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.
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Hi guys!
Yesterday I successfully rooted my NS (it is a European SLCD model with stock 2.3.6 on it) following the newest guide on nexusshacks.com. So I ended up with TWRP recovery.
Then I thought the easiest to install CM is via Rom Manager. Therefore I had to change recovery for CWM. (I flashed the latest one.)
And here comes my question: why am I unable to flash CM?
First I tried it in Rom Manager, after wiping everything and rebooting system nothing happens, except for a big yellow exclamation mark.
Then I downloaded the proper CM myself and I tried to do the whole process manually in recovery menu. After wiping and choosing update from SD card I get a message like the process is aborted.
I also tried with an older CWM and with other ROM.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot
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Boot into bootloader, then flash recovery via fastboot.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
stock firmware will rewrite your recovery after each boot. flash recovery then flash this right after.
Follow what SEAN SAys..............He is a Master in all these , and he helped me with details to root, flash cwm, make it sticky and flash custom ROMS.
It took me 5 minutes to do all those , and Now I am switching Roms like I switch my underwears every day twice.
I must say, Sean has the best possible way which is like a finger click.
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.
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.
I used Hasoon2000's HTC All-In-One Kit to root my phone. That all worked.
The issue came when i flashed a new kernel. I placed the boot.img from King Kang's new ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1959099)
Anyway, When i boot I get the HTC, quietly brilliant logo, and this in red letters "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distrubute... "
i can boot into recovery (pwr+ vol down)
And i get the ***TAMPERED*** AND ***unlocked*** tags at the top
I don't know where to go from here...
Thanks for the help.
Also, whenever i boot into recovery or factory reset, neither succeed.
This was probably known info, just wanted to add it.
ccamwilkins said:
Also, whenever i boot into recovery or factory reset, neither succeed.
This was probably known info, just wanted to add it.
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You mentioned in your original post that you could boot into recovery, so is that not working now? Factory reset might've fubared the recovery piece, so you could do one of two things:
1) download the original RUU version for your phone, relock your phone, and flash the RUU and start over.
2) try reinstalling TWRP.
This whole thing sounds like trying to install a kernel or fastboot flash a boot.img without SuperSU correctly installed. This is what happened to me when I first unlocked my phone and tried to fastboot flash the CM10 boot.img after failing the flash from recovery twice. Without that super-user permission, bad things tend to happen. If you decide to continue on with reinstalling TWRP, make sure SuperSU.zip is flashed successfully from
TWRP, then try your rom/kernel combination again (or even a different combination if you're apprehensive).
BEWARE: sometimes partially flashing these things can corrupt your sd card. I had to reflash the original RUU to fix my phone BEFORE I rerooted and flashed a rom/kernel.
Have you fastbooted a SU to your phone after you rooted and unlocked? I'd imagine you did if you followed the toolkit.. So your on 2.20... Just download cleanrom 5.1 on your computer. Mount sdcard via recovery and drag cleanrom onto phone. Flash entire rom in recovery. I bet it works
Once your on a stable rom, download king kang from your phone. Download flashgui. Open flashgui app, navigate to king kang and let it find the boot img and flash it for you.. Once successful, immediately boot into recovery and flash entire rom through twrp.
Success
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So, last night I was updating my phone to a newer version of Paranoid Android. In the process, I accidentally flashed TWRP over my preexisting flash of CWM and, in both being unfamiliar with TWRP, and an apparent conflict between the flashes, it soft bricked my phone. Most of my day has been spent recovering my phone.
I was able to restore my phone to stock using the excellent guide found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
Then spent the next couple of hours installing updates, at which point I was eager to reflash my custom roms, etc.
Problem is, I can't get the phone to boot into CWM (or TWRP). Just goes to stock recovery. I've tried flashing the lazy way in ROM Manager, and in Odin (reads PASS), but it always goes to stock recovery. For that matter, in trying to flash with ROM Manager, it reads "an error occurred while trying to flash..."
Ideas?
TheBuzzard said:
So, last night I was updating my phone to a newer version of Paranoid Android. In the process, I accidentally flashed TWRP over my preexisting flash of CWM and, in both being unfamiliar with TWRP, and an apparent conflict between the flashes, it soft bricked my phone. Most of my day has been spent recovering my phone.
I was able to restore my phone to stock using the excellent guide found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
Then spent the next couple of hours installing updates, at which point I was eager to reflash my custom roms, etc.
Problem is, I can't get the phone to boot into CWM (or TWRP). Just goes to stock recovery. I've tried flashing the lazy way in ROM Manager, and in Odin (reads PASS), but it always goes to stock recovery. For that matter, in trying to flash with ROM Manager, it reads "an error occurred while trying to flash..."
Ideas?
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Do you want CWM or TWRP? If TWRP, you could just download GooManager from the Play Store and press Menu/Install Open Recovery Script.
For flashing either via Odin, deselect auto reboot in Odin then flash the recovery tar. Once its passed, pull the battery and boot directly into your custom recovery.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Do you want CWM or TWRP? If TWRP, you could just download GooManager from the Play Store and press Menu/Install Open Recovery Script.
For flashing either via Odin, deselect auto reboot in Odin then flash the recovery tar. Once its passed, pull the battery and boot directly into your custom recovery.
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Thanks for the advice, but I got it working.
Tried Odin one more time, and it's booting into CWM properly now. Not sure why it didn't "take" the other 2-3 times that I followed the identical procedure, but it appears that my problems are fixed now.