hello,
I having a problem. Every time i go into cwm and try to flash a kernel or anything else it says e:cant mount sdcard but then i can reboot normally...can someone please help and also i cant replace the sdcard....? this problem only started to happen once i updated to nightly build #20
this is a known bug in build 20 of cm7 which also happened to me the easy way to fix this is getting ur phone into download modeand flash the cm7 initial kernel and then boot ur phone into recovery and it should work
kinzkarazy said:
this is a known bug in build 20 of cm7 which also happened to me the easy way to fix this is getting ur phone into download modeand flash the cm7 initial kernel and then boot ur phone into recovery and it should work
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but how do i flash without cwm ..?
man u just have bad luck....
Flash it with odin theres a guide on how to use odin in the forum
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with your understanding i would just odin to stock and start fresh.
sooooo the only way to go is to flash back to stock ...?
I agree with shred if ur understanding of odin is not that great then odin back to stock is the way to go and then flash cm7 from stock
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well just tell me how .....
Search function is ur friend im not at home right now soo too lazy to give u the link
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heres a great guide!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9375927
heres how to get into dl mode
power off phone
pull out battery
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
i want to be able to fix this problem WITHOUT going back to stock is there any way???
yes, there is.
Flash pda tar initial cyanogen kernel witch will give you clockworkmod 3xx through odin and reboot to recovery and flash whatever version of nightly you want minus the #20 .
do you have a link to those files
Downloaded the old CM7 files:
http://www.mediafire.com/?gn4qoonoe3cjyp6
Extracted the cm7-vibrant-initial-kernel.tar
Fire up odin and load the tar file (pda section)
THIS IS IMPORTANT - UNCHECK AUTO REBOOT!!!
When done (success) pull usb cable and hold the 3 button combo (will take about 10secs to reboot) and enter recovery mode.
When in recovery mode flash the #19 Nightly
I found it at /mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/download/download/download.cyanogenmod/get/(#19 full rom)
OR
Download it here:
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=vibrantmtd
and save to sdcard
please give thnx to moped_ryder for the instruction
thank you alot but one last one question ? will this wipe my apps?
No it will not it just only bring ur clockwork from 4.x to 3.x so it will read ur sd card btw i recommend u to upgrade straight to build 22 rather than flashing back to build 19 good luck flashing and keep us updated if it works
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well.. in that case cant you just delete cwm then reflash it to cwm3
Well the thing is u cant cm7 build 19 come preload with cwm 4x just follow the instruction i gave u to fix the sd problem so u can flash newer version of cm7
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lol i forgot to unchack auto reboot so in the end i hd to odin back to stock
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Hi All
I am new to flashing roms, I am having a huge difficulty with flashing roms through CWM, every time I have done so it has always left me in an end boot screen loop.
Can anyone please help, maybe give me a fools guide on how to flash a rom using CWM as I feel like a fool after trying it 7 times and still not getting it.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 - I have flashed Lite-ning rom 2.2 using Odin
Help
What are you trying to flash? What rom?
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Usual instructions are to have a rooted phone with CWM 4 or later on your phone .
Download roms zip and copy to phones SD card .
Power off boot into recovery and >> choose zip from SD card select install wait to finish booting done .
But all roms have differing instructions that you must follow to the letter .
So why are you using CWM to flash a rom that has no instructions to do anything other than flash with Odin .
Instructions are at the very beginning of Lightning 2.2 post and are easy to follow with pictures .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095274
jje
try finding clockwork rom and install using odin it worked for me yesterday
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its a cwm tar file
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its a cwm tar file
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CWM tar ???? post a link to it please this rom you cannot flash . Not the rom the instruction for the rom is what i require .
jje
Looping can be caused by not wiping the caches in recovery or cwm.
Adrian
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To use cwm you need to download rom manager and use it to download and inststall cwm or download cwm to your sd card as a zip, it will be called 'update.zip' . Use recovery to install 'update.zip'.
If it comes back as unable to verify zip, then you are not rooted. You may also have to install 'update.zip' twice from recovery!
You must format system and caches then find, via cwm, your rom and install. I am using Designgears Cognition 1.13. There are updates to this but they are beta. 1.13 has no glitches. Remember to download this rom to your sd card before you use cwm. I think this may be a good starting rom for you. It is one of the few roms at the forefront of Linux and Samsung technology. If you try for anything more you may end-up designing the roms or getting confused! Other roms are miui, darkys, insanity and others which you may want to look at.
Please be careful with what roms you can download, there are many old ones and you need to have a rom which had the correct crc or area that you use you phone. Cognition has multi-crc's. Also, a problem can occur if you use Odin because you are using 2 hardwares, pc and pda. I once downloaded a bad rom and used Odin to flash and it terminated the flash halfway through. End of phone unless I use the usb plug and resistors to cross wire and get it into download mode.
Hope this helps.
Adrian
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To use cwm you need to download rom manager
You dont need rom manager to use or install CWM .I and many others have installed multiple roms just using a CWM and root flash .
I believe the OP is flashing a non CWM file and that's his problem or not following the roms instructions probably to wipe as you said ..
But he is not replying to his answers .
jje
No offence meant to the OP but it's scary the amount of people who cannot follow clearly laid out instructions from intratech, codeworkx etc.
No harm in double checking though BUT if you are not sure about how do to it then DO NOT FLASH!
In simple terms
.tar flash with odin by clicking PDA only
.zip reboot into recovery mode (CWM) and install from zip and select file
As another poster said it's always wise to factory reset and wipe cache including dalvik if going from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 BEFORE flashing the zip file.
Feel free to correct me
i'm stuck in a boot loop after updating my phone to the latest nightlie of cm7 (fascinatemtd 35.zip) and can't boot into recovery neither...what can i do?
1. Download Android SDK onto your PC, install on c: (root directory)
2. Connect phone to PC
3. Open command prompt on PC
4. Navigate (within command prompt) to c:\AndroidSDK\AndroidSDK-Windows\platform_tools\
5. Boot phone
6. While in bootloop, type "adb reboot recovery" in command prompt
7. Your phone should now be in the proper mtd recovery
8. Profit
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ok thank you,i'll try it! keep in touch so i can tell you if i have some problems...
and waht should i do after getting to recovery? i tryed everything bur nothing happend!
1) try flashing a different kernel
or
2) wipe factory, wipe cache and Dalvik then reinstall CM7 35.zip
they are your best options or flash JTs VanGB rom
Good Luck!
i allready done it but nothing! wipe cache/data/dalvik and when i do the "install from sd card" and chose the zip ist show me like everything going well but getting into boot loop again...another option???
Liorgex said:
i allready done it but nothing! wipe cache/data/dalvik and when i do the "install from sd card" and chose the zip ist show me like everything going well but getting into boot loop again...another option???
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If you did that already and you still get a boot loop, my guess was your original download was corrupt..try re- downloading cm7 and flash again
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ok thank dude but,n sry for the question,how do i flash another rom without putting it in? cuz' i can't get inside in my situation...
Liorgex said:
ok thank dude but,n sry for the question,how do i flash another rom without putting it in? cuz' i can't get inside in my situation...
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Can you get into download mode? If so all you have to do is Odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2 pit file with repartition checked and when Odin is done reboot it, then you can try installing
cm7 again...I'll edit the post in a minute with some links
Ebo1 froyo tar...
http://www.multiupload.com/ZLPQAS8JA0
Atlas 2.2 pit file...
http://www.mediafire.com/?31u1g1ef05jvebd
Read the OP of this post..it will have all necessary links and instructions..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124391
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ok thank you alot i'll try it too. and something that may help you: I can get into cwm4 recovery mod but get some strange popups everytime (E: can't mount /cache/recovery/command and that stuff...) and i tried install others zip files (i put them inside my sd card using another phone) but allways failed... tell you something?
I thought you were boot looping? If you can get into recovery how are you doing so? three finger method? I ask because that will cause you problems
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yea i was i boot looping but when I take my battery off, I can turn it on with the three finger method and...
but thank you all so much! finally i fix my phone (and now i'm try to restore everything and root it again...) thank you very much!
Glad to hear its running again,I think that's why you got all those errors when in recovery because once your on cm7 , or any other Mtd build you can't use the three finger method anymore..if you run into problems again..it may be a pain in the ass but doing the eb01 and 2.2 pit repartition will always get back up and ready for a clean install if you really screw things up.
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got a vibrant
had 2.1 rooted
updated to 2.2 via kies
didnt like bloatware and swype version
couldnt root 2.2
downgraded to 2.1 stock and rooted
*not the same 2.1 i had before*
google apps seem out of date and they dont update in market
decided i want a gingerbread rom
cant get clockworkmod recovery flashed using rom manager
downloaded a custom bootloader (green android) and installed
now phone boots but will NOT go into recovery or download mode
trying to get to recovery; green android screen then stock "vibrant" screen loop all day
trying to get into download mode; black then plug in usb and the battery charging comes up and thats it
now i found clockwork file i can flash using odin or heimdall but cant because i got no download mode
what do i do? can i do anything?
phone isnt bricked just no option but normal boot to android
Your key combos changed when you flashed boot loaders. Volume up + power for download mode and volume down + power for recovery
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thank you so much! is there a walk through with dl links to get clockworkmod recovery on my device without rom manager?
rom manager downloads it to my phone but doesnt flash.
also rom manager free is not in my market anymore.
another question, what is the most satble, fastest rom with the best features and looks cool?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
use option B, have your rom you want to flash on your sd card ready to go
Ok I have a cwm .tar file and I want an ics ROM.....should I just flash the .tar and use cwm to flash the ROM?
Or will that not work?
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Watch this video if you want to flash ICS. It has everyting that you are doing right now. THe update.zip, the files you need and a walkthrough. You'll need to download some files to your internal though.
Thanks so much....I kept the same bootloader. Flashed cwm and ics 10.6
It's awesome!
I don't see any of the bugs people are talking about either
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hello,
my phone is acting wierd
it boots till that yellow caution incon then again restarts
i was on rootbox and installed cm7 and not booting to recovary but can boot into download mode
after rebooting this happed
some one please help me
thank you
Are you still on CM7?
Does it still go into recovery? Have you tried clearing data/cache?
How much battery was it on when this happened? If low leave it charging for a bit and then try it on whilst charging.
Try a stock samsung firmware if anything else fails to let it boot.
Hi
what i did is
used rom cleaning script and installed CM7 and gave reboot
phone turns on till that yellow triangle (main screen where samsung S2 comes) and restarts
cant go to recovary mode
from where can i download odin flashables?
should i try flashing with odin is it safe?
please im not in position to buy a phone
Have you tried to go to the stock rom first?
1. Download the stock rom of your phone. 4.0.3
2. Download Odin
3. press the sleep buttom, home buttom and the volume up.
4. wipe the cache and do a factory reset after that turn off your phone. (alternative)
5. Press sleep buttom, home buttom and volume down then you'll get to download mode.
6. put in the usb cabel on your phone and the pc.
7. Then it will connect to the pc and odin.
8. extract the stock rom and have it on your desktop.
9. now on odin press on PDA and select the file.
10.now press start.
Everything should go smooth so after that you can install cf root and if you did a backup you can restore it, unless you had it on the internal storage.
(dont forget to do a nandroid or cwm backup before installing rom into your external storage!
i dont know from where i can get odin flashables
i called my phone and got build info
Android 4.0.3
IML7K.XWLP7
DDLPA
My phone : I9100
Country : India
Thank you
If you skip the recovery part you should be able to restore internal backup
Did you wipe data when you flashed cm7?
Its necessary.
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Somebody help this guy quick! He's in the wrong section!
You can download odin flashable's here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544487 and here: http://www.samfirmware.com/ and also here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Try to flash an ROM from India, or if you flash a ROM from a different country or region and you have problems with your network you can try and flash a modem which works specific in India
if you want the stock rom just go to samfirmware.com and download there unfortunately i cant send the link because i need to post 10 posts
Dont forget you need to sign up an account on samfirmware to download firmware
Think u need this one
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=4552
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downloading firmware .. still 1 hour to go
fingers crossed and tensed hope ill get my phone back
Good luck and please hit the thanks buttom on my instruction:laugh:
I thought CM7 is for Gingerbread? And you have ICS rom? It won't work!
all you need to know and download is on this site
Thank you guys
Phone is working again
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I recently tried to install android revolution hd 2.2.0 and ran super wipe.I have put the rom on the sdcard too,so it isn't anymore and the normal bootup doesn't work,I am stuck in recovery and need a way to put that rom there to flash it..does the window explorer work in recovery mode?
ghostvirtual said:
I recently tried to install android revolution hd 2.2.0 and ran super wipe.I have put the rom on the sdcard too,so it isn't anymore and the normal bootup doesn't work,I am stuck in recovery and need a way to put that rom there to flash it..does the window explorer work in recovery mode?
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If you have the stock Rom flash it via Odin.
Cwm sometimes mounts the external sd card but sometimes doesn't.. don't know how it is for others but it isn't working properly for me.
Go to mount and storage in Cwm for mounting sdcard.
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123shree said:
If you have the stock Rom flash it via Odin.
Cwm sometimes mounts the external sd card but sometimes doesn't.. don't know how it is for others but it isn't working properly for me.
Go to mount and storage in Cwm for mounting sdcard.
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I removed the battery because it was not charging and I thought I won't can flash any rom with the battery low,so I will seek more advices before turning it back on,so..
Wipe removed all my files,including stock rom,but I don't know if volume down + power + home button will work.Well I went into choose zip from sdcard and they all were there,I ran super wipe as it was said in the flash tutorial and it deleted almost everything,I am stuck into recovery and I cannot enter sdcard because there are no files anymore,such as the rom needed to be flashed.
If I mount sdcard n the mount and storage in cwm will windows explorer be able to put the rom back there? So i can flash it with.
update: volume down+home+power works perfectly,should I flash the rom with odin directly? the sdcard is empty too.
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I removed the battery because it was not charging and I thought I won't can flash any rom with the battery low,so I will seek more advices before turning it back on,so..
Wipe removed all my files,including stock rom,but I don't know if volume down + power + home button will work.Well I went into choose zip from sdcard and they all were there,I ran super wipe as it was said in the flash tutorial and it deleted almost everything,I am stuck into recovery and I cannot enter sdcard because there are no files anymore,such as the rom needed to be flashed.
If I mount sdcard n the mount and storage in cwm will windows explorer be able to put the rom back there? So i can flash it with.
update: volume down+home+power works perfectly,should I flash the rom with odin directly? the sdcard is empty too.
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If you can get into download mode then you should easily be able to flash via Odin.
Do a search in the forum because there are many guides about flashing through Odin.
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123shree said:
If you can get into download mode then you should easily be able to flash via Odin.
Do a search in the forum because there are many guides about flashing through Odin.
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I will flash stock rom then I will try again to do android revolution hd 2.2.0 ( the step I missed is about creating a virtual ssd )
I will come with an update if the flash stock rom through odin works.
Checkrom comes in two versions,one is Odin flashable,flash that.then u are rooted after flashing
Next time u use superwipe remember to move the rom to EXTERNAL SD-card ,because internal SD-card is wiped.
Weird..odin exits after a while it says Please wait then it quits,while trying to flash stock rom,what's the problem?
I found a way to put the rom back there,but it is in sdcard,and I cannot enter it ( cannot mount )
How can I solve this from the recovery mode? I am still stuck in recovery mode or download mode..and the rom is on the card now,but cannot access to flash it with cwm
Why do not you just boot?
Previous rom is there but wiped and restored.
I do not think that superwipe was made to empty system from the rom.
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mariosraptor said:
Why do not you just boot?
Previous rom is there but wiped and restored.
I do not think that superwipe was made to empty system from the rom.
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The rom had to be put on a virtual/external sdcard,but because I didn't read carefully I put it on sdcard aslong with superwipe,so after I launched superwipe it deleted the sdcard files and the stock OS too,so it just says samsung galaxy siii like before it boots,but it stays that way..
I don't know how to get into the sdcard,cwm recovery says it cannot mount it,sdcard contains my rom,and because I cannot access it,I cannot flash it..I need a way to help cwm to mount sdcard,so I can flash it from there..
Otherwise I tried flashing stock rom but odin crashes,like I press start,then it says check md5 then Please wait,it gets stuck and quits..
Which recovery do you have? Is it the touch cwm?
Flash 5.5.0.4 1.5 from chainfire. Make sure when running odin nothing from kies is running in the background and make sure you do not tick re-partition.
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Which recovery do you have? Is it the touch cwm?
Flash 5.5.0.4 1.5 from chainfire. Make sure when running odin nothing from kies is running in the background and make sure you do not tick re-partition.
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It is not touch cwm..it is a normal cwm from what I have seen.
Can you give me the exact version ( including link )to flash with odin? I think it does not charge and I always get off the battery from it when I try something new and it does not work.
edit: CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 :: CF -v1.3
I got it from..flashing the recovery.img
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It is not touch cwm..it is a normal cwm from what I have seen.
Can you give me the exact version ( including link )to flash with odin? I think it does not charge and I always get off the battery from it when I try something new and it does not work.
edit: CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 :: CF -v1.3
I got it from..flashing the recovery.img
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238 post #3
CF-Root for SGS3 v6.4:
Root: SuperSU v0.93
Recovery: CWM v5.5 :: CF-v1.5
Util: CWM Manager v3.60
mariosraptor said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238 post #3
CF-Root for SGS3 v6.4:
Root: SuperSU v0.93
Recovery: CWM v5.5 :: CF-v1.5
Util: CWM Manager v3.60
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Ok I will try right now,but what will it help me with? Will I can mount sdcard?
edit: flashed it and it went into recovery
update: Now it is CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4:: CF v1.5 and the mount sdcard doesn't work yet..
Then i need to tell you that you must flash through Odin a full rom then reroot and then flash again a custom rom of your choice.
Just make sure every time you flash with Odin nothing from Kies runs in the background. Otherwise Odin flash will fail or stuck.
Edit: Please remember and NOT TICK REPARTITION.
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Then i need to tell you that you must flash through Odin a full rom then reroot and then flash again a custom rom of your choice.
Just make sure every time you flash with Odin nothing from Kies runs in the background. Otherwise Odin flash will fail or stuck.
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http://i.imgur.com/kJaFo.png ( when i try to flash via odin )
Do you have teamviewer and know some hidden processes from kies? I even uninstalled kies and let the normal usb drivers be installed
ghostvirtual said:
http://i.imgur.com/kJaFo.png ( when i try to flash via odin )
Do you have teamviewer and know some hidden processes from kies? I even uninstalled kies and let the normal usb drivers be installed
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What's the problem?
Its checking md5, that takes a few minutes.
Boot into download mode (volume down+home+power, press up when it says are you sure) then flash via Odin.
Its simple.
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Actually i prefer Odin 1.84. It never gives me any trouble.
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Actually i prefer Odin 1.84. It never gives me any trouble.
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Agreed.
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nodstuff said:
What's the problem?
Its checking md5, that takes a few minutes.
Boot into download mode (volume down+home+power, press up when it says are you sure) then flash via Odin.
Its simple.
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Ok,thanks a lot Back to stock..now I will try to run the custom rom again,can someone help me via skype or something through the steps? I don't want to make the same mistake again..