For those of u having problems with Mounting SDCARD issues whilein Recovery Mode, Make sure you have the latest Bootstrap Recovery and Flash the latest Recovery from ROM Manager. I know i had to deal with this problem for like the past month and I FINALLY figured it out lol. So just putting out a friendly notice out there.
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I have just rooted my phone recently on my Droid X using Z4root and it worked fine. Then I backed up my phone using Titanium Backup, which also worked fine also. Then I installed ROM Manager and then flashed ClockworkMod Recovery within ROM Manager. When I click on Backup Current ROM the phone reboots fully without going into recovery. So I open ROM Manager and click "Manage and Restore Backups" and there is no file there.
I tried clicking "Reboot into Recovery" to see if I could select it there and the phone just reboots back to android without going into recovery. So then I turned off my phone and held down the home+power to go into recovery which works. When I'm there it doesn't have an option to backup my ROM. I don't want to flash this ROM I want to try until I can backup my current stock ROM, in case something goes wrong.
When at the blue recovery screen I notice at the bottom in yellow a message is displayed "E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command. Wondering if this is my issue. I also notice in recovery it gives me an option to "apply sdcard:update.zip" but I don't see an update.zip on my sd card, so I'm not sure if I should select this before being able to backup my stock ROM. I'm afraid to flash the ROM before knowing this current problem. Can anyone help me with this issue? I am new to the whole root and ROM hacks, but have been researching in depth and taking all precautions so I'm trying hard not to brick my phone. Thanx in advance.
First off update.zip is just an update.zip package. Could be anything thats an update and can be flashed. Yeah...not sure why rom manager doesnt work for you but all the same your better off doing it from recovery anyway. You can make backups in recovery you don't need rom manager just use rom manager to manage your backups it will see them no matter what! It will allow you to rename them as well so they are easily identifiable also. If your rom manager works youll be able to name the backup before hand! If you ask me rom manager doesnt update the roms fast enough anyway they are usually like 2 days behind! Good tool either way but not so good at replacing roms as recovery does a better job. I have never had one problem using recovery but I've had a problem every time I try to flash a rom using rom manager!
Okay I figured out that the ClockworkMod Recovery must not have flashed properly or something bc I was just at the dev's site and the picture of the recovery is different than mine bc it's green and has many more options to choose from. Plus it says ClockworkMod Recovery on the recovery screen and mine doesn't. It's blue and says android recovery at the top. When I open the ROM Manager it says that I have the ClockworkMod Recovery but I don't. I even tried reflashing but it didn't work either. So how do I get the ClockworkMod Recovery to flash correctly?
I am having same problem but I just use bootstaper and it works fine
I tried downloading the bootstrap from the creator of ClockworkMod Recovery but the link seems to be broken. What bootstrap are u using?
I found the bootstrap for the Droid X on the market and that fixed the issue I was having. Wish I would have known from all the other posts/articles I read that it was a requirement for the Droid X to have the bootstrap to run recovery
So just a while ago i tried to download a Cyanogen Mod nightly off Rom Manager for my G2x and I backed up my stock rooted rom of course before going through with the wipes and everything and it seemed to have gone though very quick and when it booted back on all it did to my phone was wipe it and pretty much restore it. Now when I go try to Manage and Restore backups nothing is there! So in other words the Nightly didn't go through for some reason and for another weird reason my Backup I did right before isn't there and showing up either. I know it's there also because I checked under Linda File Manager and it's under my Clockwork Mod file. Any ideas or thoughts?
Try moving the backup from internal SD to external SD its in a file called clockworkmod
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it's already in that folder. this isn't my first time flashing and backing up before and all but this is the first time I have on the G2x and the first time i've ever encountered a problem like this. is there something i'm supposed to do to make rom manager work completely? i remember i used to boot into recovery a couple weeks back and I wouldn't be able to properly navigate and choose what I wanted but then now when I randomly tried today it worked and i was able to boot into recovery perfectly through rom manager but for some reason my backup won't show up and now I'm a little scared lol
have you not tried search yet. If you did search then you would have found that Rom Manger does not work with the G2X you need to use the recovery flashed from NVflash to do backups. So you have to boot into recovery by holding down vol-d + power. If you have not flash recovery from NVflash then do not do the vol-d + power or you will hard reset your phone.
Hi Guys,
I have installed paranoid android cm10 last night. I was good but gmail was force closing, so I tried to install latest version thru goo manager app. I have installed recovery which it told me to get it but once i reboot my phone into recovery its no more moving a head. all I see is teamwin wallpaper and system reboots... any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi Guys,
I have installed paranoid android cm10 last night. I was good but gmail was force closing, so I tried to install latest version thru goo manager app. I have installed recovery which it told me to get it but once i reboot my phone into recovery its no more moving a head. all I see is teamwin wallpaper and system reboots... any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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It probably didn't flash a kexec recovery. Just boot into recovery and flash a non kexec ROM ...hopefully you have one sitting on your SD card. If not your have to get one there or dd a kexec recovery with adb and reboot with the ROM you currently have installed
I guess he can't even get into recovery, as he said all he sees is wallpaper. He used TWRP recovery, which is NOT Kexec enabled. In order to flash CM, you needed to flash CWM 6.0.1.0. Now, basically your only choice is to either adb the cwm recovery, or just reflash stock using odin (easier option), flash cwm, then reinstall CM.
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I guess he can't even get into recovery, as he said all he sees is wallpaper. He used TWRP recovery, which is NOT Kexec enabled. In order to flash CM, you needed to flash CWM 6.0.1.0. Now, basically your only choice is to either adb the cwm recovery, or just reflash stock using odin (easier option), flash cwm, then reinstall CM.
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It's odd his recovery won't open I wonder if goo flashed the incorrect version.
So I flashed Paranoid-Android Jellybean and it just screwed up my phone. I had to use Odin to bring it back to stock. Now I've got it almost back to where I want it but I can't for the life of me get CWM recovery onto my phone. Its got super user on it and I can go into the CWM app and tell it to flash CWM and it says it was successful but upon booting into recovery I'm getting the Android 3e recovery with signature verification. I've tried to replace the recovery file with the modified one but if I reboot my phone it just hangs at the Samsung screen. I tried to install SGS kernel flasher as well but its failing to download/install it. Hopefully someone can point out what I'm doing wrong because I don't remember ever having this much trouble.
You can use this to get your recovery back -thanks and credit to qkster and Entropy512
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
Questions, let me know and I'll try to help.
Alright, downloaded and used that program. It went through and flashed perfectly fine and was easy to use; only issue is my recovery didn't work any better. I was able to boot into recovery but when I did it was just a scrambled mess of colors. I then used Odin to flash back and now I'm back at the Android 3e recovery again. I've tried to replace the recovery file and boot into recovery but it just hangs at the Samsung logo and if I replace the update.zip it won't flash because its not signed correctly. I've also tried to flash via Rom Manager and it says it went through and was successful and has my "latest version" set as the version I just flashed.
I'm lost as to what I'm doing wrong.
Ok- it may be a process but I am willing to help you figure this out. Once you learn, as long as you are going to be flashing roms, it will come in handy in the future. Couple of questions:
Have you used Heimdall before?
Did you also flash the kernel (Entropy's Daily Driver) in post 2?
Ok didn't even notice there was a way of installing the kernel that way. Did it and now I have a working recovery!!! Thank you so much. I've bricked my phone before but odin fixed it no problem. I'll keep this in mind next time. Saved me a lot of time.
Glad to hear this - nice work.
So. I'm sorry to say, but this phone has given the biggest headache. Here's the background:
I really only use this phone for entertainment and stuff. BUT I decided to root and unlock the bootloader, somehow or another the phone apparently lost root a few times (According to some users here) but never lost SuperUser or anything. I've never been able to flash a rom on this thing. Then a few weeks ago the phone just encountered an error of some sort and would only get to the ICS boot animation and loop over and over. I just gave up on it. Then one day I decided to play with it. I got it into fastboot and then into recovery, (Not CWM Recovery) and was able to get it all set up again. So I figured I'd give it one more shot. I downloaded CWM and downloaded recovery, and a custom rom. tried to flash through fastboot>recovery but it's still the stock recovery, not CWM recovery. So I factory resetted it etc and started from scratch. Now if I download CWM it WILL NOT download recovery. It gets about 99% of the way and tells me: "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!" If I download it from a link I can't open the file....... Someone help I just want a good JellyBean Rom. :crying:
Edit: I've Googled as much as I could stand and still haven't come across anything entirely helpful. Please explain so I could understand. Pictures help if needed lol
Anyone?
You can't use clockworkmod app to flash recovery without root.
Get the fastboot image of cwm recovery ( not the app). Or twrp. Flash it with fastboot.
Boot directly into it and flash what you want. If you boot up a stock os it overwrites the custom recovery on boot.
clockworkmod app sucks IMHO and should never be used for anything period. Not fond of the recovery itself either.