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[Galaxy S II General] ApexPredatorBoids:
Do the above downloads also apply to my phone (see screenshot for details)? If not, could someone link me up with the actual files I'll need to root my Alltel S2? The more I read, the more lost I become. Do I even really need to go the steps in the OP? Could I just use Odin to flash a rooted version of JB and be done with it? If so, a link to the appropriate download would be much appreciated.
[Galaxy S II General] aajmj:
Hi.. I don't know how much you have read on this forum. Page 55 has a updated root guide it works and is simple.

The problem being is you may lose data or mms because some of the settings or the modem may not work with Virgin Mobile. Flash at your own risk.. I had to replace a phone because of that mistake (flashed an uscc rom with no changes).. This method works great for Alltel. No problems.

Also remember that this and some other Samsung devices record if you are running custom rom.If you have a warranty it could be voided even if you go back to stock and un-root. . If you want to upgrade to stock JB check the Samsung site for the Simple Upgrade tool.. Yours might be supported. Remember to back up everything you can, don't forget the APNS. I'm not much help but I can help with what not to do..lol
[Galaxy S II General] ApexPredatorBoids:
Thanks for replying. I'd about given up on the idea of getting much help. I went to Alltel's site and found that they're offering a JB upgrade, so I went ahead and did it. After doing some more reading, I found that there was a kernel/recovery combo for the Epic 4G Touch that would work on my S2 (

Agat GB27 repack

). Flashing that via Odin installed a custom recovery and allowed me to gain root access. So, now I'm rooted and running stock JB. My new problem is that Agat's recovery doesn't seem to want to flash any E4GT custom ROMs, which should work with the aid of

This Program

.

Ideally, I want to be running PACman or some similar custom ROM. Happen to have any idea of how I can accomplish this? I got the phone on Craigslist as a partial trade toward my VM Evo V, so warranty isn't an issue. At this point, I'm basically just using it as an iPod. That being said, I'd still definitely like to avoid doing anything which would completely kill any data connectivity. Is there any definitive list of what to avoid doing, in order to not kill data?
[Galaxy S II General] aajmj:
I'm far from an expert but this is the best place for answers that I have found. Read through these pages ( I know there are lots of posts ) and most if not all of your questions will be answered. There are a few fellows that have been on here for quite some time and I'm sure they will chime in when they can. There is a lot of info on the U.S. Cellular forum also.. they have some brilliant young people that probably could help but remember that a Rom made for another carrier will have to be modified somewhat to work on yours..

On page 55 ( I think) there is a good tutorial for JB root but you already did that the GB27 and GB28 kernels have worked for me.. There a a lot of roms out there for the Epic 4g Touch which is most like ours but some mods have to be made.. A fellow in this forum has played with a few but has them ported for ours.. here is a link to a uscc post that may help.. http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/topic/1781-tutorial-rom-editing-for-sch-r760/ ... Good luck.. I'm back at stock and not rooted until I figure out if I am going to get my old phone back or if this one will be a keeper. (warranty thing) . There are some great looking roms out there but I lost my data and couldn't figure out how to get it back. Still learning.
[Galaxy S II General] kaiserman1967:
Too many posts

Ok, I have have gotten totally lost reading all these posts. :) I have the Generic R760 with s:r760.01 k.FI24. Build number Gingerbread.XARFI24 and Kernel 2.6.35.7-1196853 se.infra@SEP-51 #2

Anyway, Would someone be kind enough to respond with the correct method to get root and upgrade to JB. I REALLY appreciate it! All these explanations with all the different variations has got me boggled and I don't want to use the wrong file to start out with!

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
In post 55 it has directions for upgrade and root. Basically install Odin on or PC. Flash JB firmware in the post, the the kernels.

Rolling in my 5.0!! With SlimBean.
[Galaxy S II General] kaiserman1967:
Thanks

Chicinwang,

Thanks a million for directing me to the posts I needed!! Unfortunately, I woke up with a dead battery this morning so I can't root and upgrade until this afternoon. I'm sure this is going to work great and will update after I take care of this darn phone! The i727 was a much nicer phone than this R760! I LOVED my ATT SII and I loved every aspect of it! This one..... Eh.... Cell service stinks....

Speaking of which, do they make flashable radios for this darn phone? I had about 5 different radios for my old i727 and found one that worked great in my area.
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Not that I've found. I think daddyo has tried several, but never found a better working one.
[Galaxy S II General] kaiserman1967:
That's good, they ARE out there anyway. Now that I've found the correct answers to gain root and upgrade to JB, I'll be looking into refining the phone. Hopefully I'll find a radio that will work better in my area than the one it currently has now.

I LOVE this forum!! It is SOOOO informative! I've been reading it for years, but never really injected my thoughts into any comments until recently.

You've been a huge help Chicinwang!
[Galaxy S II General] 864girl:
Can someone please help me get my 3g data back...

First I would like to say that when it comes to this rom and flashing etc with cell phone I'm completely dumb.. So with that said I done a upgrade to my phone or flashed it and since then I cannot send pic messages or receive them , also since then I have no 3g connection and the 3g symbol at the top disappeared. I have alltel but when I did it I did it for us Cellular everything works but my 3g data and pic messages. Please help me figure this out if anyone knows the problem Im having. Thanks to all and have a great day....
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
So u flashed the USSC ICS rom on an Alltel phone? If that's the case you should b able to get 3G back by flashing the Alltel JB rom.
[Galaxy S II General] 864girl:
Is that the one on Alltels (quick upload tool) page that you are referring too? If so I have tryed it with no success unless Im not doing something right.
[Galaxy S II General] kaiserman1967:
Well I updated, rooted and then put agats update on my phone with 0 issuses!!! Phone appears to be running fine. Now if I can just find a list of ROMs I can choose from. One thing I noticed is that once I put Agat's update on I binary counter increased. Not a big deal to me as I was planning on putting a custom ROM on it anyway, just thought I'd let everyone know if its not specifically stated anywhere. Not sure if it was the GB27 or SU/CWM update.

Not sure if I did the last GB27 update right as it still shows GB28 under the phone settings. Does this mean its not done correctly?
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
You tried flashing it with the update tool and couldn't get it to flash? Or you did flash it and still no data?

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Nah you did ut correct. The GB28 is the stock kernel. You will not have CWM recovery though, just stock.

And the counter going up is caused by flashing non stock firmware with Odin. You shouldn't see a counter increase when flashing thru CWM.

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While you was pimping ur phone out to roms. Did the CWM recoveries work back/wipe/restore etc. If so can ya point me in the direction of which one.
[Galaxy S II General] 864girl:
The one that is on the alltel site is the jb update I did that and checked my phone and its right but I still have no data and cant send pic messages. IS there away I can just switch back to GB instead of JB. I did find out my phones not rooted Im missing cwm and dropbox ( I think) .I know for a fact the cwm and seems like apn too
[Galaxy S II General] Norcal232001:
Thought I would share have working AOKP ROM 4.2.2
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Ok you tease! Link to rom? And is data /mms etc working?
[Galaxy S II General] Norcal232001:
I followed these instructions provided by brd912. And yes I have working data and MMS. Sending and receiving. The only thing I did a little different was do a ota programming from my carrier before I flashed the modern zip and convertor zip.

I had to use a earlier build of the ROM. Newest doesn't have camera. I love it though.
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Do you have the yellow triangle?
[Galaxy S II General] Norcal232001:
In notification bar no. Only on boot.
[Galaxy S II General] Norcal232001:
I have always had trouble getting gps to lock. I use GPS status to get a lock but still takes 30-40 second to lock. Does anyone use a different method that is better with jb?
[Galaxy S II General] Stricken66:
Hello out there. Some may remember me I was active in this thread at one point. Question to anyone out there. The touchscreen is going out on my phone I believe. Still under warranty, but I did root and flash the US Cellular ICS ROM. So I know that the counter has been tripped. How bad is that gonna hurt me?
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
If you have an Alltel phone bout $75. Have u tried triangle away running USCC's ICS. For farts and giggles?
[Galaxy S II General] Stricken66:
I forgot to add that after the JB update came out I went to it which is stock. I haven't rooted it. Don't knkw if that's gonna make a difference.
[Galaxy S II General] ApexPredatorBoids:
Has anyone who was rooted and ROM'd tried going back to bone stock configuration? If so, how did you do it? I've tried using the Simple Upgrade Tool from Alltel's site, as well as using ODIN to flash this .tar that Chicinwang posted a while back (http://db.tt/EJNO8dWY). Both finish successfully but yield the very same bootloop. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
If you can get in recovery. Wipe everything. Also if you don't have anything on the usb that u dont mind losing. Format it, the reason for this my battery life sucked after the first upgrade attempt. So I wiped everything and formated usb. Now moderate use gets me 12-13 hrs.

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Ahhh ok. Sorry I've tried several suggestions about resetting it thru terminal emulator. But it didn't work. If memory servers me correctly our hidden partion (where the counts are stored) is 0x4000 something alone those lines. I have it on my computer, but anyhow non have worked.
[Galaxy S II General] ApexPredatorBoids:
Thanks. That actually did the trick. It never occurred to me that I'd need to boot into the <3e> recovery and do a factory reset, after flashing the stock JB ODIN .tar.
[Galaxy S II General] aajmj:
Sorry I've had my head in the sand for the last couple of weeks. Have new replacement phone now. Waiting to see if Alltel will honor the warranty or not. May have to buy this phone or send it back.

I started with 2.3.6 . after rooting and 4.1.2 I lost the hotspot capabilities. but recently found out that it was disabled on purpose through this upgrade.. There is a work around now but I have to root again. New phone came with 4.1.2 so I am in limbo. Waiting for a verdict.

I didn't see where TA was for ICS only on our phones..interesting.

My wife's phone still has the 2.3.6 software. (stock and not rooted) Is there any way to make an image of hers and flash it to mine?

I am trying to find a root method that will not increase the counter. I found this thread (for another version) that piqued my interest.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1881964 looks promising but I am not there yet. I'm still learning the adb and linux stuff.. similar but different.
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
I know right!! I'm starting to wish I had stayed with moto!! Them Koreans are touchy...
[Galaxy S II General] cspiresucks:
Evil grinning :D
[Galaxy S II General] gastonw:
Us cellular is to blame, I9100 is as flashable as it gets.

Samsung SIV will be a *****, remember that.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
I was mainly referring to what I've read about being easy to FUBAR them. I was a rom pimp and my moto was my whore;). ( I had boot loops,boot logos.. no biggie fire up rsd light sbf and back to it.) Oh and the flash counter ,but have seen a solution for that. Also bought an Acer A100 same thing. It's touchy also.. But none the less AT&T is buying out Alltel <(whom I'm currently with). Think I'm gonna get the Note... Or the iPhone.....NOT!!!:D

I will keep the SIV in mind,thanks for the heads up
[Galaxy S II General] cspiresucks:
Any idea on how to unroot from this method? ----> SCH-R760
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Try unistalling BB ,the binaries that is. Then uninstall the app itself, reboot and see if you still have root.

SCH-R760
[Galaxy S II General] gastonw:
BB???? NO! What are you doing with that baby you maniac!

Root check from play store does the work pretty well.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Whoa!? Busy box..
[Galaxy S II General] cspiresucks:
Ok next question? I know the sprint epic 4g is basically the same as the SCH-R760 accessories wise that is. Are there anymore from different carrier's that are the same just called different names....
[Galaxy S II General] michaelnm:
I have the Alltel version galaxy s2 as well, and when i tried to install busybox after installing the custom kernel it kept failing to install any busybox version. I successfully achieved root and the custom kernel installed a version of busybox (i think v1.19.3-cm9) but wouldn't allow any other version of busybox to be installed (v1.20.2 - v1.14.3). Can anyone give me some advice, it would be greatly appreciated?
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
@cspiresucks-I'm not aware of any other devices matching the S2 other than the E4GT, possibly straight talks S2.

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@michaelnm-Did you try installing Busy Box with the custom kernel installed? Or on the stock one? Also do you have Super User installed before trying to install busy box. Maybe dumb questions, just trying to make sure so we can figure out the next step
[Galaxy S II General] daddyodizzel:
Alrighty time for me to jump in the band wagon on this. I have an Alltel SGSII ofcourse. I'm cm9 experimental ICS... I see there's more roms now that I can mess with, but like always there is that thought of failure and having to go back to stock. My problem is, I don't have a stock file. Is there Any stock file for Alltel. Or generic along with the tar and pit things... Thank you
[Galaxy S II General] michaelnm:
@chicinwang-After I installed the custom kernel, I tried to install busy box using JRummys busy box installer app like it said in the rooting instructions, but it kept failing to install. But the app showed there was a version of busy box already installed, im guessing the custom kernel already had busy box in it. I then used Odin to reinstall the stock kernel, and it got rid of the already installed busy box, but kept the super user. I found another busy box installer on the app store and tried that. And it installed buybox v1.21.0-Stericson, for some reason "BusyBox by Stephen (Stericson)" managed to install busy box where JRummy couldn't. I don't think I have any problems now, since my only one was busybox not installing and thats been taken care of. Thanks for the quick reply and sorry for the lengthy story.
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
No problem micheal, biggest thing you got it going!

@daddyodizzel look up a cpl post (feb 18) i have one in my dropbox. Btw: I'm not 100% sure its our exact firmware. Though I'v been told it was. I'm still waiting on a cpl of ppl who asked for it too let me know..

SCH-R760
[Galaxy S II General] Shortyred:
So any more developments???

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When installing cwm on the rooted r760 which cwm do we use? Samsung galaxy s2 (galaxy s2) is that the right one? Thanks!!
[Galaxy S II General] cspiresucks:
Has anybody had any bugs? Using this method to root? I've been receiving incoming calls with no sound. I've double checked and my ringer volume is set to high.
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Shortyred-not as of late, neither custom recovery will work yet. But I've wondering if the booloader was unlocked or making the kernel insucre would give us a better chance. I haven't had a chance lately to read any more on it ,but I'll post as soon as figure something out.

Not me!? Working great,is it all calls or a few? This may sound crazy,but make sure under call settings you have an actual ring tone selected. I know my old moto would do that at times(revert back to none). Also select another ring tone and see if that helps.
[Galaxy S II General] cspiresucks:
Some calls it partially rings. I checked I have a ringtone selected and volume is high. I also changed ringtones and still nothing. I checked all my apps that have access to the audio system and it still doesn't work.
[Galaxy S II General] cspiresucks:
Ok I figured it out. I had a call blocker app that had a setting that was interfering with the incoming ringtone.
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Sweet! Glad you figured it out.

SCH-R760
[Galaxy S II General] arndta0718:
Possible to Fully Flash Sch-R760 USCC to page plus?

I know this forum is for non-uscellular, but does anyone know if it is possible to fully flash this phone to Page plus(or any company cheaper than $65 a month)? I have rooted it with Odin, but it always goes back to US cell towers. I ported the # to page plus already. I didn't realize it would be so difficult as I have done other phones.
[Galaxy S II General] Norcal232001:
It will take more than just being rooted to get it off US Cellular. There are radios and modems that will need to be changed but this can brick the phone if it is done incorrectly. It is possible but can be a lot of work. I personally dont know all the details on how to do this.
[Galaxy S II General] joeman24:
Will this work on Appalachian Wireless? Desperate to root my S2 and it is "generic" . At least that's what I had to click on at the samsung website when I upgraded it from Gingerbread to Jelly Bean 4.1.
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Negative, look in post 55 I believe. That one you post in for gingerbread not jellybean
[Galaxy S II General] joeman24:
Thanks for the reply I wonder if one click root would work?
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Doubt it. Last I checked it only works on Gingerbread 2.3.5. Not 2.3.6 even.
[Galaxy S II General] Norcal232001:
Has anyone figured out how to fix the in call speaker phone issue after flashing back to stock from a Custom ROM???:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] daddyodizzel:
New devices....

So I see... Me being with Alltel since the 90's well with family sort to say.... I see that they got the S3... I want it... but don't have upgrades... :/ also see they got the new iphones 5s and 5c.... and I know my lady wants one.... Looks like if I get them, it'll cost me a little cash lol....:crying:
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
I know right!!!

I did get an email stating that by the first of the year that Altell will be switched to AT&T in my area. Galaxy Note maybe?

Not sure of what devices I'll be able to choose from though. Just have to wait and see. :what:
[Galaxy S II General] kaiserman1967:
I have a question for you chicinwag: I have the GB28, but every so often when trying to get an app from the Google Play store it errors out saying it cannot save it to USB. Any ideas? Any new updates for this darn phone? I hate the triangle at boot up. :( I thought the GB28 update was supposed to fix that?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
Hummm...look and see how much USB storage is left Settings>Storage>USB (just in case) And tell me one off the apps you have tried. Did you try and reinstall them and get the same error?

No unfortunately we probably have seen the last update for them :(

If you Rooted it, afterwards you was supposed to flash the stock kernel (GB28l to get rid of the triangle at boot.

Hope this helps,and sorry for the late reply. It's been a long day. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] kaiserman1967:
Thanks for the reply. I have plenty of internal storage and plenty of storage left on my external sd card. This is actually the second app to do it over the last 4 months or so that I've been rooted and upgraded. One is an update to an existing program and the second is basically a new install of a trial version of a program. It was Swype-Dragon. It gives me a package file is invalid error (I think that is the verbage).

As for the triangle, I did everything the awesome docs told me to do... Root-GB27-Update to GB28, but the triangle is still there. When I first did it I even tried re-running the "update.zip" file to see if it would fix it. Now that I've been using this phone for months, not sure I want to be wiping it to start over. I use MyBackupPro, but don't think I want the hassle. :)

If you think it'll work, I'll give it a try though. Hope today is a bit better for you. lol... I had a long week at work too! Glad its Saturday!
[Galaxy S II General] niceguy88:
Ok well I'm new around here and after searching the web for a few days about this plus being sick, I'm still unsure of something:

I bought a C Spire (formerly Cellular South, TN/MS carrier) GS2 R760 off Craigslist but found it had been flashed to Cricket. Cspire cannot activate it back to working with their service. I'm going to return the phone (only paid $90) to the seller Monday if I can't get any info or if it's not worth fooling with.

Can anyone confirm if you can get a GS2 flashed back to another carrier (that it originally came from) or not, with full working features?

Thank you very much!

EDIT: Here are the build specs for this stock unrooted phone:

SCH-R760

Android version: 2.3.6

Baseband version: S:R760.01 K.FF24

Kernal version: 2.6.35.7-SCH-R760.XARFF24-CL1125314

se.infra@SEP-51 #2

Build #: GINGERBREAD.XARFF24
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
According to the Cspire website, their phones run the same firmware as ours.

So you should be able to get it activated.

Sent from my SCH-R760X
[Galaxy S II General] niceguy88:
Thanks for the clarification. Cspire could not activate/program the phone so I ended up taking the phone to a cell phone/pc repair shop that advertised the ability to flash,etc.

My phone did display the Cspire splash screen when first booting up so that gave me some hope. Ends up, they did get the phone programmed manually back to Cspire specs using my current older Galaxy S info though it took 2 visits to get voice and data both setup.

So now I have only 2 issues:

1. The phone is still stuck on the old 2.3.6 update whereas my wife's more current SCH-R760x has the most recent GB28/Android 4.2.1 update.

My GS2 says the phone is up to date when you check in the update sub menu. The store that programmed my phone couldn't update the phone either.

I'm thinking of downloading the Cspire website GB28/4.1.2 update and trying to apply, hopefully it won't brick the phone. I've already backed up everything.

2. Minor issue I guess: Under 'About Phone'>Status>User Name: it still shows an [MENTION=699186]myc[/MENTION]ricket.com listing (instead of Cspire or cs3g.com).

Any idea of how to change this?

Thanks guys
[Galaxy S II General] chicinwang:
The upgrade"shouldn't" brick anything. Give it a shot, also do you currently have service running on it with Cspire?

Sent from my SCH-R760X