[Q]How to restore STOCK recovery? - Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

How to go back from CWM to stock recovery?
Is there any CWM flashable stuff which reverts the original recovery?

ladislav.heller said:
How to go back from CWM to stock recovery?
Is there any CWM flashable stuff which reverts the original recovery?
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When flashed back to the original stock rom through odin, you get prompted in CWM (once you load it) that when upon leaving, stock recovery will be present. You can either leave cwm with YES to accept or NO to decline and continue rebooting. Note that if pressed NO cwm would be still there. Next time you launch CWM you'll get the same question when trying to quit.
As far as i know flashing back to stock is the only way to get back to stock recovery.
Hope i could be of assistance.
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[Q] flashed CWM via rom manager, now in recovery mode with android&red !

i just flashed cwm to my gnex with rom manager after rooting the phone (without unlocking the bootloader). when i try to boot into the recovery, i get this picture of an android with its chest open and an exclamation. i would assume that the recovery partition was not flashed correctly? are there any suggestions?
thanks for your help in advance!
That just means the recovery was not properly flashed, what you are seeing is stock recovery. Try again via rom manager, or do it manually using fastboot.
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pretty sure u need to unlock the boot loader to write a custom recovery
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jasonpantuliano said:
pretty sure u need to unlock the boot loader to write a custom recovery
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Not true. If you have root, you are good to go.
@OP: the reason CWM is not sticking is because you updated your build with an OTA (or link). When you do this, the update adds 2 files to your ROM that re-flash the stock recovery on every reboot. You need to delete them and re-flash CWM.
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
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efrant said:
Not true. If you have root, you are good to go.
@OP: the reason CWM is not sticking is because you updated your build with an OTA (or link). When you do this, the update adds 2 files to your ROM that re-flash the stock recovery on every reboot. You need to delete them and re-flash CWM.
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
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thanks so much! managed to get itt to stick by getting rid of those.
joshtb86 said:
thanks so much! managed to get itt to stick by getting rid of those.
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You still can boot into CWM Recovery without deleting or change the filenames..
Just before you want to boot into CWM recovery...from CWM App..clck flash recovery..after that click Reboot into recovery.. doing these 2 steps..you will get booting into CWM Recovery yet not losing the stock recovery..
hmanxx said:
You still can boot into CWM Recovery without deleting or change the filenames..
Just before you want to boot into CWM recovery...from CWM App..clck flash recovery..after that click Reboot into recovery.. doing these 2 steps..you will get booting into CWM Recovery yet not losing the stock recovery..
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Yup, you can do that as well. But you would need to flash CWM every time.
Not sure why you are so concerned with having a stock recovery though. The "I want to be able to get the next ota" reason doesn't make any sense at all for these reasons:
1) The link for the next OTA update will show up on XDA before you get it. So in this case, you need either CWM or root to install.
2) Irrespective of whether you have a stock or custom recovery, you will receive notification of the next OTA update regardless. If you have the stock recovery, just click install. If you have CWM, start ROM Manager, install the stock recovery, and then install the update.
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GS3 AT&T CWM flash wont stick (resolved)

Ok so i followed the instructions here. http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-r...gh-t999sgh-i747sph-l710-fail-proofnoob-proof/
I am all rooted and everything seems to be working until i tried to boot to CWM recovery to create a back up I realized I cannot boot into CMW. I was able do while following the instructions. It seems as thought my CWM flash is not sticking? I even tried to boot to recovery from ROM manger but it still takes me to stock recovery. I tried flashing from Rom Manger, it said it was successful and then I was able to boot to CWM, but after a reboot and trying to get back to it from rom manger again or by holding volume up, home and power I cannot get back to it. Why wont my flash stick.
Please help.
abandroid said:
Ok so i followed the instructions here. http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-r...gh-t999sgh-i747sph-l710-fail-proofnoob-proof/
I am all rooted and everything seems to be working until i tried to boot to CWM recovery to create a back up I realized I cannot boot into CMW. I was able do while following the instructions. It seems as thought my CWM flash is not sticking? I even tried to boot to recovery from ROM manger but it still takes me to stock recovery. I tried flashing from Rom Manger, it said it was successful and then I was able to boot to CWM, but after a reboot and trying to get back to it from rom manger again or by holding volume up, home and power I cannot get back to it. Why wont my flash stick.
Please help.
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First, are you sure you are rooted?
Second, how are you trying to flash CWM?
You need to follow the method posted in the ATT Development forum and use the CWM that was developed for AT&T. I am using the d2att touch version.
id_twin said:
First, are you sure you are rooted?
Second, how are you trying to flash CWM?
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Yes I am rooted. I am using Odin3 v3.04 to flash RecoveryGalaxyS3USCanada.tar. I remove the battery once it shows it passes. Hold down volume up, power and home button. It will let me boot to CWM recovery this one time but after that once I reboot I have to redo the steps to get back to CWM recovery. I just tried installing recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.6-d2att.zip. It said it was successful but still no go.
Issues fixed! Apparently for those who have ran the official update by samsung are having this issue where the stock recovery is overwriting CWM recovery after reboot. Here is how to fix the issue. Credit to Max from Galaxys3root
You will need to rename or delete these two files.
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
I just renamed them. I'm thinking once there is a offical update such as jelly bean that I want to update too ill just rename them back so the stock recovery will reload and allow the update.
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EFS backup question using the Toolkit

OK, I want to backup my EFS before I start messing with my phone too much.
I am stock rooted. Only thing I have done is add CWM recovery and rooted.
When I get to the option to back up EFS, it asks me the following:
"Are you using a Custom Rom with insecure boot image or an insecure boot image flashed via odin or recovery?"
I don't know if to reply yes or no. I did use Odin and the file cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar to root. Then flashed CWM-SuperSU-v0.96.zip
Also a separate question. I want to flash TWRP and get rid of CWM recovery. Is there anyway to do that? Thanks.
Side note: I posted this in the toolkit thread but haven't heard from anyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
ottoman1384 said:
OK, I want to backup my EFS before I start messing with my phone too much.
I am stock rooted. Only thing I have done is add CWM recovery and rooted.
When I get to the option to back up EFS, it asks me the following:
"Are you using a Custom Rom with insecure boot image or an insecure boot image flashed via odin or recovery?"
I don't know if to reply yes or no. I did use Odin and the file cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar to root. Then flashed CWM-SuperSU-v0.96.zip
Also a separate question. I want to flash TWRP and get rid of CWM recovery. Is there anyway to do that? Thanks.
Side note: I posted this in the toolkit thread but haven't heard from anyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I use this simple backup EFS http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922473 . Never pop up such thing like you said.
If want go back to stock recovery simple run CF-root or flash stock rom again will put you back stock recovery.
simplelife said:
I use this simple backup EFS http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922473 . Never pop up such thing like you said.
If want go back to stock recovery simple run CF-root or flash stock rom again will put you back stock recovery.
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Thank you!
That was as simple as it gets!!
simplelife said:
I use this simple backup EFS http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1922473 . Never pop up such thing like you said.
If want go back to stock recovery simple run CF-root or flash stock rom again will put you back stock recovery.
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It's yes
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URGENT!

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

[Q] CWM Help

Hey guys, I flashed a Custom Rom, Slimkat. Via CWM, but I wanted to come back from Slimkat to my official rom. I came back successfully to my official Rom, then I like a mod and wanted to flash it, all done. But when I try to go into Recovery mode it opens stock recovery only! But I didn't gave up, I flashed the CWM again via Odin as before. But it opens stock recovery only! Please help me guys. Thanks in advance.
shanwarsi said:
Hey guys, I flashed a Custom Rom, Slimkat. Via CWM, but I wanted to come back from Slimkat to my official rom. I came back successfully to my official Rom, then I like a mod and wanted to flash it, all done. But when I try to go into Recovery mode it opens stock recovery only! But I didn't gave up, I flashed the CWM again via Odin as before. But it opens stock recovery only! Please help me guys. Thanks in advance.
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In my case, when I install CWM recovery using odin, it installs sucessfully, but when my phone reboots after the download, and then I try going to the recovery, I still get the official Stock recovery.
Same
saudkhan75 said:
In my case, when I install CWM recovery using odin, it installs sucessfully, but when my phone reboots after the download, and then I try going to the recovery, I still get the official Stock recovery.
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Same problem I got
shanwarsi said:
Same problem I got
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Not only you, many other users like us got the same problem.
When we install CWM using Odin with Auto-Reboot turned on, it says pass and reboots the phone. But when we go to the recovery mode, the Stock recovery is still present there.
Secondly, when we try installing CWM using Odin with Auto-Reboot unchecked, the phone freezes on the downloading screen after downloading it, so we have to remove the battery, put it back inside, and go to the recovery. At that time we can see CWM recovery, but when we reboots system and then later when we have to come back to recovery more, the stock recovery pops up again.
This kind of problems are being faced by many Samsung Galaxy Grand duos GT-19082 users.
It would be really appreciated if someone knows the solution and could help us.
Thanks!

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