Clockwork Recovery Disappeared?

[zzzvariety]

Newbie here that created a mess, and just want to reinstall 2.3 or to go back to 2.2, but after 6 hours of research and tinkering, still has no idea how.

I installed Gingerbread 2.3.3 because I thought it may get the GPS to work better (at all). It worked, but in the meantime, 1/4 of the programs force quit before even opening fully, the phone radio wouldn't turn on for 8 hours today, etc.

I believed I had correct instructions on how to reinstall Gingerbread from my Mac, but it requires ClockworkMod, which was somehow damaged to the point where ROM Manager says I have 2.5.1.2 but when I try to reboot it in that Clockwork, it gives me Android's default reboot page and error -- blue lettering on top, yellow on bottom.

Worse, I read a post DRockstar saying that Gingerbread will no longer work with a one-click-root program.

Please someone help me get a normal phone back. I just messed it up trying to get it to do all that was advertised. Please talk to me as if I'm no tech genius, and I'm on a Mac.

If I can talk to someone on skype or the phone and pay or bow to them to walk me through all this, I'd MUCH appreciate it.

...more details below if you need it.

I went to ROM Manager to try and open Clockwork Recovery and work from a backup, but although it recognizes Clockwork 2.5.1.2, when I reboot into Recovery, nothing shows up. Also weird is that when I click "Flash ColokworkMod Recovery" it no longer gives Epic 4G as an option, but instead gives only "Galaxy S i9000" and "Galaxy S i9000 (MTD)"

I used the awesome Epic All In One Root Recovery, and while it rooted my phone, it didn't help re-install Clockwork in a way my Epic recognizes it.

I did a renaming trick of Clockwork Mod to get it to be 3.0, so although it says I have 2.5, it's really 3.0. I know it worked, because it's how I installed Gingerbread.

I deleted a whole bunch of bloatware, which I think is what's causing a lot of the problems, but I did it all from the wiki of what was said to be ok to remove. I do have individual backups of those, as instructed.

Firmware
2.3.3

Kernel version
2.6.35.7

Build number
Gingerbread.ee03

 

[Sarcoptic]

Just odin back to Ec05...this will put your phone back to factory specs including the recovery...from here you can have fresh start...one click with 3.0.2.5. Also I am pretty sure rom manager still doesn't like our phones so stay away from it

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[zzzvariety]

thanks, Sarcoptic, but I don't know what that means, though I read about Odin often, and read I can't do it with a Mac. I've tried VMware, but it tells me my hard drive (virtual) is too small. I tried "heimdall-frontend" for Mac, and after going through the lengthy install program, it won't open.

Can you point me to a step-by-step way to do what you're talking about?

 

[ZiggSVO]

thanks, Sarcoptic, but I don't know what that means, though I read about Odin often, and read I can't do it with a Mac. I've tried VMware, but it tells me my hard drive (virtual) is too small. I tried "heimdall-frontend" for Mac, and after going through the lengthy install program, it won't open.

Can you point me to a step-by-step way to do what you're talking about?

http://forum.androidcentral.com/epi...68-how-factory-restore-fix-bricked-phone.html

Have you checked that link?

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Heimdall no longer works with froyo and above. You may be able to use ginger root to get clockwork mod back on there. flashable ReEFS will then be able to install unrooted ec05 with clockwork 2.5.

 

[zzzvariety]

hey ZiggSeVO

I did try that link, yes. Heimdal isn't working on my computer, and as Andrew mentioned, it isn't working on Gingerbread now. Argh.

Can anyone tell me what Sarcoptic means by saying:

Just odin back to Ec05...this will put your phone back to factory specs including the recovery...from here you can have fresh start...one click with 3.0.2.5. Also I am pretty sure rom manager still doesn't like our phones so stay away from it

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

hey ZiggSeVO

I did try that link, yes. Heimdal isn't working on my computer, and as Andrew mentioned, it isn't working on Gingerbread now. Argh.

Can anyone tell me what Sarcoptic means by saying:

You're going to need a Windows PC then. Odin is a Windows only program.

 

[zzzvariety]

I give up! Whom can I hire to have someone talk this through with me on the phone? This is really a nightmare, trying to move forward and only understanding about half of what I'm doing along the way.

Please contact me privately, asap, and we'll work out a fair compensation to talk me through how to get out of Gingerbread hell and back to 2.2 using my Mac or a friend's PC, if necessary. I've literally spent dozens of hours on something that would take you about a dozen minutes. For update as to my next guess, please see this thread.

 

[qbking77]

I give up! Whom can I hire to have someone talk this through with me on the phone? This is really a nightmare, trying to move forward and only understanding about half of what I'm doing along the way.

Please contact me privately, asap, and we'll work out a fair compensation to talk me through how to get out of Gingerbread hell and back to 2.2 using my Mac or a friend's PC, if necessary. I've literally spent dozens of hours on something that would take you about a dozen minutes. For update as to my next guess, please see this thread.

Check your PM

 

[zzzvariety]

Hiring: Need to Your Help ASAP

I give up! My phone barely works now, won't even recognize my clockworkmod so I can work on this.

Can I hire you to talk through getting rid of Gingerbread, reverting to 2.2 and with me on the phone? This is really a nightmare, trying to move forward and only understanding about half of what I'm doing along the way.

Please contact me privately, asap, and we'll work out a fair compensation to talk me through how to get out of Gingerbread hell and back to 2.2 using my Mac or a friend's PC, if necessary. Hopefully there's time also to then move onto 2.3 and get SyndicateROM Frozen, but at this point I'll deal with the crappy GPS and battery just to have a functioning phone again.

I've literally spent dozens of hours on something that would take you about a dozen minutes. For update as to my next guess, please see this thread.

 

[qbking77]

I give up! My phone barely works now, won't even recognize my clockworkmod so I can work on this.

Can I hire you to talk through getting rid of Gingerbread, reverting to 2.2 and with me on the phone? This is really a nightmare, trying to move forward and only understanding about half of what I'm doing along the way.

Please contact me privately, asap, and we'll work out a fair compensation to talk me through how to get out of Gingerbread hell and back to 2.2 using my Mac or a friend's PC, if necessary. Hopefully there's time also to then move onto 2.3 and get SyndicateROM Frozen, but at this point I'll deal with the crappy GPS and battery just to have a functioning phone again.

I've literally spent dozens of hours on something that would take you about a dozen minutes. For update as to my next guess, please see this thread.

Check your PM

 

[Sarcoptic]

Don't pay someone...its in the post about rescuing a bricked phone. Grab the odin software and the ec05 tar file. Head to your friends house with the pc. Use the instructions listed in the brick thread. If sucessful you will be to all factory spec phone including the original samsung recovery.

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[nmoreman]

zzzvariety,
Stop, slow down and breathe - you are on panic mode.

You have two of the best offering you how to help above, you posted in between the offer to help.

Download the files they recommend, especially on how to fix bricked phone, but on drive and go to friends
house, upload, it won't hurt their computer and you can remove all, then do what they say.

It is virtually impossible to brick this phone (trust me, I have done worse), so read and listen to them, it will work, you will learn and then if it happens again (and it probably will if you keep flashing), you will know how
to fix yourself.
It actually is rewarding when you figure it out, and yes, I have spent the same hours trying to undo mine.

 

[Paul627g]

+1 on the calm down and regroup. I would definately go the route of using a friends PC to work Odin. Things can be done on MAC but they are harder and almost all of the rooting/hacking community tools/apps are written using PC since that is most common.

Any more questions after you get rolling at a friends on a PC just hit me up.

 

[zzzvariety]

Hey folks,

I got a some awesome responses for help, so I think I'm ok for now, thanks so much. This community rocks.

 

[zzzvariety]

btw, thanks to Sarcoptic, nmoreman, Paul627g and others in this thread. In a world where the phone should just come pre-packaged to do the cool things you've developed, you really reach out and try to help the ignorant.

I look forward to fixing this today, and coming back smiling wider