I just recently was able to root and install clockwork mod recovery on my samsung galaxy sIII for sprint (SPH-L710) Android version is 4.4.2 kernel version 3.4.0-1368792 april 19 2014
I am by no means an expert at this and it was a breeze at least for me.
I downloaded towelroot using chrome on my phone and installed ( had to allow 3rd party apps and hit ok to some warnings )
then i downloaded rom manager and installed clockwork mod. This part was a breeze for me did it all right from inside the rom manager app.
I then went and downloaded and installed clockwork mod touch but that part is not needed.
I mostly wanted to report on a sucsesful and very easy way to root and install a recovery mod.
I have not yet attempted to install any other firmware on the phone. I ran a backup from clockwork mod and it seems to have worked fine.
One question i do have though is this. Since i did a backup in clockwork mod with the stock firmware does that mean i now have a reliable firmware i could restore to if i screw things up?
Great job on doing the proper reading to get what you needed done! Yeah with that nandroid, if you screw something up that will get you back to where you were when you made that backup. One good thing to do is to copy that backup to a computer in case you mistakenly format your external SD card.
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I started out with netarchy's stock rooted froyo and amon-ra recovery.
I wanted to install the battery mods by barnacles but I couldn't flash it with amon-ra because it wasn't signed at the moment.
So I got rom manager and flashed clockwork recovery within the program. Then I selected 'flash rom' on rom manager and selected the mod zip file.
Then it rebooted and mod was installed. Then I reflashed amon-ra recovery through fastboot.
Since then it seems that I have no more root access (typing su in terminal returns permission denied)
I was still able to make a nandroid of the rom. Then I flashed an earlier nandroid and booted up and I had root access in that rom. I flashed back the latest nandroid and no root.
So what measures do I take next time to avoid losing root again?
And is there a way to gain root in this rom again?
sure fire way is to just try the whole root process over, what ever method you use. Not sure what caused your problem though.
Very weird but I've been tryin to replicate the cause, and it seems like the froyo full market apk that was floating around seems to cause it... I remembered I had flashed that too. I guess it wasn't meant for sense roms? Hmm
So, I've decided I'm going to use ROM Manager to flash a previous version of CWM (2.5.1.4). I'm currently running the 3.0.0.2 but feel stuck from all the reports I've been reading about the latest version not being compatible with older hboot and partitions. I'm scared to do anything...
Anyways, while in 3.0.0.0 I did a back up. Is this going to be compatible with the older version or should I do another one after flashing back?
Also, I don't remember it actually saying "nandroid". It just said "backup". This is the same I'm assuming as it took quite a while to do???
Ok, never mind. Apparently I'm trying to flash that older version and it keeps coming back with an error.
Worked for me.
I restore a 2.x.x backup trough 3.x.x and had CWM 2.x.x then after I backed up some apps with titanium backup I went back to the rom I backed up with 3.x.x and all went fine.
Little confusing but yes I believe you can.
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If you want 2.5 again go to post #7 in this thread. Put the file on your sd and power down into bootloader. It will scan the card then ask if you want to update, hit volume up for yes and you're done. Thread- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894227
Sweet!!! I just flashed back to the older 2.5.x.x CWM and then flashed a ROM with no problems at all. The only thing that's weird is that ROM Manager still says I have CWM 3.0.0.2.
Hi guys,
So I was previous rooted running a custom ICS rom, with ktoonsez, etc. Tonight I wanted to try out JB, so I saved a backup in CWM and then installed a Jellybean stock rom for my carrier with "root injected", All of this worked totally fine in Odin. Afterwards I used Odin to re-install CWM, and that worked fine, I then rebooted into CWM to install the 4.2 Camera/Gallery zip, THAT worked totally fine.
I've since rebooted my device and it seems that root permissions has totally disappeared. The 4.2 camera is still there, I can't get into CWM, Superuser is still on my device BUT it has no apps listed. And Titanium Backup and SetCPU cannot detect root.
Any ideas how to restore this? Kind of surprised that it would just....disappear even after installing CWM and 4.2 camera zip.
Hello everyone,
I have rooted and unlocked my bootloader, and installed CWM 6.0.2 I believe (summer 2012). I was using 4.3 Deodexed ROM and decided to upgrade to 4.4, so I mad a nandroid backup through CWM. Then I found out that 4.4 required me to update my CWM to 6.0.4.3, so I did. After upgrading CWM, I was unable to restore my old 6.0.2 backup. Is there any way to restore it, or do I have to downgrade CWM?
If I need to downgrade CWM, can I first perform a backup of my current 4.4 ROM and then downgrade, or is there a chance it will mess with old CWM?
Thanks in advance,
silentz0r
Sorry for bumping, I have noticed that after upgrading CWM, it made new directories into /sdcard and moved my old directories into /sdcard/0. I tried copying the contents of the old CWM directory into the new one (/blobs and /backup) and tried to restore, but still got the same error message notifying me that no backup is found. Is there no way to restore an old CWM backup with newer CWM?
If anyone ever has this problem, I suggest installing ROM Manager. My backups spontaneously started working through ROM Manager (even in CWM recovery). I have no idea why the backup could not be found before, but using this pretty much fixed itself. Marked as Solved.
silentz0r_ said:
If anyone ever has this problem, I suggest installing ROM Manager. My backups spontaneously started working through ROM Manager (even in CWM recovery). I have no idea why the backup could not be found before, but using this pretty much fixed itself. Marked as Solved.
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Thanks for the heads up!
But shouldn't you just have made a back-up before CWM upgrade, then upgrade CWM, make another backup (just in case) and then install 4.4?
I am still on 4.3 and I will do it this way in the near future.
Hello, I recently rooted my wifes Note 2 that was on the latest OTA 4.3. Was not easy BTW. I did a back up in recovery of boot, system, and data. I figured I was good to go and start trying out other roms.
The first one I flashed was Macks Allstar 5.0 rom. Everything was great. Then my wife informed me that she did not have all of her contacts backed up to google and some were only saved to her phone. So then I figure I could just restore the original backup and extract the contacts and be able to install them to any rom.
Thats when everything went wrong. Everytime I tried restoring the back up,it would crash and recovery would do like a reboot. After many attempts I figured id try another version of recovery. After flashing many earlier versions of twrp and trying to restore, I finally was able to complete a restore from version 2.6. I was ecstatic. But then my heart sank again when boot always hangs on samsung logo. And that is where I'm stuck. I am able to flash other roms no problem but cant restore my original backup.
Needless to say my wife is ready to kill me.
Please if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have searched throughout this forum and internet for hours and can not seem to find any help with this issue.
I am thankful to have been able to get this far with the help from the XDA community posts I never needed direct help even with prior phone rootings but this one has got me stumped. Thanks in advance
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
tx_dbs_tx said:
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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Thank you for your reply. I am at work right now and left the phone with my wife with a working rom. I will try phils recovery when I get home. As far as backups, I have two copies. One on my SD card and the other on PC but if they're both fried I guess that negates my efforts in redundancy. It's hard to believe the backup got corrupt so quickly. I have another backup of the 2nd rom I flashed and that one wont install as well.
Is there something I am doing wrong? If the backup file is corrupt, is there a way to extract contacts seperately out of backup?
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
ColeTrain! said:
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
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Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
alexandnen said:
Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
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That's exactly right. Bootloader isn't playing well with TWRP recovery. Phil"s 6.0.7.9 seems to be compatible in most ROM vs bootloader situations. Don't use latest version of Phil's recovery as it doesn't work as well and most people recommend this as well.
If Phil's recovery won't flash your restore then Odin all the way back to stock unrooted LK8 ROM then root it with the Toolkit and flash TWRP from the toolkit at the same time. Then see if you can restore at that point.
Looks like this project has come to an end. My wife likes her new rom and doesn't want to let me work on her phone anymore. She was able to get most of her contacts back I will make sure she backs her contacts to google and I will try to convince her to install Titanium backup to backup all her app data.
Unfortunately all I have is a work issued iphone that I have no interest in jailbreaking. I really don't see the point.
I am still confident that I could have eventually restored her backup successfully with the help here.
Thank you tx_dbx_tx and coletrain for your help.