[Q] HELP! Deleted/formatted EVERYTHING using CWM - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

To some this might sound stupid but I kind of 'Intentionally' deleted absolutely EVERHTING from my phone with CWM. I am really a noob at this stuff, i've been looking for threads explaining a fix (if there is one) but I haven't found anything. In case you're wondering, I deleted everything because I tried to flash a new rom and it just stayed with the one I was using previously, please help me out here.
When I turn on my Captivate it just stays on the AT&T boot screen.
ALSO: I can't go into CWM recovery, what can I do? Please help!

Simply flash an appropriate kernel through Heimdall/Odin. It's no big deal.
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korockinout13 said:
Simply flash an appropriate kernel through Heimdall/Odin. It's no big deal.
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Ok, how do I know what the appropriate kernel is and how do I flash it?
As I said, I'm a noob at this stuff
EDIT: Ok so i've found a kernel and flashed it. The phone boots up but stays at a "Galaxy S SGH-i897" screen and it says samsung on the bottom, but that's it. I've tried flashing one of those one click odin from this thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300843 but it stays at "setup connection" please help me out here, haha.

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See the "Connection Issues..." stickied thread in the captivate general forum.
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I mean an appropriate kernel depending on your current ROM, i.e. if you're on Gingerbread, flash corn, if ICS, flash semaphore.
And yeah the phone isn't going to boot past there because you wiped /system probably. Either flash a ROM through CWM or Odin.
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Well thanks guys! I finally got it working. I ended up flashing a stock GB rom that i got from that thread. Since Odin didnt work ( ) i used Heimdall to flash gb 2.3.4
Thanks for the help!

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How can I recover my SGS ?

I flashed some wrong files on to my SGS, the phone wouldn't boot up, and worst off all I couldn't deactivate the OCLagFix.
I now only have acces to the Download mode, please help me to fix this problem!
I would like to know if I could go ahead and flash a ROM without the update.zip method, because I don't have acces to the internal SD card.
Thanx in advance!
You need to flash a stock rom using odin, jp7 always gets me out of trouble
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nagrom78 said:
You need to flash a stock rom using odin, jp7 always gets me out of trouble
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Do you have a link to JP7? It's what I'm running now but in case something goes wrong at least I can re-flash. Thank you so much!
I always download my roms from samfirmware, have a look on there.

Putting Permanent CWM and Roms on tab?

Hello,
I just bought and received a tmobile 16 gb tab today off of ebay. Im not new to android. I have a droid pro and tmobile g2x. Both have cwm and able to replace factory recovery with cwm.
The tab is already rooted via superoneclick, chainfire's patch been applied.
I tried searching for cwm permanent for the tab but seem to not find a clear cut process to get a cwm recovery. Can anyone please point me in the right direction. My tab is currently running 2.2 foyo. I already know since the tab has different version and is available for many carriers, that roms are very different
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If you have a gsm version, you can flash the overcome rom, it has cwm built in. Look at the overcome site or thread for instruction.
Yeah I just read through it.
So I can go ahead and load overcome via odin? Wheres stock 2.2 firmware just incase it soft bricks?
Its a gsm tab but I only use it over wifi
And should download jupiter nowipe or wipe version?
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Suprah said:
Yeah I just read through it.
So I can go ahead and load overcome via odin? Wheres stock 2.2 firmware just incase it soft bricks?
Its a gsm tab but I only use it over wifi
And should download jupiter nowipe or wipe version?
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You need to flash stock gingerbread, and then overcome wipe, its all in the instructions, good luck!
natious said:
You need to flash stock gingerbread, and then overcome wipe, its all in the instructions, good luck!
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thank you very much, im downloading the stock safe v5 gingerbread from their site
what happens if i want to flash the cm7 testing rom or another rom in the forum? would cwm disappear?
or is it in essence perm. cwm even if i switch roms
so i followed instructions to the T and odin tool saying fail so i guess it has been bricked
im re-trying again
do i select re-partition?? because odin tool is doing nothing after retrying
have you checked your bootloader as tell in the tutorial ?
It fails at which step ? Is your bootloader locked or unlocked ? Did you put it in download mode ?
Thanks for the concerns, i ended up fixing the issue
Let it die and tested to see if it even charged when i connected it to power outlet. With stroke of luck, got it back to dl mode and now running overcome
If i flash a different rom will overcome kernel will still be on my tab? So i can keep cmw on it?
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If you flash via cwm, you will still have cwm.
Cool thanks. So it will keep the kernel unless I flash a new one via odin
Ima try flash cm7 build via cwm
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Beware not all zip files are flashable with cwm. If it's not specified, don't do it or you will brick your tab.
Suprah said:
Cool thanks. So it will keep the kernel unless I flash a new one via odin
Ima try flash cm7 build via cwm
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If you are going to try cm7 its best to flash stock safe gingerbread again, and flash cm7 through hiedmal rather than cwm
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natious said:
If you are going to try cm7 its best to flash stock safe gingerbread again, and flash cm7 through hiedmal rather than cwm
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Dont know how to use hiedmal. Looms complicated and there is no video tutorials on it
I was thinking of flashing back to stock safe then flashing overcome kernel via odin then flash cm7 and via cwm
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Suprah said:
Dont know how to use hiedmal. Looms complicated and there is no video tutorials on it
I was thinking of flashing back to stock safe then flashing overcome kernel via odin then flash cm7 and via cwm
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Its really easy man, everything its labelled where it goes
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Dont you need to use command prompt to run heimdall....
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[Q] Can't seem to get any ROMS to work (reboot problem)

Okay I posted this thread because I didn't want to hijack someone elses anymore than I did.
I recently got a Samsung GT-I9000, I believe it's the international though I can't be 100% sure. I tried doing a few simple ROMS like CM7-9, Devil, Dmore, etc but nothing seems to work. I can use Odin and Heimdall just fine, but I can't seem to use adb to actually get into my device. I can get into download mode and CWM Recovery, but I can't seem to get any flashes to go through, any help?
I've managed to get it past the GT-I9000 stage and it goes into an android breaking out of concrete bootimage, but then it just loops. Also The GT-I9000 picture is perfect, but the bootimage color is all skewed, does this mean anything?
SGT_Watkins said:
Okay I posted this thread because I didn't want to hijack someone elses anymore than I did.
I recently got a Samsung GT-I9000, I believe it's the international though I can't be 100% sure. I tried doing a few simple ROMS like CM7-9, Devil, Dmore, etc but nothing seems to work. I can use Odin and Heimdall just fine, but I can't seem to use adb to actually get into my device. I can get into download mode and CWM Recovery, but I can't seem to get any flashes to go through, any help?
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I am not sure what you are doing wrong. You need to install the correct kernal first and then the ROM. You may want to watch YouTube video of GT-I9000 rooting and flashing the ROM step by step video.
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SGT_Watkins said:
I've managed to get it past the GT-I9000 stage and it goes into an android breaking out of concrete bootimage, but then it just loops. Also The GT-I9000 picture is perfect, but the bootimage color is all skewed, does this mean anything?
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This seems to be a wrong kernal. Or try to take out the battery for a minute or so, then put it back and turn on the phone, this should help. If not check the kernal requirements and re install the ROM.
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Well I've installed ROMS and Kernals a million times on my Captivate, but I can't seem to get it to work on the I9000.
SGT_Watkins said:
Well I've installed ROMS and Kernals a million times on my Captivate, but I can't seem to get it to work on the I9000.
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This happened toe on my captivate few times and that turned out the wrong kernal.
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Okay, well I'm re-downloading an official Kernal so let's see how this goes, wish me luck!
SGT_Watkins said:
Okay, well I'm re-downloading an official Kernal so let's see how this goes, wish me luck!
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Good Luck brother. I am sure this will work, keep your fingers crossed.
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I just flashed a good stock kernal, and it's rebooted. It has the normal Galaxy S Bootimage and it's playing the music (first sound I've had from it) but never makes it past that, it waits there for about a minute and then reboots. I can get into the recovery (Android system recovery <3e>) but it's not CWM. When in recovery it says
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Can't access to '/system/csc/VIA/system/'.
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
SGT_Watkins said:
I just flashed a good stock kernal, and it's rebooted. It has the normal Galaxy S Bootimage and it's playing the music (first sound I've had from it) but never makes it past that, it waits there for about a minute and then reboots. I can get into the recovery (Android system recovery <3e>) but it's not CWM. When in recovery it says
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Can't access to '/system/csc/VIA/system/'.
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
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I will look something for you with CWM and ROM.
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Go to "ramad" thread and a rom from there and flash it with Odin (in PDA only)
that will restore your Phone or download "darky 10.1 resurrection rom" also flashed with Odin.
If u don't know how to flash with Odin then search Google writing "flash with Odin" there are utube video guides
zodiaxe66 said:
Go to "ramad" thread and a rom from there and flash it with Odin (in PDA only)
that will restore your Phone or download "darky 10.1 resurrection rom" also flashed with Odin.
If u don't know how to flash with Odin then search Google writing "flash with Odin" there are utube video guides
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Ramad's thread is where I got the ROM + Kernal + Pit. I tried searching for darky's rom, I can find the rom but no kernal. Any luck? All of the links are outdated
After I do the ROM from Ramad's I get the below, it reboots twice then I get the error about the CSC, then it reboots with the galaxy s boot with sound, stays there for a few then just reboots constantly, playing the boot with sound.
-- Installing package...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Installing update...
Bar goes a quarter of the way, phone reboots
Go to darkyrom.com and find this rom darky rom extreme 12.2 this link is up and working.it's jvq rom but that doesn't matter as long as the phone boots up.after that u can flash any rom from the phone cwm.
If this doesn't fix it,then try with pit.file and tick re-partition.
Get the pit-file from "ramad"
Are u trying to flash from 3'recovery on your phone?? This can not be done
U need to flash using ODIN,it's a samsung flashing tool.
Before u can flash from your phone,u need cwm recovery.
Go to cf-root kernel and find a kernel that matches your firmware and flash it with ODIN,then u have custom recovery.
First time flashing with odin, google "flash with odin" there is video guides,easy to follow
I can get CWM on my phone, and I've flashed using ODIN but still no luck getting it not to constantly loop
was your firmware originally froyo or eclair...if so you may need to do a bootloader upgrade...been racking my brains all day thinking what the problem might be....heres a link to a very simple way to upgrade bootloader courtesy of nitr8
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089989
slaphead20 said:
was your firmware originally froyo or eclair...if so you may need to do a bootloader upgrade...been racking my brains all day thinking what the problem might be....heres a link to a very simple way to upgrade bootloader courtesy of nitr8
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089989
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I was given the phone with it already looping, so how can I figure that out?
SGT_Watkins said:
I was given the phone with it already looping, so how can I figure that out?
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now he tells us!!! well a bootloader upgrade wont harm, but for gods sake make sure kies aint going to fire up half way through...and dont jog or disturb the phone during the flash cos if you mess up a bootloader flash its toast time!
Any good links for bootloaders? Lol, I can't seem to find any non-outdated ones.
SGT_Watkins said:
Any good links for bootloaders? Lol, I can't seem to find any non-outdated ones.
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i posted you a link a couple of posts back! here!!!!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1089989

GT-p1000 stuck at samsung logo

so i was flowing the guide on cyanogenmod to install the CMW
after i successfully installed it the device booted up and just stayed at the Samsung logo. please help me
Use overcome method.
Read my post here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27500461
Replace anything AOKP with cm9 there, but the install method is the same.
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priyana said:
Use overcome method.
Read my post here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27500461
Replace anything AOKP with cm9 there, but the install method is the same.
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so i did do that just now but it didnt work i used another process and know my tab goes into CWM and when i wipe data,cache and dalivk then i install the CM9 it boots then i see the logo of cyanogenmod then it boots into CWM with out me holding any buttons
then flash CM9 again once more.
First round converts BML partition to MTD partition
priyana said:
then flash CM9 again once more.
First round converts BML partition to MTD partition
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sweet it worked thanks!!!!!
it is well documented, the bootloop when come from non-MTD.
Remember to flash gapps-ics
priyana said:
it is well documented, the bootloop when come from non-MTD.
Remember to flash gapps-ics
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already did and thanks for the help
Galaxy tab stuck on samsung logo
Hi,
my p1000 is stuck on the samsung logo screen, Ive tried following all documentation, it says to copy the files to the external sd card, how do i get to external sd card if the tab wont boot up and windows cant see the device???
sorry to be a pain
Can you boot to recovery or download mode?
What have you done so far to get to this stage.
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hi my galaxy tab was on ics and i tried to flash back original gingerbread rom, i flashed through odin which everything passed, it then boots up with recovery does what it does, powers back on but its stuck on samsung logo, it was purchased from carphone warehouse, does anyone know wha i did wrong
Were you using overcome gb stock safe v5?
And make sure you use the Odin of correct version, like the one in the package.
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priyana said:
Can you boot to recovery or download mode?
What have you done so far to get to this stage.
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Hey Priyana, I got the same problem.
I can boot to download mod but cant boot recovery mod, and my device is also not recognized when connected to PC
Any suggestion?
Usually just have to keep trying for Odin to detect the device.
Failing that you need a fresh pc.
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debrick galaxy tab
see my thread > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34872552#post34872552
Hi, please keep all question/help related threads in the Q&A section only please. Thank You.
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
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i have the same problem stuck on samsung logo after installing cwm , i tried to use the overcome through odin but in download mode it doesnt recognise my phone only when i put it in recovery mode(power button and volume UP button pressed) it recognise it but when i press start( after i have put the firmware the pit file etc. and then conecting my tab) odin stacks at set up connection ... im really confused if anyopne can help i would really apreciate it.
ps. i have a sim card on and an sd tried to remove sd but made no difference
ty in advance
Another guy got the same issue, can't detect in Odin.
he went to safe mode to remove the Samsung USB driver and reinstall the one from gb-stock-safe-v5 and was good.
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priyana said:
Another guy got the same issue, can't detect in Odin.
he went to safe mode to remove the Samsung USB driver and reinstall the one from gb-stock-safe-v5 and was good.
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theanks a lot but im not an advance usere can you tell me how can i do that i mean i remove the driver on my pc( in de vice manager is recognised as gadget serial) and after were can i find gb-stock-safe-v5
thankls again again for spending time to answear my problem
also in what state should my device be when to plug it etc ty again
follow my signature go get the GB-stock-safe-v5 and also the overcome guide.
Follow the page 7 instruction on how to use Odin.
The Odin needs to be version 1.7, like the one included in GB-stock-safe-v5
When driver is good, Odin detects your tab when it is in Download mode, and you can flash the GB-stock-safe-v5
priyana said:
follow my signature go get the GB-stock-safe-v5 and also the overcome guide.
Follow the page 7 instruction on how to use Odin.
The Odin needs to be version 1.7, like the one included in GB-stock-safe-v5
When driver is good, Odin detects your tab when it is in Download mode, and you can flash the GB-stock-safe-v5
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thak you very much for the quick response i will post results

Stock Capitivate now what do I do.

I used to have a Samsung Fascinate, but we just left Verizon for Straight Talk. 2 years ago AT&T gave me a refurbed Captivate that we left in the box until now. It has Eclair but I am wanting to possibly upgrade it to Stock Gingerbread or a nice stable Rom. So if someone could give me some pointers (sounds vague) that would be great.:good:
Check out the Stickied Threads in the Q & A, General, and Development Forums. There is a lot of up to date info that will be very helpful.
And from now on, plz post questions in the q & a...and a search before posting will prove to get the answers u need, especially on the basics... Thx
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4-2ndtwin said:
Check out the Stickied Threads in the Q & A, General, and Development Forums. There is a lot of up to date info that will be very helpful.
And from now on, plz post questions in the q & a...and a search before posting will prove to get the answers u need, especially on the basics... Thx
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Sorry about that, It has been awhile since I posted here.
chunklefunk said:
I used to have a Samsung Fascinate, but we just left Verizon for Straight Talk. 2 years ago AT&T gave me a refurbed Captivate that we left in the box until now. It has Eclair but I am wanting to possibly upgrade it to Stock Gingerbread or a nice stable Rom. So if someone could give me some pointers (sounds vague) that would be great.:good:
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Check out my thread titled JellyUI in the Captivate Dev section. Instructions on how to flash the rom are in the first post. Enjoy
I actually think this is not a bad place for the post although Q&A would be better. I recently tried to bring my old cappy from stock to ICS. I had gingerbread but when I tried to flash CM9, I must have had an old CWM that was not compatible and got into a bootloop where the only way out was to odin back to stock. Then I had a nearly impossible time finding all the files that would allow me to get to ICS. Designgear's and a number of other files referenced throughout the dev section for upgrading have bad links now. I am on an i9000 bootloader with 2 button recovery (since the easiest way to get back to GB was to flash S7v3 with Odin since all the referenced files are still there) but cannot figure out an easy way to get a 3 button CWM even after spending a few days looking for a way to do it just using Odin and CWM as I did in the past. After a lot of trial and error and even getting to a point where I could not get into download mode anymore, I did get CM9 flashed eventually but I will not try again until I figure out how to at least get a 3 button CWM. I went almost two years as a cappy flashaholic and never once had to use ADB or Heimdall, so would prefer not to if possible.
If someone could provide a list of valid links to all the files that are necessary to go from stock to being able to flash ICS or JB roms, I will archive the files so they won't be lost.
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See TRusselo's How to Guide on Flashing . It is a Stickied thread in this Q & A Forum.
And if u will flash the i897 GB Bootloaders, that will allow u to do the 3 button to recovery.
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4-2ndtwin said:
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See TRusselo's How to Guide on Flashing . It is a Stickied thread in this Q & A Forum.
And if u will flash the i897 GB Bootloaders, that will allow u to do the 3 button to recovery.
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I tried the 1st part but my phone automatically booted into recovery mode after the 1st Odin Flash.
If that was after u flashed the GB Bootloaders, that is ok. Just pull battery, replace it, get back into download mode and then Odin flash the Speedmod kernel so u can get the CWM Recovery. Then u can flash ur Rom of choice from there.
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4-2ndtwin said:
If that was after u flashed the GB Bootloaders, that is ok. Just pull battery, replace it, get back into download mode and then Odin flash the Speedmod kernel so u can get the CWM Recovery. Then u can flash ur Rom of choice from there.
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So does the speedmod kernal have CWM Recovery on it? I don't need to add that?
Also do I need to do a wipe?
That is all that u r Odin flashing the Speedmod kernel for...just to get to the CWM Recovery.
Just like the Guide states---after u Odin flash the kernel use the Button combo to reboot into Recovery. That kernel is not there to boot ur phone up, only there for u to use cwm.
And usually the Rom u flash will do a full wipe. But u can do it in the recovery if u want before u flash ur rom.
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4-2ndtwin said:
That is all that u r Odin flashing the Speedmod kernel for...just to get to the CWM Recovery.
Just like the Guide states---after u Odin flash the kernel use the Button combo to reboot into Recovery. That kernel is not there to boot ur phone up, only there for u to use cwm.
And usually the Rom u flash will do a full wipe. But u can do it in the recovery if u want before u flash ur rom.
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Cool thanks! I was thinking of doing a the latest Cyanogen 7.2 Rom or the Cyanogen 9.1 Rom. They are both on my Cappy.

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