I have a Samsung Vibrant and it appears the home screen Galaxy S GT-i9000 ... I would like to know what files do I need to leave my original vibrant splash screen with the Vibrant, without modification, making the process via Odin? Where can I get these files? thank you
GabrielGPP said:
I have a Samsung Vibrant and it appears the home screen Galaxy S GT-i9000 ... I would like to know what files do I need to leave my original vibrant splash screen with the Vibrant, without modification, making the process via Odin? Where can I get these files? thank you
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You prob have GB (gingerbread) bootloaders, you need to flash froyo bootloaders, but please read the stickys (top posts) at least 4x before flashing anything or you will end like the 200+ post under yours about bricked phones.
★★★ NOOB GUIDE :: Root :: Odin :: Files :: Guides ★★★
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
LOL
Toolbox stickied in the Dev section has stock Pit/Tar files, Samsung drivers,...
Please, please read the bootloader thread (also in the Dev section) before you change from GB to Froyo bootloaders.
This is the one sure-fire way to brick you device. You can flash custom ROMs all day long but screw with bootloaders and you will have a paperweight sooner rather than later.
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What kind of stuff should I change first? I recall reading stock Vibrant sucks but has a lot of potential when modified. First time smartphone user but can follow directions and do computer stuff pretty easily.
I'm also curious what things I should or should NOT do, such as is it worth it to void warranty by installing something, and what installs currently void warranty.
Please suggest some starter stuff. Thanks!
Read both stickies in my signature.
Root
Backup
Custom rom/kernel
apps for root only
Enjoy new phone
Root voids warranty, but you can unroot and go back to stock incredibly easy. The vibrant Is extremely hard to brick also.
s15274n said:
Read both stickies in my signature.
Root
Backup
Custom rom/kernel
apps for root only
Enjoy new phone
Root voids warranty, but you can unroot and go back to stock incredibly easy. The vibrant Is extremely hard to brick also.
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That's good to know. lol
Just read read read.
Then use the search feature: you aren't unique, & neither are your questions (not negative; honest advice).
And don't feed the wildlife (or join it).
Oh, & enjoy!
Moved of: Samsung Vibrant > Vibrant General
To: Samsung Vibrant > Vibrant Q&A
Please put your questions to: Vibrant Q&A
Hey guys,what's up?Hope y'all enjoying the phone(You sure are )!
I have some questions though as all my smartphones until now have been HTC and,wanting to buy a Samsung,I have noticed some differences regarding development/modding,for which questions aren't clearly answered.
First and foremost is,why with Sammy's phones we have to use Odin?ClockworkMod on HTC devices is excellent and very easy to use.What's the reason to use Odin?Samsung packaging their roms differently or something or a security thing?
Second is,why do I keep seeing many bricked Samsung phones?I have read about many people who,as they say themselves,were foolish enough to brick it.Is it that easy?With HTC's phones it's only possible when messing with bootloader if something goes horribly wrong,or when someone is foolish enough to pull the battery when updating baseband(or radio,call it whatever you want).
If someone can answer or point me to somewhere where I can find satisfactory answers I would appreciate it!Thanks!
Regards,
Apostolis
PS:Sorry for my English.Not that there's anything wrong with it in general,but I tend to speak in a very weird and complicated way when I am tired.And now,I am really tired!
NO CLOCKWORK for SGS 2 yet .
Donate SGS2 to developer .
jje
Where did you read sgs2 were getting bricked? The term was used to loosely with the orginal galaxy s phones. The original sgs was 99.9% unbrickable and I wouldnt doubt the sgs2 is the same.
Clockwork will come with time. Odin is just samsung way of upgrading there handsets. Once real custom roms come youll probably see clockwork.
Most of the so called bricks were pure user error.
intruda119 said:
Where did you read sgs2 were getting bricked? The term was used to loosely with the orginal galaxy s phones. The original sgs was 99.9% unbrickable and I wouldnt doubt the sgs2 is the same.
Clockwork will come with time. Odin is just samsung way of upgrading there handsets. Once real custom roms come youll probably see clockwork.
Most of the so called bricks were pure user error.
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Well,I'd say all bricks are pure user error!
I can't give you exact time and post,but there were some reports.Not that the amount of people reporting this was anything shocking,but anyway.One particular guy wanted to unbrick his Vibrant with JTAG.Maybe Galaxy S variants are more "vulnerable"?
Also,about CWM I didn't know.I thought that Odin was still being used on the original Galaxy S.I only followed the GS forums at the beggining.
Odin is just a great tool to update firmware or get you out of bad situations. Theres mixed reviews about odin but its something you need to get familiar with if your hacking with any galaxy s line. Most bricks that wasnt recoverable needed jtag but that was when someone flashed something they shouldnt have. If you want to start with stock firmware you want to use odin. Alot of people like clearing out the ghost files left with custom roms. So they start fresh with odin original firmware before flashing new roms. You dont have to but you can usually avoid some bugs with a fresh firmware. Im not an expert at this but hopefully helps out some.
tolis626 said:
Well,I'd say all bricks are pure user error!
I can't give you exact time and post,but there were some reports.Not that the amount of people reporting this was anything shocking,but anyway.One particular guy wanted to unbrick his Vibrant with JTAG.Maybe Galaxy S variants are more "vulnerable"?
Also,about CWM I didn't know.I thought that Odin was still being used on the original Galaxy S.I only followed the GS forums at the beggining.
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intruda119 said:
Odin is just a great tool to update firmware or get you out of bad situations. Theres mixed reviews about odin but its something you need to get familiar with if your hacking with any galaxy s line. Most bricks that wasnt recoverable needed jtag but that was when someone flashed something they shouldnt have. If you want to start with stock firmware you want to use odin. Alot of people like clearing out the ghost files left with custom roms. So they start fresh with odin original firmware before flashing new roms. You dont have to but you can usually avoid some bugs with a fresh firmware. Im not an expert at this but hopefully helps out some.
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Ahaa...So it's not THAT different to modding HTC devices,is it?
tolis626 said:
Ahaa...So it's not THAT different to modding HTC devices,is it?
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If there's a CWM-featured Kernel, then yes!
Hello. I came here from the Xperia X10 mini forum, because i just got a S2
Thing is i don't know what to do with it. With the SE it was different, I was a SE user my whole life, so I was up to date with how to do things on SE droids (root, flash with flashtool, etc.). But i have 0 experience with samsung.
I have:
PDA: I91000XWKE2
BASEBAND: I9100XXKDJ
KERNEL: 2.6.35.7-i9100xwke2-cl187606 [email protected] #2
It's running droid 2.3.3 and I cant update with KIES because it gives me windows encountered a problem etc etc... the old send dont send but on windows 7 (x64).
So I would like to flash it to a 2.3.5 rom and root it. Can anyone explain how do I do this? I don't know what and where to search because I'm new to samsung.
So far i have downloaded ODIN 1.85 and a found this "GT-I9100_OXA_I9100XXKI3_I9100XXKI3_I9100OXAKI3" file. What do i do with it? (also explain steps plz).
I never had a smartphone in my life before I got my SGS2, and I managed to flash all the ROMs without creating threads with questions that are answered in stickies. But maybe I'm a genius, not anyone can be one.
So, try here for starters.. or just search around.
install this kernel and read all the texts.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
You should now be root and have cmw recovery, and you can flash pretty much any rom you want.
Not to familiar with teh sony's but i assume you had clockwock mod recovery?
Odin to flash, cf root to flash as kernel to allow root and get cwm, cwm to flash a custom rom as a quick guide on what to search. Generally reading around will help.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
Ty for the reply guys. Really apreciate the help and am reading everything you posted.
But 1 thing: witha ll respect, stop acting like I'm using up your personal space, I opened this thread for a reason, because i dont understand sh!t, and reading wont help unless i start to read the very beginning.
When i was at the Xperia thread, i used a program called Flashtool to flash a new generic rom to my X10 mini pro. It also updated the baseband (and basebands where important when i flashed a custom ROM, you needed to have latest baseband and kernel to flash X,Y,and Z custom roms).
I just want to update to the original samsung 2.3.5 ROM with odin (as kies sucks and wont work) and the rest will be easy. Don't want CWM and root yet, just a plain stock 2.3.5 rom. I just wanted to know if i can flash THAT file (first post, long text) to my phone with ODIN.
Again, thank you very much for the support, and will continue to read everything you guys post here.
It's easy to say search for this and search for that when you know exactly what to search for. In my case, I dont even know where to begin. And i would like to finish this "job" in the next 2 hours, as after that its time to sleep :/
norbi_nw said:
Ty for the reply guys. Really apreciate the help and am reading everything you posted.
But 1 thing: witha ll respect, stop acting like I'm using up your personal space, I opened this thread for a reason, because i dont understand sh!t, and reading wont help unless i start to read the very beginning.
When i was at the Xperia thread, i used a program called Flashtool to flash a new generic rom to my X10 mini pro. It also updated the baseband (and basebands where important when i flashed a custom ROM, you needed to have latest baseband and kernel to flash X,Y,and Z custom roms).
I just want to update to the original samsung 2.3.5 ROM with odin (as kies sucks and wont work) and the rest will be easy. Don't want CWM and root yet, just a plain stock 2.3.5 rom. I just wanted to know if i can flash THAT file (first post, long text) to my phone with ODIN.
Again, thank you very much for the support, and will continue to read everything you guys post here.
It's easy to say search for this and search for that when you know exactly what to search for. In my case, I dont even know where to begin. And i would like to finish this "job" in the next 2 hours, as after that its time to sleep :/
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No offence mate but when I moved from an HTC to a Samsung based device I was a newb then to, coming from another phone to different methods to another new method I got to grips with everything just reading around.
To answer your questions, yes you can flash a stock rom using odin, all you need is to check out intratechs thread in original development section, as of now KJ3 is the latest 2.3.5 firmware, download a frankenstein version and read his thread which had a guide on what to put where.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13712988
[ROM+Guide]Official i9100 Firmwares KG, KH1/2/3/4, KI1/2/3/4/8, KJ1/2/3 Download
Your original post mentioned you wanted to root it hence I gave you the easiest way of doing so is to flash cf root, searching cf root would have given you that thread plus instructions within that thread.
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well i flashed that rom i pasted there and it worked. Was simple once i knew i need to put that in PDA and start it.
Yes i know about CF root and will be my next move. Thank you so much for everythingyou posted (again). And will REread every post again for extra knowledge. Need to forget everything i know about SE and learn new stuff.
Hello everyone, beginning with you that are not English but Italian.
I have a samsung i9000 galaxy s and my friend a samsung i9100 galaxy s updated to version 4.0.3, the problem is: He wants to go back to version 2.3.6 Odin gingerbread but I have to file my i9000 and i9000 I controlled and I'm looking for the following files: Root - Odin - and the rom file from 3 to do the flash with odin LPX can give me the link? Thank you.:laugh:
ladimark said:
Hello everyone, beginning with you that are not English but Italian.
I have a samsung i9000 galaxy s and my friend a samsung i9100 galaxy s updated to version 4.0.3, the problem is: He wants to go back to version 2.3.6 Odin gingerbread but I have to file my i9000 and i9000 I controlled and I'm looking for the following files: Root - Odin - and the rom file from 3 to do the flash with odin LPX can give me the link? Thank you.:laugh:
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Find any firmware for the i9100 you need at www.sammobile.com, or through the CheckFUS downloader.
Not sure what the fact you have an i9000 has to do with this at all, though...
and with regard to odin and the root?
You want Odin ? Google it.
So far as root is concerned, CFRoot is easiest but do not rush it. Read the first page of that thread carefully, particularly the bit in bold red that says 'Help ! Which file do I use ?'.
If you read it, then come back to this thread & ask "Which kernel do I use ?", that tells me you haven't read the CFRoot thread carefully & you probably shouldn't be rooting your phone/you're at risk of bricking it.
If you do read that thread carefully and follow the 10-12 steps to the letter, rooting your phone is simple & takes a few minutes. There's nothing complicated about it if you can read/follow instructions.
Hi
Til recently i had Samsung Omnia 2 and i know a lot about Windows 6.xx
but i purchased Samsung S2 and now i want to install custom rom ( Tweaky ROM ICS 2.0.1 by coldflid
to be precise)
I have couple questions.
Flashing with Odin is identical as flashing WinMo with OCTANS Downloader so that is clear
But how to flash with zip firmware (i dont have md5 and tar files but only Zip archive in which is packed OS
Do i need to "Root" with CF-root file and Odin ? and if i need to do that which CF-Root i must pick up cause there is lot of different versions
PS.
Sorry for bad English and thank you in advance
Before you do anything with your phone, read the Stickies. Everything you need to know is in those threads. You seem as though you're trying to take shortcuts, taking shortcuts leads to broken phones.
Go read the rules, then come back. This entire thread is wtfbbq.