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Tried to restore from Cog 2.1 to JH7 with Rom Manager.
Failed to remember the voodoo disable thing.
After restore phone rebooted, as soon as i swipe to unlock i get force to close windows.
Just run Odin one click. Good as new.
/thread delete if wanted..

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How can i get rid of clockwork?

So here is my issue. I have a Droid X. Used EasyRoot to root before 2.2, once 2.2 came out i ditched easyroot, DLed 2.2 and then did the Droid2 Method of installing root. Since I finally got froyo (and figured Ginger woudlnt be out for awhile) i figured i would try my hands at adding some themes. I installed ROM Manager and Bootstrapper (both paid) and flashed clokworkmod and played around with them for a day or so, and kinda figured it wasnt really what i wanted to get into, and decided to go back to just plain root.
So i UNinstalled both root manager and Bootstrapper, and did a batt pull... Now everytime i do a batt pull the "clockwork recovery" screen comes up asking if i want to recover my device. Why is this still on the phone if i uninstalled ROM Manager? There is a folder in my files labeled "Clockwork" but im almost afraid now that if i delete it ill get a Bloop.
How do i go about getting clockwork off my phone? Also, with the Droid2 root method, if i just remove the root, will clockwork and everything else go with it? then i can just re-root?
Clockwork Recovery is seperate from ROM Manager.
ROM Manager can be used to control Clockwork Recovery, but it is NOT CR.
I don't own a DroidX, so I don't know if it's possible to get back to the stock recovery, but no matter what, you shouldn't have to worry about anything.
Clockwork should stay on your phone pretty much regardless of anything else. Even if you factory restore your phone, it'll still be there because it's your recovery partition.
Basically, think of it as that message on an HP/Dell/Others that says "Press F11 to enter recovery mode" and from there you can reinstall a factory refresh of windows.
Same thing here, except you'd restore a backup you've made previously.
You could also flash a ROM you've found online.
You could also initiate a factory reset, but if you've messed with anything in the /system directory, it might not work.
That makes sense. So I guess my next question is Ifi have to take the phone back to vzw will that flag it as voided? Even if I remove root? And will I have problems with any future OTAs?
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JH7 "congrats device has been updated" pop ups keep popping up

JH7 "congrats device has been updated" pop ups keep popping up...
whenever i change batteries
whenever i turn the phone off, then back on
sometimes during games it'll pop up
i checked for update, and it says no firmware
when i checked firmware it says 2.1 jh7 update
HOW DO YOU MAKE THE POP UP GO AWAY?
btw, phone is stock, not rooted...
I was just about to ask the same question! Mine does it too, w/ OCLF v2.1
anybody got any solutions?
No solutions, but the same problem. I've been totally stock the whole way and had no issues with the OTA update, except that it keeps congratulating me over and over that I now have it.
Congratulations!
Nobody has a solution yet????
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Anybody find a fix to this yet?
If you had rooted, you could have installed ROM manager prior to the botched update, and would have had a nandroid backup. If you had one, then you could have restored the system to the pre update stage, and tried applying the update again. Probably the only way to get rid of crap like this at this point is to do an Odin one click flash. If you plan on going down that route, just flash the leaked Froyo on, and be done with the constant congratulations from Samsung.
Here ya go. Same thing happened to me.

Any way to root w/o ODIN + wipe?

Before you flame, I did read this and was still a bit confused.
Basically, I've been using my Verizon-ROM'd Charge (with the latest updates) for about a month now. I'm ready to ODIN over to a new ROM (probably the 8/3/11 HumbleComb ROM), but without a one-click root, I'm not sure how I can install/run/backup all my data with TB if I don't have root access.
So right now, I'm looking for any way to root my Charge, backup all the apps/data before I flash a ROM that seems (from my reading) to do a full wipe.
The other problem I'm having is in regards to my wife's Charge. We both came from Vibrants and she had quite a few important apps (with critical data) she'd like to bring over. However, she could care less about going to a rooted/aftermarket ROM. She just wants her old apps to work.
I've searched fellas... I'd really like some help on this. Please throw me a line... even if it's a link to a thread I missed.
Thanks in advance.
Wrong section but just odin this kernel, it doesnt wipe any of your data. Then you can use Titanium Backup or whatever you use to backup your apps. Dont restore system apps unless you want force closes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092114
Nevermind...
mbh87 said:
Wrong section but just odin this kernel, it doesnt wipe any of your data. Then you can use Titanium Backup or whatever you use to backup your apps. Dont restore system apps unless you want force closes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092114
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Awesome! I'll give it a try and see how it goes. I appreciate the helps.
**EDIT**
That worked perfectly. Thanks! Backing up everything with TB now in preparation for flash a real ROM.
Mods, please move as necessary.
most roms nowadays will root you when flashed/odined so yeah just back everything up and load up the rom of your choice
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
Things were going so well, I decided to flash HumbleComb 1.5 using Odin. Now I'm stuck at the Samsung logo. I'm guessing it was because the tool originally recommended here enabled the lagfix. Funny thing is, if I reflash HC 1.5 from Odin, the first thing I get is the recovery screen. Inside the voodoo settings there, it says Voodoo is disabled and not scheduled to be enabled on the next boot (this was after the 2nd flash, though). Voodoo had to be enabled. I got a 1400+ quadrant score...
Gotta read the "fix your phone" thread now. Was too tired to fart around with it last night. At least I got everything backed up.
Flapjack said:
Things were going so well, I decided to flash HumbleComb 1.5 using Odin. Now I'm stuck at the Samsung logo. I'm guessing it was because the tool originally recommended here enabled the lagfix. Funny thing is, if I reflash HC 1.5 from Odin, the first thing I get is the recovery screen. Inside the voodoo settings there, it says Voodoo is disabled and not scheduled to be enabled on the next boot (this was after the 2nd flash, though). Voodoo had to be enabled. I got a 1400+ quadrant score...
Gotta read the "fix your phone" thread now. Was too tired to fart around with it last night. At least I got everything backed up.
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Wipe everything in recovery (data/cache/dalvik) and then plug into Odin and flash. That works every time for me when it sticks on the Samsung logo...

[Q] Some apps not saving preferences

I recently was playing with one of those bloatware freezing apps. I froze only the obvious ones like buddies now etc. Something happened though. After I was done the icon tray was gone, and the home buton did'nt work at all. The phone was basically a brick because I couldn't get to any apps. So I did a factory restore. It did it and some of the apps were still there but crashed. So I uninstalled everything and reinstalled it back through market.
Now things kind of work but everytime I load some apps I get messages like it was installed for the first time even if I ran them before. None of the preferences are saved. If I leave them in RAM they remember but if I go to the task manager and flush RAM when I restart all preferences are gone again. Nothing is being written or saved to the system like it should be. The theme chooser in Astro file manager doesn't work at all.
What the hell is going on and how can I fix it? I am using the stock ROM and rooted.
DaveC1964 said:
I recently was playing with one of those bloatware freezing apps. I froze only the obvious ones like buddies now etc. Something happened though. After I was done the icon tray was gone, and the home buton did'nt work at all. The phone was basically a brick because I couldn't get to any apps. So I did a factory restore. It did it and some of the apps were still there but crashed. So I uninstalled everything and reinstalled it back through market.
Now things kind of work but everytime I load some apps I get messages like it was installed for the first time even if I ran them before. None of the preferences are saved. If I leave them in RAM they remember but if I go to the task manager and flush RAM when I restart all preferences are gone again. Nothing is being written or saved to the system like it should be. The theme chooser in Astro file manager doesn't work at all.
What the hell is going on and how can I fix it? I am using the stock ROM and rooted.
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dave,
if a factory reset didn't fix your problem,
you will have to flash your phone back to stock.
you can use gtg's ultimate unbrick - stock froyo
h8rift root and 3e recovery - stock froyo, rooted with 3e recovery or
adam outler's heimdall one click to gb leak, uckj4 stock.
you can find these in the dev superthread or some of my quick links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437548
qkster said:
dave,
if a factory reset didn't fix your problem,
you will have to flash your phone back to stock.
you can use gtg's ultimate unbrick - stock froyo
h8rift root and 3e recovery - stock froyo, rooted with 3e recovery or
adam outler's heimdall one click to gb leak, uckj4 stock.
you can find these in the dev superthread or some of my quick links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437548
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Hi,
Sorry I screwed that up. I couldn't get into the interface to do a factory reset. So what i did was flash back to stock with odin. After I did that the apps were still there but many didn't work. I uninstalled them and re-installed and they worked as stated with glitches.
Maybe I needed to flash to stock then do a factory reset to clean things up?
DaveC1964 said:
Hi,
Sorry I screwed that up. I couldn't get into the interface to do a factory reset. So what i did was flash back to stock with odin. After I did that the apps were still there but many didn't work. I uninstalled them and re-installed and they worked as stated with glitches.
Maybe I needed to flash to stock then do a factory reset to clean things up?
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yeah, if you wanted to clean up everything, do a factory reset. Take off all the files and pictures you want from the phone including your micro sd card if you gave one.
Go to settings. Privacy. Factory reset.
Put phone into download mode.
Use gtg's ultimate unbrick if you want to go back to stock froyo. Then do the ota update.

Odd ICS update issue

so I've got a bit of an odd ball with the ICS update
I've always run the stock rom.
used the HTC unlock tool to unlock the bootloader
not sure if any of that means I'm s-off...
but...aside from freezing a few apps here and there, I didn't like having adobe reader installed, and as a system app..
so used titanium backup to convert it to a user app and then uninstalled it...
now...when I try to do the ICS update...seems to be going through the process...downloads, reboots...green bar gets about 20% and then I get the red triangle with exclamation.
when I do the key combo for recovery, it gives me some error about
assert failed apply patch check adobe reader
tried reinstalling reader from market...and opens fine..though update still fails same way.
use titanium to convert it back to system app...and it will FC every time I try to launch it...and the ICS update still fails same way.
is there some special acrobat reader they use?
help would be appreciated, as I'm pretty much stuck.
can post the entire error if needed.
finally
well.. disregard I guess
found the RUU for the stock 2.3.4
after spending some time extacting all the files from it, digging into the system.img and finding the adobe reader.apk that was in there, I installed it back on my phone and used titanium to change it back to a system app.
this time, fortunately, the program didn't FC when I launched.
unfortunatly, the update still failed at the exact same place.
so despite my nerves, I just ran the RUU and let it reset the device completely back to stock.
that did the trick, and after it was up and running, the ICS update downloaded and installed fine.
not sure if this'll help anyone else, but I think it would still be interesting to know if there's a way restore these system apps if you rip them off.
I found one motorola related forum talking about the same thing, and mentioning that titanium backup really doesn't backup all the system files correctly so as to let you fully restore them.
ho hum...

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