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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
1st part, right, second part wrong. I linked him to the flashable zip that you flash in recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chunkyhao:
my bad on the assumption
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
If you ever get stuck like this again always try and check out the stickys in the section you are in the usually have info that noobs like you can use. Also generally the

OP section usually gives great information. I know you said its u read thru pointless post but its those types of post that helped me to understand what I am doing with my phone today. So next time you reading just remember that in pointless posts could be your answer.

Good luck hope you upgraded ok

Sent from my EVO rocking Evervolv Gingerbread
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulazki:
Okay so i do a full wipe, then flash the rom .. once the rom finishes the flash, i reboot and let the phone fully boot up into the rom (so that the phone is on and functional) after the phone is fully booted up and running normally i turn the phone back off and reboot into recovery.. I then flash the radio and wait a few minutes for it to finish and reboot again.. correct? did i miss anything here? because i'm going to follow what i just said verbatim, so if anythere there is wrong or missing a step please let me know..

Do i need to flash a kernal at any point? or just the rom and radio?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killakarl:
The rom has the kernel with it after you reboot after you flashed tge rom just flash the combo and you should be good to go. If you want to flash a new kernel make sure you have a compatible gingerbread one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
You are correct on everything you posted.

Just remember the radios part is crucial you do not pull the battery.

When you flash it, it will tell you to use the menu to reboot. So reboot, and it will go to a black screen wit ha green circle with an arrow in it. This will sit there for a few minutes. Don't worry about how long, because this is the critical point. Just let it sit, then it will reboot and go back to recovery.

It will say formatting cache...

When the menu pops up that you can use to reboot the phone, do that. Reboot to system and it will take a little longer than normal to boot up, because your caches were formatted.

IF something goes wrong, and it won't but just in case, don't do anything before coming here and reporting what is happening.

I'm not trying to sound overly dramatic, but this is where people make mistakes.

I've flashed radios several times no problem, as have many of us.

Remember patience is key!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chunkyhao:
that's correct. your decision on the kernel and radio.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
Only flash kernel if you feel like trying a different one. For now rom and radio is enough and radio is not a must

Sent from my EVO rocking Evervolv Gingerbread
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulazki:
bump, before i flash this can someone verify this for me?

Here is my understanding in steps

1.) Boot into recovery and do a FULL wipe

2.) Select option to flash zip from sd card

3.) flash the gingerbread-update-rom.zip

4.) After flash finishes reboot and fully run the rom

5.) reboot into recovery again

6.) select option to flash zip from sd card

7.) flash the radio.zip

8.)it takes a few minutes and takes u to a weird screen but just dont touch it and it will finish

9.) reboot

10.) Enjoy a ROOTED gingerbread stock rom ?

and I DO NOT need to flash a kernal at any point correct? it's just included in the ROM?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keejung:
wow im really impressed theres no flaming here haha.. yeah that about it.. on a side note you really should make a backup before you do this....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulazki:
You said "Wow i'm really suprised theres no flaming here"

Yet i dont understand why there would be flaming?

Why would someone talk **** and flame me because i'm trying to learn and be 100% completely sure of what i'm doing before i attempt to flash something to my very very expensive phone?

At least i'm taking steps to go above and beyond rather than just half-reading something and thinking i'm smarter than everyone else and bricking my phone for good.

If someone is seriously trying to learn and feel safe and secure in what they're doing why would someone flame them?

Just my opinion... The only time someone should be flamed is when they are given links to pages where they can find their answers and they just want someone to flat out walk them through it and hold their hand rather than search and find the answers themselves...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
There's no flaming here because he wasn't asking the typical overly repeated questions.

And when it comes to flashing a new radio, knowing that bad things can happen, it's important that a first timer know everything involved. The steps, the issues that can occur, etc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordJezo:
Are these the properly named files to use?

For gingerbread-update-rom.zip I would use: supersonic_4.22.651.2_deodexed_060511-signed-.zip

For radio.zip I would use EVO_Radio_2.15.00.05.02_WiMAX_27243_PRI_2.15_003

???
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Here's the links to the files you want.

The ROM:

http://www.multiupload.com/YUFZG57L0H

The Radios, flashable version in Recovery which I like better than the PC36IMG version:

http://www.mediafire.com/?s5aen3yr58trofh
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordJezo:
Once I do all of this can I just flash back to a backup of Cyanogen that I will take right before doing it all and be on my merry way?

Do I need to redo the GPS fix if I have already done it before?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulazki:
So what exactly do i gain / lose by Flashing or Not Flashing the updated Radio?

I have flashed the Gingerbread ROM and it's running great! No issues at all, Loving it.. But i haven't flashed the radio yet, and im really just telling myself, " If it ain't broke don't fix it" Right? Because i'll be devastated if i go to flash the radio and somehow brick my phone... If everything is running smooth as butter, why should i change it.. What are the Pro's with flashing this new radio, is there any actual real-world difference from the radio i currently have, and is it truly worth the 1 in a million risk of bricking?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
The radios are not critical. Seems the thing I've seen the most is better 4G connections. I also read one guy downgraded his PRI back .77 and is getting better battery but I don't buy into that
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordJezo:
How about this one, if I am running the latest stable Cyan and have no intentions of ever returning to Sense or stock Sprint, should I flash the rom?

I can get my PRL updates from Fresh, right?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jamesredmond82:
Gingerbread official update is less impressive
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darius_AWS:
My sister have a Galaxy Player 50 with eclair...this PMP seems to be the same as the galaxy 3 (same resolution...and some other things) so can I flash lestatious or other rom on it ?

This hardware is not a phone...but maybe ?

Maybe I can try to flash...but if the pmp become soft bricked...it's over since i can't found an galaxy's 50 firmware...
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedeff:
Darius, I'm stuck with a brick galaxy player. I can try to flash with a galaxy 3 firmware if you want

Do you know how to make a dump of your device so you can share with me the original firmware?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14493414
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darius_AWS:
I don't know...but I'll try to find
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedeff:
Thanks!

I tried the firmware of galaxy 3, but didn't work :(
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Giosiken:
I dont think that its possible, first of all, despite being an android device, it doesnt have radio features, gsm 3g etc, only wifi, there are features that our phone does not support
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anon3524:
Anyone found a solution for this yet? Not being able to test this device to it's full potential is really frustrating. Games are laggy and apps just do not run smooth on this one.

Has anyone tried z4root on this? I did and it freezes at "acquiring root shell".

@fedeff: how did you brick it?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arunmcops:
First root using One click root.

Give these commands in Terminal emulator

su

mount

Check for system partition.Suppose it is stlx (x=6,7,8 etc depending on system partition)

give this command to dump system...

dd if=/dev/block/stlx of=/sdcard/factoryfs.rfs

Copy it from sdcard and upload. I need to check it then i can help u out.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anon3524:
I'd gladly try it as long as Samsung gives me firmware, don't want to end up with a nice looking little brick here.

Is there any way that that an installer/firmware file could be saved in the device for backup purposes or something?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arunmcops:
factoryfs.rfs is ur firmware backup....
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedeff:
@arunmcops: Thanks for the instructions. If someone try this and upload it'd be great for me.

@anon3524: I accidentally reseted the device to factory, trying to fix a problem with wifi (it suddenly stopped working one day).
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anon3524:
Ok, I am down to do this process you just explained as long as you or anyone explains to me how to recover the device with this "factoryfs.rfs" in case it gets bricked. You'd have to explain with detail how to grab this file and what to do with it etc. Also, if you could give further details on the initial process, that'd be great since a few things are unclear (to a brave noob like me).

Other than that, I am willing to try it to see the results.

BRING IT OON! *warface* :D
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
@arunmcops - I've got one of these, so have uploaded the file you wanted here - sorry, not allowed to post links yet:

dl.dropbox.com/u/6491656/Samsung/factoryfs.tar.gz (please don't flash this, its not a full rom)

I haven't made any changes to the base firmware other than renaming a couple of the phone.apk's to .old (cell standby was eating battery, and this device doesn't have a sim).

For fun, i've also uploaded a dmesg log

dl.dropbox.com/u/6491656/Samsung/dmesg.log

One other thing, i think the partition layout might be slightly different on this (might be wrong, don't have the phone) in that the internal sd card is mounted as /sdcard and the external one is /sdcard/sd.

Hope this helps!

Chris
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedeff:
@ctaylr Thanks for uploading the file.

I tried to load it using Odin, but it get stuck while uploading the file. The device is detected, but I think it's not transfering anything.

Is it possible to restore it form sd card?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
Hi...thats probably because it isn't intended as a flashable rom. Its just a dump of the stock firmware so that arunmcops asked to see to see if it had any resemblance of the galaxy 3 f/w, to see what we'd have to do to get a working custom ROM on this device..

Please don't attack it with any kind of Norse God :)...especially until there is a confirmed route back to stock. All thats contained in the files is what you have on your device already - so there is also absolutely no point (for now).

If your having trouble with your device now, you could try doing a factory reset or playing about in Kies - i've fixed my device once after I got curious and flashed a custom ROM on here (which fyi completely messed it up - something like E:multi_csc: error: open /efs/imei/mps_code.dat because we dont have an IMEI code on this device) and then got it back working again - unfortunately i can't remember exactly what I did. Otherwise if this doesn't work I'll see if i can make a working stock package for Odin.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedeff:
@ctaylr, yes I'm having problems with my device. It got soft bricked. I couldn't make it work using Kies. The only thing I can do is to start it in Download mode. If you can make a working package for oding that'd be great

This might help

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9515709&postcount=14

Thanks!
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
@fedeff Ok. i'll have a look over the weekend and see if i can make something that flashes.

Quick questions

1) do you have the 8gb or 16gb version?

2) have you tried going into recovery utils and doing a "wipe data/factory reset?" - you can do this by holding down home, volume down and volume up while turning the unit on - i seem to remember this fixed it for me, but it probably depends on how far Odin got while flashing. If your unit is already bricked, i can't see it doing much further harm ;)

Thks
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedeff:
1) I have the 8gb version

2) By doing "wipe data/factory reset" is how I got it soft bricked. (the device wifi suddenly stopped working, and I thought that would help) After that it kept entering in the recovery mode. Then I tried to flash it with odin, now the only thing I can do is enter the download mode

Thanks again for helping me!
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xp5800:
News?

Hi! I also like the others I am interested because my Galaxy player has 50 brick and I need someone to do dump the firmware so I can flash through odin! Please would you be my salvation and many other who have this player and would like to fix without waiting for the assistance of a month

Waiting for an answer I greet and thank all users who want to help me

sorry if English is not correct, but I'm using google translator (I'm Italian) :p

EDIT:

listen to me: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=726673 This is the guide on how to get the dump of your fimrware if someone kindly did this process with its galaxy player 50 and then upload the file . tar obtained would help all
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
I don't think it is as simple as that.

If you fully read that topic above, it tells you. That will ONLY tarball the files in the /system folder. It doesn't dump the the bootloaders, efs or produce the initrd, which is also part of the firmware.

In fact that backup is exactly what i linked to earlier here, and doesn't flash properly through Odin. I don't know Odin very well (i use a ZTE Blade and clockworkmod normally ;)) but i'm going to take an educated guess it needs all of this information to successfully flash the player, and trying to flash without all of that probably won't work so well.

If i'm wrong, please let me know and i'll do what i can to help.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xp5800:
ok then I'm sorry I read the topic in a hurry and did not realize that you can not do what I say but re-reading now I understand!

ctaylr what do you advise me to do then? wanted to try an get into recovery and restore but I think the 3 keys are disabled enters only download ..

Google traductor sorry :D
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
Well you have two choices...

I'm still trying to build a back-to-stock ROM for this (its the first step in me messing around trying to upgrade it), so you can forgive my lack of android knowledge and be patient with me and hope for the best :D

Or alternatively you can try and throw yourself at the mercy of samsung tech support and see if they can help!!
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xp5800:
The player has been taken care samsung where it will be adjusted even though they told me that the times are also up to 2 months! may at this point I thank you for your help and if you break even in the future I hope that there is a new rom to fix all problems

google traductor

google traductor ;)
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
ummm... okay!

So anyone intrepid (and, I'd suggest, with a currently bricked non-functioning device) want to try flashing something?

I've managed to make a stock kernel zImage for the yp-g50, packaged with my factoryfs.rfs and a empty dbdata.rfs.

I dont have a bootloader but I'm hoping no ones flashed that, otherwise i think only samsung can help atm. I've no idea where to start with extracting boot.bin or modem.bin for that matter.).

It *should* flash under Odin, if you use just the PDA slot.

DISCLAIMER: I haven't tested this on a device, as I can't afford to brick my own player, but its all built from a combination of source and the f/w on my player, so hopefully it'll work (UNLESS you've messed up the bootloader!). DO NOT flash this for fun, at best you'll end up with exactly what you had before, at worse, you'll brick your device. If you've already bricked it, I can't see anything worse it could do, and it might just help.

Anyway, if you've read all this and are feeling brave... look this way:

http://www.multiupload.com/LR849FZ0PJ
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xp5800:
sorry

Oh excuse me, I realized only now that I had copied the Italian side and not the English one xD I corrected the error! However from what is written by you should just find a way to extract those two files and flash! You can not in any way do without these files?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
Whether we need the bootloader depends how broken your device is.

In fact, I'm hoping the link i posted above may correct your situation if you are "soft" bricked - ie. have broken the install of the android OS on your device. Although no ones tested it yet - myself included - so until someone who's got a broken device tries to use it to fix it, we won't know.

This is a version of android that is combined from what is on my own device, plus a kernel zImage taken from some samsung source for the gp-50.

The only time we need the bootloader code, is if you are "hard" bricked - and have tried to flash an incompatible bootloader on to the device. In this case, my files won't fix your issue, as this is the part of the system that loads before the Android OS.

Thanks,

Chris
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xp5800:
Well now my device has been taken to fix into a samsung service center in the event but if that was not repaired (because it was rooted in the hope that they have not noticed xD) I could try because I do not think is a serious problem! Just I turned on the player leaves the error "the process twlauncher was closed" or something very similar. Let's see what they tell me the service center. Whatever happens I thank you for all the help you could give me because in many other forums I tried to ask and no one deigned to answer me!
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedeff:
Thanks for sharing the files with us

I tried to upload them to my bricked device using ODIN, but unfortunatelly, it didn't work. I can put the device in download mode, but then Odin stucks transfering the file (nothing really is transfered)

Anyway, thanks again!
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctaylr:
Sorry for the lack of update, things are pretty busy here at the moment.

I have no idea why Odin sticks with updating. Sounds like i've not packaged the files correctly, or some wrong option is being used when burning it. You could try untar-ing them and repacking them?

Unfortunately i'm not going to be able to look into this further for the next few weeks at least...
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muffyone:
no one gota a solution?

my device was booting only on recovery with a error message after trying to wipe data. I try to flash the PDA of this post and now it got completely bricked, it boot only in download mode.

Thanks

MuffY
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bscraze:
Just flash any rom thru odin. Make sure to follow instructions properly

Cheers:)

Sent from my i9003 powered by Poseidon's Rom/Dxkp9 Junior + UC kernel
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muffyone:
Sorry I don't get you. What do you exactly mean with "any rom" ? There are non rom or firmware avalaible around for galaxy player 50..is that the problem..can i flash something else?

Thank you

MuffY
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bscraze:
If it only boots in download mode it means that your phone is soft bricked, meaning only a reflash will solve the problem and allow the phone to boot

Cheers:)

Sent from my i9003 powered by Poseidon's Rom/Dxkp9 Junior + UC kernel
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muffyone:
yes i know, but i can't find a flashable firmware anyware..:(

happy new year and thanks again
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bscraze:
Check the android development section. There are many roms available. To find stock roms go to sammobile.com

Cheers:)

Sent from my i9003 powered by Poseidon's Rom/Dxkp9 Junior + UC kernel
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muffyone:
Sorry but those are rom for the galaxy 3, we are talking about the galaxy player 50 here, it doesn't even exist a specific forum for it on xda..

we need someone with a working player to make a backup of his rom (i think we need only the Zimage ad factoryfs) and try to flash it...

bye
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vlasis28:
Hello

Hello My friend

It seems to be very familiar with this galaxy player.I want to unlock it but i don't remember the email or the password,can you give me any solution?

Thank you

vlasis from Greece
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azmi_412:
Hi fellow WP7 users!

My friend has just sent me a picture message from his iPhone 4 to my LG Optimus 7, but I can't get the phone to show the picture. I'm not sure if it's a picture attached to a text or if it's a picture sent as an MMS.

This is how it appears on my phone on the Inbox home list:

[My friends name here]

Media content in this message

When I click it, the conversation thread shows up. Then it shows an underlined clickable link that says Get media content now. Clicking it makes it show Getting media content. But then nothing comes out of it.

I apologize if the same issue has been asked somewhere in this forum and resolved by the community. I did go through several threads that seem relevant, but I couldn't find anything like this. Thanks.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stealth-twinturbo:
I've been having issues with the phone turning off randomly and restarting, seems to do it when it gets hot. Also the phone not responding to power button. Doesn't matter which rom I flash it keeps happening. Thinking about converting back to stock to see if it helps. But I'm unsure why this started happening all the sudden any one else have similar issues??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinchenzop:
How often is it happening? Often enough that you may be able to troubleshoot it? Such as.. turn of gps, mobile data, sync, then slowly add them back in one at a time to see what could be causing the problem.

Swyped from my Raided Evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinchenzop:
Also, are you under clocking or over clocking your kernel?

Swyped from my Raided Evo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dajoip:
My wife's Evo had that exact same problem, but hers is unrooted. We brought it into Sprint and she's getting a brand new phone tonight. They tried running diagnostics on it, but came up with nothing, so that was their last resort...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirkyd3rk:
This seems to only happen to me on aosp roms and not sense.

Sent from my PC36100