Hi guys, i'm coming from Infuse 4G to the Note i717, i just wanna know if there a "unbrickable mod" for the Note as this one for the Infuse
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260
Thanks a lot.
hiato said:
Hi guys, i'm coming from Infuse 4G to the Note i717, i just wanna know if there a "unbrickable mod" for the Note as this one for the Infuse
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260
Thanks a lot.
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The cpu in the device does support a form of unbrickable mod as its the same cpu as my korean note but not sure if anyone has been brave enough to try it. If you back up the boot loaders and pit files and never flash a .tar or zip file containing sbl1,2,3,tz,rpm,aboot then should only ever softbrick and you can use odin to fix that.
Also understand that there is always a chance you may soft brick when applying roms so make sure you have a backup of data.
Darkspr1te
Sent from a de-bricked SHV-E160L
The only unbrickable mod for this device is to leave it stock...LOL
Seriously though, the note is already considered by many as unbrickable if the basic rules are followed. no changing of partition names or sizes etc. of course, we all know that these things happen, and a JTAG is needed to force restore the boot partitons..
If users are reading and following the info found in the builds they use, then a brick is highly unlikely...and soft bricks are so easy to fix that it's almost a joke compared to the old days of bricking phones..
Any builds that alter the boot loader partitons should be avoided, but to my knowledge, the only ones doing that are the kies/odin stock roms etc.
Nothing else in our section will overwrite the partitions, and that effectively makes the note unbrickable. Unless a flash of the wrong rom is done..I.E. N7000 on an I717...then it's a JTAG repair for sure.......g
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hi all,
i have a situation here....i bought a tmobile vibrant and got it shipped to me to nepal,the opposite of america in the globe.
and for my unluck i had one of the locked hardware phones.if i wanted to get replacement from samsung ill have to spend around 200$ for the shipping and handling.
and i have followed all the threads talking h/w locked phones and none helped me out
my phone doesnt goes to recovery .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8158716&postcount=150
this post made me a lot worried as eugene has also reccomended it somewhere.
till now luck has favoured me and i have flashed jac oc/uv v1.1 kernel,franklin tw rom and have changed few of the roms with clockworkmod too without any problems.
but i want to use odin, install ubuntu and do all the crazy stuffs but the hw lock is killing me.i dont have courage even to install simple things like voodoo kernel and the segemented battery mod.
i do read instructions 10 times before doing anything .
guys suggest me--
if i stick to great roms like bionix or eugens work(too many hehe) ,read posts about kernels before flashing ,and be very careful with my phone while following instructions need i exchange it at the cost of 200$??
and also a noob question.....does this have any chances of getting a fix??i highly doubt it as tmob have already started exchanging it !! eugene?? jac?? kingklix??other great devs i dont know?? anyone working on it??
So you can't get into recovery mode or download mode?
yes the only way for me to enter a recovery or download mode is through rom manager or through ADB shell.
no hardware combos can do it for me.ive tried a lot of combination found here in the xda forum. also eugenes method dont work on my phone.
its dated 10-8 behind the battery....guys any hope for me?? will i be safe to flash known things through clockwork or is there still some risk??
There is always some risk when you're modifying your phone. Even some of the official updates pushed out were bricking phones before they pulled it and notified not to install it.
I'm in the same situation as you, hw locked and I would have to pay to get it replaced. I'm just holding out to see if Samsung pushes any fixes before I mess with it.
I would avoid doing this if your concerned about the potential cost. TBH, as much as I like this phone, the hardware lock really pisses me off and I would recommend to anyone that cannot find if their phone is locked and replace easily to just get an EVO or wait for the G2. Sad but true.
ok thanks....ive already taken the risk to put jac's uv /oc kernel and im happy with franklin tw 3 rom......and i can live with them!!! seriously its great!!
but my question is does installing a linux have any chances of bricking my device??please suggest
manjish said:
ok thanks....ive already taken the risk to put jac's uv /oc kernel and im happy with franklin tw 3 rom......and i can live with them!!! seriously its great!!
but my question is does installing a linux have any chances of bricking my device??please suggest
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As far as I can tell, it doesn't change any system files & you don't flash anything to your phone, so Linux (I searched for the Ubuntu instructions) shouldn't cause any problems.
yeah thanks a lot. now hope to see someone develop a fix for it.....
I just wanted to make sure first if its safe too root and it wont affect future upgrades?
So far im liking the phone which is my first android phone and 2nd android device with my galaxy tab
And really liking the speed of it heck its faster than my galaxy tab which is overclocked at 1.4ghz and running voodoo kernel , Imagine the atrix being overclocked That's if it ever comes too that hopefully in the future.
But ya would like too root it at least for now .
If you arent comfortable flashing or not having an easy way to go back to stock, I would wait. The Stock ROM* that is listed in these forums is not easy to go back to absolute stock with, at least not for beginners. You have a possibility of messing some things up if you dont read thoroughly and know what exactly is going on. A lot of these posts in this sub forum are DEV related and shouldnt be performed by someone without a good knowledge of ADB.
Also, just a heads up, this really isn't development related. It should have been posted in the Q&A forum.
Moved to Q&A as not android development
whoops sorry i thought it was suppose too be in dev thread but thanks for moving it
So just rooting it you cant go back too stock easy if i have too? I saw superoneclick can root and unroot it but just wanted too be sure it wont effect any upgrades,
1) How comfortable are you with command line tools?
2) You may f*ck up your device (may.. not likely but still). How confident are you that you can recover it, even if it's coming on the forums and getting detailed information to help someone here help you
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1) How comfortable are you with command line tools?
2) You may f*ck up your device (may.. not likely but still). How confident are you that you can recover it, even if it's coming on the forums and getting detailed information to help someone here help you
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Just rooted and everything went fine
Well im not sure about this device but i did recover my galaxy tab that i thought was bricked from a bad kernel flash and had too flash back too the stock firmware and got it back too perfect than i flash back too the voodoo kernel and its working perfect
Usely i can probably recover any device as long its not 100% brick.
But my main question was will this effect new firmware upgrades and stuff?
On my galaxy tab it wasn't a problem upgrading too one of the sprint updates when rooted but it wouldn't update when it was on another custom kernel, So i guess it will be fine on the atrix when rooted?
Just thought i would put this hear as any newbie's like me might think they know about flashing roms etc but you gotta be more careful with the SGS than any other phone i've rooted before IME...
I've always had HTC's before this first the HD2 then a Desire HD with both of those phones pretty much you can use whatever rom is on the appropriate XDA forum once you've read how to root and flash CWM...
My findings with the SGS are totally different...
I presume because there seem to be so many different versions around...
My example
Had my phone back from repair yesterday pretty keen to flash a custom rom on it, so firstly using odin i flashed Clockwork Mod Recovery 5.0.2.3 which after reading for a while i thought was a suitable Clockwork mod...
After installing this which seemed to work i had the CWM menu etc i flashed Checkrom V4 but had issue's with the display quality grey's/blue's are really sort of washed out colours...
Tried changing the kernel with the kitchen pro but that didn't make any difference...
Also i noticed messages in recovery saying "can't mount e:" on a few lines
Rom seemed to install fine too but as mentioned above had screen colour quality issue's...
So i re-installed the vodafone original rom that came with the phone and the colours were back as they should be i then did some more reading etc and found...
CF-Root-SGS2_XW_OXA_KK5_v5.0_CWM5
and this seemed to install properly i've put this time a Miui rom on and everything so far seems fine....
I gather though you need to select the correct CWM to suit the correct version of your phone ?
And even if it looks like its installed if you get the "Can't mount" messages when you try to wipe data its not installed correctly...
Sorry if this all seems obvious to the guys in the know but coming from a different brand where every rom and kernel pretty much seems to work with each version (provided you use a miui kernel with miui etc)
you really do need to be more cautious with the SGS 2 and get the correct rom/CWM or you can cause issue's i'm wondering if sometimes physical issue's as my phone's been off for repair 3 times... fingers crossed its sorted now...
I personally found it much easier!!
You just need to follow the instructions to the t... I personally recommend noobs to use the zerg rush exploit until they are comfortable with the phone and they have increased their knowledge. And then to flash with odin etc...
wakers said:
Just thought i would put this hear as any newbie's like me might think they know about flashing roms etc but you gotta be more careful with the SGS than any other phone i've rooted before IME...
I've always had HTC's before this first the HD2 then a Desire HD with both of those phones pretty much you can use whatever rom is on the appropriate XDA forum once you've read how to root and flash CWM...
My findings with the SGS are totally different...
I presume because there seem to be so many different versions around...
My example
Had my phone back from repair yesterday pretty keen to flash a custom rom on it, so firstly using odin i flashed Clockwork Mod Recovery 5.0.2.3 which after reading for a while i thought was a suitable Clockwork mod...
After installing this which seemed to work i had the CWM menu etc i flashed Checkrom V4 but had issue's with the display quality grey's/blue's are really sort of washed out colours...
Tried changing the kernel with the kitchen pro but that didn't make any difference...
Also i noticed messages in recovery saying "can't mount e:" on a few lines
Rom seemed to install fine too but as mentioned above had screen colour quality issue's...
So i re-installed the vodafone original rom that came with the phone and the colours were back as they should be i then did some more reading etc and found...
CF-Root-SGS2_XW_OXA_KK5_v5.0_CWM5
and this seemed to install properly i've put this time a Miui rom on and everything so far seems fine....
I gather though you need to select the correct CWM to suit the correct version of your phone ?
And even if it looks like its installed if you get the "Can't mount" messages when you try to wipe data its not installed correctly...
Sorry if this all seems obvious to the guys in the know but coming from a different brand where every rom and kernel pretty much seems to work with each version (provided you use a miui kernel with miui etc)
you really do need to be more cautious with the SGS 2 and get the correct rom/CWM or you can cause issue's i'm wondering if sometimes physical issue's as my phone's been off for repair 3 times... fingers crossed its sorted now...
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The problem is that Samsung marketed over a half dozen completely different phones as the "Galaxy SII". Many have completely different hardware by necessity due to running on different carriers. Some firmwares can kinda work with other phones (GT-I9100 with SGH-I777 with some minor tweaks), but for the most part, you have to stick with your model number. It's not exactly rocket science, but it can get easily confusing.
I have the HTC Desire as well and the difference is that that Samsung don't lock down their bootloaders like HTC (at least the SGSII is open). Therefore you might be looking for additional instructions which aren't there, as they aren't needed. Check out the many threads that discuss rooting.
but for the most part, you have to stick with your model number.
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Thats what i thought but i've had issue's using I9100 CWM on my I9100 phone...
I need to specifically use the later version i posted as the 1st version that i thought would work wouldn't properly, dunno if maybe later phone's are slightly different mine is 6wks old...
Dunno thats what i found confusing.
I agree with the method of rooting the phone using Odin is easier than rooting the HTC's whats confusing for a newbie is matching up the correct roms, kernels,CWM that are 100% compatible with your phone, i presumed if i go to this section of the XDA forum "I9100 android development" that all the roms would work, but i'm finding most are making my phone's screen go funny, or at least the CWM might be not sure if the rom or the CWM bad install was to blame...
wakers said:
Thats what i thought but i've had issue's using I9100 CWM on my I9100 phone...
I need to specifically use the later version i posted as the 1st version that i thought would work wouldn't properly, dunno if maybe later phone's are slightly different mine is 6wks old...
Dunno thats what i found confusing.
I agree with the method of rooting the phone using Odin is easier than rooting the HTC's whats confusing for a newbie is matching up the correct roms, kernels,CWM that are 100% compatible with your phone, i presumed if i go to this section of the XDA forum "I9100 android development" that all the roms would work, but i'm finding most are making my phone's screen go funny, or at least the CWM might be not sure if the rom or the CWM bad install was to blame...
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To add to the confusion, not all I9100 models are equal, either.
There are the standard I9100 models.
Then there are I9100G models, which have completely different processors (Tegra instead of Exynos) and GPUs (PowerVR SGX540 instead of ARM Mali-400). Firmwares for I9100 and I9100G are NOT compatible with each other for this reason.
There are also I9100T models, which for the most part, are simply Telstra branded I9100 models, as far as I know.
There are also I9100P models, which is the same as I9100, but with NFC added. MOSTLY the same, I9100 firmwares work, but I9100 firmwares will blow NFC support away. (but there's a re-enabler out there somewhere)
So when I say "stick to your model number", I mean, your FULL model number.
wakers said:
Sorry if this all seems obvious to the guys in the know but coming from a different brand where every rom and kernel pretty much seems to work with each version (provided you use a miui kernel with miui etc)
you really do need to be more cautious with the SGS 2 and get the correct rom/CWM or you can cause issue's i'm wondering if sometimes physical issue's as my phone's been off for repair 3 times... fingers crossed its sorted now.
You either have a non SGSi9100 or one of the obscure variations or you are doing something wrong .
CWM roms kernels modems mix and match
i have yet to find a kernel that has not worked on any rom likewise all variations of CWM . Their are only two potential problems one wrong CSC and you may need to enter network settings yourself ,CWM a backup on CWM4 may not restore on CWM 5 . Modems are interchangeable .
At present i have three modems and five kernels all flashed within the last two weeks on existing rom .
jje
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Hey guys, my mate just bought a second hand vibrant and should be getting it delivered tomorrow, and has asked me to root and flash ICS on it for him.
Owning an i9000 myself, I'm aware of the great roms available, I'm just a bit uncertain about if flashing a new rom would affect the unlock on the vibrant in any way.
I'm using a factory unlocked i9000, and have never managed to lose my IMEI through flashing any roms (I've tried all the major ICS roms), but is there any steps I need to do to preserve the unlock on the vibrant? I remember on the iPhone's we would make custom firmwares using ultrasnow or something to preserve the baseband, anything I need to do on the vibrant like that?
I hate to ask noob questions like this, but it's not my phone and I really don't want to end up with no signal and stress out looking for a fix.
Thanks
Flashing a new ROM wont effect the unlock. I do suggest making a backup of the efs though. If you get Galaxy Unlock from the market it will do it for you.
hello dudes, sry for bothering but i can't find the answer anywhere...
so i found all kind of roms for galaxy s2 but very few for my model (i9100) so i'm wandering can i use s2 roms withound endangering my cell from hardbricks etc etc...?
thx
You need to read the guides/tutorials in the General section (stickied, near the top of the list). Unless otherwise specified, you can assume a rom for the SGS2 is a rom that works with the I9100/I9100T (which are essentially the same thing except for a very slight variance in radio output). If a rom is for the I9100G or other variants, it should say so in the thread devoted to the rom.
But yes, you clearly need to learn 'the basics'. I wouldn't recommend messing with your phone until you do. Most people who don't learn the basics before flashing roms/etc tend to end up borking their phones at some point early on. At best, you might take a day or two of you stumbling around on here trying to get the knowledge to fix it (with your phone not working during this period). At worst you'll brick it which will require a trip to a service centre that you'll more than likely end up paying for.
So...Do yourself a favour.
well i am running cyanogenmod 10. unoficcial because there wasn't any officials for my model and i get the basics, always have a backup if u soft brick so u can restore in recovery etc etc, thx for answering so fast btw...