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[Captivate Android Development] Frank Tuesday:
It still won't let me flash. I click on Flash ClockworkMod Recovery and it does nothing. When I click on Backup Current ROM, it says you must have ClockworkMod Recovery Installed... When I click install, nothing happens.

What am I doing wrong?
[Captivate Android Development] SULL3N:
Download the update.zip from post#371 and copy it to the root of your sd. Open CW Recovery and select boot to recovery for manual management. Once rebooted and in recovery scroll down and select install new package whatever and wait.......

keeep waiting......

if your still waiting then WTF you failed :D
[Captivate Android Development] android158:
Same problem here...

I have been using cw for months and never had a problem like this...

When I click "install ROM from SD card" it tells me "You must have ClockworkMod Recovery installed before continuing! Install the recovery through Rom Manager first." I click install and does nothing...Ive done this a millions times and this has never happened to me. its driving me nuts! I even reflashed to stock two more times and still no luck...
[Captivate Android Development] simulatordos:
Flash it manually. Put the update.zip on your internal card and then manually install the newflashrom.zip by holding the three buttons down from the off position and then boot recovery as described above. You should be able to flash that way.

I went back to rom manager after I installed the new rom and clicked on the fix permissions button and now I can flash cw recovery and choose the captivate.

Anyhow, that's the workaround....
[Captivate Android Development] android158:
Got it working. Thanx!
[Captivate Android Development] naplesbill:
I do have an external SD and I also received this message. I think it's referring to an Apps2SD type partition that doesn't exist.
[Captivate Android Development] rabbivj:
also when I went back into rom manager it says recovery failed and it gave me 3 choices it said something like recovery broken something else and other...i ran a nandroid backup prior to going back into rom manager...is that normal?

also i just bought the premium version...great piece of software!
[Captivate Android Development] daverup:
Mine did the same error. Uninstalled, reinstalled, flashed, backed up, no error and normal backup. No problems running rom manager again.
[Captivate Android Development] rajendra82:
Happened to me on the first attempted backup. The second attempt worked. I think it's because I didn't run Flash Recovery before I tried backup.
[Captivate Android Development] warri:
After i Got premium, installed and flashed new recovery, when i try to open rom manager it says, "this app is not installed on your phone"
[Captivate Android Development] rabbivj:
also one additional question, if i wanna flash back to the STOCK firmware...can i use rom manager to do it or do i have to use Odin?
[Captivate Android Development] daverup:
Mine did that too, look for the other icon to click on.
[Captivate Android Development] rabbivj:
see i actually did that, after i installed premium, i reran the a backup and it worked fine this time...
[Captivate Android Development] warri:
AHH 2 icons!!

EDIT/Update:

Excellent After a Back-up and reboot everything works normal now, Great Job!! I got premium to support the Love
[Captivate Android Development] spyz88:
Death to Odin, Long live Koush. Thanks alot for the hard work man. Upgraded to premium because you def deserve a beer :D
[Captivate Android Development] spyz88:
You can just use root explorer or terminal to copy the "clockworkmod" directory to /sdcard/sd/. If you have a problem just move it back onto the internal memory (/sdcard) and you should be all set. Just remember if you do additional backups you would have to recopy the directory and paste it back into /sdcard/sd.
[Captivate Android Development] spyz88:
Best. Quote. EVER.
[Captivate Android Development] spyz88:
Mods please delete post.
[Captivate Android Development] dweebs0r:
Haha, that's a little harsh. Odin still has a place for stock firmware restores, etc.
[Captivate Android Development] THATTON:
@Koush- Is there anyway to have the recovery image recognize that my 16gb EXT card is filled with media and files and does not need to be backed up? I have everything stored to my removable sd card. It took about 30 minutes to complete a back up and I'm sure the file size is enormous as well! I transferred my card from my sexy nexy to the Captivate(lazy I guess?). Should I be storing all of my stuff on the internal memory to avoid this extended backup or is there a workaround? Hopefully that made sense...
[Captivate Android Development] :
Awasome job mate, just finished doing my nandroid, now let the custom roms begin lol, il see what i can do.
[Captivate Android Development] Koush:
Ahhh, very good point. Let me make a toggle option for you in ROM Manager to prevent this.
[Captivate Android Development] _Opiate_:
Awesome work! Just completed my nandroid backup and everything went extremely smooth. Now the REAL hacking can begin. Nothing to fear now if you jank up your phone you can just boot into recovery and restore your nandroid its that simple.
[Captivate Android Development] _Opiate_:
That would be perfect Koush. Thank you for all your hard work.
[Captivate Android Development] domin8:
great job guys, that was so quick and painless :) got my nandroid backup done, so im ready to let the rom's begin!
[Captivate Android Development] Frank Tuesday:
Thanks, that is exactly what I was doing. I tried it again and at least it got to the point of asking me my phone, but then failed. After the 8th time doing the exact same thing, it did what it was supposed to do.

I don't know what the problem was, but I'm glad it wasn't my inability to follow directions.
[Captivate Android Development] firehazard:
I appreciate your help. Of course, ROM Manager started to work again today. I'm thinking something was wrong with their server last night.
[Captivate Android Development] midcrim:
okay total noob question.

I updated my phone about a month ago with Cognetion.....all of a sudden my USB port stopped working and i was screwed, so i started trying everything but i must have deleted my back up,

now I need to get back to stock and I cant use odin because my usb port is dead, I can ftp over, and install to my sdcard but do I need a stock rom and if so where can i get one?

Thanks in advance
[Captivate Android Development] Neobug103:
I was able to install clockworkmod however it says it is installed and all is well, however everytime I boot into recovery mode it shows the blue text with the original samsung recovery installed.

I have tried re-installing the clockworkmod and it always says it is installed and flashed but everytime I go into recovery mode it is just the blue text. I try the reinstall packages but it always fails on me because it says the package is not signed.

Any ideas on what I can do?
[Captivate Android Development] illdroid:
Is it possible that nobody knows the answer?

I'll try to rephrase

is cwn more hardware related or more rom related or more kernel related?
[Captivate Android Development] silverslotcar:
Captivate version. Even with reoriented kernels.

And for the person looking to get back to stock bcuz of failed usb port, you need to use odin. If u don't have a windows pc use a friends bcuz odin is the best way many ppl use it.

Edit: so when u have odin open and your phone in download mode what happens when u plug the usb in?? Does odin see ur device??

sent from my cappy running Di11igafs Rom 2.5 overclocked at 1280 with JK4 modem!!!
[Captivate Android Development] delugeofspam:
I used CWR to flash a stock build but I didn't have a brick. It shouldn't be difficult with the right zip file.

Also, problems downloading the latest CWR. The app updated fine, but I can't flash the update from within the app without getting a server error. It doesn't even ask me what phone I'm using, just returns an error.
[Captivate Android Development] djtama:
just fyi, saw the download folder where CWM is held, and the version 2.5.1.3 update packages contain very few if any recoveries for this version. Maybe the reason Rom Manager balks is because there is no "captivate" version of the flash recovery...

I am using 2.5.1.2's recovery zip file for captivate to do my rom updates, etc.
[Captivate Android Development] psufan5:
Just downloaded a new version... Anyone know what it fixes?
[Captivate Android Development] OrlandoChad:
Please HELP- I am stuck

Hi!

I just finished flashing my ROM to stock and master clear using the ODIN.

Then I rooted the phone using one-click root and after reboot I do see the Super User app .

I went to the market to download the ROM Manager(free version) over wifi - have the sim removed for now and first thing I get when I launch the App are like 2 info mesages and I enter the app. Then I select the first option " Flash ClickworkMod Recovery" And it just stays there. NOthing happens. I do not see a pop up to select my Phone-

Not sure what is happening.

Please reply ASAP.

PS: I am using SAMSUNG CAPTIVATE

Thank you in advance

Chad
[Captivate Android Development] OrlandoChad:
If I put your recovery zip and select "install ROM from sdcard" option without selecting the first option "flash" will it work?

I have the latest 2.5.1.4 from the market-samsung captivate and it does not do any pop up and I am stuck
[Captivate Android Development] djtama:
No, the way to do it is to copy it to the root of your phone, rename it to update.zip, and boot into recovery (there are instructions everywhere). Once at the default recovery, select "reinstall package" (should be the second option) and it will install the CWM recovery pack and send you back to either the phone or the recovery menu. Either way, you want back to the recovery menu, select reinstall package again, and the CWM recovery will load from there.

ROM Manager is practically useless until this is fixed. This is the manual way to get into it.
[Captivate Android Development] OrlandoChad:
Thank you . I got it working now
[Captivate Android Development] hex2bit:
So, I just started looking at all this stuff tonight to update my Captivate to a Froyo-based ROM. Grabbed ROM Manager from the market (2.5.1.4), and followed the earlier instructions to manually install the 2.5.1.2 recovery for the captivate, as flashing in ROM Manager appears to be broken due to hitting Google App Engine quota limits recently (according to clockworkmod on twitter). However, it doesn't appear that the current version of ROM Manager (2.5.1.4) detects my installed version of the recovery. So, is ROM Manager currently broken for the Captivate, or is the detection of the recovery installation also broken by the Google App Engine situation as well?
[Captivate Android Development] djtama:
ROM Manager for the most part is broken until this is sorted out. The seems to be the only working way...
[Captivate Android Development] peaceburn:
:(

I installed CWM few days ago, and recovery flashed fine, and I was able to boot into CWM recovery. Did a backup, and started playing with my phone thinking all is good. Today I drove the phone to the point where it was acting strangely and had to reboot it several times.

Now I'm trying to restore from the "backup" which works fine for some time, and always stucks on "Restoring Data...." and some stupid file 428285d0 , which I have no idea what it is, but it's my third run, and it always stops at that file.

My phone is now at factory reset level, none of my apps are there, no settings , no APN either, all gone :(.

as this is my first experience with CWM, it sux big time if it can't restore the stupid backups :(
[Captivate Android Development] KonaZXIII:
I'm have a strange issue.

I decided it was time for a new ROM so I did a master clear, then did a fresh stock 2.1 Odin install, rooted, Busybox then ROM Manager. I flashed CWR for the captivate, deleted the update.zip and loaded the zip of the ROM I wanted.

I made sure to remove the previous lagfix before master clear and flashing stock w/Odin.

I've used ROM Manager before so I rebooted into recovery to select the package manually all I get is the stock (e2, right?) recovery.

I reboot, launch ROM Manager again and try the "Install ROM from SD Card" method this time. I selected the package and again it just boots back to stock recovery. There is no sign of CWM anywhere in the process.

I've flashed ROMs and handful of times and have never experienced this.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: Since I had nothing to loose. I did another Master Clear and Odin return-to-stock. CWM issue still persists.
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
Why did you delete the update.zip? That IS clockwork. There is no more renaming the zip of the rom you want. You need on your sdcard BOTH the update.zip from cwm AND whatever rom zip you are flashing (rom.zip). DO NOT rename the rom's zip file, just leave it alone......

If the rom is perception, for instance, to install it you need update.zip and perception.zip on /sdcard. Reinstall packages from recovery puts you in clockwork, then you choose "install zip from sdcard". You will have to choose 2x, then you will see the files on your sdcard. Scroll down to perception.zip and choose it
[Captivate Android Development] KonaZXIII:
EDIT: I went back and re-installed the root (update.zip) and it rebooted into recovery.

Thanks.
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
The update.zip you have is either:

1) not clockwork

or

2) corrupted

Either way, it seems you arent getting to clockwork. Here's how it works:

When you are in stock recovery (the blue text), if you choose the 2nd option, "reinstall packages", it looks for ANY file named "update.zip" and tries to run it. If you DO have the correct update.zip, it will run it and quickly flash the screen and reboot you to the same stock recovery.

NOW, you choose "reinstall packages" again, and this time it'll boot you to clockwork recovery (green text).

THEN you choose "install zip from sdcard" twice, then scroll to Cezar_JPY_Basic.zip. Remember NOT to pick "run:update.zip" from thge green clockwork menu.
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
Great! Happy modding.....
[Captivate Android Development] markmunsch:
Help please

Hey, new here and needing some help. First time trying to install a custom ROM. I have done everything so far, rooted the phone, downloaded ROM manager, did a clockworkmod recovery, I have the ROM saved on my sd card of my phone, but i CAN NOT get clockworkmod to work in recovery mode. Everytime I boot into recovery mode and hit reinstall packages my phone just reboots. I have tried this process NUMEROUS times, and even tried running the ROM manager and letting it install from SD card from the app and it rebooting into recovery mode with still the same results. It seems that the clockworkrecovery mod does not run once in recovery mode. Can anyone help me? Tried searching for answers and looking through the post but there are 1000s of replies. Thank you from an EXTREMELY frustrated Captivate owner
[Captivate Android Development] KonaZXIII:
Check the few posts above yours. I just went through this.

IIRC, there needs to be an update.zip on the phone's SD card as well as your ROMs zip.
[Captivate Android Development] techmik67:
It sounds like you don't have a good copy of the clockwork update.zip.

When you are in stock recovery (the blue text), if you choose the 2nd option, "reinstall packages", it looks for ANY file named "update.zip" and tries to run it. If you DO have the correct update.zip, it will run it and quickly flash the screen and reboot you to the same stock recovery.

NOW, you choose "reinstall packages" again, and this time it'll boot you to clockwork recovery (green text).

THEN you choose "install zip from sdcard" twice, then scroll to RomYouInstalling

.zip. Remember NOT to pick "run:update.zip" from the green clockwork menu.
[Captivate Android Development] markmunsch:
Help

I have both the update.zip file and the custom ROM zip on there. The flashed clockworkmod recovery file is 2.5.1.2. I have tried manually going into recovery and reinstalling packages, done this MULTIPLE TIMES, it never did work on the SECOND time like everyone says. I have also tried using the install ROM from SD card from the app and it does the same thing. Everytime i click reinstall packages it just reboots my phone, it never goes to any clockworkmod green text screen.

EDIT: Does anyone think that uninstalling ROM manager or deleting the update.zip file and either reinstalling ROM manager or flashing the clockworkmod recovery again that that could fix it?
[Captivate Android Development] delugeofspam:
A few posts back somebody uploaded the correct update.zip file.

If you use that and put it in /sdcard/ it should work on the second "reinstall packages," if not the first. Can you tell what the screen says if it's not actually working? Right before it reboots to the AT&T logo you should see "rebooting in ClockWorkMod Recovery" in yellow text at the bottom.

Or maybe it's white. Idk, I'm using the voodoo kernel now which has red CWM as its default recovery.
[Captivate Android Development] markmunsch:
Help

My guess is that ROM manager isn't creating a correct clockworkmod recovery update.zip file or something, because the phone reboots into recovery mode fine, and then it just reboots the phone when i reinstall packages, so my assumption is that it is not reading a update.zip file even though it is there. I'm going to try to delete that file and either retry flashing it or downloading an update.zip file off of xda here. If this doesn't work I guess I give up and that I'm not meant to have a custom ROM on my captivate.

EDIT: Well by deleting the update.zip file off of the SD card, and re-flashing clockworkmod recovery, it successfully created the update.zip file. I was able to reboot into recovery mode and open clockworkmod recovery, and FINALLY, after 2 days of nothing but problems, was able to flash me a custom ROM :-)
[Captivate Android Development] delugeofspam:
Well that's just stupid. Don't ever give up trying to brick your phone until you have a black screen with a phone, a PC, and an exclamation point between them.

... er, I mean... good luck! :D
[Captivate Android Development] TCGUK:
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong; if it is me. I just got this Captivate a couple days ago after selling my iPhone so go easy on me :) I've been reading and watched a video on installing ROMs. The process is fine up until this point where my phone will not install Clockwork Recovery at all. It never asks for su permission it just hangs for a bit then tells me "An error occurred while downloading your recovery." I don't understand why this is happening or how to fix it. I've seen a few others saying they get that same message but I have yet to see a solution. Help is greatly appreciated.

**Update**

I'm not sure what the problem was but I got it fixed doing this: After wiping and reinstalling 2.1 several times as well as reinstalling ROM Manager, I installed the leaked 2.2 to see if it would help. By doing so I got the ability to enter download and recovery mode via buttons again (a problem I randomly started having earlier but didn't mention). I then flashed 2.1 back on, rooted it, installed ROM Manager, and boom Clockwork installed. Again, I have no idea what caused the problem or what the problem even was but I hope my hours of squirming will help someone else out.
[Captivate Android Development] ewingr:
Easier way to implement for ROM upgrade...

I think this is possible discussed earlier, but I'll post it here again.

Given that I find myself installing a ROM every week or 2, I have done this successfully for implementing CWM.

I have kept my update.zip (attached below). Following is the process:

USB Mount the SD card

Copy the ZIP file to the SD card

Reboot the phone into Recovery mode

Select Reinstall Packages

After it reboots to recovery again, I select Reinstall Packages a second time. (I always have to do it twice)

At this point CWM is installed and ready. If I copied the ROM zip file to the SD card too, I"m ready to upgrade the ROM

I just USB mount my SD card, and copy the zip file to my SD card.

Important: Above is not the complete process for installing a ROM. As the topic here is how to get CWM working, that is all I covered. Be sure to follow instructions for he respective ROM you are installing.
[Captivate Android Development] ewingr:
Never successful restoring a backup from CWM

While I am always successful with CWM and installing a fresh ROM, per my above post, I never have been successful doing a backup, then restore, via ROM Manager / CWM.

I have done the following attempts:

With lagfix on the ROM I'm backing up

I presumed when this didn't work, it was because I did not disable lagfix. NET NET is that I did a backup via Rom Manger; Then later I tried a restore. And upon booting the restored rom, nothing but FCs. Had to start from scratch.

With lag fix disabled

So after the above failure, the next time I tried it, I disabled lagfix first. Same results as above

Complete prep

While my understanding is (apparently incorrectly) that one of the advantages of this is that I could restore from one backup, or another, and switch between ROMS, based on my failure to make it work at all, it doesn't seem to be the case.

Yesterday I did this: I prepared for my restore as I would for a fresh ROM install: Factory Rest; Flashed back to Stock; Clear cache; Clear Devalcek cache; Install CWM from my backed up update.zip file; restored my backed up ROM.

Nothing but FCs.

So what is the proper method? What the heck am I doing wrong for doing a backup?

Any thoughts?
[Captivate Android Development] betadan:
Sorry if i am being a newb here. I updated to rogers 2.2 Rooted with super 1 click. It appears it was successful as i was able to install titanium and busy box and the SU asked for permission. I am trying to install voodoo and when i try to load into CWM i get this:

E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted

I even tried the update.zip from a few posts ago.

Thank you
[Captivate Android Development] ewingr:
I may be wrong, but I think you didn't succeed with the install of the update.zip.

Did you go through it twice, and then did you see the different colored menu, wiht more selections? (Sometimes I see it in RED, sometimes in Yellow. Don't know why the different colors.)
[Captivate Android Development] betadan:
I have installed it from ROM manager multiple times. Even manually placing the update.zip on the root of the internal SD card.

I get the error when it gets to "Verifying update package..."
[Captivate Android Development] rye&ginger:
I'm having the same issue, also with Rogers 2.2. Trying to fix my SD card which is failing it seems.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=907854
[Captivate Android Development] mcord11758:
What build are you on? Stock out ji6?
[Captivate Android Development] betadan:
Build: FROYO.UXJL1
[Captivate Android Development] mcord11758:
Boot into recovery. Is out 2e or 3e? I think your recovery is not going to let you reflash clock work because it is not a signed zip.

You may have to odin back to jf6 then flash what you want. Are you rooted? If so you may be able to swap kernels to one with 2e recovery
[Captivate Android Development] rye&ginger:
Seems like the update requires signed update.zip files? Must be causing the problem.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10493366&postcount=312

'fix' at the link re: the Rogers 2.2 update, but it involves swapping to a different kernel...
[Captivate Android Development] mcord11758:
Did not realize you were on rogers official 2.2 kernel swap is probably only solution
[Captivate Android Development] neotekz:
just updated to the rogers froyo 2.2 too...im a noob and worried about flashing the kernel without any kind of backup but i would like to try the speedmod kernel. are there any other kernels that i should consider?

what is the safest and easiest way to flash a new kernal without using CWM?
[Captivate Android Development] mcord11758:
Check out sgs kernel flasher on market. It is pretty slick, requires root