Hey all,
My phone was acting up and had a lot of clutter so I ODIN'ed to stock WITH root and e3. I downloaded Rom manager and flashed recovery. Seemed to work. I did the double install deal. Loaded green recovery: great. Reboot the phone. Turn it off to boot back into recovery. As i do the two volume plus power button combo, phone boots and i come to the blue and yellow install screen for recovery. Happens everytime.
I even tried going back to entirely stock. No root or anything. I then rooted, added e3, and flashed. Same deal.
Whats going on?!
I'm flashing a rom right now to see if that fixes anything.
It can't be normal to have to reinstall the package everytime i reboot into recovery.
And it only boots into green. Not blue or red.
Help!
Just finished flashing Zeus and went into recovery. Booted right into red. I guess problem solved?
galaxy s phones and the infuse don't conform to the android standard. they use a kernel with initramfs for boot in place of a boot.img partition. the initramfs can't be modded short of compiling a kernel and flashing it to the phone. the behavior you described is absolutely normal for high end Samsung phones. there isn't really any other safe or easy way to do it. the green recovery is the one designed for the i9000 with the stock kernel. the red/blue versions are themed and modded version that are baked into the kernel. once you flash a rom with a custom kernel you will have red unless it is cm7 or miui which will have blue.
Thanks for the explanation! Makes sense now.
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I can't flash anything because when I go to my recovery menu I'm getting rainbows. I'm thinking this is due to the kernel that is flashed with infused v2.0.0. I just downloaded root tools and was going to use the pulldown editor, but when it said not to use on anything other than a Verizon phone, I accidentally hit the ignore button I guess? So I rebooted my phone and nothing was happening, so I pulled the battery and booted into red CWM and reflashed the serendipity rom. I rebooted out of red CWM and phone did not boot, so I went back to red CWM and flashed another rom I had, infused v2.0.0. My phone still did not boot, so I flashed the backup, update.zip and when it finished, I had green CWM, not red anymore. So just to try and get my phone working again, I flashed infused again, and this time it booted, along with the rainbows, as noted in the changelog with infused v2.0.0. So since I knew I could boot now, I rebooted into recovery to flash serendipity again, but the menu is just a rainbow, like on boot. I can navigate the CWM but I can't see anything, and the only reason I know is because I hit the power button, and I rebooted, and the first option in recovery is reboot. I wanna know if there is anyway to replace the kernel so I can see my CWM? or a way to flash serendipity with odin, because the kernel included with that contains no rainbows. Thanks in advance.
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I can't flash anything because when I go to my recovery menu I'm getting rainbows. I'm thinking this is due to the kernel that is flashed with infused v2.0.0. I just downloaded root tools and was going to use the pulldown editor, but when it said not to use on anything other than a Verizon phone, I accidentally hit the ignore button I guess? So I rebooted my phone and nothing was happening, so I pulled the battery and booted into red CWM and reflashed the serendipity rom. I rebooted out of red CWM and phone did not boot, so I went back to red CWM and flashed another rom I had, infused v2.0.0. My phone still did not boot, so I flashed the backup, update.zip and when it finished, I had green CWM, not red anymore. So just to try and get my phone working again, I flashed infused again, and this time it booted, along with the rainbows, as noted in the changelog with infused v2.0.0. So since I knew I could boot now, I rebooted into recovery to flash serendipity again, but the menu is just a rainbow, like on boot. I can navigate the CWM but I can't see anything, and the only reason I know is because I hit the power button, and I rebooted, and the first option in recovery is reboot. I wanna know if there is anyway to replace the kernel so I can see my CWM? or a way to flash serendipity with odin, because the kernel included with that contains no rainbows. Thanks in advance.
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holy textwall, I can barely read what you typed...
Looks like you flashed an ancient version of Infused (2.0.0 beta - 2.0.0 final fixed the rainbows).
Odin or Heimdall can flash a fixed kernel - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1240136 covers how for Heimdall, I'm less familiar with Odin. Watch out, I've heard that Heimdall and Odin can interfere with each other if installed at the same time on Windows.
Hey guys, complete noob here hoping to run a custom rom. I followed the instructions for the infused V2 rom for rooting, getting cwm red(coming from stock froyo), and heres where I have a question.
When I hit boot into recovery in Rom manager I get the green cwm.
If I hold the vol and power buttons while powering on, I boot into the red cwm.
Just wondering if I'm good to flash emancipation?
Yes. If you use Rom manager to boot into recovery you will be green, however boot a second time within CWM and the second time you will be red. Which is just how Rom manager works to reinstall packages, but eventually you get to red. Once there, you are good to go for Emancipation.
This is kind of a long read but thanks in advance for bearing with me.
Phone Details
Go Launcher Pro
16GB
I had a couple ram boosters and some apps that tweaked my cpu's
ROM
Cyanogen Mod 10.1.1
Kernel
Stock Kernel (before attempted upgrade)
Model
SCH-I535
Battery
2100 mAh
3.8 V Li-ion
Recently as of 8pm this evening I attempted to install a Faux Custom Kernel from a zip in my root storage using the CWM Recovery interface. From what I could tell, while I was watching the screen, the files unpacked and installed correctly. Before doing all this I researched the proper kernel and method of installation. Simply put, after the installation the phone rebooted and flashed the SAMSUNG logo (no cyanogenmod avatar) and then the screen went solid black. It will load into Odin mode as well as CWM Recovery successfully. I have cleared my data/caches and tried to plug it into my computer to try to flash a different kernel with another zip but it hasn't worked due to my computer not properly installing the MTP drivers. When I turn the phone on the logo pops up with no boot animation what-so-ever and the bottom buttons work but the screen is always black.
Quigly said:
This is kind of a long read but thanks in advance for bearing with me.
tried to plug it into my computer to try to flash a different kernel with another zip but it hasn't worked due to my computer not properly installing the MTP drivers. When I turn the phone on the logo pops up with no boot animation what-so-ever and the bottom buttons work but the screen is always black.
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Try to flash back the original kernel, if not working, wipe cache/dalvik cache/data/system then reflash the rom.
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I have solved the problem. Basically what I have done now is unrooted the phone. I, using Odin3 v1.85, flashed the Jelly Bean 4.1.2 Stock Rom image file and then the CWM Recovery. Next I flashed the insecure bootloader and from there got back CM11 with a custom kernel.
Hi,
I installed cyanogen, latest one. Flashed an old kernel from dorimanx by mistake, i didnt see that cyanogen was on lollipop for gt9100i. Everything worked fine untill i needed to restart the phone, now im stuck on a screen with modelname and a yellow triangle. I can go to download mode and flash kernel but it wont get me anywhere. Sometimes unit gets past the screen and show the kernels splashscreen, thats it. I need a tar file for odin for the newest dorimanx unofficoal 5.x rom but i can only find zips.. I tried flashing cwm in but i cant get into recovery mode... Any tips?
**Update**
I somehow got into CWM and could reinstall cyanogen, now i get the blue robot (cyanogens) that flashes, hope isnt lost. Can i inside cwm install the zip with kernel?
Hey everyone, I have a potentially silly question, but searching here and google hasn't helped me.
I decided to try out two custom roms for the z3, Carbon and Lineage, but once I installed them using a recovery (TWRP specifically), I was unable to get back into it. When I started the phone, I'd see the purple led, doing nothing booted into the rom, pressing either vol+ or vol- would change it to orange and a few seconds later, the phone would reboot again and show the purple led again. If I flashed the recovery again, the rom would no longer boot.
I feel like there is something super simple I'm missing with the flashing, but possibly can't describe it well enough to search effectively.
P.S. The reason I'm trying to get into recovery again (otherwise it wouldn't be a problem) is to do things like flash gapps, superuser, etc.
First up I would always recommend flashing the rom, gapps and your superuser in one go.
Sometimes it get's really messy when doing it after booting the rom without anything.
So now I guess you didn't upgrade your bootloader, did you?
Because the older bootloader didn't have a partition for the recovery that would survive a new rom flash (sometimes), but the new one does. But if you lost your recovery, you can easily just boot into fastboot mode and fastboot flash your recovery and instantly boot into it.
It also could be a problem of the wrong recovery you're using. Which one did you use up until now?
You were correct. Because I had a pre-rooted stock firmware, I thought I was on the latest. Turns out I was one version behind, the one version that did as you described. Once I flashed that first, it was working again. Thanks