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[Q] cannot apply JB 4.1.1 update thru stock recovery

Hey, not sure why i can't update to jb leak ota 4.1.1 . I had no issues doing it on my GF's sgs3 t999. I am on uvalh2 stock, i renamed it to update.zip on the external sdcard, i put usb debugging on, and after i applied update from external sdcard it said "emmc/dev/block/mcbl####". My phone is rooted but not sure if that's the problem. If anyone can help me that would be awesome. Thanks in advance,
Jake

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themadzionist said:
Hey, not sure why i can't update to jb leak ota 4.1.1 . I had no issues doing it on my GF's sgs3 t999. I am on uvalh2 stock, i renamed it to update.zip on the external sdcard, i put usb debugging on, and after i applied update from external sdcard it said "emmc/dev/block/mcbl####". My phone is rooted but not sure if that's the problem. If anyone can help me that would be awesome. Thanks in advance,
Jake
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See my thread below- It can be done if you return to unrooted stock, but then the fun really begins as I cannot now root. On the plus side the ROM is awesome and runs perfectly- SMS and Calls over WIFI work. I think they are VERY close to release.
I am reflashing 4.04 to get Root back
My thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1883359

Fonz said:
See my thread below- It can be done if you return to unrooted stock, but then the fun really begins as I cannot now root. On the plus side the ROM is awesome and runs perfectly- SMS and Calls over WIFI work. I think they are VERY close to release.
I am reflashing 4.04 to get Root back
My thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1883359
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Thanks fonz, I'm going to try that. But if i have to unroot with i update to JB. Can i access CWM to restore nandroid backup? I wonder if the issue you are having is the same that i had. When i flashed cwm with odin, i had to make sure auto reboot was not checked, and after it passes, pull the battery and go straight into cwm. If it restarts it goes back to Android stock. I had that issue With uvlah2. I'm not sure if that's an issue with 4.1.1 too. But if i can't access cwm after updating to JB i think ill wait till the update, because i just wanted to test it and then restore nandroid B. i wish there was an exact date for JB release, I'm getting kinda antsy. Every JB custom rom I've flashed had too many bugs to stick with. thanks again
Jake

themadzionist said:
Thanks fonz, I'm going to try that. But if i have to unroot with i update to JB. Can i access CWM to restore nandroid backup? I wonder if the issue you are having is the same that i had. When i flashed cwm with odin, i had to make sure auto reboot was not checked, and after it passes, pull the battery and go straight into cwm. If it restarts it goes back to Android stock. I had that issue With uvlah2. I'm not sure if that's an issue with 4.1.1 too. But if i can't access cwm after updating to JB i think ill wait till the update, because i just wanted to test it and then restore nandroid B. i wish there was an exact date for JB release, I'm getting kinda antsy. Every JB custom rom I've flashed had too many bugs to stick with. thanks again
Jake
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That may be it! I will try that next. I had auto reboot on and it went to stock as you say. I have reverted the phone twice today so if you want to play you can. The ROM is really excellent. I think I will try one more time and then wait for release or at least for an Odin compatible ROM (tar.md5)
Just make certain to have Titanium Backups- I could not easily restore from Nandroid, but Titanium worked well. I restored by reflashing stock and then rooting again. Then restore from Titanium...

Fonz said:
That may be it! I will try that next. I had auto reboot on and it went to stock as you say. I have reverted the phone twice today so if you want to play you can. The ROM is really excellent. I think I will try one more time and then wait for release or at least for an Odin compatible ROM (tar.md5)
Just make certain to have Titanium Backups- I could not easily restore from Nandroid, but Titanium worked well. I restored by reflashing stock and then rooting again. Then restore from Titanium...
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Oh yeah that's a great idea. I didn't think of that, so basically flash stock back through odin and then after rerooting, restore nandroid backup. I'm going to try it now. And yeah, uncheck the auto reboot, after it passes, exit odin and just pull the battery out or just power off, and then vol up + home + power and you should go straight to cwm, don't let it start up or else you lose cwm and will have to reflash. And what sucks is that every time it boots up you lose cwm but i just flash CWM thru rom manager everytime and after it flashed i just hit reboot into recovery. Thanks again Fonz

HOWTO: Flash back to GB after ICS Update on the Captivate Glide

Howto: Flash back to GB after ICS Update on the Captivate Glide
Needed Files:
Clockworkmod Recovery (CWMR): ---TOUCH--- or ---NON-TOUCH---
Odin: ---DOWNLOAD HERE---
CWMR Flashable GB Rom: ---INCEPTION ROM---
Samsung Stock Rom: ---I927UCKL1--- or ---I927UCKI3---
NOTE: If you just want to go back to GB and are happy with just the Inception rom, only download cwmr, odin, and the inception rom, otherwise, download all files.
INSTALL CWMR
first you will need to install CWMR onto your phone. to do this you need to connect your phone into download mode (power on + hold volume up, and follow prompts) via usb, start up odin, make sure only reboot is checked (uncheck F. Reset Time) and click PDA. select the unzipped cwmr (.md5 file) file you downloaded and then click start.
Congratulations, your phone now has clockwork mod recovery installed!!!
INSTALL INCEPTION ROM
the next step in the downgrade process is to install the inception rom. to do this, copy over the inception rom zip you your phones internal memory (not the external microsd) and boot into recovery (power on + hold volume down). as a precaution make a backup then do a wipe/factory reset, wipe cache, go to mounts and storage and format system (for good measure). then go back to the main menu, then install zip from sdcard, then find the zip you put on your sdcard. scroll down to yes and let the magic happen.
Congratulations, you now have the inception rom installed on your phone.
Now you can stop here, but if you want to go back to pure stock so that you can get the OTA/KIES updates again go on to the next step.
INSTALL STOCK ROM
the final and optional step is to install the stock rom back onto the phone. to do this put your phone back into download mode, fire up odin, make sure only reboot is checked. then select PDA and select the stock firmware (unzipped), this will be a .md5 file. click start in odin, and let it do its thing. it will wipe and load the stock rom back on your phone and you will be back to pure ATT stock rom goodness...
Hope this helps those out that are having trouble going to back to gingerbread
NOTE: MYSELF OR ANY OTHER PERSON ON XDA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PHONE BREAKING, YOU AND ONLY YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING FIND SOMEONE THAT DOES
SIDENOTE: i take no credit for any of the files/links provided. if this post helped, make sure to thank those that developed the files provided for they are your saving grace here.

thanks a lot
You're a life saver! I followed these directions and it worked perfectly.

Why uncheck F. Reset time?
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LiquidXed said:
Why uncheck F. Reset time?
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every other howto involving oding with out phone says to... i dont even know what it does...

inthepit said:
every other howto involving oding with out phone says to... i dont even know what it does...
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I guess its supposed to reset the flash counter, I need that bein how crappy my luck is with this phone incase I have to send back in for warranty
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thank you man, it works

whats the difference between:
I927UCKL1 and I927UCKI3 ?
I put on I927UCKI3 and send the phone to my mom, when she put in her SIM card the voice and text work fine, but she is not seeing data.
Is this the software or maybe she needs a new SIM card or hopefully the phone isnt busted. Any ideas?

I927UCKI3 = 2.3.5
I927UCKL1 = 2.3.6
is you mother on AT&T? if not, you would have to enter the correct APN info...

I see, thanks for that!
I sent her into the ATT store and all they had to do was "turn on" the 3G for her and everything is fine now. She doesn't know the first thing about gingerbread or ICS so I just wanted to get her off the problematic ICS build and back onto gingerbread where she can do her simple emailing and web browsing. Should I upgrade her to 2.3.6 or do you think 2.3.5 is perfectly fine and stable for "non-power users"? Thanks again for all the help!

michaelsanfrancisco said:
I see, thanks for that!
I sent her into the ATT store and all they had to do was "turn on" the 3G for her and everything is fine now. She doesn't know the first thing about gingerbread or ICS so I just wanted to get her off the problematic ICS build and back onto gingerbread where she can do her simple emailing and web browsing. Should I upgrade her to 2.3.6 or do you think 2.3.5 is perfectly fine and stable for "non-power users"? Thanks again for all the help!
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2.3.5 is fine not much different from 2.3.6 I do not recall the changes from 1 to the other but very minor.

dudejb said:
2.3.5 is fine not much different from 2.3.6 I do not recall the changes from 1 to the other but very minor.
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the main reason to have 2.3.6 is if you want to have video chat with google talk or google+ hangouts. 2.3.5 doesnt let you from what i remember.

thanks a lot for this downgrade guide, didn't know downgrading needs GB kernel..
But does anybody know where we can get "real" stock rom? Mine is i927R unlocked. I downloaded GB stock from sammobile but it turns out to be rooted & has some Rogers apps preinstalled. Same thing I got with AT&T version.
Before upgrading to ICS, my stock was really clean, well just Rogers logo at start up, but the rest is just standard samsung's android thing..
Is this some kind of differences between locked & unlocked i927R?

Unlocked Captivate Glide ICS
if i am unloked i can still do this?? or my phone will be locked again?

I did this exactly, but when trying to flash back to stock, my phone still fails when trying to mount /preload (trying to update application)

Same here. I used inception rom couple of days, after that i tried downgrade to stock and it fails when trying to mount /preload (trying to update application). How to resolve it?

Sorry to bump an old thread, but whats the difference between the Inception ROM and the stock 2.3.6 ROM? I had 2.3.6 for about a year and I loved it before someone broke my phone. I bought a new Glide but it came with 4.0.4, and I hate it more every day. I'd like to downgrade but I'm concerned with the guys above me who said they had problems loading the stock 2.3.6 ROM. What are the main differences in case it doesnt work, or is there a way to fix it?
Please, any help would be appreciated. Much thanks

inc3ption link to downgrade to gingerbread
Hi, I cannot find here and in google a working link to download it. Can I use another gingerbread custom rom?

remone said:
Hi, I cannot find here and in google a working link to download it. Can I use another gingerbread custom rom?
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Yes. You can use any CWM flashable rom to revert back to GB and then fash Odin to get to stock. If you don't, you will hang at the boot screen.
Kudos for searching!
If you have issues getting your hands on a GB rom sent me a PM i can google drive it to you.

many thanks: with the custom and stock roms I have problems. and when I don't have problems they drain the battery

who has this file
CWMR Flashable GB Rom: ---INCEPTION ROM---
Hey, does anyone have the inc3ption_v1.zip file?
The links in the op are dead.if you have the file could you upload it somewhere?

[Q] Quickest, easiest way to update to JB on rooted stock S3

Ok lets assume you have a nice clean completely stock ATT S3 that is rooted. I do have nandroid and titanium backups and I do have the google wallet hack working, and froze most bloatware..but this is all I have done to the phone.
What if any is the best way to slap the JB update on here without loosing a thing? I mean loose nothing, games, contacts no resetup of anything, just update to 4.1.1?? Am I dreaming here? If its not possible, what is the easiest way to get updated and back up to my existing state without having to reinstall and resetup everything?
Please dont ask why not put just custom rom instead, I have never found one that at least one small detail was not working or complete, so lets not go there, I want just a rooted ATT JB update to what I already have.

Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.

Anon_ said:
Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.
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+1
I also flashed with Oden over a stock setup and it left all data there except the root.

tried kies on 2 laptops and a pc still no go. re downloaded kies a few times and still nothing. tried all the usb ports too.

I had trouble with kies too, sho I finally used odin and flashed a pre-rooted att update.
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I tried Kies on 5 PC's - no go. finally used Odin and flashed Robinson's root injected bin. Worked
and lost nothing upon reboot. However, what is really differnet?? Camera is the same, which I thought
was supposed to be different as is the gallery. SAME.
anyone else verify????????????
Thanks

I have no clue why I can't connect with kies through usb, have all drivers, and I did administrative permission, I was able to use kies through wifi tho.
I did mine through odin. Worked well for me.
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Ok got JB via Kies easy enough,and rooted with CF...I get 3 apps that are getting errors on boot, Poweramp, Titanium BU and Torrent....
The other issue Im having is trying to get GW back on there , it was removed...so in order to do this I need CWM back on here but can figure out how I used the Qcom toolkit the lasttime and its not ready for JB yet the page says....so whats the easiest way to get CWM back on to load wallet back on?

I did the exact same thing I did with ICS. I flashed JB with kies, and i've flashed with ODIN (wanted to reflash).
I then used ODIN to flash the a cwm recovery (older version). Then I rebooted into the recovery and installed super SU. Started the phone and used terminal emulator to install the latest touch recovery for the phone. Rebooted and installed wallet just like I did with ICS. First the fix, then the wallet app. change your prop and follow instructions.

Anon_ said:
Update through Kies and you won't lose anything except for root. Re-root with CF auto root.
I did the above with a bunch of frozen ATT crap and everything was good.
Make sure you backup your data just in case.
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I feel like an idiot, and ive searched everywhere, but what is CF Auto Root?
Thanks in advance for the answer!

Its a chainfire app from the play store
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I used ODIN to flash Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock JB over my rooted ICS and everything seemed to work just fine. No problems yet. I was curious though since I still have CWM as my recovery (according to ROM Manager) and I thought I would lose that. Anyway, device status went back to "normal" after the flash. I haven't checked the flash counter yet to see if it is back to 0 yet. I'm still trying to figure all this out. This was only the 3rd time I'd flashed anything and I was still nervous! I haven't noticed any extra battery drain or anything yet.
Can anyone tell me, after you boot into download mode to check the flash counter, how do you reboot if your not actually gonna flash anything?
Thanks,
Matt

rocknmj said:
I used ODIN to flash Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock JB over my rooted ICS and everything seemed to work just fine. No problems yet. I was curious though since I still have CWM as my recovery (according to ROM Manager) and I thought I would lose that. Anyway, device status went back to "normal" after the flash. I haven't checked the flash counter yet to see if it is back to 0 yet. I'm still trying to figure all this out. This was only the 3rd time I'd flashed anything and I was still nervous! I haven't noticed any extra battery drain or anything yet.
Can anyone tell me, after you boot into download mode to check the flash counter, how do you reboot if your not actually gonna flash anything?
Thanks,
Matt
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Mobile Odin and Rogers file is easiest.
If you used Odin and Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock to go from ICS to JB you will increment the flash counter as soon as you go into your custom recovery. If you use Mobile Odin, than you will not increment the flash counter. This information is in the most current posts: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426.
I didn't care about the counter but didn't want to reflash TWRP recovery so I used Mobile Odin and didn't flash the recovery, cache, or Everoot. Fast, easy, and I liked having my Nandroid backup available if something went wrong.

I thought about using moble Odin, but had never used it before and only downloaded it yesterday for future use. So I'm assuming that Mr. Rogers pre-rooted stock didn't flash the stock recovery? ROM Manager still shows that I have CWM installed. I did check with Triangle Away and it shows a count of 2 and binary as "official". I haven't booted back into download mode to check the counter because I wasn't sure what the process for rebooting was if I wasn't flashing something new. I'm a total beginner, so I hope everyone is patient!
Thanks for the help.

[Q] T-Mobile SGH-T989 won't Shutdown/restart

I have a T-Mobile Galaxy S2 That i have rooted and still running the stock rom vers. 4.0.4. Everything runs fine except the ability to restart or shutdown the phone.For some reason it gets stuck on the pink goodbye screen. Also i have tried to flash different roms only to get a boot loop. The only way i can get the phone to start is to restore a old backup. Sorry for being such a noob.thanks for any help!

you have to un-root and then upgrade to the latest firmware 4.1.2 then re-root/..... the 4.0.4 had some bug when you root it wont shut down and they never fixed it from what i can tell

krazierokz said:
you have to un-root and then upgrade to the latest firmware 4.1.2 then re-root/..... the 4.0.4 had some bug when you root it wont shut down and they never fixed it from what i can tell
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Thanks man! I really appreciate the help!

no problem man and if kies fails on you might have to take the odin approach all these tmobile firmwares that came out for this phone have all been buggy or glitchy and off course they have done nothing about it so good luck

No...the problem is not from ICS 4.04..Something is corrupted around your system or data partition...That happened to me after I used dark side wipe and restored an old nandroid backup...I had to odin to stock and that fixed it...
In your case, Odin the JB stock UVMC6 , after you reboot, boot into recovery then do factory reset .

Clockworkmod recovery crash and another question

So i just got my s2 last night first thing i did take the pit file and then root it with flashing cwm from odin and then I went and flashed a zip to root but that didnt work so i tried again and again till i finaly got one that worked but anyway i now have the latest version of cwm on 2.3.6 and I try to do a backup before i flash cm10.2 it crashes any suggestions? Also can i come right from 2.3.6 to 4.3? thanks grant a quick responce would be great cause i'd love to get this up and running sorta like before my vibrant died.