Database Users

[Q] Restoring apps / Maintanence Update

Sorry if there is already a thread regarding this. I just dont have much time left at home on the computer.
So here is my issue. My phone keeps prompting me to do a system update, but I have removed some stock sprint apps on my epic with Root Manager. I am pretty sure I read somewhere that they need to be restored before I can update. I used the remove and backup method in Root Manager, assuming it would backed up the original before it removed. Apparently not.
Is there any way to find those apps on the interwebs? Or is all this a waste of time because I don't need them to update?
Thanks

jeremyiswin said:
Sorry if there is already a thread regarding this. I just dont have much time left at home on the computer.
So here is my issue. My phone keeps prompting me to do a system update, but I have removed some stock sprint apps on my epic with Root Manager. I am pretty sure I read somewhere that they need to be restored before I can update. I used the remove and backup method in Root Manager, assuming it would backed up the original before it removed. Apparently not.
Is there any way to find those apps on the interwebs? Or is all this a waste of time because I don't need them to update?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=797090
Use the first update here to update to DI18. You need clockwork mod installed, though.
Alternatively, you can download the stock DI07 tarball and manually adb push everything into /system/app.

Thanks
Although when trying to install with recovery i get this error "E:failed to verify whole-file signature"

jeremyiswin said:
Thanks
Although when trying to install with recovery i get this error "E:failed to verify whole-file signature"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you using stock recovery?

mattallica76 said:
Are you using stock recovery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, when I'm in rom manager and try to reboot into recovery with clockwork, i still boots me into stock recovery. So... yeah i guess stock.

jeremyiswin said:
Well, when I'm in rom manager and try to reboot into recovery with clockwork, i still boots me into stock recovery. So... yeah i guess stock.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You need to use clockwork for this to work.

Yeah I understand, i think im having some sort of issue though
I installed rom manager, flashed to the newest clockwork recovery mod, rebooted into clockwork recovery from rom manager, restarts into stock recovery. Am I missing something?

jeremyiswin said:
Yeah I understand, i think im having some sort of issue though
I installed rom manager, flashed to the newest clockwork recovery mod, rebooted into clockwork recovery from rom manager, restarts into stock recovery. Am I missing something?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ROM Manager doesn't always work getting you into clockwork recovery. If you have clockwork recovery mod installed, power off the phone, then hold vol down + camera + power to turn on ... this should get you into it.

nimaim said:
ROM Manager doesn't always work getting you into clockwork recovery. If you have clockwork recovery mod installed, power off the phone, then hold vol down + camera + power to turn on ... this should get you into it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
still boots into stock recovery. gah!

AHAHAHAHA, got it to boot into clockworkmod recovery with help from here... hxxp://forum.sdx-developers.com/epic-development/clockworkmod-recovery-for-the-epic-4g!-build-20!-beta/105/
I show that I have DI18, but I was still prompted to install the update. Anyway to get that to stop popping up?
Thanks!

[RECOVERY] 3e Recovery Modded w/ No Verification

NOTE
This is took from untermensch's thread in the Vibrant forum so I take no credit for this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423)
I have noticed some of you are having issues after installing a new kernel or rom, when you boot into recovery you now have 3e, which does not allow unsigned zips to be flashed. With this version of 3e it has no-verification check, now allowing you to flash whatever you want.
This zip has
1) 3e recovery modified to disable signature checking
2) disables the forced wipe after installing any update.
Instructions
1)Download and extract the file below
2)Use a terminal emulator or ADB shell and type.. (or you can use Root Explorer or SGSTools to mount system RW)
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system
3)Use a file manager like Root Explorer and copy the recovery file to /system/bin and replace the one there
4)Now, reboot and you should have a modded 3e recovery with no signature verification
You can either leave the modded 3e recovery or you can now flash CWM via Rom Manager
**Just like anything else, I am not responsible if this bricks your phone, this is fairly simple, follow the guide...Do at your own risk**

Old news, we have CWM now in pretty much everything.
Also you cannot just replace the recovery file... you have to replace the images in sbin or in the zImage its self, otherwise you get errors and cannot do anything.

designgears said:
Old news, we have CWM now in pretty much everything.
Also you cannot just replace the recovery file... you have to replace the images in sbin or in the zImage its self, otherwise you get errors and cannot do anything.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I done the exact method above and works fine for me...
Place extracted recovery file in /system/bin/ , reboot and flash cwm via rom manager, works perfectly fine...the reason I posted was, if you read Hardcores thread, and seen this in other threads, that after flashing his kernel, when they goto recovery they now have 3e (depending on which method when entering recovery)..alot of people have done it the way I posted with no issues...im not trying to argue with you, you by far know more then me, just posting what worked for me and some others

sounds like a good idea for the people that updated to Rogers froyo that has the 3e recovery. You could just flash a new kernel, but this is definately a good alternative.
Thanks
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App

If you look at Darkyy's rom he has a script that does this.

Thanks, this works flawlessly on a Rogers Froyo Stock. Now I have CWM working and good to go. The only thing left would be to apply some kind of lagfix.

Tested and works with Rogers 2.2 Rom. Thanks

skorchir said:
Tested and works with Rogers 2.2 Rom. Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I also have.
Thanks

Works great on Rogers 2.2. Thanks

I tested it on Galaxy S i9000m bell and it work A+
i do not have to flash cf-boot to make unsigned zip to be installed
thanks a lot for your hard work.
only thing is botton function become different then original 3e
but its working A+

I'm a little confused on how the Recovery works..... I have a I897 that I flashed Cognition 2.3b8 to with ROM Manager/CWM and when I chose "reboot into recovery" from ROM Manager from inside Cognition, it worked fine after reloading packages once. A few days ago, I flashed Perception 10.1 with the firebird kernel. After noticing the battery didn't last as long as it used to with Cognition, I did some research and found the SpeedMod kernel K12L. Before I flashed it, I did a backup from ROM Manager which rebooted into CWM with no problems and did the backup with no problem. I have since flashed K12M and K12N. Now I thought I would give Cog 3.0 a shot and wanted to back up my current config with Perception 10.1/SpeedMod K12N. From ROM Manager, I chose to backup, named my backup and the phone rebooted into 3e Recovery and gave the errors you listed above but I don't understand why? Is it because of the I9000 kernel which doesn't make sense since Firebird is a I9000 kernel. Was it from flashing SpeedMod? Also noticed, that only the volume up/down buttons worked, not the power button which is also the select key. Only way out was to 3 button reboot (or pull the battery) which rebooted into CWM and then initiated the ROM Manager backup.
Any ideas why? Also, if I was to ODIN flash JH6 back to the phone, would that restore the Stock 2e Recovery? Sorry for the long post, but I'm still trying to learn this stuff and think you guys are awesome. The captivate would be a crappy phone if it wasn't for you all.

I guess if I had read your second post a little closer I would have seen that flashing SpeedMod causes it. I used your fix in the OP and when I tell it to "Reboot into Recovery" from ROM Manager, it boots into what I assume is 3e (Goes by real quick) and shows something about MOVI and verification and then boots into CWM Recovery v2.5.1.2. If I 3 button boot into recovery, it boots into CWM v2.5.1.0 SpeedMod ULFK. Seems to work now but I'm still confused. Thanks again.

Using sgstools to change mount RW completes its task fine. When I try to copy the new file to /system/bin it does not allow it. The permissions do not change. I tried terminal emulator it doesnt work either. The files stay -r only. I have tried so many times to delete/rename/ or copy over. I just gave up. My system is 2.2 and rooted before you ask.

davidis57 said:
Using sgstools to change mount RW completes its task fine. When I try to copy the new file to /system/bin it does not allow it. The permissions do not change. I tried terminal emulator it doesnt work either. The files stay -r only. I have tried so many times to delete/rename/ or copy over. I just gave up. My system is 2.2 and rooted before you ask.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Use a terminal emulator or adb shell and type...
Code:
chmod 777 /system/bin/recovery
That should give r/w permission to the file, ...i just tested to verify it and it worked for me. also if you have Root Explorer you can just long press the file and select Permissions and check all the boxes.

Exact the same thing is happening to me! Beforehand I had flashed CF Root to get Superuser also at the same time when rooting. I Still can boot into recovery with 3BR and come into the speedmod ULFK settings. Speedmod introduces 3e and you need signed packages. You must have 2e for this I assume!? Can anyone tell me what goes wrong?

Im using the Speedmod kernel and it always pissed me off that everytime I wanted to flash somethng via CWM that I had to pull the battery and restart my phone for it to finish because of the 3e 'no signed packages'
I did the steps in the OP and I noticed that I didnt even have a recovery file in system/bin but I put it in there anyway. I rebooted and flashed a different modem just to check and sure enough, it worked. Now I dont have to worry about pulling my battery and having to reboot my phone everytime I want to flash something.
Thanks for this!

Well the file is moved now. I get reinstall packages in recovery and thats all does. I installed rom manager and have cwm on my sdcard. The phone does not go into cwm recovery. It doesnot give me options to apply install.zip. I have dxjpa and z4root running. This modded recovery does not work. Any ideas?

davidis57 said:
Well the file is moved now. I get reinstall packages in recovery and thats all does. I installed rom manager and have cwm on my sdcard. The phone does not go into cwm recovery. It doesnot give me options to apply install.zip. I have dxjpa and z4root running. This modded recovery does not work. Any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Once you install cwm and reboot back into 3e, select reinstall packages, it will install cwm and then load into it , if it doesn't then the file didn't copy over, make sure it replaces it ok, I've used this quite a few times and it works everytime, and everyone that has posted has not had an issue, so it does work
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App

It did copy over in fact i deleted the old one and put the new one in its place. It never installs anything and seems to error but its so fast i cant read it.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

davidis57 said:
It did copy over in fact i deleted the old one and put the new one in its place. It never installs anything and seems to error but its so fast i cant read it.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try starting over, delete the recovery file and also delete the update.zip on the root of the sdcard, then copy the modded recovery over to /system/bin/ , then open rom manager and install cwm again, something could have happened with the update.zip, cause if you are able to get into 3e and select reinstall packages and it actually starts but errors out with the update.zip, then something could possibly be wrong with the update.zip .. it might restart after you select reinstall packages, but it should then load in to cwm, if it doesnt and boots back into android, then go into rom manager and select restart recovery and see if that works

Fresh Start

So i had to Odin back to stock because in whatever rom i used i wouldnt get vibration for text messages. This worked fine and i flashed back to eugenes stock jk2 that was prerooted. Now i need to install new roms again and im having trouble. I have rom manager installed and superuser was already there. I got the rom on the sd card (tried with multiple roms), but when i go to flash the roms it fails because it can't verify the signature. Even when i go to fix permissions and reboot my phone like rommanager tells me to it cant flash a new rom. On the other roms i had i would just go to advanced options in recovery and disable verification checks but with the stock recovery i cant do this. So my main question is why isnt this option in cwm recovery and how can i get it there so i can start getting roms again. Thanks for anyone who takes the time to read this...

Make sure that you have CWM recovery flashed onto your phone using odin. Also make sure that whatever rom you install is on agreement with your software version.
Sent from my overclocked Fascinate using XDA App

yea maybe i need to try one of eugenes roms because its his froyo version? i have cwm because i installed it through rom manager (well at least i think i have it)

lavcoles said:
So i had to Odin back to stock because in whatever rom i used i wouldnt get vibration for text messages. This worked fine and i flashed back to eugenes stock jk2 that was prerooted. Now i need to install new roms again and im having trouble. I have rom manager installed and superuser was already there. I got the rom on the sd card (tried with multiple roms), but when i go to flash the roms it fails because it can't verify the signature. Even when i go to fix permissions and reboot my phone like rommanager tells me to it cant flash a new rom. On the other roms i had i would just go to advanced options in recovery and disable verification checks but with the stock recovery i cant do this. So my main question is why isnt this option in cwm recovery and how can i get it there so i can start getting roms again. Thanks for anyone who takes the time to read this...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you putting the rom on the internal memory?

Yea i copied it to the iternal sd, i see it on the internal sd, but the only way to reflash it is to rename it update.zip becauae all i can do is reinstall system packages

You have to download cwmrecovery, plug your phone in while in download mode and put cwmrecovery onto your phone. Just installing rom manager doesn't cut it and trying to flash anything will give the exact errors you're talking about.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

how do you delete the post ?

So i put the cwm recovery in the phone slot in odin and reflash it?

lavcoles said:
Yea i copied it to the iternal sd, i see it on the internal sd, but the only way to reflash it is to rename it update.zip becauae all i can do is reinstall system packages
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You put the rom Just on the internal sd card not any folders right?

its doesent matter at least for me if the rom is right there or in a folder no difference just file called update.zip need to be there (not in the folder )

and no ! u cant flash clockwork recovry thru odin ! loL both of these program u mentioned are intended to flash roms not to be flashed as rom p u can flash in clockwork recovery if the rome is made for it which would be packed with .zip file if its odin file it would be .tar not every rom is flashable thru odin or clockwork depends how devs made it

bartek25 said:
its doesent matter at least for me if the rom is right there or in a folder no difference just file called update.zip need to be there (not in the folder )
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Something must have gotten corrupted in the file transfer. I know your fustrated . Have you tried repeating the odin process?

Yea it was on the internal sd, i mean iv probably flashed 20 different roms and i know how to move them between different file folders and how to access them ect... The only problem is basically that im stuck in stock which has a different recovery

nomadrider123 said:
Something must have gotten corrupted in the file transfer. I know your fustrated . Have you tried repeating the odin process?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No this sounds like a good idea though, maybe i should use a different tar file.

lavcoles said:
Yea it was on the internal sd, i mean iv probably flashed 20 different roms and i know how to move them between different file folders and how to access them ect... The only problem is basically that im stuck in stock which has a different recovery
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Here is the update.zip that will flash you into clockwork from stock recovery. Put this on your phone's internal sd, reboot to recovery, and hit "reinstall packages". If your phone reboots to stock recovery again, hit reinstall packages again and the second time it should put you right into Clockwork Recovery. Good Luck.

Thank you this is what iv been looking for

NP Friend, let me know if it works for you.

Br1cK'd said:
NP Friend, let me know if it works for you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
wow it still says i cant flash the .zip file for some reason, it gives me the same error message about signature verification. I am rooted and i even rerooted but it didnt make a difference, thanks for trying to help though

lavcoles said:
wow it still says i cant flash the .zip file for some reason, it gives me the same error message about signature verification. I am rooted and i even rerooted but it didnt make a difference, thanks for trying to help though
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What rom are you currently running, still on Eugene's JK2? If you Odin'd a stock file, you may have 2e recovery, not the modded 3e. Check this thread, it may help you out with the stock recovery issue. In fact untermensch mentions this kind of issue specifically in the OP. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423

Br1cK'd said:
Here is the update.zip that will flash you into clockwork from stock recovery. Put this on your phone's internal sd, reboot to recovery, and hit "reinstall packages". If your phone reboots to stock recovery again, hit reinstall packages again and the second time it should put you right into Clockwork Recovery. Good Luck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just added this to the ACS, thanks for reminding me

[Q] Help. 2.2 rooted. cannot flash at all

I've been having a lot of problems getting my tmobile vibrant into cwm recovery,
i flashed recovery through cwm and selected boot into recovery. when i get into recovery and select reinstall packages, I get mixed messages.
i tried flashing cwm with the initial update.zip it puts on the sd, little bar shows up at the bottom and gets about 1/3 of the way, and says
E:/failed to verify whole file signature.
installation aborted.
Went into clockworkmod folder on my computer retrieved the recovery-update.zip, renamed it update.zip. I tried putting both of these files on the sd card root, /external_sd, phone internal memory and the sd folder on the phone. nothing works
Am i doing this wrong?

Have you tried the fix permissions option in CWM? I have had strange errors like that before and that helped.

can you be more specific please?
it says an error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands.

search for 3e modified recovery in the dev section

reply
that might help me if i knew what it meant. im just learning about this stuff but it seems to be getting more and more complicated all the time
I guess this post is dead.
Thanks for the help guys.):

Go into SuperUser and see if it runs. It sounds like you lost root. If that is the case you may need to re-root it.

What do you mean you flashed recovery through cwm? If you can already use cwm you shouldn't have a problem.
Have you tried downloading ROM manager from the market? You will need to have your phone rooted to install cwm through ROM manager.

U r probably on the 3e recovery and have to get back the 2e recovery don't odin back to 2.1
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Here is the tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925400
Run a search before posting and you will most likely find the answer! :]
It works for KA7 too.
You probably just need the steps of putting it into shell root > script from 3e recovery to 2e recovery, then you're good to go.

I just odined a new kernel and after that, my phone went into cwm recovery and i flashed nero v.3. everything works great.

clockworkmod not letting me backup. Samsung Galaxy S.

Im sorry if this has been brought up before, but i couldnt find a thread with the same problem.. Whenever I try to do a backup with ClockWorkMod(before you ask yes i have flashed it) Anyway i click on the backup option, my phone then resets and boots into recovery, at which point it says "install default apk-files. please wait" and "install default apk-files. finished" and just stays there, with the normal recovery options, reboot, apply update, wipe data etc etc.. My phone is a rooted Galaxy S running stock Froyo.
Thanks in advance,
-b0s-

when you are in recovery what is the first thing it says ?? does is say android recovery system <3e> or does it have somethin like ClockWork Mod x.x.x.x (x being numbers)

It says "Android system recovery (3e)".

Had this same issue at one point, but this resolved it for me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...4#post10624454
Do yourself a favor and download Root Explorer from the Market so that you can apply the the file supplied in the zip.

the link to that thread is broken.

Not sure what happened but try this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10624454#post10624454

thanks for that ill give it a try and let you know how it goes.

Nope still not working, thanks for the suggestion anyway

you need 2e to flash unsigned zips, your still on stock recovery.
quickest easiest way just flash speedmod or voodoo kernel, gives the phone extra performance too.
or if you just want recovery flash CF-ROOT.

b0sanac said:
Nope still not working, thanks for the suggestion anyway
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you please provide the steps of what you've done? You said that this didnt work for you but did you follow the instructions? Did you reboot your phone into android recovery and choose the option for installing the update.zip? Are you using Rom Manager?

You're most likely trying to do a backup using rommanager. Same thing happens to me. When on the 3e screen just reboot and then straight away enter recovery using the 3 button method. It then enters 2e recovery and begins to backup automatically. Or just start the backup with the 3 button method instead.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Xanaki said:
Can you please provide the steps of what you've done? You said that this didnt work for you but did you follow the instructions? Did you reboot your phone into android recovery and choose the option for installing the update.zip? Are you using Rom Manager?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I followed the instructions on the link you posted.

sxi200 said:
You're most likely trying to do a backup using rommanager. Same thing happens to me. When on the 3e screen just reboot and then straight away enter recovery using the 3 button method. It then enters 2e recovery and begins to backup automatically. Or just start the backup with the 3 button method instead.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is what im doing yes. I have tried the 3 button method, but it still puts me into 3e recovery.

azzledazzle said:
you need 2e to flash unsigned zips, your still on stock recovery.
quickest easiest way just flash speedmod or voodoo kernel, gives the phone extra performance too.
or if you just want recovery flash CF-ROOT.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ill try flashing one of those.

azzledazzle said:
you need 2e to flash unsigned zips, your still on stock recovery.
quickest easiest way just flash speedmod or voodoo kernel, gives the phone extra performance too.
or if you just want recovery flash CF-ROOT.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for that, i installed speedmod and now its all working flawlessly.

Xanaki said:
Can you please provide the steps of what you've done? You said that this didnt work for you but did you follow the instructions? Did you reboot your phone into android recovery and choose the option for installing the update.zip? Are you using Rom Manager?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i replaced the recovery file in system/bin using root explorer and then went to rom manager and tried to backup current rom..
after restart it said the same thing--failed signature etc etc..
is there any simple way to install cwm recovery for gt i9003 ...