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[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
If you've already got root, you just need to boot into the recovery and start a Backup. The easiest way off the top of my head to boot into the recovery is to install "ROM Manager" and somewhere right as you open it up should be an option to reboot into the recovery. If you're an advanced user and have adb set up, then you could just do "adb reboot recovery" and that'll get you there.

EDIT: Forgot the easiest way to boot into recovery... With no USB cable plugged in, hold down the Vol UP and Vol DOWN together, and power it on at the same time. Basically like how you would go to the download mode for Odin. The lack of the USB connection will tell it to just boot into recovery.

Once you're into the recovery, your volume buttons act as your up/down arrows, and the power button becomes your OK/Select/Enter.

Make your way to Backup and Restore. Do a backup. You're done. Reboot back into the system to mess around safely with the phone.

The process to restore is basically the same.

A Few Notes:

By default the backup is stored on the SD card. If you choose to backup to the internal SD card, it'll store it on the tiny internal storage.

I like to make a working copy, and then (also from CWM) reset user data and do a backup of a non-initialized system.

In whichever storage space you choose (int/ext sd card), it will create a base folder called "clockworkmod". Within it will be a backups folder. Within that folder you'll see a number of folders named for dates. Those are your backups. You can safely change the name of these folders (either booted back into your phone with an explorer, or with your computer through a USB connection). Just don't use any spaces in the names. For example, I have two "Stock" backups called "Stock-Touchwiz" and "Stock-Touchwiz-Lite". The former is my stock backup, the latter is the one where everything is cleaned up the way I like it.

I *HIGHLY* recommend copying the backup folder for your stock backup(s) to a computer or safe storage somewhere. SD cards do get damaged.

Good luck, hope this helped.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] allprogrammed:
As k0nane has hinted at above, ROM Manager doesn't offer a recovery that works with this phone. I'm pretty sure the recovery by shabbypenguin is the only one that works with the Blaze at this point.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] shabbypenguin:
yea i can submit it to koush, but hes got phones that have been submitted 7 months ago with no approval status yet :/
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
Settle down now... It was just an easy way to boot into recovery, you know... it has the link right up front. And, I offered two other methods :-)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dispozable:
Sucessfully rooted and installed recovery on two phones with no issues! I did make sure and went to the samsung site and downloaded the drivers first. Currently backing up roms! Thanks so much for all your work everyone!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] skwrl:
I rooted and flashed this cwm through odin both with 'success.' But now how do I access cwm??

I had an HTC Aria before, and all I had to do was power off and hold vol down+power to enter cwm.

What I'm doing: I power off, usb unplugged, hold vol up+vol down, hold power. My phone does its vibrate and turns on, but then it dies after flashing the "Samsung" image. It just keeps doing the little vibrate like it does right before it boots, like "bzzt...... bzzt......bzzt........bzzt" until I let go of the buttons and it just does a normal boot and I never see any CWM.

What is wrong??

Oh yeah, I haven't unlocked the phone yet. I still have to get the unlock code from TMobile. Could that affect this?

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:/ adb reboot recovery isn't working either. It just does a normal reboot.

:confused: I reflashed CWM too (followed all the steps in the first post), with odin and everything. Did I miss something?

I have an SD card in the phone too... don't know if having it or not matters.

oh shiet. I feel stupid. I just tried again with the buttons except this time I let go right as the Samsung screen came on and waited, and CWM came up...

Sigh...
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] itsLYNDZ:
I just just did this and made sure everything was done according to the directions. in ROM manager it still says Current Recovery: 2.5.1.2. Shouldnt it have changed to Clockworkmod Recovery 5.5.0.4?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] itsLYNDZ:
When I go to Rom Manager and boot into recovery I get:

CWM based recovery v5.5.0.4

Finding update package...

opening update package...

verifying update package...

E: failed to seek in /cache/update.zip (invalid argument)

E: signiture verification failed, installation aborted.

I followed the directions, and Odin showed it as being successful...
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] CB620:
What's up with touch recovery? Can someone port it?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] shabbypenguin:
OP updated with a link to your instructions :)

you might have a better luck asking in another thread, myself and k0nane removed ourselves from the blaze community at its request
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] itsLYNDZ:
when I get into recovery I get

CWM based recovery v5.5.0.4

Finding update package...

opening update package...

verifying update package...

E: failed to seek in /cache/update.zip (invalid argument)

E: signiture verification failed, installation aborted.

Is that what its supposed to say? Im worried about the "failed to seek in /cache/update.zip (invalid argument)" and installation aborted part.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Chitown021:
Glad to see this phone has been rooted. Just bought one today and am looking forward to cleaning out a lot of the pre-installed T-Mo crap. I hope down the road there will be some ICS rom development. I'm coming over from using the HD2 with Tytung's awesome HWA ICS roms.

I will miss having a more up-to-date OS but I think I'm going to love having a snappier, more powerful processor.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] nrek619:
Hi all!! first timer here..... rooted with odin no problem......thanks!! but when I try to do the CWM I am not seeing the CWM icon after I get a pass green on odin for a successful install. I tried twice with no icon. is there a way I need to get to the CWM program or am I not doing something wrong here...? thanks for the great work here you all......I am following the steps to a T but still a no go. I dont want to do it too many times to get there but does it take a few times to install properly or ? also I have TiBU free and superuser installed already....also if not able to work recommend another app to backup before I delete some tmobile and useless bloatware
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Chitown021:
It took me a couple tries to get it rooted with Odin. My main issue was getting the phone into download mode. The instructions say not to plug in the USB cable when rebooting but for me, and according to the video, you DO need it plugged in.

Once in download mode I installed the PIT & TAR files via Odin and it worked great! I've done a bunch of fiddling with my phone since I got it last week and it boots into CWM every time I reboot the phone with the volume keys held in.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] nrek619:
got it!!! I see the CWM using the reboot with the keys held....awesome!! I just did not know how to get there...thanks!!!!!:good: now is there a thread how to properly use CWM as in backup,etc......... I would like a little knowledge before I start using it...... also a proper list of apps I can uninstall I seen a few here but a few members seem to disagree on whats good and not. thanks again!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Chitown021:
I'm sure there's a "how to" thread out there somewhere for CWM. I didn't do much bloatware removal on my own (I used TThaz777's stock debloat Rom) but I would for sure make a backup via CWM before making any changes.

I screwed mine up trying to restore some apps using titanium backup. The problem was my last backup was done using a ICS rom on my old HD2.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] xWolf13:
Download rom manager and install CWM from there
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Bulletblitz27:
ROM manager supports this phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Beastmode:
Doubt it
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] 2vivid:
Only thing I could do with rom manager was reboot into recovery
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] j3r3goss:
Galaxy Exhilarate (SGH-I577) AT&T

I used the Thank You button, but just wanted to let you know that this version of CWM Recovery appears to be fully functional on the Galaxy Exhilarate (SGH-I577) (AT&T) as well.

Thanks!!!!

j3r3g
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] xWolf13:
thats how i installed my cwm
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dispozable:
Just in cause you accidentally disable the back button, press the vol+up and vol+down keys at the same time to re-enable it.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] michaellee213:
I have a Samsung Blaze (originally for use with T-Mobile) and would like to use it on the AT&T network. It is already unlocked. I can make/receive calls and texts with my AT&T sim in the phone.

On AT&T's network, my fastest speed test so far is around 7 Mbps down and around 1.2 Mbps up.

I have been reading for a while now in these forums about how it is possible to flash a different software modem into various Samsung phones in order to get better functionality or data speeds while using these phones.

If I want to get faster download speeds or even functionality with AT&T's LTE network, then is it as simple as flashing a new modem, perhaps the Skyrocket modem? Or am I limited by the hardware itself?

Is flashing a new modem into a Blaze 4G even necessary since I keep reading about how people are solving their slow bandwidth issues by flashing a Blaze modem into their phones?

It would be nice if I can avoid buying an AT&T device, but if I have to do that, are there any recommendations from anyone?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] chjema:
Nope... Your stuck on the Edge network as far as I know. And dont think you can ever get att 4g

And please use this forum http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1557

This is for DEVELOPMENT
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] tronmech:
Well, the phone is getting hspa, if you were only getting edge, your specs would be more in the kbps range and not in the mbps range. Having used an edge-only phone back in the day, I know of what I speak.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] billa:
Of course an unlocked Tmobile Blaze will pick up the AT&T 3g/4g, I have tried it with an AT&T prepaid card. But it doesn't work the other way around when using a Tmobile card in an unlocked AT&T phone since they don't have the 1700mhz Tmobile data band.

You can even select the bands manually on most Samsung phones by typing:

*#2263#

Unsupported bands will not stick after selection.

BillA
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jrobinsky:
fixed nm
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] bilad:
Hello All,

I already rooted my Blaze and installed Clockworkmod Recovery using odin !! how can upgrade it to ICS from gingerbread ?

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] 2vivid:
No ics yet. Still waiting on Samsung and T-Mobile
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] bilad:
Thank you very much,

So besides getting rid of some unwanted software I see no use of rooting and Blaze now !!! correct ?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] 2vivid:
Well there arw some awesome custom roms for our phone. I'm currently on darkknight build 8. Tweaked never failed me either. And Jedi mind trick was also good. Those are all I've tried. We have ports of cm7 Juggernaut which I've also tried but camera isn't working on those.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] bilad:
Can you provide me with the link for the above ROMs please and the method on to flash mine into one of the above?

BTW does any of above roms support other languages too (arabic, Hebrew, Turkish etc ...)?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] grundlestain:
this forum topic is in the development section of xda for this phone -galaxy s blaze 4g , all the roms are posted here as well as lost of other information... just move up a directory here and look around, youve found your way this far, youre real close...
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] tronmech:
I believe it's called something like "tetheringprovision" and you'll need something like titanium backup to see the application since it's hidden from the normal app list.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] turboromeo:
how do you install and use CWM on this phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dispozable:
Check the first post
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] unicorndust98:
Just a heads up. This DOES work after the ICS update. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
Does anyone want a newer CWM?

Just out of curiousity, since I've been building cm... one of the outputs of a CM build is a newer version of CWM.

I've got a build of CWM 6.0.1.4. It's not perfect (can't mount USB) but seems to work fine. Would anyone be interested in that?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
I'd be willing to try it out

never be afraid to softbrick :P
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dispozable:
I would be interested as well, I have never been able to restore any backups on this phone. No matter what I do I get a md5 mismatch. PM me :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
i wonder how easy it would be to port CWM touch to the blaze?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
experimental CWM (6.0.1.4) based on CM10

Ok, here goes

READ THIS: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU SCREW UP OR BRICK YOUR PHONE WHEN YOU TRY THIS.

That being said... it's work(ing) for me.

This is an experimental version of the CWM from the CM10 nightlies (fresh as of 2012-10-02).

This is CWM 6.0.1.4.

http://d-h.st/wWU

MD5: b4c40402cdf362744868b42a8e14ddd4

USB mounting doesn't work for this, but most other things seem to work well.

THINGS TO NOTE: This is different from the original CWM posted in this thread... some of the phone id's (and valid ID's it will look for) are slightly different, but I don't think it'll create any issues. Enjoy
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
DL now :) will odin in about 30 seconds

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seems pretty stable. It flashed tthaz777's UVHL5 ok. i'll see how it handles a nandroid in a minute :P
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] itsLYNDZ:
Have the files been updated for ics on the first post? Can I just use the ones I used on GB to install CWM on ics?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
I don't own the first post, so I can't update it. However you can use the same method to install the updated CWM. Do everything the same, except use my tar file instead of the CWM one from the first post.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
yes, you can use the same version 5.0.#.# version on the first post. the one posted above really shouldnt be a daily driver because not all features work. although, other than USB storage mounting, i havent found a feature that doesnt work. I'm a little worried about trying to run fix permissions and partitioning (though if i remember correctly, the original one didnt partition with our phone either)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
In theory this should be fairly stable, though I agree that until I figure out the bugs, it's probably best not to consider it a daily driver.

It's based on the sgsII one with a kernel similar to ours. All the partitions are mapped properly and if you're worried about "fix permissions", take a backup before trying it. I don't think the fix permissions will do anything wrong :)

Disclaimer: My daily driver is an SGS3... I'm just doing this for the fun and practice.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dispozable:
Awesome, I'll be testing this tonight for sure. Anything special you want tested?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] tronmech:
Many thanks, this is saving me

I'm updating *3* phones to ICS, and being able to nandroid before the update makes me MUCH more comfortable about it. Learned the hard way on my wife's old MT3G Slide that having a backup is always a good thing...

EDIT: I screwed up and let it keep "repartition," and by some miracle it didn't brick me. Won't forget again, since I may not be so lucky next time.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
Lucky you. I forgot so many times to uncheck and it softbricked my phone :P just reodin cwm and flash my stuff back :P
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] badboy68:
Any chance we gonna get the upgraded cwm, touch?

CM 10 *****ES!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
I'm not seeing it. I tried running my recovery through the cwm builder and turned on the "touch" option and it didn't produce anything useable (just rebooted the phone). When I work out the other issues I have cooking, I may put it on my list.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] badboy68:
Keep us posted

CM 10 *****ES!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
CWM Touch would make my whole year. CM10 and CWM Touch? That's the dream
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] shabbypenguin:
you could have just asked :P

that being said cuz im lazy playfulgod is working on merging the device into cwm stuff, when that happens yall will get official cwm and touch. im not a big fan of cwm touch as TWRP is a whole lot nicer :P
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
Well, maybe if it'd just worked in the first place ;)

Yeah, touch CWM (which I agree ain't all that exciting) is low on my list of priorities. It'd be nice to have an updated version though.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] unicorndust98:
well we don't have TWRP *ahem* Yet.. *
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] 2vivid:
I must say I was much more impressed with 4ext recovery it was amazing
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] htcclay:
Rom Manager

ROM manager now supports the Blaze 4G.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] zero75:
Off topic... It's been like Christmas for us blaze owners this past week....
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
2 weeks ago today we were all like "where's ICS, who wants to port it, wah wah wah". Two weeks from tomorrow, ICS i577 rom. Finally got comfortable with that and uncle sammy said "lol jk, here's Kies update for official". Source code within 24 hours, stock tar, cwm flashable. 24 hours later cm9. And been booming ever since.

Do the math. Since source was released 5 days ago, we've gotten 5 new roms. A average of a rom a day.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] Bulletblitz27:
We have threads with over 1k views so our user-base is not exactly low either. This phone is bang for the buck and with an ICS source code, so I get the feeling we will get official CM support eventually. I am more than happy with what we have now though.

Galaxy S Blaze CM10
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] unicorndust98:
We now have CWM official support now. Getting CM official support in the near future.? Seems legit. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] badboy68:
does this mean we can flash touch cwm through rom manager?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] htcclay:
Yes it does. The latest version. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] badboy68:
Wat about partitioning the sd card?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] unicorndust98:
I couldn't flash touch. I'll try again later.

Anyway. Official CWM updates it to CWM Recov v6.0.1.4 Looks better. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] badboy68:
Theres an option for partitioning the internal sd i have a 4g sd card what options should i choose?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] unicorndust98:
Just went to CWM official site. Yes blaze is there and the download for the CWM. But the Touch CWM is N/A. So no Touch Recovery. :(

Yet.?? :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] LiveFaster:
Ha, thanks for the info. Things are really speeding up around here:)

Sent from my SGH-T769
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] junkypong:
Can I just download the apk file and install over my previous one?

edit: i was mistaken its not an apk file but a recovery image that i downloaded...and rom manager does not flash the CWM ,it says"error while downloading from server.."
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] PlayfulGod:
I was told touch didnt work, so I didnt build it when I published the official. If some has or will build touch from builder.clockworkmod.com and verify it works I will build the official & publish it. ;)

NOTE!!!: it needs to be able to be build on the jellybean branch to build on builder. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
Folks, the official CWM Recovery in the repo ROM Manager is looking in has been updated. This update *should* fix the flashing problems people have been having. It corrects the product name that recovery is identifying with.

You'll likely have to clear ROM Manager's caches. From within ROM Manager, hit the menu button, the choose "clear download cache" ... Now, Flash ClockworkMod Recovery again and it should install the newer working version.

You'll now be able to flash the first official nightlies :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] zero75:
Can confirm that flashing bnl zip works from within this updated version. I'll try making a nandroid from rom manager now.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dispozable:
6.0.1.4 is restored a backup for me! Wow I haven't been able to restore a backup ever on this phone! Also, backup was initiated from Rom Manager. Great Job! I also saw here that we have touch available. Does that have to be installed by fastboot or is there a simpler way?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] zero75:
+1 I backed up and restored FROM cwm.

Tried ROM manager but my option to use external SD is greyed out. Stupid me should have know it would fail RM wants to use sd0. Not sure if using directory bind would work or auto mounting sd0 when cwm runs. Ah, just theorizing anyways, I wouldn't use either to backup/restore. But does that also affect installations in ROM manager?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
Just confirmed cwm touch will successfully backup and restore roms, wipe caches, fix permissions, blah blah blah. Soon as dr4stic rolls out the next build we'll see how it flashes :P

As far as installing it goes, until someone makes an odin flashable version, yea. Of course, you could always just install through rom manager

Sent from my CM10 powered Galaxy S Blaze 4G
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
I'm not actually rolling out another build *ahem* :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
Last I had read you were doing one more :P just got caught up in the forums. For real bro, congrats.

Sent from my CM10 powered Galaxy S Blaze 4G
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dispozable:
After a nandroid restore I cant hear my phone calls anymore. Either way, in or out. I can get calls and make them, just nothing happens. Flashing CM10 again to see if that fixes.

I had to flash a daily build to get my phone back, but its working now. Strange, anyone else?

After trying to reproduce it I figured out the culprit.... I needed to up the volume once to activate the sound.... Forgot about that.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] shawndotting:
i HAVE THAT SAME ISSUE....I HAD TO REFLASH,,,I TRIED TURNING THE VOLUME UP BUT NOTHING, I HAD TO REFLASH,
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] jparnell8839:
I can't remember if this was a cm bug or just specific to our device...

Sent from my CM10 powered Galaxy S Blaze 4G
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] trickbiker121:
How do you install the stock recovery from CWM without losing root thanks in advance?
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] dr4stic:
You can't really do that (right now) without flashing one of the stock images from Odin... at least I don't think you can.

You could, theoretically take a stock flash, pull out just the recovery.img and re-tar it. But I'm not about to write up instructions for that. If you understand what I just said, then you should be able to do it. Otherwise you shouldn't attempt it.
[Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G] trickbiker121:
Thank you for your help, If I get the recovery.img from the stock flash could I use fastboot to flash recovery.img or is it not allowed on this phone. This is how I installed CWM recovery on my Galaxy Nexus but that phone was made directly for Google.