I've created this Guide because I know there are plenty of people who are frustrated with their Fascinate Errors and no one has answers for them (Including myself).
This Method takes while but bear with me.
This Method recovers from any Error by restarting the Fascinate from the Stock Rom.
Before you do any of this, this will wipe all the data stored in internal memory so I strongly suggest to back-up any data you would like to save by using
Titanium Back-Up (Known to be Best Back-up app and it truly is).
Step 1: Download All-in-One DI01 Rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867648
Direct Link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XCS5LF18
Step 2: Download Odin3 1.7
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=832827
Step 3: Turn your phone off. Then, Hold volume down + Press Home Button and plug it to usb computer (Taking battery out don't really matter, but like Chopper the dog thankfully stated in post #5, it helps the purpose). If the step is done right, the screen should show "Download Mode" in yellow.
Step 4: Turn on the Odin > If your phone is connected right, in the "Message" box, it should say " Added!!"
When you confirm it, click PDA, don't ever click phone button. Then click the rom you have downloaded @ step 1.
Press Start. This process might take 2 minutes to 6 minutes.
Don't unplug until the message @ bottom shows up!
When the process is done the message box should say
" Removed!!
Completed..
All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)"
From now on, it is step to recover to your previous ROM + Rooted.
Step 5: Download z4root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
put it into sdcard, click my files, then install it. After that, click Root.
Step 6: Now you have succesfully re-rooted your phone,
Open Odin and put your phone into Download Mode.
Then again, using PDA button install the CWM-Recovery-All.
Step 7: Now, you can choose any ROM you want to install.
DJ05 ROM, Kernel, Radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869990
DL09 ROM, Kernel, Radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894126
EB01 ROM, Kernel, Radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948679
All the Superclean rom
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...tom-roms-w-root-clockwork-updated-3-10-a.html
Kaosinate v5 **2-16-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=910692
MIUI 5 *3-19-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948840
DarkREVENGE v4 **3-28-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980309
AOSP v0.9.3. **3-26-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919864
Superclean 2.9.2. *3-23-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983395
NameLess v3 *4-02-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016155
Step 8: When you've installed your ROM,
It's time to reinstall the CWM-Recovery using Odin.
Latest Clockwork Mod ****4-1-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1017817
Step 9: You are free from Error now. Enjoy!
This is for those who wants EC10 Kernel Voodoo + Sound + Color + BLN.
Follow the steps in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010102
Optional Kernel
imnut's UV/UC EC10 Kernel **3-30-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1012571
time_infinity's ComaVolt EC10 Kernel **4-03-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011578
nemesis2all's OC/UV EC10 Kernel **4-02-11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011626
If you fix any error using this guide, please Press THXS.
You should add download links to the eb01 all in one odin too. Otherwise, nice thread.
Arent you supposed to remove battery at the download mode step?
Sent from a Superclean Fascinate
ziggy484 said:
Arent you supposed to remove battery at the download mode step?
Sent from a Superclean Fascinate
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You shouldn't have to remove battery,i just turn phone off, hold down volume, plug in usb done..
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA Premium App
ziggy484 said:
Arent you supposed to remove battery at the download mode step?
Sent from a Superclean Fascinate
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Not totally necessary. It does help if you have intentions of flashing a rom or kernel in cwm so the device won't boot right away after odin resets device. But for modem switches without a change in rom/kernel setup having the battery in does no harm.
good day.
Dunno if this is helpful, but ill add anyway. Sometimes Odin flashes fail. Dont give up hope. Odin it several times until it succeeds. Happened to me several times - most notably when I was trying to get rude of early kaoscinate builds. But then again l, that could be entirely my fault.
Sent from my SCH-I500
This is my first time seeing someone with odin problem.
But yea dont woory about my guide, its designed to fix any problem by restocking.
I've tried it myself
Sent from my SC2.9.1NV/EB01/NitroDark v3.0 using XDA Premium
Thanks for writing such a thorough and easy to follow guide. I want to add a few points based on my own experiences.
Usual disclaimer, not responsible for what you do to your phone.
There is a step short of going all the way back to DI01 and that is flashing a Full Stock EB01 engineering test build. Here is the thread at Android Central:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...faq-plus-stock-unrooted-rooted-downloads.html
(I searched for the file here at XDA but couldn't find it)
After following this guide to return to DI01 build and you still have problems you can go a step further and do what is being called by some a 'deep clean'.
Boot into red recovery. Do the usual reset/wipe/wipe
Then under 'mounts and storage' you format boot, system, data, and dbdata.
Do NOT format sdcard or sd-ext if you want to keep your data (pictures, videos, files to flash, etc)
Make sure you have anything you want to flash on your SD card before doing this step. Because you won't be able to boot your phone to side load files to your sd card.
Then follow whatever instructions you want to push via odin or flash via CWM
(Credit to Gunnermike53 over at AC for telling me about this procedure)
This is as 'clean' as your phone is going to get short of formatting your whole SD card.
Important: If you are reflashing to Froyo (2.2) you want to make sure that the Setup Wizard doesn't try to restore all your apps. This step has a bad habit of restoring apps that you have uninstalled. This is especially important if you want to reinstall/restore apps one-by-one to identify a rouge app.
When you reboot your phone to a flavor of Froyo (its only a problem with 2.2 not 2.1), skip the step to run the Setup Wizard on first boot. Just keep hitting 'skip' and 'next' until you are at your desktop. Then go to Settings/Privacy and uncheck 'Backup my Data'. This will also disable Automatic restore (if it doesn't uncheck that as well)
But there is one more step to prevent this:
Now go to Settings/Setup Wizard and run the setup. Do the steps until it offers to backup/restore your apps reply 'no' or 'skip' I forget which it is.
Hope this is helpful. That automatic restore bit me in the A$$ once and I had to go back and start over.
It worked for me! i had issues getting the clockwork to work properly ("signature verification failed") on my stock 2.1 with OTA EA28. Now I'm running froyo. thanks xHoLyx!!
HELP!
When i mount it under download mode, ODIN detects it. But when I go to run the process with the stock rom in the phone slot, It crashes, and nothing occurs with my phone.... This is important, and needs resolving soon, thank you.
gawbage said:
When i mount it under download mode, ODIN detects it. But when I go to run the process with the stock rom in the phone slot, It crashes, and nothing occurs with my phone.... This is important, and needs resolving soon, thank you.
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The phone slot should not be used at all. Only pda pda pda pda pda.
good day.
gawbage said:
When i mount it under download mode, ODIN detects it. But when I go to run the process with the stock rom in the phone slot, It crashes, and nothing occurs with my phone.... This is important, and needs resolving soon, thank you.
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PHONE shouldn't be used at ALL COST!!!!!!!
That's why I put PDA in red... Perhaps I should make it bigger...
Try flashin again using PDA.
Related
First of all this is probably all my fault for not unrooting my Vibrant before trying to flash the stock rom through Odin. I've tried different versions of Odin and the flash is successful, but I'm getting a black screen after the "S" during start up. Sometimes the keys will light up, other times they won't. I'm using the right .tar and .pit files as well. I'm still able to boot into recovery and download mode. I'm at a loss right now and considering just trying to get a new Vibrant from T-Mobile somehow.
AimlessWanderer said:
First of all this is probably all my fault for not unrooting my Vibrant before trying to flash the stock rom through Odin. I've tried different versions of Odin and the flash is successful, but I'm getting a black screen after the "S" during start up. Sometimes the keys will light up, other times they won't. I'm using the right .tar and .pit files as well. I'm still able to boot into recovery and download mode. I'm at a loss right now and considering just trying to get a new Vibrant from T-Mobile somehow.
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I'll share with you the steps I go through when reverting to bone stock JFD.
Go HERE and get Odin3 v1.70. Earlier versions, especially v1.00 are as buggy as a roach motel.
Go HERE and get the JFD Odin3 package, including the 512.pit file and the JFD pda file.
Load them (as you seem to know how to do) and be sure to click REPARTITION before proceeding with the flash.
I'd also suggest removing the external SD and sim.. I've never personally had to do this, but you might as well...
Let me know if this succeeds or fails...
You should check out'eugenes froyo that doesn't brick' search for that. Using that method through odin and then stock will wipe everything, including your internal sd card, but it should get you up and running again. It's a pain but it should do the trick
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metalfan78 said:
You should check out'eugenes froyo that doesn't brick' search for that. Using that method through odin and then stock will wipe everything, including your internal sd card, but it should get you up and running again. It's a pain but it should do the trick
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
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Good man! I was gonna suggest that as the next step!
If my initial clarifications failed (I was being specific primarily about the need to repartition) to help..Then do the procedure HERE, which is flashing Eugene's brick liberating Froyo first before using Odin3 to revert back to JFD..
note: this requires you having a working and functional install of the AndroidSDK found HERE.
Thanks and thanks for posting links, I can't do that yet
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AimlessWanderer said:
First of all this is probably all my fault for not unrooting my Vibrant before trying to flash the stock rom through Odin. I've tried different versions of Odin and the flash is successful, but I'm getting a black screen after the "S" during start up. Sometimes the keys will light up, other times they won't. I'm using the right .tar and .pit files as well. I'm still able to boot into recovery and download mode. I'm at a loss right now and considering just trying to get a new Vibrant from T-Mobile somehow.
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since you already have the original jdf.tar im assuming. all you need to complete the equation is the froyo that doesnt brick as a few others have already said. you will lose everything on sd card.
step 1: load up ODIN
step 2: select the pit file that you have already
step 2: select eugenes froyo.tar as the pda selection
step 3. turn off phone and take battery completely out
step 4: plug usb cable into phone and computer (battery must still be out)
step 5: push and hold both vol +/- keys and insert battery.
Step 6: if done correctly, you should know be in download mode (yellow triangle, actually says downloading lol) if not repeat steps 3-5 until successful then continue to step 7 (one of the com windows should light up displaying com:4 for example but could be any number..
Step 7: select repartition, auto reboot, and f. reset time. NOTHING ELSE.
step 8: click start.
Step 9: assuming that it doesnt hang anywhere, the blue progress bar should slowly continue to move until finish and phone boots into recovery (probably gonna through an error. doesnt matter)
Step 10: battery pull
Step 11: repeat steps 4 and 5 now
Step 12: this time select same pit file
step 13: for the pda file select ...uvjdf.tar (the one you originally tried to flash that landed you in this situation).
step 14: uncheck repartition this time. (only f. reset time and auto reboot should be selected)
step 15: click start.
Step 16: if it hangs, repeat steps 10-15.
step 17:it will reboot into recovery. then select reboot phone now.
step 18: assuming that all was done correctly, you should have your phone back exactly how it was the day you bought it, minus the sims3(sacrifices)
I feel like your phone may have been burned by dragons recently. lemme know if it works.
Gave your idea a try masterotaku and the outcome was the same. I'm now trying the "eugene's froyo that doesn't brick". I'm unfamiliar with Android SDK. Do I just install it and thats it?
Flashing to eugene's froyo that doesn't brick and then flashing back to stock worked. Ya'll saved my phone! Thanks for all ya'll help. This has got to be the most quick to respond forum and most helpful one I've been apart of. Thanks again. Is there like a points system here or something I can use to show my gratitude?
****THIS POST IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS*****READ COMPLETELY BEFORE PROCEEDING*********************************************************************
I had to do this because I had flashed wrong thing in ODIN, and I had NO other choice....I did not do this by choice but this REALLY WORKS and I THINK ITS GREAT I was taking a RISK and I understood the consequences....I Could have ended up with a BRICKED PHONE, but that was not to be. I am VERY VERY happy with the results.
I WANT TO SAY THAT ALOT OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS POST WAS USED FROM LINKS AND POSTS FROM XDA WEBSITE THEY ARE A GREAT FORUM AND ANYONE DOING THIS SHOULD BECOME A MEMBER OF "XDA" AND "MOD A DROID"....THANK YOU XDA AND ALL THE DEV'S FOR ALL YOUR WORK ALL THE MATERIAL IN THIS POST I WILL PUT LINKS TO PAGES AT THE BOTTOM FROM PAGES USED "BUT I HAVE CHANGED SOME OF THE STEPS SO FOLLOW THIS POSTS INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DO THIS PROCEDURE"....TO FASCINATE YOUR MESMERIZE.
******************************READ ENTIRE POST BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING TO YOUR PHONE********************************************************
******************************READ ENTIRE POST BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING TO YOUR PHONE********************************************************
******************************READ ENTIRE POST BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING TO YOUR PHONE********************************************************
First -You NEED to download everything and have it on your PC ready to use !!! DO NOT START WITHOUT DOING THIS.
Second -You NEED to backup your contacts. DO NOT USE MY CONTACTS BACKUP !!! You will not have that app yet so there is no way to restore them. I used an app. called LOOKOUT from the market. You have to install on phone and sign-up on LOOKOUTS web sight and make sure you run a backup of contacts, as well you need to move any apps you want to your PC or SD card. I recommend the PC to leave space on SD Card....Have at least 1GB free on card to be plenty safe.
Ok heres the deal this may or may not be something you will want to do to your phone....DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK....This is what I did to turn my phone into a Fascinate even though I was a US Cellular Mesmerize. I WARN THIS WORKS BUT THERE ARE PROS AND CONS TO DOING THIS. To date there is NO, I REPEAT NO WAY to date to go back from this procedure to a MESMERIZE. Someone may have a way but I have not seen or found it yet. I do believe it is only a matter of time before the DEV'S come up with a restore and then you could go back to stock. SUMMARY= THERE IS NO WAY TO DATE TO REVERSE THIS PROCEDURE !!! DO AT OWN RISK !!!
First thing you need to do is download ROM MANAGER from the market and put the App on the SD Card for later install. Next Download this file here>>>>
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Fascinate Files/update.zip ---- to the ROOT of your SD Card it is a file called "UPDATE.ZIP" "DO NOT RENAME" put that on there and do not remove it you need it do a restore to access Clockwork later. This is where you need to have this located on SD. ---- /sdcard/update.zip.
Second you need to download...DI01 update with root and busybox here>>>>http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S7IFCKX0
Important:"DO NOT RENAME" and DO NOT put this on the root of your sdcard as /sdcard/update.zip. That's where clockwork mod lives. PUT IN FOLDER you name what ever on SD Card. You will need to go here later in the post to install this in step#12
/sdcard/"FOLDER YOU NAME"/update.zip.
Next thing you need the samsung drivers for windows for this to work. Those can be found on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779238 [this page has a good write up on how to down load and install.] or direct link BELOW>>>> Thank you DIRRK XDA member.
Download and Install Samsung Drivers to your WINDOWS PC this whole procedure was done on a WINDOWS 7 PC. WARNING: You need different drivers for mac/Linux and I do not know where to get them as I have only a WINDOWS PC.
64bit:
http://www.wikifilez.com/root files/epic4g/usb_drivers_GalaxyS_x64.zip
32bit:
http://www.wikifilez.com/root files/epic4g/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_x86.exe
*************************AFTER THIS POINT THERE IS NO WAY TO GO BACK PROCEED WITH CAUTION !!! ************************************************
For this next step THANK YOU FALLINGUP SENIOR MEMBER XDA....I have altered his orig. post to give more detail for people, using ODIN please follow my post to do this !!
****************************FROM HERE ON ONLY FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS POST TO DO THIS***************************************************
****************************FROM HERE ON ONLY FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS POST TO DO THIS***************************************************
****************************FROM HERE ON ONLY FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS POST TO DO THIS***************************************************
**************************GET ODIN AND ALL FILES NEEDED BEFORE PROCEEDING DOWNLOAD TO PC FOR USE*********************************************
LINKS ATTACHED TO FILES BELOW.
Next download ODIN and run. Make sure ODIN sees your phone by putting phone in DOWNLOAD MODE by pulling battery LEAVE OUT. Run ODIN. HOLD VOL DOWN AND PLUG INTO PC with cable that came with phone, a yellow rectangle with id# means ODIN sees it----once this is connected DO NOT UNPLUG UNTIL ODIN IS FINISHED. If you do you will see a PC connected to a phone by a triangle this means you prematurely unplugged and you will need to re-flash whichever step failed to flash. It is only OK to unplug once a step is finished and Odin says reset in blue, but you do not need to you can load the next file and go. But I've got steps below so if you are here you didn't read entire post. CAREFUL Now follow step 4.1
ONLY FLASH ONE OF THESE AT A TIME. START WITH THE /SYSTEM ODIN AND WORK YOUR WAY DOWN THE LIST.---You do not just flash the pit file it is used with the other files like system,kernel,and recovery. ****FILES BELOW STEPS****READ ENTIRE POST BEFORE USING ODIN AND KNOW THE RISKS*************************************
************************ONCE YOU FLASH ANYTHING YOU CAN NOT GO BACK YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE**********************************************
************************ONCE YOU FLASH ANYTHING YOU CAN NOT GO BACK YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE**********************************************
Steps:
1. Pull battery from device
2. Open Odin on desktop
3. Hold volume down button and plug device into computer-This will place the device into download mode
4. Verify device shows up in Odin ---This should be a yellow rectangle with id #----As well the phone will also say download mode with a yellow triangle on it
4.1: Select PIT button
4.2: Select PIT file downloaded from this post and load it into Odin. (I Never loaded the pit file when I did this in Odin and worked fine for me but from what I understand it is good practice to do so to Quote a post ---"You need to load the pit file into Odin---Missing these steps usually results in major FC hell issues." Thanks PHOENIXPATH senior member XDA
4.1: To Flash the "Stock-i500-VZW-System.tar.md5" file you,
5. Click "PDA" button in Odin ---MAKE SURE YOU ONLY USE PDA "DO NOT USE PHONE" YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!
6. Select "Stock-i500-VZW-System.tar.md5" from where you downloaded it
7. Click "Start" This will reboot your phone when complete. This flashes both the kernel and the recovery partition to enable you to flash update.zips signed with test keys. ---When done ODIN should say reset leave pit alone and load next file of the three needed to be flashed.(YOU MAY NEED TO UNPLUG and REDO STEPS 1-4 AGAIN)and jump/proceed to step#8 and continue on.
8. Flash "Stock-i500-VZW-Kernel.tar.md5" when done says reset move to next step.
8.1 Flash "Stock-i500-VZW-Recovery.tar.md5" when done says reset move to next step.
9. Flash "CWMrecovery.tar" ----THANK YOU JT1134 Senior member XDA
10. Replace the battery and Boot in to Recovery= HOLD VOL UP + VOL DOWN same time and PRESS POWER, all three need to be pushed to enter recovery.
11. In recovery navigate UP=vol. up/ DOWN=vol. down /ENTER=home key----You need to select "apply sdcard:UPDATE.ZIP" on ROOT of SD Card to enter the next recovery screen.
12.In this recovery "CLOCKWORK RECOVERY" navigation is different UP/DOWN=SAME but ENTER=power key---you need to navigate to the "ADVANCED" and then apply "WIPE DALVIK CACHE" when done select "REBOOT RECOVERY" (brings you to stock recovery) navigate to "WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET" once done go to "APPLY SDCARD UPDATE.ZIP" then "INSTALL ZIP FROM SD CARD" once there select "CHOOSE ZIP FROM SD CARD" navigate to the folder "YOU GAVE A NAME TO" and inside is the 2nd "UPDATE.ZIP" you put there and select it...wait until it is finnished...once done.."GO BACK"and"GO BACK AGAIN" then select "REBOOT SYSTEM NOW"
13. Enjoy your stock Fascinate phone with DI01 update and root and busybox . You still will have phone call ability but a couple of apps like contacts backup and vcast are "Verizon" and we at US Cellular can not use. But once you install custom ROMS in Rom Manager you will be able to get roms with them removed or get apps to shut down/freeze them and sub. them out.
Alot of the ROMS have apps taken from the MESMERIZE so this is not really an issue at least not to me.
INSTALL ROM MANAGER FROM SD CARD OR LOAD TO PHONE FROM PC AND INSTALL ON PHONE......
NOW GO INTO ROM MANAGER AND "BACKUP CURRENT ROM" so any changes made from here you can get back to this point.....once done you can NOW LOAD CUSTOM ROMS,KERNELS AND ENJOY THE HELL OUT OF YOUR "FASCINATED-MESMERIZE"
Buy the latest PRO version of ROM MANAGER and use to upgrade kernels thru clockwork or load roms in rom manager......
These are the files to put in ODIN PDA Flashing one at a time with the PIT file. ONLY USE PIT AND PDA......You have been warned again. PS-NEVER DUMP IN ODIN,and do not check anything but PDA AND PIT...there are things checked in ODIN when it loads leave them alone.
Download: "To PC for use in ODIN before you begin"
Odin: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Odin Files/Odin3 v1.3.exe -This is program to use to flash.
Odin Restore file for system: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Odin Files/Stock-i500-VZW-System.tar.md5 -----THIS IS FIRST.
Odin Restore file for kernel: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Odin Files/Stock-i500-VZW-Kernel.tar.md5 -----THIS IS SECOND.
Odin Restore file for recovery: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Odin Files/Stock-i500-VZW-Recovery.tar.md5 ----THIS IS THIRD.---this is just to be safe
Odin Clockwork recovery file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/CWMrecovery.tar ------THIS IS FOURTH ONE I FLASHED.
PIT file for use in Odin Restores: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Odin Files/Stock-i500-VZW-pit.pit ----THIS IS PIT TO USE "WITH" ABOVE FILES.
*************************THANK YOU TO XDA WITHOUT YOU THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE**********************************************************
LINKS REFERENCED FROM XDA's WEBSITE THANK YOU AGAIN XDA MEMBERS !!! YOU GUYS ROCK !!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=721
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782204
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790004
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790085
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779238
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789868
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788099
IF YOU LIKE THIS LEAVE ME SOME FEED BACK PLEASE.....................THANKS AND ENJOY........ANDROIDMAN
EXTRA NOTE: DO NOT TRY THIS WITH ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE SCH I-500 MESMERIZE......AS IT HAS ONLY BEEN DONE ON THAT MODEL..........
FLASHING ANY OTHER GALAXY S VARIANTS ODIN FILES WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE !!!!!!!!!
How odd.
Why would you want to make your phone a fascinate? Most of us went the other way in order to debing.
Sent from my SCH-I500
lowkee said:
How odd.
Why would you want to make your phone a fascinate? Most of us went the other way in order to debing.
Sent from my SCH-I500
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Because There is no way mainstream to use clockwork or rom manager. Hense you can only root, thats it without this.
lowkee said:
How odd.
Why would you want to make your phone a fascinate? Most of us went the other way in order to debing.
Sent from my SCH-I500
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My thoughts exactly?! I thought people that had a fascinate were wishing it wasn't so fascinatish?
Whatever floats your boat I guess.
JT
danrosinski said:
Because There is no way mainstream to use clockwork or rom manager. Hense you can only root, thats it without this.
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Correct, No Way of FLashing ROM MANAGER so you can apply the first update.zip
You Can Flash but when you apply the update to a MESMERIZE you get E:signature verify fail -hence No Clockwork, NO Roms. No Way to Customize
jtsharps said:
My thoughts exactly?! I thought people that had a fascinate were wishing it wasn't so fascinatish?
Whatever floats your boat I guess.
JT
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When I orig. did this I had No Choice, This is something that I had to do...and Thankfully Worked just thought I would Share because now I can Use CLOCKWORKMOD and ROM MANAGER and customize my phone as if it were a Fasinate.
lowkee said:
How odd.
Why would you want to make your phone a fascinate? Most of us went the other way in order to debing.
Sent from my SCH-I500
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Did you read the entire post I had NO choice as stated in the beginning....Thank You.
Can't link it now but doesn't Koush have a post on compiling Clockwork for new phones?
Sent from my Voodoo-powered Fascinate with XDA
s44 said:
Can't link it now but doesn't Koush have a post on compiling Clockwork for new phones?
Sent from my Voodoo-powered Fascinate with XDA
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If he dose I havent seen it can you throw that up for everyone?
androidman78 said:
If he dose I havent seen it can you throw that up for everyone?
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Now I'm home, so here's the post.
Awesome job. Glad you got it working. Now all we need its a way to reverse these steps so us fascinate users can go to 'stock' mesmerize.
(...or better yet, stock android...)
Sent from my stupidfast blackish hole...
What are the other possible applications for this?
PhoenixPath said:
Awesome job. Glad you got it working. Now all we need its a way to reverse these steps so us fascinate users can go to 'stock' mesmerize.
(...or better yet, stock android...)
Sent from my stupidfast blackish hole...
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Yea, was worried origionally that I was screwed but its a draw/Im happy its only a matter of time before the Fasinate users will be able to go stock mesmerize because this SHOULD?see no reason why not, go both ways.
I know that Sprint is doing an I-500 can we go there too, at least for apps and features. I wonder? And what about the 4G...USC and VZW are 3G would switching/Moding give any advantages I think NOT but still wonder how much of that speed is controled by phone software. I really think its all the network but not 100% sure.
Post above looks interesting the one for Koush's site am checking it out now....Thanks
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Just need the odin files for the mesmerize.
Sent from my stupidfast blackish hole...
PhoenixPath said:
Just need the odin files for the mesmerize.
Sent from my stupidfast blackish hole...
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Got any open space to host?
It's called dropbox.
PhoenixPath said:
It's called dropbox.
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3 hours to upload that small of a file... Dropbox blows for something like that. We'll see.
So i have clockwork working on my mesmerize and running jts super clean but does this allow you to use all facinate roms and kernels on the mesmerize? if so i wanna try this
so if i did this and i used clockwork to perform a backup before i did this could i possibly just restore that backup and have it be a mesmerize again?
and it was said there are pros and cons of doing this? the pros are great but what are the cons besides not being able to go back to stock mesmerize????
tweakymattman said:
and it was said there are pros and cons of doing this? the pros are great but what are the cons besides not being able to go back to stock mesmerize????
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I can't get mms working....
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This makes about 100 times more sense.
http://androidforums.com/behold-2-all-things-root/54424-creating-custom-roms-backups-odin.html
So i have a Fascinate. Duh. and with my first attempt to flash a rom i used the wrong one. I used the Bionix-v( my friend has the vibrant and he loved the rom) Without thinking i flashed my phone and realized to late that it wont work 1. because the radio wont connect to Verizon now, and 2. The fascinate has 2gig internet instead of the 16 gig of the vibrant. So i thought i would just dump a fascinate rom on my external memory card but the os wont let me. I have the memory stick in my pc now and i was just wandering if i could flash the phone with a "working" fascinate rom or should i try to restore it back to factory 1st? Oh and the backup i had on the memory stick got erased so i am without anything.What would you do?
1. You'd better restore to factory 1st if it is possible
2. if the data is really important to you, try some un-delete or data recovery soft to recover the files already deleted from your memory card and keep them in your PC then.
Odin back to stock and start over.
imnuts said:
Odin back to stock and start over.
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Know of any good instructions on that? Im just scared of Voodoo screwing it all up.
There's several how to's out there in this forum just do a quick search.. Odin and voodoo are two seperate things.
sent from a tin can with a piece of string.
If you do know what ROM you had before the "whole accident"
Probably DI01,DJ05, and maybe DL09.
DI01.tar.md5/DJ05.tar.md5/DL09.tar.md5
If you know, download the rom from Internet/Googling
1. Download the Odin 1.7
2. Pull out the battery from the Fascinate.
3. Hold down volume button + press the home button.
4. While doing step 3, plug your phone to computer using USB Cable.
5. The screen should turn on with Yellow Android with "Download Mode"
6. Then open the Odin 1.7
7. You should see that the phone is connected by looking at the Message box and ID:COM(should say COM:# + highlighted.)
8. Click PDA***** <<< IMPORTANT. Then open the downloaded RoM.
9. Press "Start"
10. Should take couple minutes. May take few more.
11. If the process is done properly, it will say (Successful/Fail 1/0) in the message box and shut the phone down.
12. Unplug the Phone and put the battery back.
13. Boot it!
I would use either DI01Package3.tar.md5 or CI500_VZW_EB01_FROYO_REL.tar.md5 along with the corresponding *.pit file and hope for the best. With those packages, you don't need to worry about voodoo being enabled, or anything else as they wipe everything (except the sdcard).
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I would use either DI01Package3.tar.md5 or CI500_VZW_EB01_FROYO_REL.tar.md5 along with the corresponding *.pit file and hope for the best. With those packages, you don't need to worry about voodoo being enabled, or anything else as they wipe everything (except the sdcard).
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d/l the DI01Package3.tar.md5 where / how do i know what id the right .pit file?
Stock-i500-VZW-pit.pit?
imnuts said:
I would use either DI01Package3.tar.md5 or CI500_VZW_EB01_FROYO_REL.tar.md5 along with the corresponding *.pit file and hope for the best. With those packages, you don't need to worry about voodoo being enabled, or anything else as they wipe everything (except the sdcard).
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FULL OF WIN!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much! Back to factory. Will start new process in a week or 2. any recommendations for a good froyo fascinate rom?
Superclean 2.9 is pretty awesome.
Mlijgib said:
FULL OF WIN!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much! Back to factory. Will start new process in a week or 2. any recommendations for a good froyo fascinate rom?
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Go with superclean 2.9 voodoo.
Great rom, stripped of samsung bloatware/touchwiz crap, and I get great battery life with it. Absolutely excellent.
Just try to follow the instructions carefully this time around, alright?
tripacer99 said:
Go with superclean 2.9 voodoo.
Great rom, stripped of samsung bloatware/touchwiz crap, and I get great battery life with it. Absolutely excellent.
Just try to follow the instructions carefully this time around, alright?
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I deserve that!
So, like the majority of people who has a fascinate who wants to get 2.2, I found myself working through the threads posted on these forums. But I've ran into a snag.
i've set everything up correctly and rooted the phone. Before I push and install a custom rom, i'd like to have a back up. So i've been using clockwork to do this. Rom manager keeps failing about a 1/3 of the way through back up. it says something along the lines of "error while backing up boot image".
I cannot figure out what exactly is going on here. I've tried many different things but with no success. Can anyone shed some light on how to fix this so I can get a back up before I put a custom rom on the phone?
Thanks!
Any ideas out there?
nsxt2189 said:
So, like the majority of people who has a fascinate who wants to get 2.2, I found myself working through the threads posted on these forums. But I've ran into a snag.
i've set everything up correctly and rooted the phone. Before I push and install a custom rom, i'd like to have a back up. So i've been using clockwork to do this. Rom manager keeps failing about a 1/3 of the way through back up. it says something along the lines of "error while backing up boot image".
I cannot figure out what exactly is going on here. I've tried many different things but with no success. Can anyone shed some light on how to fix this so I can get a back up before I put a custom rom on the phone?
Thanks!
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Don't ever use ROM MANAGER(It's not 100% friendly with FC), as that being said, Refer to My Guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001064
Download CWM in step 8
Then, if you don't have Odin, Download it in Step 2
Read Step 3 and 4.
Instead of putting ROM in PDA, put the CWM.tar file in PDA.
Then click start.
It will reboot to RED CWM.
When CWM is installed, you can download any ROM of your choice, I suggest SuperClean 2.9.2. V, from Android Development Section.
If this Helped you, Thx me by pressing button at bottom right
does this provide any back up so i can reroot the phone to its original state incase of an OTA update?
I am a little confused on this
nsxt2189 said:
does this provide any back up so i can reroot the phone to its original state incase of an OTA update?
I am a little confused on this
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STOCK ROM
http://adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/DI01package3.tar.md5
THESE Steps are to upgrade your phone to Froyo.
since your phone is rooted skip to #2.
BEFORE DOING ANY OF THESE STEPS, MAKE SURE TO BACK UP EVERYTHING. Contacts w/e u need after installing ROM.
Best Backup App is Titanium Back-Up. (It's 5bucs, but worth every penny)
Must Do before all the steps
1. Download and Install Samsung Drivers
64bit:
http://www.wikifilez.com/root file...alaxyS_x64.zip
or
32bit:
http://www.wikifilez.com/root file...Phones_x86.exe
2. Go to Settings > Applications > Development > Enable Debugging then plug in your phone
Step 1: Download Z4Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
put it into sdcard, click "my files", then install it. After that, click Permanent Root. If its done, the Phone should reboot.
Step 2: Now you have successfully rooted your phone, you can Download CWM, but before you do that, you need Odin.
Download Odin here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=832827
Then Download CWM: I uploaded this link by myself, couldn't find decent one.
http://www.4shared.com/file/08yRO9cs/cwm-recovery-ALL.html
Step 3: To flash CWM, you have to turn your phone to "Download Mode"
It can be done simply by taking battery out and Holding down button + home key, then plug it to USB.
Step 4: Now you are ready to flash CWM. Open the Odin, if your phone is connected, the message box should say "Added!!" Then, you are good to go.
After that, click "PDA" and click the CWM.tar file and press Start.
Don't unplug until the message @ bottom shows up!
When the process is done the message box should say
" Removed!!
Completed..
All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)"
Step 5: When its done, put the battery back on. When it starts, it should go in to 2.5.1.x Red CWM. Its perfectly fine, now just click reboot now.
Volume Down > Down
Volume Up> Up
Menu > Back
Back Button > Forward
Step 6: Download SC Rom here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983395
Then put it into SD Card.
Step 7: Turn off your phone, then Start the Phone by pressing BOTH of Volume key > Power button.
It should take you back to CWM.
When you are in CWM
Wipe DATA/Cache
Wipe Dalvik (click Advance)
Step 8: Click "Install zip from SDCARD"
Then click the Archive you've saved the ROM.
Then Apply it, it might take a while to Copy files.
When its done, click "Reboot System Now"
Rebooting might take 2~5 mins or more.
Your phone is rooted/Rom'd
You can choose theme that is SuperClean friendly.
Let me know if there's any problem....
If this helped you.
Press THANKS button !!
So no nandroid back up?
Ill try it when I get a chance!
Thx!
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So no nandroid back up?
Ill try it when I get a chance!
Thx!
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If you are in Stock ROM right now, you can just flash (assuming you are rooted) CWM and there is Nandroid Backup Menu in there.
Edit: But I see a lot of ppl with nandroid issue. So whenever u need stock rom, you can flash all-in-one DI01 rom
i followed you step by step,and when i flashed to CWM.rar it ran and completed, however when i booted it, it just started and did not go into any recovery mode. so i turned it off and started it into recovery, and it went into the stock recovery. Some one had said that with EA28 that it had an automatic way to kick cwm if it was detected...Any advice?
however i did try this and this just worked wonders for me, instead of disconnecting after i complete the flash, i left it plugged and right as the phone reboots i threw my battery in, when i did this it auto rebooted into clockwork mod(praise god)
Okay so Im trying to flash a rom, I have rooted it with super one click method. Im trying to flash a rom.
Usually in all the other phones that I have rooted and flashed sensation mt4g g2 g2x you root it then simply move on to CWM then you flash a recovery. It seems like the recovery isnt sticking..
I have looked for guides on how to flash. But a lot of them say there outdated.
Any ways if someone could give me a clue and point me in the right direction that would be lovely thanks!
Jerald2 said:
Okay so Im trying to flash a rom, I have rooted it with super one click method. Im trying to flash a rom.
Usually in all the other phones that I have rooted and flashed sensation mt4g g2 g2x you root it then simply move on to CWM then you flash a recovery. It seems like the recovery isnt sticking..
I have looked for guides on how to flash. But a lot of them say there outdated.
Any ways if someone could give me a clue and point me in the right direction that would be lovely thanks!
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you need to odin a stock modified kernal.tar in order to get cwm to stick. Here it is:
http://goo.gl/QCYxT
If you need odin and samsung drivers, there in my guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
Remember to only put the file in the PDA function of odin...
Okay thanks very much this odin thing is very different from what I'm used to.
Am I going to extract these files? obviously not drivers, but Odin files I extracted. Am I going to extract the kernal.tar?
I'm trying to install Miui its 2.3.4 so im guessing that other guide is the right one can someone confirm that this is safe?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1212239
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Jerald2 said:
Okay thanks very much this odin thing is very different from what I'm used to.
Am I going to extract these files? obviously not drivers, but Odin files I extracted. Am I going to extract the kernal.tar?
I'm trying to install Miui its 2.3.4 so im guessing that other guide is the right one can someone confirm that this is safe?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1212239
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Yes use that guide
Someone Please please please help. This is my girlfriends phone i finally talked her into letting me root/flash it. Its not going right!!!!
Okay so im following that guide I got to step 4, it said boot up normally. It wouldnt boot up so I kept going.
Got to step 7 and this is what happens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwQMaQD2x7w
When I first open Clock work it says
E:Cant mount cache/recovery/command
E:Cant mount cache/recovery/Log
E:Cant open cache/recovery/Log
E:Cant mount cache/recovery/Last Log
E:Cant open cache/recovery/Last Log
Someone Please Please help.
edit: your not following the directions clearly... The problem is you continued past step 4 without letting your phone boot up. If you dont follow directions to a T you will brick your phone.
Okay, listen carefully. Go to jt1134's CM7 thread in fascinate development section. Go to the first page, scroll down until you see CWM fixed for CM7, download it. Use Odin to flash full stock ED05 with atlas 2.2 pit file, check the box for repartition, then hit start. Boot up, then power down and take battery out. Flash the CWM fixed for cm7 in Odin, unplug from computer, put battery back in, then (this is important!) hold both volume buttons and the power button until you see Samsung logo, then release. You will then be in the right recovery to flash any MTD ROM. Wipe all three, flash ROM, reboot. Also go to stickies in fascinate development, read "Going from Vanilla GB to anything else" thread. It will give you more details and is properly updated. Good luck!
~~~~There is no spoon~~~~
So where do you suggest I start to get thus thing at least back to stock?
sorry didnt see ya posted there. K I will Give that a shot seriously thank you.
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Jerald2 said:
So where do you suggest I start to get thus thing at least back to stock?
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I gave you the link that provides all that information
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shag_on_e said:
Okay, listen carefully. Go to jt1134's CM7 thread in fascinate development section. Go to the first page, scroll down until you see CWM fixed for CM7, download it. Use Odin to flash full stock ED05 with atlas 2.2 pit file, check the box for repartition, then hit start. Boot up, then power down and take battery out. Flash the CWM fixed for cm7 in Odin, unplug from computer, put battery back in, then (this is important!) hold both volume buttons and the power button until you see Samsung logo, then release. You will then be in the right recovery to flash any MTD ROM. Wipe all three, flash ROM, reboot. Also go to stickies in fascinate development, read "Going from Vanilla GB to anything else" thread. It will give you more details and is properly updated. Good luck!
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all that info is in the link i provided for him
here is the going back to stock section in that link I provided.
* How to get back to stock after flashing any rom, follow these steps:
Step 1: Download this stock ed05 rom package by pentafive to your pc. you will need to unzip with 7zip or winrar, http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...144787558901&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13175749481381
Step 2: power off phone and pull battery
Step 3: open odin on your computer
Step 4: plug in factory usb cable and hold the volume down button. Yellow
triangle should appear saying "download mode"
Step 5: click on PDA in odin and find the vzw_official ed05.tar file(rom) you downloaded to your computer in step 1
Step 6: click on PIT in Odin and select the atlas 2.2 pit, it's in the file you downloaded in step 1
Step 7: click start and wait 5min, box in left hand corner of odin will say PASS, then click reset.
Step 8: unplug usb cable, put battery back in and boot phone.
You are now back to stock ed05.(verizon's latest release for the Fascinate)
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2.2 pit file, check the box for repartition, then hit start. Boot up,
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When you mean boot up, what do you mean like start it normally? The last guide said that and it wouldnt boot up.
Also Is this it? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1190668?
That Link you gave me when I click on it. I only get "Parameter 'out' is required." bad link?
you can go back to original link on my first post and get everything there lol, but being the nice guy I am I went ahead and fixed the link.
Alright. So I got followed your guide and got cwm installed. I made a nandroid. I wiped everthing and flashed MIUI It booted up and runs. So im on step 8 on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1212239
When I try and install a app it says insufficient storage on device.
Is this because I didnt install ec09-modem.tar.md5 and GBBootloaders.tar?
I know that im not going to need to install Gaps. But I want to make sure these things ^^ up there are the right things for my rom.
I went ahead and risked it haha. It worked. Okay so now.. It says that I dont have root. Would I be okay to use the superone click method again to root it?
Jerald2 said:
Alright. So I got followed your guide and got cwm installed. I made a nandroid. I wiped everthing and flashed MIUI It booted up and runs. So im on step 8 on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1212239
When I try and install a app it says insufficient storage on device.
Is this because I didnt install ec09-modem.tar.md5 and GBBootloaders.tar?
I know that im not going to need to install Gaps. But I want to make sure these things ^^ up there are the right things for my rom.
I went ahead and risked it haha. It worked. Okay so now.. It says that I dont have root. Would I be okay to use the superone click method again to root it?
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power off and pull battery, get back to dl mode, open odin and install the eco9 modem and gb bootloaders. reboot and see if everything is working. If you still dont have root and you may not, follow what directions below.
- superoneclick wont work.
-push this file below to you sd card
- long press the power button and select recovery(do not three finger into recovery once your on a mtd rom)
- install zip from sd like you did the rom.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/su-2.3.6.1.x.zip
-you should now have root
Okay Ill do that THANKS SOOOOO MUCH!!
Is Clock work going to stick? Do I need to install rom manager and flash the newest one?
I tried to go into CMW through long press home and click recovery. It says Multiple packages tries to request sytem root permission wich is disabled by default to ensure system security. If you need to enable it, please go to setting in super user.
Witch im not seeing anyting
Jerald2 said:
Okay Ill do that THANKS SOOOOO MUCH!!
Is Clock work going to stick? Do I need to install rom manager and flash the newest one?
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The kernal is already modified to allow cwm to stick and you should already have the latest kernal with the version of miui that you flashed. Im not a fan of rom manager, but thats just my opinion. Fwiw the only other kernal I would mess with is the glitch kernal. That has to be installed via odin. go into the dev section and look up the glitch kernal thread and read up on it. But before you do any of that, just get the phone up and running for a day, then go from there.
Yeah haha I just need to get root so I can back up her stuff.
But its not letting me get into recovery because it says that I dont have root. How am i supposed to get into it?
Jerald2 said:
Yeah haha I just need to get root so I can back up her stuff.
But its not letting me get into recovery because it says that I dont have root. How am i supposed to get into it?
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If it won't let u get into cwm by long pressing power button then power phone off and try three finger into recovery(not suppose to do that with a mtd rom tho). Your only other option I know of is:
-odin back to stock
- boot up once then power off
-odin cwmall.tar from my guide
-three finger boot into recovery
-install root.zip from post 14
-reboot then power off
-odin cwm4
-three finger boot into recovery
-install miui.zip from sd
-reboot
-follow directions from step 8 on in the vanilla guide.