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pstar008

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#119541 5-Jun-2013 13:02
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Hi, I think I somehow managed to brick my wife's S2.

It currently can only show Galaxy S2 starting logo with yellow triangle warning at the bottom, can not go further than that.
I can to make it go to downloading screen and put Jeboo kernel though Odin, but it still can't go further than the Galaxy  S2 logo screen with the triangle yellow warning sign.

As you may able to guess, I did root the phone, and it went well until I tried to do a factory reset inside the phone's setting menu, now I realized that probably wouldn't working as the phone been rooted and the stock Telecom Android 4.1.2 probably wiped out Jeboo kernel/ and the Jebo kernel need be loading before the stock Android? Not sure exactly why, but somehow the end result is trying to reset the phone inside the stock Android destroy the whole loading chain after root I guess.

The question is, what is the easiest way to make the phone come back to a usable state, preferably to the Telecom stock 4.1.2 as this is not my own phone and I want it maintenance free.

I did managed to make a couple of  backups to external SD card inside CWM I believe(text menu after Volume up + Home + Power), and it would be ideal if I can recover the from those backups. But obviously, I couldn't restore from that backup if it can not pass the start up screen. Could I do that though Odin?

No objection about install custom ROMs, but really, I just want root it, don't want change the stock ROM unless I have to, or it is much easier just install a custom ROM.

I only did root my Milestone phone once and it went well, but I am just following instructions and as it went well, I am pretty much a newbie to the who root/ROM thing as I am just following instructions step by step and didn't learned much.

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Dratsab
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  #831067 5-Jun-2013 16:16
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pstar008: Hi, if I repartition the internal SD, it will restore the factory ROM/OS? 


In short - no. The ROM you flashed will be returned to a factory reset state. If you want to go back to stock go to the firmwares section of Sammobile.com and download the correct stock ROM for your phone. If you don't have an account there already you'll need to create one to download the ROM.

I imagine your phone is a GT-I9100T? - if so speed up your search for the correct ROM by typing this into the search box, you don't need to press the enter key.

I'd recommend you get at least Odin3 v1.85 and use this to flash your phone which you will have booted into download mode before connecting to the PC. Click PDA to select your ROM. Nothing else should need selecting/changing.

Once your phone is reflashed, boot into Recovery mode, wipe your Dalvik cache and cache partition then do a factory reset.

Good luck.

EDIT: Also have a search through the XDA Developers website, it's a goldmine of information for exactly this sort of thing. I've been in your position (once) before when I was deliberately mixing and matching ROM's and kernels on my S2.

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