[HOWTO]Restore to Stock/Recover from a Bad Flash

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THIS IS FOR SGH-T989 (T-MOBILE) ONLY!

This will restore to T-Mobile 2.3.6 ULKL1.

This guide is for those who screwed up a flash, need to return their phone, are selling their phone, or just want that stock new phone feeling again.

Prerequisites:
1) ODIN
2) USB Drivers

If you need your data backed up first, backup personal data with Kies and Application Data with Titanium Backup.

Steps:
1) Download THIS file and extract it. (Password is 'sampro.pl') --Source HERE.
2) Power off your phone and remove the battery. Re-insert the battery after a few seconds.
3) Plug the USB cable into your computer, without plugging it into your phone.
4) Hold VOL UP + VOL DOWN while plugging in the USB cable to your phone. Stop holding with 'Warning' appears.
5) Press Volume UP and start ODIN (Run as Admin on Vista and 7, just to be safe)
6) Click PDA and locate the MD5 file extracted earlier.
7) Press 'Start' and be patient. It will take a few minutes because it is a large file.
8) Unplug your phone after it has completed and rebooted twice.

Now everything is 100% stock! Kernel, System, Bootloader, and Modem are stock.

If you're going to sell the phone, or just return it, I advise you to do the following:
1) Go to Settings > Privacy > Factory Data Reset
2) Check Format USB Storage
3) Press 'Reset Phone'
4) Press 'Erase Everything'
This will erase EVERYTHING on your phone including your SD Card (External + Internal)

If you happen to have a bootloop, perform the following:
1) Boot into recovery (Power on phone while holding VOL UP and VOL DOWN)
2) Wipe Data, Cache, and Dalvik
3) Reboot System

If this helped you save your phone, please press 'Thanks'
And if you want to, DONATE (You aren't required to, it's just HIGHLY appreciated.)

and here I was getting ready to upload stock recovery backup of my tmobile gs2 :P

Thanks man I was waiting for someone to post one of these tutorials up. Can't wait to see it done.

Thanks looking forward to this!

Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

Waiting patiently...

Basically hold + and - and plug in the microUSB cable to get into ODIN mode

then select PDA and choose the STOCK ROM. Flash it.

THIS IS FOR 2.3.6 t-mobile KL1 baseband

for other stock ROMS 2.3.5 KID (t-mobile) and 2.3.5 KJ3 (Telus) please go to the bottom of this OP to DL them http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1324517

Guide Done!

Sticky

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This should be a sticky!!

Originally Posted by gazment

This should be a sticky!!

Thanks haha

Update the OP and state that this is for T-mobile KL1 2.3.6