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XWJVB cwm 3e flashing.....

Can some one please help me, I have xwjvb stock rom installed but I want to change the cwm recovery so I can flash another custom rom. Since its cwm 3e I cant do this, is there a way to change it without using odin ie .tar files and download mode? Update.zip fails when I try to appl it in cwm.... my phone has been rooted. Thanks

jscnz81 said:
Can some one please help me, I have xwjvb stock rom installed but I want to change the cwm recovery so I can flash another custom rom. Since its cwm 3e I cant do this, is there a way to change it without using odin ie .tar files and download mode? Update.zip fails when I try to appl it in cwm.... my phone has been rooted. Thanks
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If youre phone is rooted you can do it without odin but not without a tar or zip file for a kernel
1.Download SGS kernel flasher from market
2. Download a Kernel which supports Custom Recovery (for Example the CF-Root kernel in the version Nee-JVB-CWM3RFS 3.1)
3. Give Sgs kernel flasher su permissions
4. "Backup Kernel" (if you want)
5. "Choose Kernel" -> Choose the kernel you've downloaded -> "flash"
6. wait for reboot
7. Power your phone off and go with the 3button combo in recovery
8. Flash the custom rom you want
Sent from my GT-I9000

hey thanks for the reply! i just figured it out myself using the method u just described what a coincidence lol i just went to the market - downloaded sgs kernel flasher app - then downloaded the cf-root xwjvb kernel zip file, extracted the zImage file out of it and used the app to flash it....cool no more 3e recovery, now i can flash some custom roms yay!! i couldnt find my flippin usb cable thats why i couldnt use odin to flash ha ha

[Q] Confusion with Flashing CWM from Odin...

All the CWM files from the official website are *.img but odin3 is asking for a tar file.
there has to be some reason why all the files are IMG that its the right file (its the only thing available form their site...). Where can I find a tar file from CWM?
Additionally, do you have to root to flash CWM from stock?

[q] help! How do i go back to my stock kernel

I installed a kernel but there's a wifi bug and i don't know how to fix it. I made a backup before, but when i restore it, it doesn't go BACK!
i have i337M (4.4.2)
Someone please help me ..

I haven't personally tried this on the s4 but it should work. Grab the 4.4.2 factory tar file, rename it without the.md5, and extract it. Inside you should find a boot.img. Put that on your device and flash it with flashify from the play store.
Sent from my Nexus 5

Thanks! I will try it when I finish downloading the File from SamMobile.
Just to Clarify:
I need to remove the .md5 from the name? So just .tar? and then extract and put the boot.img on my sd and install flashify and flash from there? And my kernel will be back to stock?
If I wanted to unroot, would i just flash the .tar file through Odin? That would remove TWRP, root and custom kernel, am i correct?
Thanks.

the0nly0ne- said:
Thanks! I will try it when I finish downloading the File from SamMobile.
Just to Clarify:
I need to remove the .md5 from the name? So just .tar? and then extract and put the boot.img on my sd and install flashify and flash from there? And my kernel will be back to stock?
If I wanted to unroot, would i just flash the .tar file through Odin? That would remove TWRP, root and custom kernel, am i correct?
Thanks.
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You made it easy to answer your questions. It's yes to all of them
Sent from my Nexus 5

[Q] Installing stock recovery

Hi i have installed TWRP on my phone but I can't use OTA. I want to ask - if i download lollipop rom from samsung, extract stock recovery.img from ROM archive - will it work flashed by flashify?

Since you need to download a ROM anyway to get the stock recovery image, you might as well get the latest ROM for your device and not bother with the OTA. Simply download the complete and latest ROM package for your device from sammobile.com or samsung-updates.com and flash it through Odin. Afterwards, root if desired and replace the stock recovery with TWRP.

How do I restore stock kernel to my Canadian S5

I've been using a custom kernel on my G900W8 but I'm getting a lot of performance issues, so I want to go back to stock.
I do have a file I extracted called boot.img which I believe is the kernel. How do I restore it?

harry_fine said:
I've been using a custom kernel on my G900W8 but I'm getting a lot of performance issues, so I want to go back to stock.
I do have a file I extracted called boot.img which I believe is the kernel. How do I restore it?
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Wait until you get an expert opinion. I was looking here and there for threads to extract and flash the stock kernel but ended up bricking my device. (No recovery, No bootup, THANK GOD I could access download mode).
I extracted the boot.img but didn't know how to flash it. There was a thread, a script that could turn .img to .tar.md5. I did that and flashed the file through Odin and boom. Stuck at bootlogo. So I try to restore the nandroid backup, but recovery keeps bootlooping.
Had to install stock rom completely through Odin...But it still isn't booting up.

User @nickpatel130285 has shared stock kernel for G900F in this post.
I flashed using that zip file and it worked like charm. So what you can do is replace the boot.img in that zip file with the one which is compatible with your variant and leave the rest as it is. Repack and Flash.
It should work but just in case if you mess things up you'll need to flash stock rom using Odin. So make sure you make a nandroid backup and have a copy on your PC (safely).
Flash at your own risk.