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[Vibrant Android Development] masterotaku:
I ran across this about a week ago on one of the many other XDA forums (can't remember which one now).

It is an updated version of Odin3, version 1.30.

All the existing ROM's that I see packaged here that require Odin to flash are bundling Odin3 v1.00, and it seems people have tons of problems with that version. I myself have v1.00 stall/hang more often than it works when flashing.

I figured it'd be a good idea to have a Dev thread on this for several reasons.

1). For people to post feedback on it relative to Odin3 v1.00

2). To find out precisely where this came from, and whether or not it's the most current version.

Odin3 v1.30 works insanely better for me as it hasn't once hung on a flash for me......(yet), though given the differences we all experience in Windows versions (XP, 2003, Vista, 7, x86, x64, etc..) and differences in USB chipset hardware I figure it'd be a good thing to have some feedback and discussion about it's relative merits or lack thereof. :)

(i.e. Just because *I* think it's way better doesn't necessarily mean that it is)

I do know one thing for certain. If we can all discover a safer way to flash we'll all significantly reduce our chance of bricking our lovely phones.

(note: I figured it'd be a good idea to cross-post this here as it's gotten a bit buried over in Themes and Apps, and Odin3 is a Dev tool of sorts...)
[Vibrant Android Development] scrizz:
Thx for posting this here
[Vibrant Android Development] AustinKnight45:
Thx I'll try it out when it comes time :)
[Vibrant Android Development] creator2456:
Going to give this a try shortly. Will update on how it goes.

***

Used it to revert to stock then to flash the JI2 modem over FrankinTwiz w/KingKlick's kernel and worked flawlessly.

** Using the drivers found in the Dev section w/Win7 64
[Vibrant Android Development] Trev420:
I was having problems flashing Eugenes modem.bin through odin. Froze 3 times nearly bricking phone.

I was on win 7, 64bit.

Hope this new version helps
[Vibrant Android Development] t1n0m3n:
I have been using this since this weekend. I have used it to flash my phone 20 times or so. It works just fine. However, I never had a problem with v1.0, so YMMV.

By the way, what are the DLL files in there used for? I just deleted them.
[Vibrant Android Development] almyz125:
Thanks for this, added to the bible under useful links.
[Vibrant Android Development] krylon360:
in regards to 1.3, yes, it works, however 1.0 is still the most stable.
[Vibrant Android Development] masterotaku:
I've found the exact opposite to be true. But I don't mention that to be contentious. One unique aspect perhaps of my Windows machines is they're all running x64 versions of Windows (1 Vista box, 2 "7" boxes).

I easily get 70 plus percent fail to flash rates with v1.00 (meaning the flash stalls, almost always at the beginning of the flash), but this may merely be a symptom of the Samsung x64 drivers playing nicer with 1.30 and not Odin3 at all.

So far out of a dozen and a half or so flashes using 1.30, I've had zero failures that resulted in me having to re-engage download mode or face the dreaded "OMGIBRICKEDMYPHONE" screen. I did have one FAIL notice once, but Odin didn't lock up like it always does for me with v1.00, and all it took was disconnecting/reconnecting the phone and clicking START again and all was well.

The plot thickens. :)
[Vibrant Android Development] t1n0m3n:
I have flashed with 1.0 probably 40 or so times, and flashed with 1.3 probably 15 to 20 times, and I have never had a fail on either.

I would say that an Odin fail is directly tied to the stability of your computer. I would run a spy-ware check and/or check for driver problems.
[Vibrant Android Development] masterotaku:
If it weren't happening consistently on three spyware free x64 machines, running Samsung's WHQL Certified x64 drivers, I'd tend to agree with you.

And it doesn't take a lot of walking through brick threads here and in the other dev forums on XDA to see it's quite the common occurrence. But like your experience it does seem that people have either zero problems or nothing but problems, with little middle ground.

And don't take this the wrong way, or as me grandstanding, but I built my first computer 28 years ago...with a soldering iron. I've worked professionally in the industry for two decades. It's only Android that's relatively new to me. I've already thought through the likelihood of spyware and other possible resource conflicts and came up empty.

At this point I'm leaning towards this being an x64 environment issue exacerbating the already well known timing issues with Odin3, but that's still just anecdotal experience at play here. Given how wonky (and useless) WHQL certification can be, it could also be the drivers. Tempted to pull one of my old dual core x86 boxes out of mothballs to try some 32bit action and see if things change.

At the end of the day I'm just trying to discern what's the best Odin3 to be using. It was updated for a reason one would think, but it's hard enough finding useful info about Odin3 period.
[Vibrant Android Development] jdkackley:
Just fyi guys, im running x86 7 using ODIN 1.0 and still experienced about a 50% failure rate. Just food for thought. However as of lately I'm either getting better at hitting start or ODIN has been in better spirits. FWIW I will try ODIN 1.3 in my future flashes to see if there is any difference.
[Vibrant Android Development] AustinKnight45:
I've found that when you start odin v1.0 and when it finds your phone you have to work fast like 10 sec, put the files in and then hit start and it works well for me I'm on win 7 x64.
[Vibrant Android Development] angryPirate12:
Vista x64, I never installed the Samsung WHQL drivers at all. I used the drivers that come with the Android SDK, using Odin 1.0, I have only had one fail, and it was my fault, i accidentally pulled the USB plug, lord knows how many flash's I've done through odin, been using it since theres been custom ROMs available.

I'm going to agree with its people's systems that affect Odin. Anyone who has done any kind of work on Windows knows that it's driver system for devices, while nice and simple in theory, is nowhere near as convenient when it comes to practice. Not too mention the hardware aspect of USB controller chips or North/Southbridges on the motherboards having some kind of high frequency interference, bad HAL level drivers, or just a bad chip creating data throughput or connection consistency problems... yet another reason to go Mac or Linux.
[Vibrant Android Development] masterotaku:
I guess the only problem with that take, is that you can count the reliable Linux and Mac firmware tools for Android on the fingers of one foot. There is one project running that I've been following. It's an early alpha and buggy as a roach motel at this stage (not disparaging the authors....it's the nature of being an alpha).

Coming up to speed on all of this out of necessity and curiosity I'm still going to lean towards Odin3 v1.0 itself as the primary culprit for a few obvious reasons. And even if it works reliably for many that still doesn't mean it is issue free. And with me even saying that I also acknowledge that the phones themselves play a significant role.

XDA Dev forums are a useful resource, and it doesn't take much digging around the other Android dev forums to see that timing issues between different model phones and Odin3 v1.0 are a significant issue. The subtle differences in the different Android phones themselves is as much an issue as the firmware tool, this much is painfully apparent. One gets motivated to do this sort of digging when one thinks they've bricked there phone! :)

There's also the obvious question. Why was Odin3 updated to a newer version? Probably to fix something....

At the end of the day I'm not trying to be divisive or argumentative here. I'm just trying to reason my way through this as best I can. At the very least we have another software tool at our disposal, one that at least anecdotally is worth using should you have issues with the older version of the software.

Out of curiosity I did actually un-mothball an old XP SP2 32bit box I'd been using as a dedicated StepMania system in my kids room (till they turned into teenagers and stopped caring about DDR clones), and Odin3 v1.0 works far better on that old hardware. Version 1.30 does also, but if your comparing the two on a system where v1.0 is already working reliably...well your missing the point.

Having said that, I know I'm in a unique position. I have 4 desktop systems, a laptop, a 3 Terabyte NAS, and a Home Theater PC, and a house I wired with Gigabit Ethernet because I roll like that. I also have spare PC's in storage here and there because I work on them and networks for a living. I have easy options many people who simply want to tinker with their shiny new phones do not.

More tools and less bricks = good. :)
[Vibrant Android Development] sheek360:
thanks for this
[Vibrant Android Development] amandadam:
Well said.
[Vibrant Android Development] C-4Nati:
ok this might seem like a noob question but i'm a linux guy, haven't used microsoft in forever so when i downloaded the .rar for odin and try to open it , it says i have to choose a program to open it with. What do i do to actually open odin so i can use it?
[Vibrant Android Development] adm1jtg:
You need an unarchiving program to uncompress a .rar usually winrar though 7zip will work as well.
[Vibrant Android Development] SamsungVibrant:
Isn't there an even newer version of Odin, something like 1.4 or 1.5? I swear I thought I saw a newer version somewhere.

Edit:

Found it, it is v1.52

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8780525&postcount=131
[Vibrant Android Development] rhondahz:
Can I use ODIN to flash any rom

I have been lurking for quite sometime and eventually got the courage to root my phone and try to flash a rom yesterday. I ended up soft bricking my phone and using ODIN to restore stock back. I was so relieved. My question is can I use ODIN to flash any rom to my vibrant?

Thanks everyone on these forums....
[Vibrant Android Development] wildklymr:
Only roms that the devs who create them say are odin flashable. Most devs here use the update.zip method because it's more reliable and easier.
[Vibrant Android Development] SnakeCarnifex:
Worked for me!

1.3 was able to flash back to stock when 1.0 would just sit there after pressing "start" in Odin.

Thank you!
[Vibrant Android Development] dvargas2000:
Odin v1.70

I came across this in one of the forums, can't remember which, but this seems to be the latest version, v1.70..... Attached below
[Wildfire Android Development] cheehing:
is there a Universal 1 Click Eris Root App Apk for wildfire???

and on click un-root???
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mchimney:
So this may have been dumb.. or actually it was very dumb.

But i was using the odin one click downloader, and it got stuck at setting pit file so i figured i'd unplug the phone and pull the battery to reset it. However now it won't turn on

Did i brick it?

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neurp:
Probably not. Try using this method to put the device back in Download mode.

Remove the battery, sim card, sdcard if you have one

Insert the battery

Hold both Volume buttons, don't touch the power button

Plug in the USB cable and continue holding both Volume buttons
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mchimney:
I have to say.. I LOVE YOU!

Haha, i went to bed with the iphone all setup thinking i would have to use it. Thank you soo much!!

*Edit* I still love you, but do you have any advice on how to get odin one click to recognize it?

The phone goes into download mode now, but the computer says it's an un recognized device so odin doesn't see it

*Edit2* Ahh i got it, What i did was switch USB ports while it was in download mode and somehow that got the computer + odin to recognize it

Thanks again Neurp, you saved me and my phone
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pongothemagnificent:
Trust samsung device are one of the hardst devices to actually brick, and by bricking i mean black screen, no download mode, no recovery mode, if you can access any of these 2 or your able to see the 'att world phone" screen which is the bootloader, your device IS NOT brick't =], most people tend to get confused with the word "brick" in mobile device :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostabeer:
Hi Guys,

Don't know if I just keep missing it but I can't seem to get to the options to choose whether to connect as kies or mass storage since I have upgrade to the Froyo 2.2 XXJPH firmware.

Now I only have options to connect as kies mode everytime i plug in my usb cable. However if I exit out of it I have to unplug and plug the cable back in to activate kies again.

Any help is much appreciated :)

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johoe:
Settings/Wireles.../USB settings

johoe
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostabeer:
Thanks so much! ;)
[Wildfire General] paultraynor:
Hello,

I recently encountered a problem whereby my wifi stopped working altogether. Did a lot of research on it and it seems the problem seems to happen across a lot of different devices for a variety of reasons and there is no one fix.

Tried to factory reset a couple of times, nothing worked. HTC suggested I send my phone back to Germany where it originated. I live in China, and do not want to do that...

The option that seemed to work for other people was to root and flash a custom recovery image and then flash a custom ROM.

I was well aware of the risks, but have been interested in rooting for a while. Among other reasons, being able to run Market Enabler and OpenVPN apps are very attractive to me.

So I did some more research and ended up flashign to ClockworkMod with unrevoked 3. Worked fine. Rebooted, had superuser ninja app in my app folder, could get a response when terminal was prompted with "su". All good. Wifi still didn't work but I was expecting that.

NExt step, custom ROM. So I do some more research and find that there are not too many custom ROMs for the Wildfire, but my options are basically wildpuzzle, or Vibe.

I download both of them just if one of them doesn't work, but err on the side of wildpuzzle. Bigger user base, seems to be more stable, and has a lot of the things that I am interested in.

Download, move to SD card, flash it, reboot, fine! Opens great, Wifi working again, everything's good.

Until I try to partition my Sd card with ROMManager. It force closes and nothing seems to be able to get it to start wosomething root. Terminal returns "permission denied", wireless tether returns permissions problems and market enabler won't work.

All things point to not having superuser access anymore.

So I decide to restore my backup and check to see if I still have root access on that. I do, great!

Then I decide to try flash Vibe jsut as a test. It gets stuck in a boot loop after flashing it and I can't seem to get it out of it so I re-restore to my old stock ROM and am now stuck again with no wifi, but root access.

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions/tips/how tos as to go about gaining root access again on wildpuzzle? I'd really like to have my wifi back!

Sorry I am fairly noob on android stuff, but I assumed that after you rooted the device, that was it, it was rooted and you had superuser access from then on out...
[Wildfire General] paultraynor:
Answered my own question, so thanks if you have answer but it's sorted! Wifi and Root both working on Custom ROM!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustertech2000:
i was wondering if anyone is making differant boot screens. I would really like to find someone that can take like a girls gone wild clip of girls flasing and use that as the boot screen instead of a glowing android.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
This is what you need: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=654042 unless you are talking about the boot animations, that happen after the boot screen. Then you want to reference this: http://androidforums.com/android-themes/175297-jessica-alba-bootscreen.html as a warm up and then if you really wanna know how, PM me and I will tell you how. Or I could make you one for a small donation lol.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] lildic:
if u want NFS shift apk pm me

its a 32mb file no need to adb :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] PoTi_96:
If u want xxx paid apps, download apktor or aptoide
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] lildic:
apktor sucked :confused:

and i dont care
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Koutch974:
Try getandroidstuff website
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Alleniv:
I am interested to get it!! :)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] go3asy:
no version with SD card for data? 32mb too big
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] ihvarrived:
i m interested
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] PoTi_96:
But there are updates too.. (and with some repos ca. 2100+ apps)

Some1 has sent me a link via PM...

myx10apps.blogspot.com

there are some cool apps too :)

Btw...

U r starting a new thread for only 1 app?

Google does more...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exssrerion:
I using 2.1offical rom

Can I overclock CPU Speed with offical rom,if it possible please tell me how?

I'm already root it but I didn't use costom rom.It possible to overclock?

Thank you and sorry for my english skill

Sent XDA App
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ante0:
You will need root and a custom kernel, that allows overclocking, for that
[Android Apps and Games] m_kranzler11:
Hi guys, an app I've been working on for the better part of 6 months has been released into the market as a free beta. It's called TV Show Favs and lets you manage all of your favorite TV shows.

It shows you a personal schedule for all upcoming shows of your favorites, has a top favs for all users, allows you to track every episode you have watched, and it even has a custom notification manager where you can either choose to be notified for all your shows, or just the shows you want, or even at an episode level. You can choose to be notified at a default time (5 min up to a week), or select an individual episode and choose the exact time/date. Also, everything is stored online, so you never lose any of your data, and once we eventually have a website to manage online, and potentially an iphone app, your info goes with!

In less than 3 days we have had over 1000 downloads already. I am working my butt off to fix any bugs that are reported and implement any feature suggestions. Any feedback is great! Thanks!

Here is our website - www.tvshowfavs.com - which has some info about the app as well as some screenshots, and the link to the app in the market. If you are too lazy to go to the site, here is the market link: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.tvshowfavs

Here are some screen shots:
[Android Apps and Games] Masterface7:
Hi, I just downloaded your app and it looks great. I cant wait to try it out.

Do you have any plans to make a widget showing upcoming shows.
[Android Apps and Games] thesecondsfade:
I love this program. You should incorporate reviews and user ratings from IMDB or something... and the ability to write reviews directly in your app and post to IMDB (if possible). Also, if you could mark all shows on all seasons watched at once instead of tapping seasons/season 1/menu/mark all watched... meaning eliminate one middle step... seasons/menu/mark all watched, that'd be sweet too.
[Android Apps and Games] E_man5112:
Awesome. Just downloaded, will post impressions soon. I really liked droid series, but no notifications hurt.
[Android Apps and Games] E_man5112:
Quick impressions:

Interface is amazing for finding and searching shows

It looks like it will be invaluable for keeping on top of things (most of my shows happen to start this week, so I get lost!)

In fact, the only problem I have with this app, is it doesn't look like it will be that good at keeping up with old series your going through. To fix that, I'd like to see

In the page, with the show, under seasons tab, there is a list of all seasons. Under the season number, I'd like to see "x unwatched episodes"

I'd like to be able to mark the entire season as watched

An option to mark multiple seasons watched at once

Droid Series does these things excellently, if you want a good example. However, yours is far better at keeping up with current shows. Fix the above problems, and I would for sure be a buyer. Otherwise, I'll still be stuck with two programs for TV.
[Android Apps and Games] johnjohn25:
Its a good app, and i saw that you added calender integration? I'm not sure how to sync it with my calender though. Is this actually a feature or something coming soon?
[Android Apps and Games] m_kranzler11:
I definitely plan on having an upcoming shows widget down the road.
[Android Apps and Games] m_kranzler11:
We do have plans on doing user reviews and ratings within the app. We also plan on having relational suggestions, as well as comments for shows and episodes. These are things that will likely make the main release, possibly the beta. Also, in the next update (Sunday or Monday), we will have the option to set a show as watched and a season as watched. As for IMDB, this is a great idea and I will look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] m_kranzler11:
What exactly do you mean by no notifications? There are notifications in the app, in fact the most customizable notifications of any app I can imagine.
[Android Apps and Games] m_kranzler11:
Thanks for the suggestions! Like I mentioned, we do plan on the option to mark shows/seasons as watched. I do like the idea for showing how many unwatched episodes though, so I will add that to my todo list!
[Android Apps and Games] m_kranzler11:
To add an episode to the calendar just select any episode in a list (List of episodes in the episode list view, episode on the schedule) or select the "Add To Calendar" menu option in the menu on the episode info screen.
[Android Apps and Games] E_man5112:
I meant droid series (the app I used previously like this) had no notifications, and that was the biggest drawback to it. Loving the notifications/schedule on this app :D
[Android Apps and Games] m2thedeep:
I like it so far. My only complaints would be that instead of episode information I see pictures and that the color scheme (grey and dark blue) is a little ugly.
[Android Apps and Games] avgjoemomma:
Kind of thought the colour scheme was pleasing to the eyes personally:p
[Android Apps and Games] m2thedeep:
Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand dark color schemes because not many people coordinate colors properly. For me, light grey color schemes are best because they're easy on the eyes and it's easy to find complementing colors. The android app market is a good example of a well designed app.
[Android Apps and Games] jaka.erc:
I can't find it in my market :( I'm using HD2 with Desire HD Android port. Can somebody help me. I'm a total TV shows junky. :P The app looks veeery nice!
[Android Apps and Games] muskogee:
I was just needing this app...

With all the good shows on several different networks and the seasons of the shows hard to keep up with, I was wondering if there was app that could keep up with my shows and here it is. Can wait to put it to the test this week. :)
[Android Apps and Games] m_kranzler11:
Did you try using the direct link either via the barcode on the website or clicking the barcode on your phone? If so, it is very possible that since it is a leaked rom some apps don't show up. I have had that issue in the past when installing custom roms. Usually it requires the rom maker to modify something on the rom to make it work.
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
I really like it, I've done my video review with a few requests in ;)

http://hemorrdroids.net/tv-show-favs/

Main one being, can you make an option to add all shows to a calendar of my choosing? I would then make a new calendar for TV shows :)