Sorry for the noob question but I'm wondering what options we have for custom recoveries? I have the basic CWM recovery flashed right now, but it has no option to save Nandroid backups to the external SD card. Is there a Touch version of CWM Recovery available for our devices (I have the T-Mobile SGH-T999)? Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks!
I just read cwm now has that ability, its via the toolkit iirc.
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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to flash a Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 running Stock Android v.4.0.3 on Baseband I9100XXLPH.
I've searched a lot of threads but it seems that over the years there are 5 billion ways on how to root, install CWM and flash a ROM.
I'm not a 100% noob in this area as I successfully unlocked, rooted and flashed my HTC One X lately but:
Could someone please tell me the easiest way of rooting, installing CWM and flashing CM9.1 using the latest tools out there? Please also let me know on how to upgrade the Firmware if thats needed. I tried using Kies already but It keeps telling me that the device doesn't support that. And if someone could explain to me what a insecure kernel is compared to a original one, that would be fantastic!
I've already tried flashing CWM 5.8.1.5 using the standard samsung recovery but once I select "apply update from external storage" and select the CWM zip it starts CWM but after one reboot its gone again. I can repeat these steps everytime I would need CWM but isn't it supposed to replace the default samsung recovery?
Thanks in advance!
Memphizzz said:
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to flash a Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 running Stock Android v.4.0.3 on Baseband I9100XXLPH.
I've searched a lot of threads but it seems that over the years there are 5 billion ways on how to root, install CWM and flash a ROM.
I'm not a 100% noob in this area as I successfully unlocked, rooted and flashed my HTC One X lately but:
Could someone please tell me the easiest way of rooting, installing CWM and flashing CM9.1 using the latest tools out there? Please also let me know on how to upgrade the Firmware if thats needed. I tried using Kies already but It keeps telling me that the device doesn't support that. And if someone could explain to me what a insecure kernel is compared to a original one, that would be fantastic!
I've already tried flashing CWM 5.8.1.5 using the standard samsung recovery but once I select "apply update from external storage" and select the CWM zip it starts CWM but after one reboot its gone again. I can repeat these steps everytime I would need CWM but isn't it supposed to replace the default samsung recovery?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi!
If you want to flash firmwares, here's how http://androidflip.com/how-to-install-flash-firmware-on-samsung-galaxy-s-2-gt-i9100/
But you're on XXLPH, so I suggest you use this guide to root: http://www.androidauthority.com/root-xxlph-on-galaxy-s2-i9100-using-cf-root-kernel-54416/
and that'll get you started somewhere..
Here's the index of guides for our s2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1826497
I hope this will help you!
Cheers
Hi Guys, and thank you in advance for reading this post, I have looked in several places and cannot find a solution. When I boot into recovery, there is no option to backup and restore, I am rooted on Stock Android 4.2.2. Baseband: VRUAMDK. I tried switching out SD cards from my extFAT 64GB card to a FAT32 GB card, no go, I am also running into the same exact issue on my galaxy note 8.0. If anyone could help me out I would highly appreciate it! Thank you in advance! I really want to try a different ROM but want to perform a nandroid backup just in case. Thanks!
DroidForPresident said:
Hi Guys, and thank you in advance for reading this post, I have looked in several places and cannot find a solution. When I boot into recovery, there is no option to backup and restore, I am rooted on Stock Android 4.2.2. Baseband: VRUAMDK. I tried switching out SD cards from my extFAT 64GB card to a FAT32 GB card, no go, I am also running into the same exact issue on my galaxy note 8.0. If anyone could help me out I would highly appreciate it! Thank you in advance! I really want to try a different ROM but want to perform a nandroid backup just in case. Thanks!
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Which custom recovery are you running?
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I downloaded ROM manager because I was under the assumption that I was running CWM. I'm still a newbie so please excuse my ignorance. I did root using Odin.
DroidForPresident said:
Hi Guys, and thank you in advance for reading this post, I have looked in several places and cannot find a solution. When I boot into recovery, there is no option to backup and restore, I am rooted on Stock Android 4.2.2. Baseband: VRUAMDK. I tried switching out SD cards from my extFAT 64GB card to a FAT32 GB card, no go, I am also running into the same exact issue on my galaxy note 8.0. If anyone could help me out I would highly appreciate it! Thank you in advance! I really want to try a different ROM but want to perform a nandroid backup just in case. Thanks!
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Did you install a custom recovery? Stock recovery doesn't allow you to make nandroid backups or flash roms via recovery. If rooted you could try latest installing recovery via Rom manager. Or flash a custom recovery via odin.
sulla65 said:
Did you install a custom recovery? Stock recovery doesn't allow you to make nandroid backups or flash roms via recovery. If rooted you could try latest installing recovery via Rom manager. Or flash a custom recovery via odin.
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Thanks for the response, I tried installing CWM via rom manager but it doesn't seem to be working at all, tried several times and nothing, how can I install via Odin? I cannot find instructions on doing this for the Verizon Galaxy S4 (SCH-I545) I still have not accepted the OTA update from Verizon so I am still fully rooted and running stock android version 4.2.2
TWRP seems to be the go to recovery for the S4 on Verizon
I think I finally have it, and contrary of what I read it seems to be working on my 64GB exFAT SD card. I will let you know shortly if it backed everything up
The problem was CWM wouldn't install so I went here teamw.in/project/twrp2/181 and just downloaded GooManager and read their instructions: Tap menu then hit Install OpenRecoveryScript. Tap Yes. Verify that the filename displays your device's code name and hit Yes. The file will download and your device will install the recovery automatically.
I then booted into recovery and BAM! there was the backup option, I have 10GB to backup so I needed it to backup on my SD card, thought it would be a problem since I read that it wasn't possible to perform a nandroid backup on a 64GB SD formatted as exFAT but it seems to be working, will update once complete, it might take a while to backup all that data
Hi guys.
I am a newcomer,so go easy please.
I have spent the last few weeks researching all things root to do with my galaxy s2,I am pretty much ready to go but I am unsure about what is installed on my phone.
I got the phone second hand, it has superuser and this works for things like greenify etc, so I assume the phone is rooted, but when I boot into recovery there is no clockworkmod or anything like it.
So then I dug deeper and read warnings about trying to install clockworkmod with custom kernels etc.
How do I know what method was used for rooting, and what type of kernel I have?
Basically I want to nandroid backup before I start tinkering.
Model is GT-i9100 4.1.2 Kernel 3.0.31 - 889555.
Thanks for your time, I don't want to brick my phone on my first venture!
Steve.
Flash philz kernel tar with Odin or zip in stock recovery. That will root and give you cwm recovery :thumbup: but do read about it first. Don't just flash any old thing. Read read and read some more.
Thanks, I have read lots, not as easy as I was hoping. I might practice on my old htc desire first!
Easy way is to flash the zip as an update in stock recovery. Reboot system and you're done. Make sure you put the philz kernel zip on ext sd card not int sd.
Hello :angel: I'm kind of new to modding android and ran into a few issues. Basically I want to get Paranoid Android on my Galaxy S4 sgh-i337 running 4.4.2.
I rooted my device using towelroot but have failed to install a custom recovery. Both CWM and TWRP said they installed successfully but ended up with the same problem; when I selected reboot in recovery mode it would reboot saying Samsung Custom and then go into odin mode saying "Could not do normal boot".
I'm not sure if I installed CWM/TWRP correctly, as all the guides I found online were outdated. I installed the recoveries from the corresponding apps (CWM - ROM manager, TWRP - TWRP manager)--but like I said, both apps said recoveries were successfully installed. I also tried getting CWM using Loki on my phone + terminal emulator, but the terminal said something about loki not being the correct version for my device.
In CWM I tried the option to flash a custom ROM from sd card, but it didn't seem to recognize any files on the card while the normal samsung storage did.
So now I'm really confused and frustrated and can't seem to find answers anywhere. I would be really grateful if someone could guide me in the right direction in an easy to understand way.
Thanks for any help!
I bought phones for my parents for Christmas. Managed to find two BNIB MDK Verizon GS4s on eBay. I currently have an S4 MDK that I rooted myself with no problems.
I went through using the Odin method to downgrade the kernel to root the device, just like I did on mine. When I downloaded ROM Manager, for some reason it wouldn't allow me to flash CWM, so I used terminal emulator to install it using the Loki method found here:
http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-r...on-att-or-verizon-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337sch-i545/
After I booted into CWM recovery, I wiped everything (didn't nandroid :/) before installing a stockish debloated ROM - BoneStock 1.1.4 which is what I've been running. When I went to install The ROM zip from my ext sd card, the card wouldn't mount. I can't get my device to mount at all in recovery so I can't even sideload anything.
One thing that I may have done wrong is not flashed the second CWM file to upgrade the recovery to CWM v6.0.4.7.
Currently the phone will not boot passed the Samsung logo. Is there anyway to flash a different version of CWM through recovery? Or would that even fix my problem? I can get into download mode fine. I can still boot into CWM but it's useless at this point.
Could someone PLEASE help me! I feel like I've made a stupid mistake somewhere.
I check the CWM recovery version on my device and currently I'm running version 6.0.3.2. Could that be the reason I keep getting the error unable to mount the sd card? Does anyone have a current version of CWM recovery that's flashable over ODIN? I'm thinking that's my last resort before attempting to restore the MDK TAR.
Bullhead00 said:
I bought phones for my parents for Christmas. Managed to find two BNIB MDK Verizon GS4s on eBay. I currently have an S4 MDK that I rooted myself with no problems.
I went through using the Odin method to downgrade the kernel to root the device, just like I did on mine. When I downloaded ROM Manager, for some reason it wouldn't allow me to flash CWM, so I used terminal emulator to install it using the Loki method found here:
http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-r...on-att-or-verizon-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337sch-i545/
After I booted into CWM recovery, I wiped everything (didn't nandroid :/) before installing a stockish debloated ROM - BoneStock 1.1.4 which is what I've been running. When I went to install The ROM zip from my ext sd card, the card wouldn't mount. I can't get my device to mount at all in recovery so I can't even sideload anything.
One thing that I may have done wrong is not flashed the second CWM file to upgrade the recovery to CWM v6.0.4.7.
Currently the phone will not boot passed the Samsung logo. Is there anyway to flash a different version of CWM through recovery? Or would that even fix my problem? I can get into download mode fine. I can still boot into CWM but it's useless at this point.
Could someone PLEASE help me! I feel like I've made a stupid mistake somewhere.
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MDK TAR sounds like the only way to go. Make sure to get the MDK one though!
Theoretically, there are other ways, such as flashing a new recovery from your current one, but with Loki, that would probably be harder than what its worth.
Does anyone have any clue why I wasn't able to use ROM manager to flash CWM recovery?
ODIN MDK TAR file worked. I still don't know what went wrong and why CWM recovery couldn't mount my SD card so I could flash a ROM.