pikanate
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OK so this flash will root me and keep me stock everything including radio ed01. goal one accomplished. All other points aside from CWM are complete.
so as spoken of in Step two, I flash via ODIN that particular CWM the ALL 3-30 Fixed version. and I need CWM for flashing kernals, themes etc but I don't need it particularly for the other root functions I spoke of.... so when I ODIN CWM... its OK to boot strait to the phone after instead of straight to CWM as I've been reading has to be done?
This is a problem people are having. When you flash CWM through ODIN, since you are running stock kernel, when your phone boots up the stock kernel will overwrite over CWM all and you will lose it.
What i did was flashed CWM through ODIN, then put my battery in and boot directly into recovery (do this by pressing vol up+down+power). Keep pressing this down until you see the samsung logo show up the second time. You should now be in red recovery. I then flashed a different kernel so that red CWM stayed.
After you have flashed a different kernel you may need to flash CWM through ODIN one more time so that it will stay for good.