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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.
more fun stuff for those of you that like to flash things...
clockworkmod version 5.8.4.3 touch for the incredible
Please post any comments/questions/concerns/etc
Download (img): http://tinyw.in/NVqw You must flash this one using fastboot.
Download (PB31IMG.zip): http://tinyw.in/YPDY You must rename this to PB31IMG.zip and put it on the root of your sdcard, then boot into hboot and select yes to flash it.
This was built using this koush's cwm auto-builder: http://builder.clockworkmod.com
Used a freshly built recovery.img from my cm9 nightly tree and a slightly modified recovery.fstab to be compatible with the newer cwm
Yeah the one that we had, dev seems to have moved on.
Its only a fakeflash anyway, is this the same or fully functional touch recovery? I've scratched my head wondering why we haven't had a touch recovery yet.
Before I do something stupid, fastboot? Do I flash this in CWM or do it through RM? If flashed I'm assuming it sticks and stays than be temporary?
Edit: Never mind, is there a possibility of it being a flash form through CWM or RM?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he means to go through HBOOT (power down, then volume-down + power). I haven't installed this, but that would be my guess.
7he Messiah said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he means to go through HBOOT (power down, then volume-down + power). I haven't installed this, but that would be my guess.
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yep
i'll look into getting a zip made up for it
posted a PB31IMG.zip
I installed this, did a nandroid, wiped my fresh ROM install from three hours ago, confirmed phone did not boot (wipe works). Re-installed ROM, rebooted phone (only let it get to boot animation, but install seems to work). Rebooted to recovery, re-wiped, then restored nandroid. Booted back up, all is well.
Thanks man!
EDIT: Also, forgot to mention that the format functions under mounts work, as well as USB mounting. I found nothing at all non-functional in this recovery.
7he Messiah said:
I installed this, did a nandroid, wiped my fresh ROM install from three hours ago, confirmed phone did not boot (wipe works). Re-installed ROM, rebooted phone (only let it get to boot animation, but install seems to work). Rebooted to recovery, re-wiped, then restored nandroid. Booted back up, all is well.
Thanks man!
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nice!
Okay I did a nandroid aswell and then did the update, restarted phone and did phone+volDown to hboot. Skipped the update to get into recovery, I had an error at the bottom about USB mount. I ignored it and wiped and restored.
Everything went perfect, very good touch recovery! Thanks Invisiblek.
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Flashed okay and appeared to be fully functional, but doing a standard flashover of the latest CM9 nightly produced some... wonky results. All of my system and app data was randomly wiped, although all of my apps, strangely enough, are still there (I didn't wipe anything other than cache and dalvik) and my home button doesn't seem to work. Also, flashing a ROM and Gapps package worked fine, but trying to flash a kernel and the Ext4 mod did not work (said installation aborted with error 0 and nothing more specific).
Downloaded, renamed to pb31img.zip and put it on root of card. I get the error "wrong zipped image". Am I missing something?
EDIT: Nevermind, redownloaded and all is good now. Thanks invisiblek!
Thanks for this! Installed fine from HBOOT. I have used it several times this morning and have had no issues at all. The large spaced out text will take some getting used to but it seems fully functional. Only gripe I have so far is that I feel like I could navigate the menus more quickly on the non-touch version... scrolling in this takes several swipes on longer menus.
Much appreciated though, gonna keep using it!
Edit: Spoke too soon..
polarimetric said:
trying to flash a kernel and the Ext4 mod did not work (said installation aborted with error 0 and nothing more specific).
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Just tried to flash these as well and ran into the same issue.
alexcolodner said:
Thanks for this! Installed fine from HBOOT. I have used it several times this morning and have had no issues at all. The large spaced out text will take some getting used to but it seems fully functional. Only gripe I have so far is that I feel like I could navigate the menus more quickly on the non-touch version... scrolling in this takes several swipes on longer menus.
Much appreciated though, gonna keep using it!
Edit: Spoke too soon..
Just tried to flash these as well and ran into the same issue.
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Yeah, I tried flashing kernel related mods and get the same thing. Seems only kernel related. I tried a battery mod and a no go. Get status 0.
But I could install Audio mods and flash and wipe roms though.
I'm sure Invisiblek plans on updating it.
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Cheers,
I'm in a bit of a bind here. I'm trying to flash Ultimate Rom, im coming from Kingdroid 5.1 an old ICS Rom.
Anyways, while I was preparing to flash I did a nandroid backup, however, I noticed that whenever it's trying to backup /system, the phone restarts.
So I decided to just bite the bullet and proceed without a nandroid backup. So what I did next is flashed Philz kernel, again after waiting for sometime the phone restarted and went into Kingdroid's boot animation, thinking that Philz may not work with KD I just hit on the VolUp + Power + Menu to get into recovery, to my surprise, I was greeted with Philz recovery. So I now tried to do Factory data/reset and seems to have worked. Next I went into Mounts and Storage hoping to format /cache, /system, /data. Went to format /cache, went fine so far so good, next format /system, uh oh, after sometime, again, the phone restarted and went into KD boot animation, again, I just went into recovery. Again I tried to format /system and again the phone restarted.
After that I gave up scared that my phone is now bricked, but to my surprise it booted into KD as if it was newly flashed. What gives? What's happening here? Seems that I still have root too because Titanium Backup works and am able to restore ES File Explorer.
I hope somebody can shed light to this issue, thanks in advanced.
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Are you able to access download mode? Volume down + home + power button of zes flash a stock ROM p. Ex N7000XXLRK with odin
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I haven't tried that and honestly I'm dead scared to give it a try until I know what is going on.
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Might be a bad flash.
give odin a try it's the oasis for you if you think nothing can't be done to make your phone good as stock..! goodluck and happy flashing
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I remember now why I stayed with KingDroid5 and not upgrade to the later versions, its because of this same issue. So when I flash through odin, ill be back on stock right?
Yes if you flash rom using odin.. it will be stock., ICS stock kernels are not safe so.,. you will need to immediately flash a custom kernel like philz.
Thanks for the help. I will probably wait till I get the courage to do all over again, or maybe I could wait till samsung officially releases JB.
Thanks again.
pretty self explanatory. I used safestrap, unistalled it, when i try to get to the stock recovery i pick it from the fastboot menu using the up vol key and then the phone just boots like normal, never goes to the recovery. any ideas would be hugely appreciated.
zeer.row said:
pretty self explanatory. I used safestrap, unistalled it, when i try to get to the stock recovery i pick it from the fastboot menu using the up vol key and then the phone just boots like normal, never goes to the recovery. any ideas would be hugely appreciated.
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Are you still rooted? After rooting with any of jcase's methods (i don't know about the 4.4 one), rebooting to recovery just launches the rom without write protect. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'd have to flash back to stock to recover stock recovery.
Why exactly do you want stock recovery back? Maybe we can work around it to get the results you want.
Also, you should post things like this in the Q&A forum.
JetOhmNet said:
Are you still rooted? After rooting with any of jcase's methods (i don't know about the 4.4 one), rebooting to recovery just launches the rom without write protect. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you'd have to flash back to stock to recover stock recovery.
Why exactly do you want stock recovery back? Maybe we can work around it to get the results you want.
Also, you should post things like this in the Q&A forum.
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well im worse off now. wiped my system. no rom. no recovery. think im royally screwed.
Yup, safestrap replaces your recovery, and since you nixed safestrap, your phone has nothing to fall back to. You're phone will be fine, I did the same thing when I unrooted and tried to install the 4.4 update. You just need to flash the stock recovery files in RSDLite. Will you loose your data? Sure (or you can save what you want on your computer), but your phone will be fine. Let me know if you get messed up trying to do this.
Ok, so I tried following the method described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712039
I was on JB. Installed SS 3.71, downloaded the odexed version of UrDroid and odin files.
Procedure I followed:
Booted into SS
Factory reset
Install urdroid - deodexed
Installation failed, zip wouldn't open
Booted back up, downloaded urdroid again - odexed version this time
pulled battery, booted to safestrap
factory reset
install new zip, worked this time
tried booting to download mode with vol down key, didn't work for some reason. just went to SS splash screen then tried to boot
pulled battery, booted SS again, used the reboot menu to get to download mode
followed steps to set up partitions in ODIN, seemed to work fine
Now when I try to boot it just shows me the SS splash screen, then when I let it boot it just goes to a black screen with a solid blue indicator LED.
Next, I tried to verify the MD5 on the UrDroid zip and it didn't match. I downloaded it again, copied it to my external SD, and it then checked out.
Wiped, installed, ran the odin stuff again. Same problem.
I'm guessing the next step is to restore it back to MJ5 using this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559715&page=118
Except several of the files linked there are no longer available....
I'm feeling a little panicked now, this is my only phone lol. Can anyone give me a hand?
If you're on MJ5 and If you can access Safestrap recovery, this should work : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2619005
andygev35 said:
If you're on MJ5 and If you can access Safestrap recovery, this should work : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2619005
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I thought that once you update to KK, you can't go back to JB... except I don't know if I ever completed the update. I'm not entirely sure how this process even works.
Do you flash the rom, and then the ODIN portion of it prepares your phone for KK?
Boot into safestrap recovery, click reboot, click reboot to recovery (which will boot you into system recovery). Near the top of the system recovery screen it will show you what version of firmware you have. If it's MJ5, then just do a restore within safestrap recovery to the restore files you get from the link I posted earlier.
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Boot into safestrap recovery, click reboot, click reboot to recovery (which will boot you into system recovery). Near the top of the system recovery screen it will show you what version of firmware you have. If it's MJ5, then just do a restore within safestrap recovery to the restore files you get from the link I posted earlier.
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First of all, thank you for your help.
In recovery, it just says "Android system recovery <3e>". Then goes down to the options you can select.
Before you posted, I tried installing a MJ5 custom rom (FireNote) in the stock slot and now it successfully boots. Which is certainly an improvement. I tried the same process again with UrDroid and had the same result as before - no boot. Now I'm back on FireNote again.
Since FireNote works fine, is it safe to conclude that the Odin process did not properly prepare my boot system for KitKat, and that is why the KK rom isn't working at all?
Have I stumped XDA?? Haha.
I went over the guide again and can't see anything that I've done wrong, but I certainly could have. Are there glitches in Odin3 with Windows 7 that I should be looking out for or anything?
Another thought: I was attempting to do this with SafeStrap 3.71 installed. I thought that 3.72 should be sideloaded after I had switched to KitKat. Was this incorrect? Should I have started by installing 3.72 in my JB rom?
Well, I just let out a string of bad words.
When I ran Odin it defaulted to my 'return to stock' files even though I ran it from a completely different folder... and I didn't realize it.
I'm guessing using the right files will resolve this problem.
Wow, I'm an idiot.
steveh_131 said:
Well, I just let out a string of bad words.
When I ran Odin it defaulted to my 'return to stock' files even though I ran it from a completely different folder... and I didn't realize it.
I'm guessing using the right files will resolve this problem.
Wow, I'm an idiot.
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I wouldn't say you're an idiot. You're human!