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Is there a way to flash back to stock recovery

I know about nvflash but it seems rather risky and complicated, is there a way to just flash a .zip from cwm to get stock recovery?
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Crimton said:
I know about nvflash but it seems rather risky and complicated, is there a way to just flash a .zip from cwm to get stock recovery?
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I hope so, that is why I immediately did a backup of the original rom as soon as I installed Clockworksmod.

jfholijr said:
I hope so, that is why I immediately did a backup of the original rom as soon as I installed Clockworksmod.
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hope so see that soon

Flash to vanilla stock - see the FAQ area (in my sig) for links.
I flashed the lasted stock via clockworkmod and it actually flashed recovery, as well. So it should get you to a 100% vanilla setup.

CWM Recovery

OK so we know the bionics bootstrap recovery doesn't work. I was messing around with Rom manager and flashed the bionics recovery and was successful. Recovery version 5.0.2.5. Then I booted into recovery from Rom manager and performed a successful backup! Gonna hold out on flashing the backup right now but I'm hoping someone that knows a lot more then me will look into this also and see what they think about it and can we possibly use everything without fearing a bricked device .

i successfully created a backup using the bionic bootstrap recovery, but im leery of trying to do a restore without having an sbf handy

Well I got brave and clicked the restore button using the bionic bootstrap recovery. I have 20+ days left to return the phone if anything went wrong. I backed up using the recovery, then clicked restore. Everything restored perfectly. I did not choose wipe data though, as I didn't think it would matter. Just thought I would add that bit of information. Hope this helps guys.
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I just used CWM 5.0.2.5 to restore the system backup I made before updating, and indeed it worked fine. I'm back down to 55.11.16 android 2.3.5 (from 55.13.16 - 2.3.6) with seemingly no ill effects. IIRC, I made this system image with the bionic bootstrap recovery app.

Im still on 55.11.16 android 2.3.5 also, I know using Rom manager to make a backup took a lot longer then what I was used to on my OG. Just went through a restore with no seemingly ill effects. Has anyone tried flashing a zip yet? Just glad we seemingly have a recovery that is working.

my vivid will be here in the next day or 2. once i have that, i will risk the Atrix2 and start working on a rom.

Oh no Pirate your switching over to the HTC Vivid? I have been looking at the reviews on that device and it looks as thick as my A2 with the defender otterbox. I'm going to kick my cat if people start abandoning ship on the A2, bummer!
Awesome work on getting CWM to backup and restore. I would love to see some custom roms being dumped onto this device.
Nice! Recovery loads up smoothly on rom manager. This could get interesting...

If your bootloader is not unlocked be very careful as to what you flash!
Try a theme or something that does not affect kernals,
Just my thoughts
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Pirateghost said:
my vivid will be here in the next day or 2. once i have that, i will risk the Atrix2 and start working on a rom.
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I still have 20 days to be a guinea pig LoL

If you really feel like being a ginuea pig you should try flashing the zip from this thread. It's a few posts down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331644
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marko! said:
If you really feel like being a ginuea pig you should try flashing the zip from this thread. It's a few posts down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331644
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i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state

I dont see any zip in that thread? Are you referring to the system.img.zip pirateghost posted? That was in the recovery thread?

Pirateghost said:
i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
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Thanks for the heads up!!

I'm unable to reapply the patch up to 55.13.15
Code:
contents of partition "boot" didn't match MTD:boot:8388608:9651a551679347926bb7589bb4b57d8dea357cb4:8388608:b56beaeb976b10b86cdbd38e87024ab16fe1197f
I've supposedly restored the boot partition with cwm, oh well.
This is probably to be expected. I'm guessing I can only get the stock boot partition back with a proper fxz flash to stock...
edit: I don't think cwm is even saving a boot image. I don't see one in any of my backups.
Makes me wonder what it's doing when I restore boot

JRW 28 said:
I dont see any zip in that thread? Are you referring to the system.img.zip pirateghost posted? That was in the recovery thread?
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he was talking about this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19033826&postcount=7

Just because I'm willing to try things doesn't mean I'm willing to knowingly brick my phone.
Thanks PG!!

Oddly enough it was the Bionic recovery installed from Mod Manager is what I had installed when I bricked my phone.

Pirateghost said:
i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
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well thhats good to know !

does any flashing work with cwm? ie flash files to system? i can see nandroid not working, but simple flashing should.

svtfmook said:
does any flashing work with cwm? ie flash files to system? i can see nandroid not working, but simple flashing should.
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No. I built several zip files to flash and cwm nor the bionic bootstrap worked.
I think we may have to wait for the official cwm release, with our device in it.
Jim
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[Q] rooting questions, device drivers etc..

so i finally decide to grow a pair and root.... how ever when i try to install device drivers it says program unexpectily quit and closes however when i open odin i get a yellow box on teh top that says com something.. i am asuming that is what i need to see in order to see the flash works properly.. second just want to flash a stock rooted rom do a backup and then flash gummy charged newest version with kernal how do i go about doing this want to make sure my i are dotted t's are crossed etc...

bfitzpatrickd2d said:
so i finally decide to grow a pair and root.... how ever when i try to install device drivers it says program unexpectily quit and closes however when i open odin i get a yellow box on teh top that says com something.. i am asuming that is what i need to see in order to see the flash works properly.. second just want to flash a stock rooted rom do a backup and then flash gummy charged newest version with kernal how do i go about doing this want to make sure my i are dotted t's are crossed etc...
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sounds like it's connecting fine.. and you described it right, flash the stock rom in Odin first and boot up to make sure it works or do some minor set-up, then flash the latest 8/17 CWM in Odin and immediately boot into it after, make the backup then flash whatever rom/kernel you want (Gummy 2.0 has one included and will enable voodoo lagfix on first boot)
not that hard once you do it once or twice and kinda learn how it all works and whatnot

do you. mind shooting me a download. link. of stock rom and cwm what about kernals do I need to. flash a kernal or is. that included in stock. rom as well as gummy charged
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what about wiping sd card want to do a clean wipe that is a safe thing as long I format as fat 32 correct?
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bfitzpatrickd2d said:
do you. mind shooting me a download. link. of stock rom and cwm what about kernals do I need to. flash a kernal or is. that included in stock. rom as well as gummy charged
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CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804
Stock (though not the latest as Gummy is based off the slightly older EP1W)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1260214
Gummy 2.0/2.1
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/5643-romep1wcwmgummycharged-gbe-21-10242011/
GB Voodoo Lagfix Kernel (I'd recommend version 3.0.0+)
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/3426-kernel-gb-imoseyon-kernel-stock-repacked-v400-11611/
and no the stock rom does not include a custom voodoo kernel but the Gummy 2.0 package does so it will install the kernel and rom and enable voodoo lagfix on first boot (the Gummy rom package includes version 2.2.5 of that kernel I linked so it's a bit old, you can update it if you want by flashing the new one in CWM afterwards)
bfitzpatrickd2d said:
what about wiping sd card want to do a clean wipe that is a safe thing as long I format as fat 32 correct?
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you don't really need to format the sd card as everything android related (not phone #'s or pictures or anything *you* put on there) will be wiped when you do the wipes in CWM

thanks man so. I am assuming I put. the. stock in the past. section wait. for. reboot. put. kernal in pda. reboot the put the cwm version in there
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and it doesn't matter what baseband I am on currently I just do what is listed above and thought about removing simple just to be safe
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bfitzpatrickd2d said:
thanks man so. I am assuming I put. the. stock in the past. section wait. for. reboot. put. kernal in pda. reboot the put the cwm version in there
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no no no stock rom in PDA first, boot up after the flash, power down and connect to Odin again and put CWM in PDA (everything goes in PDA) and flash then unplug phone after it passes and immediately boot into CWM no regular boot up.. then wipe data, dalvik (under advanced) and cache then flash Gummy or rom of your choice (custom rom build must match stock build like stock EP1W with EP1W Gummy 2.0), select reboot phone option and let the kernel activate voodoo lagfix when it boots up (may take a while)... once it starts you'll have a rooted voodoo custom rom, then you can hold the power button down until the reboot options menu comes up and select recovery to proceed to flash the updated kernel if you want
also the modems will be the ones installed with the stock rom, but you can flash new ones in Odin in the PDA section if you want
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thanks man, normally not this causious but dont want to brick again someone linked a video so i will follow that.. sorry gor being a extreme noob ever thoigh im not
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bfitzpatrickd2d said:
thanks man, normally not this causious but dont want to brick again someone linked a video so i will follow that.. sorry gor being a extreme noob ever thoigh im not
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lol no problem and yeah its better to be careful at first.. also that guy's videos are good I should've thought to recommend them
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge

one question if your still around i hope so anyway about the cwm.tar or what ever it is there were a lot of people haveing soft brick and brick issues with this but there was a cwm ver 4.008 will this work all i want to do is flash gummy charged and that is about it.

bfitzpatrickd2d said:
one question if your still around i hope so anyway about the cwm.tar or what ever it is there were a lot of people haveing soft brick and brick issues with this but there was a cwm ver 4.008 will this work all i want to do is flash gummy charged and that is about it.
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yeah that one will work fine, I use it since I don't do nandroid backups much.. I think there's a download link in the OP of that kernel thread at rootzwiki
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sweet thanks
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last time i flashed a rom for some reason the stock. recovery overwrote. cwm anything that you know. of that i can do. to avoid this in future?
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bfitzpatrickd2d said:
last time i flashed a rom for some reason the stock. recovery overwrote. cwm anything that you know. of that i can do. to avoid this in future?
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probably because the rom didn't include a custom kernel or for whatever reason it didn't make it work.. flash or reflash a custom kernel and there won't be any more problems
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New ROM

Whenever i try to flash a new ROM it doesn't want to load. I've tried the CM7 nightlies and the pheonix ROM. This is what I do.
I root my phone via one click root.
Install clockwork recovery via app.
wipe
install ROM via recovery (install zip)
start up
Locks at LG screen. Ugh!
Any advice?

Turague said:
Whenever i try to flash a new ROM it doesn't want to load. I've tried the CM7 nightlies and the pheonix ROM. This is what I do.
I root my phone via one click root.
Install clockwork recovery via app.
wipe
install ROM via recovery (install zip)
start up
Locks at LG screen. Ugh!
Any advice?
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What OS are you coming from?

Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik cache
Wipe data
Wipe system
Flash.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!

Turague said:
Install clockwork recovery via app.
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NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492

Волк said:
NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
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Why? What happens if you did from the ROM Manager? Sorry im a noob to this device
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Волк said:
NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
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This is a must for the g2x. If you use from manager it only fake flashes clockwork mod recovery and makes you unable to flash roms.
Typical way to achieve root on the g2x is to.
1. Nvflash cwm
2. Create a nandroid backup.
3. Flash a rom that has root.
Don't bother with rom manager or super one click.
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Just as a quick question. Does wiping the system, wipe ANY of my data? Like does it only wipe the existing ROM? Ive been confused of it since the first time i flashed a ROM
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Волк said:
NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot and get back to you. I don't think it had to do with the wipe as I always ran a wipe script before installing. I thought it had to do with the kernel.... (don't have a clue though)
I'll flash the clockwork via nvflash, and get back to you, thanks.
EDIT:
IT WORKS. NVFlash the recovery, make sure to change the command if you have a different version you plan to flash/

I used rom manager and all, my roms have worked fine... :S
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theNOOBuser said:
I used rom manager and all, my roms have worked fine... :S
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You sir are a very lucky man.

Lol. I'm guessing it was a noob-move getting clockwork through ROM Manager. Ill probably use nvflash when I get home just to be safe hahaha
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theNOOBuser said:
Lol. I'm guessing it was a noob-move getting clockwork through ROM Manager. Ill probably use nvflash when I get home just to be safe hahaha
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you definitely want to do that. do you have a nandoid backup of your original system? if your phone breaks, that is the only way to revert it back to original for an exchange (unless ofcourse you take a hammer to it).

Yeah. I have a Stock froyo backup.
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jblah said:
you definitely want to do that. do you have a nandoid backup of your original system? if your phone breaks, that is the only way to revert it back to original for an exchange (unless ofcourse you take a hammer to it).
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i first flased cwm using nvflas... but then i updated it thru rom manager ... is it ok?

rohitmohanihm said:
i first flased cwm using nvflas... but then i updated it thru rom manager ... is it ok?
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I think so. Catch is that I don't know if doing that will actually update anything, the whole problem is that ROM manager doesn't flash it properly/to the right place. The only thing to do is make a nandroid and try it out and if ti doesn't work, then reflash with NV flash and you're good.

Волк said:
I think so. Catch is that I don't know if doing that will actually update anything, the whole problem is that ROM manager doesn't flash it properly/to the right place. The only thing to do is make a nandroid and try it out and if ti doesn't work, then reflash with NV flash and you're good.
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I flashed a few other ROMs after i updated CWM thru ROM manager.. and all of them flashed with out any problems.. the only Issue i had was when i tried flashing Morfic's Trinity kernal .. my phone would get stuck at the boot animation.. i wiped every thing and reflashed CyanogenMod and my phone is working agin [I wiped cache and Dalviks before i flashed the kernal.. i guess my phone cant handle it] http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/mad.gif .. Thanks Bro

Newbie Help

Ok just got this phone and have decided to go with Phoenix Blood rom, but how do i start? I have to be on froyo to root? Im coming from samsung epic on sprint that i flashed so im not completely retarded. Thanks for any help

Use superoneclick to root on froyo.
If your on 2.3.3 gb there's a flashable. Zip in development section to root.
Also you will want to use tgagunnmans nvflash method to install clockworkmod recovery in dev section.
Phoenix blood is a great choice btw, enjoy!
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You're still on Froyo? To my understanding it's a good idea to flash the OTA GB first so that you'll get the up to date baseband. Once that's done just go ahead and flash PB.

no im on gb jsut thought i had to go back to froyo to root, so i just flash clockwork mod then pb and thats it?

reeshmd23 said:
no im on gb jsut thought i had to go back to froyo to root, so i just flash clockwork mod then pb and thats it?
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Yes, but make sure you're using NVFlash to get CWM. Don't use Rom Manager.

Easiest way is using the tool unlockroot. It supports gb on the G2X. Or you can use nvflash, whichever you prefer.
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redmonke255 said:
Easiest way is using the tool unlockroot. It supports gb on the G2X. Or you can use nvflash, whichever you prefer.
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If he wants to change Roms he will still need Nvflash regardless how he gets it rooted.

GTWalling said:
If he wants to change Roms he will still need Nvflash regardless how he gets it rooted.
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Agree. Nvflash=bullet proof.

what is nvflash?

reeshmd23 said:
what is nvflash?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
From that thread:
Flashing the custom recovery using NvFlash is the only way to ensure that in the case your phone will not boot up, you will be able to get into recovery to fix the issue / flash a ROM / restore from nandroid backup. That is what this app will do for you.
If you flashed the ClockworkMod recovery from ROM Manager it does not flash the recovery to your phone, it fake flashed it. The only way you can gain access to ClockworkMod recovery is through ROM Manager at that point. Using this method is the only way to flash recovery so it is persistent and accessible booting to recovery.
If you have already flashed through ROM Manager you can still proceed with this method. Flash Away!
(You can use both ROM Manager CWM and have the nvflashed version working together. You just access either or one at a time, having the nvflashed one means you can boot to CWM. Welcome to Tegra2)
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Follow the link. This is a must for tegra 2 based phones. It is always better to be safe than sorry and it also allows you to do a ton of other things, such as making backups and flashing roms. Let us know if you need help. The phone is pretty much unbrickable after you do this. It gives you the ability to recover from any major mistake.

Its in the dev thread, it low level flashes clockworkmod recovery to our phones internal memory partition. You need to install apx drivers first in order for the g2x to be nvflashed.
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thanks for the help guys got it all set up

Just to add in, nvflash allows u to boot into cwm recovery whenever u want and u don't need to be next to a computer. I think that is how it worked for Samsung phones and Odin, where u needed a computer, but haven't used a Samsung phone so I could be wrong. Remember always make a back up of everything and play around with the different roms, not every rom works for everyone
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Actually Odin is just like nvflash. It is used to put cwm on you phone and to put the stock recovery back on.
Once you have cwm you can flash what ever rom or kernel without the need for root. Just back up your stock unrooted stock rom before flashing anything else.
If you do that you will have your own stock backup with no need of finding it in the forums if you need to go back to stock.
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