i failed to root or rooted im unsure! I can't get to push custom recovery at all with odin.

i successfully booted into custom recovery, i managed to install a custom rom + gapp.. whenever i reboot... the screen alw flicker... and then off.... flicker as in, the word got distorted :S

sigh, it wont be able to boot into the custom rom at all.. im flashing back a firmware via Odin and will try again later.

okie, sorry for not being detailed because I was rushing for time as I had dinner appointment. I tried a few methods the other day and failed then today decided to try again. Last few times, i flashed through Odin for the Philips CWM, flash counter increased but always overlapped by the original one. Reason being I think I used Odin 3.04 and 3.07. Today I used the older version and it worked v1.85 (deemed the most stable?). So I press volume up + home + power button and went into the custom recovery. Happily installed Vanilla RootBox at first, first attempt failed. Rebooted itself and stuck. Boot into recovery again, installed successfully but the boot screen, appeared the normal boot screen but went distorted like flickering.. then died. Had to try another rom, Liquid. Same results.

Now I am back to original firmware and plan to try again later. I will update again later.

I dont know which part I have done wrong but I hope fellow sifus can help me to ROOT my phone.

So yesterday I screwed up the recovery image in my phone and I had the original firmware back up running well. Today, I attempt to try again (first phone giving me so many problems in rooting, previously attempted only once ).

The thing is, Odin always told me it's successfully and auto reboot my phone ( I even unchecked auto reboot and manually boot into recovery mode). It always replace my custom recovery to stock recovery. Has anybody encountered the same issue I did? I am currently on the latest firmware. Do you think it's possibly the latest firmware is harder to root?

Ok sure.

Firstly, I installed all the necessary drivers. Got it detected in Odin via download mode. I tried 3 custom recovery so far:

i) recovery-cwm-6.0.1.9-N7100
ii) philz_touch_4.35-n7100.tar
iii) recovery-twrp-2.3.2.3-N7100

I also used three different version of Odin (3.04, 3.07 and lastly 1.85) I followed the instructions clearly stated in the website. Only Auto Boot and F.Reset Time are checked. I put the recovery image through PDA option and click start. It went well and said successfully, the bar turned to green and the phone auto restart. However, it didn't directly boot into recovery. Just went straight to Android and I checked through download mode, after I power it off for the first time after I flashed the recovery, the flash counter increased. System binary and status turned to "Custom". Sounds good. So I manually boot into recovery by volume up + home + power. Here, it will either flash and flicker the normal SGN N7100 boot screen and then turned off, OR.. It will boot to stock recovery where it stated Android Recovery 3e. I tried so many times with various methods and recoveries.

I even tried Galaxy N7100 toolkit. It's still the same. My current build number is XDMA6 (Malaysia) and I did enabled USB debugging via developer mode.

No, im not rooted yet because when I try to install super user or busybox manually it cant be used.

Thanks Benny. I followed your way in your blog post and had successfully rooted my phone I think it's the CWM file version that matters.

Anyway, does anyone encountered a boot screen error like I do?



Or is it normal for AOKP rom? I still prefer AOKP then sammy based rom. A lot of bloatwares i dont like

This post has been edited by off_shore: Feb 25 2013, 02:58 PM

After trying rootbox and miui based on sammy rom, I decided to switch to project aosp that is on sammy rom as well with samsung apps. Only with aosp feels. Everything is blue hehe.

I know this questions must be asked for the hundredth time, but may I know which is the best rom to use in terms of flexibility in changing the UI + battery performance + smooth + stock apps (snote, svoice) ...

I have test a few. But surprisingly I found that custom roms using more battery than the stock one. Which rom r u on now?

Problems are ........ we freaking contribute the tax yet you waste it away on you so called "priority" ....

I noticed that s3 takes better picture than note 2. Any software fixes for this?

wat kernel ur using? r u using any data connection control?

if you have the firmware from sammobile, flash it using Odin (which you did). Now go to recovery mode ( vol up + home + power button ) > factory reset. You would be able to boot into the OS.