So I spent the weekend working on some things, and one of them was trying to get CWM fixed up. I believe that I have all of the problems fixed, but I can only do so much testing on my own. The button mappings work, and I have been using this and similar versions (bugfixes and such added since then) for about a week now. I completely removed backup/restore as my attempt to get it to work properly didn't work, so I'm guessing something else is wrong with it than what I initially found and reported to Koush. I will try to keep this updated as updates come out for CWM as well. Flash with Odin/Heimdall
Button Mapping
Vol Up / Home - Go up
Vol Dn / Menu - Go Down
Back - Go Back
Power / Search - Select Item
Flashing Tips
Use the rear USB Ports on your computer if possible, and without a USB extension cable.
When in Download mode with the battery out, put the battery back in and uncheck Auto-Reboot in Odin. When done flashing, remove the battery and USB cable, put the battery back in and reboot - credit to jami2976
Changelog
0302
"Fix" fix_permissions - mount all partitions under mounts and storage prior to running
1209
Put fat.format back in place so restore and data wipes work properly.
1207
CWM 5.x Update
0817
Fix backup/restore
0807/0808 - Not posted
Update to the latest CWM source
Fix the fix_permissions script
0730
Using stock CWM Source
-> No more advanced options that aren't in stock CWM
0713
More updates, hopefully fixed restore problem too.
0709
Updated to the latest CWM Source
Backup/Restore has been added back
-Has had some successful testing, but no large scale testing or use so be careful for now
Odin dump function expanded
0611
Initial release
Known Issues
CWM Getting over-written by stock recovery - Flash a custom kernel or delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh
Failed to mount /sdcard error(s) - Perform the following commands with ADB:
Code:
adb shell
umount /sdcard
rm -f /sdcard
mkdir /sdcard
exit
Type each line in and press enter. Do not skip a line, or you may loose data It seems to have worked for anyone that tested and had this issue.
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Everything works for me. Thank you. I didn't test backup tho or restore
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So I spent the weekend working on some things, and one of them was trying to get CWM fixed up. I believe that I have all of the problems fixed, but it needs testing to verify. If anyone would like to try it out and see if there are any more problems, please download and flash with Odin. The button mappings work, and I have been using it for a day and flashing things and that works as well. I have not tested out backup/restore, though I did find an issue that may have been causing the problem and put in a fix, so I'm hoping that it works as well. If all goes well, we can start using this full time, or go back and look for anything else that may be causing problems.
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Vol Up/Down - Navigate through the menus
Power - Select Item
Menu/Home/Back/Search - Go Back to the previous menu
Download
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Ill test it. But first, did the people who bricked their phone ever find a way to unbrick it after trying a cwm restore?
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Ill test it. But first, did the people who bricked their phone ever find a way to unbrick it after trying a cwm restore?
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Some have and some haven't. People that are having issues can't flash the package that I put together for the fix, but others have flashed it without issue.
One thing that may also be "broken" is data wipe in CWM, as it may get stuck on deleting /sdcard/.android_secure and I'm looking for why it's doing it and how to fix it.
My data wipe is good. I'm still trying to grow a pair and backup and restore lol
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Ill test it. But first, did the people who bricked their phone ever find a way to unbrick it after trying a cwm restore?
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I was never able to get it to flash the packages unfortunately. It seems hit and miss, works for some, and not others.
Imnuts can we install this CWM any other way than Odin? I have been trying to get the Voodoo Kernel and CWM-2 installed but its an either or situation. If I install Voodoo kernel then CWM, I get a soft brick even though CWM says it passed.
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Imnuts can we install this CWM any other way than Odin? I have been trying to get the Voodoo Kernel and CWM-2 installed but its an either or situation. If I install Voodoo kernel then CWM, I get a soft brick even though CWM says it passed.
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You can flash with Heimdall as well, just extract and put recovery.bin in the proper place.
Well it doesnt work lol
1. it backsups fine it seems.
2. During restore it said it couldnt mount system but hey it formatted it
3. seemed to flash a rom but everytime i reboot it goes into cwm.
4. I was able to odin fine
nevermind im stuck in recovery now. Can i restore with odin even tho i have the voodoo lagfix enabled before cwr bricked my phone?
i got voodoo sound. what im noticing is it says its starting and finishes in seconds then back to brick
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Well it doesnt work lol
1. it backsups fine it seems.
2. During restore it said it couldnt mount system but hey it formatted it
3. seemed to flash a rom but everytime i reboot it goes into cwm.
4. I was able to odin fine
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Thanks for being the first one to test the waters....
Can someone else verify that it indeed is malfunctioning on restore?
anyone have a pit file or have been able to fix a bricked phone. Im desperate.
papi92 said:
anyone have a pit file or have been able to fix a bricked phone. Im desperate.
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try the restore fix files, couldn't hurt, considering the situation.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
thank you i hope that works. im dying
You can flash ANY Odin file to your phone regardless of what you were on and what you are flashing as long as you aren't flashing a kernel that does not understand EXT4 to your phone and you had lagfix enabled. If you are flashing a non-voodoo kernel (or one that doesn't understand ext4) make sure you are also flashing /system, /data, /cache, and /dbdata so that they get wiped out.
well my problem is i had lagfixed enabled. I flashed your cwr and i knew the risk. Know im stuck with the same problem as everyone else. lol so how do i disable lagfix? i can only get into download mode and the ed1 cwr fix isnt flashing. I still have lagfix since i never disabled before trying restoring. My backup was a rom that had the lagfix.
Thank you im fixed
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papi92 said:
well my problem is i had lagfixed enabled. I flashed your cwr and i knew the risk. Know im stuck with the same problem as everyone else. lol so how do i disable lagfix? i can only get into download mode and the ed1 cwr fix isnt flashing. I still have lagfix since i never disabled before trying restoring. My backup was a rom that had the lagfix.
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Are you getting the stock recovery screen now? and the cmdline=7 message?
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Are you getting the stock recovery screen now? and the cmdline=7 message?
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That is what he was getting. But he was able to fix w/ the help of imnuts. I'm sure he will post the steps and files to fix, whenever he gets a chance.
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After painstaking deliberation, they had reached the decision to eat gingerbread. Cautious and deliberate by nature, they opted to install stock 2.3.6 using Kies, presumably the safest choice. KB5 had been having a hard time connecting to the pc via usb with debugging active - no choice was given how to connect to pc, and Kies was not recognizing the phone. Finally bypassing the usb hub allowed Kies to recognize the device, and after a long download, a usb error message flashed up and process failed. Removed phone battery and reboot, all is well but SCREW KIES
Odin from now on
Probably the most creative thing I've seen here all night. Kudos to you my friend!
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Downloaded the stock ODIN version of GB 2.3.6 KJ6 .tar here to flash via ODIN but phone will not connect via usb at all now. I think I reverted it's firmware back to the paleolithic era somehow. Could someone share the link the newest ODIN? I have v1.85 and I think also 4.03?
Unless anyone has any ideas, looks like CWM may be my only chance. How can I upgrade firmware if the method used to update is inoperable? Whenever I go into download mode it will not connect with USB. Instead windows says
"USB Device Not Recognized
One of the USB devices attached tho this compter has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it. For help with this problem, click here."
Great bricked in a factory reset version of kb5 ugh. And this all happened because I tried to use stupid Kies!
Son of a ginger biscuit I figured out why it would not connect it was the 6 FOOT CORD I had hooked up for convenience it WILL NOT GO INTO ODIN OR KIES without the original 3' cord wow
Don't know if it was related to the Kies failure or not but now I am up and running though I cannot flash any .zip with cwm, says signature not verified, and I cannot find a toggle, I have 2.3.6 running now, rooted with super one click zerg, recovery 3e, is there a difference between "rom manager" and "cwm"?? How do I fix this I'd like to install the custom debloater .zip... upgraded from kb5
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Don't know if it was related to the Kies failure or not but now I am up and running though I cannot flash any .zip with cwm, says signature not verified, and I cannot find a toggle, I have 2.3.6 running now, rooted with super one click zerg, recovery 3e, is there a difference between "rom manager" and "cwm"?? How do I fix this I'd like to install the custom debloater .zip... upgraded from kb5
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Definitely stay away from ROM Manager, from what I've read. You're getting that signature verification error probably because the phone now has standard recovery vs. CWM. That's an assumption on my part, though. You would have to ODIN one of Drhonk's modded kernels that comes with voodoo/cwm/root to get CWM installed. Within the standard recovery there is not a place to toggle the signature verification.
Considering you're on KJ6 now, go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194032 and grab drhonk's KJ1 kernel. Put it into the PDA section of ODIN and flash it. Then you'll have CWM.
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is there a difference between "rom manager" and "cwm"??
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I had the same issue when I first started. ROM Manager is an app used to download & install custom ROMs, make backups, etc., but it does not work correctly on our phones. "CWM" (as used in the context of the SGS4G) is the custom recovery menu we install to do basically the same things. Anyway, follow stephen_w's instructions to install a custom kernel and that will solve your issues.
Awesome response stephen_w. A link! So much info out there I'm compiling a small database but when I need something it's usually back to search!
I was up and running KJ6, trying to install .zip files from root of sd card using cwm. Did not work - error was E:\ signature verification failed
So, decide to ODIN back to KB5, and try to load cwm, upgrade via cwm, and see if there was a glitch there. Did not work. Upon ODINING back to KB5, download screen has different look, and phone bootloops at Galaxy S logo. I'm about to ODIN flash 2.3.6 again and hope that it works....
This all started because Kies failed (presumably due to length of cord) the KJ6 from Raver that I ODIN'd in I THOUGHT was all stock actually came with CWM and super user preloaded. CWM did not recognize su.apk in the root and was therefore less functional. I fixed permissions and the error went away, but many icons were still greyed out. I wanted to bring back my apps/data from rom manager backup, but my recovery would not work. It would not open the .zip files, and there was no toggle to enable/disable signature verify. This may have been because I did not buy the pay version of CWM, or I don't know how to use it properly. Do you have to somehow flash the recovery to enable CWM? Is there a particular recovery designed for KJ6 SGS4G??
Also, what is the "bootloader update" option for in ODIN?
Farlander said:
Awesome response stephen_w. A link! So much info out there I'm compiling a small database but when I need something it's usually back to search!
I was up and running KJ6, trying to install .zip files from root of sd card using cwm. Did not work - error was E:\ signature verification failed
So, decide to ODIN back to KB5, and try to load cwm, upgrade via cwm, and see if there was a glitch there. Did not work. Upon ODINING back to KB5, download screen has different look, and phone bootloops at Galaxy S logo. I'm about to ODIN flash 2.3.6 again and hope that it works....
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Weird; I've not had the signature verification error with CWM, only with the standard recovery.
When you went back to KB5 you went from a Gingerbread (GB) ROM to a Froyo ROM. Froyo & GB require different boot loaders so if the ROM you flashed did not have both boot loaders, then you get stuck in a boot loop. Going back to KJ6 will probably get you going again.
This all started because Kies failed (presumably due to length of cord) the KJ6 from Raver that I ODIN'd in I THOUGHT was all stock actually came with CWM and super user preloaded. CWM did not recognize su.apk in the root and was therefore less functional. I fixed permissions and the error went away, but many icons were still greyed out.
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I thought Raver's ODIN version of KJ6 was pure stock. I didn't think it had CWM or Superuser.
I wanted to bring back my apps/data from rom manager backup, but my recovery would not work.
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You might have problems recovering to GB ROMs. This is due to an error in CWM for GB. The problem prevents the /system partition from unmounting. From what I've been told, you have to flash back to a Froyo ROM, like Bali, to do the recovery then flash back to the GB ROM afterward. Not sure if that's your problem here, though, as I've never used ROM Manager.
It would not open the .zip files, and there was no toggle to enable/disable signature verify. This may have been because I did not buy the pay version of CWM, or I don't know how to use it properly. Do you have to somehow flash the recovery to enable CWM? Is there a particular recovery designed for KJ6 SGS4G??
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I've never paid for a version of CWM. I've always used one of drhonk's modded kernels to get CWM. Installing the KJ1 kernel I mentioned earlier should do that for you.
Also, what is the "bootloader update" option for in ODIN?
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My best ODIN advice: Let ODIN decide what needs to be checked and what should not. I've not used the "Phone Bootloader Update" feature. Don't go anywhere near the "Phone EFS Clear", either. I've a feeling that would wipe out your IMEI and other things.
See if you can get Raver's ODIN Stock KJ6 to install, then install drhonk's KJ1 kernel. Once done, reboot into recovery mode and see if it is CWM Red recovery, which is should be. Note the version number at the top and report it back here.
If all of that works well and the right version of CWM is there, then maybe we need to examine what ZIP you're trying to flash. Maybe it's a corrupt file.
Thank you very much, succesfully flashed GB 2.3.6 KJ6, succesfully flashed Drhonks KJ1, had a hard time entering recovery boot mode
RECOVERY BOOT MODE 3 BUTTON SGS4G 959V
HOLD: vol up, vol dn, power
RELEASE: power
RELEASE: vol up, vol dn
Disabled voodoo and I'm about to load up busy box, (CWM i.e. rom manager???) per the instructions......
UPDATE 20:02 ownloaded "rom manager", re-enabled VOODOO, rebooting. I think I get what's going on here. The file system is being reformatted / partitioned every time voodoo is enabled/disabled. I'm assuming the enabled mode is ext4 partitioning. However, cwm must be installed during fat32 mode, thus the reasoning for enable/disable voodoo. Can't wait to try this out, is it really faster than stock KJ6?? Love the look and feel of the rom already!
Farlander said:
Thank you very much, succesfully flashed GB 2.3.6 KJ6, succesfully flashed Drhonks KJ1, had a hard time entering recovery boot mode
RECOVERY BOOT MODE 3 BUTTON SGS4G 959V
HOLD: vol up, vol dn, power
RELEASE: power
RELEASE: vol up, vol dn
Disabled voodoo and I'm about to load up busy box, (CWM i.e. rom manager???) per the instructions......
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Yeah, since being on GB I've been unable to get into recovery unless I use an app like Quick Boot or using ADB from the Android SDK.
Rom Manager and CWM, to my knowledge, are different animals. Good luck getting it going; it sounds like your 95% of the way there.
Heck yea workin good now to restore those apps I lost and debloat and play with boot animations!!!
UPDATE: Just also flashed via CWM .zip the debloater file, SWEET
Bloatware remover flashed with cwm works awesome, just browse to find the .zip doesn't even need to be in root dir
So far no noticeable deficiencies and without even installing app killer I have 165 used and 343 megs of ram free!!
I'm about to try to backup progs using rom manager, but when I click "backup/restore" it tells me I have to flash clockwork mod, which I'm pretty sure is already flashed??
Farlander said:
Heck yea workin good now to restore those apps I lost and debloat and play with boot animations!!!
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Awesome, glad you got it working
MY PHONE IS NOW ALL THAT IS PERFECT
Thank you EVERYBODY
This took me about 2 weeks of 3-4 hours a day research and thumb work
now operating
2.3.6 KJ6 GB w/
KJ1 drhonk stock + voodoo + cwm
debloater.zip
Titanium Backup to restore all apps (adfree, app killer, etc. etc.)
Icons and background are gone but no bigggy
mine got unplugged in odin download screen can anyone help?
Andrew.80 said:
mine got unplugged in odin download screen can anyone help?
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That blows. Does ODIN recognize it when you plug it back in? If so, just reflash.
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When in doubt take the battery out! (to dinner)
UPDATE: I want to make a total phone backup (of all my current settings) using rom manager. When I go to "backup current ROM" it says cwm needs to be installed and gives me options for several phones, including the i9000. Should I do this even though cwm red is already installed on my phone? Need a workaround here...
thanks in advance
Farlander said:
When in doubt take the battery out! (to dinner)
UPDATE: I want to make a total phone backup (of all my current settings) using rom manager. When I go to "backup current ROM" it says cwm needs to be installed and gives me options for several phones, including the i9000. Should I do this even though cwm red is already installed on my phone? Need a workaround here...
thanks in advance
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ROM manager doesn't work on the SGS4G. Your best bet right now is titanium backup, or flashing the bali kernel for 2.2 if you want to make a full backup using cwm recovery.
stephen_w said:
Definitely stay away from ROM Manager
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ultimakillz said:
ROM Manager is an app used to download & install custom ROMs, make backups, etc., but it does not work correctly on our phones.
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FBis251 said:
ROM manager doesn't work on the SGS4G.
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Man, this should really be posted somewhere.
stephen_w said:
That blows. Does ODIN recognize it when you plug it back in? If so, just reflash.
That fixed it
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I tried to flash a aokp rom and before flashing made a back up. Now when I flashed the rom and rebooted the phone im stuck at samsung boot. I can get into recovery. At first it was a messed up recovery i tried to get to an old rom and reinstalled inimitable on reboot still stuck at samsung but can get into red recovery. Backup when reinstalling says cant mount system/! please help me asap I cant do anything I need my phone I am in panic mode.
Have tried reflashing The ROM again...or if you just want to go back to stock see my signature for links to the one click method
...btw your in the wrong section to post this...
The OP for aokp does state to flash twice...did you?...first time with wipes, then you can pull battery ...go back to cwm and reflash...again.
going back to stock is your way. clear all that crap out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
Post one to stock.....
Post two to put cwm back on....
Read with detail...the thread I provided....
Your probably going to need to go back to stock, but just so you know, flashing any ICS rom while on Gingerbread bootloaders will get you a "Messed up recovery" You'd have to flash ICS bootloaders, but doing that means you can't flash any non ICS roms, I personally still have a rainbowed recovery on the off chance I want to flash GB rom.
soulysephiroth said:
Your probably going to need to go back to stock, but just so you know, flashing any ICS rom while on Gingerbread bootloaders will get you a "Messed up recovery" You'd have to flash ICS bootloaders, but doing that means you can't flash any non ICS roms, I personally still have a rainbowed recovery on the off chance I want to flash GB rom.
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We have no ics boot loaders...froyo boot loaders make the recovery look funky...gingerbread boot loaders fix that problem and can be used with froyo, gingerbread and ics ...not trying to be rude or a jerk just informing you
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Actually the "messed up" or rainbow recovery is from the lack of gingerbread boot loaders, just figured this out this morning when I attempted to flash aokp uniporn. Once I did the heimdall one click with bootloaders checked (gingerbread boot loaders) I was able to successfully flash the aokp rom and recovery works perfectly. Its really better not to reply when one does not know what they are talking about oh and I was still able to reflash a gingerbread rom as well although I probably won't go back to gingerbread again since aokp is the **** and runs super smooth
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Please move this thread from the Development Section.
edit- Thanks for moving it.
Sorry about posting so quickly in wrong section. I just know the guys who post in here are pros. I used heimdall and everything is back to stock, no superuser. Should that be right, am I now not rooted? I havent tried to boot into recovery, but I think I have it still. Can I just follow root methods if I want to go back to root? Thanks again.
I my experiences, I've noticed our phones use a form of "Cumulative" Upgrade system, where You have to essentially go from Froyo to GB to ICS or things go haywire when you actually start using your ICS Rom..
I've tried using Heimdall to flash back to stock, but it doesn't seem to fix all my files from time to time, so I still use GTGs Ultimate Unbrick, and once it starts up as you're in Recovery Mode do a Factory Reset/Wipe Cache Partitions, it helps with not having the "Google Authentication Failed".
It's a long process from start to finish either way, so i figure save yourself the hassle for the long run and wipe it fresh...
I used heimdall without clicking the GB bootloaders checkbox. Upon reboot after sucessfully flashing everything, my phone shows the rainbow color thing then boots normally. I have no seen any issues other than that, however I only got it back up and running about an hour ago. I will see as the day progresses what happens. I just would like to know where I go from here to reacquire root priveleges. When I try to boot into recovery with the button combo I get a rainbow colored screen and nothing else showing, should I re-run heimdall with gb bootloaders box checked?
IME, one flash will lock on Samsung logo, 3 finger back to recovery, wipe everything, flash the rom again and flash the gapps and it would have been fine...
I have that happen everytime I have flashed an AOKP ics..it always works out fine..
Those instructions are in most of the OP's...
Its very important to read that and have an understanding of what exact steps there are before you just start flashing away...
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IME, one flash will lock on Samsung logo, 3 finger back to recovery, wipe everything, flash the rom again and flash the gapps and it would have been fine...
I have that happen everytime I have flashed an AOKP ics..it always works out fine..
Those instructions are in most of the OP's...
Its very important to read that and have an understanding of what exact steps there are before you just start flashing away...
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Upon flashing the first time i did reboot into recovery but it was so buggy i couldnt see what to select. I am back to non rooted stock i believe now but when trying to get to recovery it just hangs on a rainbow like screen.
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Upon flashing the first time i did reboot into recovery but it was so buggy i couldnt see what to select. I am back to non rooted stock i believe now but when trying to get to recovery it just hangs on a rainbow like screen.
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I would use the one click heimell run it twice on the 2nd time check the box for bootloaders....
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I would use the one click heimell run it twice on the 2nd time check the box for bootloaders....
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It actually doesnt allow me to select it. The box is "greyed" out yet says phone connected and ready.
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It actually doesnt allow me to select it. The box is "greyed" out yet says phone connected and ready.
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Aft your 1st flash...dont close program...but put your phone back into download mode again and then it should allow you to check the box...then..
You probably can't mount until you format system, data, and cache. I had this issue before as well, Go to mounts and storage and Format system, data, and cache and then try mounting again.
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You probably can't mount until you format system, data, and cache. I had this issue before as well, Go to mounts and storage and Format system, data, and cache and then try mounting again.
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Can't access recovery, it just shows a full rainbow screen.
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Can't access recovery, it just shows a full rainbow screen.
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my suggestion is do the method i mentioned..
Dont want to muck up the CM7 thread and no thread was started.
FB Im wondering if twrp is fully wiping when you run the wipe option. I used the kj6 heimdall one-click to get back from a bad flash. However once I finally was able to get everything set back up I had restored some apps through Titanium Backup, but only app no data. Amazon app store was one and I had to delete the backup and uninstall the app, reboot clear cache and then re-install it to get it to work. The theme chooser app was fcing on me until I did the same thing.
After I did this I applied a theme apk that borked me. I was stuck on the team acid logo. No boot loop just stuck. I then one clicked to kj6 again, then used antonx kernel one click. Made a new backup of my efs, wiped everything including boot img. Flashed the twrpcm7 zip and followed the directions to finish.
I know anything is possible but is it likely that twrp is seeing something not wiped in the bml to mtd conversion and its causing conflicts?
If your not comfortable with the possibility of bricking your phone do not follow my steps and format everything. Formatting boot has the possibility to brick your device.
Hmm, well /data isn't getting wiped in R11. Bryan submitted a patch for updater.sh that should take care of this though I haven't tested it. I haven't tested a BML->MTD (cm7-twrp) flash though, but I'll have to look into it in the next few days. I'm running a rom build right now, so I'll probably test that out tonight.
I didn't wipe anything, I just flashed the twrp boot.img. I am running Team Kick Asses MIUI Revenge (MTD). After I flashed and the phone booted, wifi would not turn on, and it said error underneath the button. Pulled a logcat but all it said was wifi failed to initialize. Is that error due to the fact I didn't wipe anything or factory reset/fix perms?
Either way, it is super sweet recovery!
Max says its a driver issue. Ill find the post and link it.
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The reason wifi didn't work is because the wifi module needed to be from the same kernel build. I'm not sure how FB built the two builds, so I don't know if he included a module from a different kernel build or not.
Try the R11B with TWRP and then install R11(not B) with inject TWRP enabled.
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Now that you have twrp make a cwm zip for the r11 kernel, flash it via twrp and leave the "inject twrp" option enabled. You should get working wifi and twrp
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Like I said on cm thread the wifi module is different from the one Max used on his new boot.img which is why twrp and the new boot.img doesn't work with the current miui build ...the first release of dianxin os had the new boot.img fb sent me and that was the wifi issue.
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I flashed miui on with twrp doing a wipe firs and it installed miui fine, with wifi and everything seems to be fully functional. Just to be safe I wanted to test out twrp on miui, however the only way I could get to it was volume up+down+ power. But that loads it right up, and I flashed a few different modems to see which gave me the best signal, and it worked each time. Btw, nice work fb twrp is great.
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Which modems did you flash? If the modem flash DID work you should be able to go into Settings > About Phone and check under baseband version. I'm not sure if that's the exact menu on MIUI but there should be something very similar.
I just flashed kg4 and that's what it says under baseband version, I flashed kd1 earlier and that's what it said before I just flashed kg4. Just to make sure it was working. I think it says t959vuvkg4 or something to that effect, it definately just changed though from kd1
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Hey guys just a progress report on this. I've been messing with a twrp injection cwm zip all evening. After some discussion with bhundven, the way we're going to go about this is to NOT include twrp by default in cm7. It's been really hard to get a working copy compiled and included with cm7 and if we can't do this automatically there's no point to doing it at all.
The CWM zip will (hopefully) allow us to give you the option of using TWRP even if you're using CWM at the moment. The benefits are the following:
You won't need to mess around with kernel features that don't work (wifi was broken, ffc was broken)
You only really need to inject twrp once via CWM since twrp comes with an inject option before you flash a CM7 update.
It'll make it easier on us since we'll have less releases and thus have to provide less support.
At the moment I'm trying to have something for you guys tonight, but the chances are slim for that happening.
FB
For some reason TWRP can't Flash Zip file like Mtd modem kd1. I try to make a nandroid bk and didn't work. Also I try to save error logs on sd card didn't work.
My english is not the best, sorry
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Please post the logs here.
What errors did you get when trying to flash the kd1 modem or make the nandroid backup? I've tried making and restoring a nandroid backup using CM7 R11 with twrp injected by the zip and it's worked fine for me.
What rom/kernel combination are you using?
Error: Unable to open zip file
I try nandroid backup again and for some reason did work but wasn't working.
Am using CM7 R11B & CWM TWRP
Everyting else is working good thanks!!!!
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Ok so yesterday I received a cappy from someone on here that I told them I would try and fix. I am not charging them anything and am actually paying shipping back to them. When I received it and turned it on it was stuck at the end of the cornkernel bootlogo. I thought hey this will be easy and flashed the heimdall version of I897UCKK4 Stock, Wipe, with options to install Bootloaders, Param,and Re-partition-One-Click. Phone rebooted and is now stuck at the att logo. So I flash cornkernel, its stuck at the end of cornkernel bootup. So I decided on a whim to try and flash this kernel Devil3_1.1.3_HB_cappy_CFS_BLN_VC_20120807, luckily that got me into recovery, so I did a full backup of all the stuff on his internal storage and completely wiped the phone, wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, format boot, format system, format sdcard, format cache, format data, format datadata (yes I know I wiped some things twice) . Then I flashed my rom, it just reboots to recovery after the flash, still reboots after a reflash of the rom. I then wiped everything again and tried flashing CM9's latest nightly to see if I could get it to boot up. Still reboots to recovery. So far all together I have flashed I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low-designgears, i897uckk4 Odin One Click CONTAINS Bootloaders, Re-partition, Full Wipe, I897UCKF1_withBL,SGH-I897_I897UCKJ3, KK4-SE-One-Click, JF6 With Bootloaders, SamsungCaptivate-SGHi897-UCKB2-Rooted-One-Click Followed By I897UCKK4 Stock, Wipe, with options to install Bootloaders, Param,and Re-partition-One-Click both are heimdall. All of those either left it stuck at att or kernel screen after I flashed a kernel. Anyone got any ideas? I am almost to my wits end.
Try the Odin version of this... Stock KK4 one click...it will do ya a full wipe and repartition for sure.
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4-2ndtwin said:
Try the Odin version of this... Stock KK4 one click...it will do ya a full wipe and repartition for sure.
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Already have that is my go to file actually and I tried that before going the heimdall route. Thanks Anyways.
You should try the Rogers stock gingerbread with boot loaders. Worked for me when I was using the AT&T and not getting past recovery...
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You should try the Rogers stock gingerbread with boot loaders. Worked for me when I was using the AT&T and not getting past recovery...
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Thanks for the idea. It didn't work tho. I am still at the same spot, phone keeps rebooting to recovery.
have to wonder,,has the phone had the EU bug? might try flashing the rom with datadata ( I believe thats it) on the external sd
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have to wonder,,has the phone had the EU bug? might try flashing the rom with datadata ( I believe thats it) on the external sd
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Not that I know of, It isn't my phone so I do not know the history other than him saying it didn't boot past the kernel screen and receiving it and seeing that and then what I have done. Normally the sd card data from what I have seen is wiped when the eu bug happens from what I have read, maybe I am wrong, but since I backed up his data off the sdcard that is why I do not believe it has had the eu bug.
Anyone have any more ideas, I tried the EU Bug Instructions @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303&page=85 Replacing the vold.fstab in the rom and also flashing it with CWM without luck. I am still stuck with it rebooting to recovery. I am still waiting on him to tell me his address again so I can mail it back to him since at this point I am lost. I told him MobileTechVideos would more than likely be his best shot at getting it fixed though.
cbalt said:
Anyone have any more ideas, I tried the EU Bug Instructions @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303&page=85 Replacing the vold.fstab in the rom and also flashing it with CWM without luck. I am still stuck with it rebooting to recovery. I am still waiting on him to tell me his address again so I can mail it back to him since at this point I am lost. I told him MobileTechVideos would more than likely be his best shot at getting it fixed though.
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Long story short, recovery is iffy at best for me. I went through something similar to this when trying to go from CM10 back to CM9 for the first time. Ever since then recovery has not been right.
What I did was
Install a stock one-click with bootloaders, used odin to flash speedmod kernel and then used that recovery to flash CM9 in three successions wiping everything each time. Somehow it took, and now I am no longer a crack flasher because I have the same kernel splash screen problem every time.
So,
Use this http://www.mediafire.com/?5rcofbzusoor6mv
PDA button in Odin3 1.7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=566807&d=1302623831
Boot into recovery.
Flash your ROM
Wipe /system, /data, and dalvik.
reboot recovery.
Flash again.
Wipe /system, /data, and dalvik.
reboot recovery.
Flash again.
Try to boot normally.
Thanks for the idea, but it's a no go, Phone just stops at Galaxy S SGH-I897 Kernel Screen. I can't even get to recovery. Only way I have got to recovery with this phone was flashing an ICS kernel.
There is a place that has rogers stock roms
cbalt said:
Thanks for the idea, but it's a no go, Phone just stops at Galaxy S SGH-I897 Kernel Screen. I can't even get to recovery. Only way I have got to recovery with this phone was flashing an ICS kernel.
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There is a place that has rogers stock Roms the one click Odin's back to 2.2 is my go to for all problems the i can't get to recovery. I know you said you tried rogers stock roms but try the one-clicks for some reason they have always saved me. It will re-install everything and you will be on stock recovery if it works but from there its easy to get CWM and your on your way
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There is a place that has rogers stock Roms the one click Odin's back to 2.2 is my go to for all problems the i can't get to recovery. I know you said you tried rogers stock roms but try the one-clicks for some reason they have always saved me. It will re-install everything and you will be on stock recovery if it works but from there its easy to get CWM and your on your way
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I have already tried all three of the Rogers One Clicks with none of them actually doing anything more than the Captivate One Clicks, It still doesn't boot past the first screen. Thanks for the input though.
You've been using a one click with 2.3.3 bootloaders, they're are 2.3.5 bootloaders available that have solved certain peoples sleepdeath issues, including mine. I've done this procedure on several captivates to take them from mangled and non-bootable to latest bootloaders and working recovery to flash whatever rom I need to from there on.
Use this one click that includes the 2.3.5 bootloaders - http://fohdeesha.com/data/other/android/i897uckk4 with latest BL.zip
After that goes through and you have stock gingerbead, use this odin package to flash the included devil kernel package, that will give you the latest CWM recovery
http://fohdeesha.com/data/other/android/uckk4 CWM recovery.zip
After that, if you still can't boot into recovery, you have a hardware issue
edit: looks like you already did this more or less.......try it once more in this order? Then once you do this and boot into recovery, flash a rom and see if it will work
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You've been using a one click with 2.3.3 bootloaders, they're are 2.3.5 bootloaders available that have solved certain peoples sleepdeath issues, including mine. I've done this procedure on several captivates to take them from mangled and non-bootable to latest bootloaders and working recovery to flash whatever rom I need to from there on.
Use this one click that includes the 2.3.5 bootloaders - http://fohdeesha.com/data/other/android/i897uckk4 with latest BL.zip
After that goes through and you have stock gingerbead, use this odin package to flash the included devil kernel package, that will give you the latest CWM recovery
http://fohdeesha.com/data/other/android/uckk4 CWM recovery.zip
After that, if you still can't boot into recovery, you have a hardware issue
edit: looks like you already did this more or less.......try it once more in this order? Then once you do this and boot into recovery, flash a rom and see if it will work
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I'm going to do your steps again which is more or less what I have already done. I am waiting to hear back from the person so I can ship him the phone back and he can send it to MTV or someone or just junk it, its his phone and his choice. At this point I would say it needs Jtag or Unbrickable mod + repair. Although I am still trying ideas of mine and anyone elses lol.
EDIT: Still A No Go. Doesn't Boot Past ATT Screen After Flashing The Odin 1 Click, After Flashing Kernel then wiping and flashing rom, it just reboots to recovery
Well if the one clicks are successfully writing primary and secondary bootloaders and it's still not working, a jtag isn't going to do anything else. It almost sounds like the memory has a few corrupt blocks, but I can't say until you flash 2.3.5 BL's and see what happens
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EDIT: Still A No Go. Doesn't Boot Past ATT Screen After Flashing The Odin 1 Click, After Flashing Kernel then wiping and flashing rom, it just reboots to recovery
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Oh jeez looks like the memory is failing then
RESOLVED
This is 4th brick and i normally know how to fix it but this time i cant fix it
Ok so one day my phone was acting up it wouldn't turn on
I flashed repartioned and flashed csc/phone/froyo from hawk (ODIN) - everything was ok
Then i flashed gingerbread (odin)- phone turned on everything worked
Afterwards i rooted it (super one click)- it worked
got sgs kernel flasher
Flashed antonx kernel for gb
when i tried to install cm9 it didnt work i checked logs and got this (im using cmr 6.0.1.2)
I: Cant partition unsafe device: /dev/block/mmcb1k0p
I:Cant format unknown volume :/external_sd
I: cant format unknown volume: /emmc
Any ideas?
Also i was trying to do this
flash froyo + everything from hawk
Flash gingerbread
root
get sgs kernel flasher
flash kernel
install cm9
install cm10
restore my cm10 backup
That's a lot of steps that aren't needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498 2nd post, eollie's one click to stock.
1)Run that, you have stock GB, root, and CWM all in 1 click.
2)Reboot to recovery, wipe and install CM9
3)Profit??
Ill try that
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That's a lot of steps that aren't needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498 2nd post, eollie's one click to stock.
1)Run that, you have stock GB, root, and CWM all in 1 click.
2)Reboot to recovery, wipe and install CM9
3)Profit??
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Thanks for the quick reply ill try that
What CM where you trying to install? Are phone doesn't use /emmc or /external_sd. That's why it failing. Wrong zip from the wrong phone. Look under your battery and tell us what the model number says before you go any further and end up with a true brick.
cmr
... after i installed antonx's kernel i tried to install cyanogen mod 9 and i was using the recovery included in that
And yes i know what phone i have.. sgs4g (sgh-t959v)
What Cm9? It's trying to write to partitions that this phone doesn't use. Link the ROM please.
link
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730954
That's really weird that your getting those errors. We don't use emmc or external_sd. Heimdall will get you set back up but I've never seen ANYONE in all the time I have had this phone report that error. That's why I was trying to make sure you had the right phone and ROM before you went any further.
now what?
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That's really weird that your getting those errors. We don't use emmc or external_sd. Heimdall will get you set back up but I've never seen ANYONE in all the time I have had this phone report that error. That's why I was trying to make sure you had the right phone and ROM before you went any further.
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Ok so im back onto stock 2.3.6 and rooted... what kernel do i install? oh yea and hermdal doesnt want to work something net framework isnt installing (keeps on failing) and ive tried downloading it from microsoft too
Well, since antons didn't seem to work for you, flash the other one. lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828171
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how do i go from stock to mtd rom? (im on the "other one" i have a 32 gig sd card with EVERY single rom on that list, every kernel, every modem so basicly i dont have to download them)
before i just installed it through cmr but is that right?
I want to go from stock to cyanogen mod 9 MTD
Im creating a backup right now incase i mess up later
That's will work as long as the recovery is CWM 5.x or later. You used to have to flash CM7 first but I'm pretty sure Team Acid fixed it in the new CM9 build. Just check the MD5 of that zip you where trying to flash. Those errors are very strange and I'm thinking you might have accidentally gotten the wrong CM9.
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That's will work as long as the recovery is CWM 5.x or later. You used to have to flash CM7 first but I'm pretty sure Team Acid fixed it in the new CM9 build. Just check the MD5 of that zip you where trying to flash. Those errors are very strange and I'm thinking you might have accidentally gotten the wrong CM9.
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Ok im installing..
Also if this works can i just restore my cm10 backup? or do i have to install cm 10 then the backup?
You can try to restore it. If it's the same version of CWM that you backed up from it should work. Just do all the wipes including system and data before you restore. If that doesn't work for some reason just flash CM10 than do an advanced restore of data only.
Works
ok it works... cid kinda scares me
I guess im going to restore my cm10 backup then...
And thanks for all the help
wow i have to wait five minutes between posts that sucks
restore
got an err when trying to restore E:/format_volume: format_rfs_decive failed on system
Guess im going to install cm10 then restore
What an exciting day... i went from froyo to gingerbread to ics and now to jb
Ahh
Ok so i found out that when i flashed kc1 to kc6 on odin i left the repartiton checked... so some files were missing and i guess that was the problem... what is phone efs clear on odin again? isnt it have to do with something with celluar communications
ok everything is back to normal (except a few apps) And thanks for helping out!
Some apps don't restore. Like xda for example. If I restore a backup it will say app not installed. When I reDL it from Play all my settings are still there though. So it's saving the cache and not the app. I've never really cared enough to look into it. lol