[GUIDE] Installing a Rom/CWM recovery/Root or going back to Stock

Here is a guide I have put together for the Samsung SCH-I500 Fascinate.



There is 9 sections:

1: How to Flash Froyo roms

2: How to flash EH03/EH09/EI20 TW gingerbread roms

3: How to flash MTD GB roms(cm7,miui,aosp)

4: How to Flash ICS, JellyBean, and KitKat 4.X Roms

5: Going back to stock Froyo or Gingerbread from any rom

6: Rooting stock Froyo/Gingerbread

7: Radios/Modems

8: Kernels

9: How to get out of a bootloop situation on Jelly Bean based roms(without ODIN!)


*I am not liable for what you do to your phone!

*I take no credit for any of the links posted in this thread!!!

*(Back up data/sd card First!!)

*Don't understand some of the terminology in this thread?? READ THIS:good:: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1513143

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Section:1 How to flash a 2.2.1 froyo rom



*if you don't want voodoo lag-fix flash a novoodoo kernel in cwm such as stock ed05, just repeat step 11, but use this file.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6sm609gwt8j0yni

*If your coming from any other rom besides stock froyo, use section:5 first, then proceed with section:1

Step 1: Download these files pc,

Odin- http://www.mediafire.com/?5y0vkhz85w3j4cz

Samsung drivers- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe

CWMALL 2.5- http://www.mediafire.com/?6x5utoca59et7o9

Step 2: Download power wash 1.2 rom(or any froyo rom you want to flash) and put it on the sd card of your phone
http://www.mediafire.com/?dbjb599rt1o8urz

Step 3: power off phone and pull battery.

Step 4: plug-in the factory usb cable and hold the volume down key, get into "download mode".

Step 5: open Odin, click PDA and select cwmall.tar you downloaded in step 1, hit start, should only take 10 sec, then say pass. Click reset.

Step 6: unplug usb cable and insert battery.

Step 7: with three fingers hold the power, and both vol. up/down until you see the samsung logo appear the second time and let off. you should be in red recovery 2.5.1.x.

Step 8: Wipe Data/Factory reset, then under the "advanced" menu wipe dalvik cache.

Step 9: use soft menu key on bottom left of phone and get back to main page in cwm. Find and select install zip from sd, then select chose zip and find the rom you pushed to your sd card in step 2. Select it and it will take you to a secondary menu, arrow down select yes.

Step 10: once the rom finishes installing, reboot system and enjoy your new rom!

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Section:2 How to flash a EH03/EH09/EI20 2.3.5 gingerbread roms



Step 1: Download these files to your pc,

Odin- http://www.mediafire.com/?5y0vkhz85w3j4cz

Samsung Driver- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe

Atlas 2.2 pit file- http://www.mediafire.com/?r2mi80911vgjjjz

PowerWashed 2.3.4 eh09 rom- http://www.mediafire.com/?c37loxth85zn2ti

* You can also substitute Powerwashed for the stock eh03 rom and have the latest eh03 radio before upgrading to TSM Res. or Superclean3
http://www.imnuts.org/downloads/fascinate/odin/CI500_VZW_EH03_GB_CM.tar.md5

Step 2: power off phone and pull battery.

Step 3: open odin on your computer.

Step 4: plug in factory usb cable and hold the volume down button. Yellow
triangle should appear saying "download mode".

Step 5: click on PDA in odin and find the PowerWashed eh09.tar(rom) or eh03 STOCK rom you downloaded to your computer in step 1.

Step 6: click on PIT in Odin and select the atlas 2.2 pit you downladed to pc(make sure repartition is checked)

Step 7: click start and wait 5min, box in left hand corner of odin will say PASS, then click reset.

Step 8: unplug usb cable, put battery back in and boot phone.

*Now you are on rooted PowerWashed eh09 gingerbread by Ccompos or Stock EH03, depending on which odin package you used. If you want to flash TSM Resurrection or Superclean3, continue following directions below.

Step 9: Download these files to pc-

CWMALL 2.5- http://www.mediafire.com/?6x5utoca59et7o9

Step 10: Download TSM or Superclean3 to the root of your devices sd card

TSM Resurrection 2.2 (EH03 based): http://dev-host.org/ST2

Superclean3 milestone 2: http://dev-host.org/ih2m13vt442z/sc3_milestone2_full.zip

Step 11: power off phone and pull battery.

Step 12: plug-in the factory usb cable and hold the volume down key, get into "download mode".

Step 13: open Odin, click PDA and select cwmall.tar( you downloaded in step 9, hit start, should only take 10 sec, then say pass, Click reset.

Step 14: unplug usb cable and insert battery.

Step 15: with three fingers hold the power, and both vol. up/down until you see the samsung logo appear the second time and let off. you should be in red recovery 2.5.1.x.

Step 16: Wipe Data/Factory reset, then under the "advanced" menu wipe dalvik cache.

Step 17: use soft menu key on bottom left of phone and get back to main page in cwm. Find and select install zip from sd, then select chose zip and find the rom you pushed to your sd card in step 10. Select it and it will take you to a secondary menu, arrow down select yes.

Step 18: once the rom finishes installing, reboot system and enjoy your new rom!

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Section:3 How to flash any MTD 2.3.7 GB rom such as cm7,miui,vgb etc...



Step 1: Download these files to your pc,

Odin- http://www.mediafire.com/?5y0vkhz85w3j4cz

Samsung driver- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe

Download cwm4 fixed for cm7- http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=669652&d=1311907538

EH03 rom- http://www.imnuts.org/downloads/fascinate/odin/CI500_VZW_EH03_GB_CM.tar.md5

Atlas_v2.2 pit- http://www.mediafire.com/?r2mi80911vgjjjz

Step 2: Download latest CM7.2 Nightly and Gapps the devices sd card.( MIUI does not need gapps)

CM7.2- http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=fascinatemtd

Gapps 12/14/11 for cm7- http://www.mediafire.com/?dm1qsm4rwapkeqx

Step 3: power off phone and pull battery.

Step 4: open odin on your computer.

Step 5: plug in factory usb cable and hold the volume down button. Yellow
triangle should appear saying "download mode".

Step 6: click on PDA in odin and find the stock EH03 rom you downloaded to your computer in step 1.

Step 7: click on PIT in Odin and select the atlas 2.2 pit you downloaded to your pc(make sure repartition is checked).

Step 8: click start and wait 5min, box in left hand corner of odin will say PASS, then click reset.

Step 9: unplug usb cable, put battery back in and boot phone.

Step 10: power off phone and pull battery.

Step 11: plug-in the factory usb cable and hold the volume down key, get into "download mode".

Step 12: open Odin, click PDA and select cwm4 fixed for cm7 you downloaded in step 1, hit start, should only take 10 sec, then say pass. Click reset.

Step 13: unplug usb cable and insert battery.

Step 14: with three fingers hold the power, and both vol. up/down until you see the samsung logo appear the second time and let off. you should be in blue recovery 4.

Step 15: Wipe Data/Factory reset, then under the "advanced" menu wipe dalvik cache.

Step 16: use soft menu key on bottom left of phone and get back to main page in cwm. Find and select install zip from sd, then select chose zip and find the rom you pushed to your sd card in step 2. Select it and it will take you to a secondary menu, arrow down select yes.

Step 17: once the rom finishes installing reboot.

Step 18: Long press power key, select reboot, select recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, install gapps 12/14 zip from sd that you down loaded in step 2, Reboot!

If your getting "E cant mount sd card" or "sd card damaged" errors then I suggest replacing your sd card with a class 6 or higher

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Section:4 How to flash ICS, JellyBean, and Kit Kat 4.X roms


Step 1: Download these files to your pc:

Odin- http://www.mediafire.com/?5y0vkhz85w3j4cz

Samsung Driver- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe

CWM4 fixed for cm7- http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=669652&d=1311907538

Stock EH03 rom- http://www.imnuts.org/downloads/fascinate/odin/CI500_VZW_EH03_GB_CM.tar.md5

Atlas_v2.2 pit- http://www.mediafire.com/?r2mi80911vgjjjz

GB bootloaders- http://goo.gl/6aJ1N (this needs to be extracted with a program such as 7zip)

Step 2: Download one of the Custom ICS,JB, or KK roms below to the root of your sd card.

ICS 4.0.x
Official AOKP MS6- https://dl.dropbox.com/u/69414229/aokp_fascinatemtd_milestone-6.zip
AOKP MS6-Devil- http://encounterandroid.com/stevespear426/aokp/fascinate/aokp_fascinatemtd_Milestone-6-Devil.zip
THS b.14- https://www.dropbox.com/s/0nw3ilvvpwvzv83/cm_fascinatemtd-ota-eng.BUILD14.zip

JellyBean 4.1.x
CM10-http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30744-alpharom411-cyanogenmod-10-for-samsung-fascinate/
JellyBro CM10 Skang-http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/?rom=cm10&device=fascinatemtd
AOSP JellyBean- http://rootzwiki.com/topic/31084-alpharom-aosp-jellybean-411-73012/
AOKP JellyBean- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1847225
Helly Bean- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1819946
Psycho cm10- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1940780

JellyBean 4.2-4.3

ParanoidAndroid JB- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1874086
Baked Blackbean- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1885026
HellyBean- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2026139
AOKP- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2185502

Kit Kat 4.4.

Cyanogen Mod 11- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2521427



Step 3: Download latest GAPPS package to root of sd card

Gapps- http://goo.im/gapps
Inverted JellyBean Gapps- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1797292

Step 4: Power off phone and pull battery.

Step 5: Open odin on your computer.

Step 6: Plug in factory usb cable and hold the volume down button. Yellow
triangle should appear saying "download mode".

Step 7: Click on PDA in odin and find the stock EH03 rom you downloaded to your computer in step 1.

Step 8: Click on PIT in Odin and select the atlas 2.2 pit you downloaded in step 1(make sure repartition is checked).

Step 9: Click start and wait 5min, box in left hand corner of odin will say PASS, then click reset.

Step 10: Unplug usb cable, put battery back in and boot phone.

Step 11: Power off phone and pull battery.

Step 12: Plug-in the factory usb cable and hold the volume down key, get into "download mode".

Step 13: Open Odin, click PDA and select cwm4 fixed for cm7 you downloaded in step 1, hit start, should only take 10 sec, then say pass. Click reset.

Step 14: Close and open odin to reset connection. click on the PDA function and find the GB bootloaders.tar that you downloaded in step 1 and hit start.

Step 15: Unplug usb cable and insert battery.

Step 16: With three fingers hold the power, and both vol. up/down until you see the samsung logo appear the second time and let off. you should be in CWM blue recovery 4.

Step 17: Wipe Data/Factory reset, then under the "advanced" menu wipe dalvik cache

Step 17: Use soft menu key on bottom left of phone and get back to main page in cwm. Find and select install zip from sd, then select chose zip and find the rom you pushed to your sd card in step 2. Select it and it will take you to a secondary menu, arrow down select yes.

Step 18: Once the rom finishes installing reboot.

Step 19: Reboot recovery via the power menu.

Step 22: Wipe cache and Install gapps zip from sd that you downloaded in step 3, then reboot.

*For those currently on a ICS rom and want to upgrade to a Jellybean rom or vise versa. Just download the rom of choice to sd, boot into recovery, wipe data/factory reset, then flash rom...should be no need to go all the way back to stock unless your having alot of issues with force closes and what not.


*If your getting "E cant mount sd card" or "sd card damaged" errors then I suggest replacing your sd card with a class 6 or higher

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Section:5 How to get back to stock Froyo or Gingerbread after flashing any rom, follow these steps:


Step 1: Download these files to pc,

ODIN- http://www.mediafire.com/?5y0vkhz85w3j4cz

Samsung Drivers- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe

Stock ED05 Froyo rom(you will need to unzip with 7zip or winrar.) or stock EH03 Gingerbread.

ED05 Froyo:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21819472/CI500_VZW_ED05_FROYO_REL.tar.md5

EH03 Gingerbread: http://www.imnuts.org/downloads/fascinate/odin/CI500_VZW_EH03_GB_CM.tar.md5

Atlas 2.2 pit file to pc :http://www.mediafire.com/?r2mi80911vgjjjz

Step 2: power off phone and pull battery.

Step 3: open odin on your computer.

Step 4: plug in factory usb cable and hold the volume down button. Yellow triangle should appear saying "download mode".

Step 5: click on PDA in odin and find the ED05 Froyo rom or Stock EH03 GB rom you downloaded to your computer in step 1.

Step 6: click on PIT in Odin and select the atlas 2.2 pit(make sure repartition is checked).

Step 7: click start and wait 5min, box in left hand corner of odin will say PASS, then click reset.

Step 8: unplug usb cable, put battery back in and boot phone.

You are now back to stock ed05 Froyo or Stock EH03 Gingerbread!(Verizons latest Froyo & Gingerbread release for the fascinate)

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Section 6: How to root stock froyo or gingerbread(This is not needed if your flashing a custom rom)



Downloads these files to PC,

Samsung drivers- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25089906/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe

Odin (computer program)- http://www.mediafire.com/?429fcpdtpckkcea

CWMALL 2.5 (place this file somewhere on your computer where you can easily locate it)- http://www.mediafire.com/?6x5utoca59et7o9

"su-2.3.6.1.x.zip" file (place this file on the root of your sdcard...not within any folders)- http://www.mediafire.com/?38vozx7n37u02a5

Modified stock Froyo kernel (place this file somewhere on your computer where you can easily locate it). This file is only necessary if you're rooting Froyo. It's not necessary for Gingerbread- http://goo.gl/QCYxT

Instructions:

1. Install Samsung drivers on your computer.

2. Open Odin on your computer. (You may need to disable antivirus programs on your computer and/or phone for this to work properly.)

3. Power off your phone and remove the battery.

4. Plug the stock USB cord that came with your phone into a powered USB port on your computer (usually on the back of the computer).

5. Press and hold the "volume down" button on your phone, and continue to hold it while plugging the USB cord into your phone. This will put your phone into download mode. You'll see a large yellow triangle on the screen of your phone. (Let go of the volume button at this point.) You will also see one of the small boxes in Odin turn yellow, as well as "Added" appearing in the message box.

6. Click the PDA button in Odin (NOT the PHONE button) and navigate to the "CWM2.5_Voodoo.tar.md5" file you downloaded earlier. This file does not include a voodoo kernel and will not perform the voodoo lagfix conversion. It's only named as such to note that it is compatible with voodoo kernels.(make sure auto reboot is unchecked, although it should be by default)

7. Click START. When this process has finished, you'll be notified in Odin (succeeded 1 / failed 0) and your phone's screen will go blank.

*** Step 8 is only for rooting Froyo. If you're rooting Gingerbread, skip Step 8 and proceed to Step 9. ***

8. Unplug your phone and click RESET in Odin. Repeat Step 5 to get the phone back into download mode and recognized by Odin. Using the PDA button, navigate to the "stock_kernel.tar.md5" file you downloaded earlier, select it, and press START. You'll again be notified in Odin once this process has completed (succeeded 1 / failed 0).

9. Unplug your phone and re-insert the battery.

10. Press and hold BOTH volume buttons. While holding them, press the power button. Hold all three simultaneously until you see "SAMSUNG" appear TWICE. This will boot your phone into CWM 2.5 red recovery. If your phone boots up normally here and not into recovery, just wait for it to boot up and then power it down and try again. It may take a couple tries for you to get it right.

11. Using the volume rocker, navigate down to "Install zip from sdcard." Highlight it and press the power button to select.

12. Navigate to "choose zip from sdcard" and select with the power button.

13. Navigate to the "su-2.3.6.1.x.zip" file that you downloaded earlier and select it. Scroll to "Yes," and use power button to select.

14. When you're advised of completion, press the MENU softkey to go back to the previous CWM Recovery screen, then highlight and select "reboot system now."

*Thanks to Bhfd64 @ galaxy forums for this write up!!

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Section 7: Radio/Modems- Here is a list of imo the best radios for the fascinate...now this does not mean another radio wont work better for you, this topic is very subjective. These radios are compatible with any fascinate rom.



[EC09]- http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=631016&d=1308583586 This gingerbread radio gives me really good data speed w/ the least amount of 1x swtiching
[EH03]-http://www.mediafire.com/?uuvxtuwonl2e629 This latest gingerbread radio gives good data speed, but It spends alot of time in 1x
[ED05]-http://www.mediafire.com/?c7h1wl5wne51duf This is probably the best froyo radio, but I get better data speeds with the gingerbread radios. Although this radio has less 1x switching than eh03 imo

Step 1: Downlaod odin and samsung drivers from one of the previous sections to pc

Step 2: Download one of the radios from above to pc

Step 3: Power off phone, pull battery, and plug in usb cable from phone to pc

Step 4: Hold volume down until yellow triangle appears (download mode)

Step 5: Open odin and put the file you downloaded from step 2 in the pda function of odin and hit start

Step 6: After odin says successful, click reset, uplug usb cable, insert battery and reboot

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Section 8: Kernels-In this section I will list the latest kernels for the fascinate and proper instructions for flashing



TW Kernels for eh03/eh09/ei20 based roms:

KGB 1/16 Kernel by Comradesven- http://www.mediafire.com/?ja3onlh1au3rdjf

Lean Kernel by Imoseyon- http://www.box.com/s/4otys70j1np02dfavhtt

Geewiz 2.5 kernel by djp952- http://www.mediafire.com/file/s38nq6jaqwp5c5f/geewiz-2.5-kernel-01222012.zip

Kernel for CM7 or MIUI 2.3.x GB:

Glitch v13.1 by Team Glitch- http://androtransfer.com/tk-glitch/CM7kernels/Glitch%2013.1/CM7Fascinate-Glitch-V13_1-REL.zip

Kernels for ALL ICS 4.0.x builds:

Devil3 Kernel_0.76: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1130270&d=1339707886

Glitch Skunkworks: http://efpophis.glitchteam.com/SkunkWorks/



Step 1: Download one of these kernels(That applies to the current rom your running) to the root of your sd card

Step 2: reboot into clockwork recovery by long pressing the power key, select reboot, select recovery

Step 3: Wipe Cache & Dalvik

Step 4: Select Install zip from sd, then select choose zip, Find the kernel zip you downloaded and select it.

Step 5: profit

*For more information on these kernels see the op in the dev section. There is plenty of information there explaining how to setup these kernels. Im not going to list all that here

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Section 9: How to get out of a bootloop situation on Jelly Bean roms without using odin!!

-Power device off, pull sd card, and push a cm7 based rom(see section 3 for link) to the sd card via your PC, then reinstall the sd card on your device

-three finger into recovery

-wipe data

-flash cm7 and and it will bootloop back into recovery

-flash cm7 again, then let it boot

-boot into recovery via power menu

-wipe data

-flash ics build 2 and let it boot

-boot into recovery again via power menu

-wipe data

-flash ICS rom of choice and gapps, reboot

-profit!

Ok guys I overhauled section 4...added gb bootloaders, updated gapps link, and removed some redundant steps that were reported no longer necessary. I no longer have a fascinate so Im counting on you folks now to help keep this guide current and up to date on the latest. Thx

Glad it still is helping folks! I do pop in from time to time

droidstyle said:

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You will all now see that the troll has been banned, so move on please. (trolls like this will always be banned (@xHoLyx), if people cant contribute dont post!)

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