Root prevail stuck in stock recovery

[h4x0rj3ff]

Ihave a prevail here that my buddy brought to me to fix. it is unrooted and stuck in recovery mode. I cannot locate ANY of the files i need to fix this (honestly im not %100 sure what all i need) any help would be appreciated.

 

[Lordvincent 90]

The simplest solution would be too reflash the phones firmware.


This is a link to the newest (stock, unrooted) firmware
http://www.mediafire.com/?5l32affsvq7yu5o

You install it using Odin.

Instructions in this thread
http://androidforums.com/galaxy-prevail-all-things-root/375550-odin-return-phone-stock-factory.html

Or, if they want a little more out of their phone, they could root & rom it.

http://androidforums.com/galaxy-pre...od-rooting-prevail-dummies-written-dummy.html

the benefits (other than the obvious) include
- the ability to mount an ext4 partition you would create on their card as /data (giving the user considerably more room for apps)
-debloated
-option to oc
-extended power menu
And more.

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

is odin a piece of software i have to find on my own? i havent found a lot of information on it only that i need it to do most things on a sammy device.

 

[Lordvincent 90]

is odin a piece of software i have to find on my own? i havent found a lot of information on it only that i need it to do most things on a sammy device.

Here's the link to the proper version of Odin and the ops file needed for the prevail
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojym2g36cwcj07f/PREVAILodin&ops.zip

Instructions are in the Odin thread

Edit - and here's a video tut

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

ok i got it to boot once after i ran odin and flashed phone and pda. i rebooted and im stuck in recovery again... should i flash boot? and or csc? i know boot is the bootloader but in not sure what csc is or does.

 

[Lordvincent 90]

ok i got it to boot once after i ran odin and flashed phone and pda. i rebooted and im stuck in recovery again... should i flash boot? and or csc? i know boot is the bootloader but in not sure what csc is or does.

I would use all 4

-boot
-phone
-pda
-csc

i don't recall what csc is (its been a while ) but it won't hurt to include it

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

ok it boots up when it wants too. i think the vol up button sticks tbh. i managed to get cwm on it (which is more familiar territory to me lol) from here i should be able to just flash a rom and call it good am i correct?

 

[Lordvincent 90]

ok it boots up when it wants too. i think the vol up button sticks tbh. i managed to get cwm on it (which is more familiar territory to me lol) from here i should be able to just flash a rom and call it good am i correct?

Yep

Just stay away from the ics roms

the camera doesn't function. We don't have drivers for it

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

so the recovery reverted back to stock and is stuck in recovery again? it seems like the divice is borked. any thoughts?

 

[Lordvincent 90]

so the recovery reverted back to stock and is stuck in recovery again? it seems like the divice is borked. any thoughts?

If you only flashed the recovery, then the problem is recovery-from-boot.p

The stock ROM overwrites cwm on boot unless you flash the stick.zip file from recovery, before the os boots

The other option is to flash a pre-rooted image, which will include cwm and already has that patch removed

 

[Lordvincent 90]

Also, note that cwm does not support Samsung's proprietary rfs (robust file system)

So a backup made on pure stock can NOT be restored.

The 'work around' is to flash Half Ass Rom which is stock formatted to ext4 (which cwm supports)

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

is there a way via software i can put this thing into download mode? this phone is a bear when it comes to gettiNG it in (it has a sticky vol up button lol)

 

[Lordvincent 90]

You can try via adb

Try

Adb reboot bootloader

 

[h4x0rj3ff]

no root... permission denied. lol i got cwm back on it and flashed stick.zip. and i just got dont flashing half ass rom and hopefully i can get it to boot