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[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
DONE.

All it took was a quick script rewrite in notepad. and it SHOULD work with both Canadian galaxies :)

I don't know who packaged this, but my quick edit means simple root.

Hold VOL + & - + Power for recovery

Install attatched update.zip

Cheer, because you have the first rooted (REPORTED!) Galaxy S Fascinate on telus :)

And, PM me props. that would be coo'

Anyway, File and a screenshot. Pretty simple guys :)

About damn time I found a way to give back to the

[edit] Shell reports su, must ask for it manually. Meh :)
[Fascinate General] fallingup:
So does the update.zip actually install or does it complain about signatures?

To get # in the shell you need to type 'su'

Just because a "root" app runs doesnt mean you have root either.
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
J

Sorry, forgot that step. Su in terminal is working now. Just have to do it manually.

yes it installs without errors. I literally just rewrote the updater.script to include the sgh-t959d and installed it on my device.
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
If a REAL developer sees this and wants to start working on things for this phone (roms, whatever. ) and need nandroid dumps/ OS dumps, lemme know what to do.

Clockwork recovery works perfectly so :)
[Fascinate General] fallingup:
If you know your way around odin, you can make a back up of your kernel image by doing this from your device:

[FONT=Verdana]# dd if=/dev/block/bml8 of=/sdcard/recovery bs=4096
[FONT=Verdana]# dd if=/dev/block/bml7 of=/sdcard/zImage bs=4096[/FONT]
[/FONT]

You can then copy both from your sdcard onto your computer. Now you will need a linux box or cygwin to package the files we just pulled into odin files:

tar -H ustar -c /path/to/zImage > USCC-stock-kernel.tar

Then try flashing one of jt1134's kernels just to test and see if they work on your device, i dont know why they wouldnt.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
sorry im noob at this...

so the update.zip for telus fascinate works??? or no :(

Do i just insert the file to my sdcard and update it through recovery console?

please help me :((((((

thx
[Fascinate General] ladang0712:
I keep getting an error that says "in /sdcard/update.zip (status 7) installation aborted. HELP!!! Thanks so much
[Fascinate General] cipherruse:
Getting the same error/installation aborted message.

What does this mean?

Shell reports su, must ask for it manually.​
[Fascinate General] ladang0712:
Sorry but how do you ask for it manually??
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
I need some serious help. I bricked my phone with a lousy Clockword Mod file in Odin. I need the stock Telus Restore image. So far I can only find the Vibrant i-9000 and Verizon t500 stock files. Someone please help me! :-(
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
GREAT! I thought I had found a Telus Fascinate Image.....turns out with was an ATT Captivate image and now I can't even get into recovery or download mode. ADB wont work either because the phone just starts up with the ATT splash screen n loops with reboots. Is my phone dead? $100 to anyone that can get this working again. PLEASE!
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Are you putting the update on the internal or external SD?

in terminal / adb shell type 'su' without the quotes ;)

Internal or external SD?

Also, Apparently Z4Root works, but I never knew about it so I did this. Try that too.

Still need a forum for this bad boy.

I vote it get's called the fascibrant, Because it's NOT a T-Mo vibrant (Different radio) and it sure as hell isn't a fascinate. (different... everything. )
[Fascinate General] myxdan:
Yeah, I'm thinking about picking up a Telus Fascinate. Although it would be niche community for roms yes? As far as I know Telus is the only carrier to have this specific device... I currently have a desire, and there's plenty to do with that phone. I'm just a bit worried even with root access, there will be a limit to the phones capability still.

All that aside, YES, we do need a forum specific to this rare beast.
[Fascinate General] times_infinity:
The first rule of anything rom or recovery or kernel related for ANY of the Galaxy S phones is. DO NOT FLASH ANY ROM OF ANY GALAXY S VARIANT BUT THE ONE YOU HAVE OR YOU WILL HAVE A BRICK! So yeah. You most likely broke your phone.
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
z4root

Would z4root work on our telus fascinates? or does it only work on Froyo. I think we're supposed to get the update to Froyo in 2011 though.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833953
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
so there is no hope for the guy? isn't there some low level way to flash? JTAG?
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
we seriously need a forum for telus fascinate... :( I have rooted my device to install OCLF but i reallllyyy want to try other things...

p.s. does anyone know how to voodoo telus fascinate?? Thanks!
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
I'm dying waiting for a forum.

It's kinda frustrating.

Stupid Telus and their fancy rebranding with different innards...
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
True.. even tho its called Fascinate.. its not actually THE fascinate...

In fact the model number is more similar to vibrant than fascinate

(T959 =vibrant T959D =telus "fascinate")

Yesterday I bought invisibleshield by zagg for samsung fascinate and guess what

it doesn't fit!! Samsung tweaked the model designfrom the original

fascinate. surprise surprise.......

I am desperately waiting custom roms to be developed for telus "fascinate"

so that I can remove this old 2.1 :( Telus fascinate getting froyo update early

Jan, but I can't wait :(((
[Fascinate General] politik7:
Doesn't work for me :/
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
so should i get one?

I mean i have a rooted desire so why not pick 1 o

f these up however the reports are confusing...

...Does the update.zip posted work? If yes, does clockwork mod work? What about custom Roms, are there any?
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
I wish they just named it something else so that it wouldn't be confused with Verizon's version. Better yet I wish they only made 1 version of the Galaxy S instead of 6+...

What do we have to do to get our own forum on here?
[Fascinate General] politik7:
I can confirm that OP's update.zip does work.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
I can also confirm that OP's update.zip does work. Rooted mine with it. No problem at all.
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
Yup rooted here too. Downloaded terminal emulator typed su and got the # symbol all good thanks.

Now all we need are a custom rom...or two...
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
guys I installed rom manager, which model do I choose to install cloxkwork mod recovwey?

Edit...figures I got it choose vibrant. Clockwork works perfect!
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
what does clockwork do? Whats the purpose of it? :P Im bit new to android world!!
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
Clockwork is a custom recovery image that is much more flexible than stock android recovery. It can back up and restore system images, install .zip's with any name (not just update.zip) and you can use the advanced menu like wipeing battery stats and such. Leave the 'update.zip' in the root of your sd card, that way if you brick the phone or bootloop it, you can flash the update.zip and it will take you to clockwork recovery.

Go to youtube and search "Clockwork Recovery" there will be a few videos there showing how to use it.
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
So I should keep the update.zip for clockwork or for the root?

Do you think that we should sell our Fascinates for Captivates or some other android? It doesn't look like anyone is working on a telus fascinate cyanogenmod, or even any mod, and I'm not impressed with the gps of the galaxy.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
Wow thanks for the help! It makes so much sense now haha :P

:(((( welll... our device more similar to vibrant than other fascinates... so I hope that making mod for telus fascinate.. is as easy as tweaking few stuff from vibrant stuff... I hope... Im pretty sure someone is already working on it..

tho we reallllly really need a forum for this beast.
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
The "update.zip" file you used to root the phone should be kept in a seperate folder. Don't keep it in the root of the sd card. When you install clockworkmod it will overwrite the "update.zip" file you used to root and replace it with another "update.zip" which will take you to clockworkmod recovery if you ever bootloop or brick the phone.

How it works is that you hold power and volume +; - keys all at the same time to get into standard recovery, then you choose apply: update.zip, which will then take you straight to clockworkmod, from there you can restore the image you hopefully backed up before trying to mod your phone.

As for selling the fascinate, I'm right there with you, I have a desire fully rooted/s-off/etc... there is so much support with it and there is literally nothing with this phone, and you know what? I like this samsung better form factor wise and screen size, but software is really behind. (2.1, touchwiz, etc) I installed launcher pro, and beautiful widgets so it looks like HTC sense, so i'm not unhappy, but its definately a bit slower than my desire with 2.2 and the desire HD rom running.

If I sell it, i'm 100% going to get a nexus S, as I really like the form factor of this phone, also, compared to the bell vibrant, the build quality is better with the Telus SGS.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
Installing OCLF on the market helped me a lot. My sgs feels so much faster :) tho, i really want to try voodoo fix but Im scared i might brick my phone XD
[Fascinate General] nitsuj17:
oclf is a mostly placebo lagfix that ll jack up your quadrant score.....and thats it
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
ya... so i didn't trust the qudarant score it gave me. But the phone actually got faster .. imo...:P maybe you are right. its placebo effect haha

voodoo is the real thing rite??? do you know how to apply it on telus fascinate?
[Fascinate General] k4r1m:
Sorry to jump the thread.. but I'm need of some help guys, can anyone upload a a telus stock backup? I flash a rom on my telus fascinate and even though I backed up my stock, I don't see a backup in recovery... so PLEASE someone help I would really appreciate it.
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=837530

Use the "ADB /system dump can be found here" and restore using ADB. Not sure if it will resolve your issue but its the only dump on the net I was able to find.
[Fascinate General] k4r1m:
I already looked at that thinking it was a dump using nandroid but it's not, it's just the system folder which is pretty useless since I need everything including the modem... thx thou, anyone else got anything?

edit nvm I flashed a Captivate rom ;)
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
so captivate roms are compatible with the telus fascinate?
[Fascinate General] k4r1m:
No not any captivate rom(this goes for vibrant roms too, I tried the stock froyo which works fine except no service due the different freqences it uses but im guessing a different modem would fix that?)... it depends on the modem it uses and the kernel from my understand the bell modem aka UGJK3 will work but then for example the rom I flashed was the Doc 0.3 rom which is pretty good except the screen orientation is messed up and the home/back keys are reversed due to the kernel... and you have to be careful on which custom kernel you can flash because I just tried flashing the I9000 reoriented kernel and ended up in a boot loop and from there I was just ****ed because the only option I had after that was to use odin and since there is no telus odin files floating around guess what? I man'ed up and used the captivate pda and vola BRICKED phone lulz doesn't even turn on anymore.... anyway just be careful, Ill be back real soon with another phone to brick.
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
I'm thinking we should wait for the official froyo release then re-root that rom/dump or just install the OTA update and re-root our phones.

I really like this phone better than my Desire, which is fully supported with custom roms.

I wish I was a dev, but unfortunately I have no idea even where to begin. I nice de-bloated stock froyo rom with de-odex would be a great place to start from someone, but this being a new 'one-off' SGS there is very little support for it so far.

I'm unwilling to try a different rom (captivate/i9000) as I know there will be issues.

BTW - I did backup my stock rom with with clockwork and tried to restore but it didn't work the first try, havent tried since.
[Fascinate General] avenuePad:
Is there a good tutorial on how to do this root? How do you install the update.zip in recovery mode? And how do you manually set up the su?

I know these are probably stupid questions, but I'd rather look stupid than brick my phone. lol :)
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
So we should have an odin in 2011 when samsung releases 2.2 right? Also whatd you end up doing with ur brick?
[Fascinate General] joethc:
I believe this is the heart of the telus fascinate community, this is the only thread that has peaked any interest as a telus fascinate owner so thank you OP. As a telus desire and telus fascinate owner I have noticed a few things, first of all this samsung is really new. Like 2010 new, and the htc desire cpu is from 2007. The desire has a billion custom roms making it alot faster and more stable but not so suprising for a nexus 1 clone. The samsung has less than a handful of roms that guys have created out of nothing really. Lets stop there and Ill say this. ....wait for froyo and the development will follow. It is coming and the world will then see the potential this samsung device has. I feel for anyone that bricked there device I did something similar with the slcd screen on my desire, had screen brick after flashing a custom rom and had to blindly bring it back to life, using the phone with no screen is hard. And having usb debugging off, well ....never again lol. I have rooted my fascinate with this method works like a charm.
[Fascinate General] k4r1m:
I have bricked my htc magic before and brought it back to life somehow so as my desire, but never anything like this... it's completely dead won't turn on at all.

I'm going to try to send it for service or get it replaced if neither happen I will just go buy something else a nexus s or something... :(
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
Yeah! I was thinking that this thread could be the start of telus fascinate!!!

Lets keep the thread alive as long as possible :P

p.s. Anyone using screen protector for telus fascinate? are we supposed to use protectors designed for vibrant?? I tried Zagg invisi sheild for fascinate on my telus fascinate, and it didin't fit. Any help? Thanks!
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
Actually, I think the Vibrant would be a closer match.

Facebook even seems to think so lol

Try going to www.facebook.com on your mobile browser and at the bottom of the page, it says "Download Facebook for your Vibrant."
[Fascinate General] k4r1m:
It would be nice if we somehow can get our own forum right?

btw I just email'ed samsung about releasing the kernel for this T959D model which will for sure get us started!
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
i9000 shield, trim off the bottom JUST above the button cut out, fits every time.

Do it for customers a lot.

I'll start fudging around with this in the next couple days (Rom stuff. I have three days off, I'm gonna start with Cyanogen for the vibrant and see what I can do with it.)
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Put on your internal memory

TURN OFF PHONE

Hold Vol + & -

Press power, release once T959D screen shows up. Keep holding volume buttons.

Choose to install update.zip

A-Voila!
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
Thanks for the PM Omega. Nice to see that someone may be starting to give us some options. Vanilla froyo would be wonderful. Good luck.
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
Definitely! Can't believe we're getting Froyo around January-March when people will be playing with Gingerbread for 4 months by then.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
great! keep this thread alive :)
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
I'm on my way home from work now so let the marathon of learning begin!
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
gl! let us know if you need annnnnyyyy help! XD
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Actually, if anyone has links to guides involving the directory structure of a general android rom, how to reorganize and build one, and knows where the radio files are kept on the SGS, that would help.

I'm experimenting on my own phone right now, already messed it up with a cyanogen port that looked like it was for the 959 but was a i9000 variant :S

S'okay, still working ;) And besides, It's under warranty.
[Fascinate General] cowvun:
Just recently picked up a Telus Fascinate.

Hope that we can get this community up and running, and get some custom roms out here. xD
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Wow. That was FAST.

I'm running cyanogen 6.1 right now, modem works for text and talk so far, working on gapps and speedtest... One sec.
[Fascinate General] cowvun:
You will be loved if you can get it to work.
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
It is working.

Everything is working.

Bahahah this is pathetically easy to port over <3 I'm not posting a damn thing until either A) Someone PM's me and begs to test something that hasn't been tested for more than 5m yet (Literally, 5m. )

or B) I don't discover ANY problems for a day.

Who's up?

EDIT 2004 in quadrant, no lag fix.
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Minor issue, no home button <_< Both home and back, are back. >_<
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
oh no :( so the buttons are inverted? oh wait So they are both back!

!!!! Hmmmmm
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
Dude, hit me up for some testing if you need me. Bought this phone as a secondary/hobby phone n I'm looking for something to do with it lol

(iPhone 4 n Blackberry are my primary phones)
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Comfortable installing clockwork recovery?

Do you know what odin is?

Do you know how to use odin?

Do you know how to deal without a home button?

If you answered yes to all the above, we have lift off.
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
Yes to all of the above. Do u happen to have an Odin image i can revert to for the telus fascinate tho?
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
nope. :P

;)
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
Sad. No one does lmao will clockwork create a backup I'd be able to restore?
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Nope. Doesn't Restore kernel/rom
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
That's what I figured. Hmmmmm. Lol
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
Is there anyway I could back them up? Nandroid maybe? Just wanna make sure I have something to restore my phone to in case of trouble.
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
It's working for me *shrugs* just had phone calls and everything on it :P Data speeds are fast and everything.
[Fascinate General] roccos_van:
I was able to create a backup image of the stock rom with clockwork, but when I tried to restore it, clockwork booted to the image of the box with the android popping out but nothing happened, just stayed frozen on that screen for about 10mins, had to pull the battery. So backup/restore does not work as far as I can tell.

BTW - I choose 'vibrant' when Rom Manager asked what model i have.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
bahhh I wanna help but Im too noob!!!!

after the exams... I will try and jump into this universe!!!
[Fascinate General] koocheese:
New member here.

I can confirm this root method works, simple as hell to execute too.

I'll hang onto this phone for a little while longer, android has me hooked & i cant find a buyer. I was originally gonna flip this and pick up a desire Z and unlock it.
[Fascinate General] DaveJeep:
I just got is phone, coming from a i9000m that's out for repair. I rooted it with this method. Easy as pie.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
Vibrant seems to be realllly close to telus fascinate. After all, the model name for telus fascinate is T959D.

I read somewhere that the D is used to represent HSDPA network...

Any update on home key omega???
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Remapped to search. Working on more stuff right now.

Release later.
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
have you seen this:

http://www.jtagbox.com/jtag-news/riff-jtag-samsung-galaxy-i9000-unbrickrepair-bricked-boot/

I'm not sure how easy it is to get to the JTAG headers, or even if you need to. Maybe some shop has one in your area.
[Fascinate General] k4r1m:
I actually just sent it to the manufacture today to get it "fix"... if by any chance they send it back not repaired saying you messed it up, That is defiantly what I'm going to do.. thanks for the link :D
[Fascinate General] danik2212:
ok guys, I've got a problem... I though the samsung vibrant (t959) was the same phone as ours (t959d), so I installed voodoo fix on my phone and now, when it boots, it says sgh-t959d, then switch to vibrant but it starts. The problem is when the phone is on, the sound is not working and it doesn't vibrate anymore.

I tried to remove voodoo fix with disable lagfix but it doesn't work, could you help me out please...

Do you think I can go at the telus store and told them my phone is broken?
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
not if it's saying vibrant.

You're pretty much screwed.
[Fascinate General] danik2212:
what should I do then....

I just received the phone and I won't pay 55$ per month for nothing... do you think there is a way to get it fixed?
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
My honest opinion is read before jumping in to things.

My secondary opinion is if you've already gone this far, install a rom that repartitions the SD card and actually works. I have another thread open for just such a purpose.

Also, of note, I didn't read very much before jumping in to it, I'm a bad example.
[Fascinate General] wwowz:
are you sure your settings are all turned on???

go check XD :/
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
Mine said AT&T and I still sent it back lol Told them that I went in to a Telus store and the rep there gave me instructions but he must have given me bad instructions because now my phone won't boot and it says AT&T. ;)
[Fascinate General] a2000rick:
If you're still within 30 days of purchase, get the accidental damange plan for $7/month, and destroy your phone. They'll charge you $150 for a new one, but that's better than buying one for ~$400 on craigslist. Or wait until 2011 when we get Android 2.2 and see if the upgrade brings it back to normal.
[Fascinate General] arshad14:
Ummmm, you do realize you can say whatever you want but Telus won't do a thing. It's not up to Telus to fix your phone but up to FutureTEL who fixes all phones, at least in Ontario.

Those guys will know and will be calling you soon with the bill.
[Fascinate General] arshad14:
That's what I was going to recommend too. Don't destroy your original phone, just tell them it's stolen and pay the $150 and you've got two phones, one to play with another to use. At least that way you can experiment with one and once you find it to be stable, you can update the other one.
[Fascinate General] kfernandes29:
I don't doubt they will. But it's my word against their's. If you make a big enough deal about anything you can usually get it taken care of.
[Fascinate General] 0mega1:
Let me interject with some ADD for a moment.

You own a milestone? I'm so so sorry. [Previous owner]
[Fascinate General] cowvun:
That's possible?

So, people can easily get another phone, for only $150?

So why don't people just report their original got stolen when it really wasn't, pay only $150 for a new phone, unlock the new phone and then sell it on the market for more?

Seems like a flawed system to me.
[Fascinate General] Chris097:
Hey since there's a good group of Telus fascinate people here, I was wondering if you could help me out. I'm new to rooting/flashing and such, but I was reading a lot and seem to understand a little. But I still have a few questions since I can't really get it too work.

But after reading this thread I'm thinking that my problem is that it is because my phone is locked to telus? Is that true? If so, I guess there is no current way of getting things like voodoo or roms?

Thanks for your help. :)