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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
I think I was flashing the bml images from the dump thread, but not sure which worked. Now that I have a working stock, I can dump the recovery. Do we know exactly where to pull the recovery from? All the directions I can find are trying to use the mtd parts, which we don't have.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
The crc and md5 of the recovery ayo pulled matches the dump thread
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
im going to make an Video tutorial right now and put it on youtube.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
K.

Im at wrk so i cant help much
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
that is a good idea.....but i did following ur step exactly but it won't work....

i think it has something to do with recovery.bin....because it always stop at that step....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
Try flashing the recovery tar from the restoring stock recovery thread. Also sduvick could u upload the one u used for bml8 maybe its how i tared it

tar -H ustar -c is what i used

he did his differently

Also perhaps we should include boot.bin and sbl.bin next tar
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] stafly17:
We need some custom roms... ASAP

Im willing to pay someone to create a rom with an overclock of more than 1.2..... the sidekick is too slow right now.

CYANOGEN WHERE ARE YOU???????????????????
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
Damn threadjackers!!

Overclocking is done from the kernal.. not rom.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
I was using tar -cvf so you could try that
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
what bml images did you say may have got it to work ? and how did you flash it ?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Not sure, I flashed a bunch, and by tarring it with tar -cvf and pda
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
nothing happen so far......:(:(:(
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] krylon360:
Try this. This is what we use for the Vibrant, and what I used to make the SGS4G Stock ODIN Image for those guys

1) Download and install Cygwin (Windows users)
2) adb shell
3) su
4) dd if=/dev/block/stl9 of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs bs=4096
5) dd if=/dev/block/stl11 of=/sdcard/cache.rfs bs=4096
6) dd if=/dev/block/bml7 of=/sdcard/zImage bs=4096
7) dd if=/dev/block/bml12 of=/sdcard/modem.bin bs=4096

8) Mount your sd card and copy the four files you created to c:\cygwin\home\USERNAME
9) Start cygwin from the Windows start menu
10) In the cygwin window type:

tar --format=ustar -cf FILENAME.tar factoryfs.rfs cache.rfs modem.bin zImage

11) Flash this to your phone using Odin
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
we types all the code in Cygwin? my problem is my phone get stuck at the logo tmobile...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
just used your method... flashing now. *crosses fingers*

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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
thats essentially the same method we used minus param.lfs and recovery.bin
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
all thread is complete...but i still stuck at the logo tmobile...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
With pit or without?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i did it without pit....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
I am speculating. Do not listen to me.

Perhaps you need to use the pit with repartition ...

Wait for others to comment.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] The Pope of Dope:
I wanna be like blu
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
Im off work in 5 hours if nobody fixes it by then ill upload something more complete...

Edit: yes repartition with the pit amd flash full tar
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i flash it with odin...i always said and auto reboot, but it still come to the logo tmobile then stuck at that step.....anyone done any thing....?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
Blu agrees you should flash the full tar with pit and repartition.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
also if you flashed anything in the phone slot by accident ull quite possibly need a modem.tar to flash there (i sent one to sduvick)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
Maybe its working and he's testing it
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
can you send one to me....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i did it with pit + tar....but it came to the blank screen.....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
http://www.multiupload.com/L5W1B8FTBE

I think thats it im on phone

Flash in pda

(or extract and flash modem.bin in phone) - thanks skeeterslint
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
it still not work....i think i gonna give up now....:(:(
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
Ill be home in 3 hours to help
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
yeah..please look into it and help me....thanks a lot...i have to go to sleep now....thanks all of you guys....:D:D
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Emil9727:
I am so looking foward to xda love for the sk4g :-)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
Unfortunately we made a few stupid mistakes,

getting it sorted now

for now heres a tar without a recovery.bin

download link: Sk4G_Stock1.zip

unzip before using (I didn't trim any padding so I compressed it)

If this doesnt work for those of you that re-partitioned let me know I have one last resort.

p.s. thanks skeeterslint
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i just got back from work....i gonna try it now and see what going to happen....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
*Fingers crossed*
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
thanks mate....

it success but the problem is still....i flashed it and it reboot the phone. come directly to recovery system.....i choose reset the the phone and it come to logo screen....the screen is flashing at this time.....still can't go through
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
I'll Pull OP Links until we have another method confirmed working..

got a PM to remove .. OP Links disabled til further notice
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i flashed the full package....re-partition and auto-reboot at the same time....and the problem now is whenever it reboot....it goes directly to recovery mode....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Can you try flashing the full package without a repartition and without the PIT?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
you mean the one blu just sent me or the original one at page 1
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
The one he sent you, the original one is gone.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i just did it and it have the same problem....always go directly to recovery mode....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
My guess is that the factoryfs is not a good image. I found an image from some earlier dumps, i'll tar it and upload it and you can try that. Hold tight, shouldn't take too long.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
I agree

It seems to be flashing fine, as you now have a working recovery.

It must be error in the factoryfs.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
recovery work fine for me now......now it just the factoryfs that we need to fix...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Try this: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TWAUGSTT

I tarred the factoryfs I have from earlier with tar -cvf factoryfs.tar factoryfs.rfs

It wasn't the same as the factoryfs from Blu's post yesterday, so maybe this one will work.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
Good...

Just a thought...

Could we package a tar that will replace only the stock recovery for those who need it?

It seems we could do this now..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
downloading..............
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
BiJunior, what did you flash to get your recovery back? the full package that was posted yesterday by Blu didn't have a recovery.bin in it...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i use the one he sent me 2day+ the pit.....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
The one he sent you didn't have any recovery in it... Interesting. Perhaps because Clockwork flashes to a different spot, by erasing Clockwork it just goes back to stock recovery? So on that note, there's not a real recovery.tar that fixes anything. Perhaps Blu can let me know what partition he mapped the recovery to in his PIT, I can tar the correct partition that would effectively wipe Clockwork. It's most likely bml8, but I'd like to verify.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
yeah! the download file take a long time to download...

do you have the same recovery with me...? i see it work fine...up/down using volume, and enter using power button....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Is it ClockworkMod recovery or stock recovery?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i think it is a stock recovery....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
bijunior,

when you boot into recovery does it say "recovery 2E" or "recovery 3E"

Those are stock recoveries.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Stock recovery would be blue, Clockwork Mod is green
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
recovery 3E. and blue color,so it surely is a stock recovery,,,,,
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Ok, so then either my assumption that it never over-wrote the original recovery is right, or one of the recovery.bins that you were given worked and flashed it back. Did you have any of the recovery.bin/tar that actually finished in Odin?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i don't think so, the only thing work on my computer so far is the pit and the stock that blu sent to me.....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] skeeterslint:
Both kernels on this device will get you into recovery since more then likely the recovery binary it is loading is in /system/bin at least thats how it looked when I tried to pull initramfs out of the bml8 file that blu gave me this morning. Also I don't think it's possible to rewrite pitfile it's a binary file.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
BiJunior: out of curiosity inside the stock recovery can you try wiping data/factory reset and wipe cache and format internal sd card.

also

one.click.stock.flasher.&.root.uninstaller-sk4g

sduvick: after you repartitioned with the pit did you manually flash boot.bin and sbl.bin etc? Perhaps a full tar is in order with those included. It would also be nice if we can pull datafs and cache again from a freshly wiped system from recovery.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i did try it but the problem is still.....im still waiting for the file that sdu sent me.....i have been 3 hours waiting for it to download.....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
sdu! can you post in a different link, i tried to download it since you posted...but it hasnt' done until now....:(:(:(
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
sduvick where did you get the factoryfs.rfs for your tar? I used the one from OP and dont think theres another one floating around?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
Blu: I'm not entirely sure, it just happened to be somewhere in my recycle bin... haha.

Bijunior, I'm not at my computer right now, if someone else can download it and reup it? Otherwise I'll be home in about 2-3 hours and can reup it then.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
anyone with a european sidekick4g want to re-pull all the images for us? Perhaps the partitions are different between tmobile-US and worldwide like in other t-mobile phones

also heres a last resort tar (unzip it first) that includes everything, If the european phones are in fact different, this will destroy you. Also if anything goes wrong, it will destroy you. Moral of the story, this tar can destroy you so flash at your own risk.

link removed
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i don't have the phone with me right now....i gonna try it late....but my phone was bought in US t-mobile....not the european once....so maybe it will be ok....

sdu: yes, please re-up it for me....thanks
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
BiJunior: http://www.multiupload.com/5Y7VO2JJ47

Reupped.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
thanks a lot....gonna try later...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
after flashing tar. nothing change on my phone...it still going to recovery mode...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
What options have you tried that are in recovery?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i flash it in pda slot....and flash it with pit as well
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
not from odin, but the options in the stock recovery from your phone?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
there are only 4 options....reboot, install update.zip, wipe data, wipe cache....i have try all of them
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
bad news....after i tried fiel tar that blu gave me....my phone is totally death,,,,i can't go in to download mode any more......when i press power button, the screen turn on with the blank page....when i release the power button, the phone it off....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
uh wtf ?! can you check that tar and see if its an boot.bin or sbl

Edit:Those are the only things you should really worry about otherwise your device is still recoverable.

also, sorry for my absence so much guys i still have school (last two weeks, anyway) but this weekend its all android business ..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
my phone is doens't work anymore...how can i check it.....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
To check that, extract the .tar ( you can use winrar or 7zip) and look to see what's in it. if there's a boot or sbl, then you might be bricked. What tar did blu send you?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
there are both boot.bin and cache.rfs, factoryfs.rfs,sbl.bin ......so it totally hopeless now right...?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
looks like it. Because there was a boot and an sbl in that flash, if those were in any way bad, then it's possible that it's bricked. If you can't get into download mode at all, it sounds like it's bricked to me, but I could be wrong.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
yeah! i think so,,,,,,so it seem like there is no chance for me at all.....its a bad day for me....:(:(
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
You could try going over to the T-mobile store and see if they'll replace it for you, it's worth a shot if you're bricked anyways.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
there is no tmobile in switzerland.....last time i have a G1 and it can fix if the phone has brick...i don't know that anymore can do that with this phone or not...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
well from what i learned after having my share of rooted and modded android phones was we never flash the boot.bin and sbl cause people were bricking phones doing so.. so i always avoided messing with them. with the state that the phone is is.. if im correct; when you click power it brightens a bit but is still black and blank ? also the other buttons do nothing ? this happened to someone on the vibrant forums after flashing boot.bin and sbl.

the only thing that i know will help is if you have Premium Handset Protection on your tmobile account i can guide you through getting them to send you a new one. and returning that one free of charge.

Edit.. i see your in switzerland :(. . still you can do it over the phone with Premium Handset Protection
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
From my experience with rooting and modding, I was always fearful of Odin, mostly because it's the only real way to brick yourself. In my mind, this confirms that. Perhaps we should wait for a working recovery to flash from? I'd be happy to make an update.zip, but it would require a working recovery to flash from.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i bought this phone on ebay so i dont know how to get a premium handset protection....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
all of the epic tars have boot, sbl, param.lfs zImage, factoryfs, cache, datafs, efs, and modem. I just packed all the files I had for a complete flash as a last resort possibility (since sduvick was flashing random bml files after he odin'd and his phone started working). I have heard of a way to get into download mode if your phone is completely dead on the epic forums, they say to take out your battery and connect the phone to your pc for a bit, then try to turn it on and get back in.

I still don't get whats wrong with the flash, all the files hash match with the other dump as well so its not like the boot and sbl was corrupted, and I zip'd the tar so that couldn't have got corrupted via the download..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
Odin is actually pretty safe if you know what your doing. its actually one of the only ways to recover your system if your stuck at bootscreen or something and has been very handy for me with my vibrant.. without odin i would have went through 5+ Vibrants. as long as you dont flash those two files atleast .. though nobody ever loads them into our tars so i would be fearless of flashing. bootbin and secondary boot loader can be very dangerous and honestly im pretty sure there is no way to get past that as none of the other buttons get recognized and power does nothing ..

Edit:@Blu Idk maybe the Epic is different from my phone but the state he is in it seems to be bricked as this happened to someone in the vibrant forums .. the devs said those files were the cause of his brick.. Though idk im just going by what i learned it could be different in this case
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
but when i connect the phone to computer without battery, it automatic turn on the blank screen, without pressing anything....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ayoteddy:
yes .. brick symptom :(
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
does anythign work in that blank screen. adb reboot download, manually going to download?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
nothing work on the blank screen. how can i do adb reboot download...?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] cxdatl:
unbricked my phone

I managed to unbrick my phone but i need a working zimage for this to work. Can someone provide me with one.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
you have a way to unbrick it?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
cxdatl: Based on instructions from Krylon on page 6, I dumped my zImage using:

dd if=/dev/block/bml7 of=/sdcard/zImage bs=4096

tar --format=ustar -cf FILENAME.tar zImage

http://www.multiupload.com/RU1GG0MU1G

Disclaimer: Not responsible bla bla bla you know the drill.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] cxdatl:
just bricked it again. I'll keep you posted.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
How'd you brick it? From my tar?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] cxdatl:
yes last resort

Sorry i miss read that. No not from your tar.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
any one have any ways to unbircck my phone please update to me.....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
pulled last resort download link nobody use it.

Adb is a tool in the android SDK. If you do not have the SDK you can download this zip:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13645092&postcount=19

then navigate to the extracted zip folder (in windows it's CD C:\path\to\folder) then type

adb devices (it'll tell you if your phone is recognized at all)

adb reboot download

If this works you can also use redbend_ua to flash bml files over the odin flash. (the batch file flashes bml8 over bml8 so read it for syntax)

edit: also for an actual working odin can somebody boot in to stock recovery (wipe data and cache if you can) then pull the factoryfs.rfs cache.rfs and the others from there. The original pull was probably from when the phone was running and possibly is corrupted too.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
I don't think adb works from stock recovery? I could be wrong, I'll try it out when I get home in around an hourish. Is there any alternative if that doesn't work?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
If it doesnt you could use the broken clockworkmod, mount the sdcard using adb shell, pull the images, then run my 1 click uninstaller.

Or we can play the waiting game until a real cwm is released
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
Did anyone try the new cwm 3.0.2.5 for the e pic??Sent from my SGH-T839 using XDA App
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mattpall:
Or did anyone try the method used in the infuse 4g development section... just brainstorming...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
BLU: then navigate to the extracted zip folder (in windows it's CD C:\path\to\folder) then type

adb devices (it'll tell you if your phone is recognized at all)

adb reboot download

I DONT UNDERSTAND THAT PART......I THINK it not gonna recognized anything....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
If you're at a black screen, I'm almost positive that ADB won't recognize it, but if you have nothing left to lose, you might as well try it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i don't understand how it work....cuz when i extract file from zip....i can't run adb. file..

i have nothing to lose now....so i will try any thing....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
If you are on windows

Click Start -> Run

type CMD

cd C:\path\to\folder example: C:\users\blu\desktop\oneclick

adb is inside that folder so you type

adb devices

if its recognized at all you can go from there
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
it not recognized anything....:o
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jlom117:
id try this rom out but i dont have the phone. my brother has it and he wants me to put a different rom the stock. is this a stable rom or is it still in "beta"?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] skeeterslint:
This isn't a rom its supposed to be a way to get back to stock if you have a problem.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jlom117:
oh my bad. well are there any good roms for it?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] mustang9438:
Its being worked on. We need to get a working CWM for the phone. The current CWM is pretty buggy. But people are working on it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
nothing news.....?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] blu9987:
In the epic under the battery cover by the camera lens theres a tiny hole that has a button inside that you press with a pen and does a hardware reset and fixes bricked epics (according to one of the devs). Maybe theres a hidden button like this on the sidekick?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] BiJunior:
i don't think there is a button for sidekick, i had try the hardware reset following tmobile instruction but it still not work
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
i can't get into download mode! trackpad + vol. down + power either goes into CWM or tries to boot up. i soft bricked just by wiping cache and dalvik cache in CWM(got bored i guess,lol). when i try to boot up it goes past the tmobile sidekick screen then gives 1 quick haptic feedback followed by 3 quick haptic vibrations, and does that over and over...

glad i have my G2!

update: tried one last time and somehow got in! trying Odin now...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] sduvick:
the 1 quick then 3 vibrations is a force close. try just trackpad+vol down?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
it keeps failing right at the end, even after just doing pit and repartition. how long does the repartition take? when i finally got it to happen, it only took 12 seconds until it said "pass". even after that, the full package flash failed right at the end....may have to give this a rest til later....
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
hey guys, i think i am in the same boat as bijunior, before he flashed the potentially fatal tar...... i odined the updated images, and now i can get into the blue stock recovery, but nothing else. i had the idea to rename the stock deodexed rom posted in another thread to update.zip and try to update, but it said the signature verification failed.... is there any way to resign it, or anything like that, so that the stock recovery will let it go thru?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] troby86:
The deodexed ROM was only for CWM Recovery, are you able to get to that? Then attempt to flash. If you are trying to flash with stock recovery, it will fail. Try to Odin back to stock again.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
I can't quite Odin all the way back, lol. is it do-able with what we have in this thread? I would be stoked if I could.

I am at where bijunior got to.... I can get into stock recovery but nothing else. yeah, the ROM I tried to flash was the deodexed one from another thread, I even tried to sign it in ROM Kitchen, but it still wouldn't go thru.

Sent from my HTC Vision
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] troby86:
The deodexed ROM will not go through the stock recovery, even signed correctly.

You may have to wait until a true, reliable Odin .tar is released for the SK4G. It seems like alot of people are having trouble with the files in this thread.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] yogi2010:
yeah, that's what I'm thinking..... I tried the most recent tar in the thread, and it did pass, but will only boot into stock recovery. thx for the help!

I wonder what is involved in making a proper tar file for the device?

Sent from my HTC Vision
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] troby86:
Have you tried the "reinstall packages" option? Try selecting that about 5 or 6 times, and see if that does anything

Sent From My UNLOCKED Sidekick 4G