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I had issues with my recovery ever since updating to DL30 and continuing until EB01. I attempted to install red recovery but I would always boot in blue then had to select apply sdcard: update.zip. This did not make me feel safe so these are the steps I followed in order to fix and update my recovery. This thread is mainly for "newbs" that have a diffucult time understanding what older users are trying to say.
Before you begin, download the cwm-recovery-ALL zip file from jt1134's thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021
and
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17566514/update.zip
STEP 1:
Place the "cwm-recovery-ALL" file in the clockwork mod folder on SD card and rename it "recovery-update" replacing the old one already in this folder.
STEP2:
Place the "update" file on the root of your SD card replacing any current "update file".
STEP3:
Reboot into recovery and if you boot in blue select "apply sdcard:update.zip"
STEP 4:
You should be in green recovery now and select "install zip from SD card" then select "choose zip from SD card"
STEP 5:
Navigate to the clockworkmod folder on your SD card and install the "recovery-update" that you placed in there earlier.
STEP 6:
Once "recovery-update" is done installing, go back to the main menu in green recovery and select "apply sdcard:update.zip".
STEP 7:
You will still be in green recovery but on next reboot you should boot into red. If you are still booting into green, copy the "update" file on the root of your SD card and paste it in the clockworkmod folder on your SD card. Delete the existing "recovery-update" and rename the "update" file you just placed in there "recovery-update".
-Try booting to recovery once more and you should now boot directly to red recovery. If not, please start over and go step by step.
-If you still have issues with booting to red recovery after following these steps, please flash http://db.tt/6dZUc7d in Odin and start steps over. (Thank you Takafiji)
NOTE:
I am not responsible for anyone who destroys their recovery by not following the steps provided. Please, please read carefully.
Credit to jt1134 and Takafiji for providing the recovery files.
Thanks, I was tired of using Odin to get Red recovery mode every time I wanted to flash a new ROM. For some reason I still find myself needing to reflash the eb01-modem.tar everytime I want to install a new superclean eb01 build.
also i think the sammy kernel sneaks in and replaces cwm with there stock (blue) recovery. so i recommend on first flash using odin, then boot directly to recovery, (not going into bootscreen) then follow his directions.
Also thats not my dropbox link its another guys, ill find the name, i just used it because it did the job.
Blue recovery does "sneak" in it seems. I have red recovery but blue does load sometimes with a "failed" message. If I apply "update" it goes to what looks like download mode. From there nothing works. Hold down volume keys and power reboots into red. Sometimes recovery goes directly to red? Trial and error....
40kalkillah said:
Blue recovery does "sneak" in it seems. I have red recovery but blue does load sometimes with a "failed" message. If I apply "update" it goes to what looks like download mode. From there nothing works. Hold down volume keys and power reboots into red. Sometimes recovery goes directly to red? Trial and error....
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That happened to me as I was following these steps the first time. Turned out I had a bad update.zip file. Make sure your files are named correctly and not "update.zip" as it will show up in your system as "update.zip.zip". Should just be named "update" on root of SD card and "recovery-update" in clockworkmod folder. If you haven't followed the steps I provided please do as I haven't had any issues yet with it. Maybe try Takafiji's advice and flashing the Odin files first.
if using windows the way to change and see the extension of a file such as .zip open up "my computer" click "tools" (if you cant see it hold the "alt" key) then click "folder options" hit the "view tab" and uncheck "hide extensions for known filetypes" hit ok and your set! Now you can see .zip, .java, or whatever the extension is!
I folowed this procedure. It worked. Except when rebooting to recovery from rom manager it reverts to blue recovery and cant go any further. When i use the startup volume keys and power it goes to red. When i use the shut down and recovery from the power off screen it goes to red. Only when I use rom manager it goes to blue. Normally I wouldn't mind because i can still get to it to flash roms but trying to use the blackhole custom rom it would be much easier if I let rom manager flash all the files in a row instead of manually flashing one by one. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Great info - Thanks!
A couple of questions:
Can the Red CWM restore backups taken with the Green CWM?
The Reset Battery Stats command does not give any indication that it worked. I select it, say Yes, I really want to reset battery stats, then I am back at the Advanced menu. Did the reset work?
acuralegendz said:
I folowed this procedure. It worked. Except when rebooting to recovery from rom manager it reverts to blue recovery and cant go any further. When i use the startup volume keys and power it goes to red. When i use the shut down and recovery from the power off screen it goes to red. Only when I use rom manager it goes to blue. Normally I wouldn't mind because i can still get to it to flash roms but trying to use the blackhole custom rom it would be much easier if I let rom manager flash all the files in a row instead of manually flashing one by one. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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I think its the kernel to tell you the truth. I saw it in another cwm post that the sammy kernel will replace cwm. Try following this method but add in an odin flash of http://db.tt/6dZUc7d then on first boot go directly to recovery if you get to boot screen start over, once in recovery follow the steps in the first post.
acuralegendz said:
I folowed this procedure. It worked. Except when rebooting to recovery from rom manager it reverts to blue recovery and cant go any further. When i use the startup volume keys and power it goes to red. When i use the shut down and recovery from the power off screen it goes to red. Only when I use rom manager it goes to blue. Normally I wouldn't mind because i can still get to it to flash roms but trying to use the blackhole custom rom it would be much easier if I let rom manager flash all the files in a row instead of manually flashing one by one. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Rom Manager uses the recovery-update.zip file in the clockworkmod folder. After installing recovery-update.zip in step 5, did you copy the update.zip file on the root of your SD card and paste it over in the clockwork mod folder and rename it recovery-update.zip? It should replace the recovery-update.zip you placed in the folder on step 1. I just used RomManager to boot to recovery and it took me directly to red.
Pfredd said:
Great info - Thanks!
A couple of questions:
Can the Red CWM restore backups taken with the Green CWM?
The Reset Battery Stats command does not give any indication that it worked. I select it, say Yes, I really want to reset battery stats, then I am back at the Advanced menu. Did the reset work?
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Yes, it can restore backups from green.
Personally I have the same question about wiping battery stats. I believe there is an issue currently with wiping on FROYO because I have noticed even though I wipe data and cache multiple times before installing any Rom, I still seem to have leftover data from the previous Rom such as wallpapers. I tried wiping on green before I installed red and it did the same thing, so I do not think it's limited to red but rather an issue with FROYO support.
I had to use the odin file first. It booted into red.
Then when I tried it through RM. I went to blue and couldn't verify the signature?
And I when I enter recovery mode manually, and try to select update.zip, it begins but gets about 25% and then the triangle with the exclamation point appears.
It works through odin, but never any other time.
Any help? All is appreciated.
lfrench0 said:
I had to use the odin file first. It booted into red.
Then when I tried it through RM. I went to blue and couldn't verify the signature?
And I when I enter recovery mode manually, and try to select update.zip, it begins but gets about 25% and then the triangle with the exclamation point appears.
It works through odin, but never any other time.
Any help? All is appreciated.
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The Odin file just places update.zip on the root of your SD card but you must still follow all of the steps for it to function properly. If it couldn't verify signature something is wrong with the update.zip file on the root of your SD card. Try deleting that and flashing the Odin file again. Then proceed to follow all of the steps again.
I installed it and can reboot into green recovery but when installing anything from the rom manager I get a invalid certificate message...
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Zacisblack said:
The Odin file just places update.zip on the root of your SD card but you must still follow all of the steps for it to function properly. If it couldn't verify signature something is wrong with the update.zip file on the root of your SD card. Try deleting that and flashing the Odin file again. Then proceed to follow all of the steps again.
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It didn't put it on the sd card. It just rebooted. Seems like nothing changed. I was closer when I put the update.zip on the sd.
ilogik said:
I installed it and can reboot into green recovery but when installing anything from the rom manager I get a invalid certificate message...
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You shouldn't be in green you should be in red. Adrynalyne recently stated that he does not condone the use of Rom Manager since it does not support us very well right now. Though I have used Rom Manager after installing this and everything works. If you are booting into green you must follow the steps after to boot into red and then everything should work except wiping battery stats.
alright folks try this after you flash red cwm vid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021 using odin or the zip file, delete both update.zip from root and recovery-update.zip from clockworkmod.
This may sound crazy, but i've found out cwm red gets flashed to the boot partition,so theres no need for update.zip anymore.
grab http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958209 its the new rom manager that will allow you to fix permissions.
Takafiji said:
alright folks try this after you flash red cwm vid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021 using odin or the zip file, delete both update.zip from root and recovery-update.zip from clockworkmod.
This may sound crazy, but i've found out cwm red gets flashed to the boot partition,so theres no need for update.zip anymore.
grab http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021 its the new rom manager that will allow you to fix permissions.
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Are both links supposed to be the same? Also what am I supposed to get from the second link?
Takafiji said:
alright folks try this after you flash red cwm vid http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021 using odin or the zip file, delete both update.zip from root and recovery-update.zip from clockworkmod.
This may sound crazy, but i've found out cwm red gets flashed to the boot partition,so theres no need for update.zip anymore.
grab http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021 its the new rom manager that will allow you to fix permissions.
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Thanks so much. This solved my problem and I am now able to backup my phone.
lfrench0 said:
Are both links supposed to be the same? Also what am I supposed to get from the second link?
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no dang, i changed the second link, here it is for ya
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958209
Im trying to recover to 2.5.1.4 from 3.0.0.8....
when i go to the bottom and click on it tells "an error occurred while downloading your recovery"
anyway how can i fix this or how can i flash it manually?
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After some searching i found the CWM all. zip......
IT doesnt work this is frustrating....
Use the CWM-all odin file and flash it to your phone. Then you won't need to worry about using the zip file anymore.
## Also Posted in Galaxy S forum, in error.
Hi, all.
I used Heimdall to flash the kernel as part of rooting my new phone. The messages in the terminal window looked good and I got the blue progress bar. The phone rebooted and I got a yellow warning triangle and everything freezes. I downloaded a kernel image from Samfirmware and now the phone boots without the yellow warning, but no other change. It still gets stuck. Can anyone help or is my phone bricked?
I can boot into download mode and am using a Linux PC.
At the moment, my options seem to be:
1) Use Heimdall to flash something? I have a 400meg download from Samfirmware, but don't know how to flash the files besides zImage, using Heimdall.
2) Get a USB dongle from eBay to reset the page that says I've altered the handset. This means I should be able to take it back to T-Mobile.
3) Go to a Samsung service centre and potentially pay lots of money to have the phone repaired. Anyone know how much this is (in the UK)?
Thanks,
Chris.
Flash a stock rom, den go to the service center and hand over d phone to them! Act like a noob! If they ask u how did it happen, u tel i slept off, then when i got up, and when i tried to switch on the mobile it got stuck! Simple!
Sent from my GT-S5670 using xda premium
Cant you arrange a PC with windows???
As long as you are able to get Download Mod, phone is not bricked...
Using Heimdall. Download the firmware from Samfirmware. Unzip it and you will get to the .tar. Unzip the .tar and you will have all the individual parts to put into Heimdal.
EDIT read my post below instead
Sent from my I9100P using Tapatalk 2.
Hi, guys!
Thanks for your help so far.
Unfortunately, I do not have access to a Windows box, apart from work, where I cannot download/ install executables.
I've downloaded the Samfirmware stuff, but just don't know how to get it onto my phone. I used Heimdall to install the kernel zImage, and that got rid of the yellow warning triangle, but still doesn't let my phone boot any further.
My first priority is to get the phone working, my second is to have a rooted phone that I can use better software on.
Thanks,
Chris.
install windows its easy,use odin to flash rom and if all is good try to root an flash any custum kernel u want and zacq8 is right ur not bricked if ur getting download mode......
Hopefully this will help.
Flashing Heimdall Firmware Package with Heimdall Frontend:
As of Heimdall Frontend 1.3 there are now two main ways to flash a ROM from
Heimdall Frontend. The simpler and preferred option is to download a
Heimdall Firmware Package and follow the following steps.
1. Fully charge your device (use the wall charger as it's faster).
2. Open the Heimdall Frontend (heimdall-frontend) executable.
3. From the "Load Package" tab, under the "Heimdall Firmware Package"
section click the "Browse" button.
4. Use the dialogue that appears to navigate to, and select, the Heimdall
firmware package that you wish to flash.
5. You will see progress bars appear as the package is decompressed and
extracted.
When the package has finished being decompressed you should see
information about the particular firmware package that has been
selected.
6. Verify that your device is listed under "Supported Devices". If it's not
then STOP immediately! DO NOT flash this firmware to your device!
Instead search for an appropriate firmware package for your device.
If you believe there is a mistake and your device is actually
supported please get in contact with the firmware developer (not Glass
Echidna!) and ask them to rectify the issue. If the developer provided
a URL you may be able to contact them by pressing the "Homepage" button.
7. If you've verified your device is supported you may continue to press
the "Load / Customise" button.
8. You should now be looking at the "Flash" tab. If not verify that you did
in fact push the "Load / Customise" button.
Generally, you won't NEED or WANT to customise a firmware package! In
which case you can safely move on to step 9.
Nonetheless, the "Flash" tab provides you with a means to customise the
firmware package before flashing it to your device. See "Performing a
Custom Flash with Heimdall Frontend" for more details.
9. Put your Galaxy S device into download mode and plug it in to your PC.
Download mode can be accessed several different ways depending on your
particular device model. If you're unsure how to do this please search
online for the appropriate method.
10. Press the "Start" button.
11. Heimdall Frontend will display the progress and inform you when the
flash is complete.
If something went wrong i.e. your device wasn't detected because it
wasn't in download mode, then the status section will let you know the
cause of the problem.
Performing a Custom Flash with Heimdall Frontend:
This is the advanced means of flashing firmware to your device.
If you're not an advanced user or a developer, in the event that a Heimdall
Firmware Package doesn't exist for the particular firmware (or files) that
you wish to flash, then I strongly recommend you get in touch with developer
of the firmware (or files) and politely ask them to create a Heimdall
Firmware Package for you. In doing so then you don't have to worry about
making mistakes due to inexperience.
If you're looking to customise an existing Heimdall Firmware Package then
follow steps 1-8 of "Flashing Heimdall Firmware Package with Heimdall
Frontend" then start from below with step 5.
1. Fully charge your device (use the wall charger as it's faster).
2. Download a decrypted Samsung Galaxy S ROM or a Heimdall Firmware Package
and extract everything to the one directory.
3. If the ROM is not a Heimdall Firmware Package it may instead be provided
as multiple archives (nested or otherwise), extract them all to the same
location.
NOTE: If you want to use the CSC then extract it last.
3. Open the Heimdall Frontend (heimdall-frontend) executable.
4. Select the "Flash" tab. From the "Flash" tab you're able to completely
customise a flash.
5. Before you can chose which partitions you want to flash with particular
files you MUST first select a PIT file. To do this click the "Browse"
button in the "PIT" section. This will open a dialogue allowing you to
navigate to and select a valid PIT (.pit) file.
If you do not already have a valid PIT file stored on your computer you
can download your device's PIT file from the "Utilities" tab.
6. If a valid PIT file has been selected then "Add" button below the
"Partitions (Files)" list-box will become enabled. Press this button to
add a partition to your flash.
7. When you first add a partition you will see the "Partition Name" and
"Partition ID" be populated with information. Use the "Partition Name"
drop down to select which partition you wish to flash. "Partition ID"
will automatically update and is never directly editable.
8. You must then select a file to flash to the partition that you just
specified using the "Browse" button under the "File / Partition". You
will not be able to flash, create a firmware package or add another
partition until you have selected a file. However, you're still able to
press the "Remove" button if you've decided not to flash the partition
you've just specified.
9. When you've specified a file name then you'll be able to see the updated
information in the partition list to the right. You can select any
partition from this list and customise it as you see fit.
You can also remove a partition from the list by selecting it and
clicking the "Remove" button. Removing a partition from the list doesn't
remove it from your device, it simply means it will not be flashed.
10. Repeat steps 7-9 as often as needed to specify all the partions/files
that you wish to flash.
11. Now you can chose whether you would like to repartition your device as
well as whether you would like to prevent the device rebooting once a
flash has been completed. These options can be enabled or disabled by
toggling the "Repartition" and "No Reboot" check-boxes.
In the general case you will only need to enable repartition if you wish
to change the PIT file on your device. Keep in mind that repartitioning
will wipe your device!
The "No Reboot" option is rarely required. It's mostly in place so you
can manually boot straight into recovery mode after a flash (rather than
booting up normally).
12. If you've added at least one partition to your flash (and selected a
file for that partition) then the "Start" button will be enabled. Press
the "Start" button to begin the flashing process.
You may notice that the "Create Package" tab becomes available at the
whenever the "Start" button becomes available. From this tab you're able
to create a reusable, redistributable Heimdall Firmware Package with the
files and partitions you just selected. See "How to Create a Heimdall
Firmware Package" for details.
13. Heimdall Frontend will display the progress and inform you when the
flash is complete.
If something went wrong i.e. your device wasn't detected because it
wasn't in download mode, then the status section will let you know the
cause of the problem.
Thanks, bored_stupid. Quick reply as I have to go to an Amateur Radio training course in a minute.
I used Heimdall on Linux and flashed the zImage ok, I have not tried the frontend, but do have it installed. Do I run it as root?
Which are the best files to use? What would you recommend? I have seen so many links and downloaded so much stuff, I am confused. My original aim was to run Cyanogenmod, as that works well with my current phone (G1).
I would have thought to just follow the CM wiki [0], but for some reason, my phone isn't liking that file.
It may be easier to post the phone to you and pay you for your time
Cheers,
Chris.
[0] http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II
When I use the Heimdall-Frontend, I select a tar file and I see the decompressing progress bar. As it finishes, the frontend crashes and in the terminal, I can see the error:
'heimdall-frontend: undefined symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii'
This doesn't inspire me.
Looks like my broken 'phone may need a paid solution.
:-(
Chris.
Hi, still no luck with my phone.
Do any UK based devs accept SGS2 phones with the yellow warning sign, and access to the download screen, for fix and installation of new ROM, such as CM? I can pay for your time, as long as it's not too much.
Thanks,
Chris.
I'm sure you won't need to do that, don't give up hope .
Considering you can get into download mode, and are able to flash kernels, can you also get into recovery? If you can, you should be able to do what you originally wanted still by simply flashing a kernel which has CWM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118693) booting to CWM recovery, sending a CM9 installation zip over adb (or putting it on a microSD) and installing it from there.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419102 for full instructions.
oinkylicious,
Thank you for your encouraging words.
I'm not sure whether I can get into 'Recovery' mode, will need to Google that one.
I have an external SDCard reader, so would rather use that, as I have found adb a bit 'challenging' in the past.
My concern is that no matter which zImage I try to flash, they all fail. This leads me to think it may be related to my Heimdall (downloaded and re-installed several times), or the Debian based OSs that I have tried.
I haven't looked at the links you provided, but I guess I just need one good file to try to flash; I'd welcome alternative approaches, though.
I even considered using a 'borrowed' copy of Windoze (shudder), so I could use Odin.
Thanks,
Chris
chris_debian said:
I'm not sure whether I can get into 'Recovery' mode, will need to Google that one.
<snip>
My concern is that no matter which zImage I try to flash, they all fail.
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You previously said you can successfully flash kernels.
Recovery = Volume up + home + power (from power off).
Wow, major development. I've just booted into Recovery and things look encouraging. It says:
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CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4
-reboot system now
-install zip from SDcard
-wipe data/ factory reset
-wipe cache partition
-backup and restore
-mounts and storage
-advanced
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Does this help at all?
Thanks,
Chris.
chris_debian said:
Wow, major development. I've just booted into Recovery and things look encouraging. It says:
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CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4
-reboot system now
-install zip from SDcard
-wipe data/ factory reset
-wipe cache partition
-backup and restore
-mounts and storage
-advanced
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Does this help at all?
Thanks,
Chris.
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Yeapp thats it. Just download the ROM (.zip file) you want from the android development thread. Put it into your MicroSD card, then go to that CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 screen and pick install ZIP from sd card. Find the .zip file and your phone is back alive! You might wanna do the wipes on the CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 screen after installing the ZIP as well =)
Berk.
berq219 said:
Yeapp thats it. Just download the ROM (.zip file) you want from the android development thread. Put it into your MicroSD card, then go to that CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 screen and pick install ZIP from sd card. Find the .zip file and your phone is back alive! You might wanna do the wipes on the CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 screen after installing the ZIP as well =)
Berk.
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Berk,
Thanks for your reply.
I'm really struggling at the moment (stress from work); would you be able to point me to the file I need? Ideally, I'd like to install a Cyanogenmod one, so I can use the CM Android App to manage my updates. Is it better to go for Stable or CM9?
When you mention 'the wipes', do you mean install the ZIP, then after successful reboot, reboot into Recovery and do the:
-wipe data/ factory reset
-wipe cache partition
?
Thanks for your anticipated patience.
Chris.
oinkylicious said:
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419102 for full instructions.
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chris_debian said:
I'm really struggling at the moment (stress from work); would you be able to point me to the file I need? Ideally, I'd like to install a Cyanogenmod one
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See "Instructions" and "Downloads".
Looks like I have a working 'phone.
I didn't put Gapps on the SDcard, because the guide said 'We recommend to use 20120317.'
It says get the latest version from Rom Manager, but it says I can't do that because I don't have a CM recovery installed! ?
Going to see if I can find the Gapps version quoted and put it on the SDcard.
Thanks,
Chris.
Gapps installed.
Just need to make sure ROM Manager is set-up correctly, but that's slow time.
THE THING IS, MY PHONE IS FIXED.
Thanks to you all.
Chris.
Glad to hear that. Good luck! =)
I want to go back to stock rom. So I downloaded a zip file of the firmware.
Please give me the detailed steps to flash the rom without bricking it. My externel sdcard is unable to mount in CWM.
Any kind of help will be much appreciated.
thank you.
First download and install odin from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1738841
1. If it is in zip extract it using 7zip,winrar.....
2. Open Odin3 (Run As Administrator).
3.Shut down your phone than put your device in download mode. To do so, press Vol-Down And Home And Power Button all together and when it vibrates release Power (It might not work in first time,so try it three four time before posting again)
Button. You should have a triangle with an android janitor while it's saying downloading.
4. You should see a blue rectangle with COM:xx and saying Added. It means that your device is ready to be flashed!
5. Go into the PDA section and select your .tar file.
6. Dont check any option (F.reset time and Auto reboot are checked by default if not than check them).
7. Now click Start.
8. When it's finished, it should say that it's done with a green box and your device should reboot by itself
Good luck:good:
Thanks for your concern but i don't have the .tar file so i'm unable to flash it via ODIN. Can you give me the instruction to flash .zip file through CWM recovery. And what should i do if my external sd is unable to mount?
sandy-13 said:
Thanks for your concern but i don't have the .tar file so i'm unable to flash it via ODIN. Can you give me the instruction to flash .zip file through CWM recovery. And what should i do if my external sd is unable to mount?
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To flash through CWM you dont need external SD card. You can just copy the file in to Internal SD and flash it.
And for installing stock firmware, you cant just simply do it via CWM, you have to go for Odin only.
For this you need to download your original firmware from sammobile or in xda forums you can find it. Take a research, the above post will help.
I tried flashing a custom recovery with something called goomanager (TWRP) and now my recovery is gone.
I cant even get the phone to boot up, just goes to a screen talking about firmware.
what do i need to download and put into ODIN to fix my recovery???
please provide links
and just flat out reinstall the OS?
Pleasseeeee help.....
AndroidSystemDeveloper said:
I tried flashing a custom recovery with something called goomanager (TWRP) and now my recovery is gone.
I cant even get the phone to boot up, just goes to a screen talking about firmware.
what do i need to download and put into ODIN to fix my recovery???
please provide links
and just flat out reinstall the OS?
Pleasseeeee help.....
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Unless you have mdk, the only recovery you can use is safestrap. And it sounds like you didn't have it. You'll need to flash the full wipe nc5 tar file through Odin and start fresh. From there you can download towelroot to gain root, Safestrap 3.72/3.75, and busybox. You will also need the selinux changer from the play store and set to permissive before using safestrap. From there, you'll be good to go. Just look for roms that are safestrap compatible and flash away
thank you
Thank you, i am downloading it now, says 1.5 GB FULL WIPE.
I really appreciate it
No worries
2/25/15
Thanks again! It worked perfectly. I was able to load the system and recovery back in the S4. Your a lifesaver, !!
That's awesome! Glad I could help.
Total newbie question here.
I'm in the same boat
How do I flash it through Odin?
Which options on the left and right side of Odin 3.09 should be selected?
Do I keep the zip intact?
Which button on o din 3.09 should I select?
I tried selecting the zip through the ap button but that didn't work.
Privatejoy said:
Total newbie question here.
I'm in the same boat
How do I flash it through Odin?
Which options on the left and right side of Odin 3.09 should be selected?
Do I keep the zip intact?
Which button on o din 3.09 should I select?
I tried selecting the zip through the ap button but that didn't work.
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When you open up odin, there should be 2 items already checked: auto reboot and f. reset time. Leave those checked. If the file extension is .zip, unpack it because you need the .tar file. Make sure you click the AP slot then find the tar file you extracted. Once you're ready to start, double check to make sure those are the ONLY 3 things that have check marks. Then click start. Really important, once you start, don't stop it. You can Jack up your phone doing that.
You either need to convert an image file ".img" to a ".tar" file OR just grab the correct ".tar" file.
Then within Odin, select the file from the "AP" box and only have the "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time" selected within the options.
If the zip file has 1 single .img file then extract and convert and use in Odin.
If the zip file has 1 single .tar file then extract and your all set to use the file in Odin.
If the zip file has some folder's and files (IE... META-INF, System, boot.img, etc...) then this is for installing from within the Recovery of the Bootloader in your phone.
For Converting the .img to a .tar file, i use a program called "Caboomi's Recovery .img to .tar File Converter" (ATTACHED)
Extract the file i attached and place the .img inside the converter's folder. Be sure to rename the file to "Recovery.img" and launch the "Runme.bat" file.
The converter instantly creates a tar file named "recovery.tar.md5".
The "recovery.tar.md5" file is ready for use in Odin.
Good Luck!:fingers-crossed: