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[Hero, G2 Touch General] idroid84:
If your new to it all it's not that easy depends how fast you can learn. I will try get you some links....

Please make sure all your data is backed up, phone numbers / memory card et al.

01. Goldcard Method

02. Flash Stock 2.73 ROM

You should get a notification on the phone when you boot it up telling you there is an update... get it for the 2.1 rom. Should do the trick.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richan90:
It seems like almost all bricks can be fixed by flashing eugene's froyo rom and then reflashing to stock. What is so special about this rom?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reksp13:
Not so sure but I think its because it wipe everything. I call it ol'faithfull. eugene373 ROCK'S.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a400meter:
Perhaps it includes files not normally in most roms like the spl.bin and boot.bin.

Pure speculation on my part since I don't have much experience with it. But its a thought...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Br1cK'd:
ol' faithful, i like that, as its saved my butt more than a couple of times. Cant answer the op as to why it works, it just does.

Sent from my Vibrant running Eugene's Macnut R6
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
THIS IS FOR VERIZON SAMSUNG FASCINATE USERS ONLY!

This should not normally be needed...but in my case it was. YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA. THIS IS NOT A TRIVIAL PROCESS.

If you need to remove Voodoo4, for whatever reason (mine was not booting), this is how you do it:

1. Download original.mbr from here:

http://adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/sgs/original.mbr (right click save as....)

2. Download stock kernel:

http://adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/sgs/stock.zip

2. Boot to cwm (battery pull, and hold up volume while putting it back in and connected to usb), and put original.mbr and stock.zip on your sdcard. Mount as mass storage or adb push them to sdcard.

3. Use adb to restore the mbr:

cat /sdcard/original.mbr > /dev/block/mmcblk0

4. Use cwm to restore the stock.zip (kernel).

5. Mount dbdata and nuke the contents.

mkdir /dbdata

mount -t rfs -o nosuid,nodev,check=no /dev/block/stl10 /dbdata

rm -f /dbdata/*.*

6. Reboot back to stock recovery.

Wipe data.

7. Apply CWM. Wipe data.

8. Reboot.

Done and done. Nandroid restore back after this, if you wish.

If this doesn't work, take the illogical steps of:

Flash system, kernel and PIT with Odin. Remember, only use pda and pit sections.

Wipe again.

Automatic uninstaller

I am adding the uninstaller again, but it is not perfect.

To use the uninstaller, DO NOT USE ROM MANAGER!

1. Boot clockwork, and apply the uninstaller.

2. Go to the advanced menu and choose reboot recovery.

3. Wipe data from stock recovery. Apply CWM. Wipe data from clockwork.

4. Reboot phone.

Voodoo Uninstaller DI01 ONLY

DJ05/Voodoo5 Instructions

1. Disable voodoo either by adding a disable_lagfix text file or folder to /sdcard/voodoo directory, or by using the RED clockwork recovery for voodoo and going to the voodoo menu. Remember , you can only boot to it via:

adb reboot recovery

quickboot

manually (hold volume+/- and power)

framework modification.

Rom Manager cannot boot it.

2. Once disabled, flash a nonvoodoo kernel.

If red clockworkmod remains, please flash this, then reflash your nonvoodoo kernel of choice.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8642620/voodoo5/1129_test_novoodoo_fascinate.zip

Thanks jt1134 for kernel, and pii for bringing the issue to my attention.

http://adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/DI01package3.tar.md5

Flash via PDA in Odin. This will return you COMPLETELY to DI01 stock, bloat and all. You will need to reroot, etc.

IF red clockwork recovery remains, you can Odin this file as well, in PDA.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Odin Files/Stock-i500-VZW-Recovery.tar.md5
[Fascinate Android Development] jt1134:
thanks for posting this adrynalyne

seems today is don't RTFM day:rolleyes:
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
I thought that was every day :D
[Fascinate Android Development] dialect129:
the first link doesnt work
[Fascinate Android Development] Gitykins:
Right click > Save link as
[Fascinate Android Development] dialect129:
oh iight thanks ! now i feel better lets get this working hopefully
[Fascinate Android Development] davewolfs:
Is the wipe necessary?

Can't someone accomplish the same by creating:

/sdcard/Voodoo/disable_lagfix

And then flashing to stock?

Edit:

I guess if someone is restoring a backup, then the wipe is irrelevant.
[Fascinate Android Development] Gitykins:
As the op said, this is for extreme cases. Usually, you should use the disable_lagfix method.
[Fascinate Android Development] dialect129:
i keep getting a premission denied
[Fascinate Android Development] Gitykins:
adb shell

su

cat /sdcard/original.mbr > /dev/block/mmcblk0
[Fascinate Android Development] nemesis2all:
Thanks a million!!!
[Fascinate Android Development] dialect129:
my phone issnt rooted anymore since i restored it i couldnt get ride of voodoo and it made me have 0 internal storage
[Fascinate Android Development] SF49ers:
so this removes root? can't you just nandroid backup and get root back?
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
It does *not* remove root.

Update, uninstaller added to first post.
[Fascinate Android Development] SF49ers:
Cool beans, thanks adrynalyne!
[Fascinate Android Development] CheetoDroid:
I tried this method and now after the VZW logo my phone just sits at a black screen with the keys lit up. I can still adb into it, not sure what to try. I've tried reflashing everything using Odin but it didn't help.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
automatic or manual method?
[Fascinate Android Development] CheetoDroid:
Manual method
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Go back to stock recovery and do a data wipe.

Then see if it boots.
[Fascinate Android Development] jspidah:
Careful with that beta auto uninstaller. I lost half of my apps and it's not reading my SD card.

Edit: It finally finished scanning for media, but now my Market downloads are failing, and it took away my Root Explorer. I don't even have the My Files app, so I can't install anything.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
You typed something wrong, Im afraid. Probably missed the '>'.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Try the automatic uninstaller. Sounds like you are running voodoo5.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Removal instructions for Voodoo5 updated.
[Fascinate Android Development] Droid_Hellion:
Disabling Voodoo and then re-flashing with non voodoo kernel didn't work for me. Red recovery remained.

Using the new package for Odin, also fails to remove the red recovery. Interestingly on my phone, while it did return it to DI01 and put all the stock stuff back, it never erased user data, my root, or other installed apps.

Yes this was Voodoo5 on DJ05.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Try the second Odin file attached to the first post. This was an unforeseen consequence.
[Fascinate Android Development] Droid_Hellion:
Didn't work.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/Odin Files/Stock-i500-VZW-Recovery.tar.md5

Try flashing stock recovery via Odin.

Let me know.
[Fascinate Android Development] Droid_Hellion:
Got rid of it by re-flashing with this -- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/458252/CWMrecovery.tar
[Fascinate Android Development] Droid_Hellion:
I had already done it by the time you made your post.

Makes me wonder how it is you can be somewhat a decent fellow here in this thread but call me a "noob" and kick me out of the IRC channel for trying to ask for assistance earlier. I even apologized for not refreshing the thread. You and your kiddie friends were not impressive.

You know, I might have actually donated to you for the work you do but something I have learned in my 57 years of life on this planet, the difference between character and integrity is that character is defined by what people SEE you do. Integrity is what you do when they aren't watching. Try growing up a little and kicking out people who are actually harassing another person versus the one that was trying to be polite and got harassed.

Have a good evening.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Maybe you should learn not to call ops names, when they reccomended you read a thread three times, and you did not.

On top of that, two other people came in with Voodoo problems. Nobody was listening and for lack of better terms, it was a clusterfuck.

So I had the channel muted, said what needed to be said to everyone and you decided to get personal with it.

You were kicked accordingly.

As chopperthedog would say,

good day.
[Fascinate Android Development] Droid_Hellion:
Never called YOU a name. I stated to the "***hole" that continually called me an idiot, a noob etc etc that he was an "***hole".

Seems to me learning to read is some advice you yourself should consider.

I read the thread. It obviously didnt work anyway but its a mute point.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
First of all, its a moot point.

Second of all, you had an attitude problem.

If this thread hadn't helped you, you wouldnt be booting.

Good day.
[Fascinate Android Development] BakaUnchi:
its a moo point....

;)
[Fascinate Android Development] Droid_Hellion:
In dictionary land it is "moot". In your case, it is MUTE. As in reason seems to fall on deaf ears.

Sure, a piece of the thread helped. However, it failed to do what you said it would do fully.

If you had managed to stop the ignorance being perpetrated and allowed some to speak, you may have learned something in your channel. Rather, feeding your personal egos by berating those who come seeking information is a little ignorant. Maturity is being able to step back and look at yourself realizing you aren't always correct and in this case you weren't. But, it's indeed a MUTE point.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Buddy, you are way out of your league. You have no idea what I have to deal with in IRC. SO SORRY my fix wasn't 100% perfect, but it sure got you off of **** creek.

So take your fixed phone, be happy it works, and go away.

Thank you.

Oh, and you are welcome. I didn't see anyone else trying to fix this problem.
[Fascinate Android Development] BakaUnchi:
Quoted for the truth.

i see people come in day in an day out and just DEMAND help.

I also see people come in and ask nicely, guess who gets the help?

Talk **** to the people running the dev show and you may end up with AOSP....
[Fascinate Android Development] orion421:
First things first..Say thank you to the devs for even putting this **** out to begin with..Next we as the people who use their product are not should not ***** and complain when it does not work perfectly. THEY DO NOT have to share anything the work on with us.. WE DO NOT HAVE TO USE IT...If you don't know what you are doing and just jump in YOU WILL **** SOMETHING UP... I have messed my phone up a few times..But I read the stickies and repaired what I messed up...I am sure the 400 people a day who mess their phones up then post threads here or go on IRC could fix their **** as well if they would just read and re-read the instructions for whatever it is they are trying to do..

/rant
[Fascinate Android Development] Droid_Hellion:
Before your friends started jumping on me, the only advice you gave was to read your thread. I never asked YOU specifically to help me. When I arrived in the channel, I asked for advice from no one in particular. Your first statement was "oh gee, another screwed up voodoo". That got seconded by some clown jumping in and calling me a "fkn noob, I hate noobs" and it went from there not only from those people, but yourself.

Hence, my earlier advice about you taking your own and learning to read. If you hadn't started with your own egotistical attitude, you would have noticed that I was indeed being polite and respectful in asking for advice.

If you want people to respect you fully, then make an attempt at asking those around you to be respectful. When you act the same as them, you will reap what you sow which is what happened while I was there.

For the record, my phone was never down. I only couldn't remove the Voodoo recovery.
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
Heya,

I don't ask, need, or demand respect.

Good day.
[Fascinate Android Development] times_infinity:
This forum and the people in IRC are not obligated to give you help. So don't get butt hurt when you get called a noob or no one wants to help you.

Also, did you ever think of using Odin to flash stock recovery to get rid of red cwm?

It'd be nice to use that thing called a brain floating up in your head every now and then.
[Fascinate Android Development] Technowiz:
i recently used your vooodoo unistall app now phone stuck on screend that reads e;can not mount/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 invalid arguement what do i do plz help soon
[Fascinate Android Development] imnuts:
'Quick' steps to disable voodoo5. Plug your phone into your computer with debugging enabled and open command prompt. Type the following:

adb shell touch /sdcard/voodoo/disable_lagfix
adb reboot

When the phone reboots, you should hear the nice voice saying that voodoo is being disabled.
[Fascinate Android Development] kamalmawa:
or you could just create a folder name disable_lagfix inside the Voodoo folder using ur phone My Files and then reboot manually using power button.. less drama
[Fascinate Android Development] Technowiz:
can you help me i have a vibrant on auxra 2.2.5 one before froyo. everything worked fine until installed voodoo then couldnt hear no sound from phone unles pluged headphones so tried deleting voodoo didint work then tried yor unistall app now phone dont turn on. needs to be conected first to sb or chargers and keeps repeating e; cant mount/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 invaild arguement .when connect phone to usb or charger also a screens comes up and i cant select either reboot now ,apply sdcard;update zip or wipe data or cwipe cache.just stuck plz help new phone and usless plz help www.joe.palomino@yAHOO.COM
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
...I am not sure how to even reply to this. You have a Vibrant. This is a Samsung Fascinate forum. We have different mountpoints. You just took every mountpoint for every partition in your phone and screwed it hard, with no lube.

Best reccomendation at this point is head over to the Vibrant forums here on xda and see if there are some Odin files you can use.

Sorry man, nothing I can do from here.
[Fascinate Android Development] nmyeti:
I just wanted to say that if you read, really read, the instructions and follow them exactly it's really pretty hard to screw this up. I like Voodoo because i do a lot of podcast downloads, heavy email use, and probably more to the point, tend to listen to a lot of music, and the other custom kernels seem to have audio issues. I've installed/uninstalled voodoo 5 probably about a half dozen times without issue. If you follow the instructions in this thread, it's not that hard.
[Fascinate Android Development] jbrdr985:
I want to uninstall voodoo, but I have a few questions.

1. I have the v0.2 voodoo...would that be voodoo 4? I downloaded it a few months ago so it was one of the very first versions.

2. I want to use your uninstall app, but you say don't use rom manager. What exactly do you mean? I can't reboot into recovery using the option in rom manager?

3. This will wipe everything, correct?

4. I'm scared. Hold me? :(
[Fascinate Android Development] kurtratliff:
Lifesaver

I was one of the crack people who completely screwed their phone with Odin - stuck in a force close loop of hell. Tried a thousand other things to try and fix it. Flashed the Odin file at the bottom of your post and everything is all good again!
[Fascinate Android Development] adrynalyne:
This thread has been updated. Please see the first post.
[Fascinate Android Development] aabfalter:
help, my phone will only boot to the yellow triangle with Downloading... beneath it. I tried using odin to flash cwmod to it, but i still can't boot into it no matter what. My problems started when i flashed a kernel over voodoo lag fix without disabling/removing/whatever you're suppose to do first. Please Help! Thanks.
[Fascinate Android Development] jvegastn:
My phone won't boot; on boot it brings up the stock recovery. I'm able to apply CWM and get to the CWM recovery but thats about the extent of it. I have tried the Odin restore of sys, kernel and recovery to no avail. I try to restore one of my backups from CWM, all seems to go well but once the restore is complete I'm still stuck with either the stock or CWM recovery....thoughts?
[Fascinate Android Development] jvegastn:
When Recovery, System, and Kernel +Odin didn't work I ran across the DI01package3.tar.md5 flashed it with Odin and my phone is back as it should be.
[Fascinate Android Development] o3dodgesrt4:
Fascinate i500.04 SCH-I500

Firmware 2.1 update1

Kernal Ver. 2.6.29

D02-Kernal-LV-1250

rooted

voodoo 4

DI01

need some help in removing this voodoo4. causing my phone to reboot randomly, freeze, and forces apps to close randomly. im confused. dont know where to begin. someone? anyone? b4 i hang my self out to dry!
[Fascinate Android Development] Driftcorpz:
Thanks buddy also have you playd WoW with that account name with a guild called fallen warriors?
[Fascinate Android Development] o3dodgesrt4:
update 20dec2010: i did the disable_lagfix method. dont know if it worked. nothing has seemed to change. then i tried the automatic method which seemed to work. but now im missing some apps and it keeps randomly freezing during the bootup.

im really getting mad...im a total newb to this. so i could use some help. can anyone help me out? please? I see adrynalyn is the person to help me out but i cant PM him and no one here seems to care to respond. what gives?!!! sorry im mad and ranting.:mad:
[Fascinate Android Development] bwheelies:
If you did the uninstaller, flash a nonvoodoo kernel. You may want to wipe everything as well. You should go through and read the remove voodoo threads and get all of the files needed to revert to stock. When you get it going again go through and remove anything voodoo related.
[Fascinate Android Development] o3dodgesrt4:
ive been trying that and half the links for files dont work. the other half make no sense to me. plus all the other posts being made deviate from the original problem. all i want is to get my phone back to 100% stock. is there someway to get all the files needed in one post or something. that way im not having to bounce all over the place and get confused to find this stuff.

update: ok so i tried it all again from what i did b4. seems to work. it rebooting fine now and all my apps are there. how do i know if voodoo 4 is actually gone?
[Fascinate Android Development] o3dodgesrt4:
update: EPIC FAIL!!! so i decided to do a cold boot. turned it off. left it for about 30 min. rebooted. it boots ok but none of my apps open. WTF!!! can someone direct me to the links to get this thing to stock again?

i want it unrooted, no voodoo, no nothing. just 100% stock as i got it from verizon.
[Fascinate Android Development] aerodroid:
I tried to return to stock (system and kernal) without removed the Voodoo5 lag fix. . .that was my fault, I knew better and just forgot. . .

Obviously the phone won't boot . . . I grabbed Voodoo5 from this post (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=872378) flashed that kernel via ODIN and booted into red recovery. Turned off the lag fix . . .

HERE's the problem. . .it says lag fix is currently enabled and will be disabled at the next boot. BUT, I can boot the phone.

Any ideas?

EDIT:

So, i guess never mind. . .I used the sledge hammer approach. ODIN --> PDA --> DI01package3.tar.md5.tar

done and done

anyone interested can find that file at the following post

http://adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/DI01package3.tar.md5
[Fascinate Android Development] aerodroid:
@o3dodgesrt4 --- if you want 100% stock flash the file below in ODIN via PDA.

http://adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/DI01package3.tar.md5

Credit to adrynalyne at this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=804784
[Fascinate Android Development] o3dodgesrt4:
update: so i reflashed the files that adrynalyn posted. adrynalyne.us/files/kernels/DI01package3.tar.md5 and

Stock-i500-VZW-pit.pit from his stickied thread.

then loaded them via odin. it flashed ok but when my phone reboots and gets to the main screen were i have to unlock it, 3 blue boxes appear saying SORRY! the process android.acore failed to start."force close". the other says SORRY! the process android.process fail to start."force close". and the last one says SORRY! the process TWLAUNCHER failed to start."force close". i try to acknowledge them but they keep popping up...so i reflashed the phone again. bingo it went away. but now i cant open most of my apps. the market wont download. and my 3g 4bar service is now 1xD with 2 bars.

this is so freaking frustrating. any thoughts. im about to throw this thing in the garbage. it was great b4 i F***ed it up with the hacking. now im really not doing that again till froyo is out.:mad::confused:
[Fascinate Android Development] o3dodgesrt4:
update: now my phone is showing up as "CD drive: verizone mobile" when i plug the phone into my laptop. and my SD card wont mount.
[Fascinate Android Development] aerodroid:
Did you flash the PIT file via the PIT section in ODIN?
[Fascinate Android Development] o3dodgesrt4:
yup.

update: i took it to verizon to have them troubleshoot it. they cant get it to work so they gave me a new one. problem solved. thanks to those that helped.
[Fascinate Android Development] 94SupraTT:
Stupid question....

Would not running the uninstaller cause any problems?

I bought a phone which I did not know was hacked. It had a 0.0 internal memory issue. So I was directed to this thread. I stopped after flashing a stock kernel and whiping the phone. I didn't run the uninstaller.

The phone worked fine for 3 weeks. Now...the screen is going black and coming back on. It searches for service, scans for media and comes back online. It never goes through a boot animation so it doesn't shut completely off. Please help.
[Fascinate Android Development] hoopech:
automatic uninstaller

Guys, I did the automatic uninstaller, followed the directions to the T. My phone, completely stock, but still rooted boots up, but I downloaded Root Explorer from the Marker and it still shows voodoo on my SD card. Is this normal? Can I just delete it. I assume it is still on my phone since I haven't flashed another kernel over it and my phone is still working normal. Just need to be sure as I have read that if you flash a kernel over voodoo and voodoo isn't disabled, or removed, it can really mess up your phone...Thanks for any help here guys.....
[Fascinate Android Development] hoopech:
Guys, I did the automatic uninstaller, followed the directions to the T. My phone, completely stock, but still rooted boots up, but I downloaded Root Explorer from the Marker and it still shows voodoo on my SD card. Is this normal? Can I just delete it. I assume it is still on my phone since I haven't flashed another kernel over it and my phone is still working normal. Just need to be sure as I have read that if you flash a kernel over voodoo and voodoo isn't disabled, or removed, it can really mess up your phone...Thanks for any help here guys.....
[Fascinate Android Development] hoopech:
First of all thank YOU Adrynalyne, the uninstaller worked like a charm. Finally rid of Voodoo. My problem is since I ran the uninstaller I can't download from the Market? Anyone else have this problem after running the uninstaller? I cleared Data and Cache. Read for 2 hours on getting the Market to work again, but can't find anything pertinent to my situation. Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I will be contributing to this thread.... Thanks again guys for all the great work in making android what it is today.....