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Rooted i9023, some help needed please!

Ok guys so I have managed to root my i9023 and flash clockwork recovery which was all good, I set about flashing some new roms via rom manager, again, all good.
So now I settle on this cm7 based rom which I love, used anim mod to get some nice transitions, then I used font changer.
All was good, then I decided that the font I was using was a bit ott so I decided to change it again, upon reboot it starts boot looping, bollocks !!!
So I try to get into clockwork recovery, and it seems to have gone back to the stock bootloader, grrrrr
I re flash clockwork, wipe / clear etc... then flash the rom again, but it would not flash, so I went to my backup of stock n flashed that, all good.
I then install rom manager again and flash the rom I liked again, this time no problem, but when it loads up the home button and search button are not working
So i decide on a factory reset, I select wipe everything including sd just to be sure but it comes up "error null"???
So now I wipe the sd manually and then do the reset and it works, ok, I re load everything on from scratch and all is good, but when I installed rom manager it says that clockwork recovery IS NOT installed again
Can anyone here work out from my ramblings WTF is going on???
I dont get why the font changer all of a sudden caused a boot loop, as I had changed font about 15 times with it without issue, also why clockwork recovery will not stick anymore after a reboot, when before it did and I have not changed a thing!
Cheers!!!

Rename install-recovery.sh in system/etc to something else, flash cwm recovery again, this time it'll stick until you install a stock rom again.
Rom manager is causing more problems than it's saving time, hence I don't use it.
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Thanks for the reply, can you go into detail on what exactly I need to do to get clockwork to stick? I still hold noob status!
Thanks!
Also rom manager seems fine, I flashed loads of roms with it with no issue, I also rebooted a few time at least between flashes so I dont get why clockwork suddenly decided to jump ship.
It was the font changer that f&%ked it all up for me, or anim mod (which I wont touch now even tho I miss the wicked transitions).

When using Font Changer, it's better to do a reboot manually instead of selecting Reboot from within the program. That sometimes cause me a boot loop too. But after turning the phone off / on a.k.a. "reboot manually", the phone boots fine.
To elaborate what rentaric said, use Root Explorer and go to /system/etc/, there should be a file named install-recovery.sh. This file is responsible for flashing the stock recovery every time the phone boots. If you rename it to something else e.g. install-recovery.sh.bak then CWM will stick on reboot.

Thanks, but when I get into the /system/etc/ there is not file called install-recovery.sh.
The only .sh in there is init.goldfish.sh
Any ideas???

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Flash cwm rec and either stock or custom rom.
Stock rom incl the .sh you want.
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I've read on these forums that using Clockwork on the I9023 is a no-go. Serves up incompatible ROMs, etc.
BTW, I'm looking to root my I9023. Can the OP please point me to the method he used.

athani said:
I've read on these forums that using Clockwork on the I9023 is a no-go. Serves up incompatible ROMs, etc.
BTW, I'm looking to root my I9023. Can the OP please point me to the method he used.
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LINK: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
Please read the whole thread, if I had it would have saved me half a night scratching my head...lol

rentaric said:
Flash cwm rec and either stock or custom rom.
Stock rom incl the .sh you want.
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Yeah I have a custom rom installed, supercm7, but the install-recovery.sh. that I have been told is causing the problem of clockwork disappearing is not in the /system/etc/ folder, so I am asking if there is anything else that could be causing me to have to re flash clockwork via my pc every time I want to change rom?
I will tell you exactly what happens.
1. I go into rom manager
2. download a rom and choose flash rom from sd card
3. it asked if I want to wipe etc, i select yes
4. phone re boots and I get ! with an android
5. I pull the battery, hold volume up n power and boot / connect to my pc
6. re flash clockwork via SDK
7.the phone then load the new rom on its own
Before it would just flash the rom without me having to install clockwork again.

install-recovery.sh is only there if you're using a stock android rom.
"so I am asking if there is anything else that could be causing me to have to re flash clockwork via my pc every time I want to change rom?"
ROM Manager.
It's not a reliable working tool for ME as I'm changing ROMs/kernels on a regular basis and it might not work reliable the one time you need it.

Thanks for that, I may just sack rom manager then.
Its a shame as I flashed several roms with it without issue.
Oh well, loving this supercm7 so gonna stick with it untill an update comes out.
Many thanks to all who have replied, clicking the thanks buttons now!

I had the same problem but i installed a previus recovery and works fine formeforme
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[Q] Removing CWM that ROM Manager added

Hi all. My first post. I decided a couple weeks ago I wanted to root my G2x and started lurking here and reading up on the process. I Had Gingerbread installed so used One-Click NvFlasher to flash CWM 4.0.1.5 to my phone and then rooted the phone using a zip found in another thread. It was my first time rooting and I'm happy to say everything went fine.
I was playing around with ROM Manager and also installed CWM using it but decided until I have more time to spend checking out/installing ROMs I'm gonna stick with stock so I uninstalled it.
My questions are: do I now have two versions of CWM on my phone? Which version did ROM Manager install? If I boot into recover which one is loading, the one I installed with NvFlasher or the ROM Manager-installed one? And how do remove the one ROM Manager put there? I'd rather stick with just the one I installed using NvFlasher.

From what I understand, the ROM manager app doesn't really flash CWM on our phones, it fakes it. So, you've only got installed what you did through NVFlash.

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From what I understand, the ROM manager app doesn't really flash CWM on our phones, it fakes it. So, you've only got installed what you did through NVFlash.
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Yeah, I read about the fake flashing in the NvFlasher thread but didn't know what it meant fully. Seems like it means that you can only boot into the fake flashed one using ROM Manager. Other than that I wasn't sure what the implications of the fake flash were.
There's a clockwork mod folder on my phone's sdcard (internal - I don't use an external one). Is that the fake flash or the NvFlash one? I'd love to delete that folder if it's the ROM Manager one.

The "Clockworkmod" folder on your SD card is where the ROMs are backed up regardless of which version of Clockworkmod you used so don't delete that folder. The difference is when you boot into recovery using power + volume down you use the Clockworkmod Recovery on the phone's recovery partition you flashed with NVFlash. When you "reboot into recovery" using ROM Manager you boot into the so-called "fake flashed" version of Clockwordmod and it is not loaded from the physicial recovery partition on the phone; but from an image kept elsewhere in your phone's NAND memory. Don't worry about those images as leaving them won't harm anything and won't interfer with any OTA udpates if you are on a rooted stock rom. To get rid of it you simply want to uninstall ROM Manager from your device and then delete the "udpate.zip" file you will find in the root of the internal sd card. It is that update.zip that ROM Manager uses to trick recovery into loading the recovery images it stored elsewhere on your device. Now when you want to go into Clockworkmod Recovery just boot into recovery using power + volume down or the Reboot 2X app in the Market (link below). When the app says your device is not supported ignore it and press the back key (do not press the exit button) and then you can use that app to reboot into the real Clockworkmod Recovery without having to hold the buttons on the phone.
https://market.android.com/details?...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYXhpc21hLmxnbzJ4cmVib290Il0.

Thanks, jboxer. I'd already uninstalled ROM Manager and just now deleted the update.zip. It seems like with CWM already flashed via NvFlasher I can backup my stock ROM and install any other ROM I can download so I don't really need ROM Manager unless I'm looking for something with an interface.

dmj2012 said:
Thanks, jboxer. I'd already uninstalled ROM Manager and just now deleted the update.zip. It seems like with CWM already flashed via NvFlasher I can backup my stock ROM and install any other ROM I can download so I don't really need ROM Manager unless I'm looking for something with an interface.
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You don't want ROM Manager, period, on our phone. It doesn't run recovery from the actual recovery partition and if you are borked you don't have a usable recovery to fix your phone unless you flashed with NV Flash anyway. I also don't like the way ROM Manger "boots" into recovery. It is actually invoking the stock recovery (or whatever recovery you may have flashed with NV Flash) and that then runs the update.zip file on the root of your internal sd. Since stock recovery is set to factory reset your phone when you invoke recovery, I worry that if the upate.zip got messed up you might wind up factory resetting your phone. I tried ROM Manager (which doesn't work until you use NV Flash at least once anyway) and booted from it into recovery once. It was scary enough for me I immediately uninstalled it and got rid of its bogus update.zip.

jboxer said:
You don't want ROM Manager, period, on our phone. It doesn't run recovery from the actual recovery partition and if you are borked you don't have a usable recovery to fix your phone unless you flashed with NV Flash anyway. I also don't like the way ROM Manger "boots" into recovery. It is actually invoking the stock recovery (or whatever recovery you may have flashed with NV Flash) and that then runs the update.zip file on the root of your internal sd. Since stock recovery is set to factory reset your phone when you invoke recovery, I worry that if the upate.zip got messed up you might wind up factory resetting your phone. I tried ROM Manager (which doesn't work until you use NV Flash at least once anyway) and booted from it into recovery once. It was scary enough for me I immediately uninstalled it and got rid of its bogus update.zip.
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Yeah, when I played with ROM Manager I really didn't like it, which is why I uninstalled it after playing around with it for five or ten minutes.
At this point I'm running stock GB on my phone, and I used Titanium Backup to remove the bloat (NOVA demo, T-mobile Mall and TV,) and the phone is running nice and smoothly. I'm a little confused about one thing though: Titanium backup is to backup apps/settings for this ROM, right? Whereas if I want to backup the ROM itself before putting CM7 on my phone I do that by booting into CWM and choosing the backup/restore option. Is my thinking here correct?

dmj2012 said:
Yeah, when I played with ROM Manager I really didn't like it, which is why I uninstalled it after playing around with it for five or ten minutes.
At this point I'm running stock GB on my phone, and I used Titanium Backup to remove the bloat (NOVA demo, T-mobile Mall and TV,) and the phone is running nice and smoothly. I'm a little confused about one thing though: Titanium backup is to backup apps/settings for this ROM, right? Whereas if I want to backup the ROM itself before putting CM7 on my phone I do that by booting into CWM and choosing the backup/restore option. Is my thinking here correct?
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Yes, but you should not have used Titanium Backup to remove bloat. That defeats one of the purposes of keeping the rom stock. Once the bloat is removed you can not get future OTA updates, if any. They will download but the install will fail as it checks for all original files have remained untouched. There are apps that can freeze bloat and when you get an OTA you unfreeze them so you can apply the OTA update. To backup the ROM you must go into Clockworkmod Recovery. Also I recomment other apps such as Astro for backing up apk files. In my experience, Titanium Backup just makes a mess of everything and usually the restores fail.

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Yes, but you should not have used Titanium Backup to remove bloat. That defeats one of the purposes of keeping the rom stock. Once the bloat is removed you can not get future OTA updates, if any. They will download but the install will fail as it checks for all original files have remained untouched. There are apps that can freeze bloat and when you get an OTA you unfreeze them so you can apply the OTA update. To backup the ROM you must go into Clockworkmod Recovery. Also I recomment other apps such as Astro for backing up apk files. In my experience, Titanium Backup just makes a mess of everything and usually the restores fail.
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My phone's never been able to connect to the servers for an ota update anyway. I'm not sure but maybe this is because I installed Gingerbread using LG's desktop app rather than waiting for t-mobile to push the update to me. In any cas, I am planning to flash a custom rom soon. Been thinking CM7 but that's just because it's the only once I know much about. I'm gonna start researching how to install it.
If I ever want to go back to stock after flashing a custom rom there are stock roms available for download, right?

Also what exactly does freezing an app do? I noticed Titanium can do it but is there another app I should look at for freezing an app?
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dmj2012 said:
Also what exactly does freezing an app do? I noticed Titanium can do it but is there another app I should look at for freezing an app?
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Freezing an app makes it invisible to the system without deleting it. OTA updates requires that no system files have been deleted or changed. You can defrost them at any time and the system can see them again. It is a much preferred method over deleting for many reasons. Titanium Backup uses a different freeze method than other apps, and some other apps can freeze some programs that Titanium Backup cannot freeze, such as Amazon MP3. I use Bloat Freezer and some people I know use App Quarantine. They are free versions of both on the Android Market.

dmj2012 said:
Also what exactly does freezing an app do? I noticed Titanium can do it but is there another app I should look at for freezing an app?
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Anttek App Manager (free) from the market can freeze anything. Also has a couple of other nice features.

Hey I backed up my original gb before I did anything to the phone so as long as I restore that nandroid I will be fine to get updates right?

ROM Manager works fine even if you NVFlash a recovery.

jcbofkc said:
Anttek App Manager (free) from the market can freeze anything. Also has a couple of other nice features.
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Thanks man. I love this app. Very useful and a nice, clean layout. Sticking with this for my freezing needs.

dmj2012 said:
Also what exactly does freezing an app do? I noticed Titanium can do it but is there another app I should look at for freezing an app?
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When you freeze an app it acts for all intensive purpose just like it was removed (ROM will not see it, market won't see it, and any apps that rely on it won't see it either) but its still there.
Advantage to removing an app: frees up space
Disadvantage: harder it get it back, can cause problems, fc's
I have found that freezing is the way ta go..
I use mybackup pro from market works great and very easy to navigate
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[Q] HELP - Moto Triumph does not boot after font installation

So I bought my Motorola Triumph a few days ago rooted it and it worked fine even after many reboots.
So a few days later, I installed new fonts and replaced all the existing ones using Font Installer. After I rebooted, the phone does not boot any more, it does not go beyond the M logo screen
I looked all over the internet but couldn't find something useful to fix the problem.
Plz help me solve this.
I appreciate any tips (note: I am not an expert)
Is it bricked?

Your gonna have to wipe dalvik cache and cache in recovery try to boot again. If that don't work wipe data in recovery and be prepared to set up phone again. Don't worry you wont lose root
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When I had this issue after a different mistake what I did was flash a stock rom. You're going to need a custom recovery to do so. If you don't have clockworkmod recovery on your phone you can find a installation guide and a download link HERE. As for the stock rom and how to flash it look HERE (I used the regular rom and not the deodex version, only because I honestly have no clue of the differnce xD)
Hope this helps.
~SkiZophr3nic~

Huh, just went through the same thing myself
If what is happening to you is what happened to me, you screwed up Clockopia.ttf (or replaced it with a font Android doesn't like) and are now stuck in a boot loop
Here's how to fix it
You need to install a custom recovery (you should have this anyway so you can backup before trying new things)
Here are detailed instructions, it's easy
http://androidforums.com/triumph-all-things-root/421674-clockworkmod-recovery-motorola-triumph.html
Now, at this point, you have a few options:
You can download a stock ROM, flash that, and go back to stock. You will lose everything
You can downloaad stock ROM, and just restore the /system. You do this under backup and restore -> Advanced restore. This will probably get you back up and running and you won't lose any data
You could replace Clockopia.ttf. Attached is a zip file that will do it for you. Put the zip file on your SD card and flash it using CWM (do not use "flash update.zip", use "flash zip file on sdcard" and navigate to it). This will replace Clockopia with the one from stock. Then reboot and you should be up and running

[Q] How to re-download ICS?

I already downloaded ICS but while i was restoring some apk with titanium backup i deleted one of the system stock apk.... Even after factory reset it wouldn't recover it .......... Is there a way to re-download the stock ics on the phone?

devil_2 said:
I already downloaded ICS but while i was restoring some apk with titanium backup i deleted one of the system stock apk.... Even after factory reset it wouldn't recover it .......... Is there a way to re-download the stock ics on the phone?
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What exactly is your phone doing? Does it boot normally and you are just missing an app? Or it's bootlooping, and you can only access stock recovery?
If you can boot normally into the homescreen, then it may be fixable..
You can not re-install the ICS upgrade package while on ICS (and stock recovery wouldn't help you anyway).
If you can not even boot the phone, then... check the dev section - I think some new scripts and instructions were just released (here - but there's also some good info in the original thread in the general section) for restoring your phone and re-installing the official at&t ICS.

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What exactly is your phone doing? Does it boot normally and you are just missing an app? Or it's bootlooping, and you can only access stock recovery?
If you can boot normally into the homescreen, then it may be fixable..
You can not re-install the ICS upgrade package while on ICS (and stock recovery wouldn't help you anyway).
If you can not even boot the phone, then... check the dev section - I think some new scripts and instructions were just released (here - but there's also some good info in the original thread in the general section) for restoring your phone and re-installing the official at&t ICS.
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I can boot normally but i am missing the app... um can you provide me please with a link for a guide to fix my prob?

devil_2 said:
I can boot normally but i am missing the app... um can you provide me please with a link for a guide to fix my prob?
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What app are you missing??
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Broke a boostmobile one sv won't boot now

I got a boost mobile one sv for my pop on boost mobile.
the fonts were too small and there did not seem a way to pick larger for him. so I installed font installer and installed a couple fonts alas on reboot I am stuck at the boost logo.
(the phone is rooted)
its not looping it just won't finish boot up. I booted into recovery wiped cache dalvik factory reset NO joy
any suggestions? is there a Jellybean rom without sense ie stock android (or heck with sense at this point) I can safely flash over?
any help would be greatly appreciated.

No stock Android around. I have made a stock odexed JB rom from a boost backup.
For flashing in recovery.
But it is untested as i don't own a boost phone. So you can call it a beta rom!!!
So if you want to try, i can give you the link. But for reasons above, on your own risk.

can't hurt to try so post away.
what is the most reliable "known good" jb rom as well Might as well download that too.

There is atm only one jb rom, but with some things buggy.
I'll send you the link by pm. If it works for you, i'll make it public.

downloading now. will let you know if it works or not. the phone was running ICS does that make a difference to installing this rom? can I just goto CWM recovery and install from zip ?

will not install. clockwork says error expects 3args, got 4 status 7 aborted

Ok, not good for the rom. If you wipe everything it would not matter, if you had ICS before.
So, here is another JB way: look into this thread here.
There you will find a cwm backup. Download and try to restore. Make sure, it is in the right place/folder.
Good luck.

no joy. says error while restoring boot img
I tried advanced restore system (figure do them one at a time) same thing just says error while restoring /system!
suggestions?

Have u tried flashing this Rom? https://www.dropbox.com/s/yubxxnw9lqe60nf/2013-07-19.01.57.24Stock_JB.rar
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nerys71 said:
no joy. says error while restoring boot img
I tried advanced restore system (figure do them one at a time) same thing just says error while restoring /system!
suggestions?
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Did you ever get it resolved? If so, I am curious as to what procedures you needed to take? I have not had any trouble with Font Installer myself butiincase the time comes the info would be valuable as a plan a, b, c, etc. Thanks.