[Q] Went back to stock, now having trouble getting out

[dozyaustin]

Dear friends,

Little background. I was on CM10 stable, but decided to I update to CM10.1 M1, After the update, had no market, however, so I tried to downgrade to CM10 stable and it bricked. So .. back to stock it is! Now I am having trouble getting out of stock. I am not new to flashing, but I never had this kind of a persistent problem.

The short summary of what I get no matter what I try is: Every kernel that is not the stock Eclair kernel has boot-animation messed up (random lines of color on screen), and I cannot enter recovery - I sometimes can boot sometimes cannot.

Steps I have taken
I went back to stock Eclair rom + non-root kernel (LINK).

I rooted (LINK)

But when I tried to update kernel to allow CWM, it bricked my phone. So back to stock, again!

I tried this a few times. Now, the latest attempt, I tried the stock 2.3.5 rom + rooted, CWM kernel (LINK... I get the phone running, but I cannot get into recovery, and no utility that has "reboot to recovery" has managed to get me into recovery.

The plea
All I want is CWM, so I can install what I want. Without it, I am stuck with Odin one-click and Odin flashable packages (Heimdall does not want to work right for me - the drivers are messed up - and trying to fix those brkeas my Odin drivers).

I have no data on the phone at the moment, I can reinstall everything if need be .. but I am out of ideas besides keep trying different roms and kernels until something gives me CWM and I am free again.

I have AT&T GB bootloaders.

thanks for any help, I will try to provide any additional info I can.

 

[BWolf56]

Dear friends,

Little background. I was on CM10 stable, but decided to I update to CM10.1 M1, After the update, had no market, however, so I tried to downgrade to CM10 stable and it bricked. So .. back to stock it is! Now I am having trouble getting out of stock. I am not new to flashing, but I never had this kind of a persistent problem.

The short summary of what I get no matter what I try is: Every kernel that is not the stock Eclair kernel has boot-animation messed up (random lines of color on screen), and I cannot enter recovery - I sometimes can boot sometimes cannot.

Steps I have taken
I went back to stock Eclair rom + non-root kernel (LINK).

I rooted (LINK)

But when I tried to update kernel to allow CWM, it bricked my phone. So back to stock, again!

I tried this a few times. Now, the latest attempt, I tried the stock 2.3.5 rom + rooted, CWM kernel (LINK... I get the phone running, but I cannot get into recovery, and no utility that has "reboot to recovery" has managed to get me into recovery.

The plea
All I want is CWM, so I can install what I want. Without it, I am stuck with Odin one-click and Odin flashable packages (Heimdall does not want to work right for me - the drivers are messed up - and trying to fix those brkeas my Odin drivers).

I have no data on the phone at the moment, I can reinstall everything if need be .. but I am out of ideas besides keep trying different roms and kernels until something gives me CWM and I am free again.

I have AT&T GB bootloaders.

thanks for any help, I will try to provide any additional info I can.

Messed up screen = wrong bootloaders. Flash Odin KK4 with bootloaders

From there, follow this link.

Finally, you can get back up on CM10.1 - Btw, you had no market cause you didn't flash their Gapps.

 

[dozyaustin]

UPDATE .. ugh that took a while:

1) From the master list LINK, wet back to 2.1, I897UCJF6
2) From the same thread installed I897UCKF1 with bootloaders
3) rooted: LINK (I know -not XDA)
4) removed the 3e recovery lock (LINK) - this did not seem to work, but I did do it.
5) installed Speedmod kernel from here LINK - this did not boot, but it did install CWM
6) installed CM10.0 Stable from SD cadr - twice
7) installed gapps
8) just did my first boot to CM10.

This is both a record for myself for later, and for anyone else that may find this useful.

 

[dozyaustin]

Messed up screen = wrong bootloaders. Flash Odin KK4 with bootloaders

From there, follow this link.

Finally, you can get back up on CM10.1 - Btw, you had no market cause you didn't flash their Gapps.

Ooooh. I learn something new every day! Thanks.

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