kernel the first time...
for more specific instructions and a video see chris41g's post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1297999 just skip down to where he says "this is where I come in"

thanks for reply but I Tried the steps in that thread and in download mode my phone does not recognize on my computer

That's not a very good sign...
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Do you hear a "ding" when to plug into the usb port?

Just curious, did you have the touch recovery installed and flash through it?
I ask because this same thing happened to me last week. I recovered using the methods above but it took 2 tries.
Still trying to figure out what went wrong.

Basic Odin questions

Hi,
I have been rooting for a while with my evo 4g which is basically just recoveries & zip files.
Currently I have updated to Calk's ICS Beta 3 rom with modem FC05. I have read some stuff here & there that talk about having issues going from a ICS rom back to a GB nandroid.
I have installed Kies opened Odin, looked at the Wiki here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274337
I just dont quite get in terms of flashing zips through odin. I keep reading people say to odin back to stock & then flash from there.
How do I do that? I looked at QB777's video on youtube, but it seems like PIT files arent used much at this point.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Rich

Ok, basically when you Odin back to stock, it involves flashing a .tar ROM from the pda slot in desktop Odin and not zip file like you would in CWM. Once you restore back to stock, you can find a .tar recovery, I personally use rogue which will allow you to have cwm-based recovery for flashing zips. All the links should be in development. Let me know if you still need help
Edit-what Odin does is it allows you to flash Roms, kernels, moderns, etc even if you don't have a custom recovery, provided that they are in the correct format, like .tar extension
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so when i flash a tar, I go into download mode, open odin, point it to a stock rooted tar file that has CWR & I am back to stock ready to flash to something else?
Can you help me find those files? A stock rooted, CWR should do the trick.

RichTJ99 said:
so when i flash a tar, I go into download mode, open odin, point it to a stock rooted tar file that has CWR & I am back to stock ready to flash to something else?
Can you help me find those files? A stock rooted, CWR should do the trick.
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Ok, so you go into a download mode on your phone, open Odin, plug in your USB cord, ODIN should recognize your phone provided you installed the right drivers. You're good if you get the yellow box that says 0 com, something something. The only box that should be checked is Auto Reboot in Odin.
The easiest way that I've been going back and forth between GB and ICS is to install the rooted EL29 .tar version here
http://little-melon.com/sfhub/SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED-sfx.exe
You would need to extract the file until you get a folder with tar.md5 name. Example of the file I provided would be SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED_PDA.tar.md5 once you unzip it. This is the file you would put on the PDA slot of your desktop Odin.
Once you do this, Odin will start flashing and be done in like 1-2 minutes and auto reboot. Do not do anything to shut down, unplug, or mess with the device while Odin is flashing or you may end up bricking it. Once your phone reboots you will be rooted and stock based with EL 29 modem and kernel, which is the latest official Sprint OTA. If you want to get a recovery after this,you would need to go back into Odin and flash a kernel that has a recovery baked in. Like I said I use Rogue and the link would be here for Rogue Stock EL29-
http://goo-inside.me/kernels/TeamRo.../rogue_ET-recoveryonly-1.1.4-rc0-odin.tar.md5
Flashing this in Odin you will get CWM-based recovery and can start backing up, flashing different ROMS.
Hope this helps.

This is very helpful. I am stuck at the SGS2 boot screen after flashing MIJJs Goodness 1.8, can't boot in to recovery, only download mode. How do I fix this?

thefoss said:
This is very helpful. I am stuck at the SGS2 boot screen after flashing MIJJs Goodness 1.8, can't boot in to recovery, only download mode. How do I fix this?
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Flash a recovery in download mode that I linked. It's rogue recovery
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Just to confirm, using the files you had here, I open odin in download mode, choose PDA (check the check box) point it to the tar.md5 file, hit start & wait a few minutes until it auto reboots?
How do I flash the recovery? Is it also the PDA?
I have been flashing modems in CWR, not odin & I just want to make sure that recovery or rom itself, just PDA & nothing else checked (but PDA)?
stargaterules said:
Ok, so you go into a download mode on your phone, open Odin, plug in your USB cord, ODIN should recognize your phone provided you installed the right drivers. You're good if you get the yellow box that says 0 com, something something. The only box that should be checked is Auto Reboot in Odin.
The easiest way that I've been going back and forth between GB and ICS is to install the rooted EL29 .tar version here
http://little-melon.com/sfhub/SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED-sfx.exe
You would need to extract the file until you get a folder with tar.md5 name. Example of the file I provided would be SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED_PDA.tar.md5 once you unzip it. This is the file you would put on the PDA slot of your desktop Odin.
Once you do this, Odin will start flashing and be done in like 1-2 minutes and auto reboot. Do not do anything to shut down, unplug, or mess with the device while Odin is flashing or you may end up bricking it. Once your phone reboots you will be rooted and stock based with EL 29 modem and kernel, which is the latest official Sprint OTA. If you want to get a recovery after this,you would need to go back into Odin and flash a kernel that has a recovery baked in. Like I said I use Rogue and the link would be here for Rogue Stock EL29-
http://goo-inside.me/kernels/TeamRo.../rogue_ET-recoveryonly-1.1.4-rc0-odin.tar.md5
Flashing this in Odin you will get CWM-based recovery and can start backing up, flashing different ROMS.
Hope this helps.
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Reverting back to GB ROM
I recently switched back from ICS to GB and did not have any problems with the change back. I simply went into my SD card manually took everything off except my chaulkins format all and my wifi tether hack. I then went into recovery mode and did a wipe all. Then went to zip files, ran the format all, then did an install of the new ROM and it works great!

New issues.. Recovery Issues..

Okay, I'm not sure what's going on with my phone this time, but... I was assuming that whatever I used to flash my phone to the EL29, I figured it came with recovery. I thought whenever you Root your phone, you automatically get the recovery app. Well, for some reason, I don't think my phone has recovery on it.
(my battery is full)
I tried to go to recovery.
By doing volume up + power. It goes to the Android System Recovery <3e>
It says "E: update file is backed up: Reportedted
#MANUAL MODE#
--Updating application...
Installing Apks.
Successfully updated application."
So I click on reboot & then it says E: file is written... Update success
Then my phone reboots, and when it comes back on, my battery is completely dead.
Then I keep getting a pop-up that says Attention : no firmware update is available.
I use different apps, that say that my phone has root access, so that's why I assumed I was rooted.
But I don't know what's going on.
is there a different way to get into recovery? Am I doing it wrong? Do I not have the recovery on my phone??
Anyone help me out with any of this, I would really appreciate your input. Thanks
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You only have stock recovery, it can only flash official signed files from Samsung/sprint you need to use the autoroot package from sfhub to put either cwm or rogue recovery on, look at the stickies in the dev forum you will find detailed information to help you achieve this
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Root and Custom Recovery are 2 separate things. You can have one without the other. If you flash custom recovery in Odin, you'll get the yellow triangle and increase your flash count. There are ways to reset, including USB jig and upgrading to ICS and using Triangle Away. The pre-rooted ODIN OneClick packages give you root, but flash stock recovery so you won't get the yellow triangle nor increase your flash count. Then if you want CWM, you can just use the Auto Root package to install it.
Whenever you boot into stock recovery it tries to install the pre-installed Sprint apps and then when you boot into the first time after going to stock recovery, it searches for firmware. That is just the way they made it work.
I don't know how you initially got EL29.
If you still have root access, the Auto Root sticky can install CWM pretty easily. Just choose Option C and install EL29+CWM-Rogue
If you don't have root access, you can flash the EL29 ODIN OneClick. The link is available in the Auto Root sticky. Choose the NoData version which won't reset any of your Android User Data.

sfhub said:
Root and Custom Recovery are 2 separate things. You can have one without the other. If you flash custom recovery in Odin, you'll get the yellow triangle and increase your flash count. There are ways to reset, including USB jig and upgrading to ICS and using Triangle Away. The pre-rooted ODIN OneClick packages give you root, but flash stock recovery so you won't get the yellow triangle nor increase your flash count. Then if you want CWM, you can just use the Auto Root package to install it.
Whenever you boot into stock recovery it tries to install the pre-installed Sprint apps and then when you boot into the first time after going to stock recovery, it searches for firmware. That is just the way they made it work.
I don't know how you initially got EL29.
If you still have root access, the Auto Root sticky can install CWM pretty easily. Just choose Option C and install EL29+CWM-Rogue
If you don't have root access, you can flash the EL29 ODIN OneClick. The link is available in the Auto Root sticky. Choose the NoData version which won't reset any of your Android User Data.
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Or use mobile Odin to flash a kernel with cwm in it .....look around aokp thread op there is a el26 kernel with cwm ...
Sorry sfhub I quoted wrong response lol
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How do I get CWM on FI03?

Hello
I followed this guide to update to FI03 because I was getting the update notification.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877041&highlight=fi03
At the step for CWM it gives an option but says you will lose the FI03 kernel.
'If you want CWM use Option D in the Auto Root Package to install FF18+CWM-agat-src (you are already rooted so Option A is not necessary). You will lose the FI03 kernel in the process.'
So how would I get CWM in FI03? I want the tethering function back and need to use CWM to flash this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31426578&posted=1#post31426578
Not sure how to get CWM in FI03. Any advice?

yazyazoo said:
Hello
I followed this guide to update to FI03 because I was getting the update notification.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877041&highlight=fi03
At the step for CWM it gives an option but says you will lose the FI03 kernel.
'If you want CWM use Option D in the Auto Root Package to install FF18+CWM-agat-src (you are already rooted so Option A is not necessary). You will lose the FI03 kernel in the process.'
So how would I get CWM in FI03? I want the tethering function back and need to use CWM to flash this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31426578&posted=1#post31426578
Not sure how to get CWM in FI03. Any advice?
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Its not CWM but this is how you get to FI03 kernal and recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879381

link:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1767421
Flash this in odin or moblie odin. Download the .tar file. (5.4 version) That will give you a custom kernel/recovery and its safe and tested. I have personally wiped and flashed from this recovery.
computer odin flash thru the pda slot.
mobile odin flash thru the kernel slot.
if you choose thru regular odin download triangle away from the play store afterward to get rid of the yellow triangle on the splash screen.
EDIT: I just saw this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879381
This is the stock FI03 kernel/repacked with safe custom recovery. same thing if you want to have this. download .tar file and flash in odin or mobile odin.

[Q] Unable to boot into CWM?..

I flashed stock 4.1.2 via Mobile Odin and performed root on-the-fly. Then I tried to flash CWM via Odin but all it did was set the counter flag to '1' and just boot into the default recovery.
What did I do wrong? How can I fix this?
-EDIT: I tried to flash CWM via Mobile Odin instead of PC Odin and it worked! The problem is that my first attempt via PC Odin switched the counter to '1' already... Triangle Away didn't work for me - how can I reset the counter again? It's problematic because I can only go into CWM by flashing it with Mobile Odin and then it auto-reboots into CWM but what if for whatever reason I can't access Mobile Odin?.....

Triangle away also doesnt work for me. Even though I flashed stock kernel and recovery.
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you need to have stock recovery , stock kernel and secure stock boot image and a stock recovery reset file(i guess).
then you should try using triangle away

I don't particularly care about Triangle Away because I managed to flash CWM with Mobile Odin and then restore an older nandroid.
The problem is that I must use Mobile Odin each time I want to go into CWM - I don't want this. I want CWM to be my phone's default recovery.

Delete the following file or rename it.
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
Or use mskip's toolkit to delete recovery reset files.
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Thanks, I will check out that toolkit, it looks promising.

Maybr hit the thanks button itself.
Sent From Samsung's Galaxy Note II Using Internet

Right, I don't care much about petty illusions.
Also, disregard everything - I'm a bloody fool. I kept trying to boot CWM by doing the Volume Down+Menu+Power buttons but only now I realized that to go into CWM, you need to use Volume UP+Menu+power.... Feel free to lock this thread.