Root Can't get CWM Recovery to stick

[brownbob06]

I've flashed it three times, correctly, with Odin. When I boot the phone into recovery for the first time it's CWM, but after that it goes back to stock...

The last time I loaded everything on the SD card (ROM and GAPPS) flashed them via CWMR and when my phone finally started up it was back to stock ROM, but I can't get into my Google account. On the setup page it allows me to do Backup assistant, but will only reply to "skip" instead of "next" on the Google setup page....I'm frustrated now :/

 

[lightningdude]

Clockworkmod recovery gets written over if you let the phone boot all the way. When you flash the recovery, before it gets a chance to fully boot up, either use the 3-finger method, or if you're not fast enough, do a battery pull. Once in the correct recovery, you must flash a rom that has root.

That is, unless you are able to root before you flash the recovery, but the guides that are around are either unreliable, or the right ones are hard to find. What I would recommend is to flash a GeeWiz rom, which is simply stripped down stock, and you can get it over on XDA.

Oh, and you need to make sure you're using the correct version of the CWR. There's a few floating around, but the one I flash is called, "cwm4-bml-i500.tar" look around, and I'm sure you can find it.

 

[brownbob06]

the version I'm flashing is CWM3_voodoo-blue.tar.5

Maybe it's a bad version, but it's supposed to give me root access. I boot into recovery everytime I'm done flashing, and I have superuser in me apps so I thought I was flashed, I'll need to use terminal emulator to make sure though correct?

Also, the 3rd time I tried it I flashed the CM 7.2.0 KANG rom and it still booted into stock rom...

 

[brownbob06]

I also wish Devs would stop using mediafire to host ROM downloads...both I have tried downloading from there download EXTREMELY slow...like 25-50kb/s slow lol

 

[brownbob06]

got it!

I used the CWM version you said to use, booted into CWM, flashed the ROM I mentioned earlier and all is well. thanks!

 

[dbmpub]

I've flashed it three times, correctly, with Odin. When I boot the phone into recovery for the first time it's CWM, but after that it goes back to stock...

I have the exact same problem. I rooted stock Gingerbread per Section 5 of this XDA post: [GUIDE] Installing a Rom/CWM recovery/Root or going back to Stock - xda-developers using Odin and cwm-recovery-ALL.tar as recommended. Everything worked perfectly, booted into CWM recovery the first time and successfully installed superuser. The phone works fine, but now whenever I try to boot to CWM recovery I get the stock blue recovery <3e>. I'm pretty new to all this - what am I doing wrong? Do I need the other CWM version or is there something about the stock rom that overwrites it? Thanks in advance!

 

[brownbob06]

Hang on just a few minutes and I'll try to get you links for everything I used to get it to finally work.

 

[brownbob06]

Just do a google search cwm4-bml-i500.tar, flash that to your phone using Odin, I used this ROM: SKANG-A-LANG-A-LANG!!! [ROM][SKANG]Cyanogenmod7 KANG build: FASCINATE - xda-developers and uploaded it the first time I booted CWM and all was well.

after that I was running the ROM. MUCH better than stock too btw lol, youll notice as soon as it starts booting lol.

 

[lightningdude]

Glad I could help. Now that you're free, you can try many other roms. I'm currently running MIUI 2.1.6 and I love it. CM9 is in beta stages, CM7 is still being kanged, and MIUI ICS is being worked on right now.

 

[brownbob06]

Where did you find MIUI 2.1.6? I can only find 1.x.x on rootz wiki

 

[dbmpub]

Thanks for the link! I just figured since I'm new to this I'd start by taking the simplest route by rooting the stock rom rather than flashing a new one, knowing full well that I'd probably end up flashing a new one eventually for the performance improvement...but also because I didn't want to have to reinstall all my apps again -- am I correct that anything not on the sd card gets wiped when you flash a new rom? Do either of you think that cwm4-bml-i500.tar will work with the stock rom?

Lightningdude - I'm a little confused about the circumstances under which CWM gets written over when booting all the way - can you explain that a little more?

I'm about to head to NYC and Chicago and have to have the phone for the trip, so I'm a little leery flashing anything and possibly bricking it before I go, so I will probably wait until I get back to try any of this. Thanks to you both for the help!

 

[lightningdude]

MIUI 2.1.6 can be found here.

As for how CWR gets written over on boot, I can't really say for certain. I'm not a developer and haven't looked that far. All I know is what I've been told by someone else.

Btw, it's next to impossible to brick this phone, as there's almost always a way to odin back to stock, but you can soft brick it, which is where it's unusable until you odin it.