Hi,
I've been trying to find a stock recovery partition image to flash so I can remove clockworkmod and go back to my stock image.
From searching the forums it appears that all links to the stock recovery partition, and stock 2.3.4 ROM are dead.
What do I have to do to flash a Photon 4G back to stock 2.3.4? Does anyone have a copy of the stock recovery partition?
Thanks,
Jthon
The easiest way to to do that is to SBF back to stock. It will flash the stock recovery and rom. Just make sure to wipe everything beforehand. It doesn't mess with the internal or ext sdcard and is relatively safe
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hey guys, sorry but im a noob at this. i have a lg p500 with android 2.2 . i followed the instructions to root my phone and install a custom recovery. both worked. i also backed up my phone and performed a data/cache wipe on the phone from the recovery console. i was able to flash the cm7 into the phone. however, upon reboot, the phone kept getting stuck at a bootloop with the android 2.2 splash screen. AFAIK CM7 has its own boot screen. ive tried it twice with 2 different beta versions. any suggestions?
THANKS PPL!
Format system, for this flash the zip file from the first post. You will find "if you get bootloop".
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Here's the link to the .zip that you can flash to fix this: system flash fix
When?
Thanks for the quick reply!
i do have a few more questions. when do i flash the format image on my phone? do i do it after creating a nandroid backup or do it do it after installing the custom ROM. and if i do install it, and if something goes wrong, will i be able to restore my phone back to its pre-flash state using a recovery image? please let me know. thanks so much!
wipe all, flash format zip, than flash cm7 zip.
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You must flash: format system.zip first, then flash Mik's rom
Why do u have to flash sbf just to go back to stock, is there something wrong with just making a backup of stock...whenever I want to change to a new rom I just recovery to my backup stock img.
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First off all i'd like to say that i'm no "expert" when it comes to flashing but I know the general rule of thumb before flashing anything (roms)
1. Wipe Cache 2. Wipe data/factory reset
Now I was running the pre-beta cyanogen 7 port recently and its great and all but having no camera or bluetooth was a deal breaker for me- I decided to flash a backup that I had on my sd card.
Everything thing was going smoothly while flashing the backup using CWM (v.4.0.1.4) until it ran into an "error formatting /data" problem.
Any who I thought that was a no big deal and rebooted the device.... only to be stuck on the boot screen forever.
I started to panic BIG TIME and I was able to access CWM Recovery no problem.... until I realized I couldn't flash the pre-beta cyanogenmod since I couldn't see/view any files on my sd card.
Now i'm stuck with a "soft brick" Atrix that is stuck on the bootscreen yet able to boot up CWM recovery and it feels like its going to be the end of me.
Advice is welcomed.
Thanks!
Did you see if your SD card was mounted in cwm?
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Did you see if your SD card was mounted in cwm?
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It says its unmounted but when I try mounting and leaving the setting screen it reverts back to unmounted...
fastboot flash CWM recovery and you should be able to access everything like you were to before.
Phoneguy589 said:
fastboot flash CWM recovery and you should be able to access everything like you were to before.
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That's how i've accessed CWM recovery this whole time yet it still hasn't shown me the zip files (rom) on my sd card.
hmmm....
pull the SD card and plug into normal PC, back it up, format it, copy the zip onto it, see if that makes a difference?
failing that try pushing the ROM onto your internal via fastboot?
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pull the SD card and plug into normal PC, back it up, format it, copy the zip onto it, see if that makes a difference?
failing that try pushing the ROM onto your internal via fastboot?
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I've tried using a new sd card, formatted it, loaded up the zip files onto it, no dice.
How would you put the rom on the internal via fastboot??
I am all ears.
first things first reflash your recovery. Grab the latest one off the dev thread (use romracers for latest). Both tenfar's latest and romracer's latest have option to flash zip file off external SD.
Your recovery might have corrupted or reverted back to stock, so just try it.
moto-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
If that fails then I'd just use fastboot to flash the stock ROM. You'll have to do your own digging around to find the correct .img files
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138092
then you're back to stock and can proceed at your leisure.
You can pretty much do most things in recovery or use moto-fastboot without risk of hard bricking, so don't worry.
all else fails I'd try RSDlite a stock sbf via following thread. BE CAREFUL DO NOT DOWNGRADE IF YOU'VE UPGRADED TO GINGERBREAD VIA OTA OTHERWISE YOU HARD BRICK do your homework...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
Flash one of these zip files to 4.0.1.4 then just feflash your rom kernal and radio
-gnomes.biz/~romracer/atrix_recovery/CWM-recovery-d00-atrix2.zip"]ZIP version[/URL]. MD5 9924c720a9dbb58a9a570377680adbf6 / 3dd787d1b161e083b67d6e34c8e1578c Cyan 4.0.1.4-atrix2 / ZIP version. MD5 2fd575a246a1f3a59ea31581e23328a8 / ff0436f85a17dcb749d5dda46916ac9a Light green 4.0.1.4-atrix2 / ZIP version. MD5 517db19e676cba5acc16446d00307d3e / 41a2fd22f44f2c64b6000a7d81341eb7 Dark green 4.0.1.4-atrix2 / ZIP version. MD5 36075ccf5f5beb8eb6462ce087c8c6fe / 97376aa0a0af5a493ae6258648e8c8ff Blue 4.0.1.4-atrix2 / ZIP version. MD5 1e9653c13ea7f622fc6b4fe26aad37c8 / 1c56b6c3d9bb648063769bf0a8f89d84 tegrapart=1100 Orange 4.0.1.4-atrix2 / ZIP version. MD5 d00cb4b6301bbf54efec8d7ae01011a5 / a399f80636811dc85700f36030fc4b72 Cyan 4.0.1.4-atrix2 / ZIP version. MD5 cc4534e7a7fe192893f5290f05a6ecbf / 31e9846721f177b074c79bbbe051745f Light green 4.0.1.4-atrix2 / ZIP version
Just flash this and then flash your rom and stuff
This aint mine samcripp posted it elseware
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bug in CWM 4.0.1.4
I ran into this problem to. Turns out there is a bug in 4.0.1.4 that will not let you format /data you can use the ones listed above they work really well. The one in Rom Manager is same as 4.0.1.4 hope it gets fixed
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Fastboot flash the boot image of the ROM you are going back to. There is a known possible issue when restoring from CM7 which they have posted instructions for. Happened to me. Flashing the Aura boot.img via fastboot fixed it for me as this is the ROM I had flashed back to. You can get the boot.img by unzipping the ROM you are flashing.
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OP, did you get your phone working?
If so, what got you back in the game?
Cheers!
Motorola MB860
My motorola MB860 does not show any .zip files on sd card on CWM 4.0.1.4 and i can not install any custom rom
Just successfully rooted my galaxy s 2. Now gonna flash CWM . But what is the easiest way to backup my current stock recovery? So that I can revert back to stock recovey if needed.
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You can use something like MyBackup pro to backup your apps & stuff, but you won't get an 'image' of your setup like you will with a Nandroid backup done in CWRecovery. Or you could probably use Kies I guess (not sure about how this works though, have never used Kies for anything).
Best way to go would be to install CWM then do your backup before you go making any other changes to your phone (like flashing a custom rom). This will give you a backup of your setup as close as possible to it's original state (tho obviously rooted).
If you want to go back completely to stock (no root), all you'd need to do would be to download your original firmware from somewhere like Sammobile.com (until Intra gets his stock firmware collection up and running again) and flash that in Odin. Or you could get the latest stock firmware available for your phone/carrier/country with Checkfus (PC app, search for it on here/Google) flash the tarball you download in Odin.
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Just successfully rooted my galaxy s 2. Now gonna flash CWM . But what is the easiest way to backup my current stock recovery? So that I can revert back to stock recovey if needed.
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Don't think CWM backs up your stock recovery just everything else, to revert back to stock recovery you would just have to flash stock firmware but lose root in the process.
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rijans said:
Just successfully rooted my galaxy s 2. Now gonna flash CWM . But what is the easiest way to backup my current stock recovery? So that I can revert back to stock recovey if needed.
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Just as addition to MisthaBungle:
1. Flash a kernel containing CWM recovery (such as CF-Root).
2. Create a Nandroid backup in recovery mode (or use CWM Manager app if available).
If you want or have to restore your stock system, you can restore this Nandroid backup, but you will have to flash the stock kernel afterwards in order to replace the insecure/custom kernel containing the CWM recovery.
Alternatively you can do it like bubba949 described:
Just download and flash the latest officially released stock ROM to your phone, if you want or have to go back to stock.
I recommend to do a Nandroid backup before flashing a new kernel/ROM, just to be sure that you are able to go a step back in case something does not work.
So you will have an additional option ;-)
Thanks all of you for your assistance. I'm doing well with my phone since root.
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I need the stock ROM or a nandroid of stock for verizon 2.3.5, I sbf'ed the ntelos 2.3.5 and can't sbf a verizon file now so i'm hoping i can install a stocl verizon 2.3.5 thru stock recovery n it'll be back to normal, TIA
you can only install, update.zips in stock recovery
and only if on the correct sock rom
only install nandroids, in cwm recovery
try ezsbf for dx2 in my list of links
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Goawxdx_UBF4Y8lqzHYWf8Ha3yUcRK4faq0UWIlXLWA/edit
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