I've downloaded the recovery image off the official site for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 (touch version) and made it into a tar.md5 for Odin flashable. After I flashed it, it was successful, but when I rebooted into my recovery, I still had my old recovery.
Any ideas?
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Hi all,
i have searched in the forum i haven't found answer to my question.
I have rooted my galaxy tab without odin(using stock recovery and .zip file to install supeuser.apk) and i have installed ClockWorkMod by rom manager then i have done a nanodroid backup before installing CyanogenMod9.
In this way i haven't yellow triangle and my counter is still at 0 ;-).
Now i want to replace stock rom and stock recovery, i have replaced nanodroid backup. Now i come back to stock rom rooted, i can unroot it using another .zip file to be loaded via recovery but i still have CWM recovery.
Can i flash the stock recovery using clockworkmod? If possible i prefer not use odin. Is there a file like stock_recovery.zip to be flshed via CWM recovery?
Thank you very much.
Maurizio
Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15693193
You can find a .zip containing cwm recovery in the "retail 4g" section. It worked for my 3g model and I think the zip will cooperate with any tab.
Here is the link to the zip:
http://www.mediafire.com/?w45j8i0fcj0wck0
Now unzip it, replace the recovery with your stock, zip it up and flash it through cwm.
I HAVE ONLY FLASHED PERSHOOT'S RECOVERY FOR CM9 THAT WAY, AND I AM NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENS WITH STOCK.
You can find the stock recovery for your device here:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=3&o=1#osa
Download the proper firmware for your device/region, untar it and get the recovery.img.
Just fyi you can flash official firmware with odin without raising the binary counter (Or so they say. I haven't tried this yet). In that case though your device gets wiped, so make a full backup prior to that.
Good luck!
Sent from my amazing 10.1 galaxy tab
Thank you very much!
Hey everyone, I have an SCH-i905 for US Cellular.
I bought this 2nd hand I was only going to use it with wifi.
I'm not familiar with android devices.
I wanted to root it, so I flashed CWM recover but I flashed the wrong model one.
The device still booted fine, but I thought there was no way to flash another recovery on,
so I found the VERIZON stock image and flashed that,
odin said failed when it got to the modem.bin and the tab said invalid binary signature.
My device booted up to the verizon splash screen then rebooted (loop)
So I flashed the correct CWM and that worked.
Then I flashed the VERIZON stock image again and now my device reboots after the samsung logo.
and CWM just hangs at an image of an android with a line underneath it.
I've kept trying to reflash CWM and the Odin image to no avail.
Does anyone have an idea of what I can do? or a stock odin image for US cellular?
Thanks
I think you will need to find the RUU for your device and go back to stock that way...
I have the same tablet and had the same problem. I was able to flash the Verizon odin file by deleting the modem.bin from the .tar file. you can open the .tar file with 7zip, delete the modem.bin and then save the .tar file and flash with odin. good luck.
I have Safestrap up and running again but I'm wondering how can you install other recoveries like TWRP and CWM so I can boot directly into the custom recovery without a splashscreen I believe it's called (newbie here). I followed instructions online with GooManager for TWRP and ROM Manager for CWM but neither will actually boot into the custom recovery.
In GooManager after it says the TWRP recovery has been installed, it will reboot but then take me to the downloading boot screen and say "could not do a normal boot." What's with that? I actually had to use ODIN again to flash the stock ROM back (I tried this three times to no avail...)
And for CWM it says it successfully flashed in ROM Manager but when I actually reboot into recovery, whether it be from the app or manually, it will just boot into the stock Android recovery. I don't get it...
What am I doing wrong and/or is my phone not compatible with these recoveries?
Specs:
Verizon Galaxy S4
Android 4.3
Build MK2
Kernel MK2
Also are there any other recoveries that might work with my phone?
Thanks!
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Bootloader is locked and custom recovery can't be installed on newer/updated S4. Do some reading to find out what is and is not possible with a locked bootloader.
the immunity said:
I have Safestrap up and running again but I'm wondering how can you install other recoveries like TWRP and CWM so I can boot directly into the custom recovery without a splashscreen I believe it's called (newbie here). I followed instructions online with GooManager for TWRP and ROM Manager for CWM but neither will actually boot into the custom recovery.
In GooManager after it says the TWRP recovery has been installed, it will reboot but then take me to the downloading boot screen and say "could not do a normal boot." What's with that? I actually had to use ODIN again to flash the stock ROM back (I tried this three times to no avail...)
And for CWM it says it successfully flashed in ROM Manager but when I actually reboot into recovery, whether it be from the app or manually, it will just boot into the stock Android recovery. I don't get it...
What am I doing wrong and/or is my phone not compatible with these recoveries?
Specs:
Verizon Galaxy S4
Android 4.3
Build MK2
Kernel MK2
Also are there any other recoveries that might work with my phone?
Thanks!
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I'm not sure how any one misses a sticky thread like this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
Mid year I decided to root and flash Cm 11 onto my little s3 mini (gt-i8190) and everything went great. Recently I read on the Novafusion website that they recommend using TWRP instead of CWM, searched on Google and saw it was safe to flash over custom recoveries. I used Odin to flash over the TWRP I downloaded from the Novafusion site. When odin completed its process my phone rebooted into TWRP and it all seemed fine, then I proceeded to flash the latest version of the Cm 11 4.4.4 rom. Again everything went great and my phone booted up normally.
I got the zip file for the Android L keyboard and I used Rom manager to reboot into recovery and showed the "Samsung Galaxy sIII mini gt-i8190 screen and just went black for 10 seconds, rebooted and continued going black then rebooting. I pulled the battery out and booted up my phone again then used rom manager to flash CWM again and it worked! I used CWM to flash the keyboard apk and it worked.
I was a little bit worried about the recovery bootloop and decided to make a nandroid backup. I couldnt reboot into recovery, manual way or with Rom manager.
I have used odin to flash CWM and TWRP a few times now without any luck. My phone just reboots normally when odin finishes.
If anyone could shed some light on this issue I would be grateful.
Thank you.
I recently bought a used Galaxy Tab 2 off of Craigslist where everything worked perfectly fine.
I wanted to update to Lollipop, having done so already on my Note II, so I was gonna get CWM to flash the zip.
The CWM wouldn't boot up so I tried TWRP, didn't work also.
I found all the appropriate .tar files for Odin to flash but it simply won't boot into neither CWM nor TWRP.
I tried many versions of each one and when i go into bootloader mode, it recognizes that i did change the binary.
I used odin to flash the recovery mods.
Can't find a way to root without CWM so i can't use apps like ROM Manager or Rashr.
Fastboot from SDK won't recognize my phone so that wasn't an option.
Please help!
Searched far and wide for an answer but still can't boot into CWM nor TWRP.
I love Lollipop and really want it on my tab.
Everything else works fine except this frustration.