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Doctoror said:
I have news - guy at Russian forum just got into recovery with his C811
Read updated instructions and tell me if you have any luck!

http://androidforums.com/commando-4g-lte-all-things-root/737243-root-3.html#post6260221
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I've tried rebooting and holding down and randomly pressing the button combos, and no luck so far...

Maybe forcing the phone to reboot to that special menu through adb or an app (like RJGLenn did) is the way to go. I see a lot of reboot to recovery apps on the playstore, but am hesitant to risk wiping the phone to test them.
 
For me real issue is not rebooting to stock recovery with install zip updates option. The problem is having a reliable cwm recovery, and to be sure about our phone bootloader is not locked, because if so you gonna brick your phone right away just flashing a non stock recovery.

I just want to flash custom recovery and to make a nandroid, that's it. There is an application named recovery tools in play store, so you could flash any recovery, custom or stock from OS, it means once you flash custom recovery just adb reboot recovery and enjoy. Obviously you must be root to do this.
 
space_cat said:
I've tried rebooting and holding down and randomly pressing the button combos, and no luck so far...

Maybe forcing the phone to reboot to that special menu through adb or an app (like RJGLenn did) is the way to go. I see a lot of reboot to recovery apps on the playstore, but am hesitant to risk wiping the phone to test them.
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You can "adb reboot recovery" actually. But if you are on Windows then adb woun't see the device. On Linux it works.
 
I used ADB to call recovery yesterday on my phone after the debacle with the non-verizon SIM db settings. Of course it wiped it, but the recovery that I went in to was the same one that I found when I used root tool box, the one with the extra menu items, but no back up or restore.
 
rjglenn said:
I used ADB to call recovery yesterday on my phone after the debacle with the non-verizon SIM db settings. Of course it wiped it, but the recovery that I went in to was the same one that I found when I used root tool box, the one with the extra menu items, but no back up or restore.
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Try to flash cwm-ca201l-signed.zip from the archive.
You should end up with CWM.
Caution: one guy flashed both cwm and root from the archive. He now uses CWM but every ROM or backup of ROM he flashed bootloops. I suspect the bootloops started because he flashed root while he was on a stock ROM (by mistake).


The guy that sold me rooted C811 with CWM made it the way I said in a post on third page of this forum.

So flashing just a recovery zip must work and not cause any problems. If you're not afraid you can try flash it. But I don't advise if you don't want to risk. I am not responsible of any damage.
 
Doctoror said:
Try to flash cwm-ca201l-signed.zip from the archive.
You should end up with CWM.
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As tempting as that sounds, I'm good. I've pretty much bricked two of these, and almost a third. Although I really appreciate the contributions that you and motumbo have given this community I'm going to hold off going any further.

Yes, I'm scared...:afraid:
 
Doctoror said:
Try to flash cwm-ca201l-signed.zip from the archive.
You should end up with CWM.
Caution: one guy flashed both cwm and root from the archive. He now uses CWM but every ROM or backup of ROM he flashed bootloops. I suspect the bootloops started because he flashed root while he was on a stock ROM .
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I rooted in stock rom, so you mean every cwm backup I make will end up when I flash it in bootloops?
 
motumbo said:
I rooted in stock rom, so you mean every cwm backup I make will end up when I flash it in bootloops?
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I mean he flashed both cwm_ca201l-signed.zip and root_ca201l-signed.zip on stock C811 and he ended up in bootloops.

I suspect the root zip was the cause, not the cwm. But I'm not sure.
 
So you're saying just flash the cwm zip and nothing else; or do you mean just follow the instructions on the third post, minus the root zip. I managed to into the recovery menu last night, but it didn't recognize my internal storage only the external sd. So I couldn't follow the procedure from post 3 and nearly bricked my phone. I'm hesitant to try again without very specific instructions and some level of confidence that it will work....
 
elderlypunk said:
So you're saying just flash the cwm zip and nothing else; or do you mean just follow the instructions on the third post, minus the root zip.
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I mean try CWM and nothing else and see if
1) ROM still boots okay
2) You can get into CWM.

If it does boot okay, you can try the following the instructions from a guy that rooted it for me.

1) Backup your current ROM to external storage.
2) Then flashinitialization_410_tool.zip.
3) Then if key combination for recovery still not working, flash cwm recovery again. Flashing it above initialization tool should set proper key combination working.
4) When you got initialization_tool you can safely flash root.zip

If you're not scared of possible bootloops and dealing with them.
I'm still not sure if just flashing root above stock caused bootloops for that guy, or was it cwm (but it shouldn't - for me it works).
I will try to help you if anything goes wrong. But I don't guarantee I will solve any problem and I'm not responsible for any bricks.

elderlypunk said:
So I couldn't follow the procedure from post 3 and nearly bricked my phone.
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What do you mean you nearly bricked it? Booting to a recovery and not doing anything will not cause bricks.
 
I'm traveling now in Chile, by the way phone working perfectly in Entel network, and this phone is my daily driver now since I sold my s4 active past week, so I will try flashing stuff when I got another phone as backup.
 
Ok. flashed cwm easily using Flashify app from play store.

Brief Tutorial

1. Install Flashify from play store
2. Open Flashify and select backup recovery and make a backup of your stock recovery.
3. Extract recovery.img from Doctoror's zip file named ca-201l_cwm_signed.zip
4. Go back to Flashify and select Flash Recovery image, pick up option choose a file and then navigate to wherever you extracted recovery.img in step 3
5. Once Flashify finishes flashing CWM recovery, push menu three dot button and select reboot recovery.
6. Enjoy your custom recovery. You can make backups and restore them successfully. I tried both myself.

Only thing we're missing now to have an "unbrickable" phone is a recovery key combo. I've tried different combinations and it does not boot to recovery. If somebody has better ideas about this please let us know.

@Doctoror
I am tempted to just restore your C811 Fixed nandroid without flashing stock korean. Do you believe I'm gonna end up with your recovery key combo?
 
I deleted the default home app, so i had to go through some gyrations to get it to boot. I just used flashify like motumbo recommended, and now have cwm with no problem! Had to wipe cache and dalvik, but everything is fine. Already had root, just wanted recovery, so this is great! Thanks to you and motumbo and everyone else who worked on this!
 
motumbo said:
Only thing we're missing now to have an "unbrickable" phone is a recovery key combo. I've tried different combinations and it does not boot to recovery. If somebody has better ideas about this please let us know.
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I have found that turning the phone on holding the power putton, volume up and tactical key down while the phone boots all the way through the verizon logo/jingle will cause it to reboot into recovery. That being said, it won't be very helpful with a brick.

What's going to be cool is that in a bit when VZW releases an update there will be posts for people wanting to go back to stock to get the update.
 
motumbo said:
Only thing we're missing now to have an "unbrickable" phone is a recovery key combo. I've tried different combinations and it does not boot to recovery. If somebody has better ideas about this please let us know.

@Doctoror
I am tempted to just restore your C811 Fixed nandroid without flashing stock korean. Do you believe I'm gonna end up with your recovery key combo?
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I don' think so. But you can try.
Also, my C811 backup has some stock apps deleted and so glove mode crashes when launching phone / contacts. I will fix that soon.

The 100% working way to make key combo work is
1) backup your rom
2) flash initialization_410_tool.zip (caution: you will be unrooted and stock recovery)
3) boot in it
4) flash cwm_ca201l-signed.zip and root_ca201l-signed.zip
5) You should be rooted and combo working.
6) Reboot to system / back to recovery and restore your ROM.
 
Doctoror said:
1) Download backup of C811 ROM and extract it to /mnt/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup/ (External Storage)
13) Go to recovery again (must now work with steps 3 - 4 (no random buttons)), choose "backup restore" -> "restore from external sdcard" -> And choose C811_fixed

You should end up with C811 rooted firmware.
That firmware has my "C811 Hidden Menu" app that you should use to enable incoming calls.
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Doctoror, you are my ******* hero, did you know that? This saved my phone!

Edit: It's still borked... I guess I damaged the kernal
 
Doctoror said:
Try to flash cwm-ca201l-signed.zip from the archive.
You should end up with CWM.
Caution: one guy flashed both cwm and root from the archive. He now uses CWM but every ROM or backup of ROM he flashed bootloops. I suspect the bootloops started because he flashed root while he was on a stock ROM (by mistake).
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Was there a resolution to this? This is where I am now.
 
No one has said, probably not. There are some folks on another thread working on an update.zip for the CWM recovery, but no link has been posted yet. That will be the way to get this done because you will be able to flash root from recovery.
 
For those who used UnlockRoot to root your commando and now after the 4.1.2 update won't work, try "motochopper". Google it since I'm not sure on how this forum feels about links to other forums.

I can send you the link via PM if need be.

I used this method and regained root after I did a factory reset after my update to 4.1.2
 
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