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.
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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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'm on 9300XXUFME7 – Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
I haven't installed any custom recovery yet.
But i want to install philz advanced cwm or ClockworkMod Recovery
I heard that philz advanced cwm is the best
I have a few questions so plz help me
1. Which Recovery is the Best ?
2. Does installing a custom Recovery void Warranty ?
3. How do i uninstall a custom Recovery and revert back to stock Recovery ?
4. Does flashing Rom's uninstall custom recovery ? (Like flashing un-root our device )
5. Does Rooting is mandatory to install a custom Recovery ?
6. Does Custom Recovery is mandatory to install Custom Rom's ?
laura almeida said:
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1. Which Recovery is the Best ?
=> not allowed to ask , but select one that includes a SDS fix e.g. Philz
2. Does installing a custom Recovery void Warranty ?
=> I would guess so
3. How do i uninstall a custom Recovery and revert back to stock Recovery ?
=> flash a stock ROM, or try to find a flashable stock recovery zip
4. Does flashing Rom's uninstall custom recovery ? (Like flashing un-root our device )
=> only if flashing a stock ROM that includes the stock recovery, custom roms usually don't include one.
5. Does Rooting is mandatory to install a custom Recovery ?
=> not sure about that as you also can flash roms without root via Odn
6. Does Custom Recovery is mandatory to install Custom Rom's ?
=> not 100% sure, whereas see (5). custom recoveries nevertheless will give you more options to e.g. backup
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see answers above.
Just to add to the above regarding 5 and 6.
5) You do not need root to flash a recovery. Just Odin. You can flash a recovery then flash a custom ROM directly without having to root your stock android rom.
5) Most custom ROMs are .zips for recovery. Its rare you find an Odin flashable custom ROM. Sometimes the early versions of Leaked samsung ROMs are Odin flashable and rooted but that doesn't really count.
Can anyone provide me a link to Flashable Stock recovery zip ??
So, If i flash my phone with I9300XXUFME7 – Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Do i get my stock recovery back ?
I would recommend flashing via odin. You can get stock recovery from any stock rom or cf autoroot.
laura almeida said:
Can anyone provide me a link to Flashable Stock recovery zip ??
So, If i flash my phone with I9300XXUFME7 – Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Do i get my stock recovery back ?
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As rootSU said every stock ROM has it. If you got mobile Odin you can select the zip and just eject the recovery partition I suppose. This will enable you to just flash the recovery without Rom.
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Kk...
Thank You very Much.......
I'm currently on pacman ROM v22. and i want to go back to stock jelly bean. I do have a nandroid backup but when I try to restore it fails. I guess its because of the latest cwm I.e. v 6.0.4. right? how should I restore the backup now? please help.. I'd be thankful
(galaxy s2 at&t sgh i777)
If you know what version of recovery you used to make the backup, install the kernel with that version of recovery. If the kernel does not match your current operating system, the phone will not boot into the system, but it should boot into recovery and allow you to restore the backup.
Or you could just flash the I777UCMD8 stock firmware with Odin, which you can download from the Download Repository.
as far as I remember I used v6.0 of cwm with the stock kernel.. yeah I was using stock kernel when I had v 6.0 of recovery.. should I downgrade to v6.0 cwm and try?
so I downgraded cwm to 6.0.1.0.. I guess that's the version I was using when I made backup.. tried to restore.. error: MD 5 mismatch
what does it mean?
new problem occurred.. :/
I downgraded recovery to 6.0.1.0 now I can't update it back to 6.0.4.5.. rebooted system.. and booted it back to recovery now that when I try to upgrade cwm I get error: couldnt mount SD card.. and when I checked my kernel has been replaced with cynogenmod #1 from aj kernel.. how should I get back the cwm 6.0.4.5 (I have .zip file is SD card but it won't mount in cwm) please help!
***ignore this I got it back working***
just tell me how can I restore the backup of my stock jelly bean
You can defeat the md5 check if you are absolutely certain that the nandroid backup is not corrupted. Sometimes just changing the file name of a nandroid backup will mess up the md5 sum, but the file is still good. But if you try to install a corrupt nandroid file by defeating the md5 check, you can do serious harm to the phone.
In this case I would not recommend even going there. It's no problem to flash the stock firmware using Odin. Yes, you will need to perform a wipe data/factory reset first, and yes you will lose your apps and personal settings, but there are backup programs for that. I would recommend this route.
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okay but I didn't make any changes on the nandroid backup..
i have a question.. i'm using unlocked at&t here in india.. will upgrading firmware from odin lock my phone again?
and thanks for your help
There's also the option of using titanium backup restore the apps and settings of your nandroid backup.
settings > extract from nandroid backup > [select backup] > choose which apps/data that you want to restore.
-Cyril
imohitahuja said:
okay but I didn't make any changes on the nandroid backup..
i have a question.. i'm using unlocked at&t here in india.. will upgrading firmware from odin lock my phone again?
and thanks for your help
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well that's cool cryil.. but unfortunately I have no app & data backed up in my nandroid backup.. its just the stock ROM and settings.. while I was flashing the latest cwm I by mistake deleted my phone data.. so there is nothing just the stock ROM..
I just want to restore my nandroid backup to return to stock ROM.. I am away from PC for sometime so flashing with Odin is not possible at the moment.. I don't know what to do now..
(please also see the other thread by me)
thanks
is there any way to flash stock firmware through cwm.. I have cwm manager and it has a feature which says *flash the stock firmware* but I don't know how to use it... I don't care if I lose root access and cwm..
imohitahuja said:
is there any way to flash stock firmware through cwm.. I have cwm manager and it has a feature which says *flash the stock firmware* but I don't know how to use it... I don't care if I lose root access and cwm..
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I'm not sure about that one.
But, you can still boot into your custom rooted firmware? If so, you can use Mobile Odin Pro or Mobile Odin Lite to flash the stock firmware from the phone.
yeah mobile Odin I have heard about it.. how to flash firmware with mobile Odin? we have to extract the .zip right? can you please tell me step wise procedure?
thanks once again
5 bucks says he's using Rom Manager app. Because clearly that'd be causing him issues.
yeah phalanx you're absolutely right. I flashed cwm recovery from ROM manager.. I didn't read stickies.. so I was not aware about the ROM manager causing problem thing.. anyways I got v6.0.1.0 of cwm after flashing from ROM manager.. I reeboted phone successfully.. checked kernel.. it was still the stock kernel.. If I'm not wrong flashing cwm replaces the kernel? anyways.. then I booted to recovery.. made nandroid backup.. upgraded cwm to 6.0.4.5.. flashed pacman ROM successfully.. and now that when I want to restore the nandroid backup it gives MD 5 mismatch error.. any suggestions ?
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yeah mobile Odin I have heard about it.. how to flash firmware with mobile Odin? we have to extract the .zip right? can you please tell me step wise procedure?
thanks once again
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imohitahuja said:
yeah phalanx you're absolutely right. I flashed cwm recovery from ROM manager.. I didn't read stickies.. so I was not aware about the ROM manager causing problem thing.. anyways I got v6.0.1.0 of cwm after flashing from ROM manager.. I reeboted phone successfully.. checked kernel.. it was still the stock kernel.. If I'm not wrong flashing cwm replaces the kernel? anyways.. then I booted to recovery.. made nandroid backup.. upgraded cwm to 6.0.4.5.. flashed pacman ROM successfully.. and now that when I want to restore the nandroid backup it gives MD 5 mismatch error.. any suggestions ?
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You can not install a .zip package with Mobile Odin. You can install the stock I777UCMD8 4.1.2 ICS firmware with Mobile Odin. Mobile Odin recognizes .tar and .tar.md5 files. The stock distribution, which you can download from the Download Repository, (see link in my signature) is a .tar.md5 file. Mobile Odin requires root access, so the following assumes you have a rooted firmware on the phone that will fully boot into the system.
Download Mobile Odin from this thread. Download the flash kernel from post #10 of the same thread. Install both apk's on your phone.
Download the UCMD8 .tar.md5 to the root of the internal sd card. I hope you have access to wifi because that is a pretty large file. Boot into recovery and perform a wipe data/factory reset. Boot back into the system. Mobile Odin will now recognize the .tar.md5 file so that you can flash it. Once you flash it, you will have lost root, and will have fully stock firmware and kernel.
wowie thanks for your help bro! downloading the .tar.md5 .. last question by my side.. I didn't use mobile Odin ever before.. so I dont understand what's that thing? I mean as I have .tar.md5 file I will then just have to click on flash firmware?? or there is something I am missing?
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wowie thanks for your help bro! downloading the .tar.md5 .. last question by my side.. I didn't use mobile Odin ever before.. so I dont understand what's that thing? I mean as I have .tar.md5 file I will then just have to click on flash firmware?? or there is something I am missing?
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Once you have both the main application and the flash kernel installed on your phone, open Mobile Odin, scroll down and touch Open file..., select internal sdcard, and then select the .tar.md5. You should be able to figure out the rest from there.
I successfully flashed i777UCMD8 from mobile odin and didnt even lose root.. thanks creepyncrawly!
I'm having problem connecting mouse from otg.. when I try to connect my phone turns off and takes so much time to start..?? also i am having problem connecting hdmi through mhl.. keeps on connecting and disconnecting..??
imohitahuja said:
I successfully flashed i777UCMD8 from mobile odin and didnt even lose root.. thanks creepyncrawly!
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Glad to help.
I'm having problem connecting mouse from otg.. when I try to connect my phone turns off and takes so much time to start..?? also i am having problem connecting hdmi through mhl.. keeps on connecting and disconnecting..??
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I do not have any direct experience with either of these issues. Maybe someone else will be able to answer.
some other guy told me to try flashing any other kernel? can I use any custom kernel with stock jelly bean? which one?
Firstly I rooted my S3 for the first time & flashed using TWRP to Galaxy S5 Mini Custom Rom. And then because the rom is too laggy for me, I decided to revert to the original stock rom. As I did not have a backup, I specifically went online to download the official stock rom 4.3 @ sammobile (right one). I flashed the official stock rom by download mode using ODIN IN MY PC. Everything went well, phone works perfectly for everything. But now the issue is, I am unable to go into TWRP recovery mode even though I have re-rooted my phone/installed recovery tools from playstore after I have flashed the official stock rom, I was wondering could the main reason be that I did not un-root my S3 first before flashing the official stock rom via ODIN. Could this be soft brick?
Thank you for your time.
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Firstly I rooted my S3 for the first time & flashed using TWRP to Galaxy S5 Mini Custom Rom. And then because the rom is too laggy for me, I decided to revert to the original stock rom. As I did not have a backup, I specifically went online to download the official stock rom 4.3 @ sammobile (right one). I flashed the official stock rom by download mode using ODIN IN MY PC. Everything went well, phone works perfectly for everything. But now the issue is, I am unable to go into TWRP recovery mode even though I have re-rooted my phone/installed recovery tools from playstore after I have flashed the official stock rom, I was wondering could the main reason be that I did not un-root my S3 first before flashing the official stock rom via ODIN. Could this be soft brick?
Thank you for your time.
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Need to download ROM Manager from Play Store.
With this app you can go Recovery Mode.
I had problem like this one week ago.
UzbekBoy said:
Need to download ROM Manager from Play Store.
With this app you can go Recovery Mode.
I had problem like this one week ago.
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Can be more specific bro?
I downloaded it and already set the custom recovery to TWRP (Recovery Tools) but it does not work as well
revilionz said:
Can be more specific bro?
I downloaded it and already set the custom recovery to TWRP (Recovery Tools) but it does not work as well
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Flash twrp again with odin this should solve your problem you will need the openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-i9300.tar version here >> http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/i9300 <<
Never ever use rom manager with a Sammy device. Risk of loss of recovery or brick is high.
i was on stock 4.1.2 and i flashed slimkat 4.4.4 before i flashed slimkat i backuped stock rom but when i go into twrp and click restore it says nothing was found but the backuped rom is still there cause i checked with file explorer how can i restore the stock rom? or do i have to flash stock rom again to go stock?
Depends. The stock ROM has to be backed up using the same recovery as your using. If not then you won't be able to use it.
The best bet is to either flash the previous recovery you used to back up the stock ROM or just do a factory reset and flash the stock ROM again. Make sure you do a backup of your current ROM in case it fails to flash. If it does fail, you'll need to reflash using an older recovery perhaps since Kitkat and Jellybean use different mdsums.
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