[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] taiji2078:
Odin ... and then ?

Hello.

Sorry for being a noob with this SGS+ phone. I played for 2 years on my HTC Hero with plenty of custom ROMs and now I got stuck on such a simple matter as following a 10 steps tutorial ... shame on me :P

I did everything as it says here : budakmaran.blogspot.com/2011/12/tutorial-flashing-samsung-galaxy-s-plus.html#axzz1j0b2IA3q

... and everything worked just fine. It just says in Odin "big partition size!!" when starting to flash, but it's still going 'till the end.

I used the "RC7 Odin package - Happy new Year from Nika :)". Thank you for your work Nika !!!

Now my phone is restarting in FeaCore recovery everytime, and does just nothing. What am I supposed to do next ? On my HTC I could load a .zip with the OS (from CMW) and get over it ... but in Odin I don't know what I'm supposed to do next.

As for the updated 1 version (RC7 (Update#1) - Odin package by Nika), it says: Finding update package ; Opening update package; verifying update package and then E:signature verification failed, installation aborted ... hmmm ... weird ... so I can't flash this ...

I did a backup from feacore and all the files are there ... nothing seems to be missing from the system files ... so when I'm choosing to restart the system, why my phone is restarting again and again only in recovery ? Do I have to install anything else ? It doesn't say so in any tutorial. Also on HTC CMW worked only when rooted ... here it seems that feacore is running without root ? :))

Thank you very much for your time and for your work here !!!

PS: KIES almost bricked my phone when I was trying to install the December update - I wasn't considering using any custom roms until my warranty expires ... but ...

So, in short, this happened: KIES restarted my phone and then my computer didn't recognize it and that was all ... luckily Download mode is working here and I could load that Odin package as instructed ... but no luck now ... any help please ? Thanks again!

(sorry for my bad english, but it's not my native language)

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now I also tryed to install both zip files of Cranium RC7 & Update1 using Feacore and Feacore installs them, but the system again hangs in Recovery Mode, not loading anything ... what else can I do now ? I'm running out of ideas now and also I'm very tired now ... I hope that tomorrow morning I'll find a solution here.

Thank you again for your patience.

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... and MOST IMPORTANT ... I didn't wiped data / factory reset and I didn't also wiped the cache partition, as I've read that doing so would brick the phone ... on my HTC I had to do all these in order to install a new ROM ... could this be what I did wrong ? I'm afraid to do so without a confirmation from a more experienced user.

I did ALL these written above without installing anything else to root my phone first, because it was stuck from that bad Kies update. I didn't install also first Cranium RC4 ... pffff ... too many things to ask and too little time now. TY again.

Now the problem is solved :

I suspected that my phone isn't rooted yet, so I followed the install for Cranium RC4 and it turned out just fine ! The phone is working again !

(as a little advice for future noobs like me, it should write on the RC7 install page that you need to follow the RC4 install first, so you can have your device rooted first)

Thank you for everything !!! (another happy user of your forums)