I'm new to installing roms on the s3. I've had many different roms on my old Desire so I'm not entirely new to this, just had a few questions.
How easy is it to lose your imei number when flashing a new rom?
Is it dependent on anything specific?
Easy to fix if it does happen?
Anything else I should be worried about before flashing?
I'm looking at testing out cm10.1 and Task's rom as well as a few kernels.
Thanks.
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jordan.harris01 said:
I'm new to installing roms on the s3. I've had many different roms on my old Desire so I'm not entirely new to this, just had a few questions.
How easy is it to lose your imei number when flashing a new rom?
Is it dependent on anything specific?
Easy to fix if it does happen?
Anything else I should be worried about before flashing?
I'm looking at testing out cm10.1 and Task's rom as well as a few kernels.
Thanks.
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Imei loss is random.
Best thing to do is to back it up. Easier to back up than to inject it back in manually. (Still not overly difficult but always have a backup)
Nothing to really worry about. Just don't flash a ROM not intended for your phone.
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What's the best way to back it up? Galaxy toolbox?
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jordan.harris01 said:
What's the best way to back it up? Galaxy toolbox?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29461812
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Thanks, I'll check that out.
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I would say to just make sure you hava a sure way to get back to stock in case you soft brick your phone. I.e the stock tar
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Thanks, I'll check that out.
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Actually most people loose IMEI going from a custom ROM to a stock based ROM.
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Actually most people loose IMEI going from a custom ROM to a stock based ROM.
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So say im just stock att and rooted, and wanted to flash say csrom. do u think i would lose my imei? I had a gs3 last year. I flashed cm10 from the stock rom, then two days later flashed another rom cant rem which one. thats when i lost my Imei. fixed it. then just used my one x. til last week when i got another gs3.. its rooted and and stock right now. guess i just need to back up etc. before flashing just to be sure. etc..
So I guess this is just a problem we sometimes need to live with? Just back it up and restore as needed.
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Oh, one more question. I'm on telus so the 747m. Can I flash d2att roms or do I need to use d2can?
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So I guess this is just a problem we sometimes need to live with? Just back it up and restore as needed.
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Sounds like it. I have been flashing roms and since my first android, htc hero.. never had a bricked phone or anything etc.. before that win mobile, again never had any issues. as long as you read and pay attention all will be good. I want to flash a rom on this s3 but gotta find the time to back up and such. kinda hard with a wife that's a RN working 12 hour shifts and 3 kids lol..
Yea, same here. I've flashed so many roms and kernels on my old s3. Had no worries ever about changing the partition table sizes and am familiar with adb just haven't found the time to look into all of the s3 stuff yet. I've had the phone since launch but just rooted it for the first time a few days ago.
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spiritcrusher33 said:
So say im just stock att and rooted, and wanted to flash say csrom. do u think i would lose my imei? I had a gs3 last year. I flashed cm10 from the stock rom, then two days later flashed another rom cant rem which one. thats when i lost my Imei. fixed it. then just used my one x. til last week when i got another gs3.. its rooted and and stock right now. guess i just need to back up etc. before flashing just to be sure. etc..
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custom i.e not based on a samsung ROM. It's not common but more common going from custom (aosp, aokp,CM) to any TW type ROM. Just back it up anyway, even though you more than likely will never have to worry about loosing it.
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custom i.e not based on a samsung ROM. It's not common but more common going from custom (aosp, aokp,CM) to any TW type ROM. Just back it up anyway, even though you more than likely will never have to worry about loosing it.
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Thats the plan just gonna back it up. but just gonna stick with TW based roms. I have my other phones and tabs to mess with if i wanna flash something else lol. problem is I get bored to easy and am always changing things..
Can I flash d2att roms on my telus phone or do I need d2can?
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jordan.harris01 said:
Can I flash d2att roms on my telus phone or do I need d2can?
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Yes. You might need to flash a d2att recovery to avoid getting a status 7 error
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KorGuy123 said:
Yes. You might need to flash a d2att recovery to avoid getting a status 7 error
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How do I go about doing that? I've flashed twrp from goo manager. Will that be alright?
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jordan.harris01 said:
How do I go about doing that? I've flashed twrp from goo manager. Will that be alright?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1879305&d=1365812877
This is a recovery you can flash. This will flash over your d2can with d2att.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1879305&d=1365812877
This is a recovery you can flash. This will flash over your d2can with d2att.
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That should be the one I have installed. Is there somewhere I can see if I'm d2att? to verify?
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jordan.harris01 said:
That should be the one I have installed. Is there somewhere I can see if I'm d2att? to verify?
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You can check your build prop or just flash a ROM. It should work. Or flash that file anyway.
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Hi everyone
Is there a way to hard brick my S2?
For testing purpose. Would appreciate
Feel free to PM just as well if the topic is not good here
update: forgot to mention, I can't use any USB type of flashing. My USB is not working for some reasons. So anything from recovery or type in shell should do. thanks again
Well, had to do a double take to make sure I was reading this thread correctly :what: Easiest way is to flash a ROM not intended for our phone. If you read all the "Help, I bricked my phone " threads, they usually flashed one for the I9100 or SG3. Now, you don't plan to use this info for malicious reasons, right? :sly:
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gottijr, sure hope your "testing" is that you're coming up with some way to help us un-hard-brick a GS2 without a USB port...
The easy way is to pull it into water ... lol
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Honestly it sounds like something shady to me.
Either flash an att Rom or flash any pit file.
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VoiD_Dweller said:
Honestly it sounds like something shady to me.
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you think so?
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flashing a different Rom will brick it well?
Is there a way to flash stock and rest counter without usb access?
Thanks everyone at this point
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gottijr, sure hope your "testing" is that you're coming up with some way to help us un-hard-brick a GS2 without a USB port...
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I can try but might not work
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What's funny about this is I accidentally flashed a international GS2 ROM and I thought it bricked I wiped and tried flashing another ROM to no avail only thing that worked is doing a darkside super wipe
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The easy way is to pull it into water ... lol
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Thats quite the permanent way...lol
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Either flash an att Rom or flash any pit file.
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I tried to flash an att and it does not brick
it's stupid!
I need a way to brick it well so the phone will not start
gottijr said:
I tried to flash an att and it does not brick
it's stupid!
I need a way to brick it well so the phone will not start
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Flash a nexus kernel
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gottijr said:
I tried to flash an att and it does not brick
it's stupid!
I need a way to brick it well so the phone will not start
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flashing anything but the skyrocket and hercules should do it
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Teo032 said:
flashing anything but the skyrocket and hercules should do it
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did not work
i did SIII and did not brick
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Flash a nexus kernel
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a specific nexus? the google nexus one?
right now it's a little bit messed up
what ever i flash back from S2 tmobile, is not working anymore
But phone still turns on, and boots, and get the top menu and turn off menu and reset
I need to make sure at this point I brick it right, can't end up getting stuck with it, with no USB
What do you mean stuck with it? Tried the international s2 yet?
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Flash an .pit file, that will brick it for sure, you can also flash a recovery not intended for the T989, that will not boot up for sure.
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gottijr said:
Hi everyone
Is there a way to hard brick my S2?
For testing purpose. Would appreciate
Feel free to PM just as well if the topic is not good here
update: forgot to mention, I can't use any USB type of flashing. My USB is not working for some reasons. So anything from recovery or type in shell should do. thanks again
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flash any kernel with a zimage to the phone and guaranteed it wont boot again....dead...did it so i know. A simple way is click on unitegrate rom in titanuim backup and it wipes out your phone did this on accident too and phone was dwad no boot .. no lights.. nothing.
Because the pic says this one is from May, did anything else come after that one????
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Because the pic says this one is from May, did anything else come after that one????
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1894880
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1894880
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How do I go about getting it though
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FLBoy1991 said:
How do I go about getting it though
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Need a bit more info... rooted? running stock rooted or custom ROM? if custom ROM, which one?
without those basic things, it's hard to help out :silly:
dragon_rckr said:
Need a bit more info... rooted? running stock rooted or custom ROM? if custom ROM, which one?
without those basic things, it's hard to help out :silly:
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I'm running freegs3 custom Rom I'm rooted
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FLBoy1991 said:
I'm running freegs3 custom Rom I'm rooted
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Clark44, the dev of the ROM, said that he might update. It all depends on his time, he's a full time student.
You can flash the update from Freeza over the ROM, but you also need to flash "Revert to LF9 Universal Search" found in the OP to have the full google search. Read the thread and see what has been reported...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743923
Currently flashed CM10 tmo variant on my i747M Galaxy s3 . I have no issues with using the tmo variant, I want to jump back onto the at&t variant but is there any complications to it? Or can just flash an cm10 nightly on without doing anything out of the ordinary for flashing a rom
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Just flash it
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Just flash it
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You sure everything will be fine?
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There are many of us here with i747ms running AT&T ROMs without issue, myself included. You will be fine.
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There are many of us here with i747ms running AT&T ROMs without issue, myself included. You will be fine.
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I know that, my question was since my phone identifies itself as a T999 should there be no overthrown issues going back
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You sure everything will be fine?
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you're looking too deep into this process. if you've done all the important things like make a nandroid and back things up then there is no reason to worry about anything.
I recently saw a post on how to flash a CM10 rom built for ATT. It said you needed to delete some lines in the update script, however when I looked for it couldn't find it anymore. Has anyone been able to do this, I want to try Jellybam.
Thanks
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Yeah just delete the first line which has d2att in it and it should flash. For some of their ROMs though I found you don't even need to
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BaconStep said:
Yeah just delete the first line which has d2att in it and it should flash. For some of their ROMs though I found you don't even need to
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hey man good to see u from the galaxy s2 forums
Hey guys, while I'm having a great time flashing ROMs and trying to become a fast expert I wanted to ask a question. I want to keep the stock Att ROM on my device just if I need it reasons. Not sure where I can get it and I don't think I've seen it yet. Let me know if I need to be more clear on what I'm trying to do.
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Is this what you need?
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8301
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yankeesfan714 said:
Is this what you need?
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8301
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LOL I have no idea! Is this the stock Att note 2 ROM? If so there isn't a US one.
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enzosly said:
LOL I have no idea! Is this the stock Att note 2 ROM? If so there isn't a US one.
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What do you mean? Yes its AT&T and yes its usa thats the only place AT&T is
But here is a ODIN file to go back to 100% complete stock AT&T rom
http://filehostonline.com/xda/AT&T Note2/I317UCALJ2_I317ATTALJ2_ATT.zip
You know how to use Odin right?
OK and yes I do know odin but wouldn't using that unroot me?
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You didn't maybe a back up of the original before you started flashing ROMs?
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Hang in there, you'll figure it out...I had to go thru the same thing a while back, but sometimes the best way to learn is to just play around a bit.
Good Luck!
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Hang in there, you'll figure it out...I had to go thru the same thing a while back, but sometimes the best way to learn is to just play around a bit.
Good Luck!
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I have a bunch of backups now but when I started I was running out of space so I had to pick and choose what ROMs I backed up. When I discovered twarp it let me backup to my SD card so now I can do what I want. So yes I do back up but no after flashing for a few months I no longer have my stock back up
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OK and yes I do know odin but wouldn't using that unroot me?
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Yess... you said you wanted AT&T rom... BUt it doesnt take 1 min to reroot....