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I've succesfully rootet my SGS. testet wtih terminal, and i got the # sign.
Also, I have suoer users installed, and granted access to ROM manager, e.g.
Now, I would like to flash darky's custom ROM. And usually, i would boot into custom recovery menu and wipe, and apply zip from sd. (this was on my HTC).
Well, this is causing me some problems. I would rather not use Odin, as it seem a bit unsafe but I installed ROM manager, and flashed Clockwork Mod recovery. Now, when I reboot into custom recovery I get the stock android recovery, though ROM manager, says my current version of clowckwork mod is installed, and all went succesfull.
Now, my question is. Can i rename the zip file update.zip and flash with the stock android recovery anyway?
When you flash clockwork i think it just puts a .zip file on the sd card so youbshould try flashing the custom recovery through stock recovery. If not then ODIN is the way to go which can be perfectly safe if done properly.
*You have to select reinstall packages i think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734166
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When you flash clockwork i think it just puts a .zip file on the sd card so youbshould try flashing the custom recovery through stock recovery. If not then ODIN is the way to go which can be perfectly safe if done properly.
*You have to select reinstall packages i think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734166
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I never get into clockwork mod, so I guess I dont get the option to reinstall packages... The only option I have beside wiping and reboot is to apply update.zip from sdcard in android recovery. But I don't think there is any update.zip on my sdcard. not last i checked at least. Guess Ill have to go with Odin then :/
Usually the option to reinstall packages is on stock recovery. I might be wrong but odin is easy to do if you get the right firmware for your phone. Sorry i ciuldnt help more.
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Usually the option to reinstall packages is on stock recovery. I might be wrong but odin is easy to do if you get the right firmware for your phone. Sorry i ciuldnt help more.
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Thanks again. I get wiser by the hour
I think im on android recovery (3e) as I recall, perhaps they removed it
I was wandering. I found the clockworkmod.zip /recovery_update.zip on the sd-card. if I move this to root of sdcard and rename to update.zip, can I then flash it via android recovery with the "apply update.zip from sdcard" function, or is this not for the purpose?
That might work, you may aswell try butif not try looking at the url i posted and see if it helps. If not then im sorry for wasting your time :S
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That might work, you may aswell try butif not try looking at the url i posted and see if it helps. If not then im sorry for wasting your time :S
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thanks, but i think Im caught in between... i cant choose reinstall packages, and I need to get back to stock kernel...
got download mode to work now, and think I know what to do from here. thanks for the link and response
Finally - reverted back to stock android recovery 2e and flash clockworkmod recovery.... but - a new problem... when in clockworkmod, i need to choose zip from sd card, when i go into this, and choose external sd, it says no files
what to do? the files are there, when I put in the sd card in the PC the files are there...
Not entirely sure but i think you're meant to put the .zip on the internal sd. If not then maybe the sd card is not fat32 format. This is only speculation :S
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I really need help i used to have paragon rom then i installed phoenix but i did not liked it so i tried to go back to paragon but when i used odin to go back to stock. I rooted my phone but when i installed rom manager to install paragon it doesnt let me rom manager tells me that an error has ocurred when i tried the clockword recovery
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pumasmedina7 said:
I really need help i used to have paragon rom then i installed phoenix but i did not liked it so i tried to go back to paragon but when i used odin to go back to stock. I rooted my phone but when i installed rom manager to install paragon it doesnt let me rom manager tells me that an error has ocurred when i tried the clockword recovery
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Do you have 3 button recovery?
If you do, dont bother installing, ROM Manager, you wont need it. Just copy the ROM and CWM's update.zip to your phone, 3 button into recovery select reinstall packages, you'll then "go back", reinstall packages again, then you reboot into recovery, and install your ROM
Where can i get that
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pumasmedina7 said:
I really need help i used to have paragon rom then i installed phoenix but i did not liked it so i tried to go back to paragon but when i used odin to go back to stock. I rooted my phone but when i installed rom manager to install paragon it doesnt let me rom manager tells me that an error has ocurred when i tried the clockword recovery
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Okay. So, you were running Paragon, you flashed Phoenix, and you want to go back to Paragon.
Hopefully you made a backup of your ROM before you flashed Phoenix. You then used Odin to flash to stock, rooted, and installed ROM manager.
If you flashed back to UCJF6 (Android 2.1) you won't be able to restore a backup based on Froyo 2.2.1, which is what Paragon is based on. That's why you're getting an error. You're going to need to do a fresh flash of Paragon. Place the base Paragon ROM on your SD card.
Use ROM Manager to flash the base Paragon ROM. Now, on the base Paragon ROM, use ROM Manager to restore your backup.
I'm hoping you did everything one should do prior to returning to stock with Odin, as in creating your backup, disabling your lagfix, etc, before using Odin to get back to stock. Also, take into account that you need to have the same kernel installed on the newly flashed ROM and the ROM you're attempting to reinstall. So, if you had a custom kernel installed when you made your backup of Paragon, make sure to flash that kernel on your newly installed base Paragon before you try to restore.
Good luck.
The sad thing is that i cant use rom manager i rooted my but it doesnt let me use clockword recovery
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I'm having a problem with rom manager as well.i get the error downloading recovery. I may try to flash an older version I have on my laptop. I'm using the stock rom and rooted.
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I too am having a similar problem, I'm on stock and trying to get ROM manager to work but it won't let me flash ClockworkMod Recovery or even an older version. As stated already I get the error message "An error occurred while downloading your recovery." However, it seems that if I select my phone as an i9000 Galaxy S, ClockworkMod will download, but it won't work.
And for the record, using the 3-button recovery I only get the options of:
reboot phone
reinstall packages (which says the update.zip is a bad file and won't open)
delete all user data
delete cache data
I should add that this is the first time I've seen this situation and usually I'm able to "install .zip from sd card" but in this case I can't.
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The sad thing is that i cant use rom manager i rooted my but it doesnt let me use clockword recovery
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My apologies. I should have read your original post a little closer.
You can try installing clockwork recovery manually via this method:
Take the attached zip file and rename it update.zip. Connect your phone via USB to your computer. You'll notice there's already an update.zip file on your phone. That's the update.zip which was used to give you root permission. Take the newly named update.zip file (clockworkmod) and replace the update.zip (root) on your phone's sd card.
Now, disconnect your phone from your computer, and power down your phone. Press the volume up AND volume down button at the same time, then hold down power. Keep holding all three buttons down. The ATT screen should pop up once, but keep holding down the buttons. The ATT screen will pop up again, and now, you can let go. This should get you to the stock recovery screen. Use your volume down button to scroll down "reinstall packages". Use the power button to select the option. This will install clockworkmod on your phone. Now, it'll come back to the same stock recovery screen. Tick down once again to "reinstall packages" until clockworkmod pops up.
I'm not sure if ROM manager will work with this version of clockworkmod, as I stopped using ROM manager a while ago. I just reboot into recovery manually and navigate clockworkmod with phone's physical buttons. I guess you can give it a go.
If this doesn't work, something might have happened with with the odin flash, or a lagfix wasn't disabled prior to going back to stock, or Dalvik cache wasn't wiped, or your cache partition wasn't wiped, etc, and you might be out of luck.
When I want to flash a ROM, I always make a backup, copy the backup onto my computer, backup my apps with Titanium Backup, copy that backup onto my computer, disable any lagfixes, flash to stock using ODIN, master clear, root, install clockworkmod, copy the new ROM zip file to my SD card, do a factory reset in clockworkmod, wipe cache partition in clockworkmod, and wipe Dalvik cache in clockworkmod, then install my new ROM.
I've never had any problems using those steps. Good luck.
guys the files you need and most answers are here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942217
woops he posted before me but yea hes right
Thanx alot mexican american i dowloaded the file an my phone is working really good with paragon again thanx a lot
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pumasmedina7 said:
Thanx alot mexican american i dowloaded the file an my phone is working really good with paragon again thanx a lot
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You're welcome.
I was bout to give up on my phone but u saved my life thanx again
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I was running Cognition 3.02 and wanted to make the jump to 4.1 but have hit a snag. I downloaded the rom and made a backup of the existing one w/ CWM. I moved the rom to the sdcard folder and renamed it update.zip. Then I entered recovery and disabled voodoo lagfix. While still in recovery I select install sdcard: update.zip. During boot up the phone froze in the cognition animation screen for sometime. I then attempted to restore the old rom in recovery mode and it has now gotten stuck in restoring data....type-yc-egg.png
Any ideas on what I did wrong here?
DOH!
Well it seems I muddled my way through it....ended up installing an old version of Cog using the install zip from sdcard option in the recovery menu. Everything booted up fine once this was finished.....whew! Then I downloaded the 4.1 ROM directly to the phone and left it unchanged in the sdcard folder. I then ran it through CWM and everything worked....re-installing apps now
Never change the name of the roms. Leave them the way that you download them.
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I imagine the problem is solved but wanted to give my two cents. Update.zip is used not really used for flashing a new rom only for rooting and flashing clockwork.
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If you are simply updating to a newer version of a rom, there's no need to rename it update.zip. Using CWM, enter recovery mode and install. zip from sd card.
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I've got a newer captivate just recently through warranty due to it no longer charging. Well this one came factory with 2.2. I know 2.2 had 3e recovery and I've done the fix to flash unsigned files and was able to get into cwm but it failed everyone I tried to flash a rom. I've tried to flash standard 2.1 and rogers 2.1 via odin3 one click and odin 1.81 via the pit and tar files. Neither way will get my phone working on 2.1. So I have to resort back to the stock 2.2 or rogers 2.2. What am I doing wrong? I just want my custom roms back!!! Please find it in your hearts to help even though I've pissed off a few people with my 3e recovery question.
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I've got a newer captivate just recently through warranty due to it no longer charging. Well this one came factory with 2.2. I know 2.2 had 3e recovery and I've done the fix to flash unsigned files and was able to get into cwm but it failed everyone I tried to flash a rom. I've tried to flash standard 2.1 and rogers 2.1 via odin3 one click and odin 1.81 via the pit and tar files. Neither way will get my phone working on 2.1. So I have to resort back to the stock 2.2 or rogers 2.2. What am I doing wrong? I just want my custom roms back!!! Please find it in your hearts to help even though I've pissed off a few people with my 3e recovery question.
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Try using the 3e recovery fix in Trusselo's sig - just unzip and use the .bat file with your phone plugged (in debugging).
It should let you flash a custom ROM after that. No need to go back to stock.
As for Odin, your phone could be a recent build and you need a specefic odin for 1010 and up.
EDIT: What was the error when you were trying to flash a ROM through cwm?
BWolf56 said:
Try using the 3e recovery fix in Trusselo's sig - just unzip and use the .bat file with your phone plugged (in debugging).
It should let you flash a custom ROM after that. No need to go back to stock.
As for Odin, your phone could be a recent build and you need a specefic odin for 1010 and up.
EDIT: What was the error when you were trying to flash a ROM through cwm?
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I unzipped the modified recovery file to the /bin folder via root explorer. Haven't read anything about a .bat file though.
Here is the error I received in cwm after selecting the rom zip:
E:cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(device or resource buys)
E:can't mount SDCARD:ROM.zip
Installation aborted
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s13envy said:
I unzipped the modified recovery file to the /bin folder via root explorer. Haven't read anything about a .bat file though.
Here is the error I received in cwm after selecting the rom zip:
E:cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(device or resource buys)
E:can't mount SDCARD:ROM.zip
Installation aborted
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Well it's not really needed but the .bat file will run a command that will place the recovery for you through your computer.
Not needed since you moved it yourself using root explorer (make sure you're in mount r/w).
Did you try it after placing the new recovery and rebooting your phone?
what are you trying to flash?
how are you flashing it? with the fixed 3e recovery? or with cwm?
did you rename it properly 'update.zip' for 3e?
TRusselo said:
what are you trying to flash?
how are you flashing it? with the fixed 3e recovery? or with cwm?
did you rename it properly 'update.zip' for 3e?
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I was trying to flash continuum 4. I tried flashing it through cwm in recovery mode. Named the cwm file update.zip rebooted into 3e recovery mode (with the modded recovery file) selected "reinstall packages" then tried to select the continuum rom and thats where I got the error message.
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s13envy said:
I was trying to flash continuum 4. I tried flashing it through cwm in recovery mode. Named the cwm file update.zip rebooted into 3e recovery mode (with the modded recovery file) selected "reinstall packages" then tried to select the continuum rom and thats where I got the error message.
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when you select reinstall package, it searches for a file named update.zip on the root of your sd and flashes it so there's nothing more that you have to do.
Now did you fix your problem? I can't tell by the way you wrote that lol
Did you name the file update.zip? or did you name it update?
If you named it update.zip.. it reads it as update.zip.zip as it is a zip file. So all you have to do is to name is "update" with the ".zip" being the type of file.
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when you select reinstall package, it searches for a file named update.zip on the root of your sd and flashes it so there's nothing more that you have to do.
Now did you fix your problem? I can't tell by the way you wrote that lol
Did you name the file update.zip? or did you name it update?
If you named it update.zip.. it reads it as update.zip.zip as it is a zip file. So all you have to do is to name is "update" with the ".zip" being the type of file.
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So youre saying that I can flash roms without going into cwm ? I get into cwm by naming it "update" so I can open it up by selecting "reinstall packages" in the recovery menu. I cant have cwm renamed as "update" and the rom I want to flash as "update" right?
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After you reinstall packages, does it take you to CWM recovery?
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So youre saying that I can flash roms without going into cwm ? I get into cwm by naming it "update" so I can open it up by selecting "reinstall packages" in the recovery menu. I cant have cwm renamed as "update" and the rom I want to flash as "update" right?
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If you moved the 3e recovery fix in /system/bin, you will get into cwm recovery after reinstall package (I believe you have to to it twice as the phone only reboots the 1st time).
Now most of the new ROM have a kernel with built in cwm recovery in their full flash. Which is why you can rename the file to update and reinstall package.
But if you're on 2.2 - you do need the 3e recovery fix so you can get past the signature verification.
Also, you can only have 1 file named update(.zip) in the root of your sd and you want it to be the full ROM file.
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After you reinstall packages, does it take you to CWM recovery?
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Yes. It will take me to cwm. But after I select install rom from sd card and select the rom is when I get the error message I posted above.
I will try flashing it by renaming the rom update.zip and see if it will install that way.
I want my old captivate back. Or just wish I could flash it back to 2.1 lol
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s13envy said:
Yes. It will take me to cwm. But after I select install rom from sd card and select the rom is when I get the error message I posted above.
I will try flashing it by renaming the rom update.zip and see if it will install that way.
I want my old captivate back. Or just wish I could flash it back to 2.1 lol
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If it takes you to cwm.. You can just "install zip from sd card" - What the file is called won't change anything.
And believe me, once you're on a custom ROM, you won't want to go back.
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If it takes you to cwm.. You can just "install zip from sd card" - What the file is called won't change anything.
And believe me, once you're on a custom ROM, you won't want to go back.
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I understand what you're saying about flashing the rom from cwm but as I said before it gives me an error message as soon as I select the rom from my sd card. Could the rom file be corrupt or does that error message seem more phone related?
And I meant it as I wanted to go back to my old captivate and 2.1 bc I had no problems flashing roms on it. I've already flashed cognition and serendipity on my old phone with little problems. This new captivate is being a pain in my ass.
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s13envy said:
I understand what you're saying about flashing the rom from cwm but as I said before it gives me an error message as soon as I select the rom from my sd card. Could the rom file be corrupt or does that error message seem more phone related?
And I meant it as I wanted to go back to my old captivate and 2.1 bc I had no problems flashing roms on it. I've already flashed cognition and serendipity on my old phone with little problems. This new captivate is being a pain in my ass.
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Haha.
Well I'd say to try a different ROM. I duno which one you're trying to install but make sure of 2 things:
1. It's Froyo based.
2. It's a full flash ROM (not only a update)
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Haha.
Well I'd say to try a different ROM. I duno which one you're trying to install but make sure of 2 things:
1. It's Froyo based.
2. It's a full flash ROM (not only a update)
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I was trying to install continuum v4 themed.
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I was trying to install continuum v4 themed.
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As I said, try flashing a different one.
Also, you could try flashing it through Odin (not the one click) but only if you know exactly what you're doing. I had some bad experience with that hehe
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As I said, try flashing a different one.
Also, you could try flashing it through Odin (not the one click) but only if you know exactly what you're doing. I had some bad experience with that hehe
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I only know to take the pit and tar files in odin. It seems like it'd be easier to flash roms through odin if thats possible. I will try to flash a new rom tonight and see what happens
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I wonder if it's possible to flash a new kernel with sgs kernel flasher and then go from there.
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I wonder if it's possible to flash a new kernel with sgs kernel flasher and then go from there.
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i have noooooo clue lol
i'm getting ready to try and flash serendipity 6.4. SHould i do a master clear first?
well i tried to flash seredipity 6.4 using the cwm, and selecting it from the sd card and got this error again:
E:cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(device or resource buys)
E:can't mount SDCARD:ROM.zip
Installation aborted
I'm going to try renaming the seredipity zip to update.zip and see if it works that way
So guys, I need to know what the easiest ROM to put on my Captivate is. I'm rooted on the stock Froyo and I'm coming from the Aria where it was really easy. But, a couple days ago I bricked my Captivate and now have new one. And coming form the Aria I never had to worry about download mode (which I still don't quite understand) and bootloaders and Odin3 (which doesn't register my phone when my phone is in download mode, however, it registers it when out of download mode). So I need a good ROM that all I have to do is boot into CWM and install from SD card because thats all I understand as I have been doing that on my Aria. Please help me find the perfect ROM. Thanks so much. Love you guys here at XDA!
If you already have CWM, all you have to do is boot into recovery and choose install zip from SD card. This will work with any FroYo ROM.
If you don't have CWM you need to mod your recovery before you do anything.
You should be able to mod your 3e recovery from your computer, check the stickies for 3e recovery Modding, its really easy, and caries no risk of bricking.
Then, using modded 3e recovery you can flash CWM with an update.zip then flash a ROM.
Or, rename ANY froyo ROM "update.zip" and flash it directly from your modded 3e recovery. I recommend FireFly or Cognition personally.
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Yes, every Froyo ROM'S can be flashed with ClockWork Mod Recovery, you can download ROM MANAGER from market and you just touch "Flash clockwork mod" and then you have it, put the .zip files in your internal SD, and flash them using CWM.......
caddi234 said:
Yes, every Froyo ROM'S can be flashed with ClockWork Mod Recovery, you can download ROM MANAGER from market and you just touch "Flash clockwork mod" and then you have it, put the .zip files in your internal SD, and flash them using CWM.......
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That is one way to obtain the CWM install file. But you still need to mod the 3e recovery before you can install the CWM recovery. Otherwise when you try to install it you will get the signature verification failure.
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how do I mod 3e recovery? Whenever I use cwm to reinstall packages, it says full signature verification failure. Or something close.
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argonarcel said:
how do I mod 3e recovery? Whenever I use cwm to reinstall packages, it says full signature verification failure. Or something close.
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Do some reading. Search for 3e recovery. There are a lot of threads on it.
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go to the general sub-forum and look at the stickies at the top. There is a whole sticky dedicated to 3e recovery.
Ok. Thanks!
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