am i only one who's having trouble with downloading PhilZ kernel?
i've tried every single links but it seems like all the links are broken.
i really need to get it coz my phone is completely brick at the moment.
the worst problem is that i set the stock rom so many times but it never works.
whenever i install stock room on my phone, it comes totally brick and only custom rom is available to use.
what do you guys think abt this issue?
please leave anything.
Links work.
Maybe you can start with telling what Rom you install and how you do it and what exact error messages you get.
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Hi,
I have really googled this but cant really figure it out.
I have been through several excellent custom roms. Good work to you all !
.. but very often they crash hang etc. Sometimes during the day. Often when I charge the phone at night etc.
Is it correct that it is very important to first flash the latest stock rom before you flash the custom rom !?!?
I believed that flashing the custom rom image would replace all prior rom data?
Please help me out !
If I do it is just to flash stock rom with Hard SPL and then hardreset and another custom rom? I read something about someone bricking the phone.
/P
Lombiz said:
Hi,
I have really googled this but cant really figure it out.
I have been through several excellent custom roms. Good work to you all !
.. but very often they crash hang etc. Sometimes during the day. Often when I charge the phone at night etc.
Is it correct that it is very important to first flash the latest stock rom before you flash the custom rom !?!?
I believed that flashing the custom rom image would replace all prior rom data?
Please help me out !
If I do it is just to flash stock rom with Hard SPL and then hardreset and another custom rom? I read something about someone bricking the phone.
/P
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hi
crashes might happen, right
sometimes it could be the rom, or an app, or rhe sd card, or radio+ril combo,...
its not always easy to trace and single out
some reported that -although indeed everything of the previous rom should be removed during flash- they still fared better when flashing stock before custom
I must say I never did and fortunately also didnt have hlaf of the problems reported by other users
so: find out for yourself, as it cannot be generalised
cheers
Two phones. result very different !
Thanks !
What I really find strange though.
My friend and I have the same X1. Released at about the same time etc.
So hardware should differ mouch.
The rom is flashed so any difference in updates shouldnt matter too much.
After flashing my phone works great and his barely starts.
/peter
from my experience there is a difference
flashing a custom rom only replaces the previous rom
but flashing the latest custom rom replaces (rom+radio+ and 2 other things that i cant remember)
u wont get a problem free mobile after flashing the stock rom
but i'm sure that it decreases them to a very noticeable degree
less freezes better performance etc...
in my opinion: u won't loose anything from doing it, but it might help
so y not to try, it worth the shot
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
my phone isnt rooted but that part i can do alone. the thing is that these processes scare me u know , losing all your data and all that .
can someone please explain to me what will exactly happen and how to flash a rom because my phone isnt compatable with the easy methods such as using clockwork mod
or rom manager. i guess that im gonna need to flash a custom recovery image which i still dont get .
please help
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. The first time you flash a Rom can be scary. The best thing you can do is do your homework before flashing and make sure you know how to return to stock in case something goes wrong. The best place to get help is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/help and I'm going to ask a moderator to move your question there
Good luck and happy flashing
Basilabujazar said:
my phone isnt rooted but that part i can do alone. the thing is that these processes scare me u know , losing all your data and all that .
can someone please explain to me what will exactly happen and how to flash a rom because my phone isnt compatable with the easy methods such as using clockwork mod
or rom manager. i guess that im gonna need to flash a custom recovery image which i still dont get .
please help
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Like the other guy said, the first time flashing a rom does sound scary, but mostly anything you do can be reverted and you can get back to stock safetly
as long as you do know how to get back to stock before you flash you should be good
Also you should get to know the key's to get to certain modes I.E: flashmode, fastboot and a hard restart
Let's say i got a rom that performs amazingly,super fast tab switch,good at multi tasking,25k in benchmark.
Then I want to try a new rom,so I flash the new rom after cleaning my devide,as i should do.
But I don't like it or whatever and I want to return to the old one. But after I flash the old rom the performance is extremely bad,getting random systemui FC ,reboots,etc.
Why is this happening? Right now I'm running out of roms that I can use on my phone,as I cannot go back to the ones that I really liked. Please help
It also happens when a developer posts a new build of a rom. If i got the previous build installed and i flash the new one,the rom is broken again.
darkkfruit said:
Let's say i got a rom that performs amazingly,super fast tab switch,good at multi tasking,25k in benchmark.
Then I want to try a new rom,so I flash the new rom after cleaning my devide,as i should do.
But I don't like it or whatever and I want to return to the old one. But after I flash the old rom the performance is extremely bad,getting random systemui FC ,reboots,etc.
Why is this happening? Right now I'm running out of roms that I can use on my phone,as I cannot go back to the ones that I really liked. Please help
It also happens when a developer posts a new build of a rom. If i got the previous build installed and i flash the new one,the rom is broken again.
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I use Philz recovery and before flashing a new rom i just simply hit Clean up to install a new rom.
I never faced any of the issue that u mentioned. Try following what i said.
If u are using a lollipop rom then u may face systemui FC ,reboots as there is a bug which is experienced by some users.
I tried every recovery, twrp with full device wipe,cwm with their wipe,and philz with full wipe and the one you mentioned.
The issues happen in every rom,wether it's 3.2,4.4 or 5.x.
darkkfruit said:
I tried every recovery, twrp with full device wipe,cwm with their wipe,and philz with full wipe and the one you mentioned.
The issues happen in every rom,wether it's 3.2,4.4 or 5.x.
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Return to stock by flashing ftf through flashtool and start from beginning.
So i have my 4 year xperia SP and ofcourse by now have installed alot of roms etc.
I then stopped using it for 2 months and i think it was kinda bricked and i could fix it but since i had new phone i didnt and was on a vacation for 2 Months. I got some crazy of installing nethunter kali linux etc so i installed a rom again and did all that crap but eventually failed at kali linux and lost interest and left it again.
Now after i came back from vacation i found many useful things to do with my xperia(earning cash).
But there seems to be some issue with my PHONE! I can install any rom but it will still display the same startup animations i had once changed with a rom since i didnt like it. Installing any kernel disable wifi funtion like williams which was perfect before.
I tired to have a fresh start by flashing stock ftf file but it always fails with an error. I think even though everything is getting replayed by rom there is something tht still stays and is causing problems. I REALLY DONT UNDERSTAND WHATS HAPPENING!
Im actually alot good at this kind of stuffs but this is the first time i faced such problem and here i am asking for the people who have even more knowledge than me
ty for your time and help provided
killzonefury619 said:
I tired to have a fresh start by flashing stock ftf file but it always fails with an error.
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I don't think you can flash any sort of .207 with Flashtool, I tried, with multiple Flashtool versions and it would always fail and reboot the device with a "null" error.
I *believe* .205 or anything below that would work, or I guess you could try some of those stock ROMs here in the forums that are in either zip format (wipe fully before flashing) or they may have some ftfs.
Try installing older version of flashtool, it worked for me.