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I can't update to ANY rom...

I wanted to update to CM7, once it rebooted into recovery mode it gives me an error. I got the official Sprint update and the same thing happens. Once it verifies the file, something happened and it says there was an error and does not update. I did a factory reset on the phone, got the official sprint update and the same thing happened. The error is always "signature verification failed" on both roms.
What can I do?
Thanks.

When flashing a rom, are you selecting 'install from SD" then find where you saved the zip, etc?
It sounds like you're trying it thru the update.zip option (don't do that). Also, when you reboot into recovery, you should be seeing orange type clockwork 3.0.0.6 (not blue or green).
Ask if you have any other questions.
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Are you using cwm 3?

Thanks for the replies guys.
I am using clockword mod 3, with their option on updates.
I don't know how to do the "update from sd", haven't seen that. I'm not sure if I am seeing the orange you mention...I just go to restart in recovery mod from CM3.

capt_peo said:
Thanks for the replies guys.
I am using clockword mod 3, with their option on updates.
I don't know how to do the "update from sd", haven't seen that. I'm not sure if I am seeing the orange you mention...I just go to restart in recovery mod from CM3.
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If you don't see orange text you're not on CWM3, you are either on CWM 2.5 or stock recovery and neither of those would be used for what you want to do.

Ya, check out the development section on getting the latest clockwork, if you don't have it already. And just in case, first, try powering off your phone, then hold camera button, volume down and power (after device is completely shut off). If you don't see orange text, you should update to the latest clockwork.
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I turned off the phone, turned it on with the vol down/camera button and it automatically booted on CM recovery 3.0.0.5. Doing a rom backup. Then I see the orange text with several options but I can't pick any of them...I'm hitting the "home" button but nothing.
The phonr wont respond...I can toggle between the options but thats it.

I turned off the phone, turned it on with the vol down/camera button and it automatically booted on CM recovery 3.0.0.5. Doing a rom backup. Then I see the orange text with several options but I don't know where the hell CWM downloaded the file!!! I cant find it, or the official 2.2 one...
And now the phone is stuck in the SAMSUNG screen...

Bricked...tried factory reset and nothing. Tried restore through CWM and nothing...

If you are able to get into CWM or download mode then your phone is not bricked. It sounds like you will have to use ODIN to restore your phone back to stock.

capt_peo said:
Bricked...tried factory reset and nothing. Tried restore through CWM and nothing...
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ClockworkMod 3 automatically converts your phone's filesystem from RFS to EXT4. You need a ROM that supports EXT4 or else it won't boot.
You wanted CM7 so go ahead and flash that if it's on the sd card. If you don't have it on the card it's easy to fix. Just turn off your phone and plug your memory card into a computer and copy a ROM that supports CWM3.
Once you flash a ROM your phone should boot normally.

Bro, when u boot into clockwork (orange) are u opening the slider and using the arrows and enter key. ? You shouldn't be using the home key.
Don't be so quick to "I'm bricked" .. cuz that's rarely the case. And annoying when ppl are trying to help.
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K, thx for being patient. I did Odin and its again working.
Now the phone updated to 2.2.1
For future reference, can this Odin method be used o update to a non official rom (like CM7)?
Thanks for all the help.

I wouldn't rely odin for that, and as far as I know, no. For frame of reference, I've probably flashed epic roms over 100 times, and have only odin'd 5-- Used mostly to return to stock/update a modem. So, odining probably wasn't necessary for you. Do what arashed says a few posts up.

I'm using SRF 1.1.0/Twilight Zone and its amazing. Battery lasts a lot longer too.
Thanks again.

capt_peo said:
I'm using SRF 1.1.0/Twilight Zone and its amazing. Battery lasts a lot longer too.
Thanks again.
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Thanks for your support!

[Q] Need Help With Recovery

So this is what happened...
I was helping my buddy install a Rom on his Droid X, and after wiping everything and installing the rom, i rebooted the phone and it got stuck on the "M" screen.
So i figured i would go into recovery and either restore a back-uped session or just wipe everything and reboot again.
But in recovery, he doesnt have an option to restore sessions or anything. and when i try to wipe data and clear cache partitions, he still gets stuck at the "M" screen when i reboot.
Also, in recovery, it gives me a message that says,
"E:cant open /cache/recovery/command"
and after googling this and looking for solutions, none have helped. It says try pulling battery for 5 minutes, or deleting the "update.zip" file (which i cant because i cant boot the phone up), and even pulling the SD card (which doesnt make sense, but nonetheless didnt work anyway).
Any help would be appreciated. I feel real bad for putting his phone on a soft brick haha so please help a brotha out.
Thanks in advance

ejeetguy said:
So this is what happened...
I was helping my buddy install a Rom on his Droid X, and after wiping everything and installing the rom, i rebooted the phone and it got stuck on the "M" screen.
So i figured i would go into recovery and either restore a back-uped session or just wipe everything and reboot again.
But in recovery, he doesnt have an option to restore sessions or anything. and when i try to wipe data and clear cache partitions, he still gets stuck at the "M" screen when i reboot.
Also, in recovery, it gives me a message that says,
"E:cant open /cache/recovery/command"
and after googling this and looking for solutions, none have helped. It says try pulling battery for 5 minutes, or deleting the "update.zip" file (which i cant because i cant boot the phone up), and even pulling the SD card (which doesnt make sense, but nonetheless didnt work anyway).
Any help would be appreciated. I feel real bad for putting his phone on a soft brick haha so please help a brotha out.
Thanks in advance
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What ROM? What was the Android version before hand? At this point it's not going to matter, you're going to need to SBF (factory restore). Check google for guides, or look @ the site in my signature.

Yeah, seems from you described you got your hands on a bad file; maybe the file didn't get downloaded completely. In any case, your best bet is to sbf your phone (restoring to stock using software). There is a ton of info on that, do you shouldn't have a problem on how to do that. If you need help or direction, please let us know.
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you have encountered my one gripe about my X. You can't get to recovery if you get stuck in a boot loop.
Your only option is to sbf back to stock and go again. I just had this happen today while I was at work. I decided I want to run Apex 2.0 alpha 3 and messed up. I was stuck at work all day without my toy.

im having the exact same problem and i tried to sdf back to stock using rsd lite as explained in another section and it goes thru the whole process reboots itself, says 100% done and tells me to "power up this phone" only i cant because when it rebooted it got stuck on the M screen ands stays there and i cant power it up.....Any suggestions appreciated THANX

Get into stock recovery and wipe
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How To Flash CM7/Miui for those Having STATUS 7 ERRORS

For those having issues with Flashing the new builds of CM7 and Miui:
Step 1: Flash fixed cwm3 recovery from JT's post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116424
Step 2: Boot into recovery and wipe dalvik, data, cache
Step 3: Flash CM7 7/4 build
**** You might have to remove asserts in zip to flash, Landshark has posted a great tutuorial on this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104827
Step 4: Reboot into Recovery via menu (***Do Not use 3 Finger Salute to boot in Recovery***)
long press the power button, click reboot from that menu, it will then give you option for reboot or recovery. Select recovery
Step 5: wipe dalvik, data, cache and Flash 7/13 build
Step 6: Flash Gapps
PROFIT AND ENJOY!!
Sorry for the redundancy, I know this has probably been covered several times

May want to edit the wording on step 4 to indicate you long press the power button, click reboot from that menu, then you will get the option of reboot or recovery. Anybody not familiar with CM may be looking for recovery in that first menu like it was in the TW custom roms. Other than that, spot on.

Thanks, great heads up

landshark68 said:
May want to edit the wording on step 4 to indicate you long press the power button, click reboot from that menu, then you will get the option of reboot or recovery. Anybody not familiar with CM may be looking for recovery in that first menu like it was in the TW custom roms. Other than that, spot on.
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yep that was me lol, 'wtf there's no recovery option??!!' *grumbles and opens up terminal*... I did those exact steps and flashed perfectly on the first try, though I didn't wipe anything when flashing 7/13 over 7/4
tapatalked from my VZ Fascinate hauling butt on CM7

For step 1 are we just using odin on the .tar? what do we do with the .zip?

anoninja118 said:
yep that was me lol, 'wtf there's no recovery option??!!' *grumbles and opens up terminal*... I did those exact steps and flashed perfectly on the first try, though I didn't wipe anything when flashing 7/13 over 7/4
tapatalked from my VZ Fascinate hauling butt on CM7
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You get to recovery by long pressing your power button on the phone, select reboot and then the option for reboot or recovery will pop up. Shouldn't really matter that you didn't wipe

jdellingson7 said:
You get to recovery by long pressing your power button on the phone, select reboot and then the option for reboot or recovery will pop up. Shouldn't really matter that you didn't wipe
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yeah figured it out after like an hour lol
tapatalked from my VZ Fascinate hauling butt on CM7

goop99 said:
For step 1 are we just using odin on the .tar? what do we do with the .zip?
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I used the odin.. you can use the .zip to flash over whatever CWM you're using now
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goop99 said:
For step 1 are we just using odin on the .tar? what do we do with the .zip?
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You have the option of either using the zip or the odin. I personally prefer using odin. One or the other not both

Ok now i'm stuck at step 3.
I properly flashed the 07/04 rom but on first bootup im stuck where it says it is waiting for my sd card to mount and it's in a bootloop.
searching threads now but seems like people are just saying get a new sd card??

goop99 said:
Ok now i'm stuck at step 3.
I properly flashed the 07/04 rom but on first bootup im stuck where it says it is waiting for my sd card to mount and it's in a bootloop.
searching threads now but seems like people are just saying get a new sd card??
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what kind of card are you using? im using the 16gig class 2 card that came with the phone and i've had no problems

stock, everythign is stock. usb cable, everything.
it's the 16gb card that came with the phone.

how do i know if it is class2??
ok, recovered back to froyo fine. I guess i'll poke around more before trying it again. Atleast now I'm confident about rooting it and using odin.

how do i know if it is class2??
ok, recovered back to froyo fine. I guess i'll poke around more before trying it again. Atleast now I'm confident about rooting it and using odin.
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it should say on the card, a little 2 in a circle... some makers like sandisk will usually put a tiny 'class X' on the front
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goop99 said:
Ok now i'm stuck at step 3.
I properly flashed the 07/04 rom but on first bootup im stuck where it says it is waiting for my sd card to mount and it's in a bootloop.
searching threads now but seems like people are just saying get a new sd card??
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Did you remove asserts in 7/4 zip? It seems some have had to and some have not. I had to remove asserts to get it to flash correctly. I had the bootloop issue too.

yes I removed the asserts
and the sd card also has a 2 with a semi circle around it.
I also just odin'd back to eclair and tried to reflash cm7 07/04 build and got the same error.
Maybe I should try a different rom instead?

goop99 said:
yes I removed the asserts
and the sd card also has a 2 with a semi circle around it.
I also just odin'd back to eclair and tried to reflash cm7 07/04 build and got the same error.
Maybe I should try a different rom instead?
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Assuming you Odined the Dl09 with pit (with partition checked)?
Try Flashing this one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7777885/update-cm-7.1.0-Fascinate-KANG-0704.zip

yes i did the pit + repart when i went back to eclair or froyo.

well i'm on comrom2.1 now so i guess i'll stay away from gingerbread/cm7 for a while
thx for those who helped!

help(resolved)

Hey I just seriously screwed my self over bassicly I tried to get miui to boot from the samsung fascinate however when I installed it in cmr it spassed out then powered of then went to the bootloader and I get a red error message saying can't mount data or something so then I tried to reinstall Eco 3 Odin using Odin and it worked it booted but it says I have zero data on my phone and I can't install anything. I also tried the oneclick soft unbricker but it fails saying adb divers are not installed when they are. I'm doing this on my phones browser witch is the only thing that seems to be working right now I also tried a band restore but I got the same data error message.

Have you tried restoring to DL17 and then re-upgrading to 2.2?

And how about a good old odin flash?
In worst case, I would ask imnuts for the full odin package, or use a fascinate full odin package to get you off your feet, then reflash the modem, and recovery, then wipe In recovery cyan cwm... Then flash ec03
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wait wait, is this on a Continuum or Fascinate?

Nuckin said:
wait wait, is this on a Continuum or Fascinate?
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He is on a Continuum, but you can use a fascinate Odin package to reformat partitions if they get messed up, then just reflash recovery and start fresh if you can get in then... That wasn't a really good thing though to suggest to a newcomer necessarily, so thank you for pointing that out

okay heres what happened firts i wanted to see if i could get the miui rom for the samsung fascinate to boot on the continuum there pretty much the same phone minus the ticker and screen size so i went into clockwork mod and wiped everything then went to install zip from sd card and clicked on the miui rom witch was the process we always used on the hero. then after i clicked on it, it started to install then my screen started shacking and my phone turned off. when i turned it back on it when to the bootloader and a red error message poped up saying
e:cant mount /dev/blockstill(invalid argument
and when i go to recovery it says the same thing when i try to wipe/restore nand it says the same thing. so at that point i powered off and went to download mode and reinstalled eco3 odin using pda mode on odin and it worked then it rebooted and i got to the set up screen and i got 2 force closes daily brefeing and something else i went ahead and skipped all that stuff and it loaded fine after that. however now for some reason it says i have zero system memory so i cant install any apps or save data however it does recognize my sd card but i cant install to sd card. so bassicly the phone functions just no internal memory. at this point i honestly dont know what to do everything on the hero was simple and straight forward and we never ran into these kind of problems. ive also tried to restore my nands and reinstall clockwork mod but still no dice. what i need to do now i guess is get the necessary files to go completely stock and see if that helps. and if someone could point me in the direction to those files i would really aprechiate it. oh and i tried the one click unbricker it sayed success but didnt really do anything.
oh and i know trying to install miui was stupid but i was just wanting to see if it would boot lol.

Download the PIT file in the Development forum, as well as the DL17 Odin package from the FAQ of the EC03 post I made. Flash the DL17 in PDA, with the PIT, and re-partition selected. After that, you should be back on DL17, and can do whatever you want from there.

huzzza!!!
thank god that worked thank yall so much i still cant believe that just happened but restoring the stock odin image worked and all is well. so i guess tommorow i can reroot and restore my nand.
once again thank yall for the help.

No matter what I do, my phone won't boot into CWM recovery

Can somebody tell me why even after flashing stock DL17 and flashing cwm_recovery_test4_adryn, no matter what I do in the stock recovery the screen only shows the triangle with the exclamation mark in the middle and the Android standing next to it. If this was answered in another thread I'm sorry for posting and not looking harder but it seems like people were having all kinds of problems with CWM after flashing Froyo and nobody could give a straight answer. I know none of the files are corrupt because I've downloaded them several times and from within different threads. I've even reformatted my sd card. CWM was working fine with no problems at all until I flashed the Froyo ROM that imnuts put out

Well young sir, the little android guy comes up when you hold down volume button while turning on, so are you pressing both up and down volume buttons to load recovery?
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Yea, I'm pressing both buttons and it boots into the stock recovery but whenever I try to reboot the system, apply the update.zip, wipe data/factory reset or wipe the cache nothing ever happens. The menu goes away and there's no text on the screen at all. I've left it alone for a couple minutes and nothing ever happens

Ok so I went to recovery mode and noticed that when you hit the back and home keys the words go away, which brings me to this question, are you using the far left menu key to make your selection
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Bahaha. Holy crap I feel so retarded. I was hitting the back button because I forgot that I changed my softkey layout. It works fine. Thank you for that

Ha ha, im glad it all works now
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Okay can you tell me why after I flash the Froyo modem when I boot into recovery I get:
"E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted."
It says this before and after if flashed cwm_recovery_test4_adryn

just reflash the cwm odin image
if you flashed the dl17 odin image before....something inside that actually causes the cwm recovery to go away and uses only the stock.
i know you have to delete something to stop it from doing that but i cant quite remember.
so recap, if you are on the dl17 odin image that imnuts released to us then you will have to reflash cwm everytime until you erase a necesarry file
oh and what exactly are you trying to do
if my explanations dont make sense please let me know, im actually driving right now.

Yea, my brother was talking about that but he didn't remember what to delete either. It doesn't help when you're extremely tired
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I can flash stock DL17 and then cwm_recovery_test4_adryn and CWM works fine. It's when I flash the Froyo modem that it messes up on me

I think I figured it out. I had to flash the original recovery that Trailblazer uploaded and before even turning my phone on I flashed cwm_recovery_test4_adryn and it works fine now. Crazy phone