I am having trouble getting clockwork mod onto my phone. I had been running P8 for a while and was looking to flash P10 onto my phone today. I have spent all morning trying to get clockwork mod on my phone through rom manager. When that didn't work I tried to get it on my phone by flashing it through recovery. Nothing seems to be working and I still have the stock recovery. After about 10 master whipes and flashes to stock and numerous attempts I have given up and am looking for help.
fadetoblack2104 said:
I am having trouble getting clockwork mod onto my phone. I had been running P8 for a while and was looking to flash P10 onto my phone today. I have spent all morning trying to get clockwork mod on my phone through rom manager. When that didn't work I tried to get it on my phone by flashing it through recovery. Nothing seems to be working and I still have the stock recovery. After about 10 master whipes and flashes to stock and numerous attempts I have given up and am looking for help.
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Do you have the update.zip file?
If so put it on your sd, power down and do the 3 button combo to get into stock recovery. Do reinstall packages and then do it again because it won't work the first time. 2nd time is always a charm for me.
If you have the update.zip on your sd get into stock recovery, click reinstall packages, will boot back into stock recovery, click reinstall packages. You should be in clockwork recovery.
Unless you used the wrong odin and are on ji6 instead of jf6
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So I had a cappy for all of 1 week before the ota update a few days ago came out. It bricked my phone so i took it back to AT&t and got a new one, only to find that I cant use button combinations to get into DL or recovery modes (my original cappy could use button combos). Has anyone else gotten a cappy that cant use button combos to get to the recovery mode?
Oh and before everything was stock, except for the "one click lag fix" from the app market, which i used to root as well as EXT4 i think.
I have heard that the new Cognition rom has done just the opposite for people. People that had the Captivate without the button combination working got it working after the flash. It must not be in the device itself but in the kernel. Flashing the Cognition rom is done through Clockwork, so even if you do not want to keep it (which I do not know why you wouldn't, as Cognition is GREAT), you can flash it to get to whatever kernel you really want. Please, experts, correct me if I am wrong.
thank you! ill try Cognition. ill post back here if it doesnt help me.
Don't you have to be rooted to flash with ROM manager? How would you root the phone without recovery mode?
GuitsBoy said:
Don't you have to be rooted to flash with ROM manager? How would you root the phone without recovery mode?
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Not really, you can ADB reboot recovery after loading the recovery-update.zip (renaming to update.zip) and cognition or whatnot *.zip into \sdcard. Then reinstall packages and it will load Clockwork recovery and allow you to install ZIP from SD Card.
the new OTA will fix the 3 button issue as well. if you are 100% stock this update should work.
ahhh i wish you had posted that a couple hours earlier! I just rooted my captivate and flashed coginative. can i still get back to 100% stock? i have a backup of the stock rooted rom. does un-rooting it count as 100% stock?
Plenty of info on this forum use the search button imo if you don't have button combo.. Take out back your playing with fire
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Try this to go back to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
Follow the directions EXACTLY!
If you can't get the OTA update of JH7 to work, go here and do it manually.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790080
when you were factory fresh. You should have done OTA. it would have worked flawless ly.
if you are only root right now, you can still TRY OTA update. Worked for my friend. assuming you dont have anything else like lag fix etc.
If you have done a lot of stuff to your phone. Then use Odin3 to go back to stock (google odin3).
Then update, more then likely, it will fail at 50% like it did for me but it made the 3 button recovery start working. so that was the plus to it.
Then I just flashed Cog 2.1.
voila.
Hi,
I recently flashed a new rom (ultimate galaxy s v.7) from xda, and I flashed it via clockwork.
clockwork installed it and I rebooted, and it seemed to hang on the lockscreen for an abnormally long amount of time.
when i take the battery out and try to boot into recovery mode, it flashes to black then shows the galaxy s boot again.
previous to flashing this rom i have cleared the cache and all data on the phone. i have a nandroid backup so if i could get back to clockwork recovery this would be helpful.
also previous to flashing this rom i had a 3 UK rom which i installed by accident via kies, running 2.1...this rom seemed to be quite resistant to installing another rom from kies.
help would be MUCH appreciated...
thanks in advance
so recovery mode isnt an option then ?
What about Download mode ?
Hi,
Download mode worked before.
I have now managed by some miracle to get into recovery mode and now have gained options about a speedmod universal lagfix.
Is this associated with clockwork / ultimate 7.0 rom / a sign that the rom has installed in some form, and should i reboot, or should i now do a nandroid back to the rom i had before?
I believe speedmod uses CWM, so you can just do the rollback to your previous rom
nwsk said:
I believe speedmod uses CWM, so you can just do the rollback to your previous rom
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however would it be safe to reboot, as i'm currently in recovery mode and considering to do a nandroid OR alternatively reboot and see if the new rom starts up..
well u cant leave it in recovery mode forever lol, reboot it, if it doesnt come on, try recovery mode again or just flash another ROM thru ODIN
ok. how long do you think is a reasonable time to wait before concluding that the rom doesn't work and I should nandroid back to my old rom...?
Half an hour gives plenty of time .
jje
what would be the reason that it hangs on the galaxy s bootscreen?
could be anything.... installing process not completed properly. best to just re flash .
azzledazzle said:
could be anything.... installing process not completed properly. best to just re flash .
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do you mean recover via nandroid or reflash the same rom, then leave it?
choice is yours, ive never restored using nandroid so dunno what its like. but try it first, if no success re flash using odin. u will lose all your data
I decided to root my phone and try some ROMS last night on my Captivate. Love it by the way except one problem that I can not seem to figure out.
Before I did any flash I used ROM Manager to take 2 backups of my stock ROM and also used Titanium to backup all user apps and data.
Everytime I try to go back to stock and the phone reboots after recovery mode I get the AT&T logo and it never goes anywhere.
How do I get back to stock?
THANK!
If you are trying to restore stock through nancroid backup that won't work. You need to use odin.
What build is your phone? You can find it under your battery, something between 1006-1012
It is 1012. I thought you could just restore from those backups to get back to stock.
I have never used odin before. How do I go about that?
Thanks!
I can not find a good download for Odin. Could somebody provide please?
Thanks!
With your build you need to be careful what odin you use
You wavy to follow this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
Clockwork does not restore kernel and modem. You are stuck at at&t screen because your system is ext 4 used on roms, and your nandroid is rfs. Long and short it won't work
So.... I am a bit confused now. Is there even a way to get back to stock at this point?
The link I posted
Your stock is jh7, odin One click is jf6. The procedure laid out in the link will get you back to jh7, although it takes a couple steps.
As long as you can get into recovery you can probably reflash any rom you have on your sd
Yikes thats a tall order to get back. Thought it would be more simple. So it is easy getting to a point to flash ROMS... Not so easy going back.
I'm also stuck in the same vicious cycle as we type.
I got 2 different stock rom backups and a cognition backup and can't get nothing to restore factory. I got premium ROM Manager. I can get into 2 different recovery screens. 1 from the Clockwork v2.5.1.3-voodoo lagfix and 1 using the update.zip on my root. Can't restore anything that gets me past the ATT logo.
ChokeD said:
I'm also stuck in the same vicious cycle as we type.
I got 2 different stock rom backups and a cognition backup and can't get nothing to restore factory. I got premium ROM Manager. I can get into 2 different recovery screens. 1 from the Clockwork v2.5.1.3-voodoo lagfix and 1 using the update.zip on my root. Can't restore anything that gets me past the ATT logo.
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What is your build number, under battery
Between 1006-1012
I don't see a 1006-1012 anything. Where exactly would it be listed under the battery ??? ON the battery ? my phone is 3 days old.
EDIT: oh I think its a 1010 ...I think I found it
Thanks for the help by the way.
Link listed earlier in thread
Yeah it is the same for me.... Sucks!
And I can not download any of the files in that link because I am at work and those hosting sites are blocked for us. :-(
larryroberts said:
Yeah it is the same for me.... Sucks!
And I can not download any of the files in that link because I am at work and those hosting sites are blocked for us. :-(
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Have you tried this
Phone off
Hold volume up and down and power
Let go when at&t comes up
Should be green recovery
Select install zip from sd
Choose zip
Select rom file that is saved on your sd, any you may of tried
Confirm
If your lucky maybe you can flash the rom
Uhh ??? Somehow from the recovery mode I just re-installed Cognition 3.04 back on my phone by browsing to the ROM.zip an installing it. I have to charge my phone for a few but I'll definitely come back and tell how I did it after a while. I think it was by browsing to cognitionv3.zip from 1 of the recovery menus insead of going to the update.zip. That beats the hell out of going through all the steps of going back to stock.
Thanks for the help.
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Yeah somewhat like above post, only I had the Cognition (red) recovery menu and I went to install .zip and browsed to the cognitionv3.zip on my sd and installed it. *BLAM* back to Cognitionv3.04 I'll work with that till I got more time to mess with the other.
mcord11758 said:
Have you tried this
Phone off
Hold volume up and down and power
Let go when at&t comes up
Should be green recovery
Select install zip from sd
Choose zip
Select rom file that is saved on your sd, any you may of tried
Confirm
If your lucky maybe you can flash the rom
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Yep I have tried that. Or at least I guess....
I go into the recovery screen but the problem is the only zip files I have are my custom ROMS. I did a complete backup with ROM Manager of the stock ROM before flashing however it did not create a zip file, it created a folder which contains everything that was backed up. I have tried to restore from that but when I do and the phone restarts it sticks on the AT&T white logo screen.
I am not saying restore stock, I am saying flash a rom. it may get you a working phone
Oh yeah I have done that just fine. I am using Cognition.
I am just trying to find my path back to stock.
mcord11758 said:
I am not saying restore stock, I am saying flash a rom. it may get you a working phone
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Exactly, If you flashed a ROM on the phone the ROM is still there. Just use the recovery mode and choose "install a zip from sd" then go to "choose a zip from sd" then it will let you browse the sd for the .zip(rom) you just had. (not stock). It should be successful. Worked for me.
At least you will have a working phone and you can then look into going stock once you've read up a little more on it.
Just trying to help.
EDIT: oh, OK, I myself was in a panic and had just found that possible.
No problem. Thank you for the help!
I was thinking that when I did the backup with ROM Manager that it was creating a ROM version of the stock so I could flash back. Guess not though.
I've never flashed a rom before. I currently have stock froyo with the paragon kernel i flashed using the app sgs kernel flasher. I have clockwork mod rom manager, I created a backup of my current rom. So then I tried installing the serendipity rom from the sd card but i get an error message. I read on the sticky on how to flash a custom ROM you need to use ODIN and flash back to stock 2.1 then do a master wipe and re root it and stuff.
Their link to download ODIN is broken so I don't know how to get it. And is there really no other way to flash it besides doing a master wipe and using ODIN?
flash to stock and master clear is not needed. what IS needed are specifics on WHAT error message you get when trying to flash the rom you want
The error message is
"E: failed to verify whole-file signature"
"E: signature verification failed"
"Installation aborted"
Then it brings be to the blue menu so i just select reboot system now
bad download, re-download rom.
May be completely off, but it doesn't sound like you're actually in clockwork mod recovery, but rather stock recovery.
But here's the post with the one click odin with mirrors and I personally would suggest useing it since I generally like to stick to as clean a flash as I can:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
Second, I don't know if you've ever seen MobileTechVids tutorial on how to flash custom roms, but I suggest you watch the full series first if you haven't already.
here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsafJ-9uRqk
I watch the series and try and stick as close to the tut as I can when I'm unsure (or the one provided by the Rom maker as they know what's best for their rom)...
One suggestion, when flashing Serendipity disconnect your phone from cable right before the actual flashing (gave me a glitch in which I couldn't mount storage via usb). Other than that, read read read. I feel it's all I do when it comes to this stuff, but proper research is indispensible.
thresherhorn said:
May be completely off, but it doesn't sound like you're actually in clockwork mod recovery, but rather stock recovery.
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Is the text on Recovery mode blue or green? If its blue, you're on stock recovery.
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Ok I got the stock rom flashed back and rooted it using one click. Now for some reason I can't reboot into clockwork recovery mode. I flashed it successfully. So i click on reboot into recovery and nothing happens. I try clicking on install room from sd card and that doesnt work either
Power off, hold 3 buttons att screen will come on. Keep holding. Screen will go off. Keep holding. Screen comes on again let off the power button but keep the volumes held, this will boot you into stock recovery, since you said you flashed cwm already I'm assuming you mean with rom manager, so the update.zip should be on your sdcard, so just reinstall packages twice and you should boot into cwm.
AIO tools work well and make flashing roms for new people easy and painless
use a search for it
steph2 said:
AIO tools work well and make flashing roms for new people easy and painless
use a search for it
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AIO and superoneclick for root/flashing roms makes the process much easier.
crag11 said:
Ok I got the stock rom flashed back and rooted it using one click. Now for some reason I can't reboot into clockwork recovery mode. I flashed it successfully. So i click on reboot into recovery and nothing happens. I try clicking on install room from sd card and that doesnt work either
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On serendipities main "download" page they have instructions to install. In those instructions is a link to a file you can download. Place that file along with the serendipity 6.3.zip file in the root of your sd card. Use the " 3 button" technique or Rom managers "reboot to recovery" option to get into stock recovery. Hit "reinstall packages" once/possibly twice. That will put you into clockwork mod recovery. Select install zip from sd card, find the serendipity6.3.zip and click power to flash. Confirm. And after it does some stuff it will ask you to reboot. Upon reboot it will as if you want to enable lagfix. Hit plain "Yes". Watch it do its thing and viola...
You have the "dirty" way of how to flash serendipity... But first I please ask you to spend atleast a day reading this forum or others and understanding these instructions and the reasons behind them.
followed instructions off the website and still doesn't work
I was running 2.2 and have done a lot of reading a video watching (thanks Mobile Tech videos) and finally conjured the guts to flash serendipity.
I flashed stock using odin...that went great. Copied the update.zip to sd card. Installed zip twice in 2e recovery. Copied Serendipity.zip file to sd card. started in recovery mode, selected "install from sdcard" selected serendipity.zip file and it seemed to go through that process rather quickly. Then I selected reboot and then everything just started FCing all over the place. Can't even load the stock that I had on there. I don't know what to do. Help please. I can get it back into recovery mode. Tried doing the wipe data/factory reset. That did help either. Help please. I really want to try serendipity. Thanks again in advanced.
Did you run a restore using TiBu at all? Or was it just a straight flash from stock to Serendipity?
Plus, were you running a phone that came with 2.2 out of the box? Or did you upgrade to stock Froyo yourself?
m3thods said:
Did you run a restore using TiBu at all? Or was it just a straight flash from stock to Serendipity?
Plus, were you running a phone that came with 2.2 out of the box? Or did you upgrade to stock Froyo yourself?
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I did run TB and I had originally flashed up to froyo (took me all night one night) and then went through the process I explained and hit the dead end. I finally was able to get odin to read the phone and flash back to stock. It was a learning process. I realized that I needed not only the Serendipity_6.3.zip file but ALSO the kitchen file to included with it. That wasn't in the directions I don't think. Finally got it all on there. I love it now. I appreciate everyone's help. Any word on a how-to for Bluedipity?
Hi all,
I just tried to install clockwork mod by flashing a kernel using odin something I have done dozens of times on my SGS. I was using a kernel file called CF-Root-XX_XEU_JPY-v1.3-BusyBox-1.17.1.tar which as I have said I have used many many times.
Only this time I end up with a phone stuck after boot and apparently force closing in the back ground (the single vibrate followed by the double)
So I am able to 3 button recover it and use darkyy's ressurection rom to bring it back to life.
However I would still like to put this back to a stock rom with CWM and then the voodoo lagfix and sound kernel. Especially since this isnt my phone and the ressurection rom has several bugs.
But everytime I flash a CWM solution it does not work any idea? I end up with either 2e or 3e recovery? it is very strange.
Anyone have any ideas?
Oh and I even tried installing CWM using rom manager and that failed?
flash cwm with odin
daniel9522 said:
flash cwm with odin
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well yeah that's what I did a number of times?
have u tried using speedmod kernel instead of CF-Root? oh and flash it via odin
cheers