If im doing this wrong i apologize im new to this site completely. I need someone to guide me through Rooting, and flashing roms, and cwm to my s3. I use to flash Roms to my mesmerize constantly a couple years ago and was quite good for only doing it for a couple weeks but it has changed some plus ive forgotten quite alot. I am trying to put the new illusion 4.3 with cyanogenmod mod 3.4.56 with cwm 2.6.3.0 touch it starts up wonderfully and everything looks okay but i cannont get service the signal triangle is black and nothing i have tried will work. can someone lend me a hand?
I didnt see a uscellular thread so i came to the conclusion that there isnt one so i posted here. im sure that i havent followed the correct rules or whatever for xda i just know from previous times you guys know your stuff the best.
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Im pretty new to the site and have a lot of useful things out here. thank you ver much for that. i have a quesiton. i have been trying to put some themes on my dash and i cant seem to get the to show up. i followed this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=342708&highlight=colour and after reboot my previous them is still showing, anything special i need to do?
a week ago i upgrade to ricky's rom, is this the reason its not working, i guess it might have been developed for an older rom
I think this is the right place for this thread I'm a little confused. If its not im sorry I meant no harm
I have here a Sprint s511 Snap
I was trying to load cooked roms for a buddy of mine (the phone does not belong to me)
I used SDA unlock
Then I used HSPL it went to 100% and rebooted
i thought that meant everything was straight
I tried to flash 3vo,
It got to 30% and shut down (because there was no HSPL)
It boots to tri-color, I do have USB support. Every thing I tried to flash stays at 0% except one I found that was in spanish, it could get to 1% lol
The hard reset did not work
Im looking for a shipped rom, I searched for at least 4 hours last night but I could not find one anywhere.
Im really upset that I bricked my friends phone, I need some help.
iclutchkick said:
I think this is the right place for this thread I'm a little confused. If its not im sorry I meant no harm
I have here a Sprint s511 Snap
I was trying to load cooked roms for a buddy of mine (the phone does not belong to me)
I used SDA unlock
Then I used HSPL it went to 100% and rebooted
i thought that meant everything was straight
I tried to flash 3vo,
It got to 30% and shut down (because there was no HSPL)
It boots to tri-color, I do have USB support. Every thing I tried to flash stays at 0% except one I found that was in spanish, it could get to 1% lol
The hard reset did not work
Im looking for a shipped rom, I searched for at least 4 hours last night but I could not find one anywhere.
Im really upset that I bricked my friends phone, I need some help.
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stock rom can find at http://www.shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=windows%20mobile&model=Captain
Hello, so im a relative noob in the forums per say, by my post count, bt ive been stalking the xda forums since my HTC Touch Pro 2..Usually, with enough searching i can fix my problems on my own, bt I can't afford to break this fone..
Here is the story. (sry if im giving TMI) (THE ACTUAL QUESTION IS AT THE END. RELATIVE INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOWS)
I was content with my stock EL29 rom,bt I wanted to try the new ICS update. So, I manually updated to FF18 using this link:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...bbe3997e3067.SPH-D710_update_EL29_to_FF18.zip
I used QBKing's video's steps to update. Big shout out to him, btw.. So after i wanted to root to eventually flash a custom rom. So i rooted using sfhub's one click for FF18 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Now, i few days of reading later, i decided to install the recovery to start installing custom roms. However, my fone got a bit wet a few days ago from a thunderstorm video recording adventure and I couldnt install the recovery.
I plugged in my fone and it wasnt recognized by any of my three computers at home. I uninstalled and re installed the samsung drivers numerous times. Keep in mind that I had previously used sfhub's one click sucessfully, so it is unlikely to be a computer problem.
So a few days later my fone starts telling me that im charging it (or its overvoltage) when its nt even plugged in. Now, it wont even turn off. it restarts as soon as it turns off.
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So basically, I have come to the conclusion that I have a hardware usb port phone problem. Now, since its rooted,just with a stock FF18 rom, will Sprint give me problems if its an obvious hardware problems?
Is there a way to unroot without plugging it into my computer? Im thinking mobile ODIN,bt i heard it cant flash modems? would that be a problem if im from a rooted FF18 going to EL29? Or shud I just go back to stock unrooted FF18?Or shud I just take it to Sprint and hope they dont check the phone software wise?
I wud appreciate multiple opinions or even confirmations of other ppls ideas. Bt thanks for reading all this.. Hope I didnt put u guys to sleep
Thanks for all the help in advance guys...u guys rock..
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Hello, so im a relative noob in the forums per say, by my post count, bt ive been stalking the xda forums since my HTC Touch Pro 2..Usually, with enough searching i can fix my problems on my own, bt I can't afford to break this fone..
Here is the story. (sry if im giving TMI) (THE ACTUAL QUESTION IS AT THE END. RELATIVE INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOWS)
I was content with my stock EL29 rom,bt I wanted to try the new ICS update. So, I manually updated to FF18 using this link:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...bbe3997e3067.SPH-D710_update_EL29_to_FF18.zip
I used QBKing's video's steps to update. Big shout out to him, btw.. So after i wanted to root to eventually flash a custom rom. So i rooted using sfhub's one click for FF18 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Now, i few days of reading later, i decided to install the recovery to start installing custom roms. However, my fone got a bit wet a few days ago from a thunderstorm video recording adventure and I couldnt install the recovery.
I plugged in my fone and it wasnt recognized by any of my three computers at home. I uninstalled and re installed the samsung drivers numerous times. Keep in mind that I had previously used sfhub's one click sucessfully, so it is unlikely to be a computer problem.
So a few days later my fone starts telling me that im charging it (or its overvoltage) when its nt even plugged in. Now, it wont even turn off. it restarts as soon as it turns off.
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So basically, I have come to the conclusion that I have a hardware usb port phone problem. Now, since its rooted,just with a stock FF18 rom, will Sprint give me problems if its an obvious hardware problems?
Is there a way to unroot without plugging it into my computer? Im thinking mobile ODIN,bt i heard it cant flash modems? would that be a problem if im from a rooted FF18 going to EL29? Or shud I just go back to stock unrooted FF18?Or shud I just take it to Sprint and hope they dont check the phone software wise?
I wud appreciate multiple opinions or even confirmations of other ppls ideas. Bt thanks for reading all this.. Hope I didnt put u guys to sleep
Thanks for all the help in advance guys...u guys rock..
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Now, I haven't had this problem, but on my old moment, what I did was flash it back to an old version of Stock (say EL29 [on this phone use MobileODIN]), then try to apply the OTA update, or even download the OTA update files and place them on your SD card and try that way. Then you phone would look stock when you take it in, just make sure have a battery as full as possible.
thanks for the suggestion. I ended up bringing it to Sprint and as soon as I left my car, the power button stopped working for some reason.
They ended up focusing on that and ordered me a replacement phone. I guess since it was still on the stock rom, they didnt realize it was rooted.
I'm on stock and I decided I wanted to try CM10. I've been flashing for almost 2 years now with my captivate and S2.
I went here: http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-att-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747/
Flashed the first file and noticed no recovery...
I then noticed I had no more internet, so I decided to try and go back to stock.
Now ODIN will recognize, but hangs before any actual flashing. I am at a loss here. The phone works, but I can't flash anything! Help please?
I would suspect the reason Odin isn't working properly is because the one mention on that site is not the proper (or atleast recommended) version to use with i747. Also their logic to flash custom recovery before achieving root, although possible (maybe??), seems flawed to me. Also, flashing anything other than an officially signed .tar through Odin trips the flash counter, which from a so called 'Noob Friendly' guide seems counter intuitive. Try using the guide posted HERE over on in the development forum here on XDA and see if you get better results.
Ok I figured it out. I was using my old Captivate USB cable and not the one that came with the new phone. CM10 is up and running. Thanks for the link btw, that helped.
Good to hear you got it working , glad to help.
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Ok I figured it out. I was using my old Captivate USB cable and not the one that came with the new phone. CM10 is up and running. Thanks for the link btw, that helped.
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I have flashed via Odin with my cappy cable! Maybe it varies in effectiveness? One thing I did notice however is adb can't see my captivate when I use my gs3 cable(odd eh?)
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
It is definitely an intermittent problem that I can recall happening since I started with android back on the Samsung Moment. Some devices like certain cables, and doesn't like others.
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Ok, so I attempted to download a couple of roms from this site, used Odin to install TWRP recovery. Problem is every rom I attempt to download is hosted from an incredibly slow site, so it takes 3 hours to download a single rom. I would like to return to stock, BONE STOCK. I remember with my Sprint Epic 4G I was able to download a tar/pit file that had the original modem and rom in 2 files: a PIT file, and a TAR File. Using Odin to flash this would return my phone to factory/bone stock configuration getting rid of all recovery/root/ect. I would like to know if there is such a file for the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S-2.
Anyone know?
My phone has been useless for the last 9 hours and every rom ive downloaded has not worked at all. (No Signal, No gapps, Not booting/black screen hang, ect)
I know I can download a similar app from HTC that will restore an HTC phone to stock settings, what about Samsung?
Also, does anyone know where I can download the latest ClockworkMod RECOVERY from so I can try to flash roms with that? I was thinking this TWRP recovery is the issue.
Thanks!
Have you read the stickies?
[HOWTO] ROOT, Install ClockworkMod Touch Recovery & get into Download Mode for newbie. It also has instructions for using Odin to get back to stock.
For the latest CWM...have you searched in the dev thread? Used Google/Bing?
blackangst said:
Have you read the stickies?
[HOWTO] ROOT, Install ClockworkMod Touch Recovery & get into Download Mode for newbie. It also has instructions for using Odin to get back to stock.
For the latest CWM...have you searched in the dev thread? Used Google/Bing?
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I have read the stickies, in particular the one you attached. I also searched google (and bing, its still default on this pc) for the latest version of CWR, links I found are dead. Still didnt see anything in regards to what I asked specifically. Is there a way to restore, VIA ODIN, a STOCK ROM (PIT and TAR Files) similar to what was available with the older samsung Galaxy? I just downloaded the Jedi ROM and it actually booted with a signal, so Im giving it the "10 minutes" before I touch it. (Bummer everyone uses this wierd Dev Hosting site to host the files, download speeds of 37KB/sec are crazy slow with a 400+MB File).
I Thought about using Kies to restore to stock, not sure if thats even possible with a phone that has no rom installed since Ive never used Kies before. Guess I'll find out how well this rom works.
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I have read the stickies, in particular the one you attached. I also searched google (and bing, its still default on this pc) for the latest version of CWR, links I found are dead. Still didnt see anything in regards to what I asked specifically. Is there a way to restore, VIA ODIN, a STOCK ROM (PIT and TAR Files) similar to what was available with the older samsung Galaxy? I just downloaded the Jedi ROM and it actually booted with a signal, so Im giving it the "10 minutes" before I touch it. (Bummer everyone uses this wierd Dev Hosting site to host the files, download speeds of 37KB/sec are crazy slow with a 400+MB File).
I Thought about using Kies to restore to stock, not sure if thats even possible with a phone that has no rom installed since Ive never used Kies before. Guess I'll find out how well this rom works.
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Im not trying to be a **** but you couldnt have searched. If you followed the link for an Odin file in the page I linked earlier, it would have led you to THIS page which has a working download link for stock Odin (Gingerbread).
If you would have Googled exactly what you want, the 2nd result would give you the ICS download.
And Google also returns the main page for CWM
Hope that helps.
blackangst said:
Im not trying to be a **** but you couldnt have searched. If you followed the link for an Odin file in the page I linked earlier, it would have led you to THIS page which has a working download link for stock Odin (Gingerbread).
If you would have Googled exactly what you want, the 2nd result would give you the ICS download.
And Google also returns the main page for CWM
Hope that helps.
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I dont think your trying to be a **** at all so its all good, id tell anyone the same thing, I did do several searches searches, but sifting through 900+ pages in one of hundreds of threads is a little daunting...
Also the link I believe your referring to (http://www.technoxide.com/2012/11/galaxy-s2-jelly-bean-4.1.2-I9100XXLSJ-update.html) <<No 2 in google results for a Samsung i9100 SGS2, I downloaded that one, installed it, had a black screen after the samsung logo and the phone started getting very hot after I let it sit for 15 mins or so. Tried rebooting several times, same thing.. The model number for mine is a SGH-T989, are they the same? I tried that link and followed its instructions anyways, and like I said, no go...
Thanks tho man I do appreciate it, all is well with the Jedi Rom, seems to be working awesome without the bloat.. (Just took 3.5 hrs to download from that janky hosting site its on.)
jasew503 said:
I dont think your trying to be a **** at all so its all good, id tell anyone the same thing, I did do several searches searches, but sifting through 900+ pages in one of hundreds of threads is a little daunting...
Also the link I believe your referring to (http://www.technoxide.com/2012/11/galaxy-s2-jelly-bean-4.1.2-I9100XXLSJ-update.html) <<No 2 in google results for a Samsung i9100 SGS2, I downloaded that one, installed it, had a black screen after the samsung logo and the phone started getting very hot after I let it sit for 15 mins or so. Tried rebooting several times, same thing.. The model number for mine is a SGH-T989, are they the same? I tried that link and followed its instructions anyways, and like I said, no go...
Thanks tho man I do appreciate it, all is well with the Jedi Rom, seems to be working awesome without the bloat.. (Just took 3.5 hrs to download from that janky hosting site its on.)
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Erm...the 2nd result was THIS thread, and partway down the page is THIS link listed as "T-Mobile SGH-T989_UVLI4 (Stock Odin ROM)" on the page.
Glad Jedi is working for you.
edit: oh. You dont have a T989 looks like you have an I9100? Might poke around the I9100 forum to find your Odin image.