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[Q] I have a dilemma:

I'm trying to root my Continuum, but I'm having a ridiculous amount of trouble.
I'm new to the android scene, and this is my first smartphone.
I was researching how to root it, and I decided I want to flash CMW on it.
I was using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057072 for help, as well as http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/install-clockworkmod-recovery-on-samsung-continuum/
I downloaded Odin, PDA'd the tar.md5 recovery, flashed it, and then put the update-i400.zip on my sdcard. I restarted my phone in recovery mode, and I was trying to install the update-i400.zip, and it won't let me. I've done both the tar.md5 and adryn's test4.tar, as well as renaming the .zip just 'update'
I'm lost, and need some help, please. I would've posted this in the development section, but being a noob, it won't let me. If anyone can help, that'd just be great.

Are you rooted? You have to have root access before you can do that stuff I believe, I could be wrong though.

No, i'm attempting to root, but I'm so dang lost.

Here you go sir
http://youtu.be/J1MD7GX7Pyw
i hope this helps.
video is about how to use superoneclick
by the way i used superoneclick 1.7 just because it worked with me and its the only one i trust. but thats just me.
good luck
bye the way you can check if you are rooted using terminal emulator from the android market

yes super one click worked for me select universal mode then rage against the cage and then hit root it might hang for a minute but it should reboot then check to see if theres an app called super user. once you see that your rooted.

Use the files found in my last post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057072&page=4
Those are confirmed working.

jaizero said:
Use the files found in my last post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057072&page=4
Those are confirmed working.
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I tried those, but to no avail. I'm gonna try SOC.
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA App

I used SOC and after phone rebooted no SU app so did again (as per instr. on xda) rebooted and SU installed. Also for CwM Ive had best luck using odin3 1.3, adryns test4 tar, cwm 2.5 update zip, but I still had to use menu softkey to apply zip. Right now I can use rom manager app to boot into cwm, it says 2.5.1 but it has red text?
sent from my XDA phone - its more than a continuum

You can flash the Odin ROM without root. That will root and install the proper kernel for you... then use CWM to flash whatever ROM you want to use.

Or you can flash the complete odin package for 2.2 thats on the Continuum Development section.
Which will also make your device rooted
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JoshRoss70 said:
I'm trying to root my Continuum, but I'm having a ridiculous amount of trouble.
I'm new to the android scene, and this is my first smartphone.
I was researching how to root it, and I decided I want to flash CMW on it.
I was using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057072 for help, as well as http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/install-clockworkmod-recovery-on-samsung-continuum/
I downloaded Odin, PDA'd the tar.md5 recovery, flashed it, and then put the update-i400.zip on my sdcard. I restarted my phone in recovery mode, and I was trying to install the update-i400.zip, and it won't let me. I've done both the tar.md5 and adryn's test4.tar, as well as renaming the .zip just 'update'
I'm lost, and need some help, please. I would've posted this in the development section, but being a noob, it won't let me. If anyone can help, that'd just be great.
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You don't want to rename the rom zip. You have to use the Cyan CWM update.zip, which is here: http://www.4shared.com/file/cLdwKNsU/update.html
I don't know if the other links posted are for the same file, but that's the one that works with Froyo.
You must have the cwm update.zip on your flash card. When you start up in recovery, you'll need to select apply update.zip. Use the volume rocker to highlight update.zip, and tap the menu soft-key to select. Once in CWM, the power button is select, and the back soft-key is back. You'll want to select the menu option to install zip from sd card, select zip to install, and browse to where you saved the rom file.
If all else fails, I'll be uploading a super-clean debinged ROM in the next few days. Once it's up, just flash via Odin as you did with adrynalyn's cwm recovery image.

Can't flash recovery through rom manager

jflteatt comes up now on rom manager for a cwm download, but I tried flashing it and every time it just brings me back to oudhs. I went back to twrp hoping that would do something and it does the same thing. It even says I'm running cwm 6.0.3.2 when I have twrp loaded. I'm confused as to what I'm doing wrong, but I want my traditional cwm if possible.

I'm not saying that ROM Manager won't work, but given that nobody else on here has even mentioned using it successfully, I'm kind of wondering why you decided to go it alone rather than follow one of the excellent guides to flashing recovery on you $700 phone.

acruxksa said:
I'm not saying that ROM Manager won't work, but given that nobody else on here has even mentioned using it successfully, I'm kind of wondering why you decided to go it alone rather than follow one of the excellent guides to flashing recovery on you $700 phone.
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Because I'm daring and have black tie from best buy to get a free phone (not to sound like a piece of ****). I stopped at this point because I changed the url from the t mobile touch version on the rom manager portion of the cwm site and it downloaded the jflteatt version. I'm stopping until we hear something though because there must be a reason he hasn't listed the file yet. I'm fine with OUDHS anyway. It's great. I just love the interface of the original cwm touch. I don't even know where to flash it in adb anyway. What is the recovery partition to flash an img on this phone?

RicoStang said:
jflteatt comes up now on rom manager for a cwm download, but I tried flashing it and every time it just brings me back to oudhs. I went back to twrp hoping that would do something and it does the same thing. It even says I'm running cwm 6.0.3.2 when I have twrp loaded. I'm confused as to what I'm doing wrong, but I want my traditional cwm if possible.
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Download Odin flashable file from website, then use Odin, Google will get you a guide on how to do it, then you will have any recovery you desire, rom manager and goo are okay, but Odin is boss.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

Manufactured consent said:
Download Odin flashable file from website, then use Odin, Google will get you a guide on how to do it, then you will have any recovery you desire, rom manager and goo are okay, but Odin is boss.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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Where did you find an ODIN flashable for AT&T I337?

scott14719 said:
Where did you find an ODIN flashable for AT&T I337?
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Sorry, I am running a i337m, Canadian.... I apologize, you have a locked bootloader... You can't Odin a recovery I believe...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

Manufactured consent said:
Sorry, I am running a i337m, Canadian.... I apologize, you have a locked bootloader... You can't Odin a recovery I believe...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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Yep and so is the OP...
RicoStang said:
jflteatt comes up now on rom manager for a cwm download, but I tried flashing it and every time it just brings me back to oudhs.
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So Odin will not work for him either.

RicoStang said:
Because I'm daring and have black tie from best buy to get a free phone (not to sound like a piece of ****). I stopped at this point because I changed the url from the t mobile touch version on the rom manager portion of the cwm site and it downloaded the jflteatt version. I'm stopping until we hear something though because there must be a reason he hasn't listed the file yet. I'm fine with OUDHS anyway. It's great. I just love the interface of the original cwm touch. I don't even know where to flash it in adb anyway. What is the recovery partition to flash an img on this phone?
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Assuming You're Rooted, see below, If you're NOT yet Rooted, watch this video first http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cI9r5dEcNo4 follow the steps then see below.
If you wan't OUDHS, follow steps 1-5
If you wan't TWRP, stop after step 2
1) download goomanager
2) install TWRP via goo manager
3) download OUDHS for ATT i337 flashable zip
4) Reboot into TWRP Recovery
5) Flash OUDHS Recovery flashable zip.
ROM Manager and ODIN not required.
Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Just ask the guy who flashed an aroma installed wicked S3 rom to his S4 (twice) He didn't even need bestbuy's "black tie" he just used the low budget walmart return policy.

acruxksa said:
Assuming You're Rooted, see below, If you're NOT yet Rooted, watch this video first http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cI9r5dEcNo4 follow the steps then see below.
If you wan't OUDHS, follow steps 1-5
If you wan't TWRP, stop after step 2
1) download goomanager
2) install TWRP via goo manager
3) download OUDHS for ATT i337 flashable zip
4) Reboot into TWRP Recovery
5) Flash OUDHS Recovery flashable zip.
ROM Manager and ODIN not required.
Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Just ask the guy who flashed an aroma installed wicked S3 rom to his S4 (twice) He didn't even need bestbuy's "black tie" he just used the low budget walmart return policy.
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Haha note taken. I fooled around a little more before I read this and finally stopped. I'll wait and see. I have premium so I wanted to flash touch. The original downloads fine and flashes, but doesn't stick. The touch one is giving me the server error which it wasn't doing an hour ago. I contacted the cwm team. Hopefully they'll get a working version up soon and fix the error. Until then, I'm staying with the OUDHS that I've had since the day of the exploit release.

[Q] CMW success, SU fail :(

Hello, first time poster. I recently tried rooting my phone using CWM method. I'm running sph-l720 with software version vpaumf9 and android version 4.2.2. I installed CWM (this version SPH-L720 OUDHS Recovery) with odin with success. Then flashed SuperUser v.099. Everything went smooth until I opened up super user and tried to install binaries and it says "Install failed". I'm wondering if I didnt have the wrong beginning firmware and i needed to (but didnt) install that pre-kernel. I'm also wondering if I have to download the original firmware and have to flash to stock in order to "unroot" even though I didnt finish the SuperUser process, or is their a way to delete the super user app and try to install it again using the same CWM i have already on the phone. I hope this isn't confusing. I'm not a complete novice to rooting, but no expert. I rooted my galaxy s2 but went to Iphone for a while, but now I'm back and a little dissapointed with myself at this fail. Any suggestions? Do i have to go to stock first? Was I using the wrong files for my initial firm ware and need the pre kernel? Am I blabbering on? (yes) Thanks in advance.

jonraymond21 said:
Hello, first time poster. I recently tried rooting my phone using CWM method. I'm running sph-l720 with software version vpaumf9 and android version 4.2.2. I installed CWM (this version SPH-L720 OUDHS Recovery) with odin with success. Then flashed SuperUser v.099. Everything went smooth until I opened up super user and tried to install binaries and it says "Install failed". I'm wondering if I didnt have the wrong beginning firmware and i needed to (but didnt) install that pre-kernel. I'm also wondering if I have to download the original firmware and have to flash to stock in order to "unroot" even though I didnt finish the SuperUser process, or is their a way to delete the super user app and try to install it again using the same CWM i have already on the phone. I hope this isn't confusing. I'm not a complete novice to rooting, but no expert. I rooted my galaxy s2 but went to Iphone for a while, but now I'm back and a little dissapointed with myself at this fail. Any suggestions? Do i have to go to stock first? Was I using the wrong files for my initial firm ware and need the pre kernel? Am I blabbering on? (yes) Thanks in advance.
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Grap CF-Autoroot from here
Follow the instructions here:
Boot back to phone. Open up SU and update binaries.
Then
Go to Playstore and download/install GooManager
Open GooManager and then press the 'menu' button (capicitive button next to Home Button) and choose to install recovery (I like TWRP).
Then let it do it's thing.
If you'd like a real easy way to get 'into recovery mode' from the phone I use the Quickboot app
Also make sure that if you are going to flash ANY ROMs you follow the instructions the developer suggests - many suggest specific recoveries be used

leaderbuilder said:
Grap CF-Autoroot from here
Follow the instructions here:
Boot back to phone. Open up SU and update binaries.
Then
Go to Playstore and download/install GooManager
Open GooManager and then press the 'menu' button (capicitive button next to Home Button) and choose to install recovery (I like TWRP).
Then let it do it's thing.
If you'd like a real easy way to get 'into recovery mode' from the phone I use the Quickboot app
Also make sure that if you are going to flash ANY ROMs you follow the instructions the developer suggests - many suggest specific recoveries be used
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thank you! do i need to do anything before i do this? (Like using odin to revert back to stock?)
i ask because i already have CWM installed
I did the auto root, and open SuperSU and it doesnt ask to update binaries...does that mean it is already done. I didnt find the option in the settings.

jonraymond21 said:
thank you! do i need to do anything before i do this? (Like using odin to revert back to stock?)
i ask because i already have CWM installed
I did the auto root, and open SuperSU and it doesnt ask to update binaries...does that mean it is already done. I didnt find the option in the settings.
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As long as your on some kind of TW/Stock based ROM you should be Okay.
However if you want to go back to straight (AND ROOTED) stock you can use one of rwhilco12's 'one-click' restores.
The one click downloads as a zip. decompress and then run the one -click. If you've never run a oneclick read here
It will give you a stock ROM, rooted, MF9 Modem, Stock recovedry, and Stock kernel. You'll then have to use GooManger method to get custom recovery.

leaderbuilder said:
As long as your on some kind of TW/Stock based ROM you should be Okay.
However if you want to go back to straight (AND ROOTED) stock you can use one of rwhilco12's 'one-click' restores.
The one click downloads as a zip. decompress and then run the one -click. If you've never run a oneclick read here
It will give you a stock ROM, rooted, MF9 Modem, Stock recovedry, and Stock kernel. You'll then have to use GooManger method to get custom recovery.
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man thanks so much. so i definitly got super user access. I'm about to do the goo manager. since you suggested the twrp i think i'm going to try that. since i have CWM recovery installed, do u think that will create any issues if I go to install TWRP from goo manager

actually i googled and it seems that goo manager will seamlessly overwrite cwm. sorry for the questions before searching. appreciate the help. i almost didn't come on here, which would of lead me to reverting to stock, doing cwm again, then being upset that i needed twrm for most roms lmao. I owe u one. If u ever need to learn how to make bad decisions, just shoot me a pm. I got u covered.

No it will just replace it.
I actually (and many around here too) prefer TWRP 2.5.0.2.
You can download the zip for that here, boot to recovery you have now (CWM) and then install that. Or use Goo to install lates TWRP and boot to recovery and then install zip and choose the 2.5.02 you downloaded and then save to your sd card

scratch what i posted here. I ended up having to download ROMmanager and update CWM, then used CWM to install the zip you provided me. thanks so much man. Do you have a favorite stable ROM you recommend using TWRP. I value your advice

jonraymond21 said:
scratch what i posted here. I ended up having to download ROMmanager and update CWM, then used CWM to install the zip you provided me. thanks so much man. Do you have a favorite stable ROM you recommend using TWRP. I value your advice
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Glad you got it.
As for ROMs you really have to try them out for yourself. There are some really great TW ROMs ; Sacs, negalite, triforce and others. For CM/AOSP there are a whole bunch to choose from. I mess with just about all of them. But my daily driver has to be one hundred percent working and reliable so for that I'm usually on a stock debloated and modified TW ROM. Take some time to read through the OPs of the devs and just as importantly through the follow up posts to see what works what doesn't ahs how to fix or get what you need.
Good luck
Sent from my SPH-L720 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

leaderbuilder said:
Glad you got it.
As for ROMs you really have to try them out for yourself. There are some really great TW ROMs ; Sacs, negalite, triforce and others. For CM/AOSP there are a whole bunch to choose from. I mess with just about all of them. But my daily driver has to be one hundred percent working and reliable so for that I'm usually on a stock debloated and modified TW ROM. Take some time to read through the OPs of the devs and just as importantly through the follow up posts to see what works what doesn't ahs how to fix or get what you need.
Good luck
Sent from my SPH-L720 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Try this Rom!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327692&page=43
works great!

[Q] Recovery Mode

Long story short: I want cm on the S4 after using it on the HD+, but CWM isn't booting up.
I've seen problems regarding simply accessing the recovery mode like needing to use the buttons twice after powering on, but the thing is that after getting to do this, for whatever reason, the phone boots up with the default recovery option (Android system recovery <3e>).
Some background on the phone would be that it is rooted, about one year ago when I bought it. I fear that I might have flashed something back then, but I don't have any of the files. To add, I sadly don't remember the method, but I can give some device info:
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The next and last thing would be that ROM manager says I have CWM installed and even with the reboot option of the app, it takes me to the default recovery.
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Any similar experiences on how to deal with this? I'd at least have a means to access CWM.

Are you sure you're still rooted? If you're not sure I would re-flash root using motochopper
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jd1639 said:
Are you sure you're still rooted? If you're not sure I would re-flash root using motochopper
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app
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Well, yes. I do have things like tethering and su on the phone, plus root checking apps from the store say its rooted.

ROM Manager is crap. It says I have CWM 6.0.4.7 installed but when I boot into recovery it says 6.0.4.4.
I've been looking for a way to manually install the latest Touch version of CWM but so far I've come up with nothing. Maybe if you flash TWRP (via Goo Manager app) you'll then be able to flash CWM back over it. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries for Goo Manager to successfully flash the recovery.

Even better, I figured out how to flash CWM touch. The loki_tool downloaded here can patch any compatible img file and then flash your recovery directly.
https://github.com/djrbliss/loki
The readme was very helpful.

snakecharmer23 said:
Even better, I figured out how to flash CWM touch. The loki_tool downloaded here can patch any compatible img file and then flash your recovery directly.
The readme was very helpful.
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Thanks for the link! It was really easy to follow.

How do I install Clockwordrecovery on Samsung Note 3 SM-N900P?

Greetings-
I am able to root, and install twrp on my phone just fine. But I am not having much luck with Clockwordmod. I found this link which is a very organized, and comprehensive list of software including CWM. It points to this one, which points to this. My question is I don't know which file to pick. And for some reason Odin does not recognize the one I downloaded. I tried to flash the file with flashify, but I get into a boot loop. Can anyone point me to procedures and files which worked for this platform? I am running N900PVPUCNC5_N900PSPTCNC5_SPR. The main CWM site only seems to have the latest version, which is not odin compatible, and I am not sure if it works with my phone's software. I think it is meant for lollipop?

sansari123 said:
Greetings-
I am able to root, and install twrp on my phone just fine...
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If you have TWRP why do you want CWM? They do the same function.

Journyman16 said:
If you have TWRP why do you want CWM? They do the same function.
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Thanks. My understanding is I can not flash a zImage with twrp, but I can do it with CWM. Is that not correct? The reason I just want to flash the zImage is I want to eliminate some of the steps, and see why my image does not work.

sansari123 said:
Thanks. My understanding is I can not flash a zImage with twrp, but I can do it with CWM. Is that not correct? The reason I just want to flash the zImage is I want to eliminate some of the steps, and see why my image does not work.
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I'm not sure what a zimage is - but normal image (img) files can be flashed in TWRP.

zimage is the kernel .

I am afraid this does not help me. Don't mean to be unappreciative. I have done some research, and saw somewhere CWM can flash zImage. I have not seen the same comment about TWRP; I tried it regardless. TWRP does not recognize zImage format. I have looked into reformating the file, but I have to rely on scripts, and I am not sure if the issue with my image is in the packing stage or something else. I want to be able to replace the packing step with a tool like CWM, which is already verified. This is important for me, since I want to make sure I am not doing something wrong and messing up the file when I pack it. Can someone please help? The original question stands; has anyone successfully put CWM on this platform, and if so please share the file(s) and procedure(s) with me.

Well I have had CWM on my n9005, which doesn't help, but have you tried on the Sprint forums? There's n900p CWM Recovery and a search brings up a number of threads to check.
One immediate thing that jumps out is it recommends using Odin 3.04 - maybe it doesn't work with other versions?

Journyman16 said:
Well I have had CWM on my n9005, which doesn't help, but have you tried on the Sprint forums? There's n900p CWM Recovery and a search brings up a number of threads to check.
One immediate thing that jumps out is it recommends using Odin 3.04 - maybe it doesn't work with other versions?
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Thank you so much. I'll give it a try. I hoped for a more recent version of CWM. I just found out that I can use flashify to flash .img files; so I am gonna try that on my recovery.img file I just built. That may fulefill my requirement.
Thank you so much for the help.