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[MTD][RECOVERY] Restore CWM from TWRP

Thanks:
-Drockstar for CWM for the Epic
-Koush for CWM
-Team Win for the recovery injector
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This is a zip to restore CWM from TWRP if you flashed TWRP and you hate it or if a kernel you like has TWRP and you prefer CWM.
This has been tested flashing using TWRP while on ICS.
I am not responsible for anything that happens s a result of flashing this.
Make sure "Inject TWRP" is unchecked before flashing.
Download
http://marcusant.com/android/epic/restore-cwm.zip​

FIRST!! ..
always wanted to do that ... after reading how everyone else always wanted to do it : D
ha!

Thanks Marcus!
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kennyglass123 said:
Thanks Marcus!
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Your name is all cool and red and stuff

marcusant said:
Your name is all cool and red and stuff
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lol haha we uncheck inject TWRP but do we check zip file sig verif. and Force md5? Or just leave all 3 unchecked and we should be okay?
Much appreciated

XxLostSoulxX said:
lol haha we uncheck inject TWRP but do we check zip file sig verif. and Force md5? Or just leave all 3 unchecked and we should be okay?
Much appreciated
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I have nothing checked

marcusant said:
I have nothing checked
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So say someone has mistakenly let rom manager flash the bml cwm, could they use this to restore to the mtd cwm? Just a question, I didn't do that, just would like to know bcuz I know a few people on here have done that in the past not knowing better...

flastnoles11 said:
So say someone has mistakenly let rom manager flash the bml cwm, could they use this to restore to the mtd cwm? Just a question, I didn't do that, just would like to know bcuz I know a few people on here have done that in the past not knowing better...
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probably not

Gr8 having different options w/ the recoveries.............good of you to make this for us Marcus, Thank you.
..........sent from today's android 4.0.4

flastnoles11 said:
So say someone has mistakenly let rom manager flash the bml cwm, could they use this to restore to the mtd cwm? Just a question, I didn't do that, just would like to know bcuz I know a few people on here have done that in the past not knowing better...
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I thought that rom manager used a temp-boot copy, so flashing it wouldn't overwrite the recovery that you access from the three finger boot?
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styles420 said:
I thought that rom manager used a temp-boot copy, so flashing it wouldn't overwrite the recovery that you access from the three finger boot?
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Alls I know is a few people have soft bricked their phone by making that mistake with rom manager...

I have backups that I made using CWM, as well as backups made using TWRP, + these ALL work..........and I have used the kexec temp CWM from the CM Team w/ good results as well...............yes we all have our preferences as to which recovery to use + why, but *this* Recovery Restore is now indispensable to me going forward............... + it's just awesome having the option to switch our recovery direct from TWRP.
..........sent from today's android 4.0.4

sonarchist said:
I have backups that I made using CWM, as well as backups made using TWRP, + these ALL work..........and I have used the kexec temp CWM from the CM Team w/ good results as well...............yes we all have our preferences as to which recovery to use + why, but *this* Recovery Restore is now indispensable to me going forward............... + it's just awesome having the option to switch our recovery direct from TWRP.
..........sent from today's android 4.0.4
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please fix your period key or fingers, whichever is broken.

beltsnspoons said:
please fix your period key or fingers, whichever is broken.
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........too little, too late! Lol.
..........sent from today's android 4.0.4

I' am not able to restore CWM in place of TWRP. I could not post here earlier owing to the issue of 10 posts and i have crossed it just a while ago on another post on the same issue.
TWRP gives me an error message "unknown md5 error" for any zip file that i try to flash and hence i' am now stuck with ROM (MIUI V4) and the Kernel (Nyan Colonel). Due to the same error i' am unable to flash the CWM restore too. Is there any other way that i could restore CWM other than going back to stock with ODIN ?
Thanks

yaji63 said:
I' am not able to restore CWM in place of TWRP. I could not post here earlier owing to the issue of 10 posts and i have crossed it just a while ago on another post on the same issue.
TWRP gives me an error message "unknown md5 error" for any zip file that i try to flash and hence i' am now stuck with ROM (MIUI V4) and the Kernel (Nyan Colonel). Due to the same error i' am unable to flash the CWM restore too. Is there any other way that i could restore CWM other than going back to stock with ODIN ?
Thanks
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there is an option on TWRP to skip md5 check, just try to disabling md5 check..

didhiy said:
there is an option on TWRP to skip md5 check, just try to disabling md5 check..
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well everything is unchecked and inspite of it i get this error. This error comes up for each and every zip file and hence no flashing is possible

Is there a restore twrp from cwm flashable zip???
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DaKillaWilla said:
Is there a restore twrp from cwm flashable zip???
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Ya... its called flash the twrp.zip in cwm... there is no zip for mtd cwm, but there is for twrp, if that clears it up for you at all....

[Q] Can I Play Games???

Hello, I installed wildchild on my 4gslide and I wanted to know is there a way to get to the market. I am starting to think I should have kept my original rom. Any suggestions??? I wanted to download a few games. Am I bleep out off luck???

wesomatic said:
Hello, I installed wildchild on my 4gslide and I wanted to know is there a way to get to the market. I am starting to think I should have kept my original rom. Any suggestions??? I wanted to download a few games. Am I bleep out off luck???
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Click on the icon in your app drawer that says "Play."

Flash gapps
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I am flashing gapps as I speak...

Downloaded gapps and flashed but do not see any differance and do no see how to download any games. What did I do wrong? I followed all of the prompts... No luck...

If you did everything the right way you should see either "Market" or "Play Store" in your app drawer. Did you flash the gapps for ICS?

I flashed the gapps for rom wildchild through goomanager. Did I miss something?

wesomatic said:
I flashed the gapps for rom wildchild through goomanager. Did I miss something?
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Wow!!! Thats nice! I do not have that.... What rom do you use?

The gapps .zip file is supposed to be flashed through ClockworkMod Recovery.

OK. When I flashed the updates and the gapps, it takes me to clockwork recovery. Do I look for the zipfile from the sd card? Or is it an update flash from the sd card? I know I must be doing something wrong. But I am very close!!! I was just rebooting my phone from clockwork recovery thinking the update and gapps were flashed already...

I found out what I did wrong. I was not flashing correctly. I was supposed to find the goomaneger file and flashed from that. Flashed the first update corectly...

Now I have to fine what gapps to flash... Seems like I should start from the oldest to the newest? Some will take and some dont... Is it hit and miss????

wesomatic said:
Now I have to fine what gapps to flash... Seems like I should start from the oldest to the newest? Some will take and some dont... Is it hit and miss????
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You need ICS gapps
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I remember my first AOSP flash. I went one month with out GAPP's. Then my friend showed me my error Xo
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Thank you. This is my first use of a custom rom. I have been playing around with this for about a month. I wound up buying a back up phone "Samsung Galaxy S 4g" for 98 cents for a backup. Rooted that with no problem. Did not put a rom on it yet until I get my Doubleshot running right... This is fun. I am hooked. Thanks to everybody for their help. I am HOOKED!!!! Will keep you posted....:good:

Everything is working... Got the market. Thank you very much for all of your help. Soooo... S3 or HTC1????

Flashing a Recovery image from a Mac?

I've just rooted my GSII LTE and want to flash a recovery image now but I only have access to a Mac at the moment. Is it a bad idea to use Rom Manager; I hear a lot of people warning to stay away from it these days. Is there another way I can flash a custom recovery from a Mac?
Thanks.

Odin for mac I guess.
Either that or windows virtual machine/bootcamp.

If you rooted then use goo manager to flash twrp. After that you could flash any recovery in our Dev section, as long as its in .zip format
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Cyotik said:
I've just rooted my GSII LTE and want to flash a recovery image now but I only have access to a Mac at the moment. Is it a bad idea to use Rom Manager; I hear a lot of people warning to stay away from it these days. Is there another way I can flash a custom recovery from a Mac?
Thanks.
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how did you root? didnt you first install cwm to flash the su files, if so you have a custom recovery already installed, now you can just use zip files to install a diff recovery or do what cdshepherd stated

cdshepherd said:
If you rooted then use goo manager to flash twrp. After that you could flash any recovery in our Dev section, as long as its in .zip format
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This is the only way.

cdshepherd said:
If you rooted then use goo manager to flash twrp. After that you could flash any recovery in our Dev section, as long as its in .zip format
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Thanks! I already flashed CWM through Terminal Emulator but I will definitely remember your method for next time.

Cyotik said:
Thanks! I already flashed CWM through Terminal Emulator but I will definitely remember your method for next time.
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Sweet! I was gonna mention terminal emulator or adb but I didn't wanna stir that pot lol. Glad you got it
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cdshepherd said:
Sweet! I was gonna mention terminal emulator or adb but I didn't wanna stir that pot lol. Glad you got it
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Me neither. Its hard to recommend things when u don't know the ops skill level or comfort with such things . Glad u got it sorted

Anyone else notice clockwork now sucks! Any good options now?

simply put, for as long as i can remember all i had to do is make a full backup, it was stored on my sd, then if i made an error somewhere or flashed a rom i did not like, all i had to do was open up old faithful clockwork and do a restore and everything was fine. well the last few revisions of clockwork have screwed me!
if i do a backup, flash a new rom, make any changes etc, when i want to do a restore in clockwork, guess what? NO RESTORE FILES!
the restore data always gets marked and sent to the LOST directory.
what the hell?
anyone know of any GOOD backup and/or recovery software? i have had it with clockwork!
this is the second time i am having to raw dump an sd card then manually convert the binary back to usable files just to recover important files!
cheers,
disco

You can try CW-Enhanced [v1.1b] by Dread 7 , or TWRP 2.3.1.0 touch Recovery .

Can't go wrong with Dread7us' enhanced recovery (the first link in prboy's post above)

bilgerryan said:
Can't go wrong with Dread7us' enhanced recovery (the first link in prboy's post above)
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i used this for a long time, dread did great on it. now i use twrp and i actually like it, i hated it for a long time but theyve finally got all the details ironed out imo.

-somebody- said:
i used this for a long time, dread did great on it. now i use twrp and i actually like it, i hated it for a long time but theyve finally got all the details ironed out imo.
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I've never used it. What do you like about it thats better than the other 2 recoveries available?

Chad The Pathfinder said:
I've never used it. What do you like about it thats better than the other 2 recoveries available?
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I like the touch interface, the way the menus are laid out. Being able to select what to back up and restore (idk if you can do that on clockwork because I haven't used it in ages lol) and queuing multiple zips to flash right after another.
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jesuscash said:
I like the touch interface, the way the menus are laid out. Being able to select what to back up and restore (idk if you can do that on clockwork because I haven't used it in ages lol) and queuing multiple zips to flash right after another.
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With CWM you can select what to restore. But you cannot choose multiple zips to flash.

jesuscash said:
I like the touch interface, the way the menus are laid out. Being able to select what to back up and restore (idk if you can do that on clockwork because I haven't used it in ages lol) and queuing multiple zips to flash right after another.
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Did they fix the Sense flashing problem? I used v2 and the only way you could flash a Sense ROM was if it was under 215 MB... And believe me there isn't much Sense left @215 MB I only ever got the one to boot one on TWRP and then Dread came out with his and I have never used anything else.

Chad The Pathfinder said:
I've never used it. What do you like about it thats better than the other 2 recoveries available?
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he cleaned up the code and added in the superwipe feature from another recovery, i wanna say the amon-ra recovery but i cant remember. the superwipe goes up to a x5 wipe of all partitions and makes it easier to wipe before flashing new roms.
or were you asking me about twrp 2.3.1.0?
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bilgerryan said:
Did they fix the Sense flashing problem? I used v2 and the only way you could flash a Sense ROM was if it was under 215 MB... And believe me there isn't much Sense left @215 MB I only ever got the one to boot one on TWRP and then Dread came out with his and I have never used anything else.
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yes it works with sense now

-somebody- said:
he cleaned up the code and added in the superwipe feature from another recovery, i wanna say the amon-ra recovery but i cant remember. the superwipe goes up to a x5 wipe of all partitions and makes it easier to wipe before flashing new roms.
or were you asking me about twrp 2.3.1.0?
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yes it works with sense now
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I was asking about twrp. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

Chad The Pathfinder said:
I was asking about twrp. I'll give it a try. Thanks.
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before the touchscreen felt too sensitive and it also wouldnt flash sense roms correctly. they seemed to have ironed all of that out and i think it works good now. not to mention the ability to theme it if you choose to.

-somebody- said:
before the touchscreen felt too sensitive and it also wouldnt flash sense roms correctly. they seemed to have ironed all of that out and i think it works good now. not to mention the ability to theme it if you choose to.
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I did like the theming, but wasame only able to find like three when I was using it.

Definitely would recommend Enhanced Clockwork Mod. Best recovery by far...
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I read that CM doesn't officially support any recovery besides CWM. Why is this?
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disco_y2k said:
simply put, for as long as i can remember all i had to do is make a full backup, it was stored on my sd, then if i made an error somewhere or flashed a rom i did not like, all i had to do was open up old faithful clockwork and do a restore and everything was fine. well the last few revisions of clockwork have screwed me!
if i do a backup, flash a new rom, make any changes etc, when i want to do a restore in clockwork, guess what? NO RESTORE FILES!
the restore data always gets marked and sent to the LOST directory.
what the hell?
anyone know of any GOOD backup and/or recovery software? i have had it with clockwork!
this is the second time i am having to raw dump an sd card then manually convert the binary back to usable files just to recover important files!
cheers,
disco
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There's also one more recovery that you can try out if you have the chance, its called AmonRA. I can't say anything about it myself because I've never tried it, but you could give it a shot. I can also say that my favorite so far (haven't tried TWRP though, will soon) is dread's CWM enhanced recovery. Its very useful if your phone won't boot up but you can get into recovery as it let's you run terminal commands straight from there, it also has a very useful Superwipe feature which I think all recoveries should try to adopt/include.
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CNexus said:
There's also one more recovery that you can try out if you have the chance, its called AmonRA. I can't say anything about it myself because I've never tried it, but you could give it a shot. I can also say that my favorite so far (haven't tried TWRP though, will soon) is dread's CWM enhanced recovery. Its very useful if your phone won't boot up but you can get into recovery as it let's you run terminal commands straight from there, it also has a very useful Superwipe feature which I think all recoveries should try to adopt/include.
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Recovery is device specific and shifters don't have amon-Ra.
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CNexus said:
There's also one more recovery that you can try out if you have the chance, its called AmonRA. I can't say anything about it myself because I've never tried it, but you could give it a shot. I can also say that my favorite so far (haven't tried TWRP though, will soon) is dread's CWM enhanced recovery. Its very useful if your phone won't boot up but you can get into recovery as it let's you run terminal commands straight from there, it also has a very useful Superwipe feature which I think all recoveries should try to adopt/include.
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strapped365 said:
Recovery is device specific and shifters don't have amon-Ra.
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like strapped said we dont have amon-ra, thats where dread grabbed the code for superwipe from for his modified cwm recovery

thronnos said:
I read that CM doesn't officially support any recovery besides CWM. Why is this?
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Not sure but I don't really like the cm team. They lock you out of a lot of things
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-somebody- said:
he cleaned up the code and added in the superwipe feature from another recovery, i wanna say the amon-ra recovery but i cant remember. the superwipe goes up to a x5 wipe of all partitions and makes it easier to wipe before flashing new roms.
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like strapped said we dont have amon-ra, thats where dread grabbed the code for superwipe from for his modified cwm recovery
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Just to be clear, I wanted to point out the superwipe wasn't added from another recovery, I wrote all that code myself.
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Dread 7us said:
Just to be clear, I wanted to point out the superwipe wasn't added from another recovery, I wrote all that code myself.
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Beast mode
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[Dump/Backup] 4.3 Google Edition for both TWRP/CWM + Radio + Firmware

Disclaimer: I am not responsible if you flash this and it bricks your devices, flames start shooting from it, it blows up or implodes, burns your house down, or kills the neighbor's dog. Flash at own risk!
This is a stock non rooted nandroid for Android 4.3 from the Google Edition. I will not be supplying a flashable zip as I don't have the time so either wait for someone to release a flashable zip. I'm posting this so other devs can start working on their custom stuff
TWRP Back up (system & boot): https://mega.co.nz/#!aAIgULQK!IJxicTh5qWC8csn3uwY2GmjgAelXttxn5cJNrd2sFpg
(this needs to be unzipped into the same folder on your sd card where your backups are)
CWRM Image Back up (system & boot): https://mega.co.nz/#!KAQDHRBD!VkaAAGPQa1VyLEG2k6qH8Hn1E9N7dN8FGlQ9i-HbpxE
(this can be flashed in CWM it will not flash in TWRP)
Radio (Flashable Zip): https://mega.co.nz/#!HdwxkQqC!TgSeIFmErtLL8iJkpzdR5ThAPn8S0U5BmoEZKrJ_87w
Firmware: This contains radio, Recovery, Hboot and all the other firmware for 4.3 This is not flashable and must be flashed in fastboot RUU mode https://mega.co.nz/#!6M5nCRLD!fAUWUAXWv1Sl-7HAcycrR3oxBQ0_5co3s2N5OCUt-n8
It doesn't matter what CID you're on, If you are running sense, CM, or any other rom. If you are running any other rom besides the Google Edition 4.2.2 rom you will have to perform a factory reset (aka wipe data).
There is going to be nothing maintained in this thread. it's simply for development purposes
4.3 full conversion RUUs now available in both pre rooted and stock non-rooted versions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358781

mine....

mine 2........

Thanks for the zip. Just a quick question though, how exactly is a nandroid different from a cwm zip? From what I've read you flash it just like you would a regular zip, except it deletes all user data and restores it to whatever was there during the nandroid creation?

Nice....awesome work...all over this
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thansk one million times!!

ChrisJ951 said:
Thanks for the zip. Just a quick question though, how exactly is a nandroid different from a cwm zip? From what I've read you flash it just like you would a regular zip, except it deletes all user data and restores it to whatever was there during the nandroid creation?
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You place it in your CWM folder into backups then go into cwm and restore. Same for twrp I'm assuming
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C-4Nati said:
You place it in your CWM folder into backups then go into cwm and restore. Same for twrp I'm assuming
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Assuming all the other steps were done prior to this, correct? I.e. recovery and bootloader.. etc
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I posted a CWM version that I used the image.zip feature. That CWM zip CAN be flashed in CWM, I'm not sure about TWRP
edit: Does not flash in TWRP, just CWM.

Any way to get it rooted? Maybe flashing su for 4.3?

DroidRC1 said:
Any way to get it rooted? Maybe flashing su for 4.3?
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i would also love to know!

HRodMusic said:
i would also love to know!
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Go to the thread for conversion... Go a few pages back someone posted it there
Edit. Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44229341
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graffixnyc said:
Disclaimer: I am not responsible if you flash this and it bricks your devices, flames start shooting from it, it blows up or implodes, burns your house down, or kills the neighbor's dog. Flash at own risk!
This is a stock non rooted nandroid for Android 4.3 from the Google Edition. I will not be supplying a flashable zip as I don't have the time so either wait for someone to release a flashable zip
These are NOT FLASHABLE
TWRP Back up (system & boot): https://mega.co.nz/#!aAIgULQK!IJxicTh5qWC8csn3uwY2GmjgAelXttxn5cJNrd2sFpg
(this needs to be unzipped into the same folder on your sd card where your backups are)
CWRM Image Back up (system & boot): https://mega.co.nz/#!KAQDHRBD!VkaAAGPQa1VyLEG2k6qH8Hn1E9N7dN8FGlQ9i-HbpxE
(this can be flashed in CWM it will not flash in TWRP)
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graffixnyc - so if I understand you correctly (not asking for spoon feeding) I need to root/twrp recovery on 4.2.2, put the file you created for us (thank you) into the TWRP backups folder and restore it from there correct? Just checking.

mrjaydee82 said:
Go to the thread for conversion... Go a few pages back someone posted it there
Edit. Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44229341
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well i restoed this using twrp, everything worked flawless, i get a superuser installer icon saying to tap, it downloads and reboots to twrp and then im not sure what to do from there.

mrjaydee82 said:
Go to the thread for conversion... Go a few pages back someone posted it there
Edit. Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44229341
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But would it root the ROM tho?

DroidRC1 said:
But would it root the ROM tho?
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Yes
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mrjaydee82 said:
Yes
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Okay thanks thought maybe there was more that had to be done

cant for a kernel or something that removes the 3dot and adds htc or press and hold home to be menu!

RaptorMD said:
graffixnyc - so if I understand you correctly (not asking for spoon feeding) I need to root/twrp recovery on 4.2.2, put the file you created for us (thank you) into the TWRP backups folder and restore it from there correct? Just checking.
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You don't need to be rooted really. Just flash TWRP and do a back up (just your boot image so it's a quick back up) just so it creates the backup directory structure on your sd card. Boot into android and just put the folder that you unzip from the file in the OP in the same folder /sdcard/0/twrp/backup/HT?????/ folder (you'll see a similar time stamped one that you just made) plop the unzipped folder into there and then reboot back into twrp and restore.
Or you can just flash CWM and then flash that zip like any other zip

Does anyone have the radio.img from the 4.3 dump? Would love to give that a whirl over here in the states, see if anything improves.
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