OK?I?m really at a loss at how to do this and was up until 3AM trying to figure it out and fix what I thought was a bricked phone, but no dice. I?m still on Android 2.1, rooted with Baked Snack 1.6. Last night, I tried using Odin to flash EB13 and it didn?t work. Odin had no problems reading my phone. I also got that famous ?phone-to-PC? icon and thought I had bricked my phone, but luckily, I was able to get into download mode and about to do the reboot recovery (not through Odin) by holding volume down, camera button and power. Luckily my phone was just like it was before with no data loss as I was worried that I might have to replace it.
Anyways, is there any way possible I can flash EB13 from a rooted phone without using Odin and be able to keep my root status? I don?t want to re-root once I?m in EB13 because I couldn?t do it from my computer and had to use someone else?s to get it done. I don?t have access to that computer anymore. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Samsung driver, which could be the root of the problem, but that crashed my computer and I had to do a system restore. Not sure I want to try that again.
When I try flashing through Odin, it freezes in different parts of the process. I don?t even get to where the green status bar moves. Throughout the process, I?ve doing it without the battery, SD card, combination, a different USB cable, different USB ports and all it?s really done is go to different stages of the Odin process and then freeze.
Can flash EB13 through that zip file you can download? And if so, will I lose my root status? Or do I have to be on stock? That is another problem, I can?t seem to get on stock through Odin. Or is there another way of going to stock without going through Odin? If I do a factory restore through the other method I did above, can I install EB13 that way and will I lose my root status or will I have to root over again?
This is really, really frustrating. If it?s that much trouble, I?d rather stay with what I have now, I guess.
Oh, and I had downloaded Titanium Backup again and backed up all my files. Not sure if it?s related, but my battery life since I did the reboot has been abysmal. My phone doesn?t really ?sleep? anymore according to Spare Parts and the only thing that seems running in the background is the ?Android System? when I do the partial wake usage.