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[Epic 4G Android Development] hotwired34:
Damn...so the one thing on the OP that it says not to do....Repartition the SD card...and that's what I do...lost all data on the card. It's weird....I wasn't paying attention and accidentally selected the repartition option (which I didn't think I selected...because I hit the Cap. Back button)....then the options for size came up and I was like...whoa...wrong choice, let me hit back...and IT STARTS REPARTITIONING! Damn! Not sure what happened, but when it was done, I had nothing on the card. It was empty. I had to remove all the partitions through diskpart (win7) and recreate them. I am running a deep scan on the new partition to see if I can recover anything. Oh well! The pains of tinkering
[Epic 4G Android Development] ConfusingCurve:
Ah that sucks. It's probably because you flashed via ROM Manager, and that switches the Home and Back keys. If you take the flashable .ZIP from here are flash via CWM it doesnt have that problem. I made the same mistake but not that far. Sorry man.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasLTE:
"The application ROM Manager Premium License ( processcom.koushikdutta.rommanager.license ) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try it again." :(
[Epic 4G Android Development] sc00ty:
Uninstalling and reinstalling fixed that for me.
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasLTE:
will try that - THX :)

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OK - I did my first set of Backup & Restores with this ( via ROM Manager ) and everything went A-OK ! ;) THX ! :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] duce102:
Where can I find the .one_confirm file?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Zeinzu:
I flashed this from both recovery and rom manager. I did not change my kernel and it boots to this just fine from the power menu, three finger boot, and rom manager.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Make a blank file called that
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
the .one_confirm file is just an empty file... just if it's there, it's meant to only have one "No" in confirmations.

If it doesn't work now, it will work in the next update for epic in ROM Manager.
[Epic 4G Android Development] duce102:
Yeah I just tried it and no go for now. It's no biggie. Thank you :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
Same for me. Just noticed that. No biggie. I'm still used to CWM 2 lol

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Android Development] elevans:
I tried too make a backup, but got the message, "error backing up /data." Any ideas why that would happen?
[Epic 4G Android Development] digiblur:
Works great. Super simple. Power off menu, hit cwm recovery, flashed zip, rebooted, power off menu, cwm recovery and there it was. Performed a backup with no issues.

Great job!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] sonarchist:
flashed this from ACSrecovery: seconds later am in CWM_5.0.2.7 ........smooth .......very sharp......so i reboot to system, open ROM manager, then i press 'install rom from sd card', to which a window pops out requesting 'Flash ClockworkMod Recovery', in order to be able to flash ROMs directly from Rom Manager.........well this would mean re-flashing CWM5, so am pausing to think about this for a moment.............any thoughts?

*edit* flashed CWM5 from ROM manager (2nd flash) + proceeded to flash Legendary RC1 direct from ROM manager + ClockworkMod_5.0.2.7 .......smooth......very sharp.......wicked fast.........AWESOME........great work DRockstar!
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
Do it. Its required. It basically let's rom manager communicate with cwm. Simplified, but just know its ok to do that.

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Android Development] lancelane:
Should we get the premium version or the free one and then buy a license through kousch? I ask because there are negatives on the paid version but none on the free.

Sent from my Legandary Epic or my Galaxy Tab rooted (feels naked without a ROM)
[Epic 4G Android Development] styles420:
Also remember that we have two copies of recovery... it appears that rom manager checks, installs to and uses the copy that doesn't boot from 3 finger. I would guess that it's the same partition some of the early power menu mods used.

The rom manager version also swapped the home and back capacitive button functions... well, I can confirm the back button acting as a select button, another user posted about the home button - I used the menu button as a back button, once I figured it out lol

By both flashing the zip and installing via rom manager, you should have CWM 5 installed in both locations, so always confirm your back button until the rom manager version is fixed - one guy apparently accidentally repartitioned his sdcard while trying to back out of a menu (although I'm not sure how he'd get past the confirmation screen on accident - maybe there isn't one? Lol)
[Epic 4G Android Development] lancelane:
I installed via rom manager and had the reverse button problem. Then i flashed through cwm 3 and everything works perfrctly. It even goes into clockwork with 3 finger salute.

Sent from my Legandary Epic or my Galaxy Tab rooted (feels naked without a ROM)
[Epic 4G Android Development] AmericanJedi001:
I assume that he thought he was pressing [Back] to exit from the Confirmation Screen, but accidentally pressed the [Confirm] button since they were switched!

That sucks, BTW! Now I'm tempted to back up the contents of my SD card.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Dsparil:
I'm on Samurai, and everything works prefect. I flashed through the zip and through rom manager.

I didn't notice any keys being reverses, but since Samurai is based off nubernel, it should be compatible.

Hopefully, when Cyanogen mod for the Epic gets completed, it will be supported through rom manager with OTA update support.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Actually, if you watch closely, when you boot into recovery from ROM Manager on the Epic, it boots into stock recovery and flashes an update.zip(containing the CWM5 recovery) from your SD Card.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Gavisann:
This is odd. I downloaded Rom Manager and clicked "Flash ClockWorkMod". When I click "reboot into Recovery" in Rom Manager it boots to CWM5. When I press vol down, camera, and power and when I use the recovery option in ACS ICS, it reboots to ACS recovery. So if I flash the zip in the OP, will I have a problem with my kernel? I am using nubercoder's kernel.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
Flashing cwm through rom manager will only change the recovery when accessed via rom manager. You have to flash the tar with odin, or zip through cwm/acs recovery to change it on the three finger boot.
[Epic 4G Android Development] sonarchist:
Lol......was editing my post, as you were responding past page-break, my many thnx 4 your swift reply.............just to affirm for those still unsure: YES you will want to flash CWM5 from your current recovery (+ zip in sd card) THEN flash CWM5 (again) at prompt to do so in ROM Manager, this takes you direct to CWM5..........I have been testing LegendaryROM (was on betav4.0.1) + was able to flash versionRC1 from CWM5 (no wipe, I unselected cache/data/system) quickly w/ no problems whatsoever ........the recovery interface is impressive in its design + functionality + speed..........had a fc that turned out to be a site that was down (yahoo!).........otherwise, no hiccups.............very excellent work, and easy on the eyes!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Gavisann:
Flashed via CWM and everything is working great. Thanks.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mocsab:
With the previous version of Clockwork mod it was always suggested to wipe three times anytime you wanted to flash a file - when I flahsed the ACS Recovery to my epic, that changed and I didn't have to do that any more.

Do I need to wipe three times with this one? ACS also had some additonal options on the 2nd menu - Pre theme wipe and pre rom wipe that I thought really simplified the flashing process - any chance you would consider adding a feature like that? It simplifies flashing - you don't have to wipe cache, wipe delvick, or whatever, you choose which ever option and it does all the ncessacry wipes for you -

Just a thought - in any event, thanks for this - Glad the Epic is supported -
[Epic 4G Android Development] Pibe38:
Download the CWM5 zip to your SD card and flash it through ACS Recovery.

That may fix that... I've been keeping up with this thread and have not read about your issue. Only about some users having the select and back soft keys inverted because they only flashed CWM5 through the ROM Manager app.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mocsab:
Too many No's

I am officially running this recovery = thank you - but noticed something strange when I first used...

During the wipe process - after selecting whatever option I wanted - it shows a screen with about 7 or 8 "Nos" on it and one Yes right in the middle -

was this done intentionally to avoid some one from mistakenly saying yes when they really didn't mean to ? or is something going on with my phone ? At first I was a little annoyed but now when I think a bit more - it does make it a little more fool proof - keeps you from doing something by accident - just curious -

seems like this could be done a little differently - maybe with a double approval - click yes - then 'are you sure? - then "really sure" then ..do you really want to risk breaking your phone and ruining your warrenty? really?

lol
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
No, the triple wipe has not been needed since CWM3.

Yes, this is an intentional safety measure that can be easily reversed by dropping a .noconfirm(blank file) file in the clockworkmod folder of your SDCard.
[Epic 4G Android Development] elevans:
I'm getting two serious errors with this cwm. First, I get an error backing up data when trying to make a backup. Second, rom manager fc's when my phone boots up and I can't get it to run, unless I uninstall and reinstall.

Edit: fixed after wiping data and reinstalling ROM.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Mk4UmHa:
Can you elaborate on what this does? Titanium backup using can backup? Maybe an example of why I would need two backups?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jasonsf:
Titanium Backup can extract individual apps and data from the CWM5 backup tars.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mocsab:
thanks - I actually went ahead and flashed the file thru ODIN to replace the ACS Recovery on my phone and it was fixed - no more issues.

thanks very much
[Epic 4G Android Development] Mk4UmHa:
How can i get Rom Manager to boot into CWM 5.0.2.7? If i select "Reboot into recovery" , the phone reboots, i see a small droid with purple load bar which gets 1/4 of the way through, then reboots back into my Phone.

If I power off, do the 3 button salute, i get into 5.0.2.7.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mocsab:
I am a little new to this so forgive me but I think this will make me sound like a noob - I am not quite sure how to do what you suggest? I thought I could just create a file in the Clockworkmod folder called .noconfirm but while I did create the file, I still see multiple no's when I try to flash something - can you give me the steps I need to follow to create a .noconfirm folder for this ? (I used ES File Explorer to create the file - do I need to use Script Manager or Root explorer? Or is there something else I am missing?

thanks
[Epic 4G Android Development] jasonsf:
A couple of pages back, DRockstar said that if it isn't working yet, it will work with the next version from RomManager.
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
No, its not working ATM. DRockstar knows about it, so it should be fixed in the near future.

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Android Development] mocsab:
Thanks - I thought I read thru all the posts but must have overlooked that - no problem - at worst it is a small inconvenience - at best it keeps me from doing something stupid - well - maybe trys to keep me from doing something stupid anyway - lol.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tigerknight:
Starting from stock

I'm trying to get the ROM from here installed, and it's been said I need to use CWM for it. So I search and find this thread for the latest - and official - CWM for use on the Epic. Reading through the posts it looks like 90% or more of the people are A) familiar with CWM, and B) upgrading from previous versions. I am neither... so where do I start?

I downloaded the recovery.bin to use with odin, I have odin3 v1.61 that I used to recover from a botched EI22 update.zip and now have a fully stock and unrooted phone.

My next steps to accomplish this would be:

1 - use odin to flash the recovery.bin to my phone and get CWM installed

2 - use power, camera, and vol-up to launch CWM and tell it to update from a named zip file

Any additional details/missed steps would be very much appreciated. I have not heard a definitive answer on whether this will wipe my phone or not (hopefully not) yet, so I'm still curious about that one.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
No, the cwm odin flash won't wipe your phone.

To have root for your phone after you odin the cwm, put this on your sdcard, and flash it from a 3 finger boot into your new cwm:

Clean_Kernel-2011-11-20-15.51.32.zip

after that, you can download ROM Manager, and use it to make backups and restores, etc... just follow the instructions in the original post.

Hope this helps!
[Epic 4G Android Development] tigerknight:
Very much - just one last question - where do I load/select the recovery.bin in odin to flash this in?
[Epic 4G Android Development] jeffro18:
3 finger boot is vol-DOWN, camera, and power.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tigerknight:
Yep, figured that one out after I failed to get into it ;]

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Also, to flash the recovery.bin via odin, I need to go into download mode and not recovery (3-finger) mode, yes? Press 1 and power until you get the 'downloading' screen, I believe. Just need to know which area to load the recovery bin into. PIT I have already (came with odin), the 'pda' button can find md5's (which the recovery.bin was packaged in initially), the phone button looks for .bin - which I extracted recovery.bin TO...

Makes me paranoid because I know just enough to be dangerous when it comes to phone flashing.

Also - do I check 'phone bootloader update' or 'EFS clear' or anything else before starting?
[Epic 4G Android Development] nikon120:
You could just flash the .tar on post 1 in ODIN. No PIT file is needed, place .tar in PDA field and only have auto reboot selected.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tigerknight:
Done and flashed successfully, but when I reboot and do the 3-finger salute I get the standard android system recovery. What did I miss?
[Epic 4G Android Development] styles420:
Well of course, the swapped buttons part is obvious - but how did he accidentally scroll past all of the 'no' options to accidentally select the one and only 'yes'? ;)

Good point, it doesn't actually install CWM - it loads into memory via an update.zip

But it is still using the alternate recovery instead of the one we access with the 3 finger - mine had CWM3.1 in both locations, so I didn't see stock recovery on reboot because I don't have one (I think rom manager is using the recovery that is built into the kernel, but I may have that reversed...)
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
Pull the battery before your phone reboots after odining. Its a new thing in gb, that on reboot the stock recovery flashes itself.

1.) Odin CWM again

2.) Pull battery before it reboots

3.) Boot into cwm and flash the kernel

4.) Flash the su.zip

5.) ????

6.) Profit!

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Android Development] tigerknight:
Bingo - that worked perfectly, thank you!

su.zip? Root access I assume, where do I get this zip from?
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
Oh, yeah. Um, check one of qbkings videos, it should have a link to it. Try "How to root Froyo and Gingerbread"

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Android Development] AmericanJedi001:
Touché, good sir! :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Wishkah420:
Great work bro.

Sent from an Icy Gingified OG Epic...
[Epic 4G Android Development] ConfusingCurve:
Awesome. Ended.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jerseykat1:
i have bonsai recovery installed on my phone now and would like to switch it back to CWM, without breaking my phone.

I am running ACS ICS v2 rom right now, i have been trying to install ACS ICS v5.1 using bonsai recovery and it just wont take for some reason, i suspect it might be because i am using bonsai recovery instead of CWM recovery.

Is there a way of switching back to CWM, and still be able to boot my current rom?

Thanks for the help in advance.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
Flash the zip from the original post, and it will overwrite the recovery kernel with the latest one. You will see when you 3 finger boot from power off.

Sent from my Samsung Epic4G
[Epic 4G Android Development] toadlife:
EDIT: Nevermind. Misread the post.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jerseykat1:
should i make a complete backup of my SDcard? im afraid it will break something and i wont be able to restore.

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i have never played around with ODIN, i will have to find a copy of it and a tutorial. im assuming ODIN only works on windows?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
The rom flash isn't taking because of the default mount setting of bonsai recovery. You should be able to flash the zip in the OP of this thread and you will have CWM 5.
[Epic 4G Android Development] jerseykat1:
so simply put i would just flash this CWM zip file like i would flash any other rom? install zip from sd card, choose zip, install CWM xxxx.zip?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yes..........
[Epic 4G Android Development] Pibe38:
I noticed that backups made with 5.0.2.7 are "post-time stamped" by about 5 hours.

I made a backup at 10:00 and both the files and folder name say I made it at 15:00.

Is this ok/normal?
[Epic 4G Android Development] qbking77:
How to video is up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuLWzeJ1lT4
[Epic 4G Android Development] digiblur:
two thumbs up from me! Did a backup the other day and I had to do a restore. Worked great!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] bdbc:
Sounds like it just doesn't deviate from GMT. I'm guessing you're in the EST time zone?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Pibe38:
That's correct.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
If you use ROM Manager to initiate the backup, the correct date and time should be displayed as the default backup name. Of course from there you can edit the name of the backup before it begins.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Pibe38:
Oddly enough the time discrepancy also happened when backing up from ROM Manager.

It's not an issue at all, I just found it curious.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
Added qbking77 videos to the original post, thanks qbking77!
[Epic 4G Android Development] JohnCorleone:
Great stuff DRock! I can only imagine the amount of work you put into this. Just had to post a thanks for keeping things current for the OG Epic community
[Epic 4G Android Development] maltydog:
Just wanted to report I had a problem with this recovery. I tried to restore a backup I made yesterday, with this recovery, not an earlier one, and I got stuck on a MD5 sum mismatch. Tried a couple of times, and I was not able to get it to work. I had to restore from an earlier recovery (also made with this version). I have never had this problem running a restore with any version of recovery I have run before.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
Wm

In every case I've seen so far with restore issues, it's been due to the backup not completing due to a depletion of free space on the sdcard. I'd check how much free space is left on the sdcard. So far, every time I've asked, there was no space left on the sdcard, hence the error. md5 errors occur upon restore when the prior backup could not be completed successfully. I'm glad that's the case, since a restore of an incomplete backup would certainly fail, and cause even more problems.
[Epic 4G Android Development] maltydog:
I have over 5 GB on the SD card so I don't think that's the problem.
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
OK, this can help me take a look at what's happening during your backup and restore:

boot into cwm

make a backup

go to advanced > report error

reboot, and rename the recovery.log and/or report.log to recovery-backup.log / report-backup.log

boot into cwm

do a restore (or attempt to)

go to advanced > report error

reboot, and rename the recovery.log and/or report.log to recovery-restore.log / report-restore.log

send or pastebin those logs to me, which should give a great many details on every aspect of what's happening during the entire sequence of events along with all of the environment details.

Now you have me curious as to what's causing your errors, since I tested this recovery over a period of weeks, without ever encountering this.

P.S. If you open ROM Manager after having done this, and it tells you there was an error, please do not report it. That will go to koush, and he probably gets thousands upon thousands of those from all the different phones out there using ROM Manager... you get what I mean...
[Epic 4G Android Development] ylcricky:
I am on official EI22,do I have to flash the kernel in order to install cwm5?
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
I'd wait and be patient for a bit...

I'm working on the new Clean Kernel, and will soon have a single tar.md5 file to flash both kernels, for those on stock gingerbread. This will make things easier for everyone in the end.

Sent from my Samsung Epic4G
[Epic 4G Android Development] TexasLTE:
Sounds like Good News = THX ! ;)
[Epic 4G Android Development] ac16313:
Oh I almost forgot.

Once while flashing chris's ext42rfs.zip the recovery suddenly rebooted at the end of the back up process, and when I tried to flash the back up the script made it said "md5 mismatch" I'm not sure what went wrong. Just throwing it out there for you guys. Everything else works fine, I backed up and reflashed with no issues afterwards.

Sent from my Samsung Legen-wait for it-dary! 4g
[Epic 4G Android Development] orlzzt:
Didn't Marcusant bake the new version of Clean Kernel into one of the ACS ICS builds?
[Epic 4G Android Development] DRockstar:
Probably yes, but I still haven't released the final version yet

Sent from my Samsung Epic4G
[Epic 4G Android Development] The Root:
Off topic: People in Stratosphere forum are having issues porting cwm, how much different is it than our phone?
[Epic 4G Android Development] zanderman112:
Much different

Sent from my Samsung Legendary 4G, a Universe UTES phone, running "two.three.five"
[Epic 4G Android Development] ylcricky:
where can I download the latest vision of odin? please send me a link
[Epic 4G Android Development] travmofosho:
http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=581913&d=1304094576

or

http://www.multiupload.com/0EMX1J7RZJ

they are both links to odin 1.85 and as far as i know its the latest version :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] djjoshplacid:
take a deep breath and go!!!

ok backing up using this. I got to a point where it said this. No sd-ext found. Is that normal? it just skipped over that part and finished the backup so i think it backed up everything...right?
[Epic 4G Android Development] murky024:
This is awesome to see that the community is moving to ROM Manager support. Coming from an OG Motorola Droid it is good to see this. I will probably start carrying my work phone around more often now that I can update on the fly.

Thank you to everyone who worked on this.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Yes, this is normal.