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Hi everyone,
I tried using a script which automated the install for the the custom recovery, but I started to get messages that it ran out of disk space (I can't link to the file due to my noob status). I probably should have come here first before using that script, but such as life..
I have no important data on the phone, if I lose it all that's ok.
It rebooted and my p500 waits with the following
"Fastboot mode started"
"udc_start()"
It also gives some info when USB is connected ie.
"- suspend -"
"- reset -"
Do I have a paperweight?
thanks and sorry for the newb post ..
edit: so I found this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003790 and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875881
and have gotten it to the yellow emergency mode, not sure how to flash it from here though.
edit2: dling the stock firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073827
edit3: there's this as well.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088046 If I try this method, will it screw up again from too little free disk space?
I'm to drunk to guide our give you the link to fix it but I will tell you, you can fix it just hold on we will help you ; ) and we don't by the time I wake up I will help you its ok ))
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dislplin01 said:
I'm to drunk to guide our give you the link to fix it but I will tell you, you can fix it just hold on we will help you ; ) and we don't by the time I wake up I will help you its ok ))
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thank you very much, I appreciate it haha
Your phone has booted in fastboot mode. Go to development section and read a tutorial how to recover from fastboot.
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setTopbox said:
thank you very much, I appreciate it haha
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Then did u unbricked now
Mahesh
go here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088046
or here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13813493
How to install Android SDK /ADB
http://lgoptimusonep500.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-install-android-sdk-adb.html
dislplin01 said:
I'm to drunk to guide our give you the link to fix it but I will tell you, you can fix it just hold on we will help you ; ) and we don't by the time I wake up I will help you its ok ))
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Most honest post I've seen on the entire forum.
Sent from my Kyocera Echo.
mvgadagi said:
Then did u unbricked now
Mahesh
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I got the phone working again - thanks! I guess it's not a great idea to install the custom recovery
with low disk space?
setTopbox said:
I got the phone working again - thanks! I guess it's not a great idea to install the custom recovery
with low disk space?
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Hmmm. Well, should not matter? /recovery uses a separate partition. Perhaps you flashed a corrupt (incomplete) image?
well if u ever wish to install recovery just download rom manger from market (latest) and install recovery from rom manger option make sure u hav eusb debugging enabled. it works easy
shhbz said:
well if u ever wish to install recovery just download rom manger from market (latest) and install recovery from rom manger option make sure u hav eusb debugging enabled. it works easy
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Erm... reading all the posts about fastboot after using ROM Manager for this, I guess I would rather stick with the custom script using flash_image.
doktornotor said:
Hmmm. Well, should not matter? /recovery uses a separate partition. Perhaps you flashed a corrupt (incomplete) image?
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hmm, I'm not sure (when I dl'd the file I did compare the hash as per instructions). I used the following instructions:
manast.com/2011/05/07/how-to-install-custom-recovery-on-lg-optimus-one-p500
I then went into a terminal emulator, and ran "sh /sdcard/rf.sh". At that point the output of the script started to say "disk full" (and then it reboot into the fastboot prompt).
setTopbox said:
I then went into a terminal emulator, and ran "sh /sdcard/rf.sh". At that point the output of the script started to say "disk full" (and then it reboot into the fastboot prompt).
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No idea about that script. Using flash_image and never had any issue with "disk full", frankly the message does not make sense. All you need is to copy the recovery image to SD and run as root:
Code:
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Done.
doktornotor said:
No idea about that script. Using flash_image and never had any issue with "disk full", frankly the message does not make sense. All you need is to copy the recovery image to SD and run as root:
Code:
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Done.
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I'm getting permission denied when trying to use flash_image. Gingerbreak says the device is rooted, and the terminal does ask for superuser permission when i open it (su works in the terminal). I also tried chmod 755 flash_image but that didn't work either.
the permissions for flash_image are r-xr-x any thoughts ?
edit: apparently the sdcard is mounted with -noexecute ? So I tried copying flash_image to / but it's read only. Is there somewhere where I can execute this?
This rf.sh script seems most notorious, I too went into fastboot after that. Doktornotor's method worked (in fact I think he/she was the one who bailed me out back then as well).
If you got into fastboot, most probably you have a rooted phone.
To use flash_image you need to get the flash_image.sh on the root of your sd card. Search the forum for Amon-Ra custom recovery, and you shall find this file in that thread (it is required for Amon ra setup). Log in to your adb console, and use fastboot to push the new image in the recovery partition.
Unless your recovery.img or flash_image.sh is corrupted, it will work for sure.
Keep in mind, fastboot is a very powerfull tool, if you can access it, you're safe.
Cheers,
Alex
did you get out??
just flash stock firmware with kdz worked for me bro
Buddy,
You do not need to flash anything with KDZ. The ROM is fine nothing happened to it. All your issue is with the recovery being flashed wrongly for some reason.
I had the same issue just yesterday and I managed to flash the recovery through fastboot.
What you need to do is:
1. Install android SDK from Google.
2. Connect the phone while it is on fastboot.
3. If your windows does not find the fastboot drivers online, use the drivers in this link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=39ZR16W1
4. extract the .zip file that you copied to your SD. The one that contains the recovery.
5. Copy the recover.img (or whatever the name of the .img file in the .zip file) to the folder inside the android sdk where fastboot.exe is located (I think its the tools folder)
6. Copy the adbwinapi.dll file from the android SDK\platform-tools\ to the folder containing fastboot.
7. issue the command (and replace recovery.img with the .img file name you have):
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
Dr.Alani said:
Buddy,
You do not need to flash anything with KDZ. The ROM is fine nothing happened to it. All your issue is with the recovery being flashed wrongly for some reason.
I had the same issue just yesterday and I managed to flash the recovery through fastboot.
What you need to do is:
1. Install android SDK from Google.
2. Connect the phone while it is on fastboot.
3. If your windows does not find the fastboot drivers online, use the drivers in this link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=39ZR16W1
4. extract the .zip file that you copied to your SD. The one that contains the recovery.
5. Copy the recover.img (or whatever the name of the .img file in the .zip file) to the folder inside the android sdk where fastboot.exe is located (I think its the tools folder)
6. Copy the adbwinapi.dll file from the android SDK\platform-tools\ to the folder containing fastboot.
7. issue the command (and replace recovery.img with the .img file name you have):
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
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I appreciate the information. When I'm in adb, su won't allow me to gain root access on the phone. The phone itself is rooted using gingerbreak though.
setTopbox said:
I appreciate the information. When I'm in adb, su won't allow me to gain root access on the phone. The phone itself is rooted using gingerbreak though.
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I do not see how you need to use adb.
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HTC sensation blackscreen, trying to flash a nand backup.
ADB, fastboot and Shell working.
I got into shell, can #ls that directory ok ..#cd sdcard... try to #ls sdcard or any other folder and will not show content.
Im not up with linux commands.
I belive Im missing a mount command somewhere.
What Im after is the location of backup folder so I can see the filename of the nand backup to restore in fastboot.
and the commands necessary to restore a nand backup via adb, shell or fastboot.
Why not just place the SD card in the card reader of your pc and record that folder's location?
dont have a sd card reader handy.
so this is as much help as Im going get. its not like I havent spent 3days searching for the answers.
Im basically up to the point where Ive mounted the sdcard found the file loc and name. But when I use shell flash, it errors out, might be I havent mounted system in shell who knows?
anyone plz
DuratecPaul said:
HTC sensation blackscreen, trying to flash a nand backup.
ADB, fastboot and Shell working.
I got into shell, can #ls that directory ok ..#cd sdcard... try to #ls sdcard or any other folder and will not show content.
Im not up with linux commands.
I belive Im missing a mount command somewhere.
What Im after is the location of backup folder so I can see the filename of the nand backup to restore in fastboot.
and the commands necessary to restore a nand backup via adb, shell or fastboot.
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Well not sure if these will help, but they at the very least should point you in the right direction . The last two have actually helped me quite a bit .
How To Backup and Restore using tar on adb shell - Fastest recovery
Performing a Nandroid Restore Manually using ADB
ADB, Fastboot, and Nandroid for Noobs
ADB Workshop and Guide for everyone
DuratecPaul said:
HTC sensation blackscreen, trying to flash a nand backup.
ADB, fastboot and Shell working.
I got into shell, can #ls that directory ok ..#cd sdcard... try to #ls sdcard or any other folder and will not show content.
Im not up with linux commands.
I belive Im missing a mount command somewhere.
What Im after is the location of backup folder so I can see the filename of the nand backup to restore in fastboot.
and the commands necessary to restore a nand backup via adb, shell or fastboot.
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Can't you use a recovery.img from your PC (whether it's from your nandroid or CWM or whichever Recovery you're currently using) and then simply flash using fastboot...
fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>recovery.img
From there you can boot into the bootloader and then Recovery and then restore your complete nandroid backup or flash a ROM.
Here's the link to pull the CWM Recovery image for your Sensation:
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
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Thanx will check tem out on the weekend, last two I havent seen before
Ditamae said:
Can't you use a recovery.img from your PC (whether it's from your nandroid or CWM or whichever Recovery you're currently using) and then simply flash using fastboot...
fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>recovery.img
From there you can boot into the bootloader and then Recovery and then restore your complete nandroid backup or flash a ROM.
Here's the link to pull the CWM Recovery image for your Sensation:
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
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excelent I shall try this on the weekend
Some help for you
DuratecPaul said:
anyone plz
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What I have noticed is my sd card after so many flashes has been moved to the system unrecognized location of \storage\sdcard1 and the only way I can get to it is with a reader or sending the files through my computer using the phone as the reader (mass storage mode).
Notice this could hose,break,trash or brick your phone. You are warned.
Update
Thanks to both CVPCS and Dragonzkiller and the DX2-Dev-Team. And of course thanks to koush. And Tenfar too did he did find the /preinstall hack? Did Dragonzkiller fixed the graphics or what? IDNK, it is fixed(/sbin/recovery in DK, cvpcs is broken). Hence the hybrid zip.
The UL zip works some what from /preinstall see my thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20634404&postcount=1 It may do the same if flashed via Tenfars,our bootstrap, just flash it as you would any zip and it will take over.
It backs up and will restore, from adv restore, /cache and(if set in recovery.fstab) sd-ext. A full restore bombs:
Checking MD5 sums...
cache.ext3.tar: OK
data.ext3.tar: OK
system.ext3.tar: OK
couldn't find default
Found new backup image: /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-01-02.05.08.01//system.ext3.tar
Restoring system...
E:format_volume failed to unmount "/system"
Error while formatting /system!
Other features may work. I find that zipping from win7 winrar fails but Root Explorer zipping results work.
/sbin/recovery is distorted (main screen):
https://github.com/cvpcs/DroidX2Bootstrap/tree/master/assets
Distortion fixed;
https://github.com/DX2-Dev-Team/DX2-CWMR/tree/master/assets
Edit What is the "/preinstall cwr hack"?
TO PUT IN PLAIN TERMS : ALL YOU NEED FOR ANY CHARGE ENABLED RECOVERY:
THE FILES: "hijack" AND (THE HACKED) "charge_only_mode" IN /system/bin
AND ".revovery_mode" IS IN /data
YOU DO NOT NEED ANYTHING ELSE BUT TO LOAD /preinstall
WITH YOUR FAV RECOVERY NAMED: "update-recovery.zip", ALONG WITH IT'S BINARY (SAME AS INSIDE THE ZIP/meta-inf....) CALLED: "update-binary" AND "hijack" (SAME AS ABOVE). Thats it! 6 files. With permissions- See above link.
Older post
5.0.2.0 http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-olympus.zip
Not everything works: when flashing between recoveries they need to be on internal sd, and, of course, backup and restore may work but its for ul bootloaders only.
DO NOT FLASH FROM ROM MANAGER. IT WILL BE SBF time.
Flash from tenfars and keep a copy of both on int sd (tenfars update-recovery.zip and the DL) to go back and forth. Do not backup and restore with this.
Just checked out the updater script and it looks like it should work, barring no needed changes on the scripts in sbin that it copies. I wonder if ADB works in it on this one. This could be a huge bonus for what were trying to do since BSR is kinda old and crappy
No adb in adv menu.
skwoodwiva said:
No adb in adv menu.
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ADB shouldnt be in a menu. Should just be enabled by default. Course it only would work if it was plugged into a computer at the time you dropped into CWR. It doesnt support USB state changing.
So if the cwr in charge mode triggered, as is the preinstall hack, then no adb?
Log from cwr
init.svc.battd running
.usbd running
.touch stopped
.atvc stopped
.adb running
Extended commands not found.
See if you can run any adb commands like:
adb devices
adb pull /system/build.prop
etc...
It fails to mount sdcard. When recovering or manual mount.
I'm done messing this one.
I was able to overwrite the one in /data/data/tenfar folder but not in /preinstall folder anything special I need to try? Still went into BSR when I rebooted to recovery.
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I am learing as I go, but the point I realized is when you go to adv menu,in cwr,and reboot recov the current cwr gets loaded to /preinstall. So paste to data/data...files run sr then do reboot recov. Then paste to preinstall.
Cool ill give that a shot thanks!!!
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If I had the knowhow I would hack the garphics from 5010atrix to 5025x2!! .
But why would the newest Dx2 be any good and NOT a failure and be so messed for all this time? Unless one failure hides the other.
It probably can't mount SD due to a wrong mountpoint in one of the scripts. Should be easy to fix.
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-olympus.zip
newer atrix 5020 all works but restore fails as boot img, of course, won't load.
skwoodwiva said:
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-olympus.zip
newer atrix 5020 all works but restore fails as boot img, of course, won't load.
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how hards that going to be to fix?
Ha ha ha ha!
You got me!
But it easy to flash between these cwrs even back to tenfars. Want to find a way to recwr after a wipe or flash.
The skewed graphics problem is from within the recovery (binary) in /sbin of the
zip: http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.5-daytona.zip .
I pasted the file from the above into this http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-olympus.zip and got same graphics skewing.
balltongue said:
See if you can run any adb commands like:
adb devices
adb pull /system/build.prop
etc...
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Is this from android/sdk in win7?
Can you give me a prep? I am just a NooB.
Within your sdk folder look for platform tools, adb is within this folder. Navigate to platform tools directory using cmd then enter the commands.
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Is this from android/sdk in win7?
Can you give me a prep? I am just a NooB.
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I pm'd you with some info about setting up sdk.
Greetings everyone!
New *registered* user here! I've been frantically sifting through post after post on the forums all night hoping to get some help with an issue I am having on my Vibrant.
Goal:
Remove some bloatware ONLY, not looking to install any ROMs or modify the phone too much...just clean some annoying apps and icons off.
Phone Information:
Model SGH-T959
Firmware 2.2
Baseband T959UVKB5
Kernel 2.6.32.9
Build FROYO.UVKB5
I currently have the latest version of Java, Android SDK, and SuperOneClick installed.
Install directory of AndroidSDK:
C:\AndroidSDK
My method of failure:
Open SuperOneClick, Click "Root"
Start, Run, "CMD"
cd c:\AndroidSDK\tools
adb shell
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/st19/system
This is where it fails and I run into an endless loop of it telling me the proper usage of the "mount" command. I thought I had it at one point but when I typed: rm /system/AmazonMp3.apk all it did was tell me that it was a read-only file and that it couldn't be deleted.
Can someone help lead me in the right direction of what I am doing wrong? I rooted and removed all bloatware about a year ago but I just did an upgrade through MiniKies to the latest version of firmware and I can't seem to remember the process I went through that long ago to get it done right.
I apologize for possibly asking a question that has been asked numerous times but I just couldn't seem to get the wording right to get any helpful results in the search of the forums. Thank you so much for the time in reading this and the future help if any can be provided. Have a great night!!!
It looks like you are in the wrong directory. Open a command prompt in
C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools
Open the platform tools folder. Click on a blank space > hold down the shift key > hit right click > select open command window here. Then enter the commands:
adb devices "to check if your device is connected. also make sure usb debugging is enabled on your phone.
adb remount
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/stl5 /system
rm -r /system/app/[AppName].apk
If you want a list of all your /system/apps enter this command
cd /system/app
ls *.apk
This is much easier if you download rom toolbox from the market. All you do is go to /system/app and delete whatever bloatware you dont want.
BUT BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN DELETING SYSTEM APPS. ONLY DELETE WHAT YOU KNOW IS BLOATWARE OTHERWISE YOU WILL GET FC'S
good luck
Would I still need to follow the steps prior to that and use SuperOneClick to root the device or do I just skip that process and go straight to the cmd prompt?
Also, I followed a tutorial I found for installing the Android SDK that informed me to copy all the files from android-tools to the tools directory and use that instead but I don't know what the use in that is except for maybe a smaller directory name?
EDIT: I tried what you said with and with using SuperOneClick prior to the procedure and the cmd prompt displayed the following text:
*opened cmd promt in C:\AndroidSDK\tools (no files in platform-tools anymore)*
adb devices (it found my device connected)
adb remount (adb remount: no such file or directory exists)
The adb shell and su commands works fine BUT I still hit the endless loop of it trying to explain to me the "usage" of the mount command.
I will look into Rom toolbox as I'm trying to figure this out as well. Thank you.
I strongly recommend you download root explorer or some similar root browser app. Of course though your phone must be rooted. Just try rom toolbox. It has its own root browser within the app along with other useful features. This is probably the easiest way to uninstall the bloatware in your case since you are having issues with adb.
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Thank you!
Okay, I have the suggested "rom toolbox" downloaded from the market and I will try to use that but SuperOneClick does not root the phone deep enough for rom toolbox to see the phone as rooted so...will the "updated.zip" method work for this instead?
I haven't tried it before but I am willing to give it a go if you think it's the best method. If this is the method you recommend, would you happen to have a link to the most recent or atleast most trusted updated.zip rooting method?
CScrivener said:
Thank you!
Okay, I have the suggested "rom toolbox" downloaded from the market and I will try to use that but SuperOneClick does not root the phone deep enough for rom toolbox to see the phone as rooted so...will the "updated.zip" method work for this instead?
I haven't tried it before but I am willing to give it a go if you think it's the best method. If this is the method you recommend, would you happen to have a link to the most recent or atleast most trusted updated.zip rooting method?
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You can try rooting your phone using this toolbox.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
If that does not work for you i will try and find the link to the "one click root program" i use all the time.
Here is an excellent guide to root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
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Here is the program i use. Just remember to have usb debugging enabled on your phone. It really cant get any easier than this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739300
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So I downloaded the one click program you suggested and the program itself seems to bee pretty straight forward.
I connected phone to computer with debugging on. Opened program and hit one click root. It started doing it's thing...phone rebooted and went into recovery. I started to follow instructions up until I got to where it said install packages. When I clicked it, the phone said installation failed no such file our directory exists.
The phone is looking for the updated.zip file but none exists in the one click folder. There is a root.zip and an unroot.zip...do I need to rename one of them to proceed???
Thank you so much for all the help so far, I feel like I'm so close but just not there yet. You have been an incredible help!
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CScrivener said:
The phone is looking for the updated.zip file but none exists in the one click folder. There is a root.zip and an unroot.zip...do I need to rename one of them to proceed???
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The way (Stock) Recovery works is if you are not "Install from SD" then it will look for the file labeled Update.zip. So you can rename only the Root.zip to Update.zip and make sure that is the only thing on your internal SD labeled that or with .zip Put the unroot.zip in a folder for now. Then try again.
Alright, will give that a try when I get home. I thought I read that the program copied the update.zip file to the phone during it's process so I didn't want to do anything to work against that. I will rename one of the files, copy it to the phone and give the one click root another shot. Thank you!
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CScrivener said:
Alright, will give that a try when I get home. I thought I read that the program copied the update.zip file to the phone during it's process so I didn't want to do anything to work against that. I will rename one of the files, copy it to the phone and give the one click root another shot. Thank you!
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There is no need to rename anything. The program does it all for you. Play close attention to the first screen (green one) if it says update.zip copied successfully it will then reboot your phone to stock recovery. Once you are in stock recovery all you do is click reinstall packages. Keep clicking reinstall packages even if it reboots the first time. To prove my point mount your phone to your pc and check to see if the update.zip is copied onto the root of your into storage. If not well copy the update.zip from the last guide i suggested from above.
Also check to see if the superuser app is installed on your phone. The program also installs that along with the update.zip. If you have superuser then go to the market download rom manager so you could download CWM.
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Alright, so I tried it again once I got home. Didn't work BUT I did see that update.zip was installed into my phone. The sig verification failed, which means I need to change recovery versions to the one that skips sig verification correct?
I'll go search the forums for that since I remember seeing that a little while ago but that is the correct path I need to take at this point in time am I right?
Thank you so much! Big big help!
You can pull the CWR from my signature. Same as before. Put it on your internal labeled update.zip, boot into recovery and and scroll down to Reinstall Packages. Hit it. It will cycle and probably come back to stock recovery. Hit Reinstall Packages again and the stock recovery will go from blue to green (CWR).
Side note, probably from there you will be able to install the Superuser update.zip. Just go to Install from SD card and find it and hit it. The reboot. Might not but the CWR instructions above shoudl work for you.
Well I changed the recovery version using the file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423 and then used the OneClickRoot and was able to get the update installed (I think). The phone booted up normally, I noticed that SU Permissions was installed so I figure I am rooted correct? WRONG. Rom toolbox says I am not. Is there another way to verify? Should I reinstall Rom toolbox incase it's just bugging out on me?
So I tried using Rom Manager too. Looks as tho SU is not installed correctly, will have to try again I guess.
Cannot install CWR, tried and the recovery text stays blue even after 14 times of reinstalling packages...
This phone will be sent flying across the room sometime tonight I'm guessing. About to erase the entire thing and try starting from scratch again. (Start from Eclair and work my way up maybe)
If you are willing to start from Eclair it would be soooo much easier that all this stuff.
Odin to stock, flash CWR from my signature, go from blue to green and then flash Fishman's Bionix and you are good to go. Simple and way easier than all this mess. Just download Fish's and put it on you SD card somewhere you'll remember. Once in green recovery just scroll to that ROM and flash it per OP.
We've just been trying to Root you since on your OP you said you didn't want to flash a custom ROM.
Well...I'm still trying to avoid flashing Roms (I've upgraded through MiniKies and that's it).
I've only been trying to root just to clean bloatware off but it seems that I must be lacking the technical skills to follow instrcutions properly....nothing is cooperating and even after following all steps nothing wants to work like it should.
Grrrr! One last try to get CWR working before I lose my mind and need to take a break/walk away for a bit.
Ok, so I'm currently back to stock Eclair (ew!!) and about to boot to recovery to install CWR. Wish me luck on that one....
Wooo, CWR up and running! Now I just have to work on a flash maybe or whatever steps were suggested next...I might try the ROM you suggested.
The ROM gets placed on external sdcard and installed from within CWR correct?
Do most ROMs remove bloatware and useless apps?
Yes and are pre-Rooted. Put the ROM.zip on either card. I have a folder that I use. Boot into recovery and get green recovery back. Go to install from SD, find the ROM and flash it per the OP instructions.
Bloat free, pre-Rooted and usually has Voodoo so you can get Voodoo Sound from the market and have a sonic ear-gasm.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the help! I installed the suggested ROM last night and I am very happy with the results thus far. It was alot easier than I thought it would be. Flashing a ROM was MUCH more simpler than the root only decision. Thank you again!
hi
im very new in the forum thats my first post
i tried to install an app that required a rebbot in my gt-i9300, i rebooted and i got an pop-up window said that factory mode has crashed.
i searched for days in the internet and i found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762204&page=53
i did all but my galaxy says that its unable to chmod /efs/FactoryApp/factorymode: no such file or directory
then i realised that i have no efs directory and that i can download one from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=888193
so' my question is,
if i will flash it with odin, will the error will dissapear?
and if the answer is yes,
i understand that some people flash it because they have no imei and the phone dont recognize their sim card.
and my fear it can happen to me if ill flash it
some help please?
What app did you try installing?
slaphead20 said:
What app did you try installing?
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the swapsd app.
but theres no matter what app i installed
i just want to know if i can install the efs directory without problems
so please help me everyone!
You have a backed up EFS on your phone ???
jje
JJEgan said:
You have a backed up EFS on your phone ???
jje
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yes i have a backup named efs.tar in my root directory
can i restore the folder from it?
arimal199 said:
yes i have a backup named efs.tar in my root directory
can i restore the folder from it?
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Well, obviously you can. That's what an efs backup is for
Copy the tar file to your PC and download the Android SDK.
Once the Android SDK is installed, open up a command prompt.
Once you're in the command prompt, CD to the directory where the ADB executables and libraries are.
Usually it's here:
Code:
cd C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\
Once you're in the directory where the files are, unpack the TAR file and type the following code:
Code:
adb start-server
adb push <path-to-your-unpacked-TARfile> /efs/
adb kill-server
If you need further assistance, feel free to PM or email me
Hope I could help!
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familyguy59 said:
Well, obviously you can. That's what an efs backup is for
Copy the tar file to your PC and download the Android SDK.
Once the Android SDK is installed, open up a command prompt.
Once you're in the command prompt, CD to the directory where the ADB executables and libraries are.
Usually it's here:
Code:
cd C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\
Once you're in the directory where the files are, unpack the TAR file and type the following code:
Code:
adb start-server
adb push <path-to-your-unpacked-TARfile> /efs/
adb kill-server
If you need further assistance, feel free to PM or email me
Hope I could help!
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wow
thanks man ill try it
arimal199 said:
wow
thanks man ill try it
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oh i forgot
my pc doesnt recognize my galaxy
maybe i can go to someone that already has a adb and see if he can fix it
but really thanks
I believe you'll also need to change files owners and access rights for it to work.
Edit : if you don't have any efs folder, I think your efs partition might not be mounted. Type "mount" in a terminal emulator and check if a line refers to /efs (that should be block 3)
arimal199 said:
oh i forgot
my pc doesnt recognize my galaxy
maybe i can go to someone that already has a adb and see if he can fix it
but really thanks
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Check out the links in my description. (Win8 help - ADB etc. etc. ...) that works with Windows Vista, 7 and 8. If you need the ADB binaries, in that same thread, you can donate a bit of money to me and I'll license you a program (Always with updated binaries) that installs ADB and fastboot to your system's root. With the click of a button
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Edit: You can also download my universal Android tool kit and with the next update, all the Samsung Galaxy S III variants will be supported and you can easily backup/restore your /efs partition from there (With the Pro version, that is)
spocky12 said:
I believe you'll also need to change files owners and access rights for it to work.
Edit : if you don't have any efs folder, I think your efs partition might not be mounted. Type "mount" in a terminal emulator and check if a line refers to /efs (that should be block 3)
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i looked in mounts and storage in cwm and saw that efs is not mounted.
can i mount it and it will work?
arimal199 said:
i looked in mounts and storage in cwm and saw that efs is not mounted.
can i mount it and it will work?
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no i understood' i wasnt at factory mode at all!
all the time i had imei and call function , the only problem was that factory test has stopped.
so, i downloaded titanum backup pro and turned factory test app off.
now my galaxy went back to normal all works as well!
thanks for trying to help guys!