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Hi there,
The recent rash of hard bricks and fried eMMC chips experienced in ICS roms based on leaked ICS binaries has got me spooked. I want to revert to Gingerbread in a safe way.
Current rom setup is: LP5 base, LP5 kernel, LP6 baseband and imilka's CM9 v3.
Current options at my disposal:
Nandroid backup Gingerbread 2.3.6 DarkyROM v3.3 accessible through CWM
Mobile Odin, for flashing stock .tar's
Other? Open to suggestions
Various users have reported hard bricks after invoking the full wipe command in CWM on leaked binary kernels. I believe my options displayed above are fairly safe but can someone confirm this, has anyone succesfully reverted to GB after flashing a .tar in Odin or using a nandroid backup?
Many thanks,
mcmaddcatt
Here you go - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613691
Follow the guide, it is quite simple and cohesive.
install abyss kernel 4.2 and then restore your backup
worked many times for me
Richy99 said:
install abyss kernel 4.2 and then restore your backup
worked many times for me
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That's all fine. But what do we do if we are on ICS and want to go back to Gingerbread when we don't have a Gingerbread backup from earlier?
Tom-Helge said:
That's all fine. But what do we do if we are on ICS and want to go back to Gingerbread when we don't have a Gingerbread backup from earlier?
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flash a stock rom via odin should do it
Thanks guys,
Will try this tommorow and report my results.
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Reverted succesfully to Gingerbread with root intact and no bricks whatsoever thanks everyone!
Tom-Helge said:
That's all fine. But what do we do if we are on ICS and want to go back to Gingerbread when we don't have a Gingerbread backup from earlier?
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1. Download any custom GB Rom (Darky, Cassie, whatever)
2. Flash Abyss 4.2
3. Reload recovery
4. Do your wipes
5. Flash your custom GB
The safe way would be to flash a stock ROM with PC Odin, or flash a safe kernel with PC Odin and do your flashing with that. The methods outlined above don't sound very safe to me, but maybe I'm wrong.
pboesboes said:
The safe way would be to flash a stock ROM with PC Odin, or flash a safe kernel with PC Odin and do your flashing with that. The methods outlined above don't sound very safe to me, but maybe I'm wrong.
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They are very safe.
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chadrick.7 said:
They are very safe.
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From what I understand, flashing anything with the leaked kernels is not safe.
pboesboes said:
From what I understand, flashing anything with the leaked kernels is not safe.
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It is safe to use chasmodo steps to go back to gb it is what I am saying.
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chadrick.7 said:
It is safe to use chasmodo steps to go back to gb it is what I am saying.
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I thought the problem was flashing anything with the leaked repack ICS kernels was where the risk of frying your emmc came from, so wouldn't flashing abysskernel from an ICS recovery carry that same risk, hence the recommendations to flash a GB ROM via PC Odin?
Or have I missed a step somewhere ...
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hey guys after all the mess related to cf root LPY and cwm, can I FLASH the stock rom LP7 with pc odin?
I don't care about root or cwm, all i want is pure ics
hykhleif said:
hey guys after all the mess related to cf root LPY and cwm, can I FLASH the stock rom LP7 with pc odin?
I don't care about root or cwm, all i want is pure ics
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If you want pure ICS then i will recommend going to CM9 way. The safest ICS rom for now.
Make sure when using the PC odin that you are not on i9220 bootloader... otherwise you have a shiny new brick on your hand.
Extract the image from the from and use Mobile Odin
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Extract the image from the from and use Mobile Odin
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Dont know what you meant by image from the from...
But extract the .tar.md5 file and flash using PC odin (making sure that you are not on i9220 bootloader...if you are then mobile odin is the only way). You can use Mobile odin only in case you already have root on the current rom.
Alternatively you can check the flashing guide using mobile odin from rooted GB to official ICS by dr ketan in my signature.
There is an instance where using ODIN to flash stock ICS triggers binary counter. Is there a way to assure that this will not happen?
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muntinlupa said:
There is an instance where using ODIN to flash stock ICS triggers binary counter. Is there a way to assure that this will not happen?
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You can use a working jig to reset it to 0. Or traingle away
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
If u flash custom rom via odin then it appears. Bt it will not appear on stock roms..
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Using PC-Odin to install a stock Firmware in no case will open the counter. It is a samsung utility that checks the md5 checksum for verified signatures. So it is absolutely safe to use PC-Odin to flash a stock firmware.
As above..
AS long as you flash STOCK ROMS via Odin then you're good...
I hope this thread will be helpful for me and others with semi-noob questions.
I was on Cyanogenmod 9.1 with the amazing HydraCore kernel v4.3 STD; then I flashed from CWM this sweet and smooth ROM (Crash v10) which run "CF ROOT XXLRQ (Thanks to Chainfire)". Now, Chainfire says that his kernel is technically "unsafe", because it comes from Samsung, but he can wipe without problems. I have two questions:
1) Can I flash HydraCore from CWM starting from CF-Root without brick-risk?
2) Can I flash HydraCore with Odin Mobile PRO or PC Odin is better? I mean, PC Odin is quite without risk, Odin Mobile PRO is the same?
Thanks to you all.
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I hope this thread will be helpful for me and others with semi-noob questions.
I was on Cyanogenmod 9.1 with the amazing HydraCore kernel v4.3 STD; then I flashed from CWM this sweet and smooth ROM (Crash v10) which run "CF ROOT XXLRQ (Thanks to Chainfire)". Now, Chainfire says that his kernel is technically "unsafe", because it comes from Samsung, but he can wipe without problems. I have two questions:
1) Can I flash HydraCore from CWM starting from CF-Root without brick-risk?
2) Can I flash HydraCore with Odin Mobile PRO or PC Odin is better? I mean, PC Odin is quite without risk, Odin Mobile PRO is the same?
Thanks to you all.
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1). Yes, you can install hydracore thru recovery. But never do full wipe on unsafe kernel.
2. Pc odin and mobile are different. Im assume your phone has rooted and able to use mobile odin. Then you can download hydracore in tar. File and flash it thru mobile odin.
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After Odin you got triangle use Triangle away.
GB kernels are safe.
CM9,Cm10 Hydracore are safe.
ICS from Samsung have a brick bug.
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Thank you guys
I asked this because I knew that flashing with PC Odin is near-no-risk, so I wanted to know if Mobile Odin PRO (on rooted phone, off course) is no-risk the same. So I can assume that using PC Odin or Mobile Odin PRO is the same thing, speaking about riskness?
Sorry for my bad english
No... Mobile odin and pc odin are completely different things.. Anyways mobile odin its safer because you don't need wires that could be bad somehow or several other factors that may brick your phone while using PC Odin eg. Random pc reboot in the middle of the process.
And mobile odin its also better for flashing kernels because you don't get triangles or counters like pc odin..
Also safer to flash baseband than cwm that may cause damage with a bad zip file..
In general try to avoid pc odin as much as you can.. And use cwm only for flashing custom roms (after checking md5) and wipes.. Remember you can only do this procedures from safe kernels (Hydracore, speedmod, etc) because stock ics kernels may brick your device
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No... Mobile odin and pc odin are completely different things.. Anyways mobile odin its safer because you don't need wires that could be bad somehow or several other factors that may brick your phone while using PC Odin eg. Random pc reboot in the middle of the process.
And mobile odin its also better for flashing kernels because you don't get triangles or counters like pc odin..
Also safer to flash baseband than cwm that may cause damage with a bad zip file..
In general try to avoid pc odin as much as you can.. And use cwm only for flashing custom roms (after checking md5) and wipes.. Remember you can only do this procedures from safe kernels (Hydracore, speedmod, etc) because stock ics kernels may brick your device
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Thank you for your tips.
Hello, I'm currently using a G Note on [email protected] ICS, Build Number IMM76D.XXLRK.
I'm thinking about updating to the JB leak for The G Note but im worried about bricking my phone can anyone tell me what the chance of it bricking is? and how id go about changing my firmware from this rom?
Thankyou.
Flash Philz kernel.
Full wipe and flash whichever ROM you want.....
Also, use search as this question has been asked many times in the past
If you have speedmod kernel the chance of bricking its 0... And if you want the ODIN official JB leak just go Odin mode power+home+volume down then flash.. You don't need to wipe going from Ics to JB TW
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If you have speedmod kernel the chance of bricking its 0... And if you want the ODIN official JB leak just go Odin mode power+home+volume down then flash.. You don't need to wipe going from Ics to JB TW
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So its just a case of finding the JB leak i want then, putting it on SD card and flashing using mobile ODIN?
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So its just a case of finding the JB leak i want then, putting it on SD card and flashing using mobile ODIN?
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No, you should allways follow the installation instructions in the specific thread for the JB Custom Rom you want.
If you choose the XXLSA leak from sammobile.com (that was the base leak for all following XXLSA/C Custom Roms) then you can use Mobile Odin - I did this many times without problems.
OK thankyou
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Go here and download the version you want
http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=GT-N7000
Second download odin from here or you can even use this stock rooted version
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035127
I went for straight stock then rooted after but everyone has thier own ideas!
Ok thankyou I already have ODIN on my phone. Is it safer too use the PC Odin?
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Ok thankyou I already have ODIN on my phone. Is it safer too use the PC Odin?
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Mobile odin and pc odin is similar.
The only different from what I know is.... with mobile odin you can keep ur root, and flash custom kernel.
Whereby with pc odin, all will be brand new. No root, stock kernel.
If ur device is rooted alrd, and u have cwm recovery installed, why don't u choose custom rom, and just flash it from cwm recovery?
Easier, fast, no headache.
Custom rom has some tweaks that might improve performance.
But choice is urs. Good luck mate.
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I prefer Mobile odin if already rooted as this way we can change the kernel at the time of flash to be safe