[RECOVERY] ClockworkMod Recovery for the Epic 4g! Permament Method! FINAL! FIXED

[Johnny.Bravo]

B5Z I feel your pain. It took me more than a dozen tries to get CWM to install. What finally did it for me was I rebooted both the phone and the computer right before I tried and it worked. I ran the tryrunfirst and it failed, then I immediately ran tryrunlast and it worked. This is a completely unrelated topic, but if you read through this thread [How To] Return to Stock / Fix Bricked Epic - xda-developers you'll see that even the slightest change can make a difference. Change the USB cable, try a different USB port, reboot the phone and PC. I know its not a definitive "do this and it will work" but a lot of the stuff we do on these phones is like that. If at first you don't succeed, change something and try try again.

[B5Z]

Originally Posted by Johnny.Bravo

B5Z I feel your pain. It took me more than a dozen tries to get CWM to install. What finally did it for me was I rebooted both the phone and the computer right before I tried and it worked. I ran the tryrunfirst and it failed, then I immediately ran tryrunlast and it worked. This is a completely unrelated topic, but if you read through this thread [How To] Return to Stock / Fix Bricked Epic - xda-developers you'll see that even the slightest change can make a difference. Change the USB cable, try a different USB port, reboot the phone and PC. I know its not a definitive "do this and it will work" but a lot of the stuff we do on these phones is like that. If at first you don't succeed, change something and try try again.

Hey I appreciate the post, however, darren.wlsn1 finally had to come to my rescue!! It felt like the more I read the more I got confused, thought I had it a couple of times, then no dice. Was driving me absolutely bunkers. Darren got me hooked up though.....I can tell you one thing, Darren is a patient man! LOL

Thanks again for your post Johnny.Bravo!

[darren.wlsn1]

Originally Posted by B5Z

Hey I appreciate the post, however, darren.wlsn1 finally had to come to my rescue!! It felt like the more I read the more I got confused, thought I had it a couple of times, then no dice. Was driving me absolutely bunkers. Darren got me hooked up though.....I can tell you one thing, Darren is a patient man! LOL

Thanks again for your post Johnny.Bravo!

no im not, i tried to ban you but i couldnt find the button. lol
honestly i love to help cause so many helped me when i was new here and thats really what this site is all about. your a good listener too.

[Johnny.Bravo]

I flashed the Baked Snack 1.3 Hero_Over Rom and then ran the CWM data restore and I lost ADW Launcher. It was there when I first flashed the new ROM, but once I restored my user data its gone. Also missing is the wallpaper that was there right after I flashed. CWM restored the wallpaper I had when I ran the backup, but when I looked for the one that was there before I ran the restore function, its nowhere to be found. Any ideas?

[trilasonet]

My girlfriend just picked up a brand new epic, activated it 2 days ago. I was able to root it with no problem, but when I try to install clockwork Recovery it does not work.

Here is what i get


"one click installer and Clockworkmod Recovery v2.5.1.0 made by noobnl, skeeters
lint, and koush
Press any key to continue . . .
remove stock recovery patcher
mount: Operation not permitted
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
1792 KB/s (313888 bytes in 0.171s)
failed to copy 'zImage' to '/sdcard/zImage': Permission denied
flashing kernel
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1

FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(49: start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
open device file: Permission denied
bmldevice_get_size: bmldevice_open failed!src: /sdcard/zImage
dst: /dev/block/bml8 partition size: 0x0
part_size: 0x0
reboot: Operation not permitted
wait 60 second
cleanup
rm failed for /sdcard/zImage, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin, No such file or direc
tory
rm failed for /data/local/root.sh, No such file or directory
done
Press any key to continue . . ."

[B5Z]

Originally Posted by trilasonet

My girlfriend just picked up a brand new epic, activated it 2 days ago. I was able to root it with no problem, but when I try to install clockwork Recovery it does not work.

Here is what i get


"one click installer and Clockworkmod Recovery v2.5.1.0 made by noobnl, skeeters
lint, and koush
Press any key to continue . . .
remove stock recovery patcher
mount: Operation not permitted
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
1792 KB/s (313888 bytes in 0.171s)
failed to copy 'zImage' to '/sdcard/zImage': Permission denied
flashing kernel
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1

FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(49: start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
open device file: Permission denied
bmldevice_get_size: bmldevice_open failed!src: /sdcard/zImage
dst: /dev/block/bml8 partition size: 0x0
part_size: 0x0
reboot: Operation not permitted
wait 60 second
cleanup
rm failed for /sdcard/zImage, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin, No such file or direc
tory
rm failed for /data/local/root.sh, No such file or directory
done
Press any key to continue . . ."

Try it again, but this time try it from a different usb port...this worked for some people.

[trilasonet]

one click installer and Clockworkmod Recovery v2.5.1.0 made by noobnl, skeeters
lint, and koush
Press any key to continue . . .
remove stock recovery patcher
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
mount: Operation not permitted
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
1630 KB/s (313888 bytes in 0.188s)
failed to copy 'zImage' to '/sdcard/zImage': Permission denied
flashing kernel
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1

FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(49: start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
open device file: Permission denied
bmldevice_get_size: bmldevice_open failed!src: /sdcard/zImage
dst: /dev/block/bml8 partition size: 0x0
part_size: 0x0
reboot: Operation not permitted
wait 60 second
cleanup
rm failed for /sdcard/zImage, Permission denied
rm failed for /data/local/root.sh, No such file or directory
done
Press any key to continue . . .



Still not able to get this working. Made sure all drivers are installed, everything looks proper. Changing ports didn't work.

I even flashed it back to Factory Rom using Odin, and didn't get anywhere.

What info can I get for you to help me troubleshoot?

[gTen]

2 things...

1) is the sd sdcard mounted or not?

2) you ran both run-try-first and run-try-last?

[trilasonet]

Yes, the SD card is mounted using the USB Debugging, connecting it to the computer, and then selecting "MOUNT" on the droid phone.

and yes, i tried both first and last.

[trilasonet]

Tried it on my other 64bit windows 7 computer. same result.

Phone stats

M# SPH-D700
Firmware 2.1-update 1
DI07
Kernel 2.6.29
Hardware version D700.0.5