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After the lifehacker article about Pimp My ROM, i decided to try my hand at rooting and installing a custom ROM, problem is i can't seem to change to anything else now, its alright but lacks slight compatibility.
So, i followed the following guide.
www androidauthority com/xperia-arc-lt15i-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean-paranoidandroid-rom-117723/
And now i have Paranoid Android ROM, it works well for the most part, but lacks all the things Xperia phones were good for, video is the worst thing on it, flash problems i think, with the interface on videos too. The only reason why i would keep it is because the phone is smooth, and Google Voice is pretty good, but those arent enough reasons to keep.
Anyway, i've tried to use other methods to change my ROM, non of them work, i'll explain;
My phone boots with the FreeXperia project logo, where i can go into CMW v0.6 i think, or i leave it and it goes into Paranoid Android, thats if it doesnt crash here. After following different guides for different ROMS etc, it never boots into the ROM, the CMW can be accessed, and i have to do a restore. Is there something i need to do? I thought it might've had something to do with priviledges, but i thought id fixed it, superuser, debugging, root access, all seemed to be available.
I also tried flashing with a modified stock rom, that was to be used in flastool, cant seem to get it to work either, it does 2 different thigns, the first in the .0.9 version, gives me an error, which i looked up an gtrap said its an general error, and should use 0.7 instead, which i did, but no matter what i do it always tells me to restart phone and go into settings and put it in debugging mode... it's already in debugging mode, iim confused, so i checked superuser and made it allow everything. Still nothing.
I cant repair my phone with PC companion because my phone contains modded software.
How can i get my phone to a better, more stable ROM, ICS based, Stock or Moddified. Is the problem the Bootloader?
Any help / directions / links to fixing this issue will be very much appreciated
You can relock the bootloader. I can't remember in which thread I found it but it's here on XDA. You just need to flash a file. It will let you use SEUS to "repair" the phone.
stu15 said:
After the lifehacker article about Pimp My ROM, i decided to try my hand at rooting and installing a custom ROM, problem is i can't seem to change to anything else now, its alright but lacks slight compatibility.
So, i followed the following guide.
www androidauthority com/xperia-arc-lt15i-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean-paranoidandroid-rom-117723/
And now i have Paranoid Android ROM, it works well for the most part, but lacks all the things Xperia phones were good for, video is the worst thing on it, flash problems i think, with the interface on videos too. The only reason why i would keep it is because the phone is smooth, and Google Voice is pretty good, but those arent enough reasons to keep.
Anyway, i've tried to use other methods to change my ROM, non of them work, i'll explain;
My phone boots with the FreeXperia project logo, where i can go into CMW v0.6 i think, or i leave it and it goes into Paranoid Android, thats if it doesnt crash here. After following different guides for different ROMS etc, it never boots into the ROM, the CMW can be accessed, and i have to do a restore. Is there something i need to do? I thought it might've had something to do with priviledges, but i thought id fixed it, superuser, debugging, root access, all seemed to be available.
I also tried flashing with a modified stock rom, that was to be used in flastool, cant seem to get it to work either, it does 2 different thigns, the first in the .0.9 version, gives me an error, which i looked up an gtrap said its an general error, and should use 0.7 instead, which i did, but no matter what i do it always tells me to restart phone and go into settings and put it in debugging mode... it's already in debugging mode, iim confused, so i checked superuser and made it allow everything. Still nothing.
I cant repair my phone with PC companion because my phone contains modded software.
How can i get my phone to a better, more stable ROM, ICS based, Stock or Moddified. Is the problem the Bootloader?
Any help / directions / links to fixing this issue will be very much appreciated
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stu15 said:
After the lifehacker article about Pimp My ROM, i decided to try my hand at rooting and installing a custom ROM, problem is i can't seem to change to anything else now, its alright but lacks slight compatibility.
So, i followed the following guide.
www androidauthority com/xperia-arc-lt15i-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean-paranoidandroid-rom-117723/
And now i have Paranoid Android ROM, it works well for the most part, but lacks all the things Xperia phones were good for, video is the worst thing on it, flash problems i think, with the interface on videos too. The only reason why i would keep it is because the phone is smooth, and Google Voice is pretty good, but those arent enough reasons to keep.
Anyway, i've tried to use other methods to change my ROM, non of them work, i'll explain;
My phone boots with the FreeXperia project logo, where i can go into CMW v0.6 i think, or i leave it and it goes into Paranoid Android, thats if it doesnt crash here. After following different guides for different ROMS etc, it never boots into the ROM, the CMW can be accessed, and i have to do a restore. Is there something i need to do? I thought it might've had something to do with priviledges, but i thought id fixed it, superuser, debugging, root access, all seemed to be available.
I also tried flashing with a modified stock rom, that was to be used in flastool, cant seem to get it to work either, it does 2 different thigns, the first in the .0.9 version, gives me an error, which i looked up an gtrap said its an general error, and should use 0.7 instead, which i did, but no matter what i do it always tells me to restart phone and go into settings and put it in debugging mode... it's already in debugging mode, iim confused, so i checked superuser and made it allow everything. Still nothing.
I cant repair my phone with PC companion because my phone contains modded software.
How can i get my phone to a better, more stable ROM, ICS based, Stock or Moddified. Is the problem the Bootloader?
Any help / directions / links to fixing this issue will be very much appreciated
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I know to get a customised stock rom (such as jelly sandwhich which i find is absolutely amazing), you have to flash a stock rom, root it, install cwm, flash jelly sandwhich and your done. Normally customised stock roms work for both locked and unlocked bootloaders so you'll be fine in that regard.
If you are thinking of flashing jelly sandwhich, here are the steps (which the original post doesn't actually say)
make sure in cwm before installation
1. Wipe data/factory reset
2. wipe cache partition
3. go to mounts and storage menu and\
4. format /system
5. format/data
6. format cache
7. exit mounts and storage menu
6. go to advance
7. wipe dalvik cache
8. wipe battery stats
9. exit advance
10. install Jelly sandwich from sd card without rebooting
Same procedure for most roms
jman2131 said:
make sure in cwm before installation
1. Wipe data/factory reset
2. wipe cache partition
3. go to mounts and storage menu and\
4. format /system
5. format/data
6. format cache
7. exit mounts and storage menu
6. go to advance
7. wipe dalvik cache
8. wipe battery stats
9. exit advance
10. install Jelly sandwich from sd card without rebooting
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This is pretty much the recommended procedure for most, if not all, ROMs.
I have tested Jelly Sandwich, Ice Cream Pureness, and currently testing Ultimate HD v2.0... they are all great.
Im finding this one to be a good rom
Original Xperia T ICS Rom v5.0 for ARC/ARC-S based on (4.0.4) 587 [9th-Oct-2012]
put this on mine and my kids arc s runs sweet :good:
HI guys so i have been at this for a few hours now i was going to update my roms to 4.2.2
did a full backup and then did a wipe and the problem started the roms was not good so installation was aborted. when i connected the computer to phone after putting it in download mode so i could load stock roms and then load up back up the computer doe not recognize the phone.
THe CWM version 5.5.0.4 does not allow me to look at my sd card for some reason.... is my phone done?
so the backup was saved on teh phone thats why i moved it using file explorer to sd card ...
any way i can talk to my phone well make my computer talk to my phone.....i know it used to connect to me computer with no issues.
systemdude2 said:
HI guys so i have been at this for a few hours now i was going to update my roms to 4.2.2
did a full backup and then did a wipe and the problem started the roms was not good so installation was aborted. when i connected the computer to phone after putting it in download mode so i could load stock roms and then load up back up the computer doe not recognize the phone.
THe CWM version 5.5.0.4 does not allow me to look at my sd card for some reason.... is my phone done?
so the backup was saved on teh phone thats why i moved it using file explorer to sd card ...
any way i can talk to my phone well make my computer talk to my phone.....i know it used to connect to me computer with no issues.
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Your recovery version is pretty old, considering cwm 6.0.3.6 is the newest...
So is there anyway to fix this ?
Download ROM Manager from the PlayStore and let it install the latest CWM, or download GooManager and have it install TWRP.
So far as the computer, you'll need to be more specific about 'talk to'.
Might need drivers, might need a new cable, can't tell from what you said.
I think if he wiped already he wont be able to download from the play store, if im reading the OP correctly, you already wiped the device, you flashed the 4.2.2 or 4.2 and it aborted..correct?
Step 1. Okay here's what you can do since the PC isnt reading your phone, reboot or restart your pc put phone in odin/download mode and see if it reads it now. If it does Odin a stock rooted rom, then get goomanger from the play store and install open script recovery which will give you the twrp recovery, then you can attempt the flash again of the 4.2 based rom.
Step 2. If it still isnt reading after a pc restart load your old rom on an sd card and try to flash the old tw rom with that older cwm recovery and see if you can get back at least to a tw rom. If that doesnt work then pull the battery out your phone let it sit for 2min, put the battery back in and get into odin/download mode, and see if pc recognizes the device and connection, if it doesnt, download kies and it might help with the connection issue.
Did that help bro. Let me know?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
Op stated the he made a full backup. Should be able to boot directly into recovery and restore the backup?
thanks for the info everyone . the operating system is gone so no luck on play store.
mrkevo3000 yes the roms got aborted half way its weird why it would do that.... my phone has always had issues.
just like that as i am typing this my phone is now recognized by odin so i will what you said load up stock and the reflash my backup and then update cwm.
I will try and update and againg to 4.2.2 and let you know what happens.
I have seen so many flavors any preference one somethiong that might work on i747m ?
ill update this after recovering my phone and attempting reflash.
Also for some reason my sd card is not recognized by cwm and it is only looking at internal again never did this to me before thats why i got stuck.
Last time i attempted a update for some reason my apn settings were locked and could not be changed.
I did the same stupid thing myself. Really can not believe I did it but i was rushing and didn't read what it was, thinking i was doing something else. Was not worried as I had my trusty nandriod backup -.- . I guess I can consider myself lucky as i took it to telus hoping they would buy my story and they sent it to the samsung repair center. Worried all week that if they checked it would be clear i had voided the warranty and i would be paying a high repair cost or buying a new phone. Well I got the phone back an hour ago and they fixed it.... no charge. I guess I can consider myself very lucky.
systemdude2 said:
thanks for the info everyone . the operating system is gone so no luck on play store.
mrkevo3000 yes the roms got aborted half way its weird why it would do that.... my phone has always had issues.
just like that as i am typing this my phone is now recognized by odin so i will what you said load up stock and the reflash my backup and then update cwm.
I will try and update and againg to 4.2.2 and let you know what happens.
I have seen so many flavors any preference one somethiong that might work on i747m ?
ill update this after recovering my phone and attempting reflash.
Also for some reason my sd card is not recognized by cwm and it is only looking at internal again never did this to me before thats why i got stuck.
Last time i attempted a update for some reason my apn settings were locked and could not be changed.
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I would use odin 1.85 and odin a rooted stock 4.1.2 rom.. then go to the playstore and download goomanger and get the teamwin recovery, by hitting menu inside goomanger app, and installing the open script recovery which will install the teamwin recovery, you can flash any pure google rom with that recovery, before you do make a nandroid of your current setup and then flash away, get into a habit of doing at least one back and check the md5 hash of the roms before you flash away... download using your pc instead of phone browsers, sometimes mobile browsers corrupt the files.
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Please need help eMMc dump for i747 At&t s3
danvee said:
Download ROM Manager from the PlayStore and let it install the latest CWM, or download GooManager and have it install TWRP.
So far as the computer, you'll need to be more specific about 'talk to'.
Might need drivers, might need a new cable, can't tell from what you said.
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Hello good morning i am in need of your help. I need a eMMC dump of a rooted AT&T sgh i747
Run this as root from a working SGH-i747:
Code:
busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/debrick.img bs=1M count=128
Please help me out really need the help. let me know if you can. Thank you for even reading my request.
I'm trying to instal Cyanomodgen, and have it working properly, thats my ultimate goal
I wiped my phone completely
I do CANNOT physically put my SD card to a computer atm, I'm trying to work around it
Odin does recognize my device, I can only install TWRP for some reason and not CWM with Odin ( program stops working with CWM and crashes ) I have tried different types of CWM, to no avail. I used to have it, then switched to TWRP for testing purposes
I would much rather use CWM, honestly. Any ideas why thats not working?
I am using ADB push filename.zip /sdcard/ for my cyanomodgen and when I go into my file manager I do not see my files anywhere at all, but when I go to wipe stuff, I can see there is 200mb in there( obviously its there but i cant see it )
There's a sideload.zip in there idk what that is
I've tried sideloading the cyanomodgen.zip and I get a radio error ( maybe its just the nightly file messed up, not sure )
I have tried installing CWM with heimdall, and I have to replace my phones drivers with theirs and it tells me it was successful but when I reboot I get stuck in firmware upgrade encountered an issue and the only way to fix that is to re-install the original drivers
I just tried heimdall again, failed, bout to reinstall TWRP and await further assistance.
Got CWM working, converted back to stock image and now I'm going to try this all over again, just keeping everyone updated
I fixed my phone completely, full updated and functioning properly except video not working on snapchat, other than that its perfect, i think the nightly build has something to do with my camera.
I'll leave this thread here in-case anyone has the same problem I can come back and help them.
Like I'm sure this topic hasn't come up before, but I've searched for hours and I'm probably just making things worse. I also just accidentally deleted this post halfway through. It's too late and I'm too tired and I have no working phone.
Bought an SGH-I747 on E-Bay. Got a Straight Talk SIM card kit, activated it, so far so good.
Rooted it with CF-Auto-Root. Worked pretty well, took a lot of reboots, upgraded the SU from the Play Store and it got rid of Knox. So far so good. Got everything all set up the way I like it. Happy.
It was running 4.4.2. I'm assuming it was the release prior to the November 12th OTA release, but I can't say for sure.
Phone downloaded and installed an upgrade automatically. Now, it won't boot. I get the SAMSUNG logo, then the Samsung Galaxy S III logo then nothing.
I retried the CF-Auto-Root, no change.
I booted into recovery (volume up, home and power on), did factory reset, no change.
Started looking around for a way to return it to stock. Found an upgrade43.zip file somewhere (I'm sorry I can't find where I got that now). Put it on the sdcard card and tried installing it with the recovery and it fails part way through.
At this point, I think I probably need to completely overwrite everything with something stock. I just don't know how to do that. I see posts on such subjects but they all have warnings that make me think I'm going to totally brick the phone, so I'm hoping someone can point me the right way. I'm not all that Android savvy, as you can tell.
Help.
Since your phone was running 4.4.2, do not attempt to flash any ROMs using that attempt to downgrade your bootloader to anything prior to 4.4.2.
Try this to get your phone up and running:
download the latest CM11 for the d2lte and save it to an external SD card: https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2lte
dowload the latest tar.md5 version of Philz Touch for the d2lte from here: https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/
boot phone in download mode, open Odin 3.07, do not check anything except f.reset.time, flash Philz via PDA box, remove USB cable when you see the word Reset appear in the status window, remove battery, replace battery, boot into recovery, format system, Dalvik, data, and cache, flash cm11, and reboot.
Thank you for your reply. There are a few things in there I don't quite understand, but I think I can figure it out.
I was going to attempt this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
In fact, I did attempt it with TWRP last night after I posted here and new I still wasn't going to sleep. I kept getting an error about a bad ZIP file.
Is that stock restore a bad idea?
Do not attempt to flash an older bootloader. The mjb bootloader is from 4.3 and attempting to flash it could hard brick your phone.
I suggest doing what I suggested so you can confirm the bootloader and modem installed on your phone.
OK. Thanks. Probably a good thing I couldn't get it to work then.
Thank you so much. I have a working phone again. Now I just have to get it all set back up the way I like it.
I have to say, and it's probably words straight from the devils mouth, that I kind of wish I could have restored the Samsung stock software. It's just what I'm used to. But I will take what I can get.
A few questions. I like having root. But root is what got me in trouble in the first place. Is this going to be rooted now, or will I have to do that or am I better off just leaving it alone.
Second, I'm probably going to have questions since this is so different than what I'm used to (like I already can't find the Play store). Where is the best place to ask?
If you want root, one of the easiest ways to get it is to flash supersu from your custom recovery. Most ROMs are pre-rooted.
Many custom ROMs do not include Gapps. Just download and install the Gapps version for your ROM.
If you like the TW look, flash a TW-based ROM. Check out the development threads for different ROMs.
here is a thread for Q's that has some pretty good/friendly helpers on it if you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257421
"all i can really do , is stay out of my own way and let the will of heaven be done"
How to save in to external SD card
How do you save the file into the external SD card? I am having the same brick issue with my GS3.
To save a file to an external SD card, just put the card into a card reader and save the ROM to the SD card.
Hello all!
This is my first foray into the world of custom Android systems, and I'm having a hell of a time with it... if somebody would be able to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
First off, the situation:
I am on Sprint, and I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710) from Sprint to use as a backup phone, I used it for a while on Stock, then deactivated it so I could give it to my wife. First though, I wanted to put a custom ROM on it, and experiment/play around a bit and see what this world of options could do for me. Long story short, I ended up flashing an AICP ROM, and everything seemed to go smoothly, but when I went to activate the phone on my account again and it would not work no matter what I tried (details below). I figured maybe I could activate on the stock setup then just restore my custom setup, so I tried to revert to my stock ROM backup and I couldn't do anything because I was constantly getting messages that various programs had closed... Then I tried to wipe and restore my custom ROM backup and I get stuck in a boot loop... so I tried to flash a stock recovery and I get stuck in a boot loop... I'm out of ideas here, and now I'm stuck with a phone I can't use or do anything with, and I can't activate.
Details:
The initial rooting/install process seemed to work ok, and was fairly straightforward. I followed various guides on http://galaxys3root.com/ to get my phone rooted and backed up (Don't recall which ones now, but I've read through so much by now I don't know if it matters...).
My phone:
Samsung Galaxy S3 (Sprint) SPH-L710
Modem: L710SPRDNJ2
My Desktop:
Debian Linux
Here's the steps I performed:
Rebooted phone in Odin mode
Downloaded CWM S3 Sprint Recovery from the http://galaxys3root.com/ website (can't find the link any more)
Flashed the CWM recovery using Heimdall then rebooted phone into CWM
Installed SuperSU through CWM, then rebooted
Checked that the phone was rooted successfully (it was), then ran Titanium Backup on the whole device to my SD card, then copied the backup files to my desktop computer
Rebooted into CWM, and performed a backup through CWM, then rebooted and copied the CWM backup to my desktop.
Downloaded AICP Rom for my phone from here: http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS3Sprint/roms/AICP/aicp_d2spr_lp-10.0-RELEASE-20150707.zip, put it on my SD card, then installed it through CWM and rebooted
At this point, I was happy with how everything was working, so I did some minor theme customizations then made another backup through CWM, and copied it to my computer, but I did NOT run Titanium this time...
After all of this, I tried to go ahead and activate it through the Sprint web service. This process failed continuously with an unhelpful error message of "Sorry, this device can't be activated right now". I then got on Chat to see if they could activate it manually, and then the problems began. They did their thing activating the phone, but when I booted up I got no data connectivity, and couldn't make calls, and the SIM was not changing over to the new number. I was on the chat with them for over an hour trying to get the situation resolved, but that finally ended when they started asking me to punch in ## codes, because I discovered that none of them worked on my custom ROM. Some quick research told me that this was non-trivial to get around so I had them switch everything back and I started researching the issue.
I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626638&highlight=sph-l710 that looked like it would let me do what I needed from the custom ROM, but I couldn't tell if it would fix my problem for sure, so I figured "I'll just restore my stock setup from that backup I took, activate it and update, then start over". This is when things got really frustrating...
First I rebooted into CWM, went to 'backup/restore', and restored my stock backup
Rebooted, and as soon as I got past the lock screen, I get inundated with messages of various apps being closed unexpectedly.
I researched a bit, discovered the issue may be caused by stale dalvik cache, so I rebooted into CWM, cleared the dalvik cache, formatted the /cache partition, then tried to restore the stock backup again, but this time I get stuck in a boot loop.
I then rebooted into CWM, tried to restore the backup of my AICP ROM, only to be stuck in a boot loop as well.
Trying to get into any usable system, I rebooted to CWM, cleared dalvik cache, then formatted /cache, /data, and /system just to be sure, and re-flashed the base AICP ROM I started with. This worked fine, and before long I had stock AICP back
Since I still couldn't get the phone to activate in the custom ROM, and my backups are apparently completely useless, I rebooted into CWM, wiped dalvik, /cache, /data, and /system again and tried to install a different stock ROM I found in the XDA forums (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/development/stock-rom-4-4-2-t3010642) only to be greeted by another bootloop
At this point I've spent well over 24 man-hours trying to get this to work, reading, researching, flashing, etc all to no avail. Nothing I do seems to work, and it seems like every article, tutorial, or forum thread I read either has nothing to do with my device, is too old, or doesn't describe my problem.
I'm at wits end, and am so frustrated I'm ready to just give up and smash this device and buy a new one... My questions to the community are as follows:
I know I screwed up on a couple of things, but in my initial research of doing this there was no indication that these were even things I needed to watch out for... Is there any more organized sources of information for doing this sort of thing?
Does anybody else out there use Sprint on a custom ROM, and if so how you you pull this off
Where else have I screwed up, and how can I fix this situation? (My end goal is still to get the S3 onto Sprint with a custom ROM)
What can I do differently next time? I would like to figure this out and do it to other phones and devices I have, but if it's this much trouble every time, I just don't have the time to mess with it.
Thank you in advance, and I appreciate any information that the community can provide.
This sounds like a CWM problem to me. If I were you, I'd boot the phone into Odin Mode and flash TWRP ( www.twrp.me ) then try flashing the latest aicp nightly downloaded from the official site ( www.aicp-rom.com ). Check the md5sums on everything! Then maybe try flashing a touchwiz ROM and activating your phone. Remember that you need to wipe the internal storage when you go between KitKat and lollipop.
I'm fairly certain you have to do activation with the stock Touchwiz roms -- once the phone is activated you can flash a custom.
You should go into recovery and wipe everything (System/data/etc) EXCEPT for the External SD Card
Power off - pull the battery for a few - power on directly into download mode
Odin NJ2 back onto the phone and reboot and activate it (skip through most of the setup since you'll flash a custom after)
Once you know it's activated and working under the stock Touchwiz, then again power off and Odin TWRP recovery
Then you can go back into recovery, wipe everything except External SD, and flash the custom rom back on.
Looks like swapping CWM for TWRP did the trick.
Flashed TWRP no problems, and put CleanBean on there to get the phone activated. Still wouldn't work automatically over the Sprint website, but I got on chat with them and they fixed me right up. Downloading a fresh copy of AICP now...
Is it worth it to keep the CWM backups I made earlier, or should I just go ahead and flush them? I figured just get rid of them since restoring them wasn't working anyway, but I figured I would ask.
Now to move all the data over to the new phone. Thanks so much for your help guys!
afarris01 said:
Looks like swapping CWM for TWRP did the trick.
Flashed TWRP no problems, and put CleanBean on there to get the phone activated. Still wouldn't work automatically over the Sprint website, but I got on chat with them and they fixed me right up. Downloading a fresh copy of AICP now...
Is it worth it to keep the CWM backups I made earlier, or should I just go ahead and flush them? I figured just get rid of them since restoring them wasn't working anyway, but I figured I would ask.
Now to move all the data over to the new phone. Thanks so much for your help guys!
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Get rid of them. TWRP can't restore CWM even if the backup is good