ROM install Questions from a noob

[ragnarokx]

How are you starting Clockwork?

 

[Tonio21]

I'm have tried to start it by going into ROM manager, I have tried using backup current ROM and from reboot into recovery all in ROM manager. I also tried to start it by holding down the button combination with the phone powered off. It still booted into the regular stock recovery. Am I doing something wrong ?

 

[shaundizzle]

I'm new to this and I was using this thread to help complete the clockwork back up. I got it installed and everything came up ok, when I went to do the back up its been sitting for about 15 minutes now. Black screen, red light on top and all the bottom buttoms are lite on my epic. Should it be taking this long?

the only time ive ever been stuck at that black screen is when i was pushing the "home" button to try and select things in clockwork. make sure you use the camera button to select your options in clockwork

I'm have tried to start it by going into ROM manager, I have tried using backup current ROM and from reboot into recovery all in ROM manager. I also tried to start it by holding down the button combination with the phone powered off. It still booted into the regular stock recovery. Am I doing something wrong ?

did you upload recovery using the one click method on the forum?

http://forum.androidcentral.com/epic-4g-roms-hacks/34603-clockworkmod-recovery-instructions.html

or look for one on xda. i dont remember which one i used. but i think this is a necessary step before doing anything with clockwork on the phone. i think it has something to do with you need a clockwork compatible kernel on your phone. so check that out. and someone correct me if im wrong so i know what this is for

 

[Tonio21]

Oh I figured out what it was. I needed to flash the kernal first (I didn't know). What i used was from the SDX developers site, its like a Swiss army knife for the epic that includes one click root, the superuser.apk, a root uninstaller for DI18, the andromeda kernal and a SDK stock app remover apk. All this is run through simple command line selections.

Ill link it if I can : Epic 4G All in One Root and Recovery 1.13 for Windows, Intel Mac, and Linux

It worked for me, now im running baked snack I think it's called on my epic but will grab epic experience and see what that is like as well. The link you gave, I tried but gave up because it was late and took too many steps.

 

[shaundizzle]

Oh I figured out what it was. I needed to flash the kernal first (I didn't know). What i used was from the SDX developers site, its like a Swiss army knife for the epic that includes one click root, the superuser.apk, a root uninstaller for DI18, the andromeda kernal and a SDK stock app remover apk. All this is run through simple command line selections.

Ill link it if I can : Epic 4G All in One Root and Recovery 1.13 for Windows, Intel Mac, and Linux

It worked for me, now im running baked snack I think it's called on my epic but will grab epic experience and see what that is like as well. The link you gave, I tried but gave up because it was late and took too many steps.

yeah i thought that was your problem. .for some reason a lot of people overlook that major part

 

[amnchode]

Even using the "Swiss Army Knife" of one-clicks, posted above, I keep getting the following while trying to load Clockwork:

* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
Looking for device
Device found in 1 seconds.
Checking current root status and run exploit if necessary

Wait for device continuing when found
Copy and run the exploit... (may take up to two minutes)

42 KB/s (5392 bytes in 0.124s)
[*] CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C

[*] checking NPROC limit ...
[+] RLIMIT_NPROC={3712, 3712}
[*] Searching for adb ...
[+] Found adb as PID 2193
[*] Spawning children. Dont type anything and wait for reset!
[*]
[*] If you like what we are doing you can send us PayPal money to
[*] 7-4-3-C@web.de so we can compensate time, effort and HW costs.
[*] If you are a company and feel like you profit from our work,
[*] we also accept donations > 1000 USD!
[*]
[*] adb connection will be reset. restart adb server on desktop and re-login.

Wait for phone to reconnect
Looking for device
Device found in 6 seconds.

Remove stock recovery patcher
rm failed for /system/etc/install-recovery.sh, No such file or directory
rm failed for /system/recovery-from-boot.p, No such file or directory
Copy kernel and flasher
392 KB/s (313888 bytes in 0.780s)
[B]failed to copy 'zImage' to '/sdcard/zImage': Permission denied[/B]
Flashing clockwork
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1

FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(498): start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
page_msize: 4096, phy_unit_size: 262144
src: /sdcard/zImage
dst: /dev/block/bml8 partition size: 0x780000
part_size: 0x780000
[B]failed to read from /sdcard/zImage (Bad file number)[/B]
Wait 60 seconds for phone reboot
Cleaning up
[B]rm failed for /sdcard/zImage, No such file or directory[/B]

Clockwork Mod Recovery installed successfully.

The items in bold have my attention and I suspect are the issue. Any Ideas?
I should note that the rooting works without issue (Wifi Tether works fine, as well as the SDX tool included in the one click...I get said errors whether rooted or not...

 

[ragnarokx]

Try this alternative method to install Clockwork. It uses a couple .bat files - this is what worked for me.

 

[shaundizzle]

Even using the "Swiss Army Knife" of one-clicks, posted above, I keep getting the following while trying to load Clockwork:

* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
Looking for device
Device found in 1 seconds.
Checking current root status and run exploit if necessary

Wait for device continuing when found
Copy and run the exploit... (may take up to two minutes)

42 KB/s (5392 bytes in 0.124s)
[*] CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C

[*] checking NPROC limit ...
[+] RLIMIT_NPROC={3712, 3712}
[*] Searching for adb ...
[+] Found adb as PID 2193
[*] Spawning children. Dont type anything and wait for reset!
[*]
[*] If you like what we are doing you can send us PayPal money to
[*] 7-4-3-C@web.de so we can compensate time, effort and HW costs.
[*] If you are a company and feel like you profit from our work,
[*] we also accept donations > 1000 USD!
[*]
[*] adb connection will be reset. restart adb server on desktop and re-login.

Wait for phone to reconnect
Looking for device
Device found in 6 seconds.

Remove stock recovery patcher
rm failed for /system/etc/install-recovery.sh, No such file or directory
rm failed for /system/recovery-from-boot.p, No such file or directory
Copy kernel and flasher
392 KB/s (313888 bytes in 0.780s)
[B]failed to copy 'zImage' to '/sdcard/zImage': Permission denied[/B]
Flashing clockwork
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1

FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(498): start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
page_msize: 4096, phy_unit_size: 262144
src: /sdcard/zImage
dst: /dev/block/bml8 partition size: 0x780000
part_size: 0x780000
[B]failed to read from /sdcard/zImage (Bad file number)[/B]
Wait 60 seconds for phone reboot
Cleaning up
[B]rm failed for /sdcard/zImage, No such file or directory[/B]

Clockwork Mod Recovery installed successfully.

The items in bold have my attention and I suspect are the issue. Any Ideas?
I should note that the rooting works without issue (Wifi Tether works fine, as well as the SDX tool included in the one click...I get said errors whether rooted or not...

well it says it installed correctly. go download rom manager>flash clockwork recover>click reboot into recovery - if it takes you to the green recovery your good. if you get stuck at "signature failure" or something like that your not