Root New Root, now stuck on splash screen. Help

[mrfols]

I successfully rooted and was trying flash a new rom and am now stuck on splash screen. I have gone into boot loader and tried recovery, and now just have samsung splash instead of Cyan...please help.

 

[mrfols]

Moderators or someone..will you please look at this and give any suggustions. I'm not sure where to go from here..about to head to verizon to buy a new phone.

 

[NOsquid]

First. Simmer down.

What exactly did you do? EXACTLY. In steps. Include what you started from and what you flashed.

 

[mrfols]

I did this:

This is only for the Verizon Samsung Fascinate do not use for any other phone

As always myself, android forums and anyone else are not responsible for what you do to your phone.

This instructions are for windows only at this point. I may put together instructions for linux later on

That being said if you don’t follow this instructions closely and mess around with settings in Odin you could brick your phone. Whatever you do in odin always use the pda button to select files never use the phone button.

*Credit to Adrynalyne for the cwmrecovery file and the modified superuser zip
*Credit to Koush for the update.zip

Download the following
Samsung Drivers
Odin
CWMRecovery_DJ05_DL09.tar.md5
Update.zip
su-2.3.6.1+busybox1.19.zip

1.) Install the Samsung Drivers
2.) Place Odin3 v1.3.exe and CWMRecovery_DJ05_DL09.tar.md5 in the same folder on your pc
3.) Place the update.zip and su-2.3.6.1+busybox1.19.zip in the root of your sdcard (root means not in any folder just on the sdcard)
4.) Put your phone in download mode by taking out the battery. Then hold the volume down button while plugging it into the usb cable attached to your computer
5.) Open Odin
6.) This is very very important ***Don’t touch any settings in odin only use the pda button and start button***
7.) Im going to say that again just for emphasis Don’t touch any settings and only use the pda and start buttons. Using the phone button to flash tar files will leave you with a brick
8.) So press the pda button then select CWMRecovery_DJ05_DL09.tar.md5
9.) Press start (Note this will reboot your phone when complete)
10.) Once your phone has booted up and you know everything is still good, power the phone off.
11.) Power the phone on while holding the entire volume button down. Let go of the power button when the Samsung logo shows but keep holding the whole volume button.
12.) This will boot you into the stock recovery. Use the volume rocker to move down to apply sdcard:update.zip then press the home key
13.) After it applies you will be in clockworkmod recovery
14.) Use the volume rocker to navigate to install zip from sdcard. This time though you will use the back key to select. (I know it is annoying that there are two different select keys but get used to it)
15.) Navigate down and select choose zip from sdcard
16.) Navigate to su-2.3.6.1+busybox1.19.zip press back to select it
17.) Navigate down and select Yes – Install su-2.3.6.1+busybox1.19.zip
18.) Once that is done press the search button to go back a menu
19.) Then select reboot system now
20.) Congrats you are now rooted

Rooted..worked all was well until I did this..

I then Used Rom Mgr to Flash? this...Blackhole_Fascinate_4.21SA.zip

I now get the splash screen and nothing else. I can get to boot and cwm.

 

[mrfols]

OK, I reloaded the recovery file with Odin and have my phone back. Now I would like to flash blackhole..but a little afraid.

 

[NOsquid]

Yeah, I'd leave your phone alone to recover for a while You can take the opportunity to do more reading.

 

[nitsuj17]

OK, I reloaded the recovery file with Odin and have my phone back. Now I would like to flash blackhole..but a little afraid.

new blackhole is a froyo rom...you will need a newer recovery and kernel in addition to the rom

 

[mrfols]

I may never figure this out. The root part was easy. I thought the ROM had the Kernals in it. I also figured Recovery was recovery. Owe well. Off to read some more.

 

[nitsuj17]

I may never figure this out. The root part was easy. I thought the ROM had the Kernals in it. I also figured Recovery was recovery. Owe well. Off to read some more.

early 2.2 roms included kernels...but since voodoo was added as an option the kernels were divorced from the roms to avoid confusion mostly.

and jt made updated recoveries for froyo as the mount points for eclair and froyo are different and caused numerous headaches for many of us

 

[mrfols]

early 2.2 roms included kernels...but since voodoo was added as an option the kernels were divorced from the roms to avoid confusion mostly.

and jt made updated recoveries for froyo as the mount points for eclair and froyo are different and caused numerous headaches for many of us

OK. I'm now getting an error msg that the sdcard won't mount. Can't do much it appears without the sd card. I was looking at jt's superclean and voodoo. not sure which order to install once I get the card to mount.