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I was having some pretty serious problems with Bionix 1.7 (couldn't download from market, unusably bad GPS, etc), which I thought I had successfully flashed yesterday afternoon. I decided to use Clockwork Mod to restore a backup I made before I flashed Bionix. This hung up for quite a while (upwards of 20 minutes) so I figured something had gone wrong. I held the power button until the screen turned off, and that put me right into Android Recovery, where I get the options to reboot (puts me right back there), reinstall packages (puts me into Clockwork Mod, which I'll get to in a second) or delete user data / cache, which I haven't messed with.
If I go into Clockwork Mod, I can tell it to try to restore one of my previous backups again, but it hangs up indefinitely (upwards of several hours) at "Restoring data..." (with either immvbsd.lck or .pc_syncstream below that). I can also still see the Bionix .zip on my SD card, but when I tell Clockwork Mod to install that .zip it gets this far:
Formatting DATA:...
Copying files...
E:Failure at line 81:
copy_dir PACKAGE:data DATA:
Installation aborted.
Ideas?

Okay, so apparently, the problem may have been that I didn't disable the Voodoo lagfix before I flashed back to my old ROM. I figured you only had to disable the lagfix if you were upgrading, not flashing back. So, I used ADB to push a disable-lagfix file to /sdcard/voodoo and rebooted. I heard Linda say that my file system converted back to RFS, and my phone went back to recovery. From here, I tried two things:
1. Attempted to flash back to a previous Nandroid backup. No matter what backup I pick (and I have several), they all complete successfully. However, when I choose to reboot my phone, it boots into recovery.
2. Attempted to install Bionix 1.7 though Clockwork. It appears to install successfully and gives me an "Installation complete." message, but puts me right back in recovery. Rebooting the phone from here puts me back into recovery again.
Since I'm on a mac right now, I'm really avoiding having to get on a Windows machine just to use ODIN, but I will if that's my only way out. Any alternatives?

opiomorph said:
Okay, so apparently, the problem may have been that I didn't disable the Voodoo lagfix before I flashed back to my old ROM. I figured you only had to disable the lagfix if you were upgrading, not flashing back. So, I used ADB to push a disable-lagfix file to /sdcard/voodoo and rebooted. I heard Linda say that my file system converted back to RFS, and my phone went back to recovery. From here, I tried two things:
1. Attempted to flash back to a previous Nandroid backup. No matter what backup I pick (and I have several), they all complete successfully. However, when I choose to reboot my phone, it boots into recovery.
2. Attempted to install Bionix 1.7 though Clockwork. It appears to install successfully and gives me an "Installation complete." message, but puts me right back in recovery. Rebooting the phone from here puts me back into recovery again.
Since I'm on a mac right now, I'm really avoiding having to get on a Windows machine just to use ODIN, but I will if that's my only way out. Any alternatives?
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Unfortunately it sounds indeed like you need to use ODIN to flash and re-partition your phone's file system. You're going to need to make sure you use the stock rom (JFD) to do this, other wise you'll be stuck in the recovery loop yet again with a different error message.
So far as being on a Mac goes, I've heard that some people have luck using ODIN through the newer version of parallels. Or you could of course just boot camp your machine if you happen to have a copy of Windows laying around. Parallels sounds like it might be the easier solution if you don't want to go through th hastle of installing a full blown windows load.
Just my .02 cents!

cathardicnotion said:
Unfortunately it sounds indeed like you need to use ODIN to flash and re-partition your phone's file system. You're going to need to make sure you use the stock rom (JFD) to do this, other wise you'll be stuck in the recovery loop yet again with a different error message.
So far as being on a Mac goes, I've heard that some people have luck using ODIN through the newer version of parallels. Or you could of course just boot camp your machine if you happen to have a copy of Windows laying around. Parallels sounds like it might be the easier solution if you don't want to go through th hastle of installing a full blown windows load.
Just my .02 cents!
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Using ODIN worked. Thanks for the reassurance. :3

[Q] Already rooted but Qs about Custom ROMs

I'm rooted but have never ran anything but stock on my phone. Only having experience with flashing WinMo devices, what exactly do I need to know before flashing a custom ROM?
If I flash, do I lose the data on my phone now (does it do a factory wipe)?

Most times toy will need to do a wipe of the data and cache to get a full rom working correctly.
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Yeah, thanks.. Just downloaded ROM manager and Clockworkmod Recovery ($2), kinda following the instructions from Gummys post.
How long does this process take? I installed from SD and did the reboot.. I must of waited a good fifteen minutes before pulling the battery assuming it was stuck. Now it's sitting on the Gummy Screen with the 4 rotating colored android pics.
Got into recovery but it's not allowing me to apply the update.zip (e:can't open/cache/recovery/command)?

Dang it! I was in the middle of posting the following instructions when I got interrupted (at work)
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Flashing will wipe your phone. The nice thing with android is -anything you have purchased or installed from the market will automatically be restored to your phone after you log in using your gmail account.
Let me qualify my statement though - I have flashed a few roms and my free apps were not automatically installed for whatever reason. My purchased apps were not installed either - but they were available for installation at no charge.
Here is another important thing to remember - this will only happen if you chose the correct settings in -uh well- settings. There are some options in there to back up your data to google. If you did that then 95% chance it will all be good.
I recently switched from the DX to the D1 (gave my wife the DX bc I wanted to try some D1 roms) and all my apps were installed and somehow google even migrated my current wallpaper over! I was blown away by that.
Also -make sure your contacts are set up to sync with google. if they are just being added to your phone and not in sync with your google account you are going to loose them all.
Flashing roms:
1. You need to get the droidx bootstrapper app from the market (or I think you can get it for free if you search clockwork mod on google and go to Koush's website. I just bought it to help the developer.).
2. Open the app.
3. Press the "Bootstrap recovery button"
4. You should get a dialog box saying success (or something and then press ok).
5. Press "reboot recovery".
6. Your phone will reboot into clockwork recovery (not the stock phone recovery). It will be a black screen with old school green letters and a menu.
a. In recovery you do not have a touch screen.
b. The volume rocker is up/down.
c. The camera button is "Enter".
d. The physical back button will take you back one menu (also I believe the power button but I always used the power button.
7. The first thing you want to do before you do anything is make a nandroid (backup) of your phone.
8. The opening screen of recovery has the option to create a nandroid. do that.
9. It takes around 5 minutes then choose to reboot your phone when it says, ""complete".
10. To flash a rom put ti...
Wish I would have just posted what I had. Maybe you would have had a nandroid to revert to.
Dang.
Yea. It shouldn't take that long. Sounds like something got hosed. I am getting interrupter again. I will try and get back with some info.

Awesome info, thanks for this. Did a factory wipe and now it's booting up normally (or so it appears into Gummy), will definitely bookmark that info though, thanks again man!

Were you installing Gummy. And did you follow the instructions exactly?
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looks like you got it. glad to hear that.

[Q] Totally screwed up my phone

I Rooted my phone.
Installed ClockworkMod rom manager
Tried (numerous) times to do a backup, but it always says "can't mount" or "can't open" and fails.
I've lost my bluetooth and vibrate in the process.
I am (and was already on) EA28 when starting all this.
Can anyone help a confused newbie???
I'm not any idiot, I'm a software developer and ASP.Net web developer. But all this Linux style command line stuff is beyond greek to me...
I'd like to get to the point where I had a known-good backup and could try using the DL30 leak.
I have Odin working on my laptop but have uninstalled "superuser" in an effort to get vibrate and bluetooth working again. As I said, it's a mess.

rvgraham said:
I Rooted my phone.
Installed ClockworkMod rom manager
Tried (numerous) times to do a backup, but it always says "can't mount" or "can't open" and fails.
I've lost my bluetooth and vibrate in the process.
I am (and was already on) EA28 when starting all this.
Can anyone help a confused newbie???
I'm not any idiot, I'm a software developer and ASP.Net web developer. But all this Linux style command line stuff is beyond greek to me...
I'd like to get to the point where I had a known-good backup and could try using the DL30 leak.
I have Odin working on my laptop but have uninstalled "superuser" in an effort to get vibrate and bluetooth working again. As I said, it's a mess.
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I would follow the "beginners guide" to use the one click root method to get root back. Then flash the stock DL09 that's in the forums using odin to get to a point where you can push DL30 out.

Open ODIN, go get a DL09.md5.tar from the development section,
Take your battery out
Plug in the USB ** While holding Volume Down** (thanks for the save Superchunk)
Once in Download mode add the file to the PDA on Odin
Press start
It will erase EVERYTHING HOWEVER bring you back up and running
Alwasy a good idea to keep that file handy incase this happens again, just re-flash
***Note once you flash DL09 to fix everything, your again NOT Rooted, your back to Stock!!!!
(Just on what i use, i've always rooted my phone using http://forum.androidcentral.com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/33899-how-root.html)

Linden13 said:
Open ODIN, go get a DL09.md5.tar from the development section,
Take your battery out
Plug in the USB while holding volume down
Once in Download mode add the file to the PDA on Odin
Press start
It will erase EVERYTHING HOWEVER bring you back up and running
Alwasy a good idea to keep that file handy incase this happens again, just re-flash
***Note once you flash DL09 to fix everything, your again NOT Rooted, your back to Stock!!!!
(Just on what i use, i've always rooted my phone using http://forum.androidcentral.com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/33899-how-root.html)
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edited with what I believe was missing...
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GOOD SAVE!!!!!

Thanks!
I'll try that when I get home. Never had DL09, went from DI01 directly to EA28, which seems to be a bit of an orphan.
Following your advice(s), what should I be doing to protect my ability to get back to a state where I can use Verizon's updates when and if I want to?
Bob Graham (Newbie Extraordinaire)

Got it working now....
This thread got me on the right track:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944365
Now I have some issues, if that's the right word. Successfully onto DL30, but one of the last instructions on that files was for installing new_cwm.zip.
I don't see Rom Manager in my apps list, though Superuser is there.
Can I install CWM from the market now, so it will show in my apps? Or will that just corrupt the right one that is there(???) but not visible?
Bob

Cwm its a recovery which is flashed through samsung stock recovery. If you download the proper cwm file (which can be found in the dev section) you can power your phone off, then hold down both the volume up and down buttons, then while holding those buttons press and hold the power button til the samsung logo comes up. Blue text soul come up, which would be the stock recovery. You can then flash the cwm file (which you should have placed on your sd card) via the install .zip option in recovery.
Rom manager of available through the market.
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[Q] Mod reboot stuck in loop - ideas

Read a few other loop posts, but none were for the evo and/or helped much. I've been running CyanogenMod (newest) with little problems except for one which is why I wanted to try a few others.
Using ROM manager, I did try to d/l myn's as I have used it in the past, and after the download, reboot, the install kept showing the android package and a triangle with exclamation point. When completed, it rebooted and just kept looping through the CyanogenMod bootloader screen (so I know the myn's didn't get installed). I have 3 backups, the one from this morning and 2 older ones.
I did a reboot / recovery with this mornings backup and had the same results (note I didn't wipe, just backed up). I did let it sit a good 15 minutes of the loader, black screen, loader, etc.
I then restarted again and selected the older backup (which was using fresh rom). Got my loader, and everything did start (thankfully) and I could make a few calls. The problem(s) I have are;
I don't want fresh which is why I switched. I just tried using ROM manager to select myn's, even selected the WIPE DATA and backup with the results. The installer goes 2 quick to read, but I just see that triangle with ! as it tries to flash the new myn's rom.
Ideas / suggestions are appreciated.

I've heard that ROM manager might not clear the Dalvik cache very well. This is what I'd try:
1) Download and install AMON RA 2.2.1 that I've attached. Its labeled as PC36IMG so your phone will automatically recognize it.
2) Download a check sum program for your computer, you should verify the MD5 value to this one below. You need to make sure you didn't have any download issues and this file isn't corrupt, otherwise you've got a new set of problems.
26eadae1e206784d0bb9426f24f4303d
3) Place this file on your SD card root directory. Also put Warm2.2 ROM on the SD card as well.
4) With your phone off, hold down the volume down button and turn it on.
5) You should go into the bootloader screen. The phone will automatically scan for the PC36IMG file. Agree to install it.
6) After this is installed, remove this PC36IMG file off your SD card just to make things less confusing.
6) With the phone off, go into the bootloader screen again. This time select "Recovery" after it scans.
7) You should now be in AMON_RA 2.2.1 recovery. Navigate to Wipe. For a completely clean install, wipe data, cache, Dalvik, and SD:EXT.
8) Then navigate to the Flash from SD card, find your Warm2.2 ROM and install. When complete, reboot the phone. Things should work now.
Hope this helps.

@coiledwire - thanks for such a great detailed reply. I did exactly what you suggested and sure enough worked like a charm.
Although Fresh was ok (and working), you don't go through all the trouble to go 90% ... thanks again...

Sweet! Glad to hear things are resolved.
In the future, always wipe the cache and dalvik before flashing. That goes for kernels, mods, as well as ROMs (wipe the data also when doing these). Some even suggest wiping these 3 times just to make sure.
Top 3 sources of problems: corrupted download, didn't wipe, and incompatible mods. IMHO.

Yea, well normally I would use ROM manager (free) and didn't delete the data which this time I did from the recovery mode which was probably a good part.
So at least now it's the newest radio, ROM and everything I want (except the vanilla lock screen) which when I tried to install from SD I received a nice error talking about the app was written with some old things, so that's my next project!
Thanks again ... great info!

Need help flashing CM ROM

I'm having trouble with my samsung vibrant (galaxy S) I want to flash CM on it. I have root access, Clockwork Mod recovery, and ROM Manager. I go in to ROM manager and select flash ROM from SD card, I select the CM ROM which I downloaded but it gives an error "Status 7" when trying to install, and will not flash the new ROM. Any help with this would be appreciated.

ok first go into clockwork recovery on rom manager and pick flash clockwork recovery and pick vibrantmtd then pick 3x NOT 2X! Then go to download rom and choose cm7 nightlie 8 or under as above have many probs. On ur nightlie choose all three! wipe data, wipe dalvik and backup rom. On ur second nightlie u just have to wipe dalvik and backup rom.

Thanks for the help. I tried that with a slight variation. I had to manually put the ROM on the root of the SD card and named it update.zip. I flashed clockwork recovery and selected 3.x as you said. I selected all 3 options for backup and wipe. Once in recovery I select "Reinstall packages" and it finds update.zip but aborts installation with "Status 7"

Ur doing it wrong. Update package is for only rooting ur phone.
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First root ur phone! Then follow my directions to get cm7
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the phone is rooted. Is there an easy way for me to double check that? Maybe I'm confusing two processes, but I do have the ROM on the SD card. Am I trying to apply it incorrectly? When I'm in recovery my only options are:
Reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
format internal SD-card
I'm used to see other option such as on my MT4G which has "install zip from SD card" That is what I typically use to flash a new rom.
Sorry if I'm missing something, but I do appreciate the help

I've been messing with it all night. I wound up doing the ODIN to JFD to get myself back to 2.1. I installed rom manager again, and it appears that when I tell it to flash clockwork mod and then reboot in to recovery I am actually going to stock recovery. I think the options that I listed earlier are for stock recovery as well. I think the main thing I'm missing is the "Install ZIP from SD Card" option in recovery. I guess at this point I'm unsure if I'm rooted, and don't know how to get the correct recovery so I can flash the ROM I'd like.

If ur recovery is blue then u need reinstall packages twice then u will be rooted, then it will turn green. Then go into rom manager and flash clock work recovery. Then put ur rom on internal sd and ur ready to flash. Enjoy
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Ok, so we can narrow things down a bit. My recovery is blue. I've downloaded the update.zip that I found from "NOOB Root guide" here on XDA, but no matter how many times I reinstall packages recovery never turns green.
I've also tried the one click root method which does the same thing as above but it just automates things a bit. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739300)

Bump.
Many thanks to movieaddict who has helped so far, but it appears that I don't have root access, and the typical steps found in this thread are not working for me. Any other ideas?

ok is ur phone hardware locked?? by checking by doing this do the 3 button combo to get into download mode. First power off ur phone then plug in ur usb cable to phone and into pc then hold down the up volume and down volume and THEN hold down the power button and let go after a few sec u should see download mode.. If it goes into download mode then ur phone is not hardware lcked and we can go from there if it is hardware locked? then follow this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801722
if it isnt hardware locked then make sure update package file isnt corrrupted and make sure u put it on ur internal sd card. Make sure the update package is 632 kb sometimes when downloading stuff happens.
im gonna tell u how i do root and flash! First odin back to eclair must easier to root then. Second put the update package on ur internal sd card and dont unrar it leave it as is. Then turn off ur phone and hold down the up volume and the down volume and THEN the power button and as when u SEE THE vibrant logo let go of power button. Ur recovery will be blue then select reinstall package and select yes, it will then go through stuff and come back to recovery blue then do it again and it will turn green. Once its green then select the rom u want to flash and ur ready to go.

Thanks again. From your instructions I can tell that the phone is hardware UNlocked. I've previously gotten in to download mode. also, I see some differences in how you describe the root process. The update.zip is 633kb, I'll try to redownload it again... also, when I hit reinstall packages I am not prompted with yes/no, it just does it. It is a very quick process, and then it auto reboots the phone, but you said it should bring me back to recovery. I'm not sure why that would be happening
I'll mess around with this some more tonight. Hopefully I can nail this down. Sorry to be a PITA.

yah it should bring u back to green recovery after doing it twice! Yah that was my bad it asks u yes or no when flashing...lol!
Sent u pm!!!

Try Superoneclick root! That always works for me. When u reinstall packages and it reboots, clockwork usually has NOT been installed, I always Odin then install Tom Manager, flash Clockwork, then its off to the races!
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Sorry Rom Manager not Tom, lol
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I've been going over the suggestions all night. I feel like I'm following the instructions... not that they are even that difficult. I get the update.zip on my sd card, I boot in to stock recovery (blue) I reinstall packages, the phone reboots in to normal boot mode, I reboot in to recovery and reinstall packages again. I repeat this process multiple times hoping that one of these times I'm going to see a green recovery. I know it's all smooth sailing from there. I even recorded a short clip of me doing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPreHj16UEU
Is it possible that i've tried so many different way of doing this that I have the phone in a weird state, and now these guides aren't working due to those previous attempts? I tried super1click... wound up getting an error "Getting mount path" ... "failed"

A simple way to check for root would be to download Terminal Emulator from the market and type in "su" without the quotations. If you get $ or permission denied you are not rooted. If you get a super user prompt followed by a # you should have root. Also which rom are you on now? If you are on stock Kb5 the recovery could be giving you some issues trying to flash the CWM recovery or at least for me it did. I suggest using ODIN to go back to JFD, then using super one click root (make sure your screen is set to not go off for the 10 or 30 minute time frame) I suggest this because I have had the "failure to mount" issues many times and it only seems to happen if my phone screen goes off while attempting the root. Once super one click completes, reboot your phone, install Rom manager, then reboot into recovery. You will have to select re install packages from there. The clockwork screen will be green as a few others have stated. I have attached an image below of clockwork, mine is orange since it's cm7 but yours will look similar,but green. From here just choose install from zip sd card, choose zip and flash away. Best of luck to you!
https://picasaweb.google.com/117659...?authkey=Gv1sRgCMbSsp7F4ZHWfg&feat=directlink

Is there something that removes the root access when you reboot the phone? I flashed the recovery for Galaxy S Vibrant (NOT Vibrant MTD) and was able to get to CWR (green), but sometimes when I go in to recovery it is back to blue... if I reinstall packages it takes me to green. Along those same lines I notice SU keeps asking me if the same application can have SuperUser permissions, so it seems like something is not sticking.

are you on 2.1 or 2.2? if you'r on 2.2 and use the update.zip it wont work you have to use superoneclick root ,happened to me too.

Thanks for responding. The phone was on 2.1 because I used ODIN to go back to JFD.
I've since sold the phone (didn't care for it much) and gotten a G2X (which I'm also not wild about). Thanks for all the help everyone!