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Stuck in CWM I need help!

So last night I was running Starburst Rom and decided that I wanted to theme it, so I downloaded the theme I liked for it, flash it in recover, but when I reboot the system it kept boot looping. So I figured that I needed to format it, so I went back into recovery and used Caulkins Format All zip, flashed it, then flashed the theme again. OUCH this time my phone would just show the yellow triangle and Samsung logo ( start up page). I can still go back to recovery but all my other Roms are gone so I cant even restore my phone or anything! What can I do? I used Heimdall to root, can I go back and re root again? Would I still get the stock rom? HELP

Download a rom onto an sd card and flash it from recovery. Format all wipes your entire system, you use format all to have a clean slate before you flash a new rom. You have no os now.
Edit: You could also flash the stock .tar they just put up in the development section, just make sure you read the instructions first or you could hardbrick.
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How do I download a rom to a phone that has no OS? Thats where I am stuck.

poppygt said:
Download a rom onto an sd card and flash it from recovery. Format all wipes your entire system, you use format all to have a clean slate before you flash a new rom. You have no os now.
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Is there a way to download and flash a rom in Download mode? What if I try to reroot again?

Jess813 said:
How do I download a rom to a phone that has no OS? Thats where I am stuck.
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You don't. You download it to a pc or mac and then transfer it to a micro sd card and then put the card in the phone and flash the Rom from recovery.
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poppygt said:
You don't. You download it to a pc or mac and then transfer it to a micro sd card and then put the card in the phone and flash the Rom from recovery.
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Ouch so that means I will need another phone to do this.....

Jess813 said:
Ouch so that means I will need another phone to do this.....
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Your going to need a computer at some point if you've lost root. You can at least get the phone working again though.
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poppygt said:
Your going to need a computer at some point if you've lost root.
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I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.

Do you still have a custom recovery or just the Samsung recovery....sorry i should've asked sooner.
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Jess813 said:
I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.
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your computer doesnt have a sd card slot on it? if not yes that what your going to have to do.

Jess813 said:
I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.
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I meant an external sd card.
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poppygt said:
Do you still have a custom recovery or just the Samsung recovery....sorry i should've asked sooner.
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I am able to go into CWM recovery, but I get this message off the bat at the bottom...
CWM-based recovery v5.0.2.3
E:failed to open/etc/recovery.fstab(no such file or directory
E unkown volume for path[/cache/recovery/command...etc etc etc...it keeps going
But at the top I can still scroll up and down with volume and choose with power.

poppygt said:
I meant an external sd card.
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I have lots of those, the one on the phone is a 16GB and it has NOTHING on it.

I'd just flash through Odin or Heimdall and start over.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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poppygt said:
I'd just flash through Odin or Heimdall and start over.
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Right I am with you, but my question is, if I flash through Heimdall again will I get the stock rom? I know by using this method I am flashing a kernel, but since I have no OS as you stated because mY dumb *&^% formatted all, would I get the rom back this way?

poppygt said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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The problem with that is that I have a Mac....

Jess813 said:
Right I am with you, but my question is, if I flash through Heimdall again will I get the stock rom? I know by using this method I am flashing a kernel, but since I have no OS as you stated because mY dumb *&^% formatted all, would I get the rom back this way?
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The link i posted is stock. After thats done you can reroot and go from there. Make sure you uncheck the boxes in the instructions or you'll brick. If those options aren't shown then don't flash it. I don't know macs very well.
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poppygt said:
The link i posted is stock. After thats done you can reroot and go from there. Make sure you uncheck the boxes in the instructions or you'll brick. If those options aren't shown then don't flash it. I don't know macs very well.
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Let me research to see if Odin is Mac compatible but I doubt it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
Heres another option I've used myself. As far as I know you have to use Heimdall, its the mac version of Odin but I don't know any of the commands or how to use it.
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Flashing without SD CARD

I recently lost my sd card and noticed that some of the older recoveries don't recognize internal sd cards but those are the ones that are recommended for flashing ICS and JB roms. Kernals/recoveries that I can flash to that will still recognize internal sd and are safe for things like cm10 or aokp.
Also I've never flashed a modem separately but was wondering if I do that in recovery/odin mode, or if I need to use the desktop odin.

Buy a new sdcard
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tonydelante said:
..Also I've never flashed a modem separately but was wondering if I do that in recovery/odin mode, or if I need to use the desktop odin.
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I think you just contradicted yourself and not meaning to. Recovery/odin mode are not one in the same.
I have used the Kuban kernel and agats to flash from internal, while in recovery.
You can use odin mode on the phone, with desktop odin, to flash tar files..
Rovar is right, imo; get another sd. Hell, get a 2 gig for 5 bucks for now if its a money issue.
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Yeah sorry I didn't mean odin mode I meant recovery. can I flash the .zip modem file there

tonydelante said:
Yeah sorry I didn't mean odin mode I meant recovery. can I flash the .zip modem file there
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Yes you can.
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Cwm 5.8.4.5 issue exfat

Just noticed it will not use the external 64 gb SD card formatted as exfat. Are there any newer versions that will work with it,and still be able to restore older backups. Thanks.
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well considering CWM 5.8... what ever is old... i would suggest trying the newest CWM. 6.0.1.2
Download Rom Manager from the market to install the newest CWM.
or move your backups off your external sd to your internal sd and restore them from there...
note: cwm 5.8.... if i remember correctly had the external and internal backwards, and cwm 6.0.1.2 has them correct..
for further information, cwm has their own website... clockworkmod.com

TRusselo said:
well considering CWM 5.8... what ever is old... i would suggest trying the newest CWM. 6.0.1.2
Download Rom Manager from the market to install the newest CWM.
or move your backups off your external sd to your internal sd and restore them from there...
note: cwm 5.8.... if i remember correctly had the external and internal backwards, and cwm 6.0.1.2 has them correct..
for further information, cwm has their own website... clockworkmod.com
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Didn't really answer my question.. intrrnal and external are not backwards in my version. And from what I've read 6.x still does not support xfat. And also if I upgrade I will not be able to restore my backups.
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lgkahn said:
Didn't really answer my question.. intrrnal and external are not backwards in my version. And from what I've read 6.x still does not support xfat. And also if I upgrade I will not be able to restore my backups.
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Connect your card to your computer directly and format it to fat32.
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Ya tradeoff u have videos over 4 g
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One or the other bro, can't have your cake and eat it too.
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Sure we can a version that wires withexfat.
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Doubt its going to happen. Try TWRP, it might support it but idk.
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Did More digging apparently EXfat is not open source so even the latest recoveries ie 6.0.1.2 don't support it .
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lgkahn said:
Just noticed it will not use the external 64 gb SD card formatted as exfat. Are there any newer versions that will work with it,and still be able to restore older backups. Thanks.
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I read a while ago that becuase it would require a license from Micrsoft, CWM will never support exFat. I strongly suggest that you don't format your 64Gb card to FAT32. The performance of that card will degrade greatly. You should just get an 8Gb card to use with CWM.

n0th1n9 said:
The performance of that card will degrade greatly. You should just get an 8Gb card to use with CWM.
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I don't understand how that is possible, when exfat is significantly slower that fat32 by design...
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CWM external SD card unable to mount

I was having no problems using and accessing my external sd card from within CWM. Than after some flashes and wipes trying out different roms, and even a complete reset to original rom through ODIN to try and fix it. I can no longer use my external sd card in CWM. It says something along the lines of E:/ cannot mount external sd. Does anyone know what could be causing this, and if there are any solutions?

Optimuscle said:
I was having no problems using and accessing my external sd card from within CWM. Than after some flashes and wipes trying out different roms, and even a complete reset to original rom through ODIN to try and fix it. I can no longer use my external sd card in CWM. It says something along the lines of E:/ cannot mount external sd. Does anyone know what could be causing this, and if there are any solutions?
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If the card still reads on your PC I would try to take everything off it and re-format the card.Also maybe try TWRP.I don't have CWM right now but there is probably a selection in it to mount/unmount sd.I know in TWRP the option is there.

HaHa, I had the same problem last night and after spending 5 hrs +, I finally fix it...
After flashing some PA, Jellybam roms, both recovery and the rom can no longer see my mircoSDXC 64gb card. Flashing the latest cwm or twrp did't work. Doing numerous quick and full format on the card to fat32 and exfat didn't work. Restore the stock rom and finally the rom can see the card; however recovery still can't read it. Formatting the card with the rom didn't work. Went to the store and grab a brand new card and still no luck. FINALLY... odin a new cwm recovery fix the problem.... :banghead:
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I did Odin a new recovery. Still nothing. Gonna try formatting.
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Have you tried TWRP?
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jyazzie110 said:
Have you tried TWRP?
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Flashing TWRP sens my phone into boot loop. No matter how I flash.
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Optimuscle said:
Flashing TWRP sens my phone into boot loop. No matter how I flash.
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Did you use goo manager to flash? That just pushes the recovery img to the phone not flash it. Ive never had a problem with TWRP with any phone or tablet ive used. CWM on the other hand....thats a different story.
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Here's my data point. I had the exact problem of clockworkmod unable to mount external sd card while making a nandroid backup. I tried it via the paid ROM manager plus app without any luck. I sent them a log file.
Then I tried goo manager + twrp and it worked. I donated to twrp.
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GooManager/TWRP worked for me.
Sucks trying to use internal memory to flash with only 16GB total.

This is a limitation of driver support for ExFAT, you can force windows into formatting fat32 using a 3rd party utility like this one:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

Recovery can't mount external SD??

Since updating to latest recovery it can't mount or access external SD. There's no problem with my card but touch recovery, nothing can access it...
Anyone else? Ideas?
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joe3681 said:
Since updating to latest recovery it can't mount or access external SD. There's no problem with my card but touch recovery, nothing can access it...
Anyone else? Ideas?
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Use odin to flash a different kernel?

nakizzzle805 said:
Use odin to flash a different kernel?
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Have to try that. Idk why it suddenly stopped
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Thats strange, I updated mine. Seems to be fine. Try using goo manager and click on menu and click install recovery script.
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All else fails ODIN back stock
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