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Unable to boot into Clockwork Recovery on Nexus S

Hi all,
You may need to bare with me a little with all of this, I'm extremely new to it all.
I picked up my Nexus S on Monday after previously owning an iPhone and then a Windows Phone 7 handset, firstly I have to say that I can't believe I didn't get an Android phone sooner - they're leaps and bounds ahead of the competition in my opinion and offer a much better!
With the help of a set of instructions I was able to unlock the bootloader and flash the recovery to use Clockwork 3.0.0.5, from there I was able to install Superuser from the ZIP to root the device.
Everything is working and rooted but whenever I try and get into the Clockwork recovery it keeps chucking me into the standard recovery, I've tried from the bootloader and from ROM manager.
The problem I have is that I can't backup my ROM because it just takes me to the standard recovery and sits there.
I had a look around but couldn't find anything relating to this on the forum.
There was mention of something called 'sgs kernel flasher' but it states it wont run on Gingerbread which I'm running.
Any ideas?
If you have any questions of something I may have missed out I can answer those!

Sosmething very similar to me recently. I just reflashed the clockwork recovery via adb/fastboot and works like a champ now.
Sent from my Nexus S

Cod Ball said:
I had a look around but couldn't find anything relating to this on the forum.
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Good heavens.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11080161#post11080161
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10238348#post10238348
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740748

shrivelfig said:
Good heavens.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11080161#post11080161
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10238348#post10238348
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740748
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LMAO! i agree with you
Thanks for pointing them all out
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Thanks for the help guys, as I said I'm quite new to all this so sadly the thread title:
"Q about cwm 3.0+ and 2.3.2"
Didn't quite stick out to me!
Problem sorted now though, all backed up and new ROM installed - happy days!

[Q] GPS-less Wireless Location Problem on CM9 RC1 (OpenSensation or HyperSensation)

I'm using the following ROM (OpenSensation | CyanogenMod 9 RC1) as of 27-06-2012.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494373
Nevertheless, this problem has also happened on HyperSensation, which is also CM9 based.
The wireless location service (the one exclusively based on WiFi connection rather than on GPS) does not work at all with this ROM. I have it activated on system setting. But, every application (like Google Maps, for instance) does not recognize this service as activated. Google Maps even displays a message asking me to turn the service on. If I turn GPS on, then I can localize my position. For all other ROMs I have used with this phone (including ICS ones like MIUI, AndroidRevolution HD, for instance), this service works just fine.
I guess this is a question for the development forum, but I'm not allowed to post there since I'm a newbie in the forum. However, I have some experience flashing ROMs. Anyway, I just searched for some thread about this issue and found nothing.

Flash gapps.. it needs the networklocation.apk or something... I had the same problem before... I use root explorer to put that apk to system/apps folder then set permission and install it like normal app and reboot.
This is how the permission should be:
(Long press the apk to show option and choose permission)
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Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk

Thank you very much. This issue was preventing me from using CM9. It worked just fine.
Sent from SMH-M380W converted to GT-P7510

eraldoluis said:
Thank you very much. This issue was preventing me from using CM9. It worked just fine.
Sent from SMH-M380W converted to GT-P7510
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Youre welcome and thanks for the follow up... Im glad it work
Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk

[Q] New to the S3

Whats going on people!???
I use to be up here all the time rooting every Android device I have owned and recently last year I went and switched over to Apple. Very pleased with their products I still decided I wanted to try an S3 out so I just got my hands on a Verizon S3 and wanted to root up and put a custom ROM on it, my main concern is the battery life on this rascal and I really want a ROM with great battery life.
What thread or video have you guys followed to root your device because I see a few diffrent videos on Youtube but I see that the rooting process is different for different carriers rooting. Any help would be greatly appreciated if someone could point me in the right direction in trying to root my S3.
Thanks!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+root+verizon+galaxy+s3+xda

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2

Yeah I have it rooted now but when I try to flash a ROM it keeps giving me an error saying
E: Failed to verify whole signature?
I looked it up and I see that they say you need to dowload a new or different recovery but where do I get another one from?

tee00max said:
Yeah I have it rooted now but when I try to flash a ROM it keeps giving me an error saying
E: Failed to verify whole signature?
I looked it up and I see that they say you need to dowload a new or different recovery but where do I get another one from?
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http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768142

Download the E-Z recovery app from the play store. It is helpful for flashing a new recovery like clockwork recovery or twrp.

As far as battery life goes...
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That is stock non rooted.this is the first phone I've had that I had no reason to root.
With that battery life keep in mind that at my kids party I snapped off about 300 pics and 5 2-5 minute videos
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

[Q] how to figure out the source of a problem

Hey all,
Finally my S2 returned from being repaired (for free, thanks Samsung... ehm... maybe that's a story for another day). And while being happy to have my regular phone back, I seem to have a problem which I don't seem to find the cause of.
Basically I used to have Ressurection Remix (one of the more stable roms I used btw), but seeing how the developer had some problems and it is currently stuck on 4.1.2 I decided to try a different rom: Omega v12.
The problem is that I had my phone restarting out of the blue a few times over the last couple of days.
Now I did not notice this the first few days when I was running Omega, so I am not sure whether this is something with the rom or with the apps I installed (I installed approx 100 of them in 2 batches).
So my question is following: is there a way to figure out what the problem is/was (some log of some sort?) so I can come here for more help with a bit more than "my phone restarts... help me"?
If it would be helpful these are the details of my phone and the rom it is currently running:
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Many thanks!

supermooshman said:
Hey all,
Finally my S2 returned from being repaired (for free, thanks Samsung... ehm... maybe that's a story for another day). And while being happy to have my regular phone back, I seem to have a problem which I don't seem to find the cause of.
Basically I used to have Ressurection Remix (one of the more stable roms I used btw), but seeing how the developer had some problems and it is currently stuck on 4.1.2 I decided to try a different rom: Omega v12.
The problem is that I had my phone restarting out of the blue a few times over the last couple of days.
Now I did not notice this the first few days when I was running Omega, so I am not sure whether this is something with the rom or with the apps I installed (I installed approx 100 of them in 2 batches).
So my question is following: is there a way to figure out what the problem is/was (some log of some sort?) so I can come here for more help with a bit more than "my phone restarts... help me"?
If it would be helpful these are the details of my phone and the rom it is currently running:
Many thanks!
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Did you do a full wipe before flashing the new rom?
Sent from my CLEAN Note ll

Yup I did but I restored everything with titanium (user apps, no settings or system stuff)
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app

[Req] CPL2 Update

I have been trying for days to download the new update.
I've tried kies, smart connect, dismissing through sammobile (I do have a sammobile account) and it just never completes or tells me user not logged in, when I'm clearly logged in. Would sanguine be willing to capture it from you cache partition and upload it for me? It would be greatly appreciated, just want the boot loader and modern more than anything.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1i77jA8ZCduVGpQVzV6TzJYVjg

RS.85243 said:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1i77jA8ZCduVGpQVzV6TzJYVjg
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Thank you sir. I have been banging my head against a wall trying to get it. It wouldn't even Download via ota on a completely stock TW rom. Your a life saver. Have you noticed anything better about the update? Battery life, signal strength, dependibility or speed?

The~Skater~187 said:
Thank you sir. I have been banging my head against a wall trying to get it. It wouldn't even Download via ota on a completely stock TW rom. Your a life saver. Have you noticed anything better about the update? Battery life, signal strength, dependibility or speed?
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have yet to update...

RS.85243 said:
have yet to update...
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Then I shall keep you updated. I flashed it a bit ago.
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So I was able to flash the newest firmware via ODIN and got CPL2 on my phone after two tries (the first flash would not get past the Sprint logo for boot). I then as previously stated else ware was able to perform 3 more updates bringing my firmware up to CQB3.
However, once I got to that step my phone would not root using CF Auto root as before.
I tried it a couple of times and RootChecker confirmed that something was still missing.
Not a big deal as I got TWRP back on the recovery and was able to restore my RR ROM from before.
Just thought I would give people a heads up.