Root What if we just flashed a Galaxy ROM?

[Ozymandias]

Well, what if we just did that? I wouldn't be surprised if they were the exact same phone, and we could get our Donut on.

UPDATE: We need someone to try the steps below.

 

[homebrewed]

2nd this question... I might just try it... anyone willing to promise help at un-bricking my phone? Please if someone has ideas or better yet has taken the plunge, speak up...

 

[kam187]

You can just unyaffs the galaxy system.img from a firmware file over your system partion if you can adb in recovery. Thats not very risky.

They seem to be the same phone except the behold has 128mb more RAM (total 320mb, and doesnt have the internal 8gb storage.

If i had a choice i'd take the RAM! anyone wanna swap their behold 2 for my galaxy

 

[Ozymandias]

I'll track down that img for someone to try. I don't actually HAVE a Behold 2, I'm just recommending it to people right now, under the assumption it will be rooted or hit 2.0 OTA.

 

[Ozymandias]

Ok, here are kam's steps for the Galaxy that I just shamelessly ripped off.

- Copy the system.img onto the root of your sdcard (mount it in windows, and drop it over)

- Boot into recovery

- open an adb shell
# adb shell

- remount system read/write
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system

- erase the system partition
# rm -rf /system/*

- Extract the system image:
# cd /system/
# unyaffs /sdcard/system.img

The boot images are identical, so there's no need to flash that over. You probably want to do a factory reset first to clear out your data partition etc. You can take a nandroid backup first of course in case you want to revert back.

Here's the img-
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Ok, we need someone to try this. Since you won't mess with the radio, it's unlikely you'll screw it up, but I'm not responsible if you do. I'd do it myself, but I don't have a Behold 2. Does someone want to take the brave first non-rooting steps into Behold 2 dev?

I suspect that this will work, its the exact same phone save some internal storage and a cube button.

 

[chaoscentral]

I can't get anything to go in recovery except deleted all of my data by accident adb can't see the device in recovery mode, just shows a picture of an exclamation mark next to a phone

 

[Rastaman-FB]

I can't get anything to go in recovery except deleted all of my data by accident adb can't see the device in recovery mode, just shows a picture of an exclamation mark next to a phone

you need to put a custom recovery img on there first
were not sure if behold can take the galaxo recovery found at hdblog.it for galaxy yet as no one has tried it

 

[chaoscentral]

you need to put a custom recovery img on there first
were not sure if behold can take the galaxo recovery found at hdblog.it for galaxy yet as no one has tried it

I have been trying everything I could think of to get a custom recovery image on this thing, I tried the method over at MoDaCo for the i7500, but it seems to me the phone doesn't have fastboot, or atleast not one that I can access, because following the instructions, Green + Red on startup which is supposed to go into fastboot does nothing but start up normally. Recovery mode and Download mode work fine though. I also can not get FlashRec to work at all it keeps telling me "Could not run command"

I am out of ideas..... anyone got any?

 

[kam187]

uh oh, it may be security locked.... I'm still prepared to swap my galaxy for a behold 2... any takers pm me

 

[Ozymandias]

Right, we need a custom recovery image now. I'm afraid I'm not capable of doing that at all.

 

[kam187]

It would be interesting to see if you could upload a recovery image using odin.

Do you guys have a firmware update for the behold 2 yet? If not you can grab your existing partions and make one.

Jump on irc chat chat.freenode.net channel #i7500
or click 'chat' in the forum bar above and type /j #i7500 when you're in

I'll talk you through what u need to do

 

[Ozymandias]

It would be interesting to see if you could upload a recovery image using odin.

Do you guys have a firmware update for the behold 2 yet? If not you can grab your existing partions and make one.

Jump on irc chat chat.freenode.net channel #i7500
or click 'chat' in the forum bar above and type /j #i7500 when you're in

I'll talk you through what u need to do

Sadly, as I said before, I don't have a Behold 2. If any new Behold user out there wants to help get this thing going give it a shot!

 

[chaoscentral]

I'll give it a shot, I'll be on irc until 5pm EST

 

[kam187]

Ahh ok. I think i'll buy one next week. If anyone is looking to sell there's let me know

 

[KDH]

I'd like to help, but I can't get the SDK to recognize the phone in either ArchLinux or Windows 7.

 

[chaoscentral]

Settings>Phone Settings>USB Settings - Samsung PC Studio

then

Settings>Application Settings>Development - USB Debugging

make sure you have the device installed using the ADB drivers from the SDK

 

[KDH]

Yeah I know, I've already done all that and It still doesn't work.

 

[wisejoshua]

I have behold 2 and DESPARATELY want 1.6, im not a dev or anything close to it, but im willing to do what ever to get 1.6. Do we know if this will work? Should i wait til someone else with a little more knowhow to try it first? Will i still get 2.0 update when they release OTA? Thanks

 

[chaoscentral]

I have behold 2 and DESPARATELY want 1.6, im not a dev or anything close to it, but im willing to do what ever to get 1.6. Do we know if this will work? Should i wait til someone else with a little more knowhow to try it first? Will i still get 2.0 update when they release OTA? Thanks

kam and I were trying to get something flashed on the Behold a few days ago with no luck. The security system Samsung has on this phone seems very complicated. Any changes made to the /system folder are erased on boot, as well as the recovery partition. I attempted to load the Galaxy recovery image through Odin, while it successfully flashed, it was immediately overwritten with the stock recovery image on reboot.

Also for reference fastboot seems to also be disabled, as the usual end call+call button on boot does not work.

 

[orrorin6]

Every other phone I've used was Camera + Power. I tried this in the B2 and nothing showed on the screen but the phone vibrated every one second for as long as I was holding down those two... interesting.