[Q] A few Q's regarding captivate :)

[koreancanuck]

I bought a captivate 3 days ago (in Canada), and I had previously an HTC magic and did tons of tinkering (G1/MT3G have serious development.. kinda dying down sadly.. )

Obviously, I started looking into rooting captivate as well, and other stuff. Just wanted to ask people stuff if I can get them answered.

What is the purpose of ODIN other than flashing your phone back to stock? It is a great program, but I am used to just wiping data and flashing a new update.zip from recovery to get a flash a new ROM. Not wiping from 2.1 eclair to get to cognition kind of threw me off. Can I not use ODIN and go the traditional way and flash the update.zip's?

Also, from ODIN, what exactly is master clear? Does it wipe off everything in the phone? Why would this be preferred over a factory reset from recovery?

I tried googling/looking through captivate dev and couldn't find the answers. Thank you!!

 

[dayv]

I bought a captivate 3 days ago (in Canada), and I had previously an HTC magic and did tons of tinkering (G1/MT3G have serious development.. kinda dying down sadly.. )

Obviously, I started looking into rooting captivate as well, and other stuff. Just wanted to ask people stuff if I can get them answered.

What is the purpose of ODIN other than flashing your phone back to stock? It is a great program, but I am used to just wiping data and flashing a new update.zip from recovery to get a flash a new ROM. Not wiping from 2.1 eclair to get to cognition kind of threw me off. Can I not use ODIN and go the traditional way and flash the update.zip's?

Also, from ODIN, what exactly is master clear? Does it wipe off everything in the phone? Why would this be preferred over a factory reset from recovery?

I tried googling/looking through captivate dev and couldn't find the answers. Thank you!!

Odin is a windows program leaked from samsung for flashing the galaxy s phone - can be used to flash kernel, firmware or modem or all three at once - NOT used to flash update.zip

Odin 3 one click is for flashing back to stock was made available by dg as a simple recovery method in case of a soft bricked phone or if you flashed your phone and wanted to get back to stock.

Master clear in odin wipes all or most all the data from your internal sd card - I believe factory reset just wipes user settings, cache and account info

with samsung update.zip are flashed via recovery as I am guessing is nearly the same way you have done on other phones

As you can tell there are multiple methods for flashing, spend time reading and learning about them until you have a good understanding about what you are doing with each

Of by the way there is also rom manager clockwork recovery (can get rom manager from the market and install once you are rooted) - don't get this confused with stock recovery

 

[koreancanuck]

Odin is a windows program leaked from samsung for flashing the galaxy s phone - can be used to flash kernel, firmware or modem or all three at once - NOT used to flash update.zip

Odin 3 one click is for flashing back to stock was made available by dg as a simple recovery method in case of a soft bricked phone or if you flashed your phone and wanted to get back to stock.

Master clear in odin wipes all or most all the data from your internal sd card - I believe factory reset just wipes user settings, cache and account info

with samsung update.zip are flashed via recovery as I am guessing is nearly the same way you have done on other phones

As you can tell there are multiple methods for flashing, spend time reading and learning about them until you have a good understanding about what you are doing with each

Of by the way there is also rom manager clockwork recovery (can get rom manager from the market and install once you are rooted) - don't get this confused with stock recovery

So I'm understanding master clear doesn't wipe the actual ROM? Wouldn't master clear just be the same as just deleting all the stuff from the internal sd card via my laptop?

And thanks for your answers I never used clockwork till now, was using amon_RA recovery cuz it gave some problems to G1/MT3G users but it seems to work wonders on captivate.