[Q] cwm touch FAIL - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Having a problem with making nandroid back ups. First off a little back ground. I rooted and unlocked using the tutorial found here on xda had no problems every thing went well I chose clockwork mod touch as my recovery program. I can flash anything wipe bla bla bla... but I can only make a nandroid to the internal sd . When I try to backup to ext sd it fails while backing up system. so Im not sure what to do. Some what of a noobie so sorry !! Any help appreiciated

Is your external card full?
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The card shows 8.7 g free

Flash the non touch version of cwm and try that. If it works. Redownload the touch version and try again.... if it doesn't maybe you need to format your sdcard? I really am not sure. I use touch just fine on my wife's phone
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Or do an advanced backup. Try just the system first, then try everything... may be a crap work around but if it works, oh well...
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Ok I kinda thought about reflashing cwm .** Can I just flash through recovery or do I need to fo that through Odin?

http://rootzwiki.com/index.php?/topic/29698-[7/28]-VZW-GS3-EZ-Recovery-2.2-~-a-multi-recovery-flashing-app,-ya-dingus
[7/28] VZW GS3 EZ-Recovery 2.2 ~ a multi-recovery flashing app, ya dingus
Use this. It used to be on the playstore but I can't find it... ignore all the crap except for the flash recovery (or custom if u select the specific recovery) my recommendation would be to download the newest touch again. I believe its something like 6.2.3 download it... open that app I linked here and select custom to flash that recovery u downloaded
The hybrid mode and kernel was really meant for before we had our boot loader unlocked when we used kexec.
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Another alternative is to download GooManager from the play store and try TWRP instead.
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faehsemc said:
http://rootzwiki.com/index.php?/topic/29698-[7/28]-VZW-GS3-EZ-Recovery-2.2-~-a-multi-recovery-flashing-app,-ya-dingus
[7/28] VZW GS3 EZ-Recovery 2.2 ~ a multi-recovery flashing app, ya dingus
Use this. It used to be on the playstore but I can't find it... ignore all the crap except for the flash recovery (or custom if u select the specific recovery) my recommendation would be to download the newest touch again. I believe its something like 6.2.3 download it... open that app I linked here and select custom to flash that recovery u downloaded
The hybrid mode and kernel was really meant for before we had our boot loader unlocked when we used kexec.
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Ok someone will have to take me by the hand here lol... I spent the better part of the day trying to find the proper CWM file to down load. All the CWM touch files I could find were .tar not.zip. I ma gonna needa littlea morea helpa herea!!! Lol. Thanks in adcance

http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.2.3-d2vzw.img
Download that. Flash through the ez recovery app. That easy
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Worked like a champ. Thank you!!!

shmodaddy said:
Worked like a champ. Thank you!!!
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So u can back up properly now?
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Yes sir that is affirmative! Thankyou very much

Well I charge $100 a day for my services. So that'll be $300.. I'm giving you a discount by not including taxes.. lol j/k
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faehsemc said:
Well I charge $100 a day for my services. So that'll be $300.. I'm giving you a discount by not including taxes.. lol j/k
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300!!! Holy [email protected] balls batman!!! Last time I payed 3 bills for "help" there were two midget chicks in clown costumes, jello, and a ton of whipped cream! Not to mention the whip, chains and shetland pony .
YEE HAAW!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! !!
Let me know if u want their number.

Honestly twrp is becoming the better took all around. Its ui is much more friendly, and I was in cwm for YEARS until now.
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Related

MIUI Skyrocket

http://forums.miui.us/showthread.php?20745
Development for MIUI skyrocket has been started by 0xD34D.
Please assist him by testing and giving logcats of any issues you have.
His name is lithium76 here on xda.
HOW TO INSTALL:
1. Place zip on root of SD card.
2. Boot into cwm, take a nandroid.
3. Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache.
-----3a. Or use darkside wipe.
4. Install zip from SD.
5. Reboot system. Enjoy
NOTES:
This has most of the same bugs our aokp R1 had and maybe a few other small bugs.
To fix reboot menu. After initial boot let rom settle for 5mins, manually boot into recovery, wipe cache/dalvik. Reboot system.
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I'll hold my spot here.
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cdshepherd said:
Oh yeah baby that's my buttercup:thumbup:
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As much as you wish i was gay, i am not.
With that said, LOVE YOU!
Can't wait!!
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Mmm bring it. You know you flash too much when your girl friend sees xda and says another rom lol
Team~Kang
I've been running the one from the tmo side and only thing that doesn't work right is rotation... camera all memory card and YouTube work flawlessly
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And on skyrocket lol
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pingfl00d said:
And on skyrocket lol
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well now rotation works, hope i didnt break anything in the process. you are a good guinea pig, flash it!
Link is ^^
also thank that dude below me
Its all gravy from here fellas
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Running this now!
Downloading now.
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from the op over on rootzwiki themes wernt working, and a fix was required, i added to the op.
Hey, just a heads up.
I'm thinking you might want to work off of the stock MIUI build. Don't install the AOKP kernel. The UCVL8 kernel has everything except orientation working. No other bugs. Nothing. Zilch.
Contact me if you want any help.
Yo waffle house. You got a menu? I can't make up my mind anymore.
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iandr0idos said:
Hey, just a heads up.
I'm thinking you might want to work off of the stock MIUI build. Don't install the AOKP kernel. The UCVL8 kernel has everything except orientation working. No other bugs. Nothing. Zilch.
Contact me if you want any help.
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I ran the 989 version, it gave me hell, wouldnt even load up my pictures in gallery. Idk what the deal was. Pm sent tho.
R4INS said:
I ran the 989 version, it gave me hell, wouldnt even load up my pictures in gallery. Idk what the deal was. Pm sent tho.
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I had to use QuickPic to get past that issue.
BaconStep said:
I had to use QuickPic to get past that issue.
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Yeah, it works in this build. Who knows!
i'm guessing this build also needs touch 5.8 to flash properly?
projectvirtue said:
i'm guessing this build also needs touch 5.8 to flash properly?
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Thats what ive been running, not sure on other cwm versions

Anyone tried/using clockworkmod touch recovery?

The question says it all. I think a touch based recovery would be rad, and we all know CWM is legit. Does anyone use it? If so, does it work well?
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Fall of Enosis said:
The question says it all. I think a touch based recovery would be rad, and we all know CWM is legit. Does anyone use it? If so, does it work well?
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I highly doubt it will work for our phone. Considering we had to have nitroglycerine33 whip us up a custom CWM that would work on our phone, I doubt that touch cwm would work...
Lol, duh. Think before you post fall. Ha!
I guess if I could use touch recovery I wouldn't be using Bootstrap. Roflcopter!
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we are able to flash the bionic recovery with rom manager, so maybe it is possible to use a bionic build of CWM touch, if there ever is one.
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or this for the razr maybe? http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...-interesting/page__hl__jydaddy__fromsearch__1
i flashed the razr touch and it boots to it from are bootstrap so i would say it works. i haven't tried flashing anything from it or nothing yet but it's a good sign.
Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509127
I just tried making a backup and it said it couldn't mount system. so it won't work as it is now. but it's a start.
+1 for trying.
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I was able too take parts from our bootstrap and I got the razr touch recovery to where it was able to make backups. But I'm not going to restore it at work. I can't go 6 hours without my phone if it craps out.
If I did get it working I'm not going to release it til I get permission from everyone involved in the two recoveries that I used to do it.
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rdhoggattjr said:
I was able too take parts from our bootstrap and I got the razr touch recovery to where it was able to make backups. But I'm not going to restore it at work. I can't go 6 hours without my phone if it craps out.
If I did get it working I'm not going to release it til I get permission from everyone involved in the two recoveries that I used to do it.
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Sounds great man! Thanks for working it out!
I went ahead and restored after I uninstalled some apk's and there back and my phone boots. When I get home I'll try flashing a rom.
But for now it looks like we have a winner!
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nice, can't wait to try this out
It flashes rom's so i'll say its good to go. i'll PM nitroglycerine33 and see if he care if i share it. if he don't i'll have it out in a day or two.
nitroglycerine33 was fast getting back with me. Download thread is now up http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686598

TWRP...just do it

Hope this is the right area to post...
Just want to say in my years of modding Android I have been using clockwork recovery exclusively. It was the only thing available really. It worked great. I was used to the interface and I was just plain comfortable with it. Good ol trusty CWM!
So now this team win recovery becomes available and I'm like do I really need this? What's the point? Cwm works and I love it. No need to change. I can still backup, restore, flash all roms and mods with no issue. Anyway it seemed like the twrp was gaining some traction. So I figured id give it a shot.
Wow. So glad I did. I mean it seriously loads up so nicely. The interface is a lot more intuitive. It has all the same capability as cwm and then some. Its amazing. Somehow the backups and restores only take about a minute each! How do they do that?!?! Cwm takes about 15 minutes to backup or restore! And you can flash multiple zips at one time! Again that is another amazing feature.
The point of this post is just to let those of you on cwm know what you are missing. Seriously you gotta try TWRP recovery. You just download the zip from the thread in development and flash in cwm. After one reboot...boom...game changer ...you'll see
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ryanbmw51 said:
Hope this is the right area to post...
Just want to say in my years of modding Android I have been using clockwork recovery exclusively. It was the only thing available really. It worked great. I was used to the interface and I was just plain comfortable with it. Good ol trusty CWM!
So now this team win recovery becomes available and I'm like do I really need this? What's the point? Cwm works and I love it. No need to change. I can still backup, restore, flash all roms and mods with no issue. Anyway it seemed like the twrp was gaining some traction. So I figured id give it a shot.
Wow. So glad I did. I mean it seriously loads up so nicely. The interface is a lot more intuitive. It has all the same capability as cwm and then some. Its amazing. Somehow the backups and restores only take about a minute each! How do they do that?!?! Cwm takes about 15 minutes to backup or restore! And you can flash multiple zips at one time! Again that is another amazing feature.
The point of this post is just to let those of you on cwm know what you are missing. Seriously you gotta try TWRP recovery. You just download the zip from the thread in development and flash in cwm. After one reboot...boom...game changer ...you'll see
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read
this a marketing ad...
but not a bad one
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ryanbmw51 said:
Hope this is the right area to post...
Just want to say in my years of modding Android I have been using clockwork recovery exclusively. It was the only thing available really. It worked great. I was used to the interface and I was just plain comfortable with it. Good ol trusty CWM!
So now this team win recovery becomes available and I'm like do I really need this? What's the point? Cwm works and I love it. No need to change. I can still backup, restore, flash all roms and mods with no issue. Anyway it seemed like the twrp was gaining some traction. So I figured id give it a shot.
Wow. So glad I did. I mean it seriously loads up so nicely. The interface is a lot more intuitive. It has all the same capability as cwm and then some. Its amazing. Somehow the backups and restores only take about a minute each! How do they do that?!?! Cwm takes about 15 minutes to backup or restore! And you can flash multiple zips at one time! Again that is another amazing feature.
The point of this post is just to let those of you on cwm know what you are missing. Seriously you gotta try TWRP recovery. You just download the zip from the thread in development and flash in cwm. After one reboot...boom...game changer ...you'll see
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Really it is a flashable zip, I thought you had to install with adb/fastboot?
EDIT: Just seen the update, it's been a while since I've looked into another recovery, will give it a try!
niceppl said:
read
this a marketing ad...
but not a bad one
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Yeah. Just a dude wanting to let people know about it. Good stuff
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Are you using the compression with your backups? It seems so far a step up from cwm IMHO.
So reading this brings up the question (from me):
I'm currently on CWM with the latest Cleanrom dev edition. How would I go about safely changing recoveries on over to TWRP?
blaine.hale said:
So reading this brings up the question (from me):
I'm currently on CWM with the latest Cleanrom dev edition. How would I go about safely changing recoveries on over to TWRP?
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Just go to development and download the flashable zip and flash in cwm and reboot.
godfirst said:
Just go to development and download the flashable zip and flash in cwm and reboot.
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Wow. That seems dangerously easy haha.
For some reason I was thinking that would botch something and brick me.
blaine.hale said:
Wow. That seems dangerously easy haha.
For some reason I was thinking that would botch something and brick me.
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Nope just did it myself about 30 minutes ago, lol
Here's link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703626
Or you can do the tdlr way and just install goo manager from the market. It installs TWRP the sane way from manager installs CWM
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godfirst said:
Are you using the compression with your backups? It seems so far a step up from cwm IMHO.
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If I AM using the compression option, I'm doing it unknowingly. All I do is just press backup and don't select any other options. And it flies. I mean seriously on cwm when it was time backup I was like damn no phone for a while just put it down and walk away for a bit...but now it literally takes less than 2 minutes. I'm like what? Did it really backup EVERYTHING?!?!?...
...and it did...backup...everything
Like I said.. gamechanger
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Nike vs TWRP ultimate peer pressure..
DO I GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY SPORTS OR STAY IN AND FLASH RECOVERIES? ?
AHHH
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ChongoDroid said:
Nike vs TWRP ultimate peer pressure..
DO I GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY SPORTS OR STAY IN AND FLASH RECOVERIES? ?
AHHH
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Lol.
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How much did they pay you to make this thread OP?
I'll give it a try
Do we have to create new backups with TWRP or will the CWM ones work?
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Do we have to create new backups with TWRP or will the CWM ones work?
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Cwm backups will NOT work...only downside as far as I can tell...if you consider that a downside....
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NJGSII said:
How much did they pay you to make this thread OP?
I'll give it a try
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Compensated by sharing with me this recovery...lol
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ryanbmw51 said:
If I AM using the compression option, I'm doing it unknowingly. All I do is just press backup and don't select any other options. And it flies. I mean seriously on cwm when it was time backup I was like damn no phone for a while just put it down and walk away for a bit...but now it literally takes less than 2 minutes. I'm like what? Did it really backup EVERYTHING?!?!?...
...and it did...backup...everything
Like I said.. gamechanger
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How big are your backup, I had to check the compression option, which takes it a little longer,but this is by far IMHO the best recovery I've seen in years.
I'm from the EVO LTE side of things and CWM isn't available yet, so we're forced to use TWRP, boy let me tell you'll never go back to CWM once you use TWRP. Flashes and back-ups are done in what seems like 1 minute. The touch interface is great. GUYS JUST FLASH IT AND FORGET IT!!!
godfirst said:
How big are your backup, I had to check the compression option, which takes it a little longer,but this is by far IMHO the best recovery I've seen in years.
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The 2 backups I have are just under .8 gb for aokp and 1.2 gb for clean rom.
Have actually tried restoring one if those compressed backups? How does that work?
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Just rooted

Just rooted using the root 66 method. Worked great. Debloated a little bit but wanna try a custom Rom. I've read but can't seem to grasp how to flash roms yet. Can anyone offer some tips? Do you need adb or can you flash wherever ?
Edit mod please move this. I'm a moron who didn't pay attention sorry
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Read the instructions on the rom you are flashing. Most times you use Clockworkmod Recovery i don't know if you go to clockworkmod with 3 button combo on galaxy S3 but yeah
endrit9 said:
Read the instructions on the rom you are flashing. Most times you use Clockworkmod Recovery i don't know if you go to clockworkmod with 3 button combo on galaxy S3 but yeah
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But is there any extra step in flashing a kernel after the rom because the bootloader is locked?
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And stop posting in the DEVELOPMENT section.
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And stop posting in the DEVELOPMENT section.
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I did it once and asked for it to be moved and apologized. So thanks for acting like a child
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hopesrequiem said:
I did it once and asked for it to be moved and apologized. So thanks for acting like a child
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If you want a kernel you have to use certain recoveries. So you can use kexec. There's more on that in original development.
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But is there any extra step in flashing a kernel after the rom because the bootloader is locked?
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Get ez-recovery, makes flashing different recoveries super easy. After flashing rom and setting up, go back to recovery and flash the kernal. That's what I did on synergy and imo's kernal. Beans v5 flashes it all at once. So far both run great with very good battery life.
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lynneddington said:
Get ez-recovery, makes flashing different recoveries super easy. After flashing rom and setting up, go back to recovery and flash the kernal. That's what I did on synergy and imo's kernal. Beans v5 flashes it all at once. So far both run great with very good battery life.
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Oh ok. So I just flash Rom then I'm good. On rezound you had to flash Rom, then the boot img. So it was two processes which is why I ask
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Yup. You should give imo's kernal a shot, works great. Its a 2 step on synergy, but still no problem. Just passed my rezound down to the wife. And of course as soon as I did, seems like new roms started crawling out of the woodwork. I put viper res on it, now she wont let me try out any of the others, no fun.
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hopesrequiem said:
Just rooted using the root 66 method. Worked great. Debloated a little bit but wanna try a custom Rom. I've read but can't seem to grasp how to flash roms yet. Can anyone offer some tips? Do you need adb or can you flash wherever ?
Edit mod please move this. I'm a moron who didn't pay attention sorry
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Once your rooted Do this as your first STEP!! Save yourself some future headache!!!
[HOW-TO][FIX] Repair your IMEI with QPST - updated w/ info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
BACKUP your IMEI with QPST...
hopesrequiem said:
Oh ok. So I just flash Rom then I'm good. On rezound you had to flash Rom, then the boot img. So it was two processes which is why I ask
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If you flash any CM10 based ROM's you will have to do some extra steps. IMO you should just start off with Touch Wiz based ROMS so all you need to do is flash from your SD once and reboot.
This is a better place to talk about it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709There is also LOTS of "HOW TO" stuff there that should get you going.
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Yup. You should give imo's kernal a shot, works great. Its a 2 step on synergy, but still no problem. Just passed my rezound down to the wife. And of course as soon as I did, seems like new roms started crawling out of the woodwork. I put viper res on it, now she wont let me try out any of the others, no fun.
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I noticed that too, soon as the GS3 came out rezound ROMs starting popping up like crazy. They even have working aokp now.
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nosympathy said:
I noticed that too, soon as the GS3 came out rezound ROMs starting popping up like crazy. They even have working aokp now.
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I know I'm so mad haha but this phone rocks. Just got synergy on here. Couldn't stand green any longer. I wanna try aosp but still have to back up my imei number or whatever. And wanna read a lil more on it
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hopesrequiem said:
I know I'm so mad haha but this phone rocks. Just got synergy on here. Couldn't stand green any longer. I wanna try aosp but still have to back up my imei number or whatever. And wanna read a lil more on it
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Did u hear, there was a dev in hiding on the rezound, he came out of the closet on the s3, his name is nosympathy.
sent from my s-off rezound
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Did u hear, there was a dev in hiding on the rezound, he came out of the closet on the s3, his name is nosympathy.
sent from my s-off rezound
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I know. Nosympathy is my buddy from over there haha
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is backing up nv info with qpst what you mean by backing up your imei number? i finished that now. just wanna know if im ready to flash cm9
Off subject but people in the s3 forums are much nicer and posses less drama. Love it!
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Moved. OP, in the future, use the report post feature - there's an option to request a thread move.

[Q] Be very careful with Goo Manager...Hard Bricked my Skyrocket

I've been rooting phones, flashing roms, and even flashing others phones to different carriers for, 5-6 years now I'd say. So, I know what I'm doing. I recently started using Goo Manager to download things occasionally, and to say the least I'm screwed. Downloaded the latest twrp recovery and it automatically booted into recovery and flashed the image. Endpoint...hard bricked.
Just be careful with goo is all I'm saying. I never confirmed it to flash the download and it didn't even ask. As soon as it was done dl'ing it just did it. I knew instantly it was going to be problematic. Because it wasn't actually the twrp img for my skyrocket. I was downloading it to use on another phone and transfer to my computer. So, now I'm without a phone. Sucks..
Anyone know of a way to get into download mode without having to use Jtag? lol prolllly not
baddgoat said:
I've been rooting phones, flashing roms, and even flashing others phones to different carriers for, 5-6 years now I'd say. So, I know what I'm doing. I recently started using Goo Manager to download things occasionally, and to say the least I'm screwed. Downloaded the latest twrp recovery and it automatically booted into recovery and flashed the image. Endpoint...hard bricked.
Just be careful with goo is all I'm saying. I never confirmed it to flash the download and it didn't even ask. As soon as it was done dl'ing it just did it. I knew instantly it was going to be problematic. Because it wasn't actually the twrp img for my skyrocket. I was downloading it to use on another phone and transfer to my computer. So, now I'm without a phone. Sucks..
Anyone know of a way to get into download mode without having to use Jtag? lol prolllly not
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Sounds like a noob mistake and also it tells you in too manager when you select install custom recovery its not goo.managersfault its lack of reading
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I am not sure why someone that has been doing this for years would put anything on the phones memory that doesn't go with the phone for any reason. It seems like half, if not more, of the bricks that happen are because of the wrong thing trying to be installed on the phone. Knowing that, it seems like a good idea to NEVER put anything on the phone that doesn't go with the phone, if you plan on using it or not. I guess this is just another precautionary tale for others now because if you really are hard bricked then Jtag is your option. Assuming you have already tried download mode, Odin, etc...Anyone doing this as long as you would have already known to try that stuff first...right? Good luck.
I got into a similar problem with goo manager. Ended with hard brick. Will never use goo or rom manager. Odin and twrp or cmw are the way to go. And never, ever flash anything unless you know it's for your device. That was the problem with goo, it said it was but wasn't.
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baddgoat said:
I've been rooting phones, flashing roms, and even flashing others phones to different carriers for, 5-6 years now I'd say. So, I know what I'm doing. I recently started using Goo Manager to download things occasionally, and to say the least I'm screwed. Downloaded the latest twrp recovery and it automatically booted into recovery and flashed the image. Endpoint...hard bricked.
Just be careful with goo is all I'm saying. I never confirmed it to flash the download and it didn't even ask. As soon as it was done dl'ing it just did it. I knew instantly it was going to be problematic. Because it wasn't actually the twrp img for my skyrocket. I was downloading it to use on another phone and transfer to my computer. So, now I'm without a phone. Sucks..
Anyone know of a way to get into download mode without having to use Jtag? lol prolllly not
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I've got 5 devices successfully running Goomanager / TWRP, and none of them have had a single issue. I just make sure that what I am getting for each device is FOR each individual device.
MasterDecker said:
I've got 5 devices successfully running Goomanager / TWRP, and none of them have had a single issue. I just make sure that what I am getting for each device is FOR each individual device.
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I agree all my device run twrp or cwm and no issue like I mention just a noob error
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You know you can force a reboot of the phone during the download by holding the power key or pulling the battery, right? If you knew what the file was, why didn't you do that?
I've downloaded ROM files hundreds of times through GooManager and gapps files at least a few dozen on three different phones across two platforms (Rocket and Note II). I've also flashed recoveries through it more times than I can remember. It's never once caused a problem, downloaded the wrong file, or even soft-bricked me.
I thought you couldn't brick a phone by a botched recovery flash. Because it's only writing to the recovery partition and not the system. Just what I once read anyway.
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I didn't know it was the wrong file until after it installed. It was supposed to be a gapps package that went with the Rom. I't didn't look right and I should have known better but I went with goo.
Just reinforces you should always know that what ever you flash make sure it's for your specific device.
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plwalsh88 said:
I thought you couldn't brick a phone by a botched recovery flash. Because it's only writing to the record very partition and not the system. Just what I once read anyway.
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I cant agree more with you Walsh doesn't sound right but hey they learn the hard way just as we learned
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I'm no noob. I was downloading the fIle. Not flashing it. It flashed on it's own INSTANTLY after it finished downloading. Without asking. It never did that the dozens of times I downloaded stuff before. So, there.
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And yeah, I've learned to do things the old fashioned way. That's what. Based on the type of responses here, I see why some others have bad impressions of XDA members. Think whatever you want. Just sharing because it sucks. Guarantee you I know more than most of you who replied. Unless your a developer, lol.
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baddgoat said:
And yeah, I've learned to do things the old fashioned way. That's what. Based on the type of responses here, I see why some others have bad impressions of XDA members. Think whatever you want. Just sharing because it sucks. Guarantee you I know more than most of you who replied. Unless your a developer, lol.
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Very cool story, enjoy your brick!
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5-6 years of flashing and you just joined xda at the end of September?
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I only used goo manager to flash touch recovery on and I have had no problem with it..werid..
I did copy a recovery on my old SG Europa and it was the wrong one and bricked it,lucky I was able to get a replacement. You learn from your mistakes.
I have been there..
...Another thread resurrection? Seriously? Good lord.
Better late than never, eh. This is seen old thread
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spannernick said:
I only used goo manager to flash touch recovery on and I have had no problem with it..werid..
I did copy a recovery on my old SG Europa and it was the wrong one and bricked it,lucky I was able to get a replacement. You learn from your mistakes.
I have been there..
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jd1639 said:
Better late than never, eh. This is seen old thread
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Sorry didn't look at the date... Dam Google search ...lol( 4 months old)
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AHAHAHAH...NO..Spiderman got cancer...????
jd1639 said:
Better late than never, eh. This is seen old thread
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Did you see the hobbit? It clearly stated the necromancer is coming.
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