welll i am a noob and just rooted my 2.2 vibrant and my cwr doesnt work and every time i click reinstall packages it says error on signature. I want the miui but im scared of bricking again. Please help!
First, read the noob article so you learn the basics.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
Then after learning how to flash, use heimdall to flash the froyo rom link below, which has a modified stock recovery so you can flash the cwm recovery.
***When you get to this step, flash cwm recovery vibrant mtd 2.xx***
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937403
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Hi,
I'm currently using Samsung Vibrant (t-mo version) running Firmware 2.2, Baseband version T959UVKB5, Kernel 2.6.32.9.
My problem is I can never boot into ClockWorks Recovery. I've CWR's update.zip downloaded using ROM Manager. Rooted the phone using SuperOneClick.
When I boot into recovery and select apply update.zip, it gives me an error half way thruogh about verification failed.
So I replaced Android Recovery 3e, with another Android Recovery 3e which skips the verification. It installs fine but restarts back in Android's recovery. On rebooting I get a phone with everything back to default!
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
PS: I want to upgrade to CM7. which I had at one point but reverted because my bluetooth failed to connect to my headset.
Are you reinstalling packages twice?
Honestly, why not just odin to jfd and rather than boot and flash cwr, just use the update.zip in the noob guide.
I'd encourage checking that route (noob guide is in my signature).
I'm certain we could find a way for yours to work, but if you are going to try a new rom, using ODIN may benefit you anyway. It will not format your internal or external.
cant get or find cwr for samsung vib s.. been looking all night
go to the noob guide.
I am on Samsung Vibrant Froyo 2.2 T959UVKB5.
I have seen your post and it provides 2 update.zip files for JFD.
I do not want to install custom ROM, I just want to root the phone.
will that update.zip work on my phone?
If all you're doing is rooting just for the root apps and not for a custom rom you should use zip A. However the easiest method for you to root would be superoneclick root. Look it up, it will have you rooted with the click of a button (hence the name)... The only thing is that it may stir up your anti-virus, even though it is safe...
Sent from my SGH-T959 (Samsung Vibrant)
Thanks you!
Ok guys heres the deal....i recently got a samsung fascinate from my sister cause I couldnt mod my inc any more. ok so....i got the phone rooted. i have su perm. i downloaded rom manager and installed it. now heres my problem. i can preform a backup no problem, but when i go to restore that backup it boots into clockwordmod and begins and then get an error about erasing boot img. or something like that. can tell exactly if i get some help from this. also cant install custom roms like i can with my incredible. i know it can be done cause i see roms and all for this phone. can someone please please help me.
Thats because cwm3 will not perform nandroid restores on stock roms. You need to flash cwm 2.5.1.x red recovery. Its the best recovery imo for any bml(touchwiz) rom. Go over to my guide in general section and you cand find cwm 2.5 in section 2&5. Oh and ditch rom manager...manually install cwm via odin!
If you're coming from an incredible, also keep in mind you don't have to be rooted to flash roms either, you just have to have a custom recovery. There aren't really any modifications like rooting procedures, S-OFF, etc, required for rom flashing, just odin a recovery and flash your selected rom.
This may be obvious, I've researched heavily but so many guides are out of date since gingerbread went official and I've never rooted any phone before so I'm confused about one thing:
My goal is to put superclean3 on my fascinate, and the instructions in THAT thread tell me to do a nandroid which i have no idea how to do because you need a rooted phone to do that, which I'm finding impossible to do after gingerbread. Regardless, do I really need to do a nandroid if i could care less what data is on my phone currently?
Also, in that threads guide, it says to flash clockwork after downloading a bunch of other files to the phone in recovery mode. In this thread in this forum's section about rooting, it says to put clockwork on my phone FIRST before anything other files. Does it matter?
If you're already stock, then there shouldn't be any need to odin the EH03 package before flashing the rom. What you'll want to do is download the CWM recovery, flash that in odin, boot into recovery, make a backup (optional), then flash the superclean rom. No need to root before flashing a rom, just flash the recovery and use that to flash a rooted rom.
Here is the link...
Clockwork Recovery: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?eda9voucgo0s46l
Then just follow these...
Flash Clockwork Recovery in Odin (clear "Re-Partition" and "Auto-Reboot" check boxes)
Power off phone, then boot into Clockwork Recovery by holding both vol buttons and power button
Flash the zip file (ROM) you downloaded in Clockwork Recovery
element32d said:
This may be obvious, I've researched heavily but so many guides are out of date since gingerbread went official and I've never rooted any phone before so I'm confused about one thing:
My goal is to put superclean3 on my fascinate, and the instructions in THAT thread tell me to do a nandroid which i have no idea how to do because you need a rooted phone to do that, which I'm finding impossible to do after gingerbread. Regardless, do I really need to do a nandroid if i could care less what data is on my phone currently?
Also, in that threads guide, it says to flash clockwork after downloading a bunch of other files to the phone in recovery mode. In this thread in this forum's section about rooting, it says to put clockwork on my phone FIRST before anything other files. Does it matter?
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Ok so i had ICS passion installed then one day the rom gave me an error telling me encryption unsuccessful. So i followed the instructions to fix it, by putting the partition on the micro sd card (8gb). I then decided to flash back to stock gingerbread with odin. I thought that if I put a galaxy s international rom on the US vibrant it would work, but i was wrong so dont try that. I was stuck on a bootloop and was able to get to download mode. Then i used Odin to flash JFD for vibrant it said i passed but when i booted it did the same. Now im on KB5 and it gave me android system recovery <3e> but i have an error dev/block/mmcblk0p1.
I cannot go to menu, i can access download mode and android system recovery, i also tried to install update zip but it gave me the signature fail.
Please help me back to stock firmware or any stable version. Thank You
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278683 follow the instructions in the thread and remember to flash the bootloaders
You should just Odin back to JFD and go from there. Flashing bootloaders is dangerous, shouldn't be done lightly, but can be done with caution if needed, usually isn't.
try the 1click root method. see if that helps.
Hi everyone, i'm gonna install a new rom for my s3, so i want to ask you sth before install it
First, if install stock rom via Odin fail, may i boot into custom recovery to recovery my android OS?
Second, if install cr via Odin fail, may i use my phone normally?
Last, if install rom fail, may i boot into custom recovery to recovery my android OS?
Sorry for asking to much, just because i have once installed stock rom via Odin fail and i too scared after that.
All things are flashed with Odin, including custom recovery so if you can't get that to work then nothing will happen.
Follow the guide in general forum sticky thread on how to flash with Odin, understand what you are doing before you start.