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feelinfroggy23 · Jul 11, 2012

I know that and i get tempted all the time to do it. Theres just so many questions i have its not worth he risk for me to break my phone. Trust me i have read all he forums but the good roms they always leave out something in the instructions and that's to much of a risk in my eyes.

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vincom · Jul 11, 2012

ive been stickied......wahoo!

mwehle1 · Jul 11, 2012

Worked like a charm!

Thank you so much for posting this!

I made the mistake of using Kies to install the ICS ROM for Skyrocket per AT&T's text yesterday. This was nothing but trouble from the first use - hangs, lag, missing WiFi Tethering. I rebooted, pulled the battery, etc., to no effect.

AT&T's support line said it was not possible to roll back to Gingerbread, and to contact Samsung. Samsung's support said it was not possible to roll back to Gingerbread, and to contact Google.

Your instructions allowed me to flash 2.3.5, and once I rebooted to 2.3.5 it was easy to download 2.3.6 again OTA. Only problems I had was getting the "unexpected stop" messages about Calendar and Contacts storage, but clearing data for those solved the problem.

Thanks to your post I am running the stable Gingerbread release on my Skyrocket, instead of that awful ICS build.

vincom · Jul 11, 2012

mwehle1 said:
Thank you so much for posting this!

I made the mistake of using Kies to install the ICS ROM for Skyrocket per AT&T's text yesterday. This was nothing but trouble from the first use - hangs, lag, missing WiFi Tethering. I rebooted, pulled the battery, etc., to no effect.

AT&T's support line said it was not possible to roll back to Gingerbread, and to contact Samsung. Samsung's support said it was not possible to roll back to Gingerbread, and to contact Google.

Your instructions allowed me to flash 2.3.5, and once I rebooted to 2.3.5 it was easy to download 2.3.6 again OTA. Only problems I had was getting the "unexpected stop" messages about Calendar and Contacts storage, but clearing data for those solved the problem.

Thanks to your post I am running the stable Gingerbread release on my Skyrocket, instead of that awful ICS build.

yw
so to confirm, you had upgraded to ics through kies and reverted back to GB 2.3.5
did you?
1. did you have cwm installed
2. did you wipe or reset anything b4 or after going back to gb
3. how did you upgrade to 2.3.6...through the phone update menu

apple juice 517 · Jul 12, 2012

Help an Idiot

Okay, I have read as much as I can read for the past 7 to 8 hours, and I think through my frustration and exhaustion I missed something amongst these forums. Basically my Skyrocket is soft bricked. yeah. I flashed CM9 with the latest radio and kernel, and also the GApps. Everything was fine. I should have went to sleep right then and there, but I kept browsing the forum and found more interesting mods and alterations. So I read the instructions and proceeded to download them. So for some reason I didnt follow the directions as to flashing these new themes and apks and so forth. I just booted into recovery, did the wipe thing and just installed from zip each file after each other. They include boot animations, themes, transparent mms, transparent contacts, wallpapers, awesome beats, just about whatever is available. After that, soft brick. I tried to Odin the stock but it is still bootlooping. I am completely stumped. What am I missing, and where can I find how to fix it within these threads!?!? Can somebody please help a brother out? Help me please! Help me please!

vincom · Jul 12, 2012

apple juice 517 said:
Okay, I have read as much as I can read for the past 7 to 8 hours, and I think through my frustration and exhaustion I missed something amongst these forums. Basically my Skyrocket is soft bricked. yeah. I flashed CM9 with the latest radio and kernel, and also the GApps. Everything was fine. I should have went to sleep right then and there, but I kept browsing the forum and found more interesting mods and alterations. So I read the instructions and proceeded to download them. So for some reason I didnt follow the directions as to flashing these new themes and apks and so forth. I just booted into recovery, did the wipe thing and just installed from zip each file after each other. They include boot animations, themes, transparent mms, transparent contacts, wallpapers, awesome beats, just about whatever is available. After that, soft brick. I tried to Odin the stock but it is still bootlooping. I am completely stumped. What am I missing, and where can I find how to fix it within these threads!?!? Can somebody please help a brother out? Help me please! Help me please!

did you read the whole OP
QUOTE FROM OP:

"If having stubborn problems after installing stock, like force closes, or want a fresh install and have it like new when you bought it, in the stock recovery perform a data/factory reset 3 times either before or after flashing the stock firmware.

If you are still on cwm perform a data/factory reset, format (system, data and cache), and clear the partition and dalvik caches, do that to all of them 3 times each."

apple juice 517 · Jul 12, 2012

vincom said:
did you read the whole OP
QUOTE FROM OP:

"If having stubborn problems after installing stock, like force closes, or want a fresh install and have it like new when you bought it, in the stock recovery perform a data/factory reset 3 times either before or after flashing the stock firmware.

If you are still on cwm perform a data/factory reset, format (system, data and cache), and clear the partition and dalvik caches, do that to all of them 3 times each."

I can get into the stock recovery, but the power button does not work. I can scroll but I can't select any choices! If possible, how do I fix this?

vincom · Jul 12, 2012

apple juice 517 said:
I can get into the stock recovery, but the power button does not work. I can scroll but I can't select any choices! If possible, how do I fix this?

the "home" button is your "select" button, not the power button

DrDoctor · Jul 12, 2012

Does anyone have any mirror links? Hotfile has a somewhat oppressive download limit for free users.

1 hour limit per downloads, I think.

vincom · Jul 12, 2012

DrDoctor said:
Does anyone have any mirror links? Hotfile has a somewhat oppressive download limit for free users.

1 hour limit per downloads, I think.

i usually get good speeds, but usually limited on how much banwidth you can use, just be patient, someone else might of uploaded them to their site, but cant remember who

edit: xcrazydx http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1668792 for Sammobile Stock tar (2.3.5 uckj2) for AT&T, i added it to the op, but its only gb for att

Zenoxio · Jul 13, 2012

Just to confirm, can I go from 2.3.6 rooted to 2.3.6 unrooted (stock) without losing data? It seems I have to unroot to upgrade to the official ICS.

vincom · Jul 13, 2012

Zenoxio said:
Just to confirm, can I go from 2.3.6 rooted to 2.3.6 unrooted (stock) without losing data? It seems I have to unroot to upgrade to the official ICS.

there is no 2.3.6 firmware to download, someone did mention that they reverted back to 2.3.5 and got the ota to 2.3.6, but i cannot confirm that as of yet

to get ics it does not matter to odin if you are rooted or not, just follow the op, as for data there is conflicting info on that, it could be the difference in having att or rogers, so backup your data as a precaution

vincom · Jul 15, 2012

I was wrong, there is a ota stock 2.3.6 fiirmware available to download. I added the link in the download section.

edit: just found out that its a custom recovery(cwm) flashable file, so you would have to use odin to flash cwm first than flash the 2.3.6 firmware

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creativedevil · Jul 15, 2012

hi, i saw your thread and the information that you have provided and it really appears to be helpful specially if i am stuck with some messed up situation and wanted to get back to stock. i have a question if you don't mind answering, i have a rogers sgs2, same as yours, i wanted to flash the tmobile radio to make it work with wind mobile and i flashed cwm, flashed a radio that i found from one of the forums, i have not been able to get it going. is there anything you can tell me to add on?
help really appreciated.
thx.

vincom · Jul 15, 2012

creativedevil said:
hi, i saw your thread and the information that you have provided and it really appears to be helpful specially if i am stuck with some messed up situation and wanted to get back to stock. i have a question if you don't mind answering, i have a rogers sgs2, same as yours, i wanted to flash the tmobile radio to make it work with wind mobile and i flashed cwm, flashed a radio that i found from one of the forums, i have not been able to get it going. is there anything you can tell me to add on?
help really appreciated.
thx.

for which radio and how to make it work, no cant help you there, other than to make sure thats its a ics radio, if thats what ur on, if still on gb, flash a gb radio,
someone else had wind and cant remeber if he got it working. try searching the i727 forum with "wind mobile radio tmobile" and see what u get

ajitlimaye · Jul 18, 2012

Excellent guide for Newbs, Vincom.
On the first try, the operation failed, until the next time I enabled Unknown sources through Security in Settings and enabled USB debugging through Developer options in Settings. Rooting worked fine then.
Thanks for the instructions.

vincom · Jul 18, 2012

ajitlimaye said:
Excellent guide for Newbs, Vincom.
On the first try, the operation failed, until the next time I enabled Unknown sources through Security in Settings and enabled USB debugging through Developer options in Settings. Rooting worked fine then.
Thanks for the instructions.

what part of the operation, give me as much info as you can so i can add it to the op.
you usually only need to do that if installing from sdcard within android and for titanium backup to work correctly

vincom · Jul 19, 2012

i totally reformatted the op, removed stuff, made it more clean and easier to read with definitive sections

eccezarathustra · Jul 20, 2012

md5 Error

I hate to do this, usually i just lurk, but I can't figure this one out...

I dled the firmware both from the direct link to hotfile in the OP, and the sammobile site but when i extract the md5 file from the zip and plug it into Odin I get an MD5 Hash Value is invalid.

Odin and Download mode are working fine. Currently using ***uclf5***galaxy s3 r4 update with mohans kernel***

Is it as simple as removing the md5 extension on the tar file?
hotfile is not that generous with its free bandwidth so i need to wait a while before i can try downloading again.

TIA

edit:

Nvm, The fault was in Winrar. Apparently it was unpacking it improperly. Switched to 7zip and it worked fine.
Thanks.

vincom · Jul 20, 2012

eccezarathustra said:
I hate to do this, usually i just lurk, but I can't figure this one out...

I dled the firmware both from the direct link to hotfile in the OP, and the sammobile site but when i extract the md5 file from the zip and plug it into Odin I get an MD5 Hash Value is invalid.

Odin and Download mode are working fine. Currently using ***uclf5***galaxy s3 r4 update with mohans kernel***

Is it as simple as removing the md5 extension on the tar file?
hotfile is not that generous with its free bandwidth so i need to wait a while before i can try downloading again.

TIA

edit:

Nvm, The fault was in Winrar. Apparently it was unpacking it improperly. Switched to 7zip and it worked fine.
Thanks.

weird i just tested it w/winrar and it was good, might have to test it again
ill edit out winrar from op

edit: just unzipped the tar w/winrar and no md5 errors, ill put a warning on the md5 errors and sugest corrective actions.