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[Q] ACS Updater, problem installing acs custom recovery 1.0.0.4

I have been trying to update to the ACS custom recovery 1.0.0.4 but every time i try this in the ACS updater application it starts to download zImage, then gets to 99% and reboots my phonne. It doesnt go into recovery from there and the same version of CWM i was using is still the recovery system.
This has happened across 3 different roms i was trying (acs srf 1.2, and ERA rom, and bamboozle 1.1)
I would like to know iof this is a known issue, how i can get this work work, and if there is a flashable zip that i can use to install the custom recovery myself.

Interesting. I have been testing the recovery for like 2 months. I just thought it was labeled wrong because I am on 1.0.0.3. Let me try to get some info
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Any info? It just downloads "zImage" to my sd card.
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ac16313 said:
Any info? It just downloads "zImage" to my sd card.
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The person I asked didn't get back to me. Let me try again. It seems like most of the team hasn't been on here lately so I will hit some people up on G-Talk
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JohnCorleone said:
The person I asked didn't get back to me. Let me try again. It seems like most of the team hasn't been on here lately so I will hit some people up on G-Talk
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Cool stuff thanks!

It appears I am having the same issue. Gets to 99%, reboots, and I still have cwm 3.1.0.1 on 3 finger and through acs app.

jeffro18 said:
It appears I am having the same issue. Gets to 99%, reboots, and I still have cwm 3.1.0.1 on 3 finger and through acs app.
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Same here gets to 99 % reboots & nothing what's up with a flashable
Zip?
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Hey guys, I'm looking into this issue now. Not sure what caused it to just stop working.... I'll get back to everyone when I have an answer.
As for the zImage file - that's the recovery. It downloads into to your sdcard, then uses bmlwrite to write it, and then reboots.

parabola949 said:
Hey guys, I'm looking into this issue now. Not sure what caused it to just stop working.... I'll get back to everyone when I have an answer.
As for the zImage file - that's the recovery. It downloads into to your sdcard, then uses bmlwrite to write it, and then reboots.
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Thanks for the response. This recovery is the only one that has never failed on me so I hope people get to take advantage of it ASAP. I have been testing it for 6+ weeks or so and its the first thing I put back on my phone after rooting.
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Fixed!
JohnCorleone said:
Thanks for the response. This recovery is the only one that has never failed on me so I hope people get to take advantage of it ASAP. I have been testing it for 6+ weeks or so and its the first thing I put back on my phone after rooting.
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Alright, great news everyone - got it fixed. Just uploaded to the market, give it time to reach you. Version is:
(Free) 1.5.0.3
(Donate) 1.5.1.3
I apologize for the issues... not sure how it went so wrong when it worked in testing.... I tested both versions though, all is good.
By the way -
I was able to do the following:
ODIN to stock
Root with One-Click
Here's the best part - even if your one-click does NOT install a custom recovery - you can still install it from the app. After I did ODIN / root, did not have to touch computer at all.... Installed recovery, then kernel, then rom, all from app.
Once again, I apologize for the issues.

parabola949 said:
Hey guys, I'm looking into this issue now. Not sure what caused it to just stop working.... I'll get back to everyone when I have an answer.
As for the zImage file - that's the recovery. It downloads into to your sdcard, then uses bmlwrite to write it, and then reboots.
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Thanks for the heads up, and information!
So does this have any compatability issues?
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ac16313 said:
Thanks for the heads up, and information!
So does this have any compatability issues?
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After it installs, make a new nandroid backup. I found huge errors when restoring a 3.1.0.1 backup under the new recovery.
Testing now. Uhhh, I can't seem to 3 finger into recovery at all. And now it won't boot at all. Time for some special odin time....

Expect a how to video as well

I have 1.5.03 and still out failed
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mottipython said:
I have 1.5.03 and still out failed
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Same here.
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parabola949 said:
Alright, great news everyone - got it fixed. Just uploaded to the market, give it time to reach you. Version is:
(Free) 1.5.0.3
(Donate) 1.5.1.3
I apologize for the issues... not sure how it went so wrong when it worked in testing.... I tested both versions though, all is good.
By the way -
I was able to do the following:
ODIN to stock
Root with One-Click
Here's the best part - even if your one-click does NOT install a custom recovery - you can still install it from the app. After I did ODIN / root, did not have to touch computer at all.... Installed recovery, then kernel, then rom, all from app.
Once again, I apologize for the issues.
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I just saw this thread, but I have ACS Updater (Donate version 1.1) - I only use it for backup and restore and it works perfect - I don't understand this "stops at 99%" thing, but now you guys got me scared to update to the newest version.
One thing that is strange, I had to look up acs updater in the Market Place before I found you could update it - the Market Place never gave me a notification that there was an update until I saw this thread

mouseglider said:
I just saw this thread, but I have ACS Updater (Donate version 1.1) - I only use it for backup and restore and it works perfect - I don't understand this "stops at 99%" thing, but now you guys got me scared to update to the newest version.
One thing that is strange, I had to look up acs updater in the Market Place before I found you could update it - the Market Place never gave me a notification that there was an update until I saw this thread
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We are talking about trying to install the acs recovery inside the acs updater app.
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just to reiterate, this issue is not resolved...

The Root said:
After it installs, make a new nandroid backup. I found huge errors when restoring a 3.1.0.1 backup under the new recovery.
Testing now. Uhhh, I can't seem to 3 finger into recovery at all. And now it won't boot at all. Time for some special odin time....
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I didn't have this problem I installed ACS Recovery & restored a backup I made earlier with cwm a week ago & everything great! I like the blue in the recovery a little change from the purple which was also nice thanks ACS Team!! Oh my roommate has the evo I told him to instal this but he's scared that it will brick his phone I told him it won't just to make sure so he can see this is it ok for him to have this acs recovery? Thanks for any help I will give you a flower lol!hahaha
Super SRF 1.2/Genocide 2.0 OC 1.4GHZ/Honeycomb Fusion v 1.1

This issue has yet to be resolved. The acsupdater still reboots my phone at 99% . Still no flashble zip yet either.
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[ACS][Mod][EK02][EL13][EL26][Deodex][Odex]Hotspot Mod Now With 4G!

First of all HUGE thanks to Maddoggin for pulling this off. I asked Maddoggin to work on the 4G part of the hotspot mod and he was able to get it working. So ALL credit and thanks go to him. If you enjoy this mod please donate to him here [email protected]. Also thanks to 12MaNy and rjmjr69 for testing.
This is an update to the mod Necrosan did for EG30 so thanks go to him.
I nor any other member of ACS are responsible for whatever happens to your phone.
Devs and Themers feel free to use this. Just remember where it came from.
Flash in recovery
Download​

Can you remind an idiot like myself again what all makes up the "all-in-one" portion now?

xlGmanlx said:
Can you remind an idiot like myself again what all makes up the "all-in-one" portion now?
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It combines the features of wifi tether, crt, 1% battery, reboot, recovery, download, rotation lag fix, screen rotation, no shutdown confirmation, no battery full notification (blue led still shows) and 14 statusbar toggles.

Odex is up now.

So I'm a bit confused on how to use this properly. I've researched the differences between odex and deodex but I'm still confused. I'm running EL13 rooted. I don't have CWM installed so I'm stock still, but rooted. I tried and odex hotspot a couple days ago and it didn't work. It froze my phone at the Galaxy SII screen. I reflashed it and now back to normal. My question is which type should I be using, odex or deodex? If I use the deodex do I remove the odex file currently on the phone? How do I clear the cache in odin?
Thanks,
BlueKalel

BlueKalel said:
So I'm a bit confused on how to use this properly. I've researched the differences between odex and deodex but I'm still confused. I'm running EL13 rooted. I don't have CWM installed so I'm stock still, but rooted. I tried and odex hotspot a couple days ago and it didn't work. It froze my phone at the Galaxy SII screen. I reflashed it and now back to normal. My question is which type should I be using, odex or deodex? If I use the deodex do I remove the odex file currently on the phone? How do I clear the cache in odin?
Thanks,
BlueKalel
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Which one you use depends on the rom you have installed. Odexed or Deodexed. So if you have a stock EL13 rom installed and it doesn't specify deodexed then you are odexed. Neither of these files install via Odin. You must have a recovery to install it or you can pull the files out of the zip and manually copy them to the right directories on your phone using root explorer, adb or some other root file explorer. I would suggest installing the Rogue EL13 Stock kernel to get recovery. Than you just copy the EL13HotspotMod-Odexed.zip to your phone and flash in recovery. If you are Deodexed you download the deodex file and do the same thing. You don't clear cache in Odin. You do that in recovery. The zips do that for you so you don't need to worry about it.

So if I'm completely stock(with root, flashed with tar), no recovery, I'd use odex version. Do I have to clear the cache? If I have to clear the cache and don't what to put recovery on then I can't use this, is that correct?
Thanks for your patience and help,
BlueKalel

BlueKalel said:
So if I'm completely stock(with root, flashed with tar), no recovery, I'd use odex version. Do I have to clear the cache? If I have to clear the cache and don't what to put recovery on then I can't use this, is that correct?
Thanks for your patience and help,
BlueKalel
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Clearing the cache isn't really necessary but if you flash the zip in recovery it will clear it for you. You should Odin the Rogue EL13 Stock kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20293988&postcount=33 to get recovery. Then flash the zip.

The odex version left me stuck at Samsung galaxy s2 screen. I had to restore a backup to get running again. Any ideas why?
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smark72 said:
The odex version left me stuck at Samsung galaxy s2 screen. I had to restore a backup to get running again. Any ideas why?
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How long did you let it sit? It has to rebuild cache which can take a minute or two on the first boot after flash.
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smark72 said:
The odex version left me stuck at Samsung galaxy s2 screen. I had to restore a backup to get running again. Any ideas why?
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What rom are you on? As John said a delay of a few minutes will appear after the first boot but you should get past the samsung screen to the boot screen before the delay kicks in. Odex seems touchy and dependent on the rom. I used calk's stock rooted el13 to build it.
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Also I have seen people on prior versions having the same issue because of bad flashes. Download the file again or confirm the md5. Install the mod again. If it doesn't work, manually wipe cache and dalvik 3 each. Yes I know what conventional wisdom tells you but please give it a try. And please report back to let is know how it went and any details you can provide.
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Ok i updated phone from OTA and got put on stock EK02 build and lost root, rooted with AUTOroot method via cmd prompt, then installed ek02+cwm from same cmd prompt, backed up via cwm, then ran this odex hotspot mod and have been stuck on SG s2 screen over 5 min. i wiped cache and dalvik 3 times each.
do i have to be on EL13 kernal first? thx for all the great work. jay

itrackit said:
Ok i updated phone from OTA and got put on stock EK02 build and lost root, rooted with AUTOroot method via cmd prompt, then installed ek02+cwm from same cmd prompt, backed up via cwm, then ran this odex hotspot mod and have been stuck on SG s2 screen over 5 min. i wiped cache and dalvik 3 times each.
do i have to be on EL13 kernal first? thx for all the great work. jay
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You must be on an EL13 Rom for this to work. The kernel and modem don't matter although I would recommend running everything EL13.

crawrj said:
You must be on an EL13 Rom for this to work. The kernel and modem don't matter although I would recommend running everything EL13.
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ok thank you for the quick reply. i loaded the el13 kernal/recovery but it still didn't work so i will find a stock el13 rom and try again.

crawrj said:
What rom are you on? As John said a delay of a few minutes will appear after the first boot but you should get past the samsung screen to the boot screen before the delay kicks in. Odex seems touchy and dependent on the rom. I used calk's stock rooted el13 to build it.
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It sat for five minutes but I will try it again to see if I can get it flashed. I am running stock rooted with latest rogue kernel and el13 modem.
Edit: I just remembered I haven't flashed the el13 system yet, only the kernel and modem. That's why I couldn't get past boot logo I guess.
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smark72 said:
Edit: I just remembered I haven't flashed the el13 system yet, only the kernel and modem. That's why I couldn't get past boot logo I guess.
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You got it. Need to be on the EL13 Rom to use this.

Working 4G
First of all HUGE thanks to Maddoggin for pulling this off. I asked Maddoggin to work on the 4G part of the hotspot mod and he was able to get it working. So ALL credit and thanks go to him. If you enjoy this mod please donate to him here [email protected]. Also thanks to 12MaNy and rjmjr69 for testing.

crawrj said:
First of all HUGE thanks to Maddoggin for pulling this off. I asked Maddoggin to work on the 4G part of the hotspot mod and he was able to get it working. So ALL credit and thanks go to him. If you enjoy this mod please donate to him here [email protected]. Also thanks to 12MaNy and rjmjr69 for testing.
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Looks like its time to cancel my Hotspot finally!!! I have been waiting for this since launch day of this phone! Thanks crawrj and maddoggin!!!
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crawrj said:
First of all HUGE thanks to Maddoggin for pulling this off. I asked Maddoggin to work on the 4G part of the hotspot mod and he was able to get it working. So ALL credit and thanks go to him. If you enjoy this mod please donate to him here [email protected]. Also thanks to 12MaNy and rjmjr69 for testing.
This is an update to the mod Necrosan did for EG30 so thanks go to him.
I nor any other member of ACS are responsible for whatever happens to your phone.
Devs and Themers feel free to use this. Just remember where it came from.
Flash in recovery
If you aren't Deodexed go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389874
Download​
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Will this be added to the EK02 Mod?
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Mobile odin pro

Is anyone having problems with mobile odin not flashing kernels fe16 leak? Ive.been using.it since it came out and now it.wont.flash a kernel. Im on agat fe 16. Anyone else having problems?
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musclehead84 said:
Is anyone having problems with mobile odin not flashing kernels fe16 leak? Ive.been using.it since it came out and now it.wont.flash a kernel. Im on agat fe 16. Anyone else having problems?
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I am testing Ice FE16 I threw together and I havd been flashing kernels with Mobile Odin without any problems so far. I will try it again now and report back to make sure though
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Yeah man i dont know whats wrong. I use mobile odin pro all tje time and it says flashing kernel but it wont do anything. Weird.
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yp yup. its doing the same thing as musclehead. says its flashing but afterwards just goes back to the homescreen.

its doing the same thing to me. im not sure if it matters but i did notice when i had superSU installed it wouldnt work but it was doing something different. after i uninstalled superSU and updated the binarny for the regular superuser.apk app it seemed to do an extra step that i dint notice it wasnt doing on prior tries. so if any of u are using superSU then uninstall it and see what i mean. maybe that can help us fig it out. cause i did notice at the bottom of superSU it says something about "injecting superSU"...sorry if my wording on that was confusing.

I noticed when I am using it to replace a stock kernel it doesn't reboot, but it does install kernel I wanted. I just manually reboot.
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Worked fine for me to flash ACS FE16 kernel and the ones before. Try reinstalling?

musclehead84 said:
Is anyone having problems with mobile odin not flashing kernels fe16 leak? Ive.been using.it since it came out and now it.wont.flash a kernel. Im on agat fe 16. Anyone else having problems?
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This may not be not be helpful,
The same was happening to me but it was with modems, and it was several builds ago. I was stuck with FD19 (not a complaint, seeing as how that's the best modem for me so far)
It definitely is not an overall Mobile Odin thing, for me... when I couldn't install a new modem it wouldn't do it from the unlocked stock recovery either. It would SAY that it was. So I was thinking that it was a kernel issue.. Doesn't Mobile Odin make himself a copy of your current kernel to use a "flash kernel?'
Also, are you using "open file" with a .tar or are you placing the zImage directly in the kernel slot? I have noticed varying results when I do it differently.
As a temporary solution, download "Hc-kTool" from the market.
This app is also a must have. You can dump your current kernel, flash zImages, install update.tar packets with a zImage, modem.bin, and param.lfs, backup and restore EFS...
Just until MoOd is up and running for you this should hold you over.

musclehead84 said:
Is anyone having problems with mobile odin not flashing kernels fe16 leak? Ive.been using.it since it came out and now it.wont.flash a kernel. Im on agat fe 16. Anyone else having problems?
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I tried out FE10 (Sfhub) the other day, and tried to mobile Odin back to EL29 and it wouldn't work. I'm guessing its the same scenario as you're having on FE16. Everything works as normal, and then right after it says "flashing kernel", it just does nothing instead of rebooting and flashing like it should.
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I've noticed on some of the TW based roms when I would flash a kernel with mobile odin it just doesnt reboot the phone after flashing. I would then reboot into recovery and the kernel I had flashed would be there.

Try going into developers settings uncheck usb debugging it was doing the same thing for me and reboot.
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Sometimes I'd flash a kernel threw mobile Odin. And it wouldn't do the reboot at first I thought it didn't work. And would do it over again but one day I I checked to see if the kernel was flashed regardless and it was good to go. Plus it still happens here and there and every time kernel still flashes great. :what:
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This is a strange issue. I am on FE16 and I used Mobile Odin 3 times today and it worked perfectly. It flashed and the phone rebooted and I was on my way. I am still using Venum Ice FE16 for what its worth

Kebetz said:
As a temporary solution, download "Hc-kTool" from the market.
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just searched the market for that, just wanted to say thanks for tip and to let u and others know that it's actually just "ktool".
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veritasaequita said:
just searched the market for that, just wanted to say thanks for tip and to let u and others know that it's actually just "ktool".
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Weird, I've always had HC-kTool as the name, oh well, it's a great app, by any name.
Also; I had the moble odin doing nothing issue, after you tell him what to do and he does nothing just immediately boot into recovery and he'll go about his business.

mobile odin fail
been flashing roms ok and kernals fine can't get the modems to change after flashing.

Kebetz said:
This may not be not be helpful,
The same was happening to me but it was with modems, and it was several builds ago. I was stuck with FD19 (not a complaint, seeing as how that's the best modem for me so far)
It definitely is not an overall Mobile Odin thing, for me... when I couldn't install a new modem it wouldn't do it from the unlocked stock recovery either. It would SAY that it was. So I was thinking that it was a kernel issue.. Doesn't Mobile Odin make himself a copy of your current kernel to use a "flash kernel?'
Also, are you using "open file" with a .tar or are you placing the zImage directly in the kernel slot? I have noticed varying results when I do it differently.
As a temporary solution, download "Hc-kTool" from the market.
This app is also a must have. You can dump your current kernel, flash zImages, install update.tar packets with a zImage, modem.bin, and param.lfs, backup and restore EFS...
Just until MoOd is up and running for you this should hold you over.
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It's a known fact that Mobile Odin does not flash cdma modems. They need to either be flashed via recovery or through the use of desktop Odin.

Ha! Known to you maybe, I never looked into it

rwright64 said:
I've noticed on some of the TW based roms when I would flash a kernel with mobile odin it just doesnt reboot the phone after flashing. I would then reboot into recovery and the kernel I had flashed would be there.
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Just curious, but can you please advise how you verify that your kernel installed when booted into recovery? I am able to tell what recovery I have installed but not sure how to verify the kernel when only in recovery
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Kebetz said:
This may not be not be helpful,
The same was happening to me but it was with modems, and it was several builds ago. I was stuck with FD19 (not a complaint, seeing as how that's the best modem for me so far)
It definitely is not an overall Mobile Odin thing, for me... when I couldn't install a new modem it wouldn't do it from the unlocked stock recovery either. It would SAY that it was. So I was thinking that it was a kernel issue.. Doesn't Mobile Odin make himself a copy of your current kernel to use a "flash kernel?'
Also, are you using "open file" with a .tar or are you placing the zImage directly in the kernel slot? I have noticed varying results when I do it differently.
As a temporary solution, download "Hc-kTool" from the market.
This app is also a must have. You can dump your current kernel, flash zImages, install update.tar packets with a zImage, modem.bin, and param.lfs, backup and restore EFS...
Just until MoOd is up and running for you this should hold you over.
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Mobile Odin cannot flash modems at all.
*/Should have read the second page, you beat me to it Esoteric.
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[ROM][CM9][AOKP] Temporary Stock E4GT from emmc

Epic Touch Blog: Temporary Stock E4GT from emmc
Utility for CM9 Epic Touch
This is a temporary ROM that boots Samsung's Gingerbread EL29 firmware entirely from emmc without making any changes to the ROM currently installed on your phone. When you reboot, you return to recovery where you can re-flash the ROM to return to CM9. This temporary ROM is useful for several purposes.
Update Profile.
Update PRL.
Sprint Activation.
Dial codes and diagnostic mode.
This should be helpful to users of any AOSP-based ROM including CM9, AOKP, etc.
Thanks to noobnl and mkasick for making this possible!

Really nice thanks a lot.

Awesome can't wait to test it out
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. This will come in hand
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wilderckw said:
. This will come in hand
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Its a great tool and easy to use. Was testing earlier today.
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Would this work to flash .zip updates (such as kobridge) or updated ROMs (such as alpha5)?

This definitely will come in handy, can I suggest seeing if you can get a video made of how it works. I can honestly say It seems to help out quite a bit in this forum for a lot of people and does cut down on the crazy questions.
Great job though!

bobjase said:
Would this work to flash .zip updates (such as kobridge) or updated ROMs (such as alpha5)?
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You can use the directbootCWM file to update CM9 yes. Not sure about using it for Kobridge tweaks.
playya said:
This definitely will come in handy, can I suggest seeing if you can get a video made of how it works. I can honestly say It seems to help out quite a bit in this forum for a lot of people and does cut down on the crazy questions.
Great job though!
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Maybe qbking can make one for those who need it.
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I'm sorry but what does this do?
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m0j09987 said:
I'm sorry but what does this do?
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Its for AOSP roms. You currently can't update PRL/Profile, activate your device, or use dialer codes on them so this temporarily allows you to boot stock el29 off the SD card without changing your current rom. You can do what i said from there. Saves you time from doing backups, restoring, etc.
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I'm hoping that someone can help me out as I am unable to boot into the temporary ROM. Here are the steps I followed:
1. I have everything extracted to emmc as directed.
2. I flashed directboot CWM utilizing mobile odin which correctly booted me into CWM version 5.0.2.7
3. I flashed boot_EL29.zip at location /emmc/multiboot/EL29 and received the following messages that appear to be correct.
Finding Update Package...​Opening Update Package...​Installing Update...​Boot /emmc/multiboot/EL29/zImage​Create mount symlink.​Remount partitions read-only.​(Re)mount /emmc read-only.​Unpack kexec.​Load zImage and initramfs.​Sync.​Reboot into zImage.​Install from sdcard complete.​4. At this point I expected the phone to reboot into the temporary rom; however, it just shows the standard recovery menu. No reboot occured.
5. Because no automatic reboot occured, I selected "reboot system now" from CWM. Unfortunately this just brings me back into directboot CWM.
Thanks in advance for any help provided.

I am having the same problem I thought it could have been the downloading or unpacking so I downloaded it again and unpacked it and still have the same problem.

smmlee said:
I'm hoping that someone can help me out as I am unable to boot into the temporary ROM. Here are the steps I followed:
1. I have everything extracted to emmc as directed.
2. I flashed directboot CWM utilizing mobile odin which correctly booted me into CWM version 5.0.2.7
3. I flashed boot_EL29.zip at location /emmc/multiboot/EL29 and received the following messages that appear to be correct.
Finding Update Package...​Opening Update Package...​Installing Update...​Boot /emmc/multiboot/EL29/zImage​Create mount symlink.​Remount partitions read-only.​(Re)mount /emmc read-only.​Unpack kexec.​Load zImage and initramfs.​Sync.​Reboot into zImage.​Install from sdcard complete.​4. At this point I expected the phone to reboot into the temporary rom; however, it just shows the standard recovery menu. No reboot occured.
5. Because no automatic reboot occured, I selected "reboot system now" from CWM. Unfortunately this just brings me back into directboot CWM.
Thanks in advance for any help provided.
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I what having this same issue. There is a different version of direct boot, v3 that you have to use for this.
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All I see is v1 up on the e4gtcm site. Where did you obtain v3 from?

Worked with V3 direct boot Thanks
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just click on the direct boot link and it will bring you to the V3

smmlee said:
All I see is v1 up on the e4gtcm site. Where did you obtain v3 from?
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Nevermind. I found the v3 update. Thanks all!

Anymore questions don't be afraid to ask.
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This sounds pretty cool and I would like to test it... what I don't understand is when I'm done with the temp rom, how do I get back to AOKP? Do I need to reflash the whole AOKP rom? Just the kernel?

epdp14 said:
This sounds pretty cool and I would like to test it... what I don't understand is when I'm done with the temp rom, how do I get back to AOKP? Do I need to reflash the whole AOKP rom? Just the kernel?
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When done updating prl/profile, etc. Just reboot your phone and it will take you back to cwm recovery. From there you can either just reflash the rom or just a compatible kernel so it boots.
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excellent. this could also help people do the gb GPS fix.. sweet man.

[NEW][KERNEL] CM9 FF11 repack with AGAT recovery 0.2.1

There was a request (more than one) via PM to repack CM9 kernel with my recovery. I know there is a better recovery available but I liked the challenge and decided to give it a try.
With help from Chris41g I was able to make this repack.
Base of this repack is CM9 FF11 kernel.
Everything and anything that worked in FF11 kernel should be working here.
Never used CM before so I have hard time testing repack.
So far I have noticed 3 things.
1. 4G is not turning on.
2. When I mount usb I see only external SD card. Internal storage is not showing up.
3. In settings when I try to go to storage settings.apk is FC.
Other than that everything is working (I think).
Recovery is CM7 (GB) based and has been tested very extensively with TW roms and modified CM/AOSP/AOKP roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27124691&postcount=484
We some help I hope to fix those 3 bugs as well but for now I think you can use this repack as alternative if you want to.
Links for tar and zip files:
1. FF11_CM9_AGAT.tar flash with ODIN or mobile ODIN
2. FF11_CM9_AGAT.zip flash in any unlocked recovery.
I have tried both. Flashed tar with mobile odin and flashed zip file with CWM recovery.
If you guys like it I might need some help to finish this project and make sure everything is working.

reserved just in case

Yay First!
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RCOVA said:
Yay First!
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This is definitely thinking outside the box. Excellent as always and makes me feel safer to flash cm9. Thank you sir. Live the way you think.

Sorry I crashed, glad you got it up and running ;-)
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Thanks for this!
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This is awesome but why use FF11 and not FF18? Just wondering, good job as always.

slick4mitch said:
This is awesome but why use FF11 and not FF18? Just wondering, good job as always.
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As I stated in OP I don't know much about CM.
I took whatever kernel was available.
Gimmi FF18 CM kernel and I'll repack it as well.