Just up graded to SGS4G. Got rooted OK. Installed Titanium backup and backuped system and data good. got Rom manager installed and clockworkmod 2.5.1.2 OK. when I try to "Backup Current Rom" system restarts, I see a blue text on top a android man bellow with a triangle with a ! inside, two lines of yellow text and it won't go into option for nandroid backup. I have the four options on top in blue but does not go into mounting external SD. AnY thoughts??
Yeah, I have a thought alright. Other than my first thought, my second would be that there is no CWM for T959V yet.
That is correct. No CWM at this time. Patience, I am sure they are working hard to get this device included soon.
aloneinshadow said:
Yeah, I have a thought alright. Other than my first thought, my second would be that there is no CWM for T959V yet.
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You're right, I am new to this cell phone business, about three weeks with android. I have lots of I.T. experience and I know how to read. Thanks for your comments.
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So I finally got my wife to trust me the other night and went for it. All I did was install clockwork mod then root by installing Imoseyon's v.4.0 Kernel. This allowed me to keep all her data and use the voodoo lagfix as it has helped a few other friends phones that I have rooted.All was well till the following day when she complained her phone froze several times and needed a battery pull to restart. So being the compulsive person I am I had her go into voodoo control and uncheck the enable lagfix box. Once restarted she was unable to open any app that was on the SD card. They were just grayed out as if they werent even there. Now she is very unhappy.
I have tried to access the backup I created in CWM before i messed with anything. I get an error. Next I tried flashing the recovery files found here on XDA. Then restore back up. Still an error. So now i have flashe Tweakstock which works but she wants the phone back to stock. I tinker with my phones and friends phones constantly and can usually figure things out when they go wrong but I am really lost here. Any and all help is greatly appriciated.
This is the link for the root method I used: http://www.chargeforums.com/forum/droid-charge-hacking-guides/1264-how-root-your-droid-charge.html
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So I finally got my wife to trust me the other night and went for it. All I did was install clockwork mod then root by installing Imoseyon's v.4.0 Kernel. This allowed me to keep all her data and use the voodoo lagfix as it has helped a few other friends phones that I have rooted.All was well till the following day when she complained her phone froze several times and needed a battery pull to restart. So being the compulsive person I am I had her go into voodoo control and uncheck the enable lagfix box. Once restarted she was unable to open any app that was on the SD card. They were just grayed out as if they werent even there. Now she is very unhappy.
I have tried to access the backup I created in CWM before i messed with anything. I get an error. Next I tried flashing the recovery files found here on XDA. Then restore back up. Still an error. So now i have flashe Tweakstock which works but she wants the phone back to stock. I tinker with my phones and friends phones constantly and can usually figure things out when they go wrong but I am really lost here. Any and all help is greatly appriciated.
This is the link for the root method I used: http://www.chargeforums.com/forum/droid-charge-hacking-guides/1264-how-root-your-droid-charge.html
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Which version of CWM did you use?
5.0.2.7 I think, its blue and has a dancing banana in the backround.
In cwm, go to backup/restore, advance, and just restore data
Yes I've had bad luck with that version of cwm. I would try first using the 0817 cwm release to restore the backup. If that doesn't work, i would extract the tar files using 7zip or something similar on your pc, grabbing the files you need, and pushing them back to the proper locations.
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In cwm, go to backup/restore, advance, and just restore data
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That would fail for the same reason.
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nismology said:
Yes I've had bad luck with that version of cwm. I would try first using the 0817 cwm release to restore the backup. If that doesn't work, i would extract the tar files using 7zip or something similar on your pc, grabbing the files you need, and pushing them back to the proper locations.
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Intall in PDA, right? Nothing else with it and while on TweakStock ROM? She will be home in about an hour with her phone. Ill let you know how it goes.
Agree on 0817 CWM
I have to agree I had no luck trying to use CMW 5, I tried it several times with the same results. CWM 0817 worked perfect and have used it multiple times.
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Intall in PDA, right? Nothing else with it and while on TweakStock ROM? She will be home in about an hour with her phone. Ill let you know how it goes.
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Correct. Place it in PDA and flash it.
It can be found here: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/189-recoveryclockwork-mod-recovery/
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So i flashed the 0817 version of CWM. All is well but it still wont restore. I have double checked and everything is in the clockwork folder on the sd card. How do I manually flash them using ODIN? Is this even possible?
So i will be a little more clear with what files I have in the backup folder. There is:
.android_secure.vfat
boot.img
cache.rfs
data.rfs
datadata.rfs
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.rfs
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So i flashed the 0817 version of CWM. All is well but it still wont restore. I have double checked and everything is in the clockwork folder on the sd card. How do I manually flash them using ODIN? Is this even possible?
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Have you try to restore just data? Make sure you mount all your /data before try it. when you select restore did you see your old backup? Also what sms app you used, stock?
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Have you try to restore just data? Make sure you mount all your /data before try it. when you select restore did you see your old backup? Also what sms app you used, stock?
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Didnt work. I do see my old backup and stock sms.
First of all, which cwm did you make your backup in? If it was orange then you have to restore with orange cwm. If it was blue then make sure you have the newest version of it. The older ones had problems with restores.
If it doesn't work then you might be out of luck. Maybe you had the old blue cwm and the underlying problem was that it made bad backups but restored good backups fine? I don't really know then.
I have had zero problems with the newest cwm by the way.
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Well thanks everyone. I think im just out of luck. I went back to stock using the directions at the top of the Charge development section and now when I sign into the market on my computer to push some apps to the phone, it doesnt recognize it. Any clue here?
can you download apps from the market from your phone? If not try boot into cwm and do the following:
1. mount /system, /data etc.. all of them. Once done they should all displayed unmount in front of all.
2. wipe factory/data, cache, davik cache.
4. reboot and sign in with google account then try to download from the market.
To sort of finish the CWM question, CWM 4.X and CWM 5.X do backups differently. Thats why there are problems with restoring with the wrong one.
With that said, sometimes backups don't work.
Also, you flashed the wrong kernel. Imo4.0 is made for EP4P, not the current OTA for the charge, which is EP4D. Imnuts 0130 PBJ Kernel is the only one made for the Gingerbread OTA.
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can you download apps from the market from your phone? If not try boot into cwm and do the following:
1. mount /system, /data etc.. all of them. Once done they should all displayed unmount in front of all.
2. wipe factory/data, cache, davik cache.
4. reboot and sign in with google account then try to download from the market.
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I can get to it from the phone and im already back to stock. Just when I log on from my desktop it says there is no android phone attached to the account or something like that.
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To sort of finish the CWM question, CWM 4.X and CWM 5.X do backups differently. Thats why there are problems with restoring with the wrong one.
With that said, sometimes backups don't work.
Also, you flashed the wrong kernel. Imo4.0 is made for EP4P, not the current OTA for the charge, which is EP4D. Imnuts 0130 PBJ Kernel is the only one made for the Gingerbread OTA.
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Thanks ninja I just wish I had that info about an hour ago. The way I read it I was good with Imo4. Guess I should stick to messing with my Rezound.
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I don't have any problems with imo 4 except bass boost in voodoo sound. I am on ep4d stock deodexed. ep4d and ep4p are nearly identical...
I can backup and restore on orange cwm perfectly.
You might as well take the opportunity to trick out her phone. Besides, what are u gonna lose besides text messages?
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I was running CM10 for about a week and decided to switch over to Synergy ROM. I backed up, wiped data/cache/system/dalvik and installed Synergy. When I went to reboot the phone from recovery, it says "ROM may flash stock recovery on boot. Fix?"
I just select no and it boots just fine. But should I select "YES - Disable recovery flash"?
I don't know if I would select yes. That might just bring you to stock recovery. I would download EZ recovery and make sure you flash one of those recoveries? I have never seen this before so maybe someone a bit more knowledagle than I would be able to tell you something I don't know about.
Current~Samsung Galaxy S3 SynergyRom 1.3 & Imo's Lean Kernel v12 Oc'd @ 1.9ghz
~Acer Iconia A500 Stock
Past~Droid X Gummy ICS 1.2
what you did is correct.
I did flash a new recovery with EZ Recovery, but it still showed up, which is why I asked the question here.
If it only showed up once, no big deal, I'll select "no" and that's the end of it. But, it seems to be showing up every time I flash something.
Also, I don't wanna start another thread, but my backups are showing up with messed up dates. It's like the recovery clock is wrong. My backups are dated with January, 1970. How do I fix that?
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Also, I don't wanna start another thread, but my backups are showing up with messed up dates. It's like the recovery clock is wrong. My backups are dated with January, 1970. How do I fix that?
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That is a known bug, don't worry about it.
Mine does the same thing, but the backups restore just fine. I have done 3-4 system restores from the BU's dated 1970 & the restores worked perfectly.
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That is a known bug, don't worry about it.
Mine does the same thing, but the backups restore just fine. I have done 3-4 system restores from the BU's dated 1970 & the restores worked perfectly.
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Yea, I've restored just fine too. I just name the backups right away with the correct date. Just wondering if there was a fix for that.
I'm thinking about switching from cwm to twrp cause my cwm backups are taking up way too much room on my phone. I heard twrp doesn't use as much space.
My question is will my backups made in cwm work with twrp or do I need to make new ones. I have the stock TW backup from when I first rooted that is like to keep.
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I'm pretty sure you'll have to make new ones. Just the fact that TWRP's are smaller than CWM's would lead me to believe they use a whole different system of backing up.
I've only ever used CWM tho, so I dunno, may be possible. Stranger things than that have happened.
I was able to do a few searches and confirmed they are different. No biggie. I never got back to my stock one anyways. I can always Odin if things **** the bed!!
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What I did was load my stock backup with CWM, then flashed TWRP and made a backup. Then I flashed CWM again and loaded my most recent backup (or any other backups you want) followed by flashing TWRP and making another backup. Its extra steps, but doing so allows you to bring your old backups to TWRP.
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What I did was load my stock backup with CWM, then flashed TWRP and made a backup. Then I flashed CWM again and loaded my most recent backup (or any other backups you want) followed by flashing TWRP and making another backup. Its extra steps, but doing so allows you to bring your old backups to TWRP.
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+1. Only way to do it regardless of device. Just use EZ-Recovery and GooManager to swap recoveries back and forth.
Thanks for the replies. I ended up installing twrp, made a backup on my external SD and then copies it onto my PC in case something should happen. Deleted all my cwm files and freed up like 3.5 GB of storage!!
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Differences?
I'm thinking about switching too. I loved CMW and Rom manager for my Droid Inc. but they don't have any rom updates any more. I'm not sorry I bought the pro app at the time but feel like it's pretty useless now.
I'm curious what are the advantages, especially with the vzw gs3, with using TWRP. Are there any reasons not to switch?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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I'm thinking about switching too. I loved CMW and Rom manager for my Droid Inc. but they don't have any rom updates any more. I'm not sorry I bought the pro app at the time but feel like it's pretty useless now.
I'm curious what are the advantages, especially with the vzw gs3, with using TWRP. Are there any reasons not to switch?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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I used CWM and Rom Manager with my Droid X, but now I use TWRP with my S3. The differences feel minimal, to me at least, and navigation and UI were very easy to pick up coming from CWM. The only problem I have had with TWRP is that my backups get automatically named with a date in the 1970s.... I think there is a fix for this now, however.
You mean CWM names them with the wrong date. TWRP you can choose your name.
If you dont opt to name it yourself and let it use a default name, it will still have the improper date like in CWM.
i have made maybe six nandroids in the past two weeks, and pretty much only two of them actually restore properly within TWRP. the other four will go through the motions but generally take only between 90-120 seconds, whereas the two that work will take 180+ seconds to restore.
i don't get an error from the four that don't restore (it says "success!" or whatever), but when i go to reboot system, it says i have no OS installed. does anyone know what's going on with this? i did not change the naming convention of the folders, nor did i create the nandroid backups any differently on any of them.
actually, one of the four will reboot but not get past the Samsung Galaxy SIII screen, before rebooting back into TWRP. not sure what's going on with that one either.
any thoughts are most appreciated. thanks!
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i have made maybe six nandroids in the past two weeks, and pretty much only two of them actually restore properly within TWRP. the other four will go through the motions but generally take only between 90-120 seconds, whereas the two that work will take 180+ seconds to restore.
i don't get an error from the four that don't restore (it says "success!" or whatever), but when i go to reboot system, it says i have no OS installed. does anyone know what's going on with this? i did not change the naming convention of the folders, nor did i create the nandroid backups any differently on any of them.
actually, one of the four will reboot but not get past the Samsung Galaxy SIII screen, before rebooting back into TWRP. not sure what's going on with that one either.
any thoughts are most appreciated. thanks!
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Try cwm, I don't know about twrp, but that never happened to me on cwm.
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Try cwm, I don't know about twrp, but that never happened to me on cwm.
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is it okay to just flash CWM over TWRP in ODIN?
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is it okay to just flash CWM over TWRP in ODIN?
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I don't think there would be any problems, but I think just follow the instructions on cwm thread should be fine.
hey guys
Currently have a rooted SCH-I535 on MD3. I used CWM to root along with Odin. Can you guys guide me on updating to latest verizon update?
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hey guys
Currently have a rooted SCH-I535 on MD3. I used CWM to root along with Odin. Can you guys guide me on updating to latest verizon update?
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I just did mine yesterday...It's easy, you already did the hard part. Look in the development section for http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42792139 and download the Odex or De-Odex ROM. Verify the MD5 to make sure you got a good download and move it to the root of your SD card. Power off and reboot into recovery then perform a nandroid backup. Next "wipe/factory reset" the phone and finally "install zip from SD card" the Stock Rooted I535VRBMF1.zip file. The last thing you might want to do is flash the modem/firmware VRBMF1 also from recovery.
Before you start to panic the flashing of the ROM went surprisingly fast but on 1st boot the Verizon deal with the flashing circles was going for what seemed like five minutes for me until the OS finally came up. Everything is working great. You don't loose any personal data just downloaded apps and app data. You could back that stuff up but I wanted to start fresh and clean so I reinstalled most of my apps from the market. There is even a pretty good video someone added towards the end of the thread if you are a visual person
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I just did mine yesterday...It's easy, you already did the hard part. Look in the development section for http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42792139 and download the Odex or De-Odex ROM. Verify the MD5 to make sure you got a good download and move it to the root of your SD card. Power off and reboot into recovery then perform a nandroid backup. Next "wipe/factory reset" the phone and finally "install zip from SD card" the Stock Rooted I535VRBMF1.zip file. The last thing you might want to do is flash the modem/firmware VRBMF1 also from recovery.
Before you start to panic the flashing of the ROM went surprisingly fast but on 1st boot the Verizon deal with the flashing circles was going for what seemed like five minutes for me until the OS finally came up. Everything is working great. You don't loose any personal data just downloaded apps and app data. You could back that stuff up but I wanted to start fresh and clean so I reinstalled most of my apps from the market. There is even a pretty good video someone added towards the end of the thread if you are a visual person
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Thanks it worked!