cwm stuck at "restoring system..." what to do

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i was recovering my stock rom from imilka's aosp v08 but than it stuck at recovering system.. it says that an hour allready.. i dont know what to do cause i dont want to brick my device please help!

Originally Posted by benpontiac

i was recovering my stock rom from imilka's aosp v08 but than it stuck at recovering system.. it says that an hour allready.. i dont know what to do cause i dont want to brick my device please help!

You using CWMR to restore the stock rom ? Or using the Abyss 4.2 Touch Kernel having Redpill recovery ?

well i dont exactly know the name but its the blue menu thing which you boot in

cwm based recovery version 5.0.2.7 it says

Originally Posted by benpontiac

well i dont exactly know the name but its the blue menu thing which you boot in

Here is the deal since you already started the restore in normal CWM recovery: Reboot your phone in recovery using the three button combo (volume up+power+home) keep pressing on them for more than 10 seconds..

You're either lucky and get to reboot back to recovery or your phone get bricked..

Though I think you'll boot back to recovery, seems like the first case of restoring backup when the first try restores the boot.img but when you reboot to recovery and try again the restore will go through this time because you already restores the kernel..

Wish yourself luck..

well i am in clockwork mod recovery v5.8.1.5 now what should i do now? recover using the backup i made ?

Originally Posted by benpontiac

well i am in clockwork mod recovery v5.8.1.5 now what should i do now? recover using the backup i made ?

So the reboot worked! Good

Now try again to restore your backup you tried to restore earlier, it should restore normally this time..

heey yeah thanks man!!! it worked, i was so scared i would have bricked my device.
can you tell me what i did wrong? so i can prevent this mistake next time? :P

Don't attempt a restore on ICS repack kernels again. You were lucky this time

Originally Posted by benpontiac

heey yeah thanks man!!! it worked, i was so scared i would have bricked my device.
can you tell me what i did wrong? so i can prevent this mistake next time? :P

You did nothing wrong apart from restoring with the CWM recovery. Its based on leaked ICS kernels and hence we suggest to flash the Abyss 4.2 touch kernel with redpill recovery (which is a GB kernel) and rebooting recovery and doing all the restoring through that to bypass the shaky nature of the CWM recovery that comes in the ICS roms.

@Mat...thanks bro for pitching in the right time. Meeting is boring...so back here again lol