Firstly I did a search and this is probably something I should have found, but I really couldn't see anything- so apologies in advance if this has been answered.
Anyway, so have nexus 4, running CM 10.2 and Franco Kernel (always up to date with both of them).
I had TWRP 2.5 on there for a while which is how I kept flashing updates, and then 2.6 came out. So first thing was I couldn't update it, using various methods (I tried to ADB in, I tried the standard Goo Manager thing, all sorts).
Thought that was odd, but also I couldn't change to CWM (using Rom Manager Pro) which was frustrating too. I re-locked and installed stock custom recovery using WugFresh's stuff, then went through it all again, put on TWRP 2.6 on it.
All was working fine. Out of interest I tried to transfer to CWM (latest) again using Rom Manager. All fine. But then I tried to go back again and it got 'stuck' again. Couldn't downgrade or change to any other custom recovery.
So, it looks like I can sort it using WugFresh's stuff, so not a huge detail, but it niggles me because I should be able to do it 'in phone' right? Shouldn't I technically be able to just hop back and forth if I wanted to for some reason? Any ideas what may have gone wrong?
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I used ODIN to revert back to stock kernel, rooted my vibrant, then I installed rom manager from the market.
However, when I start rom manager and click "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery", nothing actually happens! I don't get prompted to select a phone model or anything. Upon rebooting into recovery, I don't even get to the clockwork mod recovery screen. What gives?
it's driving me nuts and i'm going to set dev's on fire, esp since i just downloaded nero. samsung doesn't seem to be supported with the new update as of the last 24 hours and now i need a new method for getting into clockwork without using terminal or adb of any of that stuff. im not a total noob, but trying to work with that is like trying to read spanish. no comprehendo'
the weird thing is that I was able to use rom manager in the past to go from samsung's stock firmware to Onyx, and again when I went to Nero Beta. I don't understand why it would stop working now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9869448#post9869448
BAM!!!!! clockwork backdoor confirmed.
installing nero as i type.
^ thanks for sharing the fix. Fyi though, koush has fixed the server issue. All is well.
I made the switch from CM7 (froyo kernel) to MIUI Gingerbread a few days ago.
The "cool factor" on my phone has definitely improved. MIUI is sweet! I've no idea why I held my nose up to it for so long.
Anyway.
It seems The DXC 1.9.23 MIUI that I flashed seems to have automatically updated me to CWM 5.0.2.0.
Bummer. My understanding is these backups aren't compatible with 2.5.0.7?
I THINK that may have something to do with my problem...maybe.
I can't seem to get the "Power Menu" to reboot me into CWM.
I wanted to flash my old BootAnimation back on now that I've decided to stick with MIUI.
Holding the power button and selecting Reboot into CWM brought up an expected SU dialog.
I accepted. I'll attach a screenshot of the package...as it just seems funny to me.
Nothing happens.
No reboot. Nothing.
All the other options work.
Hotboot...bootloader...stock recovery...reboot...
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...001_063054.jpg
Also, that file on my SD card that it's referencing to doesn't seem to exist.
But I've no idea if that is normal or not.
=] <----Noob.
Rebooting into CWM via ROM manager works fine, however. So I'm confused.
Any ideas?
Hey Jubakuba! I too recently installed MIUI on my Droid X over the Gingerbread kernel. After searching through multiple forums and posting all my troubles, I've come to the conclusion that MIUI and CWM don't play so nicely together. Apparently you must use ROM Manager for all flashing, backups, and recoveries. I was using Droid2Bootstrapper and it caused my phone to factory reset every time, the result being a loss of any settings I had on MIUI (it looked like I just flashed it), Torch not working at all, themes not working, and a factory reset on every subsequent reboot. Try using ROM Manager for all your backup/flashing needs. I'm putting MIUI back on my phone as we speak and I'll be testing ROM Manager out. If you need me to post my results, I will. Good luck!
Sometimes you have to reflash CWM after installing a new ROM. Do it through ROM manager and see if that helps.
Hi guys. I seem to have outdone myself and am now stuck with a phone that plain refuses to boot any more. Let me give you some history so you get the full story.
Not long after I got my U8800 (18 months ago, 'ish) I decided to change my ROM to MIUI because I wanted to get rid of Froyo and Huawei were being incredibly slow to update officially. I did this with minimal troubles and ran it for a long time, updating etc. as needed to be done. Then along came ICS ports and I admit it, I had to fiddle once more...
I downloaded Aurora and read up in here on how to get it on my phone. It seemed before I did anything I needed to set my phone back to the defaults I had and this involved installing Froyo then the latest stock ROM for the U8800. I did all this without hassle and then tried to get the ICS on.
I don't know if it was me, bad reading, something built into the new stock ROM or what, but I could not get the ICS ROM on my phone no matter what I tried. It seemed to have issues deciding if it was rooted or not, it said it was but then failed to work when I needed it to, plus CWM Recovery completely failed to work for me and I just kept getting the stock recovery when trying to boot into it. ROM Manager was also being a pain and kept insisting my phone was a U8160 when previously it had worked as a U8800 (I may have flashed to the U8160 and having thought this I assumed this was my mistake).
I tried various methods of getting to my cust_ folders and manually changing the recovery.img but everything I tried ran into the same "is it or isn't it rooted" problem.
At this point I gave up and stayed with the official stock ROM from Huawei for a bit.
Two days ago I decided I couldn't hack the defaults any more, my phone was slower and I missed the MIUI way of doing things. I decided to have another go!
Ok, we are up to date, thanks for reading so far if you have.
I decided to try getting to the recovery.img again by doing the pink screen and connecting to my PC, problem was when I did this nothing ever showed on my PC, so I looked for other methods.
I uninstalled ROM Manager, because it still insisted I had the wrong phone and found the app, Root Explorer, it worked! Wish I'd have found it weeks ago. I instantly had access to the folders I needed and could mount them etc to overwrite/backup my recovery.img and as I was a little worried about the rooting thing again, despite Root Explorer working I though what harm can it do to overwrite the boot.img too. I did both by copying the originals to my SD Card and pasting the new ones that I had previously placed on my SD Card through the USB connection. I used the files recommended here: http://android.modaco.com/topic/340...-and-then-some-for-the-huawei-u8800-ideos-x5/ and here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14870348
I rebooted the phone and again failed to get into CWM Recovery, just the default Android one.
I then hunted down another recovery and found this: http://www.androidxpert.com/2011/08...k-work-mod-recovery-on-huawei-u8800-ideos-x5/
It worked! I could finally get into CWM Recovery and figured I was home free.
Not so
I then downloaded the same stockwell MIUI I had used previously as I knew that worked, his latest stable version, and dropped the zip on my SD Card. Went to install it and found that CWM Recovery refused to mount my SD Card (16 gig sandisc). Tried a couple more times because I had issues with this card before and then the card ended up corrupted or something because it just refused to work now on anything I had. This was fairly major because I had backed up to this SD Card and forgot to take the backup off and into my PC for safer storage... I know... I do have the back up of recovery and boot.img though on my PC.
It was at this point I noticed I had a boot loop but could still get into CWM Recovery.
Not panicking too much, I tried my old 4gig SD Card, it mounted! I copied the MIUI Rom across to this card, booted into recovery and selected it. It stated it was installing etc but seemed to go pretty quickly. It said it was done so I rebooted as is the norm. Boot Loop. Damnit! Tried this a couple more times, made sure I once again wiped cache, dalvik etc, all of the things it states to do on the ultimate guides etc. Nothing.
Again, still not panicking I thought, fine, I will go back to stock rom. Downloaded the correct one, dropped dload into root, booted using vol + and - and up comes the unpacking screen. Trouble is it refuses to unpack. I quickly look on the net and find that some say if you take the battery out and connect just using the USB it will install it that way, maybe it does for them but it doesn't for me, it just boot loops again.
I am now at my wits end.
I have the feeling its something to do with my changing of the boot.img and I have the original should it be that but I cannot access the insides of my phone through Windows to change anything, plus of course I can't boot the phone due to the loop to change it back using Root Explorer (otherwise it would work anyway).
Is there anything you guys can help me with?
I can install Linux if needed, I read that it lets you view the phones file system better compared to Windows and with my slight knowledge of Linux Id quite expect this but even so, I am not sure what to do.
Any advice/solutions are extremely welcome.
Sorry for the long post, figured I should give as much info as possible.
So what was the latest Huawei official firmware you had on your phone?
What version of CWM are you trying to use?
What version of the huawei official rom did you have on the phone when you tried to install aurora?
What was the last huawei stock rom you tried to install?
Try and get a 2.2 froyo stock rom and flash it using the vol+and- method. This should hopefully get your pink screen back and access to recovery and boot.img. You can then use any recovery earlier then 5.0.2.6 and install stockwells miui.
It sounds like you have a Gingerbread based official rom flashed which you would have needed to flash aurora and are dropping bits into it like boot.img, roms and recoveries which are for froyo.
If this is the case and you can still get into recovery, I would try flash another rom like sbasils miui or wipe everything and format /system and then flash aurora again.
Ok, not sure what changed but, I figured whilst I wait for a reply I may as well keep playing and try to fix it myself still. So I stick my battery back in, was out all night, plug it in the USB as I wasn't sure what juice it had left and turn it on with vol + and - down for that one last try at the default install.
It starts unpacking!
I have no idea what changed, I did nothing different bar having left the battery out all night. Can it have had something in the residual memory?
Anyway, short version. Installed the default froyo, updated to the beta gingerbread (stock and latest).
Back up everything to internal storage this time, just incase and went to superclick to see if I could root it again, it did so. Used Root Explorer to copy CWM Recovery.img over, backed up it all again using CWM to internal, rebooted, worked.
At this point I got silly again and having it all backed up a few ways now decided to try Aurora again, 2.4 this time. It works.
Again, no idea what changed but its going again and after an initial mess with the SC Card again, that works too now.
Sorry to have wasted any ones time with this, though I still really appreciate the reply even if it seems to have fixed itself.
I just wish I was sure what fixed it so It could help others who have the same issue, unfortunately I don't
great stuff, seems upgrades are just a bit hit and miss on this phone. glad it all worked out.
Hey guys I'm new to Android in general so sorry if these seem like dumb questions. I've searched online for a while now and I can't really seem to get a concrete answer. Anyways so I got CWM 5.5.0.4 running on my 7510 just fine last night. I then did a backup of everything from within CWM 5.5.0.4. Then I went and flashed CM10 Jellybean to see if it worked fine. Went back to CWM and tried restoring back to ICS, to check that too and it worked fine. I want to mention at this point I couldn't get Titanium Backup or ROM Manager working from withint ICS at this point because it kept saying that it couldn't get root access (I rooted my 7510 through the method listed as a guide in the Developers section of this forum), but since I could restore back without a problem to ICS with all my settings intact, I thought I'd give it a try anyways.
I then flashed back to CM10, and upgraded to the newest CWM Touch version 5.8.x.x from within ROM Manager once in CM10. I then decided I wanted to go back to ICS so I tried to restore back to ICS through CWM Touch, and it didn't work. I’ve tried doing an entire normal backup, and then strictly the apps, nothing works. Keeps telling me there’s an error.
What’s the best thing to do? Switch back to 5.5.0.4? Can I do that without turning on USB debug mode? Because I didn’t check this beforehand but I can’t click on Storage in settings and even access USB period, whether it’s to transfer stuff or to turn on USB Debug mode.
Any help would be appreciated! I mainly want to go back because all my apps are setup the way I like in ICS. Unless someone knows away to restore apps properly back without going through CWM, maybe through some app that can read the backup data if that makes any sense?
HeyYoWL said:
Hey guys I'm new to Android in general so sorry if these seem like dumb questions. I've searched online for a while now and I can't really seem to get a concrete answer. Anyways so I got CWM 5.5.0.4 running on my 7510 just fine last night. I then did a backup of everything from within CWM 5.5.0.4. Then I went and flashed CM10 Jellybean to see if it worked fine. Went back to CWM and tried restoring back to ICS, to check that too and it worked fine. I want to mention at this point I couldn't get Titanium Backup or ROM Manager working from withint ICS at this point because it kept saying that it couldn't get root access (I rooted my 7510 through the method listed as a guide in the Developers section of this forum), but since I could restore back without a problem to ICS with all my settings intact, I thought I'd give it a try anyways.
I then flashed back to CM10, and upgraded to the newest CWM Touch version 5.8.x.x from within ROM Manager once in CM10. I then decided I wanted to go back to ICS so I tried to restore back to ICS through CWM Touch, and it didn't work. I’ve tried doing an entire normal backup, and then strictly the apps, nothing works. Keeps telling me there’s an error.
What’s the best thing to do? Switch back to 5.5.0.4? Can I do that without turning on USB debug mode? Because I didn’t check this beforehand but I can’t click on Storage in settings and even access USB period, whether it’s to transfer stuff or to turn on USB Debug mode.
Any help would be appreciated! I mainly want to go back because all my apps are setup the way I like in ICS. Unless someone knows away to restore apps properly back without going through CWM, maybe through some app that can read the backup data if that makes any sense?
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Easiest way is to go back to the old cwm. The touch ver is a bit uggly according to me. (Personly i run Twrp tocuh recovery. Its nice and sleek. Gives option to compress backupps to. Includes a filemanager to. )
Otherwise if you install clock work mod from gogle play there is an option to restore apps from the backup.
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How exactly do I go back to the old CWM? Do I have to enable USB Debugging mode? As I mentioned I can't even do that because it's greyed out for me in CM10.
I dont know why usb debug is incheckable, i'm not a dev. But don't think it's important if you flash cwm via odin.
Use the same method you got cwm the first time.
Easiest is flashing it through odin. I guess you can follow that root guide you used initialy.
Rom manager can restore apps from backupfile. Just go deeper in menus.
Sent from my GT-P7500, JellyBean rom v6, A1 kernel v1.7 using XDA Premium HD
This is definitely a first for me...
I was trying to flash the latest version of Malladus from stock OTA. I have a Verizon G2, and here's what I did and what went wrong.
Rooted the device - root checker confirmed successful.
Downloaded Freegee, activated latest CWM.
Went in to the actual CWM app, attempted to flash new ROM. I did select the wipe data option.
Selected Malladus. Installation failed.
Tried to recover and revert to backup...instead I ended up in some sort of pseudo OS that is definitely not Malladus (not the full version anyways), but isn't stock OTA either. Certain things don't work (like the home button, and I can't connect to my PC via USB). Most of the LG icons, appearances, app tray, etc look like stock LG...but when it boots up, it gives me a Google splash screen instead of Verizon.
I'm still relatively new at this. I have successfully been able to flash both CM11 and AOKP on to this phone with no issue...but I either missed a step or am not accounting for something here. Now I'm worried that I won't even be able to revert back to stock OTA because I don't have USB connection capability. I've tried fiddling with the CWM menu options, but nothing really helps...
At this point try adbing back to stock then root again and make sure everything is fine from there also download flashify and your rom of choice then open flashify and choose the new rom then tell it to flash it then have flashify go to CWM. Everything should go fine from there.
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