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[General Questions and Answers] SimonTS:
How difficult is it to search :rolleyes:

ClockWorkMod Recovery with a Touch interface
[General Questions and Answers] andoxj:
obtowl repress

CWM stands for clock work mod.

you can get on the internet.
[General Questions and Answers] Mattix724:
I just had to do this....
[General Questions and Answers] Clark Joseph Kent:
OP, I highly suggest a read thru some items, you had a post earlier regarding flashing, now this one, sir you need to do some home work.

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung_fanatic:
I need to flash a modem to my Samsung Galaxy S2. The history of the problem is on this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1841440&page=4.

Karpfenhai gave a solution and I quote:

The first instruction is:

The problem is I can't find Odin 1.84. Can I use Odin 1.85 instead?

Also KH3 and KI4 no longer exist, can't download them.

Can you please give me a better alternative to flash a modem to my Samsung Galaxy S2 to make it working again.

I will be very thankful to you. Please help me. Thank you so much.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sun90:
first and foremost u have to learn on XDA is to fallow the rules ma8:)

since creating multiple threads for the same reason/issue is against XDA rule, and if the same is reported to the moderators, u will be infracted for sure:)

so bare this in mind and do not do the mistake in the future:)

now coming back to ur query, Yes u can use 'ODIN 1.85' instead of 1.84:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawadana:
i uploaded KI4 flashable via odin http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32042901/modem.bin
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung_fanatic:
I'm sorry, I will not do it again.

Thank you very much.

Can you please tell me the procedures? Thanks again.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung_fanatic:
Thank you so much... Can you please share how did you do it please?

I've clicked it and then when I tried to open it, my computer said it cannot open the file as it is part of a program. No known program will open it. Please tell me what to do next. Thank you very much..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Open Odin....

Click PDA

Select downloaded modem.

Set phone to download mode.(hard keys vol- home and power)

Connect phone to PC via USB

Yellow box should appear in top left of Odin.

Hit start

Sent from Jelly Fuelled SGS2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kawadana:
+1
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung_fanatic:
@ Orkane1989

Do you mean open Odin on my computer?

Because I already attempted to open it but the computer won't open the file modem.bin.

Help please. Thank you very much.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Yes.

Open Odin on your computer.

You will see some white boxes at the top and down the right side some buttons saying

PIT

phone

PDA

Etc.

Etc.

Click on PDA

Find your downloaded modem it should be a .zip file (no need to extract anything,Odin will do it all for you)

Put phone into download mode

Connect phone to PC

Make sure Odin recognizes Phone (yellow rectangular box lights up on the top left of Odin with something like COM:3 )

Make sure auto reboot is ticked and NOT repartition!

Hit start!

Sent from Jelly Fuelled SGS2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung_fanatic:
@ Orkane1989

Can't get it right. Here's a walk-through of what I've done so far! I referred to kawadana...

and clicked that link on her post. "Modem.bin" file downloaded after clicking the above link. I opened my Downloads folder and double-clicked "Modem.bin" file to open. And here's Window prompted me: "Windows can't open this file".

Can you please give me step by step instructions, please?

If I follow you guys, I need to first download Odin 1.85 and a KI4 modem onto my computer, separately? Is that correct? I'm still on this part. Can't do the next step without doing these right. Please help me here. I really appreciate your help guys. Thank you very much for bearing with me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Sorry didn't realize the file was a .bin file....here you go....

1. Open Odin

2. In Odin click on the (phone) button.

3. When explorer appears navigate to "modem.bin" and select it.

4. The "modem.bin" directory should now show up in the dialogue box next to "phone"

5. On your phone. Turn it of and reboot into download mode ( vol - , home button, power button)

6. Connect phone to PC.

7. Make sure Odin recognises phone. ( yellow rectangle box in top left corner)

8. Press the "Start" button.

Sent from Jelly Fuelled SGS2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnwiredDroid:
My gawd...why you will open the bin file in the computer!

You will put that on Odin PDA section and flash your phone!

Make sure that phone is connected via usb port and odin is ruunning as administrator. :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung_fanatic:
Thanks a lot, Orkane1989

I open my Odin which is Odin 1.85.

Now i don't see any phone button on it.

Here are what inside my Odin:

Add

Extract to

Test

View

Delete

Find

Wizard

Info

VirusScan

Comment

Protect

SFX

That's all I can see on my Odin. How do I get to the Phone button please?

Thank you so much, you are a big help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsung_fanatic:
@ UnwiredDroid. Thank you so much.

Can you please help further?

I don't see PDA on my Odin. It's Odin 1.85

Here are what inside my Odin:

Add

Extract to

Test

View

Delete

Find

Wizard

Info

VirusScan

Comment

Protect

SFX

Can you please tell me how do I get to that PDA on my Odin? Thank you very much.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fxrb:
It seems you missed the following, most important part from Karpfenhai's post:

There are plenty of guides here dealing with how to use ODIN, one of which is from Intratech.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pulak861:
Rumors tells us ics will be released today(28th july).... any one from india got it for xperia sola??????
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] aadaars:
Don think it will be released today:(The wait continues
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rapier07:
Its out :)

Tapatalked !
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mirost1:
Yes, its official guys. For U, Sola and GO.

But it doesnt state what regions are first.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pulak861:
Yahoooo........ how did u get it?? via service center or pc companion?? im on custom.. will flash official then check PCC
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rapier07:
Its not available for download yet

Tapatalked !
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pulak861:
when will it be?? any idea??
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rapier07:
The next two days as per the official sony blog

Tapatalked !
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pulak861:
thanx man... :D :D :D flashing to stock... :D :D
[Nexus 7 General] cwoggon:
Shouldn't this be 644?

Also, in case anyone wants to know, you can bypass activation after connecting to a WiFi network - you do not need to tie the tablet to your Google account.
[Nexus 7 General] nextelbuddy:
Reasons for wanting to do this other than just saying "because its mine and I want the choice" ?

the device is useless with out wifi. what purpose does the device serve if you dont connect to a wifi point?

Lets say you follow the above steps you laid out and now you are able to boot into the device with out a wifi AP and google account. what now? ok you can load some movies and sideload some APKs you download off the web.

your device isnt being updated now, and almost seems forgive me for saying this... "bratty" i dont want to have to do this its my choice etc.
[Nexus 7 General] organophosphate:
It appears that 644 will work as well. Allowing group/other "write" permissions seems to be the cause of the boot failure. Regardless, suffice it to say that the outcome of a standard "adb push" of the file results in incorrect permissions, at least on my configuration (ie. 666, which is Wrong).

I can't believe that this kind of sentiment seems common on XDA, of all places. Seriously? Your flawed reasoning can trivially be applied to wanting to load a custom ROM (your device isn't getting system updates from Google after that) or choosing not to activate the device with a Google account (you miss out on all the Google features). Repeat after me: this is my device; I don't have to justify anything I may want to do with it.

Besides, preventing setup from proceeding without a WiFi connection certainly is a flaw, as others have amply demonstrated. I'm just irked that it requires so much effort/specialized tools to bypass. And no, "It doesn't matter if you're in Afghanistan/at work with no WiFi/only have access to paid WiFi networks. Just go to a McDonald's: your device is worth less than a flaming sack of canine excrement without WiFi and who doesn't have eleventy billion open WiFi networks around in 2012, herp derp!" is

not

an acceptable workaround (or even constructive advice).
[Nexus 7 General] cwoggon:
Well, in my opinion, less is more :)

IIRC, this would have been helpful to a gentleman who was looking to bypass WiFi activation awhile back. I applaud little workarounds such as this... you never know when this information might be useful.
[Nexus 7 General] organophosphate:
True.

I was dissatisfied with the original approach because of the risk of causing boot failure, so I refactored the implementation to avoid the problem altogether. The updated procedure should be cleaner & more efficient.
[Nexus 7 General] nextelbuddy:
ehh i still have to disagree with you there. this isn't the same as wanting to install a custom ROM.

installing custom ROMS and Kernels have true benefits whch are optimization and customization that stock does not offer aka more choice.

bypassing wifi on a brand new device just because it's your device an you want that freedom does not have the same benefit and doesnt give oy more choice. as i asked before, what could you do with your tablet if you were allowed to bypass wifi on a brand new device?

I know that many custom roms and kernels give me the ability to inccrease speed and add more options in the operating system that i am looking for hence i will choose to flash a new rom and kernel.

there is nothing i can or want to do with a tablet that allowed me to bypass the wifi setup.. at least not that I can think of.

Im not trying to be argumenative just to do it, im trying to determin your real actual justificaton for wanting this besieds "

its my device let me do what i want" because at no point did i say nor did anyone else say they wanted to flash new roms and kernels because it was their device and they wanted to do what they want, they did it because those options benefitted them in a way that the stock experience did not.

Just because someone is on XDA does not man they are here ot hack their device to pieces. there are many reasons people come to XDA..

talk and interact with others that have a love for media devices

ask questions about their devices

learn from others on how to modify their devices

completely change their devices

just to name a few.

it does not mean that all of us want the ability to change devices out of the box just because its ours necessarily.
[Nexus 7 General] organophosphate:
Ipso facto, yes it does: it gives you the choice to skip the WiFi configuration during the initial setup. Whether this is a useful option for you is a decision you make for yourself, but now you have a choice about it whereas you had none before.

That's not salient to this thread, but I suppose you can read your previous post for some possible uses that you suggested.

Then this procedure is obviously not for you. There's no need for the existence of the procedure to be justified, because no one is forcing you to perform this modification.

Then this procedure is obviously not for them. That's perfectly okay.

Sensing a pattern? This procedure is obviously not for you, but others do want this ability. The existence of this procedure in no way infringes upon your ability to use the device just as Google intended.

I still don't get the reaction from this contingent of the XDA community. Honestly, I expected most people to shrug and realize that this workaround might only be useful in certain esoteric cases. Instead, it seems like a vocal group of users must own stock in WiFi router companies, given their insistence that the only valid use of a Nexus tablet is with WiFi connected (haha).
[Nexus 7 General] nextelbuddy:
Im only one person. I can appreciate your work into finding a valid work around and am in no way attempting to take that from you and im sure there will be many that will be happy and thankful with your hard work. Dont take what I said as any sense that this is how the community feels please.

keep on with your work!
[Nexus 7 General] Andie00:
Thanks for the effort. I just got my N7 and was also surprised I couldn't skip the wifi setup.
[Nexus 7 General] lex1020:
I am on a military base with in room wifi. The wifi redirects me to the browser which makes me agree to their terms. Since it is initial setup I can't use the browser and since I can't skip I can't use the tablet until later when I get leave and can go to somewhere with free wifi. There's your reason.
[Nexus 7 General] ezas:
That's a good reason!

Absolutely agree that you should be able to skip that step. AND no valid reason needed. Unless Google can show a valid reason for not letting you skip that step. I'm sure most of us have watched the Google, (and Facebook) 'net' close in around us. When I started on Android I thought it was so cool how it was all tied to Google and was cross device. Now I'm like: Google would you just get out of my way, I'll be more than happy to click on 'you' when I need something from you.

The latest insult is that annoying "Keep Shopping" prompt in the Play store. Clicking Back, and Keep Shopping does the exact same thing. I shouldn't have to do either. Since I used to be dropped back to the same place anyway.
[Nexus 7 General] jinx100:
While the initialization does require a Wi-Fi connection it does not require an Internet connection. I was able to connect to my printer Wi-Fi network and let the waiting bar run for 2-3 minutes then the initialization would continue to completion.

I didn't like this Google forced initial setup either but at least no information was broadcast this way. The Nexus 7 is very useful even when not connected to the Internet.
[Nexus 7 General] violincello:
Chicken and egg

There seems a "chicken and egg" problem with the above instructions? To unlock the boot loader, you seem to need "USB debugging mode" enabled (for example, see how-unlock-nexus-7-bootloader at androidcentral), but since you can't reach the Nexus 7 options menu without getting through the wifi setup, you can't do that? What am I missing?
[Nexus 7 General] dr.m0x:
You can boot into the bootloader by holding volume down + power while the tablet is off. Then fastboot oem unlock. Job done.
[Nexus 7 General] chiggy2212:
We can just create a hotspot with our phone..this method is more easier than the method mentioned.and it doesn't require an active internet connection..just WiFi connectivity .
[Nexus 7 General] RKight:
That's exactly what I did. I was sitting in a parking lot after purchasing my N7 and didn't have a hotspot nearby. I wanted to play with my tab for a few before heading home so I just fired up WiFi Tether on my Rezound.
[Nexus 7 General] organophosphate:
Absolutely. As I mentioned in the OP, this isn't the fastest solution. Hell, you can probably tell I don't even recommend it for common scenarios.

That said, the approach *does* work. Before I started this I searched and was unable find any other way to accomplish the specific goal of skipping/disabling WiFi connection during initial setup. Therefore, when I was finally able to get it working I wanted to document it for the community.
[Nexus 7 General] organophosphate:
Thanks. I tweaked the OP to indicate this more clearly.
[Nexus 7 General] najariner:
Simply

When it happened to me, i just restarted it. It then booted to the homescreen.
[Nexus 7 General] pavman42:
Agree...should be able to bypass wifi setup or at minimum see system information

I recently purchased a nexus 7. I didn't realize it had soft buttons. Based on google's recent changes to the OS, I'm a little worried about this as I've seen a number of, IMO, problematic changes with each new revision.

That being said, my home network uses mac address filtering. So even if I have the right key, I have to add the mac address to the filter. Gee... its not on the box and there's no way to get past the wifi setup screen.

So... either

1. I have to disable my mac address filtering (not too terribly bad, but not the best idea) OR

2. I have to connect to an open wifi connection (not good) OR

3. I have to find another way around the wifi setup screen.

Either way, this is surely a sign of the technology curve shifting away from the maximum.

What really stinks about this is... I bought their device and I'm not even sure where to get support to get around this conundrum. Fortunately, I do have a wifi hotspot that *does not* have mac filtering. But I'm sure a lot of folks won't have this option available.

Whatever happened to putting MAC addresses on the outside of the box, where they put their SN? Thought that was pretty much a standard in the networking industry.
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
Mac filtering is annoying and completely pointless from a security point of view, save yourself the trouble and just turn it off.
[Nexus 7 General] Avail211:
Agreed. I ran into this problem while I was deployed as well with a BlackBerry PlayBook. It took quite awhile to figure out how to get it to work when a simple skip button would have saved me a lot of time.
[Nexus 7 General] rockingondrums:
While the command to be typed in CWM did not seem to work in TWRP, I still thank you for confirming my hope that there was a way to get around this wifi requirement.

---------- Post added at 12:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 AM ----------

I flashed CWM (at the time of this writing, there is only a flo variant, for anyone who goes searching for a deb-specific version), entered the command to skip wifi:

adb shell sed -i 's/ro.setupwizard.wifi_required=true/ro.setupwizard.wifi_required=false/g' /system/build.prop

Nothing was "echoed". No error or positive phrase. Skip button did not appear. Will next just bypassing setup wizard altogether. Is it possible that I can't skip both the SIM card insert requirement AND the wifi connection requirement? Will see...

---------- Post added at 12:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:22 PM ----------

Ok, neither of these steps worked for me. But I'm trying to skip both SIM card and wifi.

I'll just adb push my nandroid backup to the sdcard and restore it. :good:
[Nexus 7 General] NubzX:
and I just posted a reply in the wrong tab and wrong forum even

sorry
[Nexus 7 General] dppow:
Weird. I can skip it on my N7c, perhaps it has a sim card inside?
[Nexus 7 General] robertn78:
Thanks for the info!!!

Thanks for the info!!!
[Nexus 7 General] clyphox:
I was also irked by this default having just fired up my first nexus :/

As much as I enjoy messing around (with linux) this kinda stuff really kinda slaps an open source geek such as myself in the face... Its all about options, period. (I just deleted a crazy two chapter rant on my attempt to figure out why its so extremely+personally insulting, I failed, but its still wrong of them)

Thanks for the lovely write up mate, it came in handy... I'm also glad I'm not the only person who takes these "minor" things seriously.
[Nexus 7 General] giostark:
Thanks so much.

This work perfectly.

I had to setup this device for a friend that bought it new right now. I come from samsung device and i didnt appreciate all the smsung stuff. For discover then that google do this kind of trick also "so shamelessly" . Disgusting.

This setup force you to contact google server. Nothing more.

Relate to this politics:

And this is a useful instructions for avoid the same bad joke at any connection still on this nexus 7. (like a unknown friend suggest)

In rooted devices , open a console and...

1).

To stop the DNS resolve of, and HTTP request to, clients3.google.com on every connection to any Wifi Access Point:

su -c "settings put global captive_portal_server 127.0.0.1"

su -c "settings put global captive_portal_detection_enabled 0"

2).

To stop the resolve/request for 2.android.pool.ntp.org on every boot (even with network time disabled!):

su -c "settings put global ntp_server 127.0.0.1"

Many tnx again mate.
[Nexus 7 General] fvisagie:
Ditto. The inconvenience in my case is having to start up my Wi-Fi network (which is turned off when unneeded) specially to initialise the Nexus 7. Initialising happens a lot while trouble-shooting!

Thanks to the OP for his information, too.
[Nexus 7 General] AntiNSA:
I can tell you as a nexus user in China this is going to be helpful .

I have just went through hoops of fire to get a nexus player over here....

On my previous nexus devices, with much pain,

--- I was able to share my VPN by setting the proxy from my 3g through my wifi card on my laptop to my tablets.

Huge pain in the ass and often took multiple hours just to get it to work.

With the Nexus Player, it is not even an option to set the proxy ... with multiple attempts you might get the option to set the proxy up... but I have had no success getting the nexus player to work trying to share my laptops vpn.

If I ever am going to experiance the joy of what the stock Nexus Player is ( I have installed a custom rom or two, which turns it into a tablet), I need to get past the initial wifi setup so I can install and use my vpn client.

The problem is there is currently no custom recovery for the nexus player that allows you to mount system and run adb commands.

I have unlocked and rooted, and have fastboot access.

Im hoping if I can find a way to edit the buildprop on the Nexus player it will work as it has with the Nexus 7.

Perhaps after using the Stock Nexus Player I will end up running a custom rom anyways... but it would be nice to see what it is I have paid for and what the original design/functionality is.

In Summary...

1) How can I edit the buildprp of nexus player wihtout a custom recovery to mount system first?

2) will editing the build prop work on a nexus player as it has with the nexus 7?

3) is there any other way?
[Nexus 7 General] viper134:
Solved ：Ｄ

I'm currently in China and was faced with the same problem of not being able to skip the setup screen. I found this post which worked on a modified rom but does not work on stock android.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1172525 Quoting directly from the post...

For those who want to bypass the activation screen, surprisingly it's the same method used on the droid 2.

The method on bypassing the activation screen is...

1. On the Welcome screen with the touch the android to begin icon, do the following:

2. Tap the top left corner of the screen then

3. Tap the top right corner of the screen then

4. Tap the bottom right corner of the screen ( just above the grey bar along the bottom with emergency dial and change language in it) then

5. Tap the bottom left corner of the screen ( just above the grey bar along the bottom with emergency dial and change language in it).

6. That’s it, should pop up the home screen shortly, if not retry. Remember not to drag your finger, simple tap top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left.

Credits do not go to me, but to the person who found out about this first. - Copied the steps from TheUnlockr
[Nexus 7 General] zabbas2006:
Still stuck in same but bit different case

Guyz ,

My Issue is something like this ..

I installed a custom rom by doing the usual pre installation steps ( Factory reset , wipe cache , wipe dalvik ) .

After the installation while starting the setup getting this error.

So now my phone is not recognized by adb , nor i can enable USB debugging , Nor its booting into recovery with Button Combo method.

I am using GT-i9100.

Kindly help me to get out of it!!!!
[Nexus 7 General] eldar4uk:
thank you for information guys, worked great with original cable