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Braway posted the following in his reset the flash counter thread :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569206
"ok, simple guide:
requires that cwm is installed!
1. flash stock system, kernel, modem and so on (not recovery yet) through odin (or cwm, if you have that stuff as update.zip)
2. flash this reset through cwm to reset the counter (now you should have everything stock, except for recovery)
3. in cwm, now you can either flash a stock recovery using an update.zip (if you have it), OR follow this:
a) extract recovery.img from the odin stock recovery tar file
b) put it on your sdcard
c) boot to cwm
d) use adb to connect to cwm (adb shell)
e) in the cwm shell, use one of the following commands:
recovery.img on external sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
recovery.img on your internal sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/emmc/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
WARNING: a typo in that line could hard brick your phone!"
I posted a question on that thread but then thought maybe this was a more reasonable/appropriate place for it.
How do I get the recovery update.zip?
I have followed the first two steps and they worked like a champ, flash counter is reset and all is good on that front. As I said in his thread ADB is not my friend, it kinda intimidates me a little (I have used it a time or two on my HTC EVO 3D, but still I dont really like it). And Braway's caveat about a typo possibly hard bricking the phone makes that even worse. If there is a way to just flash a .zip, well that really is more my speed.
So my question is, does anyone already have the recovery update.zip he spoke of? If so would you please share it? If it is easy to make could you please give me (extremely detailed) instructions. I did extract the recovery.img from the stock .tar http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506330, but I have no idea whatsoever on how to turn that into a update.zip.
Any help is much appreciated!
Do you not have CWM installed? I made a little guide here if interested...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584250
With CWM installed, here is the flashable zip where the file name doesn't matter..
AT&T ONLY!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=972406&d=1333071299
Slap it on root of sdcard and navigate to it and flash in CWM.
lmike6453 said:
Do you not have CWM installed? I made a little guide here if interested...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584250
With CWM installed, here is the flashable zip where the file name doesn't matter..
AT&T ONLY!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=972406&d=1333071299
Slap it on root of sdcard and navigate to it and flash in CWM.
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Yeah I have CWM, thats the problem. I guess I should have put that in the OP. I am wanting to get rid of CWM so I can return the phone. Thanks for the help!
Edit:Sorry I wasn't clear in the OP. That .zip you linked was the reset the flash counter zip, I have already done that (works great!) but now I need to remove CWM. According to the instructions posted by Braway (see OP) I need to flash the recovery via an update.zip to do that (well thats the way I am reading it...could be wrong on that point too I guess
Put the stock recovery in /sdcard (root directory of internal SD), boot into Android and connect via adb. Enter the following command:
Code:
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
This will flash stock recovery, overwriting CWM. If you copy and paste the command, there's no danger in a typo bricking your phone.
tenderchkn said:
Put the stock recovery in /sdcard (root directory of internal SD), boot into Android and connect via adb
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Nightforge said:
OR follow this:
c) boot to cwm
d) use adb to connect to cwm (adb shell)
e) in the cwm shell, use one of the following commands:
recovery.img on external sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
recovery.img on your internal sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/emmc/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
WARNING: a typo in that line could hard brick your phone!"
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And the noob says>>>> So I took your advice and decided to suck it up and use adb and of course, because adb hates me, it failed. So step by step this is what I did if anyone would be so kind as to tell me where i went wrong. Screen shot included.
1.put recovery.img on internal (and external just for grins) sdcard
2.made sure usb debugging was on.
3.plugged phone into comp w/usb
4.started adb on comp using the following
C:\users\myname> cd C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools> adb.exe
5.After adb started I pasted the following from Tenderchckn
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
Thanks again...
Try booting into CWM instead, then launch adb, and run the same command. If that doesn't work for some reason, enter "adb shell" first, and you should have a "$" prompt. Then enter "adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23499670&postcount=133 Followed step by step and it worked, doh!
Avoided this because I didn't want to use adb, then forgot about it. Then found it again and it worked like a champ. Thanks for the help now please delete thread. Lol
I downloaded it from here ww w.clockworkmod.co m/rommanager/
I got the 5.8.4.3 image for my att note
(sorry I need to post more)
I have put it on my internal sd card and renamed it to recovery then I used my terminal emulator to use the command
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
then it says it cant find it.
What am I missing?
rogsoccerman said:
I downloaded it from here ww w.clockworkmod.co m/rommanager/
I got the 5.8.4.3 image for my att note
(sorry I need to post more)
I have put it on my internal sd card and renamed it to recovery then I used my terminal emulator to use the command
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
then it says it cant find it.
What am I missing?
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Use odin.... thats what i done worked perfect!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
How do I Odin a recovery image? I thought you need a tar file.
rogsoccerman said:
How do I Odin a recovery image? I thought you need a tar file.
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Scroll on down this thread and u will find the tar file for odin and it will fix ur problems
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
rogsoccerman said:
How do I Odin a recovery image? I thought you need a tar file.
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Its a little bit farther down someone already made the same thread ur file is there hope it helps let me know
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
Link please I can't find what you are talking about, all I can find is the old version by braway.
Thank you
rogsoccerman said:
I downloaded it from here ww w.clockworkmod.co m/rommanager/
I got the 5.8.4.3 image for my att note
(sorry I need to post more)
I have put it on my internal sd card and renamed it to recovery then I used my terminal emulator to use the command
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
then it says it cant find it.
What am I missing?
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I get the same problem as root in terminal:
flash_image recovery /mnt/sdcard/recovery.img
error scanning partitions: no such file or directory
- ROM Manager won't work; the "flash touch recovery" says "not supported" on this phone. The recovery download also doesn't work; the Galaxy Note is not listed, despite it being on the clockworkmod website!
- ODIN won't work as it needs a tar file or md5, or similar.
- There is no tar file in this thread or anywhere else I can find. If anyone knows exactly where this can be found, that would be helpful!
Basically, if I could find an easy way to "tar" up the recovery.img, it might work with ODIN. This might work, as past tars had only the one file within, but I need a UNIX OS to use the tar command. Drat!
UPDATE: I tarred it in the terminal and will now try ODIN. I hope it works....
UPDATE #2 - yep, it works!
How to install
Odin (this will increase the flash counter)
- put your phone into download mode
- in odin choose pda, and select the .tar.md5 file and flash
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584576
[Recovery] ClockworkMod Based Touch Recovery - 04/14/12
works without any issue.....
Here's how I installed/upgraded CWM to 5.8.4.3 this is an A in Q&A
I was on the April version of CWM and was fat and happy, then I thought I'd try ICS, and didn't much care for what I was finding, then I read about another one I thought I'd try, but it (apparently) required a newer version of CWM, 5.8.4.3 i think.
So ROM Manager from the play store wouldn't do the upgrade for me, kept giving errors.
I'd used odin to install the april .tar, but this new version comes in an .img file.
I downloaded the .img file and placed it on my phone in sdcard (/mnt/sdcard)
searched high and low for a few hours, found a semi-cogent post about how to install it using adb from your PC, i guess.
adb is in the SDK which you can get from here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
I installed this and I located adb here: C:\androidsdk\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
on my PC from the command line (start, run, cmd, ENTER) I changed directories to that directory.
I executed, still on the command line: adb shell
:
This presented me the the octothorpe (hashtag if you must) prompt:#
at the # prompt I entered WITHOUT the double quote, ditto marks (")
"dd if=/sdcard/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.3-quincyatt.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22"
so it looked like this:
#dd if=/sdcard/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.3-quincyatt.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
I pressed enter and it ran pretty quickly and returned to the (apparent) adb prompt # then I typed exit and it dumped me to the C: prompt and I exited that too (so there!), Then I rebooted the phone into recovery mode using one of many nifty reboot apps in the play store, so I don't have to have my fingers holding this slick and slippery buttons.
I verified I was in the new version of CWM, and rebooted to make sure my phone was still breathing... it was so I bailed back into recovery and am now running a backup... then I'll try to install the new ICS ROM, although it looks way too small to me.
I've gathered that the # prompt is the root prompt in adb, so either I'm very lucky and it does this by default, or adb detected my rooted phone... if you've read this far your guess is as good as mine.
I hope this helped someone from having to google for hours and hours into the night, and then not oversleep, not be late to work, not get fired, not go on unemployment, etc.
or not.
if you are running an unsecured kernel, adb should start with root rights of I'm not mistaken...also when you were done moving the recovery file instead of exiting the adb session and the c prompt altogether
You could have simply used the command:
Adb reboot recovery
And in fact..That's all those apps do.
Also of you copy the files in your android sdk platform-tools folder:
Aapt.exe
Adb.exe
Adbwinapi.dll
Adbwinusbapi.dll
Into your main Windows folder, you no longer have to cd to the platform-tools folder, you can use adb as a global command.
bigjoe2675 said:
How to install
Odin (this will increase the flash counter)
- put your phone into download mode
- in odin choose pda, and select the .tar.md5 file and flash
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584576
[Recovery] ClockworkMod Based Touch Recovery - 04/14/12
works without any issue.....
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That's an older version of cwm touch which is not compatible with some newer rooms.
VoluntaryMan said:
That's an older version of cwm touch which is not compatible with some newer rooms.
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Really...cus i have been using it since i got the note and have flashed just about every ROM, lol works great for me sir, maybe my phone likes me idk, and yes just about every ROM....k
But hey i could be wrong..., so which ever works...use it, thanks
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I had the same problems... Ended up flashing twrp 2.2.1. But this link will work for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28932726
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CWM Touch [Solved, again]
I got it working very easily...
Heres how.
Got my .img file from http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager. Scroll to find Samsung Galaxy Note(ATT)
Changed the name of the file from "recovery.whatever.whatever.quincyatt.img" to "recovery.img"(minus quotes) using es file explorer(root needed)
Moved the file to root of /sdcard = /sdcard/recovery.img
Opened terminal emulator
typed
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
quit
then backed out to home screen and rebooted into my newest CWM Touch recovery.
Hope this helps anyone who needs it
EDIT: Just performed backup and succeeded. saved backup to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
Moving prior braway recovery backups there to see if they are manageable within ROMmanager
This worked for me, thanks!
tyler79durdan said:
I got it working very easily...
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I know this is old but better late than never...
ClockworkMod Touch Recovery 5.8.4.3 for SGH-I717 .tar file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39037837
your welcome, enjoy
tyler79durdan said:
typed
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
quit
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I did this, but instead of quit, I wrote "reboot recovery". I'm not sure if that did it, or if it was something else I did wrong, but the phone won't come back up. I checksummed the img I downloaded with another copy of "recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-quincyatt.img" that I downloaded, and they matched:
e70ee18c0d63ee18d325c94e2af7a683
Shrug.
Edit: I just flashed it through odin and it worked. To build the tar.md5 I did the following in cygwin:
Code:
mv recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-quincyatt.img recovery.img
tar -H gnu -c recovery.img > recovery.tar
md5sum -t recovery.tar >> recovery.tar
mv recovery.tar recovery.tar.md5
Dear Friends,
Need help please. I have installed another custom rom that was not meant for I9300 and now the EFS is corrupted. I tried installing orignal rom using ODIN but geting boot loop and the phone is not booting. On going into recovery i can see an error efs/ corupted or something like that. I have the backup of my EFS folder in tar.gz format however dont know how to install the same and recover my phone as not able to boot to android.
Please help me if someone can work it out. My phone has just 3 days of warranty left and it does not shows rooted anywhere except the count of installation is about 32 and rom says official and kernel says custom.
Please if someone can help me restore my phone back in working condition i shall always remain thankfull.
Regards,
Mush
mush2004 said:
Dear Friends,
Need help please. I have installed another custom rom that was not meant for I9300 and now the EFS is corrupted. I tried installing orignal rom using ODIN but geting boot loop and the phone is not booting. On going into recovery i can see an error efs/ corupted or something like that. I have the backup of my EFS folder in tar.gz format however dont know how to install the same and recover my phone as not able to boot to android.
Please help me if someone can work it out. My phone has just 3 days of warranty left and it does not shows rooted anywhere except the count of installation is about 32 and rom says official and kernel says custom.
Please if someone can help me restore my phone back in working condition i shall always remain thankfull.
Regards,
Mush
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It is essential that you have a backup of the EFS partition and a way to place it back - the first two ways that I would think about are:
a) use a good recovery - like Philz recovery, that has commands to restore EFS
b) if the format of the backup is not exactly right you might be able to boot in recovery and use ADB commands.
xclub_101 said:
It is essential that you have a backup of the EFS partition and a way to place it back - the first two ways that I would think about are:
a) use a good recovery - like Philz recovery, that has commands to restore EFS
b) if the format of the backup is not exactly right you might be able to boot in recovery and use ADB commands.
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Code:
su
umount /efs
dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 bs=4096
reboot
Ver3go said:
Code:
su
umount /efs
dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 bs=4096
reboot
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I am new to adb commands. Will phylz recovery help me enter the commands? if yes then i shall be replying with the sd card efs tar file name. Will then you be able to guide me with the commands based on the tar file?
Thanks all of you in advance.
Mush
mush2004 said:
I am new to adb commands. Will phylz recovery help me enter the commands? if yes then i shall be replying with the sd card efs tar file name. Will then you be able to guide me with the commands based on the tar file?
Thanks all of you in advance.
Mush
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No for ADB you boot into recovery, connect your computer via USB and run the ADB commands from either Linux Terminal or Windows Command Prompt.
The tool here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488
May help if you're new to adb.
Otherwise it's a case of downloading and installing the drivers for your phone and the Android SDK http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Thanks for all your replies.
Just wanted to confirm if i have the efs backup in sd card as under folder backup_efs and there are two files in tar.gz format will i be able to use the phylz recovery to use this replace my efs folder? if yes then can you guide me the steps please.
Regards,
Mush
mush2004 said:
Thanks for all your replies.
Just wanted to confirm if i have the efs backup in sd card as under folder backup_efs and there are two files in tar.gz format will i be able to use the phylz recovery to use this replace my efs folder? if yes then can you guide me the steps please.
Regards,
Mush
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I do not remember right now what creates an backup_efs folder but it really does not matter that much - the tar.gz is a "file archive" and .img is usually a partition image. Each could have minor advantages - the .img also contains the entire filesystem of the partition (and will work easier if the filesystem is bonked) but a tar.gz backup is more versatile when you have bad sectors or a changed partition.
Under an advanced recovery like Philz you would just navigate some menus and try to restore the EFS - see the info in those specific threads.
Under ADB you need to have stuff (drivers and some programs) installed in your PC, you connect the phone on USB and you run ADB commands from the command line.
Hi , I Need File To Fix My Mega , IF you have 4.4.2 andriod please make it to me :crying: , It's Called DEBRICK.IMG , it's fix the hard brick 4.4.2 mega , i cannot make it because my phone didn't open, and i found the debrick,img but it's for 4.2.2 and it's not help me:crying:,
it's easy to create this file , please follow this steps:good:
go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600976
and Download the zip file attached, flash it in your preferred recovery (CWM or TWRP)
Once you have flashed it , open your phone and go to file manager, you will find a file called debrick.img on your internal sdcard. It should be 128MB in size :good::good::good::good:
please share it, to help me and any one have this problem
EDIT:
You can make the debrick.img in different way [MAKE SURE YOU ARE ROOTED]
install busybox and a terminal emulator. Then type this command from the terminal and you will get the debrick image in your sd card.
su
busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/debrick.img bs=1M count=128
Thanks
(36) Show This And No One Help Me :crying:
Please I need anyone to HELP me .. it's so easy
Please Help
NO any one have i9205 to help me???
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211 Show This And No One Help Me WHY??!
here you are https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzitJ17BpqjfSmxQN1Bfc2ZqUjg/view?usp=docslist_api
THANKS @fuadhdmini
I'll tell you if it helped me
@fuadhdmini
is that for 4.4.2?
Haha. So you need the one with 4.4.2? I'm enjoying marshmallow for quite some time.
Sent from my GT-I9205 using Tapatalk
haha, my phone open, But in bootloop
i can't access recovery mode, but i can access download mode
i flashed some stock roms but still in bootloop
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Hello Guys
I Bricked My Mega About 2 Month Ago, And I Found Threads Here About How I Can Recover It, But All The Threads Here Become old, I Think It's in 2014 At that time Most of the devices were working 4.2.2, But now 4.4.2
I have found in @ValenteL Thread a 4.2.2 Debrick.img , i was downloaded it and my mega open in bootloop only, i flashed stock 4.4.2 and it's done but my mega was not open
I NEED Somebody have mega i9205 ROOTED to make the debrick.img for me and anyone have this issue
PLEASE HELP ME
I hope you interact
THANKS
Reasonable that there is no one helps me
if you don't know how to create debrick.img for me lets do this:
install busybox and a terminal emulator. Then type this command from the terminal and you will get the debrick image in your sd card.
su
busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/debrick.img bs=1M count=128
or you can make it in different way:
go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2600976
and Download the zip file attached, flash it in your preferred recovery (CWM or TWRP)
Once you have flashed it , open your phone and go to file manager, you will find a file called debrick.img on your internal sdcard. It should be 128MB in size
Please Help
why no one wanna help me?
is that hard to create or what??
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