[Q] Installing a custom rom without flashing the kernel?

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Hello, have been lurking on this forum for a while but never actually made any posts until now.

Let me start off my saying that I am a beginner when it comes to installing custom ROMs, I have only done it a few times before. I flashed my kernel, installed CWM and a custom ROM. After a while I got tired of the rom and decided to go back to Gingerbread 2.3.5. I hated the yellow triangle that shows up when using a custom kernel, so I went ahead and changed that back to stock as well, and that removed CWM as well.

But I've just discovered a ROM called "Batista70 Foxhound Edition 3.0" (which you can find in the i9100 general android dev section) and I love the look and feel it has, and would like to install it on my phone.

My question is pretty basic and simple:

Can I install this ROM without actually flashing the kernel (to avoid the f*ing annoying yellow triangle)? Or perhaps there is a way of flashing a kernel without getting the triangle? Though I'm not getting my hopes up for that question.

I also have a related question:
Can I install CWM without flashing the kernel?

Anything I forgot to add, let me know.

Regards,
Dimergon

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If you by a jig off eBay for a few bucks all your problems will go away. It gets rid of the triangle and resets the flash counter. Well worth the $3.

CWM is within the kernel so to use it a custom kernel is required. CWM is worth having for backups and simple flashing.

My suggestion. Install one of chainfires cfrooted stock kernels. Use the jig to get rid of triangle. Then backup via CWM incase you want to go back at some stage.

Then flash foxhound.

Hope this helps.

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What you could try is rooting it with zergush exploit. Then download mobile odin from the market, flash cf-root true mobile odin and then you have the recovery needed to flash. And no yellow triangle.

Don't know if it's possible, because I never tried it. But we are on a developers forum after all.

You could of course just flash the CF-root and then remove the yellow triangle with instructions from the CF-root thread. Or buy a jig.

Buy a USB-Jig from Ebay its a good investment and helps you on the triangle.. then download the old Bootloader and save it to your pc and then you are safe

All you need to remove the triangle is a zImage from a secure kernel it's all on the cf thread.

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Thanks for the replies. I will definitely have a look at the USB jig, seems like the way to go.

And, to the reply above, is it possible flashing a secure kernel after installing a custom ROM? Seems to me this will not be without complications.

Regards, Dimergon.

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