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ok so i rooted my 2.1, 2.31.651.7 build using two tuts but none of them said how to make a recovery i did one once before with my 1.5 but i dont remember how i did it i would like to put custom roms on my new phone but i dont want the chance of bricking it i need a backup of what i have can anyone help me thank you
the 1.5 was an old phone it broke so i got a new one that had 2.1 that is why im doing it again

vortex82 said:
ok so i rooted my 2.1, 2.31.651.7 build using two tuts but none of them said how to make a recovery i did one once before with my 1.5 but i dont remember how i did it i would like to put custom roms on my new phone but i dont want the chance of bricking it i need a backup of what i have can anyone help me thank you
the 1.5 was an old phone it broke so i got a new one that had 2.1 that is why im doing it again
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If you don't have a custom recovery follow the via fastboo+adb instructions anybody else correct me if i'm wrong
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581521
You can go here for alot of useful info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:Hero_CDMA.png
By the way not to be an a$$ should have been posted in the Q&A thread.

i tried the fast boot but my computer wont connect to it to do anything when in that

Since your already rooted, the easiest way to put a recovery on the phone is with clockwork mod.
Go to the market, search for clockworkmod, scroll all the way down and download "Rom Manager"-Free version.
After install, open the Rom Manager app, and the first option will be to flash clockworkmod recovery. It will do everything for you to flash recovery.
Once flashed, simply shut the phone down, and when you turn the phone on, press and hold the home button till you get to recovery. To do a nandroid backup, scroll down to nandroid, and select backup. Done.
to flash a rom afterward, place the rom's zip file on your sdcard, reboot to recovery, select to clear system/user settings, scroll down to yes, then back in the main page of recovery, go to flash zip file, select zip, and then select the zip file from the list. After that is done, select reboot to boot into the new rom.
DONE!

thank you that was exactly what i needed

need helpp...plse

got a galaxy 4g running on stock rom rooted, i flash a bali kernal and now my screen goes black when it start up....plse help

ekcivic2000 said:
got a galaxy 4g running on stock rom rooted, i flash a bali kernal and now my screen goes black when it start up....plse help
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are you running a stock deodexed rom?

if he said stock rooted im going to guess prob a no

can you get into recovery or download mode at all?

im on the stock one, whatever came with the phone, yes i can get in recovery and download mode

you need cwm final from krylon360 u can find it in the bible and also you will need the modified recovery file and a deodexed rom u can get from the bible follow the directions and then u can have your kernel

ekcivic2000 said:
im on the stock one, whatever came with the phone, yes i can get in recovery and download mode
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I suggest to Odin this first http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063696

im really new with android, going to need help on this, but i chk out the bible

also read the thread noobs guide to flashing odin and just follow directions if you need any help feel free to ask we are glad to help new members and welcome to the community

im confused about how to flash the cwm recovery, how do i flash it?

ekcivic2000 said:
im confused about how to flash the cwm recovery, how do i flash it?
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the update zip goes on the root of the sd card
meaning not in a folder dont extract it just copy it

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117554
after you odin according to the noobs guide to odin in the bible,
go to krylons final cwm. his directions are pretty straightforward. i used root explorer to move the recovery file where it needed to be and placed the update.zip file on the root of your sd, which means that if you connect your phone to the computer and open it using windows explorer, it is that first window, which lists all of the folders. dont put these files in folders or anything.
i am assuming you downloaded the rom already from the CWM rom section in the bible. its up to you. im biased towards bionix frost because it was what i started with, but you HAVE to check out team acids new roms!
i would also dl bali 3.3 kernel as well. place all of the zip files you download into the root of your sd card..
once that is done, i restarted my phone in recovery by shutting down fully and pressing the power+volume up+volume down. once there, i went to reinstall packages to get into cwm.
then when this loads, i wiped the system/factory reset and wiped the cache. then i went to mounts and storage and mounted my system. (the final mounting output should be: unmount, mount, mount, unmount). i then scrolled to "go back"
i choose install zip file from sd card. choose zip file, which should be the second option if my memory serves me right. choose your cwm flashable rom and install that one. then when that is done, went back and went to advanced and rebooted recovery and flashed my bali uv kernel. when that is flashed, i click go back and choose reboot system. once that is done, you will see the galaxy s screen for like 5 min or so followed by the boot animation. once you see this, it will take another minute or so to load up. once you see that the rom loads up...LET THE PHONE SIT FOR 10 minutes. i know it seems long, but just let it sit.
after 10 min or so, i would go into your about phone options and check and see that you have bali and that the rom is correct.
you can flash a modem too using the same process as flashing any other zip file.
remember, the first option in choosing a zip file is update.zip from krylons final cwm. do not flash this after the rom/ext/whatever. im not sure if this has been addressed (im still a noob), but everytime i did that, i bricked my phone. lol. so just to answer your question before you wonder...cause i always wondered whether i should flash that or not. lol. you do nothing with that update.zip. once you restart, and you see that you have bali 3+, you can delete that update.zip because it is no longer needed.
make sure you read through the original threads too before flashing.

gotcha, so all i need is the update.zip file? do i need the binary file?

yay! workssss, thanks everybody

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.
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

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.
Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk
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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.
Sent from my I897 using XDA App

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.
Sent from my I897 using XDA App
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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] I messed it all up in nexus s!

First of all,
I updated to 4.0.3
then i would like to root my phone..
I used a guide found on the nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-root/how-to-root-nexus-s-or-nexus-s-4g-on-ics-or-gingerbread/ and then i installed rom manager free from market and i tried flashing cwm recovery inside rom manager.
But rom manager was fc and i decided to google it to find an other way to install cwm recovery.
Then i found this guide nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-force-your-nexus-s-into-clockworkmod-recovery/ and i followed this exactly, hoping that it could be easy to flash the new 4.0.3 rom again.
When i try to open bootloader mode and select recovery a sparking android is showing up an then only the lights from the touch keys are glowing.!
When i press either (Vol- and Power) or Power Clockwork Mod recovery shows up and when i try to install zip from sd it shows status 7 installation aborted. I searched forums that proposed to wipe all data and dalwik data.
I did all these and also status7 shows up every time i try to flash a rom.
I ask for your help!!!

updated your cwm recovery to 5.x.x.x. and dont expect help or no one will help, ask for help instead.

you are right i wrote by mistake.

simms22 said:
updated your cwm recovery to 5.x.x.x. and dont expect help or no one will help, ask for help instead.
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I did that and again status 7

konkostis said:
I did that and again status 7
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what rom are you trying to flssh?

cm9 or stock ICS

konkostis said:
First of all,
I updated to 4.0.3
then i would like to root my phone..
I used a guide found on the nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-root/how-to-root-nexus-s-or-nexus-s-4g-on-ics-or-gingerbread/ and then i installed rom manager free from market and i tried flashing cwm recovery inside rom manager.
But rom manager was fc and i decided to google it to find an other way to install cwm recovery.
Then i found this guide nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-force-your-nexus-s-into-clockworkmod-recovery/ and i followed this exactly, hoping that it could be easy to flash the new 4.0.3 rom again.
When i try to open bootloader mode and select recovery a sparking android is showing up an then only the lights from the touch keys are glowing.!
When i press either (Vol- and Power) or Power Clockwork Mod recovery shows up and when i try to install zip from sd it shows status 7 installation aborted. I searched forums that proposed to wipe all data and dalwik data.
I did all these and also status7 shows up every time i try to flash a rom.
I ask for your help!!!
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I managed to revive my beloved nexus!!!!
All that i've done is to also force my nexus to boot from the latest cwm found at its website and also downloaded stock ics rom found at rom manager site and all ok!!!

konkostis said:
First of all,
I updated to 4.0.3
then i would like to root my phone..
I used a guide found on the nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-root/how-to-root-nexus-s-or-nexus-s-4g-on-ics-or-gingerbread/ and then i installed rom manager free from market and i tried flashing cwm recovery inside rom manager.
But rom manager was fc and i decided to google it to find an other way to install cwm recovery.
Then i found this guide nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-force-your-nexus-s-into-clockworkmod-recovery/ and i followed this exactly, hoping that it could be easy to flash the new 4.0.3 rom again.
When i try to open bootloader mode and select recovery a sparking android is showing up an then only the lights from the touch keys are glowing.!
When i press either (Vol- and Power) or Power Clockwork Mod recovery shows up and when i try to install zip from sd it shows status 7 installation aborted. I searched forums that proposed to wipe all data and dalwik data.
I did all these and also status7 shows up every time i try to flash a rom.
I ask for your help!!!
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I suggest you to download the stock gingerbread for your model from Rom Manager and install it as update.zip. That will unroot your phone. So root it again and try flashing new roms (cm9 or ICS). You should flash kernel after flashing the rom.
Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk

[Q] Failed to Use CWM and ICS on phone and now I have a problem

Hi guys, I'm relatively new to this forum.
I've been trying to upgrade my Tmobile LG G2x phone to ICS by using an AOKP ROM that I found online. I followed the instructions on how to use a CWM from this site and all of that worked. However as I was copying the AOKP file to the phone, I realized that I had already extracted that file to my phone instead of leaving it as a zip.
When I booted my phone in CWM I tried to access the install zip from Sd card> choose zip from Sd card> then select the aokp_p999-test2.zip to start flashing the AOKP ROM (ICS). However, all I saw were a bunch of files.
The real problem: I followed these instructions earlier:
Now do a full wipe by selecting Mount and Storage then wipe the following:
Format System
Format Data
Format Cache
Go back to main menu and select advance then wipe dalvik-cache.
Apparently I didn't have a backup, so when I wiped all these formatting files and tried to boot back to my phone to recopy the files, I'm stuck on a blinking screen during boot... I have no way of returning back to my phone and I'm freaking out right now...
Tried using a Flash Stock Recovery option, but I get stuck on the page and can't click on Reboot System now.
HELP ME PLEASE...WHAT DO I DO

AOKP has not been updated for this phone in some time, there are a couple of links to the builds on page 102 of that thread if you insist on trying that out. I'd suggest trying a different ROM from the the development section that has been more recently updated though.
Can you not boot into CWM again hold down the Power & VOL down buttons when you turn your phone on? If not try this: ROM for recovery G2X under the NVFLASH

xBkKx said:
AOKP has not been updated for this phone in some time, there are a couple of links to the builds on page 102 of that thread if you insist on trying that out. I'd suggest trying a different ROM from the the development section that has been more recently updated though.
Can you not boot into CWM again hold down the Power & VOL down buttons when you turn your phone on? If not try this: ROM for recovery G2X under the NVFLASH
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I can boot into CWM, but apparently I never backed up any files from my phone...
Also, will the new ROM for recovery let me boot into my main screen?
Thanks

Chokachilds said:
I can boot into CWM, but apparently I never backed up any files from my phone...
Also, will the new ROM for recovery let me boot into my main screen?
Thanks
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The directions in that thread should get your phone to boot back up with the stock ROM installed but since you could still try to just boot into CWM after downloading a different ROM and flash it. There are nandroid backups of the stock ROMs HERE that you can download and unzip the folder into your Clockworkmod/backup folder to have a backup
Sent from my LG-P999

Alright that worked! Now I want to try again to get a ROM for ICS. Since you said that the AOPK one is outdated, do you have any suggestions or links to new ones that work well? I know it's off-topic, but thank you!

Chokachilds said:
Alright that worked! Now I want to try again to get a ROM for ICS. Since you said that the AOPK one is outdated, do you have any suggestions or links to new ones that work well? I know it's off-topic, but thank you!
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ICS is all.sorts of broken as well as jelly bean. but go look in development section and read and read and read.
than choose!
G2x-CM7 Nightly 11/18/12 Build, Trinity ELP Kernel

Moved to proper forum.