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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pscarpulla:
ROM Worked But...

Thanks Mr Cook for the Hard work in making the ROM that fixed my problem, for restoring the baseband, The rom works great, but my new problem is no internal memory, witch I think is do to flashing the wrong .PIT file, witch is in my original post, is there any way to get the proper .PIT file for this phone, Its previous contents were,16gigs,of memory,4 witch were dedicated to system, and 1gig,to running memory......I am beyond grateful that your rom brought my phone back to life, but I still have these issues witch stop me from being able to do anything, i cannot receive text messages, nor anything from Google play because, no internal memory......again thank you for your help.......
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
The problem is that you lost the EFS. I'm just going to assume you read my post on the previous page to try to restore it. Without a backup of your efs or at least of your imei unfortunately there is no way to recover it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
I downloaded the AJK tar file but mobile Odin says that "partition could not be found in file". Am I doing something wrong? Same message on all choices. It does read the file included in my cwm backups. Not sure if I should proceed with the flash. Please advise. Never used mobile Odin so would rather ask questions than brick my phone so I appologise if my ?'s are stupid. Thank you to all who have helped me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pscarpulla:
Efs

The EFS in fixed but I now have no internal memory So nothing can be saved
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Mobile Odin doesn't flash recovery. If you have zero access to a computer you could use the command line instructions from the OP (CWM section) with "terminal emulator". Just remember to double check everything.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Thank you mr-cook. I will go that way then.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
I had a problem very similar to this once. The gallery wouldn't open because it said my memory was full. I fixed it by connecting to my PC with Windows, right click on the internal storage and do scan and fix for errors. It repaired a bad sector and no problems since

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Hopitexter:
OMG!! Brain over load

Im on vacation and my SGH-S959G Froze on the Galaxy Screen. I have read this whole forum and now I am brain dead. I down loaded odin. I put cmw in the pda slot and it turned green and says recovery but I cant get it to do anything else. If I mess with my phone then odin says failed but it sets here for hours doing nothing. Either help me or shoot me!!:crying: oh PS...Mr Cook I absolutely love your attitude!! ;) So yell at me:rolleyes: or be my hero!! :highfive:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Wow! You dud a lot of reading there my friend. Can you give us a little more info on what your phone status was previously (rooted/stock) and what preceded this occurrence?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] marduk191:
*deleted* replied before I refreshed lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Does it say "pass" in Odin? If so you can then boot into recovery and flash any ROM you would like. Or if you were stock before and just want to be back on stock just flash the stock firmware package in Odin.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Hopitexter:
RE:

:fingers-crossed: I bought it from walmart..(dumb now I know) about 2 months ago. It worked fine until 3 days ago. I was looking at contacts when it rebooted and went to start screen. I have been able to get it into download mode but thats it. sometimes it will show the battery when I put it on the charger. Sorry it took so long to reply but I am at a resort with crappy wifi.:(

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No it does not say pass. it is green and says recovery. The end of the message it gives is firmware downloading recovery.bin

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If my wifi keeps going out ILL get back on here when I have better wifi. I dont want to aggravate you guys. its amazing the work you do here and I am very impressed. With that being said the only thing I can see is that I dont know how to turn the debugging settings on. I have went over everything else and odin is also kinda confusing to me. its twice as bad because of the wifi so all the stuff I have downloaded has took forever. I need a mental dump soon. lol:angel:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] trevor.bman:
Don't worry about the Walmart thing.. this phone is awesome just don't give up and you will figure it out .. Then once you get it hit the thanks button for the OP
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
mr-cook, is mobile Odin capable of flashing a new rom? If so could I flash back to the 4.4 rom there-by reopening my recovery? POSSIBLE STUPID QUESTION!!!!:)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Yes but it would need to be a .tar because ROM zips contain folders instead of images. So you could flash the stock ROM. It is capable of flashing kernels. You can flash this- RenderBroken CM-11 Kernel.zip - 5.01 MB then try to reboot into recovery. But if that doesn't work you're going to need a computer.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Ok. I have that already downloaded. I think that file made it possible for me to goto 4.4 in the first place. I encountered a few bugs so went back to your's for my daily. Then forgot to reinstall differant cwm before reboot. ( God I'm a dumb a..) Thanks for helping this idiot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
I don't think you're dumb. I didn't know that either so we both learned something :thumbup:

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
OK. We have had a major breakthrough on the SGH-S959G. TWRP (from Omni). It's compatible with Cooked, Omni, and RenderBroken's CM11 ROM. No more different recoveries for different ROMs. I think this should be on every SGH-S959G for now to avoid any more issues with Android 4.4.

Anyways here it is- Omni-TWRP_v2.6.3.0.zip - 5.15 MB

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Dude you rock!

Flashed and worked like a charm! :thumbup::D

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nathan_barstow14:
Can this recovery be used for 4.3 as well, or is this strictly for 4.4 roms? If this is for CM11 only, are there any TWRP versions that work properly on the device instead of CWM?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] trevor.bman:
when flashing do you have to reflash everything or can you just flash the recovery then reboot recovery then reboot or after new recovery reflash the rom and gapps
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
No. Just reboot recovery. Nothing else necessary :thumbup::)

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] trevor.bman:
cool thanks im on it now looks nice
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nathan_barstow14:
I kept getting errors on TWRP. Would not let me update the ROM. Couldn't read the whole screen (text appeared to be cut off), but it looked like a build.prop error. Back on CWM 6.0.4.5 for now.

Was trying to flash CM10.2 nightly for i777.

Edit: Appear to be getting the same error on CWM 6.0.4.5 now. Status 7. Ideas anyone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Toggle signature verification off???

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nathan_barstow14:
Tried it. No go... confused. Even went back to TWRP and tried it on that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Try using the AJK recovery zip. That's going to be the philz cwm 6.0.2.7 further down in the op

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nathan_barstow14:
Going to try that shortly if my current attempt doesn't work. I'm trying to stick with TWRP, because I like it much better. I got rid of the getprop line from the updater-script file - hopefully that does the trick. Putting the files on the SD card now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Stormalistic:
so my phone is rooted and i have mr cooks rom cooked on it. so im just wondering is there a rom that helps battery life. cuz my battery dies in like an hour after charging to 100%. thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
What are you running in the background to have that kind of battery life? I don't even think mine would drain that fast with a battery drain app! Kinda sounds like you may have a bad battery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
you are definitely the go to man for this phone you kick a**
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Download better battery stats app. There is a free version here on Xda. That is definitely not normal battery life

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Hopitexter:
I am feeling very small

OK Here goes. I downloaded hemedil and asked for a list of devices. My samsung was not on it. I also downloaded Mr cooks wipe but dont know what to do with it. I am very computer savvy but this android stuff is mind boggling. This damn phone is getting ready to be target practice. Just wish I could afford it. will straight talk fix it do you think? An AT&T Rep told me to call samsung. Help guys...tell me what to do to use my phone again:(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Teknodad1974:
Flash back to stock... Start over...

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http://androidforums.com/precedent-all-things-root/571624-samsung-galaxy-precedent-roms.html
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Are you trying to flash back to stock?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Hopitexter:
stock

Yes I am wanting to do the easiest thing right now. Then when I have time and better internet I can figure out all this other data. Im on vacation and Im missing out on some wonderful pictures not to mention checking on my children. I cant seem to get any of the steps shown to result in the described. :confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Did you install the hiemdall drivers first, and was the phone in download mode?

Yes straight talk will probably replace it for you. I believe they have a 1 year warranty.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
How in the world do you update CM from inside TWRP? I can't find the CMUPDATE folder.

(edit: nevermind. For some reason, I had to boot into Android itself and then back into the recovery after flashing before it would show what was on the internal SD card partition)

(edit 2: and then it failed anyway.)

(edit 3: I'll just stick with CWM. To each their own I guess :P)

(edit 4: Okay, so it appears I can't update CM unless I use CWM 6.0.4.4. CWM6.0.4.5 and TWRP throw a weird build prop error that I'm too lazy to try and figure out, so 6.0.4.4 it is.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Yeah i was having some issues last night with my SD card. I made a backup with online nandroid backup and saved to external SD but my restore menu only shows those on the internal and i can't find a way to make it look on the external SD for a backup.

For now I'm going to continue to tinker with it but I'm not going to try any experimental stuff I'm not sure how to fix.

What i LOVE about this phone is that as long as i can get into recovery, i can always get back where i was :thumbup::D

Sent from my SGH-S959G

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There is an Odin flashable return to stock file mr-cook made, is there not?

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
In the restore menu above where it shows the available backups press on the line that starts with storage. It will bring up a sub menu that let's you choose which SD card. There is a much larger learning curve with TWRP versus CWM.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
For those of us that are completely unfamiliar with TWRP, is there a tutorial to bring us up to speed on this recovery?

EDIT: Just found this one online. http://www.addictivetips.com/android/what-is-twrp-how-to-install-use-it-on-android-devices-guide/

It's a start. If there is a better one please advise.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Can mobile Odin be used to flash the Odin flashable factory firmware in? Thinking if I go back to the stock rom maybe I can get back into recovery without a pc.

EDIT: Got things up and running on 4.4. So far the only issue I have come across is video's don't seem to show up. Had to download MX Player from the PS in order to watch them.( Previously downloaded one's) Will do some reading to see if it's a known issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Yes.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
So, quick question.

Is there a way to completely disable the hardware face buttons on the i777 and enable the on-screen buttons that newer Android phones have?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] trevor.bman:
I like the buttons but that could be handy if they some how broke or didn't work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
I kind of just want to see what it feels like to use the on screen buttons.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sheaker:
Sorry if this is an obvious question. If I am planning on running the AJK 4.9 kernel, do I still have to use the 6.0.2.7 version?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Not sure if you HAVE to but why wouldn't you? It's just a quick flash to install.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
You have to use Philz Custom CWM if you want to use AJK kernel. To my knowledge 6.0.2.7 is the latest version of Philz
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
mr_cook, I have switched over to the Omni TWRP recovery. It states that it is compatible with your cooked ROM but when I tried to install the ROM and then reboot it only goes as far as the 4 colored dots. Will not boot past that. Am I missing a step?

Also, the TWRP recovery gives multiple partitions to back up. Only three are checked on their own. When taking a backup should I check the remaining partitions or are the three already checked enough? CWM is a little easier for those that are just starting their trip into this stuff. The earlier statement that TWRP has a larger learning curve is completely accurate.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
I am currently running Cooked with TWRP without issues so I'm not sure what the issue is there.

For my backups I always select "boot, recovery, system, data, and cache".

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] woodsninja:
Thank you for your quick response and all your hard work. I like this kit Kat ROM but I do wish it had your pull down. I like having all the different toggles that are in it. Maybe I just haven't played with this one enough yet.

As far as my issue with Cooked, do I need to download the tweaks app before trying to flash Cooked? Or did I just not see it in the recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
The kernel options are only available in aj's recovery (philz).

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
omni rom kernals

mr.cook, i am using the omni rom with the kernel provided in the rom. i wanted to teat out the RendersBroken kernel but i want to be able to get back to cwm if i dont like twrp. is ths easy and how can it be done? thanks in advance. i apreciate all the work you have done with our devices. you rock!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] razen_kain:
Check your pm's bro. Sorry it took me so long to answer. I got tied at work

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] royahaun:
I'm not sure what I am doing different but I am having very few of the problems mentioned on omni, cm 11 and render broken kernals. I am just following the op and links. I am flashing back and forth between the two ROMs with no trouble.. Supersu always survives set system app and script . flash kernel. Using flash after updated Twerp. I do not get the I9000,recognition. Did you use Odin to flash anything yellow triangle much better performance On cm11,ROM AUTU 9800,vs 1310 use BBS, greenfy,BBS,and disabled receivers and I am having VERY few problems. This is my first post. I bought first handset One year ago knowing nothing. I suggest that noobs as I am read,read and serch.Xda full of instruction post backups. There are too many to thank.

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O by the way I have the straight talk sgh 959g
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] david72262:
ok i played with the kit kat rom for a week but I really like the cooked rom better so a couple of questions so I can come home. I had a virgin phone so I just did the installs for the render broken rom this new phone has never had anything else on it.

right now this is what I did to phone

CWM 6.0.4.5 though Odin

flashed root

flashed - CWM v6.0.4.4- (Thanks to mr-cook)- SGH-S959G CWM_v6.0.4.4.zip

flashed renders rom.

phone works great but its not cooked

I guess my main question is the new twrp recovery not having the kernnel options to reset profiles and stweaks. But you said it works with your rom so is that step not necessary anymore?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
The install script "should" take care of it. You can also flash the kernel cleaner script I made if you need to reset your profile later on for any reason.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spinergy02:
So does that mean a siyah-based kernel will work fine with twrp?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Ok guys I have root on stock. Here is my post from androidarea51-

Ok so here it is. I did end up with root- but this did not do it alone or without issue. It flashed, booted fine (yellow triangle of coarse), root in adb awesome, remount read/write. But no wifi, and busybox wouldn't install- no su binary is what I was getting, no root permissions on the phone. After messing with it for awhile I decided because of write capability to try zergrush, and presto I have root (which also wasn't perfect titanium backup had to fix a permission) I am backing it up now, and then will see about fixing wifi.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Mrvega90:
if i flash i will loose the unlock status
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] graphicw:
I second what Mr Cook said upon testing myself. I am reverting back to stock and not bothering with root until a better method is discovered.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] mr-cook:
Wifi fixed. I flashed entropys dd kept root, and wifi working.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
I should have known... I was so excided when dude said he had the root for it, but then I looked at it and I knew I wasn't going to try it myself. Ill just have to keep the faith... I wish teleporting was invented so we could meet up and get my phone all hooked up LoL.....

Dustin Stone

StoneComputers
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] starmutt:
stock + root

Would it help to tell you all I have a s959g that is now stock rom plus perfect root ?

used the stock rom posted by eclipse a few pages back plus heimdal 1.3.1 NOT 1.3.2

Heimdal 1.3.1 is used because 1.3.2 will NOT upload and complete flash of factoryfs to this phone

downloaded the rooted factoryfs referenced also a few pages back

unzipped that and loaded heimdal and the subsituted the rooted factoryfs and flashed phone

worked perfect , works perfect sorry this is my first post and it appears I can not post urls or links
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
teleporting may not be available at this time but teleconferencing is. if we could set up a date and time on a voip service such as ventrilo or teamspeak people could get together live to try and work these issues out. just a suggestion.

i think you guys are doing a fantastic job as it is. i have been reading this thread since it was started, i have no understanding on how any of this stuff works but am very interested in learning. so please keep up the good work and thank you all for what you are trying to accomplish.

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i would try to conferm that if i knew how to download and use Heimdal
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
Same thing here... I have no clue...

LoL
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] roughmouth:
I think this is good info but im not sure.

glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
Testers: I built an Odin package for stock + root. Unrar then flash the s959g.tar.md5 in the PDA slot, Auto-Reboot the only thing checked.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jenol:
Cool now we just need custom Rom and recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Roger's SG2:
Sweet, I see some great progress with this phone after a few months. I was pissed whenever I found the i777 roots/Roms wouldn't work but hopefully you smarties here on XDA can get us set up :)

I have a factory-fresh S959G here in my hands that I'm willing to test out with whatever necessary now that we have the stock rom availale.

1 Off topic thing about the S595G, suddenly after 3 days of normal service and refreshed monthly bill I'm only getting specifically 240kb/s download on the network? What the hell is happening, I got 8mb/s download just the other day... :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] IndigoAK:
There's a good chance that Straight Talk has throttled you.

Have you been streaming anything or downloading lots of things over the network? Even though the phone is designed for these things, Straight Talk is incredibly hostile to people who use it for that. From what I've read around the web (and they won't even admit this to you publically), their agents are told to throttle you if you go over 100MB a day or 2GB a month. Both of those are easy to hit if you do any kind of media or gaming on this phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] StoneComputers:
You could be throttled but i get better speeds than that when i get throttled (i get throttled every month LoL) its been going around that slow data and no connection at all on apps means you need to pull the battery and the sim count to like ten then put back i thought it was nutty too and thought it was just my throttling getting worst then i did it and bam back to 1 to 1.5 mbps throttled... I hit 12mbps not throttled... So give that a try it won't hurt anything...

Oh yea.. Only buy your air time one month at a time, because when you get a new air card your throttling gets reset. Id hate to have bought a year and get throttled in the first month lol

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How well is this working? What is the skill level involved??? Anybody want to write quick step by step... Including best place to download Odin? Im not new to flashing/rooting just new to this way... I've rooted/flashed a Samsung Intercept, HTC eVo, and China Pad... So not total noob but pretty close :/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] r00t4rd3d:
EDIT - Wait on this. Seems like Odin is getting stuck on firmware.xml file.

Download Odin HERE

Put your phone in download mode - Turn it off, hold the volume down button and insert the usb cord.

Load up Odin, you should see Added! in the message box if Odin recognizes your phone. Uncheck all the boxes but Auto Reboot. Unrar the file I uploaded s969g.tar.rar , it will be s959g.tar.md5 after, click the PDA button and browse to that file. Click Start.

Never interrupt the flashing or the first time booting after flashing. Sometimes it takes a couple minutes to boot the first time.