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Recovering files off Epic that freezes boot

I installed ADW launcher, and like an idiot, didn't do a backup first, and upon rebooting the phone, it now hangs part way through the boot; It's Syndicate's Shuriken ROM, and it hangs at the "Samsung Epic 4G" screen with the multi-colored X. Is there ANY way to get into the phone's memory and pull phone logs, SMS, MMS and Angry Birds data? When I boot into recovery (although I have clockwork installed, I can only get to the samsung recovery), the SD card shows up on my PC as a drive without media since the SD card is mounted, so the PC sees the phone. ADB shows no devces connected, altough the only adb I have is what came with the andromeda one click flasher. Is there something else that I need?

Is there anything I can flash using the stock recovery that'll get the phone to boot or even only show up in adb? I don't realy care if the modem's there or not, or how stable it is. I've tried flashing a handful of "stock" updates, but all failed with various verification errors. I had CW installed, but apparently it got replaced by the stock one. All I need to do is run "Backup Everything" to get my SMS, MMS & Phone logs, and Root Explorer to get my AB data. After that, I can (probably will) Odin back to what I was running, or maybe one of the newer Froyo's until the official release is out.

If you have cwm you can just reflash a rom without a wipe to get the info you want. The only updste.zip i know of that can be flashed threw recovery is the one for dk28
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The problem there is While I had CWM installed, I've always had trouble getting into it. It seems that at some point, the ROM overwrote it with the stock recovery, so the only way for me to flash anything is with the stock recovery, or to extract the flash data from download mode if that's possible. How do people get ODIN dumps? I assume that's just a complete read of the flash.

Been doing a lot of searching and reading, and came across this thread. Using Odin to flash the clockworkmod.tar (which has recovery.bin inside it) shoudl replace the factory recovery, shouldn't it? I tried flashing it and I still get the Samsung recovery. Is there a newer version than in that thread that I can download and try to flash in the same way?

Ok, I actually managed to get somewhere. I got CWM Recovery to take, but it's v2.5.0.4, and doesn't seem to be working 100% right. I can't mount the SD card to USB, it doesn't want to do a nand backup, and the smiley button moved the selection bar up, "H" is enter.
Edit: I then managed to get 2.5.1.0 installed, so now keys are functioning properly, and it would seem I was able to get a successful backup. Is there a way to get into the img files in the backup, or is it likely that if I odin it back then advanced restore the data back, it'll be accesable?

Well, I got all the data I wanted to get. As my last post says, *somehow* I managed to get CWM Recovery to take via Odin (Is try, try, try again, try some more perseverance or insanity? ), and then was able to update it to 2.5.1.0, at which point CWM started functioning properly. I then was able to use the DI18 > DK28 update zip, which got me into a funcioning device, which allowed me to back up the data I was looking to get. Of course from there, restoring it back to fully functional was easy.

[Q] Having problems with Baked Snack 1.6

Hey guys, new rooter here, hopefully somebody can help me out...
So I was running stock DL18 Eclair, decided to flash Baked Snack 1.6 (babystep.zip).
I rooted, installed Clockwork Recovery, made a backup and everything, as well as backed up with Titanium backup.
I loaded babystep.zip onto my sdcard and flashed using Clockwork. Install was successful, but when I rebooted the phone it hangs on the Samsung loading screen. I tried reflashing, to no avail. I also tried step2.zip, another kernel version of baked snack, no go.
So then I tried reflashing my backup from clockwork recovery. That didn't work either, same problem, just hangs on the Samsung screen.
Does anybody have any advice, or did I brick my phone and now I have to do a factory reset using odin?

anti09 said:
Hey guys, new rooter here, hopefully somebody can help me out...
So I was running stock DL18 Eclair, decided to flash Baked Snack 1.6 (babystep.zip).
I rooted, installed Clockwork Recovery, made a backup and everything, as well as backed up with Titanium backup.
I loaded babystep.zip onto my sdcard and flashed using Clockwork. Install was successful, but when I rebooted the phone it hangs on the Samsung loading screen. I tried reflashing, to no avail. I also tried step2.zip, another kernel version of baked snack, no go.
So then I tried reflashing my backup from clockwork recovery. That didn't work either, same problem, just hangs on the Samsung screen.
Does anybody have any advice, or did I brick my phone and now I have to do a factory reset using odin?
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How long did you give it on the first boot? Sometimes the first bootup takes a really long time.
Worst case, just do an odin restore with DI18 and then restore with your clockwork backup. Would take like 15 min and you'd be right back to where you were.

How long is really long? I probably gave it a good 5 minutes before restarting.
And I was on my way to doing a factory reset with odin now... where do I insert the .pit into odin? I don't see a pit section

I'm not too familiar with Baked Snack.. is that the kernel file or the rom that you were flashing? Or does it only need the one .zip file?
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Baked Snack is a kernel only, it uses the stock Dl18 rom.
Honestly by this point I'm just trying to do a factory restore, cause after re-flashing with my clockwork recovery (which also didn't work) I can't even access my sdcard anymore.
Odin recognizes my phone but I don't see anywhere to insert the .pit file... I'm using Odin Multi Downloader 4.3, is that the right program?
Edit: If somebody felt like helping me over AIM, it would be much appreciated! S/n is anticrombie0909

I dont know what you are using but u should be usind odin3 v1.61 and the pit file goes right above the pda but you dont need the pit file. Just use the tar file and make sure its the approp. Size. Depending on what stock rom you downloaded it should at least be 255mb. And insert the rom in pda section and make sure only reboot is the only thing checked.
Sent from my Evo killer!

Can someone please link me to that version of odin? And why don't I need the .pit file? Finally, do I need to reflash the entire ROM, or only the kernel?

Odin MultiDownloader is an older tool than Odin3 that really isn't meant to be used with our phones. Use Odin3 1.61.
And you should be able to get by without a pit as long as your partitions are still properly partitioned.

Ok, so I managed to do a factory restore using odin, back to stock.
I tried reflashing baked snack again, but it looks like it's hanging on the Samsung screen again... here's exactly what I did, step by step.
1. Wiped my phone, clean Dl18 stock install.
2. Installed Rom Manager, flashed clockworkmod install. Loaded babysteps.zip (the kernel file) onto sdcard.
3. Ran clockwork manager, picked "select file from sdcard," flashed the kernel, which was successful.
4. Went back to clockwork manager's main menu, selected "reboot phone."
Once again, it's hanging on the Samsung loading screen. I've let it sit for about ten minutes now, no change. What am I doing wrong?

You're flashing babysteps, which doesn't work with all phones. Do something a little more mild. Also there is a rom, you know, and the kernel runs better with his custom rom.
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So should I try something like worksforall.zip? Or should I just go ahead and install the whole bakedsnack1.6 rom + kernel combo? And if I do the latter, is it the same process (load onto sdcard, go to clockworkmod, install and reboot)?

be careful with it. I did works for all and then rebooted to do step 2 and mine hung samsungmobile.com screen. It took me about a week to fix it as i was having checksum errors, odin screwups, driver issues, clockwork problems, boot problems. Any problem that could happen happened to me. Im currently fixed and restoring my nandroid after using odin, im probably gonna wait for a better build and i suggest you do the same, but it would be probably easier for you to fix yours than me to fix mine

So I ended up installing the entire Baked Snack 1.6 kernel + rom, which seems to be working great now. Thanks for your help everyone, this thread can be deleted.

[Q] can't get my nandroid backup to work

Hey everyone,
So i have read through many of the post about using cmw and making a nandroid backup then recovering it.
I followed the directions to put the green cwm on my phone after getting into the green cmw i made a backup and started playing around on my phone. I then went into ROM manager and wanted to get back into green cmw from there I then got a error message about my signature. So again I flashed cwm via odin and got back into it that way. I don't understand why i can't get into it through rom manager and have to flash it everytime.
My next problem is that i wiped the data on my phone and went to use my nandroid recovery that I made it got through most of it but then would freeze while revcovering the data and would sit on something like b5ece2. After waiting for 30min I just pulled the battery, but my phone is still back to stock.
This is not the end of the world for me as I have Titanium backup and got all my apps back, but for some reason can't get my contacts back using google.
Any help is very much appriciated and I am sorry about how long this question became this is my first droid and my first root.

Looks to me like your lynchpin issue is you cannot get RM to launch ClockWork mod recovery.
Solving that is your best avenue for fixing other issues.
I couldn't help but notice that you never mentioned regular (blue) recovery. Did you somehow find a guide to put in the so-called permanent CWR? I would like to understand how you are getting into recovery, because doing it through Odin doesn't parse for me.
No promises, especially without fully understanding your situation, but here is what to do if I am assuming correctly.
Best guess solution:
1. Restore recovery in odin. Get the "Odin restore file for recovery" from this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-782204.html
(a full stock restore odin should do this too, but you would have to root etc.)
2. Download CWMrecovery.tar patch ( http://goo.gl/HELdr ) from fallingup's guide, which is step two of:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897889
3. Flash #1 then #2 as PDA in Odin. Boot. Open Rom Manager.
4. Click "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery". Click "Reboot into Recovery"
Swyped w/ XDA App. When in
doubt, mumble.

Thank you for getting back to me so quick. I will do that as soon as I get home from work and let you know if that fixes all the problems.

Fascinate keeps booting into stock recovery after DL30 flash...

Okay, so I flash the Froyo ROM to my phone and I think I forgot to disable Voodoo... well it was hanging on the SAMSUNG splash and wouldn't ever load, so I tried to restore a previous backup using Clockwork... and now it only boots into stock recovery mode. I tried returning to stock, and now it only boots into stock recovery without even booting into CWM.
What do I do?
edit: Nevermind, I flashed CWM back in... I still can't get my phone out of stock recovery looping...

I've also tried wipe data/factory reset plus cache wipe... went into Odin and flashed the stock files using the PIT/PDA and now it still boots into manual mode... even after restoring CWM and flashing my restores.

At this point, forget about your backups. Especially if they were Voodoo backups. Flash the DJ05 or DL09 Odin stock, get the green CWM update.zip on there and then flash DL30 via CWM.

I'm not sure if I have the DL09 Odin stock... I'll have to get those and give it a try.

DeezNotes said:
At this point, forget about your backups. Especially if they were Voodoo backups. Flash the DJ05 or DL09 Odin stock, get the green CWM update.zip on there and then flash DL30 via CWM.
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Yeah if you didn't back up with green cwm, probably going to have to get red back eventually, then you'll be able to restore any old back ups
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Okay, I went to the Odin Restore files thread to get my restore files, so those are the ones I used. I'm not sure where to get the others, so I'll walk you through what I did.
1) Followed tutorial to return to Verizon stock.
2) Reboot phone, does not boot into anything but manual mode.
3) Flash CWM to access CWM.
4) ???

Okay, so new error. I found the stock DL09 Odin files and flashed them. Now my phone endlessly reboots with the "Wipe Data" over and over again. I need my phone working by tomorrow so that I can call my job as there's a blizzard here and I won't be able to get in.

I finally got it. I used Adryn's flash back to DI01 in order to restore my phone. Thanks anyway all.

Where did you find that stock restore for odin, I have the same issue.

im having same issue...any help would be great

I was getting this issue the other day. The only way I could fix it was as suggested... DJ05 flash with odin.

Stuck on MyTouch4G logo screen and can't restore nandroid - please help!

So I followed the guide to root with s=off and it seemed to work fine and I installed clockworkmod v3.0.0.5 through ROM Manager and had made 2 nandroid backups and everything seemed to be working great.
Then I tried to install CM7 RC1 through ROM Manager, thinking if anything went wrong I'd be able to restore the nandroid backups.
Something went wrong and I ended up stuck with the CM7 skateboarder animation infinitely repeating. So after pulling the battery I was able to boot into recovery. It looked like the stock recovery, but after selecting factory reset it went into Clockworkmod. From there I restored my backup, and everything seemed to work fine.
But when I reboot it just gets stuck forever at the MyTouch4G logo (the first one that comes up immediately on power up, not the second, round logo.
I've tried to restore both backups but always get stuck at the same screen.
Right now I need to get the phone working as fast as possible, hopefully to one of my backups (but if I can get it working I've also got MyBackup Pro and Titanium backups of my data and apps).
Can someone tell me what's the best way to get this working again and hopefully if it's possible to successfully restore my nandroid backup?
Thanks!!

Current:
Rom Manger (v3.0.1.0)
Recovery (v3.0.0.5)
When you go in Recovery from bootloader what color is the text green (2.x) or orange (3.x)? Keep in mind if your using 3.0.0.5 which has Recovery 2.5.1.2 then you can't flash CM7 as you need to use 2.5.1.4(Recovery) or 3.0.0.5(Recovery).
If you meet the basic requirement as you still have the rom on your SDCard. I want you to go in Recovery via bootloader. Then go in format and wipe /system, /data. Then go back in advance wipe dalvik and from main screen wipe cache, then do full factory wipe it will remount all. Once this is done select Install zip files> Choose zip files> Find and run the rom> select yes.
When you load for the first time give it some time as it will take few min but if it takes more than 5min than ya its in bootloop. If you get to the part here then it should be working but if you get stuck in mytouch 4g logo then it won't load. Now if you have green(2.x) text then what you need to do is install the Recovery 3.0.0.6.zip though Recovery as you won't be able to access Rom Manager and then try to flash CM7RC1. Let me know if you have any problem or its hard to understand. I know people always get Rom Manager and Recovery version number confused and the whole problem get started.

It says "ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.0.5" at the top and bottom and has orange text on a black background (highlight line is white text on orange background).
This morning I managed to get it to boot by flashing PD15IMG.zip from HBOOT (took me a while to figure out I have to keep holding both down and power to get to HBOOT, just holding down and releasing power took me to ClockworkMod which wouldn't install the file).
Then I set up my account and downloaded MyBackup Pro which I used to restore visionary+ and rom manager to re-root and re-install clockworkmod then I rebooted into recovery and tried to restore my nandroid backup.
Same problem, stuck in the boot logo. So seems like these nandroid backups are useless.
Is there any way I can recover the backups? At this point I don't have much time to play with CM7 so I'd rather just get my phone back to where it was and play with CM7 a bit later when I have more time. If necessary I'll just go back to PD15IMG and manually restore using MyBackup Pro, but that backup isn't quite as fresh and it's a pain to restore the widgets, etc.
I'll try doing the wipes you suggested and see if that will bring back my backup...
Thanks!

To be clear:
ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.5 -- the orange text version -- CANNOT be used with Stock ROMs, or any other Froyo-based ROM. Not backup, not restore, and not install. It is only for Gingerbread-based ROMs, like CM7.
Froyo and Gingerbread versions of Android use different filesystem structures. CWMR 3.0.0.5 is for EXT4 filesystems, which the Froyo kernel cannot mount.
At boot up, the Froyo kernel tries to mount /system, and fails, because /system is in EXT4 format that it doesn't understand. So the Froyo kernel crashes, reboots .... and fails again. And again.

That explains it. Thanks.

So I installed ClockWorkMod 3.0.0.6 and used that to restore my last nandroid backup (even though it was made in 3.0.0.5) and that seems to have worked!
CM7 does look quite nice. I look forward to playing with it when I have more time.
Thanks for your help!