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Root Odin (Return phone to Stock/Factory)

first off thank you for gigerbread its installed and works great my battery was always an issue lasting at best 8 hours now it lasts 20 hours i installed DOWNLOAD EJ06 Gingerbread Rooted Image with CWM5 made by Chin Checka the only issue i noticed is i cant change my background any help would be appreciated
 
schr9091 said:
first off thank you for gigerbread its installed and works great my battery was always an issue lasting at best 8 hours now it lasts 20 hours i installed DOWNLOAD EJ06 Gingerbread Rooted Image with CWM5 made by Chin Checka the only issue i noticed is i cant change my background any help would be appreciated
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When you long press on your home screen does it bring up options to change
wallpaper??
 
I tried using ad aware app and what it did was somehow thought my unlock password was an add so it locked me out of my phone....i reinstalled odin...now everything is working thank god for titanium backup
 
schr9091 said:
I tried using ad aware app and what it did was somehow thought my unlock password was an add so it locked me out of my phone....i reinstalled odin...now everything is working thank god for titanium backup
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yeah titanium backup comes in handy wen your in a bind.. im glad you got everything
running ok.. if you run into any more problems just pick a thread and ask away..
an also welcome to AF..
 
omerta365 said:
Just wanted to throw this out there for those of you who actually read the thread before posting a question.
This is the process I took to root from stock EE14 to GB-CWM-CTMOD

*READ, READ, READ, READ, READ. Dont make these Devs answer the same question twice when all you have to do is READ.

*Epic failure using One click method on EE14

*Odined my EE14 Prevail with Shabby's .9 and used Titanium for backups
(FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS on the first page of THIS thread, worked first time no problem)

*updated to GB STOCK (may not be necessary but I wanted to be safe) using ODIN. image made by Koumajutsu. No problems, again, READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.

*ODINed from stock to Rooted GB with SPHM820_EJ06-CWM5-Rooted-rfsCache. Went through with no problems. Because I READ the thread FIRST.
-Thanks to Chin Check for making it the images, Hroark13 for CWM5 and whoever is responsible for rfsCache.

Then I followed the directions on Hroarks CWM2.1 (directions on for CWM are on that thread) which can also be found by using the search bar at the top of every page.

*Next searched and found the CTMOD2.1 thread on THIS website thanks to Bloodawn for that. Flashed the mod using Hroarks CWM, went through no problem.

Now I have the fastest android I have ever owned. This was all because of these great devs and because I READ instead of asking the same question that was just answered two pages back (sometimes even two posts back).
* READ first then READ again and READ some more and then ask for help, everyone here is more than willing to help, but lets leave these guys to what their good at, building us some new kick/ss stuff.
Thanks to EVERYONE who has had a hand in rooting and troubleshooting the prevail.
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Hey omerta365,
just a quick question. Did you do a data wipe/factory reset at any time during these steps you used? If so at what point did you do it? Thanks in advanced.
 
Please forgive my absolute Noobness here. I have always enjoyed playing with the android phones, but now that I own one, I am always trying to learn more and more.

I was searching for removing some of the bloated installs on my phone and found this thread through google. What caught my eye was that in order to remove these items i would have to root my phone.. Some thing I have only begin learning about.

It appears from the video you provided, and the information in the OP that this process is not something that is overly difficult, as long as one follows directions of course.

So my question. I understand this was originally for those whos phones were not working. However would this Gingerbread rooted image work for me?

I dont want to break the phone lol, but with its limited memory i also dont want it full of needless apps that im blocked from removing. for example "hookt" i dont need to use hookt, im married and already hookt. lol

Again I do apologize for the clear noob factor, But felt rather then post some where else, I should post here as yall are the ones familiar with the item I think sounds like what im looking for.

If i really am in the wrong place, please fell free to help me and out point me to the right place. lol
 
DroidJJ said:
Please forgive my absolute Noobness here. I have always enjoyed playing with the android phones, but now that I own one, I am always trying to learn more and more.

I was searching for removing some of the bloated installs on my phone and found this thread through google. What caught my eye was that in order to remove these items i would have to root my phone.. Some thing I have only begin learning about.

It appears from the video you provided, and the information in the OP that this process is not something that is overly difficult, as long as one follows directions of course.

So my question. I understand this was originally for those whos phones were not working. However would this Gingerbread rooted image work for me?

I dont want to break the phone lol, but with its limited memory i also dont want it full of needless apps that im blocked from removing. for example "hookt" i dont need to use hookt, im married and already hookt. lol

Again I do apologize for the clear noob factor, But felt rather then post some where else, I should post here as yall are the ones familiar with the item I think sounds like what im looking for.

If i really am in the wrong place, please fell free to help me and out point me to the right place. lol
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yes, it would work to upgrade/downgrade a phone.
I think it's actually a bit faster than the OTA upgrade. it takes about 2min40 sec to odin all 3 tars into a prevail.
 
Welcome droidjj. As stated above this will work for you. I had a perfevtly good working phone and used ODIN to get root and CWM while on froyo. then after GB came out I used ODIN to swap from a perfectly good working Froyo setup to the GB rooted setup. Works like a charm, is ultra fast, and you can get Root, CWM, Kouma kernel, etc all with a few clicks withen a few minutes
 
Hi, I am prepared to update my prevail but I can't seem to download the EJ06 Gingerbread rooted. Now I don't know if its just me but i start the download and after downloading around 10 MB it freezes... If anyone could help, thnx
 
palma10620 said:
Hi, I am prepared to update my prevail but I can't seem to download the EJ06 Gingerbread rooted. Now I don't know if its just me but i start the download and after downloading around 10 MB it freezes... If anyone could help, thnx
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i tried downloading, it seems fine


what is your internet speed

maybe try a different web browser like Fire Fox or something
 
palma10620 said:
Hi, I am prepared to update my prevail but I can't seem to download the EJ06 Gingerbread rooted. Now I don't know if its just me but i start the download and after downloading around 10 MB it freezes... If anyone could help, thnx
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Sorry if this is a dumb question and I dont mean to offend, but I want to make sure that you are downloading it to your COMPUTER right? You dont download the file to your phone. I just wanna make sure of that :)
 
LMFAO yes I am downloading it to my computer and I got it. NVM, stupid internet explorer wasn't working. Mozilla works fine, weird... Thnx anyway!
 
I have tried this a few times as instructed, from powered off phone enter into downloading mode then connect to PC and open Odin, when I do this the come area does not turn yellow with a number and doesn't even show my phone as connected. Am I missing something here?
 
robshesaid said:
I have tried this a few times as instructed, from powered off phone enter into downloading mode then connect to PC and open Odin, when I do this the come area does not turn yellow with a number and doesn't even show my phone as connected. Am I missing something here?
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unplug sdcard
try again
unplug battery
try again
try different USB port
try again
try different USB cable
try again
try different computer
try again
 
robshesaid said:
I have tried this a few times as instructed, from powered off phone enter into downloading mode then connect to PC and open Odin, when I do this the come area does not turn yellow with a number and doesn't even show my phone as connected. Am I missing something here?
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You could be missing the samsung usb driver.
That's usually the issue if everything else is right and the phone doesn't detect.
If you need it, I think that the link for EE14 stock in the first post of this thread includes it

Another cause can be if ADB is running, check task manager and kill it if it is.

Finally, the USB cable that came with the phone can become intermittent. Try again with another cable.
 
Koumajutsu said:
You could be missing the samsung usb driver.
That's usually the issue if everything else is right and the phone doesn't detect.
If you need it, I think that the link for EE14 stock in the first post of this thread includes it

Another cause can be if ADB is running, check task manager and kill it if it is.

Finally, the USB cable that came with the phone can become intermittent. Try again with another cable.
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Yep. I had a USB cable that quit working except to charge the phone.
It actually was the cable that came with the phone. Took me a while to even consider troubleshooting the cable since it had worked for so long.
 
deleoncd4 said:
Alright y'all ive been all over every thread and all though i've been a noob for the last 3 months and have tried not to bother anyone where a question has benn answered......so, here is my noob question:i have backed my phone several times through the 2.1 now i screwwed the pooch and somehow erased my sd card i have trird alll kinds of scenarios and keep getting a code 5 in the progress box in odin.....help me please!!!!! i will continur to try and restore it.....i dont want to have to at the begining........
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help pls and many thanks to all of y'all, that work so hard on this phone.... i have already learned so much from y'all, that you dont even know........
 
hroark13 said:
which imaged are you trying to load
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im not sure i had kk 1.0,ctmod 2.2 or 2.3 on the back up i had switched to ctmod2.3 earlier was fixing to reinstsll the da2sd when i figured that i would wipe the cache and wiped dalvic cashe and partition cache and then like a noob i went to make sure the partiton was at 1048/om and then mount system/mountdata and that is where screwd tha pooch i think.....then i tried to do an odin flash from the image file the 2.1 and i get into download mode and plug in the usb and all of the drivers are installed and pull up odin i have the yellow box then i push ops and click on your ops file that i got from 2.1 then i click on phone and then on pda then hit start and i get not recognizing port code 5..pls excuse i dont understand fully the image that i was flashing....i even tried to odin the boot file aswell....
 
deleoncd4 said:
im not sure i had kk 1.0,ctmod 2.2 or 2.3 on the back up i had switched to ctmod2.3 earlier was fixing to reinstsll the da2sd when i figured that i would wipe the cache and wiped dalvic cashe and partition cache and then like a noob i went to make sure the partiton was at 1048/om and then mount system/mountdata and that is where screwd tha pooch i think.....then i tried to do an odin flash from the image file the 2.1 and i get into download mode and plug in the usb and all of the drivers are installed and pull up odin i have the yellow box then i push ops and click on your ops file that i got from 2.1 then i click on phone and then on pda then hit start and i get not recognizing port code 5..pls excuse i dont understand fully the image that i was flashing....i even tried to odin the boot file aswell....
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reboot computer
try again
unplug sdcard
try again
unplug battery
try again
try different USB port
try again
try different USB cable
try again
try different computer
try again
 
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