I am already aware of the issue with the stock kernel because I had already attempted to build it and flash it. In the case of the factoryfs that is posted, I would say you are correct though I did not pay attention to the partition that was pulled. Another pull can always be performed to get the correct partition. Being that I have modified my phone, I cannot contribute usefully in providing the images.
Where's your evidence of this? What makes you think you cannot flash it? I haven't seen a SINGLE person indicate that they have attempted to flash the recovery partition, nor have any people posted what error happens when they flash it. (NOTE: Don't write to mmcblk0p6 or flash recovery in Odin until someone has backed up mmcblk0p6 as described above!)
All I've seen evidence of is that an old-style kernel (combined kernel/recovery) does NOT enter recovery when people attempt to do it - which, if this device actually uses the recovery partition like sane Android devices do (the I777, I9100, and N7000 are broken in this regard), would make perfect sense.
And the fact that flashing alternate modems breaks things indicates clearly you can write to the modem partition - however I777 and I9100 modems appear not to be compatible with the S959G, just like I777, N7000, and I9100 modems are all incompatible with each other. The only evidence you've provided regarding modems is that if you flash a modem image to the cache partition (mmcblk0p7 is cache not modem), your modem doesn't change - which is exactly what you'd expect.
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I have attempted to flash the recovery partition and modem partition. It fails in Odin and returns the following error in Heimdall:
Uploading MODEM
100%
ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!
MODEM upload failed!
Ending session...
ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!
I have tried multiple times. You also cannot flash sbl, boot, recovery or datafs without getting the same errors. You can successfully flash factoryfs, cache, hidden and kernel. There are several more here that can vouch the same thing. When did I ever post that I succeeded in flashing the modem? I do not recall ever posting that, the baseband has never changed on my device.
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Since my phone is hosed as of right now (wont boot beyond Rethink Possible regardless of what I flash) I went on ahead and attempted to flash the modem partition with your dailydriver Entropy. Here is the outcome of that little experiment:
graphicw@graphicw-Desktop-Main:~/Desktop$ sudo heimdall flash --modem zImage
[sudo] password for graphicw:
Heimdall v1.3.2, Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
http://www.glassechidna.com.au
This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.
If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Attempt failed. Detaching driver...
Claiming interface again...
Setting up interface...
Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...
Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 131072
Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download sucessful
Uploading MODEM
100%
ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!
MODEM upload failed!
Ending session...
Rebooting device...
Re-attaching kernel driver...
Uploading MODEM
100%
ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!
MODEM upload failed!
Ending session...
ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!
I have tried multiple times. You also cannot flash sbl, boot, recovery or datafs without getting the same errors. You can successfully flash factoryfs, cache, hidden and kernel. There are several more here that can vouch the same thing. When did I ever post that I succeeded in flashing the modem? I do not recall ever posting that, the baseband has never changed on my device.
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Since my phone is hosed as of right now (wont boot beyond Rethink Possible regardless of what I flash) I went on ahead and attempted to flash the modem partition with your dailydriver Entropy. Here is the outcome of that little experiment:
graphicw@graphicw-Desktop-Main:~/Desktop$ sudo heimdall flash --modem zImage
[sudo] password for graphicw:
Heimdall v1.3.2, Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
http://www.glassechidna.com.au
This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.
If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Attempt failed. Detaching driver...
Claiming interface again...
Setting up interface...
Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...
Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 131072
Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download sucessful
Uploading MODEM
100%
ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!
MODEM upload failed!
Ending session...
Rebooting device...
Re-attaching kernel driver...
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I have been watching this for a few days now and just signed up so i can post. Loved the Noob video btw LOL.....I still have an unmolested S959G if you guys need anything to keep this project moving. I AM a noob when it comes to smart phones, but i am proficient with PC building and tinkering. Whatever i can do to help.....
EDIT: Just heading to work and will check back in about 12hrs....
EDIT: Just heading to work and will check back in about 12hrs....
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Entropy512 thank you so much for jumping back in here, and giving us a direction to head in. Hopefully you stick around to see the progress. Cynnar and eclipsedarkmoon didn't you already dump all the partitions? Now that we know the count numbers were off, could you please attach the correct ones needed? Then hopefully someone will be able to build a working kernel. With the info entropy512 has given us we are very close to getting this.
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Those look like an Odin protocol mismatch and not a sign of locking to me. I'll ask AdamOutler for details on what it looks like with a locked down device, but that REALLY looks like what happens when you have a protocol mismatch with broken PIT handling. I've seen the EXACT same thing from devices that I KNEW were unlocked when using the wrong version of Heimdall or Odin.
I covered it earlier, but the most important ones are for someone who has only flashed Daily Driver (not Siyah as that touches /system, although for some purposes it's better than no system dump) to get mmcblk0p6 (recovery) and mmcblk0p9 (system) dumps. Also a modem partition dump (mmcblk0p8) would be a good thing to have. Param (mmcblk0p4) is less important but still useful.
That could be possible. Both Heimdall and Odin fail on the boot, sbl, modem, datafs and recovery partitions. You can only flash kernel, hidden, cache, factoryfs and param partitions. You can also change the PIT as well. I have already tested that since my phone was hosed anyway. Thanks for looking into it. Should we find that partitions are indeed locked, how would we work around that?
Here's the best reason to believe there's no lock on partitions:
One of the "supposedly locked" partitions is datafs, which is userdata and writable by default. There is absolutely no way to work with the phone if this partition is locked for write. Given that, I believe other partitions aren't locked either.
One of the "supposedly locked" partitions is datafs, which is userdata and writable by default. There is absolutely no way to work with the phone if this partition is locked for write. Given that, I believe other partitions aren't locked either.
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Yeah. Datafs fails when flashing with Odin/Heimdall on a regular basis. Hell I don't think I've ever succeeded with that.
Even if Odin can't flash a partition, you can flash it with root access. The only exception is mmcblk0boot0/1 (needs a kernel patch) and HTC devices (that S-ON ****) - I've never seen a standard MMC partition write-locked on any Samsung I've ever worked with.
DO NOT try to **** with boot/sbl - improperly flashing these can easily hardbrick you.
Which version of Heimdall was it? 1.3.2 had a lot of issues on Samsungs.
I tried Heimdall 1.31 as well and had the same issues. I only tested to see what partitions could actually be flashed which is why I attempted to flash datafs. My phone is pretty much hard bricked as of right now anyway. I will be able to be the guinea pig when a solution is found because I have nothing to lose by flashing the phone.
I have a unmodified sgh-s959g, and I'd be willing to help in any way, as long as reverting back to stock is possible. Don't know much about Android (but am familiar with Linux on PC). If I understand correctly, if someone with a custom kernel uploads a dump of a pre-rooted filesystem, I could copy the image to my phone, and dump the stock kernel? There's no way to access the kernel image from outside the phone?
You Guys are the best!!!
Reading this thread is like reading an intense book with ups and downs my heart really sunk when the guy said it was locked and the others quit... I had my phone in its box ready to return then the other guy posted (I'm sorry I'm horrible with names) he started talking about how it cant be locked and then others started to go along with him and my phone was back out of the box and back in my pocket... I really love this phone and I hope this happens...
Those of you who have flashed to the AT&T firmware are you using the SIM card that came with the phone? and those of you who flashed it and then messed it up were its now showing its the i777 does it still work on the network? At first when I brought the phone home I tried to use my BYOP SIM and the voice and text worked but not the Data and MMS I looked at the APN settings and they are the same as the ones I used on my iPhone, but there are a few more... I really want to root my phone because I need tethering (if any of you know of a tethering program that works without root on this phone with this network could you let me know?) also I want to edit the APN settings because I saw in another post on here that if you get rid of the proxy they cant keep track of your DATA usage or throttle your speed (anybody else do this?) I am a very patent man and I can wait for a proper root since I've seen people have complications with the AT&T ROOT so Im waiting a little while to see how you guys do... I know this post is a little off course but mainly Id like to thank you guys who do all this work and you do it just for the thrill and the cred... I tried so many times to get into the programing part of Tech but never got a hang of it... even though I used to run DOS back in the day and can still remember most of the commands (I hear Linux is close to old DOS with its commands) Im a hardware Tech and do a lot of repairs.
If nothing comes of this after a while I guess Ill try that Odin AT&T root but I have faith you guys will bump this thing out... ROCK on my friends
StoneComputers
Reading this thread is like reading an intense book with ups and downs my heart really sunk when the guy said it was locked and the others quit... I had my phone in its box ready to return then the other guy posted (I'm sorry I'm horrible with names) he started talking about how it cant be locked and then others started to go along with him and my phone was back out of the box and back in my pocket... I really love this phone and I hope this happens...
Those of you who have flashed to the AT&T firmware are you using the SIM card that came with the phone? and those of you who flashed it and then messed it up were its now showing its the i777 does it still work on the network? At first when I brought the phone home I tried to use my BYOP SIM and the voice and text worked but not the Data and MMS I looked at the APN settings and they are the same as the ones I used on my iPhone, but there are a few more... I really want to root my phone because I need tethering (if any of you know of a tethering program that works without root on this phone with this network could you let me know?) also I want to edit the APN settings because I saw in another post on here that if you get rid of the proxy they cant keep track of your DATA usage or throttle your speed (anybody else do this?) I am a very patent man and I can wait for a proper root since I've seen people have complications with the AT&T ROOT so Im waiting a little while to see how you guys do... I know this post is a little off course but mainly Id like to thank you guys who do all this work and you do it just for the thrill and the cred... I tried so many times to get into the programing part of Tech but never got a hang of it... even though I used to run DOS back in the day and can still remember most of the commands (I hear Linux is close to old DOS with its commands) Im a hardware Tech and do a lot of repairs.
If nothing comes of this after a while I guess Ill try that Odin AT&T root but I have faith you guys will bump this thing out... ROCK on my friends
StoneComputers
We are still not out of the woods yet as far as getting a solution for this phone and there are still several things to look into. If it has not been 15 days since you bought it yet, you may want to look into taking it back. As some have already pointed out in this thread, there are phones out there with better hardware available at the same price that already have custom solutions available for them. I have cofidence that there may be a solution for this phone eventually, but it may still be a bit of a wait on that.
so are there any roms i can flash with odin to get this thing to use wifi so i can add a APN? ive tried the zedomax kernel and that kills wifi, the siyah kernel just gives me a blank screen, and anything else i find wont show up in odin. my phone is stock other than those 2 flashes so i may be of help as a guinea pig, although i am just learning how to do all of this. i work for walmart though so i can get my hands on the returned phones before we send them to claims and test them if needed
greetings all. I am still actively working on stock recovery and getting clockworkmod working on this phone, albiet at a slow pace. I am juggling a lot of different things at the moment.
My dualboot laptop with ubuntu decided that it wants to randomly shut down, so it has been deemed unreliable for testing with the phone and I am working on getting ubuntu installed on a different computer.
I do not have a virgin dump of mmcblk0p9 the factoryfs.img and would like someone who has to upload it and provide a link. I am going to work on building the odin flashable tar with a rooted factoryfs.img, so then someone should be able to get a stock rom. Once the stock rom is avail, a stock rom should be able to be built.
graphicw, since you are currently bricked, would you try flashing a i777 stock rom, either gingerbread or ICS, perhaps if that will take the phone can be exploited to a clockwork recovery.
My dualboot laptop with ubuntu decided that it wants to randomly shut down, so it has been deemed unreliable for testing with the phone and I am working on getting ubuntu installed on a different computer.
I do not have a virgin dump of mmcblk0p9 the factoryfs.img and would like someone who has to upload it and provide a link. I am going to work on building the odin flashable tar with a rooted factoryfs.img, so then someone should be able to get a stock rom. Once the stock rom is avail, a stock rom should be able to be built.
graphicw, since you are currently bricked, would you try flashing a i777 stock rom, either gingerbread or ICS, perhaps if that will take the phone can be exploited to a clockwork recovery.
That's the biggest thing we need.
Although I just realized - Most likely, one of the prerooted I777 system images would work for getting a stock kernel dump.
So if one person:
Flashes a prerooted I777 Gingerbread image (UCKH7 or UCKK6, doesn't matter) in Odin/Heimdall, they can get stock kernel (mmcblk0p5) and recovery (mmcblk0p6) dumps
If another person:
Flashes a Gingerbread Daily Driver release and NOTHING else, they can get stock system image (mmcblk0p9) and another copy of stock recovery (mmcblk0p6) to be sure we have a good dump of it
Once we have a backup of stock recovery, and ONLY after we do, then someone can see if flashing DD to mmcblk0p6 changes the recovery behaviors.
Conspiracy theory....
I usually I have no problem waiting, in fact I think the way it sits is really fast and minimal, Also I can not return the phone... if I did I couldn't buy a new one since I used my Walmart credit card to get it... but the problem is whats going on behind the scenes. Have any of you guys installed Avast antiVirus on this phone yet? When installing the theft system Avast wants to install a program to get all incoming text before they are posted on the phone (so you can send commands to the phone to lock it, erase it, and stop it from shutting down so you can find it on the map and do what must be done to get your phone back.) There is a problem when they try to install this and its Trackfone Device Manager it takes first look on all your incoming Texts and data... Can ANYBODY tell me what this does? is Tracfone receiving my incoming texts? do they have a system laid out to control my phone just like this Avast program can do, by sending my phone texts and doing things like changing my settings and other things? This is one reason I cant wait to ROOT the phone to get rid of this crapware and I hope if this program does in fact spy on us we could sue or press charges... I am sorry for posting this here but this thread is the top thread for this phone thus far and those of you on the net that could check this thing out are here already... Anybody know what this thing does when it intercepts text messages? what else does it intercept? I wonder if the phone could be unlocked or controlled by this... maybe Im just paranoid but its worth taking a look at...
I usually I have no problem waiting, in fact I think the way it sits is really fast and minimal, Also I can not return the phone... if I did I couldn't buy a new one since I used my Walmart credit card to get it... but the problem is whats going on behind the scenes. Have any of you guys installed Avast antiVirus on this phone yet? When installing the theft system Avast wants to install a program to get all incoming text before they are posted on the phone (so you can send commands to the phone to lock it, erase it, and stop it from shutting down so you can find it on the map and do what must be done to get your phone back.) There is a problem when they try to install this and its Trackfone Device Manager it takes first look on all your incoming Texts and data... Can ANYBODY tell me what this does? is Tracfone receiving my incoming texts? do they have a system laid out to control my phone just like this Avast program can do, by sending my phone texts and doing things like changing my settings and other things? This is one reason I cant wait to ROOT the phone to get rid of this crapware and I hope if this program does in fact spy on us we could sue or press charges... I am sorry for posting this here but this thread is the top thread for this phone thus far and those of you on the net that could check this thing out are here already... Anybody know what this thing does when it intercepts text messages? what else does it intercept? I wonder if the phone could be unlocked or controlled by this... maybe Im just paranoid but its worth taking a look at...
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I think I'm just going to replace CWM with the new TWRP in the op. It seems to be easy more compatible. Plus I like it better.
EDIT: Done. Op updated to install TWRP with Odin to be more compatible.
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Ok ok ok wait... Let's clear up some confusion. The one and only difference between the 959g and the i777 is that the 959g has its recovery on a separate partition by itself, whereas the i777 has kernel and recovery on the same partition. The 959g can use any ROM or kernel built for the i777 no problem. But if you want a different recovery on 959g you must use one of the zips from the op or Odin. If you had an i777 and you flash a new kernel it will also install a new recovery as it will be packaged in the zip. If you flash the same kernel on the 959g, your kernel will change but recovery remains untouched since it is on a different partition. That is the one and only difference between the two. Happy flashing :thumbup:
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