[Guide] Best Way To Flash A Rom Without Having Problems

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The best and easiest way to flash a rom without having any bugs or flaws,etc.

follow this to a 'tee' and you will have no problems, guarantee you.

Instructions:

1. Download .rar from link and extract it
http://www.multiupload.com/FO6TA6OBAH

2. open odin

3. put pda into the pda, phone into phone (their all in the respective folders)

4. let it finish wiping your phone and everything

5. once your phone boots, back up everything on your internal sd

6. go into settings and do a factory reset then let the phone reboot

7. put the rom you want to flash onto your sd card

8. turn off the phone and go into download mode (both volume buttons then plug in your usb cord.) flash gtg's community kernel. (in the root folder, put that .tar into the pda section) let it finish converting the partions.

9. once it finishes and boots up do this:

turn off phone, then:

using three button method. (volume up, volume down, power button. once you see samsung label release power button and keep holding volume buttons til you see your touch buttons light up, thats the way i figured out when to release them)

10. once the red screen appears, do: wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache


11. install zip from sd card, choose the rom that you placed onto your sd card

good job. works for me!

Which version of flashing stock does this use? Gtg unbrick?

Sent om my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App

Haha, the best way is NEVER using ODIN. Heimdall is much much better.

And why would you return to stock before every flash?

Originally Posted by AJerman

Haha, the best way is NEVER using ODIN. Heimdall is much much better.

And why would you return to stock before every flash?

A clean slate. I use to do this all the time with my Captivate. Never had any problems installing any rom. Still do it now with the Infuse, and no problems installing any rom or Hellraiser Hybrid rom.

Originally Posted by bigfau

A clean slate. I use to do this all the time with my Captivate. Never had any problems installing any rom. Still do it now with the Infuse, and no problems installing any rom or Hellraiser Hybrid rom.

Never did it with the Captivate, never do it with the Infuse, never had any problems. You have a clean slate every time you flash a ROM as long as you wipe all the data and cache partitions. The system partitions are already overwritten with the flash itself. Basically going back to stock is just doing the same thing twice. Unless you are having some big problems and want to drop back to all stock files to see if you can fix a problem, it's generally unnecessary and just a waste of time. I mean, it doesn't hurt if you want to, it's just redundant.

All you gotta do is flash your ROM from Heimdall or CWM, wipe your data and cache partitions, boot up and you're done. As clean and fresh of a slate as it gets.

Originally Posted by AJerman

Never did it with the Captivate, never do it with the Infuse, never had any problems. You have a clean slate every time you flash a ROM as long as you wipe all the data and cache partitions. The system partitions are already overwritten with the flash itself. Basically going back to stock is just doing the same thing twice. Unless you are having some big problems and want to drop back to all stock files to see if you can fix a problem, it's generally unnecessary and just a waste of time. I mean, it doesn't hurt if you want to, it's just redundant.

All you gotta do is flash your ROM from Heimdall or CWM, wipe your data and cache partitions, boot up and you're done. As clean and fresh of a slate as it gets.

yeah i've always had a question about this... would you mind answering?

some instructions say to wipe data factory reset wipe cache before installing custom ROM,
some say after install wipe data factory and all that...

any difference? same? thanks!

Originally Posted by jhong91

yeah i've always had a question about this... would you mind answering?

some instructions say to wipe data factory reset wipe cache before installing custom ROM,
some say after install wipe data factory and all that...

any difference? same? thanks!

I was once watching a youtube video on how to flash and he said something very simple, "wipe, fix, delete, get rid of, whatever. Old school rom flashing: make sure that you knock out everything so that you start on a fresh slate." Jordan is definitely right and knows much more than I. But I agree with AJerman that says its redundant. Just my two cents.

Jordan would you recommend using this method if you just got and rooted an infuse?

(have a warranty replacement on the way )

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Using this method coming from Darky in an attempt to flash the FusionXII ROM, i recieved the message "installation aborted" after clockwork mod started and then ended the flash of the file. any advice? i cleared both data and dalvik in that order.

- Thanks