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[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjmarchand:
Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out here because I've screwed up somehow and would like to un-do whatever it is I've done. I'm trying to think straight so I hope what I type out ends up making sense :).

1. Right now, my phone works. I'm stuck on a rooted pre-OTA stock rom. I unrooted once, but was not able to flash the OTA update via the stock recovery. I still have a use-able phone so I'm doing better than some people in threads I've read about.

2. I tried to root it with gfree. I don't think it worked, and some errors came up during the process. I used the first method then skipped to 0.2 per the wiki. Using g-free verify tells me everything is alright. supercid, sim lock, etc.

3. I am s-off, but earlier I couldn't get gfree verify to work (my own error I'm certain) and assumed I screwed up. Rom manager and root explorer never gave me prompts for superuser permissions, but I was s-off. I didn't think I rooted correctly and used the rage against the cage method.

4. Right now, I'm apparently s-off and rooted. I can't flash any roms though. I use rom manager to flash the latest recovery, it says it works and then when I reboot to recovery it stays stuck on the HTC splash screen. Battery pull takes me back to the pre-OTA rom. Recovery only recently stopped working though.

Ultimately, I need to get recovery back somehow, and then I'd return my phone back to an unrooted state with the stock 2.2 rom since I can't seem to handle rooting to well. Since I have no clockwork mod recovery, not really sure what to do to get this process rolling. If someone can help me get recovery back, and then help me flash roms again I'd definitely appreciate it. I have noone to blame but myself here.

If it ends up mattering, I do have adb installed and can use that if need be, and like I said my phone still boots up. I don't have a brick but something crazy is going on.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
Download ClockworkMod Recovery straight from Koushik's page and put it on the root of your SD card. Open up Terminal Emulator on your phone and type in the following:

Post the results in here.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjmarchand:
Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found

It definately is on my sd card.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
Do you have the engineering bootloader? If not, you may have to try it with ADB.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjmarchand:
Im fairly certain I had to flash it to root with the rage method, vol + pwr screen says "vision pvt eng s-off hboot 0.76.2000 (pc1010000)"

With adb it gives me the same error, but I used rom manager to flash 2.5.1.3 so I have a recovery again. I have one good nandroid of the rom im stuck on.

My next issue is that I tried to flash the stock rom with root from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=836042 and something isn't right. I wipe data/cache and then go to install zip from sdcard (manual recovery) and select the rom. What happens after is it tells me the normal messages it gives when flashing and "welcome to vision" but when the flash is done instead of giving me the option of "reboot system now" it goes back to the install zip for sd card menu like the flash never happened (and it will not boot past the htc screen)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
Maybe it's a bad recovery. You said you flashed 2.5.1.3, so ROM Manager should work. Try flashing 3.0.2.4 through there now. If not, I suggest downloading Fastboot.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
flash_image isn't part of the stock ROM, I made a guide for using it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=902493
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjmarchand:
Thanks for the guide! I followed it with no issue, I rebooted into recovery; it first hung on the HTC screen, rebooted, vibrated and then booted back into the OS. So anyway, instead of 2.5.1.3, I'm on 3.0.0.5 now.

I went down to 2.5.1.3 and downloaded cm6.1 via rom manager. It told me this : E: can't open '/sdcard/..location (bad) installation aborted. tmp/recovery.log was copied to sdcard

I tried enom's froyo themed rom next, heres what recovery tells me:

Installing update...

Formatting cache

Copying files

Formatting SYSTEM

Copying files...

E Can't symlink /system/bin/su

E Failure at line 19:

symlink /system/xbin/su SYSTEM: bin/su

Installation aborted.

I also tried to download an updated superuser from the market, it says installation unsuccessful package file was not signed correctly.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
Use Titanium to update your Superuser.apk

Sent from a Western Union telegram.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjmarchand:
That worked, so thank you. I ended up unrooting and putting s back on so I can retry. Now, I can't flash the OTA update via stock recovery. Any ideas for that one? Thank you so much for all the other help as well.

"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" -when I first enter recovery

--Install from sdcard...

Finding update pacakge...

Opening update pacakge...

Verifying update package...

E:failed to verify whole file signature

E: signature verification failed

Installation aborted. -after trying the OTA (named update.zip of course)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
If this is the Gingerbread OTA, you'll need everything as stock. If it's the "OTA" with Superuser thrown in, you'll need CWM Recovery 3+ (2.5* formats the system in yaffs, 3+ formats it in EXT).
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tjmarchand:
This is just the ota update with wifi calling still 2.2, Im unrooted and stock recovery again
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] gauthier81:
I have a Rogers HTC Magic and i was trying to flash a rom and my phone restarted and now it just shows the green android guy and a triangle with an exclamation mark. Is my phone screwed? Please help. Thanks

Edit. Nevermind i pulled the battery and reset the phone cuz i made it to the menu.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] darkguy2008:
Seems like it's the recovery screen. If you push HOME + End Call buttons at the same time again it'll show you the menu recovery options. I guess it's only useful when you install some recovery such as Amon Ra's or ClockworkMod :P
[General Topics] GamerJake0:
Okay well, I'm looking into grabbing one of these two phones but I want some your opinions.

I don't plan on rooting or doing any of that stuff as I dont really understand how, and I don't want to risk bricking my phone.

I know the Evo 3D has a 1.2 GHz dual core processor and the nexus s 4g on sprint with a single core 1 GHz processor so they are both great phones and can run very fast and smooth.

My question is, which phone do you guys think is better? I just want a phone that will be worth getting on a 2 year contract for, and It has to be with sprint.
[General Topics] lude219:
get the dual core. I don't know why it's so hard for people to see that, and not specifically speaking to you OP, but I've seen so many people get all hung up between different phones that aren't even in the same league! It's like picking a 7yo Intel Celeron vs a brand spanking new i5 or i7.
[General Topics] Dave615:
Yeah I thought about the Nexus S, but a lot of the features it is missing makes it a phone way behind its time. If someone is going to spend $200-$300 for a new device it should be innovative and well worth it.

I was debating the same question, but as lude219 said, there's really no comparison. It's just based on what you want in either phone. A similar discussion has been created here: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f8/nexus-s-or-evo-3d-you-decide-52134/

Also another similar thread here on XDA: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1023311

and another thread here: http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=218715
[Atrix 4G General] dubyajaysmith:
I tried wiping my phone before I went from 3 to 3.1 gingerblur. Know I didn't have to just wanted to clean it up...bad idea. If you get that bright idea do yourself a favor and slap yourself instead! Now it will boot sometimes to give me the option to choose launcher or set up and reboots quickly after. Was going to flash with RSD lite but was worried battery was low so I tried plugging in but keeps booting up and now the red light is on (saying im dead) and i guess i made the right choice. Now i cant recharge to battery because when I plug in it automatically tries to boot which kills the battery. I can get a universal battery charger tomorrow but wanted to see if anyone had any ideas. I've searched forums and google but to nothing useful.

[EDIT] I know to charge up and how to flash...not my first rodeo =D thanks for replies though!i!

Right now im charging my batterey with a universal charger at Radio Shack(Cat # 23-972) and it's charging. Brought my laptop & HDD with RSD installed (v5.x) and proper drivers. Just playing the waiting game... Will update, just hope it helps someone else at this point.
[Atrix 4G General] sifon187:
Download RSD Life, 1.83 sbf, and flash jing that method. How to's are in the Dev Secetion.
[Atrix 4G General] minooch:
Without a question - CHARGE IT FIRST!! Otherwise it will be a brick not just for the night
[Atrix 4G General] dubyajaysmith:
Thanks guys but I know how to flash and I know to charge the battery. Just seeing if theres a way to charge without auto booting or if anyone had ideas. I'm sure I'll be fine just wanted to check...it's hard going a night without a my phone ^_^
[Atrix 4G General] soxfan37:
Ok, maybe a stupid noobie observation, but can't you just charge with the power off?
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
turn phone on without plugging in and hold the down button (i think its the right one) so you get the boot options (dont choose any), than plug it in and it should recharge i think (not sure tho), second thought, try that one first tho, put battery out for 10 mins than back in and start charging.
[Atrix 4G General] dubyajaysmith:
RSD read my device!

awesome! thanks! Never read about all those options!

I'm having a devil of a time getting RSD to pick up my device. Have access to another atrix so I know its not the device. Im in rsd mode, drivers and rsd 5.3.x strait from gititbia.ch[ http://gitbrew.org/atrix/?sort=tag ], in win 7 Ive ran as admin, tried every cable (my nexus one cable worked last time), tried starting rsd first then plugged in phone, vis-averse, loaded file first/last, tried running file from desktop and C:/ ,EVERYTHING. I know I'll get it but what a PITA. Last time I used XP machine and I have the same problem, and I had the problem the first time I flashed but it was a stupid rsd-newb mistake. Just gotta keep trying, but I've read just about everything Google gave me and I have no idea WTF's up? thanks for all replies BTW...

[EDIT] Oh and windows, under devices and printers, shows NS FLash Olympus as a device!? ARRGG....Finally got it on XP machine dwith RSD 5.3 and nexus one usb cord
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
Try rebooting your comp, than start rsd on the comp and let it load, meanwhile start the phone in rsd mode, than connect to usb, thats what works for me. And copy the sbf file to your c:/flash or so, so that its on the system drive + short and basic directory name.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OmerX:
Hello proud Xda-devs and members . I have a question , what are the differences in stability between JVH , JVA , JVB , JVK , and what language do the firmwares have , what swype language have . I am searching for one with romanian .
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottishGeek:
I would also like to know this. It might be a good idea to create a thread that lists the known differences between each updated ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yken:
Samsung can answer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
JVH is the latest release. Released officially in Scandinavia. It replaces JVB, which as been pulled from kies probably because it had some bugs.

JVA I am not sure that it was released officially. We got it after JVB but the build date is prior.

JVK was a leaked beta for the UK. The first gingerbread we have had.

JVH doesn't seem to have Romanian, sorry (unless it's spelled something I didn't recognize). Not sure about the others.

JVH languages :

Cestina

Dansk

Deutcsch (germany, austria, swizterland

English (Australia, Ireland, NZ, South Africa, UK, USA)

Spanish (Spain, USA)

Estonian

French (France, swizterland)

Icelandic

Irish

Italian

Kazakh

Latviesu

Lietuviu

Magyar

Nerderlands (Belgium, Netherlands)

Norwegian

Polish

Português

Slevencina

Suomi

Svenska

Turkce

Greek

Russian

Ukrainian

1 east-asian language that I can't type, I would guess Korean

JVB Swype languages :

UK, US English

Cestina

Nederlands

Français (azerty keyboard)

Deutsch

Greek

Magyar

Italiano

Korean (I guess)

Polski

Português Europeu

Slovencina

Espanol

Türkçe
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electrotune1200:
Since the previous post answered your question so well...

My answer is...

4 letters :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephenjason89:
good job zoxd:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonalexgalaxy:
hi i'm struggling to find the answer to this even simpler question:

what does jvh/jvb indicate? I'm running a jvb ROM (debusROM). I dont even know what that means, other than knowing that JVH is supposed to be better, and JVH kernels aren't compatible with my JVB ROM...

Could someone please explain or point me in the direction of a thread that does?

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kops:
They are different builds (releases) of the Gingerbread firmware. JVB being early and buggy, JVH being the latest as put very well by zorxd
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miro666:
....And JVK have Croatian menu language, because i have yet to this firmware :)

Regards
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wendelin66:
JVA

I'm in Germany and here the most current release via KIES is JVA. (Vodafone)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K-SHOX:
I'm finding that some flash videos don't play properly for me.

I'm on stock 2.3.3 with the latest version of Flash Player installed.

Most flash videos work fine but the main issue I'm finding is with http://www.footytube.com

I like to check my football highlights :p

When I click on a match it just shows a black box as if it's loading but no play button appears at the bottom as it should, the black box just remains.

I had no problem playing this on my Motorola Atrix so I know the videos are supported.

Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated!

Cheers.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K-SHOX:
Can someone try out the site and see if they have the same issue please?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
I just pulled up a few of the goals of the week and they played fine.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K-SHOX:
I don't know what's up with this then, I'm still just getting a black box and nothing will play. Occasionally the adverts pop up but still no actual content plays.

Anyone using different settings or a different browser to get this to work? I just updated to flash 10.3 and all.
[Captivate General] Cdub5:
Can I use odin one click to revert to stock even though I have 1101 build cappy? It seems oc only works for 1010 and below. Should I use odin 3 and flash stock jf6 instead? Currently on cog 4.4.
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
some people have trouble with odin one click with newer models. some dont.

you can flash anything with the odin 3 flasher.

avoid stocks with bootloaders. or "3 button fix" versions.

if you dont flash bootloaders you should never hard brick.
[Captivate General] Cdub5:
Once back to stock, do you know if I can use kies to flash official froyo upgrade, or will that be a prob after flashing custom rom? Is there an odin flash that will get me stock 2.2 without using any bootloaders? I've searched, but seems like everything takes you back to eclair.
[Captivate General] BWolf56:
You could use the one Trusselo made.. In his sig right above your post ;)
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
thats for rogers... is he rogers...?
[Captivate General] Cdub5:
I'm at&t. same thing right? I got one completely dead, bricked, cappy in the hands of samsung right now. Hoping they'll replace or fix me. Got one cappy in my hand that's being "borrowed" for the 30 day window till I find out what's up with the one samsung has. Hoping I can get functioning cappy back from samsung, and talk the wife into letting me keep the "borrowed" one. That way I have a stable one, and one to mess around with. Planning on taking on gingerbread, only once I've covered all my bases.....I think. Just wanted to know best way back to stock, just in case I needed to bring back the phone. Like I said, it's a 1101 build, and I'm currently running Cog4.4, so I didn't want to brick it with one click. Dumb noob question, but are boot animations same/diff from bootloaders. I opened archive on cog 4 and in system/bin their are boot animations. I flashed cog via rom manager. Did i just get lucky or are these not bootloaders, just animations? Is there a thread that shows which roms come with bootloaders and which don't?
[Captivate General] studacris:
read this it explains the boot process and what a bootloader is

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1049294

bootloaders are not the same as a boot animation.

animations are found in /system/media/bootanimation.zip

you didnt get lucky with cognition flashing a bootloader that will only **** **** up if you have gingerbread bootloaders which you didnt, so flashing a froyo secondary bootloader was fine (thats why its in there)

The bootloaders would be in the updates folder of the zip.
[Captivate General] Cdub5:
Thanks studacris. Seems the more I learn about all this, the more ii find stuff I didn't know. Constantly on forum trying to learn so I don't have to bother guys like you. Since I got ur attention, flashing to i9000 rom would require bootloaders correct? Looking to do that next. Currently im US, att, i896. Sorry to bother ya.
[Captivate General] Cdub5:
Sorry I meant i897
[Captivate General] studacris:
nope new bootloaders are only needed if you are jumping to gingerbread
[Captivate General] Dani897:
only flashing the i9000 2.3.3 roms requires bootloaders. all the 2.2.1 roms will work without danger of bricking.

if all you did on the borrowed cappy is root and flash a kernel you can flash the backed up kernel and then unroot. (did you use sgs kernel flasher to flash the kernel like when we talked about it? did you back up the kernel?)

you might want to look at getting a jig just to have one around. samsung keeps releasing new builds of the phone and there are unknowns. there are mixed reports from the 1010 build and up. you should be able to use odin 1.7 and flash the jf6 from icezar1 and you still have stock bootloaders so there "should" be no need for odin one click.

all the problems last time must have been do to the gingerbread bootloaders in combination with your 1010 build phone, i should have told you to use odin one click, infact you should have had a jig before i encouraged you to try gingerbread, my fault, but i didnt have problems when i did the same thing.
[Captivate General] Cdub5:
Should I flash a i9000 kernel before a i9000 rom? Then after all is said and done, find a compatible modem? Only reason I want to go to i9000 rom is because there seems to be more available. Can I do all this via sgs kernel flasher and rom manager/cwm or does it have to be done odin for the first switch to i9000? I'm assuming I can go back between sgh I897 and i9000 no prob since no ginger boots are involved? Just to be clear, even if I flash a rom with bootloaders, it shouldn't be a prob as long as it's 2.2 rom? Are 2.2 boots backwards compatible if i want to flash back to stock? I ask cuz prob can't use oneclick cuz my build is to new. again, don't mean to be a pest. cut me off whenever you feel like it.
[Captivate General] studacris:
Roms are all in one package kernel and modems are included.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vincedoggy:
I just bought the Nexus S and went ahead to root it.It rooted and i did flash a new online kitchen custom Rom from android modaco, and it was stuck at booting loop. Somehow do some searching and i was able to bring it back to stock. But now the baseband version is NO DGSXXKB1 SO WHAT IS THIS VERSION?

my Nexus s is canada version, from the fastboot i can see this:

BOOTLOADER I9020XXKA3

BASEBAND I9020XXKB1.

i have try to flash many modded custom rom but nothing success, everytime it stuck at google logo and nothing happen.

can anyone help me to solve this problem?

how can i RETURN TO STOCK baseband?

thx in advance.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vincedoggy:
can anyone answer or help my thread please?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VietJR:
Flash it with the attatched file below,you will get the stock baseband back.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vincedoggy:
Solve.

you are the man. Now i can return to completely stock.

Thank you for ur helping.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidquesada:
hey can u help me, I Can't get 3g, my baseband said something like "NO DGSXXXKB1"

I tried flashing the file u posted, but I'm still getting edge only..

now my baseband says DGSXXXKB2
[Nook Color General] Hurleyman5000@gmail.com:
Hey guys I am not getting a lock screen on anytime I flash got any ideas?
[Nook Color General] lyam23:
Is it turned on in the Tablet Settings sub-menu in CM7 settings?
[G Tablet General] adampdx:
Has anyone seen this?

Engadget aricle
[G Tablet General] dcarr622:
Pretty sure it's being covered here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1065220
[Xoom General] roo5ter:
Thanks for any help regarding this question.

I'm working on a pilot program to run our point-of-sale software from a Xoom via Citrix Receiver. The software is running smoothly across Citrix and now we want to be able to swipe customer credit cards in person. I'm not looking for a Square-like management solution, because we're trying to use our own software and not go through a third party app.

For many years, MagTek has made USB credit card swipe readers that emulate a USB keyboard. If I plug one into a PC, I can swipe card data and the reader literally "keys" in the data. I have many of these in production and no drivers are ever needed.

My question is--with an OTG cable, could the USB swipe reader work on the Xoom? Obviously it wouldn't be pretty and I would have to rig up a folio case to contain the swipe dongle and USB cables... so if there are any other swipe readers that will work, I'm all ears.

Thanks again.
[Xoom General] 760hacker:
Are you set on USB connectivity? You could certainly use an Audio Jack reader from Sage Payment Solutions to swipe cards in a fully encrypted fashion.
[Xoom General] KerryG:
USB on Android is not a good solution as very very few devices (read that as basically none today) support USB Host mode. Your best bet is to use the Mic jack like square does...hell...use their reader and your own software and avoid the hardware costs.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] senotrius:
the problem:bricked phone

how:tried flashin to darky's 9.5 using rom manager without precautions

feature before flashin:1.using speedmod cwm k13e 5oohz big memory version,cwm enabled,froyo stock 2.2..ddjp6

2.lagfix enabled,file and data system was converted to ext4

3.rooted,bln enabled along with other tweaks of speedmod

now:unable toget into recovery,phone gets stuck in samsung gt i9000 screen...download mode possible..

should i use odin to flash back using download mode??wat precautions i shud take..i mean phone is rooted plus lagfix but i cant enter recovery to unlagfix....need help guys :(:(:(:confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themate1987:
You can flash darky rescue center. Download it. All instructions are in darky zip file.