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Unable to Flash CWM! Need help.

Hi XDA users. I m trying to flash cwm for a friend's epic 4G Touch and i have first rooted with this and tried flashing cwm through rom manager and selected epic 4g touch and did not work. Now i flashed with Zedomax's kernel and still no cwm and when i try going into cwm with vol - and power it takes me to regular 3e recovery. AM i doing something wrong. This is not the first time i m doing this so i tried different things none of them work. Just thought about going back to stock but was lazy so if there is nothing i can do than i will go back to stock. its 2.3.6.

Use sfhub's method in the sticky of the development section. Run option a for root then option C for CWM
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It worked thank you. I guess I will be researching more next time but thank you for your time appreciate it.
tkemack said:
Use sfhub's method in the sticky of the development section. Run option a for root then option C for CWM
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[Q] clockworkmod wont flash/work in galaxy s2 after root

I used the 1click root for the sprint galaxy s2 i9100 el29 it worked great but i can not get the clockworkmod to flash, it downloads but when i restart i always get the stock recovery not the clockwork. I have tried every version it comes up with when you tell it to install but no joy
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thanks

Wrong forum
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iiipm said:
I used the 1click root for the sprint galaxy s2 i9100 el29 it worked great but i can not get the clockworkmod to flash, it downloads but when i restart i always get the stock recovery not the clockwork. I have tried every version it comes up with when you tell it to install but no joy
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Let me guess you aren't looking for epic or epic touch and have a phone without a board right?
Touched by an Epic 4G w/Cm9 & Fueled by the NY Giants 2012

Lolzorz
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Root and Install CWM from stock

Hello guys, my first time posting here. I have an Epic 4G Touch, rooted and all so I understand how to use Odin, etc. So im down for spring break and my dad asked me to root his Epic 4G for him. I took a look in the dev section and you guys have a ton of stuff going on in there and I just dont know where to begin. I watched some of qbings vids but theyre all a bit outdated now. So my question would be, what is the fastest easiest way to obtain root and cwm so I can flash the cm9 beta0 on my dads phone? He is currently on firmware version 2.3.6, baseband EL30, build GB.EL30. Thanks in advance

rsalinas1 said:
Hello guys, my first time posting here. I have an Epic 4G Touch, rooted and all so I understand how to use Odin, etc. So im down for spring break and my dad asked me to root his Epic 4G for him. I took a look in the dev section and you guys have a ton of stuff going on in there and I just dont know where to begin. I watched some of qbings vids but theyre all a bit outdated now. So my question would be, what is the fastest easiest way to obtain root and cwm so I can flash the cm9 beta0 on my dads phone? He is currently on firmware version 2.3.6, baseband EL30, build GB.EL30. Thanks in advance
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Odin 1.85
EI22 kernel a.k.a GB3a.tar from mkasick search "epic 4g gb kernel source"
Clockworkmod 5 .tar
Put the phone the phone into download mode power and the 1 button uncheck auto reboot and f reset time nothing should be checked. Put the kernel in the pda section and hit start make sure odin coms and your not using a stock cable. Once down pop out the batter put it back into DLmode and put the clockworkmod.tar in the pda section and have just auto reboot checked. Hit start and once thats done you have clockwork mod. Just download the cm9 beta and the newest gapps 2012304 and place them on the sd card and flash it.

Ok when I odin the el22 kernel it still says I dont have root. To check, i dl'ed titanium backup and it said I dont have root permission?
edit: I went ahead and odined the shadow kernel which gave me root and cwm.

LOL you said you needed it to flash cm9? If you flash cm9 it would have given you root. Otherwise I would have given you an su.zip you never said you wanted to stay on stock
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Help a stranger out!

I'm not new to flashing ROMs on my Evo, however your forums here are a little more cryptic. My son rooted his phone and flashed CWM and a Cyan Rom. He would like to return to rooted stock. Can someone point me in the direction of the latest OTA Stock Rooted Rom for the Samsung Galaxy S Epic II 4G? He apparantlly followed some video tutorial yada yad yada. I realize ROMs are probably flashed thru the recovery console, is flashing similar to flashing on an Evo from that point? (Boot to recovery -> work your way to Flash from Zip ...)
Thanks in advance.

thebbbrain said:
I'm not new to flashing ROMs on my Evo, however your forums here are a little more cryptic. My son rooted his phone and flashed CWM and a Cyan Rom. He would like to return to rooted stock. Can someone point me in the direction of the latest OTA Stock Rooted Rom for the Samsung Galaxy S Epic II 4G? He apparantlly followed some video tutorial yada yad yada. I realize ROMs are probably flashed thru the recovery console, is flashing similar to flashing on an Evo from that point? (Boot to recovery -> work your way to Flash from Zip ...)
Thanks in advance.
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Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Instructions are on that page, just make sure you use the full restore, and not the preserve data or you can brick. At the current point we don't have a kernel built from source yet, because of this, you must flash back to stock rooted EL29 via ODIN OC or you will brick. I highly suggest you read my thread in my signature because flashing anything ICS for this phone can be extremely dangerous and will brick your phone if you aren't sure what your doing.

Just to be sure you are looking at the right thread, please go to settings>about phone. Make sure model number is SPH-D710. I only say this cause I haven't heard of a Cyan ROM, and (not trying to be a jerk), most people refer to this phone as the epic 4g touch. You got something weird up there, and there are at least 20 different versions of this phone (galaxy s2).
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Could he have meant Cyanogen?

MeWarning said:
Could he have meant Cyanogen?
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Yes, that is what I meant by Cyan.
Thanks for the links and tips guys, I will check it out tonight.
Short version is this is the Galaxy 2 from Sprint, the one with the long bastardized name. Took forever to find this forum cause I was looking for something closer in name.

Yes it is the bastardized sprint Samsung galaxy s2. Word to the wise stay on this forum. Any other galaxy s2 forum especially international will have a huge possibility of turning the phone into a nice little paper weight. I have to say thanks for taking the time to find out. We have had a bunch of people come through here with paper weights wondering what happened because they didn't bother to read
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Is there a flashable zip or whatever you guys use on the Epic somewhere that I can just copy to the sd card vs going thru ADB etc as in the link from above? The phone is already rooted, I don't want to lose root, just load a stock rooted rom on the phone.
Thanks.

thebbbrain said:
Is there a flashable zip or whatever you guys use on the Epic somewhere that I can just copy to the sd card vs going thru ADB etc as in the link from above? The phone is already rooted, I don't want to lose root, just load a stock rooted rom on the phone.
Thanks.
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You need this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Just read the entire OP twice. It's really simple. It will return you back to stock rooted gingerbread EL29
Edit: just realized its the same link. This is not adb. It's an odin one click package. Basically download the file and press a button and you're done
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tkemack said:
You need this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Just read the entire OP twice. It's really simple. It will return you back to stock rooted gingerbread EL29
Edit: just realized its the same link. This is not adb. It's an odin one click package. Basically download the file and press a button and you're done
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+1
I would follow the posted thread as.. a.) It is the safest way since lots of people have been bricking their phone via flashes b.) This will return the phone to the stock ROM, but it will remain rooted.

Thanks guys(gals?) I'll be trying this tomorrow!

thebbbrain said:
Thanks guys(gals?) I'll be trying this tomorrow!
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Watch the qbking77 video and you'll be golden. It should be linked in the post. Really easy once you figure it out.
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Ok, reporting back.
First we tried the 'don't overwrite data' option, everything appeared to be ok until the phone rebooted. It sat on the 4G splash screen in a continual restarting state for about ten minutes. We tried flashing that twice. After that we tried flashing the factory restore with root option, that worked just fine.
Thanks again for the input.
Now he'll have to restore all of his desired apps, but that's his problem, since I told him not to root in the first place. LOL.
Cheers.

Problem loading CyanogenMod 9

Used a modified version of ODIN 3 to root with stock ROM, then used the latest regular ODIN to load the latest version of CWM recovery (version 5.0.2.7?). Downloaded CyanogenMod 9 for epic 4g and galaxy s2. checked the md5, but neither will load. I boot into recovery mode, select the zip file from my sdcard, the load begins, but then after 30-40 seconds I get an image of the android guy laying down with his stomach open to a keypad with a red astrick. Anybody else had this problem? Anybody know which of the two roms I should actually be using?

You need a version for epic touch 4g. Neither the epic 4g nor galaxy s2 will work. You are lucky you didn't brick
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Yep, found the alpha version but I still had to load a different version of cwm. I'll post links to the directions I followed later today.
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goo.im/devs/chris41g/cmAlso alpha is great but the experimental builds from chris41g hosted on goo are damn near perfect.
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