Guest simonta Posted January 16, 2011 Report Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) Happy Sunday all. I've attached a link to a ZIP file in my Dropbox. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10375731/clockwork...20uninstall.zip I've tested this for an hour or so going through 5 cycles of installing, uninstalling and rebooting. I'm one of the unfortunate ones who, for some reason known only to the magic software pixies, CWM causes BSODs for me. Inside the ZIP files is everything you need to install and uninstall Clockworkmod. This is aimed at those who want to experiment and those who are seeing BSOD with CWM installed. NB. This will do nothing to help if you have BSODs. It is designed to help less experienced folks install CWM and, more importantly, to give a way to remove CWM without rebuilding your machine should you need to. This is for Windows only. I figure that the *Nix crowd don't need help :) 1. Download the ZIP. 2. Unzip. 3. Ensure that your Vega is booted normally with USB Debugging turned on (Settings->Applications->USB Debugging). 4. Ensure that the "Android Debug Bridge" driver or "Android Composite ADB Interface" is loaded in your Device Manager. 5. Run installcwm.bat to install CWM. 6. Run uninstallcwm to remove it. 7. If you uninstall, consider also removing the Recovery app that was installed with mcr6 (Paul's pack). Pressing this without cwm installed will leave you stuck. Contrary to popular opinion, you don't need to reflash to recover from this. Just hold power for at least 8 seconds. Release, then hold power until the backlight comes on. Your Vega will boot normally. That's all folks. Cheers [EDIT] P.S. You can delete the images from /data/local when you're done, they serve no purpose other than to waste memory. If this helps you, and you fancy using Dropbox, you can say thanks by signing up to Dropbox using my referral. The nice people there will give me extra disk space if you do ;) You can sign up using this link: http://db.tt/5u6zhN9 Edited February 14, 2011 by simonta
Guest s.morris Posted January 16, 2011 Report Posted January 16, 2011 THanks simonta Your a star steve
Guest simonta Posted January 16, 2011 Report Posted January 16, 2011 THanks simonta Your a star steve You are most welcome. Please post back with results if you try it. Love your cinema room. Very cosy. What projector are you using? I gave up with this about 5 years ago because I couldn't find a projector that didn't sound like I had a 737 taking off in the garden for under £10K. Is yours quiet? Currently just using a BBT (bloomin big telly ;))
Guest s.morris Posted January 16, 2011 Report Posted January 16, 2011 Thanks simonta It's a JVC HD1, The noise is not to bad, it goes up and down with the heat of the room, Thats why I have air con in there ;) And when you crank the volume up you wouldn't know it was there :) Will let you know when I try it Thanks again Steve
Guest MonkeyBoy451 Posted January 18, 2011 Report Posted January 18, 2011 Have just tried this and didnt think it had worked as I got the following error when flashing: 1167 KB/s (4288512 bytes in 3.588s) 821 KB/s (787448 bytes in 0.936s) flashing recovery from /data/local/cwmrecovery.img mtd: not writing bad block at 0x00340000 Press any key to continue . . . However, ran the recovery app and it rebooted into clockworkmod ok, so fingers crossed everything is fine. ;)
Guest s.morris Posted January 19, 2011 Report Posted January 19, 2011 (edited) Hi simonta Just tried your CWM install bat and all went fine, infact used CWM to install the new e-mail app thats on these forums ;) [EDIT] P.S. You can delete the images from /data/local when you're done, they serve no purpose other than to waste memory. can i now delete this also used your link for Drop Box Thanks again Steve Edited January 19, 2011 by s.morris
Guest simonta Posted January 19, 2011 Report Posted January 19, 2011 Hi simonta Just tried your CWM install bat and all went fine, infact used CWM to install the new e-mail app thats on these forums :) can i now delete this also used your link for Drop Box Thanks again Steve Do you mean is it OK to delete my comment about it being OK to delete the files? ;) Yeh, it's OK to delete. Once flashed, they serve no purpose. Thanks for signing up Dropbox....
Guest .stu Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 Cheers for this - now I got CWM working. I installed it before and it would just stop at the android outside the box screen. I notice that this is version 2.5.1.3, whereas the one I had was 2.5.1.4.
Guest simonta Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 Glad to hear iuninstall. Anyone used it to uninstall?
Guest TeaTimeSoon Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 Oh Dear... I went through three BSODs with the original CWM install method and now tried this way of installing it. - connected with USB debugging on - checked adb devices - Vega found as usual - ran the installcwb.bat file - no errors - rebooted - no errors - recovery boot app (as installed with the pp) - guess what... BSOD Cannot get out of this BSOD (tried hold down power for 8+ seconds, then hold power until backlight comes on - still in BSOD) Assume only way to recover is to once again flash back to stock ROM, install r6 plus pp, re-install all my apps and settings using Titanium Backup. What could possibly be going wrong with this? Am I simply unlucky?
Guest simonta Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 Oh Dear... I went through three BSODs with the original CWM install method and now tried this way of installing it. - connected with USB debugging on - checked adb devices - Vega found as usual - ran the installcwb.bat file - no errors - rebooted - no errors - recovery boot app (as installed with the pp) - guess what... BSOD Cannot get out of this BSOD (tried hold down power for 8+ seconds, then hold power until backlight comes on - still in BSOD) Assume only way to recover is to once again flash back to stock ROM, install r6 plus pp, re-install all my apps and settings using Titanium Backup. What could possibly be going wrong with this? Am I simply unlucky? Just unlucky. Some have CWM working fine, others don't. Can't for the life of me see what's different betweem ostensibly identical bits of kit. Software load/configuration should not affect boot. The method of installing CWM won't help. I just made these batch files to help noobs, but especially for people to be able to uninstall CWM without having to reflash (which you might want to try! ;)) Still waiting to hear if uninstall works for people. It does for me but I know enough to know that means nothing! Cheers
Guest TeaTimeSoon Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) Just reflashed back to stock rom, installed cwm, installed reboot utility using the apk. Guess what - recovery booting into cwm with no problems! Now will install r6 +pp without the recovery boot baked in and see how it goes. I wonder if the people who are not experiencing any issues are using the stand-alone recovery boot app rather than getting the baked in version.. ? Or maybe it worked because I installed cwm before r6 + pp? UPDATE Yup - installed r6 +pp without the baked in recovery boot, cwm still working fine. Maybe others who have been experiencing these issues can try this and maybe.. just maybe.. it will work for them too! Edited January 20, 2011 by TeaTimeSoon
Guest simonta Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 TeaTimeSoon. You might be on to something here. Never got CWM stable. This time around, I install it before Pauls pack and bingo. So far so good! Booted perhaps 15 times and no BSOD. Stock->CWM->mcr6+pp. I've always done Stock->mcr6+pp-CWM before. Still can't see the connection but that's software for you. I'll come back in a few days if still stable. Thanks!
Guest TeaTimeSoon Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 Thanks! You're welcome! Fingers crossed it stays working now.
Guest Graham Macleod Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 I so much want this to work ..... .. but it's not been a good day. I haven't run Clockwork on my Vega since my BSOD in December. Once bitten twice shy. I am very keen to be able to use Nandroid though, so I thought I would give this a try. It didn't start well, the batch file failed with a series of 'out of memory' errors. Unfortunately the messages flashed past and then the window closed (I had started the batch file from windows, not the command prompt). Not to be discouraged I rebooted everything (PC and Vega) and tried again. This time, no problems. Everything installed perfectly. Rebooted into recovery - Clockwork Mod as hoped. Nandroid backup without difficulty. I managed to reboot once into the working software. The second time I ended up with the BSOD. Ouch! So I reflashed the base 1.06 software and used your batch file to re-install clockwork (before adding the modaco rom). No problems, restored from my Nandroid. Then used your program to remove clockwork mod. All successful First reboot fine, second reboot .... BSOD again. This time it took forever to get it back into nvflash mode. Horrible. Endless resets. I was pulling my hair out. I've got it back now but I'm restoring the long way round and it will be a while before I try again with CWM I think :-( Sorry it's not more positive feedback.
Guest simonta Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 Sorry to hear of your bad luck. Did you see the post from TeamTimeSoon. I've had the same results as you but do seem to have found that installing in the order Stock->CWM->mcr6+pp sorts out the BSOD! I also did not intend to imply that the batch file I put together would in anyway help with BSODs. It won't. I've edited the OP to reflect this. If you're flashing anyway, do try the alternative install order.
Guest simonta Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 I've just learned something. In hindsight, it's blindingly obvious so I apologise if this is a yaawn, but might help someone somwhere... I've often wondered what the Vega recovery does. But not for more than about 5 seconds because I don't use it. Well, actually I do. I did the flash in the order above then went to restore using the Vega software tool in settings. The machine rebooted and gave me an error icon suggesting, sorry, can't restore your apps. I pressed back and to my surprise, I was in CWM! Ah, the penny drops. The Vega uses recovery for the app restore! So now I'm a little stuck. I have to have mcr6 before restoring which in turns means no CWM so I'm going try to Titanium->Stock->CWM->mcr6+pp->Titanium. Anyway, point of the post is to let folks know that app restore uses the Vega recovery. Pretty obvious now I write it down but there goes life...
Guest arad85 Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 I've had the same results as you but do seem to have found that installing in the order Stock->CWM->mcr6+pp sorts out the BSOD! Really??? How bizarre. Must admit, I've always done it reverse order so...... How many times you rebooted it?
Guest simonta Posted January 20, 2011 Report Posted January 20, 2011 Really??? How bizarre. Must admit, I've always done it reverse order so...... How many times you rebooted it? Bizarre indeed can't see a connection. Rebooted about 20 times now.
Guest TeaTimeSoon Posted January 21, 2011 Report Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) Are we 100% certain that there is nothing wrong with the recovery boot apk that is being baked into the r6 update? The reason my suggested process of stock->cwm->r6 might be working is that as part of the process I have been installing a different (possibly clean) recovery boot apk whilst it still has the stock rom. I will have a look later at the two apk files to make sure there is no difference. UPDATE: just compared the hash for each apk and they are the same. The mystery continues. My Vega is still booting normally and cwm is available on demand. Edited January 21, 2011 by TeaTimeSoon
Guest arad85 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Posted January 21, 2011 Bizarre indeed can't see a connection. Rebooted about 20 times now. Think I'll let it settle a bit before I try it :lol: It might well explain why some people are seeing a problem and some aren't, BUT the CWM install is doing very little...
Guest Graham Macleod Posted January 21, 2011 Report Posted January 21, 2011 I agree, CWM isn't doing much, but a reliable backup would be so nice. So I've bitten the bullet and tried again - this time the TeaTimeSoon system - Stock, CWM and then Modaco. So far so good (much much better than yesterday) Fingers crossed.
Guest jellywobbles Posted February 13, 2011 Report Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) Thanks simonta, worked a treat for me :D In fact it was so quick, I almost missed it actually doing the job! Really grateful - an inspiration for all those here like me that have been a tad nervous about installing CWM. Its so simple and quick, and CWM really does raise the bar, adding so much more flexibility! Once you have run a NAND backup, you can try just about anything, and easily & quickly restore your backup! Brilliant! Cheers mate :D Edited February 13, 2011 by jellywobbles
Guest simonta Posted February 13, 2011 Report Posted February 13, 2011 Thanks simonta, worked a treat for me :D In fact it was so quick, I almost missed it actually doing the job! Really grateful - an inspiration for all those here like me that have been a tad nervous about installing CWM. Its so simple and quick, and CWM really does raise the bar, adding so much more flexibility! Once you have run a NAND backup, you can try just about anything, and easily & quickly restore your backup! Brilliant! Cheers mate :D Thanks jellywobbles. Made my day.....(and you're very welcome)
Guest jellywobbles Posted February 15, 2011 Report Posted February 15, 2011 Simonta - my 2nd post about your brilliant solution! Mate bought a new Vega - muggins says "I'll add the Modaco mods - no probs - its easy peasy as I have done two already"! WRONG! What a total feckin nightmare! I couldnt in any way boot into recovery mode - must have tried a hundred times! Totally & utterly hacked off & wishing I had kept my big gob shut! Trouble is once you have got the bit between your teeth, its hard to say "I'm beaten"! (Yorkshire pride I think!) Well - maybe it was the rush effects of two cans of Carlsberg Export, but I had a brainwave :D Device manager could see Android Composite ADB interface, so I ran your CWM Utility - BINGO! So quick if I'd blinked I'd have missed it! Downloaded Vega Recovery Boot; copied over r8 - MoDaCo Custom ROM to SD card. Installed Vega Recover Boot - ran CWM and well .. the rest was just euphoria! I don't know what it is about this brand new Vega not being able to get into Recovery? I tried my own again & its easy peasy, but not this new one! So - anyone having issues with getting their Vega into Recovery Mode, use Simonta's neat solution! OK - I know the same could have been achieved by opening a DOS box etc, but this is so elegant & easy! My mate couldnt possibly contemplate running DOS commands, but can work with CWM! One sorry TWO happy bunnies! :D
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