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[Q] Alternate Recovery to Load ROM

I've looked everywhere for answeres to no avail. So this is my problem, I have a mytouch 3G with out the 3.5mm jack [32B] that I rooted the easy way, Universal Androot. I went into recovery after renaming my rom update.zip, and on the recovery, clicked apply update.zip, but it said verification failed. I learned that the recovery screen i hav, the one with the triangle abd the exclamation point with the image of the phone is not the one I need, so I looked for different recovery screens. I tried ROM Manager to flash clockwork recovery, but it said an error occured while attempting to run privaledged commands, this appeared too when i tried the alternate recovery in ROM manager. Then i tried Recovery Flasher, but it said back up failed. I pressed the invisible button to skip this step, then tried flashing the recovery, flash failed. Please I need some answeres, I don't want to keep looking for more recoveries because i think that they wont flash too.

[Q] Clockwork and no backup

Howdy all, yay another newbie!
Phone is a droid 2, verizon network. I rooted it last night with the super 1click, have SU access, wireless tether and installed rom manager free version.
Flashed cwm recovery to 2.5.08, tried to backup existing rom and had an immediate reboot with no backup made. Tried repeatedly same results, reflashed cwm repeatedly same results. Tried to change the cwm recovery version, and have
2.5.08
2.5.1.4
2.5.1.3
2.5.1.1
listed. But trying to load any but 2.5.08 returns "An error occurred while downloading your recovery.
I tried going into CWM recovery through rom-manager but it immediately reboots back to normal, no recovery screen.
I entered into normal recover and tried to run the 'update.zip' which returns
E:Can't open /cacherecover/command
Install from sdcard
finding update package
opening update package
verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
installation aborted
I wiped back to factory through the normal recovery screen and started fresh and am getting exactly the same as before with everything above tried again.
I have not tried installing a new rom, don't want to go that deep until I know I can reset if needed.
Any help or other ideas? What I've been able to find by searching hasn't resolved the problem yet.

[Q] Blue recovery menu keeps appearing when trying to get into CWM?

I'm a total noob at this, but I tried to flash Serendipity onto my phone. I followed the instructions and rebooted into CWM recovery but it brings me to the blue recovery menu instead. What do I do?

Have you dealt with the 3e recovery yet? If not, you need to and the you go to reinstall packages in blue recovery and reinstall zip 2 times. Then I believe it will go to red cwm and you go to install zip and find it on your sd card and flash
Sent from a CRABThinker running Infused GB

Just making sure; which packages am I reinstalling twice? Serendipity? Because I tried that just now and both times it said "Signature verification failed. Installation aborted."

DLXII said:
Just making sure; which packages am I reinstalling twice? Serendipity? Because I tried that just now and both times it said "Signature verification failed. Installation aborted."
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Its not Serendipity you are reinstalling twice, if you are in blue CWM the first option should be "reinstall packages." You select that option twice to boot into GREEN CWM.
Honestly, you need to read up on how to do everything before you try flashing, not trying to be a douche but, it doesn't sound like you are ready to flash just yet... HERE'S an awesome link that will get you pointed in the right direction, it will save you a lot of time and headaches, trust me I've been a noob lol

Oh wow I haven't seen that yet. Thanks! will read up on this.

No problem, I found the videos pretty helpful when I first got my Infuse, check those out too.

Hm.. I couldn't find the original recovery file, but I added in the 3e recovery file in anyway.
Afterwards i booted into CWM but it still showed the same blue recovery menu. It doesn't have the "install packages" option?

can't get CWM to work.

I had my phone rooted and and a few mods installed for the past while. I didn't like them so I went back to the origional Rogers ROM. I hated it, so I wanted to try out ICS for my phone. I can't get it to install CWM though. I've tried re-rooting it (and it completed, as far as I can tell). It should still be unlocked, again, as far as I can tell.
I've followed everything on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25526643&postcount=2
I've downloaded and isntalled Superuser repeatedly
and I've downloaded and isntalled CWM repeatedly.
when I try to "fix permissions" in CWM I get An error occurred while attempting to run privaleged commands!, but at the bottom it says complete.
Then when I try to restart in recovery mode I get
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed.
and then it shows that it's restarted in Samsung's recovery mode.
any ideas?

mac_angel said:
I had my phone rooted and and a few mods installed for the past while. I didn't like them so I went back to the origional Rogers ROM. I hated it, so I wanted to try out ICS for my phone. I can't get it to install CWM though. I've tried re-rooting it (and it completed, as far as I can tell). It should still be unlocked, again, as far as I can tell.
I've followed everything on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25526643&postcount=2
I've downloaded and isntalled Superuser repeatedly
and I've downloaded and isntalled CWM repeatedly.
when I try to "fix permissions" in CWM I get An error occurred while attempting to run privaleged commands!, but at the bottom it says complete.
Then when I try to restart in recovery mode I get
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed.
and then it shows that it's restarted in Samsung's recovery mode.
any ideas?
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A couple of clarifications.
1. Rooting a phone only gives you access to root files (the OS). The superuse.apk, the su files.
2. Stock kernel do not give you the ability to flash insecure zip files. An insecure custom kernel is needed for this.
3. You don't need root to flash an insecure file in a modded cwm.
You are trying to flash an unofficial firmware or insecure *.zip with a secure stock kernel - not going to happen. There are two different ideas altogether.
To have the insecure cwm you are looking for, you need to flash the kernel on that post while in download mode.
Put your phone in DL mode. Flash the kernel then boot into modded cwm recovery

thanks for getting back to me. I had to step out to get some things before the stores closed.
doesn't Entropy's 4.4.2012 kernel do that though?

mac_angel said:
thanks for getting back to me. I had to step out to get some things before the stores closed.
doesn't Entropy's 4.4.2012 kernel do that though?
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Yes it does. But you don't have it installed.

that's the SGH_I997 Entropy 4_4_2012-One-Click-Heimdall file that runs in Java? I've downloaded that and ran in repeatedly. Keeps saying completed and reboots the phone no problem.
I'm about to reboot in Samsungs recovery mode to try to flash the CWM-Superuser Busybox Root UCLB3 file. I'll wait for your response first.

mac_angel said:
that's the SGH_I997 Entropy 4_4_2012-One-Click-Heimdall file that runs in Java? I've downloaded that and ran in repeatedly. Keeps saying completed and reboots the phone no problem.
I'm about to reboot in Samsungs recovery mode to try to flash the CWM-Superuser Busybox Root UCLB3 file. I'll wait for your response first.
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I don't remember if mac will flash the kernel correctly. If you check the CPU info and it shows entropy kernel and not the stock kernel, you should be able to boot into cwm recovery with the three finger technique. It will be a red recovery.
If cwm is blue, entropy is not installed.
If you are looking to install a different firmware, there is no need to root. Just flash the firmware you want in cwm. Chances are, the unofficial firmware is already rooted.

mac_angel was a nick I created about 18 years ago when I worked for Apple Canada. I haven't worked with a mac in God knows how long. My last IT job was IBM, lol.
Anyway, I'm not sure what happened. I went to restart in the Samsung's recovery mode again to flash with that file I mentioned and it booted in CWR. I cleared all the dev cache and everything, and flashed the ROM I had already moved over. Phone is still restarting, but it looks like I might be good. I didn't do anything from the time I first posted to now though, lol. I was about to try to flash that file and it worked. Only thing I can think of is that before I was always trying to restart the phone in CWR mode by selecting it to reboot in that mode from the application instead of the three finger salute (oh, wait, that's M$).

You got it going?

yes, thank you. Not sure if you can do it, but the thread can be closed now. Thanks for getting back to me, as well as your other great posts.

"Install aborted" when trying to flash roms?

The error message doesn't get any more specific than that.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4g, and I followed this guide to root it, using the files provided: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2256821 It seemed to work perfectly.
Then I backed up the factory (4.0.4/touchwiz) rom, used the recovery to wipe user data, cache partition, and dalvik cache, and then tried installing the stock kitkat zip. It got a little way into the process and then stopped, saying "Install aborted". It was able to boot into the stock (4.0.4/touchwiz) rom after that, so I did some googling and tried again with a version of Liquidsmooth specifically for the device. Same problem, except it said "Error 7" this time. I fixed that, tried again, and the "Error 7" message went away, but the "Install aborted" message stayed.
Now whenever I try to start it up, it boots straight into recovery mode. I tried restoring from the backup I made at the beginning, and it says "md5 mismatch". I've considered trying to flash the rom with Odin, but 1) the files aren't md5s/tars? and 2) I'm hesitant to do anything that may damage my phone further.
I've also tried googling around, with a lot of not-quite-helpful results. Any help would be amazing and highly appreciated.
Thanks!
TL;DR phone won't boot out of recovery mode, nor successfully flash any rom.

Usually there is an option to skip a md5 check when flashing from recovery. If you are confident your using a good copy of the rom, just skip the check and install.

croogrog said:
Usually there is an option to skip a md5 check when flashing from recovery. If you are confident your using a good copy of the rom, just skip the check and install.
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I think I did that, though? The "toggle verification" option, right?

if your still stuck,
I would try using odin to flash the recovery again,
then flash a "recent" recovery, (I'm using the cwm recovery 6.0.3.7)
and finally try to flash the rom (possibly including the modem and bootloader)
Good luck