Hello,
I am really a beginner with flashing roms and I just flashed my first CWM and CM 10.1 rom.
But the version I chose has a few bugs, so I want to flash a different CM version. should I do it the same way as I changed from the stock ROM to CM 10.1, by moving it to root path and then via recovery choose install zip from sd card? What I also don't know is what will happen with the GAPPS. I flashed it right away the first CM flashing. but will I need to flash GAPPS again?
Also, If I want to change from non-touch CWM to touch-CWM, I do it via Odin in the same way I first flashed the non-touch CWM? Will that over-write the existing CWM?
Sorry I am really a beginner, but at least I flashed the first rom
Thanks to everyone who helps :good:
verynoob said:
Hello,
I am really a beginner with flashing roms and I just flashed my first CWM and CM 10.1 rom.
But the version I chose has a few bugs, so I want to flash a different CM version. should I do it the same way as I changed from the stock ROM to CM 10.1, by moving it to root path and then via recovery choose install zip from sd card? What I also don't know is what will happen with the GAPPS. I flashed it right away the first CM flashing. but will I need to flash GAPPS again?
Also, If I want to change from non-touch CWM to touch-CWM, I do it via Odin in the same way I first flashed the non-touch CWM? Will that over-write the existing CWM?
Sorry I am really a beginner, but at least I flashed the first rom
Thanks to everyone who helps :good:
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Yes, all you said is the correct way. Its that way itself.
To sum it up, if you want to flash a different CM, reboot into CWM recovery, Wipe Data/Cache/Dalvik cache and flash the zip package and flash the gapps and do a wipe data/cache/dalvik cache again. Yes you need to flash GAPPS each time when you install CM.
For changing recovery, if you have another version installable via Odin, then you can go on with it, and it will replace your existing recovery.
Be sure to check this Table to know which GAPPS should be installed for which CM version.
Happy Flashing!
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Im thinking about change my rom to Cyanogenmod, but Im afraid it will crash and brick my phone.
Can i just flash it directly? or should i wipe out all stuff first?
Speedmod is a kernel, Cyanogenmod is a ROM.
CyanogenMod 7 (w/ Gingerbread 2.3.7) for Galaxy SII Q&A.
No, ist very very unlikely to brick your phone just because you go from stock (or modded stock) or whatever to Cyanogen,
If something goues wrong, you can (nearly) always flash a stock Firmware via ODIN.
As far as I know its almost impossible to brick a modern Android Phone. Except you do do some really "deep" stuff.
But you should wipe your phone when you go from Stock (or modded Stock) to Cyanogen.
And you should flash the Cyanogenmod Rom twice because its using a new or modded version of clockworkmod.
There is a step by step discription in the Cyanogenmod Wiki.
I hope that Information helps a bit.
How to
normalife said:
Im thinking about change my rom to Cyanogenmod, but Im afraid it will crash and brick my phone.
Can i just flash it directly? or should i wipe out all stuff first?
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1.just download latest nightly of cyanogemod and put it on SDcard...Link for latest nightly here: (http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/cm_galaxys2_full-94.zip)
2.enter CWM recovery and do a wipe data/factory reset,,, wipe cache,, wipe dalvik cache(it is in Advanced option in CWM main menu)...so yes wipe out all stuff first
3. install nightly .zip file from sdcard
4. install nightly .zip file from sdcard AGAIN...REALLY DO IT OR IT WILL NOT BOOT
5. reboot phone from recovery and you will be in CyanogenMod 7 ROM
PS: do not be afraid about SpeedMod kernel....flashing cyanogenmod nightly .zip also flashes CM7 Stock kernel for you
PS: You can try Siyah kernel 2.1 beta 14 (http://www.gokhanmoral.com/public/files/siyahkernel/test/Siyah-v2.1b14-CWM.zip) info here: (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263838)
I am using this kernel since beta 12 and no problems
PS: Speedmod is name of kernel = core of android system...Cyanogenmod is a ROM = phone firmware
You can ask me again if needed..or send me a PM
Should he not at least make a nandroid backup first
Dude, do some research.
If you managed to get Speedmod onto the phone, then you shouldn't have any other problems.
Hey guys
I'm trying to flash my S II I9100G with cMIUI, which doesn't work. The phone gets stuck during booting right after the installation. I've been messing around with this problem for a couple of hours by now, been googling a lot and yet I have not found a solution.
What I did in order to flash the ROM:
1) I installed the latest German stock ROM (ICS) using Odin.
2) I followed this tutorial (root using SU-BB-Installer.zip and flash CWM recovery kernel 6.0.1.2 via kTool): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065581 So far everything works fine. I have root access now.
3) Downloaded the cMIUI 2.10.19 zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804619
4) When I tried to flash cMIUI from Recovery and toogle signature verification "on", it told me "signature verification failed". I ignored that message and installed it anyway.
5) Installation ran smoothly. After finishing it, the phone wanted to reboot. It now got stuck in the booting screen. I can not get the ROM booted.
I don't think it's cMIUI-caused, because I tried to flash a clean CM10 and still had the same problem (even though it didn't fail signature verification). Here are some more things I tried:
- installed clean stock ROM via Odin, again. Then followed all above steps exactly as described above, except for using Odin for flashing CWM Recovery instead of kTool
- again, clean stock ROM. After rooting, I then tried to install cMIUI via ROM Manager v5.5.2.3. Unfortunately, ROM Manager doesn't identify CWM recovery and keeps asking me to install the Recovery-System with ROM Manager. When I try that, there apparently "is no official CWM Recovery available" for my model. So, ROM Manager is no option
As described in the following thread, I can not use the ClockworkMod Recovery 6.0.1.2 kernel on aosp based ROMs like cMIUI and CM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631934 So that probably is the cause of my problem. Can you tell me what kernel I can use, instead? Or is there another way to flash that ROM? Via Odin, for example...
Thanks for your help in advance. Very much appreciated!!
Regards,
Daniel
What Codeworkx is saying in that thread is, that you cannot use that kernel when you are already on a aosp based rom. So you can use that recovery.
Something you didn't mention, did you do a full wipe from within the recovery? If you didn't do that, then thats probably the source of your problems.
1. Flash a stock rom true Odin.
2. Flash the recovery (you don't need to root your rom after)
3. Wipe system/factory reset
4. Wipe cache.
5. Download the rom again to make sure you the download went well.
6. Toggle signature verification off.
7. Flash Miui
8. Reboot and wait.
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What Codeworkx is saying in that thread is, that you cannot use that kernel when you are already on a aosp based rom. So you can use that recovery.
Something you didn't mention, did you do a full wipe from within the recovery? If you didn't do that, then thats probably the source of your problems.
1. Flash a stock rom true Odin.
2. Flash the recovery (you don't need to root your rom after)
3. Wipe system/factory reset
4. Wipe cache.
5. Download the rom again to make sure you the download went well.
6. Toggle signature verification off.
7. Flash Miui
8. Reboot and wait.
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Thank you so much! Wiping helped. :good: Why didn't I try that before :silly:
Awesome, now I can finally enjoy cMIUI. It's really great! (except for crashing galery/camera app when starting cam from lock screen. but who cares )
Thanks dude! :highfive:
Hi all !
ive searched thoroughly for a few days and have not found an answer to my question so I am making a new thread.
I have been wondering if it is possible to install a ROM without getting the recovery changed. By this I mean, can you install a ROM without going from TWRP to CWM or vice versa? it seems stupid, yes I know, but in all of my experience, and for the last 50+ ROMs, upon flash, the Recovery changes with the kernel, so I wanted to know if anyone can answer me (in regard to S2) and yes I do know that some RoMs only work with a certain version of CWM or above etc but I was curious.
Thanks in advance for any help
~daz
Al-Dazzlez said:
Hi all !
ive searched thoroughly for a few days and have not found an answer to my question so I am making a new thread.
I have been wondering if it is possible to install a ROM without getting the recovery changed. By this I mean, can you install a ROM without going from TWRP to CWM or vice versa? it seems stupid, yes I know, but in all of my experience, and for the last 50+ ROMs, upon flash, the Recovery changes with the kernel, so I wanted to know if anyone can answer me (in regard to S2) and yes I do know that some RoMs only work with a certain version of CWM or above etc but I was curious.
Thanks in advance for any help
~daz
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Actually, upon flashing the kernel, the recovery would change. But the change depends. If you switch from an older Omni ROM to an updated Omni ROM version, your recovery doesn't get changed since Omni ROM uses TWRP. Similarly, if you use a Cyanogenmod ROM and update to a newer version of Cyanogemod ROM, the recovery doesn't change; remains same- ClockWorkMOD Recovery.(CWM)
BUT, if you want to flash Omni ROM over Cyanogenmod, then by default, CWM Recovery would get changed to TWRP. So, if you want to have the same recovery as you had with the earlier kernel(due to earlier ROM), you have to flash that kernel.img again after every new ROM flash, and then you can reboot to recovery.
warrior1208 said:
Actually, upon flashing the kernel, the recovery would change. But the change depends. If you switch from an older Omni ROM to an updated Omni ROM version, your recovery doesn't get changed since Omni ROM uses TWRP. Similarly, if you use a Cyanogenmod ROM and update to a newer version of Cyanogemod ROM, the recovery doesn't change; remains same- ClockWorkMOD Recovery.(CWM)
BUT, if you want to flash Omni ROM over Cyanogenmod, then by default, CWM Recovery would get changed to TWRP. So, if you want to have the same recovery as you had with the earlier kernel(due to earlier ROM), you have to flash that kernel.img again after every new ROM flash, and then you can reboot to recovery.
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Well that clears up a lot othings so thanks for the reply
i searched forum but i am unable to find way to install recovery to install Cm12.1 from official link official site have recovery *.img and ROM zip but i find no solution on how to install recovery
In my other phone(htc,xiaomi) i can just reboot to bootloader and fastboot flash recovery but this method is not working on samsung phone
kindly update me or show xda link showing how to install CM12.1 recovery on my SII 9100 T model phone i already downloaded ROM and Recoveyr.img from
https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=i9100
Does my i9100 T model support 12.1 ?
KiranP23 said:
i searched forum but i am unable to find way to install recovery to install Cm12.1 from official link official site have recovery *.img and ROM zip but i find no solution on how to install recovery
In my other phone(htc,xiaomi) i can just reboot to bootloader and fastboot flash recovery but this method is not working on samsung phone
kindly update me or show xda link showing how to install CM12.1 recovery on my SII 9100 T model phone i already downloaded ROM and Recoveyr.img from
https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=i9100
Does my i9100 T model support 12.1 ?
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Forget about the recovery.img. I don't know why it is there. On the i9100(and i9100T), there is no seperate recovery partition. It is bundled with the kernel. So if you have a custom recovery that is capable of flashing a lollipop rom, just use that. Once you have flashed CM12.1, the CM recovery(kernel) will overwrite the recovery(kernel) you had anyway. Which is not a good thing(not that you have a choice). Currently the CM recovery is not very functional compared to CWM or TWRP
noppy22 said:
Forget about the recovery.img. I don't know why it is there. On the i9100(and i9100T), there is no seperate recovery partition. It is bundled with the kernel. So if you have a custom recovery that is capable of flashing a lollipop rom, just use that. Once you have flashed CM12.1, the CM recovery(kernel) will overwrite the recovery(kernel) you had anyway. Which is not a good thing(not that you have a choice). Currently the CM recovery is not very functional compared to CWM or TWRP
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Thank you that answers many things , now can u kindly provide a LINK to recovery which is supported by my S2 I9100 T and flashing method so i can install CM12.1 nighties
KiranP23 said:
Thank you that answers many things , now can u kindly provide a LINK to recovery which is supported by my S2 I9100 T and flashing method so i can install CM12.1 nighties
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I'm assuming you have stock unrooted firmware? The easiest way is to install philz kernel from stock(3e) recovery, then reboot to recovery and flash a newer recovery that is capable of flashing the newer versions of android. If you just want to install CM12.1 straight away just back up your efs then:
1. Download the DVLSH kernel .zip from HERE
2. Download the philz 6.48.4 from HERE
3. Reboot into stock recovery, flash the DVLSH kernel(if your firmware build is DVL**, you could probably reboot into system no problem)
4. Reboot to recovery(not system), flash the philz 6.48.4
5. Reboot to recovery(not system), follow the steps for installing in the CM12.1 thread after backing up etc
Keep the DVLSH kernel. Once you install CM, you will have CM recovery, which only allows you to flash signed .zips(which this one is)
EDIT - The philz 6.48.4 is also signed and is probably the more useful one to keep, being compatible with the newer roms
noppy22 said:
I'm assuming you have stock unrooted firmware? The easiest way is to install philz kernel from stock(3e) recovery, then reboot to recovery and flash a newer recovery that is capable of flashing the newer versions of android. If you just want to install CM12.1 straight away just back up your efs then:
1. Download the DVLSH kernel .zip from HERE
2. Download the philz 6.48.4 from HERE
3. Reboot into stock recovery, flash the DVLSH kernel(if your firmware build is DVL**, you could probably reboot into system no problem)
4. Reboot to recovery(not system), flash the philz 6.48.4
5. Reboot to recovery(not system), follow the steps for installing in the CM12.1 thread after backing up etc
Keep the DVLSH kernel. Once you install CM, you will have CM recovery, which only allows you to flash signed .zips(which this one is)
EDIT - The philz 6.48.4 is also signed and is probably the more useful one to keep, being compatible with the newer roms
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thankyou i will backup efs with efs backup application form playstore then follow the procedure
thankyou , like you installed flashed recovery i installed from official LInk , flashed nano gapps = boots ,keyboard FC , after sometime frequent random reboots heavily
installed again after full formating ,wipe,dav cache etc flash only cm12.1 nighties =still FC keyboard and random reboots
help me pls
kbxdauser2011 said:
Kiran, i'm in the same stage as you for installing cm 12.1.1 on my SGS2 (GT-I9100) Stock 4.1.2 Rom (Non rooted). Can you please share the steps (step by step) you took to took to install the same . Also how good or Bad is it to be used as a daily regular rom compared to the Samsung Stock rom for the SGS2 (GT-I9100)?
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noppy22 said:
I'm assuming you have stock unrooted firmware? The easiest way is to install philz kernel from stock(3e) recovery, then reboot to recovery and flash a newer recovery that is capable of flashing the newer versions of android. If you just want to install CM12.1 straight away just back up your efs then:
1. Download the DVLSH kernel .zip from HERE
2. Download the philz 6.48.4 from HERE
3. Reboot into stock recovery, flash the DVLSH kernel(if your firmware build is DVL**, you could probably reboot into system no problem)
4. Reboot to recovery(not system), flash the philz 6.48.4
5. Reboot to recovery(not system), follow the steps for installing in the CM12.1 thread after backing up etc
Keep the DVLSH kernel. Once you install CM, you will have CM recovery, which only allows you to flash signed .zips(which this one is)
EDIT - The philz 6.48.4 is also signed and is probably the more useful one to keep, being compatible with the newer roms
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please look at above steps
Hello everybody, as the title says, I currently have this configuration. My father's phone always reports memory is full and I decided to upgrade the phone to a different ROM, possibly one which is light. Anyway I found different threads about IsoRec recovery but I didn't understood what are we talking about. Also, I was not able to understand what to do and which files to flash, even if, just for an example, I wish to flash latest CM13. I think that an old recovery which supports Android 4.1.2 doesn't support Android 6.0 to be flashed via zip, so I would probably mess up something. So, what should I do? Flash something with ODIN via PC? Or there's something I can do directly from the phone to update recovery and then flash the ROM's zip? Thank you!
Hi,
You can follow the instructions here to install CM12.1 first:
Download cm-12.1-XXXXXXXX-UNOFFICIAL-i9100.zip to your sdcard
Make sure you're using a Kitkat Compatible Recovery
Boot into Recovery
Wipe all your data
Flash cm-12-.1XXXXXXXX-UNOFFICIAL-i9100.zip from sdcard
(Optional)Flash Google Apps.zip from sdcard
Reboot
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Once installed, follow this guide to upgrade to CM13:
[GUIDE][NOOB-FRIENDLY]Want to update to CM13? Read this first!
Good Luck! - gsstudios