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Root [Sprint] [OUDHS] Soft Brick and CWM recovery support

We need more people to learn things, it seems like no one is stepping up to the plate. xInterloperx can"t support this device by himself. Im working on learning enough but neither of us have enough time. I suggest anyone without good experience working with command line should hold off for a bit if you havent already flashed recovery. JB users we are looking out for you too. A root method will be found in a few days or sooner. Let us not have any bricks here! @angus242 we already have an ics dump so that's not needed. A jb dump is unlikely until recovery gets fixed for jb devices. I already have source built jb kernels that OC but no one to test because afaik no one is rooted jb. When that day comes, development should go into full swing.
 
rbheromax said:
use choice of terminal (term emulator from play store OR adb)

obtain root via "su" command

type: "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/sdcard/boot.img"

then go to sdcard and copy that boot.img (contains ramdisk and kernel)

Syntax: "dd" is the gnu? tool for image flashing or pulling, su obtains superuser rights, and if means input file and of means output file, so "if" the partition of boot which contains kernel and ramdisk and "of" creates the boot.img

:D

btw here is the table from recovery.fstab which lists all partitions:

# mount point fstype device [device2]
/boot emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
/system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
/data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p15 length=-16384
/cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
/recovery emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
/sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 / dev/block/mmcblk1
/efs ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
/modem emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

DO NOT pull /system using dd!!! I have heard bad things when this is done
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where am i getting the su from only zip i see is for ics not jb. If you can make a su.zip for jb i can pull the kernel
 
fail safe on android put me right back to stock due to recovery being only for ics not jb. thats why i need to pull the kernel so interlope can use it to make cwm for jb
 
xInterlopeRx said:
Thats because the kernel crashes and gets overwritten by android failsafes. I need a JB kernel to do the job. Get me that kernel, and it'll get done. I have the source, but will need testers. I will start a JB recovery thread when I'm ready. It'll be a few days at least as I'm kinda backed up with like 6 devices right now. Sorry it's taking so long to get support.
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+1
 
Anyone knows methode for pulling out modems/baseband from live phone? I want to backup my L300VPALJ8 modem so i could share it to community.
 
My Sprint/Samsung Galaxy Victory seems to have broken immediately after I changed a couple values in a "tweak" app and rebooted - it nows boots to the end of the Sprint animation and stays there - I can get to the download screen and the recovery screen, but none of the recovery files fix whatever I broke when I changed the values I changed.

I was able to do a backup after CWM installed with one of the recovery files. Isn't there some way that I can "fix" whatever is wrong in the backup files - re-save them, and then restore them as "fixed" files?

I am in way over my head here, so if this is a stupid idea, please let me know so I can can quit looking for something I wouldn't recognize even if I saw it . . .

Anyway - any help would be comforting . . ..

kim
 
I'd have to know exactly what you changed. Link mt to the tweak app and I'll see if I can do something to reverse whatever happened and have it work through recovery.
 
see if u can adb pull the system.prop, change values to stock, wipe data, and reboot
And are u on JB or ICS?
 
i don't know - adb won't connect via usb, i got this file today, is it anything that might help?

COMBINATION_L300VPALH1_L300SPRALH1_934170_REV00_user_low_ship.tar

I attached a screen capture of the files.

kim
 

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im having a bit of a processing error in my brain, so what is s&g?

edit: I figured it out, but a very childish phrase smh
 
that leak is dated five days in the future. What that means is that your device must ride with the files until the posted date and THEN it will begin working. Like a time release safe. Thanks for the leak info though. I'm gonna add them props to my junk.
 
I updated the OP with a new build that uses the current kernel source. This recovery is fully source build, no prebuilt anything. I ran through all the functions a bot and I think it's pretty stable. Please let me know if you find any bugs. Thanks and enjoy. Also, look around in the next few days for TWRP and a CM-10 build.

EDIT: Party foul. Wait for about ten minutes then try the link.
 
everything seems to work but the "play" app - it crashes every time unless i go back to the factory ver. then it crashes the 2nd time . . .

kim
 
kimert said:
everything seems to work but the "play" app - it crashes every time unless i go back to the factory ver. then it crashes the 2nd time . . .

kim
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Try using recovery to fix permissions. Also, if you really want us to figure it out, you will have to use ADB and make a logcat. There are instructions on how to do that elsewhere in the forum.
 
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