[Q] Two CWM Versions running simultaneously - Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]

I've been searching the forums and haven't found a similar thread, so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I've already posted in my device's forum, but haven't had any detailed feedback.
I'll try to keep it short. I flashed CWM build 3.1.0.1 (Purple) on my phone months ago in order to install a ROM. Recently installed a suggested kernel that comes with CWM 3.0.2.5 (Orange) built in. I was told it wouldn't interfere/overwrite with my previous Purple build. Yesterday, however, my phone froze, and when I pulled the battery and rebooted, the phone booted into the Orange clockwork, which I thought I wouldn't see. While here I cannot boot my system. Instead, I had to pull battery, manually enter CWM and doing so enters me into Purple CM, which allows me to boot my system. I have no idea if this is a real problem or not, and I am wondering if I should just Odin reset my phone and flash everything again. Any advice is surely appreciated. Thanks in advanced.
I apologize in advanced if this doesn't belong here or if this has been covered elsewhere. As I said, tried but didn't find anything, and I worry for my phone's health :3

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[Q] Need help with rooting 3g (have read the how to)

Hey guys I really need your help, my phone has been down for the past 3 days now. I followed this guide:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133&page=2. I will state that I am new to the forum so I cannot post on the actual how to, due to rules, or I would have. Basically i have made it all the way thru the guide, to the point where it tells me to:
- press MENU to power off! (do not reboot)
- hold HOME and POWER to boot into recovery mode
- apply update
once I reach there I have no way of resetting the phone so I just pulled battery after it said the cyanogenmod was installed from sdcard. I flashed the splash.nb, but now all that happens is my phone loads up the MyTouch 3g screen freezes for a few min then restarts and goes back into Android System Recovery screen. I really need your help and would be forever great-full if someone could lend me a hand. I will check back regularly.
Thank you very much ahead of time for whoever lends me a hand.
Troubled Guy With Non Working Phone
OP here
Come on guys someone has to have had this problem before. Even if you are sending me to another link who has dealt with this before it will still be a help.
First of all, I'm not familiar with your phone. But I will try to give you a few ideas and see if any of it works for you.
If you have a recovery installed and you have flashed Cyanogenmod, then you are rooted. I'm not sure how your recovery works, but you should have to use the volume buttons & power button to navigate recovery - or something similar. If you can get into recovery, you should be fine.
Go to the wipe menu and wipe cache/dalvik cache. If these weren't wiped properly before flashing, this could be the culprit. There should be an option to reboot, you may have to choose go back a couple times to find it. If that doesn't work, try flashing a different rom. You'll need to wipe everything in recovery (except the SD card) first, then choose "flash zip from SD card".
If your battery is almost dead, don't try flashing anything, just wipe. You'll need to get an external charger or a full battery before flashing anything.
Again, I don't know how your phone works, I have an Evo & pretty much just treated your post as such. It's a start, though. If you can give me more info, I can try to help further.
I also just noticed this is an old method for an old version of the phone. You do have the phone this was made for, correct? Have you tried sending a pm to the OP?
There is most likely an easier, newer way to root, but what's done is done. It also seems like it may be using Amon Ra recovery? If that's the case, that's the recovery I use so I can help you out there. You may also want to look at how to unroot and get your phone back to stock, then start over. I'm going in to work, but if you post back I'll try to help you out as soon as I get the chance.

[Q] HELP Phone not booting anymore, no recovery

Hello everyone, I just got my Inspire 3 days ago, rooted yesterday with the bubby232 simple one click root. Today I attempted to flash CM7 onto it, so I followed the instructions in development forum but after going into recovery, the screen stayed black. I hit power, and first time it rebooted normally. I went back and tried the backup again, and now my phone doesn't boot at all
I can get into HBOOT, but recovery doesn't do anything, it just gives me the black screen. I do have S-OFF.
Any help? I apologize ahead of time if there was another thread like this, I didn't find it.
there is actually about 20 or more threads like this, browse through general you will find a thread I have posted, Called cwm blackscreen? look here before posting.
Please use the search feature next time, it will save you time and get you answers quicker.
serialk11r said:
Hello everyone, I just got my Inspire 3 days ago, rooted yesterday with the bubby232 simple one click root. Today I attempted to flash CM7 onto it, so I followed the instructions in development forum but after going into recovery, the screen stayed black. I hit power, and first time it rebooted normally. I went back and tried the backup again, and now my phone doesn't boot at all
I can get into HBOOT, but recovery doesn't do anything, it just gives me the black screen. I do have S-OFF.
Any help? I apologize ahead of time if there was another thread like this, I didn't find it.
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Please do a search for something before you start new threads.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019868

[Q] The CWM is booting from power off and wall-charger

Before I continue, I would first like to note that I did find a few similar threads that reflected my problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=859801
In this thread, the poster describes the exact same problem I have, mainly, that my rooted phone with CWM, when powered fully off and plugged into the wall, boots directly into CWM (my phone turns of the screen after a second or so, and in order for me to get it back to normal, I just have to reboot my system back into my AT&T Gingy stock). The "power off" function also does not work, because it powers the device completely off... Only to boot CWM again. The final poster on that aforementioned thread links this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10230011&postcount=13
Where I did check my phone and noted that my USB Connection type is, in fact, "charge only". Thus, I have no idea what is going wrong.
I'm not totally worried about this, since I can still boot into the OS and a fully-function CWM through ROMmanager, and charge to the best of the phone's ability, but I would like to fully charge without wasting energy on the phone's standby. When I first starting reading about this bug, I noticed the posts were from 2010, and my CWM was flashed by the AAHK, which I imagine has a newer version of CWM (just checked and mine is 5.0.2.7).
Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
FK
Tyflashkid said:
Before I continue, I would first like to note that I did find a few similar threads that reflected my problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=859801
In this thread, the poster describes the exact same problem I have, mainly, that my rooted phone with CWM, when powered fully off and plugged into the wall, boots directly into CWM (my phone turns of the screen after a second or so, and in order for me to get it back to normal, I just have to reboot my system back into my AT&T Gingy stock). The "power off" function also does not work, because it powers the device completely off... Only to boot CWM again. The final poster on that aforementioned thread links this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10230011&postcount=13
Where I did check my phone and noted that my USB Connection type is, in fact, "charge only". Thus, I have no idea what is going wrong.
I'm not totally worried about this, since I can still boot into the OS and a fully-function CWM through ROMmanager, and charge to the best of the phone's ability, but I would like to fully charge without wasting energy on the phone's standby. When I first starting reading about this bug, I noticed the posts were from 2010, and my CWM was flashed by the AAHK, which I imagine has a newer version of CWM (just checked and mine is 5.0.2.7).
Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?
FK
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I had the same problem and as best I can tell is that it seems to be a CWM bug. Try installing 4EXT instead of CWM. 4EXT has full touch capability so it is nice if you use recovery a lot. And the nice part is that you lose none of your CWM backups because it utilizes the same folder for saving and retrieving nandroids.
http://4ext.net/ to get the free version but it is also on Google Play store. On Play it is not free but it is not expensive and worth supporting the dev.
Please post all questions in the Q & A section. Thanks! Thread moved.
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[Solved][Q] Broken boot?

Hello,
Recently (about two weeks ago) a friend of mine accidentally dropped his Galaxy Ace Plus into his toilet,
after he got it out, the phone was still on, but when he turned it off it wouldn't start up anymore.
I offered to have a look at the thing, although he already bought a new phone last week. Today he handed his Ace Plus over to me, and I mentioned that it still give a vibrate-feedback when trying to turn it on. I also found out the phone could still open in Download mode, and later I found the shortcut to the recovery (although stock's recovery has very limited options). When I went out of recovery the phone somehow started.
I went home and flashed the stock firmware of the phone (also flashed CWM and rooted the device to make some backups of data to move to his new phone), but now when I turn it off, it will still not start up when using the power button. And again, when I go to recovery and reboot the phone that way, it DOES start up).
My guess is that somehow the boot (partition?) is messed up.
I tried everything that's in my knowledge of Android 2.* phones (I've got an Sony 4.0 ICS phone myself, it works quite a bit different). I can't find a way to fix it myself, so I turned to this forums in the hope that one of you guys could help me fix his phone.
Regards, Drago
ALSO: to add, does flashing kernels work the same on these phones? Like, via fastboot with command line? I might want to try to re-flash stock kernel, hoping it fixes the boot.
Dragoboss said:
Hello,
Recently (about two weeks ago) a friend of mine accidentally dropped his Galaxy Ace Plus into his toilet,
after he got it out, the phone was still on, but when he turned it off it wouldn't start up anymore.
I offered to have a look at the thing, although he already bought a new phone last week. Today he handed his Ace Plus over to me, and I mentioned that it still give a vibrate-feedback when trying to turn it on. I also found out the phone could still open in Download mode, and later I found the shortcut to the recovery (although stock's recovery has very limited options). When I went out of recovery the phone somehow started.
I went home and flashed the stock firmware of the phone (also flashed CWM and rooted the device to make some backups of data to move to his new phone), but now when I turn it off, it will still not start up when using the power button. And again, when I go to recovery and reboot the phone that way, it DOES start up).
My guess is that somehow the boot (partition?) is messed up.
I tried everything that's in my knowledge of Android 2.* phones (I've got an Sony 4.0 ICS phone myself, it works quite a bit different). I can't find a way to fix it myself, so I turned to this forums in the hope that one of you guys could help me fix his phone.
Regards, Drago
ALSO: to add, does flashing kernels work the same on these phones? Like, via fastboot with command line? I might want to try to re-flash stock kernel, hoping it fixes the boot.
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Try flashing some custom rom in recovery mode.
or try flashing stock rom using Jtag.
If nothing works then you should go to service center.
kk9999gada said:
Try flashing some custom rom in recovery mode.
or try flashing stock rom using Jtag.
If nothing works then you should go to service center.
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Thank you, the first method indeed solved the problems.
I flashed the "Slimbean" ROM that has actually been released today, haha.
After that I restored a CWM Nandroid backup I created before flashing the ROM. The phone now starts normally.
Thank you very much.
Regards, Drago

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500

Hello Everybody!
I would like to kindly ask you for some help regarding my Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500 phone. The phone has been locked in a network and further more, in the last months has experienced the autorestart issue. I have read other threads here (before posting this one) and I have seen that other people experience the phone vibrating and continuing to restart in the first two screens. Also, if battery had been taken out, when putting it back in the phone would restart.
After reading the possible solutions here, I have hoped that installing a new ROM on the phone might solve this problem. I have also installed the CWM-based recovery and I believe I have managed to root it. (I am not an expert, but I have managed to root before two Samsung phones after the instructions given here - everything worked flawlessly).
However, yesterday, after obtaining a successful install screen from the version Inspiration_Rom_V18_Kitkat_Edition.zip downloade from this forum, I am stuck with my phone in the CWM-based Recovery v.5.0.2.8 screen. I have tried to install other ROM stable versions from the forum but I seem not to be able to get rid of this screen.
Might I want to add that the phone escaped the former rebooting issue, the battery and the power button seem to work fine now. For example I can shut the phone down, I can restart it, if I take the battery out and put it back in, it will not automatically start. Is there still hope? Have i bricked it?
Please advise and excuse me if I have written anything stupid,
Vlad
[email protected]
mingul said:
Hello Everybody!
I would like to kindly ask you for some help regarding my Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500 phone. The phone has been locked in a network and further more, in the last months has experienced the autorestart issue. I have read other threads here (before posting this one) and I have seen that other people experience the phone vibrating and continuing to restart in the first two screens. Also, if battery had been taken out, when putting it back in the phone would restart.
After reading the possible solutions here, I have hoped that installing a new ROM on the phone might solve this problem. I have also installed the CWM-based recovery and I believe I have managed to root it. (I am not an expert, but I have managed to root before two Samsung phones after the instructions given here - everything worked flawlessly).
However, yesterday, after obtaining a successful install screen from the version Inspiration_Rom_V18_Kitkat_Edition.zip downloade from this forum, I am stuck with my phone in the CWM-based Recovery v.5.0.2.8 screen. I have tried to install other ROM stable versions from the forum but I seem not to be able to get rid of this screen.
Might I want to add that the phone escaped the former rebooting issue, the battery and the power button seem to work fine now. For example I can shut the phone down, I can restart it, if I take the battery out and put it back in, it will not automatically start. Is there still hope? Have i bricked it?
Please advise and excuse me if I have written anything stupid,
Vlad
[email protected]
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Flash CWM again using ODIN or Flash TWRP (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-ace-plus/development/twrp-2-7-00-recommended-recovery-cm11-t3073271)
or
Flash Stock ROM
Success!
kk9999gada said:
Flash CWM again using ODIN or Flash TWRP (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-ace-plus/development/twrp-2-7-00-recommended-recovery-cm11-t3073271)
or
Flash Stock ROM
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Thanks so much! Succeeded! I have access to my phone again and it is rooted.
However, I did not get rid of the VODAFONE ROMANIAN NETWORK LOCK.
Can I also do this at home?

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