Hmmmmm GSII Candy!!!

aaron130

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I have a feeling a lot of us Samsung noobs are going to need our hands held. Coming from HTC, the new terminology seems confusing. :D
I couldnt agree more with you! Ive been flashing roms on HTC since winmo days all on HTC devices, all this terminology is confusing! LOL. I got the Photon too and its the same thing, REAL different from flashing HTC. I just havent "studied" enough with the Photon though (even though I am unlocked and rooted) because I knew it would just be my backup phone once the E4GT came out.
 
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m4rk0358

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I couldnt agree more with you! Ive been flashing roms on HTC since winmo days all on HTC devices, all this terminology is confusing! LOL. I got the Photon too and its the same thing, REAL different from flashing HTC. I just havent "studied" enough with the Photon though (even though I am unlocked and rooted) because I knew it would just be my backup phone once the E4GT came out.
I found this thread in the international SGSII forum.

Definitely helpful for those of us new to Samsung.
 
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Jesse Buck

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It's not so bad. Odin is just a tool to help flash a full image to your phone including modem and kernel. We still flash roms through clockwork mod most of the time. Tech associates at sprint stores use odin to remove your custom roms and root. We use it to flash completely back to stock. In order to use Odin (and for it to recognize the phone) you must be in download mode (was hold 1 and power on, on the og epic). Bootloader should be the same as on HTC, it is where you can flash custom roms (provided its not the stock bootloader shown here). Stock bootloader is where system updates are flashed once the update.zip is downloaded and detected on the sd card. Was real scary for me too...when coming from WM!!!

edit: hope the explanation wasn't too elementary, I'm no dev.
 

dkotoric

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I have a feeling a lot of us Samsung noobs are going to need our hands held. Coming from HTC, the new terminology seems confusing. :D
well sorry I was just asking cause the screen talking about custom rom got me confused, but I have owned very very many phones so far and have rooted every single one of them

Evo 4g, Evo 3d, Photon, nexus S, Atrix, HTC Inspire, HTC Hero are just some of them
 

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It's very obvious to me that the bootloader is unlocked out of the box.

You get to *odin mode* by holding down volumne + and - keys at the same time along with the power key, release power key when device turns on while continuing to hold + and - keys untill the droid guy screen comes on, then release.

I'll betcha that the existing galaxyS 1 root files work :D
 
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