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[Q] Can't get into recovery

Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you for taking the time to read this!
I have tried to do research on my problem but can't solve it...
The problem is that i can't get into recovery to backup my stock rom.
Specs: HTC Wildfire S, marvel A510e, S-on, Bootloader unlocked, Rooted, Radio-7.54.39.28M, Andriod 2.3.5, HTC sence: 2.1, Current Recovery: ClockworkMod 5.0.2.8, Super SU.
I followed the guide: "How to root the Wildfire S with S-ON"on Andriod forums by CafeKampuchia, thumbs up for him, It got me this far but, now I want to do the thing for which I rooted my phone in the first place: Installing a costum ROM. Therefore I want to backup my stock ROM.
When I open in HBOOT (1.09.0099) and select recovery, the phone reboots and i see the HTC screen, this disappears after 2 sec and my screen turns black... (phone is still on beceause the buttons on the bottom are lighted.)
When I boot the normal way and try to boot into recovery trough CWM ROM manager same thing happen. Also flashed this recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229 Same thing happed...
So how can i backup my stock rom?
Many thanks in advantage!

are your fastboot and debugung boxes checked on?

Fikus011 said:
are your fastboot and debugung boxes checked on?
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Yes, debugging is on. and what do you mean with fastboot?
If i open in Hboot, i can open fastboot and flash something. Thats no problem but i can not get into recovery....

samkuiper9 said:
Yes, debugging is on. and what do you mean with fastboot?
If i open in Hboot, i can open fastboot and flash something. Thats no problem but i can not get into recovery....
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settings>power>fastboot-check that too,then CWM and reboot in recovery...there you have option backup and restore...choose that,choose backup..and wait till its done...reboot and you have you current rom backed up...
Hope this help you..if not tell me what recovery version did you flashed
P.S maybe its better to pull out battery when you chck fastboot in settings...power off your phone and pull out batt...then put it in and hold power key and volume down at the same time...then choose recovery

Had some break trough with my phone.. I flashed my stock recovery from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1426611
Now when i opened recovery in hboot it gave the triangle with an ! sign. Than i pushed the power button and it gave me: Android system recovery <3e> with 4 options to chose.
Reboot system now
Aplly update from sdcard
Wip[e date/factory reset
Wip chase partition
And finaly in yellow it said: E: Cant open /cache/recovery/command
So where do i go from here?

Flashed stock recovery
Had some break trough with my phone.. I flashed my stock recovery from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426611
Now when i opened recovery in hboot it gave the triangle with an ! sign. Than i pushed the power button and it gave me: Android system recovery <3e> with 4 options to chose.
Reboot system now
Aplly update from sdcard
Wip[e date/factory reset
Wip chase partition
And finaly in yellow it said: E: Cant open /cache/recovery/command
So where do i go from here?

samkuiper9 said:
Had some break trough with my phone.. I flashed my stock recovery from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426611
Now when i opened recovery in hboot it gave the triangle with an ! sign. Than i pushed the power button and it gave me: Android system recovery <3e> with 4 options to chose.
Reboot system now
Aplly update from sdcard
Wip[e date/factory reset
Wip chase partition
And finaly in yellow it said: E: Cant open /cache/recovery/command
So where do i go from here?
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REBOOT SYSTEM NOW
Then flash clockword mod from rom manager app again
DO NOT WIPE ANYTHING!!!

Fikus011 said:
settings>power>fastboot-check that too,then CWM and reboot in recovery...there you have option backup and restore...choose that,choose backup..and wait till its done...reboot and you have you current rom backed up...
Hope this help you..if not tell me what recovery version did you flashed
P.S maybe its better to pull out battery when you chck fastboot in settings...power off your phone and pull out batt...then put it in and hold power key and volume down at the same time...then choose recovery
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I can't get into recovery.. either ways. trough CWM or via hboot.
I just reflashed my stockrom and flashed the following recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213229
This actually made it worse, recovery just kills the phone... So think i'm going to reflash stock recovery again.

Fikus011 said:
REBOOT SYSTEM NOW
Then flash clockword mod from rom manager app again
DO NOT WIPE ANYTHING!!!
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Ok i did this, (after i flashed stock recovery again. x'D) it told me that it was succesfull. So i rebootet in Hboot and tried recovery.. same story all over again.
HTC screen than black screen

samkuiper9 said:
Ok i did this, (after i flashed stock recovery again. x'D) it told me that it was succesfull. So i rebootet in Hboot and tried recovery.. same story all over again.
HTC screen than black screen
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Rebooted into recovery from rom manager not hboot?
delete that PG zip from sd card and turn off fastboot...try that,i dont realy know what is going on as these steps should work.
did you check if you are still unlock since you flashed RUU?

CWM Recovery problems on some WS's
samkuiper9 said:
Ok i did this, (after i flashed stock recovery again. x'D) it told me that it was succesfull. So i rebootet in Hboot and tried recovery.. same story all over again.
HTC screen than black screen
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Hello!
We have already faced this problem. We cannot find the reason why on some devices CWM is not working. It is characteristic for some devices. The decision is not found yet. We used all known methods for today, and all CWM versions (5.0.2.6 & 5.0.2.8), but are not present result.
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You might try placing update zip on root of your sdcard and choose apply update from sdcard.
Too bad it doesn't have reinstall packages.
samkuiper9 said:
Had some break trough with my phone.. I flashed my stock recovery from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1426611
Now when i opened recovery in hboot it gave the triangle with an ! sign. Than i pushed the power button and it gave me: Android system recovery <3e> with 4 options to chose.
Reboot system now
Aplly update from sdcard
Wip[e date/factory reset
Wip chase partition
And finaly in yellow it said: E: Cant open /cache/recovery/command
So where do i go from here?
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Sent from my HTC_A510c using XDA App

Other ways to back up stock rom?
junxracr said:
You might try placing update zip on root of your sdcard and choose apply update from sdcard.
Too bad it doesn't have reinstall packages.
Sent from my HTC_A510c using XDA App
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Thanks, to do what exactly? Use it to rename recovery file to update.zip and flash it that way?
CWM is installed, even different versions.. Any damn problem is i can';t get into recovery.
Is there any other way to backup stock ROM besides recovery?!?!?!

Uksus17 said:
Hello!
We have already faced this problem. We cannot find the reason why on some devices CWM is not working. It is characteristic for some devices. The decision is not found yet. We used all known methods for today, and all CWM versions (5.0.2.6 & 5.0.2.8), but are not present result.
Colleagues from 4pda.ru
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Thank you, is there a other way to back up stock ROM?

Maybe try different versions of superuser and busybox. Use app like titanium backup to check versions.
Sent from my HTC_A510c using XDA App

samkuiper9 said:
Thank you, is there a other way to back up stock ROM?
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No other way to Nandroid Backup...
If u find the decision of this problem, please write me...

Download this: http://db.tt/rDwThKbG
Unzipped and select recovery.bat. make sure you have USB debbuging checked and fastboot unchecked.

MrTaco505 said:
Download this: http://db.tt/rDwThKbG
Unzipped and select recovery.bat. make sure you have USB debbuging checked and fastboot unchecked.
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didn't work I already tried.I want to know what kinds of things relate to recovery，kernel？booting？

factory reset....
Now i was stupid enough to press factory reset in HBOOT.... -_-
After boot the phone keeps loading...
Any opties?

Try Alquez's PG76IMG unofficial cwm recovery. Put it on root of sdcard and boot into hboot. Accept update to install recovery.
Sent from my HTC_A510c using XDA App

[Q] Cannot boot to recovery (on two completely separate phones).

I flashed CM10 onto my phone a couple weeks ago, everything went smoothly. Today, I reverted back to stock and locked the bootloader so that I could receive the stock JellyBean update. Well I download the update, reboot phone into fastboot, attempt to go into recovery and I get the red triangle !. I know this is an issue with the phone apparently not finding a recovery boot but why didn't my reverting to stock reinstall the stock recovery? Does anyone have any guides they suggest to get stock recovery back? (I've found a few but thought I would ask).
Now, this is understandable that my phone can't boot into recovery since I flashed CM recovery onto it and whatnot, but I attempted to boot into recovery on my girlfriends phone (same phone, NEVER BEEN UNLOCKED OR FLASHED) and it can't boot into recovery either... Is something going on here or am I just missing a huge piece of the puzzle? I don't really want to have to flash anything on my girlfriends phone to fix it, she's not into the tinkering and would rather not have her data reset. Any help would be appreciated.
And for the record, I did a search to figure this out but at the very least I can only find solutions for people who have flashed CM or similar and nothing pertaining to the problem my girlfriend's phone has.

Tried reflashing recovery already? How did you "revert" to stock?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app

nktje said:
Tried reflashing recovery already? How did you "revert" to stock?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
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Used this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1848566
It worked, I'm on stock ICS, but I didn't do ANYTHING after booting into ICS again and attempting to install JB and booting into recovery. Did I miss something? How do I "flash recovery"?

Unzip the factory image you get from developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Then use fastboot to flash the recovery.
EDIT: red triangle doesn't necessarily mean the recovery is broken. It's just the way it is. If you wish to flash a 3rd party ROM you'll need to flash a 3rd party recovery.
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I think you are confusing a few things here. First off, the Android with the red triangle IS the stock recovery main screen. (If you want to flash the update manually, you need CWM -- go into fastboot mode and type: fastboot flash name-of-recovery.img, where name-of-recovery is the recovery that you downloaded and want to flash.) Second, you need the stock recovery for an update to install over-the-air, but you need a custom recovery if you want to flash it manually.

Muffinabus said:
Today, I reverted back to stock and locked the bootloader so that I could receive the stock JellyBean update.
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this happened. you installed stock recovery when you reverted, whats the surprise?
and you dont need to relock bootloader to successfully update through ota. seems to me know the op needs to refine his searching skills.
nktje said:
EDIT: red triangle doesn't necessarily mean the recovery is broken. It's just the way it is. If you wish to flash a 3rd party ROM you'll need to flash a 3rd party recovery.
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just press vol up+power to bring up the stock recovery menu.
edit: damn efrant, i got this man
sent from my i9250

nktje said:
Unzip the factory image you get from developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Then use fastboot to flash the recovery.
EDIT: red triangle doesn't necessarily mean the recovery is broken. It's just the way it is. If you wish to flash a 3rd party ROM you'll need to flash a 3rd party recovery.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
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So in the context of my girlfriend's phone where nothing has been done to it in the 4 months she's had it, why would it be giving the recovery error? Also, does flashing the recovery wipe the phone?
It's funny too because I just got the JB OTA but I'd still like to get this figured out.

Muffinabus said:
So in the context of my girlfriend's phone where nothing has been done to it in the 4 months she's had it, why would it be giving the recovery error? Also, does flashing the recovery wipe the phone?
It's funny too because I just got the JB OTA but I'd still like to get this figured out.
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run the update manually (found on the Update link on efrants sig) through cwm, that should give you a more detailed description of whats going on.
flashing a recovery doesn't wipe the device. unlocking will, btw. its not an error, its the stock recovery!
sent from my i9250

bk201doesntexist said:
run the update manually (found on the Update link on efrants sig) through cwm, that should give you a more detailed description of whats going on.
flashing a recovery doesn't wipe the device. unlocking will, btw. its not an error, its the stock recovery!
sent from my i9250
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Alright, I think I got it... so the android with the red ! triangle IS stock recovery? I just remember on my Nexus S being able to boot into recovery and load up a stock .zip update manually without any custom recovery mod. Is this not possible on the Galaxy Nexus then? So what does the stock recovery DO other than sit there and reboot after a minute?

Muffinabus said:
Alright, I think I got it... so the android with the red ! triangle IS stock recovery?
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Correct! As was mentioned by bk201doesntexist, hold power and press volume up to access the menu.
Muffinabus said:
I just remember on my Nexus S being able to boot into recovery and load up a stock .zip update manually without any custom recovery mod. Is this not possible on the Galaxy Nexus then?
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No, that does not work on the GNex.
Muffinabus said:
So what does the stock recovery DO other than sit there and reboot after a minute?
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Have a look at the menu, and you can see the options.

efrant said:
Correct! As was mentioned by bk201doesntexist, hold power and press volume up to access the menu.
No, that does not work on the GNex.
Have a look at the menu, and you can see the options.
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Thank you! I feel like an idiot now. I honestly thought it'd be the same as the Nexus S where you were able to do this...

[Q] Weird problem with Recovery mode

Guys, when I try booting up my friend's Galaxy W into Recovery mode, it succeeds. But then, when in Recovery mode it ONLY shows the CWM icon with orange hat endlessly. I could not choose anything such as restore or flash zip file as the menu doesn't shows up AT ALL. Then, I try flashing the stock recovery hoping it will fix it but still the same, this time it shows the Android out of the box instead.
Why does this happen? What should I do guys?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
Guys, when I try booting up my friend's Galaxy W into Recovery mode, it succeeds. But then, when in Recovery mode it ONLY shows the CWM icon with orange hat endlessly. I could not choose anything such as restore or flash zip file as the menu doesn't shows up AT ALL. Then, I try flashing the stock recovery hoping it will fix it but still the same, this time it shows the Android out of the box instead.
Why does this happen? What should I do guys?
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Stock recovery indeed shows "Android out of the box". Tap on the box (or press menu, I forgot which), and the picture will dim, then the stock recovery menu will appear. If you don't make the picture dim, it will reboot.
Now, as to the original problem, which CWM did you flash? AFAIK *only* Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2 is compatible with Galaxy W. Do not flash any other version, do not flash CWM from ROM Manager app.
I suggest reflashing Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2.

pepoluan said:
Stock recovery indeed shows "Android out of the box". Tap on the box (or press menu, I forgot which), and the picture will dim, then the stock recovery menu will appear. If you don't make the picture dim, it will reboot.
Now, as to the original problem, which CWM did you flash? AFAIK *only* Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2 is compatible with Galaxy W. Do not flash any other version, do not flash CWM from ROM Manager app.
I suggest reflashing Arco's CWM 6.0.1.2.
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Last time, I flashed CWM recovery v5.5.0.4 and it was working until yesterday. Tried flashing stock recovery still nothing changed. Is this hard-brick? What should I do?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
Last time, I flashed CWM recovery v5.5.0.4 and it was working until yesterday. Tried flashing stock recovery still nothing changed. Is this hard-brick? What should I do?
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ANYONE? :crying:

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
ANYONE? :crying:
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Try flashing the CWM from arco. And no it's not hard brick
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reddvilzz said:
Try flashing the CWM from arco. And no it's not hard brick
Sent From My BioWonder V4
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OK will try it. But what if I want the stock recovery? How am I gonna do it?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
OK will try it. But what if I want the stock recovery? How am I gonna do it?
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I don't know how to revert back from cwm to stock recovery I guess if you search the forum you will find it, I remember reading one. But why do you want it anyway because cwm is more useful then the stock one.
Sent From My BioWonder V4

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
OK will try it. But what if I want the stock recovery? How am I gonna do it?
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If you want the stock recovery, flash it with stock rom using odin. This will wipe everything including root and cwm
Sent from my GT-I8150 using xda premium

reddvilzz said:
I don't know how to revert back from cwm to stock recovery I guess if you search the forum you will find it, I remember reading one. But why do you want it anyway because cwm is more useful then the stock one.
Sent From My BioWonder V4
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imadiu said:
If you want the stock recovery, flash it with stock rom using odin. This will wipe everything including root and cwm
Sent from my GT-I8150 using xda premium
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Red,
I would want the stock rather than CWM because doing factory reset on stock recovery is BETTER, right? Or I'm wrong?
Ima,
I have done that but still the problem with Recovery mode, no menu appears on screen. Do you know why?

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
Red,
I would want the stock rather than CWM because doing factory reset on stock recovery is BETTER, right? Or I'm wrong?
Ima,
I have done that but still the problem with Recovery mode, no menu appears on screen. Do you know why?
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Nope I think doing factory reset on CWM is better. Because in cwm they have options to completely wipe everything so there is none left if you want a clean install. CWM is just like a better and more advance of stock recovery with additional functions.
Sent From My BioWonder V4

reddvilzz said:
Nope I think doing factory reset on CWM is better. Because in cwm they have options to completely wipe everything so there is none left if you want a clean install. CWM is just like a better and more advance of stock recovery with additional functions.
Sent From My BioWonder V4
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OK, now I get it. No wonder doing factory reset in stock recovery can result in brick phone.
I'll try flashing the CWM recovery v6 as the CWM recovery v5 was a failure. I'll let you know later. Thanks red!

SyzwnFrzRdz said:
OK, now I get it. No wonder doing factory reset in stock recovery can result in brick phone.
I'll try flashing the CWM recovery v6 as the CWM recovery v5 was a failure. I'll let you know later. Thanks red!
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Dude... Bricked phones are literally "brick", as in you can't use it. Most likely a failure to start-up, not some glitch or bug that happens to your phone

Won't boot - urgent help needed :)

I seem to have messed my SGNII again I didn't do anything strange - just wanted to reboot into recovery, but instead of pressing pwr+volup+home I thought it easier to do from an app. So I searched for an app to do that and found that Titanium backup as option to reboot into recovery. So I selected reboot->recovery, and my phone rebooted and now it is stuck on SGNII GT-N7100 screen... I pulled battery out and nothing, tried to press pwr+volup+home, nothing, pwr+voldn+home works and gets me into dowload mode.
What should I do? Pls, ASAP I need my phone!!! Thanx!

Really strange. I suggest you to boot into Safe mode to see if you can go to the OS or flash wia Odin your custom recovery if you have one or your stock version.
The global solution would be to flash a stock firmware of course.

Primokorn_ said:
Really strange. I suggest you to boot into Safe mode to see if you can go to the OS or flash wia Odin your custom recovery if you have one or your stock version.
The global solution would be to flash a stock firmware of course.
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Thanx for ideas I flashed phil's touch and it booted. Now all seems OK. I can't understand how this happened....

dalanik said:
Thanx for ideas I flashed phil's touch and it booted. Now all seems OK. I can't understand how this happened....
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I never try this option in TB app and I will never use it frow now
With TWRP Recovery there's a great app to manager backup/restore, wipe, flash... so FYI: TWRP Manager

dalanik said:
Thanx for ideas I flashed phil's touch and it booted. Now all seems OK. I can't understand how this happened....
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well it created a prob with your recovery or rather to say break it , u did the right thing flashing philz

I have to find some app to boot to recovery from OS, not via keys, because when I press power button on stock ROM it doesn't have option to reboot in recovery, I have something on my Nexus 7 which does that will have to take a look what it's called... Thanx for your help.

dalanik said:
I have to find some app to boot to recovery from OS, not via keys, because when I press power button on stock ROM it doesn't have option to reboot in recovery, I have something on my Nexus 7 which does that will have to take a look what it's called... Thanx for your help.
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You have Andromizer, Rom Toolbox, Rom manager...
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There are some more apps that you can go into recovery for example an app called "Quick Boot (Reboot)" if you don't want to use rom manager, or rom toolbox.
And I had strange issue with Titanium Backup too, just when I used SlimBean Weekly Rom and I wanted just to backup my Nova launcher and power toggles apps, so strangely my phone went into bootloop and I had to wipe everything to get it to work again...

[Q] Can't root or do anything, Help!

Hey guys,
I had a rooted Galaxy Wonder with a custom Rom (TouchWiz, forgot which version). I had CWM 5 and wanted to Install CWM 6 so I can be able to get the Kitkat 4.4 Rom, but unfortunately I soft bricked it. I flashed a custom Rom using Odin 4.43 Multi Downloader and it successfully passed, but with a problem, it doesn't get to the Homescreen and it keeps of rebooting itself all over again. I can get to download mode and to stock recovery. So I thought I could maybe root it again and install CWM 6 to flash the rom.
Now the problem is that when I use the stock recovery (by Holding Vol Up+Home+Power) I don't get to install the root update.zip because it reboots itself after I press the menu button (it writes something about updating then reboots).
What can I do? Is there anyway to Root the device via Odin and install CWM 6 so I can flash a custom rom?
Help!
Thanks in advance!

AytchG said:
Hey guys,
I had a rooted Galaxy Wonder with a custom Rom (TouchWiz, forgot which version). I had CWM 5 and wanted to Install CWM 6 so I can be able to get the Kitkat 4.4 Rom, but unfortunately I soft bricked it. I flashed a custom Rom using Odin 4.43 Multi Downloader and it successfully passed, but with a problem, it doesn't get to the Homescreen and it keeps of rebooting itself all over again. I can get to download mode and to stock recovery. So I thought I could maybe root it again and install CWM 6 to flash the rom.
Now the problem is that when I use the stock recovery (by Holding Vol Up+Home+Power) I don't get to install the root update.zip because it reboots itself after I press the menu button (it writes something about updating then reboots).
What can I do? Is there anyway to Root the device via Odin and install CWM 6 so I can flash a custom rom?
Help!
Thanks in advance!
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I flashed a custom Rom using Odin 4.43 Multi Downloader and it successfully passed, but with a problem, it doesn't get to the Homescreen and it keeps of rebooting itself all over again.
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Did you do a full wife before you install a new custom ROM? I guess not.
So I thought I could maybe root it again and install CWM 6 to flash the rom.
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You don't need to root it again since it's already rooted (when you first installed TouchWiz) and it's not the cause i think.
Now the problem is that when I use the stock recovery (by Holding Vol Up+Home+Power) I don't get to install the root update.zip because it reboots itself after I press the menu button (it writes something about updating then reboots).
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I think your phone is still rooted that's why your having that problem.
So, your problem is that, you believed your phone is not rooted anymore?

dec0der said:
Did you do a full wife before you install a new custom ROM? I guess not.
You don't need to root it again since it's already rooted (when you first installed TouchWiz) and it's not the cause i think.
I think your phone is still rooted that's why your having that problem.
So, your problem is that, you believed your phone is not rooted anymore?
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Well, I didn't know if it is rooted or not and I don't know how to flash Cwm 6 and I can't use the phone normally since it is not able to turn on to the Homescreen.
Don't mind the older custom Rom, it was flashed successfully and I used it for more than 3 months.

AytchG said:
Well, I didn't know if it is rooted or not and I don't know how to flash Cwm 6 and I can't use the phone normally since it is not able to turn on to the Homescreen.
Don't mind the older custom Rom, it was flashed successfully and I used it for more than 3 months.
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Which recovery can you enter now? cwm or stock recovery?

dec0der said:
Which recovery can you enter now? cwm or stock recovery?
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Stock, but can't do anything in it. I get the White box icon with the yellow arrow and android and press the menu button but then it says updating Application then some things that I can't read because the go quickly and something about can't access (some directory in system) and Update successful and rebooting.
It keeps doing that.

AytchG said:
Stock, but can't do anything in it. I get the White box icon with the yellow arrow and android and press the menu button but then it says updating Application then some things that I can't read because the go quickly and something about can't access (some directory in system) and Update successful and rebooting.
It keeps doing that.
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Okay, lets try this one first. Install CWM recovery 6.x
Download the following files (make sure its not corrupted files)
Odin Multi Downloader v4.44 HERE
ClockworkMod v6.0.4.5 HERE MD5 Sum: 144ce4ffcf9f577e7e12562f3c5579d3 (extract after download)
Ancora.ops HERE MD5 Sum: 65831d136621d6d550d2a11a2e8111f3 (extract after download)
And follow this flashing guide.
guide 1 and guide 2
Note: On the guide 1, do step 2-6 only. step 6 that says
6.Click on the One Package-Button and select the downloaded MD5-file.
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, your MD5 file will be recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.5-ancora.tar.md5
If it was successful, try to enter CWM recovery then.

dec0der said:
Okay, lets try this one first. Install CWM recovery 6.x
Download the following files (make sure its not corrupted files)
Odin Multi Downloader v4.44 HERE
ClockworkMod v6.0.4.5 HERE MD5 Sum: 144ce4ffcf9f577e7e12562f3c5579d3 (extract after download)
Ancora.ops HERE MD5 Sum: 65831d136621d6d550d2a11a2e8111f3 (extract after download)
And follow this flashing guide.
guide 1 and guide 2
Note: On the guide 1, do step 2-6 only. step 6 that says , your MD5 file will be recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.5-ancora.tar.md5
If it was successful, try to enter CWM recovery then.
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Now when I enter the recovery mode I get a black blank screen.

AytchG said:
Now when I enter the recovery mode I get a black blank screen.
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cwm recovery 6.x or still stock? we need either one them to work.

dec0der said:
cwm recovery 6.x or still stock? we need either both to work.
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None. Just a black screen
Edit: I tried flashing now cwm 5 instead of 6 and it worked. I can boot to cwm 5 recovery. But still is there anyway to flash cwm 6?

AytchG said:
None. Just a black screen
Edit: I tried flashing now cwm 5 instead of 6 and it worked. I can boot to cwm 5 recovery. But still is there anyway to flash cwm 6?
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Just download Phil's Advanced CWM recovery, and flash it (CWM recovery 6.0.4.5) Flash the recovery like any else recovery you flashed.
Download the .op and the cwm recovery (Flashable via odin multi downloader ) Here
And make sure you are running Windows 7, and not Windows 8, I have experienced problems flashing recovery on Windows 8 64bit

AytchG said:
None. Just a black screen
Edit: I tried flashing now cwm 5 instead of 6 and it worked. I can boot to cwm 5 recovery. But still is there anyway to flash cwm 6?
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I flashed a custom Rom using Odin 4.43 Multi Downloader
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this might be the cause, so we need do clean wipe of all the data/ files in your internal storage. We need to make it boot first since it's not just a recovery problem but ROM.
Do you still have the touchwiz rom in your external sd-card? If it's still there, do this steps in cmw:
select "wipe data / factory reset"
go to "mounts & storage" and format /system. This is extremely important!
under the same menu, format /sdcard0 (be careful NOT to format /sdcard1 by mistake)
install touchwiz
reboot

dec0der said:
install touchwiz (and gapps if you have)
reboot
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If its touchwi5, you dont have to install gapps, they are already in there

MayB4ck said:
If its touchwi5, you dont have to install gapps, they are already in there
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Corrected. Never knew gapps was already integrated w/ that ROM, never tried it

MayB4ck said:
Just download Phil's Advanced CWM recovery, and flash it (CWM recovery 6.0.4.5) Flash the recovery like any else recovery you flashed.
Download the .op and the cwm recovery (Flashable via odin multi downloader ) Here
And make sure you are running Windows 7, and not Windows 8, I have experienced problems flashing recovery on Windows 8 64bit
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Thanks! I flashed this Phil's Cwm and then flashed the cm 11 Kitkat 4.4 and gapps and it is working!! Thank you!

dec0der said:
this might be the cause, so we need do clean wipe of all the data/ files in your internal storage. We need to make it boot first since it's not just a recovery problem but ROM.
Do you still have the touchwiz rom in your external sd-card? If it's still there, do this steps in cmw:
select "wipe data / factory reset"
go to "mounts & storage" and format /system. This is extremely important!
under the same menu, format /sdcard0 (be careful NOT to format /sdcard1 by mistake)
install touchwiz
reboot
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I tried MayB4ck's idea and it worked! Thanks for your help!!! I really appreciate it!

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AytchG said:
I tried MayB4ck's idea and it worked! Thanks for your help!!! I really appreciate it!
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I am very happy to solve your problem sir Have a nice day