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EVO problem with recovery after using Kernal Manager

Oh boy. I think I really messed up here. I have searched these forums and others. But I made some big mistakes (I think) which I cant find help for.
Root method: unrevoked. Rom: cm7. Attempted to flash savage zen kernal via kernal manager (for the first time).
Ok so I have been sucessful in flashing roms with rom manager. So I thought I would give kernal manager a try. I did not back up before flashing the kernal ( I understand now that I should have just like I ALWAYS do for a rom). I attempted to flash the kernal and the process stopped at hboot. I then went into recovery and installed the kernal from the "intall zip from sd card." I was then back in fastboot unable to get back to a working phone.
So I took out the sd card out and put in on my mac. I then took a old nandroid back up file and put it on the sd card. I then put the sd card back on the phone thinking I could restore back to that back up. THe file could not be found. While the phone was sitting on my desk at the backup/recovery I bumped the phone pushing it into backing up. Geezzzeee. I have wiped cache and davik cache. Anyway, now the only back up I see is the mistaken one (the one that I just did, but didnt mean to do). So here I am. HELP.
Please dont be too harsh. And thank you.

[Q] Can't Flash ANYTHING!!!!

Every time I try to flash something my tablet fails, and I have to revert back my backup. It doesn't matter if I download on PC or from the tablet itself. HELP!!!!
Galaxy Tab 2 7.0

Can you post what rom you are using right now, as well as what recovery version.
Also, what rom are you trying to flash ? You are rooted, right ?
If you can post some more details - am sure people will chime in
Good luck,

bill_in_mtl said:
Can you post what rom you are using right now, as well as what recovery version.
Also, what rom are you trying to flash ? You are rooted, right ?
If you can post some more details - am sure people will chime in
Good luck,
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I'm running stock 4.0.4, Rooted, Clockworkmod recovery. I have tried to flash several different roms. Romswell, AOKP, CM nightlies thru ROM manager. all of them fail in recovery. I flash stuff all the time on my SIII so I'm not really a Noob to flashing and what not, but I can't figure this one out. Thanks for any help.

What are you using for recovery? When you say failed what is the error message? Sounds like you should prolly reflash a current official recovery. If by failing you mean it hangs on first boot then your not wiping system before flashing. Factory reset and wipe system before you flash.

Are you by chance running any scripts for sd card swap, etc ?
I am running this script, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097 which swaps my 32GB external sd for the internal sd, which runs great - no issues, except with rom manager and flashing from recovery.
I have to go back and de-activate the script, reboot, and then dowload - or transfer file from PC, and it flashes without issue
Otherwise, I have had no flashing issues of any kind - using CWM 6.0.1.5 for the p3113
Good luck,
Bill

[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.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2

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.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
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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.

My infuse 4g cant get a custom recovery

See image attachment first: I beloved the SD card slot on my infuse is corrupted or broken. Would this keep a custom recovery from installing or being usable? Every time I flash back to stock and then flash an insecure kernel with cwm and root and busybox and what not I try to boot back into recovery and the 3e recovery is still on there. I'm almost positive the SD card slot is broken cause it doesn't detect it even when I flash to stock and boot normal. Will this keep me from getting a custom recovery?

Have you tried backing up and reformating your internal USB storage (the one that is approx. 13.3GB in total size)? The one the phone calls SD Card is actually your external SD card. Confusing, because in CWM sdcard is internal storage and and sd-ext refers to an app2sd partition not supported by Infuse kernels.
That's assuming that the SD card is the issue. You may just not have root permissions required to flash the kernel from the phone or CWM.
Best bet is to use Heimdall (recommended) or Odin (also good but a bit more finicky) to flash the kernel you desire. This should get you an unsecure kernel that you can use to flash the rom of your choice. Make sure your internal sdcard is working properly first and copy at least one rom install file to your internal sdcard before starting.
Follow the link in my sig to the super everything thread (ISET) for Heimdall and Odin options (should be in the first group, might be in the 2nd or 3rd post of the thread).

Yeah let me give you a little more background on the device. Ive odin'd and heimdalled it back to stock multiple times at which the device works, but the play store and multiple other apps do not work. The Sd card (external) I am assuming, cannot be recognized either. Ive fixed this phone before for a friend but IDK if I ever got the sd card to work but everything else did. Now I'm trying (and I had problems with this before) to get a custom recovery on here but the SD card error I keep getting (internal or external I dont know) keeps me from doing that. It keeps reverting back to the 3e recovery. I have flashed many different heimdalls icluding Entrophy's kernel that is supposed to give me CWM but it never works. Is there a heimdall one click that also includes kernels, custom recoveries, and so on? Cause I have searched trust me it took like 5 days of searching last time to fix it and now I have to do it again. Thanks! Oh and P.S. Odin keeps failing to flash tar.md5 files as well. Idk if its the version im using (Odin3 v1.7) or what. Oh and the phone is now in the connect phone to PC screen and not download mode. Thats happened before so I know its not bricked but I forget how I got it out of that mode. Thanks again Zen!

Oh and also every time I use Heimdall and install the drivers so it can comunicate with my infuse it causes Odin to not detect the device and vice versa. If I want to use odin I have to install a different driver, and with heimdall I need a different one haha. Its a dumb circle I'm stuck in ;P

Last item first. I've been able to get around the Odin vs Heimdall thing by using different USB ports for each. If you've been trying both on multiple ports you may need to run device mgr on your PC and remove some hidden devices. See here for instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33980291&postcount=11
As for the sdcard, I'm still recommending that you backup both sd cards and try a reformat. You can do this via the phone, or while connected via USB. You may also want to flash a stock package (with pit) after backups and before the formats.
The recovery is part of the kernel, so something else may be at work here.. if you get a good kernel flash you should get the recovery that comes with it. Try running CPU Spy and look at the bottom of the page to see the details. Post a screenie if you can.
The problem you described could be due to where installed apps are stored on the phone. Android creates a hidden area on one of your two SD cards (somewhat annoying if it ends up being the removable one..)
If the sd card is a problem this would explain why some things don't work correctly. You can try via the Settings-->Manage Applications interface to move apps to the phone. This relocates them to the /data partition and off either SD Card. If you get errors attempting this that further confirms sd card problems.
Not sure why a blown SD card would block a kernel flash though... have you confirmed that you have root? Have you tried flashing a zImage file directly using SGS Kernel flasher? Try to extract a zImage from a CWM zip file and copy to your phone then run the app to flash. Make sure the kernel matches the firmware (i.e. Froyo, GB, etc..)

Wow that was a lot of information haha. Alright I got my phone out of the connect to pc screen and i used odin to fully reformat including PIT, PDA, and Phone files. After that completed flashing it rebooted into 3e recovery on its own for some reason and it comes up with some errors saying it cant mount /data. This i believe is on the internal SD card and has to do with the system apps. The phone bootlooped at the att splash screen. After that I used another Heimdall reformat "Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click" which successfully flashed but still bootloops at the att screen. I got it fixed before but I have do idea how haha. If I can get it to boot back up I'm just gonna tell my friend I cant fix it because I believe there are deeper problems at hand here. Any tips on how to fix the boot looping? Cause two successful flashes via heimdall and odin didn't do it :/

Here's a screen shot of what I have now. I went back to odin and did a full reformat and repartition witht the pit pda and phone this time without the sd card in it and I'm still getting the /data doesn't exist. Quick question: I work at a cell phone repair shop and I know some devices internal memory is actually just an sdcard covered by a shield that can be replaced. If that were the case with the Infuse could I possibly put another sd card in that slot and fully reformat it on the new card? Seeing as this could be a corrupt internal sd card just currious.

jtl_777 said:
Here's a screen shot of what I have now. I went back to odin and did a full reformat and repartition witht the pit pda and phone this time without the sd card in it and I'm still getting the /data doesn't exist. Quick question: I work at a cell phone repair shop and I know some devices internal memory is actually just an sdcard covered by a shield that can be replaced. If that were the case with the Infuse could I possibly put another sd card in that slot and fully reformat it on the new card? Seeing as this could be a corrupt internal sd card just currious.
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you're still on secure stock kernel..that is what you're seeing.
in the heimdall uclb3 thread, after you flash the uclb3 stock, put phone back in download mode.
flash the kernel in the second or the third post to get your cwm recovery

qkster said:
you're still on secure stock kernel..that is what you're seeing.
in the heimdall uclb3 thread, after you flash the uclb3 stock, put phone back in download mode.
flash the kernel in the second or the third post to get your cwm recovery
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Even if I were to flash the stock uclb3 it will just bootloop. The phone isn't cooperating with either heimdall or odin. Well I guess I shouldn't say that b/c they both flash fine but the phone doesn't boot straight to the system, as soon as a flash is finished it reboots into recovery (3e) and installs some update package. I'm not sure what it is but it never boots straight to the system. Then after the update finishes it just bootloops :crying:
I'm losing hope. But I'll give your advice a try. Heimdall or Odin?

is there a way to format /data on the internal memory? I read your post and it says it does not wipe the data partition. I think that may solve my problem, but probably not lol

Flashing Odin or Heimdall stock with a pit file should take care of that... You could try qkster's cwm wipe or the infuse toolkit complete wipe.. That will clear /data.
The bootloops sound like non-stock file systems with a stock kernel/recovery.... Likely, since you are still seeing stock recovery.... The real mystery is why this is so after apparently successful flashes of a new kernel and rom..
What was running on the phone before all this? What exactly are you flashing now?
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Okay I fianally got it to boot up and I am putting this thing away FOR GOOD! No root, no custom recovery just stock JB haha. Let me see if I can describe this to you guys and get your opinion it is literally the weirdest thing. I remember the Sd card messing it up the last time and i remember what I had to do to fix it and tell me if this makes sense. If I had the sd card in the phone and tried to boot up it would boot loop or if I tried to boot into recovery I would get all those red errors. So what I did to remedy this was to somehow put the sd card in AFTER I had applied power to it with the 3 finger technique. This was done by putting the sd card in its slot but not clicking it, taking a small flat blade and putting it against it, putting the battery in the device with the blade in between the battery and the unlicked sd card, used the 3 finger method to get into recovery and just before it starts up i clicked the sd card in place with the blade..... No clue why this worked but when recovery started up I had absolutely no errors, it finally was able to find AND format /data and I did a factory data reset and wiped cache and rebooted to stock JB. Dont ask why it worked but it did? haha I remember having to do this last time I just couldn't remember the sequence. Does that make any sense to you guys? why would this happen, if you know?

so now that I finally got it booted and the market and all is working would it be possible to flash a kernel with the SGS kernel flasher that has cwm in it cause I dont wanna deal with either odin or heimdall again. would this bypass those or do I need root first?

That's a wacky fix for a wacky problem. Glad to hear you got it working.
I'll bet that you'd be OK just leaving that external card out. Reformat still recommended...
You will need root to use sgs kernel flasher. If you are running uclb3 (gb) stock you will need to flash a custom kernel via the dreaded Odin or Heimdall method. Try with the sdcard removed... Maybe you will have better luck....
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what do you mean by reformat still recommended? I wouldn't wanna have to go through all that again by flashing someother insecure kernel or another version of android or something. Its weird though why do you think when I flash a kernel that has a different recovery on it it doesnt stick?

Backup and reformat the external sdcard since that seems to be an issue...
The rest is if you want the ability to flash custom kernels and roms. If you are good as is... Well, there you go...
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Trying To Put On a New ROM, Having The Worst Time

My old phone got lost so I am using my Infuse again. I decided to update it since it is still on the old version from when it first came out. I was trying forever to update through the kies software until I realized I rooted it and so this won't work. So then I found out there are roms for way better versions anyways. So I found the Cyanfox rom and I wanted to do that, but I needed to first upgrade to cm9 so I went and downloaded the cm9 file and got the clockworkrecovery, and I installed it.
Now my phone will not turn on, it sits as samsung screen. And if you try to go to recovery it is just a messed up screen with all different colors as if the screen was broken. So now my only option to bea ble to install anything on it is through odin. I can get to download mode fine.
But this damn odin software will not detect my phone for the life of me. It literally will not work. I don't understand. I have spent hours upon hours on this between the past few days. I just want to update my damn phone.
Now I have to leave for work in 30 minutes and my phone doesn't work. This is just great.

How did you install CWM?
Sent from my Asus MeMO Pad 8"

Well I tried clockworkmod through the rom manager app, but I was running the android recovery 3e and it said I needed a modified version of that to be able to install 3e. So I replaced the recovery file with the one I was given, and then I manually installed cwm by naming it update.zip and running it on the recovery
The only problem was that every time I wanted to use cwm, it would go back to android recovery 3e, and I would have to click install again to get it to go into cwm.
Either way, it doesn't work anymore and I just need the damn thing to connect to Odin so I can flash it back.

Are you using a desktop or laptop? If desktop, are you using the USB ports in the back? If laptop, have you tried different USB ports? Maybe try a different computer? I've heard that USB 3.0 doesn't play nicely with ODIN so it's good to find some 2.0 connections. What Windows version? I've heard that Win8 can cause problems. Could also try Heimdall instead of Odin.
Unless I think of anything else, is the cable in good working order (recent successful file transfer)?

Alright. I got things working somewhat. I had to use different drivers for each program for it to be able to detect it. I don't know, its annoying as hell, but it worked when I went back and forth between drivers.
Anyways, I got my device restored. But the whole point of this was that I was trying to get to the KitKat rom(Cyanfox). I am still quite a few steps away from that. I am actually further away than when I started,
This is what originally happened: I had my device rooted(from when I last used it, 1-2 years ago) and had the 3e recovery. So I found out I needed a modified 3e so I could install Clockworkmod. Got that, all was well, and the thing basically got bricked when I went to update to a new rom. It wasn't the kitkat rom, but a CM9 rom that I needed to go to first so that I could then update to kitkat.
Now I got it unbricked, and I updated it using kies. So now I am on gingerbread. So then I rooted it again. So now I have the 3e recovery again, the only problem is when I go to system/bin/ there is no file called recovery, and I can put one there but it does not affect the recovery, it still looks for signed files, meaning I cannot install Clockworkmod.
Not sure what to do...

Seems everyone follows this process (looks like you already did step one) now....
1. Either use Odin or Heimdall One-Click. Follow instruction on how to do it.
2. While phone running install sgs kernel flasher from Market/Google Play.
2a. Copy/transfer Synthesis GB Kernel to your Internal SD card.
2b. Start up sgs kernel flasher and choose it from your Internal SD card. Phone will auto-reboot after done flashing.
2c. Wait a bit while your phone convert to new partition format and activate lagfix. Your CWM recovery version should be 2.5.1.3
3. Reboot phone into CWM Recovery and DISABLE vodoo lagfix and /system lagfix. Reboot once done. Phone will convert partition to old format. If you don't turn the lagfix off the phone will hang at Samsung logo when you install new rom.
4. Prepare your flavor rom/gapp for installation by copying them to your Internal SD card.
4a. Go into CWM Recovery mode and install the rom. You will need to do this twice since the 1st time was just a warning about partition format being different.
4b. Reboot once done. You will need to REMOVE the battery to power down the booting process and put it back in.
4c. Go into the New CWM Recovery and install the rom again since the previous attempt only install the new CWM Recovery.
5. Install Gapp.
6. a. Wipe: Cache / Factory Reset <--- Probably don't need it since it's new install from stock unless you installed stuff. Just to be safe.
b. Wipe: Cache Partition
c. Wipe: Dalvik Cache
7. Reboot
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I never tried step two myself, as I found a flashable download for ODIN that did this for me. But mine is a Rogers phone (not AT&T) so that would not work for you. Hope this helps.

Thanks you so much man. I know that is just copy/paste but I didn't see it, and it works. I was looking in Cyanfox thread, never looked at the Beanstalk thread.
Anyways I am in the process of doing this and it seems like it will work. Appreciate all your help!
Edit: Boom. Worked like a charm. Thanks so much. I am very happy now The funny thing is, half the reason I wanted this is cause everyone was group messaging, and I didn't have that capability anymore when I lost my phone(I was on such an old version). Again thanks so much.