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Root Odin (Return phone to Stock/Factory)

hroark13

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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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If you would like to make your own Odin backups of your phone Koumajutsu has made a script that make the process nice and easy.
http://androidforums.com/galaxy-prevail-all-things-root/429867-odin-image-file-creator.html


VIDEO OF USING ODIN

Thanks go to MurderousOne for making the awesome video on how to do this.

‪Samsung Galaxy Prevail ODIN Recovery To Stock ED13 Rooted & Unrooted (HD)‬‏ - YouTube
 
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
 
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so is this a custom recovery? and also is there a benefit to installing this if you have a working phone?

This is mainly for people whos phone wont boot, this will basically make your phone stock, with root, efs file explorer and adv task killer

No Benefit if your phone is working, but if you wanted to go back to ED13 this is an option.
 
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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.
 
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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

or should I explain how I made this
 
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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
 
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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

adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/bml1 of=/sdcard/mibib
dd if=/dev/bml2 of=/sdcard/qcsbl
dd if=/dev/bml3 of=/sdcard/oemsbl
dd if=/dev/bml4 of=/sdcard/amss
dd if=/dev/bml8 of=/sdcard/arm11boot
dd if=/dev/bml9 of=/sdcard/boot.img
dd if=/dev/bml10 of=/sdcard/recovery.img
dd if=/dev/stl12 of=/sdcard/system.rfs
dd if=/dev/stl13 of=/sdcard/data.rfs

copy files from sdcard to cygwin or linux and tar them

tar -H ustar -c amss > phone.tar
tar -H ustar -c mibib qcsbl oemsbl arm11boot > boot.tar
tar -H ustar -c boot.img system.rfs data.rfs recovery.img > pda.tar
 
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