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If I'm on an ICS ROM and back up on the new ACS recovery do I no longer have to go back to EL26 to flash a new ICS ROM?
What has and has not worked for people using the new ACS Recovery?
RaydenEris said:
If I'm on an ICS ROM and back up on the new ACS recovery do I no longer have to go back to EL26 to flash a new ICS ROM?
What has and has not worked for people using the new ACS Recovery?
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I think it's pretty safe, if you are upgrading your current rom or moving from one ICS TW-based rom to another. Ex: going from Calkulin FE22 to agat63 tFE22, probably should flash Calkulin's Format-all script, but flashing the rom should be fine. I would follow instructions in OP and not use it with AOSP/AOKP roms.
RaydenEris said:
If I'm on an ICS ROM and back up on the new ACS recovery do I no longer have to go back to EL26 to flash a new ICS ROM?
What has and has not worked for people using the new ACS Recovery?
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I personally have not dared to try backup or restore yet, but I have flashed quite a few tweaks and even 1 that wiped the cache... no brick so far.
I would stay away from factory reset wipe data/cache until it is confirmed fixed.
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If you're going to flash a aosp rom I would definitely use el26 first just to be safe.
El26 all the way. Don't risk bricking your phone to save a minute doing it the guaranteed safe way.
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I have my rooted E4GT and the Blazer ICS Rom is installed on it at the moment. I kinda want to try and switch to AOKP's latest build and try it out, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that since they clearly stated not to flash from ICS to ICS.
Could anyone point me in the right direction as to what I should do in order to make the switch to AOKP?
Links to both ROM's respective threads:
AOKP Build 40
Phantom's Blazer Rom
Thanks for your time.
You can just Odin the el26 cwm (sorry don't have the link to it on my phone) and flash AOKP from there.
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This is my method, it is 99.9% safe. You can also re-use it to go from other ROMs to any other ics ROM.
Download these drivers
Download this: OC ODIN File for EL26 and this: E4GT Root Utility
Using Titanium Backup, make a backup of all your stuff, or use your preferred back-upper, just not nandroid. I recommend buying the Pro version, because it will save you so many times, and the dev is great. It's a little expensive though for an app.
OC Odin back to EL26. The good thing about this is, the process is straight forward, and doesn't add to your flash counter, and does not yellow triangle either.
Open up e4gtauto-sfx.exe, option C, then I. This gives you CWM, And just in case, I do not recommend using other than standard CWM to flash ICS roms. but that's me.
When your phone reboots, it should have CWM, and be rooted, just load up the AOKP files, do a data wipe, and flash.
Thank you both for the replies
Would I be able to use calkulins format all to do the wipes? Or does that only work for certain ROMS? It seemed pretty fool proof when I used it, so I was wondering if I could just use that again and it would work just the same? I don't want to forget something and brick my phone as a result
And I'll look into titanium backup, thanks for the suggestion.
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organizedConfoosion said:
Thank you both for the replies
Would I be able to use calkulins format all to do the wipes? Or does that only work for certain ROMS? It seemed pretty fool proof when I used it, so I was wondering if I could just use that again and it would work just the same? I don't want to forget something and brick my phone as a result
And I'll look into titanium backup, thanks for the suggestion.
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For ICS ROMs, I recommend to not use it, just do 1 system data wipe and you'll be fine.
F3L1XZS said:
For ICS ROMs, I recommend to not use it, just do 1 system data wipe and you'll be fine.
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Alright, but all I should need to do is install the EL26 + CWM and I can flash AOKP? I don't need to go back to a stock gingerbread ROM or anything, or will the OC EL26 CWM do that for me?
And you said you don't recommend calkulin's format all for ICS roms, but that's what I was told to use for the Phantom Blazer ICS rom when I was flashing it?
Also, one more question; what is "flash count" and is it a bad thing? I'll do some googling on it myself, but I'd like to hear your explanation because I don't always understand people's ways of describing things and usually take weird explanations to understand so yours would still be much appreciated just in case, thanks. ^_^
organizedConfoosion said:
Alright, but all I should need to do is install the EL26 + CWM and I can flash AOKP? I don't need to go back to a stock gingerbread ROM or anything?
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You just need to be on a safe recovery.... if you wipe data in an unconfirmed recovery you can cause a brick. Either use the el26 that all use or the el29-reboot kernel. Both will work no matter what you install regardless of you install (granted you flash a working rom). I prefer the el29 because you install via mobile Odin and it boots straight to safe CWM recovery.
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dante32278 said:
You just need to be on a safe recovery.... if you wipe data in an unconfirmed recovery you can cause a brick. Either use the el26 that all use or the el29-reboot kernel. Both will work no matter what you install regardless of you install (granted you flash a working rom). I prefer the el29 because you install via mobile Odin and it boots straight to safe CWM recovery.
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Hmm, alright, sounds good.
Also, which data's do I need to wipe? Dalvik cache and there's one other I believe?
My phone will not let me flash anything if I use mobile odin with EL26. Just aborts every rom I try to flash.Theyre all roms that I have flashed before so its not the downloads.But if I flash CM7 and use the EL26 thats baked into that rom I can flash anything like normal. Ive downloaded EL26 like 4 different times and it still abprts everything i try to flash except for Calks format all. could it be mobile odin?? I have had it on my phone for a few months but i downloaded it through Blackmart Alpha. could it be that version ??? Any help would be appreciated.
As we all recommend, get your apps from the play store. Also, the small fee to support the devs for your app is worth it as opposed to possible headache you get when you get a bootlegged or base version. I recommend trying the EL29 tar with direct boot to clockwork, and mobile Odin From the play store. Try that tar and see if that helps
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mremale said:
As we all recommend, get your apps from the play store. Also, the small fee to support the devs for your app is worth it as opposed to possible headache you get when you get a bootlegged or base version. I recommend trying the EL29 tar with direct boot to clockwork, and mobile Odin From the play store. Try that tar and see if that helps
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I did reset to EL29. then I flashed CM7 and flashed supernova rom, then flashed cm7 again with agats recovery on the supernova rom and the same thing happened. i dont understand why this is happening. just says aborted. it does the same thing whether I flash EL26 thru Odin, mobile odin or on CM7. Ive had and used all these roms many times before so i know the rom downloads arent bad.
Greek81 said:
I did reset to EL29. then I flashed CM7 and flashed supernova rom, then flashed cm7 again with agats recovery on the supernova rom and the same thing happened. i dont understand why this is happening. just says aborted. it does the same thing whether I flash EL26 thru Odin, mobile odin or on CM7. Ive had and used all these roms many times before so i know the rom downloads arent bad.
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I formatted my SD card and USB storage and Odined EL29 reset. I flashed CM7 successfully through CWM rogue and then tried flashing 5 different roms with CM7's EL26 kernel and its still aborting everything I try to flash. The only thing it will flash is Calks format all. Can someone please help??
Are you verifying the md5 of the stuff you download. How about using a pc instead of mobile odin?
Are you using Chris' CWM recovery? I just found out in another thread that it is an issue. Flash agats kernel it has another recovery repacked with it.
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g_ding84 said:
Are you using Chris' CWM recovery? I just found out in another thread that it is an issue. Flash agats kernel it has another recovery repacked with it.
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Yes like I said up top I've tried windows Odin, mobile Odin and CM7 which has the EL26 kernel baked in and still the same thing. I was always told on here to only use el26 for flashing ICS roms. If agats is safe I will try it. All the roms I'm trying to flash I have already flashed before and they were fine. I tried flashing GB Blazer with EL26 and it gets aborted just like the rest. But after I run one click and reset my phone with el29 cwm rogue I can flash the GB blazer rom no problem. It seems that as soon ad I install el26 everything goes wrong . And yes I've redownloaded it several times.
Greek81 said:
Yes like I said up top I've tried windows Odin, mobile Odin and CM7 which has the EL26 kernel baked in and still the same thing. I was always told on here to only use el26 for flashing ICS roms. If agats is safe I will try it. All the roms I'm trying to flash I have already flashed before and they were fine. I tried flashing GB Blazer with EL26 and it gets aborted just like the rest. But after I run one click and reset my phone with el29 cwm rogue I can flash the GB blazer rom no problem. It seems that as soon ad I install el26 everything goes wrong . And yes I've redownloaded it several times.
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Yes Agats is safe. I flashed a few ICS roms. heck, i flash between the two roms in my sig. lol
g_ding84 said:
Yes Agats is safe. I flashed a few ICS roms. heck, i flash between the two roms in my sig. lol
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Ok I rerooted my phone with FF18 reset and installed agats recovery successfully. I flashed supergalaxy successfully. I wanted to flash another rom so I flashed Agats recovery 0.2.1 (the same one that I installed with autoroot, that worked fine when I flashed supergalaxy rom) that i downloaded from the repository. it aborted everything I tried to flash. what is going on with my phone???
I dont get it I just flashed super galaxy right after I rotted my phone and installed agats rec, but now I cant flash anything again.I rerooted with FF18 and reinstalled agats recovery like I did earlier and its aborting everything I try to flash. Can someone please help, this is very frustrating. It doesnt make sense, I havent ever had any problems flashing anything, and now I cant flash any of the roms that I have flashed a dozen times with the same recovery I have used a dozen times to flash those same roms. and now agats recovery is doing the same thing.
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I dont get it I just flashed super galaxy right after I rotted my phone and installed agats rec, but now I cant flash anything again.I rerooted with FF18 and reinstalled agats recovery like I did earlier and its aborting everything I try to flash. Can someone please help, this is very frustrating. It doesnt make sense, I havent ever had any problems flashing anything, and now I cant flash any of the roms that I have flashed a dozen times with the same recovery I have used a dozen times to flash those same roms. and now agats recovery is doing the same thing.
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There must be a problem with that super galaxy rom. I would stay away from it if it causing you problems. what other roms are you trying to flash? are you doing full wipes between? also could it be and issue because its a De-Odexed rom? (any one)
this started way before the super galaxy from. If you read back you will see that I've flashed all these roms before. I used to flash a different rom every few days, not new ones just different ones. All of them that i had run before with no problems. All the same downloads. Then one day I Mobile odined el26 and it aborted what ever I was flashing, and kept aborting everything except for calks format. So I wiped my SD card and USB storage and used sfhubs el29 reset and installed cwm rogue . I flashed cm7 with no problem but then I couldn't flash anything else . Its seems that as soon as I get on el26 I can't flash anything. Yesterday I used sfhubs ff18 one click root and installed agats cwm 0.2.1 and flashed a rom successfully. Then i tried flashing something else and same thing, aborted. it doesn't make any sense. This started out of no where with rooms I've flashed many times and the el26 kernel I had been using for over 2 months. I even redownloaded el26 and a different rom , flashed it after I ran el29 auto root one click ( what ever its called) and it happens again with all new downloads and a freshly wiped and formatted phone. And yes I always wipe. Data reset, cache, dalvick, format system and calks format. Something is definitely wrong.
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I thought we arent supposed to flash an ICS rom with EL29
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can any of the devs out there lend there support ? Or anyone that is familiar with my problem. I'd really appreciate it, cause I've tried everything and still can't get anything to flash. Fresh downloads, wiped and formatted my phone, Sfhubs resets, I've tried everything. My email is [email protected].
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I am not new to flashing ROMs, but everytime I nandroid calks 3.0 or Blazer 4.1 it says everything backed up fine. Then when i'm on an ICS, aosp, or tw jellybean ROM, I will want better battery or smoothness of either two roms so I mobile Odin (pro) back to el29 direct boot then try to restore and I get a MD5 mismatch everytime. This never happened back in the gingerbread days, only when spaces were left during renaming but I don't do the noob mistakes of old. I name the ROM as I do my other nandroids and the gingerbread versions fail for md5 mismatch. I noticed both Calks and blazer 4.1 use the rogue kernel so I even went to that recovery to see if that would work, still no good... Any insight would be appreciated. All the other ics, aosp, and jellybean tw restore fine. Thanks for any assistance
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mremale said:
I am not new to flashing ROMs, but everytime I nandroid calks 3.0 or Blazer 4.1 it says everything backed up fine. Then when i'm on an ICS, aosp, or tw jellybean ROM, I will want better battery or smoothness of either two roms so I mobile Odin (pro) back to el29 direct boot then try to restore and I get a MD5 mismatch everytime. This never happened back in the gingerbread days, only when spaces were left during renaming but I don't do the noob mistakes of old. I name the ROM as I do my other nandroids and the gingerbread versions fail for md5 mismatch. I noticed both Calks and blazer 4.1 use the rogue kernel so I even went to that recovery to see if that would work, still no good... Any insight would be appreciated. All the other ics, aosp, and jellybean tw restore fine. Thanks for any assistance
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Are you gb backups done with el29 direct boot kernel? Not to insult your intelligence, but I have that issue sometimes when the kernel I try to do recovery with isn't the same one I did backup with. If you haven't, try backup with el29(I'd try el26 too), and then restore using the same one safe kernel. Good luck
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I tried restoring with EL29 direct boot, and even flashed the ROM and then went to its recovery (rogue, which was used to make the backup) and still failed. I haven't tried making the backup with EL26/29 though.
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mremale said:
I tried restoring with EL29 direct boot, and even flashed the ROM and then went to its recovery (rogue, which was used to make the backup) and still failed. I haven't tried making the backup with EL26/29 though.
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Try that. Then restore with el29/26 as well. See how that works
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If you've been on jb you'll need to flash a one click of older versions to repartition the device correctly, the backup wont restore it properly to gb or ics. I'm not sure this would cause an md5 mismatch, but I know when I restored back to fi27 from early jb leaks I had to one click before it would boot:beer:
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Stryke_the_Orc said:
If you've been on jb you'll need to flash a one click of older versions to repartition the device correctly, the backup wont restore it properly to gb or ics. I'm not sure this would cause an md5 mismatch, but I know when I restored back to fi27 from early jb leaks I had to one click before it would boot:beer:
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That makes sense that because you have to partition to go from gb/ics to jb you have to partition, you would have to in order to go back. Good point :thumbup:
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Before I backed up my stock rom and flashed my current one (PACman) I updated my profile just to make sure that I was good to go for a while.
Does the profile updates/PRL updates done in stock stay once you wipe everything and flash a new rom? I'm wondering because I don't get quite the signal strength that I did in PACman that I did on stock and I have no way of updating my profile inside of PACman. But, if profile updates don't stick after a wipe, what good does it do to go back & forth?
I really wish a dev would come out with an apk for each major carrier to update profiles.
Yes it does stay. When changing modems you should update again though.
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So, just restore back to my stock backup with my current modem and update...then, restore back to my PACman rom backup?
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Yes it does stay. When changing modems you should update again though.
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So, just restore back to my stock backup with my current modem and update...then, restore back to my PACman rom backup?
Correct. And it would stick through the flash
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patrao_n said:
Correct. And it would stick through the flash
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Thank you so much for the help!
Can't Update Profile
I just recently installed a JB 4.2.2 ROM from rootbox and have been unable to get my profile to update, so in turn have been unable to connect to 3G. When I got to About Phone -> Sprint System Updates the update profile option dials *22805 which never activates my phone. It just dials the Sprint customer support number.
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Correct. And it would stick through the flash
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Well, I just flashed my recovery and it won't boot past the S2 logo now. Did I miss something?
Okay, more questions!
I tried restoring my nandroid I made after rooting/kernel/ICS modem and it appears to restore correctly in CWM and then it won't get past the S2 splash screen. I did it first without wiping/factory reset and it was a no go, and then I was duh...and wiped/factory reset then restored the stock nandroid...still no go.
What am I doing wrong? In the meantime, I just restored a PACman nandroid and that went just fine and I can use my phone again.
I've been trying to find the answer myself, but the only thing I've found is that the stock recovery has to be restored on the same version of CWM it was created on. How do I do this since CWM updated itself to v6?
zombiegirl2010 said:
I've been trying to find the answer myself, but the only thing I've found is that the stock recovery has to be restored on the same version of CWM it was created on. How do I do this since CWM updated itself to v6?
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You flashed the EL26+CWM kernel to make the original nandroid correct? then just flash that kernel (with PC or mobile odin, doesn't matter) and then restore the nandroid.
BUT, you can skip this if you want to stay on PACman. @bilgerryan has an app somewhere in the forum that attempts to add the sprint update functionality back in to AOSP. Almost everything is broken (including PRL write and Update PRL OTA), but Profile update works without a hitch.
ALSO, take a look at the gps link in my sig. I have a link in my OP there for how to set up multiboot on the Epic Touch. That way you can multiboot into EL29 to do things like GPS lock, PRL update, Profile update, dialer codes, etc.
Adreaver said:
You flashed the EL26+CWM kernel to make the original nandroid correct? then just flash that kernel (with PC or mobile odin, doesn't matter) and then restore the nandroid.
BUT, you can skip this if you want to stay on PACman. @bilgerryan has an app somewhere in the forum that attempts to add the sprint update functionality back in to AOSP. Almost everything is broken (including PRL write and Update PRL OTA), but Profile update works without a hitch.
ALSO, take a look at the gps link in my sig. I have a link in my OP there for how to set up multiboot on the Epic Touch. That way you can multiboot into EL29 to do things like GPS lock, PRL update, Profile update, dialer codes, etc.
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Okay. Yeah, i want to stay on PACman but only need to update my profile to help my signal. Okay, I will try to find that app. My PRL is up-to-date so yeah...all I need to do is update my profile, but I'm with Virgin mobile. However, I did flash the FL24 modem (sprint). This will update my profile with VM?
I decided to just try your first fix where I reflash the EL26+CWM5 kernel and flash stock nandroid. After I'm done updating things and want to go back to PACman...I simply reflash the PACman zip (to get back my PACman specific kernel) and once restore flash a backup to get all my apps & things back, right?
Adreaver said:
You flashed the EL26+CWM kernel to make the original nandroid correct? then just flash that kernel (with PC or mobile odin, doesn't matter) and then restore the nandroid.
BUT, you can skip this if you want to stay on PACman. @bilgerryan has an app somewhere in the forum that attempts to add the sprint update functionality back in to AOSP. Almost everything is broken (including PRL write and Update PRL OTA), but Profile update works without a hitch.
ALSO, take a look at the gps link in my sig. I have a link in my OP there for how to set up multiboot on the Epic Touch. That way you can multiboot into EL29 to do things like GPS lock, PRL update, Profile update, dialer codes, etc.
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Well, that didn't work for me. :/ I reflashed the EL26+CWM5 kernel in mobile odin and then restored the stock nandroid. This gave me the S2 splash screen and just sat there. So, I guess I have to find that app you spoke of.
Okay, I found it, and followed all of the instructions to the "T" and when I click on Sprint System Updates, it simply makes a phone call to Sprint with a voice menu. :/
Update: Okay, I see it is also in the app drawer, but the only thing that currently works is the MSL retrieval.
Sigh...
Download the kernel or the rom and just flash over your restore. Your eecovery is bundled with a gingerbread kernel. So the backup you made is trying to run a gingerbread kernel. Wont work. If you flash the rom over your nandroid it will boot. You will have all system setting restored though. It sucks. But it worka.
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patrao_n said:
Download the kernel or the rom and just flash over your restore. Your eecovery is bundled with a gingerbread kernel. So the backup you made is trying to run a gingerbread kernel. Wont work. If you flash the rom over your nandroid it will boot. You will have all system setting restored though. It sucks. But it worka.
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I'm feeling a bit dumb now...
I don't quite understand the first part of what you are saying. I do understand that my nandroid cannot run without the GB kernel I made it with. So, I did reflash the GB kernal with mobile odin and then went into CWM and restored the nandroid...still didn't work.
Am I misunderstanding?
Yes. After restoring the nandroid flash whatever rom you were on again. Do not wipe. So I believe you are restoring pacman. After your restore pacman. Use the same recovery, and flash the same pacman rom again. Basically you just need the pacman kernel. Not sure if there is a aseperate kernel somewhere. But flashing the rom over top without wiping anything will restore the kernel back to what its supposed to be.
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Yes. After restoring the nandroid flash whatever rom you were on again. Do not wipe. So I believe you are restoring pacman. After your restore pacman. Use the same recovery, and flash the same pacman rom again. Basically you just need the pacman kernel. Not sure if there is a aseperate kernel somewhere. But flashing the rom over top without wiping anything will restore the kernel back to what its supposed to be.
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Oh. Hmmm. But I made the stock nandroid with the EL26 kernel. I don't need that one in order to successfully recover my stock nandroid?
I think we are talking about two different things. I am NOT able to restore my stock nandroid. It gets stuck at the S2 splash screen.
Okay, new approach...
Recommended TouchWiz based ROM that I can update PRL in?