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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankie253:
Ok, so if I shut off my data will I still get calls and txt, not really worried about email
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Yes. turning off data will not affect calls or texts. It will stop widgets and apps that use any kind've updating, like weather, email, etc from updating, but that's why I keep WiFi on. There are WiFi hotspots almost everywhere these days it seems, and having it on doesn't drain my battery at all.

Of course, if you need to check your email or something, turn data on, check it, then turn it back off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dboy352:
My phone today alone has lasted me all day and I'm at 31% right now. That's off the charger now for 14 hours with WiFi scanning, 3g on all day, about 1 hour of voice calls, 38 text, brightness 100%, email checking every 30 minutes, gmail update in real time, and installing a few apps and downloading them. I'm running misfits speedy rc1 port and its been the best I've seen so far. I'm also on stock battery from last August. Most I got before this was about 8 hours with same usage.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TommyNgo215:
Perhaps its an app on your phone that causing this. I would wipe everything and start off fresh and see how long it'd last. Then only install the must have app first slowly to see what the problem is.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankie253:
Thank you, I've been doing this now and see a big dif
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fdavila17:
A ROM with best battery life is Ethernal Prophecy any version, I was like u searching for.something with great battery life and I'm impressed with Eternal ROM man it seems.like the phone is ain't using battery at all (heavy use) try it and let us know I know ull be amazed
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankie253:
Will do, thanx for the info
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankie253:
I just flashed the tiamat kernal, seems really nice, best ao far, where do I find this viperboys script, or is that tied into the tiamat kernal
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovell75040:
If you want best battery life, don't use a gingerbread rom. I have tried numerous rom/kernel/radio combinations over the past year. I am a moderate to heavy user and the following gives me at least 2 days use. My wife is a light user and she gets 3-4 days use.

Baseband version: 2.15.00.11.19

Kernel version: 2.6.37.27-netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-havs-less-sbc

ROM: Calkulin's EViO ROM v1.8

PRI Version: 1.77_003

JuiceDefender Ultimate: Mobile data enabled, wifi preferred, Location enabled, Schedule enabled (30m), Night enabled (12:30am-6am)

Android Assistant: Auto Start enabled, Auto Boost

Don't run social network apps. They'll kill your batter life. I used TI backup to uninstall all traces of social network apps (no ill side effects)

Download BatteryCalibration from the Market (free). Run it and following the instructions. Repeat once per month.

Using this setup, charging your battery with your phone ON vs. OFF will provide you with about 10% more charge capacity.

I have a stock battery. Using this setup and following a full charge, my battery was at 99% when I awoke in the morning. Using the above setup, I saw no advantage of using setcpu. It only made my phone sluggish. I have never measured my phone's standby time (my only phone), but based on my wife's usage, you should get 4-5 days standby.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
Well here is something that I hope is the start of some hardcore hacking.

This is an ODIN that I created of stock-rooted ED1 for the DROID Charge. In the course of making this, I bricked my charge (first attempt failed in ODIN) and then created a working ODIN that un-bricked it. I then upgraded to ED2 (I confirmed that I lost root as well) so I could test if this will downgrade back to ED1 and it worked and I have root again!

Instructions for ODIN (for those who are unfamiliar with it):

1. Open ODIN.

2. Put the phone into download mode. Do this by powering off your phone, pulling out the battery, and then holding volume down while connecting it to your pc. A giant yellow triangle should be on the phone's screen and it should say 'Downloading...' ODIN should say 'Added!!' and one of the boxes will be yellow and say '0:[COM#]'

3. Click the button labeled 'PDA' and locate the file you are wanting to flash. For emphasis: YOU MUST USE THE PDA BUTTON!

4. Click start. Do not disconnect the phone while it is flashing, it can cause some serious damage.

5. Wait.

6. When finished, unplug the phone, put the battery back in and power up the phone.

Every time I've flashed this, the phone booted straight into recovery. Just select reboot (press home) and it boots up normally. It should probably be recommended to wipe data and cache afterwards, but I didn't and all of my data stayed in tact.

Multiple people have reported that this works. Use at your own risk. I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone if this doesn't work.

Thanks to imnuts for the HOW-TO thread on creating ODIN builds.

Download here.

Download ODIN here.

to my redbull habit if you feel the need.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Zeek215:
I feel dumb for asking, but what are you using to flash this to the phone? I've never used anything other than simple one click root programs, so if you could give a little more detail I'd be happy to try it out. :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] mejdam:
Download Odin here: http://goo.gl/52aY1

Download Drivers here: http://goo.gl/Tbcca

Download stockrootedED1-20110517.tar.md5 http://goo.gl/kD3Ld

1. Open Odin3 v1.30

2. Remove battery,Hold Vol down. Connect USB to computer and phone then press power. It should take you to a yellow android.

3. Click PDA Button

4. choose stockrootedED1-20110517.tar.md5

5. Click on the Start button

6. Don't Touch and allow the phone to reboot

7. If its taking a while to start DONT PANIC, its perfectly normal
[Verizon Droid Charge] Zeek215:
Thanks for the guide, but it doesn't do anything for me, seems like Odin doesn't even know my phone is there. When I plug it in I get the Verizon media manager link to pop up though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
I edited my first post with a link to ODIN and instructions. I guess I'm a little slow with the typing because you beat me to it medjam, but you left out the step of putting the phone into download mode.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Zeek215:
Works for me, though the first time I rebooted I didn't have any network reception. Another reboot fixed that.

Wish I could get rid of the "system update available" pop up, but at least I'm rooted again. Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] das7771:
that's awesome...I gonna try this right now....If i brick my phone I will just swap it out a vzw..They are tarded and can't tell the difference any ways. Will report back once I finish.
[Verizon Droid Charge] das7771:
Once rooted go into your build.prop file and every thing that says ED1 change it to ED2...that should quit the nagging to update. Then restart your phone

Credit goes to Jt3 for that info as he posted it in the Charge forum at android central.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
AWESOME!!! So glad to help!
[Verizon Droid Charge] ITGuy11:
Very nice!

I know that this will kick start the development of this device now that everybody can haz root.
[Verizon Droid Charge] streetlightman:
so just to be clear here, this will bring you back from ED2 down to ED1. Does this method require you to have already rooted while you were on ED1 and then upgraded to ED2 and lost it or will this work for everyone?

Thanks in advance
[Verizon Droid Charge] Zeek215:
Should work for everyone. My Charge that I just ran it on was never rooted before.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jt1134:
They certainly can tell. Don't send back a phone because you broke it. That makes ALL of us look like assholes and promotes the disturbing trend of locking bootloaders. Be an adult.
[Verizon Droid Charge] das7771:
OH OK...Well let me make change my statemet to be more adult like. If i brick my phone I will just go buy another full price so I don't seem like an asshole. I hope this pleases you Sir....
[Verizon Droid Charge] teddykgb715:
Hey guys. First off, I'm psyched to see this come out.

When I try to do it, I get a driver installation failure telling me that the serial driver was not found and then ODIN never seems to see the phone. This is on W7.

Any help?
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
Did you install the drivers that came with the phone?
[Verizon Droid Charge] teddykgb715:
I thought so, I can connect to USB storage, etc. I'll check it out.
[Verizon Droid Charge] das7771:
Well this worked perfectly only thing that was different from your instructions was that my com ID was '0[COM12] instead of '0:[COM7]...So no one freak out if yours if different it's just what is being used by your comp. Much thanks to the OP for this..You need to set up a donation link so I can donate for this outstanding work.
[Verizon Droid Charge] teddykgb715:
I think the issue is that my damn work laptop is locked down pretty tight so it won't let all the drivers install. Unlike many here, I'm actually not an IT professional so I can't circumvent it. I'll just have to try it at home tonight.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
You're welcome! I'm very glad to help get this development stuff going. Also, there should be a donate button in the OP.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dulo117:
MD5 issue

I am having a problem when I try and start Odin process I get an error that says "MD5 hash value is invalid". Has anyone else had this problem? I tried to re download the MD5 file from a couple of sources and all gave me the same error.

Thank you for any help!
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
that means its a bad download link or a corrupted file... what are you trying to download? maybe I can upload a copy or link you
[Verizon Droid Charge] Theteflondon:
So I tried to do this tutorial for this phone today like we were discussing, I got a fail now the phone wont boot so I tried going back to the tar file from this page and I get a fail also im not sure what is going wrong i originally used this tutorial to get root and it worked fine. Now i can't get it back even to what I had before. Please help me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
ok well where is it failing and what files are you trying to flash?

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] Theteflondon:
First i followed this tutorial successfully got root then i wanted to flash the voodoo kernel and get permanent CWM recovery so I followed this tutorial:

http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-t...and-clockworkmod-recovery-installation-guide/

I downloaded the files and flashed the tar file using odin. I got the same md5 issue as the other guy did so not i just want to get the phone running normally so I tried to flash the tar file from the first page of this tutorial and I get a fail again. What do you advise that I do?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
ok so what is your phone running on now? the links in that page are dated so they may be bad files... if you want to stay stock and just install a voodoo kernel to root and have CWM I would suggest one of these:

Imnuts PBJ voodoo kernel

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1104634

or Imoseyons Lean voodoo kernel

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php...eanKernel-minimalistic-kernel-(v1.2.2-9-8-11)

if the phone is just bootlooping because of a bad odin flash you might need to go back to stock EE4 with this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1108115 and this PIT file http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34782489/charge.pit

you can flash those kernels by odining this CWM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1112804 first and booting into it right after you're done in odin
[Verizon Droid Charge] Theteflondon:
I used the Samsung PST Flashing Utility to unbrick the phone so currently its running stock with the ota update. Could I still use these kernels?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
yeah shouldn't be a problem, I've always just used Odin
[Verizon Droid Charge] Theteflondon:
Will these kernels give me root?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
they should, occasionally the root may not take or the app doesn't show up and its no biggie just flash superuser in CWM
[Verizon Droid Charge] lane32x:
Why is this thread still open? It seems like more people have trouble with this method than with current roms/images.

And it is horribly outdated at this point.

Verizon has rolled out a newer version of Froyo (and Gingerbread is right around the corner). Rooting methods and stock/debloated ODIN images are available for the newer EE4 and Gingerbread as well.
[Verizon Droid Charge] teddykgb715:
Can someone estimate how long it took? I'm incredibly impatient so I'm thinking about running home over lunch to do this...:)
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
The few times I ran it last night all took 2m 49s to flash. Probably depends on your computer speed though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Zeek215:
It took mine no more than a few minutes, I think it was around 5 minutes to be exact.
[Verizon Droid Charge] teddykgb715:
Thanks guys, that will do nicely!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
Did not work for me...

I've used Odin a lot in the past on my Fascinate with no problems, other than the ones I messed up on.

Odin failed to flash the as soon as it started flashing the file. Got the phone to computer icon on the screen.

Could someone post the Odin "restore to stock files"

That would help with any future screw ups.

Thanks in advance.
[Verizon Droid Charge] teddykgb715:
Worked perfectly for me! Thanks!

Excited for the flood of Roms!
[Verizon Droid Charge] JKChad:
Mine justed finished up. Only took 2mins 43secs. I could have really used this for some stuff at work yesterday! This great.. I was gettin a little antsy about selling my fascinate before I had my charge rooted. Thanks for all the work.

I would also like to request a stock, none rooted, ED1 odin. I am, unfortunately, having an ocassional buzz in my ear piece. So, this phone may be going back if it continues.

edit: How do I boot into stock recovery. I'm not having any luck with the methods I've tried.

chad
[Verizon Droid Charge] NeutronBomb:
Now if someone could just find a way to force the phone into LTE only mode I'd definitely keep it. That's the only deal breaker for me at the moment. I really like the phone just hope that can be worked out quickly.
[Verizon Droid Charge] burningembers:
Holy crap, thank you OP, you rock!
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
I had my phone bricked like yours where it would only show the phone-to-computer icon twice last night and this brought it back both times. I would've tried to run the ODIN again.

The only way we'll get the real samsung restore to stock files is through a verizon employee leaking it or a leak directly from samsung.

I haven't figured out the manual boot into recovery yet, but 'adb reboot recovery' works if you know how to use adb.

Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] teddykgb715:
UPDATE: nevermind, reboot did the trick!

Can someone tell me if there is a trick to editing the build.prop that I'm missing?

I went through and changed all the references to ED1 to ED2 so I won't get the reminder anymore, but it is still coming up when I go to check for updates? Or should it always do that it just won't pop up on it's own?
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
If you edit anything within the system I think you have to reboot for it to take effect.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
i posted this at AC aswell

Otherwise good job on getting this made seems like people are flashing it cleanly
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
I used Odin 1.3. Does your phone look like it's losing power and disconnecting during the flash? I was having an issue like this so I put the battery in and it seemed to do the trick. It's just common practice to leave the battery out during an Odin flash to prevent the device from rebooting when it finishes as sometimes it's required to boot directly into recovery after flashing.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
I had the battery out...

Thanks!!!
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
So it worked?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
I will try later...

And post
[Verizon Droid Charge] Black-Falcon:
It worked just dandy for me. Currently on ED1 with root glory.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
Ok it worked now..I think I had a download problem with the first time I got the .tar file. I downloaded it again and it worked as expected.

Thanks for your help and the upload wynalazca.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Poloasis:
Always check the md5 sig file
[Verizon Droid Charge] CJNYC:
editing build.prop

Can someone please explain to me the best method to edit the build.prop file? Thanks!

EDIT: I think I figured out why I can't do this. When I go into Titanium, it's telling me it can't get root access. I installed the stock rooted file from the first page of the thread as instructed. Is there anything else I need to do for root? I did confirm that I'm now running ED1. Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
You need to install the superuser app from the market. It's free.

To edit build.prop, I use rootexplorer. build.prop is in /system/. I just longpress on build.prop and select 'open in text editor' and change it that way. You then press menu -> save and it automatically saves the original as a backup. Then just reboot to enable your edits.
[Verizon Droid Charge] CJNYC:
Thank you!!! This did it!!!
[Verizon Droid Charge] sleeplessninja:
This is one grateful ninja. Thank you!! The Verizon Store Guy Installed the OTA while he was setting up my phone. Was pretty upset to come home and find it out but patience as always when it comes to rooting pays off.

I will make a video of this entire process within the next day or so. I've been doing Xoom videos but time to give the Charge some attention as well.
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
Thank you!
[Verizon Droid Charge] dgm3:
Have been searching for this since release day.. THANK YOU!!!
[Verizon Droid Charge] psalm462:
Can you let us know when you post that video? I am getting mine in a week and I have been following this night and day, but as I read more and more, this seems complicated. I have the incredible and it was way too easy with unrevoked. For someone not in the technology field, this sounds Chinese, but I really need the hot spot. So help us noobs out with the video!

Thanks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
You don't need to do the process in this thread. Just DON'T install the ED2 update when you activate your phone. After that just follow the instructions found here to root and then do the build.prop edits if you want to get rid of the annoying 'update your phone' notification.
[Verizon Droid Charge] MarkyD311:
I must be missing something, but when I do the first step for Odin (pull battery, plug phone into computer while holding volume down), my XP machine can't find drivers. I've plugged the Charge into the computer while it's powered up, and it installed drivers then...I can't find any drivers on Samsung's site for this phone. What am I missing? Odin doesn't see it at all.

thanks in advance.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
Try this link for Droid Charge Driver

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&drKey=1359&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fxdaforums.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D1080269&v=1&libid=1305832579669&out=http%3A%2F%2Fdiegomejia.globat.com%2Fandroid%2Fsamsung%2Fdroidcharge%2FSamsung_Mobile_USB_Driver.exe&title=%5BQ%5D%20Charge%20Driver%3F%20-%20xda-developers&txt=http%3A%2F%2Fdiegomejia.globat.com%2Fandroid...USB_Driver.exe
[Verizon Droid Charge] bunklung:
Huh?

What is the difference between:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13913056&postcount=1

(OP)

and

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13914271&postcount=3

(3rd post)

Thanks.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bunklung:
How do we revert to stock with Odin? Does anyone have a stock non-rooted Odin image *IF* we have to bring our phones back to stock and/or the VZW store?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
The best thing you could do now is flash the Odin file that's on this thread then install the ota ed2 update. That will kill the root.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
Nothing. The 3rd poster made thier post about odin while I was editing the same info into the OP in response to the 2nd post. They later added mirrors of the files.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ClarkSt:
If someone has a rooted ED1, they could dd the boot and system partitions to an image file and post them; then we could dd them back if need be, and upgrade to ED2, like someone mentioned, to get rid of root. No?
[Verizon Droid Charge] ClarkSt:
My phone is updated to ED2. I am booted into recovery right now, but there's no option for updating from a zip on the sdcard. But I can do a "wipe/factory reset". Any idea if this will take me back to ED1, or just to a clean ED2?

Thanks! I hate to do this for nothing. (note: to select something in the recovery console, use the Home key, not the power key)
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
It'll keep you on ED2. To get back to ED1, you have to follow the steps in the OP.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
the update doesnt fail?
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
Update did not fail

I installed the update and it worked. Then I flashed the downgrade Odin file. I was toying with the idea of exchanging my phone at Verizon. So I installed the update before I went in the store. But I decided to keep it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] scubaz71:
Great thread. But I was wondering since I am new to this how do I do this process on a mac? I have all the file downloaded but the Odin file is in foreign script. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ClarkSt:
Well, my ED2 phone is now back to ED1 and rooted using Odin. It was simple and quick. Thanks very much to the OP! Also, changing default.props to replace ED1 with ED2 made the update notification go away after a reboot, (though really, it did give me the notification once, immediately after the first reboot, but never again).

Really hoping to see some themes and such. Whoever does the GUI for Samsung ought to be drawn and quartered.
[Verizon Droid Charge] diverbelow:
I don't think the Charge does voice over LTE or video LTE like the LG Revolution can do. I know the LTE is for data and CDMA is still for voice and 3G. I know you can force 3G. If I am wrong, I will be happy to say I'm wrong and it would be awesome to have the Charge VoLTE
[Verizon Droid Charge] distortedloop:
I haven't done Odin on my Charge (I managed to stop the sales clerk from upgrading me to ED2), but am quite familiar with it from my SGS i9000 days.

It's not very Mac friendly at all. I usually used an WinXP laptop that was laying around.

There is a Mac application (command line, low level stuff) called Heimdall that replicates all the Odin commands. You should be able to use it, but again, I've not tested.

Also, some people report success running Odin in a VMWare session.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DroidXcon:
Ive not known anyone that got heimdall working on a Mac if someone does id like to know this
[Verizon Droid Charge] scubaz71:
Thanks for the info. Looks like I will locate a pc and give Odin a try. Thanks again.
[Verizon Droid Charge] diverbelow:
Thank you.

Followed the steps last night to downgrade to ED1, root then change the build.prop. Removing the battery was something new to me since I came from an Droid.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mattybaby:
best method to edit the build.prop file

I downloaded SGS Tools 4.7.3 from the market and used the .prop editor to edit the /system/build.prop file. Use the menu button and select block/unblock to change all of the ED1 entries to ED2 to avoid the update popup.

Side note - I downgraded to ED1 succesfully using the process in this thread. I do have the SupertUser app installed which asked me if SGS tools wanted root permission.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Chelseablue:
Excelent work mate, works like a charm!

Thanks for this
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
Is there a way I can stop the "there is a firmware update" thing from constantly popping up after flashing this? As suggested earlier in this thread, I went in and changed the line in the build.prop to ED2, but it still keeps nagging me.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Chelseablue:
The line? There are 4 or 5 that need to be changed.