Hi all, i have got an S3m (stock) for my wife & wanted to root & install custom rom before i gave it to her, then just pop her sd card in. Is this possible/advisable or am i better off waiting & using the sd card she has?. many thanks....
Before installing the Custom ROM you need to Install a custom Recovery like TWRP. This is possible via Odin. The you can flash your custom rom via Odin or Recovery. Rooting is not necessary before flashing ity i guess.
A guide how you have to do that can be found in the roms thread.
Hope I could help you!
Ok, cheers for that mate, but what i was trying to ask was can i use separate sd cards for rooting & custom rom & then just put the card she has in her phone(stock gb) at the mo? new phone is a gift. i want to install kk based rom on new phone. hope thats a better explanation..
Roms are stored in the phone internal memory, so swaping SD cards is not a problem.
have it sorted now, thanks for the help guys, wife very happy........
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hi guys,
i purchased an at&t captivate which has cognition rom on it. the seller took the sd card out, market is not installed etc. i tried flashing stock rogers rom, updated firmware but it reports sdcard busy when i boot in recovery mode.
thanks in advance.
This doesn't belong in Development.
As to the OP, does the phone turn on: ie can you get to the homescreen and such?
yeah the phone turns on. i can make calls, receive texts, surf over wifi etc.
gtalk cannot launch, cant connect to rogers 3g network..
i need to get a rom loaded on there. any rom, can i load cognition using adp?
do an odin 1click restore and see where that gets you if you can.
tanksta said:
hi guys,
i purchased an at&t captivate which has cognition rom on it. the seller took the sd card out, market is not installed etc. i tried flashing stock rogers rom, updated firmware but it reports sdcard busy when i boot in recovery mode.
thanks in advance.
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Ok.. First , It is an att phone so I am going to assume it has an att cog rom on it YES? Second .... There are Samsung calls the internal storage of the phone an sd card... there is also a spot for an external sd card. The Phone has the internal card or the phone wouldn't boot.
I am curious as to which you are having problems with.... the root or the flashing
You do have to be rooted to flash a rom unless youre using Odin
And Rom Manager makes Everthing Nice!!
Anyways the External (microsd) sd card is in /sd/sd
internal is just sd
You are wanting to use an Att phone on a different network so this Requires :
A: 1. Reflash Cog. 2.3b6 (which will include att bloatware plus "market.)
2. Use the tips and tricks to sideload apps in 2.2 .
3. Unlock the phone for use with Rogers Network.
B. 1. Reflash to att cog 2.3b6 and do the root , and the unlock
2.Flash your rogers rom. you should be set.
I am curious as to which you are having problems with.... the root or the flashing
hope to hear
bikerboy
working!
thanks for the reply guys.
i had trouble with flashing any new roms so used odin3 to go back to the stock at&t one.
rooted the phone, then installed recovery. created a backup of the stock rom with root and have flashed axura rc1.
back in business and testing roms!
Hi guys
i could not post on the development so i will ask here.
I just bought the phone. is totally stock.
how do i apply this [FIX] 7/Apr V10a/b/c: dexopt fix for Stock ROMs ??
Regards
First you need to install Clockworkmod. You will find a guide in the root forum. Afterwards, first thing you should do, is taking an update via CWM (clockworkmod). Then you install this update, also via CWM, from your external SD card. Of course, first you need to put the zip on it
Hope I could help you
ah ok many thanks.
Hi all.
First of all let me use this opportunity to thank this amazing and always growing community for their help and everything else in my Android life.
Well, I have been using different ROM's recently and experimenting a lot with my device. Its been great.
To cut it short, I am looking to get my device back to it's original state.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570, rooted, with MusicRom.
I also have a 2GB SD card, which I 'separated' in order to install apps on SD.
I would like to know how can I get the SD card back to the original mode, flash a simple Android 2.3.6 rom, and unroot it.
Help is appreciated.
You can remove the partition using a partition tool like multitool wizard. You can flash gingerbread through Odin, a good tutorial can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tcki_b7j0bQ. Stock roms are unrooted by default. Click thanks if I helped.
Sent from my GT-S5570 using XDA
when flashing the stock rom 2.3.6 it will unroot by it self
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255305
Both helped a lot.
I found out that the tool is named Mini Tool not Multi Tool.
I am trying to un partition my SD card now. Than I will try and flash the rom through Odin and I am all set.
Thank you both.
Just a simpler method than that one:Just move all files from SD card to your PC.After emptying SD card go to Settings >Storage>Erase SD card. Now your SD card is 1.84GB free
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Every time I trie to update to the latest ROMs I notice they specifically target the new bootloader. I have no idea what the old vs new bootloader dilemma is about but I bet my device runs the old one, I read somewhere the white LG logo on startup hints to an old bootloader,
My question is how to upgrade my bootloader or ROM directly to Kitkat the easiest way possible, I bought my handset already CMed and unrooted but I have never done it myself.
Thank you in advance, and if you could bother throw in some links to relevant threadshttp://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon8.gif
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Every time I trie to update to the latest ROMs I notice they specifically target the new bootloader. I have no idea what the old vs new bootloader dilemma is about but I bet my device runs the old one, I read somewhere the white LG logo on startup hints to an old bootloader,
My question is how to upgrade my bootloader or ROM directly to Kitkat the easiest way possible, I bought my handset already CMed and unrooted but I have never done it myself.
Thank you in advance, and if you could bother throw in some links to relevant threadshttp://forum.xda-developers.com/images/icons/icon8.gif
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for tonyps kitkat , the only one for daily usage workign at the moment. you need his version of twrp 2.6 or as i know the cwm version 6.0.4.7, which can be found somewhere in the development forum.
tonyps cm11 : tonyps Cm11
kowalski kernel: kowalski kernel by pengus
dl links: cm11 by tonyp and bs86
working twrp by tonyp
They are New Bootloader only! The process seems as easy as full wipe + flash the zip (my phone came with ROM Manager 4.5.0.1 with old recovery) but I fear my bootloader in incompatible. Is there a way to update or something.
Also does my sd card and all applications get removed, and how to back them up, also if I brick my device does the recovery still work to flash the back up or what? very noob I know, I learned alot of terms but never managed to make good sense of it all, thank you.............
Oh one minute my ROM Manager has an Install ROM from SD Card button, can I do it right inside ROM Manager?
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They are New Bootloader only! The process seems as easy as full wipe + flash the zip (my phone came with ROM Manager 4.5.0.1 with old recovery) but I fear my bootloader in incompatible. Is there a way to update or something.
Also does my sd card and all applications get removed, and how to back them up, also if I brick my device does the recovery still work to flash the back up or what? very noob I know, I learned alot of terms but never managed to make good sense of it all, thank you.............
Oh one minute my ROM Manager has an Install ROM from SD Card button, can I do it right inside ROM Manager?
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With that you can backup/resotre and change the bootloader and alot more AiO-Toolkit
If you change the bootloader layout, as i know all stuf will be removed. so make a nandroid backup, if your new rom is not working and make a sdcard backup(also in aio) to get appdata back if you want.
If you dont want to download all apps new after having new rom use titanium backup. the recovery is not breakable. it will always work. not important if you **** your rom
xdaCyborg said:
They are New Bootloader only! The process seems as easy as full wipe + flash the zip (my phone came with ROM Manager 4.5.0.1 with old recovery) but I fear my bootloader in incompatible. Is there a way to update or something.
Also does my sd card and all applications get removed, and how to back them up, also if I brick my device does the recovery still work to flash the back up or what? very noob I know, I learned alot of terms but never managed to make good sense of it all, thank you.............
Oh one minute my ROM Manager has an Install ROM from SD Card button, can I do it right inside ROM Manager?
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As you do have CM 7.1 installed, I guess you've got a custom recovery installed too? I don't think you can directly use ROM manager to install a kernel, but you can use ROM manager to boot into recovery mode and flash the zip from there Just be sure to make a nandroid backup, just in case KK isn't compatible with 7.1.
If you ever want to get tonyp's CM 11 though, the AIO toolkit, as @Zubeplanet pointed out, is really easy to use to get the new bootloader.
Happy flashing!
So I've gotten myself into a bit of a jam. I was on CM12.1 build 0411. I wanted to migrate to the latest 0425 build with f2fs support to see if some lag issues are gone, with Tangerine Kernel 1.3. I booted into Philz Touch (from XZDualRecovery), followed the instructions in the ROM Thread. I went to install the ROM but now it says it cannot mount /sdcard along with some other errors (I'll get pictures if needed).
So is my option only to go back to Stock ROM using FlashTool and .ftf?
Plus, I can't use adb sideload as it doesn't recognize the device in recovery.
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So I've gotten myself into a bit of a jam. I was on CM12.1 build 0411. I wanted to migrate to the latest 0425 build with f2fs support to see if some lag issues are gone, with Tangerine Kernel 1.3. I booted into Philz Touch (from XZDualRecovery), followed the instructions in the ROM Thread. I went to install the ROM but now it says it cannot mount /sdcard along with some other errors (I'll get pictures if needed).
So is my option only to go back to Stock ROM using FlashTool and .ftf?
Plus, I can't use adb sideload as it doesn't recognize the device in recovery.
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Hello my friend, I think you are not allone. I was on CM11 Rom (LBL) for over year - two month ago I flashed CM12 for the first time. Now the troubles begin:
Because CM12 especially 5.0 over all is still a problem (wifi, calls etc.) even for their own Nexus series.
Anyway, I had a perfect backup of CM11 and I had perfect backup of the currently running CM12 Rom.
Because I need a stable running Rom for my bisiness, I switched always again back to my CM11 Rom.
But some day last week I flashed back to CM11 and was in a full bootloop. No chance to go back to Recovery or anything else.
Reason: I don´t know why, but there is something in the scripts of Kitkat or Lollipop, that damages SD cards, when you often switsch between the two systems. The sd card was dead, only readable, but not writeable again!!!
So ith the latest backup I made in the sd card, not all data have been written on it (not a complete backup) and when i tried to restore the system, with CWM, onla parts of the recovery have been readable. Hehe, bootloop. **** happens
My tip: Save your time with experiments - install your phone from beginning with .ftf file. I did it too
Greets, reinipic
reinipic said:
Hello my friend, I think you are not allone. I was on CM11 Rom (LBL) for over year - two month ago I flashed CM12 for the first time. Now the troubles begin:
Because CM12 especially 5.0 over all is still a problem (wifi, calls etc.) even for their own Nexus series.
Anyway, I had a perfect backup of CM11 and I had perfect backup of the currently running CM12 Rom.
Because I need a stable running Rom for my bisiness, I switched always again back to my CM11 Rom.
But some day last week I flashed back to CM11 and was in a full bootloop. No chance to go back to Recovery or anything else.
Reason: I don´t know why, but there is something in the scripts of Kitkat or Lollipop, that damages SD cards, when you often switsch between the two systems. The sd card was dead, only readable, but not writeable again!!!
So ith the latest backup I made in the sd card, not all data have been written on it (not a complete backup) and when i tried to restore the system, with CWM, onla parts of the recovery have been readable. Hehe, bootloop. **** happens
My tip: Save your time with experiments - install your phone from beginning with .ftf file. I did it too
Greets, reinipic
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Alright! And it's interesting you mention that SD Cards dying because of this. My 64GB SDXC Class10 microSD mysteriously died on me with the same symptoms. I was switching between LiquidSmooth and ParanoidAndroid while the latter has no internal memory.
Thanks, will do a .ftf flash
Do tell me, what ROM are you on now?
BrokeDude12345 said:
Alright! And it's interesting you mention that SD Cards dying because of this. My 64GB SDXC Class10 microSD mysteriously died on me with the same symptoms. I was switching between LiquidSmooth and ParanoidAndroid while the latter has no internal memory.
Thanks, will do a .ftf flash
Do tell me, what ROM are you on now?
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Hi mate, btw. I had to buy a new sd card too. I personally think that it´s a bug since kitkat, because from this version on google only has allowed to write apps to ext. sd, which where verified by google! It´s a well known problem.
So I use this ROm http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735975
There are more excellent Roms from excellent developers. I must say I never tried another one, because this Rom for me always worked perfect - since CM10 build by bagyusz. No need to try another one :fingers-crossed:
Greets reinipic