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yeah its the factory reset options.

- nandroid backup, makes a backup of your current filesystem, and puts it on the internal SD card - which never gets wiped with a factory reset
- Wipe formats your system partition restoring your phone to factory (but leaves the internal sd alone)
- backup g.apps, backs up the the google apps to the internal sd card because they can't be included in the custom roms due to copyright issues
- update sdcard:update.zip, aplies the galaxo rom to your formated system
- restore g.apps, restores the google apps to the galaxo rom.
 
its done!!!! finally...thanks alot kam!!! hey .. you wouldnt happen to know about getting the arabic language support on there would you?? it does seem faster for sure! im thinking what should i put on there now??
 
hey.. also.. i dont suppose you would know how i could get the o2 web settings on there would you? i have the o2 iphone payg simcard so it has the web wifi bolt on
 
hi I followed all the steps and flashed the galaxhero rom update.zip (using recovery v4.2)

I couldn't restore the gApps for some reason...

I rebooted anyway, the system has been loading for about 20 mins now... is something wrong?
 
I've pushed it over and called it II5 and the ext was .tar already.

or am i suppose to rename it II5.tar.tar? :S
 
hmmmm i see....

any ideas on how to restore the original rom?

**EDIT** reflashed II5 with Odin, works fine again
 
nope back to standard ii5

haven't tried reflashing, might try now but a bit scared....

**Update**
update.zip worked ok

restore g.apps didn't work, told me to check /tmp/recovery.log (not sure how to do that)

Tried rebooting without restoring g.apps, stuck on the load screen again ;/

does anyone have the recovery 4.1 i can try it with?
 
hoho said:
nope back to standard ii5

haven't tried reflashing, might try now but a bit scared....

**Update**
update.zip worked ok

restore g.apps didn't work, told me to check /tmp/recovery.log (not sure how to do that)

Tried rebooting without restoring g.apps, stuck on the load screen again ;/

does anyone have the recovery 4.1 i can try it with?
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I'm having the same problem as hoho. I've followed all the steps as documented and reached the point of restoring G.Apps.

The first time I tried it it failed immediately and I realised that I'd forgotten to copy over the tar file as II5.tar. Doh! So I copied it over and tried again - still failed. Renamed the tar file to ii5.tar in case it's case sensitive and it failed again. Each time it said to look in /tmp/recovery.log but I've no idea how to find that.

So I thought I'd reboot (using the option in recovery mode), go back into recovery mode and try again. However it didn't go back into recovery mode and has now been stuck on the Android loading screen for about 45 mins.

Is it OK to pull the plug and reboot again or will that cause problems? Should I restore my Nandroid backup of IH6 and start all over again? Or what point do I need to return to and continue from to get this to work?
 
bergerc said:
I'm having the same problem as hoho. I've followed all the steps as documented and reached the point of restoring G.Apps.

The first time I tried it it failed immediately and I realised that I'd forgotten to copy over the tar file as II5.tar. Doh! So I copied it over and tried again - still failed. Renamed the tar file to ii5.tar in case it's case sensitive and it failed again. Each time it said to look in /tmp/recovery.log but I've no idea how to find that.

So I thought I'd reboot (using the option in recovery mode), go back into recovery mode and try again. However it didn't go back into recovery mode and has now been stuck on the Android loading screen for about 45 mins.

Is it OK to pull the plug and reboot again or will that cause problems? Should I restore my Nandroid backup of IH6 and start all over again? Or what point do I need to return to and continue from to get this to work?
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i think it would be a bad move to restore nandroid backup at this stage, i saw someone else on the hdblog forums having a problem and restoring nandroid at a mid installation stage caused more problems.
make a post on the hdblog.it thread regarding your issues as theres more than one it seems.
I cannot host the 4.1 recovery as its against Drakaz's rules
however if you want to flash the latest version of o2 UK csc (ii4) with odin i have the files on my web host.
 
Rastaman-FB said:
i think it would be a bad move to restore nandroid backup at this stage, i saw someone else on the hdblog forums having a problem and restoring nandroid at a mid installation stage caused more problems.
make a post on the hdblog.it thread regarding your issues as theres more than one it seems.
I cannot host the 4.1 recovery as its against Drakaz's rules
however if you want to flash the latest version of o2 UK csc (ii4) with odin i have the files on my web host.
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Thanks for the speedy reply. I don't particularly want to restore the Nandroid backup.

The phone has been stuck on the android load screen for over an hour now so I'm thinking that the best thing is to pull the battery out and then start again from the point of flashing II5 with Odin.

I neglected to mention in my earlier post that after I did this the first time it booted into Android before I did the wipe and install of GalaxHero.

So before I go for it any better suggestions than:

Boot into download mode
Flash II5 with Odin
Boot into recovery mode
Factory reset
Check II5.tar (or should it be ii5.tar and update.zip are in /sdcard
Run update.zip
Restore G.Apps
Enable root (optional)
Reboot and (hopefully) enjoy

Just had a quick look on HDBlog.it and it seems someone else has done this so I'm going for it! Wish me luck...
 
I had the same problem the g.apps not restoring and no log file was present.

What I think resolved it was doing the factory reset/wipe, then apply update.zip, then nandroid backup... after that the g apps restored just fine.

...I did try a few different things though so it may not have been that.

edit: oh, and you don't need the enable root step as the GalaxHero ROM is already rooted.
 
MichaelW said:
I had the same problem the g.apps not restoring and no log file was present.

What I think resolved it was doing the factory reset/wipe, then apply update.zip, then nandroid backup... after that the g apps restored just fine.

...I did try a few different things though so it may not have been that.

edit: oh, and you don't need the enable root step as the GalaxHero ROM is already rooted.
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you restored nandroid backup after applying update.zip?
you shouldnt be doing anything with nandroid once update.zip is applied
 
bergerc said:
Thanks for the speedy reply. I don't particularly want to restore the Nandroid backup.

The phone has been stuck on the android load screen for over an hour now so I'm thinking that the best thing is to pull the battery out and then start again from the point of flashing II5 with Odin.

I neglected to mention in my earlier post that after I did this the first time it booted into Android before I did the wipe and install of GalaxHero.

So before I go for it any better suggestions than:

Boot into download mode
Flash II5 with Odin
Boot into recovery mode
Factory reset
Check II5.tar (or should it be ii5.tar and update.zip are in /sdcard
Run update.zip
Restore G.Apps
Enable root (optional)
Reboot and (hopefully) enjoy

Just had a quick look on HDBlog.it and it seems someone else has done this so I'm going for it! Wish me luck...
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bergerc, I managed to get it working. Running GalaxO now.

had to use adb to push update.zip and II5.tar onto the sdcard (while in recovery mode) instead of being lazy and transferring through usb mount in windows. Followed drakaz steps word for word on hdblog.it
 
hoho said:
bergerc, I managed to get it working. Running GalaxO now.

had to use adb to push update.zip and II5.tar onto the sdcard (while in recovery mode) instead of being lazy and transferring through usb mount in windows. Followed drakaz steps word for word on hdblog.it
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I did as well. I had to repeat the process again, following drakaz's instructions. I used Windows Explorer to transfer the files rather than adb.

First impressions are that Galaxo is snappier than H6 and the battery life seems to be a bit better, but it's still early days.
 
Hey guys,

Just read through the forum and saw a lot of stuff for T-mobile in the US.
I've got the same problem, just got my HTC Magic and noticed that I didnt have the market.
I'm from Australia and I'm guessing I shouldn't be following those instructions?
I'm unsure whether this phone was purchased overseas or not because it was a present that was given to me. Is there something I can do about this?

Edit: Oh crappies, I didn't notice I posted in the Samsung sections, sorry! I'll make my own thread elsewhere...
 
Hey, I hope you can help me.

I just purchased the new i7500 and i want to put the GalaxHero rom but i got stuck on 1st step even :(

When i turn on the phone in fastboot mode and do a flash command it hangs on "<waiting for device>". Eventually after ~15 secs the phone restarts and goes into normal boot as intended. I have the ADB driver installed and according to windows working well. I read many topics concerning this issue but i am still stuck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
kam187 said:
You are in fastboot right? Like this?

Fastboot Mode and Recovery Mode on Samsung Galaxy | receptorBlog

Also did it ask for a driver when you entered fastboot? Keep device manager open on the side, and see if any unknown devices pop up there during the 15 seconds.
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I can't be happier than to have the attention of the greatest contributor of the forum :)

Yes, i am in that mode, it's the exact same screen. It just stays as it is and on my computer when executing the command i just get a hanging <waiting for device>. The firmware on the phone is G8 ( :S ). I don't have any yellow question marks on device driver, i fixed that ADB driver using the link from HDBlog. I have unchecked mass storage, turned on USB debugging. I have copied the rectools to phone memory, on root dir.I have no clue what it might be :/
 
fastboot also needs the adb driver but sees it seperately as android 1.0
to check go into windows device manager and boot the device into fastboot. youll notice an exclamation mark. update that driver to the same adb driver that was used.
obviously youll need to be quick as you have 15 seconds to locate and install that driver
once installed reboot into fastboot again and run the command
 
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