yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] blsimpson:
i followed these steps, and everything seemed to go ok, but now when ever the phone boots, it boots right into CWM.. It will allow me to flash any ROM I want through it, but when it reboots, its always to CWM..

I was able to flash a stock KG4 leak and have it boot up, but there is no CWM or root on it.. I would like to be able to flash a KH2 ROM, preferably Audiophile 1.3..

I am not new to flashing, or rooting (OG Droid / numerous Nook Colors / Moto Xoom), but this VooDoo Lagfix is new to me, and I cant seem to wrap my brain around it...

Any thoughts?

EDIT: I got it figured out.. Stupid me, wasn't paying attention, and Odin'd the wrong PDA file the second time.

Linda is converting as I type. :-)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Awesome. I'm glad you got it working. Enjoy mate, I'm running Audiophile GB too :D
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Lawful123:
FB, do I have to do these instructions every time I want to try a new gingerbread build or is this a one shot deal?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] richdaley:
+1 on this question. I just came back to this forum because this procedure worked great but I am a confirmed flash-a-holic so I am going to want to flash other GB roms.

I know enough about it to know that we do not have to repeat this entire procedure every time but what parts are necessary? Can we just follow the instructions presented with the ROMs?

For example, what would have to do to install the audiophile ICBINB rom? Can I just wipe and flash?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] perknite:
I came from the stock (rooted after the fact) kh2 leak (odexed). What I did was go into cwm and disabled voodoo, then reboot (so voodoo would actually be disabled). Then I downloaded the cwm busybox installer from this thread to my sd card. I flashed a deodexed kh2, then the busybox installer, enabled voodoo, then reboot.

I found out that the rom I chose wiped out red cwm and voodoo kernel, so I had to go into download mode to flash the kernel again. Right after I did that, Linda sang. That was the only snag, though.

And of course you must check mounts and wipe everything befor flashing most roms (I did that too).
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Nope, should be a one time deal unless like perknite said, the ROM you chose has a non-voodoo kernel (pretty much only the stock and stock deodexed ones do) you'll have to reflash the kernel.

If the kernel does stay intact, you can flash any CWM GB rom without problems.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] RaverX3X:
you should be ok if u do get issues factory reset .... this will all resolve itself once we have a non beta leak rom...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] :
Thanks for this guide!!! **** worked for me 100%, have been tryin to get make your ears cream to work for a week without it going ape **** when i turned on wifi and linda not wanting to talk to me
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] PoisonWolf:
I have a clarification question....I'm VERY new to the whole odin process, etc. I come from the HD2 section of the forums where everything is pretty direct. However, what is the purpose of "formatting" the SD card? Is it only needed for the install? Can it be "reformatted" from the phone once it is done? Basically, since the phone I'm trying to get to Gingerbread has a 16gb card, would it be dangerous to use this card? I just want to make sure that I get everything right.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Well from what I've noticed, cwm formats it to fat32 instead of regular fat. The card will work fine after the format so for simplicity's sake, I'd say just leave it as it is after the cwm format. Even though I picked 1024 as the partition size, i got all the space available on my 16 gig card

Sent from my awesome SGS4G
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] PoisonWolf:
Thank you for the prompt reply. Having said that, just to doubly check, as I would not want to ruin the phone, will this ROM work with your guide here? I ask because the lingo in this forum is very confusing for me. KG4, KH1, KH2, KG6...oh my gawd. Lawl.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] silverspoon80:
yes it will
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
To keep track of the latest rom look at the letters. KG is older than KH because g comes before h. Kh2 is newer than kh1. Yes the rom you linked to will work

Sent from my awesome SGS4G
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] PoisonWolf:
Thank you FB and Silverspoon.

Off I go to start the flash process. I will post back on how it went. =D

EDIT:

Done and done. Easiest thing ever. I just followed the instructions to the letter and had no problems whatsoever. Only thing I should note was the last part when trying to reboot into CWM at step 9 was tricky. For whatever reason, I initially thought that I had no CWM. But after a few tries, I managed to get into it.

Thanks again FB. Your tutorial was great.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Yeah the timing for step 9 is one of the weirdest. I've gotten a bunch of times that I've had to do a battery pull a few times 'cause it boots into the regular phone OS.

Well, enjoy Gingerbread :D
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] PoisonWolf:
Haha, tell me about it. I think I had to retry 9 times? Before it finally went into it. I pulled 3 times I think. Lawl.

Anyhow, it isn't me who is enjoying the great gingerbread. I did it for a family member's phone as Froyo was just....meh. I'm still rocking a good ol' HD2. =) No point changing phones when everything still works!

Cheers mate.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] :
this **** works great...plus when anyone ask for help with something like this i refer them to your thread....

this should be made a stickie
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] :
I swear for the holiest thing you can think off that I have tried this like 14 times with no luck every now and then. Either is a problem with the "re-partition" and it won't odin or if it does odin then it just boots to cmw and not reboot it self. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

I am on Redux 1.2 (froyo), so I go to partition sd card, then boot phone, put update, gb rom, busybox, then download mode, then what i said above. Only once I managed to get a bootloop and I think I had GB boot loaders. Now nothing. Is there a way to chat with someone to get some help? Or someone to addres my mistakes? Thanks! I would really appreciate it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
I just started school again so I'm not available for most of the day.

Don't check re-partition if Odin doesn't put it there on its own. It'll put a check mark next to it if it needs it, so don't touch it.

How are you getting into download mode? You need to follow this guide to the T, including the battery pulls, etc. Get into download mode (battery pull, battery back in, vol + and - then plug in the usb cable) and follow the steps to flash the KC1 files first.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mike-y:
I'll tell you what.. I've tried like 5-6 times to get ext4 in GB and nothing ever worked. The phone always would just boot without linda saying a word. I formatted, repartitioned, and ODIN'd KC1 for a fresh start. Still no go.

I followed 2 different guides on this forum and still no ext4.

I was starting your guide, and downloaded all the files and put busybox.zip on my SD. I had just failed again converting ext4 with the new Valhalla rom, and for some reason decided to try installing busybox from cwm instead of the market before I started from scratch again, AND IT WORKED.

booted right up to Linda talking, and converted all partitions and system to ext4 without a hitch. So for me, all I needed was to install busybox via CWM, and that fixed all my problems!

thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TheKucho:
Quick question, would it be necessary to do steps: 4(a, b) and 5 if i'm on kd1 which has kc1 bootloaders(i assume that the Kc1 bootloaders are froyo bootloaders) and have never flashed a gb leak, including the one with the jacked up bootloaders?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Yeah you can skip the KC1 part since you never got the bad GB bootloaders in the first place.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TheKucho:
Much appreciated FB, i plan on flashing Gingerbread very, very soon, LOL, i feel so outdated haha.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TheKucho:
Hey FB, is the kh2 with kg4 kernel link like a WHOLE rom? Because I'm not sure what it is exactly. I already have chadsters KG4 leak and the kg4 kernel, seperate. I don't want to download too much things lol, Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Yes it's a whole rom but it's meant to be used to prepare your phone to install custom gingerbread roms. This is just the kh2 leak that got released along with the csc file that came with the kc1 rom.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] orionshock:
Ok... so the other day i soft bricked my phone with ODIN ( wrong option checked and start ). But i did that after i followed this guide to get GB-Boot / ICBINB GB / ext4 working.

To get it back i had to flash the old rfs converter, from the early days of ext4, between the KD1 and KH2 sections. Had to get the partitions out of ext4 mode somehow, but i got it all working again :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Flashing the files on this guide would get you back on RFS, no need to format the RFS converter. You could've also tried disabling voodoo lagfix and Linda would've taken care of that for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] orionshock:
That's what i thought... but it wouldn't. Things would freeze up on trying to flash the new GB rom. That and it wouldn't disable voodoo, would always remain on and try to reconvert to ext4.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Hmm, that's odd. Well, I'm glad you managed to get it fixed though.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] bbobarino:
All i have to say is this guide is amazing follow to the t step by step its flawless thank u fb amzing guide
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
I updated the guide a little. Now you can do this from stock with no CWM if you don't have a properly formatted sd card yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] CozzaFrenzyy:
Alright so i didnt reformat my sd card before all the shabang. The phone isn't recognizing it now. No slot in pc to try. Did i **** it up?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
I'm assuming you formatted it from CWM right? You should be able to format it from within CWM again as per the instructions and it should recognize it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] CozzaFrenzyy:
Currently on step 10. After the bootup the phone didnt recognize the SD. i popped it in my other phone and formatted it, its all good now.

Great Guide!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] David1239:
Will this work if i am on the kg4 leak and want to get to kh2 with cwm?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Yes, it'll work.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Dilinkuint:
it works

omg this worked perfectly, except for the part where i partition the sd card and all of my wifes pic and vid and all her stuff gets erase!!! she goin to kill me when i tell her that.. does anyone know of a way to get out of this mess...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Lawful123:
After a re partition getting data back will be tough. Use a card reader an start looking at some PC apps that do data recovery. Biggest thing is to stop using the card. The more you Wright to the card the harder data recovery will become. In the future always backup your memory card to the PC. sorry I can't help more.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
recuva may help you. same company that makes ccleaner (piriform). and as stated above, stop using the sd card until you recover the data or it will be overwritten
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
You can look up photorec on google. It might help you recover a few of the pics, but there's no guarantee.

I mentioned twice that you should back up your SD card. Please try to read more carefully so this doesn't happen in the future.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Dilinkuint:
thank you guys for all the advice and yes I was able to recovery most of the data was lost with that photo recovery software, which by the way it was free :) my life has been spare 0_________o
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
I put a 3rd warning in big red letters in the instructions now. Hopefully people will notice it and will avoid that mistake in the future. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jegan107:
Hi

I have a issue with my phone IMEI & Baseband shows UNKNOWN, this happened after flashing a Rom (Gingerbread 2.3.4 T959VUVKG4 ) via ODIN, I tried flashing some modems (ki1.tar.md5 / kh2.tar.md5 & etc) via ODIN but nothing worked for me...

right now I'm on latest latest Valhalla_v1.1_signed rom (GB 2.3.4) everything seems fine except above issue, does this thread got anything related to my subject ???
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Lawful123:
No
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
no, but there are fixes for it. do a quick search and there are a few threads that deal with this issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] s15274n:
The guide is confusing - only by the format, not the steps.

i.e.

Instruction 1 - "After formatting the SD card with the steps above"

err, it does not mention formatting the card at all above this.

Okay, at the end in red it does, but it says to do it in CWR - how is this possible if you do not have root yet?

well... okay, assuming I am to do it later once I have CWR, it tells me earlier to move the rom and busybox to my sd... well, that wont work if I am going to format it later.

I know this is simple, and I am about to proceed, but the formatting seems off.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] jager555:
You don't need root to get cwm. You can Odin Bali is your are on Froyo. Automatic Cwm and root.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] s15274n:
^ well, I JUST booted up from the second ODIN....

Now I am trying to figure out how the guide wants me to format my sd after I have moved the rom to it, and then flash it... guess I can format the sd, reboot... then move the rom to the card, reboot into recovery and flash it?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] cybok0:
You should format the sd card first thing than put the files on it. Its on step 1.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] s15274n:
Right, but you can't format if you do not have CWR yet....

Now that I have finished the 2nd odin, my computer no longer lets the phone mount... tried installing the 32 bit samsung drivers, no luck... still can not mount it.

May just download the rom via wifi.

EDIT, just noticed that the phone would not recognize the sd either... went into cwr and mounted the usb from there, now I can move the rom over.

lol, this is crazy.

EDIT 2 -

Okay, CWR let me mount and move the rom over to the sd.... yet, when I go to flash it, it says it can not mount. WTF.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] cybok0:
Remember I gave you all the links this morning to get root, cwm and the kernel than to use GB to follow this guide. You might just want to start over, I know its a lot of work but its worth it when you're done.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] s15274n:
I went straight to this guide... not sure there is any fault there.

when I flashed the first ODIN files, it went into voodoo CWR, not the t-mo bootup like the guide says.

I did a battery pull, like it says...

flashed the 2nd ODIN files....

now I have the rom/busybox on my sd... but the phone, nor my computer recognize an sd card.

EDIT, disabling voodoo and reformatting card (using the HD2 to my PC), then rebooting allowed the sd to mount, on the phone and pc.

ha. cyno, seeing you posted that below, nice man.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] cybok0:
Did you try to Format your sd card on the computer, fat 32?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] s15274n:
That and disabling voodoo with a reboot.. one of the two, or both seemed to do it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] cybok0:
I don't know about this, I never had that problem, other people have but I don't know where those posts are. If it was me I would start over do the links I showed you first then do this guide. Maybe try to enable voodoo first to see if that helps.

Maybe someone else knows but I think your mounts should be, ummu, check those.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] skim7x:
So I started with a completely stock Samsung Galaxy S 4G... ran Odin... and tried to flash the KC1 Bootloader files. this came up:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> pda.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

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

and that's it! The phone stayed in download mode and did not reboot. I tried rebooting the phone manually and an icon came up with a picture of a phone on the left with a broken dotted line to a computer on the right (I think indicating there is no connection to the computer?)... any ideas on where I went wrong!? So early into the process, too... I'm freaking out a little bit haha

P.S. I did not do any partitioning of the SD card... I went to that link for partitioning, but in order to follow those steps it appeared that I had to have flashed ICBINB or have voodoo and all that... which I obviously don't have since my phone is stock... help!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Try connecting the phone to the computer again and try the odin steps again. Odin will do that to you sometimes, but your phone is perfectly fine, you just need to flash a rom onto it.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
s15274n, thanks for the info. I moved stuff around in the guide without re-reading it. I'll change the steps to match the changes.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] skim7x:
So now I'm trying to just go back to stock, and I downloaded the file from the Stock+Root thread... I"m getting this now:

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> factoryfs.rfs

<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/003> cache.rfs

<ID:0/003>

<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.

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

So when it's almost done... and loading the cache.rfs, it stops and says FAIL! I've tried twice... I'll try again... any ideas? Thanks ahead of time... and as far as the boxes checked in Odin, I have "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time" selected, but NOT "Re-Partition"... is that correct?

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OK so I see that the OP posted a video on formatting the SD card just now... I didn't format the SD card before starting this process... is that what is causing my problem? I'm thinking no, though, because I'm trying to flash the OS without the SD card OR the SIM card in the phone... right?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
This guide isn't for going back to stock, this will leave you on Gingerbread with root + cwm. You might wanna post on the thread where you got your stock + root rom? It seems like you might have a bad download. Try downloading the file again. Do a battery pull on the phone, and put it back into download mode. Try reflashing the rom after that.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] skim7x:
Actually, I'd like to have Gingerbread with root + CWM... but at this point, I'll take whatever I can get...

I'll try re-downloading the files...

Um... ok so now I'm getting a new screen that says "Firmware upgrade fail! Try using recover mode"... and I can't get it to go into download mode anymore... but while it's on the "Firmware upgrade fail!" screen, I can apparently still use Odin as it still has the progress bar on the phone screen... but once again, nothing seems to be flashing correctly to the phone... any ideas??
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] FBis251:
Yeah that screen will let odin work. Did you redownload all the files you got from my thread? Try using a different USB port on your computer. Try restarting the phone and the computer.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] skim7x:
OK I'll try all that out now... appreciate all the help btw...

So I formatted the SD Card to FAT32 with Allocation of 4xxx (four-thousand something)... I thought I'd try again with the "Re-partition" box checked in Odin and came up with this:

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> pda.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/004> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/004>

<ID:0/004> Re-Partition operation failed.

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

Not sure why the re-partitioning is failing... I'm almost done re-downloading the fb_kc1_bootloaders file as well as the fb_kh2_with_kg4_kernal file... I'll try again with the re-downloaded files as soon as they're done...

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OK so now I've gotten the furthest I've gotten so far... I extracted the .7z files with the included 7-zip program instead of WinRAR and extracted them directly to the desktop. After a few tries with Re-Partitioning off in Odin, I got this:

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> boot.bin

<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/003> cache.rfs

<ID:0/003> data.rfs

<ID:0/003>

<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.

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

Still fails! Any other suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] s15274n:
If you have odin up, the md5 of the downloaded files are fine, and you have a com# showing up in odin, then its likely just odin hanging for various reasons.

On the OG Vibrant, I had about 4 things I had people do when odin hung/failed, it may work here also.

This is a copy/paste from my old guide:

IF ODIN HANGS ON YOU:

- Are you using my files (all 3 of them?)

- Did you check the MD5 using Hashtab (LINK)?

- Are you using the cable that came with your phone?

- Have you tried other USB ports on you PC?

- Have you removed other USB devices like a webcam and rebooted the PC (ie webcam)?

So, you ARE using only his files

You can't check the MD5 b/c they are not in the OP, but ODIN said success from your post

The Cable did matter for me oddly. I had one cable that would not work.

Using another USB port OFTEN helped people.

And another biggie was the last one, things like a webcam via usb.... ODIN NEVER worked when my webcam was hooked up. I'd unplug it, reboot my pc, and voila, everytime it would work.

ALSO, I prefer to do this CHANGE from the guide.

I ALWAYS open ODIN on my PC, load the pit/tar (whatever is needed), not checking anything, and THEN I connect the USB to my PC...

AND... ANOTHER CHANGE

To get into download mode, I remove the battery... plug in the USB to the phone also now.... hold in both vol buttons and insert the battery. ALWAYS works. This is only a preference b/c a lot of times people complained they could not get into download mode, so I made these step, no issues since.

---------- Post added at 04:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:55 AM ----------

FB. I'd also add, I had much more success with disabling voodoo, rebooting, moving the rom to sd (only since the out of order steps thing - thanks for editing the guide man!!) and then flashing and changing voodoo back to enabled.

I guess if I had done the other stuff first it would have been smoother, just my experience.