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[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
I've determined that it isn't necessarily recovery doing the wipe of the /data and /cache partitions, nor is it the kernel, at least not directly. However, that being said, I also can't figure out what is causing the /data and /cache formats, and don't have any idea how to fix it because I don't know wtf it's doing. I tried probably close to 10 different ways to fix it so far, and none of them have worked. Unless someone else can figure it out, I'm not going to devote a significant amount of time towards for a few weeks after the EP1W ROM is "finished"
[Verizon Droid Charge] mickrg123:
New to Charge rooting have rooted droid 2, thunderbolt. I just installed the new CWM tried to do a restore and phone freezes on Samsung logo. Pulled battery and now phone freezes when installing Gummy 2.0 which was working. What am I missing here? Thx
[Verizon Droid Charge] ¿GotJazz?:
Quick question:

I am converting a friend's phone from stock to one of the excellent ROMs now available for the SamChg.

Can I have him Odin this CMR image onto his stock phone, have him go into CMR, and backup his stock ROM configuration before we do anything else so that we can always go back to his original configuration (just in case we bonk something up)?

Thanks,
[Verizon Droid Charge] NotATreoFan:
You can ODIN the latest CWM, but you also need to go straight into recovery before the phone boots and install a custom kernel. Else, Samsung's stock kernel will overwrite CWM.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mickrg123:
I downloaded and installed 8/17 CWM but in rom manager says current CWM is 3.1.0.1 Is this latest version? I thought 4.0 was latest. Thx.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
ROM Manager is looking at the update.zip file, not the actual recovery you boot into. ROM Manager is also basically worthless with our phone as an FYI.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mickrg123:
So the orange CWM is the latest? I don't see version number any where.
[Verizon Droid Charge] cujo6801:
boot into recovery if you want to see the version #....but 8/17 is the latest released build from imnuts...
[Verizon Droid Charge] nj12nets:
Just wanted to post that I've tried using restore a few times and it appears to work but when I restart I'm stuck in CWM Recovery so there's still a problem with the restore function at least on my phone....and I'm on Charge, I was using PBJVooDoo and Eclipse

Edit: I was able to fix it with odin by flashing the factory EP1H and Re-partitioning with the charge.pit , but only factory roms would work, not the prerooted ones for some reason.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jmorton10:
CMR recovery

For anyone who is interested, I have done a restore twice now with the latest CMR and the system runs perfectly.

I am running Humble 3.1.

I had GMail set to never update in the marketplace, but somehow it decided to update itself anyway and the newer gmail breaks the dock notifications in Launcher Pro Plus (and reinstalling an older gmail app doesn't fix it for some reason)

I was a little paranoid about running a restore after reading posts of people being stuck in a boot loop etc.

I decided to try running a restore tonight figuring if it broke the system I would just odin Humble back to it & start over. The restore worked perfectly, it booted right up just fine & my notifications work just fine again.

~John
[Verizon Droid Charge] Jborch8:
I don't know why, but no matter what CWM I try to flash in ODIN, each one gives the same error...

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> 0817_charge_recovery.tar (2).md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...

Anyone have a suggestion as to why the files are invalid? I have reinstalled the same file multiple times and tried other CWM.

EDIT: Nvm, works now.
[Verizon Droid Charge] laidback1987:
I been having bad battery life with gummy charged anyone else experience this if so any suggestions thanks
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrewjt19:
Yes, I did too. I have much better life with humble rom. But even his newest work is more draining than the froyo work.
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrewjt19:
Redownload the file-you can find in this forum. This happened to me and all u did was redownload and it worked
[Verizon Droid Charge] -javier-:
what would happen if i press on clear cache?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
it'll clear your /cache partition, won't delete data or anything

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] sikedsyko:
Just put the latest version of CWM on the phone the Odin 1.82, but when I try to enable USB Mass storage my card is showing up as read only. Any suggestions? Need more info?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
trying to enable it in CWM or what? CWM by itself won't mess up your sd card, also you could try fixing permissions in CWM that may set it right

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] NotATreoFan:
Are you running stock Froyo? There was an issue right after EE4 came out that made your SD card read only with a specific custom kernel. There is a fix in the forums, but I am mobile and cannot link it now.

___________________

Sent via Verizon's amazing, building penetrating 700MHz frequencies.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jprakes:
I've tried to read through and find the answer, but so many pages, even with search... sigh, may the gods of "search and read" forgive me, but I want to make sure I am running the latest CWM on my girlfriends charge that I rooted, so if you could give me a build number and/or color to look for when I boot into recovery, I would greatly appreciate it...
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
its the one in the OP of this thread, build date 8/17 orange version 4.0.1.4

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] jprakes:
Thanks, much appreciated.
[Verizon Droid Charge] didureboot:
This is probably an odd question, but im wondering what I would need to do to create a file my self to run in cwm to "install zip" that will delete a specific file. I installed a new boot animation in the system/media file called sanim.zip. The animation ran, but never completed. No matter how many times I reboot. But it gets me to the point where I can plug my computer in and access the SD card. So if i could create this file, I could run it in CWM to delete the sanim.zip file and not have to do a wipe on the phone. Any help? Please?
[Verizon Droid Charge] emtee_skull:
So the phone boots up?

If so use es file explorer to navigate to the file and delete it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] didureboot:
I ended up with a zip to run in cwm last night to remove the sanim.zip. It was booting up to the desktop of the phone. I could get calls and I could hear emails coming through. But I couldnt see the desktop to use any programs like file explorer. All I could see was the boot animation. But the problem is solved now.
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
Backup and Restore

I'm currently on Humble 5.0 RC2 and CWM 4.0.1.4.

Has anybody had success with the Backup and Restore functionality in this version of CWM?

I get an error about not being able to find sd.ext. Does this mean that is simply skips over the SD card? I would prefer it does not backup the SD card (if I want do that, I'll just copy all the files to the computer.)

I've tried Odinmaker, but I have problems with it. Lately it just completes the backup, but the folder that the backup should be in on the SD card is empty!

I'm afraid to restore a CWM Backup when it is giving that sd.ext error.

Any thoughts?
[Verizon Droid Charge] ChrisJ83:
I am on the newest version of cwm and have restored several times no problem.
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
Is the sd-ext error to be expected when performing the backup?
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
yes, it shows that error when wiping dalvik cache too, I think its just because that partition isn't there or at least used so it throws errors
[Verizon Droid Charge] Jstevenett:
Is there a way around cwm wiping your data on its own? All I did was clear cache and dalvik and it wiped my data.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Updated the link in the OP to CWM 5.x. I also booted into recovery a couple times and didn't loose any data. As far as I know, everything is working, but I can only test so much. Let me know if there are issues.
[Verizon Droid Charge] droidnewb2000:
Download > ODIN > then booting in and out of CWM wont wipe?

Any steps I'm missing? Thanks for the great work!
[Verizon Droid Charge] luckdog:
Another Failed Recovery:(

I got so excited when I saw there was a new recovery out but the back and restore failed for me again. The ext sd error came up during the backup process but from what I have read this is normal.

On the restore, the data restore part failed with the following: format_volume: format_rfs_device failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Error while formatting /data!

Any advice, the back/restore feature is the one thing about the charge that I have always wished worked. Was on the new Infinity ROM with infinity kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Backup/restore does work on 4.0.1.4, but 4.0.1.4 wipes data with the Infinity kernel, so it's kinda useless if you're running that.
[Verizon Droid Charge] luckdog:
When you say 4.0.1.4, but 4.0.1.4 are you referring to kernels? I have had this issue before with failure on Humble and Gummy which I believe use Imosyens kernel, you are saying these have worked? I am seriously wondering if I need to reformat my SD card or something, it kills me that this is working for some people but I can't get it going.

Thanks for your input Shrike
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
I'm referring to the CWM version itself. 4.0.1.4 was the version of the orange one with the banana in the background released on 8/17. I used backup/restore sucessfully in that version numerous times across multiple roms.
[Verizon Droid Charge] luckdog:
Sucess!!

Not sure what happened the first time as after performing the backup I had one restore date of 2005 and since I knew that had to be it, I chose that. That one failed. After I reinstalled Infinity ROM I did another backup and this time it came up with the correct date and I was able to restore to it. I then sucessfully restored to a Humble ROM I had attempted to do a backup of along time ago. Then I just restored back to Infinity. Looks like it's working for one reason or another!

Thanks Imnuts, you rock!
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
The reason formatting failed is probably because I deleted fat.format from /sbin. It should prevent the /data and /cache wipes, but it may also cause issues with wiping /data and performing restores. I can still look into another way then to fix the wipe problem later, but this will have to do for now.
[Verizon Droid Charge] R4e:
Could anyone tell me what revisions were made between 08/17 version 4.0.1.4 and 12/7 version 5xx? Would updating CWM affect power menu mods?
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
CWM shouldn't have anything to do with power menu mods. Those are OS level. The big change I've heard is a mod to the way it does wipes to prevent wipes with the Infinity kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] NotATreoFan:
After flashing the new CWM, I saw the boot animation for almost 30 minutes. Wiping data in CWM led to a boot loop, and now I am reflashing. I was running the OTA with the 4.0.0 Voodoo kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] DROID3R:
Flashed the 5.xx ver and everything running smooth. Infinity rom here. Modded the battery and didnt do the wipe.

Very happy
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
How is Backup/Restore in this new version? Does it work well?

I never had a problem with Backup/Restore in 4.0.1.4.
[Verizon Droid Charge] wilshyre:
Thanks for the update and support, imnuts. We all very much appreciate it, especially those of us that came from the fascinate.

Sent by way of unspeakably black magic.
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
I noticed that backups are done differently in this version of CWM? It looks like it just builds TAR files of all of the files on your phone. In 4.0.1.4 is made what looked like disk images, similar to how the DD command outputs the contents of a file system/disk to an IMG file.

I don't know what the consequences of this is going to be especially when dealing with changing file systems, such as restoring an RFS<->EXT4. Hopefully you stay the same file system or I think you're going to get screwed.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mslpilt:
I've had great success so far in backing up/restoring/booting from CWM 5. I even tried an older back up from CWM 4 and restored it successfully.
[Verizon Droid Charge] R4e:
Do you have to disable Voodoo in order to flash properly?
[Verizon Droid Charge] andrewjt19:
Thanks so much....
[Verizon Droid Charge] the sandman89:
I tried flashing this twice already but it is not working, when I try to boot into recovery it just goes to the stock android recovery and not CWM. Any one know why this is happening? Running the stock OTA update
[Verizon Droid Charge] coreysr:
Imnuts, another question about the recovery. Your saying that this CWM (5.0) dorsn't do the factory data reset properly? So if I'm not running infinity rom it would probably be best to stay with the lsat version? Or am I reading that wrong?
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
I'd say yes.

I'm on imo's kernel and never experienced any wipes when going in and out of CWM. So I'm staying on 4.0.1.4 myself.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Updated the OP and link. Put the fat.format file back in place so that people don't have issues performing a factory reset or doing a restore.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Does that bring the wipe problem back into the picture with Infinity kernel?
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
It shouldn't. I modified the code to call fatformat rather than fat.format, and renamed the binary as well. If people experience problems, I can always make it something else entirely.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Cool, thanks imnuts. I just wanted clarification. You are truly the developer god of this phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bcathey585:
Hey guys, I am trying to root my droid charge using pbj kernal. I am running the stock non-rooted 2.3.6 after the update and odin keeps giving me:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid

<OSM> 0817_charge_recovery.tar (2).md5 is invalid.

<OSM> End...

I have all drivers, sdk files, and everything else installed correctly. I have even uninstalled and reinstalled this file a dozen times. I need Help!
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
that just means the file is corrupted, redownload and try flashing again

edit: also you can't use the pbj kernel with the latest GB update, only Imoseyons GB voodoo kernel from rootzwiki will work
[Verizon Droid Charge] bcathey585:
The file I downloaded was from multiple sources so it cannot be corrupt; unless of course all of the sources were corrupt, Unlikely.

Could I please get a link to a recovery file, and Imoseyons if possible. I cannot seem to find the correct version for myself, thanks.

-bk
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
If you're looking for the 0817 version, here it is...

http://www.toms-world.org/android/download/http/0817_charge_recovery.tar.zip
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Stop re-hosting stuff...

Not sure why you're downloading from multiple sources. There is only one source and it is in the original post.
[Verizon Droid Charge] :
The (2) needs removed from the filename. The checksum will fail if the file is renamed.

0817_charge_recovery.tar.md5
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
The only reason I host them locally on my site is that I don't like any of the file sharing sites that many people upload these files to. Ads, ads, malware, viruses, spyware, scareware, etc. I avoid those sites at all costs. Not to mention that the RIAA/MPAA are monitoring those sites closely and I only download from those sites through a proxy. No way in hell I'm going to give those greedy bastards any reason send me a lawsuit.

Now, if you have a link to your files that are not on these sites, then I'll be glad to link to them instead. Hell, it'll save me bandwidth and disk space on my server as well as money too.

---------- Post added at 03:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:05 PM ----------

For your information... the file has been removed from my server.

But like I said before, I would like links that are not on those damned file sharing servers that will gladly submit their server logs the moment they get a damned lawsuit from the RIAA/MPAA.

I encourage people to not use those damned sites. Simply going to those kinds of sites opens you up for potential lawsuits. Not to mention a dose of malware along with it.

I've got MalwareBytes AntiMalware logs indicating one of those file sharing sites linking to known bad IP addresses that have been known for spreading malware and viruses.
[Verizon Droid Charge] charlie_c:
I think that's why Imnuts wants people to stop re-hosting his files. He hosts his files on his servers so they're updated when he updates them and he knows what exactly is being hosted. If everyone stops re-hosting...problem solved.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
You don't like where I host it, then don't download it. Just because you have a **** fit and are wearing a tin-foil hat doesn't mean everyone else has the same issues as you. And just because it shows up as a "known bad ip" doesn't mean it is. There have been several tests I have seen that show there are legitimate reasons for some of those IPs doing stuff. And if you're really that paranoid, you honestly shouldn't even be online as if you're doing something illegal, someone will find you if they want to regardless of how many protections you use.

Also don't go around reposting links to stuff you've hosted on your own site. I don't care if it's a legitimate download or not. I have no access or control over any of it, and if you keep links live when they shouldn't be, you can inadvertently cause issues for people, and then take no blame for it. I don't care if you put it there for your own personal use, just don't post links all over creation for the files. If you feel the need to repost a link, take the one that I posted, otherwise I won't post any links to anything.
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
I have removed the file that you have requested of me to remove. I have instead changed the link on my web site to link directly to http://www.imnuts.org/downloads/charge/1209_charge_recovery.tar.md5.

At least on that site I know for sure that anyone who goes to my page will not be going to somewhere on the Internet that's questionable at best, potentially dangerous at worse.

I'll also be referencing that URL in the future, unless there's another URL you'd want me to reference.

Also, in the future any one who tries that link (my link) in the future will get redirected to your server instead. I've put appropriate code in my PHP scripts to do a redirect to your server.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bcathey585:
Ok, got cwm installed, and i flashed the kernel that you recommended, phone said that voodo was installed good i rebooted with no problems apparently running a new kernel. I am confused as to why i do not have root access yet though... I thought this was the purpose of the new kernel because i am dying to get free from the Samsung touch wiz and run a debloated rom! I have tried all one click methods and couldn't do it in the adb so if anyone could further educate an android noob looking to free his charge from the oppression of factory skins.... it would be much appreciated.
[Verizon Droid Charge] nowens0520:
I think at this point you just have to download the superuser app.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bcathey585:
I have done that and have then proceeded to install root only apps and it informed me I am not a root user.
[Verizon Droid Charge] charlie_c:
Try opening SU app, update binary, reboot, and see if that helps.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bcathey585:
I attempted to update the binary it said there was an update waiting but i cant do it because i am not root user
[Verizon Droid Charge] nismology:
You might need to flash the su binary in CWM. It can be found here:

http://androidsu.com/superuser/

Look for Superuser-3.0.7-efgh-signed.zip and download that zip file and flash in in CWM after you have mounted the system partition.
[Verizon Droid Charge] didureboot:
I tried running the 1209 cwm on my unrooted stock phone. After doing so, I got:

checksum confirmation -> check(0)

Not need checksum confirmation

already executed! !...

-- movi_checking done! ...

#MANUAL MODE

And all I get for options are the typical Android system recovery <3e> options.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Stock kernel overwrites recovery with stock recovery on every boot. You have to immediately boot into recovery without ever booting into the OS to get to CWM, and to keep it, you'll need to flash a new kernel that doesn't overwrite.
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
The other option is to delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and/or /system/recovery-from-boot.p once you are rooted. Getting rid of either of those will prevent recovery from being over-written

Sent from my DROID Charge running InfinityROM
[Verizon Droid Charge] trparky:
You may change the permissions of /system/etc/install-recovery.sh in Root Explorer and uncheck all three checkboxes under the Execute header, which would effectively remove the ability for the shell script to execute upon boot.
[Verizon Droid Charge] makeshiftballer:
i think i messed up my phone :( i tried yesterday flashing cwm and it didnt work. i tried again today and odin said that my .md5 file was invalid so i redownloaded and tried it again. this time it failed ( yesterday it passed i just couldnt get in to cmw) now the only thing my phone is doing it showing a phone and pc with a ! in between. plz help :(
[Verizon Droid Charge] >DARKMAN<:
Follow the instruction in this thread> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
[Verizon Droid Charge] makeshiftballer:
thanks i actually got it i think we are successfuly rooted
[Verizon Droid Charge] norm883:
12-9 Recovery

Can anyone tell me why this does not have a Voodoo section in the menu? or am I missing something?

norm883
[Verizon Droid Charge] >DARKMAN<:
Just use the voodoo control app from the market.

~Sent using my Humble Charge~
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
not supposed to, it was buggy or didn't work half the time so it was just removed altogether

blazing through on my Acer A500 via XDA app
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdamaddy:
Thanks

With many thanks to imnuts and others who have posted valuable information here, I have been able to root my stock 2.3.6 DC with CWR installed with minimal changes. Here's what I did, for anyone else who's attempting this.

1. Starting with DC running stock unrooted 2.3.6, download the latest CWR from the OP link. Also download su from the official website (mentioned in another post couple of pages before this one) and copy it to the SD card.

2. Powered the phone off. Put it in download mode (volume down + power button press for 1000ms) and used ODIN to flash CWR with Auto Reset UNCHECKED.

3. After ODIN is done and it says PASS in green, unplugged the USB cable. Long pressed the power button while holding Volume Up + Home button down at the same time (while it's in download mode, that's fine). Samsung logo appeared on the screen and then it vanished and came back the second time, that's when I released the power button. This was tricky and took many attempts.

4. Now in CWR, I installed the superuser zip file. Then mount system. Using adb shell, chmod 444 install-recovery.sh.

That's it. Thanks again.
[Verizon Droid Charge] nismology:
I was trying to perform a restore made with the 1209 recovery and ran into the "unable to format" message. And since the newest recovery backs the data up in tar files instead of disk image files, I have no way of using the 0807 recovery to restore. I could just start over again fresh, but there are a few things in the system partition that I would like to recover. Am I SOL?

Edit: Nevermind. I was able to manually extract the SMS/MMS files from the backup tars and restore them. Will be sticking with the 0807 release for backups/restores from now on.