We created some Odin recovery images for those who have a phone that wont boot
THIS WILL WIPE ALL YOUR DATA
1. Download and unzip the file.
2. Install the Samsung USB drivers (if you dont have them already)
3. From a powered off phone, put phone in Download Mode by holding Vol down, Camera Button, and Power button until the Yellow Downloading message appears
4. Plug phone into USB port
5. Open Odin (included in zip file), you should see a yellow box with a com number
6. Select SPHM820.ops file and the PHONE.tar, and PDA.tar in the appropriate Boxes
7. Click Start
When Odin says reset and the phone reboots the process is done, you do not have to wait for Odin to say pass, that does not work
You need to select the phone.tar if you want to flash your baseband verion
You should not have to flash the BOOT.tar, unless your phone is really messed up
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS
unplug sdcard
try again
unplug battery
try again
try different USB port
try again
try different USB cable
try again
try different computer
try again
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what is this ops file? and how did you get it to flash?
edit:
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Last edited by Shabbypenguin; July 15th, 2011 at 10:26 AM.
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Same as
TASS_v1.0.ops
EUROPA_I5508_v1.0.ops
Cooper_v1.0.ops
I spent alot of time on this, I bricked a phone, so I went and bought another one, rooted it, and copied all the bml and stl files from it and created the odins tar files from them
bah im not used to all these new fangle samsung things, for teh epic all we needed was:
boot.bin
sbl.bin
recovery.bin
zimage
factoryfs.rfs
param.rfs
datafs.rfs
cache
and then the PIT file if you wanted to repartition.... so forgive me on my ignorance
sure editing the rfs files is actually easy once you get used to it.. have you tested this to make sure it flashes? i know with previous odin we couldnt get the files to write
Yes I would also like to know what the ops file is and what version of Odin did you use?
If anyone does try this I would appreciate it if you posted your results. Because this is a very interesting topic and the success of this would be beneficial for all.
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Yes I would also like to know what the ops file is and what version of Odin did you use?
If anyone does try this I would appreciate it if you posted your results. Because this is a very interesting topic and the success of this would be beneficial for all.
I did this on two different phones no prob, I was hoping people with bricked phones could test it
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nioce alright guys. anyone that wont boot.. download and follow instructions to get a working phone again
odin is the alpha and omega when comes to flashing samsung phones... if your phone turns on odin can fix it.. lemme just put it that way.. so MITCH if your still with us.. welcome back
OP mind giving me a bml/stl partition mapping?
i know boot is 9 and recovery is 10 and system is 12, but after that it gets fuzzy
edit on a side note they dont need boot if they got messed up playing with system files, just the pda tar as that will cover everything.
Last edited by Shabbypenguin; July 15th, 2011 at 10:46 AM.
no its so much more then that.. this will allow for custom kernel flashing, in other words.. this may very well lead to bigger and brighter things. first things first however... need to make shabbymod into odin flashable
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no its so much more then that.. this will allow for custom kernel flashing, in other words.. this may very well lead to bigger and brighter things. first things first however... need to make shabbymod into odin flashable
do you want me to make one, if I do should I remove the advamced task killer and efs file explorer
no its so much more then that.. this will allow for custom kernel flashing, in other words.. this may very well lead to bigger and brighter things. first things first however... need to make shabbymod into odin flashable
nah its cool, im already working on it but thanks for the offer.
i would like your help on understanding this a bit more tho. did you just do a dd of the modem?
and could you tell me how you figured out what files were what etc, as id like to let the replenish guys know what they need to, for them to get an odin tar of their own
I did the safe modem update on my .6 shabbymod and the battery and signal was worst! So i did the unroot and bricked my phone. Tried this method a minute ago and now I have a working phone again. Its a froyo ED13 build number and baseband is still at EE14! Thanks you so much hroark13 you mad my paper weight a phone again!!!
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I did the safe modem update on my .6 shabbymod and the battery and signal was worst! So i did the unroot and bricked my phone. Tried this method a minute ago and now I have a working phone again. Its a froyo ED13 build number and baseband is still at EE14! Thanks you so much hroark13 you mad my paper weight a phone again!!!
you owe me a beer
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nah its cool, im already working on it but thanks for the offer.
i would like your help on understanding this a bit more tho. did you just do a dd of the modem?
and could you tell me how you figured out what files were what etc, as id like to let the replenish guys know what they need to, for them to get an odin tar of their own
How to make an Odin backup of your SPHM820 phone
Your phone must be rooted, have usb debugging enable, and have a copy of adb
LOL. I would love to donate for all your great effort. This is just what the prevail community needed thank you soooo much.
your welcome
now I need to learn how to make custom roms, I would I also like to make an unrooted odin backup, but you have to be rooted to do this, so I need to figure a way to do it
save the files in MagicISO
make the tar file in Cygwin
tar -H ustar -c boot.img system.rfs data.rfs recovery.img > pda.tar
flash with odin
phone boots fine, and it does not look rooted at all
The problem is if you now try to root that phone again with the KMS script you get access denied errors
So I have to Odin the phone back to my Rooted Odin PDA Image
I want to make an image that is as close to possible to factory as I can, but I am not sure of all the files need to be deleted or replaced.
I have been looking at the KMS script and I understand alot of it, but alot of it confuses me too.
I am very newbish to Linux I am more of a Windows guy, but I want to learn Linux
Any help is appreciated
Last edited by hroark13; July 15th, 2011 at 05:29 PM.
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Nice to know this is available . Thanks for making it happen hroark13 !
Your Welcome
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Originally Posted by new optimus
You have done very well I hope with this new information we can get some real custom kernels and roms.
Thank You
I am willing to bet there will be a custom recovery and custom kernels for this phone in the very near future.
I was at this for 3 days figuring this out, I bricked my phone because some one said to do a factory wipe if the unroot did not work, and I did that, phone would not boot just vibrated on logo screen.
I started messing with the phone and loading Odin images from other phones onto it to see what would happen, I messed up the phone so bad that the only thing it would do is go into yellow download mode, i was not able to get into recovery, and nothing displayed on the screen.
I started looking at diferent odin images and how they were structured, got another working phone, rooted it, dumped all the partition and started looking at them with winhex and comparing them to the files in odin images and I was able to figure it out after flashing about 10 different images to the phone.
I was so damn happy when it Booted,,,yaaayyyy
This Odin image is a different structure than the Epic 4G but it is more simple, you can read the ops file with notepad, when you read a pit file with notepad it is not so simple
I have not slept very much during this time, I must have smoked a carton of cigs, but I love doing this type of stuff, and if your going to experement this is a good phone to do it with
Last edited by hroark13; July 15th, 2011 at 07:38 PM.
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So has those phones are kinda the same. Is it possible to port over a custom recovery? And a few other stuff? I am just saying lol
Well the files system is similar
I dont know about porting because the hardware is differnent
I am not a coder so I dont know how to write code to these files, but anyone who wants to do it just needs to find how they did it on that phone and it will be a very similar process
I just dont understand why Samsung does not provide recovery images.
I spent hours searching for one and there was nothing.
Oh and by the way I let my phone do another full update, after the update I Odined the phone tar and my baseband was back to ED13
Last edited by hroark13; July 15th, 2011 at 07:31 PM.
yea interdpth did teh same thing, interesting... how did you get the modem off?
as for custom kernels im working on it :P
custom recovery however is a bit more off.. shit is way over my head and im in talks with someone who has done an amazing job on the epic and the indulge to see if he can help us out.. the big issue for us right now is almost every other samsung android phone uses zimage as the kernel.. yall got boot.img
yea interdpth did teh same thing, interesting... how did you get the modem off?
modem is amss or bml4 partition or phone.tar
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/bml4 of=/sdcard/amss
copy file from sdcard to cygwin or linux and tar it
tar -H ustar -c amss > phone.tar
flash phone.tar with odin
i think the phone was in airplane mode at the time, but I am not sure if that matters
Last edited by hroark13; July 15th, 2011 at 08:26 PM.
So my friend and have been going over this for the past 3 hours (yea we've been drinking) about how this should be able to done but one i didn't have a phone to make a odin back up with and here it is! woo dude ur a life saver. hopefully this works thanks!
Note the process is a little different and i suggest you find someone that knows how to use this program. i happened to run into it while i was searching for a solution to fix my phone.
Last edited by TwistedMindz; July 16th, 2011 at 02:21 AM.
I did see mention of Heimdall but wasn't sure if it would work with the prevail. I think the version of Odin that is used here just barely came out (got leaked?) so that's why it works. Could be totally wrong on that.
I'm currently using Odin in Virtualbox and so far it seems to be going well.
It just rebooted my phone and it did start (a.k.a. no brick :-D). Thanks everyone for all the work you guys put into all this!
hahah would explain why when interdpth flashed it loaded to airplane mode right away.. thanks
The only thing that was done with the phone before I made the image was rooting it with KMS, installing ESF File Explorer, installing Advanced Task killer, Airplane Mode, Enable USB Debugging
Any one who flashes all 3 tars with be the same as above.
They can do a Factory Reset after Odin, and the only thing that will be different from Stock is the Root
Now that we can just edit the RFS files and flash them with Odin we should be able to make a Factory Stock image, I need to learn more about what the KMS rooting does.
I have one question. Is there any way to force a download to the phone if usb debugging is off with Odin? The reason that I am asking is that I had a powersurge while flashing .9 the other day and it somehow turned USB debugging off whilst in the process of flashing causing my phone to permantly bootloop on the Boost screen/ Thankyou.
I tried it a minute ago and it came up on the computer screen to connect the phone, and that's what got me to thinking about the USB debugging. I'll try it again.
edit: The powersurge must have done a major number on my phone because even in Odin it's not registering. It was worth a try.
Last edited by SpCowboy2842; July 16th, 2011 at 11:18 AM.
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Odin (Return phone to Stock/Factory)
thanks you very much for this
It worked on mine!
