So I flashed clockwork when rooting and renamed the script that always reverted to the stock recovery. I could always access clockwork from the bootloader.
However I just started using rom manager. Since it made me flash the recovery again I can't access clockwork from the bootloader. Can someone offer me advice on what to do to remedy this? I want to be able to access recovery no matter what.
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fchipm said:
So I flashed clockwork when rooting and renamed the script that always reverted to the stock recovery. I could always access clockwork from the bootloader.
However I just started using rom manager. Since it made me flash the recovery again I can't access clockwork from the bootloader. Can someone offer me advice on what to do to remedy this? I want to be able to access recovery no matter what.
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If you can't access recovery from the bootloader you probably need to flash it again from within rom manager. That happened to me once and a reflash of recovery worked.
Power button and volume up to access with phone off to get in.
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I just bought this phone yesterday and it is the i9020t (AWS version). The phone function works fine but every so often every application fails and gives an error asking to report it. I cannot manage to change the screen lock, it just comes back after reset. I only managed to remove it once. Also I cannot reset it no matter what I do, whether it is from settings or from the recovery menu. All data seems impossible to remove. How is this happening?
So Far:
-I got the boot loader unlocked (does this mean it is rooted yet?), failed to install superboot.zip
-Got the adb setup with using only part of the sdk files
(http://esausilva.com/2010/10/02/how-to-set-up-adb-android-debug-bridge-in-mac-osx/)
Now I have tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884093
I can't get clockworkmod on here, I don't even know what it is exactly.
I believe I need to flash the phone onto stock firmware, the current seems corrupt as I can't do any changes such as password or wipe data.
More info on phone:
Android version: 2.3.4; Baseband version: I9020XXKD1; Kernel version: 2.6.35.7-ge382d80 [email protected]#1; Build number: GRJ22;
BTW I am on Mac OS X but can access a PC if I really have to.
Anything else I need to provide?
Doesn't sound like an odd behaving phone, just that you weren't very prepared for the rooting process.
If your bootloader is unlocked you need to flash a custom recovery such as clockworkmod or twrp. To do this you will use the fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img after you have flashed the recovery you can either flash a new rom or flash the superuser.zip to achieve root on the stock rom.
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He said weeny hah but other than that he's right
Rem3Dy said:
Doesn't sound like an odd behaving phone, just that you weeny very prepared for the rooting process.
If your bootloader is unlocked you need to flash a custom recovery such as clockworkmod or twrp. To do this you will use the fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img after you have flashed the recovery you can either flash a new rom or flash the superuser.zip to achieve root on the stock rom.
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sinik420 said:
He said weeny hah but other than that he's right
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Rem3Dy said:
Doesn't sound like an odd behaving phone, just that you weren't very prepared for the rooting process.
If your bootloader is unlocked you need to flash a custom recovery such as clockworkmod or twrp. To do this you will use the fastboot flash recovery nameofrecovery.img after you have flashed the recovery you can either flash a new rom or flash the superuser.zip to achieve root on the stock rom.
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It was a messed up phone. Returned it. Nothing would write onto sdcard. Which explains why it would not allow many functions that require data retention.
So I'm helping my friend root his 4g slide (Having lots of experience doing this for the last year) but here's my problem. Everytime i go into recovery and install the new rom. On the reboot it begins to load up the new rom, then flashes over to the old stock rom. No matter how many times i do it or with different roms this happens. And when the stock rom loads i do not have root access, however recovery stays installed. I'm dumfounded by this and have searched as best i can with little results on this issue. Anyone have any Idea's?
You have Clockwork Recovery, but no root access on your Stock Rom. What I can think of is...
1) Your only Temp Rooted
2) Your S-On
3) You did all the rooting steps, but forgot to flash the Superuser Zip with Root access on it.
4) If you flash a ROM, but when it reboots your on the Stock DS Rom. Your S is on. This stops you from over writing the System. It does a check against the System to make sure that it's running the Stock Rom.
Just simply get S-Off. Very easy. Freevo is only a Temp Root. Revolutionary is the S-Off. You have to flash the SU Zip for full root access. This is all I can think of.
Try formatting system under mounts and storage in recovery.
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Under was right. The boot showed it as s off with the s off boot version, wiping the system fixed it. Thank you very Mich gentleman.
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Long time Galaxy Nexus user and I just received my S3 yesterday in the mail!
Of course I couldn't wait to root and unlock it using the very helpful thread RootDebug, EZ-Unlock11 and EZ-Recovery2.2. Via Odin I then flashed the latest CWM 6.0.1.2. At that point I attempted to flash via CWM the Unofficial CM10 JB Rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788443). Everything seemed to go just fine but it hung at boot up for 20 minutes. In my haste to play I did not clear the cache which could have been the reason. At that point I pulled the battery and rebooted only to get the infamous message to take my phone to a VZW dealer. After countless trouble free flashes I suppose it was bound to happen at some point.
So via the recovery thread I loaded VRALEC, VRALF, and stock.vwx.root66.tar from the SoftBrick thread to get back up and running. Now however I cannot reflash CWM via Odin. It always fails and on my phone it says "secure check fail : recovery".
I rebooted the phone, computer, and otherwise havent changed anything.
Suggestions to get CWM back on my phone?
Thanks!
J
I did not see that you unlocked the bootloader.
Assuming you performed the Soft Brick guide successfully, what happens when you boot into the rom and download EZ Recovery and flash CWM? You mention flashing CWM only through Odin in your post.
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I did not see that you unlocked the bootloader.
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Sorry, Bootloader was/is unlocked on this phone
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What happens when you boot into the rom and download EZ Recovery and flash CWM?
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I can boot into CWM 6.0.1.0 via the EZ recovery app
I did get a message i've never seen before upon exit of CWM. "ROM may flash stock recovery on boot. Fix?" I selected Yes - Disable recovery flash
Thanks again for your input!
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That message only has bearing if your running the stock rom. Custom rom's will not flash original recovery. Choosing yes or no only matters on stock, will not make any changes on a custom rom
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you can always try to flash the new cwm thru ez recovery. Just take the recovery zip and save it to your SD card then go to ex recovery and select custom then select your path to the zip you put on your SD card and flash then reboot and it should have flashed the new cwm without even using Odin. Also make sure you have ez unlock installed and unlocked just to make sure the boot loader is unlocked. Better to be safe than sorry.
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I'm a tech savvy person in general. When it comes to rooting phones though, I just follow directions without fully understanding what it is that I'm doing. I understand what root access allows me to do, but I don't understand how I did it.
So, I have the Verizon Galaxy S3. In August, before there was an official way to flash roms, I followed instructions that had me root and install EZ-Recovery in order to boot into recovery mode and run a custom rom that way. I've been doing that ever since. Now that a rom can be flashed officially, I would like to do that, so I don't have to boot into recovery.
The problem is that I haven't been able to find instructions on how to undo booting into recovery. Is it as simple as just booting normally? or is there something special I need to do?
Also, I like the way my phone is set up, is there a way to back it up as is, and then reinstall it exactly how I have it. Does Titanium backup do that?
Sorry for what I assume are newbie questions. I had a hard time finding answers simply by searching. It is entirely possible I'm using the wrong keywords.
TLR, I'm booting a custom rom through recovery, but would like to use a custom rom properly
INFO: Using EZ-Recovery app and flashed CWM 6.0.1.0 running Bean's Custom Stock rom
Thanks for any info!
First to backup exactly how you are boot into recovery select backup and restore then select backup.
Second, I'm not sure what you mean by officially run a ROM the only way I know is to flash it in recovery. What ROM are you wanting to install?
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kintwofan said:
I'm not sure what you mean by officially run a ROM the only way I know is to flash it in recovery. What ROM are you wanting to install?
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Right now, my phone boots into a recovery mode menu and I have a bunch of options. I have to choose "reboot" in order to get to my phone/rom. I would like to be able to just turn on my phone and have it go into the rom.
Thanks for the reply.
peteyboy100 said:
Right now, my phone boots into a recovery mode menu and I have a bunch of options. I have to choose "reboot" in order to get to my phone/rom. I would like to be able to just turn on my phone and have it go into the rom.
Thanks for the reply.
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Weird and it does that by just holding the power button? Never heard of that, maybe some one a little smarter then me can answer that.y answer would be to Odin to stock then reroot, unlock, etc and flash the ROM again and do an advanced restore of just your data (assuming you flash beans again)
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Is it possible to do a factory reset and start from scratch that way?
If I'm reading this correctly he's still using flash method before the boot loader was unlocked. Id say the best way of going about this is to back up the ROM you're running reset the phone to stock reroot/unlock the boot loader then flash your recovery of choice and restore your ROM. I hope this helps!!
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If I'm reading this correctly he's still using flash method before the boot loader was unlocked.
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This is exactly correct. Is there a correct way to undo that? And/or is there a tutorial to do that?
dtoye said:
Id say the best way of going about this is to back up the ROM you're running reset the phone to stock reroot/unlock the boot loader then flash your recovery of choice and restore your ROM. I hope this helps!!
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I tried going back to stock by doing a factory reset, but that simply reset the ROM to scratch. I feel like there is an easy answer, I just don't know what to search for.
Thanks again for the suggestions and help!
Here is an "everything" guide. Use it to Odin back to complete stock, root, unlock bootloader, flash recovery, and etc.
Should cover everything you need to know:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
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Thank you so much for the link.!!! This was exactly what I needed.
Background: I am still on ICS 4.0.4 rooted and unlocked (atleast ez unlock says im unlocked and i have superuser and voodoo says im still rooted) .
However, when I try to flash a custom recovery , ROM manager gets stuck at 100 % and closes. I have also tried installing a custom recovery via EZ recovery, and it says its flashed. However, when I boot into recovery mode, all i see is the stock recovery. So I am not sure what is going on. Do you guys have any idea?
If your still on ICS try selecting an older recovery? Some newer versions are not meant for ICS anymore I believe ...
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I recall a similar issue I had due to the bootchain...not sure if that would apply here or not though
I was reading somewhere that samsung devices auto -overwrite a flashed recovery and change it back to stock. I am not sure how to combat this issue , or whether this affects anyone else?
You could try flashing a recovery through odin, that might give a different result. I think when you boot straight into recovery mode from download mode after flashing it might ask you to disable the phone from auto restoring the stock recovery.
I could be wrong though, it seems that's a common thing that happens when rooting a 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 base. However, flashing only the recovery file should still work for an ics base too. Just make sure it's a tar file, not an img file for the custom recovery for use in odin.
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