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I NEED to get Clockworkmod Recovery on my phone, but I can't seem to get it to work

I got my phone back just 3 days ago and figured i'd finally customize it. I FINALLY figured out a safe and full-proof way of rooting my samsung galaxy s i9000M. I FINALLY figured out that I need to switch the <3e> recovery to <2e> recovery so that I'm able to flash custom ROMs.
Here's the annoying part...
I STILL can't set up Clockworkmod recovery instead of the stock recovery menu. The tutorial I'm following specifies that I need this recovery in order to get everything workin.
I have the phone rooted and I have ROM manager installed too.
Won't someone tell me how to install it on my phone?
I've tried this website:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-clockworkmod-recovery-3-using-rom-manager/
didn't work many times
thanks in advance!

stacyluo said:
Hi, I'm new to this forum.
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gotta start somewhere

I should point out, it keeps saying "can't open /sdcard/update.zip"
(no such file or directory) if that helps

You mean you don't have recovery yet or you can't install any zip files?
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You'll probably need to do it via Odin.
If you look at the guides here on XDA you'll see easily how to do this.
There are probably easier ways to do by now, but you can follow the more traditional method without much difficulty and not really with that many screw up chances.
Just grab a custom Kernel, like SpeedMod or so, for Odin installation.
Follow the steps that you'll see on the Odin guide to install just the Kernel. Once that is done the Recovery mode will be altered and you can start using CWM normally from there on (or until you install some other full ROM that replaces the kernel and recovers the official recovery mode).

[Q] Help! Broken microUSB port

Hi,
I'm pretty sure the microUSB port on my AT&T Captivate is shot... It will charge using the outlet adapter, but will *not* charge or connect to any of several PCs. I've uninstalled/reinstalled drivers multi times, and another Captivate exactly like it connects just fine (with same cable, same port, etc.) Good news: it's still under warranty. Bad news: it's been rooted and updated with a "Low-designgears" util.
Do I need to revert to stock in order to return for warranty, and is it possible to do that if the phone can't connect to a PC?
Stupid questions probably. Thank you.

I would think that you need to return to stock...you can chance it. But it's up to you.
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What firmware are u on? I think there was a cwm flashable stock somewhere...don't know if that would help.
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There is a cwm flashable jh7 but I think it only works from 2.1. Might work with 2.2 but if all else fails format boot in recovery and tell at&t your phone said there was an update and it failed. I would probably format system, cache, and data too just so there isn't any evidence of your wrong doing. Unlikely it would ever find its way back to you though. Has worked for a lot of people.
It should hard brick your phone though
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Firmware is 2.2. Thanks for the help. I'll look for that cwm flashable, and consider my options. Thanks.

xijar said:
There is a cwm flashable jh7 but I think it only works from 2.1. Might work with 2.2 but if all else fails format boot in recovery and tell at&t your phone said there was an update and it failed. I would probably format system, cache, and data too just so there isn't any evidence of your wrong doing. Unlikely it would ever find its way back to you though. Has worked for a lot of people.
It should hard brick your phone though
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1. As long as it's rooted he can replace 3e recovery, install cwm, and flash that from 2.2.
2. Formatting does not hard brick. Why would there be an option that would completely **** your phone? Like a self destruct button that could accidentally be pressed if you don't know what you're doing. Makes no sense.

studacris said:
1. As long as it's rooted he can replace 3e recovery, install cwm, and flash that from 2.2.
2. Formatting does not hard brick. Why would there be an option that would completely **** your phone? Like a self destruct button that could accidentally be pressed if you don't know what you're doing. Makes no sense.
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Sorry, back again guys...
I've got cwm installed but I can't find a way to get past 3e recovery. I tried to flash cwm recovery from rom mgr - and it says current recover is cwm 2.5.1.2 - but going into recovery mode still shows 3e (don't know what cwm recovery should look like). Flashing any rom (tried a couple customs too) dies with sig verification error.
been searching for a few hours on replacing 3e, but everything i run across requires ability to connect with the pc.
any idea how i can replace 3e recovery without ability to connect via usb?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052991
The second method does not require a pc. Download the fix files with your phone, then download a file explorer from the market that has root access, root explorer, file expert, astro file manager to name a couple. Paste in the file reboot into recovery, reinstall packages twice and that will boot you into cwm, which its green with more options...

brick the phone n say kies ****ed it up. that worked for me.
Samsung captivate
glitch kernel
cyanogenmod 7 #89
OC and UV

[Solved] Recovery 5.0.2.6 samurai..........

Ive got a stock 2.2? froyo captivate and did the new [Guide] How To flash Captivate ROMs from Stock by TRusselo and when i go into recovery i cant access external sd. I put the latest nightly and gapps on the root of sd card and for some reason I cant see it? I did a clean wipe and everything. Is there something wrong that I'm doing. I've mounted everything and still nothing.

Read the instructions again INTERNAL SD not EXTERNAL and you can access it, browse sdcard to /external_sd folder, it takes you to your external sd.
you mounted what? why? dont.
BUT YOU CANT FLASH FROM EXTERNAL SD!!!!
thats why the instructions say INTERAL SD

So instead of downloading through the browser.....I'd like to move the new nightly and gapps on internal memory with a pc transfer....where would i put it in? so that CWM can see it? Thxs man. I appreciate it. noober here. htc aria was a breeze to root and flash custom roms, I'm not use to this puppy.

ANYWHERE internal sd in the root, or any folder (except external_sd)
what browser are you using? the stock brower downloads to sdcard/downloads not sdcard/external_sd/*whatever*
if you downloaded with stock browser it should be there... not in root. unless you moved it after.

Thanks so much..... I found the files I needed but when I try to flash nightly it gives me this craziness....what's going on! Thxs for the help though.
edit: Did a factory one click by odin.

seems like an error with the zip file. try a nightly from a day or two before.

The build prop doesn't match the built asserts in the Zip, they have to match for it to flash... what ROM are you currently on?
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that would make scene by the error. hmm he said he went to stock odin one click...
which odin one click?

Maybe he just did that...
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So I did the one click to revert back to stock. Then I did a one click root and now have SU. 10 hours later and a freakin home made jig that I've made i'm still on 2.1 with root. Please for the love of God I'd like to install current nightly of cm7 and CWM. There are soooooo many ways I've read to install. Now from you pro's can you hook me up with some links or direction to get this going. I've literally killed my Saturday reading my a$$ off. Thanks guys for replying to my lame noobness.

tommyguns818 said:
So I did the one click to revert back to stock. Then I did a one click root and now have SU. 10 hours later and a freakin home made jig that I've made i'm still on 2.1 with root. Please for the love of God I'd like to install current nightly of cm7 and CWM. There are soooooo many ways I've read to install. Now from you pro's can you hook me up with some links or direction to get this going. I've literally killed my Saturday reading my a$$ off. Thanks guys for replying to my lame noobness.
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Just clear ROM managers data and then flash the original Captivate CWM not MTD and the reboot into recovery... reinstall packages 2 times, and flash in CWM
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Thanks for the fast reply. I bought ROM manager premium and will try it out. Install twice I guess to be on the safe side right? Thanks again. My wife hates my life right now being i've spent all day doing this. So i'm down to try anything on her cappy at this point.

Not "to be on the safe side"...the first time you choose reinstall packages in stock recovery it'll boot back into stock recovery, then reinstall packages again and it'll boot into cwm.

yeah thats a must do.

So i've cleared cache and selecting captivate recovery galaxy s 2.5.1.x booted into recovery ROM manger and did reinstall twice and got this.......I don't understand why i'm getting this.
Edit: I got it to work! I kept trying to go through the recovery from ROM manager after installing and it hung up a couple times. Then when selecting install packages with which I did it twice...it was in cwm 2.5.1.7. Installed nightly after full wipe a couple times and it boot looped. Then if I remember correctly I pulled battery booting into recovery, the 3 button way. it booted into Cwm 5.x.x.x. What the heck!!! That was a fun ride, why did it do this? Anyways, glad to join your guys community. you guys are awesome. Thanks buttons hit. changing first post and thread to.....solved.

When you flashed the nightly it contained a kernel with cwm 5 baked into it.

from what i have heard sometimes the cm install needs to be done twice.. too. i dunno dont mess with cm7

Sorry
Hello Guys, Just Found this thread after messing up with my Galaxy S Captivate :| I Unintentionally copied my rom in EXTERNAL SD card and Proceeded further but when I got in Download mode I can't Locate my Rom Zip and I tried Everything as mentioned such as wipe & etc... but Now My Phone is Stuck on Samsung Screen and Can't go through that screen! Is there anyway I can move back to stock rom and then update with new Hellybean!
thanks in Advance!

ShahX said:
Hello Guys, Just Found this thread after messing up with my Galaxy S Captivate :| I Unintentionally copied my rom in EXTERNAL SD card and Proceeded further but when I got in Download mode I can't Locate my Rom Zip and I tried Everything as mentioned such as wipe & etc... but Now My Phone is Stuck on Samsung Screen and Can't go through that screen! Is there anyway I can move back to stock rom and then update with new Hellybean!
thanks in Advance!
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Go in the Dev section (stickies) and get Odin KK4 without bootloaders. Flash it in download mode.
From there, Get Corn kernel, which you'll flash with Odin 1.85 and finally, you can get back to your ROM.

BWolf56 said:
Go in the Dev section (stickies) and get Odin KK4 without bootloaders. Flash it in download mode.
From there, Get Corn kernel, which you'll flash with Odin 1.85 and finally, you can get back to your ROM.
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Thankyou Soo Much For your Reply Bro, But Can you please guide me in detail like what Exactly Should I do with My Phone, I can Use my phone its wont let me boot into menu I just stuck on Samsung logo, and As TRusselo Guided in his tutorial I have to put any ROM.Zip into INTERNAL SDCARD (Phone Memory) and I can't do that until my phone boot's up properly! right? so Can you please help me out like what Should I do to get it working and THEN trying again to Update it with Hellybean
Once Again thankyou for your kind Reply!

Soft bricked and need help

ok so i obviously didnt think things though before doing this, i have an I9000 which was on GB 2.3.4. i decided to flash semaphore's 2.9.0 kernel and i tried installing nightly's Cm 10.1 rom on my device but to no avail as i keep receiving status 0. now i thought it was a bad download but it wasnt as i was able to extract the zip file without any problems, i then proceeded to download other roms as well to try to see if i could install any of it. im already up 8 hours and i still can seem to install anything on it.. worst thing is i've forgotten what baseband i was on so im stuck with an unusable phone. are there any solutions to this?

You can try to go back to GB via Odin.
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is there like a universal rom that i can go back to ? im kinda a noob with flashing samsung roms haha. and i've tried flashing a jw4 stock rom but it doesnt allow me to partition my sd card. and once im done flashing the screen just shows a bunch of messed up colours and then i get into a bootloop.

I always follow this link whenever I want to go back to GB and I don't experience any problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...65&postcount=1
Be sure your phone is recognized by your PC. If not, you can install the USB drivers.
Here is a link for the USB drivers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...43&postcount=1
From GB Rom, you can decide to upgrade to ICS, then to JB.
But the important thing first is to make your phone running in GB with all features functioning normally.
Good luck.

the GB link is broken; well i managed to install a copy of JW4 BB running on 2.3.6 but wifi and physical home button is broken. from there i proceeded to flash with odin a Cm9 kernel, and did a full wipe and everything and then installed a nightly's cm9.1 rom. Problem is it installs successfully but it doesnt boot into the rom, instead it goes back into CWM after reboot.

Slow7u said:
the GB link is broken; well i managed to install a copy of JW4 BB running on 2.3.6 but wifi and physical home button is broken. from there i proceeded to flash with odin a Cm9 kernel, and did a full wipe and everything and then installed a nightly's cm9.1 rom. Problem is it installs successfully but it doesnt boot into the rom, instead it goes back into CWM after reboot.
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So i managed to flash CM9.1 and got it to boot, but the home button and the soft press buttons are not working. in addition, phone automatically goes to landscape when i enter settings.

I don't know why link was broken. Can you try again with this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8805265&postcount=1
It should work well on your phone. You can use this as base in case you want to upgrade to ICS then to JB.
Device: GT-i9000
Rom: JB 4.2.1 C-RoM BeaN v2
Kernel: Mackay 0.230
Baseband: I9000BVJJPG

i appreciate your help but the download link leads to me an ad which then just prompts to download a software called ilividsetup.exe. Are there any other links to download that rom? so sorry for the trouble

The rar file seems already removed or the link is down. Sorry about that.
Device: GT-i9000
Rom: JB 4.2.1 C-RoM BeaN v2
Kernel: Mackay 0.230
Baseband: I9000BVJJPG

http://lnx.lu/0JRr thats the link it leads me to lol
ahh thats alright

Slow7u said:
i appreciate your help but the download link leads to me an ad which then just prompts to download a software called ilividsetup.exe. Are there any other links to download that rom? so sorry for the trouble
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On the top right corner you'll see a 5 second countdown followed by a skip ad button. Click the skip ad button and it'll take you to the download link.
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NIMBAH said:
On the top right corner you'll see a 5 second countdown followed by a skip ad button. Click the skip ad button and it'll take you to the download link.
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after clicking the skip Ad button it just prompts another download

NIMBAH said:
On the top right corner you'll see a 5 second countdown followed by a skip ad button. Click the skip ad button and it'll take you to the download link.
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You can also download stock roms from samfirmware
But you need to make a account
Succes
(Sorry for bad English)

redheavy said:
You can also download stock roms from samfirmware
But you need to make a account
Succes
(Sorry for bad English)
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yeah i did. I am able to go back to stock JW4 but I cant go any further than 2.3.6. every single rom that i install only leads to me to a loop back to CWM. so far i've only managed to install nightly's CM9.1 and even that is pretty much unusable for me because soft press buttons and home button doesnt seem to work. looks like im stuck on 2.3.6

Slow7u said:
after clicking the skip Ad button it just prompts another download
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Yeah, I have noticed that. All of the firmware links to fileshare sites take you to some other place where you are prompted to download a program called 'download manager'. What's all that about? Anyone know?

After you install the ROM, it just boots back to CWM, right? I had encountered similar problem, unfortunately I do not know if it's thr same. I installed the ROM through CWM, phone booted into CWM based CM10 recovery. Nothing more. Then, I fully wiped the phone again and installed the rom the second time. Then gapps and vuola!
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Svolacius said:
After you install the ROM, it just boots back to CWM, right? I had encountered similar problem, unfortunately I do not know if it's thr same. I installed the ROM through CWM, phone booted into CWM based CM10 recovery. Nothing more. Then, I fully wiped the phone again and installed the rom the second time. Then gapps and vuola!
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You will need to flash the ROM twice when flashing CM10 as it uses a different partition layout.
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NIMBAH said:
You will need to flash the ROM twice when flashing CM10 as it uses a different partition layout.
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That explains everything then, thanks!
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Yeah when you first install the ROM via cwm it will reboot itself once especially if youre on an older version of cwm. Thing is I've flashed the ROM 3 times and it still does the same thing which is rebooting itself into cwm. I've just exchanged a new device with the shop I bought it from and I don't think I'm gonna do anything with it anymore and just let it stay on the ROM its on. Though I'm curious about one thing, I managed to get to cm9.1 but the home buttons and the soft press buttons don't work At all. Any idea as to why that happened ?
btw it comes with a preinstalled lidroid rom which is 2.3.4. and its pre rooted; its BB is I9000ZSJPJ, are there any roms out there for this BB?
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[Q] Unable to flash, stuck at logo

Before anything.
Model: GT-I8190
JZO54K.I8190XXAMB2
I tried to root my device without prior knowledge and ended up soft(i hope) bricking my phone. It showed that the files are damaged and that I need to connect with Kies to repair it. Did that. Twice. Both ended up with me being stuck at logo screen.
Power + home + volume up doesnt work, it just goes straight into logo screen and gets stuck.
When I enter Odin mode I get the custom binary download: 2
Current binary: custom
System status: Official.
My mobile can't load up, so I can't turn debug mode on.
Repairing the phone with Kies does nothing.
Tried to flash into stock, still same thing.
Anyone got any idea about what I can do about it?
Tried using the Toolkit and Odin3 itself. Nothing worked so far.

Here try this it might help you , flash as PDA in Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1597045&d=1356657742
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kicker63 said:
Here try this it might help you , flash as PDA in Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1597045&d=1356657742
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Phone is all right and well with all my stuff as well. Thanks to you :highfive: so happy, I was almost at the state of crying. now I'm crying from happiness. :crying:
Now, as I dont want that same thing happens as before and before doing anything I want to ask.
Is there any good and viable way to root my phone with that firmware?

To root JB look here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2147786 ignore stock recovery cause it don't work. If you want CwM download Rom Manager and install CwM in there and use that root zip file in CwM.
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kicker63 said:
To root JB look here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2147786 ignore stock recovery cause it don't work. If you want CwM download Rom Manager and install CwM in there and use that root zip file in CwM.
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Can I root the phone using the toolkit 1.1? That program seems to have the rooting ability when debugging mode is on.
Or just flash in the CWM and then use the zip from that topic.

Either way it's up to you, I prefer the last way, don't forget to update SuperSU you can find it here, flash it in CWM.
http://download.chainfire.eu/315/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.25.zip
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I guess a moderator can close this topic now. I got all the information and help that I wanted.
Thanks kicker for fast and efficient help