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Need help I installed midnight rom v2.2 today I did the recommended wipes as instructed. I had cwm 4.0.1.5 and did my backup twice. When I installed midnight every thing went good but then during reboot it just rebooted back into cwm 5.0.2.3 I've pulled the battery and nothing. I can't even get into my restore files ......did flashing the new cwm erase the backup?????I'm stuck what do I do???????
in the older 4.x cwm backups are on the internal sd card
in the newer 5.x cwm backups are on the external card.
(may be the other way around)
as long as you didnt format the actual sd cards your alright the backups are still there.
i think from cwm you can mount both to a pc and just copy the clockwork folder from one to the other. though i may be wrong.
might be easiest to odin a kernel that has the old 4x cwm
check the dev section there are a few floating around.
edit this kernel has the old cwm as both a flashable zip from inside cwm
and a .tar from odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284092
sometimes it takes more than 1 wipe/format to fully clear or you could have a bad download.
there are also a few full system .tar files that will get you back up and running on a stock system.
Thanks I used Odin to reflash a kernel with the cwm I needed and was able to restore. Ill try to flash midnight against knowing I'm this now!
no prob.
may think about copying the backups to the other sd card too.
that way they are still there even on the newer 5x cwm if you have a problem.
Would it work if I upgrade to zedomax v6.02 it comes with cwm5 same as what comes in midnight rom2.2 that way I don't go through the same problem if it happens again?
it should but your best bet would be to update to that kernel with cwm5
then create a new backup before continuing.
If your phone boots into CWM after a battery pull, just select reboot system now and that will boot the phone up. I see that on my phone as well at times. Not sure what causes it but that always fixes it for me.
ptfdmedic said:
If your phone boots into CWM after a battery pull, just select reboot system now and that will boot the phone up. I see that on my phone as well at times. Not sure what causes it but that always fixes it for me.
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I tried that about 5 times it just kept booting into cwm. Maybe a bad download im not sure, but ill try it again and see if it works this time around. Thanks!
Problem solved i just reflashed the rom and it booted up just fine. It works great. Very good rom!
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I was running CM9 and then went to MIUI and then back to CM9. Ever since I have not been able to do a proper update to the CM9. Got fed up with it and tried to roll it back to one of the Nandroid backups. It got stuck for hours. Pulled the battery. Tried to go through the process of installing CM9 again fresh. Used Darkside SuperWipe and it kept freezing on "Wiping Cache" and the same thing when I use CWM (v6.0.1.4)! I have attached two screen shots. It reads:
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
Then when I ask it to format the cache it get frozen.
How can I fix the cache? I cannot boot into CM9 or anything for that matter. I just get the awesome little Cyan Dude and the warp background flying at me continually until I pull the battery. Can anyone help? Is there any way to get ADB to work with out turning on USB Debugging on the phone?
Same issue with Clockworkmod Recovery
Sorry to say I can't answer your question, but actually just downloaded cm9 and was trying to factory reset in order to prepare to flash it and ran into the same cache issue. I tried everything and still couldn't get around it, almost bricked my phone, got stuck in a loop. Hadn't even done anything yet, except download the cm9 Rom. Also freezes when trying to wipe cache and when trying to restore a backup when it gets to the cache. I'll be keeping an eye on your post, and Ill let you know if I figure anything out as well.
I hate to say it but... use TWRP. It looks and works better. Trust me.
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whatiznt said:
I hate to say it but... use TWRP. It looks and works better. Trust me.
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I trust you but on the Team Win Recovery Project's changelog you can see that it has not been updated in almost a year! CWM is updated much more frequently and also I enjoy having the touch version! Very convenient.
I've been reading that CWM v6.0.1.4 is causing problems with our phone. Would advise downgrading back to 5.0.2.7 and use the darkside scripts to wipe. I haven't had an issue with this version since it was released (other than needing to use darkside scripts lol).
jalight27 said:
Just downloaded cm9 and was trying to factory reset in order to prepare to flash it and ran into the same cache issue. I tried everything and still couldn't get around it, almost bricked my phone, got stuck in a loop. Hadn't even done anything yet, except download the cm9 Rom. Also freezes when trying to wipe cache and when trying to restore a backup when it gets to the cache. I'll be keeping an eye on your post, and Ill let you know if I figure anything out as well.
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Thank you my friend. What you describe is exactly what happened to me. Tell me, what version of CWM Recovery do you have? Were you coming from stock? Which CM9 was it? Nightly, stable?
mintharis said:
I've been reading that CWM v6.0.1.4 is causing problems with our phone. Would advise downgrading back to 5.0.2.7 and use the darkside scripts to wipe. I haven't had an issue with this version since it was released (other than needing to use darkside scripts lol).
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Please pardon my ignorance as I am relatively new at all this. How do you downgrade CWM? I am unable to boot the phone into the ROM. Can it be done through Recovery? ODIN?
I've looked around but I can't find a download for 5.0.2.7-- at least not one that's labeled specifically for our phone. It can be done in many different ways, flashing via recovery or Odin would definitely work, just need to find the right file.
Same version as you've got. Was actually coming from Jedi Mind Trick v8 and was going with the nighty. I loaded a backup of my stock ICS, which of course froze during the restore once it got to the cache, but I let it sit for like 15 min or so and then reset it and surprisingly it loaded up fine despite the fact that I had to reset it during the restore. I'm trying to follow up with the advice these two guys gave me on my post (really the same thing they've told you). With my extremely limited knowledge in this field I'm still working it all out and trying to make sure I ask the stupid questions so as not to mess anything up, well at least not too bad, lol.
mintharis said:
I've looked around but I can't find a download for 5.0.2.7-- at least not one that's labeled specifically for our phone. It can be done in many different ways, flashing via recovery or Odin would definitely work, just need to find the right file.
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Go into rom manager and scroll down to previous versions
VoiD_Dweller said:
Go into rom manager and scroll down to previous versions
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I don't have ROM manager installed. Does it provide a tar that can be flashed via Odin?
Newer Recovery
Clockworkmod 6 doesn't need the Darkside tools anymore. I had a similar problem but it was causing my phone to lock up. Just try using the regular cache wipe and dalvik cache wipe and see if that works for you.
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I've been reading that CWM v6.0.1.4 is causing problems with our phone. Would advise downgrading back to 5.0.2.7 and use the darkside scripts to wipe. I haven't had an issue with this version since it was released (other than needing to use darkside scripts lol).
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I can confirm this, I have a samsung galaxy S II and I was having HUGE problems with the newer version of CWM. Cache would not clear at all even with darksides super wipe. My CM9 was stuck in a boot loop because I had forgotten to clear my cache and factory reset, and I was not able to do this at all, so i thought i was screwed.
However what i did was flash an older version of CWM (5.0.2.7) through odin, and BAM I was able to clear all my data with no problem and reflash CM9. Works perfectly now.
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I can confirm this, I have a samsung galaxy S II and I was having HUGE problems with the newer version of CWM. Cache would not clear at all even with darksides super wipe. My CM9 was stuck in a boot loop because I had forgotten to clear my cache and factory reset, and I was not able to do this at all, so i thought i was screwed.
However what i did was flash an older version of CWM (5.0.2.7) through odin, and BAM I was able to clear all my data with no problem and reflash CM9. Works perfectly now.
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Can you please provide a link for the 5.0.2.7 tar you flashed?
mintharis said:
I've been reading that CWM v6.0.1.4 is causing problems with our phone. Would advise downgrading back to 5.0.2.7 and use the darkside scripts to wipe. I haven't had an issue with this version since it was released (other than needing to use darkside scripts lol).
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CWM v6.0.1.4 has pretty much made my phone useless. When in Recovery I can't even scroll down or up. I even tried restarting my phone to downgrade but I have no response from my MENU, HOME, BACK or SEARCH button.
WORD OF ADVICE. PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM CWM v6.0.1.4.
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I was running CM9 and then went to MIUI and then back to CM9. Ever since I have not been able to do a proper update to the CM9. Got fed up with it and tried to roll it back to one of the Nandroid backups. It got stuck for hours. Pulled the battery. Tried to go through the process of installing CM9 again fresh. Used Darkside SuperWipe and it kept freezing on "Wiping Cache" and the same thing when I use CWM (v6.0.1.4)! I have attached two screen shots. It reads:
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
Then when I ask it to format the cache it get frozen.
How can I fix the cache? I cannot boot into CM9 or anything for that matter. I just get the awesome little Cyan Dude and the warp background flying at me continually until I pull the battery. Can anyone help? Is there any way to get ADB to work with out turning on USB Debugging on the phone?
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Simple Solution is that the Cache in your device is large, it has to be cleaned, For this use Darkside cache wipe. It Solves the problem.
suffuciently hungeom
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Can you please provide a link for the 5.0.2.7 tar you flashed?
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Here you go,
Look at step 6, it will have links to the tar based on your carrier. Its actually 5.0.2.6, works just the same though.
http://theunlockr.com/2011/12/01/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-all-versions/
I hope this helps you!
That happened to me as well when I was going to update to CM10. The faq for CM10 says you need to update to a Touch version of CWM which ROM Manager really wanted to install the Touch version. CWM shows it's version 6 and the menus were different but when I was finally able to get a ROM to boot in Safe Mode it reported CWM as being version 5.x. I could not mount or dismount the Cache in CWM. ODIN brought it back to stock but I messed around with the partition checkbox and hard bricked it. Otherwise it looked as tho things would have been ok after using ODIN to start over.
Darkside's wipe wouldn't work (either version) in this case.
screw cwm im going to twrp
ok same thing happened to me..but there are files i need in the phone and i dont think i want to use cwm after this...so can i use odin to flash it to twrp and recover my files through the twrp usb mount?
(lol nvm, i flashed a older version of cwm through odin and then recovered my files then got twrp)
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I've been reading that CWM v6.0.1.4 is causing problems with our phone. Would advise downgrading back to 5.0.2.7 and use the darkside scripts to wipe. I haven't had an issue with this version since it was released (other than needing to use darkside scripts lol).
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Like I said in my earlier post had your exact problem and did exactly what was recommend here, and it worked beautifully. Solved all my problems, no residual effects to speak of. Now I can flash my roms in peace.
Hey guys all my restores are failing half way through. It also fails if I try to factory reset or wipe dalvik but wipe cache works fine It fails if i try flash any ROM.. And if I try to boot to system it shows SG logo then black screen I'm really kind of lost here. I've already tried flashing 4 different versions of Twrp/clockworkmod and I get the same result every time. The roms I'm trying to flash were running fine on my device before this happened. Never seen this before please help thank you.
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djwuh said:
Hey guys all my restores are failing half way through. It also fails if I try to factory reset or wipe dalvik but wipe cache works fine It fails if i try flash any ROM.. And if I try to boot to system it shows SG logo then black screen I'm really kind of lost here. I've already tried flashing 4 different versions of Twrp/clockworkmod and I get the same result every time. The roms I'm trying to flash were running fine on my device before this happened. Never seen this before please help thank you.
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is this an i747 or i747m (carrier?)? what was the last thing you did to the device/had you just modified or flashed something? were you using recovery or odin to flash the 4 different recoveries?
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is this an i747 or i747m (carrier?)? what was the last thing you did to the device/had you just modified or flashed something? were you using recovery or odin to flash the 4 different recoveries?
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I have sgh i747 at&t us model. Unlocked Sim for Tmobile use. Before having problems. I flashed vanilla rootbox att nightly. it was running fine then I flashed acid audio mod. And it worked but not well with my player of choice. So i flashed a restore from fright before the sound mod. And all I got was 2 different Samsung logos then black screen. At this point Twrp started asking for a password. I tried an older backup. (rootbox stable) and it booted fine. Everything seemed to be working. But when I rebooted again I got the 1St SG logo then black screen. Now recovery doesn't read anything on the internal card as well as the other problems I stated. I used mskips toolkit to flash Twrp originally and now I've been flashing back and forth between recoveries using recovery flashable zips. Also every time I flash roms or restore I did factory wipe/cache/dalvik and after I started having these issues I tried wiping system and that didn't help either. Thanks for trying to help
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what recovery are you currently sitting on?
Twrp 2.4.4.0 is what I started with and now I'm back on it but from a flashable zip this time instead of whatever mskips toolkit used
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here is the link to an odin flashable twrp 2.5.0.0 tar: http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/d2att/openrecovery-twrp-2.5.0.0-d2att.tar
and here's a recovery flashable twrp 2.5.0.0 zip link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1917517&d=1367104589
if you flash in recovery, be sure to reboot recovery in order to boot into the new version. i'm sure you know most of this but i'm just trying to cover all the bases.
is twrp still asking for the password or were you able to get passed that?
if you have a micro sd card, you could place a ROM/gapps on it, flash this latest twrp recovery from odin or recovery, perform a full wipe (cache, dalvik, data, system) and flash the ROM/gapps. see if that remedies your situation.
if you dont have a micro sd card, and it appears you've wiped the system so there's no OS, you may have to odin back to rooted stock and start over. keep me posted
Still no luck. i flashed twrp2.5 through recovery and after rebooting back to recovery it still asked for a password so I hit cancel at which point it lets me continue and after full wipe as you described above and a fresh flash of stable rootbox 3.9.1 (md5 matched) im still in the same situation. also factory wipe says failed still
I think at this point if it were me, I would Odin flash back to stock then start from scratch. Pain in the butt I know, and no guarantee, but usually flash back to stock is a safe bet.
Another option is to grab the Odin flashable cwm tar in the "root from recovery" method in the general section. Flash the tar, boot into recovery and flash the 6.0.3.1 zip in post #2 of my signature link. Reboot recovery and try wiping/flashing again.
Since you're not entering the password in TWRP, I think that's why you're not getting successful wipes and flashes.
now I used the power+home+vol down button combo to see if bootloader would start. it gave me a choice to download a custom rom or cancel so I canceled and the phone rebooted and i was blessed with the beautifull rootbox animation. my rootbox 3.9.1 nandroid booted and seems to be running fine. Now Im afraid to reboot in fear it will start the whole process over again. any suggestions? or should I just leave it powered on for the rest of its life lol
edit: well I got up the guff to reboot and everything came back fine again WTH. this is so weird, I wish I had a clue what happened. anyways I just wanted to thank you guys one more time for you help. hopefully we wont have to come back to this thread. Peace ;-]
Man that is strange. If that ever happens again it would be interesting to see the log if you can get it. I wonder if there were issues mounting a partition and/or your SD card. If TWRP and CWM were both having an error and the files were on your SD card that would probably be the only thing in common that could cause something like this. Some Transformers seemed to have the password issue, but doesn't seem related to your experience. Glad you got it sorted.
Ok Id like to start with the fact that I have searched for this on google and the forums. I did find a modded recovery img but still not much as far as why/what caused this. Heres the details:
decided today was the day I was gonna flash from stock 4.1.2 to PA 3.99. I revisited the thread to make sure on the development, and to see if there was any special instructions. Just to be safe I also stopped by the TWRP thread and found that update info as well and did what was needed in Goo Manager. So with updated recovery a fresh backup, I went forward with flashing. Wiped everything, flash PA then Gapps, then BMS well....no issue. Booted to system like normal setup google and went about my way tweaking with visual preferences. I then had to reboot, because PA_Gapps needed to be flashed in the PA udpater, so I let it do its thing....this is where things turn bad. Rebooting to recovery went fine as it flashed the new gapps....but after the reboot it just STAYED at the samsung logo "booped by BMS"....nothing else. left it for 10 mins, still nothing happened.
I then try to recover with my backup...nope i couldnt see anything in TWRP file manager. It said eMMC, sd-ext, sdcard, root, boot, data, cache, datadata and usb-otg were empty directories. I cant do anything right now. I've really never had to deal with odin or ADB and its lookin more and more like Im gonna have to go that method.
Does anyone have any insight on this issue? Thx
Yes all your backups and your root files gave been moved to the emulated folder. That happens when you flash 4.2 or 4.3 using your recovery your going to have to search your internal storage until you find it. Or you can connect the phone to the computer access your internal storage abd copy everything to the 0 folder directory. But if you go into recovery wipe everything again and search your internal storage you will find the rom and you should be able to reflash. The gapps is what messed you up.
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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Yes all your backups and your root files gave been moved to the emulated folder. That happens when you flash 4.2 or 4.3 using your recovery your going to have to search your internal storage until you find it. Or you can connect the phone to the computer access your internal storage abd copy everything to the 0 folder directory. But if you go into recovery wipe everything again and search your internal storage you will find the rom and you should be able to reflash. The gapps is what messed you up.
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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Thank you, but i cant flash anything.
I just tried wiping and it said failed. I tried factory reset and a full wipe both failed. I can odin files but i cant flash a damn thing. I cant find clockwork tar to odin for the life of me. Any directory I need, seems to have access cut off to it through recovery.
I actually searched the WHOLE filesystem and did not find folder 0. Same for any of the prior files i had in the internal storage.
As we speak i just reflashed PA 3.99 successfully, when i tried wiping dalvik it failed, still couldnt access most directories and factory wipe failed too.
Any ideas?
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Thank you, but i cant flash anything.
I just tried wiping and it said failed. I tried factory reset and a full wipe both failed. I can odin files but i cant flash a damn thing. I cant find clockwork tar to odin for the life of me. Any directory I need, seems to have access cut off to it through recovery.
I actually searched the WHOLE filesystem and did not find folder 0. Same for any of the prior files i had in the internal storage.
As we speak i just reflashed PA 3.99 successfully, when i tried wiping dalvik it failed, still couldnt access most directories and factory wipe failed too.
Any ideas?
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Let me get you a link to odin twrp tgat way you can odin the recovery on just in case it was corrupted then I suggest flashing a TW rom just to get everything working
Here http://d-h.st/of8 this is tar file for twrp
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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Let me get you a link to odin twrp tgat way you can odin the recovery on just in case it was corrupted then I suggest flashing a TW rom just to get everything working
Here http://d-h.st/of8 this is tar file for twrp
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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ok....redownloading TW 4.1.2.
eMMC, sd-ext, sdcard, root, boot, data, cache, datadata and usb-otg were empty
and going to odin your link
Could this have to do with TWRP asking for a password on recovery boot?
fixed with downgrade to twrp 2.4.4.0 then full wipe then back up to 2.6.1.0. Thanks for your response
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Let me get you a link to odin twrp tgat way you can odin the recovery on just in case it was corrupted then I suggest flashing a TW rom just to get everything working
Here http://d-h.st/of8 this is tar file for twrp
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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Well I really mistaken when I thought it was fixed. I can just format data and it returns to normal boot but only one time. After that boot into system any reboot causes the same bootlock or password request @ twrp start. What am I missing? I haven't formatted every partition, updated and downgraded twrp, defaulted everything and still same issue. Does this have to do with TWRPs new encryption feature? I can't downgrade TWRP right now but that's my next to do. When did they start recovery encryption? pls&thx and yes i search everytime for anyone feeling that this is not worth helping.
I dont try to bother anybody on here unless i have to, and when i have to....well not too often does there seem to be much kindness behind the help. This isn't a stab at anyone, just observations of other peoples requests along with mine.
Again thx.
Flash to clockwork. Been working fine ever since
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I can't get the system to boot up after flashing the Wicked rom. It booted only once but now I am stuck at the Galaxy S4 logo screen at start up. I have tried flashing to another rom but still its not working. It stays stuck at the Galaxy S4 logo. I have done a clean wipe too just to make sure. Any suggestions on fixing this. The recovery I am using is TWRP. I tried clockwork mod but it does not mount my SD card.
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I can't get the system to boot up after flashing the Wicked rom. It booted only once but now I am stuck at the Galaxy S4 logo screen at start up. I have tried flashing to another rom but still its not working. It stays stuck at the Galaxy S4 logo. I have done a clean wipe too just to make sure. Any suggestions on fixing this. The recovery I am using is TWRP. I tried clockwork mod but it does not mount my SD card.
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Are you using a 64GB sd card in exFAT format? If so try booting without the sd card. If that don't work you might need to Odin back to stock. Using stock recovery wipe data and start over again.
Also what version of TWRP are you using?
I recommend Philz CWM version as TWRP gave me trouble when using with Aroma installer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322676
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Are you using a 64GB sd card in exFAT format? If so try booting without the sd card. If that don't work you might need to Odin back to stock. Using stock recovery wipe data and start over again.
Also what version of TWRP are you using?
I recommend Philz CWM version as TWRP gave me trouble when using with Aroma installer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322676
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Didn't work. The philz does not even boot into the recovery at all. It just sits at the logo with recovery booting blue text at the top left. Basically at this point I could go back to stock just to have something usuable at this point.
Alright, no need to worry bud, as long as it turns on, you're good, ha.
If you want to go back to pure stock, flash this via ODIN: http://hotfile.com/dl/213546261/7ab...-SGH-M919-TMB-M919UVUAMDL-1366964131.zip.html
It is the full stock firmware.
You can follow my guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31890391&postcount=2
But instead of downloading the file in step 1, download the one I listed above.
I had trouble using twrp also, im currently running wicked 6.1 without any issues but here's what I did when I was stuck installing. I went back and cleared data factory reset, and cleared cash then went to my nandroid back up and reinstalled backup. Then I went and downloaded cwm touch recovery installed, then I wipe data factory reset and reinstalled the rom wicked and it worked. Booted up just fine with different recovery. I was having other issues with twrp so cwm worked well. Hope this helps.
Why anyone uses TWRP boggles my mind. CWM official is all you need ^_^
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Why anyone uses TWRP boggles my mind. CWM official is all you need ^_^
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There's two kind of people in this world.. :laugh:
I'm with you, though. CWM touch is epic, lol.
Agreed. Twrp is not stable, use cwm.
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