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Rooted but can't install rom

Okay just rooted my galaxy s 2 with the auto root, I want to install roms using rom manager but sometimes it will rom manager has denied super user permission but other times it will not say it all and it will download complete I hit install rom wipe everything then a triangle with an exclamation mark in it and the android dude on the side pops up and stays there, I take the battery out then put it back in and it takes me to the recovery system but it only says reboot now, apply update, wipe data, and wipe cache with the triangle with an exclamation mark in it and the android dude still showing behind it. Any clue to what can be wrong?

Sounds like you haven't flashed a custom recover, if you have unlocked the bootloader already then you may be able to flash clockworkmod recovery from within rom manager,
Not sure I have an evo 3d
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What do you mean by haven't unlocked bootloader?

I hold the vol. down, power and home button at the same time then vol up to continue it says Odin Mode, product name SPH-D710, Custom Binary download: NO, Current Binary: Samsung official....Downloading do not turn off target!! Been on the screen for a while now.

AnaBear said:
What do you mean by haven't unlocked bootloader?
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No u just need Clockwork Mod recovery to flash a rom rom manager won't do it, I had this problem and really rooted again with a method that included clockwork mod in it. I have a Mac so I don't think it'll be the same way but try this. If u can go to the ACS website they are always easier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265429

Jess813 said:
No u just need Clockwork Mod recovery to flash a rom rom manager won't do it, I had this problem and really rooted again with a method that included clockwork mod in it. I have a Mac so I don't think it'll be the same way but try this. If u can go to the ACS website they are always easier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265429
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So you think I should re-root it?

AnaBear said:
So you think I should re-root it?
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First, just to make sure, you wrote Galaxy S 2 in your OP, but you are on the E4GT (Sprint) version correct?
If you are, and used sfhub's Auto Root, did you proceed to option 'C'? If not, you have not yet installed a custom recovery, which is what you need to install custom ROMs.
Try this, hold [Power] + [Vol. Up] at the same time for several seconds (30+.) If you are booted into CWM recovery, you will be all set to flash ROMs, if not you still need a kernel with CWM (option C in the auto root process.) Based on your comments in the OP, you do not have a custom recovery. I believe you described the stock recovery.
Easiest thing to do is go back to the Auto Root batch file and complete option C. This will give you recovery without increasing your custom software counter (counter = bad for warranty.)

Yes I'm with sprint and no I didn't proceed with c thanks for informing me I will try to see if it works. Thanks.

[Q] trying to unroot

I realize this may have been asked before and if so i want to apologize in advance. First off Im an android NOOB. Long time iphone user and jailbreaker. Anyhow, I rooted my ATT Samsung Galaxy note 2 with CWM6, I also made a backup after installing this from inside recovery. I believe that is what its called anyhow. I then tryed Jedi X and CleanRom 3.0.1. After giving these 2 a try I realized I prefer stock and set out to go back to that. I followed all the instruction that are listed on the pages within XDA. Ran triangle away and removed SU. After reboot Im still sitting in a modified status.
Now according to Triangle Away documentation this can happen. And I need to install a stock firmware. Im currently downloading that from a link on this site.
I re-rooted and installed triangle away.
My question is what order should everuthing be done? Im guessing, 1, flash stock recovery. 2, run triangle away, Uninstall SuperSU 4 flash factory firmware. Is this correct? Also, how do I flash factory firmware? Do I use factory recovery mode to do this?
Thanks so much for the help in advance.

By flashing factory firmware you are tripping the counter again. If you are already on stock firmware and just rooted look here.
1. Factory reset
2. Restore stock rooted backup
3. Click on thread below
4. Post in thread questions press thanks if it helped.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020607
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Android The Greek said:
By flashing factory firmware you are tripping the counter again. If you are already on stock firmware and just rooted look here.
1. Factory reset
2. Restore stock rooted backup
3. Click on thread below
4. Post in thread questions press thanks if it helped.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020607
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Flashing a stock rom through Odin does not trip the counter
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If you do triangle away, then go into download mode, then flash stock rom you will trip the counter.... you should have stock rom on before triangle away. Then triangle away. Then unroot.
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Android The Greek said:
If you do triangle away, then go into download mode, then flash stock rom you will trip the counter.... you should have stock rom on before triangle away. Then triangle away. Then unroot.
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Ok I did this. Then went to odin mode here is what it says
Custom Binary Download : no
Current Binary: Samsung official
System Status: official.
Device status in settings still says modified. I have no root, no TA and stock recovery this stuff is driving me batty.
Edit. I just tried to go into stock recovery by volume up, home and power. It DOES not go to whatever menu is there. It just boots.

bigdaddyjosh said:
Ok I did this. Then went to odin mode here is what it says
Custom Binary Download : no
Current Binary: Samsung official
System Status: official.
Device status in settings still says modified. I have no root, no TA and stock recovery this stuff is driving me batty.
Edit. I just tried to go into stock recovery by volume up, home and power. It DOES not go to whatever menu is there. It just boots.
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Stock recovery should work..... If not try cf root again. That restores stock
Anyways you need to factory reset to change modify to official.
I suggest you dont factory reset unless you need to return it, You may decide to root again as I did.

Android The Greek said:
Stock recovery should work..... If not try cf root again. That restores stock
Anyways you need to factory reset to change modify to official.
I suggest you dont factory reset unless you need to return it, You may decide to root again as I did.
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Yea, I tried to factory reset, but i was missing the stock recovery so it went into a boot loop. I battery pulled and booted odin and reinstalled factory recovery, using cf-auto root. Here is my question. Everytime I factory reset it auto installs SuperSU. WTH is going on here
What is the downside of staying rooted? Can I still get updates? Maybe not OTA but some how?

Did you go into supersu do full unroot then factory reset?
Being rooted only affects renting and buying from play store and ota updates.
Upside of rooting... having newest firmware before everone else
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Android The Greek said:
Did you go into supersu do full unroot then factory reset?
Being rooted only affects renting and buying from play store and ota updates.
Upside of rooting... having newest firmware before everone else
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The very first time I rooted with cwm6 the tutoril said to make a backup of those settings. Is it possible that when I perform the reset with stock recovery that it is reflashing supersu? Because that is what im seeing on my end. Weird thing is that odin mode still shows 0 flashes but cant get rid of supersu it just comes back after reset.

bigdaddyjosh said:
Yea, I tried to factory reset, but i was missing the stock recovery so it went into a boot loop. I battery pulled and booted odin and reinstalled factory recovery, using cf-auto root. Here is my question. Everytime I factory reset it auto installs SuperSU. WTH is going on here
What is the downside of staying rooted? Can I still get updates? Maybe not OTA but some how?
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if you're still stuck, consider the using the method i followed in post 51 in the cf root thread (steps 2-8). ignore step 1 if you don't have a custom recovery (e.g., CWM or TWRP). i've followed the steps listed in that post on 4 different devices and it's worked every time. good luck, hope you get this resolved.

Did you go into supersu and click full unroot thats the last step.
Then you can facrory reset in stock recovery.
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Ive followed your direction. I have no custom recovery. Odin download mode still shows official with no counts of flashes.
After bootup I still have SuperSu.
I have done complete unroot with superSu so many times its not funny. Each time I do the unroot I go and do a factory reset. And after every reset it restores root. Under device status it says modified, but Odin says im good. Can I do OTA in this status?
I shouldnt say it restored root after factory reset but it does restore supersu.

After you do full unroot go to play store and unistall all supersu supersu pro super user etc. Then factory reset.
Also take a screenshot of your device app drawer after you factory reset.
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So I was jacking with my phone at work today and I was looking at the internal memory. I had several entrues for titanium backup still sitting there. Wanting to get rid of all things root on my phone I went througj and deleted everything resembling root apps. Then rebooted. Check device settings and it says NORMAL!!! I dont know which app or what was causing it and I dont care. It is back to normal. Thanks for all your help last night.

No problem please don't make this a reason you dont root in the future. I learned the hard way like you did with help from the good people here. Im sure you will be alot more successful on the next go around.
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[Q] Flash counter won't reset

After flashing MA6 my phone shows that I have 1 flash count. I reset it with Triangle away but no luck. What can I do?

betoishly said:
After flashing MA6 my phone shows that I have 1 flash count. I reset it with Triangle away but no luck. What can I do?
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Do you have the newest SuperSU.

The Root said:
Do you have the newest SuperSU.
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Yes. It resets the counter but once I reboot it always shows 1 as if i had flashed something.

betoishly said:
Yes. It resets the counter but once I reboot it always shows 1 as if i had flashed something.
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That's weird. What recovery do you use?
Wait. I'm getting it too.

It will show one as long as you are still on the custom rom or still rooted.You only run it to reset the counter if you are going back to stock. So you would run the program then reboot into dl mode and flash back to stock.Pretty sure thats how it works.

BammS2 said:
It will show one as long as you are still on the custom rom or still rooted.You only run it to reset the counter if you are going back to stock. So you would run the program then reboot into dl mode and flash back to stock.Pretty sure thats how it works.
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That's not how it worked before. I'll check on this.

The Root said:
That's not how it worked before. I'll check on this.
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Thats what worked for me,and i also think i heard QBKing77 saying something about it also.:good:

BammS2 said:
Thats what worked for me,and i also think i heard QBKing77 saying something about it also.:good:
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I did notice it stopped rebooting the phone but when it used to it set it to zero until the next time you flash a kernel. I'll check on this.

JB firmwares set your counter to 1, when you flash anything/go to recovery or even a reboot, if you are rooted it will still happening. ICS firmwares don't. That why it works before.
That's very old news.
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I flash LJ7 instead. All is well.

LJ7 is JB
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To me i've seen it like It's always been like that. You trip the flash counter every time you boot into
"CUSTOM RECOVERY" and its set to "1" and every time you keep going back to stock official recovery
to a custom recovery it'll trip it every time you go into it.
If you had the stock TW JB recovery it wouldn't trip the counter because it's an official recovery the phone
recognizes, you still can be rooted via flashing root in Odin mode because Odin doesn't trip the counter.
But as long as you have a custom recovery it'll stay 1 or more if you keep going from stock official
to custom.
Even though you're rooted going into the about phone under the device status, it should read
Normal and not Modified because of the recovery and kernel. ( I haven't tried custom kernel + stock recovery )
But that's how I've been reading and seeing it. I have 6 trips thus far because i'd use
OC Odins when ever i soft-brick my phone and then installing custom recoveries using terminal emulator.
Even though everyone says installing a custom recovery through terminal emulator or adb shell doesn't trip the flash
counter, GOING into a custom recovery still does.
If there's a way to change the phone to read custom recoveries as official recoveries
then i'll be damned D:!

Stock recovery overwriting CWM

Hi guys,
I've tried to root my device using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801060&postcount=2
I used method 2 because I wanted CWM.
I found that when Odin reboots the phone it goes straight into Android itself, not the recovery CWM. I disabled the autoreboot and flashed again and manually rebooted but still my stock recovery persists, not CWM.
What can I do to get CWM?
Thanks in advance!

It should work.
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It will have CWM flashed. Maybe you should just tick the auto reboot option then when the OS loads up shut down your note and boot to Recovery.

SethCode'z said:
It will have CWM flashed. Maybe you should just tick the auto reboot option then when the OS loads up shut down your note and boot to Recovery.
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when I boot into recovery it's the stock one, but it shows the status as custom. And the count increases with each time I run it through the ODIN process.
Any advice guys?

Maybe your flashable odin cwm file does not properly work. Something is wrong, Try to reset your flash counter with Triangle Away. Then proceed with installation.

SethCode'z said:
Maybe your flashable odin cwm file does not properly work. Something is wrong, Try to reset your flash counter with Triangle Away. Then proceed with installation.
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Thanks for the help thus far! Just a question, does the flash counter value matter? Or can we continue flashing on top without harm?

RashidD said:
Thanks for the help thus far! Just a question, does the flash counter value matter? Or can we continue flashing on top without harm?
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It matters for me, I have an S3 mini and when my counter goes up, I can't use my back and menu buttons. In some cases you can just continue flashing.
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SethCode'z said:
It matters for me, I have an S3 mini and when my counter goes up, I can't use my back and menu buttons. In some cases you can just continue flashing.
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Oh I finally got it working... I used CF-autoroot to get superSU and then used rom manager to update CWM and flash it. Disabled the stock recovery. Finally!!!

RashidD said:
Oh I finally got it working... I used CF-autoroot to get superSU and then used rom manager to update CWM and flash it. Disabled the stock recovery. Finally!!!
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I had to donit the same way...flashed a pretty rooted ROM...then using mobile Odin and latest philz touch I flashed it and it works..

URGENT!

Hey guys I was recently trying to flash back to stock so that i could carrier unlock my device, but when I was trying to flash using cwm, I kept getting status 7 error, so I read up on that and learned that cwm doesn't like certain roms.
After reading that, I used twrp, which allowed the rom to flash.
Now's where it gets bad..
the rom was booting fine, until i realized it was stuck at the boot animation for about 10 minutes.
I went back to the thread and asked how long it should take on first boot, they said 4 mintues...
I can't get back into recovery mode.. (actually i could never get into recovery mode using hardware bottons, i had to use apps such as ROM Manager)
I'm trying to use odin to flash recovery img, but no dice..
Can someone please tell me what I should do?

You can't go back to stock through recovery. You have to flash the stock image through Odin.
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mrzhadow said:
You can't go back to stock through recovery. You have to flash the stock image through Odin.
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It was a custom touchwiz rom. I thought that was possible.
Could I flash stock through odin in my current situation?

Fash the latest frimware using Odin
Can you get your phone into Download mode? Power whitle holding volume down, if you can then flash CWMR using odin
Download CWMR touch or non touch from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405433
Doing this help me skip some odin errors from previous failed attempts to flash stock frimwares (I don't know if you're having the same problem)
If you successfully flash CWMrecovery, you should be able to flash official 4.3 firmware(T-Mobile) and put your phone back to stock.
create an account with sam mobile for faster download this download can take 1-4 hours SamMobile was like 20 minutes for me, this is the link for the latest frimware for
(T-mobile SGH-M919 !!! ONLY !!! ) http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=22280
If you can get your phone back to stock this is my advice to you: root your phone right-away so you can reset your flash counter using triangle away.
I suggest the following rooting method is safe, it worked for me and did not affect my flash counter
Safe root --> http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Safe-Root-Android-4.3-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note-No-Warranty-Void.html
use triangle away to reset your flash counter to Zero
Triangle Away ----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/2013-10-04-triangleaway-v3-10-t1494114
Good Luck
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It was a custom touchwiz rom. I thought that was possible.
Could I flash stock through odin in my current situation?
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jacob66 said:
Hey guys I was recently trying to flash back to stock so that i could carrier unlock my device, but when I was trying to flash using cwm, I kept getting status 7 error, so I read up on that and learned that cwm doesn't like certain roms.
After reading that, I used twrp, which allowed the rom to flash.
Now's where it gets bad..
the rom was booting fine, until i realized it was stuck at the boot animation for about 10 minutes.
I went back to the thread and asked how long it should take on first boot, they said 4 mintues...
I can't get back into recovery mode.. (actually i could never get into recovery mode using hardware bottons, i had to use apps such as ROM Manager)
I'm trying to use odin to flash recovery img, but no dice..
Can someone please tell me what I should do?
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Did oyu make a nandroid backup of your stock rom before flashing a custom one?
If so, just restore it.
If not, use Odin.

Skipjacks said:
Did oyu make a nandroid backup of your stock rom before flashing a custom one?
If so, just restore it.
If not, use Odin.
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yeah but i switched recoveries and everyone on my cwm got deleted
but i'm back up and running, i just didn't know how to fully wipe on twrp, someone helped me out with that.
thank you for the help

napacastro said:
Can you get your phone into Download mode? Power whitle holding volume down, if you can then flash CWMR using odin
Download CWMR touch or non touch from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405433
Doing this help me skip some odin errors from previous failed attempts to flash stock frimwares (I don't know if you're having the same problem)
If you successfully flash CWMrecovery, you should be able to flash official 4.3 firmware(T-Mobile) and put your phone back to stock.
create an account with sam mobile for faster download this download can take 1-4 hours SamMobile was like 20 minutes for me, this is the link for the latest frimware for
(T-mobile SGH-M919 !!! ONLY !!! ) http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=22280
If you can get your phone back to stock this is my advice to you: root your phone right-away so you can reset your flash counter using triangle away.
I suggest the following rooting method is safe, it worked for me and did not affect my flash counter
Safe root --> http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Safe-Root-Android-4.3-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note-No-Warranty-Void.html
use triangle away to reset your flash counter to Zero
Triangle Away ----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/2013-10-04-triangleaway-v3-10-t1494114
Good Luck
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Thank you for your information, I've solved my problem by getting back into twrp! thanks! hopefully this thread will help someone out in the future