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Stuck in CWM I need help!

So last night I was running Starburst Rom and decided that I wanted to theme it, so I downloaded the theme I liked for it, flash it in recover, but when I reboot the system it kept boot looping. So I figured that I needed to format it, so I went back into recovery and used Caulkins Format All zip, flashed it, then flashed the theme again. OUCH this time my phone would just show the yellow triangle and Samsung logo ( start up page). I can still go back to recovery but all my other Roms are gone so I cant even restore my phone or anything! What can I do? I used Heimdall to root, can I go back and re root again? Would I still get the stock rom? HELP

Download a rom onto an sd card and flash it from recovery. Format all wipes your entire system, you use format all to have a clean slate before you flash a new rom. You have no os now.
Edit: You could also flash the stock .tar they just put up in the development section, just make sure you read the instructions first or you could hardbrick.
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How do I download a rom to a phone that has no OS? Thats where I am stuck.

poppygt said:
Download a rom onto an sd card and flash it from recovery. Format all wipes your entire system, you use format all to have a clean slate before you flash a new rom. You have no os now.
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Is there a way to download and flash a rom in Download mode? What if I try to reroot again?

Jess813 said:
How do I download a rom to a phone that has no OS? Thats where I am stuck.
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You don't. You download it to a pc or mac and then transfer it to a micro sd card and then put the card in the phone and flash the Rom from recovery.
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poppygt said:
You don't. You download it to a pc or mac and then transfer it to a micro sd card and then put the card in the phone and flash the Rom from recovery.
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Ouch so that means I will need another phone to do this.....

Jess813 said:
Ouch so that means I will need another phone to do this.....
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Your going to need a computer at some point if you've lost root. You can at least get the phone working again though.
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poppygt said:
Your going to need a computer at some point if you've lost root.
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I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.

Do you still have a custom recovery or just the Samsung recovery....sorry i should've asked sooner.
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Jess813 said:
I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.
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your computer doesnt have a sd card slot on it? if not yes that what your going to have to do.

Jess813 said:
I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.
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I meant an external sd card.
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poppygt said:
Do you still have a custom recovery or just the Samsung recovery....sorry i should've asked sooner.
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I am able to go into CWM recovery, but I get this message off the bat at the bottom...
CWM-based recovery v5.0.2.3
E:failed to open/etc/recovery.fstab(no such file or directory
E unkown volume for path[/cache/recovery/command...etc etc etc...it keeps going
But at the top I can still scroll up and down with volume and choose with power.

poppygt said:
I meant an external sd card.
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I have lots of those, the one on the phone is a 16GB and it has NOTHING on it.

I'd just flash through Odin or Heimdall and start over.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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poppygt said:
I'd just flash through Odin or Heimdall and start over.
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Right I am with you, but my question is, if I flash through Heimdall again will I get the stock rom? I know by using this method I am flashing a kernel, but since I have no OS as you stated because mY dumb *&^% formatted all, would I get the rom back this way?

poppygt said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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The problem with that is that I have a Mac....

Jess813 said:
Right I am with you, but my question is, if I flash through Heimdall again will I get the stock rom? I know by using this method I am flashing a kernel, but since I have no OS as you stated because mY dumb *&^% formatted all, would I get the rom back this way?
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The link i posted is stock. After thats done you can reroot and go from there. Make sure you uncheck the boxes in the instructions or you'll brick. If those options aren't shown then don't flash it. I don't know macs very well.
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poppygt said:
The link i posted is stock. After thats done you can reroot and go from there. Make sure you uncheck the boxes in the instructions or you'll brick. If those options aren't shown then don't flash it. I don't know macs very well.
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Let me research to see if Odin is Mac compatible but I doubt it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
Heres another option I've used myself. As far as I know you have to use Heimdall, its the mac version of Odin but I don't know any of the commands or how to use it.
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[Q] BRICKED?!?!?!

So i saw that jelly bean 4.2.1 came out so i wanted to give it a try. I flashed it and everything was gone, i reflashed back to 4.1.x. both are aokp. After that i read about the sdcard0/0 thing and i copied my cwm files from /0 to sdcard. I tried to recover it back to it was before i upgraded to 4.2.1 but something went wrong. it said error while restoring /system or something like that. I think what i did wrong was that i forgot to wipe everything before recovering. So now my S3 is stuck at the pink unicorn boot... Im unable to go to recover mode, download mode is my only option. HELP PLZZZ

You're not bricked..
If you can get into download mode flash a stock rom thru Odin.
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jayRokk said:
You're not bricked..
If you can get into download mode flash a stock rom thru Odin.
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can u plz tell me what i should do to recover back to my 4.1? TY VERY MUCH FOR REPLYING

RaizelXZT said:
can u plz tell me what i should do to recover back to my 4.1? TY VERY MUCH FOR REPLYING
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try one of these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031840

RaizelXZT said:
can u plz tell me what i should do to recover back to my 4.1? TY VERY MUCH FOR REPLYING
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-Get on a PC
-Run Odin
-Put your phone in download mode
-Plug in your phone so Odin sees it
-Grab a rooted stock ROM from the dev section
-Put the .tar file in the PDA section of Odin
-Click start the Odin processes
-Success back to stock!!
And begin flashing all over again
I might add if you don't understand advanced setting it think you might mess something up... Stick to just regular flashing
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jayRokk said:
-Get on a PC
-Run Odin
-Put your phone in download mode
-Plug in your phone so Odin sees it
-Grab a rooted stock ROM from the dev section
-Put the .tar file in the PDA section of Odin
-Click start the Odin processes
-Success back to stock!!
And begin flashing all over again
I might add if you don't understand advanced setting it think you might mess something up... Stick to just regular flashing
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i downloaded a pre rooted stock rom.. but its not not booting up, its stuck at the samsung logo now not the pink unicorn

RaizelXZT said:
i downloaded a pre rooted stock rom.. but its not not booting up, its stuck at the samsung logo now not the pink unicorn
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Boot into recovery and factory reset
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jerrycoffman45 said:
try one of these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031840
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do u have a link for cwm odin flashable for my phone? thx alot

RaizelXZT said:
do u have a link for cwm odin flashable for my phone? thx alot
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You can't flash Odin files thru recovery
You really know what you're doing right? Because it kind of sounds like you don't (no offence)
Odin a stock ROM
After you do try to boot up to the Samsung e3 recovery
Wipe your phone and reboot it
Give it time... Stick roms can take up to 10minutes to completely boot up..
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jayRokk said:
You can't flash Odin files thru recovery
You really know what you're doing right? Because it kind of sounds like you don't (no offence)
Odin a stock ROM
After you do try to boot up to the Samsung e3 recovery
Wipe your phone and reboot it
Give it time... Stick roms can take up to 10minutes to completely boot up..
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if i knew what i was doing, i wouldnt be asking for help cuz i messed up my phone xD. But yea..i think i lost everything i had before. The sdcard/0 is gone. Is it possible to get it back? I had a lot of stuff in that backup

Is this rom messing ext sd cards up?
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Man you have no business flashing if you don't understand the simple instructions and links they provided. You really should do a little reading and watching some videos before you really do brick your phone.
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If you Odin and factory reset and everything then yeah your data is gone.
Invest in an external SD card and keep backups on there.
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slawcop` said:
Man you have no business flashing if you don't understand the simple instructions and links they provided. You really should do a little reading and watching some videos before you really do brick your phone.
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yea i shoulda :/ ive flashed my phone alotta times before but this was the first time all my pics and stuff were gone cuz of the new folder :/ i thought it woulda been the same as upgrading my phone to 4.1

geoldr said:
If you Odin and factory reset and everything then yeah your data is gone.
Invest in an external SD card and keep backups on there.
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yea i figured :/ i still have some of my data on my comp so yea..i might get an SD card, thx for the tip

N7100 does not boot past start up screen

Hi All,
Couple days ago I tried to flash my note2 with mobile odin back to stock rom but something went wrong and since I have not been able to get past the welcome screen *Samsung Galaxy Note 2*. I can get into a recovery screen but I am unable to choose a new rom to flash with.
I ve tried to flash it with odin 3.07 and via kies but no joy.
At this stage I am quite desperate to get this resolved. Can anyone help me?

Download correct stock rom to pc. Mount SD Card in recovery. Transfer file. flash from recovery.
Flash stock rom via pc odin
make a nandroid bake up as soon as you root your phone next time.
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timmyk101 said:
Download correct stock rom to pc. Mount SD Card in recovery. Transfer file. flash from recovery.
Flash stock rom via pc odin
make a nandroid bake up as soon as you root your phone next time.
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Unfortunately I do not have that option. I only have volume up to continue or volume down to restart. When I go volume up the phone goes into download mode.

Yeah. Then you have to flash stock firmware.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Yeah. Then you have to flash stock firmware.
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Thank you so much! I flashed it with a stock rom and then triangled it and now its working again
Cheers!

U just needed to factory reseted it and would also have done the job xD
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AskinSavascisi said:
U just needed to factory reseted it and would also have done the job xD
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He would have lost his data then. Flashing doesn't remove data.
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AskinSavascisi said:
U just needed to factory reseted it and would also have done the job xD
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True but i had to use Odin and every guideline said the filed had to color yellow while for me it stayed blue but i figured heck at the moment it's just a paperweight so I don't have a lot to loose.
Now Rooting it again and placing my nandroid back up back and I am all sorted.
Thank you again!

UtkarshGupta said:
He would have lost his data then. Flashing doesn't remove data.
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I lost my data anyway I had backed it up with titanium but ran into problems restoring it... Lesson learned to create an image of my Android once I got it sorted again.
Thanks

I had the same problem and almost had a heart attack thinking I bricked my phone when downgrading back to 4.1.1... Needless to say I just had to do a factory reset in recovery and it worked fine

[Q] cannot mount internal sdcard

Hi, I have finally just rooted my note 2 and I was trying to flash Jedi X but everytime I'm in download mode it says that is cannot mount the internal sdcard. This probably has an easy solution but idk it since I'm a noob so can someone help me out please?

You need to be in recovery to flash roms not download mode

thats what I ment sry.

What steps did you take before you got that error?
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All I did was root using odin than download jedi onto my device then I booted into recovery mode and it gave me the error when I tried to install

Did you ever boot the phone after you rooted it? And you should really make a nandroid before you flash any roms
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I did boot it and what is a nandroid?

Kreateablaze said:
Did you ever boot the phone after you rooted it? And you should really make a nandroid before you flash any roms
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after a quick google search I found out what it is and I dont need a backup for my device. I dont care if I lose my data

imaoreotwe said:
after a quick google search I found out what it is and I dont need a backup for my device. I dont care if I lose my data
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Its not just saving the data. You really should keep a backup of your devices stock firmware and a nandroid will do that for you

ahh ok but what can I do now to fix my current problam

lol I think I figured it out. My phone was encrypted which did not allow cwm to access my drives.

Edit:...solved

Twrp wtf

Well my phone is bricked because I listen to someone who said installed TWRP and it does not work cant touch the screen and it did a factory data now it is stuck on me putting my google Google account to set my phone back up again and it says account already exists so I tried doing a new one and it just goes back to the same thing. I could boot into recovery but I can't touch anything on the screen so what the **** I am so pissed some one please help
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jason504 said:
Well my phone is bricked because I listen to someone who said installed TWRP and it does not work cant touch the screen and it did a factory data now it is stuck on me putting my google Google account to set my phone back up again and it says account already exists so I tried doing a new one and it just goes back to the same thing. I could boot into recovery but I can't touch anything on the screen so what the **** I am so pissed some one please help
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Can you wipe data in recovery at all? As long as you can get into Download mode, there's always a way to save the device by flashing back to stock and starting again, so don't lose hope.

Let me try why is the twrp recovery touch not working
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I was looking how to flash back to stock it looks like a pain I have back ups on my sd card and in cwm if I can get it back on myphone
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It did not work I went into recovery and hit wipe and it did not work the only button that works is backup
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jason504 said:
Let me try why is the twrp recovery touch not working
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Honestly, I have never, ever had any luck with TWRP, and I've tried it many times on many devices. It looks great, but it's just not as reliable as the good old CWM recovery. This isn't to start a flame war with TWRP fans. I'm just stating my observations over the last few years of trying it.

I am with you I have been flashing for years this is the first time this has happened. Now I am in the process of going back to stock with a slow ass computer. Thanks
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If you can get into download mode by pressing both volume keys while plugging in the usb cable connected to your PC, then you are not bricked, just do a factory image flash and start over, it happens even to the more experienced.
I btw use CWM but I don't flash ROM's that much.
Erik

You also posted the same issue in at least 3 different posts. Limit it to one post and you might get more response.

I had that happen with one of the TWRP files floating around here. If you wanna use TWRP, you need the hacked e986 one which works splendidly on my e980. Hardcore CWM fan, myself, but I love the ease of just using the touch screen.
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I can use the recovery now but I made my backups in cwm it will not let me restore them. How can I install cwm back on my phone with just being able to boot in to recovery
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How do I flash back to stock I saw 2 different ones one seems complicated like you have to change the time and unplug your computer from the internet the other one did not say all that stuff do you have a link I wish there was a way to use the backup I have on my phone but I made it with cwm but now I have twrp
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jason504 said:
I can use the recovery now but I made my backups in cwm it will not let me restore them. How can I install cwm back on my phone with just being able to boot in to recovery
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If you have an SD card you can download the CWM .zip from here, put it on your card and flash that from within TWRP. Then you just have to reboot the recovery, wipe and restore. This is the CWM included in FreeGee. I personally tested this version for @Shelnutt2 a while back and have used the .zip a few times, since.

I did it and it worked thanks
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Just a question..... Freegee installs 2.6.1.0 TWRP, what is the difference btw this and hacked madmack TWRP?