4. place your phone into download mode by powering off, removing the battery, then holding the volume down button while plugging the phone into your usb port. You should get a yellow box in Odin with the word COM and a couple of numbers. If you don't have this, do not proceed.
connect your phone to your computer using proper cable?
Doesn't it show something on the phone display confirming that phone is in download mode? Little android fella with some sign?
3. extract the Odin.zip contents into a folder where you can get to them (I leave them on my desktop) and open the program. Place the cwm_recovery_test4_adryn.tar in the PDA section of Odin. DO NOT PUT IT IN PHONE SECTION.
is it drag and drop? I just tried to drag and drop into Odin, it is not happening. did not have phone connected, maybe you can with phone connected and recognized.
4. make sure auto reboot is UNCHECKED and click start. It should take less than a minute. Wait until it says 'RESET' before unplugging your phone
isn't there something else that is not supposed to be checked in Odin? PHONE, or BOOTLOAD, do not remember exactly from my last rooting. something that bricks the phone. what is "it"? I'd insert after "start" - Odin will start loading program onto your phone; there will be green progress bar running in box such and such in Odin; wait until load is completed (doesn't it say COMPLETE or something else confirming good load?)
5. Reinstall your battery and reboot into recovery by holding the volume up, down and power button all at once. This will boot you into stock recovery.
6. Using the volume down and menu softkey to select (it won't be lit up. Just tap where it would be - firmly) select sdcard:update.zip This will switch you into CWM recovery.
aren't you already in CWM from step 5? also, I remeber it may be quite a challenge to get to that zip file on sd card by only using volume key. you think a more detailed path will be better?
12, After you get "pass" and "reset", unplug your phone, and reboot into recovery, using the same 3 finger method.
13, apply sdcard:update.zip to get into cwm the same as above, but this time scroll down to 'install .zip from sdcard' once you are in CWM
14., select 'choose zip from sd card' and scroll down to 'EC07.zip', then select it, then yes. This will take a minute or so to install.
15. use your back key to back out to the main CWM menu, then go down to 'advanced' and select it.
16. Select wipe dalvik cache' and yes. this should be pretty quick (Your dalvik cache does not wipe your apps. but it does wipe the interactions your apps have developed with your rom. Wiping this will prevent force close issues.)
17, back out to main CWM menu and select 'wipe cache partition' then yes.
I'd have to be actually doing it, to follow directions.
txwolf, I appreciate your help. and am not a nitpick prick. but I do work with mostly very sick people. people that can not remember anything the very moment they left my office and require crystal clear instructions on anything. hence, I like it all simple, clear, step by step, even better - with pictures. fair enough?
Ok. First off, I don't mind nitpicking... As I THINK i said, this is my first how to, so any contructive input is welcome.
That being said, lets go down the list.
1. I guess I could put 'proper cable' in there. I would assume that the only cable common sense would tell you to use is the one that came with the phone.
2. You are correct. There is an icon of an android (if it can be called that) with a caution sign that says download mode Do not turn off target. And I will update to include that one.
3.Nope. it's not a drag and drop (as I'm sure you figured out). you click the "PDA" button and browse for the file... that one will be updated, as well.
4. The only time anything (as far as phone, csc, bootld, or repartition) checks itself is if you place a file in the corresponding section. You are probably thinking of 'repartition'. If you check that (or, on older versions of odin, it had a habit of checking itself) and you don't have a PIT file, it will brick you. So, that being the case, I didn't bother to instruct the user to uncheck anything else (Odin 1.85 doesn't check repartition on it's own). as for the progress bar reference, that will probably make the cut, as well. But, reset is the LAST thing you see, after 'PASS'. So that is what I instructed to wait for.
5. No, you aren't in CWM when you boot into recovery. Unfortunately (unlike your past phones) we don't have a native CWM. We have an official port from the fascinate. Therefor, you will always have to apply sdcard : update.zip
I'm not sure what you mean by it being a challenge. You do have to hit it with the proper firmness, and in the correct spot. But, I thought I made the fact that you use the menu key to select pretty clear. Maybe you can elaborate on that one.
6. As for the fact that you would have to be reading the tutorial as you go to follow the final steps, I would hope so. I don't expect anyone to memorize all of this, especially on the first run of doing this stuff. If they try, they either have an idetic memory, or are foolish. This was designed to be sitting on you screen as you do the steps, or printed out somewhere. Something to make it easy to follow. The only reason I stated that you should read through it before you started the process is as a good measure. You always read through a step by step before you start any of it to make sure you are clear on what you are doing. Finding out in the middle of it all that you are completely lost and don't understand anything that you are reading is a very bad place to be in.
As for screen shots, I'd have to figure out how to do them on the phone side when I'm in recovery... I'll do some research on it, when i have the time. If i can figure out how to do it (using ADB or something) I will include them.
Do me a favor, and give me a little clearer idea of what you mean by making the instructions on getting into CWM easier to follow, and let me know if you have any more suggestion. Thanks.
