Hi!
I replaced libaudio.so & 2 other system files on my Samsung captivate and upon rebooting the just wouldn't start. It's stuck at start screen where it says
at&t world phone. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
HP
More info please.
You did not match the permissions. I am assuming you are running miui. You should not have to change files if you are flashing a captivate package. As started above please provide more details.
You will have to reflash in any case though
Did u try getting into CWM? Did u take a nandroid backup before u update them? Or do u happen to have an earlier backup that u could use to restore from CWM.
Pure entertainment value.
I was using Samsung official Froyo version and rooted phone using SuperOneClick.
Earlier to Froyo I had ROM Manager & ClockworkMod which i didn't do anything with after upgrading to Froyo.
Anything else you need to know please ask, I'm not a techie but I'll try to answer.
Thanks
Back up your apps with tibu, odin to eclair and start over this time don't go deleting stuff unless you both know what the hell it is and making a back up first. In fact Simply adding a .bak at the end of the file will do the trick with out deleting it at all, that way you don't even have to delete it, and if you need it back just remove the .bak part. Basic linux.
Thanks for valuable suggestion Studacris, but how do I do anything when phone wouldn't buzz from the "at&t world phone" screen. By the way I did renamed those original system files but to restore I need to get to system/lib directory.
Do a search for odin. It flashes you to stock without needing to boot into the os, it does it in download mode, it's a peice of software leaked from samsung that they use for repairing/reformatting phones. If you don't have a back up though you will lose all your apps. But it's way better than a boot loop.
That did it for me. Thanks a bunch.
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Hey guys, new here but I have been lurking for a while.
On Androidforums I have a longer thread detailing what I did, if you want details pm me, I can't post a link yet as I am a noob on this forum.
To make a long story short:
1. I had stock eclair, then rooted with "ryans oclf" and used the lagfix.
2. I decided to try a version of cognition (unhelpfuls kernal). So I backed up my current "rom" using rom managers (which was the stock kernal).
3. Realized that I didn't back anything up so I tried to revert to my backup.
4. relized that I didn't undo the lag fix, and because of this my stock eclair wouldn't restore via rom manger's update.zip file
5. was forced to get cognition running again
6. extraded the files from the .img nandroid bacups from my stock eclair (which is a PITA since the .img files aren't regular mountable .img files - took about an hour of searching)
7. Found the sql databases to restore my text messages and contacts from my stock eclair to this new cognition.
NOW, after a long intro, my question:
The .img files I extracted contained a file named linux.ex2. I assume that this file is where ryans oclf must have been storing the stuff that is causing the restore to fail (it actually completes, but never boots)
Is there any way I can manually repair this nandroid backup? I would like to so that I have a nandroid backup of my stock eclair rom.
BTW, I am pretty good at this kind of thing, but I am not a computer programmer.
I don't have a lot of background info directly related to andorid phones but I am learning quick. I am a Senior in electrical and computer engineering so I do have a light background in programming. luckily I knew enough about sql and command prompts and such to get as far as I did with recovering my contacts/text messages.
If what I want to do is possible I would love to give it a shot. Any help/tips/ideas from you guys would be awesome!
Thanks
-Chad
To me it sounds like your screwed. You did a double bummer.. (backup with LF on, restore a backup with LF ON on your already LF ON rom).
Will see if any other more experienced with backup can help you out, but my answer to you is to go stock and redo sorry.
yeah, well I am willing to try a few different things. I forgot to mention that right before I installed cognition the first time, I did remove the lag fix, I just undid the lagfix before I made the backup.
I have been using cognition for about a week now. I don't really mind it as it seems to work just fine, as It is in fact faster.
Last night after posting my post here I removed the voodoo lag fix and then I made a backup of my current installation of cognition.... So if I have any issues trying to do this I at least have a working/functioning cognition rom.
BTW: I have an unrelated question that is slightly related. If I have to use the odin one click restore at some point, does it clear my internal sd card as well? I see that it says it will clear user data, but doesn't specifically make a clear separation of the internal SD card on the captivate and the 2 gb they setup for the android partition.
A far faster method would be to Odin back to stock, root, then take a nandroid backup right away, then flash back to what ever rom you want. Time consuming, yes, but faster and easier than trying to mod a backup.
Hello, guys. This is my first post after lurking for a while, adding roms and getting all of the good stuff for my captivate. But i bumped across the new market. I didn't follow instructions completely and deleted the market. So how should I fix this? I don't want to reflash my phone, because this would take 6 days and I am going on vacation in a few days, and I don't think I will survive without my beloved phone.
Any help on how to download the market app would be much appreciated. I have the android market app v2.12 but it will not let me install through my computer...
Still have the *.apk for the new market? If not you can go to the Themes Forum and do a search there - someone had the *.apk file for the new market app. You can download it - put it on your SDCard and then run it through your file manager - should install and your back in business.
Will need to use the SEARCH feature to find it though as I don't have the link.
Allright, thanks. I hope this works because normally I could not install apps directly to my phone because of at&t but i will try this.
btw.. are you on a stock ROM (2.1) or have you flashed to a custom ROM? Also if your phone isn't rooted this method won't allow you to install the app.
Sorry forgot to mention it.
And uh.. it never takes me 6 days to flash - usually takes me about 15-20 minutes to flash back to stock, install the new ROM, and restore my applications/app data.
It WAS on android 2.2 but I'm not sure if it is anymore because i tried restoring it to factory settings. And I'm talking about sending it to samsung to reflash it, I don't know how to do it myself :/
Oh, and yes. It is rooted.
and the app from there is kind of messed up... Very glitchy (crashes a lot and lags like crazy) and doesn't show every app in searches, like z4root which is how i easily rooted my phone the first time.
So i really just want the old market back but it will just not let me.
Go into Menu -> Settings -> About Phone and look to where it says "Firmware Version". If it says 2.2 and your phone has been rooted it should work fine.
Otherwise... you would at least need to Root it if on 2.2.
And if your not on 2.2? I'm not sure if this will work as I know it was pulled from a 2.2 updated phone.
Ok.. Plan B
You should be able to find the old Market app inside the *.zip file of any ROM you have downloaded. Just make sure they are 2.2 Froyo ROMs
Open up the *.zip file and go into system/app and look for (I'm 99% sure) "MarketUpdater.apk"
Copy that file to your SDCard and install using your file manager - should overwrite everything and hopefully your good.
Also.. you could go to your Menu --> Settings --> Applications and probably uninstall the current Market app you have downloaded first - delete any cache/data under there first before uninstalling.
Hopefully that will throw back on the original market app and your all set.
The only problem with that is... It was this one click downloader thing... Odin3. So I don't know... It also won't let me reupdate it for some reason....
Hrm.. This is from the OTA JH7 zip I have lying around. Give this a try and see if it works.
If not you will need to re-flash back to stock.
Could you supply me with a good rom thats easy to download and has the market and ****, like android 2.2, because the odin crap doesn't work for me.
Hrm.. I'd say go here if you wish to install a custom ROM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819105
Then a few options you have is Cognition, Auxura, or Assonance.
I've ran all of them and they are all great ROM's. I currently am running Assonance with the Gingerbread theme and it runs great.
Just make sure to do the reading first then download the ROM and you should be on your way.... just remember failure to follow the directions if on you and your warranty is already toast
Its already too late for my warrenty..... But I'll go ahead and try these. Thanks.
Actually. Something that would REALLY help would be helping me get into download mode. Every time i plug my phone into the computer in download mode it says usb device not recognized. How do i fix this? I've tried about every samsung drivers... None of them work... If i could get it into download mode i could get it working easily
Hello All,
I'm starting a new thread, because I am in a situation where I want to get my girlfriends phone back to stock so I can warranty it, and hopefully someone here will have the answer and people will have one place to look for putting their Roger's Samsung Captivate back to stock.
I'm hoping someone can tell everyone why we can't seem to get back to stock on these ROM's, here are the things I've tried:
Originally cleared everything rooted the phone through an update.zip, then put on the Clockworkmod Recovery and flashed Cognition v2.3b8, Trying to fix, battery life and lagging issues on her phone, (had a couple of random restarts the day before I flashed, so I was hoping it would fix that).
Then she started noticing the random restarts more often, so I tried:
clearing everything again through the recovery and tried restore from my backup to put things back, it looks like it extracted (or Installed) successfully then when it boots, it gets to the black, "Swipe" screen, then it freezes.
I tried to flash the Rogers_Stock.zip, same thing. Then I extracted the zip, and put it into the backup folder, hoping it will restore it like a normal restore, same thing.
So right now I'm stuck with a phone that says AT&T when it boots (I read one post on how to remove that) and cognition boot up.
Basically, I want to get this to look enough like stock to return.
I was thinking I can try to get rid of that AT&T popup, then flash the stock ROM, and say it just stopped booting for some reason. But then I still need to get rid of the Clockworkmod Recovery.
Wow that was a mouthful.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide for use Roger's users (or their significant others).
AZ
try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867617
There are others like it too. Just don't try flashing the bootloader or sbl !
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Hello All,
I'm starting a new thread, because I am in a situation where I want to get my girlfriends phone back to stock so I can warranty it, and hopefully someone here will have the answer and people will have one place to look for putting their Roger's Samsung Captivate back to stock.
I'm hoping someone can tell everyone why we can't seem to get back to stock on these ROM's, here are the things I've tried:
Originally cleared everything rooted the phone through an update.zip, then put on the Clockworkmod Recovery and flashed Cognition v2.3b8, Trying to fix, battery life and lagging issues on her phone, (had a couple of random restarts the day before I flashed, so I was hoping it would fix that).
Then she started noticing the random restarts more often, so I tried:
clearing everything again through the recovery and tried restore from my backup to put things back, it looks like it extracted (or Installed) successfully then when it boots, it gets to the black, "Swipe" screen, then it freezes.
I tried to flash the Rogers_Stock.zip, same thing. Then I extracted the zip, and put it into the backup folder, hoping it will restore it like a normal restore, same thing.
So right now I'm stuck with a phone that says AT&T when it boots (I read one post on how to remove that) and cognition boot up.
Basically, I want to get this to look enough like stock to return.
I was thinking I can try to get rid of that AT&T popup, then flash the stock ROM, and say it just stopped booting for some reason. But then I still need to get rid of the Clockworkmod Recovery.
Wow that was a mouthful.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide for use Roger's users (or their significant others).
AZ
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Gin's got you on the right path for sure. A couple more items for you:
This post should help with removing the AT&T bootup logo: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849789
If you use Heimdall to flash the Rogers stock firmware that is in the post the Gin linked to then you will absolutely need to follow the instructions to use the Heimdall drivers for your captivate when it's connected or it won't see the device when you tell it to start. Like gin said, don't touch primary or secondary bootloader, leave those out and don't try to repartition it.
Restoring the stock firmware will remove the custom kernel that is installed with Cognition (at least it should) and so the Clockwork recovery should no longer be installed once the restore to stock is done. You can double-check once you are back to stock by powering off the phone and then hold both up and down volume + power, let the power button go after it restarts once and you see the I896 for the 2nd time. It should take you to the stock 2e recovery screen. If it does, you should be golden.
HTH
Wow, thanks all,
I used that method without the PIT file,
I just want to say thanks to everyone that offered help,
Goina try to send it for warranty now.
thanks again,
Joe / AZ
I just replaced my Captivate with a refurb from AT&T. FWIW... the guys at the warranty replacement center were very nice and knowledgeable. I have everything backed up with TiBu, moved my pictures off and all that.
My old phone had existz KB1 kernal and of course voodoo file system. Should I put this phone in the same state before I copy pictures back and restore apps? I'm wondering because voodoo as I understand it converts the file system from RFS to whatever voodoo is. That would mean my backups have been converted too.
Also, exixtz kernal is KB1 and this phone came as KB2. Any problem reapplying that kernal which I was very happy with?
I did all this stuff so long ago I've forgotten all the little stuff!
No, shouldn't be a problem. The only difference in KB1AND KB2 is the kernel and modem. But, you have to root first. Here is what I'd do.
Root
Odin flash a kernel with CWM(I used a speedmod kernel)
Flash the kernel of choice from recovery
Restore your backup.
Converting to ext4is up to you. Your back up is not dependent on using rfs or ext4.
Thank you sir! Where in north GA? cold today isn't it.
Dalton area. And yes it is.
Bad start... it won't root
I've Super one click in the past but no go now... just waits for device
helps to put it in debugging mode
dumb question... I've never restored a tibu back up... I have the backup on my pc... where do I put it. Also tibu is complaining that I won't be able to restore due to "allow third party app" not being checked in applications but there is no where to check that?
Need Superoneclick to enable non market/3Rd party apps.
Put the folder labeled Titanium Backup on your internal SDcard. Open TiBu, menu/batch/restore missing apps.
I'm mostly posting these things now in case someone else is in the same boat I am and has to go through this.
Superoneclick worked. I was a little surprised I needed it as my old phone had this enabled from ATT.
Restored most everything although TiBu died 4 times. The only thing that did not restore right was Beautiful Widgets. Fought that. Still not completely right as I can't find the same widget I had for style... FWIW.. I had 93 apps... took over an hour. I now understand the paid version if I was a heavy ROM flasher.
I enabled 3e recovery with no sig required via Truesselo's method. It worked great.
Bluetooth re-paired without requiring a password... I thought that was odd.
Had to re-enter my wireless password. Expected that.
Still evaluating whether or not to reapply Plumb Bob's GPS fix.
Still haven't updated the kernal. A reply above recommended SpeedMod but that looks like an i9000 kernal.
All in all dinked around about 4 hours with it... much of it trying to remember what the heck to do and how to do it.
CWR won't work now... What to do
I've rooted and restored. Along the way I also ran Truesello's (sp?) 3e signature fix as I had done that before with no problems.
Today I was going to flash something and it booted into recovery 3e but it os blue, I thought it was orange before.
I selected reinstall packages and I get this error
E: Can't open /mnt/internal_sd/update.zip Installation aborted.
I'm just trying to get to where I can select the zip file I want to use. I know I've done it the past.
help please.
Did you name it"update" or "update.zip". The phone will actually add the.zip part for you. Try renaming it just update.
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Did you name it"update" or "update.zip". The phone will actually add the.zip part for you. Try renaming it just update.
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Thanks for your replay... I was thinking I hope mrhaley replies... he seems to know his stuff! I have plumbbob's fix on the phone and was going to flash that. it is named PlumbBob-1.0-CWM-USA.zip. It is not giving me the secondary menus to get there. I don't have an update.zip on the phone. I seem to recall it was for rooting.
Like I said, the only other thing I've done is to run the fix to allow non-signed files.
When I flashed the fix and the kernal last time I was able to navigate and select them.
The old update.zip was to install cwm. On 2e recovery it worked like a charm. 3e was not the same story. You really need cwm if you are going to flash stuff. Custom kernels haves it baked in. I don't have a copy handy, or I would upload it for you. You might try using ROM manager just to install cwm.
or rename everything you flash to update, which can cause problems if you forget to change the name back to what it really is. But, you can't have more than1 thing named update on your internal sd at a time.
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The old update.zip was to install cwm. On 2e recovery it worked like a charm. 3e was not the same story. You really need cwm if you are going to flash stuff. Custom kernels haves it baked in. I don't have a copy handy, or I would upload it for you. You might try using ROM manager just to install cwm.
or rename everything you flash to update, which can cause problems if you forget to change the name back to what it really is. But, you can't have more than1 thing named update on your internal sd at a time.
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Well whaddya know... I have a folder on my pc in my Android folder called CW and in it is an update.zip file and directions. Bread crumbs... gotta love'm.
Took your advice and installed it through ROM manager. Aaaand we have PlumbBob... 7/7 and 16 ft accuracy.
Still wondering about flashing the KB1 kernal over KB2 though... the phone is sluggish. I probably will in a bit though.
I attempted to root my SGS (which had stock Gingerbread Value 2.3.6) using a guide on the Snappyguides blogspot page (the system won't let me, as a newbie, post the URL).
Odin did its thing and then the Samsung Galaxy screen came up (just the white lettering, not the multicoloured animated S) and then... nothing. It just stayed like that for about five seconds, then the white Samsung Galaxy S came up again, then the blank screen ad infinitum.
I can access the download screen and I can access the recovery screen (which does seem to indicate that ClockworkMod v2.5.1.0 has been installed). The trouble is that none of the options seem to do anything.
I have tried searching the forum for similar problems and have read the sticky. The only answers I seem to have been able to find so far suggest flashing a new Rom.
Before I go this far, is flashing a new Rom really necessary in this instance? I have never done this procedure before, so I'm wary of messing things up even further. But obviously if the phone is past the point of no return as far as the stock Rom is concerned, then that'll be what I have to do.
I'd appreciate some advice before doing anything else to my phone though.
I now seem to be able to get the recovery menu options to respond, so maybe all is not lost. Have set it to root and it's currently converting to EXT4 and is about halfway through that.
I'm hoping once that's done, it'll be bootable.
If not, what do I need to do to make the SGS boot again? Is there any way of getting back to stock or can I only flash a stock rom back on?
Nope, still not booting. It just keeps going to the Samsung I9000 white lettering, stays there for five seconds, goes blank for five seconds, then the white lettering goes back and on, off like that forever.
So... anyone willing to help?
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have a look in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225879
Lexrsk said:
have a look in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225879
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Thanks for responding.
Sorry for being a n00b but I can't find anything in there that helps me. All I see is a lot of jargon about various roms, kernels and something called Voodoo.
I had a working phone with Gingerbread 2.3.6 Value. I added Clockworkmod via Odin. Now I can't get the phone to boot beyond the splash screen. It doesn't even get as far as the animated S, all I get is the splash screen going on and off every few seconds.
All I want is to get my phone working again, I really couldn't care less about custom roms etc.
If anyone can help this poor n00b, I'd be very grateful!
Incidentally, I've downloaded what I understand to be the factory rom for JW4 from sammobile.com - this is a 171MB zip file with just two files inside - a tar file called JW4_JW5_JW4 and a dll file called SS_DL.dll. I'm not really sure what to do with these to restore my phone via Odin. This is the kind of thing I need help with - the threads I've read so far don't make much sense to a poor confused n00b I'm afraid.
evilcartman2 said:
Thanks for responding.
Sorry for being a n00b but I can't find anything in there that helps me. All I see is a lot of jargon about various roms, kernels and something called Voodoo.
I had a working phone with Gingerbread 2.3.6 Value. I added Clockworkmod via Odin. Now I can't get the phone to boot beyond the splash screen. It doesn't even get as far as the animated S, all I get is the splash screen going on and off every few seconds.
All I want is to get my phone working again, I really couldn't care less about custom roms etc.
If anyone can help this poor n00b, I'd be very grateful!
Incidentally, I've downloaded what I understand to be the factory rom for JW4 from sammobile.com - this is a 171MB zip file with just two files inside - a tar file called JW4_JW5_JW4 and a dll file called SS_DL.dll. I'm not really sure what to do with these to restore my phone via Odin. This is the kind of thing I need help with - the threads I've read so far don't make much sense to a poor confused n00b I'm afraid.
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I'll help u, I went through this when I was a noob and because I didn't know about xda I had to just figure a way out, I am sorry to say but u have soft bricked your phone, luckily its not hard to unbrick, here's a link to a post i made the other day with proper guides that I use often and they are noob friendly, the files u need to download are there but it 2.3.3 and it JW4 but it will be a start to get ur phone back to life,
If you like my posts hit thanks
Here the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25572245
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OK, thanks for that. I'm supposed to be asleep right now, so I'll come back to this later but thanks for helping.
But just to clarify for now - this will restore the phone to a working version of 2.3.3 and from there I can get back to the latest stock rom (2.3.6) via Kies, yes? I need to get into Kies anyway to restore my contacts from backups (as I haven't yet seen a way of restoring the backups except via Kies).
Thanks once again.
evilcartman2 said:
OK, thanks for that. I'm supposed to be asleep right now, so I'll come back to this later but thanks for helping.
But just to clarify for now - this will restore the phone to a working version of 2.3.3 and from there I can get back to the latest stock rom (2.3.6) via Kies, yes? I need to get into Kies anyway to restore my contacts from backups (as I haven't yet seen a way of restoring the backups except via Kies).
Thanks once again.
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Yip I guess that is right. I have never tried it but yes it should work
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Well, I did get it working again in the end by using a factory rom. Thanks for your help anyway, W1nst0n.
I do intend to attempt to root it again but this time I intend to do it properly.
Any suggestions on what may have caused the boot problem I had? Perhaps using a version of ClockworkMod that was incompatible with 2.3.6 Value?
evilcartman2 said:
Well, I did get it working again in the end by using a factory rom. Thanks for your help anyway, W1nst0n.
I do intend to attempt to root it again but this time I intend to do it properly.
Any suggestions on what may have caused the boot problem I had? Perhaps using a version of ClockworkMod that was incompatible with 2.3.6 Value?
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Yeah that or the wrong root file for ur baseband
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evilcartman2 said:
Well, I did get it working again in the end by using a factory rom. Thanks for your help anyway, W1nst0n.
I do intend to attempt to root it again but this time I intend to do it properly.
Any suggestions on what may have caused the boot problem I had? Perhaps using a version of ClockworkMod that was incompatible with 2.3.6 Value?
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Check in about phone for the kernel version. for example mine is 2.6.35.7-I9000TDVJV6-CL530973
The important part is the bold text.
search the link that i posted earlier for a odin version and flash as PDA
Good luck
Evilcartman, when u wanna get me help find me on the I9000 q&a-ask me anything I got the answer thread, it where I spend most of my time.
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