i have ROMmanager, it says CWR I'd installed and up-to-date, but i can't load into it. when i use RM's "Reboot to Recovery" my d3 just reboots back into Android. when i try X or M while hitting the power button, i get the stock recovery. am i doing something wrong here?
you need a bootstrapper to get in it. Install hashcode's tweaked bootstrap(google it) or even better safestrap, available on hashcode's blog http://hash-of-codes.blogspot.com/p/android-downloads.html
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Hey guys,
Last night I installed ROM Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery on my Roger's Samsung Captivate and proceeded to watch some YouTube videos on how it works. It would appear that this app has made flashing extremely easy. Too easy one might say.
My question is: Is flashing via ROM Manager safe? Better? Or not, compared to the "old school" method?
Any feedback on ROM Manager or flashing in general for my i896 Captivate would be much appreciated!
TheShamsMan said:
Hey guys,
Last night I installed ROM Manager and ClockworkMod Recovery on my Roger's Samsung Captivate and proceeded to watch some YouTube videos on how it works. It would appear that this app has made flashing extremely easy. Too easy one might say.
My question is: Is flashing via ROM Manager safe? Better? Or not, compared to the "old school" method?
Any feedback on ROM Manager or flashing in general for my i896 Captivate would be much appreciated!
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I'd say Rom Manager is downright essential, but your mileage may vary. Besides the uber easy flashes there are a number of utility type things it does, not least of which is it gives us cappy users the ability to make nandroid backups.
As far as safe? As safe as any other method I guess. If you do your homework and the Rom's cook has his/her shizzle together (and most of them do.) you should be good using it to flash.
You'll find with some of the newer kernels that a modified CWM is actually replacing the stock 2e/3e recovery also, so it's not a terrible idea to get familiar with it a bit first.
Just some thoughts, hope they help.
Thanks for the reply dude!
Does ROM Manager automatically present users with the option to backup their existing ROM before proceeding with a flash?
I attempted to back up my current ROM with ROM Manager. It rebooted into a recovery menu, but non of them gave me the option to back up. Just wipe and reboot (can't remember the exact options). Is it possible the Captivate is no supported? How would I enable nandroid for Captivate?
TheShamsMan said:
Thanks for the reply dude!
Does ROM Manager automatically present users with the option to backup their existing ROM before proceeding with a flash?
I attempted to back up my current ROM with ROM Manager. It rebooted into a recovery menu, but non of them gave me the option to back up. Just wipe and reboot (can't remember the exact options). Is it possible the Captivate is no supported? How would I enable nandroid for Captivate?
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You open the app and tap flash clockwork recovery, select your phone, and it will proceed to reboot into recovery mode. At this time, you move down to reinstall packages, and it will then load clockwork recovery. It is from there that you can make your nandroid backup.
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You open the app and tap flash clockwork recovery, select your phone, and it will proceed to reboot into recovery mode. At this time, you move down to reinstall packages, and it will then load clockwork recovery. It is from there that you can make your nandroid backup.
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What he said. It sometimes chokes on loading itself. It puts a file named update.zip on your sdcard. When you get to the blue menu (2e recovery) you select reinstall packages and it should load right up. Sometimes it will reboot and get stuck there again. Just do it again and it'll come up.
Yes, before you flash through rom manager it asks you if you want to do a backup. You'll find over time tho that you'll just go straight to clockworkmod and skip the whole rom manager thing. At least I did. And if you go to one of the kernels with the modified cwm in place of the recovery menu rebooting to recovery with rom manager will bring you to the wrong one. The modified has extra stuff like lag fixes and that sort of thing that the original cwm doesn't have.
Yeah. So far, I find it easier to just use ROM Manager to boot into Recovery and do everything else from there.
I like how it only presents you with ROMs available for your specific device. I look forward to the list populating for the Captivate. It's currently empty.
You open the app and tap flash clockwork recovery, select your phone, and it will proceed to reboot into recovery mode. At this time, you move down to reinstall packages, and it will then load clockwork recovery. It is from there that you can make your nandroid backup.
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the very first time i did this clicked reboot instead of reinstall packages. (i have fat thumbs) now every time i do 'tap flash clockwork recovery' instead of rebooting it just says 'successfully downloaded clockworkmod recovery'. how am i supposed to reinstall if i cant get to the option to do so?
im using a rooted captivate.
"Reinstall Packages" is in Android Recovery. When you perform the action "Flash Clockwork Recovery", you are downloading update.zip (which is Clockwork). "Reinstall packages" will install that update.zip and bring you into Clockwork.
So for you nawlage, now you can select "Reboot into Recovery" in ROM Manager, and your phone should boot into Android Recovery (blue text). Once there, reinstall packages (you'll probably have to do this twice), and you'll be brought to Clockwork Recovery (green text). If for WHATEVER reason "Reboot into Recovery" isn't working for you, use the 3-button combo to boot into Android Recovery.
thanks a load. i had just read this... posted by big99gt:
After these steps you won't really have to "hack" your phone lol. Root your phone and download Rom Manager from the Android market...then have it flash a recovery (the first selection at the top) choose your device when prompted. Now after that finishes select "reboot into recovery" and as the above post states you may need to select "reinstall packages" (I did). Once that goes through, you'll see your new custom recovery menu. DO A NANDROID BACKUP of your current Rom as soon as you can....then (as long as your current rom isn't messed up, if its stock your fine) from there on out you can play as much as you want with very little risk of bricking your phone. There are others who can explain it better but your stuck with me till they chime in lol. Its a very easy process and nearly foolproof.
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..and did just that. and it takes me to the clockwork recovery (green text). because of this i dont have to reinstall packages?
also, is the backup option in clockwork recovery (green text) equivalent to nandroid backup?
Once you are in Clockwork Recovery (green text), there is no more need to reinstall packages.
The "Backup Current ROM" in ROM Manager makes a nandroid backup.
very nice. two thanks for you. thank you.
I installed the AWESOME Cyanogen v7 ROM, which makes the Nook an even nicer experience than the stock rooted ROM. I got into a bit of trouble though and had to do a restore and reinstall. I went into ROM Manager, and choose "Reboot into recovery" which brought me into Clockwork Recovery. I could not get out! Every time I rebooted, I ended up back in and could not for the life of me figure out how to boot back into normal Cyanogen. Is this a bug, or did I miss something?
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Nick
Run the file I attached from a CWR bootable Sd card.
(It might work just from the normal cwr, but im not sure)
It will remove your CWR install.
Then it should boot back into cm7.
AFAIK, people are having this issue when they dont reboot after flashing cwm, then trying to go into recovery immediately after flashing.
No idea why it does this, but try rebooting the nook before trying to go into recovery once you flash it again in Rom Manager.
I have installed Rom Manager (paid version), and clicked the "Install ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
It asks for the device - selected Samsung S Captivate (which is what my phone is).
It asks for (and gets) root, pops up a message saying that it has downloaded ClockWorkMod Recovery, then seems to do nothing else.
If I then click on Backup Current ROM, it presents a name for the backup (date and time), then re-boots the phone into recovery.
No backup happens, and the recovery is the Samsung one.
So the installation of ClockworkMod Recovery seems to have failed.
Tried several more times - same result. Tried installing recovery a few times too.
Looked at the filestore -- the clockworkmod recovery download is there.
Deleted Rom Manager, re-installed - tried again - same results.
Any suggestions???
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I have installed Rom Manager (paid version), and clicked the "Install ClockworkMod Recovery" button.
It asks for the device - selected Samsung S Captivate (which is what my phone is).
It asks for (and gets) root, pops up a message saying that it has downloaded ClockWorkMod Recovery, then seems to do nothing else.
If I then click on Backup Current ROM, it presents a name for the backup (date and time), then re-boots the phone into recovery.
No backup happens, and the recovery is the Samsung one.
So the installation of ClockworkMod Recovery seems to have failed.
Tried several more times - same result. Tried installing recovery a few times too.
Looked at the filestore -- the clockworkmod recovery download is there.
Deleted Rom Manager, re-installed - tried again - same results.
Any suggestions???
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First, you need to be rooted. If you are rooted already, when you get to the Samsung recovery, is it the 3e recovery? if so, you need to get around that first be reading here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213
Once you get around 3e recovery you can flash whatever you want. Report back, let us konw how it goes.
edit: oops, just noticed that you did say you have root when you mentioned you allowed root access for Rom Manager.
Reboot to Recovery and select "reinstall packages". --- u may have to do it twice, but then u should be in CWM Recovery... Unless u have the stock 3e recovery as stated above.
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Ok - loaded the modified 3e recovery binary.
Seems to be working, because now when I boot into recovery I see:
-- Movi_check Start..||
checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]
Not need checksum confirmation
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But still can't get clockworkmod recovery to load.
Tried loading an old version, followed by re-loading the current version.
Backup Current ROM ... and still see the Samsung recovery utils message,
and of course, no backup.
Ok -- lets try reinstall packages twice ...
Ok - that did it.
Thanks!!
As said in the post above your last one, you do have to select Reinstall packages twice to get into CWM. Are you selecting it twice?
edit: just saw your post above. glad you got it working.
Ok - now some random questions (for my education):
First, any idea why it might take TWO re-installs of packages for things to work?
It always makes me a bit nervous when repeating an operation has different effects. Software is supposed to be deterministic!
Next, I assume that installing clockworkmod recovery just replaces the "recovery" binary in /system/bin (?).
If so, why didn't (couldn't?) I just get hold of a single binary and drop it into /system/bin in place of the standard recovery binary?
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Ok - now some random questions (for my education):
First, any idea why it might take TWO re-installs of packages for things to work?
It always makes me a bit nervous when repeating an operation has different effects. Software is supposed to be deterministic!
Next, I assume that installing clockworkmod recovery just replaces the "recovery" binary in /system/bin (?).
If so, why didn't (couldn't?) I just get hold of a single binary and drop it into /system/bin in place of the standard recovery binary?
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As far as the re-installing packages twice, you should only have to do that once. now when you reboot to recovery, or 3-button boot to recovery it should go right to CWM.
And I have no idea about the single binary thing. I just followed instructions as you did to get it working. Hahaha!
Honesty on a forum -- I like that!
Just did a bit of poking around ... it doesn't replace the restore binary, looks like it uses that to load CWM -- if you issue a "reboot recovery" you end up in the standard recovery. If you run reboot into recovery from Rom Manager, you can see it loads the original recovery first, then jumps into CWM.
I suppose this is actually a good thing, because you always have the old recovery to fall back to.
Thanks a lot ... I would probably never have found the 3e restore replacement without that pointer.
Philip
Hello XDA,
I need your help! I'm trying to upgrade my Bionic to ROM Eclipse 3.0. My Android version is 2.3.4 and 5.9.905.XT875. It's currently rooted via this method, (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1810373) using moto-fail GB. Next, I'm following these steps to load the Eclipse ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1327695) but I'm stuck. I have the ROM on my SD card and I'm supposed to use Droid Bootstrap to "Reboot Recovery" and wipe data, and install the new ROM. I'm aware that there are 3 bootstrap apks available?. I've used Droid X Bootstrapper by Koush, Droid 2 Bootstrapper by Koush, and System Recovery by Tenfar. Koush's Boostrappers restart my android and does not bring me into recovery mode. It boots like normal. Tenfar's Bootstrapper reboots me into the splash loading screen and it freezes there. I have to do a battery pull reset to get back into my phone. I have unknown sources and USB debugging checked under applications. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
TLDR; Can't get into recovery mode via bootstrapper to load new ROM.
If you go to eclipserom.com under the bionic section nitro has his own recovery apk. Try that.
http://eclipserom.com/vforum/showthread.php?220-Bionic-Bootstrap-Recovery
Thanks. It worked. I'm loving eclipse so far. Fast and smooth.
Hey all,
I've been searching all over for the solution to this problem and I haven't been able to find any sort of solution and all my attempts to google have been in vain. I've been having problems installing any rom from clockworkmod. I have a droid bionic with the system version, 98.72.22.XT875 the android version is 4.1.2. So I was originally trying to get the pacman rom on my phone. I flashed a clean jellybean rom from RSD and then I used bootstrap and rom manager to flash clockworkmod recovery. However every time I tried to install the pacman rom I get an error that says something similar to E: system cant find *blank* file. When I reboot my system after this the phone says that I've lost encryption and it wont allow me to access the phone anymore. So I tried downloading the cryogen mod off of rom manager and I had the same problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
You cannot use bootstrap with the jellybean firmware on a bionic, you must use safestrap. It is the only currently working recovery.
Clockworkmod doesn't work either (as far as I know.. Is there even a build for the bionic?)
Clean again with an fxz, root, install safestrap app, install recovery through the app, reboot to safestrap, create a ROM slot, install your ROM to that slot, and all should be good.
(The reason your attempts were in vain is because the boot loader is locked, thus some boot-time patching and workarounds must be done)
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Safe strap works great. Boot manager is supposed to work also, haven't tried it yet.