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Can't start ClockworkMod (URGENT)

I've installed it correctly but once i boot into recovery I just get a picture of android with a warning sign being pulled out of his stomach...
so im with factory reset phone in the middle of flashing a new rom and can't continue

I really don't know what's wrong bud you may need to use a toolkit or a program to fast boot your device back to stock. Which version of the nexus do you have?
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I just flashed CWM, but every time I try to boot into CWM, I keep seeing the stock recovery. Why?
If you update your Android build either using an OTA update file (either manually or over-the-air), the update placed two files on your device that re-flash the stock recovery every time you reboot your device. These two files are:
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh <== this is the script that installs the patch file
/system/recovery-from-boot.p <== this is the patch
You have to rename (or delete) one or both of them, then re-flash your custom recovery. Now it will stick.
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This is from Efrant's Android 101 guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959

Don't delete the files, simply rename them. If you ever want to get back to stock recovery (for instance, for an OTA to install you need it to be stock) you can simply name it back to original and reboot.

Petrovski80 said:
Don't delete the files, simply rename them. If you ever want to get back to stock recovery (for instance, for an OTA to install you need it to be stock) you can simply name it back to original and reboot.
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or you can just flash the stock recovery with fastboot.

thank you for the super fast answers guys
i tried to rename them with astro but says that i don't have permissions for that
i'm rooted

Fking1 said:
thank you for the super fast answers guys
i tried to rename them with astro but says that i don't have permissions for that
i'm rooted
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You have to mount /system as read/write

DynamicRam said:
You have to mount /system as read/write
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no idea how to do that

Fking1 said:
no idea how to do that
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Use another file explorer such as Solid Explorer. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer

This is amazing, got help within minutes and as i write this the new rom is being installed, thank you so much!

Rooting Captivate Glide on version 4.0.4

This is how to root your samsung captivate glide on ICS version 4.0.4
Step 1
Go over to http://androidsu.com/superuser/ and scroll down to ARM devices (2.0 – 4.1). Then you will see 3.2-RC2 under it is a link to the download, click it to start the download.
Step 2
Ounce you have downloaded it you want to put it onto the root of your SD card. You can do this by putting it onto your external SD card and copying it over to the root of your phone.
Step 3
Boot into CWMR. You can do this by shutting your phone down completely and ounce its shut off you hold down power and the volume down button.
Step 4
After you boot into CWMR you want to install zip from SD card so hit the volume keys to move up and down and click install zip from SD card. Then you scroll down to where the Superuser zip file is and flash it.
Step 5
Finally, once you have flashed it you want to reboot your phone by going back to main menu and clicking reboot. Now your done!! Just wait for your phone to boot up and you have successfully rooted your phone!

If you don't have CWMR after flashing ICS with the OneClick-Tool use this Guide for reflashing CWMR:
[RECOVERY][7/11/12][I927(R)]Clockwork Mod Touch Recovery 6.0.0.1 (STABLE)
A Working Download Link is somewhere one the last pages of this thread.
You will need the Odin-Tool.

Thanks

Roeni said:
If you don't have CWMR after flashing ICS with the OneClick-Tool use this Guide for reflashing CWMR:
[RECOVERY][7/11/12][I927(R)]Clockwork Mod Touch Recovery 6.0.0.1 (STABLE)
A Working Download Link is somewhere one the last pages of this thread.
You will need the Odin-Tool.
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The working download link in the recovery thread was posted by me just so you can find it better.
Sent from my SGH-I927 using xda premium

jayjayjoker2 said:
The working download link in the recovery thread was posted by me just so you can find it better.
Sent from my SGH-I927 using xda premium
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ItsMeBdon said:
This is how to root your samsung captivate glide on ICS version 4.0.4
Step 1
Go over to http://androidsu.com/superuser/ and scroll down to ARM devices (2.0 – 4.1). Then you will see 3.2-RC2 under it is a link to the download, click it to start the download.
Step 2
Ounce you have downloaded it you want to put it onto the root of your SD card. You can do this by putting it onto your external SD card and copying it over to the root of your phone.
Step 3
Boot into CWMR. You can do this by shutting your phone down completely and ounce its shut off you hold down power and the volume down button.
Step 4
After you boot into CWMR you want to install zip from SD card so hit the volume keys to move up and down and click install zip from SD card. Then you scroll down to where the Superuser zip file is and flash it.
Step 5
Finally, once you have flashed it you want to reboot your phone by going back to main menu and clicking reboot. Now your done!! Just wait for your phone to boot up and you have successfully rooted your phone!
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On that page it only has 3.2-RC3 now intead of 3.2-RC2. Is that basically the same thing but a newer version or something completely different that I don't want?

It shouldn't matter its just the newer version of superuser.
Sent from my SGH-I927 using xda app-developers app

When rooting 4.0.4 can you get it so you can overclock to 1.2ghz like the other rooting guide says?

No, though at some point in the future we'll be able to. Overclocking is something that requires kernel support, and samsung hasn't released the source for the kernel we're using with ICS, so no custom kernels that will work with ICS have been made yet. Once that source is released, it's fairly simple to add overclocking support, and someone will have a custom kernel up fairly quickly. Then you'll just need to flash that, and overclock away.

ItsMeBdon said:
This is how to root your samsung captivate glide on ICS version 4.0.4
Step 1
Go over to http://androidsu.com/superuser/ and scroll down to ARM devices (2.0 – 4.1). Then you will see 3.2-RC2 under it is a link to the download, click it to start the download.
Step 2
Ounce you have downloaded it you want to put it onto the root of your SD card. You can do this by putting it onto your external SD card and copying it over to the root of your phone.
Step 3
Boot into CWMR. You can do this by shutting your phone down completely and ounce its shut off you hold down power and the volume down button.
Step 4
After you boot into CWMR you want to install zip from SD card so hit the volume keys to move up and down and click install zip from SD card. Then you scroll down to where the Superuser zip file is and flash it.
Step 5
Finally, once you have flashed it you want to reboot your phone by going back to main menu and clicking reboot. Now your done!! Just wait for your phone to boot up and you have successfully rooted your phone!
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Is this smeant to work on the Rogers version SGH-i927R with stock Android 2.3 as well or only 4.0.4 ??
I tried the steps and there were no errors during install but its seems to have only half taken.
That is:
Superuser: Runs and says its rooted. It lists apps given root priv.
Root Checker: Says its rooted.
Titanium Backup: Says not all requirements met on startup and stays on black screen saying aquiring rights.
My Backup Root: Given root but when actually starting a backup it stays at 0%.
Directoy Bind: Given root but when it actually goes to create a link it hangs.

Maruzko said:
Is this smeant to work on the Rogers version SGH-i927R with stock Android 2.3 as well or only 4.0.4 ??
I tried the steps and there were no errors during install but its seems to have only half taken.
That is:
Superuser: Runs and says its rooted. It lists apps given root priv.
Root Checker: Says its rooted.
Titanium Backup: Says not all requirements met on startup and stays on black screen saying aquiring rights.
My Backup Root: Given root but when actually starting a backup it stays at 0%.
Directoy Bind: Given root but when it actually goes to create a link it hangs.
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read title in op!!! there is a thread for gb root! Google is your friend!

dbrannon79 said:
read title in op!!! there is a thread for gb root! Google is your friend!
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No prob, I ended up flashing the Stock UCLJ3 Rooted ICS from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994902
Works a treat.

Dumb questions deleted!
I figured it out with help from a lot of threads, and this one.
Thanks everyone!!!!
I now have cwm and am rooted on 4.0.4

I done the procedure but now my phone is freezed

elmer71 said:
I done the procedure but now my phone is freezed
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Create.a thread in the general forum explaining exactly what you did and when your phone errors

Sorry to continue this thread at such a late date, but I have tried this and am having problems getting it to work.
I have a refurb Captivate Glide that AT&T gave me when the screen died on the original one. Samsung KIES would not update the refurb phone to ICS no matter what I did, so I had to read everything I could to learn to use ODIN to do the ICS update. I got that done (no thanks to AT&T), but now I want to root the device so that I can. tweak the performance and use "rooted apps."
I readily admit that I am a noob... However, I followed the directions in this thread and I am not ending up with a rooted device. I downloaded the ZIP as instructed, I put it in the root of what shows up as "Phone" for the SGH-I927 device in my Win computer's File Manager, rebooted the phone into recovery mode, selected apply update from external storage, then selected "..\", and then reboot. (There was no option to select the ZIP file directly... also, I see some references on the web to the file needing to be named update.zip... do I need to rename the zip?)
The Root Checker app tells me that the phone is not rooted. The app locates the Superuser app (I installed it from Google Play), but it cannot find the su bin.
Any suggestions?

SteveTheTechie said:
...
I readily admit that I am a noob... However, I followed the directions in this thread and I am not ending up with a rooted device. I downloaded the ZIP as instructed, I put it in the root of what shows up as "Phone" for the SGH-I927 device in my Win computer's File Manager, rebooted the phone into recovery mode, selected apply update from external storage, then selected "..\", and then reboot. (There was no option to select the ZIP file directly... also, I see some references on the web to the file needing to be named update.zip... do I need to rename the zip?)...
Any suggestions?
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External storage in recovery (CWM, right? If not, you have to install clockwork mod recovery via ODIN) is your SD card. You need to put the .zip file on the SD then.
You can also install root zip from internal, so you have to put the zip on the Phone part in windows explorer.
The correct zip should be selected in recovery when installing.

braintweaker said:
External storage in recovery (CWM, right? If not, you have to install clockwork mod recovery via ODIN) is your SD card. You need to put the .zip file on the SD then.
You can also install root zip from internal, so you have to put the zip on the Phone part in windows explorer.
The correct zip should be selected in recovery when installing.
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Thank you for your reply. When I load the My Files app on the phone and scroll to the bottom, I see the Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip file in the phone's /sdcard folder. Is that as it should be?
When boot the phone into recovery, all I see is folders to select from when I select to update from external storage... I do not see a specific file that I can select. Regarding CWM, I thought that was just another name for the phone recovery mode at boot up... Is CWM something different?
Again, thanks a lot for you assistance.

SteveTheTechie said:
Thank you for your reply. When I load the My Files app on the phone and scroll to the bottom, I see the Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip file in the phone's /sdcard folder. Is that as it should be?
When boot the phone into recovery, all I see is folders to select from when I select to update from external storage... I do not see a specific file that I can select. Regarding CWM, I thought that was just another name for the phone recovery mode at boot up... Is CWM something different?
Again, thanks a lot for you assistance.
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CWM = Clockwork mod recovery, its needed to install any .zip update, and it differs from the default one. You cannot install any update unless the official one (I guess) via the default recovery.

braintweaker said:
CWM = Clockwork mod recovery, its needed to install any .zip update, and it differs from the default one. You cannot install any update unless the official one (I guess) via the default recovery.
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Ok, thanks for setting me straight and for the link. A couple of questions...
1) I know how to do the update via Odin, since I updated to ICS w/ Odin. However, before I flash the CWM to the phone, can you tell me if I am going to lose anything (data, apps, etc.) before I do that? I will do a backup, but I would prefer not to have to restore everything on the phone again. (ICS update was bumpy... lost some stuff and restore from backup did not work as well as hoped)
2) Will installing the CWM prevent me from installing other firmware updates in the future?
(e.g., maybe a future Jelly Bean update for Samsung Capivate Glide? )
Again, thanks for all of your generous assistance.

different file, but works.
SteveTheTechie said:
Sorry to continue this thread at such a late date, but I have tried this and am having problems getting it to work.
I have a refurb Captivate Glide that AT&T gave me when the screen died on the original one. Samsung KIES would not update the refurb phone to ICS no matter what I did, so I had to read everything I could to learn to use ODIN to do the ICS update. I got that done (no thanks to AT&T), but now I want to root the device so that I can. tweak the performance and use "rooted apps."
I readily admit that I am a noob... However, I followed the directions in this thread and I am not ending up with a rooted device. I downloaded the ZIP as instructed, I put it in the root of what shows up as "Phone" for the SGH-I927 device in my Win computer's File Manager, rebooted the phone into recovery mode, selected apply update from external storage, then selected "..\", and then reboot. (There was no option to select the ZIP file directly... also, I see some references on the web to the file needing to be named update.zip... do I need to rename the zip?)
The Root Checker app tells me that the phone is not rooted. The app locates the Superuser app (I installed it from Google Play), but it cannot find the su bin.
Any suggestions?
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This is what I used on my captivate glide, worked like a charm! The intro is loud, you have been warned, otherwise your your speakers up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn879wTAXi4

Galaxy GIO to root

I have just bought a S5660, and it cannot get rooted , I have used a few update.zip and used oneclick without success
here are the details:
baseband version: S5660XXKT6
android version : 2.3.6
kernel version [email protected]#1
build number: GINGERBREAD.XXKTI
can someone help me?

http://www.mediafire.com/?coocq359vv15w5p
Try this. Also , are you sure it`s not rooted ? Verify if superuser is installed or get a file manager like Root Browser Lite and try to access root files.

I am sure it is not rooted. Il will compare tonight the file you provide with the ones I got.

If you want to root your gio just install a rom
Sent from my GT-S5660 using Tapatalk 2

fsosson said:
I have just bought a S5660, and it cannot get rooted , I have used a few update.zip and used oneclick without success
here are the details:
baseband version: S5660XXKT6
android version : 2.3.6
kernel version [email protected]#1
build number: GINGERBREAD.XXKTI
can someone help me?
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Seek, and you shall find; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111414 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623393 and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397120
And if it still wont root, then post here again with maybe a little bit more info about what's wrong --> e.g. what recovery have you installed, what error message do you get, etc...
- H

hhaznadar85 said:
Seek, and you shall find; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111414 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1623393 and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397120
And if it still wont root, then post here again with maybe a little bit more info about what's wrong --> e.g. what recovery have you installed, what error message do you get, etc...
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Hi,
I have used latest update.zip files to root my GIO. Maybe the way I do is wrong.
I have installed ROM Manager, I have rebooted my GIO in system recovery mode. But in the bottom of the screen and before applying update.zip there is a message:
--- Appling Multi-CSC --
Can't access to '/system/csc/MST/system'.
I can apply update.zip without any error message but it does not root the phone.

fsosson said:
Hi,
I have used latest update.zip files to root my GIO. Maybe the way I do is wrong.
I have installed ROM Manager, I have rebooted my GIO in system recovery mode. But in the bottom of the screen and before applying update.zip there is a message:
--- Appling Multi-CSC --
Can't access to '/system/csc/MST/system'.
I can apply update.zip without any error message but it does not root the phone.
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Dude!! DON'T USE ROM Manager it will hard brick or phone. Just use the original way to root ur device.
Sent from my GT-S5660 using xda app-developers app

batman38102 said:
Dude!! DON'T USE ROM Manager it will hard brick or phone. Just use the original way to root ur device.
Sent from my GT-S5660 using xda app-developers app
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OK. Could you please explain how to?

http://db.tt/XZRwKuZS
Flash this via cwm.
It worked for me on gingerbread so it must work for you too.
Sent from my GT-S5660 using xda premium

jkoetsier said:
http://db.tt/XZRwKuZS
Flash this via cwm.
It worked for me on gingerbread so it must work for you too.
Sent from my GT-S5660 using xda premium
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I have rebooted in recovery mode, launched CWM then applied the Update.zip you linked but the phone is not rooted

Weird
I think only option is installing custom rom which is pre rooted
Sent from my GT-S5660 using xda premium

dont unzip the file to root the phone...... just put it as it is on a sd card and follow the instructions you were given.
The First Step In Modification of you Gio is Rooting , everything starts from Rooting. Many Applications Require Root access for working.
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How to Root Samsung Galaxy gio
Download root gb updated.zip file. and copy to SD card (not in any folder)
1. Shutdown/Power Off your Gio.
2. Put your phone in recovery Mode(press: Home button + Power button toghether)
3. In recovery mode, select Update from SD-card(Use Volume keys to navigate and home button for enter).
4. Search for the root gb updated.zip file on your SD-card
5. Run the update
6. Reboot
Phone will be turned on , An App SuperUser will be added , its mean you successfully done rooting , now you must be thinking you have done rooting and nothing really changed, let me tell you my friends its the first step real thing begins after this , read the whole thread and you'll find much more things than you imagined.
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Also there is this video that might help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvdNt6-JCQc

s!mon said:
dont unzip the file to root the phone...... just put it as it is on a sd card and follow the instructions you were given.
The First Step In Modification of you Gio is Rooting , everything starts from Rooting. Many Applications Require Root access for working.
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How to Root Samsung Galaxy gio
Download root gb updated.zip file. and copy to SD card (not in any folder)
1. Shutdown/Power Off your Gio.
2. Put your phone in recovery Mode(press: Home button + Power button toghether)
3. In recovery mode, select Update from SD-card(Use Volume keys to navigate and home button for enter).
4. Search for the root gb updated.zip file on your SD-card
5. Run the update
6. Reboot
Phone will be turned on , An App SuperUser will be added , its mean you successfully done rooting , now you must be thinking you have done rooting and nothing really changed, let me tell you my friends its the first step real thing begins after this , read the whole thread and you'll find much more things than you imagined.
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Also there is this video that might help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvdNt6-JCQc
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Yes, SuperUser app is present but for ex. ROM Manager tells the phone is not rooted, in terminal app I cannot su

Philadel isjsocop
fsosson said:
I have rebooted in recovery mode, launched CWM then applied the Update.zip you linked but the phone is not rooted
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I have found what is going wrong, /system is full so binaries cannot be copied ...

If you see superuser then your phone is rooted. You can install this app as a rooted phone can only have it. It is Titanium backup. And uninstall Rom Manager, its useless for this phone and can cause you trouble.

I guess superuser is not totally installed, /system is full and su command is not present in xbin

fsosson said:
I guess superuser is not totally installed, /system is full and su command is not present in xbin
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do you see superuser icon on your phone?

Yes I do, but there is no su command available and (just for ex.) ROM Manager says the phone is not rooted
How can I be sure the phone is rooted ?

fsosson said:
Yes I do, but there is no su command available and (just for ex.) ROM Manager says the phone is not rooted
How can I be sure the phone is rooted ?
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There is an app called Root checker on the market, otherwise you can install apps like Titanium backup, coz if it is rooted then it will install this app.

I have installed Titanium backup and it says it cannot aquire root privileges ...
As I said /system is full so I guess there is not free space to copy binaries
Does anyone know how to clean up?

XZL reboots after mounting system to R/W

As the title says, my Xperia ZL reboots right after mounting system to R/W. I tried both ES file explorer and root explorer but both gave the same result. I also tried the rebootfix but it didn't fixed. I also tried flashing stock rom and rooting again but with no luck . Please give a solution as soon as possble!

well i have the same problem, i want to delete systemUI.odex and my device keep restarting when i mount to R/W
so i had to delete it as fast as i can before the device restarted after mount R/W and it's worked LOL

Feeling_Free said:
well i have the same problem, i want to delete systemUI.odex and my device keep restarting when i mount to R/W
so i had to delete it as fast as i can before the device restarted after mount R/W and it's worked LOL
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Thanks for replying but it didn't worked . I am on stock firmware .434 and locked bootloader.

R4GE199 said:
Thanks for replying but it didn't worked . I am on stock firmware .434 and locked bootloader.
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found the solution at my local forum, i don't know if it work or not for you because i haven't tried it yet
1. root your phone
2. install CWM for locked bootloader
3. go to recovery (CWM) and reboot, and make sure DO NOT choose YES for disable flash blabla
4. clear data and uninstall superuser
5. root again

Feeling_Free said:
found the solution at my local forum, i don't know if it work or not for you because i haven't tried it yet
1. root your phone
2. install CWM for locked bootloader
3. go to recovery (CWM) and reboot, and make sure DO NOT choose YES for disable flash blabla
4. clear data and uninstall superuser
5. root again
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Can you post the link of that forum? btw thanks for the solution. I will try it
EDIT:Solved my problem. I just had to choose no for disable recovery flash . Thanks for the solution!

[q] please help asap rooting problem

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2026569
I followed all of the instructions on the above link and after using odin my phone won't boot in clock work mod recovery. it only boots in the android system recovery and I didn't realize it at first and ended up clicking apply update from external storage and then chose the "CWM-SuperSU-v0.97.zip and when my phone rebooted it was wiped.
Odin passes so why is clock work mod recovery not working? please help
I also followed these instructions:
http://video.search.yahoo.com/video...c=2&sigr=11a718jq9&sigt=116j41687&age=0&&tt=b

rebecca928 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2026569
I followed all of the instructions on the above link and after using odin my phone won't boot in clock work mod recovery. it only boots in the android system recovery and I didn't realize it at first and ended up clicking apply update from external storage and then chose the "CWM-SuperSU-v0.97.zip and when my phone rebooted it was wiped.
Odin passes so why is clock work mod recovery not working? please help
I also followed these instructions:
http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqIRlQI5SphoAIkX7w8QF;_ylu=X3oDMTByN2RnbHFoBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMw--?p=how+to+root+galaxy+note+2+att&vid=2388eab99f70408a6b22d9a0083af7d6&l=8%3A24&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DV.5053124652827001%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dw7zGq_-gFlE&tit=How+to+Root+the+AT%26amp%3BT+Galaxy+Note+2&c=2&sigr=11a718jq9&sigt=116j41687&age=0&&tt=b
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If you don't have root do this first,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980644
Then do this to install CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34039100#post34039100

jibust said:
If you don't have root do this first,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980644
Then do this to install CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34039100#post34039100
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I followed all of the instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980644
and then installed root checker and it still says I am not rooted :-/

rebecca928 said:
I followed all of the instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980644
and then installed root checker and it still says I am not rooted :-/
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I followed them to the letter and was rooted in 1 minute.
See if there is something you are skipping,make sure you have the latest PC drivers

Your not rooted. Reroot using odin 3.0.9 you might need to reinstall stock rom. If you read skynote thread your answer is there as well as download links... your welcome
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

I re-ran odin and I am now rooted, my phone wasn't in debug mode... and the instructions didn't say that but I tried it and it worked.
Now my problem is when I try to start my phone in recovery mode the galaxy note logo flickers up and down the screen and the phone completely goes dead and i have to take out the battery to get it to start again. I have followed both sets of instructions to a T for clock work mod recovery and it hasn't worked.

And on the clock work mod recovery instructions, now when I click to download it it says failed download error...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34039100#post34039100

I re-installed clock work mod recov 4 times and still when I try to start in recovery mode the screen flickers n theres lines across the screen n then the phone goes dead and I have to pull the battery to restart.

rebecca928 said:
I re-installed clock work mod recov 4 times and still when I try to start in recovery mode the screen flickers n theres lines across the screen n then the phone goes dead and I have to pull the battery to restart.
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Try it with TWRP
http://tinyw.in/16LP

I installed that but it is an image file and odin will not open an image file?
Is it the same instructions to run this as it is to run cwm?

It says it needs to converted to a .tar file. How do I do that?

rebecca928 said:
I installed that but it is an image file and odin will not open an image file?
Is it the same instructions to run this as it is to run cwm?
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The link I provided is for the tar file. If you downloaded it do not extract it.
Look here, end of the page
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/124

Maybe this doesn't apply to you, or maybe it's too late, but some flavors of Samsung Android 4.x have a file to restore stock recovery at boot.
With the phone rooted and a root capable file explorer like Root Explorer or ES File Explorer look in the /etc directory. If there is a file in there called install-recovery.sh rename it and then try re installing cwm or twrp.

oldnoob said:
Maybe this doesn't apply to you, or maybe it's too late, but some flavors of Samsung Android 4.x have a file to restore stock recovery at boot.
With the phone rooted and a root capable file explorer like Root Explorer or ES File Explorer look in the /etc directory. If there is a file in there called install-recovery.sh rename it and then try re installing cwm or twrp.
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I tried this and I still have the same problem. When I try to start in recovery mode the samsung galaxy logo flickers and the phone shuts off n then I have to pull the battery to reboot.
:-/

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The link I provided is for the tar file. If you downloaded it do not extract it.
Look here, end of the page
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/124
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I clicked on the link and then went to end of the page to download for Odin, but when you click on that link there are a million different files, I just want to make sure I am clicking on the right one. Dont want to brick my phone. Is there a difference between all of the different files?
openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-t0lteatt.img.tar.EjYLF6
is that the correct file?

Ok so I got TWRP installed.
Next question, I have been out of the loop for a few years so how do I get the latest firmware? Right now I have Android Version 4.1.2 and baseband version I317UCAMH3.
Is that the latest for the galaxy note 2? I have att and its the SGH I317
I didnt even plan to f with my phone but the other day my phone glitched and erased 300 pictures and videos from my newborn daughter that I just had and I was so upset and trying to find a way to recover them, someone told me to root my phone and try disk digger... so far I have had no luck at all with recovering anything... totally sucks and I am soooo upset!

rebecca928 said:
Ok so I got TWRP installed.
Next question, I have been out of the loop for a few years so how do I get the latest firmware? Right now I have Android Version 4.1.2 and baseband version I317UCAMH3.
Is that the latest for the galaxy note 2? I have att and its the SGH I317
I didnt even plan to f with my phone but the other day my phone glitched and erased 300 pictures and videos from my newborn daughter that I just had and I was so upset and trying to find a way to recover them, someone told me to root my phone and try disk digger... so far I have had no luck at all with recovering anything... totally sucks and I am soooo upset!
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4.1.2 is the latest OFFICIAL AT&T build. There is an unofficial leak in the Android Development section, but I honestly don't know how it performs as I only run AOSP roms.

thanks