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if so, what are the easiest and/or quickest ways to accomplish this? Thanks for any suggestions. Btw, rooting and applying the oclf are the extent of my modding knowledge, so phrase your replies, if any, with that in mind.
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Firstly, what's oclf? I'm not quite sure what that is. The official update guide from Samsung recommends removing root before installation, at least if I recall correctly. You can read it to make sure. But I know many have installed it while rooted and with no problems. It's basically depending on how comfortable you are
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korockinout13 said:
Firstly, what's oclf? I'm not quite sure what that is. The official update guide from Samsung recommends removing root before installation, at least if I recall correctly. You can read it to make sure. But I know many have installed it while rooted and with no problems. It's basically depending on how comfortable you are
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He means One click lag fix... that Is so old. Yahh remove all of it
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I thought I would need to, but how to do it? Thanks for the replies.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
XDA Members:
With the newly released ICS update for the GT-P6810, some users will inevitably update their devices and somehow lose root in the process. For those unlucky users, downgrading to HC for root and then re-upgrading with MobileODIN is no longer the only option. There are some options for obtaining root via stock recovery instead of ODIN, but I saw that a few people were having issues. Probably not a problem with the method, but variety never hurts. So here is a VERY direct method of rooting your GT-P6810 on ICS. Please feel free to simplify or improve upon this method and post it here. Progress helps everyone.
WARNING!!: The following steps MAY trigger the counter on your device. However, they didn't trigger mine.
Prerequisites: ODIN or Heimdall
Notice: Some basic flashing experience is required for this. Review the steps FIRST!
DISCLAIMER: The only guarantee I make is that this worked for me. You run the risk of tripping your device's counter, corrupting your device, or bricking your device. If you don't know what you're doing, this is not for you. I accept no responsibility for ANYTHING that might arise as a result of following this guide!
1.) Download the following files:
a) CWM for P6810: http://db.tt/B6mTm9fd CREDIT: locerra
b) root for P6810: http://db.tt/kcuvYG5k CREDIT: mashkuov
2.) Put your device in "Download Mode" and connect to your PC.
3.) Open ODIN and verify that it sees your device.
4.) In ODIN, click "PDA" and select the CWM *.tar you downloaded.
5.) Make sure that you haven't selected to format/partition your device and flash the *.tar.
6.) Upon completion, your device should reboot. Copy the root.zip to your device, and then reboot into recovery.
7.) In recovery, flash the root.zip and reboot.
8.) You should now have root in ICS!
DISCLAIMER: The only guarantee I make is that this worked for me. You run the risk of tripping your device's counter, corrupting your device, or bricking your device. If you don't know what you're doing, this is not for you. I accept no responsibility for ANYTHING that might arise as a result of following this guide!
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Perfect, thanks!
Thanks.
Does this increase the custom binary download counter?
ewok666 said:
Thanks.
Does this increase the custom binary download counter?
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It's just the recovery; not the kernel. So it shouldn't. It didn't increase mine. But I'm not making any promises.
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Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
It's just the recovery; not the kernel. So it shouldn't. It didn't increase mine. But I'm not making any promises.
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Worked a treat. Thanks!
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Worked a treat. Thanks!
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No problem man!
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
XDA Members:
Okay fellas. Just a quick survey. How many of you were able to successfully execute the steps in this guide without difficulty? If problems were encountered, what were they? Did anyone trip their flash counter by using this guide? Did anyone soft or hard brick by using this guide? I'd really like some feedback.
On a second, but similar note, how easily were you able to follow the guide? What do you think I should add to it or remove from it? Should I make it into a full, click-by-click, newb-friendly guide? Should I trim the fat and simplify it? Or should I leave it as-is? I'm flying blind here. I've written small, simple, easy to follow guides for stuff like "build.prop" edits in the past; but I've never written a guide for something that involved ANY kind of flashing. So any critique would be very welcome. I've always felt that the biggest of XDA's strengths was its community's standard practice of openly sharing. So now that I've shared my guide, I would like to, in GPL fashion, open it up to corrections, additions, modifications, and improvements. So if you've got anything, anything at all, please go ahead and post it.
I thank you all for your time and hope this guide has been a help.
Thank you,
Edward (Mister_Mxyzptlk)
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Its straight forward and nice, good work there.
I vote for, leave it as it be!
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Josvaz said:
Its straight forward and nice, good work there.
I vote for, leave it as it be!
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Did you use it to regain root after losing it in the update?
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Yea ^^
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Yea ^^
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COOL MAN!! Did it trip your flash counter? It shouldn't have; because it doesn't touch the kernel, but weird things sometimes happen.
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Quick, easy and straight forward,
Cheers
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I didn't have root before,
So this method is the best at the moment for anyone running stock ics
Steve_max said:
Another option is just to flash ICS using MobileOdin with the EverRoot option. You may even unselect the "recovery" partition when doing so, and you will keep both root and CWM. Of course, this doesn't help if you've already flashed with Odin, but for those who haven't upgraded yet, I believe this is the best option.
YMMV, I'm not responsible if your device melts down and conjures a demon, etc etc etc.
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This guide is for people who are ALREADY on unrooted ICS. How is your suggestion in any way helpful to those people? Unchecking recovery is only helpful if you use CWM. If you use stock recovery, you'll still have stock recovery. Also, MobileODIN doesn't always preserve root. If preserving root fails during the update, there's nothing MobileODIN can do. You'll have to re-root yourself. I've seen this happen first hand. Usually, you have to downgrade, re-root, and then use MobileODIN to upgrade again. This guide eliminates the need for that. If you upgraded and lost root, FOR WHATEVER REASON, this will get it back quickly, and easily.
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Not everybody is already on unrooted ICS. I know I searched for ways to root the tablet even before I bought it; it's very conceivable that people who are thinking about upgrading to ICS will search for this. If they have root on HC, there is no need to lose it and reinstall. I just pointed this out (and MobileOdin is really one of the best Android tools out there, among with Tasker and TB).
About this corruption, I've personally never seen it happen, and I've flashed more ROMs on my S2 using it than it's healthy. Even if it happens, what do you lose by trying the easy route first (and, if needed, reflashing root through recovery)?
Sorry if I offended you in any way. All I wanted was to help.
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You didn't offend me. This is a simple guide for achieving root on the 4.0.4 build for the 6810. This is XDA. If someone searches for a way to update a Samsung device, they're going to find MobileODIN. If XDA were a department store, I could spit in any direction and hit a MobileODIN thread. Don't overcomplicate things. If you're on unrooted ICS, this is as easy as it gets. Furthermore, everroot is a paid option. My method is free. There's no need to go buy an app for an option that simply isn't needed in this case. If you want to write a MobileODIN update guide, go ahead and do it. This is a development thread for a very specific scenario; not a thread to compare preferred update methods. Take care.
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Since my issue is relating to not being able to get into Recovery mode at all, i'm going to move it to a separate thread.
P.S. your instructions were very clear and made perfect sense (having previously rooted a SGS i9000), however linking to Odin in step 2) and specifying how to get into recovery in step 6) might be useful for newer users?
Mine didn't work....I used mobile Odin pro to flash ICS ...I used ever root option while flashing to ICS but for some reason root didn't work ...
I have only tried to root without CWM so it threw me signature error...I have lost my USB cable so I cudnt flash CWM by Odin using PC
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Once i tried a new ics firmware. And because of that my note got bricked(i guess you all know that issue)
I revived Note with emmc. Pit file for bricked phones but after that day my note had some really serious issues like freezing on screen,not booting up some times.
I guess i have bad blocks(stops while scaning on partition scanner).
I dont know how to fix this.
I am sick of restarting Note again and again
Any help???
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waheed wattoo said:
Once i tried a new ics firmware. And because of that my note got bricked(i guess you all know that issue)
I revived Note with emmc. Pit file for bricked phones but after that day my note had some really serious issues like freezing on screen,not booting up some times.
I guess i have bad blocks(stops while scaning on partition scanner).
I dont know how to fix this.
I am sick of restarting Note again and again
Any help???
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Try flashing stock GB firmware for your region and then full wipe including internal and external SD card (after backup though), if that too doesn't help and if you are covered under warranty then send it to service center.
I said stock firmware for your region as that can help you in claiming warranty.
No warrenty
Any other way worth considring???
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waheed wattoo said:
No warrenty
Any other way worth considring???
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above method still applicable and worth a try
Ok i will give it a short......thankyou
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waheed wattoo said:
No warrenty
Any other way worth considring???
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I don't know if jtag fix the kind of brick you have, but maybe worth to check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0SX3iDuIZc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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waheed wattoo said:
Once i tried a new ics firmware. And because of that my note got bricked(i guess you all know that issue)
I revived Note with emmc. Pit file for bricked phones but after that day my note had some really serious issues like freezing on screen,not booting up some times.
I guess i have bad blocks(stops while scaning on partition scanner).
I dont know how to fix this.
I am sick of restarting Note again and again
Any help???
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Hi, I had the exact situation like you. You able to work it out ?
If you've repartition the emmc chip there will be damaged sections. Often this means that stock roms will not function very well any more as they utilise a lot of the damaged partitions. One way around is to flash a deodexed or cm based ROM as they take up a hell of a lot less space on the damaged partitions.
If you aren't able to claim warranty, then this is a workaround and effective, if you do have warranty, flash stock gb and claim it.
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I want to send it to service center, should I make it at the bricked stage and say I just wipe on stock ICS without knowing anything ? or send it at stock gb ??
ZatanRoy said:
I want to send it to service center, should I make it at the bricked stage and say I just wipe on stock ICS without knowing anything ? or send it at stock gb ??
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If you had previously bricked your phone and got it revived now,and thinking of sending it to SSC,then its better to be on ics and make sure you clear your flash counter
I´m in need of big help, i was rooting my device with smart flash tool and it all went well until the phone rebots and appears the message "security error" under the LG logo. What do i do?
Please help, it´s an emergency.
You can see alot of questions here with that security error issue. Just download a kdz of a gb rom and extract it. Then flash with sft
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And will that make the phone usable again? Another question, why did that apear? My phone is locked to a company, and the ics rom that i was using was the original but for unlocked phones, it´s that the problem? Do i need to use the rom for the locked phones to be able to root it to ics?
It will. Aslong as you can go to s/w download. I dont get what you just said cause im no expert. i rooted my phone wth stock ics with unlockroot.com . but i have the ku5900.
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My phone it´s locked to a company,(like at&t, vodafone, etc etc), and i was using the stock rom from lg (v30b), but for my country that version is only avaliable for unlocked phones, and i was using it.
Then you did something wrong maybe. I had that security error when i tried to flash cwm with ics.
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And what did you did to resolve that problem?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448803
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I already saw that, thanks, but i´m really a noob in this xD and there are some things i don´t understande, but the phone is working now really thank you, i almost had an heart attack xD
only one problem now, when i try to instal an application it reboots the phone. what do i do?
I heard from a thread that using rom manager bricks this phone if you have a partitition and I'd bought the premium version before partitioning my sd card, just want to ask, is this true?
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Why would u use that - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942957 !!!
Go on CWM, its healthier for our Ace!
It has nothing to do with having a partition or not.
It bricks the phone anyways. Better remove that app, its dangerous if you don't know what functions of it can be used safely.
Oh, so the whole thing bricks it? Why is that, also I am using cwm anyways
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Elite Choob said:
Oh, so the whole thing bricks it? Why is that, also I am using cwm anyways
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Some parts of the hardware are destroyed if you use it.
nikwen said:
Some parts of the hardware are destroyed if you use it.
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Mostly the motherboard i think, people reported that they had to get new a motherboard installed in order to unbrick it.
Hmm, that's confused me, I thought it would have broke it system wise. I know how to flash, root, etc, but I'm not exactly sure how they all work, but I thought that flashing just overwrit the system+os. So two questions, when you root/flash does that interact with the hardware in anyway and how?
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Elite Choob said:
Hmm, that's confused me, I thought it would have broke it system wise. I know how to flash, root, etc, but I'm not exactly sure how they all work, but I thought that flashing just overwrit the system+os. So two questions, when you root/flash does that interact with the hardware in anyway and how?
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Try flashing CWM from rom manager and you will see if and how it interacts
P.S Its a joke, don't actually try that.
ayush29k said:
Try flashing CWM from rom manager and you will see if and how it interacts
P.S Its a joke, don't actually try that.
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Lol, I could tell, but in all seriousness I think I need to do some research
rom manager completely kills ur phone
.this has been proved by multiple users
use cwm from xda galaxy ace forums
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SpaceCaker said:
rom manager completely kills ur phone
.this has been proved by multiple users
use cwm from xda galaxy ace forums
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Rom manager ... flashes new recovery ... with wrong mounting points ... making your phone useless it will be like having the light switch of your kitchen in your bed room and your bed room light switch on your attic ... know what i mean? Nothing will work !! Since the phone will change the mp to points that dont exist on your phone.
Just flash cwm from stock recovery or from odin and you'll be ok
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SnowPluralism said:
Rom manager ... flashes new recovery ... with wrong mounting points ... making your phone useless it will be like having the light switch of your kitchen in your bed room and your bed room light switch on your attic ... know what i mean? Nothing will work !! Since the phone will change the mp to points that dont exist on your phone.
Just flash cwm from stock recovery or from odin and you'll be ok
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Hi SnowPluralism,
can u tell me how can i use odin to put my phone back "online". I have gt s5830 and i didn't know about that problem with rom manager and i end up using it, and my phone doesn't want to start properly
thanks in advance.
xfire18 said:
Hi SnowPluralism,
can u tell me how can i use odin to put my phone back "online". I have gt s5830 and i didn't know about that problem with rom manager and i end up using it, and my phone doesn't want to start properly
thanks in advance.
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Now your phone is oficially dead.
There is nothing u can do. Take it to service center and play stupid like "i was playing or updating my phone and he dyed" dont speak of root cwm xda. And they'll fix u 4 free
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