Originally Posted by Tectas

Ok, sry, then the toolkit reboots your device first to download mode via adb, take the already given advice to use Odin itself, just download it put the Rom tar (or tar.md5) into pda, make sure that only auto reboot and reset time is checked, reboot to download mode continue by pressing up, plugin the cable and press the start button at Odin.

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Silly question, can i flash any rom with odin or must it be stock...

Originally Posted by brianwilkie76

Silly question, can i flash any rom with odin or must it be stock...

No

All Stock ROMs can ONLY be flashed via ODIN, not CWM
Nearly all Custom ROMs will ONLY be flashable via CWM
But if a custom ROM has been made flashable via ODIN, then you can flash it via ODIN

Most of the time you will use ODIN to flash Kernels, Radios (or Basebands as some people call them), recoveries, even bootloaders. Sometimes you can flash these even via CWM if they have been made CWM-Flashable. But custom ROMs are nearly always flashed via CWM.

Originally Posted by brianwilkie76

Silly question, can i flash any rom with odin or must it be stock...

Any Rom which gets shipped as tar containing the pure image files (or bin if a modem is included), so most customs not, because you get them as zip containing the kernel image, the system as folder structure (and maybe additional ones, depending in the Rom) and a script which gets executed within the recovery to handle the mount, copy,... process needed to get the Rom at the right places with correct permissions to work correct.

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Guys

Where can I download ODIN from, I downloaded one but it can't connect to my phone. I would like to try another...

Thanks

Originally Posted by brianwilkie76

Guys

Where can I download ODIN from, I downloaded one but it can't connect to my phone. I would like to try another...

Thanks

If you have downloaded the Samsung Galaxy S3 toolkit, then it will be included; go to the installation folder/directory and look for 'Odin3_v3.07' or 'Odin3_v3.04'

what u people had done wrong to get In this position?

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Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1671969, there is a guide how to setup and use Odin and a stock firmware compendium flashable with Odin.

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Thanks to everybody who commented and helped, I'm back up and running Omega 8.1 again... Have learnt a ton from today, thanks again.

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