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If you're trying to install anything other than a rom written for your specific phone model, you're courting that very disaster. We are talking hard brick, turn your phone into a paperweight or a doorstop disasters. The reason I ask is that we have had a number of people on this forum who have the AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S II try to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) with roms written for the International version of the Galaxy S II. Your phone comes with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) pre-installed, are you trying to install roms that are intended for your phone or just roms which look interesting. The phone doesn't seem to be bricked because I can get to download mode, but perhaps there could even be a problem with the internal flash memory? I'm just throwing the possibility out there as I'm getting nowhere even on multiple PCs. Perhaps there is a stock rom out there that will work, and I have just been unable to find it? An ICS rom would be nice, but I would like a working phone again. I have tried uploading in Odin with both the SD card in and removed, and i have toggled whether or not to repartition and it always fails.
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I'm getting an error message about re-partitioning, and when I was able to get into recovery mode it would throw a checksum error upon trying to flash through an SD card package. Heimdall will let me upload a recovery.bin and zImage, but the phone ends up end an endless reboot loop. I have a day old Samsung Galaxy S Showcase (SCH-S950C(GP)) and I cannot flash any rom I have found to it whatsoever either with multiple versions of Odin or the Heimdall Suite. I understand T-Mo is GSM, and this is a CDMA phone.
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I apologize if this isn't the best place for this post, I put it where I thought was closest to where it fit.