I'm trying to access the CWM recovery mode, but after reboot, my phone goes into Android system recovery instead.
Any help?
Then you definately don't have CWM installed correctly. If I was you go back to basics and flash stock firmware with Odin, then flash kernel to match the firmware, kernel being CF-ROOT okay? Please press thanks if this helps
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I was getting this as well... Cwm is installed it's just annoying. When you get to stock recovery hold home, power, and volume up and it should get you back to cwm. It is a very serious issue that gets very little discussion. Whatever you do don't wipe with stock. I did... Very long and tedious process to get back.
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Maybe you lose your root, root your phone again
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I have the same or similar problem, just trying to do a nandroid backup. CWM is definitely installed and no matter what I try it will only boot into sammy's 3e recovery.
This may help or point in the right direction. I found a YouTube vid about loading a modded version of the 3e without sig verification (can't post link, so search YouTube for 3e recovery mod) but it looks like that was for an AT&T model. I tried to do the same on my S2 but the recovery file is not in the same place, I did find a recovery file somewhere else in the system but when I replace that with the modded version it just reverts back to the original. Anyway, there must be something like this for standard international S2's anybody seen it ? if so please post the link.
But like ChongDroid says, it's a big problem with not much discussion.
SGS2
pda: XWKI4
Phone: XXKI1
CSC: XEUKH2
same problem...only works with volume up but is that really a problem?
only change volume up instead volume down?
Pretty much if you use ROM manager to get into stock recovery and you've selected an install or a nandroid backup. It'll boot into recovery, try to install something, fail and then your prompted to reboot your device.. At this point you can ONLY select reboot, I repeat DO NOT wipe or anything in this menu. Do the three finger salute (manual recovery entry) instead of rebooting and she should take a second.. Then you might see rebooting but don't worry.. Keep holding.
Eventually it'll boot into cwm and get right on that install or nandroid with out navigating the menus.
K so one more time ppl, from 3e don't reboot, three finger salute. It rhymes
Cwm is there right along with root... She just needs a little push
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No joy with the three finger salute
Well, I tried the three finger salute, held it for about three minutes and that is a feat on its own, but no re-boot into CWM happened, it did re-boot but only into 3e again. with a message about loading multi csc.
I guess there are too many variables to this problem to get a definitive answer, what works for someone does not appear to work for another.
Thanks anyway.
tecsol said:
Well, I tried the three finger salute, held it for about three minutes and that is a feat on its own, but no re-boot into CWM happened, it did re-boot but only into 3e again. with a message about loading multi csc.
I guess there are too many variables to this problem to get a definitive answer, what works for someone does not appear to work for another.
Thanks anyway.
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Same here, tried this but to no avail. Tried uninstalling and installing clockworkmod again, but still the problem.
Give up.
shakeyabooti said:
Then you definately don't have CWM installed correctly. If I was you go back to basics and flash stock firmware with Odin, then flash kernel to match the firmware, kernel being CF-ROOT okay? Please press thanks if this helps
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I've downloaded the stock firmware, is this easy to do? I'm new to all this
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Okay I rooted my GS2 i777 today with the MIUI ROM found on these forums, it got stuck on a boot loop so I turned the phone off, then back on, then reapplied the CWM Recovery tar via Odin, and now when I boot the phone it just sits at a black screen...
Any idea how to fix this? I can't find a way to get into recovery mode because I don't have that "home" button in the middle of my phone...
PLEASEEEE help!!!
You hold the volume buttons and the power button, why did you reapply cwm may I ask?
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I'm new to this stuff and was following the directions provided to me by someone who claims they knew what they were doing..
Any idea how to get this issue fixed? (Phone is on, but screen is blank as if not on)
Flash back to stock via Odin using one of the packages in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
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A jig is REQUIRED for this?
No, the jig is not required. Just need to get into download mode any way you can.
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I appreciate the help, I really had no business trying to do this in the first place. I'm going to try and do what that link showed, I'll report back with what happens
Success = ) Thank you for the help, Dayv. It's very much appreciated!
Just for future reference, once you flash the custom package including CWM, you don't need to flash CWM again (unless you go back to bare-bones stock). If you need to reflash, just go into recovery and flash a new ROM.
Ahh, I remember my first "OMG I bricked" moment... Don't worry, you eventually get used to it and sometimes when my phone bootloops after flashing stuff I don't even care lol.
Another lame thread title that offers no help for someone with the same issue who actually takes the time to do a search.
Hello all, introduced myself the other day, I'm new to the Galaxy SII and have had it only a few short days. And already I've managed to screw it up! LoL. No really what I made this thread for is to let people who may have done the same thing I've done that there is a solution. Here's what I did. Download the VillainRom and the Hellraise MOD from the development section. I put them both on internal SD card, rebooted into clockwork mod recovery, and flashed Villlain ROM. After that, I was SUPPOSED to flash Hellraiser so it would be compatible with the I777 since it's an international version ROM. But I was talking to my son at the same time and FORGOT and let it reboot and boot up into VillainROM. I was at this point very worried, as I thought a bunch of errors would occur. But not a bunch did. However I knew this wasn't good and tried immediately to reboot into recovery, wipe, and redo the process PROPERLY. Except when I rebooted, it rebooted me into clockwork mod recovery 4.0 version. Now, at this point, none of the capacitive buttons or the power button would select anything. It just showed the Clockwork Mod logo when I clicked on anything to wipe, reboot, anything. SO, here's what I did to fix this mistake. I download the clockwork mod recovery .tar that is flashable with Odin (the one for I777), rebooted back into VillainRom, put the phone into Download mode, and flashed it. Then I let the phone reboot, and then rebooted a second time into what I HOPED would be the correct version of CWM. And thank God, it was. However, the capacitive buttons were STILL not working correctly. The answer? They DO work, however, they are out of order. Different buttons do different things but if you figure the order out you can wipe and flash back to a ROM for our device. I just wanted to post this, in case anyone else messed up like I did.
edit: It did not, however, change the Boot Logo from thinking I'm running the international version. That still says i9100
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Hello all, introduced myself the other day, I'm new to the Galaxy SII and have had it only a few short days. And already I've managed to screw it up! LoL. No really what I made this thread for is to let people who may have done the same thing I've done that there is a solution. Here's what I did. Download the VillainRom and the Hellraise MOD from the development section. I put them both on internal SD card, rebooted into clockwork mod recovery, and flashed Villlain ROM. After that, I was SUPPOSED to flash Hellraiser so it would be compatible with the I777 since it's an international version ROM. But I was talking to my son at the same time and FORGOT and let it reboot and boot up into VillainROM. I was at this point very worried, as I thought a bunch of errors would occur. But not a bunch did. However I knew this wasn't good and tried immediately to reboot into recovery, wipe, and redo the process PROPERLY. Except when I rebooted, it rebooted me into clockwork mod recovery 4.0 version. Now, at this point, none of the capacitive buttons or the power button would select anything. It just showed the Clockwork Mod logo when I clicked on anything to wipe, reboot, anything. SO, here's what I did to fix this mistake. I download the clockwork mod recovery .tar that is flashable with Odin (the one for I777), rebooted back into VillainRom, put the phone into Download mode, and flashed it. Then I let the phone reboot, and then rebooted a second time into what I HOPED would be the correct version of CWM. And thank God, it was. However, the capacitive buttons were STILL not working correctly. The answer? They DO work, however, they are out of order. Different buttons do different things but if you figure the order out you can wipe and flash back to a ROM for our device. I just wanted to post this, in case anyone else messed up like I did.
edit: It did not, however, change the Boot Logo from thinking I'm running the international version. That still says i9100
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You could have just flashed the stock ROM though Odin. That would have fixed everything and given you a fresh start but that's up to others to decide.
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You DID read the first post for codeworkx's CWM kernel for the button mappings, right?
IF you had CWM 5.x after flashing his tar, it did correctly flash.
Also, all you have to do now is just flash hellraiser - should be OK even after booting VR normally, although NFC might flake out... I haven't tested what happens if you flash hellraiser after /data is created
Entropy512 said:
You DID read the first post for codeworkx's CWM kernel for the button mappings, right?
IF you had CWM 5.x after flashing his tar, it did correctly flash.
Also, all you have to do now is just flash hellraiser - should be OK even after booting VR normally, although NFC might flake out... I haven't tested what happens if you flash hellraiser after /data is created
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You DID receive my pm right? Yea I thought so...
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No I didn't receive any pms ..
Have to check and see if somethings wrong on my end with tapatalk. Thanks for the tips if I ever do it again ill know what to do
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hi everyone,
I am actually a long time custom ROM flasher started since Desire days, but registered recently because of this problem I have with the Tab 10.1 Wifi.
Despite me trying everything I can think of, I couldn't flash any other ROMs now, including GalaxyTask, Overcome, AOKP CM9, except the stock Honeycomb sans TouchWiz ROM, and of course PhantomTask. I am pretty sure PhantomTask is the last ROM I've flashed until this problem comes up.
I have made sure that I have done a full clean wipe every time before I flash any of them, wipe data -> cache -> dalvik cache, I even format /system partition, but still none of them works. They always get stuck at boot screen, unless the either one of the two ROMs I've mentioned, stock or PhantomTask.
I am sure that my downloads are complete too, as I've checked MD5 for each of them.
So I really don't know what to do now, any ideas?
I'd really want to test out AOKP
How much time are you giving it to boot up?
I've tried flashing CM9 yesterday, and I left it overnight to boot, it still didn't boot pass the logo, and the battery drained out.
I'll give it another try later
Which version of CWM are you using? If you aren't using one of these try updating:
ClockworkMod - 5.0.2.7
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090289
Overcome Recovery v5.1.2.6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348533
ok I've tried everything I can, and still can't get this to work.
Then finally I've decided to try to unroot and restore everything to stock.
I've followed each and every step of this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1474971
After everything is done, Odin is showing the pass sign, according to the video its suppose to reboot into Android, but weirdly its stuck at a black screen. So I unplugged it from the PC rebooted it by holding down power button. But now its stuck at the boot logo, and won't proceed, its been more than 10 mins.
I am still able to boot into download mode, but when I boot into recovery wanting to do a factory reset, it shows a black screen and nothing else.
any idea what's going on?
try using the overcome recovery posted above. there's a link in the post that will take you to the over come site. look for the restore yet tab section and use Odin to restore. follow their instructions exactly an make sure it's relevant to your device first.
this has helped MANY people who had some of the strangest problem start fresh. if you want or need specific links just ask I'll go to my PC where its easier to show you.
hth
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OMG
Benzoman said:
try using the overcome recovery posted above. there's a link in the post that will take you to the over come site. look for the restore yet tab section and use Odin to restore. follow their instructions exactly an make sure it's relevant to your device first.
this has helped MANY people who had some of the strangest problem start fresh. if you want or need specific links just ask I'll go to my PC where its easier to show you.
hth
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I can't believe it WORKED!! THANKS MAN!!
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I can't believe it WORKED!! THANKS MAN!!
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COOL! Thanks to you for posting that it worked. Knowing we help is one reason we keep trying to help.
For me personally it's the self gratification of just knowing.
It's kinda selfish I know but it makes me feel good and keeps me trying to help even in the littlest ways my limited knowledge allows.
Again thanks back at you.
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Hi
I searched and only found similar cases with other phones and no solution.
I was on stock 4.0.3 with CWM, rooted and siyah kernel and tried to upgrade to CM9
with Rom manager
i dled cm9 with gapps and let ROM Manager do the backup, wipe and reboot to recovery
but then i just saw the first GT 9100i boot screen with the triangle and after that
the screen stayed black.
i noticed in a darker area that the screen blinked everey few seconds, so i guess its trying to reboot all the time. some kind of bootloop?
i cant access the cwm, nor boot normaly.
just the download mode is working
so i tried to flash a stock FW from intratechs thread via odin
but... FAIL
help would be much appreciated right know :crying:
thank you
Mmm I've had issues with rom manager before but never this severe. All I can suggest is what I would do which is to fash stock firmware from samfirmware via PDA section in odin. If this doesn't work I think there is a sticky thread which is dedicated to situations like this. It requires flashing a firmware via odin again but all partitions are used so it will wipe your device. All the best.
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skarboy said:
Hi
I searched and only found similar cases with other phones and no solution.
I was on stock 4.0.3 with CWM, rooted and siyah kernel and tried to upgrade to CM9
with Rom manager
i dled cm9 with gapps and let ROM Manager do the backup, wipe and reboot to recovery
but then i just saw the first GT 9100i boot screen with the triangle and after that
the screen stayed black.
i noticed in a darker area that the screen blinked everey few seconds, so i guess its trying to reboot all the time. some kind of bootloop?
i cant access the cwm, nor boot normaly.
just the download mode is working
so i tried to flash a stock FW from intratechs thread via odin
but... FAIL
help would be much appreciated right know :crying:
thank you
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Can you still get into Download Mode?
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Try manually wiping data, cache and dalvik cache.
Try to go into recovery. Hold down volumen up, home key, and power on, at once hold them down ontil you reach recovery.
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I had that problem too-a black screen with a flash down the rh side of the screen every few seconds.
I managed a repair via odin after a couple of attempts.
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Flash a stock kernel then wipe everything the recovery it comes with. Also make your flashing roms for your 9100i model.
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thank you very much
i just reflashed a few times as adviced with my dled rom
am on stock again
retry without rommanager
ftw
Remove rom manager and dont use it again on your s2.
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skarboy said:
thank you very much
i just reflashed a few times as adviced with my dled rom
am on stock again
retry without rommanager
ftw
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I have the very same problem as you.
I can enter download mode but can't enter recovery mode.
I can flash any rom I can find but all of them have no use.
Still can't boot nor recovery.
Have you fixed the problem just by reflashing stock rom?
theunderling said:
Remove rom manager and dont use it again on your s2.
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This. How many times people saying:Rom manager doesn't work on S2 100%!!! Read people, read again before doing something!!
Mr.Greg said:
This. How many times people saying:Rom manager doesn't work on S2 100%!!! Read people, read again before doing something!!
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Yes, that's our fault that haven't read enough before installing a software.
But is there any way to revive our phone?
wm_shi said:
Yes, that's our fault that haven't read enough before installing a software.
But is there any way to revive our phone?
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the only way to revive ur phone, is to flash a stock ICS 4.0.3 firmware thro 'ODIN' and have a clean boot of ur phone
and never use 'Rom Manager' in the future
Hi Guys,
Last night for some reason my GT-19100T running CM9.1.0 wouldn't lock by pressing the power button, the button itself seems to be working. I can press the button down but nothing happens. I left it for the night and came into work this morning, I thought it might be a bug with the rom, i managed to boot into recovery via the "Rom Manager" app and was going to flash to CM10. My problem is now that i am in recovery, I can't select anything as the power button is not working. I can scroll through the recovery menu with the volume buttons but cant select anything, and now soon as the phone turns on after removing the battery, it goes straight to recovery mode and i cant get around it.
I have tried leaving the battery out for about 3 hours and same thing. I can boot into download mode, But at the moment that doesn't help me.
Any suggestions on what i can do? I'm not worried about warranty so i may pull the phone apart and clean it tonight. Thanks in advance.
Update:
After much playing around with the button i can get it work, it is very temperamental and requires to be pushed in the right way. Was able to flash with Touch recovery and am now updating to CM10 nightlies. Thanks all for your help on my first post.
SirBigBird said:
Hi Guys,
Last night for some reason my GT-19100T running CM9.1.0 wouldn't lock by pressing the power button, the button itself seems to be working. I can press the button down but nothing happens. I left it for the night and came into work this morning, I thought it might be a bug with the rom, i managed to boot into recovery via the "Rom Manager" app and was going to flash to CM10. My problem is now that i am in recovery, I can't select anything as the power button is not working. I can scroll through the recovery menu with the volume buttons but cant select anything, and now soon as the phone turns on after removing the battery, it goes straight to recovery mode and i cant get around it.
I have tried leaving the battery out for about 3 hours and same thing. I can boot into download mode, But at the moment that doesn't help me.
Any suggestions on what i can do? I'm not worried about warranty so i may pull the phone apart and clean it tonight. Thanks in advance.
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Hi!
First, have you tried flashing a stock firmware? If that does not help, you can try cleaning your hardware.. it may be dusty or something.. be careful! I hope you get this sorted out.
Also, i hope my suggestion will help you out, cheers!!
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First, have you tried flashing a stock firmware?
I am currently flashing back to xxlpq via odin and see if that changes anything. Will post back with results.
Thanks.
SirBigBird said:
First, have you tried flashing a stock firmware?
I am currently flashing back to xxlpq via odin and see if that changes anything. Will post back with results.
Thanks.
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Okay, will wait for your feedback
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Okay, Flashed back to stock ICS rom, Got a little bit further but still no go. It gets the "S" loading screen and stays there, Still cant do factory reset via Android Recovery as it also needs the power button to select. Someone suggested installing CWM touch recovery but i cant find a .tar version of "recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.5-galaxys2" downloaded from CWM website. Any suggestions on how i can install this without using recovery? Thanks.
SirBigBird said:
Okay, Flashed back to stock ICS rom, Got a little bit further but still no go. It gets the "S" loading screen and stays there, Still cant do factory reset via Android Recovery as it also needs the power button to select. Someone suggested installing CWM touch recovery but i cant find a .tar version of "recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.5-galaxys2" downloaded from CWM website. Any suggestions on how i can install this without using recovery? Thanks.
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I guess you have to flash them with odin..
1. Flash a stock firmware to get you out of bootloop
2. Flash the latest siyah kernel cause it's a touch recovery via odin as well
Do you want me to post the links or will you find it yourself?
I hope this helps, cheers!
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