[HOWTO] ROOT, Install ClockworkMod Touch Recovery & get into Download Mode for newbie
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Installing ClockworkMod Recovery
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites:
(optional) Upgrade to Touch Recovery
Download Mode
You wont be needing unless you want to return the phone completely back to stock, or if you screw-up so badly that CWR no longer works for you this is a good safety net to go back to stock.
Prerequisites:
To Odin the phone back to stock
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Installing ClockworkMod Recovery
Prerequisites:
- get CWRecovery.tar from here
- get Odin 1.85 from here
- launch Odin from your PC
- flash recovery.tar as PDA in Odin
- when completed Odin will reboot your phone
- turn the phone off again
- remove the USB cable
- use left hand thumb to hold on down vol+ & vol- and hit the power button
- you've got ClockworkMod Recovery working!
Prerequisites:
- T989 must be rooted already
- Download ClockworkMod ROM Manager https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.rommanager
- Download Touch Recovery for Samsung T-Mobile GalaxyS2 from ClockworkMod ROM Manager
recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.3-hercules.zip
md5 checksum = 7b7d034bccefd9d0f08e7f282619c183
- run ROM Manager from the Apps Drawer
- grant super user permission to ROM Manager
- select Flash ClockworkMod Recovery
- you'll be prompted to select the phone model, choose Samsung T-Mobile GalaxyS2
- it take a few seconds or minutes to download and install Recovery to your phone
- you might get prompted to grant super user permission to ROM Manager again
- click OK on the successful message
(optional) Upgrade to Touch Recovery
- reboot into Recovery
- select mounts and storage
- select mount USB storage
- then drag and drop the file recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.3-hercules.zip from your PC to your phone
- when the file is done copying, back on the phone side select Unmount from the Recovery menu
- select Go Back
- select install zip from sdcard
- select choose zip from sdcard
- select recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.3-hercules.zip
- select yes to install recovery touch
- done!, enjoy the new touch recovery
Download Mode
You wont be needing unless you want to return the phone completely back to stock, or if you screw-up so badly that CWR no longer works for you this is a good safety net to go back to stock.
Prerequisites:
- Get and Install the USB drivers directly from Samsung website http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-T989ZKBTMB
click on "Software" tab
select the one listed as "Device(Install),Tethering (Software)"
- turn off the phone
- wait for the green battery to show up
- use left hand thumb to hold on down vol+ & vol-
NOTE: Telus SGH-T989D only requires vol- - plug in USB cable
- wait until it shows the Warning!! screen
- then hit vol up to confirm, then it'll let you continue into the Download Mode
To Odin the phone back to stock
- Download Odin (if you don't already have a copy already)
- Download a stock ROM matching your phone model listed in the INDEX page http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1324517
- boot into Download Mode as shown above
- then flash the stock ROM using Odin
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