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Rooting & Rom Questions.

Hello to all,
I've been coming to this forum a lot lately, and I'm interested in rooting and installing roms. I'm new at this so bare with me. I so far now how to root, and I'm reading now on how to install a rom. The question is how do I make a back up of my stock rom? do I need to? I backed up all my important files on my sd card. Are there any more things to know about rooting and installing roms?
I'm really interested in trying syndicate Rom.
Also great jobs to everyone in the Epic fourms. I once was a Evo users but I couldn't pass out on the Epic.

You don't really need to make a backup of your ROM - in fact, I'd suggest not doing so, as you'll be tempted to restore all of /data from it (which tends to cause more problems than it's worth). If you do wish to, simply boot Clockwork - the option is in there (I'd have to check to tell you the exact option, sorry).
Thanks for considering SyndicateROM - with 1.0.2 out, there's no reason not to give it a try ASAP!

That was fast, thanks!
So what if I would like to go back to stock? how would that work?
I do need to format my SD card correct?
Can't wait to try out your rom.

digijuan said:
That was fast, thanks!
So what if I would like to go back to stock? how would that work?
I do need to format my SD card correct?
Can't wait to try out your rom.
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You don't need to format your SD card. If you want to go back to the stock ROM, there are flashable zips posted here. And if you want to go back to the stock ROM and kernel, just use Odin.

does the one click root files have to be on your sd card?
Nevemind I figured it out, I'm finally Rooted!

digijuan said:
does the one click root files have to be on your sd card?
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Nope. 10char

digijuan said:
does the one click root files have to be on your sd card?
Nevemind I figured it out, I'm finally Rooted!
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I didn't see you mention that you indeed have Clockworkmod.
Before installing a ROM, and after Rooting, you have to have Clockworkmod installed.
Did you use the Sticky at the top of this form that says Root + Clockworkmod? If so, you should have it and all you need to do is boot into recovery (Hold Vol-down + camera + power). And if the letters are in green, your good to go. If the letters are in Blue, you don't have clockwork.
To make a backup, go to Backup and restore in Clockwork, and press Backup.
It'll take about 5 minutes. After you make your backup, find the .zip on your SDcard through clockworkmod and flash the ROM.

SemiGamer said:
I didn't see you mention that you indeed have Clockworkmod.
Before installing a ROM, and after Rooting, you have to have Clockworkmod installed.
Did you use the Sticky at the top of this form that says Root + Clockworkmod? If so, you should have it and all you need to do is boot into recovery (Hold Vol-down + camera + power). And if the letters are in green, your good to go. If the letters are in Blue, you don't have clockwork.
To make a backup, go to Backup and restore in Clockwork, and press Backup.
It'll take about 5 minutes. After you make your backup, find the .zip on your SDcard through clockworkmod and flash the ROM.
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One Click Root 2.4.0 includes Clockwork and flashes it automatically.

it says can't open /sdcard/update.zip

digijuan said:
it says can't open /sdcard/update.zip
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Did you use ROM Manager to install Clockwork? If so, download the One Click Clockwork flasher, and run it.

What Zip exactly? I have the Rom on my sd card.

I'm amusing I have clockwork, all the letters are in green. I made a back up but how can I install this rom?

digijuan said:
I'm amusing I have clockwork, all the letters are in green. I made a back up but how can I install this rom?
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Okay, if you've got green text, you have Clockwork. Choose 'wipe data/factory rest' and then go down to 'install zip from SD card', and choose the ROM zip.

k0nane said:
Okay, if you've got green text, you have Clockwork. Choose 'wipe data/factory rest' and then go down to 'install zip from SD card', and choose the ROM zip.
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do I need to make the rom files I downloaded into a zip file?
Never mind I got it, installing as we speak.

How do we get back touchwiz? I'm not a fan of LuancherPro.

I would grab an app from the market called home switcher
It's free, and lets you switch launchers as well as set default.
I didn't see which ROM you were flashing, but chances are, you still have TWLauncher

Can't install any custom roms any longer

I am lost.
I had FireFly 2.05 on my SGS (ATT US version) and was going to update to 2.1. I followed the procedure as I aways do; ODIN 1 click to stock rom, master clear, copy update.zip and rom file and reboot into recovery. This time however I get the following error
E:Can't symlink /system/xbin/su SYSTEM:bin/su
E:Failure at line 14
I checked some notes on this and found out that it might be a currupt file. So I re-downloaded FireFly2.1 again and transfered the file to the internal SD card. The outcome was the same.
Then I copied the original 2.05 version back which I know was fine and I still get the same error. Even after a full stock 1-click and master clear the above error will not go away.
Is my internal SD card messed up? Or am I missing something else?
It's running stock right now and all seems to work fine, but I cannot stand all the bloatware and other crap ATT puts on the phone and really want to try FireFly2.1.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Did you flash clockwork recovery

Did you root the phone after you flashed back to stock?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Agree with DaveyBB - sounds like you are not rooted.
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You do not need to root on stock just flash clockwork with update zip

The update.zip i use is the current clockwork recovery.
I boot into the stock e2 recovery, then apply cw recovery and update the rom. Never had to root stock before when i update via cw recovery.
I will try to root stock first this time and then apply rom via recovery.
Thx
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anosis said:
The update.zip i use is the current clockwork recovery.
I boot into the stock e2 recovery, then apply cw recovery and update the rom. Never had to root stock before when i update via cw recovery.
I will try to root stock first this time and then apply rom via recovery.
Thx
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To install clockwork select reinstall packages twice

The issue is not with cw recovery. I am already in it, but the error that i get is after i click "yes apply this zip"... The script starts to format the system, data, datadata, etc. And then this error shows up after files ate copied
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Have you tried re download of rom package?

My only guess is that clockwork and the rom are not working well. I would try downloading a different clockwork
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mcord11758 said:
Have you tried re download of rom package?
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Done that too.
So just to reiterate...
I had FireFly2.05 running and many other cooked Android 2.1 and 2.2 roms before this. I follow the instrution of the cooks to the 't' on how to update to the newest rom and never had any issue.
This time I downloaded FireFly2.1 and also Phoenix4.5 from the respective cooks and followed the instructions as usual. The issues does not show up until the 'copy files' part of the script is running (formating of the filesystem already passed).
All I can imagine are these:
1) The transfer from the PC to the Phone is corrupt (ruled out the download from the net as even the existing FireFly2.05 rom no longer loads)
2) The internal SD card is messes up
3) There is some configuration change I am not aware off that prevents the install of the cooked rom.

Maybe try to reformat sd through clockwork

Problem solved, kind of.
My desktop PC, which I always use to transfer the files is somehow responsible for the error I get in CWM recovery. I ended up using my laptop to transfer the ROM to the phone and it worked again.
Something is messing up the USB transfer? That seems very odd but I am glad it's not the phone that caused the issue.
If I find out what the issue is with my Desktop I will post again just in case this rather rare issue might happen to someone else.

anosis said:
Done that too.
So just to reiterate...
I had FireFly2.05 running and many other cooked Android 2.1 and 2.2 roms before this. I follow the instrution of the cooks to the 't' on how to update to the newest rom and never had any issue.
This time I downloaded FireFly2.1 and also Phoenix4.5 from the respective cooks and followed the instructions as usual. The issues does not show up until the 'copy files' part of the script is running (formating of the filesystem already passed).
All I can imagine are these:
1) The transfer from the PC to the Phone is corrupt (ruled out the download from the net as even the existing FireFly2.05 rom no longer loads)
2) The internal SD card is messes up
3) There is some configuration change I am not aware off that prevents the install of the cooked rom.
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One Question:
What method are you using to enter recovery method when you attempt to flash the rom? And what color is your recovery menu (should be green)?
(Don't go into recovery via rom manager. Try entering recovery via your advanced power menu)

bames said:
One Question:
What method are you using to enter recovery method when you attempt to flash the rom? And what color is your recovery menu (should be green)?
(Don't go into recovery via rom manager. Try entering recovery via your advanced power menu)
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I don't think he's getting into Clockwork via ROM Manager, as he's said multiple times he's using the CWM update.zip; reinstalling packages in 2e recovery to get to CWM.
He's also said he doesn't believe this to be an issue with Clockwork (and I don't either). And I'm also pretty sure we're not dealing with newbie mistakes of Android Recovery vs. Clockwork Recovery.

any chance you're leaving your usb plugged into your cappy while you're trying to flash it?

Rom Upgrade Help Required

Hello All,
I need your help regarding upgrade my captivate which is running on 2.1. I had hard bricked it once before when I was trying to update it via odin. Just got fixed it back from mobiletechvideos.com. Now I want to upgrade it to gingerbread Can anyone tell me any stable rom which I can upgrade safely and have 0% chance to hard bricked it again. Or any rom which I can flash via any other tool not via odin as I thought last bricked was caused due to odin. Pls help me.
I like the MIUI rom but I saw that it use ODIN so I am a bit afread to try it
Thanks

My understanding of the process.
I'm fairly sure you need to use superoneclick to root, that's step one. Next go to market and dowload ROM manager and install it, that's step two.Step three, flash clockworkmod recovery with ROM manager. Choose captivateMTD and let it flash. Step four, now go to the download ROM and choose an MTD ROM. I reccomend cyanogenmod as its aosp, overclocked and generally awesome. They have a stable build that's a great dd. Step five is to flash it. When the download completes it will promt you to wipe data and cache, clear everything and hit go. Step six would be to dl and flash gapps with ROM manager. Wipe cache and install. After all this you should be on cm7 stable. Pm me if you need help. I have the drivers and all files you could possibly need in my dropbox account.
Good luck and enjoy cyanogenmod.
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where I can get superoneclick to root it ?

imk79 said:
where I can get superoneclick to root it ?
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please, for the love all that is holy, leave your phone alone if you dont know how to use GOOGLE
http://bit.ly/uoGYG7

I tried to download superoneclick via this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
All archive showing me damaged only 8 mb version is working but when I tried to root it via that version it shows me FAILED msg at the end. Any help in this regard ?

You do not need to root your phone to install a custom rom.
If you currently are on 2.1, boot into recovery and flash this zip file.
From here you can go about installing a gingerbread kernel and rom.
If you are unsure of the process, please do lots more research before you go flashing anything. If you brick again it's not my fault.

mikedavis120 said:
My understanding of the process.
I'm fairly sure you need to use superoneclick to root, that's step one. Next go to market and dowload ROM manager and install it, that's step two.Step three, flash clockworkmod recovery with ROM manager. Choose captivateMTD and let it flash. Step four, now go to the download ROM and choose an MTD ROM. I reccomend cyanogenmod as its aosp, overclocked and generally awesome. They have a stable build that's a great dd. Step five is to flash it. When the download completes it will promt you to wipe data and cache, clear everything and hit go. Step six would be to dl and flash gapps with ROM manager. Wipe cache and install. After all this you should be on cm7 stable. Pm me if you need help. I have the drivers and all files you could possibly need in my dropbox account.
Good luck and enjoy cyanogenmod.
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Step One: Root Done
Step Two: ROM manager installation Done
Step Three: flash clockworkmod recovery with ROM manager (When I clicked on it asked me that confirm phone model and when I clicked on samsung captivate MDT it said that clockworkmod not officially supported the captivate MDT and have you installed clockworkmod based recovery manually if I clicked on yes it proceed to the next screen and if I clicked no it said that without it rom manager will not work. If i clicked on yes it proceed to the next screen and asked me the clockworkmod version 2.x or 3.x. I select one of them and click on the install rom from SD card and then browse to my downloaded rom when I clicked on rom and it will ask me to backup exsisiting rom, wipe data and cache and wipe dalvik cache. I had selected last 2 options and clicked ok then it asked me to press ok to reboot into clockworkMod Recovery and continue the installation when I clicked ok and rebooted where it showing me 4 options: rebbot system now, reinstall packages, delete all user data and delete cache data. After that I don't know what to do BTW I downloaded MIUI rom as I wana try it )
Any Help ?

Its sounds like you are in the stock recovery still. When you get to the screen with four options click reinstall packages and it should take you to clockwork recovery. The you will have many more options. You will want to go to install zip from SD card then choose zip from SD card and then navigate to your rom of choice and click it. Then it will go through the install process and when it is done hit reboot now and you should be running your custom rom.
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bradleyG said:
Its sounds like you are in the stock recovery still. When you get to the screen with four options click reinstall packages and it should take you to clockwork recovery. The you will have many more options. You will want to go to install zip from SD card then choose zip from SD card and then navigate to your rom of choice and click it. Then it will go through the install process and when it is done hit reboot now and you should be running your custom rom.
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Ok here come the problem again. I install the update.zip from sd card and the phone took me into the clockworkmod recovery a new menu then I install update.zip and after that I click install a zip from SD card. I clicked on it and browse it to the downloaded rom and it asked me to perform the action and I clicked ok after that it shows the installing process again and from after that phone is showing AT&T logo then Cyanogen Mod logo and then showing it is installing something and then restarting again and again. Phone is in the same state and doing this thing again and again. I remove the battery and power on again and its doing same thing any help ?

Get into cwm again via buttons and flash cm7 one more time. Should fix the error you're seeing.

ok I am able to fix it. I removed the SIM card and SD CARD and it will come to the update process and when done its boot to the rom and finally I am in new MIUI look and feel Thanks guys for your help. I will try this rom for few days but can any one pls tell me any proper guide where I can find a proper guide and information that how to update a rom and how to fix a problems if faced during the installation process.

imk79 said:
but can any one pls tell me any proper guide where I can find a proper guide and information that how to update a rom and how to fix a problems if faced during the installation process.
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dude. this website is all the info you freakin need

imk79 said:
ok I am able to fix it. I removed the SIM card and SD CARD and it will come to the update process and when done its boot to the rom and finally I am in new MIUI look and feel Thanks guys for your help. I will try this rom for few days but can any one pls tell me any proper guide where I can find a proper guide and information that how to update a rom and how to fix a problems if faced during the installation process.
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The thanks button is there for a reason. Haha just messing with you but if you feel like saying thanks to someone feel free to press the button that's what it's there for.

Pirateghost said:
dude. this website is all the info you freakin need
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Yeah I know that this for the XDA all about but every time I got help is via starting a topic. Being a beginner I want to have a guide where all problems should listed click if the phone is not going cwm how can you fix it so it would be guide. I got help everytime from XDA when I searched but very distributed. And if you search on google you will got alot info in which you are not sure about which is correct for you. Anyways Thanks alot guys.

[Q] Attempted to root my i727r

Have a rogers S2LTE, running ICS 4.04.
I ran Odin and used cwm recovery, and used what I found to be the most recent TAR file for the i727r.
during the download procedure to put superuzer on the phone, I had one error aborted installation, but success the second time.
Everything seemed normal, albeit aside from a slightly slower speed in the operation of the phone.
The only reason I noticed something was wrong was the fact that superuzer didnt really do anything, I couldnt add any apps or get past the initial screen.
Also, titanium back up didnt work, stating it couldn't get root permissions.
At this point, I installed root checker and got a negative response on my phone being rooted.
I'm posting here as I'm not sure how to progress, and as the phone is running normally, and im not sure if any real damage is done.
Do I simply try to flash the phone with Odin once more? Or do I flash it back to stock, and factory reset, and then try to root again?
Thanks in advance.

Me[kk]A said:
Have a rogers S2LTE, running ICS 4.04.
I ran Odin and used cwm recovery, and used what I found to be the most recent TAR file for the i727r.
during the download procedure to put superuzer on the phone, I had one error aborted installation, but success the second time.
Everything seemed normal, albeit aside from a slightly slower speed in the operation of the phone.
The only reason I noticed something was wrong was the fact that superuzer didnt really do anything, I couldnt add any apps or get past the initial screen.
Also, titanium back up didnt work, stating it couldn't get root permissions.
At this point, I installed root checker and got a negative response on my phone being rooted.
I'm posting here as I'm not sure how to progress, and as the phone is running normally, and im not sure if any real damage is done.
Do I simply try to flash the phone with Odin once more? Or do I flash it back to stock, and factory reset, and then try to root again?
Thanks in advance.
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which cwm did u use
wich su file did u use
read this on rooting http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
but use this cwm http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566613

Me[kk]A said:
Have a rogers S2LTE, running ICS 4.04.
I ran Odin and used cwm recovery, and used what I found to be the most recent TAR file for the i727r.
during the download procedure to put superuzer on the phone, I had one error aborted installation, but success the second time.
Everything seemed normal, albeit aside from a slightly slower speed in the operation of the phone.
The only reason I noticed something was wrong was the fact that superuzer didnt really do anything, I couldnt add any apps or get past the initial screen.
Also, titanium back up didnt work, stating it couldn't get root permissions.
At this point, I installed root checker and got a negative response on my phone being rooted.
I'm posting here as I'm not sure how to progress, and as the phone is running normally, and im not sure if any real damage is done.
Do I simply try to flash the phone with Odin once more? Or do I flash it back to stock, and factory reset, and then try to root again?
Thanks in advance.
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download procedure?
just put superuser on sd and install from cwm.
no root access means no su binary's installed. su binary's will not install from the superuser in the market that's just a front end.

wouldn't you also require busy box and then fix permissions using rom manager?

SeraldoBabalu said:
wouldn't you also require busy box and then fix permissions using rom manager?
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no. busy box has nothing to do with su. and rom manager sucks and you will have nothing but trouble if you use it. just download odin and cwm and superuser thats all you need to root that expensive phone.

Try the super user file located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1565126
I had a similar issue as you and the su in the link worked fine. If it fails keep trying, took me like 3 tries.
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vincom said:
which cwm did u use
wich su file did u use
read this on rooting http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
but use this cwm http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566613
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I used this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
but used the newest tar file provided on one of the rogers ics rooting threads.
As nothing is visibly wrong at this point, could I simply retry to root? Or should I wipe everything first?

So i tried to reflash again and use the new hercules file in odin.
All went well until I went into cwm recovery to make a back up, it said the it couldn't mount and aborted.
I backed up onto the SD card and it proceeded, however, when trying to load the superuser file from the external sd, it also said it couldn't mount, and aborted there.
any way around this?

Me[kk]A said:
So i tried to reflash again and use the new hercules file in odin.
All went well until I went into cwm recovery to make a back up, it said the it couldn't mount and aborted.
I backed up onto the SD card and it proceeded, however, when trying to load the superuser file from the external sd, it also said it couldn't mount, and aborted there.
any way around this?
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dont use a touch recovery, flash a non touch recovery then install superuser. or put the superuser zip on the emm(internal sd).

popcorn900 said:
dont use a touch recovery, flash a non touch recovery then install superuser. or put the superuser zip on the emm(internal sd).
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use this touch from tpmullan http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566613
u used this one from sk8erwitskil, u have to mount the sdcard first, but he has fixed it now(in testing) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472954&highlight=sk8erwitskils
dont read my sig

vincom said:
use this touch from tpmullan http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566613
u used this one from sk8erwitskil, u have to mount the sdcard first, but he has fixed it now(in testing) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472954&highlight=sk8erwitskils
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That's the one I used, the one from tpmullan. Couldn't mount a back up, and wouldn't read superuser either.

Me[kk]A said:
That's the one I used, the one from tpmullan. Couldn't mount a back up, and wouldn't read superuser either.
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weird, which method did u use to flash cwm
where is backup located, int or ext sdcard, which cwm version did u make backup
what do u mean it wouldnt read superuser, maybe redownload su and check the md5, running su in cwm has to b done a few times until it states that it has completed sucessfully
edit:try to mount sdcard from within cwm in "mounts and storage/mount sdcard" also mount emmc, i never had to do that but it might b that u have to do it once

Me[kk]A said:
That's the one I used, the one from tpmullan. Couldn't mount a back up, and wouldn't read superuser either.
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well if you would just try a non touch recovery you might be surprised.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725221
this recovery works and this is all the help i can muster up. so now if you cant figure it out then i guess you shouldn't be flashing phones.

I have the same phone this is what I did
Flash phone with CWM use this one
Clockworkmod Touch 5.8.1.3 Odin tar http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1566613
Then wipe data/factory reset, format- system, data and cache, and clear the partition and dalvik caches, do that to all of them 3 times each, using touch cwm.
Then odin ICS download it from here http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/
(make sure only Auto Reboot is checked nothing else)
Once the phone loads go through the setup then leave it alone, let it sit for about 20min then flash back the CWM. Then download Superuser from here and put it on the root of your SD card then flash it in CWM if it fails just keep doing it until it works, it worked the second time for me.
Once superuser is installed install busybox from the market and everything will work.
This method worked perfect for me I was having the same problem like you. The key is to wait about 20min after you flashed ICS before you do anything else.
Hope this helps you.

Well, the final superuser file worked, everything backed up perfectly.
Wanted to thank you all for you assistance. Vincom, if I knew who you were in Bolton, id buy you a beer, as I'm in your town 3 times a week.
lol Cheers everyone.

Me[kk]A said:
Well, the final superuser file worked, everything backed up perfectly.
Wanted to thank you all for you assistance. Vincom, if I knew who you were in Bolton, id buy you a beer, as I'm in your town 3 times a week.
lol Cheers everyone.
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cool, what was the solution? bad download

vincom said:
cool, what was the solution? bad download
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I'm not entirely sure. After not being able to back up, I grabbed an external sd, put superuser on that.
The back up went through with no problems. Also, superuser installed on the 2nd try and all went well with permissions from there.
Friend of mine had picked a zip file labelled "root" to use with Odin, and I'm suspecting the tar files I had attempted with in the past weren't correct and this file was.
Either way, I have lots more reading to do to fully understand what is available to me now. Busybox, nandroid, ROM toolbox installed.

iv flashed my phone so many times that flashing stock and rooting seem tedious to me. glad you got it rooted, now make a nand backup so you don't have to do it again.
my 32 gig sd is filled with nand dumps lol i don't even have a game on it to play.

[Q] Semi-bricked tf300t

I'll preface this by saying the following:
I know there are a lot of brick guides out there, and most are relatively easy to get out of. I've worked myself into a bit of a pickle, though.
It started when I noticed that there was an update available through the CM updater. I figured, what the hell, I'm running a nightly and this is likely to be a stable release, so I went ahead and downloaded it. I got home and checked the get.cm page, and sure enough, a new, stable build had recently been released. Being the diligent soul that I am, I made sure to do a full backup before I installed the .zip. Everything worked out just fine, the backup went swell, the update finished without problems, and then I rebooted my device.
All I see is the Asus splash screen. It just stays there. So I think, no big deal, it just didn't work out like I wanted, I'll go format my data (which I didn't do the first time around, in hopes that everything would carry over) and install again. The same thing happens. I haven't started panicking yet, since I still have 3 backups (1 older Jellybean, and one much older ICS). None of them work. I wipe everything that I can think might help. Data, system, cache, dalvik, you name it. Nothing was working, and I was starting to freak out. Then I decided to try to get some action through fastboot, hoping that I could push a .zip that wasn't the CM10 update that had started everything. In my search for a push command, I thought it would be a good idea to try a wipe from fastboot. This wiped everything. Not only the system, boot, etc. partitions, but also my personal partition that had all of my data. This in itself isn't a big problem, but it also left the partitions unformatted. Now I have a device that is devoid of data and can't do anything but get into CWM and fastboot.
What the hell can I do? Am I doomed? Is there no way to get out of the hole I've dug myself into?
tl;dr failed update, things got really real, really fast.
Specs before the initial update
ROM: CM10 nightly, Jellybean 4.1.x
CWM: 5.5.0.4
Kernel Version (?): 9.4.3.30-20120604 (I'm not sure with this, it says something about "android carhu-user" before it)

same thing just happened to me. Im going to download another version of CM and try that. It might just be that.

DerangedLoofah said:
same thing just happened to me. Im going to download another version of CM and try that. It might just be that.
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That's the thing, though, I have no idea how I'm supposed to get it to my device now...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989076
Have you tried this? I was just thinking about it because I can't reflash my recovery and thought this may be the way to start over.

OK I downloaded the us jb update and extracted to my external SD card and flashed it in recovery after wipes. Everything is good now.
Edit: flash recovery in fast boot.
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Glad you got it!

nitsuj79 said:
Glad you got it!
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DerangedLoofah managed to get it, but I still haven't had any luck.

DerangedLoofah said:
OK I downloaded the us jb update and extracted to my external SD card and flashed it in recovery after wipes. Everything is good now.
Edit: flash recovery in fast boot.
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How did you flash it in fastboot? I can't figure out how to get to something that's on the external SD card. What were the exact commands you used?

1. Download any software from this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1697227
2. Unpack it one so you have a zip without UpdateLauncher
3. Rename the zip to EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
4. Put on a sdcard into the root (the sdcard should be clean, no other files)
5. Boot you tablet to RCK (Volume down + power, then volume up)
6. Let the magic begin!!! Take some minutes.
Attention! JB user pleas choose a JB ROM, don't flash ICS ROM on JB bootloader.
You tried this method with no love? I was able to flash stock pretty easily doing this.

nitsuj79 said:
1. Download any software from this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1697227
2. Unpack it one so you have a zip without UpdateLauncher
3. Rename the zip to EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
4. Put on a sdcard into the root (the sdcard should be clean, no other files)
5. Boot you tablet to RCK (Volume down + power, then volume up)
6. Let the magic begin!!! Take some minutes.
Attention! JB user pleas choose a JB ROM, don't flash ICS ROM on JB bootloader.
You tried this method with no love? I was able to flash stock pretty easily doing this.
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Does that work with CWM? I don't have the stock bootloader on it.

This works only if you didn't flash custom recovery, it is the best method for locked devices. But you can still flash any stock ROM from CWM (but I suggest to use TWRP, you can install it from external sd). And you can push the ROM to internal memory via adb. I think you can install stock ROM via fastboot too, I am not sure, but the command fastboot update should help.

I managed to get it working again. If you can get to fastboot, push a bootloader that supports an external SD cards (like TWRP) and then from that install one of the official ASUS firmwares. From there, you have to root again, but it's better than having a device that won't boot at all.