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[Q] Stuck on SPRecovery; can't flash Clockworkmod recovery

Is there an sbf to flash clockworkmod recovery similar to the SPRecovery file used in the "how to root any droid regardless..." method? I've tried flash_image from terminal but get a not found error even though i know the clockwork.img file is right there at /sdcard. RomManager reports that it's flashed clockworkmod but when i reboot into recovery there's SirPsycho's green droid. Some alternate method to change my recovery back to clockworkmod would be greatly appreciated.
Background: Last night I restored my original rooted 2.1 nandroid backup to retrieve some notes and got distracted by a phone call and left it on too long. Maybe I missed my chance to avert disaster, so be it, but when i picked up my phone it was at the "ready to install update" screen and i *think* i just turned it off and tried to reboot into recovery. ( i was still distracted ). I became undistracted when i found that instead of good ol' CWR i had the white triangle / phone icon and no user recovery. So I sbf'd SPR onto it, then the busybox/su/root file, then rebooted, opened RomManager, flashed CWR, set up a restore to my current CM6.1RC3 and let it reboot. No joy; SPR came up instead and just sat there. Since then i've gone back into RM and "reflashed" CWR a few hundred times, tried several times to unsinstall and reinstall RM (same result). I've also downloaded the correct CWR.img file and tried to flash it from terminal emulator, no joy. I've tried using ROM Manager to flash an older version of CWR and can't, getting "An error occured while flashing your recovery."
lol i've also (inadvertantly/frustratedly) ended up removing the recovery altogether (probably from accidentally initiating an SPR backup and then battery pulling when it was an hour later and still not finished); after that booting while holding the "X" was stuck at "M"; but reflashing the SPR file from RSDLite got me the SPRecovery again.
When I have freshly flashed the SPR.sbf file, or flashed alternate recovery in RomManager, it reports SPR as the current recovery, and when i "flash" CWR from RomManaGER, it changes and reports that CWR 2.5.01 is the currently installed recovery, but no matter what i've tried, when i boot into recovery the text is blue not green. grr.
i've searched quite a bit before posting and am quite frustrated at this point. i've got a bazillion nandroid backups, but they are all clockwork and not SPRecovery format. The only way I now seem to be able to flash a different recovery is via RSDLite.
SO, either an sbf file to flash ClockworkModRecovery, an alternate way to change my recovery, or if there were some way to use SPR to restore from a nandroid backup created with CWR, but i'm not sure if the recovery itself is in the nandroid backup?
not pulling my hair out yet, but quite a bit past simple frustration.
TIA!

nevermind. after trying everything including reformatting my SD card, i took the latest update to RomManager and it successfully reflashed CWM. lol 69 views. Thanks for the tips.

Clockwork only sbf
Teddy helped me immensly on droid-forum when i had this issue, but i came across one of the things i could have used back then recently so wanted to post it up here if anybody else ends up in this situation.
Here's an .sbf that will reflash clockworkmod recovery, from Raidzero's thread on his RZRecovery:
http://rzdroid.com/ftp/recovery/Clockwork_2.5.0.1_sholes_recovery_only.sbf

CWM for Milestone?
Are U sure?

No, not at all. Forgot this was a combined device forum; I'm only talking about the Droid.
If all the recoveries and tools I've mentioned work on a milestone too I don't know. Apologies for not being more specific.
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No problem... just that milestone uses Open Recovery...
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[Q]-Verizon-GTab-How to return to stock

First off, I have searched and performed a few different recovery processes and my Tab is partially functional (FC's on a lot of apps)
I used Z4Root.
Next I used the Verizon_zImage to install CWR (converted to Ext4)
I installed the Dodexed Verizon from this forum
Everything ran fine for about a month
I started getting FC's on a lot of apps
Decided to revert to stock via this post: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sa...84-how-restore-vzw-galaxy-tab-stock-dj11.html
Used Heimdall to flash the Cache, Param, factory, Kernel and Recovery
Following the directions, I booked into recovery (stock)
When I tried to wipe Data and Cache, is where the problems started
I get a bunch of errors about not being able to mount /Data
I have tried to get back to where I was with flashing the Verizon_zImage and wiping data and cache that way (seemed to work but all my apps and data are still there)
If someone can tell me how to get the Data wiped, I think I can get ther rest working...
Help please as I'm going to visit my brother this month and he's an Apple guy so I was going to show off how much better Android is...

Did you repartition with a PIT file? If you've gone to EXT4, I believe you need to repartition the device before you can go back to an RFS ROM.
Regards,
Dave

Can't find anything telling me how to do this or a PIT file for Verizon, so no. Kind of was thinking the same thing.
Anyone have a PIT file for a verizon Tab?

I screwed my tab using Verizon Tab Boostrapper from the market, trying to get to EXT4, it was already rooted with SuperOneClick; it booted into recovery and did a nandroid backup but i think failed the first time then tried to do some flashing then rebooted back into a nandroid backup finally completeing after what i think was a successful backup and EXT format. It may not be successful because when i try either of the md5 in Odin they both fail and i dont think i did enough research to find out how to push these files to the device yet.
After not reading what i should have nor having found a suitable stock verizon rom i tried relfashing with a JMF rom using odin which i am not sure if i jacked it even more but got it to boot to a different samsung startup screen but just hang up there, no carrier logo. Point being i can finally get back to a verizon startup screen after reformatting with P1_add_hidden.pit, it boots to a verizon logo and does the single single vibrate followed by a double vibrate i notice this thing doing everytime it fails with an app or software in general.
After trying this method with heimdall and all files in their right places as instructed by the first post i can flash in download mode but heimdall never tells me that the flash is successful even after waiting a good 10-15 minutes after the progress bars stop. Should it take this long to complete the flash?
Also, i know you said not to use any other files in heimdall but if i try using a CWM zImage file from the forums or even one i found for verizon, i can get heimdall to flash and say successful completed flash but it still vibrates and loops on startup. Any suggestions? Or can someone point me in the direction of how to restore my backup with heimdall?
I can boot into stock recovery and download mode, ive also tried to just flash the CWM from the CWM beta post with heimdall and it says successful flash but it still has stock recovery after reboot.

SUCCESS! ok so my brother has a vzw tab also, i used roto's backup method and backed up his device thru adb, i then heimdall with my bros factory.rfs, kernel(zImage), param.lfs, boot.bin, cache.rfs, dbdata.rfs, modem.bin and recovery(zImage) but got black screen of death so reformatted with P1_add_hidden.pit to get back to looping verizon logo, then back to download mode and this time i removed the kernel and recovery files and tried again which got me back to a verizon logo loop but then i tried a wipe data and wipe cache and WALA! tab booted right up, only missing modem (i think its modem bc i cant get carrier service) and menu/home/search buttons dont respond in android. CWM 3.0 flashes on both tabs but doesnt boot up to it so i used the galaxytabandclockworkmod combo found in these forums to get CWM 2.5.1 on it and am trying to restore from my odin claimed mismatched( but md5summer tells me they are good) nandroid backup, will post findings soon

cooljo555 said:
SUCCESS! ok so my brother has a vzw tab also, i used roto's backup method and backed up his device thru adb, i then heimdall with my bros factory.rfs, kernel(zImage), param.lfs, boot.bin, cache.rfs, dbdata.rfs, modem.bin and recovery(zImage) but got black screen of death so reformatted with P1_add_hidden.pit to get back to looping verizon logo, then back to download mode and this time i removed the kernel and recovery files and tried again which got me back to a verizon logo loop but then i tried a wipe data and wipe cache and WALA! tab booted right up, only missing modem (i think its modem bc i cant get carrier service) and menu/home/search buttons dont respond in android. CWM 3.0 flashes on both tabs but doesnt boot up to it so i used the galaxytabandclockworkmod combo found in these forums to get CWM 2.5.1 on it and am trying to restore from my odin claimed mismatched( but md5summer tells me they are good) nandroid backup, will post findings soon
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Any chance you could post the files, there are a lot of us stuck at verizon logos without other tabs to copy data from haha.
Thanks in advance!!!

After all the things I tried, I gave in and took it back to Verizon (still within the year Sansung warranty) . I'll have a new one either tomorrow or Monday. Once I get it, I'll preform Roto's backup via command line and get all the required files if they are not posted first. If I read Roto's command strings correctly, I can even get the .pit file so we should be covered.
Like I said, if cooljo555 doesn't post these I'll work on posting them when I get my new device...

MrCheetah said:
Any chance you could post the files, there are a lot of us stuck at verizon logos without other tabs to copy data from haha.
Thanks in advance!!!
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rjansen110 said:
After all the things I tried, I gave in and took it back to Verizon (still within the year Sansung warranty) . I'll have a new one either tomorrow or Monday. Once I get it, I'll preform Roto's backup via command line and get all the required files if they are not posted first. If I read Roto's command strings correctly, I can even get the .pit file so we should be covered.
Like I said, if cooljo555 doesn't post these I'll work on posting them when I get my new device...
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Please post these file when you get the chance! I would really appreciate it!

The stock files are posted here
Hello everyone,
All the files are here in the XDA-Developers, in advance I'll like to apologize if I am breaking any rules by adding the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955342
I downloaded the files I just don't know how to flash them, including the pit.pit files, help please since my tab is severely broken and I need to flash all files to bring it back to factory.
I'll appreciate anybody helping me. I already tried with heimdall, but it will not do anything when I put the pit.pit file, I tried odin, but it does not work neither, since I don't have a tar file for this, I no matter what I do, if I created one it does not work. If the instructions to do this are included somewhere else, can you please point me in the right direction?

[Q] Can get to recovery menu, but boot hangs at logo

I was trying to update to AOKP on my Captivate. I was running GB 2.3.5. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I installed ClockWorkMod Recovery, then I added the zip file to the SD. Rebooted into recovery, and then tried "install zip from sdcard". It said that it was installed. I backed out and then tried to turn on the phone. Now I'm stuck at the AT&T logo. I finally turned the phone off after 2 hours of that. I can still get to the recovery menu, and still install zip from the sd, but I'm still stuck at the logo.
I've tried Odin, but it hangs at file analysis. Did I mention, I didn't back up anything? Only thing important to me is contacts, and they're backed up through Google.
Any ideas on how I can fix this. Point me to right thread if this is already covered.

Reboot into cwm recovery, Wipe Data/ Factory Reset, then install rom. If it boots afterwards to another cwm recovery, don't reboot the phone, just reinstall the rom from there and u should be good to go.
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Still stuck at the at&t logo. According to CWM Recovery, SlimICS was installed. I'm really at a loss. Any other ideas?

Flash a stock, one-click, no bootloader, odin or heimdall package, and try again.

I was able to load stock ICS 4.0.3 Phone booted like normal. I was starting to freak out. Thanks for the help.

Bootloop and cannot use recovery. Need Help

Dear you guys,
Suddenly when my p7300 (running CM9 nightly 120923) can't get through bootanimation (i comes to the animation for few second and then reboot again).
I tried Recovery, but it feels there are problems with the SDCards (??) as whenevery I choose to enter Download folder (where I stored the rom.zip), Recovery show empty and rebooted the device again.
What should I do?

I tried restoring from nandriod backup and it reboot when trying to reboot data partition' but at least it is booted ok now. Recovery is 6.0.1.0.
I cant wipe data. Should I flash recovery vesion 5?
Edit:
I did try v5 again but it doesn't flash cm9 (some error).
I flashed again 6.0.0.8, and flash cm9 again, the same boot loop happened. I can only use the restored one now (half restored anyway), and superuser is not working ('cause it can't wipe data partition?). Please help me out.
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Your data partition is corrupted.
Use Odin to flash a P7300 .pit file, followed by an official ROM. From there, select "Wipe Data" in recovery.
You WILL lose all your data, even the one on the internal memory.

Can you point me to the .pit and and official rom?
I have never used Odin before but I have got it downloaded (odin 3 1.85)
I looked in here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582943
But there are only Honeycom for 7300, and there are several of them. I looked in "About Tablet" and it says here, under base hand, P7300XXKHC

Anyone? Pls help me to choose the right one. I saw a pit file in odin folder, is that the one?
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[Q] Can't Install KitKat on s3 mini HELP!

Here are two posts I posted on another site. If someone could help me out here, it would be greatly appreciated.
Post 1
I have a Galaxy s3 mini GT-I8190L and I tried rooting and installing Kitkat but I've been having some issues.
Here is what I did:
Downloaded Odin and Kies (for the phone drivers, Kies was closed while using Odin)
Downloaded CMW Recovery and a root.zip file
Flashed CMW and placed the root.zip on extSD card.
In Recovery mode, backed up system then installed the root file.
Downloaded Root Checker and it said I have root.
Then downloaded slim4.4_golden.nova.20140630.zip and a gapps file and placed them both on the extSD.
Using Recovery (Vol Up+Home+Power), wiped data and davika (whatever it's called) and then flashed slim4 file. But I got an error.
I then tried cm11.0_golden.nova.20140823.zip which went smoothly and then gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip but in middle it stopped with an error and said something about process 7 (I think).
Anyone know what I should do? Would it be better to go through Odin instead of Recovery (using Odin compatible files, of course)?​
Post 2
Changed to TWRP2
Backed up all data then did a full format incl. chache and davlik.
Then installed th SlimKAT file and gApps.
(I did NOT format chache after install)
Rebooted pone and saw Galaxy sIII mini screen like normal then cam SlimKAT logo (replacing Samsung's) but it just remained on the flashing SlimKAT logo.
I removed the battery and restored the phone using TWRP Recovery.
I then downloaded Nova Fusion's CM11 for s3 mini and tried flashing it but I got a Failed message. This happened with a number of Nova's files, including the latest (cm11.0_goldem.nova.20140830.zip)
I tried downloading the Odin version but for some reason it keeps stopping in middle (and I don't have unlimited internet and can't keep downloading files).
Didn't think this should be so hard...
Any help would be appreciated!​
Please note, during part of this time I was unable to get into DOWNLOAD or RECOVERY modes. I ended up removing the battery and that helped, but for only one time. I had to remove the battery a number of times to get into these modes.
If you need more info, I will try to give it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
SiDi™

Go to NovaFusion.pl/download/ and choose you want rom and click odin andthen download andthen flash via odin
Try it, I don't know it is working or not
send for I8190N R-Mod v3 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

SayIDidIt™ said:
Here are two posts I posted on another site. If someone could help me out here, it would be greatly appreciated.
Post 1
I have a Galaxy s3 mini GT-I8190L and I tried rooting and installing Kitkat but I've been having some issues.
Here is what I did:
Downloaded Odin and Kies (for the phone drivers, Kies was closed while using Odin)
Downloaded CMW Recovery and a root.zip file
Flashed CMW and placed the root.zip on extSD card.
In Recovery mode, backed up system then installed the root file.
Downloaded Root Checker and it said I have root.
Then downloaded slim4.4_golden.nova.20140630.zip and a gapps file and placed them both on the extSD.
Using Recovery (Vol Up+Home+Power), wiped data and davika (whatever it's called) and then flashed slim4 file. But I got an error.
I then tried cm11.0_golden.nova.20140823.zip which went smoothly and then gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip but in middle it stopped with an error and said something about process 7 (I think).
Anyone know what I should do? Would it be better to go through Odin instead of Recovery (using Odin compatible files, of course)?​
Post 2
Changed to TWRP2
Backed up all data then did a full format incl. chache and davlik.
Then installed th SlimKAT file and gApps.
(I did NOT format chache after install)
Rebooted pone and saw Galaxy sIII mini screen like normal then cam SlimKAT logo (replacing Samsung's) but it just remained on the flashing SlimKAT logo.
I removed the battery and restored the phone using TWRP Recovery.
I then downloaded Nova Fusion's CM11 for s3 mini and tried flashing it but I got a Failed message. This happened with a number of Nova's files, including the latest (cm11.0_goldem.nova.20140830.zip)
I tried downloading the Odin version but for some reason it keeps stopping in middle (and I don't have unlimited internet and can't keep downloading files).
Didn't think this should be so hard...
Any help would be appreciated!​
Please note, during part of this time I was unable to get into DOWNLOAD or RECOVERY modes. I ended up removing the battery and that helped, but for only one time. I had to remove the battery a number of times to get into these modes.
If you need more info, I will try to give it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
SiDi™
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Enable 3 button combo?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2157105

CWM doesnt support KitKat, you need TWRP or Philz touch.
or flash via odin