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Can't change roms?

Some reason I tried flashing another rom but it won"t let me and keeps going back to the original rom. I had frankenstein and wanted to check out viper. I dled the viper rom and dropped it into my sd and wiped and did the usual through cwm but everytime i boot back up iot goes to frankenstein.. Any ideas? I even deleted the frank rom just to make sure but that shouldnt make a difference should it?

What version of clockwork? You will need version 3.
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yeah that"s the one I got. It says Viper opened and completed but after reboot it reverts back to franken

oh crap you know what. I have v2.5.1. That's the one I got with that 1 click root process. Is there an updated clockwork for the epic?

same thing too
That happend to me to but from mystic mountain to frankenstein. What i ended up doing was odening to stock rerooting and then flashing. You don't even have to wipe because odining it technically wiped it lol.

seems like a lot of work just to change roms. What doesnt make sense is that randyshear from youtube that does a lot of the rom reviews and installs just changes them one after another with his epic. Is there a 3.0 cwm for epic?

There is a new clockwork version for the epic. I am on my phone so don't have the link but it is a post in the development section.
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I just checked their is a link to cw 3 in the first post of viper rom.
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Ive got a complete package on my ROM thread,it contains CWM3.0.0.5,and everything else you would need.

Thanks fellas!

Emergency (Can Only Install Odin Rom)

I had a rom, that restarted the phone on its own, and the launcher kept getting erased, so i installed another rom and it wouldnt work.I had to Odin, and then have tried to install about 6 diffrent roms, with none working. Either it will get stuck in a boot loop, or just the buttons would light up with no screen. Please Help me

Give us more information. What roms are you trying to install. Rfs or ext4. What cwm are you using?
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damicrobe said:
Give us more information. What roms are you trying to install. Rfs or ext4. What cwm are you using?
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You listed his issues he's probably flashing in wrong Cwm or with wrong build....
Odin the ECO5
THEN ROOT WITH THE ONE CLICK ROOT 3.0.2.5
THEN FLASH ACS FROZEN 1.1.1 (Best ROM Ever )
.... Thats it

thats exacly what i did. Frozen was the 1st rom..then i later went to the gingerbread leak (anoymous) and it was working but i kept losing data connection so i went back to urban fury...then it ramdomly would reboot with no launcher and i tried to reinstall, and ever since then all i can do is odin. i wonder if my root some how is messed up or something

I'm currently running acs's sfr 1.1.1. I Flashed it twice because I had a bad flash. But otherwise its running great. There's great vid's that show you step by step. It should be in sfr 1.1.1 first post in the dev section.
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i got roms to install now, but if i uninstall anything using titanium backup, when i reboot, the phone just boot loops

benbenondatrack said:
i got roms to install now, but if i uninstall anything using titanium backup, when i reboot, the phone just boot loops
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What are you uninstalling after you flash a ROM?

benbenondatrack said:
i got roms to install now, but if i uninstall anything using titanium backup, when i reboot, the phone just boot loops
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What ROM?
And if its SRF did you download the version without the kernel included? Or the one with the kernel in it?
Could be bad downloads?
Try running CWM 3.0.0.6? I think is the previous version
I was having a ton of problems with 3.0.2.5 constant boot animation loop
couldn't get past any of the roms boot animations
I odin'd back to EC05, completely rerooted with the previous clockwork and it flashed good after the second time of course
had the double boot logo at first lol
if that doesnt work you could go into the bonsai recovery, I havent had any problems with that recovery at all

Clockwork cycled from 3.1.0.1 (Purple) to 3.0.2.5 (Orange)

I just got a little bug from trying to undervolt/clock my phone. It froze on the spot so I pulled the battery. Restarted, then started getting Google Framework FCs. Rebooted into CWM (I currently sport purple) and fixed permissions. When I hit reboot system, my phone went dark and then booted into Orange clockwork. I hit reboot system on that, phone kept FC Launcher Pro and Google Framework. Rebooted again into purple CWM, fix permissions again, and now phone seems to be fine again.
I currently run SyndicateROM Frozen 1.2 with the Twilight Zone Kernel v1.1.1. I noticed within the Twilight Kernel's thread that it mentions having CWM 3.0.2.5 built in. Prior to installing this Kernel I have been running CWM 3.1.0.1 and the Genocide 1.2 Kernel. Before installing Twilight Zone I asked around, and was lead to believe from others I could install the kernel and have my CWM remain purple. Up to now it's been fine. I do wonder, however, is this supposed to happen? Does having CWM run in 2 different versions simultaneously pose a threat to my phone? Should I install another Kernel? Any help would be appreciated.
PS: I tried to search but only found "[Q] Phone stuck in CWM" and "Help! Bricked my phone" threads. Sorry in advanced if this has been posted before.
Edit: Rebooted again from a widget to see what's up ... booted into Orange, and when trying to boot from there, phone freezes. Managed to fix it by pulling battery and manually (Vol Down, Power, Cam buttons) entering CWM. Doing so boots me into Purple, and from there I can reboot my phone. This is making me nervous :3

Still would like help with this

Odin and start from scratch... i assume u have some weird corrupted/stale data...

There is a known issue with Clockwork Mod on some Epic 4G kernel setups, if you update your Clockwork Mod from the Redirector App, it will only update the one produced by "reboot into recovery" I don't know too many details about it, but you can look it up online if you are interesting. The best workarround is to always update clockwork mod by booting into recovery mode by shutting down, and booting it into the recovery. This only affects redirector.
You should be able to just update your Clockwork Mod from recovery mode. If it doesn't update properly, use Odin to do the update to Clockwork Recovery.

I don't know the tech terms but I am sure someone will post em lol. What it is... your phone has 2 recoverys. The kernel one and one you boot with 3 fingers. That's why its always said to boot with 3 fingers and not off of rom manager. It just simply boot looped off your kernel... there are real terms for these I just don't know em
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slightly.stoopid said:
I don't know the tech terms but I am sure someone will post em lol. What it is... your phone has 2 recoverys. The kernel one and one you boot with 3 fingers. That's why its always said to boot with 3 fingers and not off of rom manager. It just simply boot looped off your kernel... there are real terms for these I just don't know em
Exactly right... I had this happening also and it never messed anything up. Just remeber to always use the 3 finger salute and everything will be fine
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Oh right, I posted this Yeah it is as everyone says, kernel uses Purple CWM and phone has Orange. Now orange is replaced with the new ACS Blue CWM. Same thing but no issues. I asked because it seemed that having 2 CWM on the phone was bound to mess things up. Not the case. At any rate thanks for the replies.

I am using ACS recovery too
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[Q] Bluetooth Won't Enable after flashing new ROM

I've tried enabling the bluetooth both thru the pull down button and through the settings menu. It acts like it's starting to turn on, and then after a few seconds, just goes dark again.
Tried reboot. No luck.
Used ACS Recovery to do a pre-ROM wipe before flashing the new ROM.
Can't post in developers forum yet, so hopefully someone here can help. I read every page and every entry in the applicable forum for the ROM I flashed, but no one reported this problem or solutions.
Any ideas? I'd rather not have to flashback to stock or whatever. I've seen plenty of helpful posts for other bugs in the ROM. Just nothing for this. HELP!
Thanks,
Epic 4g
Gingerbread 2.3.5
ROM Revival MTD v2

JrWicked said:
I've tried enabling the bluetooth both thru the pull down button and through the settings menu. It acts like it's starting to turn on, and then after a few seconds, just goes dark again.
Tried reboot. No luck.
Used ACS Recovery to do a pre-ROM wipe before flashing the new ROM.
Can't post in developers forum yet, so hopefully someone here can help. I read every page and every entry in the applicable forum for the ROM I flashed, but no one reported this problem or solutions.
Any ideas? I'd rather not have to flashback to stock or whatever. I've seen plenty of helpful posts for other bugs in the ROM. Just nothing for this. HELP!
Thanks,
Epic 4g
Gingerbread 2.3.5
ROM Revival MTD v2
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Backup that rom... flash a different rom... if bluetooth works then its that rom... btw I would strongly suggest not using acs recovery... use cwm 5.0.2.7... it is the officially supported recovery for our epics! Also acs does not play well with mtd roms so that may be your problem!
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Get rid of ACS Recovery. It is not supposed to be used for MTD ROMs.

kennyglass123 said:
Get rid of ACS Recovery. It is not supposed to be used for MTD ROMs.
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Bah humbug acs not play well with mtd blah!
I used it to convert to mtd when cyanogen first came and it worked just fine...... acs not the problem because even if he was on bml cwm5 before flashing he would have the same results.
Please stop blaming that recovery ^^
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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However once on mtd he shouldn't be using it
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Biggoron said:
Bah humbug acs not play well with mtd blah!
I used it to convert to mtd when cyanogen first came and it worked just fine...... acs not the problem because even if he was on bml cwm5 before flashing he would have the same results.
Please stop blaming that recovery ^^
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Maybe it worked for YOU but it is highly recommended to use CWM 5.027 to convert and note that if you want to convert and restore nandroid data it must come from 5.027.
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Maybe it worked for YOU but it is highly recommended to use CWM 5.027 to convert and note that if you want to convert and restore nandroid data it must come from 5.027.
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I'm pretty sire recoveries don't differ from phones... software is software its not a hardware difference just saying. How is your day going kenny?
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Biggoron said:
I'm pretty sire recoveries don't differ from phones... software is software its not a hardware difference just saying. How is your day going kenny?
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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Ah always better after you brighten my day Biggie...lol.
BTW you know software is what drives the hardware. So any flash can go wrong at some point whether Odin, CWM, ACS, or Bonsai Recovery. Just sayin'...LOL. How you been?
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kennyglass123 said:
Ah always better after you brighten my day Biggie...lol.
BTW you know software is what drives the hardware. So any flash can go wrong at some point whether Odin, CWM, ACS, or Bonsai Recovery. Just sayin'...LOL. How you been?
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GRRRR.... oh me I'm good I see what your saying but how would be able to flat out blame that software for all you know it was the rom .... okay end of argument no reason to keep up this fiasco anyways I'm not saying to not use the official cwm I'm just saying you can't blame the issue on the recovery... I've had tons of bluetooth issues concerning kernels never the recovery
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/Biggoron3.png
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I agree...just trying to narrow down the possibilities. Probably just needed to delete some bluetooth data files. I forget which ones force the bluetooth database to rebuild.
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BRICKED
Thank u all for the replies. I DID use ACS to do the pre-rom wipe, but I thought CWM got changed afterwards, somewhere in the process of flashing the new ROM, etc. Funny that several of you mentioned the possibility of that being the issue. I went to boot into recovery to check, and my phone bricked. #*(#@$%&. So, I had to odin back to stock and then root again, then use Titaniun just to get to my pre-ROM settings. I'm just gonna go without the custom ROM for now.

JrWicked said:
Thank u all for the replies. I DID use ACS to do the pre-rom wipe, but I thought CWM got changed afterwards, somewhere in the process of flashing the new ROM, etc. Funny that several of you mentioned the possibility of that being the issue. I went to boot into recovery to check, and my phone bricked. #*(#@$%&. So, I had to odin back to stock and then root again, then use Titaniun just to get to my pre-ROM settings. I'm just gonna go without the custom ROM for now.
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You mean sponged, not bricked. As long as there is life you are not bricked. Just grab the official CWM 5.027 and flash that. When doing conversions like that don't use ROM Manager and all should be well. When in doubt, wipe wipe wipe.

new e4gt owner with questions about roms

i just picked up an e4gt today, i had one back in december that i rooted then sold. so im back and now there's a ton of stuff out there for this phone.
i just came over from the evo design where there is pretty much nothing happening, and before that i had an evo shift. i had cm7 installed on that and loved it.
so what rom do you guys suggest i use? i see there is cm9 available in alpha form, which has me very tempted.
im looking for a stable rom with no bloatware. and id love some advice.

BiffTirkle said:
i just picked up an e4gt today, i had one back in december that i rooted then sold. so im back and now there's a ton of stuff out there for this phone.
i just came over from the evo design where there is pretty much nothing happening, and before that i had an evo shift. i had cm7 installed on that and loved it.
so what rom do you guys suggest i use? i see there is cm9 available in alpha form, which has me very tempted.
im looking for a stable rom with no bloatware. and id love some advice.
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Go with cm9 that darchstar has posted. It works great and I use it as my daily. After you do the base install I recommend nightly 7/24 and using the chris41g kernel b3 version with it. Great battery life and full functionality.
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Does cm9 wipe out cwm?
I'm paranoid to do anything without an option for recovery.
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Here is your safest bet (as in super safe):
1. Download the el26 safe cwm kernel from the kernel repository in the sticky for this phone
2. Download cm9 6 and gapps
3. Follow cm9 6 download instructions
4. Let it boot
5. Use mobile Odin if you have it (highly recommend as it makes flashing so easy) and flash the el26 kernel that you downloaded in the kernel section from external sd...always check md5 sum first!
6. Once u see the blue light on ur phone in the LED, hold power+volume up to boot into recovery, once the sgs2 logo shows you can lay off the buttons
7. If you didn't do it in time or held too long, just pull the battery and go to recovery via power+volume up
8. You should be in cwm, flash the nightly of cm9, clear dalvik and cache, then flash the chris 41g b3 kernel and reboot
9. Enjoy
10. From this point forward you have a bomb rom and working recovery that will allow backup/nand/flashing safely.
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Look into Blu Kuban(team venum). No bloat, excellent help from dev. Plenty of options/mods/hacks/updates/themed apps/speed/great battery.

Ditto on Alex. Excellent support... Great battery life. It's themed so you should look at the screenshots and the video on the dev site.
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ok, i think im going to try the cm9 route, but i cannot find the correct kernel, or im doing something wrong. i got odin for android, and downloaded a couple of kernels i thought were the right ones and they didnt show up when i tried to select them with odin.

BiffTirkle said:
ok, i think im going to try the cm9 route, but i cannot find the correct kernel, or im doing something wrong. i got odin for android, and downloaded a couple of kernels i thought were the right ones and they didnt show up when i tried to select them with odin.
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Here is the link for el26, first download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26295021
The chris41g kernel has its own thread in development, grab the zip format of the cwm b3 version.
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im not finding a b3 version. but i did download the first kernel from chris41g
StockCWM-EL26.zip
i hope thats correct. im going to do a nandroid backup and give it a shot later today. thanks for the help and advice!
its been several months since ive been flashing roms, and i find that it takes me a few days to get back in the swing of things before im flashing again.

The b3 kernel is at chris's goo which is linked to in this xda thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28981308
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So I need to flash el26 kernel first, then I flash 41g-CWM-RC1-b3-0723.zip. then I can flash cm9 and gapps from recovery?
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BiffTirkle said:
So I need to flash el26 kernel first, then I flash 41g-CWM-RC1-b3-0723.zip. then I can flash cm9 and gapps from recovery?
El26, boot to recovery, install cm9 per their install guide...after successful install, flash el26 again, wipe cache/dalvik, and install the chris41g kernel from there.
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ok, so i got cm9 on the phone. very excited, except for the launcher wont allow me to add widgets. wierd, same thing with my touchpad.
anyway i tried to flash el26 and it stalled at the splash screen, so i opened up recovery and wiped cache and dalvik, then installed the chris41g kernel. and no dice. aaaanyway. whats the benefit to the other kernels versus what i get with cm9? and is there a solution to my problem?

I read 4g is unreliable on Chris' new kernels
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BiffTirkle said:
ok, so i got cm9 on the phone. very excited, except for the launcher wont allow me to add widgets. wierd, same thing with my touchpad.
anyway i tried to flash el26 and it stalled at the boot screen, so i opened up recovery and wiped cache and dalvik, then installed the chris41g kernel. and no dice. aaaanyway. whats the benefit to the other kernels versus what i get with cm9? and is there a solution to my problem?
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I get that problem whatever I wipe the dalvik cache
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well, im not sure what to do now. i love cyanogenmod, and id put up with a few hiccups if i could. but it looks like i wont be able to use this as a daily rom. very disappointing...
so, i might try the blu kuban rom.
at this point i want a debloated stable rom. im back to a rooted stock rom with el29.
i just dont want to brick my phone, i have insurance and can take it in to swap it out. its just a waste of time if i can avoid it.
any other suggestions?

BiffTirkle said:
well, im not sure what to do now. i love cyanogenmod, and id put up with a few hiccups if i could. but it looks like i wont be able to use this as a daily rom. very disappointing...
so, i might try the blu kuban rom.
at this point i want a debloated stable rom. im back to a rooted stock rom with el29.
i just dont want to brick my phone, i have insurance and can take it in to swap it out. its just a waste of time if i can avoid it.
any other suggestions?
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Start with thread #1 on the attached link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625535
To Install
Boot to recovery
Make an NAND Backup
Wipe the phone (with the Format All X2 script)
Flash Part 1
Boot the phone
Go to the updater (Under put things back to stock) and install Part 2 (Two part install is to finish theming Talk)
Reboot and Enjoy
When I did this I went to CWM to flash this through odin. Rom works very smooth. There is a ton of information in the thread but that should get you started.