Hello,
My friend has a galaxy s2 and recently his son somehow managed to get a virus on it. I have a lot of experience with rooting, flashing, and all that fun stuff. Especially with the t mobile galaxy s2 since I have one as well. He asked me If I can restore his phone back to a new rom since it was acting weird. For example, if he saves a new contact or installs or uninstalls an app, if he reboots all those changes are gone. It is as if the phone keeps rebooting to a certain time. I am guessing a virus is causing this.
So the first I thought of was to download a rom (Jedi Knight 6) and did the typical wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache/dalvik, then flashed the rom with success. When I rebooted the phone, it was still the same, as if I did nothing in the recovery. I thought it may have been because I was CWM, so I installed goo manager and flashed the TWRP recovery through there. It gave me success but when I boot to recovery, it is still CWM. At this point I decided to use ODIN to restore it to the original stock rom. I followed the instructions here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1858435. First time I got a fail on ODIN, removed the battery and tried again and it gave me pass and the phone rebooted. When it did guess what? It was as if I did nothing.
I ran out of ideas. I did everything I can think of. I used the custom recovery to try to wipe everything and flash a new fresh rom but that failed. I even tried ODIN to restore it to stock but that failed as well. Is there anything else I can try? I did a lot of research but couldn't find anything, maybe someone can give me some tips?? Thank You in Advance!!
Can someone please help me?
This sounds very strange. You said even after you Odin back to stock it reverted back to what he had before you reinstall the stock ROM ? Was the phone rooted before you tried to help him?
Did you try an aosp ROM?
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grannyrogers said:
This sounds very strange. You said even after you Odin back to stock it reverted back to what he had before you reinstall the stock ROM ? Was the phone rooted before you tried to help him?
Did you try an aosp ROM?
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Yea I know its strange, and its not like I have no experience with these things. I was very suprised when that happened. Yes it was and is still rooted, Im sure because super su is on it. He is currently running JediMindTrick (ROM by ptmr3). I still dont know what to do. I will try an aosp rom, but if odin didnt do it I doubt another rom would lol.
http://donandroid.com/t989uvli4-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-t989-jelly-bean-uvli4-official-update-739:D
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There has to be someone out there who can help me. No matter what I try I cannot restore it to a fresh flash or to stock. There has to be a method out there somewhere can help me with my dilemma. Thanks
sadakli2010 said:
There has to be someone out there who can help me. No matter what I try I cannot restore it to a fresh flash or to stock. There has to be a method out there somewhere can help me with my dilemma. Thanks
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Try wiping cache and dalvik. Then format system, data, cache using cwm. Factory reset then flash new rom using cwm or odin.
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Ok well I rooted and I flashed some roms here and there everything was fine until last night... I was going to flash calklin's 2.5.1 rom... I was in the recovery that uses the "pre wipe for theme" & another option was "pre wipe for rom" it was something like that... So I selected pre wipe for rom then I flashed calklin's 2.5.1... Everything went well until I rebooted.... It stayed at the Samsung galaxy s II screen so I left it for 10min nd nothing happen... So I tryed to nand myself back to life and I couldnt even get to my recovery... So I odin el13 stock rooted then flashed cwm n still the same results... So I odin eg30 stock and the same results, stuck at the samsung galaxy s II screen.... Can some one please help me this is bugging me alot I HATE TOUCH WIZ!!! Im willing to try out any method someone could suggest
Thanks I appreciate the help xda community!!!
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So you're stuck at the Samsung Galaxy SII loading screen? Is that right?
If that's so, use this to get back to stock and proceed from there (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394332)
Yes thats correct, thanks, but I can revert to ANY STOCK ROM!!eg31, eg30, ect... But wen I try to flash another rom weather its calukin.s rom, starburst rom or midnight rom I get stuck at the galaxy s II screen... So I can flash a stock rom!!
I just cant flash A CUSTOM ROM!! Im rooted and everthing on stock I keep trying n nothing happens!
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Are you sure that you're rooted? Perhaps you should try again. What method did you use to root the device originally?
Thanks again for your reply... I used the auto root method posted by sfhub... I used his method to root as soon as I got my phone! I hate stock.... Ok so if this helps im on eg30 modem, kernal, rom all is stock!! With root
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krazy_smokezalot said:
Yes thats correct, thanks, but I can revert to ANY STOCK ROM!!eg31, eg30, ect... But wen I try to flash another rom weather its calukin.s rom, starburst rom or midnight rom I get stuck at the galaxy s II screen... So I can flash a stock rom!!
I just cant flash A CUSTOM ROM!! Im rooted and everthing on stock I keep trying n nothing happens!
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It sounds like the conflict is somewhere in your /data partition. Have you tried resetting your /data
sfhub said:
It sounds like the conflict is somewhere in your /data partition. Have you tried resetting your /data
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To make it easier, I suggest using the Calkulin format script found here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332837)
Yeah i did this (format all.zip) i google and used the search key before i posted this im giving this an all day shot... Question do u know any roms other than stock in .tar format so I can flash in odin??? I think that might work, worth a shot
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Resting my data, im a noob using samsung phone, coming from htc evo, sensation mytouch 4g, ect,resting my data? You mean format data, cache and all that good stuff? Yes I did that also n still no go, ill keep trying as of now if you guys have more tips id appreciate it, thanks you guys for the help, this is ruing my sgs 2 experience I already dont like samsung because of the menu n home button switch around U
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It sounds like the conflict is somewhere in your /data partition. Have you tried resetting your /data
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thank you guys for the all your help, it seems that i had to keep formatting system cache, data ect... i did this about 6time then i flashed Calkulin's format all.zip 1x time flashed Calkulin's 2.5.1 rom then rebooted and BAMM i saw the bootanimation witch i never got to on my previous trys thanks again guys...
Glad you got it working.
I was running stock rooted G.B. 2.3.6 and just to see what would happen (I kinda knew already) I did the official upgrade to the ICS 4.0.3. Of course it went from UVKL1 to UVLE1 and I had backed everything up with Titanium Backup and also with Rom Manager. I lost root, because I did a factory reset because it wouldn't install the first 2 times. Oh, I was doing it through Kies. I wanted to do it by the book sort of.So after the install I tried to get root again but when I got into CWM recovery I had no functions working except reboot. No update.zip from sd, or anything else. I could scroll up and down and stop on the different options but when I pushed the button to make the choice it jumped back to reboot and that is all I can get. I rebooted and retried 4 or 5 times and same thing. So, now what ? I like the 4.0.3 but hate the massive amount of bloat and the ads and f**ked up notification popup/ads. I want my root back. I would be willing to start fresh again with a good, fast, everything works, custom ICS but don't know which to choose. that is one of the reasons why I tried this "official" upgrade. Again, as always, Thanks in advance for everyone who helps anyone here on XDA. K.K.-Out
Have you tried reflashing cwm?
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I was running stock rooted G.B. 2.3.6 and just to see what would happen (I kinda knew already) I did the official upgrade to the ICS 4.0.3. Of course it went from UVKL1 to UVLE1 and I had backed everything up with Titanium Backup and also with Rom Manager. I lost root, because I did a factory reset because it wouldn't install the first 2 times. Oh, I was doing it through Kies. I wanted to do it by the book sort of.So after the install I tried to get root again but when I got into CWM recovery I had no functions working except reboot. No update.zip from sd, or anything else. I could scroll up and down and stop on the different options but when I pushed the button to make the choice it jumped back to reboot and that is all I can get. I rebooted and retried 4 or 5 times and same thing. So, now what ? I like the 4.0.3 but hate the massive amount of bloat and the ads and f**ked up notification popup/ads. I want my root back. I would be willing to start fresh again with a good, fast, everything works, custom ICS but don't know which to choose. that is one of the reasons why I tried this "official" upgrade. Again, as always, Thanks in advance for everyone who helps anyone here on XDA. K.K.-Out[/QUOT
Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3649
Vibrant- Kankwich CM9
Galaxy S2 Hercules- An amazing machine on any rom. Believe me!!
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blackangst said:
Have you tried reflashing cwm?
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I haven't tried anything yet. I haven't had time. I will try as you suggest. it was on my list of things to try. Thanks, Blackangst.
khkaiser13 said:
I haven't tried anything yet. I haven't had time. I will try as you suggest. it was on my list of things to try. Thanks, Blackangst.
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I hope it works for you. Check the md5 to make sure you don't have a corrupt download too (of cwm)
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Thanks ToledoG28, I tried that link and it wasn't a good page. I appreciate the effort. Maybe you could double check it and let me know.
OP: Here's CWM 5.0.2.6. After flashing and once youre back into your phone, you can install ROM manager and upgrade to whatever you want. Push this via Odin.
This happened to me. I had just had to wipe the cache in recovery and it booted. I would try that first
You have to use darkside wipe and darkside cache wipe. The regular recovery wipe isn't working properly.
You just need to Odin ics.
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Guys he can't get into recovery. How can he flash super wipe etc if he can't? And how will odining ics fix that? He needs to odin the recovery i posted.
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I got it solved you guys. Thanks to all of you. I did another factory reset, and then found the actual T989 Hercules .tar file (the one I used was from a post for ICS from November or December and was actually an Infuse tar file.) and reinstalled it. I was able to after I got cwm recovery old style not touch. Touch was what was giving me problems. So I Odin the new Hercules.tar and then rereinstalled Superuser zip and everything went smooth. The only thing I am seeing as a problem is the phone won't sleep. If I have the phone plugged in, I can't shut it off. It wants to immediately turn itself back on. I like to have it shut down and charge at night sometimes. But it won't let me. Any ideas? Thanks again everybody.
Ok I'm really irritated right about now. I am unable to flash any custom ROMS on my phone. Actually let me rephrase, I can flash them but many things do not work. I have tried Wicked, FreeGS3 and CapROM. They all have the same issues. Let me explain.
Once the ROM is booted I get odd string of numbers and TXT in the status bar, (goes away, think nothing of it)
Root not avail/accessible by root apps.
Home button does not work
Play store missing
standard Google login prompt at first boot is missing, it never asks me to login
Using CWM 5.8.4.5 Touch Recovery
TMO GS3 Rooted with Odin no trip method
I don't get it. I am i just stuck using stock ROM? If anyone can help I would love you forever.
are you clearing /cache and dalvik-cache before you reboot to the custom rom?
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are you clearing /cache and dalvik-cache before you reboot to the custom rom?
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If you mean clearing those after the install (in recovery completes) then no. Basically after the install I just reboot. Obviously clear and reset everything before I install though.
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Ok I'm really irritated right about now. I am unable to flash any custom ROMS on my phone. Actually let me rephrase, I can flash them but many things do not work. I have tried Wicked, FreeGS3 and CapROM. They all have the same issues. Let me explain.
Once the ROM is booted I get odd string of numbers and TXT in the status bar, (goes away, think nothing of it)
Root not avail/accessible by root apps.
Home button does not work
Play store missing
standard Google login prompt at first boot is missing, it never asks me to login
Using CWM 5.8.4.5 Touch Recovery
TMO GS3 Rooted with Odin no trip method
I don't get it. I am i just stuck using stock ROM? If anyone can help I would love you forever.
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Touch recovery might be your problem
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horr1blek1tten said:
Touch recovery might be your problem
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Really? A recovery can cause these kinds of issues. Haven't heard of that before. Any other thoughts? What recovery are you using?
Try TWRP 2.2.1.1
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Really? A recovery can cause these kinds of issues. Haven't heard of that before. Any other thoughts? What recovery are you using?
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Yeah I've heard touch recovery has its problems so I don't use it. Try using the recovery rom manager gives you.
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horr1blek1tten said:
Yeah I've heard touch recovery has its problems so I don't use it. Try using the recovery rom manager gives you.
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I use TWRP and have no problems.
Do a Factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, fix permissions.
If that doesn't work, flash stock and reroot and try again.
I use touch recovery 5.8.4.7 and flashed it with adb. I've flashed almost everything. Cyanogenmod and every other ROM. NEVER had a problem with an instalation. Or even lost IMEI. I think people specifically aren't reading over OP's and figuring out what's safest for their devices and end up with these kind of results. Just my input.
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Use mskips tool for our phones. It does everything you can image and then some. I have been using his tools since the HD2 and no issues to date.
The odd string of numbers that flashes upon boot in the status bar sounds like it's just identifying your external sd card. Totally normal.
OK so nothing worked. TWRP did the same thing. Tried diff ROM, same thing. I flashed back to 100% stock, unrooted ROM. Wiped the phone in the standard Android recovery. Then I rooted again, installed TWRP and flashed my ROM of choice and voila. Everything works. Problem solved. Thanks all for the inputs.
I am having issues with my USB connection. Is it possible to restore to factory settings without connecting to a computer? Wifi on the device works well for downloading roms and I have a micro SD adapter and micro SD that I could use to mount on my PC.
Mobile Odin. Works awesome, check to see if its compatible with the sgs2
Edit: just checked. Its compatible
davwman said:
Mobile Odin. Works awesome, check to see if its compatible with the sgs2
Edit: just checked. Its compatible
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R u sure? I'm not seeing the SGH T989. The only tmo phone I see is the SGH T999. I'm almost sure the T989 is not compatible.
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Odin does not work. Any other ideas? If someone makes a nandroid could I flash that?
Just type *#2767*3855# into your phone pad and it should set it back to factory for you.
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Just type *#2767*3855# into your phone pad and it should set it back to factory for you.
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I am running cyanogenmod v9 and entering this into the dialer did nothing, even after pressing the call button.
Might need to flash the UVLH1 radio 1st before flashing the stock recovery.
1. install/flash stock ROM 1st.
2. Once installation completed Reboot to custom recovery.
3. install/flash stock recovery.zip.
4. Power off to verified stock recovery.
SGH-T989_UVLH1_Stock_Odex_zipaligned_signed.zip
http://d-h.st/MAT
SGH-T989_UVLH1_Stock_Recovery.zip
http://d-h.st/UwL
I found the above links in a different thread, it's not my work, I forgot whose work it is but that should work. You have to flash the uvlh1 radio too. You should also flash the reset for the flash counter. The link to the thread is below.
Edit: The links above are provided by KRZ-2pa. Please thank him.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1578184
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@doctor_leek, were you able to fix your issue? It might be a bad USB cable or is the USB port on your device that is broken?
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Unfortunately I have not been able to resolve the USB issue and am sending in the phone. I realized only after performing the factory reset that this would not delete all of my personal data, including apps, so things like Rom Manager are still in place. All I want to do is completely wipe the device. As far as I know it is impossible to do this without root, and rooting requires functioning USB. Is there any way for me to remove these files or root without USB?
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Unfortunately I have not been able to resolve the USB issue and am sending in the phone. I realized only after performing the factory reset that this would not delete all of my personal data, including apps, so things like Rom Manager are still in place. All I want to do is completely wipe the device. As far as I know it is impossible to do this without root, and rooting requires functioning USB. Is there any way for me to remove these files or root without USB?
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In a earlier post you said you are running CM9. If that is true, you are already rooted. FYI... ROM Manager is baked into the CM ROMS, so factory resetting it will not erase ROM Manager, but will restore the phone to a "wiped" CM9 base.
What recovery are you running, CWM, TWRP, etc...? In either event, you can flash TDJ's Darkside Superwipe and all of your personal data will be wiped.
I am no longer rooted and am back to the stock recovery. Is it still possible to superwipe?
edit: nope, I get a "signature verification failed" error.
for clarification, I flashed SGH-T989_UVLH1_Stock_Odex_zipaligned_signed.zip and SGH-T989_UVLH1_Stock_Recovery.zip from CloudTown3's post, and since then have performed a factory reset on the device. I still have ROM Manager and presumably traces of other apps I would like to remove before sending in the device.
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I am no longer rooted and am back to the stock recovery. Is it still possible to superwipe?
edit: nope, I get a "signature verification failed" error.
for clarification, I flashed SGH-T989_UVLH1_Stock_Odex_zipaligned_signed.zip and SGH-T989_UVLH1_Stock_Recovery.zip from CloudTown3's post, and since then have performed a factory reset on the device. I still have ROM Manager and presumably traces of other apps I would like to remove before sending in the device.
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Did you wipe before flashing the stock zip? Weird, maybe ask KRZ-2pa if he left ROM manager in the stock ROM he made? I flashed another stock ROM on my phone when I had to send it back in and it worked fine, I had zero traces of my custom ROM. Did you make sure you flashed the reset counter zip too?
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Doesn't sound like he wiped. But if he can't get rid of those apps then they are system apps that were included with the Rom which doesn't sound right because why have Rom manager without superuser
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Teo032 said:
Doesn't sound like he wiped. But if he can't get rid of those apps then they are system apps that were included with the Rom which doesn't sound right because why have Rom manager without superuser
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I don't remember my exact steps, but it's possible I forgot to wipe. I did run the flash counter reset, though.
Now I'm stuck. I am sending the phone in, and everything is back to stock but still have Rom manager on the device. Is there anything I could try to root the phone again without a working usb connection?
Thx the posted links worked great!
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Thx the posted links worked great!
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do you mean the rom + recovery zips posted by CloudTown3? After flashing these, do you have Rom Manager installed?
edit: Is there any way to flash a root zip with the stock recovery?
I am close to giving up and sending in the phone. I am unable to root the device or remove Rom Manager by another method. If anyone can assist me in completely restoring the phone to stock without a functioning USB port, that would be much appreciated.
My t989:
Broken usb port
Not rooted
Android 4.0.4
Baseband: T989UVLH1
Kernel: 3.0.8
Build: IMM76D.UVLH1
Recovery: Stock
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I am close to giving up and sending in the phone. I am unable to root the device or remove Rom Manager by another method. If anyone can assist me in completely restoring the phone to stock without a functioning USB port, that would be much appreciated.
My t989:
Broken usb port
Not rooted
Android 4.0.4
Baseband: T989UVLH1
Kernel: 3.0.8
Build: IMM76D.UVLH1
Recovery: Stock
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I flashed those zips earlier today again to see if they were fine and they worked perfectly for me. I'm not sure where it went wrong for you. Hopefully you figure it out somehow dude. maybe go into the stock recovery and factory reset and wipe caches?
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I flashed those zips earlier today again to see if they were fine and they worked perfectly for me. I'm not sure where it went wrong for you. Hopefully you figure it out somehow dude. maybe go into the stock recovery and factory reset and wipe caches?
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You are able to flash these zips from stock recovery? I get file verification errors. I tried factory reset and wipe caches from stock recovery.
I don't fully understand how it works with Rom Manager staying as a default app after I performed a factory reset. I guess I should have removed it manually while still rooted. It is located in "system/app/RomManager.apk". For some reason this file survives a factory reset. If there were any way to remove that file, I think that's all that is necessary. It makes me wonder if there are other things i'm not noticing that should also be removed.
So I was on CM10 and decided to update to the new CM10.1. My smart self decided to let the updater do it's thing and not wipe anything. I got to 10.1 without any visible problems. Then decided to wipe everything as to avoid possible future problems. After wiping, all my gapps just broke and I had to reflash them. Thats when the rest of the problems started. The gapps were still broken so I decided to wipe again and reflash both the rom and gapps. At this point I dont remember exactly but either CWM was freezing at every point or i was stuck in boot animation.
Fast forward a few days later I had to ODIN flash stock rom and trying to flash anything else just keeps me stuck in boot animation.
(Note: any CM backups keep me stuck in boot animation too)
So any help is appreciated ive tried just about everything. I also get a lot of cache errors that Im not sure of in CWM.
Sorry about the long post im fairly new to the site so i didnt know how much detail to include.
You should try TWRP and see if it works.
Ill try it and reply with results tomorrow
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Ill try it and reply with results tomorrow
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What cwmr version are you on? If you still using the 5.x.x.x that's why(have to use the darkside wipe script). Update your recovery through ROM mananger to the latest 6.0.2.9 or to twrp through goo manager.
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You should try TWRP and see if it works.
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thanks! TWRP ftw!!
Solved
Thanks for the helps guys, TWRP worked.