I just got to rooting my device VZW SGS3, and I decided to try out twrp. It seems you have to navigate to data, media, to see the contents of the internal sd card. I assume this is the way you have to do it even though it seems a bit odd.
Also, ive never had a device with internal sd card, when I wipe data, the sd card wont be wiped, right?
Nobody is using twrp and knows anything about this?
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silver04v said:
Nobody is using twrp and knows anything about this?
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It's not being used because to install ROMs like AOKP and CM9 and CM10 you have to use the Kexec enabled CWM Recovery so nobody's cared about TWRP since it's useless pretty much.
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If I wanted to manually flash cwm instead of using rom manager, how would I go about it?
I have a version of cwm on my phone that I don't want and want to flash a different version but not with rom manager, I don't want to choose one from that list. I have another one id like to flash I just don't know how.
I was thinking go into cwm and use the "flash update.zip" I think that's how you do it, but I am unable to flash anything from the external card because it wont mount because I have an incompatible version of cwm installed.
Anyway to flash from the internal storage?
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seh6183 said:
If I wanted to manually flash cwm instead of using rom manager, how would I go about it?
I have a version of cwm on my phone that I don't want and want to flash a different version but not with rom manager, I don't want to choose one from that list. I have another one id like to flash I just don't know how.
I was thinking go into cwm and use the "flash update.zip" I think that's how you do it, but I am unable to flash anything from the external card because it wont mount because I have an incompatible version of cwm installed.
Anyway to flash from the internal storage?
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Out of curiosity, what version of cwr that's not on rom managers list are you so interested in flashing, and why?
Scott_S said:
Out of curiosity, what version of cwr that's not on rom managers list are you so interested in flashing, and why?
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Ok I got the right cwm installed but I STILL can't mount the external sd sonic can't flash anything. What could I possibly do to fix this? Any way to flash zips from the internal storage.
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Just in case anyone stumbles across this in the future, I was able to get it worlkng by formatting my sd card. It was the only thing I could do to get CWM to recognize the card.
seh6183 said:
Just in case anyone stumbles across this in the future, I was able to get it worlkng by formatting my sd card. It was the only thing I could do to get CWM to recognize the card.
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While your post back is appreciated, I still haven't quite figured out what you were trying to do in the first place. Or why.
Scott_S said:
While your post back is appreciated, I still haven't quite figured out what you were trying to do in the first place. Or why.
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I thought the card wouldn't mount because I was using the wrong version of CWM. I tried the version of CWM that was pre loaded with rom manager and it didn't work either. I had another one I wanted to force flash and try it. Turns out the card just needed to be formatted and CWM was able to mount it.
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I thought the card wouldn't mount because I was using the wrong version of CWM. I tried the version of CWM that was pre loaded with rom manager and it didn't work either. I had another one I wanted to force flash and try it. Turns out the card just needed to be formatted and CWM was able to mount it.
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Gotcha. I was just giving you a hard time, anyways.
I thought you were trying to install some prehistoric cwr version 1.0 because it had some secret feature unavailable in the newer models.
yes。wish it nice
I am curious if you're loading 7.1 r1 or not
Went to flash an updated Rom on my ATT One X. Been using CWM recovery.
Reboot into recovery, wipe/factory reset.
Go to find the file, SDCard is almost completely gone/items deleted.
I load up TWRP, mount the SDCard, nothing, all gone. So I just format the SDCard, copy the new Rom over to the SDCard root.
Reboot into recovery. Try to install, when I select it in TWRP, swipe, it sits, then just reboots the app and goes back to the main screen.
At a loss right now, phone apparently soft bricked. Maybe bad Rom zip?
Rooted/Unlocked of course, been working fine the past week. Only had the phone 1 week.
Ideas? Help..haha...
Easy, except you gonna have to reunlock boot loader.you can't boot into fast boot OEM relock bootloader and run ruu. You could also try using fast boot to flash something.
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Or it might be a case of twrp going bad. Fast boot flash recovery img and boot back into recovery.
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Or it might be a case of twrp going bad. Fast boot flash recovery img and boot back into recovery.
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It was clockwork I was using at the time.
Everytime I rebooted into recovery and selected the file to install, more stuff was missing.
I'm wondering if the SDCard got corrupt, recovery went crazy and wiped etc...or bad Rom.
Redownloaded Rom.
Reformatted SDCard for good measure since it was all pretty much gone.
Flashed TWRP back as the recovery.
Installing the Rom now. CleanRom 4.1SE.
But...all my Sh&t is gone off the SDCard. Backups, photos etc...buh-bye forever.
Side note, my camera lens area on the phone has been getting hot. Not sure where the processor is located on this phone, maybe it is just doing that while trying to install Rom and CPU is running a little hot and normal?
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It was clockwork I was using at the time.
Everytime I rebooted into recovery and selected the file to install, more stuff was missing.
I'm wondering if the SDCard got corrupt, recovery went crazy and wiped etc...or bad Rom.
Redownloaded Rom.
Reformatted SDCard.
Flashed TWRP back as the recovery.
Installing the Rom now.
But...all my Sh&t is gone off the SDCard. Backups, photos etc...buh-bye forever.
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Cwm has been known to have instability which is why almost everyone suggests using twrp, which is officially supported.
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Cwm has been known to have instability which is why almost everyone suggests using twrp, which is officially supported.
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Ok. I noticed it was nowhere near as complete and slick at say 4EXT recovery on my Inspire and suspected some weirdness was going on.
Back on TWRP now and seems to be installing the new Rom I just downloaded again.
Rebooting now...guess I should start copying my SDCard to my computer
Go to cnet.com and download recuva. Do a deep scam and it will recover most of your stuff.. worked for me.. do it on your computer.
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Go to cnet.com and download recuva. Do a deep scam and it will recover most of your stuff.. worked for me.. do it on your computer.
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Ok, cool, will give it a look.
The CleanRom thread blew up, apparently me and bunch of others had this happen using CWM and the latest build....
All working again, now if I can recovery some stuff, like the photos I had, that would be nice.
Appreciate the replies and help.
Edit: recuva didn't find anything useful. SDCard was blasted for good somehow.
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The CleanRom thread blew up, apparently me and bunch of others had this happen using CWM and the latest build....
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scrosler warned very clearly (even before the latest 4.1 build) not to use CWM. Why so many people chose to ignore him, I have no idea. For some reason the SD card wipe issue was much worse on CleanROM 4.1 than previous versions (and other ROMs).
Take note that the SD wipe issue has also happened on TWRP. Safest approach is to backup SD data to your desktop computer before flashing anything. In particular, your Titanium folder and anything not easily replaceable (photos, etc.). Its a bit of an annoyance to have to do this whenever you want to flash something. But until the cause of the issue is found and fixed, this is the safest way.
Not sure why everyone is blaming the Recovery's for loosing pictures and stuff from there internal SD card. Same thing happened to me with my HTC Touch Diamond, We all came to the conclusion it was from so much flashing. I have used both recovery's and lost pictures and My Documents. Just my 2cents worth.
Is there a tutorial somewhere showing how to switch from CWM to TWRP?
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Is there a tutorial somewhere showing how to switch from CWM to TWRP?
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Doload goo manager and use it to install recovery. Or you can go to twrp dev thread directions are there.
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I still have cm9 and 10 with the gapps on my SD card, I have a friend who has red cwm, its possible to just pop my SD in and flash it real quick right?
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Tyler5099 said:
I still have cm9 and 10 with the gapps on my SD card, I have a friend who has red cwm, its possible to just pop my SD in and flash it real quick right?
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Might have to transfer to internal storage...
1) But just flash like normal
2) Reboot (don't reboot recovery...you have to reboot system)
3)Will most likely get stuck at Samsung logo
4)Boot back into recovery
5)Reflash
That is the double flash method...
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Yeah it wouldn't bring up my SD card in recovery, ended up just copying and pasting the files on a computer at work. He seemed very impressed with cm10 though.
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I tried to install the kexec recovery and my phone is rebooting the whole time. It says installation aborted. What do I do?
Was able to flash the back to stock zip. Am I supposed to flash a rom first before I flash the kexec kernel?
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I tried to install the kexec recovery and my phone is rebooting the whole time. It says installation aborted. What do I do?
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How did u try to install the kexec recovery easiest way if your are rooted is download ez recovery from play store. Choose version 6 not not touch or twrp and flash recovery then reboot recovery u will then have successfully booted into a kexec recovery
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So all I do is start ez recovery then cwm 6.x then reboot? Then I can flash a rom?
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So all I do is start ez recovery then cwm 6.x then reboot? Then I can flash a rom?
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Sii
VERIZON GALAXY S 3
Okay. When you back up the stock where is it usually placed? I remember it was in clockwork on my dx
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kench33 said:
Okay. When you back up the stock where is it usually placed? I remember it was in clockwork on my dx
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should be in clockworkmod/backup on either the internal storage or external sdcard depending on how you have it set up. The latter requires the card being formatted as FAT32 atm though.
Is there anyway I can switch it to external sd? It saved to my internal. Or will it save to external if I change it to fat32?
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kench33 said:
Is there anyway I can switch it to external sd? It saved to my internal. Or will it save to external if I change it to fat32?
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There should be a backup to external sdcard option in recovery that will work once the card is reformatted.
Sorry don't mean to be annoying, but if my card is fat32 it would have automatically saved there?
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kench33 said:
Sorry don't mean to be annoying, but if my card is fat32 it would have automatically saved there?
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Not that I'm aware of. When you go into backup and recover in cwm there are multiple options. The standard backup or restore options go to internal. The ones labeled external go to the removable sdcard
And if it's not fat32 will it tell me it won't work?
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And if it's not fat32 will it tell me it won't work?
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Forgot the exact error but the first and second options for backup and restore are the only ones that work if it's exFAT.
Okay, also if I do backup from internal will that wipe everything on there if I wipe data? Kind of a stupid question but just want to make sure.
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Okay, also if I do backup from internal will that wipe everything on there if I wipe data? Kind of a stupid question but just want to make sure.
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Part of the internal storage is labeled as sdcard and protected from the data wipe in cwm. Otherwise you'd be sol'd if you wiped data and then wanted to flash something. :laugh:
Haha yeah just wanted to make sure. Thanks a lot for answering my questions!
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I tried to install the kexec recovery and my phone is rebooting the whole time. It says installation aborted. What do I do?
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Use ez recovery for gs3. It makes things really simple. Make sure to get cwm 6.1.0 for k exec or else you will not be able to boot. And all ways back up your current ROM for safe flashing
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Flashing Odin back to stock keeps failing
I got stuck in a bootloop and have been trying to flash back to the factory image from samsung-updates.com and it keeps failing. Im trying to find a different stock image to see if a different file will work. Any help would be appreciated
On the guide vzw gs3 edition there one step 3 go to the RootzWiki link and there is a revert back to stock image.
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Okays guys so my friend is having some issues, I can't solve it so I figured I would go ahead and ask you. When he plugs in his phone while in recovery to mount the sd card, nothing shows up on his computer. When trying to flash a custom rom or backup of a rom, it gives error status 7. I do not know what is wrong with it, and can not seem to find out how to fix it. I have spent the past hour or so browsing the forums after he did trying to find a resolve to the issue with no avail. If you can help me in any way it would be greatly appreciated.
What version of recovery are you using? Sounds like the SD card is corrupt from doing a factory reset in bootloader.
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Thanks for your reply
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What version of recovery are you using? Sounds like the SD card is corrupt from doing a factory reset in bootloader.
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He is running TWRP 2.1.6, he does all of his wipes in recovery none in bootloader.
Edit: It even shows up in device manager, as a regular device. No exclamation point or anything. ADB even recognizes it in recovery mode.
Install the latest twrp and Wipe SD card in twrp then mount.
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Attempting
exad said:
Install the latest twrp and Wipe SD card in twrp then mount.
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Attempting this right, he said that he flashed the newest one but he didn't. Thanks for the input this might just be a user error on his end.