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[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
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[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
Nevermind, I guess I misread his post, I thought he said one line. I found all the other lines and rebooted, all is well now :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] tdenton1138:
After helpfully getting 'upgraded' to ED2 in-store yesterday, I successfully executed this method and am now rooted and happy. Thanks very much to the OP for getting this done!

OG Droid CM7.0.3 ChevyNo1 ulv @ 1.1ghz

OG Droid CM7.0.3 stock kernel

Charge rooted ED1
[Verizon Droid Charge] Chelseablue:
Right on! Awesome to know we finally have a way to get this bad boy rooted. Let the fun begin
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
You said it, I'm ready for some custom ROM's!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
Is ED1 virtually the same as ED2 minus that ED2 is currently unrootable?
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
The only thing ED2 does is prevent you from streaming Media Hub over 3G, it does nothing to improve or change anything else over ED1, and it of course is currently unrootable.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
Great. Then there's no reason for me not to flash ED1 right now. Sick of this bloat and battery life could be a little better. Thanks man.
[Verizon Droid Charge] californiarailroader:
No prob mi amigo!
[Verizon Droid Charge] distortedloop:
I have succesfully flashed stuff to an i9000 with Heimdall on my MacBook Pro....
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
Finally rooted and debloated. I felt like I was going to explode!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
Used SMS tools to edit build.prop

As posted. haven't had had any update requests since. Thanks for that post!
[Verizon Droid Charge] yyhd:
Sorry for the noob question:

I'm on step 2 right now. What happens if the ID:Com box says 0:[Com9] instead of com7? Is it safe to proceed?
[Verizon Droid Charge] yyhd:
I guess I should've read through before asking. :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] yyhd:
yep, everything worked beautifully. thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread. build.prop has been edited to ED2 too. you guys are awesome. :D
[Verizon Droid Charge] nvikram:
Okay, I've got a small problem here. I forgot to let the stockrootedED1 file finish downloading before starting the Odin process, so now I'm not sure what to do. Should I unplug the device and quit Odin first or let it finish while Odin is running? I hope I didn't brick my phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jdog_12345:
Yep. You're good to go.
[Verizon Droid Charge] nvikram:
Figured it out haha, happily Rooted. Thanks OP! :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] MortalDadz:
First time I have attempted to root any of my androids and I just wanted to say thank you for making it easy. They had updated my charge to ED2 at the store and you made it extremely easy to go back to ED1. Keep up the amazing job you all are doing.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Keighles:
Still no update requests after build.prop edit
[Verizon Droid Charge] JKChad:
What would I need to do to remove root from this. I just need a clean stock odin file. I've got an issue with the speaker in the ear piece and I'm gonna have to have mine swapped out today.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ShotgunSam:
just flash this, then accept the OTA update to ED2 and it won't be rooted.
[Verizon Droid Charge] MarkyD311:
thank you! I'll try that out.
[Verizon Droid Charge] MarkyD311:
THANK YOU! That worked. HERO
[Verizon Droid Charge] stang68x:
Thank you so much for this thread! I was an hour away from throwing my FUBAR'd Charge against the wall! I had (totally my fault) to delete some apps from my Charge after a botched Titanium restore and ended up deleting Touchwiz Calendar and Touchwiz Calendar Sync Services, leaving me with no calendar at all! I was freaking out, as my Calendar is very important. I was trying for hours to fix the issue when this thread was brought to my attention. While the restore to ED1 didn't bring back my TouchWiz calendar, it DID bring back my Sync Services; now I am using Business Calendar as my main calendar app. I don't even know if I want the TouchWiz Calendar back!

Long story short...thank you.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ballanda123:
How long to flash in ODIN?

I am flashing the ED1 file now in ODIN. My connections are all set up and working OK. But at this rate it seems like it is going to take 3 weeks to finish. I have a progress bar in the upper left of ODIN that is moving very slowly. After 45 minutes it is still at what looks like about 5%. Why so slow? Also, I have a message on my phone's screen in red text above the android with a shovel that says "RX_TIMEOUT". No error message on the PC... just a very slow progress bar. What's happening here?

Also, I cannot get the phone to start without the battery in it. How do you do that? I am pretty sure I am reading the instructions correctly. THANKS!
[Verizon Droid Charge] RichardZu:
i tried to flash back to ED1 from ED2 it succeeded but it just keeps going through boot loop
[Verizon Droid Charge] RichardZu:
also i dont have root anymore when i got done.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bunklung:
A person responded to your question here and had experienced the same problem as you (bootloops)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14201002&postcount=314

So perhaps you can still wipe data and cache?
[Verizon Droid Charge] cmdrfrog:
Can this be flashed with ODIN on top of something with JT's kernel with the voodoo fix or will the ext4 file system mess things up? Do i need to remove the voodoo lag fix before flashing this? I just want to go to stock where the hotspot works.. and wait for rom development before re-flashing anything fancy.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bunklung:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1098782

Wifi Tether for Root users v3 experimental works on the v4 voodoo kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] cmdrfrog:
I know it "works" but it is very wonky. Usually after disconnecting and reconnecting one time or restarting the tethering daemon it breaks wifi altogether and you have to reboot to use either. I set it up as a fascinate with wpa, with wep, as a generic,auto, many other options. I just want to revert for now.

Must i disable lagfix before flashing stock ED1 or no?
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
I'd disable the lagfix before flashing this. I don't know what would happen if you didn't, but I personally wouldn't want to test it. I have successfully flashed this after disabling voodoo on jt's kernal.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Chopstix9:
HELP !!!

My Charge was ED2. I followed all instructions and ran the Stock Rooted ED1. It DID downgrade my phone to ED1. But I am not rooted? I do not have superuser? It is just a fully functioning (so far as I can tell) ED1 Charge. I installed Barnacle (reason for rooting) and it denies permissions saying I need superuser status .... Now what ??
[Verizon Droid Charge] fascinate007:
have problem after I flashed [ODIN] Stock Rooted ED1 (downgrade from ED2) [2011.05.18

I got message after I Flashed [ODIN] Stock Rooted ED1 (downgrade from ED2) [2011.05.18]

bootmode=7 from cmdline...

movi_check start..!!

checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]

not need checksum confirmation

movi_check already executed!!...

movi_checking done!...

please help!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
You have to install Superuser from the android market. You are rooted if you flashed this.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
For anyone getting the movi_check error after restoring via CWM (or any other situation), try using the package here to get back to a working phone. I wouldn't just casually flash this unless you really want stock as it will wipe out all of your data (minus SDCard, that remains untouched). This is just this ED1 Odin package with files for /cache, /dbdata, and /data to wipe them clean. I believe one person has tested it as working, so anyone else that has a "brick" available to test, it would be appreciated.

Download
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
Help - I followed all of these instructions, Odin says "Pass", and when I put the battery back in and reboot it end up with the Samsung recovery screen page again. Now I know I messed this up on my own but recovery should NOT be this difficult.

I could use the groups help.

I have tried this file stockrootedED1-20110517.tar.md5 file, but I keep ending up with the same Samsung Restore page as you see below. I am going to try the file imnuts suggested in the the kernel/recovery/voodoo thread. Any other suggestions would be helpful.

Android system recover <3e>

Samsung Recovery Utils For BML

(choices)

reboot system now

apply sdcard:update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

format internal sd-card

-- bootmode=7 from cmdline...

-- Movi_check Start..!!

checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]

Not need checksum confirmation

-- MOvi_check already executed!!..

-- movi_checking done!..

# MANUAL MODE #

Once I get the d/l completed (which will take a while to do) I will give it a shot.
[Verizon Droid Charge] fascinate007:
It failed when I try to flash.Any other solution to resolve? thank you.
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
Keep trying, odin can be finicky. Change usb ports, take sd card out keep trying things. It may not fix your issue, but if you can get to download mode it should flash.
[Verizon Droid Charge] fascinate007:
<ID:0/004> Enter CS for MD5..

<ID:0/004> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<ID:0/004> Please wait..

<ID:0/004> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<ID:0/004> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> cache.rfs

<ID:0/004>

<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

any solution,people? thank you
[Verizon Droid Charge] wynalazca:
fascinate007, are you doing this with your battery in or out? If you're taking your battery out try leaving it in while flashing. It's not standard practice to ODIN with the battery in, but it's not harmful in this situation. It just prevents the phone from booting right when it's finished flashing.
[Verizon Droid Charge] addictedhacks:
It wont save when I change ED1 to ED2 any ideas??? thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
This is what I keep getting with Odin, the only thing I haven't tried is leaving the battery in.
[Verizon Droid Charge] maurogg84:
what kind of programs do I use to edit that file system? and where do I find it?

Edit:

I was able to edit build.prop, restarted, update stills shows up.
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
I was wondering if this was a safe ROM to flash via Odin/Heimdall to restore back from any of the ROM's or just a rooted ED2 ROM?
[Verizon Droid Charge] KB3MMX:
It would be sweet to have a root method keeping the stock ED2 rom, no buggy experimental crap for me, no offense guys.;)
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
you can keep stock ED2 just flash cwm recovery and install imnut's kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] rldev:
My Odin back claimed sucessful but I am stuck in a boot loop. I don't appear to be able to get into recovery mode. I thought it was power and volume down at the same time. It just keeps flashing samsung logo.I just reran Odin and did a factory wipe.
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
It seems pretty straight forward. If you are on ED2, flash jt1134 root/kernel/recovery and you get a faster device via Voodoo. If you need to get back to stock, disable Voodoo (create a file in Voodoo folder on card disable-voodoo) and then restore back to ED1 and update to ED2, again or skip to another ROM.
[Verizon Droid Charge] pats4life100:
Question i just got my charge and dont understand how to root it and its running ed2
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
You need to flash a rooted kernel. Either use odin to flash jt1134's voodoo kernel, or use odin to flash cwm recovery and then boot directly to recovery and flash one of imnuts kernels. That will get you rooted ED2.

If this is your first samsung phone, you should read most of the development threads and some of the general threads, to get a feel for how it all works.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ry.kaz.ryder:
Thanks for the walk through!

Newb successful on his first root!
[Verizon Droid Charge] RaptorMD:
Congrats. Just make sure you disable Voodoo Lagfix (kernel) before you do anything in the future like do a factory reset under settings or try to flash back to Stock ED1 Rooted otherwise you won't be happy with your new brick. Enjoy your new toy.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dotson817:
Thank you :D Coming from the HTC Thunderbolt, way different method on this one lol, GREAT HELP thank you guys im rooted and good!
[Verizon Droid Charge] ax0r:
Will this odin work if I am on EE4? Prior experience with vibrant and epic and galaxy tab tells me that it doesnt matter because its going to repartition and write over anything??
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
I did it last night. Yes it works, but doesn't change modem. I was unable to ota to ee4 again. I assume because the modem was already ee4. I just flashed cwm and installed GummyCharged 1.5 and pbj kernel. No Issues.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Chopstix9:
I am using Open Garden wifi tether from the market on my rolled back toED1 rooted Charge and it works fine. I drive a truck and the lappy stays on line all day long. Was using Barnacle forget why I changed to Open Garden ....
[Verizon Droid Charge] Chopstix9:
After changing build.prop, I did afterall quit getting the ed2 update push. Now it wants to push the EE4 update. Will that kill the root? I am running the stock rooted ED1 rollback Odin. Safe to take EE4?
[Verizon Droid Charge] somekid7:
Help with un-doing build prop

I have downgraded and rooted my phone back in may using this method, however I would like to update my phone to ed4 now but I am unable to do so w/o updating it to ed2, but I am unable to update to ed2 since I changed the build.prop so that I stopped getting notifications, I have tried to update to ed2 manually but had no luck, any help would be greatly appreciated
[Verizon Droid Charge] eljoker402:
Im on Gummycharged 1.5 and I need to bring my phone back to stock since im tradeing it for a diffrent one, can I use this method for that?
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
Use the stock EE4 by droidxcon , if you allready OTA. Disable lagfix first, of course.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chadness:
Why not just flash one of the EE4 ROMs?
[Verizon Droid Charge] abriu:
Arrow [ODIN] Stock Rooted ED1 (downgrade from ED2) [2011.05.18]Arrow

This IS to make sure that everyone knows it::

You must use the original cable that came with your phone to do this.

You must use the original cable that came with your phone to do this.

You must use the original cable that came with your phone to do this.

You must use the original cable that came with your phone to do this.

Using any other cable will fail. It failed on me 9 times, until i read in another site that i had to use the original cable.

I used odin 1.3, as well as odin 1.7 and 1.82 - they all worked well. It takes less than 3 minutes and there is no need to wipe your data. Everything will be preserved.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chevyracen:
ok i keep getting this error message that says cant open the specified file line 1455
[Verizon Droid Charge] Serinety:
um.. i was on 1.81 gummy, pbjt kernel, and imnuts CWM. I used a KINDLE usb cable and this method worked great.

i did not disable lag fix

i did not wipe

i just launched odin, selected the tar from the OP and hit start.

phone booted into stock recovery, i rebooted it

phone restarted and booted right into touchwiz

I setup the phone again, then got update notification

I am now stock EE4, unrooted and original recovery and kernel

again, all i did was flash this, with NO other preparation, AND i used a cable from my kindle.

Id say this method is rock solid :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] patricd:
This is great just loaded Odin and flashed right over the old files...didn't have lagfix turned off either...did get boot loop, but cleared data and up and running on ed1...no superuser rights got to go back through posts to figure out what to do next...gotta get read of the bloat on this phone...thanks for the outstanding work here
[Verizon Droid Charge] tnnm:
HELP

I followed the instructions to the T and got a giant, red FAIL! Tried again and it continued to fail. Now just getting the phone to PC icons.

When I try ODIN (from the original post v1.3) I get "There is no PIT partition." and then a FAIL! message. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
[Verizon Droid Charge] tnnm:
Well, I continued to try doing this and it eventually brought my phone back to life but I still didn't have root. So I tried again and it bricked again. This time, it took about 8 tries to get it going again and it did come back to life but again with no root.

I gave up and updated to EE4 and will follow the root instructions under EE4 since I am so familiar with Odin 1.3 and 1.7 at this point.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kraisydave:
Thanks,,,

I was able to get my new Droid Root in a matter of minutes while sitting in my truck in a field.

I just got a video together, but I cannot share it yet due to my limited posts here. I generally just read. Maybe I can make enough posts tonight to share.

The video is on my youtube channel youtube.com/kraisydave

Thanks again,

Dave
[Verizon Droid Charge] Nevell:
I'm trying this method but ODIN keeps saying no PIT partition found
[Verizon Droid Charge] Nevell:
Lol I rebooted my laptop and it worked just fine. Now it keep asking me to update my system to EE4
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
Right. You should let it. It's the only way to get the EE4 modem.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Nevell:
Then I will lose my root.
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
yes. put one of imnuts kernels on your sd card and then use odin to flash CWM Recovery. Boot direct to recovery (vol up+home+power, releasing power when samsung logo appears) and flash kernel. Root restored.
[Verizon Droid Charge] hoppermi:
This odin pkg is incomplete and I can't think of one reason to flash it, since we have full odin pkg's available. If it were my thread I would pull the link and retire it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jaimea514:
I just rooted my phone with titanium backup and I'm getting that system restart thing also, I read that I need to go to my build.prop folder...where is that!? Super noob...I know.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JWGiz:
HELP
[Verizon Droid Charge] patbschay:
Sorry if this is stupid but is there any way to be able to download the .tar file my phone and then transfer it to a computer? I'm in a.i.t. which is like job training but for people in the army so there's very little opportunity to get a connection fast enough to sit and download the .tar file on a laptop. Like I can pretty much only use my buddies hotspot which is already jacked up so it always estimates download times of like 5 hours or more. Anyway, I'll stop babbling and hopefully get my question answered. Thank you to whoever does answer it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] muzhik:
going to verizon due to camera not working correctly, this method works 100%, thank you
[Verizon Droid Charge] Falcyn:
You do not want to return a phone to Verizon using this. You want to use the factory stock package, not a rooted one.
[Verizon Droid Charge] beavermjr:
Root help needed

am I rooted?

I followed the instructions to a t and got ED1 installed. I then installed superuser app. So I should be rooted.

The reason I'm asking is that I can't uninstall bloatwear like let's play golf 2 and rockband. uninstall is grey'd out.

What am I missing?

EDIT: I installed Barnacle Wifi Tether and it's working so I now know I'm rooted. What do I need to do to remove bloatwear?
[Verizon Droid Charge] razorjbrad:
root droid charge

hello i fallowed the steps in the thread but now my phone only displays

a cellphone+explanation mark+computer icon.....can u please help me fix this
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
that is a soft-brick you've got there... unplug if its plugged in, remove the battery and use odin to flash the stock EE4 rom with PIT file, I can't link you from my phone (if you want I can get you links in a bit when I can get to my pc) but look here in the dev section for those files

edit: also this thread is very outdated, you may want to look for one of Imnuts' how-to threads

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] smprather:
I'm kind of new here, but did you seriously preface that post with "It seems pretty straight forward"???
[Verizon Droid Charge] Syn Ack:
It's straightforward if you've been on the forums for at least a day reading up on stuff. There's a lot to learn but it's simple if you spend some time doing it. I do believe he could've worded that post better.
[Verizon Droid Charge] denpad2010:
i have a droid charge just bought it 2days ago i want root it is on ee4 so can i use thi method???? thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
well this is an old method/thread... what exactly do you want to do? root and stay stock or install a custom rom? either way is easy, but a custom rom will root you on installation so no worries with that plus you get a sweet rom that's better than stock

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] PINCPN:
It worked flawlessly. But a question, I get the update for android software update i510.ee4 is available message. do i not want to install that and what happens if i do? thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
because EE4 is the latest Verizon update, I'm gonna assume you got ED2 running? you can install it if you want, you may lose root and CWM when its installed but those aren't hard to get back
[Verizon Droid Charge] PINCPN:
I did get ED2 running. I just did the update, rebooted, and now my phone shows:

Firmware Ver 2.2.1

Baseband ver i510.06 V.EG2

SCH-i510.EG2

Kernel ver 2.6.32.9 se.infra@SEI-28 #1

Build number SCHi510.ED1
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
I'm not sure what EG2 is but it still says build ED1 so you're not quite to the latest yet as far as I can tell

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] PINCPN:
Thanks. I double checked the about phone page and that is what is on there. Any suggestions what to do next to bring it up to date? There are no updates pending. Thx
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
well there's a stock EE4 rom odin package if you want to be completely up to date.. after that you would need to odin CWM and flash superuser if you want root plus any rom or kernel you want

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] PINCPN:
Great thanks! I just ran all three of the packages here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1116867 and it reads:

Firmware Ver:

2.2.1

Baseband Ver:

i510.06 V.EG2

SCH-i510.EG2

Kernel Ver: 2.6.32.9

se.infra@SEI-28 #1

Build number:

SCHi510.EE4
[Verizon Droid Charge] PINCPN:
update: I ran ConnectBot and using SU, see the # sign
[Verizon Droid Charge] PINCPN:
then went with gummy charged 2.0, seems to be working fine so far...
[Verizon Droid Charge] Theteflondon:
Does this root process give a permanent custom recovery? I am coming from a DRoid Incredible that I had the s-off and nand unlocked. Is this root process going to do the same to my phone as i did with my dinc?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
I don't know how it works on a Dinc, but the only way to get permanent recovery is to install a custom kernel... root can be attained by simply flashing superuser in CWM

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] Theteflondon:
So I follow this tutorial to get root then flash a custom kernel to get a permanent recovery right? Do you have recommendations as to which kernel I should use?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
either of Imnuts PBJ kernels or Imoseyons lean kernel are awesome

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] Theteflondon:
Do these kernels affect battery life in anyway? Im trying to improve the battery life of the phone... Do I flash them with rom manager? Or do i use odin again?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
well battery life always depends on the phone and the user, but yes I've noticed an immense improvement in battery life with my overclocked/undervolted kernel from Imoseyon... rom manager doesn't play nice with the Charge so I would say no, you would have to flash them in CWM or if you could find an odin package for them that would work too