Hey, for some reason I just started having huge problems with clockworkmod recovery within the last few hours. I've had my nexus for a month just about and have been unlocked, rooted , and flashing roms since day one ( I've been flashing my phones for about two years now, just so you know I'm not a noob) and before tonight haven't had one issue. I was running aokp build 13 , and decided to check out the progress on cm9 kang. So I flashed it with no problem , rebooted, set up the rom, and then I went to flash Lean kernel 1.3.0 ( which should work for all 4.0.3 roms) and I ended up getting stuck at the "Google" boot screen, so I booted back into recovery and figured I would just restore my backup of aokp 13.... so I wiped data, cache, and dalvik and proceeded with the restore. The restore got to restoring data , and I got an error saying "data cannot be restored" or something like that. So I figured it was a fluke of some kind , so I tried again... still the same thing. So I tried another one of my backups , still the same thing . I can't figure out why none of my backups will install. So I had to download the stock recovery image and run the bat file just to get the phone working again , and everything was fine . I was back on android 4.0.1 and unrooted. So I rooted again and flashed recovery all over. Made a backup of the stock rom, and proceeded to flash aokp again and the install went smooth, but now any ics gapps I use end up in market force closes, so I figured " I don't feel like dealing with this again lol" , so I booted into recovery and attempted to restore my backup of the stock rom..... again it failed.....
I am beyond confused now what is going on with my recovery, especially since I started fresh a couple hours ago. If anyone has any idea what is going on or if anyone has some input it would be much appreciated. I'm going crazy over here
Edit: I also forgot to add that it seems recovery isn't wiping everything fully. As in I'll wipe data, cache , and dalvik , then install the same rom I was using ( the actual update.zip) , and everything will still be the same when I reboot , meaning all my apps are still there and my docks are still set up the same way like it wasn't wiped at all. Very weird , I've never seen that happen before.
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I have been running CM7 RC1 for a few weeks now with no issues. I have no special apps or anything besides the basics (titanium backup, setcpu, and CWM).
I ran into this issue about a week ago when I tried to flash my stock rom when I was running Gingervillian 1.5. I was getting:
E: Can't open cache/recovery/command
when I tried to flash back from stock Froyo ROM to Gingervillian and I figured it was because I used CWM 3.x.x and not CWM 2.x.x to flash from a Gingerbread ROM to a Froyo ROM...
However, since then, I installed a clean CM 7 RC1 ROM and have been fine. Then all of a sudden today, the phone locked up and I had to pull the battery and then it ran fine for a few hours and did it again. So, when I got home, I flashed a recovery from 2 days ago that was running fine and I got the cache error and then bootloops again.
WTF is going on?
The ONLY thing that changed between my recovery image from Mar 11 to now was my wife downloaded Soduko from the market, and I made a SetCPU profile for when the phone is charging. Other than that, nothing changed.
I was able to get it working...I am not sure what I did that made it work but this is what I did.
Format /cache (originally gave me the cache error)
Format /data (originally gave me the cache error as well)
Format /davlik cache
Reboot recovery
Downloaded another CWM 3.0.0.5 .img file and copied it to sd card (was going to try to flash new CWM to see if it would help).
Then I tried to Format /data again and it worked, so I tried format /cache and it worked.
Then I tried my recovery and it worked as well. So, it is working, but I think I may flash CMW 2.x.x and go back to CM 6.1 since it is stable. I know everyone says CM 7 RC1 is pretty stable as well, and I reallllly don't want to go back to Froyo...I don't want to keep having problems like this.
happened again tonight. Phone froze after running completely fine. I pull battery and try to reboot and get stuck at HTC screen. Go into recovery and get the same cache errors.
I tried formating data, cache and davlik cache and nothing is working. Is there something I am doing wrong, or something I can do to keep this from happening?
You need Clockwork mod recovery app from market. 3.0.0.5 is official and goes between froyo n cm7 without problems. Try that
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I have the latest CWM and I wasn't trying to flash a new ROM tonight, or last time either. The phone just froze and then started with the cache errors.
...anyone?
Hey ,
I wouldn't consider myself a "noob" when it comes to flashing and the rooting of android but I seem to have encountered a issue a can't resolve.
A few days ago i flashed the cm9 rom , decided i didn't like it and re-stored back back to AOKP. After restoring franco's kernal was then gone. So i went and wiped the phone and re-flashed the rom and kernal. After re-booting the phone gets stuck on a bootloop and will not boot up from anything except my backups in clockwork. I have wiped the phone , cache and delvik.
Any other idea's what to do to fix this?
Thanks chaps,
J
Format system in recovery. It's under mounts and storage. Along with data and cache.
Obviously then flash a ROM of your choice.
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And not restoring system data from a different rom on top of another also prevents conflicts.
So, im having a problem now. I used boot manager then i installed a cm7 nightly, i restarted and went back to deck ics 5, then everything was fine so i rebooted. it was looping. so i wiped everything and i just decided to install deck ics 6 and it reboots and goes to the recovery, Im stuck and I need some help, after the flash and it goes to recovery, i checked the usb mode toggle and theres nothing there, so im guessing its not installing at all
Just do it the normal way. Wipe everything in recovery (With Amon Ra) as has been detailed a billion times on here, then flash the ROM you want
^ Yeah I agree with that person. I was using CWM until yesterday when it wasn't wiping the Dalvik cache properly. I now use the alternative that he said, use it lol
Hey everyone I have the Canadian bell carrier galaxy s3 which is rooted and I had used couple rooms such as Miui which I loved but was very buggy but recently been trying to load up roms and after it completes the install I click reboot nothing happens the screen is black so I have to boot to recovery and restore from backup tried multiple ones and same thing
1 I backed up on clockworkmod
2 performed factory reset, cleared Caches, cleared dalvik
3 installed from zip
Rebooted and nothing am I doing something wrong. Any advice would be appreciated thanks I just wanna run a stable version of the Nexus rom so I can just use it permanently
As far as I'm aware, that's an international ROM and impossible to flash.
The phone is rooted and clockwork mod to but someone told me the bootloader is Prolly not unlocked how do I find out if it's unlocked
I just tried to install the cynogen rom stable version and it said everything completed I rebooted and screened stayed black does anyone have a idea
With an issue like that I would do the following.
1. Wipe everything and I mean EVERYTHING!.
2. Return your phone back to stock/unrooted
3. Root your phone again and install your custom recovery (I like TWRP better as I've had less issue with it)
4. Before you flash whatever ROM, wipe everything again and then install your ROM
If that all doesn't work, I don't know what else will.
I have a T-Mobile SGH-T989 (Galaxy S2), and for a while I had an ICS darkside ROM on it with CWM 5.0.2.4. This evening, though, I decided to upgrade to an Android KitKat ROM (Beanstalk). I first upgraded CWM to the latest version, and then flashed the ROM. Everything seems to have flashed correctly, and I get the Beanstalk splashscreen, but it never seems to go any further than that. It's hung (for around 30mins) on the Beanstalk splash screen with the beanstalk and rain.
When I go into CWM, I can re-flash just fine, but when I try to do a full wipe or a cache wipe, it also gets hung (I eventually rebooted after about a 10 minute cache wipe attempt). It says that it can't open /cache/recovery/last_install, and that the cache file system is read-only. I also attempted to use the super wipe/cache wipe tools here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235141&nocache=1 but they also hung.
I'm wondering what the best course of action is at this point? I have a full backup, but since it was made with the previous version of CWM, it also appears to not be working.
Thanks,
~j
jwir3 said:
I have a T-Mobile SGH-T989 (Galaxy S2), and for a while I had an ICS darkside ROM on it with CWM 5.0.2.4. This evening, though, I decided to upgrade to an Android KitKat ROM (Beanstalk). I first upgraded CWM to the latest version, and then flashed the ROM. Everything seems to have flashed correctly, and I get the Beanstalk splashscreen, but it never seems to go any further than that. It's hung (for around 30mins) on the Beanstalk splash screen with the beanstalk and rain.
When I go into CWM, I can re-flash just fine, but when I try to do a full wipe or a cache wipe, it also gets hung (I eventually rebooted after about a 10 minute cache wipe attempt). It says that it can't open /cache/recovery/last_install, and that the cache file system is read-only. I also attempted to use the super wipe/cache wipe tools here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235141&nocache=1 but they also hung.
I'm wondering what the best course of action is at this point? I have a full backup, but since it was made with the previous version of CWM, it also appears to not be working.
Thanks,
~j
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When all fails always use ODIN, if you know what you're doing. IDK which ROMs here are flashable via ODIN but use any you can find in the dev section in which somebody has uploaded a flashable .tar version (usually it will be rooted stock). If that doesn't save you, you have big trouble.
Also you should still be able to restore backups between different CWM versions, so yeah there is potentially something wrong with your phone.