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Ive searched through every forum and website I can find on google nothing works. Im running frf91 that I manually updated to. I got my bootloader unlocked but I cant root it. Ive tried several downgrade methods none work. The thread at here on xda stuck on frf91 the file they have dosent download it hangs and stops downloading. Ive tried downloading it at my about 5 time and a buddy house about 10 times ive tried downloading it with a diffrent browser nothing works. Im out of ideas guys.

Why do you want to downgrade? That has nothing to do with rooting. Just flash the custom recovery and then whatever rom you want, even a stock rooted frf91. You're already unlocked, just do the next two steps, custom recovery and custom rom.

Clarkster said:
Why do you want to downgrade? That has nothing to do with rooting. Just flash the custom recovery and then whatever rom you want, even a stock rooted frf91. You're already unlocked, just do the next two steps, custom recovery and custom rom.
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i tried to flash the custom recovery image and on the command line it says it flashed when I go to recovery mode it just the stock recovery, its like it cant be flashed because its blocked.

Tried following these instructions from the Dev forum yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717870

shane8002 said:
i tried to flash the custom recovery image and on the command line it says it flashed when I go to recovery mode it just the stock recovery, its like it cant be flashed because its blocked.
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Well, that has nothing to do with your current rom at all. You are unlocked. You don't have to roll back to flash the custom recovery. You're probably just not understanding the directions, try again.

chesh420 said:
Tried following these instructions from the Dev forum yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717870
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yes the file I have to download on this thread hangs everytime been trying to download it since sunday even left the download on all day while I was at work hangs everytime. Ill try to root it again tonight and let you guys know what happens, I would try now but my windows xp dosent recognize my nexus one even with the sdk drivers and reinstalling root hub drivers and even deleting the usb device log in the registry, my phone dosent prompt me to mount in usb mode even with debugging on, it just charges thats it. So I have to go to a friends house for the past 2 nights just to do anything with my N1.

[Q] Cant start in recovery or HBOOT, why?

Have a problem, I cant start the phone i HBOOT or recovery. Have done this multiple times before and have no problems. Have flashed openfire before this, maybe something to do with that?
Really want to be able to make this work, because my battery drains from full to empty in a couple of hours, so wanting to reflash opefire or try cynagonmod to see if that could help my problems.
How do I enable this again? (have tryed to install recovery from rom manager, says success, but cant start in recovery afterall)
Have tested volume down+power, ...backbutton+power, ...and restarting the phone in bootloader and recovery, nothing happends.

Maybe the right title would be, cant start in recovery or bootloader, but you get my point anyway =)
Thinking this is maybe something that has changed from my washinmachine-misstake? (se other thread for that)?

Okay now I am frustrated! As seen here in my first post I cant go into recoverymode, bootloader etc.
Thought the problem would be my battery or SD-card. But have bought a new battery and a new sdcard. Still I cant boot into the recoverymode.
This is really strange!!
Maybe my phone got bricked with openfire or something? Its really annoying that I am stucked with this ROM and have no chance of updating or try new ROMS from now.
Someone smart out here, maybe there is another solution to try out?
PLEEEEAAASEEEE!!!

You could try installing rom manager and flashing the latest version of clockworkmod recovery from there

Michealtbh said:
You could try installing rom manager and flashing the latest version of clockworkmod recovery from there
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Have tryed that servel times! Not working, the phone starts as normal, even when the update.zip is in the root of sdcard. And cant start the phone from rom manager into recovery, not with voldown+power or from the reboot-options.

Maybe try re-rooting?

Michealtbh said:
Maybe try re-rooting?
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cant do it, because I have formatted the computer aswell, and I cant install the android bootloader interface without turning the phone in HBOOT-mode...

Ah, then I'm stumped, sorry

Michealtbh said:
Ah, then I'm stumped, sorry
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Yeah, me to! The only way to test it is if I could get a computer that already has the android bootloader interface. Or borrow another phone to install it. But dont have any friends with wildfire...doh!!

Recovery / Bootloader

Ok, i realize i have a different phone from this thread but it is close and my problems closely reflect the issues ive seen with the Galaxy S.
A little background. Im no perfect i know what im doing when it comes to rooting. I have an HTC Tbolt and rooted many of those, an older touch pro 2, and this is first time doing a samsung. I am getting the hang of ODIN (i wish everyone would just use this program instead of bouncing back and forth between heimdall and ODIn but whatever) Im liking ODIN cause it works well. I was successful at flashing a new rom into this Samsung phone. 95% of it worked, wifi i think didnt but everything else worked. While trying to fix the phones wifi somehow i have stopped the phone from booting into CMW recovery unless forced or booting into a rom. I can get into CMW but i must hold down the Vol Down button to get there, otherwise a clean basic boot takes me to the stock android system recovery screen and will not boot a rom.
I have something backwards or out of order. I am just trying to get the rom to identify the installed CMW and the installed ROM through CMW but it wont do it.
Any help would be appreciated, i dont want my GF to find out i jacked her phone lol

Which phone do you have? SGS? I can just talk about SGS+ but I guess its similiar.
Try to install CWM with Odin, normally it should replace the stock recovery (haven't heard of both running at once).
Once you have installed CWM you can install your custom ROM with CWM (look at the install instructions).
If you want to install stock ROM with Odin it will replace your CWM with stock Recovery.
Post the link of the thread/recovery you want to flash.

annqx said:
Which phone do you have? SGS? I can just talk about SGS+ but I guess its similiar.
Try to install CWM with Odin, normally it should replace the stock recovery (haven't heard of both running at once).
Once you have installed CWM you can install your custom ROM with CWM (look at the install instructions).
If you want to install stock ROM with Odin it will replace your CWM with stock Recovery.
Post the link of the thread/recovery you want to flash.
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Its a stratosphere. Im using the root and / or stock files in the root method. I use ODIN to flash the StratCWMRecovery.tar.md5 and if i tick "reboot" then it reboots into CWM i install a rom or stock rom and it finishes. I reboot the phone and it instantly goes back to android system recovery. If you like ill make a short video to give you an idea of whats going on.
I will note that im close to making a jig but its not 100% bricked obviously. 3 button method still works (and unecessary at this point since all the phone does is go straight into the stock bootloader) and then after i install CWM i can force it in to CWM but it wont actualy boot into it.
From a programing standpoint i feel the pointers or partitions are incorrect. Its like booting a computer that has a hard drive with windows installed however getting the bios to tell it to boot from the hard drive isnt working. THats the easiest way to explain this.
One thing i want to note is the only errors i am getting are when i try to partition the SD card from CWM. I get an error saying sdparted is not found.
I am not getting a full understanding of how the root system works on this phone.
Again any help is appreciated.
Made a short video. Its uploading now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZ5Adm5AdQ

So whatever i did i was able to fix. I think me being a very visual person and normally having access to all files i need or could use in a situation is always nice. Here, i didnt but i found them. Here's the link. Its obviously for stratosphere but i took about 10 minutes and let ODIN install all these files and it worked.
original posting but the link doesnt work for download
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/11183-eh2-full-factory-odin-restore/
where i downloaded it
http://www.fileswap.com/dl/t4D235pUTO/SCH-I405.EH2_rel.md5.html
Again this is for stratosphere. Since it really helped me return to stock and allow me to re root in about 15 minutes this thread should be moved but there is no stratosphere area

Bricked? No custom or stock rom?

ive had my note 3 for awhile and have avoided rooting or modding it in any way for quite sometime, but i rooted the stock firmware i believe it was 4.4.2???? im not 100% with towelroot and i was able to install safestrap thats where my success ended I didnt make any backups for whatever dumb reason and also it has been quite sometime since modding any phones, now my phone wont boot into any rom ive tried i have tried two so far and i cant get the factory one back, half the time i cant install roms and the rest of the time they work but they wont boot ive tried creating rom slots but those dont work, read somewhere they arent supported in 4.4.2 ???? and when i tried overwriting the factory it still didnt work, now my phone wont boot into anything anymore and im not quite sure what i did wrong and if there is any way to fix it, i would have like to install knoxraid on this phone since it supposedely fixes the gps issues lots of people have when i try to install that particular rom i get a successful message but then when i wipe cache/dalvik it work and then i hit reboot nothing happens, all i get is a black screen oh and its says that safestrap is disabled
can anyone help i could really use some help here

ecuadorche said:
ive had my note 3 for awhile and have avoided rooting or modding it in any way for quite sometime, but i rooted the stock firmware i believe it was 4.4.2???? im not 100% with towelroot and i was able to install safestrap thats where my success ended I didnt make any backups for whatever dumb reason and also it has been quite sometime since modding any phones, now my phone wont boot into any rom ive tried i have tried two so far and i cant get the factory one back, half the time i cant install roms and the rest of the time they work but they wont boot ive tried creating rom slots but those dont work, read somewhere they arent supported in 4.4.2 ???? and when i tried overwriting the factory it still didnt work, now my phone wont boot into anything anymore and im not quite sure what i did wrong and if there is any way to fix it, i would have like to install knoxraid on this phone since it supposedely fixes the gps issues lots of people have when i try to install that particular rom i get a successful message but then when i wipe cache/dalvik it work and then i hit reboot nothing happens, all i get is a black screen oh and its says that safestrap is disabled
can anyone help i could really use some help here
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May I know which variant on Note3 you are using.
and what's the OS version? 4.3? or 4.4.2 or 4.4.4
what's your region (CSC).??
I would suggest you to go into download mode and download appropriate stock firmware from SamMobile or from Samsung Updates (Link for N9005) and flash Stock ROM using ODIN.
Thanks.

Huge problem, need urgent help !

Hi,
I was about to install a custom rom on my LG L5 E615 when i thought of something stupid, which was "how about i do everything that one does before installing a custom ROM except i don't install it"
So, i opened CWM and wiped everything that needs to be wiped(data/devkin,etc), then i clicked on reboot, here the recovery made me realise my mistake and told me "You didn't install a ROM but are about to reboot the android, the phone might install stock recovery over CWM"(these aren't the exact words but this is what it meant). Realising this, i click on "Go Back" thinking once the ROM is downloaded, i'll put it into the SD and flash that and then i'll reboot.
But on clicking "Go back" the phone rebooted
Now, i can't seem to open CWM and the phone is stuck in a loop, "once it reaches the LG logo(the logo does its shining thing 4 times), then the phone restarts" saying the phone is going to shut down due to high temperature, but the phone is perfectly cool.
What should i do ? How should i now install the custom ROM, or i'll have to install stock again ?
I don't care wht i have to do, Please help me get my phone started, as of right now i'm without a phone :/
Thanks
Harry

If you can go into the recovery then just install everything as normal. If not, try using something like the program LG provides for updating the stock ROM, it's perfect if you can't do anything with the phone.

PurpleSquid said:
If you can go into the recovery then just install everything as normal. If not, try using something like the program LG provides for updating the stock ROM, it's perfect if you can't do anything with the phone.
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After 100 tries of trying to open the recovery, i finally did it !! then sideloaded the ROM :good:
buddy, do you know any android stimulating software with which i can flash ROMS and not just apks like in case of Genymotion

Harry947 said:
After 100 tries of trying to open the recovery, i finally did it !! then sideloaded the ROM :good:
buddy, do you know any android stimulating software with which i can flash ROMS and not just apks like in case of Genymotion
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I don't, sorry, I'm not a developer myself. One of the many that are around here may know if any program like that does exist.

is there a tool like the AIO -ToolKit to just override everything for the 610? even if the drivers do not install properly?