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[Q] About to apply a lag fix, need some precautions , advice ^^ thx

Hi guys , it's the time to start rooting and applying lagg fixes for me , i SUFFERED with the no market problem but i finally fixed everything and everything is perfect so far , the only thing iam missing is ( lagg fixes / ROMS / updates ) btw iam NEW to android or to "rooting , fixing ,customizing
iam running Stock Eclair 2.1 with no roms or any thing
i have been reading alot about Lag fixes , most popular two are Rynza's Lag fix and voodoo lag fix
what i need to know is
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1-what should i do BEFORE i try and install any of them ?
2-Which one is better voodoo rynza's ( btw i don't know where to get the vododo one from )
3- what's the worst thing that could happen ?
4-why do people keep saying Uninstall lag fix before flashing ?
5-if i don't like or i want to return every thing to stock is it Reversible ? ( the root and the lag fix ) ??
Thanks so much for people who care to help others appreciate it
note: I have no 3 botton combo download mood so if I f#ck up I will brick my phone lol

Any one can answer me please kindly post a reply :}

There's a lot of useful information in the threads about Doc Froyo ROM and SpeedMod Kernel. Maybe you could try reading into that.
Personally, I am really liking Doc Froyo, which has the latest SpeedMod Kernel built in.

enigma575 said:
Hi guys , it's the time to start rooting and applying lagg fixes for me , i SUFFERED with the no market problem but i finally fixed everything and everything is perfect so far , the only thing iam missing is ( lagg fixes / ROMS / updates ) btw iam NEW to android or to "rooting , fixing ,customizing
iam running Stock Eclair 2.1 with no roms or any thing
i have been reading alot about Lag fixes , most popular two are Rynza's Lag fix and voodoo lag fix
what i need to know is
==================
1-what should i do BEFORE i try and install any of them ?
2-Which one is better voodoo rynza's ( btw i don't know where to get the vododo one from )
3- what's the worst thing that could happen ?
4-why do people keep saying Uninstall lag fix before flashing ?
5-if i don't like or i want to return every thing to stock is it Reversible ? ( the root and the lag fix ) ??
Thanks so much for people who care to help others appreciate it
note: I have no 3 botton combo download mood so if I f#ck up I will brick my phone lol
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1. Not really
2. Voodoo for eclair is awesome. Really improves all forms of lag.
3. Possible brick if you can't get into download mode?
4. If you don't remove lag fix's before flashing you can run into numerous problems, and you may brick your device.
5. Yes, use Odin and reflash back to stock firmware.
I hope this answers your questions....
4.

Thanks alot guys i will read more about this
too bad i dn't know how to add a custom rom , lol but i will try figure it out

enigma575 said:
what i need to know is
==================
1-what should i do BEFORE i try and install any of them ?
2-Which one is better voodoo rynza's ( btw i don't know where to get the vododo one from )
3- what's the worst thing that could happen ?
4-why do people keep saying Uninstall lag fix before flashing ?
5-if i don't like or i want to return every thing to stock is it Reversible ? ( the root and the lag fix ) ??
Thanks so much for people who care to help others appreciate it
note: I have no 3 botton combo download mood so if I f#ck up I will brick my phone lol
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Glad to be of help
1. Make sure you DO have 3 button combo download mode... Now, I always have problems getting into download mode. Most of the time, it takes me 3-4 tries with Vol-down, Home, Power, releasing Power button at various moments. I find that its also important to press the Voldown-Home-Power buttons in that order, and release the power button first (soem say, when the big S shows, others say no sooner then when the digging Android puppet is shown). So, are you sure you don't have 3-button download?
2. I have nothing but positive experience with VooDoo Lagfix, following the instructions mentioned at project-voodoo.org (you need 3-button download mode...)
3. Your Galaxy doesn't start anymore, and you cant get into download mode to flash something new
4. At least for Voodoo: Voodoo changes the file system to ext4, AND flashes you ROM so it can read and write ext4. If you flash a new ROM without uninstalling lagfix, you install a ROM that understands RFS filesystem onto a device with a ext4 partition. Your ROM wont be able to read the apps and data partition... Compare it to flashing a FAT32 capable OS to a NTFS partition. What uninstalling Voodoo does is reformatting ext4 back to RFS
5. Voodoo is easely reverted (put one file on your SD card and reboot, voila.)
BTW, if i where you i'd first upgrade to Froyo 2.2 via a normal way (Kies), then its quite safe to install Voodoo. In theory, this can be done even without 3-button combo, by issuing the adb command Reboot Download. But as always: at your own risk...

enigma575 said:
Hi guys , it's the time to start rooting and applying lagg fixes for me , i SUFFERED with the no market problem but i finally fixed everything and everything is perfect so far , the only thing iam missing is ( lagg fixes / ROMS / updates ) btw iam NEW to android or to "rooting , fixing ,customizing
iam running Stock Eclair 2.1 with no roms or any thing
i have been reading alot about Lag fixes , most popular two are Rynza's Lag fix and voodoo lag fix
what i need to know is
==================
1-what should i do BEFORE i try and install any of them ?
2-Which one is better voodoo rynza's ( btw i don't know where to get the vododo one from )
3- what's the worst thing that could happen ?
4-why do people keep saying Uninstall lag fix before flashing ?
5-if i don't like or i want to return every thing to stock is it Reversible ? ( the root and the lag fix ) ??
Thanks so much for people who care to help others appreciate it
note: I have no 3 botton combo download mood so if I f#ck up I will brick my phone lol
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- Make sure your phone is charged
- Read as much as you can here. Go to the voodoo threads and the rynza OCLF threads and read what others experienced. It can be helpful.
- Rynza's one click lag fix is probably the easiest to apply if you are not confident to fiddle around with the phone.

i want to install official froyo i have disabled the voodoo lag fix on my rooted phone.my firmware is jg4 and kernel in 2.6.29 [email protected]#voodoo lagfix.if i update my firmware thru kies will my kernel revert to stock kernel or whether i have to first flash stock jg4 using odin then upgrade thru kies please help could not find the reply anywhere pl note voodoo lagfix is disabled in my device but not completely uninstalled and its rooted also

Help Needed - I screwed up everything

Hi guys,
I got my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Tab from someone who had the Team Overcome ROM.
Today, I decided to sell it to someone so I wanted to remove all my info by wiping all the stuff out and somehow I messed up things and now I am stuck with this page when I go into recovery. I tried to flash other ROMs that were 2.2 ROMs and even though they flash fine, they just keep on restarting every time the display goes to sleep or if I just touch the power button.
Anyways, below is a picture of the screen that I get when I go to Recovery and I do not know where to start from to get everything back to normal before I can sell this device.
I'd appreciate some direction and some help.
Thanks

You need to restock with the Froyo safe stock rom from overcome. Just putting other froyo versions on with recovery won't work as you have gingerbread bootloaders...
Try reading before doing these things or you will end up with a brick...

you need to restock it all over again and word of advice use the new overcome rom called Kratos with gingerbread based rom it's a lot fast and stable ..

medoo88 said:
you need to restock it all over again and word of advice use the new overcome rom called Kratos with gingerbread based rom it's a lot fast and stable ..
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How can I restock? I'd appreciate if you guys can provide the proper link.

[Q] Complete Newbie ICS Help! :)

Hi guys,
Basically I would like to install the ICS rom on my Galaxy S i9000 but have absolutely no knowledge of how to do so having never installed a custom rom before. Looking at the 'tutorial' for installing ICS leaves me just as clueless as it seems the individual steps require a decent knowledge of knowing what you are doing!
Also, I have discovered from attempts in the past that my Galaxy is one of those that is unable to go into download mode so that is another thing that I need help with (the link to the thread for the solution to this problem in the Galaxy FAQ is dead).
So yeah, any help much appreciated or even a point in the direction of the most thorough guide there is.
Cheeers.

Well, before you do anything you need to enable download mode. Think it's a case of enabling USB debugging and then adb, although I never had to do it.
Secondly you should probably stick a stock gingerbread rom on with odin.
Flash a kernel with odin.
Flash ICS
Flash ICS again.
Going straight to ICS with very little experience of custom ROMs may be a bit difficult especially given it's alpha status.

my phone also had the lock on the Download mode, seem like some service provides disable the feature to "try and prevent" people to flash custom roms as this voids warranty in South Africa. I found a fix on Google but cant remember where.. so if you dont get it right... some guys made a homemade jig here is a link on how to make it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
and when flashing a custom rom its best to follow the roms tutorial and usually there are post regard similar issues that could be encounter in the process. so the search function ends up helping alot instead of having to read thru 100 pages lol
its all new to us in the beginning then it just becomes second nature lol
i recon this is a nice tutorial to use
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/android-4-0-update-for-galaxy-s-i9000-custom-rom/
even has a method to return to stock

JoshJoshJoshJosh said:
Hi guys,
Basically I would like to install the ICS rom on my Galaxy S i9000 but have absolutely no knowledge of how to do so having never installed a custom rom before. Looking at the 'tutorial' for installing ICS leaves me just as clueless as it seems the individual steps require a decent knowledge of knowing what you are doing!
Also, I have discovered from attempts in the past that my Galaxy is one of those that is unable to go into download mode so that is another thing that I need help with (the link to the thread for the solution to this problem in the Galaxy FAQ is dead).
So yeah, any help much appreciated or even a point in the direction of the most thorough guide there is.
Cheeers.
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1st u did not say what stock firmware u ve, If u ve updated with kies then u should ve download mode, i ve exactly the same problem. Once i updated from foryo to gingerbread i ve the 3 button download mode but still no recovery, u might never get it but dun worry u can still flash custom roms.
Here's what u ve to do, upgrade to stock gingerbread 2.3 with kies then flash cfroot kernel with odin,u'll ve recovery n then flash what u like...

JoshJoshJoshJosh said:
Hi guys,
Basically I would like to install the ICS rom on my Galaxy S i9000 but have absolutely no knowledge of how to do so having never installed a custom rom before. Looking at the 'tutorial' for installing ICS leaves me just as clueless as it seems the individual steps require a decent knowledge of knowing what you are doing!
Also, I have discovered from attempts in the past that my Galaxy is one of those that is unable to go into download mode so that is another thing that I need help with (the link to the thread for the solution to this problem in the Galaxy FAQ is dead).
So yeah, any help much appreciated or even a point in the direction of the most thorough guide there is.
Cheeers.
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Josh. This is NOT a rom which you should pop your cherry on. It is buggy, not very fast and you need a good working knowledge of how to recover a soft bricked phone. If you cannot get into download mode, you would be foolish to flash ANY rom. There is a fix, search xda.
I admire the size of your swingers, but would recommend you gain a little more flashing experience.
However, good luck if you do decide to flash - there's plenty of help here if all goes wrong.

i "popped my custom rom cherry" on ICS build 12 i screwed it up when trying to go for build 13 but i found this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14273101&postcount=1
i installed the latest gingerbread kernel then the rom files and it was fine ater that and im just about to put build 14 on now so dont worry to much about it. Ive never got my phone to a state where i cant fix it, so if me a supernoob can recover a brick just about anyone could

[Q] FASTY III problem/question

HI!
Just recently signed up so I can't seem to post this question in the FASTY III forum....I kind of understand why xda has this policy about new members not being able to post int he developmental forums...but still...
I recently moved from FASTY II to III...ran into a bunch of issues but I managed to resolve most of them by going through the forums. What I am having trouble with is my inability to get to the Recovery menu. I have tried to go there thru the shutdown menu, by doing the button holding trick, and even from ROM Manager... none of those seem to work for me. Very frustrating... All those mentioned attempts only bring up an ATT screen which wont go away until I reboot the phone into a normal start....
So why am I unable to enter Recovery mode?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

nycmon said:
HI!
Just recently signed up so I can't seem to post this question in the FASTY III forum....I kind of understand why xda has this policy about new members not being able to post int he developmental forums...but still...
I recently moved from FASTY II to III...ran into a bunch of issues but I managed to resolve most of them by going through the forums. What I am having trouble with is my inability to get to the Recovery menu. I have tried to go there thru the shutdown menu, by doing the button holding trick, and even from ROM Manager... none of those seem to work for me. Very frustrating... All those mentioned attempts only bring up an ATT screen which wont go away until I reboot the phone into a normal start....
So why am I unable to enter Recovery mode?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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in terminal emulator type su and then reboot recovery maybe it work
or may be you just flashed unsupported recovery

nycmon said:
HI!
Just recently signed up so I can't seem to post this question in the FASTY III forum....I kind of understand why xda has this policy about new members not being able to post int he developmental forums...but still...
I recently moved from FASTY II to III...ran into a bunch of issues but I managed to resolve most of them by going through the forums. What I am having trouble with is my inability to get to the Recovery menu. I have tried to go there thru the shutdown menu, by doing the button holding trick, and even from ROM Manager... none of those seem to work for me. Very frustrating... All those mentioned attempts only bring up an ATT screen which wont go away until I reboot the phone into a normal start....
So why am I unable to enter Recovery mode?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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I have been having the same problem recently, but not just with this rom. I have flashed many roms to my device, but it appears that almost everytime i try to flash something now, the same exact thing happens as the OP. any information on what is wrong or how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

When you boot up...do you guys get a scrambled screen that looks like white noise?
that's caused by froyo bootloaders on a gingerbread ROM.
Not all That familiar with fasty though...dunno of the jump from 2 to 3 was froyo to ginger, just a guess.

studacris said:
When you boot up...do you guys get a scrambled screen that looks like white noise?
that's caused by froyo bootloaders on a gingerbread ROM.
Not all That familiar with fasty though...dunno of the jump from 2 to 3 was froyo to ginger, just a guess.
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Sometimes this happens, but i am usually still able to use the rom after i wait for awhile. Recently it just gets stuck at the ATT logo screen and does nothing else.

HERE is a package containing JUST the ginger boots.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD PHONE/PC CONNECTION, FLASHING BOOTLOADERS IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRULY HARD BRICK

studacris said:
HERE is a package containing JUST the ginger boots.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD PHONE/PC CONNECTION, FLASHING BOOTLOADERS IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRULY HARD BRICK
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i just tried it with a solid connection and it almost instantly said failed in the red box. now i cant turn it on or get to download mode so im pretty sure it is hard bricked. is there any way you can help me with this?
EDIT: False alarm, i can still get to download mode so i can ODIN back to stock, but i do not know if i should risk it again

Whew that was close.
You can flash to stock using a bootloader less package, that way if it fails it can't hard brick.
Then if that works, find an entire stock gingerbread package with bootloaders included, and flash that instead of just the bootloader one click. this again, will involve risk, but full Odin package seem to work better on some phones than one clicks do.

I tried to flash the bootloader again and it succeeded. i then proceeded to try and flash Fasty KK4 v1.1 and once again i was stuck at the ATT logo. For some reason with every rom i flash, when the logo pops up, it starts dim and then get bright. After it gets bright, it stays that way and it is a real pain not being able to use custom roms anymore.

If you have the GB bls just make sure you follow LL's instructions in the OP for Fasty. I had the same issue, but it was me mistake for not following the istructions properly

studacris said:
When you boot up...do you guys get a scrambled screen that looks like white noise?
that's caused by froyo bootloaders on a gingerbread ROM.
Not all That familiar with fasty though...dunno of the jump from 2 to 3 was froyo to ginger, just a guess.
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i DO get a very colorful white noise screen whenever it boots up ...the screen goes away once it fully reboots....I wondered about it but just assumed it was a quirk of the FASTY III package...
Is Rom Manager a froyo based app?

No, ROM manager is poop. Not implemented on galaxy devices properly, and won't work past eclair, and even them it was severely limited to just downloading an update.zip to your sdcard...which you could put there manually with out having to root...
FORGET ROM MANAGER EXISTS

studacris said:
No, ROM manager is poop. Not implemented on galaxy devices properly, and won't work past eclair, and even them it was severely limited to just downloading an update.zip to your sdcard...which you could put there manually with out having to root...
FORGET ROM MANAGER EXISTS
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Really? Rom Manager helped me a lot until this Fasty III installation....even in my previous rom Fasty II it worked fine and did great for backing up and restoring backups....saved my asss a few times with those restores lol....But if this program doesn't work for fasty III what comparable program can I use?
Also I still can't intorecovery mode...nothing works...I even tried using ADB and Droid Explorer....nothing seems to get it into recovery mode...
Am I going to have to flash back to stock ROM and try reinstalling fasty iii again? This seems all so tedious lol...
OR is there a way for me to flash back to Fasty II without having to go back to stock rom? or without having to access the recovery screen?
Thank you^

All that backing up and restoring you did with ROM manager can be done in cwm recovery and that's what you should use from now on. No app needed at all.
Follow the instructions I've already provided in this thread. You'll either need Odin to flash the gingerbread bootloaders,
or to go back to a froyo firmware, first flash a froyo kernel with Odin and THEN the froyo ROM. stock isn't needed.
Recovery in a gingerbread kernel is completely inaccessible with froyo bootloaders.

studacris said:
All that backing up and restoring you did with ROM manager can be done in cwm recovery and that's what you should use from now on. No app needed at all.
Follow the instructions I've already provided in this thread. You'll either need Odin to flash the gingerbread bootloaders,
or to go back to a froyo firmware, first flash a froyo kernel with Odin and THEN the froyo ROM. stock isn't needed.
Recovery in a gingerbread kernel is completely inaccessible with froyo bootloaders.
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Thank you for the info!
Looks like fasty III is a GB based mod after all...I guess I should read up more on the rom before installing lol....I did not expect the dev to go from froyo to gb -_-
I was thinking of using your previous post for the one click gb bootloaders only....but it seems a little iffy and I can't afford to hardware brick the phone lol...
Makes me wonder tho...is it really THAT risky to flash bootloaders? It would make things simpler if i could just flash the gb bootloaders and go from there....

the whole flash should take less than a minute, where the actual writing takes only a few seconds...but if you were to lose communication in that awful window then it would be bad day.
But that is a small window, and if you have never had connection issues you should be ok if Odin tends to be iffy, you van try heimdall I've heard that works better for some.

Still haven't tried flashing the bootloaders because i'm scared of the possibility of hard bricking my phone... If worst case scenario was to happen and it gets hard bricked....are there any options to restore that phone? or is it just paper weight after?
Also until I flash those bootloaders there is no way to back up my phone or anything?
Thanks for all ur help btw!

another issue i am having is that the phone seems pretty laggy after installing this rom...even with tegra overclock premium and tweaking it up to 1252mhz 1275mv 1100mv setting...it still seems laggy when opening sms etc....is this just the results of a bad rom install? also battery life seems crappy....even after doing the battery recalibration...of course i couldn't wipe the battery stats since i cant get into recovery...

Hard bricks are recoverable by a hardware modification known as unbrickable mod, search for user Adam outler, or go to mobiletechvideos.com they both offer this service if you're not a soldering expert.
Battery recalibration does NOTHING the stats are reset everytime you charge to 100, and besides that they don't calculate your current battery level, just what's been using it, its what's used in settings> about phone> battery use. It has nothing to do with extending battery life.

oh lol...i have been reading all these threads where people are talking about how much their battery life improved after they did the recalibration and stat wipe ....well anyways I am going to attempt the bootloader flashing...I hope everything goes well! after that I want to try reflashing the fasty III ROM...
Do you have any recommendations as far as a good ROM for teh captivate? One that doesn't lag and has good gps & battery life? I would appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks!

[Q] Confused and need help, please

Well let me just skip to the issue,
Flashed with KIES to latest ICS, came from GB. No root, no nothing just stock !!
After reading and reading and did some more reading i think it's time to ask the experts.
I know that ICS has the superbrick bug, i know that GB doesn't. Well the solution is that just for a precaution i would go back to GB (LOL) but here is the issue: if i go back to GB i might get bricked (right??) if i don't go back i might get bricked with a full wipe (factory reset included??). Ok if i flash ANY rom and kernel included i will get the chance to get bricked???
All roms and kernels do a full wipe before installing a new one, this i know. So where are my options ?? Flash back to GB and might get bricked, wait for samsung response and might get bricked then, try any other rom (with or without root) and may get bricked??? As far as i see it i may get bricked with all these options. Maybe i get lucky ??? Yeh right with my life......
Please explain this to me as i'm not getting any solution with all the threads (+ 1 from me) that are here.
becosemsaida

becosemsaida said:
Well let me just skip to the issue,
Flashed with KIES to latest ICS, came from GB. No root, no nothing just stock !!
After reading and reading and did some more reading i think it's time to ask the experts.
I know that ICS has the superbrick bug, i know that GB doesn't. Well the solution is that just for a precaution i would go back to GB (LOL) but here is the issue: if i go back to GB i might get bricked (right??) if i don't go back i might get bricked with a full wipe (factory reset included??). Ok if i flash ANY rom and kernel included i will get the chance to get bricked???
All roms and kernels do a full wipe before installing a new one, this i know. So where are my options ?? Flash back to GB and might get bricked, wait for samsung response and might get bricked then, try any other rom (with or without root) and may get bricked??? As far as i see it i may get bricked with all these options. Maybe i get lucky ??? Yeh right with my life......
Please explain this to me as i'm not getting any solution with all the threads (+ 1 from me) that are here.
becosemsaida
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If Kies has provided you with the ICS update, i.e you don't have any Custom Roms installed, then where is the issue? That means you're perfectly safe.

becosemsaida said:
Well let me just skip to the issue,
Flashed with KIES to latest ICS, came from GB. No root, no nothing just stock !!
After reading and reading and did some more reading i think it's time to ask the experts.
I know that ICS has the superbrick bug, i know that GB doesn't. Well the solution is that just for a precaution i would go back to GB (LOL) but here is the issue: if i go back to GB i might get bricked (right??) if i don't go back i might get bricked with a full wipe (factory reset included??). Ok if i flash ANY rom and kernel included i will get the chance to get bricked???
All roms and kernels do a full wipe before installing a new one, this i know. So where are my options ?? Flash back to GB and might get bricked, wait for samsung response and might get bricked then, try any other rom (with or without root) and may get bricked??? As far as i see it i may get bricked with all these options. Maybe i get lucky ??? Yeh right with my life......
Please explain this to me as i'm not getting any solution with all the threads (+ 1 from me) that are here.
becosemsaida
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You should be OK if you haven't done any wipes/factory resets/formats since you installed your stock ICS. If you haven't done any of those, use PC Odin to go back to GB like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25285584&postcount=3

Thank you for talking the time to respond me. I will get back to GB and avoid (for now or at least untill it's safe) the updates from samsung.
becosemsaida