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Samsung fascinate=captivate? Flashing roms.

My friend wants me to help him root his fascinate then flash a rom for it. I've noticed that the captivate on this forum has wayyy many more support compared to the fascinate. Just wondering if I can root and flash his phone to what I did to my captivate, using the same process? And using the same roms?

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Same process. i think. either way it is easy. I don't know if the one click meathods work but there should be an update.zip root specific to the fascinate as long as it is on eclair. So tell him not to update if the update drops and it should soon. Froyo has a different recovery that wont run the update.zip
If the phone has froyo you would need to flash with odin or root with a longer and more complicated meathod.
different roms. The fascinate is not a gsm phone like the captivate and vibrant and most of the rest of the galaxy s line. The rom kernel and modem are fascinate specific. There isn't any interchangability other than the apps and widgets.
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Get facts straight, the fascinate is so a gsm phone infact TELUS released it this month. making it ATT usable.

EkostonS said:
Get facts straight, the fascinate is so a gsm phone infact TELUS released it this month. making it ATT usable.
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a) you should check your facts, there are TWO versions of the Fascinate. There is the Verizon Fascinate which is CDMA and the Telus Fascinate 3G+ which is GSM.
b) if the OP is referencing the Verizon one, no, Captivate ROM's cannot be used on it
c) if you are referencing the Telus one, it's possible, but there will likely be bugs so I wouldn't recommend it
d) rooting should be a sinch with the one-click tool, if you have the Verizon one, grab the one-click root from any SGS forum since they should all work. If you have the Telus one, try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838625

I owned a Vibrant, Verizon Fascinate, and now the Captivate. You can root any of them with OCLF from the market place.

u can root with anythiung, but u gotta use facisnate roms...

more than likely the fascinate would be flashable with captivate or any galaxy S roms....its been done a number of times between the phones
there are glitches here and there, like the battery drain with vibrant roms and the inverted buttons, headphones not working, etc etc
as long as you were flashing with odin and flashing the VERIZON modem file then i imagine it would work just fine....there's only one way to find out

whitesox311 said:
more than likely the fascinate would be flashable with captivate or any galaxy S roms....its been done a number of times between the phones.
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Yes, but between the Vibrant, GT-i9000, and the Captivate/i896, those are all GSM variants. I don't think I'd ever cross GSM and CDMA ROM's.

Yeah do not do that the radios or modems Im sure are different.
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Well no, even among gsm phones with similar layouts compatability is not complete. I don't know if the radio is the same hardware, out may be but despite its looks the layout is different from the vibrant having the speaker phone speaker located differently and being thinner the kernel may be entirely different.
For instance the vibrant kernel on a captivate screws up the home and back buttons and other things. Using a vibrant modem breaks bluetooth audio, but using a bell vibrant gt i9000m modem which more resembles a gt-i9000 works without flaw. But the regular gt i9000 modem has similar issue to the t mobile vibrant. Captivate modems on i9000 kernels can cause battery drain. Ect ect.... Some mixing and matching works, some doesn't. But at a minimum you would lose functionality of the camera flash.
On another note the gsm fascinate appears to be a t mobile vibrant. Soo who knows about that phone.
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Same process? Yes... mostly. I have rooted and flashed my mom's Verizon Fascinate.
The only difference is that you have to use Odin to setup a recovery partition compatible with CW Recovery.
Step-by-Step Process Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788099
Then use Rom Manager to download a ROM and flash away...
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Same ROMs? NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO

A few informations..

Hi,
I recently switched from a Xperia X10 to the Nexus One due to the lack of update from Sony Ericsson.
We can't unlock the bootloader the X10 so even if I flashed a lot of custom rom and root ect... It's my first time with kernels ect...
So I was wondering on how the kernel is important and if I well understood, he is the one that will put the driver for the hardware as it's the one that can increase audio and put 720p ect..
And I also see a lots of threads about radios ect... I totally understood how to flash it ect.. but what is it exactly ? Is it like a better frequence for your antenna or ??
I'm currently running kernel version : [email protected] and baseband version : 32.24.00.22U_4.03.00.21_2 and I have Passion Recovery.
Could you please indicate me a good combo of kernel/radio/rom that would give me 720p, running at least Froyo or Gingerbread (for flash) and that is stable with a good linpack/quadrant score.
Thanks in advance,
Zyryck

Simplest thing for you, CyanogenMod 6. It is FroYo, has the audio mod and 720p camera kernel. And you should already have the best Radio.
There is no reason to really mix and match stuff at all. The state of the development scene isn't that way anymore.
Some people do fiddle with kernels and Korean radios and such, but they do it because they like doing that sort of thing, not because they have to.
90% do not have to worry about those things. Install CyanogenMod 6 or some of the other popular mods in the development section and you should be happy.
Don't worry about the individual parts until you get used to things, and even then it won't be needed, just a hobby.

Ok thank you it is certainly what I'll take. But Cyan 6 or 6.1 ?
But I still don't know why Radios stand for.
And yes I'm one of those Guys that will flash to another roms every 2 Days but since Nexus S and new Phones are out I know Devs are leaving Nexus One so that's why I was asking forr a fast and a stable one.
So I'd just like to know what's the Radio ?

The radio is hardware/software that deals with the communications side of your phone. GPRS/HSDPA/WiFi etc.

That's what I was thinking about but then what are the differences between a radio on an other one ? Are there some faster than others ?
Plus Radios are generic ? It doesn't depend from your Carrier or Country

zyryck said:
That's what I was thinking about but then what are the differences between a radio on an other one ? Are there some faster than others ?
Plus Radios are generic ? It doesn't depend from your Carrier or Country
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If you're go to run Froyo you'll be required to update your radio to 32.50.00.32U_5.12.00.08.

prettyboy85712 said:
If you're go to run Froyo you'll be required to update your radio to 32.50.00.32U_5.12.00.08.
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Well I'm running 2.2.1 with 32.24.00.22U_4.03.00.21_2.
Should I update it to the one you said because I don't see anything going wrong. Except perhaps that when I connect to internet without Wifi it's written 2G but when I had my X10 it was either 3G or H so I don't know if it is related or not since I've only been able to connect to 2G with the Nexus even when it was not rooted and flashed to any rom, radio or kernel

Wild monks have pretty good kernels but I have no idea about what radio to choose cuz theres literally a lot of them. I just get really confused with them and
Still looking for a good radio tho.lol. But cyan mod is freaking awesome. Combined with inexus theme and it's the best ui interface I can find. plus I have swype too so I'm not going to give up my nexus any time soon until tegra 2 phones arrive
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

I'm gonna wait before putting my hands on the Atrix and other tegra 2 phones because I want to see if there won't be any problem with the bootloader ect... Because getting stuck with a device that can't get bl unlocked is very very frustrating.

prettyboy85712 said:
If you're go to run Froyo you'll be required to update your radio to 32.50.00.32U_5.12.00.08.
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That's actually not true.

There's no need to be messing with your radio unless you are having a specific problem. If your custom ROM requires a certain Radio to work, it will probably be included in the package anyway.
Flashing custom ROMS is almost completely safe but flashing Radios can lead to a bricked device in short-order.

[Q] htc hd2 (gsm) miui rom on nexus one?

is it possible to flash a hd2 or mytouch 4g rom on to nexus one because the one for the nexus one does not support tmobile wifi calling which is very important for me. The miui roms for hd2 and mytouch have the wifi calling function but i want sure if i can flash those roms on my nexus one.

Yep flash away
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thanks... so if i flash a mytouch miui rom it wont effect my phone? i wont brick my phone or anything?

b1337 said:
Yep flash away
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WOA!! DO NOT FLASH!! The reason that there are different ROM's for different phone models is because they all have different hardware. A ROM designed for the MT4G won't work on your N1. At best the ROM won't flash, but at worst it could brick your phone.
A ROM that was ADAPTED from a different phone, such as a Sense UI ROM for the N1 is ok, but never flash and tom intended for USE on a different phone.

[Q] New to the Velocity/Vivid

Hey guys,
I just got the HTC Velocity (coming from HTC Wildfire) and despite reading stickies and various other threads, I have a few questions:
1. With ICS available on the velocity, and there being two(?) CM9 mods being work on, is there any official support of CM9 on the device?
2. Why are there/what are the major differences between the two CM9 variations.
3. With the CM9 roms, what would the probable effects be for installing vivid roms for the velocity device (in particular the radio)
Thanks for any help anyone is able to provide.

pod0087 said:
Hey guys,
I just got the HTC Velocity (coming from HTC Wildfire) and despite reading stickies and various other threads, I have a few questions:
1. With ICS available on the velocity, and there being two(?) CM9 mods being work on, is there any official support of CM9 on the device?
2. Why are there/what are the major differences between the two CM9 variations.
3. With the CM9 roms, what would the probable effects be for installing vivid roms for the velocity device (in particular the radio)
Thanks for any help anyone is able to provide.
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1. CM9 is still in beta, unless you want to test it out it is best to stay away for now.
2. Not sure about two variations. Only have seen one being worked on actively.
3. S-Off is being worked on at the moment but not ready yet. You can't flash radios so if the rom is att based, you don't want to mess with it.

megatronisabeast said:
3. S-Off is being worked on at the moment but not ready yet. You can't flash radios so if the rom is att based, you don't want to mess with it.
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What's the purpose of S-OFF if the bootloader is unlocked; is that for flashing the radio?
Further, does that imply CM9 developed for the Vivid won't be appropriate for the velocity (they use different bands)?

You have to have s off to flash a radio. I am not familiar enough with cm9 to tell you if you need to flash a radio but like I said it is not an official release so I wouldn't do anything with it.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using XDA

[Q] Telstra Velocity 4G vs custom roms?

So I used to have a Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100, that was simple because there were a billion custom roms for the one phone.
I recently got a Telstra HTC Velocity 4G, and now apparently it's called three different things in different parts of the world? Not only that, but some have 1.2Ghz processors and some 1.5Ghz?
Anyways my question is, can I flash any Vivid/Raider roms and it would still work? Or is this not the case? If not, where would I be able to find custom roms for my phone (if there are any)?
Thanks in advance, I am only a HTC noob at the moment. I sorta miss being able to play with CM9 on my SGS2 haha.

ratweh said:
So I used to have a Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100, that was simple because there were a billion custom roms for the one phone.
I recently got a Telstra HTC Velocity 4G, and now apparently it's called three different things in different parts of the world? Not only that, but some have 1.2Ghz processors and some 1.5Ghz?
Anyways my question is, can I flash any Vivid/Raider roms and it would still work? Or is this not the case? If not, where would I be able to find custom roms for my phone (if there are any)?
Thanks in advance, I am only a HTC noob at the moment. I sorta miss being able to play with CM9 on my SGS2 haha.
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You can flash ANY region's ROMs without a hitch. I have an American device, and have been on the Aussie stock ROM ever since it came out.
Sent from my HTC Velocity 4G using XDA Premium App

have a same problem with u ratweh, i'v HTC Raider 4G LTE x710e.
very confused bout why they give different name on different region...LOL, but, AFAIK, after asking this forum contributor, they said, we can flash Custom ROM provide for VIVID on VELOCITY / RAIDER and vice versa without worry ,
except ICS rom and official RUU off course

prahasta said:
have a same problem with u ratweh, i'v HTC Raider 4G LTE x710e.
very confused bout why they give different name on different region...LOL, but, AFAIK, after asking this forum contributor, they said, we can flash Custom ROM provide for VIVID on VELOCITY / RAIDER and vice versa without worry ,
except ICS rom and official RUU off course
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Thanks guys!
So even with the different CPU's and all it'll still be sweet?
What about modems? do I have to keep the stock Telstra one handy so I can re-flash it after every rom?

The CPU's are actually identical, they have different serial numbers to indicate the different modems, one has an internal modem on the chipset, the other has a modem attached elsewhere, the same drivers and such work for both so the difference is ignorable, the Vivid and Raider are underclocked to 1.2 by default however to save battery and for some reason the Velcity isn't perhaps for marketing reasons as its name "Velocity" would be stupid on a phone that is underclocked.
the ICS differences relate to something called the HBOOT, this is different for each device, but once your device has the ICS HBOOT it is perfectly fine to then flash any VIVID/RAIDER/VELOCITY rom on any device by first fastboot flashing the boot.img then flashing the rom .zip via recovery, this is a 2 step process so far because we don't have S-OFF... yet.
I have a HTC Velocity and have gone through pretty much all of the GB/ICS flashing scenarios and provided you read the instructions properly, which I have, I have not had any issues flashing the telstra roms, the at&t roms, the rum raider roms or what I am using now PirateGhosts RumFloat Beta4, which is no longer hosted on XDA due to a falling out, but google it and you can find it pretty easily, I will probably stick with RumFloat until CM9/MIUI is available.
PM me with any questions specifically about the Velocity and I can help you out mate

davidcampbell said:
The CPU's are actually identical, they have different serial numbers to indicate the different modems, one has an internal modem on the chipset, the other has a modem attached elsewhere, the same drivers and such work for both so the difference is ignorable, the Vivid and Raider are underclocked to 1.2 by default however to save battery and for some reason the Velcity isn't perhaps for marketing reasons as its name "Velocity" would be stupid on a phone that is underclocked.
the ICS differences relate to something called the HBOOT, this is different for each device, but once your device has the ICS HBOOT it is perfectly fine to then flash any VIVID/RAIDER/VELOCITY rom on any device by first fastboot flashing the boot.img then flashing the rom .zip via recovery, this is a 2 step process so far because we don't have S-OFF... yet.
I have a HTC Velocity and have gone through pretty much all of the GB/ICS flashing scenarios and provided you read the instructions properly, which I have, I have not had any issues flashing the telstra roms, the at&t roms, the rum raider roms or what I am using now PirateGhosts RumFloat Beta4, which is no longer hosted on XDA due to a falling out, but google it and you can find it pretty easily, I will probably stick with RumFloat until CM9/MIUI is available.
PM me with any questions specifically about the Velocity and I can help you out mate
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Woah haha thanks so much! That's exactly what i needed to hear!
Thanks heaps!

OK that's a lot of information i was looking for too!
I have to flash the Stock Telstra ICS (because I have Telstra Velocity) first. So i'll get the right HBOOT for my phone. After i can flash ICS of any other version except RUUs or OTA's because i could get the wrong HBOOT then?!
But there are still two things i'm wondering about:
1. What about the Radio Roms? Are they not different for every version? Or ist it just that they are not included in the Custom Roms?
2. What is if i want to go back to a GB Rom? Do i have to flash a GB RUU first to get the HBOOT back?

Maxi1984 said:
OK that's a lot of information i was looking for too!
I have to flash the Stock Telstra ICS (because I have Telstra Velocity) first. So i'll get the right HBOOT for my phone. After i can flash ICS of any other version except RUUs or OTA's because i could get the wrong HBOOT then?!
But there are still two things i'm wondering about:
1. What about the Radio Roms? Are they not different for every version? Or ist it just that they are not included in the Custom Roms?
2. What is if i want to go back to a GB Rom? Do i have to flash a GB RUU first to get the HBOOT back?
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NP, good additional questions though, I installed the Telstra ICS HBOOT by re-locking the bootloader on my phone (because it was already rooted on GB) and then installing the telstra GB rom, then I upgraded to the Telstra ICS rom via the standard method from Telstra, then I re-unlocked the phone and re-flashed recovery and then I was ok for other ROM's, there's lots of ways to do it but this way is probably the most reliable.
other thing 1: there are no different Radio's yet, and we cannot flash them until we have "S-OFF" there are some private beta programs in the works to get S-OFF but until that is public we cannot adjust the firmware or radio, and even if we could there is no radio update available at this stage anyway.
Other thing 2: to go back to a GB rom, I would recommend relocking the bootloader and installing the GB RUU then going through the unlock/recovery installation again just to be safe, though I think you can just flash the GB HBOOT I'm not 100% on that method.

Hey, do you mean there are no separate Radio Roms to flash? Because i saw at the Stock Rom Collection that there are different Radio Roms included, aren't they?
I saw also that you are on the Rum Float Rom, can you tell me if there are any other languages included?

RumFloat B4 appears to support English, Spanish (Espanol) and French (Francais), I believe it uses the at&t rom as a base.
The radio's in the stock rom's are only flashable because they are part of an official secured ruu, without S-off they are useless to phones that are not from that telco.

davidcampbell said:
The CPU's are actually identical, they have different serial numbers to indicate the different modems, one has an internal modem on the chipset, the other has a modem attached elsewhere, the same drivers and such work for both so the difference is ignorable, the Vivid and Raider are underclocked to 1.2 by default however to save battery and for some reason the Velcity isn't perhaps for marketing reasons as its name "Velocity" would be stupid on a phone that is underclocked.
the ICS differences relate to something called the HBOOT, this is different for each device, but once your device has the ICS HBOOT it is perfectly fine to then flash any VIVID/RAIDER/VELOCITY rom on any device by first fastboot flashing the boot.img then flashing the rom .zip via recovery, this is a 2 step process so far because we don't have S-OFF... yet.
I have a HTC Velocity and have gone through pretty much all of the GB/ICS flashing scenarios and provided you read the instructions properly, which I have, I have not had any issues flashing the telstra roms, the at&t roms, the rum raider roms or what I am using now PirateGhosts RumFloat Beta4, which is no longer hosted on XDA due to a falling out, but google it and you can find it pretty easily, I will probably stick with RumFloat until CM9/MIUI is available.
PM me with any questions specifically about the Velocity and I can help you out mate
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Great post, thanks for that, I'm in the same boat. Gonna try your mod, battery life is aweful...

davidcampbell said:
The CPU's are actually identical, they have different serial numbers to indicate the different modems, one has an internal modem on the chipset, the other has a modem attached elsewhere, the same drivers and such work for both so the difference is ignorable, the Vivid and Raider are underclocked to 1.2 by default however to save battery and for some reason the Velcity isn't perhaps for marketing reasons as its name "Velocity" would be stupid on a phone that is underclocked.
the ICS differences relate to something called the HBOOT, this is different for each device, but once your device has the ICS HBOOT it is perfectly fine to then flash any VIVID/RAIDER/VELOCITY rom on any device by first fastboot flashing the boot.img then flashing the rom .zip via recovery, this is a 2 step process so far because we don't have S-OFF... yet.
I have a HTC Velocity and have gone through pretty much all of the GB/ICS flashing scenarios and provided you read the instructions properly, which I have, I have not had any issues flashing the telstra roms, the at&t roms, the rum raider roms or what I am using now PirateGhosts RumFloat Beta4, which is no longer hosted on XDA due to a falling out, but google it and you can find it pretty easily, I will probably stick with RumFloat until CM9/MIUI is available.
PM me with any questions specifically about the Velocity and I can help you out mate
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Good post, I'm currently using my spare HTC Flyer because I've got my completely wiped Velocity only with Bootloader and Recovery on it at the moment. Still deciding what to load and wondering if other ROM's from other phones will work.
Also does my head in that it's called 3 different things in different parts of the world. One thing I'm sure of that I hate the Telstra stock rom and I think the name "Velocity" refers to how fast the battery is drained when in use
Will keep an eye on this thread and looks like I might give the RumFloat image a go...

ROM support
Yeah hi, I flashed my Velocity 4G with Leigh's Nightly build 4 and it works great beside that it has no keyboard installed..
Wondering where the custom ROM are hiding and the stock Telstra ROM, cos i can only make calls on it atm, :/ fancy that a phone that can only make calls,, haha.. seriously I kinda need the links please,, (at least its not bricked, Pheww)
UPDATE..
I tried the Stock ROM again,, it also failed,, so I factory reset thru HBOOT and low n Behold the V2 wallpaper popped up and viola, keyboard works and the Build4 ROM works like a treat.. I love the smoothness and the goodies Leigh has included.. Adblock fo1.
probably a good idea to include this in the noob files. :/