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[Q] Repairs

I'm about to send my phone in to Samsung. They already sent me a new one.
I have used Odin to wipe it and set it back to stock firmware. But I still have Voodoo lagfix Kernel on there.
Is this going to be necessary?
If so, can anyone point me to a download of the STOCK Kernel?
And with either a way to flash it with Odin, or preferably with Clockwork Recovery, but whichever will be simpler. Just assume that I don't have either, that I'm starting with a blank slate. Whichever would be simpler from there.
Thanks.

Smart enough to mark this as a? Not smart enough to post in the q a section.
Odin should be replacing your kernal to stock. There are pinned threads with any info you need.

whiteguypl said:
Smart enough to mark this as a? Not smart enough to post in the q a section.
Odin should be replacing your kernal to stock. There are pinned threads with any info you need.
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Agreed!!
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Will they bother to check the flash when you send it back?

Will they bother to check the flash when you send it back?
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I was wondering the same thing. If not, then it won't matter.
And no, Odin3 did not take me back to the original kernel.
Am I doing something wrong?
I used the Odin download that I got from [STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader and Drivers CAPTIVATE ONLY
Thanks for the quick responses.
Any more help would be very much appreciated.

If your flashing using ODIN 1-Click it does install the stock kernel.

Help on analyzing brick

Hey guys I hard bricked my captivate and need help evaluating what I did wrong so I can prevent it from happening in the future. I just received the device in the mail (it was a replacement device) and tried to use odin one click JF6 to flash it to eclair. I've done this process 100's of time with my previous captivate but with my new one I saw that it was hanging at sbl.bin and my device turned off. I unplugged the usb, did a battery pull, and used my jig and the phone went into download. PHEW... Thinking that my JF6 odin was corrupt or something I decided to use Odin One click JI6 and the odin hung again but this time I wasn't so lucky. The phone wasn't showing any thing and the jig was infective. The phone hard bricked. My question is how did I brick it and why did it hang when I tried odin one click,. (Odin one click has always worked flawlessly for me in the past). Also are froyo and eclair bootloaders the same? If were to flash JF6 2.1 eclair using odin3 over Rogers Froyo should that work?l (BTW my device is 10.11 build)
edit: I understand that odin one click always has a risk involved because your flashing boot loaders but I just want to distinguish whether it was just an unlucky odin flash or something to do with the build number. Thanks

thats a good question. As far as I know Froyo and Eclair have the same bootloaders, but as far as the Odin problem- im sorry I have no idea.

A lot of people on here have bricked their captivates by using OneClick Odin. What happened was that your replacement captivate came with stock froyo which does not work with OneClickOdin. You were on the right track by going to stock JF6. Not sure why it failed for you but if you would have tried it again I'm betting money it would have successfully flashed. Sorry to hear about your troubles.

duuhdave said:
A lot of people on here have bricked their captivates by using OneClick Odin. What happened was that your replacement captivate came with stock froyo which does not work with OneClickOdin. You were on the right track by going to stock JF6. Not sure why it failed for you but if you would have tried it again I'm betting money it would have successfully flashed. Sorry to hear about your troubles.
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Lol.. now I'm even more confused. You start out by saying the reason it wont work is because his phone came with stock froyo...then you finish by saying your on the right track, it should have worked. ..wtf??
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Coreym said:
Lol.. now I'm even more confused. You start out by saying the reason it wont work is because his phone came with stock froyo...then you finish by saying your on the right track, it should have worked. ..wtf??
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Yes search for other threads about oneclick NOT being cooperative with newer model captivate sthat came with stock froyo. I said he was on the right track because the correct method to go back to stock is JF6. Which can be found in Icezar1's continuum thread which requires odin 1.3, the pda file, etc. If he would have simply tried the JF6 process again it would have completed rather than using 1 click odin and messing up everything. Read the second post of this thread where ZELENDEL says that newer captivates with froyo don't work with oneclick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093926

duuhdave said:
Yes search for other threads about oneclick NOT being cooperative with newer model captivate sthat came with stock froyo. I said he was on the right track because the correct method to go back to stock is JF6. Which can be found in Icezar1's continuum thread which requires odin 1.3, the pda file, etc. If he would have simply tried the JF6 process again it would have completed rather than using 1 click odin and messing up everything. Read the second post of this thread where ZELENDEL says that newer captivates with froyo don't work with oneclick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093926
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First of all JF6 is NOT a "method" of going back to stock. JF6 is stock firmware. And I could be wrong but I thought icezars program gave you
Stock firmware 'JI6'? I'm not next to my computer so I do t really know off the top of my head.
*EDIT* Your right, icezars1 program is JF6 firmware. However it is only given as an alternative. Even states in his OP the only reason why Odin3 Oneclickdownload would not work would be because of an unreliable USB driver. So this is indeed a safer way to get back to stock JF6. Odin3 one click should work too. It's unfortunate that it doesn't "always" work.
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Coreym said:
First of all JF6 is NOT a "method" of going back to stock. JF6 is stock firmware. And I could be wrong but I thought icezars program gave you
Stock firmware 'JI6'? I'm not next to my computer so I do t really know off the top of my head.
*EDIT* Your right, icezars1 program is JF6 firmware. However it is only given as an alternative. Even states in his OP the only reason why Odin3 Oneclickdownload would not work would be because of an unreliable USB driver. So this is indeed a safer way to get back to stock JF6. Odin3 one click should work too. It's unfortunate that it doesn't "always" work.
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I'm sure you understood what I meant when I said JF6. It is certainly a rom and the process mentioned in Icezar's thread is one of the preferred methods of downgrading a newer model captivate that is on stock froyo. Let's hope that we have answered and clarified all questions for the OP.

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I'm sure you understood what I meant when I said JF6. It is certainly a rom and the process mentioned in Icezar's thread is one of the preferred methods of downgrading a newer model captivate that is on stock froyo. Let's hope that we have answered and clarified all questions for the OP.
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i actually didn't understand what you meant. You make 2 refrencses to using JF6 as a method. First you said the correct method to go back to stock is "JF6", then you said the JF6 process. Again...both refrences to a single JF6 method, when that is not the case. Both methods used to get back to JF6 stock firmware use Odin. One is a one click program, the other a manual flash using .tar.md5 file.

Duuhdave, if im on stock froyo (im in canada btw, so rogers) and use cezars method of flashing stock firmware through full blown odin, should I be flashing jf6(i897 2.1) or rogers 2.1? I ask this because ussualy they want you to on jf6 before flashing.
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As far as flashing to stock with Odin 1click from stock Froyo, it has worked fine for me MANY times. Bricking using the odin 1click may be related to build number. I went from a 1007 (with stock 2.1) to a warranty repacement 1008 with froyo stock. I flashed 2.1 without a problem, and have several other times.

Using Odin 3 one-click, and icezar1's stock rom will both take you to I-897 AT&T stock JF6. If you want to return to Rogers stock 2.1 without flashing bootloaders, use TRusselo's Rogers Captivate Stock ROMS no ATT logo!.

Thanks for the help!
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its the build number that caused it

More than likely it was something about the phone having stock froyo with the 3e recovery. I have never had the issue with any of my 2 captivates 1007's and wife's 1010 build but they came with stock eclair. I know many people have had issues due to the stock froyo with 3e recovery as why there is a modded 3e recovery how to somewhere on this forum. Since he laready had froyo boot loaders it has nothing to do with that, and either was a fubar flash due to 3e recovery, bad USB cable, etc that messed things up.
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[Q] Unrooting Captivate (Gingerbread 2.3.3)

hey everyone
i've got a problem here ><" researched all day but couldn't find the answer..
i updated my phone today to gingerbread 2.3.3 KF1 using Odin and then rooted it using the Rooted Kernel and Odin so i could uninstall all those stock apps which i didn't want. now im done uninstalling them, how do i unroot my phone ? ...

You should be able to use SuperOneClick (works every time for me) to unroot your phone. Just make sure it is in usb debug mode (settings>applications>debugging).

Install z4 root app on your cappy,it is the easiest method to root and unroot.....!
Just one click in the app and your unrooted and another click your rooted.....
Easy right?
z4 root:http://www.filecrop.com/z4-root-apk.html
if the above link dies just google it !

rooting captivate
i have tried z4 root and it never works on my captivate. everytime i try to download the I897UCKF1 AutoRoot DesignGears.tar file i get it in a zimage format that odin does not recognize. can anyone help me out. if anybody has the actual files can you please email them to me at [email protected]!

the zImage is a kernel...flash it with sgs kernel flasher from the market...

Its on my pc and im trying to root using odin. How do I get odin to recognize it so i can root?
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Did u unzip it, thts why, has to be .tar.md5 format, so redownload and then flash
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Hahaha wow im an fn idiot. Just rooted my phone. Thanx for all the help!
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[Q] Odin 1 click 2.2 for captivate

Hi,
can someone please post a link to download Odin 1 click for captivate 2.2?
(the one in mobiletechvideos site is dead cos its megaupload)
thanks

ap1618 said:
Hi,
can someone please post a link to download Odin 1 click for captivate 2.2?
(the one in mobiletechvideos site is dead cos its megaupload)
thanks
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Here is the link to the Heimdall One-click for 2.2
It was found in the sticky for the OneClicks master collection in the Development Section.

Red_81 said:
Here is the link to the Heimdall One-click for 2.2
It was found in the sticky for the OneClicks master collection in the Development Section.
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I saw this one right after I posted this question... but never used Heimdall... Is it the same as Odin, and safe?
after going to stock, can I flash gingie bootloaders etc using Odin?
thanks

ap1618 said:
I saw this one right after I posted this question... but never used Heimdall... Is it the same as Odin, and safe?
after going to stock, can I flash gingie bootloaders etc using Odin?
thanks
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It's functionally the same as Odin, just an open source alternative. You can do everything that you can do with Odin.

Its annoying to get work on windows though. IMO atleast.

prbassplayer said:
Its annoying to get work on windows though. IMO atleast.
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The drivers are a bit wonky, for sure. They only install for one USB port, so then you need to remember which one works every time you flash. I've had mixed results, mostly due to my complete lack of patience and my familiarity with Odin. I just don't want to be the "Just use Odin" guy

Na man I get it
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I want to go to stock 2.2 so that I can install GB... but the Heimdall one says it doesnt wipe user apps... would it be a problem when upgrading to GB bootloaders and then upgrading the ROM?
thanks

prbassplayer said:
Its annoying to get work on windows though. IMO atleast.
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windows is the only thing that will run on my pc.. Ubuntu HATES my pc.

ap1618 said:
I want to go to stock 2.2 so that I can install GB... but the Heimdall one says it doesnt wipe user apps... would it be a problem when upgrading to GB bootloaders and then upgrading the ROM?
thanks
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If your upgrading through kies to kk4 official, it takes care of everything for you. It has bootloaders in it, no need to flash separately. As for user apps, why would you WANT to wipe your apps? I've went from jf6 to kb1 to kk4 with kies and never lost an app. And I was rooted when I went to kb1

[Q] Odin Flash Still Necessary with Heimdall?

Hi guys, I haven't flashed in while, so might as well be completely starting over in remembering how.
Have a captivate running Cognition 2.3b8 and I'd like to get some gingerbread goodness on there. Most guides say to flash back to stock using Odin, then a Gingerbread kernel, then the Gingerbread ROM, but the Apex installation suggests I can use something called "Heimdall" (which is completely new to me). Do I still need to flash back to stock or is this Heimdall thing an all in one type of thing?

Heimdall is an open source alternative to the closed source Odin.
Check out the Stickied Stock One Clicks Thread in the Development Forum.
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4-2ndtwin said:
Heimdall is an open source alternative to the closed source Odin.
Check out the Stickied Stock One Clicks Thread in the Development Forum.
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Thanks! Your signature info ended up coming in handy.
I ended up using Odin to flash (for some reason, I couldn't get Heimdall to work). First, tried to use Heimdall, but ended up soft bricking the phone, and luckily found some instructions to get back to download mode from the "phone-exclamation point-computer" screen. I ended up putting Mosaic 9 on my Captivate using the instructions from MobileTechVideos.
Loving it!