So I flashed Paranoid-Android Jellybean and it just screwed up my phone. I had to use Odin to bring it back to stock. Now I've got it almost back to where I want it but I can't for the life of me get CWM recovery onto my phone. Its got super user on it and I can go into the CWM app and tell it to flash CWM and it says it was successful but upon booting into recovery I'm getting the Android 3e recovery with signature verification. I've tried to replace the recovery file with the modified one but if I reboot my phone it just hangs at the Samsung screen. I tried to install SGS kernel flasher as well but its failing to download/install it. Hopefully someone can point out what I'm doing wrong because I don't remember ever having this much trouble.
You can use this to get your recovery back -thanks and credit to qkster and Entropy512
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
Questions, let me know and I'll try to help.
Alright, downloaded and used that program. It went through and flashed perfectly fine and was easy to use; only issue is my recovery didn't work any better. I was able to boot into recovery but when I did it was just a scrambled mess of colors. I then used Odin to flash back and now I'm back at the Android 3e recovery again. I've tried to replace the recovery file and boot into recovery but it just hangs at the Samsung logo and if I replace the update.zip it won't flash because its not signed correctly. I've also tried to flash via Rom Manager and it says it went through and was successful and has my "latest version" set as the version I just flashed.
I'm lost as to what I'm doing wrong.
Ok- it may be a process but I am willing to help you figure this out. Once you learn, as long as you are going to be flashing roms, it will come in handy in the future. Couple of questions:
Have you used Heimdall before?
Did you also flash the kernel (Entropy's Daily Driver) in post 2?
Ok didn't even notice there was a way of installing the kernel that way. Did it and now I have a working recovery!!! Thank you so much. I've bricked my phone before but odin fixed it no problem. I'll keep this in mind next time. Saved me a lot of time.
Glad to hear this - nice work.
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Lets see if I can go through this whole skimmy with you guys:
I was on MIUI, going to go into recovery to flash another modem because the one it has doesn't work well for me, I see that I have no recovery, for somereason it vanished even after doing the recover fix. I go through the process of fix thats on the MIUI thread, sgs kernal flasher etc, so once I flash that to get red CWM, the phone just stops booting up at all, then after a while I finally managed to get it to boot into red CWM, then I did the process to get it to blue recovery, I've tried flashing my backup rooms, a new install of MIUI, with full wipes, then when I go to reboot I go back into blue CWM.
Since I've not had this phone very long, I have no idea what the hell its doing, i would have assumed I'd flash the rom again and it would boot up like normal.
So am I soft bricked or what?
soulysephiroth said:
Lets see if I can go through this whole skimmy with you guys:
I was on MIUI, going to go into recovery to flash another modem because the one it has doesn't work well for me, I see that I have no recovery, for somereason it vanished even after doing the recover fix. I go through the process of fix thats on the MIUI thread, sgs kernal flasher etc, so once I flash that to get red CWM, the phone just stops booting up at all, then after a while I finally managed to get it to boot into red CWM, then I did the process to get it to blue recovery, I've tried flashing my backup rooms, a new install of MIUI, with full wipes, then when I go to reboot I go back into blue CWM.
Since I've not had this phone very long, I have no idea what the hell its doing, i would have assumed I'd flash the rom again and it would boot up like normal.
So am I soft bricked or what?
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Seems like you may be soft bricked so no biggie.
Even thou, try to reinstall the MIUI zip if you still have it on the Internal Sd card, you dont loose a thing for trying, and as it seems maybe you have to go back to stock by Odin/heimdall and thats it.
Anyways i would recommend to wipe data/cache and reinstall MIUI before using Odin/heimdall back to stock.
Yeah, I tried to flash the zip again and then it gave me an error about boot files, so I decide to do the odin unbrick. Its going through its processes right now.
soulysephiroth said:
Yeah, I tried to flash the zip again and then it gave me an error about boot files, so I decide to do the odin unbrick. Its going through its processes right now.
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Alright cool, that will fix it for sure haha
Hello, I'm new to the forums and I feel bad I'm already screwing things up :/
Anyway on to the problem... I've had CM9 running on my phone for about two weeks now but I wanted to get rid of the rainbows in CWM and at boot. Today I downloaded Rom Manager from the market place, and when I ran it, it prompted me to install CWM recovery to my SD card, although I already had it installed I thought I'd give it a try. Bad idea, now I can't leave recovery mode, my phone will continually reboot into recovery, I've tried wiping all data and clean installing CM9 again and still nothing. I've even tried the exitrecovery.zip script to no avail
Any suggestions or ideas on how to fix it and boot into my ROM again?
Thanks!!
I would venture to say you might have to reflash...or start over from stock...
i would reload stock....then reload ics or the rom of your choice...
Thanks a lot! Worked like a charm, I used Odin and flashed factory stock 2.2.1, now I'm off to getting ICS back.
Thanks again!
Does anyone know why this happens? I've noticed that anytime I open CWM and choose the boot to recovery option is when I get stuck with CWM Recovery looping. I then have to go back to stock and start over again.
I'm not entirely sure why it happens, my guess was that it puts up a bad flag not compatible with ICS that keeps it from booting that, that was why I tired the exitrecovery script, I looked through it and it appeared to me to change a flag for booting. I'm not sure why it happens but I'd say just use the reboot to recovery option that the ROM provides in the shutdown menu, I know that always works.
I had my phone rooted and and a few mods installed for the past while. I didn't like them so I went back to the origional Rogers ROM. I hated it, so I wanted to try out ICS for my phone. I can't get it to install CWM though. I've tried re-rooting it (and it completed, as far as I can tell). It should still be unlocked, again, as far as I can tell.
I've followed everything on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25526643&postcount=2
I've downloaded and isntalled Superuser repeatedly
and I've downloaded and isntalled CWM repeatedly.
when I try to "fix permissions" in CWM I get An error occurred while attempting to run privaleged commands!, but at the bottom it says complete.
Then when I try to restart in recovery mode I get
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed.
and then it shows that it's restarted in Samsung's recovery mode.
any ideas?
mac_angel said:
I had my phone rooted and and a few mods installed for the past while. I didn't like them so I went back to the origional Rogers ROM. I hated it, so I wanted to try out ICS for my phone. I can't get it to install CWM though. I've tried re-rooting it (and it completed, as far as I can tell). It should still be unlocked, again, as far as I can tell.
I've followed everything on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25526643&postcount=2
I've downloaded and isntalled Superuser repeatedly
and I've downloaded and isntalled CWM repeatedly.
when I try to "fix permissions" in CWM I get An error occurred while attempting to run privaleged commands!, but at the bottom it says complete.
Then when I try to restart in recovery mode I get
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed.
and then it shows that it's restarted in Samsung's recovery mode.
any ideas?
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A couple of clarifications.
1. Rooting a phone only gives you access to root files (the OS). The superuse.apk, the su files.
2. Stock kernel do not give you the ability to flash insecure zip files. An insecure custom kernel is needed for this.
3. You don't need root to flash an insecure file in a modded cwm.
You are trying to flash an unofficial firmware or insecure *.zip with a secure stock kernel - not going to happen. There are two different ideas altogether.
To have the insecure cwm you are looking for, you need to flash the kernel on that post while in download mode.
Put your phone in DL mode. Flash the kernel then boot into modded cwm recovery
thanks for getting back to me. I had to step out to get some things before the stores closed.
doesn't Entropy's 4.4.2012 kernel do that though?
mac_angel said:
thanks for getting back to me. I had to step out to get some things before the stores closed.
doesn't Entropy's 4.4.2012 kernel do that though?
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Yes it does. But you don't have it installed.
that's the SGH_I997 Entropy 4_4_2012-One-Click-Heimdall file that runs in Java? I've downloaded that and ran in repeatedly. Keeps saying completed and reboots the phone no problem.
I'm about to reboot in Samsungs recovery mode to try to flash the CWM-Superuser Busybox Root UCLB3 file. I'll wait for your response first.
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that's the SGH_I997 Entropy 4_4_2012-One-Click-Heimdall file that runs in Java? I've downloaded that and ran in repeatedly. Keeps saying completed and reboots the phone no problem.
I'm about to reboot in Samsungs recovery mode to try to flash the CWM-Superuser Busybox Root UCLB3 file. I'll wait for your response first.
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I don't remember if mac will flash the kernel correctly. If you check the CPU info and it shows entropy kernel and not the stock kernel, you should be able to boot into cwm recovery with the three finger technique. It will be a red recovery.
If cwm is blue, entropy is not installed.
If you are looking to install a different firmware, there is no need to root. Just flash the firmware you want in cwm. Chances are, the unofficial firmware is already rooted.
mac_angel was a nick I created about 18 years ago when I worked for Apple Canada. I haven't worked with a mac in God knows how long. My last IT job was IBM, lol.
Anyway, I'm not sure what happened. I went to restart in the Samsung's recovery mode again to flash with that file I mentioned and it booted in CWR. I cleared all the dev cache and everything, and flashed the ROM I had already moved over. Phone is still restarting, but it looks like I might be good. I didn't do anything from the time I first posted to now though, lol. I was about to try to flash that file and it worked. Only thing I can think of is that before I was always trying to restart the phone in CWR mode by selecting it to reboot in that mode from the application instead of the three finger salute (oh, wait, that's M$).
You got it going?
yes, thank you. Not sure if you can do it, but the thread can be closed now. Thanks for getting back to me, as well as your other great posts.
So. I'm sorry to say, but this phone has given the biggest headache. Here's the background:
I really only use this phone for entertainment and stuff. BUT I decided to root and unlock the bootloader, somehow or another the phone apparently lost root a few times (According to some users here) but never lost SuperUser or anything. I've never been able to flash a rom on this thing. Then a few weeks ago the phone just encountered an error of some sort and would only get to the ICS boot animation and loop over and over. I just gave up on it. Then one day I decided to play with it. I got it into fastboot and then into recovery, (Not CWM Recovery) and was able to get it all set up again. So I figured I'd give it one more shot. I downloaded CWM and downloaded recovery, and a custom rom. tried to flash through fastboot>recovery but it's still the stock recovery, not CWM recovery. So I factory resetted it etc and started from scratch. Now if I download CWM it WILL NOT download recovery. It gets about 99% of the way and tells me: "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!" If I download it from a link I can't open the file....... Someone help I just want a good JellyBean Rom. :crying:
Edit: I've Googled as much as I could stand and still haven't come across anything entirely helpful. Please explain so I could understand. Pictures help if needed lol
Anyone?
You can't use clockworkmod app to flash recovery without root.
Get the fastboot image of cwm recovery ( not the app). Or twrp. Flash it with fastboot.
Boot directly into it and flash what you want. If you boot up a stock os it overwrites the custom recovery on boot.
clockworkmod app sucks IMHO and should never be used for anything period. Not fond of the recovery itself either.
So I've been play with Android for a few years now and I love it. Got the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in the fall of 2012 and had a custom rom installed not long after. Periodically I check XDA to see if there is a new custom ROM I want to try. Finally there is, OMNIRom. It says I need a recovery image that can handle the new SELinux. After poking around for an easy way to update I findout that the goo.im has a new recovery that it will install. And that's where things go south. I installed the new TWRP v2.6.3.0 via the goo.im and then reboot into the recovery. I go to flash the new ROM and it fails. I try downloading the ROM again and flashing it. It fails again. Okay, shouldn't be a problem... I'll just flash my prior rom. It too fails. Uh-oh.... If I try to boot normally, it just loads directly to the faulty TWRP. If I try to boot to the bootloader so I can use Heimdall to flash over a new recovery, it boots to TWRP....
I found a new recovery in a ZIP format finally and tried to use that, but it fails too.
Any advice? Suggestions? Please help.