[Q] Update.zip to go from CWM2.5.1.0 to CWM3 - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have CWM 2.5.1.0 installed, but like an idiot didn't read the install instructions for Bonsai carefully enough and didn't update to CWM3 before converting to EXT4.
I am now stuck with a phone that hangs at the Samsung logo.
I can three-finger boot into CWM2, or I can boot into download mode.
I have one and only one way to get stuff on to the phone, and that is a microSD reader. I cannot get any computer to talk to the phone via Odin or Heimdall. Believe me, I have tried every trick in the book, including 7 different computers running 4 different OSes. I've tried four different USB cables and a powered hub (which, in the past, has worked for this phone). Odin/Heimdall are simply not an option, and I can't use the one-click-root approach because the phone doesn't boot.
Is there a way for me to update CWM via an update.zip? There was a rumor of an update.zip file in the original CWM3 thread, but that link does not appear exist anymore.

Another thing I've tried:
DRockstar's ReRFS ROM, which is supposed to reformat everything to RFS and flash a stock kernel. I did this, repeatedly, but I'm still hung at the samsung logo.

Could u try flashing dameons deodexed rom with dual kernel? Give it a shot. To bad Odin wont work for u. U installed the drivers?
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Unable to Get Past Factoryrfs.rfs

So far Ive tried different cables, different computers, different USB ports, Odin (which gets stuck) and Heimdall (which actually says its successful, boots my phone but after the Samsung logo theres only a black screen with the keys still on), the official Sprint SW update tool (which crashes on me when its trying to do its magic), tried setting Run in Admin mode/Windows XP compatability, and singing to it. But nothing gets me past the Factoryrfs.rfs. Help?
siirus09 said:
So far Ive tried different cables, different computers, different USB ports, Odin (which gets stuck) and Heimdall (which actually says its successful, boots my phone but after the Samsung logo theres only a black screen with the keys still on), the official Sprint SW update tool (which crashes on me when its trying to do its magic), tried setting Run in Admin mode/Windows XP compatability, and singing to it. But nothing gets me past the Factoryrfs.rfs. Help?
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Did you try a complete stock tar for Heimdall? Or you can try breaking down a prerooted tar and heimdall it. Then you should have a CWM recovery and can try flashing ReRFS ROM. You can also try with the battery and sd card removed for Odin or Heimdall.
kennyglass123 said:
Did you try a complete stock tar for Heimdall? Or you can try breaking down a prerooted tar and heimdall it. Then you should have a CWM recovery and can try flashing ReRFS ROM. You can also try with the battery and sd card removed for Odin or Heimdall.
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If by complete stock tar for Heimdall you mean firmware package that Heimdall handles, no I havent tried that because I cant find it. I will try a prerooted tar and use Heimdall. I'd try to ask why no battery and sd card matters but with the crazy stuff Ive heard people do to get it to work, I wont question it.
I had this problem yesterday, trying to Odin back to ECO5 from EH17. After about 10 times I used a ECO5.TAR file along with the victory file in the pit.
I hope that helps, because I know the feeling of how frustrating it was!
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siirus09 said:
If by complete stock tar for Heimdall you mean firmware package that Heimdall handles, no I havent tried that because I cant find it. I will try a prerooted tar and use Heimdall. I'd try to ask why no battery and sd card matters but with the crazy stuff Ive heard people do to get it to work, I wont question it.
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You grab 7zip and decompress the stock EC05 tar which can be found in the following thread as well as in post 2 are Heimdall instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Try running only the pit, with ONLY Re-partition checked. You will get a reset. Wait ten seconds, pull battery, reboot DL mode and then try the DG27 file on Independent Android Prroject homepage.

Tried to Root - Now my phone stuck on Splash Screen :-(

Tried to install a rooted Kernal using Odin, The first Kernal did not install (froze), so I pulled the battery, and succesfully installed a different one. Now the phone freezes at the Galaxy SII screen with the Yellow Triangle. Tried re-installing several other Kernals, but to no avail.
Was able to boot into CWM 5, clear the phone, and then install Starbright ROM, but phone still freezes at the splashscreen.
I have tried everything I know to do.
Anyone got any recommendations, or am I bricked?
You are no where near bricked. I don't have a link but search the development section for a complete Rom but in .tar format and flash it to your phone via odin. Or find a complete stock Rom in .zip form and flash it via cwm.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282415 follow directions here..
Thanks....I tried that method before, and odin kept freezing up when trying map the pit file.
Tried several others also.
I switched to a different windows machine and usb cable and it worked.
Guess Odin is just finicky like that!
Thank you for both of your help.....Tremendously.
dont need a pit file just check the reboot option

[Q] I Messed up my phone trying to un-root BIG TIME

I was running rebirth 1.0 on my epic (original) and I decided I wanted to go back to factory, I tried using a one click root/unroot utility and all that did was bring me back to clockwork 3.0 than I tried using some file to flash on clockwork to get rid of clockwork and bring me back to the original recovery screen, now, somehow my phone is stuck I tried everything I cannot get to any recovery screen (V down CAmera and power) and I tried everything (Odin, Heimdall, the samsung update utility thats supposed to be an last resort) I do not know what to do, I am lost.
I have a pc, upstairs, so whatever solution you guys might have please try to be compatible on mac.
Well if you HAVE to use the mac, there are command lines for Heimdall you can use to push files into it. Heard there were ways of getting heimdall to run but needed Ubuntu. Here is a link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878686
Boot dl mode without sd card or battery..
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why don't u try odin your phone back to stock rom?
i found out using odin in download mode can solve some problem, as it 'reset' it to factory like..
Odin is the best if you can still get it into dl mode.
Cd's or tapes?
The OP hasn't returned and at the end he specified he wanted to use a Mac.

[Q] Phone stuck in boot loop, not recognized by Odin

Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone
Do you have an ext SD card ? Place a ROM on the ext card.
Did you wipe cache in stock recovery after flashing back to stock ?
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iamblue337 said:
Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone
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Try this, usually in a case like yours there is at least a 50% success rate.
Reboot the phone into recovery and do a "Factory Reset".
After doing that reboot the phone and see if it boots completely.
If the phone boots up completely, you will also be able to go into download mode.
You may want to shell out less than $5.00 including shipping for a USB JIG on eBay or other places.
With a JIG all you do is turn the phone off or remove your battery, wait 20 seconds - replace battery and plug the little JIG into the usb of the
phone then wait a 2-3 seconds more or less and like magic you will be in download mode ready to Odin flash(tar) a proper Touchwiz Jellybean
I747 4.1.2 stock rooted rom which are very much un-like all these CM10/AOSP/AOKP roms which are all just experimental.
Once you have flashed the stock rooted jellybean 4.1.2 TAR rom you will be able to flash any custom Touchwiz Jellybean
custom rom of your choice unless you still want to go ahead and flash another experimental CM/AOKP/ASOP rom.
Good luck!
Not to nit pick, but the latest stock Jelly Bean for the I747 is 4.1.1, not 4.1.2. Also, most of the stock rooted roms don't include custom recovery. They usually include the stock 3e recovery. To get a custom recovery, just dl Rom manager for cwm, or goo manager for twrp, and they can install a recovery for you that will have you ready to flash.
Which version of stock did you flash?
jperry73 said:
Remove Kies and install the Samsung USB drivers for ODIN to recognize it.
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Yup.
Was just going to ask if the OP was successful in connecting the S3 with ODIN in the past.
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iamblue337 said:
Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone
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hi, umm did you get your matter resolved man? i am stuck with the same problem. please assist.
shaq64 said:
hi, umm did you get your matter resolved man? i am stuck with the same problem. please assist.
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What bootloader and modem are currently on your phone?
What ROM were you on and what were you flashing when the troubles started?
Since you can get into download mode, can you get into Recovery Mode? If you can, try putting CM11 on a MicroSd card and flash it from CWM.
iamblue337 said:
Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone
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dawgdoc said:
What bootloader and modem are currently on your phone?
What ROM were you on and what were you flashing when the troubles started?
Since you can get into download mode, can you get into Recovery Mode? If you can, try putting CM11 on a MicroSd card and flash it from CWM.
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My sgs2 is stuck in a boot loop, computers won't recognize the usb connection, and my sd card won't mount on philz touch 5 V6.0.3.7 My SD card is, however, recognizable if I plug it directly to my computer using an adapter.
so I rooted my phone using CWM. After that, my computer stopped recognizing my phone. I tried everything to fix it including factory resetting my phone, formatting cache, data, system, and sd card all under the CWM boot menu (hold volup+home+power). Soon afterwards, my phone got stuck in a boot loop. On startup, it hangs on the white "Samsung" logo. While trying to fix the issue, I noticed that my sd card won't mount.
I've tried this method, but it requires that I either have usb access or access to my phone. I've tried formatting the SD card in my computer. I've tried using different computers. I've tried using different usb cords. I've tried searching Google and these forums for a solution. i have uninstalled the samsung drivers countless times and rebooted with no success.
I need to figure out a way to flash the stock rom back to my phone. In order to do this, I need to get my usb to recognize or manage to have phil touch 5 v 6.0.3.7 mount the sd card. If I can do this, the rest is easy. Does anyone has any ideas on what can be done? please please assist!
shaq64 said:
My sgs2 is stuck in a boot loop, computers won't recognize the usb connection, and my sd card won't mount on philz touch 5 V6.0.3.7 My SD card is, however, recognizable if I plug it directly to my computer using an adapter.
so I rooted my phone using CWM. After that, my computer stopped recognizing my phone. I tried everything to fix it including factory resetting my phone, formatting cache, data, system, and sd card all under the CWM boot menu (hold volup+home+power). Soon afterwards, my phone got stuck in a boot loop. On startup, it hangs on the white "Samsung" logo. While trying to fix the issue, I noticed that my sd card won't mount.
I've tried this method, but it requires that I either have usb access or access to my phone. I've tried formatting the SD card in my computer. I've tried using different computers. I've tried using different usb cords. I've tried searching Google and these forums for a solution. i have uninstalled the samsung drivers countless times and rebooted with no success.
I need to figure out a way to flash the stock rom back to my phone. In order to do this, I need to get my usb to recognize or manage to have phil touch 5 v 6.0.3.7 mount the sd card. If I can do this, the rest is easy. Does anyone has any ideas on what can be done? please please assist!
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Did you find something ? I just have the same problem...

[Q] Soft Bricked....can't unbrick or revert to stock rom...any thoughts?

I got a replacement GS3 through insurance and rooted it yesterday. Instead of flashing CWM I tried going with TWRP this time but didn't realize that TWRP doesn't read external SD cards and my roms were all saved on the external SD. And of course, this was after I wiped everything. So I tried unrooting and flashing back the stock firmware but it keeps failing in ODIN. So I tried re-rooting and flashing CWM which works but none of the roms will flash. I keep getting a system 7 error or something to that effect when I try flashing any rom. So now I can either get to recovery mode, or download mode. If I power the phone on it gets stuck on the Galaxy S3 screen. Any thoughts as to processes to try? Links? Threads? I've tried just about everything I could find.
kinjo1023 said:
I got a replacement GS3 through insurance and rooted it yesterday. Instead of flashing CWM I tried going with TWRP this time but didn't realize that TWRP doesn't read external SD cards and my roms were all saved on the external SD. And of course, this was after I wiped everything. So I tried unrooting and flashing back the stock firmware but it keeps failing in ODIN. So I tried re-rooting and flashing CWM which works but none of the roms will flash. I keep getting a system 7 error or something to that effect when I try flashing any rom. So now I can either get to recovery mode, or download mode. If I power the phone on it gets stuck on the Galaxy S3 screen. Any thoughts as to processes to try? Links? Threads? I've tried just about everything I could find.
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Since when does TWRP not read external SD cards? It see's mine just fine, for well over a year. Where is your nandroid backup, you know the one you made before you did anything just incase it didn't go as planned? In any case you didn't give much information to help troubleshoot. 'I tried unrooting' - if you were going to flash a stock ROM there is no need to unroot anything as the stock firmware is just that, stock. How did it fail in ODIN? Did it say why it failed, what file were you trying to flash? More often than not the system 7 error is caused from an out of date recovery, normally i would tell you to start there but given the fact you admitted to just randomly attempting to flash things to the device you are going to want to start from stock. The second sticky thread in this sub-forum is where you should start reading, because based on your post you either need a refresher or never have read it to begin with.
dntesinfrno said:
Since when does TWRP not read external SD cards? It see's mine just fine, for well over a year. In any case you didn't give much information to help troubleshoot. 'I tried unrooting' - if you were going to flash a stock ROM there is no need to unroot anything as the stock firmware is just that, stock. How did if fail in ODIN? Did it say why it failed, what file were you trying to flash? More often than not the system 7 error is caused from an out of date recovery, normally i would tell you to start there but given the fact you admitted to just randomly attempting to flash things to device you are going to want to start from stock. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839
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For whatever reason, TWRP wouldn't read my sd card. And when I said I tried unrooting - I just meant flashing back to the stock ROM. Odin fails when it gets to system write. It goes down a bunch of lines of code successfully but when it gets to system write, it fails every time. I've downloaded a few different stock ROM versions for AT&T and tried switching USB ports around my laptop. I've also tried a few different versions of ODIN but I'm not coming up with anything but a soft bricked phone still.
kinjo1023 said:
For whatever reason, TWRP wouldn't read my sd card. And when I said I tried unrooting - I just meant flashing back to the stock ROM. Odin fails when it gets to system write. It goes down a bunch of lines of code successfully but when it gets to system write, it fails every time. I've downloaded a few different stock ROM versions for AT&T and tried switching USB ports around my laptop. I've also tried a few different versions of ODIN but I'm not coming up with anything but a soft bricked phone still.
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Did you have usb debugging enabled before you attempted to flash via ODIN? It sounds like it doesn't have permission to write to the /system partition. You can try doing a factory reset from recovery to get past the bootloader and make sure, or use Kies to flash to stock via this thread.
dntesinfrno said:
Did you have usb debugging enabled before you attempted to flash via ODIN? It sounds like it doesn't have permission to write to the /system partition. You can try doing a factory reset from recovery to get past the bootloader and make sure, or use Kies to flash to stock via this thread.
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I could have swore I made sure to check before I started the process but I cant' check now because the phone won't boot. Can't flash back to stock. Can't flash any roms. I can get into download mode and recovery though. It's weird. I've reverted other phones back to stock plenty of times. It just keeps failing no matter what I do with this.
dntesinfrno said:
Did you have usb debugging enabled before you attempted to flash via ODIN? It sounds like it doesn't have permission to write to the /system partition. You can try doing a factory reset from recovery to get past the bootloader and make sure, or use Kies to flash to stock via this thread.
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Here's another question for you, I've looked all over for the newest CWM in .tar format but everything comes in .img format. I can't use the .img in ODIN to flash to the phone and can't boot my phone to use the CWM app to flash. I suppose I could try TWRP again but when I flashed the first time - TWRP wouldn't read my EXT SD card.....
kinjo1023 said:
Here's another question for you, I've looked all over for the newest CWM in .tar format but everything comes in .img format. I can't use the .img in ODIN to flash to the phone and can't boot my phone to use the CWM app to flash. I suppose I could try TWRP again but when I flashed the first time - TWRP wouldn't read my EXT SD card.....
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if you could wipe everything get on odin with 4.1.2 update reboot use cf root to root it (if you dont have root) after reboot download ROM Manager from Play Store install CWM recovery (easiest way to root) hope this works

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