yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] modstorm:
Is it just me or isnt the ROM Manager flashing the recovery anymore ? Once the recovery is downloaded the app just force closes. (I completely wiped the data by locking and unlocking bootloader and flashed stock image and I still get the same problem) I used fastboot instead but I'm curious if this just happened to me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shubham412302:
Can i use droid wxplorer from pc to copy the recovery file to mobile
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DynamicRam:
koush posted ClockworkMod Recovery 6 ALPHA

"Backups are much faster. 4-5x faster. (Bug fix due to excessive status updates of the UI and new backup technique)

Incremental backups are smaller. Way way smaller. Only 15-20MB each for each additional backup of a ROM. This is done using a new tool I wrote to dedupe the files between incremental backups to eliminate duplicates."

touch version

http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/maguro-touch-test-recovery.img
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gautam_nexus:
can any1 make it a flashable zip
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thegios:
Error STATUS 1 when flashing a rom

Hi,

never had a problem flashing a rom with CWM but today...

I have a stock 4.0.4 rom IMM76I (european GSM with ICS 4.0.4) + root + unlocked bootloader + CWM 5.5.0.2

I have been trying the whole day to upgrade to JB 4.1 using the ROM that can be found here (the "official"rom, not the rooted+deodexed one).

So i flash the radio xxlf1 but then when I flash the rom I get an error:

E: ERROR IN SDCARD/JB-ROM.ZIP (STAUS 1)

Any idea what this means?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Attached.

Note this is an alpha build. I'm sure koush has not vetted out all the bugs yet...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gautam_nexus:
Thanks mate... +1
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shubham412302:
How to flash bootloader
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shockem:
Before anything you should do research especially for boot loaders. Go to a proper bootloader thread and then find the one that works for your device. Then, you'll need your computer and fast boot the boot loader onto your device. I won't give you full details because you need to know what youre doing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrfantastic:
noob question

Just updated ROM manager on the play store to 5.5.0.8, in the app it says current version 5.5.0.2 do i have to reflash it so that it is 5.5.0.8?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Don't confuse the version of ROM Manager with the version of CWM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nicknowsky:
untill Koush makes it stable its not like a new ROM that needs to be flashed ASAP Most should hold off so we dont have BrickFest 2012 goin on here. Im happy with the current CWM
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Alpha thread: [CWM][ALPHA][Fastboot][GSM] Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.0.0

Seems like people are having a lot of problems though.. I'll wait for a Beta or Final. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] spinz78:
Will I be able to get official OTA if I install CWM?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] josteink:
No
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
Just to add some detail to what josteink said: if you receive the ota notification and you have cwm installed, the ota install will fail. However, if you download the ota update to your device, reboot into CWM and install it, it will work fine (assuming everything else is stock of course).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] r.albu:
Hi efrant,

As this is a bit old thread, do you still use CWM 5.5.0.2 (as seen in your signature) or Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.1.4 (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1757146) is OK too? or better?

I'm going to root using your method http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26328017&postcount=123. I've converted to yakju some time ago and have unlock bootloader (using your excelent explanation too here).

Thanks for everything.

all the best
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
I still use 5.5.0.2. It does what I need.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kickthefreak:
Is the 5.5.0.2 didnt create blobs folder like newest CMW?

Thx.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
No blobs in 5.5.0.2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] haxor:
Is there any bug in latest alpha CWM touch recovery ? Currently using normal cwm recovery 6.0.1.0 something like that !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Khizar:
no i am using the latest without any issues
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] haxor:
From where i can get latest flashable cwm recovery ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Khizar:
either the toolkit or search the other cwm thread it was posted there
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] haxor:
Could you plz provide me the link ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
is this what you're looking for? http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager

the latest one for samsung galaxy nexus gsm (maguro) is 6.0.1.5.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] r.albu:
does it works with JB 4.2?

does this CWM recovery version still works ok with JB v.4.2, I mean: nandroid backup and restore?

I may try to manually upgrade to 4.2 now that stickmount works with it too...

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sk8oldschool74:
I would update to the newest version first.6.0.1.9...

Sent from my BUGGY Nexus...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evernothing:
delete
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] attu90:
I've installed CWM via rom manager and backup and browsing for zip work fine, sounds like your encryption is causing the problems.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aly19:
do I need to be rooted for CWM to work?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pharpe:
Where did you get a Verizon version?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Epedemic:
I've just verified that rouge cwm on my encrypted xoom does not have any issues, so unless they changed something major from HC -> ICS it should work...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wilskywalker:
[Q] Nandroid Question...

Ok, fairly important question, hope somebody can help :-)

I understand I can flash this .img using the following command:

fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

So if I issue the following command:

fastboot boot recovery recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

Will this purely live boot the recovery image (stock recovery not affected) and allow me to do a full nandroid back-up of stock rom (including recovery.img, system.img, boot.img).

I would feel a lot better if I could back up all these files (contingency to fully restore stock for factory recall, resale, repair etc) before I start flashing custom recovery and rooting etc!!

Many thanks :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scary alien:
Addressing just your fastboot command syntax:

I would think so (I don't have my Galaxy Nexus yet), but when I've done this on my HTC Droid Eris the syntax is (i.e., without the extra "recovery" parameter):

fastboot boot <recovery-image-name>

You give fastboot the extra "recovery" option when flashing so he knows where to write it (not needed when booting since no write is taking place).

I think fastboot will boot whatever bootable image file that you provide.

Hope that helps.

Cheers!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wilskywalker:
Oh brilliant, thanks buddy. Thanks also for the fastboot command correction, I can see how that would return an error now. I'll try this tomorrow and report back how I got on. Again, many thanks for your help :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickjohnonaah:
So this works on verizon lte version? I may have to try it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickjohnonaah:
OK I just grew a sack and downloaded the cwm from rom manager made for GSM versions and it flashed fine and navigates perfect. Just need a zip to install. I haven't yet grew a sack to flash a rom for a GSM phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BlackDino:
Yea everything is working great!

Wish you could increase the font size though lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickjohnonaah:
Go to settings/display/font. You have 4 to choose from

Edit: just realized your mean within cwm
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickjohnonaah:
Fyi the GSM cwm works on LTE devices but every time you wanna go into cwm you have to reflash cwm via rom manager. At least on mine. If you install cwm and reboot into cwm it will work that one time. You try it again without reflashing it will reboot and take you to a green Android screen with a red exclamation mark and you have to pull battery to exit.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Stea1thmode:
Please could someone check if usb mount is working?

Mine doesn't:o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joeski27:
So to be clear does this recover work on the UK version of the GNex??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] blunden:
That's the ONLY version available at the moment so I'd say yes. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickjohnonaah:
It also works on the LTE version it has been confirmed by myself and atleast one other. I have noticed that if you want to go to clockwork you have to reinstall the GSM version every tine before you reboot to clockwork in rom manager. However it does allow you to make a nandroid which is vital before we really start messing with these things
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cellzealot:
You need to delete /system/recovery-from-boot.p

That will prevent the overwriting of CWM with the stock recovery each boot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Stea1thmode:
Please anyone?:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mike1986.:
Probably it wont because recovery is trying to mount sd card and it "thinks" that sd card is a separate device, while it's just data/media directory on data partition linked with /mnt/sdcard.

init.tuna.rc in ramdisk (boot.img) is creating /mnt/sdcard directory on system partition

export EXTERNAL_STORAGE /mnt/sdcard
mkdir /mnt/sdcard 0000 system system

then it force system to see it as "sd card" and link it to data/media

service sdcard /system/bin/sdcard /data/media 1023 1023
class late_start

That's why you can't toggle SD card in recovery. But it's fixable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Stea1thmode:
Thanks for the explanation, sounds reasonable. Are you offering?:D

There will be a donation ready;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mike1986.:
Well the easiest is this: try first to mount data partition and then mount usb.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siedkins:
Can you please at MD5 to the OP please so that users can check before flashing?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickjohnonaah:
You were right thanks! Works perfect now
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chandlerweb:
What is the best way to remove clockwork mod and get back to stock recovery?

I downloaded Peter Alfonsos stock files which includes a recovery.img file. I tried "fastboot boot recovery.img" to test it worked ok but got an android with a red warning triangle so I am now reluctant to issue the "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" command.

Any advice?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jkoljo:
That's the way it should look like, a red warning triangle with android in it :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chandlerweb:
Ahh OK. So what are you supposed to be able to do with it when its in that mode? CWM has lots of options whereas stock recovery seems to have none unless I'm missing something?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mike1986.:
Stock recovery doesnt have much features. Thats why we need custom one to flash roms etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scary alien:
The MD5 for this file is located in the same downloads area as the link in the OP:

recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img.md5sum.txt

Here's its contents:

[COLOR="Blue"][B]445887336a863573997ccbaeedddc984 [/COLOR]/Volumes/Data/ics/out/target/product/maguro/recovery.img[/B]

Which matches what I see after I download and re-calculate it:

C:\Downloads>md5sum recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

445887336a863573997ccbaeedddc984 *recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

File size is: 5,427,200 (bytes)

Cheers!

edit: and yes, I second posting the MD5 and the file size in the OP, too :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] open1your1eyes0:
Done! Thank you for the suggestion. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jms.flynn:
Hi I'm sorry if this has already been answered, but how would I go back to stock recovery if I installed clockwork mod using rom manager. Would i just use the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img command?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1366806
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] giwrgos:
what is doing clockworkMod?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mike1986.:
It allows you to flash custom ROMs.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
After market recovery alternitive used by people who like to flash alternite software provided by 3Rd party developers (non official software). Its the easiest way to mod your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ferris2375:
I really could use some help here. :(

I had my phone rooted and had CWM on my Nexus fine. Once I applied the official update, it broke my root and put stock Android recovery back on.

Now, I've redone fastboot to flash CWM and it seems like it does what it's supposed to via the cmd window, but when I boot my phone with the volume up/down held, I still only get stock recovery.

I used the fastboot folder, placed the CWM image to the folder and ran this command:

fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.0-maguro.img

Why can't I get CWM back? :(

My bootloader is still unlocked
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] suicide monkey:
i installed cwm trough rom manager, in cwm i cant mount usb mass storage.

it says "unable to open ums lunfile" is this normal cause there is no sd card or do i have a bug?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
Its not working yet

---------- Post added at 07:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:29 PM ----------

Make sure you have root access still. Then do the following adb commands

adb shell

su

rm recovery-from-boot.p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] giwrgos:
how i can get access to recovery after installed it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Easy way for noob, get rom manager and press nice big reboot to recovery button.

Normal way, Hold power and volume up as turning on phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] suicide monkey:
Then its really dangerous, cause if someone dont copy a rom on a running rom or dont make backup, can brick his phone. Or is it possible to push a whole rom trough adb?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evostance:
You can just flash a system.img through fastboot.

I think you can push through adb while in cwm. I'd have to check
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rokfor2000:
I am just beginning my adventure with Android. Well maybe not entirely beginning, I've been using Android on my HD2 before, but it was an SD version. There was no flashing recovery etc... involved, no serious stuff.

I want to learn more, so I've got couple of questions that I hope you could help me with. From reading this thread I know that this mod is used to flash 3rd party ROMs and this is all I know so far.

Is it possible to flash 3rd party ROMs with stock recovery? If not what is use of stock recovery, if any?

As it is recovery does it mean that the phone is unbrickable?

Does every Android have recovery or is it just Google's phone feature?

Does recovery sit in separate partition?

I know that there are different images to flash/backup are these separate partitions?

This are the questions I have regarding recovery and how this ROM handles it. I would also appreciate if you could direct me to any tutorials, articles or books that would help me to understand what is going on before I start flashing things.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
I can help you with 3.5 questions.

1. Maybe it is possible never tried it actually but the real reason of the stock recovery is to flash updates.

2. Not 100%. But it becomes much harder than without. The reason for this is that you can perform a full backup of your phone. So if want to try something. Make a backup, try it, if it goes wrong restore the backup and everything is fine.

3. I don't know exactly if every Android device has a recovery but for sure quite a lot.

4. I don't know how it's done on the Nexus but on my previous phones the recovery was in a separate partition. Except the SGS II included it into the kernel can't tell you why though.

5. It was like this on previous phone I owned yes. But I don't know how it works on the GN since they changed something on the filesystem.

I know it's not really accurate knowledge but I hope it helps at least a bit.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scary alien:
I can only give you my opinion / two-cents re. your questions...I don't have a GNex in my hands (yet), so these responses are based on my other devices and what I've read about before.

The stock recovery will only allow you to flash files signed by the manufacturer/carrier, so that's why being able to install a custom recovery is so valuable.

No, but the unlockable bootloader feature goes a long way toward helping with this. Also, see this thread:

[DEV] Developing UnBrickable Mod..

Note: I don't advise posting in there unless you have something concrete to contribute (LOL, its way over my head ;)).

Yes, every Android has a stock recovery.

In the Android devices I've used and read about, this has been true.

Not 100% sure what you mean by that... I can tell you that there are lots of partitions on your Android device, including many that are hidden. The well-known ones are cache, data, boot, system, and recovery.

Hope that helps.

Cheers!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MrPendulum:
So... any signs of future support for native device encryption? It sucks that I can't do anything with CWM right now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mike1986.:
adb push romname.zip /data/media and you can flash rom in recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rokfor2000:
The thread mention by scary alien is "just a little bit" to technical for my current knowledge level.

The question is why do we need unbrickable mod if we have recovery? I thought that if something goes wrong when flashing a ROM we would be able to reflash it (or the stock ROM) with this recovery. I thought it would be possible because recovery sits in separate partition and would not be affected by incorect flashing (or corupt ROM). This would make the phone unbickable because we would always be able to get it up and running. Is it possible to reflash inorrectly flashed ROM? If yes how is it possible to brick the phone? In my case understanding how something happens helps me avoid it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
that thread is kinda over my head too. i think its mainly for devs who are trying new ground braking stuff, really techy bits with possibity of writing to partions which are not access able by cwm.

for us regular kinda guys cwm should be enough just be sure to do tehm regularly and before you try different mods, kernals, roms etc and you should be cool
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] brian6685:
So my galaxy nexus will be here today...but just out of curiosty... If i wipe data/factory reset in recovery, will it also wipe the internal sd card? Also, is /data/media the new folder for the internal sd card?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Factory reset would wipe internal sd I'd of thought yeah but not going to try it. Mike1986 has a good script for cleaning the phone partions without wiping your data called super wipe lite / full if you look in his android revolution hd thread, great rom btw highly recommended!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
From what I understood yes it will. Because there is no internal SD Card anymore. Everything shares the same space.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rokfor2000:
Scary alien and Nebucatnetzer said that although it is very unlikey it is still possible to brick the phone even with Clockwork recovery. How can this happen?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] brian6685:
Why is it when I boot my phone holding volume down it goes to odin mode rather then bootloader or recovery? Anyone else have this happen?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scary alien:
I would imagine that flashing a bad boot image might be a cause--i.e., always, always check your MD5 checksums before flashing boot images, radios and such.

I don't know if that's for sure a surekill type of thing for the Galaxy Nexus, but flashing a bad bootloader on my HTC Droid Eris would certainly kill it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scary alien:
Don't have a GNex myself (yet ;)), but from what I understand, you need to press both volume-UP and volume-DOWN at the same time and then press the power button to put it into bootloader mode.

Hope that helps.

Cheers!

edit: volume-up plus volume-down plus power = fastboot mode (thanks, The Gingerbread Man :))
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Thats fast boot mode. Recovery is volume up and power
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scary alien:
Excellent! Thank you very much for that (I'll update the references I've made regarding that, too).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Sorry I in fact may be wrong as my recovery was or has been playing up.

Power button - on / off

Power on & volume up - fast boot (thought this was direct cwm enter)

Power & volume down - Odin mode

Power & volume up and down fast boot.

Seemingly I can only get direct access to cwm through rom manager although it can also be gained via fast boot then selecting recovery mode.

Apolagies dude you may have to check my original statement with others.

Will try again on fresh recovery install now....

Edit 2

Unless something has changed in the latest build xxxxx1f (what ever its called) I can only access it directly through rom manager and in directly through fast boot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] suicide monkey:
It can happen when u flash something while you are in boot loader as I know, like unlocking or installing recovery, but it impossible to brick when you are in recovery and just flash a from.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cmonthegas:
I'm having a similar issue, except I haven't lost root.

Tried the following adb commands but having a return of 'no such file or directory'

If I run

fastboot-windows boot recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

I can boot into clockwork, but if I run

fastboot-windows flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.2-maguro.img

and

fastboot-windows reboot

When I try and get into recovery I just have the stock android recovery not clockwork.

Tried flashing via ROM Manager too with no sucess :(

Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cmonthegas:
I just tried reflashing the recovery via ROM Manager and it seems to have gone OK - boots into clockwork no sign of android recovery.

No idea what the problem was :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] f231f:
CWM keeps getting deleted after reboot since I applied the OTA update. I've tried to rm /system/recovery-from-boot.p as indicated in this thread, but I get

rm failed for /system/recovery-from-boot.p, Read-only file system

I'm rooted. What am I doing wrong?

---------- Post added at 08:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:38 PM ----------

nevermind. i realized i needed to mount -o rw, remount /system
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
big up to everyone that got cwm to run in i9250 :)

many thanks! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mehrsau:
Does installing the CWM wipes my device?

cheers,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stickjohnonaah:
Nope
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] liorra3:
can we flash it via rom manager and without adb ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrBira:
Anyone knows if USB mounting will be possible in CWM?

The MTP is so daaamn slow when copying files! Like now; 7gb from my SGS2, and omg this is slow..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ljwnow:
Can someone knowledgeable answer this: Is the charging problem when the phone is shut down caused by this cwm?

Thanks a lot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] inffy:
It very much seems so...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] idan_mo:
i flashed it and i'm trying to reboot into recovery and getting the android picture and stays like that.

flashing thru rom manager will solve the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrBira:
Sorry, but what have i missed? What charging problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] inffy:
Many have reported on different threads (even stock) that if you have your phone connected to charger and you try to shut it down, it will get stuck and show only the battery logo. And the only way to get it boot again is to remove the battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] f231f:
Mine does not do that. When it's charging while off and the white battery icon is on the screen, you have to press and hold the power button for about 3 seconds. It then boots up.