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i tried to put a rom on my phone. i put the rom in the wrong place. I rebooted it and all my contacts and apps are gone how tdo i get them back??
And sorry for posting so much i am just a worried person and i am every new to this rooting thing

Did you make a nandroid backup? And how did you put it in the wrong place? All you have to do is put the ROM on your sdcard, boot into recovery, wipe dalvik cache and data, and then flash the ROM.

yes i made a nandroid backup how do i use it?? and i put it onto the Removable disk (H: ) instead on removable disk (E: )

Provided you still have your nandroid where it was originally saved on your SD card, you should be able to restore it through your recovery menu.

so would i copy the nandroid back onto my sd card then go into recovery mode and restore it??

you'll need to put it back where it came from.. something like /sdcard/nandroid/yourphonesserialnumber/datetime

i did that i put the nandroid copy back into the sd and it said would you like to overwrite the nandroid i clicked yes to all. THen turned it off and back on and it still was the same. I am doing somthing wrong?? or What do i have to do??

Turn off your phone, then hold down the home button and hit power. Continue holding down home untill your phone boots up to the recovery screen. Select NAND restore. Select your nandroid backup file then hit home. Reboot

xxxk15 said:
i did that i put the nandroid copy back into the sd and it said would you like to overwrite the nandroid i clicked yes to all. THen turned it off and back on and it still was the same. I am doing somthing wrong?? or What do i have to do??
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You have to turn off your phone, then turn back on by holding the power button and volume down switch simutaniously. You will boot into the the recovery screen, press home bottom, select naidroid, select restore, select the file you backed up and restore.

thanks man you helped to much!!!!!!!!!!!

Help please, asap!!!

I previously updated my phone with the update.zip. It worked for a while and then started giving me grief. I backed up the SD card and then tried the simple root. After a few tries, it appeared to be successful. I formatted my SD card and then replaced the backed up files. I then backed up my phone with Titanium backup.
Here is where the trouble lies: I powered down the phone and held the volume down/camera/power button until it booted into ClockworkMod Recovery. I selected "wipe data/factory reset" and pressed the home key. The screen went black but the led stayed on and the keys on the bottom stayed lit up. It stayed like that for at least 10 minutes. I tried pressing buttons, powering on/off, nothing. Finally I did a battery pull. After the battery pull it allows me to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery, but won't let me reboot or anything. Anytime I make a selection, it goes to a black screen.
Now what? I'm freaking out here!

This has got to be a troll right? You don't use the home key to make your selections. The home key MAKES the screen go black, that's what it does.
You should be using the camera button to make your selections.

No troll, I sincerely thought that you used the home screen to select. I'll try the camera button now. Thanks for the info!

my guess is he's on stock recovery... not clockwork

I was trying to do a factory wipe. It is my first time to root a phone and use CMW. The camera button did the trick. Thank you!

If memory serves me correctly you do use the home button to make a selection with stock settings.
OP you may want to just use the Samsung utility to flash back to Stock EB13. After that you can root or do whatever you like.
I also used the update.zip to start with, and even though I didn't have any of the serious bugs that we have seen. I went ahead and flashed it back stock anyways and noticed an improvement.
You should be able to find a link to the samsung tool here, I'm sure its still on a mirror.
If not let me know.
Nate

how to flash CM7?

would anyone be willing to write a guide detailing with steps how to go about flashing CM7 to your droid2?
I have the latest GB update running and rooted on my droid2 so that shouldnt be an issue.

This can be a lengthy (and easy to screw up) process the first time, so I don't recommend doing it on your lunch break, before you have to go to work, while driving, anytime you may need your phone for calls or whatever. So basically when you have an hour free and don't need your phone.
If you want to try to save all your apps and app data, I suggest getting Titanium Backup Pro, so you can restore your stuff after you flash, but it's optional.
Get this:
Droid 2 Recovery Bootstrap
Yes, it costs money, yes it's required.
And this:
ROM Manager
Install and open up ROM Manager, select Download Rom, Select Google Apps, choose one (I just picked the most current one), hit Download, you can select GTalk if it pops up (I did but you can skip it), once finished DLing, exit the app.
Go here and get the latest build (2011-09-08 at the time of this post, might be a newer one):
Droid 2 CM7 with Gingerbread Leak Kernel
DL the .zip, connect D2 to computer via USB, select mass storage from USB options, move the DL'd .zip to your sdcard. While not necessary, it's more convenient to place this .zip on the root of your sdcard (meaning not in a file folder, just drag and drop it on /sdcard/)
Unhook phone from USB, open Droid 2 Bootstrapper App, touch Bootsrap Recovery, grant Superuser permissions, touch ok when it says success, touch Reboot Recovery.
When phone is rebooted you will be at the Clockwork Recovery Screen.
**Optional, but highly recommended** Use volume down button to select Backup and Restore (also called Nandroid on some versions), hit the camera button to choose, then hit the camera button to choose Backup, then wait for it to do it's backup. Should you screw something up or decide not to want to keep CM7, you can wipe data and cache and then restore this backup and everything should be as it was now, before you flashed CM7. Once it's done backing up, go back to the main clockwork recovery screen by hitting the power button until it's back.
Volume button down to Wipe data/factory reset, camera button to select, volume button down to yes, camera button to select. Wait for it to finish, go back to main clockwork recovery screen. I always select wipe cache partition too and do that, but someone will probably tell you that's unnecessary.
From the main clockwork recovery screen (which you can get back to at anytime if you're in the wrong menu by pressing the power button) go to install .zip from sdcard (not apply sdcard update.zip), then volume arrow down until you find CM4D2-GB-20110908.zip (or whatever the name of the build you DL'd), hit the camera button to select, volume button down to yes, then camera button again. Wait for it to flash.
Now you need to flash the Google Apps you DL'd from the ROM Manager. Go back to the main clockwork recovery screen, select install .zip from sdcard, go into clockworkmod/ (it may be hard to see, my file list isn't alphabetized, yours might not be either), then download/, then goo-inside.me/, then gapps/, then whatever version of Google Apps you DL'd should be there. Hit yes to flash, wait for it to finish.
Power button back to the main clockwork recovery screen, then select Reboot Now. Wait for your phone to reboot. It may appear to bootloop (get stuck on the Cyanogen 7 skate boarding android graphic), but let it go. Mine took upwards of 5 to 10 minutes on that screen before it finally got into the android setup, so hastily pulling the battery because you're tired of waiting may cause problems.
Optionally you can flash JakebitesMods[Mods] if you want, I did. He's got some settings that make CM7 run better in there. Flash them the same way you did CM7 or Google Apps. DL the .zip, put on sdcard, boot into recovery, install .zip from sdcard, so on. Same process, just use this DL instead of CM7.
This should get you going, about as detailed as anyone is going to throw out there. If you have problems, post here.
I'm not the dev, don't take any credit for any of the projects listed above, am extremely not responsible for anything you might screw up, and just I'm just trying to help.
Good luck!

Awesome
thankyou for the write up, least now i can try this and see how it works

after trying multiple times, mine always gets stuck in the bootloop after the flash no matter what i try, so if anyone can get this to work let me know

How long do you let it sit before giving up?
Did you wipe data and cache as stated above? Not doing so will result in a bootloop because it can't make the data previously on there work with the data you're putting on there.
If you still can't get it to work after rewiping the data and cache, try accessing the stock (different than clockwork) recovery and wiping the data from there. With the phone off, hold the X button on the physical keyboard and turn the phone on. Once it gets to the screen with the ! mark, hit the magnifying glass on the keyboard, then volume down and wipe cache and data, both of the options. This might take a little bit. Reboot phone and wait.
If that still doesn't work, you may have a corrupted DL of the rom, the gapps, or the JakeMods if you got them. Try reDLing those files and try the steps listed above.
I am able to get into clockwork recovery if I have the phone plugged into an ac outlet when booting up, I don't know if you're able to, but you can try it if you can't get into the clockwork recovery.

I finally got it to work, i just cleared data/cache every single time i installed something and it finally worked

[Q] Phone is sort of bricked...Please help

Ok my phone was working fine, I decided to update my rom with rom manager. I accidently downloaded a rom patch instead of a rom. I installed it and when i boot my phone i get application launcher has stopped. please close . I tried to go to hboot and load my backup or just factory reset and i get to clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.0 but whenever i click the power button for anything all i get is the rom manager app symbol. it doesnt register anything i do. Somebody please help!

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Ok my phone was working fine, I decided to update my rom with rom manager. I accidently downloaded a rom patch instead of a rom. I installed it and when i boot my phone i get application launcher has stopped. please close . I tried to go to hboot and load my backup or just factory reset and i get to clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.0 but whenever i click the power button for anything all i get is the rom manager app symbol. it doesnt register anything i do. Somebody please help!
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Don't use the power button to select. Use the trackpad
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Well first off, you should ALWAYS make nandroid (ROM manager) backups before flashing any ROM, addon, patch, etc.
That aside, you have a few things to do here. If you didn't make a nandroid backup you should download a ROM.zip file from the Dev section (your choice), and put it on your SDcard. Enter the boot loader (from off) by holding vol. down+power, then selecting 'recovery'. Once in recovery, wipe data/factory reset, and then go to 'install zip from SDcard' and select the ROM.zip. Then flash any associated .zip's or anything that the ROM maker suggest. Reboot, and you're good to go in a working ROM. You can now go from there.
Remember, when in recovery you need to use the TRACKPAD and BACK BUTTON to navigate the CWM recovery screen. Using the power button / camera button / menu button will just show/hide the menu or turn the screen off. You can scroll and select with the trackpad, and go back with the 'back' button. Only use these 2. Nothing is wrong with your phone, you're just using the wrong damn buttons.
Your phone is so far from bricked its not even funny. Just follow some basic knowledge on how the recovery and ROM manager works and you'll be back to 100%.

thanks alot guys. i was really high so i started getting paranoid about my phone lol BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH

Power Button just shows the wallpaper, trackpad is where you select for our phone

I can not use/install clockworkmod

I am just login,
The question:
Wildfire buzz 2.2.1 Revolutionary S-OFF and rooted with superoneclick
Rom 2.2.1
Kernel 2.6.32.21
Hboot version for s- OFF with Revolutionary, rooted with superoneclick
Tweaks / coustomizations: nothing
Memory card partitions: fat32, ext2, swap
I can not have a working clockworkmod and I can not install zip file from sd card. I tried different ways and I think that something has been wrong.
Rom manager can see CWM 3.0.0.6 and I did a backup from rom manager, with CWM 3.0.0.6; the backup is on sd card inside a folder clockworkmod/backup. But if I tap resume in recovery mode from rom manager, I have a not working CWM 3.0.0.6 menu (whatever line I choose, I’ve a black screen with a hat and I have to remove the phone battery).
If I switch on the phone volume down+power and I go in recovery, I can see a CWM 5.0.2.0 (not working at all, with the same black screen with a hat by choosing any menu option).
It seems there are two CWM installed, the first one working from rom manager but only for backup and anything else.
I’ll be grateful for your help

Use the trackball to select, not the power button.

Lesicnik1 said:
Use the trackball to select, not the power button.
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Thanks, I will try it, but why two CWM installed?

rose_canter said:
Thanks, I will try it, but why two CWM installed?
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Because one is from ROM Manager, just like you said.

you will have cwm 5.x because this cwm you have installed. if you want to go into cwm 3.x you have to go to rom manager, at bottom you have option all cwm versions, then you choose cwm 3.0.0.6, and after thas at the top flash cwm. Now you have created file called uptade.zip. Now you enter into cwm, choose apply update form sd, choose update.zip and here you are cmw 3.0.0.6 all philosophy

drewniany92 said:
you will have cwm 5.x because this cwm you have installed. if you want to go into cwm 3.x you have to go to rom manager, at bottom you have option all cwm versions, then you choose cwm 3.0.0.6, and after thas at the top flash cwm. Now you have created file called uptade.zip. Now you enter into cwm, choose apply update form sd, choose update.zip and here you are cmw 3.0.0.6 all philosophy
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to make this a bit more complete: you can boot into CWM by ROM Manager to use a different CWM version than the installed one. Sometimes you might need an older version (to flash a radio you'll need CWM 2.5x for example).
If you boot into recovery by ROM Manager this will give you a temporary version (depending what you've chosen).

All new roms are able to start with cwm 3.x but you're right, sometimes we need 2.x recovery to elder roms like joker droid i used it only 2 times m8 almost always i use cwm 3.x

Thanks for your answers
The trackball does not allow to select any CWM item but I can move from an item to another one. If I move in this way after a while I can see at the bottom of the screen “ Back button enabled” and the power button becomes enabled to select regardless I choose an item with the trackball or with the volume button. It may be this is the norm.

rose_canter said:
Thanks for your answers
The trackball does not allow to select any CWM item but I can move from an item to another one. If I move in this way after a while I can see at the bottom of the screen “ Back button enabled” and the power button becomes enabled to select regardless I choose an item with the trackball or with the volume button. It may be this is the norm.
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not sure if this is a misunderstanding...
In Fastboot (after Fastboot did initially run and check for update files) you choose the menu items with vol up/down and select an item by pressing the power button.
If you go into recovery (by choosing "recovery" with vol up/down and selecting it by pressing power button) you can there choose again with vol up/down or with moving the trackball (not sure if it works in all versions though) - but: you select an item by pressing the trackball (not the power button) - if that doesn't work there's a problem with your trackball - either software or hardware.
The activation of back menu after 3 runs through the menu is intended, though (in case you made a mistake). I seem to remember that I've also read somewhere that you could set the power button for selection in CWM, too, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

I've to scroll down the cwm menu with the trackball and wait for "back menu button enabled", then the power button goes. Perhaps there are some troubles with the phone.
I found this one that can be related perhaps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775840