I have a cwm backup of my stock rom from the day I got my device. Obviously, I had to install cwm to make the backup.
How can I get back the stock recovery? I did some searching on the dev forum, but didn't find anything. Is there an odin flashable file somewhere?
I want my device to be completely stock. Triangle-away (to reset the counter in download mode) is not working yet, but hopefully it will soon
I apologize if I'm missing something obvious here. Thanks!
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I just wanted to flash a custom ROM, I have read and googled a lot but I couldn't find anywhere, how to backup the original recovery, so that if the phone needs to be repaired under warranty, the phone would look completely stock if they try out a factory reset.
So, is there any way to backup the original recovery?
I am new to modding my vibrant (phone is rooted but that's all) but looking to flash a new ROM. I dl'd rom manager and installed cwr. When I reboot into recovery mode via rommanager or manually doing it,I do not get the prompt to backup. Only options I get are to reboot system, reinstall packages, delete all user data, delete cache data, and format internal sd-card. Anyone know how to fix this? I just updated to 2.2 froyo UVKB5 kernel 2.6.32.9 if that helps.
looks like you have stock recovery.
try reinstall packages, might take a couple times..
or install CWM via replacing update.zip
What he said, yeah.
So just delete the current update.zip file on my phone and replace it with a new one? Any links to download the update.zip file?
Sometimes you have to Reinstall Packages twice for it to go from regular recovery to CWR. If you flash a custom ROM though, most have a custom recovery built in.
If you have to replace the update.zip (which I don't think that you do), this worked for me the first time I rooted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
How to Root.
I am rooted, but I want to back everything up so that way if I do not like the new custom rom I can go back. I tried reinstalling the update.zip file from the link but s till have the same issue. Any other solutions besides going back to stock and going from there? And if I did go back to stock, would I lose everything?
I backed up using Titanium Backup, is that the same as going into recovery mode and backing up?
Re-download recovery using ROM Manager, then repeat. Worked when I had a similar issue.
Tried that several times. I also reuploaded the update file and reinstalled the package several times. Still no luck so I think I might go back to stock using Odin.
Then DL Eugenes froyo don't brick ROM with the 2e recovery update in it, then re-install packages, maybe twice and you'll have the green recovery menu your seeking
Googled Eugene's DL and I do not feel to confident with it. Is it supposed to fix the issue with getting into recovery mode?
So I went back to stock last night using Odin, upgraded to 2.2, and rooted using Superoneclick. Phone's back up and running but faster than the first time I upgraded to 2.2. I still have the issue getting into the proper recover to install the zip file. I've read that deleting Slacker helped some people, assuming it freed up space on the System ROM. My system ROM was full until I started to delete some apps. I now have 20.7 MB free. Could not enough System ROM space be the issue?
I am now also getting a "Fail" attempt when I try and update su saying that it failed to find currently installed su binary. Any advice on fixing this?
TIA!!!
it would probably be easier to just odin back to stock jfd and then flash a deodexed kb5 build thats rooted with SU already in it from here in the forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036193&highlight=deodexed
If you flashed kb5 from kies or odin and don't want to reinstall the rom then you will need to flash a modified 3e recovery because you probably are not quite rooted and won't be able to use CWM until you flash the modified 3e recovery...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423
You might want to check out the AIO vibrant toolbox (pinned topic in the development thread) it will give you big easy buttons and instructions to flash back to jfd and root and flash a new rom if you need to... It comes with Odin so you can wander into the install folder and fire up Odin to flash the modified 3e recovery if you decide to go that route too.
If I flash a deodexed kb5 will i still be able to flash a custom rom?
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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So I probably should of asked this before flashing but anyways, I flashed CWM to my tablet and I am about to flash aokp to it but I was wondering if I was going to go to back to complete stock again does it matter what stock 3.2 recovery I use to get official updates? I did make a nandroid backup so I am not to worried about getting a stock OS but its just the stock recovery that bothers me.
For the record I have a Canadian WIFI 16 gig tablet.
Official updates...? Odin is the only official update you need! :] Just so you know, you can't completely revert to stock unless it's for that specific firmware, only way to do that is by a clean flash to avoid all the un-necessary bricks and such.
Nandroid backup does not exist on stock and last I checked the recovery and CWM do the same job of "Applying update.zip" so it shouldn't matter, it's the firmware's regional value that matters, not the recovery.
So if I were to do a restore of my nandroid backup (from CWM) then that means that I would be able to get the notice that I would be able to update to the latest official firmware from Samsung no problem?
As long as you don't use Cus ROM's then yes.