so i just downloaded the rom in the link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2051374) and when i extracted the file with CWM and i rebooted my phone it wasnt reboooting so i thought i bricked my phone so i took the battery out and put it on recovery and it turns out i LOST CWM!! so i just rebooted my phone and left it. when i came back it actually booted up and is working fine BUT now i dont have a recovery!?!?!
I stll have the zip file on my sdcard i just wanna know how to get CWM on my phone again. im properly rooted and everything. i have cwm zip, file i just dont know how to install it or whatever the process is..PLZ HELP!!!![/B]
jawad608 said:
so i just downloaded the rom in the link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2051374) and when i extracted the file with CWM and i rebooted my phone it wasnt reboooting so i thought i bricked my phone so i took the battery out and put it on recovery and it turns out i LOST CWM!! so i just rebooted my phone and left it. when i came back it actually booted up and is working fine BUT now i dont have a recovery!?!?!
I stll have the zip file on my sdcard i just wanna know how to get CWM on my phone again. im properly rooted and everything. i have cwm zip, file i just dont know how to install it or whatever the process is..PLZ HELP!!!![/B]
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That Rom is based off Kobridges FL16 deodexed JB Rom. Since we do not have source, the stock kernel only has stock recovery. In other words, you will not have cwm after flashing because of the stock kernel. What everyone is doing if they want to load zips is use mobile Odin to flash EL29 direct boot cwm or el26 cwm. Then flash whatever zip you need then flash stock TW JB kernel and reboot. Once you flash the stock kernel, it removes cwm.
Steps how I do it
DL EL29 direct boot cwm, save on sd
DL any zips you want to install
DL mobile Odin
Use mobile Odin flash EL29 direct boot cwm
When phone reboots to cwm, flash zips
Flash stock FL16 KERNEL
Reboot
I used a root method on youtube today. SuperUser wouldn't work because the binary wasn't installed. So I tried to reboot and go into recovery, then I backed up and erased the data etc. So it failed on the AOKP rom that i was going to install then it wouldn't let me restore. So using ODIN fastboot i flashed over CWM 5.5.0.4. I think one of the new CWM recoveries has USB Storage Mount but on there website the zips only come in .zip and not .tar so I can use odin to flash it over. When I try to flash the stock ROM (.TAR) (619MB) through odin it fails. Someone please help me
Trying to figure this out. Browsed forums for the last 24 hours, unable to come up with a way to figure it out. I was running Effortless rom, and older version that I can't remember, but it was on NF6 firmware. I wanted to play around with cm11 so I decided to flash back to stock NF6 then update to NF9 for the VOLTE update just to have it. So I triangled away, wiped then rooted and installed TWRP via ODIN, made a backup, everything went fine. Then I downloaded cm11 and gapps 4.4.4 and put them on my internal sd and went to flash in TWRP but cm11 was giving me errors. I figured it may have been TWRP so i decided to flash CWM but no go. It wouldn't stick. Tried again, no luck. Downloaded ROM Manager and this time I installed CWM through there. Tried rebooting in to recovery and ended up getting stuck in the "recovery booting" bootloop, so I flashed stock NF9(since I was on this firmware now) and tried installing CWM again, no luck. When I tried booting to recovery, it was stock NB4 recovery. I'm thinking that I'm stuck on an old bootloader and the recovery isn't NF9, which is the current stock recovery. I'm thinking that the reason why I'm unable to flash anything in TWRP/unable to install CWM at all is because of the stock recovery and possibly bootloader being NB4 for some reason while my baseband and build are both NF9. Any ideas/help would be appreciated. Thanks guys.
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pyr0path said:
Trying to figure this out. Browsed forums for the last 24 hours, unable to come up with a way to figure it out. I was running Effortless rom, and older version that I can't remember, but it was on NF6 firmware. I wanted to play around with cm11 so I decided to flash back to stock NF6 then update to NF9 for the VOLTE update just to have it. So I triangled away, wiped then rooted and installed TWRP via ODIN, made a backup, everything went fine. Then I downloaded cm11 and gapps 4.4.4 and put them on my internal sd and went to flash in TWRP but cm11 was giving me errors. I figured it may have been TWRP so i decided to flash CWM but no go. It wouldn't stick. Tried again, no luck. Downloaded ROM Manager and this time I installed CWM through there. Tried rebooting in to recovery and ended up getting stuck in the "recovery booting" bootloop, so I flashed stock NF9(since I was on this firmware now) and tried installing CWM again, no luck. When I tried booting to recovery, it was stock NB4 recovery. I'm thinking that I'm stuck on an old bootloader and the recovery isn't NF9, which is the current stock recovery. I'm thinking that the reason why I'm unable to flash anything in TWRP/unable to install CWM at all is because of the stock recovery and possibly bootloader being NB4 for some reason while my baseband and build are both NF9. Any ideas/help would be appreciated. Thanks guys.
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If I were you the first thing I would do is to ODIN flash TWRP recovery
and go from there.
Here is a direct download link for the latest odin flash twrp
custom recovery for the N900T Note 3:
https://app.box.com/AndroidShare
Once you get into twrp recovery do a complete wipe
which includes wipe data, system, cache, dalvik and
last but not least do a factory reset in twrp.
When that's done odin flash the official stock N900T NF9
firmware which can be found at http://SamMobile.com
After that's done you will need to odin flash cf-autoroot
and then odin flash twrp recovery again.
Here is the download link for cf-autoroot:
https://app.box.com/s/rgovggya5gkc51lc1uax
Then simply copy your favorite N900T zip file rom into
your internal sd and flash the N900T rom of your choice.
Be sure to do a full and complete wipe again before
flashing any custom roms.
Good luck!
Hello, my friend has a Ace 2 (GT-I8160) and he wanted me to try and install CM 11 on his phone. I managed to root it and install temporary CWM on it, however his version of CWM could not flash CM 11 ROM's because it was outdated. I Googled around and found a TWRP .img file that I decided to flash via ODIN (CWM couldn't flash any TWRP .zip files for some reason). Everything went perfectly fine with ODIN, however my friends phone could not go pass the Samsung logo, it would appear for a few seconds and then the screen would go black. He also couldn't go into recovery but he could go into Download mode. Thinking that it was a recovery problem, I managed to get a .img file of TWRP 2.8.6.0 by Chronomonochrome and flash that via ODIN. Still the same problem - phone won't go pass the logo, however it can go into recovery.
So, now the phone boots perfectly to Download mode and recovery - and it can do everything from the recovery, like making backups, wiping, etc, but it cannot boot to the OS itself. I still haven't flashed a custom ROM on his phone because he didn't have the ROM file on his phone at the time nor could be transfer it to his phone via his PC because of some driver issue.
I'm currently downloading I8160XXBN1 firmware from Samsung Updates to flash via ODIN and try to get his phone back into working state. However, I also planned on placing my SD Card (which has the CM rom and Gapps on it) into his phone and flashing a new, custom ROM instead of flashing the firmware.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should do? Should I flash official firmware via ODIN or just flash the ROM using the recovery?
Thanks in advance.
Sprint Note 4, when flashing the official Rom i clicked on Nand Erase All, flash went fine, but the phone stays forever on the Sprint Spark screen, any steps to fix this issue? I can get into recovery and download mode, tried to wipe cache and dalvik in TWRP but i get errors, can not mount.
thanks in advance for the help.
anybody please?
MHeat said:
anybody please?
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You flashed TWRP after it failed to boot? If so, I wish you didn't do either the nand erase or flash TWRP.
If TWRP fails to mount to wipe, you need factory recovery or Philz CWM to wipe cache and factory reset.
To be clear, you need to wipe cache, dalvik-cache and data and power down. Boot into download mode and flash stock tar with Odin defaults. I'm not sure if the Note 4 just requires a wipe and Odin stock tar or the PIT with repartition (PIT for Sprint Note 4 seems to be MIA). Hopefully just the wipe works.
Here's Philz CWM recovery for Note 4:
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyNote4/CWM/philz_touch_6.59.0-trlte.tar
If that doesn't work, you need stock recovery. Last time I flashed stock recovery, it required a tar.md5 to flash. Had to search for a Windows tool to modify it, adding the md5 hash to tar so Odin would see and use it.
And one more thing. If you succeed in wiping, try to boot before Odin of stock tar. Seems Odin is risky these days. I've read recently that there's yet another "fix" Samsung has identified for Odin flashing for upcoming security patch. Best to limit Odin flashes to as needed only.
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thanks for you explanation, i will try it. Let me tell you, remember i already flashed the stock tar multiple times, i might be mistaken but i thought the stock tar has the oem recovery included, the problem is i can not get into stock recovery, it just bootloops and the phone restarts again, i will try flashing the stock tar again and then Philz touch recovery and see if i can wipe. Will let you know how it goes in a few minutes.
thanks again.
just to let you know, the phone booted, had to flash the clean stock image, then extract the recovery image from the tar file, after that i used a utility to convert recovery.img to a tar file in order to flash it in odin, after a while it booted, right now updating over the air to cok1, lets hope it works now.
appreciate the time you took to help me out.
I'm not clear on what you're saying. I gather that flashing the tar didn't allow you to get to stock recovery and it still wouldn't boot?
Then you tried Philz CWM recovery to wipe and it booted? If so, I'd think you were in the clear at this point, not needing to restore stock recovery but flash the tar?
When you say you had to extract stock recovery, was it still not allowing you to get to stock recovery when tar was flashed or did that fail? If so, which tar? I'd think you could have moved on to OK1 tar?
Or were you thinking that I meant you had to use both recoveries to wipe to restore function?
It's good you're making progress on your own, I'm just not following the results and reasoning fully. I'd like to know so I'm asking. TIA.
Edit: Or did you have to flash stock recovery to wipe? Philz CWM recovery didn't flash or wouldn't mount or what? Read your reply again and thought this may be the direction you went.
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sorry for the confusion, i flashed the stock tar file COJ6, still the phone would not boot and could not get into stock recovery, do not know why
then i flashed just Philz recovery and was able to wipe cache,dalvik and data
For some reason it did not boot, then after i flashed just the stock recovery ( in order to do that, i extracted the recovery from the COJ6 tar, then used a program to convert the recovery.img to .tar in order to be able to flash it in Odin, after that the phone booted and updated over the air to COK1) Just to make sure i tried to go into stock recovery ( VOL UP+HOME+POWER) and was successful, got access to stock recovery. Before i was not able to go into stock recovery for some reason.
So you didn't try to flash stock tar after the Philz recovery wipe? I was suggesting try to boot; if it didn't boot, try the stock tar.
Am I wrong to say that maybe you didn't have to flash the stock recovery? Philz recovery maybe gets the credit as the easier fix in this case. Would you agree with that or is that unknown?
Thanks for clarifying. Your response may clarify the suggested fix. TIA.
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Well, after i wiped with Philz it still did not boot, then after the stock recovery it booted, it took a while, i thought it did not work but eventually it did boot, the phone definitely had something wrong since i could not even access the stock recovery before, now i can, it says installing system update, then its says something like no command, and then it enters recovery, this was impossible to achieve before.
Did the OK1 OTA complete and boot yet?
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It did complete and booted just fine, everything seems to be in order, crossing fingers LOL