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[Q] CWM Recovery not working

Hello all,
I have been trying to resolve this issue since I rooted and installed CWM on my Epic 4g Touch. I've searched through all the other threads but see to have a copletely new issue with recovery. When I try backing up my existing rom, the back up gives me this error message "Error while backing up boot image/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log Please open rom manager to report the issue"
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help.

Don't use ROM manager.
Install CWM using the Auto Root sticky.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728

thanks!
ok so do I use Rom Manager for anything or can I uninstall?

Stryke_the_Orc said:
ok so do I use Rom Manager for anything or can I uninstall?
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I would just uninstall. There are simple equivalents for what you need done that have been tested extensively with this phone.

Still won't let me backup
I did the CWM through autoroot, now when in recovery mode and trying to perform a backup I get "Error backing up boot image! (Free space: 0mb)"
I reinstalled the Rogue Recovery from autoroot and tried again, but recieved the same error message...
Any idea what's going on here?

Stryke_the_Orc said:
I did the CWM through autoroot, now when in recovery mode and trying to perform a backup I get "Error backing up boot image! (Free space: 0mb)"
I reinstalled the Rogue Recovery from autoroot and tried again, but recieved the same error message...
Any idea what's going on here?
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Do you have a sd card in and if not look at settings and choose internal
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Epix4G said:
Do you have a sd card in and if not look at settings and choose internal
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Yeah i have an external sd card, how do i select the internal card?

Go into mounts and storage and unmount the sd and it will use the internal...you may have to do this every time...is your external broken or full ?
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Sweet!
Turns out I had to re-format my external sd card, worked perfectly! Thanks a ton!

[Q] CWM 6.0.2.5 external SD card probs?

I just updated CWM to 6.0.2.5 and its not reading my external SD card. (32gb).
example: when i try to install something from the external sd i get an error message "E: Can't mount /external_sd/
so i go back and go to "mounts and storage" and select "mount /external_sd and im getting the error message "Error mounting /external_sd!
i rebooted my phone and went into my gallery and all of my sd card contents are still there and playing...
any way to get the external sd card to work with CWM 6.0.2.5???

I had the same issue with cwm I'm sure a lot of people running cwm 6 did as well. I don't have a solution. I would switch to teamwin recovery if I were you..I'm running 3.2.2.x I've had no mounting issues or aroma sticking issues. Until theres a fix for c.w.m 6... I'm on team win. Hope this helps.
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Thanks
I was using CWM and tried formatting multiple times using multiple different programs with no results. I just flashed the latest TWRP via ODIN and BAM!
Success!!!!! My 64gb sdhc class 10 shows in recovery, finally.

Life after CWM
I have been a life long CWM user and lover but after today I am a TWRP fan for life (until something better comes along). I was in a panic until I found this tread! My external_sd was not mounting in CWM. I flashed TWRP from goo manager right over CWM and boom - external_sd is alive and well.
/ AT&T Galaxy Note 2 /

TWRP version?
What version of TWRP you got? Latest TWRP also not working for me? If you can tell me the version you are using, that will greatly help.
pvine said:
I have been a life long CWM user and lover but after today I am a TWRP fan for life (until something better comes along). I was in a panic until I found this tread! My external_sd was not mounting in CWM. I flashed TWRP from goo manager right over CWM and boom - external_sd is alive and well.
/ AT&T Galaxy Note 2 /
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I went back to my GS3 a whole back but if I am remembering correctly I was on 2.4.3 or 2.4.4. I hope you find a solution.
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link and directions pls
Thanks a lot for the immediate reply. Could you pls provide the TWRP recovery image download link and directions to install the same? Will it be possible for me to install using MobileUncle application???
Your help wld be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
pvine said:
I went back to my GS3 a whole back but if I am remembering correctly I was on 2.4.3 or 2.4.4. I hope you find a solution.
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The app is called goo.im, it is in the play store. once installed and open hit you menu key and bring up the settings drop down, fourth option should be install OpenRecoveryScript, hit that and fallow the steps, it will overwrite CWM. That is what I did. Flash at your own risk. Good luck. I attached a screen shot of the menu.
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thanks

[Q] Cannot make nandroid backup on DN3

As mentioned in many posts, usually I make backup before flashing any rom. With Philz 5.15, I was able to make backup of DN3 version 1, 2 and 3. Problem started after installation of DN3 version 3.1. Whenever I try to make backup in Philz, it simply doesn't make any backup and goes to usual menu. I have still 15 Gb space in ext SD card and 6 Gb in phone memory. Any sugesstions?

To elaborate further, problem started when during installation of DN3 v3.1, option of full wipe in aroma was enabled. This led to phone being stuck in Samsung logo boot loop. With difficulty came out of this boot loop. Then found that cannot make backup either via philz or rom manager etc

Even tried TWRP flashing and it also gave following error message
E: error opening /data/data/com.android.settings
E: Error :too many open files

Ok problem sorted after trial and error technique. Problem was that with each flashing, lot of application data remained in data partition despite usual wipes ands even factory resets. So after formating internal drive and re flashing was able to make back up with twrp
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#ForeverAlone..!!
Talking to yourself??
Mate try Philz 5.0.15 and report back..

You are right. Posts were there for two weeks without any input. I tried both philz 6 and 5 but in vain. Not sure why it was not wiping the data partition clean
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lol .... drufan you dont give up
drufan I dont have some answer for you
but I need to know how to make backup of my phone,
I have installed custom rom on my n7100 ... now I just want image file ... like windows ghost,
so that whenever i want ... i can recover it in two minutes
with all my settings
anything like this is possible ... i think i have philz recovery 5 installed
drurfan said:
You are right. Posts were there for two weeks without any input. I tried both philz 6 and 5 but in vain. Not sure why it was not wiping the data partition clean
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Yes you can , open phone in recovery mode, philz menu will be open, go to back up and back whole system on ext sd card. That's it.
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By recovery mode I mean pressing power, home and volume up button simultaneously
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Thanks drufan for the guide

Extreme frustrating problems -.-'..Please help!

Ok so I actually have some really serious problems that I need some help with fast.
My details so you can help me with the following
*Running DN3 3.2 ROM rooted
*MJ5 new bootloader
*TWRP(at the moment)
*AGNi kernel
Soooo, here are the problems I encounter
I cant find a proper way to swap internal with external sd card. Now hear this super strange problem. Both with the script on this forum and the setting on AGNi control app DO INDEED swap the int with the ext sd card but theres a catch. Neither of them can swap the sdcard0/Android/obb(which is the folder I wanna swap -.-')but they swap the rest of the mount point! Soooo strange. As a result theres no space recover by applying this method and the obb folder still stays at int storage.
I really hate MTP on 4.3 Is there any way to enable the freaking USB Mass Storage?
Whenever I move an app to the sd card(settings/manage applications)and I reboot, after the reboot the app is lost and it says "App not installed" whenever I click its icon. This is the situation even after rebooting, I cannot move the app back to internal storage and as a result I have to uninstall and reinstall the app which leads to loss of data.(Note that I'm using a 32GB class 10 sd card)
I cannot make a proper backup and/or make a proper restore. I have tried both latest Philz and latest TWRP, the backup takes around an hour to do(REAALLLYYY long...)and then if I try to restore it says "Restore failed" on both recoveries.(On Philz it said md5 mismatch or something similar and on TWRP it said just restore failed)My only theory is that because I was trying to install a 4.4.2 ROM after making a backup and the recoveries were simply incompatible with KitKat, but other than that I don't understand why this happens.
Sorry for so long post but I really need help here. Thanks in advance!

Don't use the latest version of philz, it takes very long to boot the Rom for the first time which makes one get scared. Use version 5 Philz. After you wipe dalwik cache , go to mounts and format sd card and external card(take backup) then flash the Rom and reboot.
I flashed dn3 v 3.2 with cwm which ended up stucking at boot screen. Then I was told to use philz 5,now it works the works like charm. If I was you now I would flash the stock rom (unroot ) then root and flash dn3. Keep the stock kernel which comes with the rom. I didn't flashed mj5 boot loader instead I flashed Dr ketan's Wi-Fi patch. I had problem switching on Wi-Fi. Hope you get your problem resolved this is an amazing rom!
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ironmanxda said:
Don't use the latest version of philz, it takes very long to boot the Rom for the first time which makes one get scared. Use version 5 Philz. After you wipe dalwik cache , go to mounts and format sd card and external card(take backup) then flash the Rom and reboot.
I flashed dn3 v 3.2 with cwm which ended up stucking at boot screen. Then I was told to use philz 5,now it works the works like charm. If I was you now I would flash the stock rom (unroot ) then root and flash dn3. Keep the stock kernel which comes with the rom. I didn't flashed mj5 boot loader instead I flashed Dr ketan's Wi-Fi patch. I had problem switching on Wi-Fi. Hope you get your problem resolved this is an amazing rom!
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Thanks for your reply, but you didn't help me with any of my problems...

Hi NickVXD, I faced the same and was very disturbed, but finally it worked, the obb is swaped. I'm also using Agni latest.
What I did
1st I disabled the option from agni control app
Then rebooted
Then went to CWM
Flash the latest script of mattiadj, this one
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivl678c67r7z57g/extsd2internalsd_fat32_gs3_8.zip
..and the obb folder is swaped.
Regarding Proper Backup & Restore
During a restore, from CWM misc nandroid settings, uncheck md5 checksum
Then restore.
It'll restore.
Hope it helps.
Regards.
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nitol said:
Hi NickVXD, I faced the same and was very disturbed, but finally it worked, the obb is swaped. I'm also using Agni latest.
What I did
1st I disabled the option from agni control app
Then rebooted
Then went to CWM
Flash the latest script of mattiadj, this one
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivl678c67r7z57g/extsd2internalsd_fat32_gs3_8.zip
..and the obb folder is swaped.
Regarding Proper Backup & Restore
During a restore, from CWM misc nandroid settings, uncheck md5 checksum
Then restore.
It'll restore.
Hope it helps.
Regards.
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@nitol Thanks a lot for the obb solution, will check it later and report back. The problem with CWM isn't getting rid of the md5sum but to find a way to make the backup not corrupted. I had made a backup and then when I restored it said md5mismatch. So I removed md5sum check from settings and when the restore was done, I rebooted and phone stuck at note 2 screen. So the problem is the corrupted backup and not the md5. Also backup took 50-55 minutes to finish. Is that normal?? Thanks again.
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NickVXD said:
@nitol Thanks a lot for the obb solution, will check it later and report back. The problem with CWM isn't getting rid of the md5sum but to find a way to make the backup not corrupted. I had made a backup and then when I restored it said md5mismatch. So I removed md5sum check from settings and when the restore was done, I rebooted and phone stuck at note 2 screen. So the problem is the corrupted backup and not the md5. Also backup took 50-55 minutes to finish. Is that normal?? Thanks again.
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No, it's abnormal, backup should take maxinum 25 mnts.
..and after flashing the ext2int sd script, your extsd is this
/storage/sdcard0
From there you should able to install apks.
Regards.
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nitol said:
No, it's abnormal, backup should take maxinum 25 mnts.
..and after flashing the ext2int sd script, your extsd is this
/storage/sdcard0
From there you should able to install apks.
Regards.
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Soo.. @nitol Any suggestions on how to fix this problem? Also when you used touchwiz what recovery and what recovery version did you use? Maybe installing the same recovery as you will solve my issue. I'm using DN3 4.3 TW ROM btw. Thanks.
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NickVXD said:
Soo.. @nitol Any suggestions on how to fix this problem? Also when you used touchwiz what recovery and what recovery version did you use? Maybe installing the same recovery as you will solve my issue. I'm using DN3 4.3 TW ROM btw. Thanks.
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Use Philz 5.15, it's the best, even better than the latest philz.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9u8ndlypk8yuiky/philz_touch_5.15.0-n7100.zip
Regards.
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nitol said:
Use Philz 5.15, it's the best, even better than the latest philz.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9u8ndlypk8yuiky/philz_touch_5.15.0-n7100.zip
Regards.
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Is this version of Philz recovery compatible with 4.4.x ROMs?

NickVXD said:
Is this version of Philz recovery compatible with 4.4.x ROMs?
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Not sure but hope so.
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Unable to Format /data

Hi all, this is my first post here. Unfortunately it is an issue, but I have been flashing roms for a while now.
So last night after flashing Ditto Note for my note 2 on att, I decided I didn't like it and wanted to revert back to my previous rom. However, when I am trying to format data in recovery it just hangs. I have tried both on CWM and TWRP... twrp says: "error too many open files"
And obviously this issue has caused many other issues for me such as being unable to flash anything else as anything else will just get stuck on the bootscreen.
I remember somewhere that there is a flashable zip that will specifically format everything for you, but I dont remember what this was called.
But any help would be great
Flashed stock 4.3 via Odin and it still doesn't boot past samsung screen

Just tried using zoot's super wipe
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1983489
and once again it is stuck on data wipe

xsnes said:
Hi all, this is my first post here. Unfortunately it is an issue, but I have been flashing roms for a while now.
So last night after flashing Ditto Note for my note 2 on att, I decided I didn't like it and wanted to revert back to my previous rom. However, when I am trying to format data in recovery it just hangs. I have tried both on CWM and TWRP... twrp says: "error too many open files"
And obviously this issue has caused many other issues for me such as being unable to flash anything else as anything else will just get stuck on the bootscreen.
I remember somewhere that there is a flashable zip that will specifically format everything for you, but I dont remember what this was called.
But any help would be great
Flashed stock 4.3 via Odin and it still doesn't boot past samsung screen
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Did you make a backup or anything you can try to just do to maybe fix the bad files that didn't wanna delete
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Yes I have tried doing a restore.
IN specifics this is the exact log I am getting from as soon as i start it up TWRP:
E:error opening '/data/data/com.google.android.marvin.talkback////////////////
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E: error: Too many open files
I tried deleting this folder from twrp file manager and the phone just reboots

In twrp try just deleting just that file maybe if you haven't already
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I've tried TWRP and Aroma file manager now. Aroma file manager detected over 998 files in that folder until it froze... I've also tried moving the folder into my external SD card in which case there also happens to be 335 files until it froze as well.
How does a rom manage to install thousands of blank folders??

Are you able to flash a rom or you stuck at the recovery?
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terpin32 said:
Are you able to flash a rom or you stuck at the recovery?
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Yes. I have flashed and booted into a Rom a couple times while having this 'data wipe' issue. However i feel like it is the luck of the draw because sometimes it boots, other times it hangs at the samsung screen lol
Should I go ahead and try to install a rom?

Is the "wipe" command issued by the recovery simply "rm -rf" or an actual format command with mkfs.ext4?

Darkshado said:
Is the "wipe" command issued by the recovery simply "rm -rf" or an actual format command with mkfs.ext4?
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The logs say that it uses "make_ext4fs function"

Can I just go through the data folder with file explorer and delete everything else there?
OR is there another super wipe style zip that I don't know about ?

It probably won't let you
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solved
Issue has been solved. Wiped phone with a script? (i think) from a flashable zip contained from ANDROID HD rom for the note 2
for those that might need it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040941 (3rd post down)
This script does not use AROMA which has crashed for me everytime I tried to wipe with it. Really useful
Now currently running aosp rom cause I hate the new TW in 4.3 and 4.4 lol