[GUIDE] CWRecovery for MAC Users

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chrisw27 said:

I actually had to use a bit of both of your posts to get mine working. These are the steps I followed:

Copy zImage to the root folder of your SD Card
Open Terminal
$ cd (path to android sdk)/tools
$ ./adb push (path to redband_ua)/redbend_ua /data/local
$ ./adb shell
$ cd /data/local/tmp
$ chmod 0755 rage.bin
$ ./rage.bin

(username)$ ./adb shell
# mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system
# cd /data/local
# chmod 755 redbend_ua
# ./redbend_ua restore /sdcard/zImage /dev/block/bml7
--Phone Reboots--
$ ./adb shell
$ su
# cd /data/local
# ./redbend_ua restore /sdcard/zImage /dev/block/bml8

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Gitykins said:

Clockwork is recovery. It doesn't affect anything ota. And you wont have to use odin for messing up cwm unless you're a complete idiot.

Posted from my SCH-I500 (Samsung Fascinate with Voodoo @ 1200 MHz)

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DeezNotes said:

The instructions in the sticky say to follow the instructions in the readme.txt file in the .zip - as stated by the OP, the instructions in here are missing a few key things that would keep people from worrying during installation. The [Mac] information in the sticky should be updated with instructions from this post.

All the instructions provided helped with my installation, but I ran into an issue I didn't see posted anywhere.

Here are the steps I used:

Code:

[mac] $ cd <sdk_path>
[mac] $ ./adb push <zip_path>/redbend_ua /data/local/
[mac] $ ./adb push <zip_path>/zImage /sdcard/
[mac] $ ./adb shell
[adb] $ su
[adb] # cd /data/local
[adb] # chmod 755 redbend_ua
[adb] # ./redbend_ua restore /sdcard/zImage /dev/block/bml7

*** At this point, the phone screen goes black and says "System updated. Rebooting.." and the phone reboots.

What went different for me after this point is I had to disconnect the phone from the USB port to get it to be recognized by the SDK/adb. When I did get it to recognize, once I got into the shell adb would freeze and I couldn't type the last command. I rebooted the phone, tried different USB ports, restarted the SDK... same... adb would just freeze up and I couldn't type anything. When I run ./adb devices, it seems the phone disconnects itself after a while which is very strange.

From that point I just used the Terminal Emulator app to type the last few commands directly from the phone:

Code:

[term] $ su
[term] # cd /data/local
[term] # ./redbend_ua restore /sdcard/zImage /dev/block/bml8

Then the phone reboots again like it did the first time.

After this last command it seems my phone can keep its adb connection to the SDK again, which is good.

Thanks to everyone who put the instructions together. I didn't really have a need for Clockworkmod up to this point, but seeing as how the updates are taking forever to come from Samsung/Verizon I'd rather get some of these annoying bugs fixed myself instead of waiting until 2012 for a fix.

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mbucks911 said:

I am familiar with adb and did everything just as you said but after the first reboot it rebooted into recovery and now I am stuck in recovery. Any idea how to fix this without Odin? Or if Odin must be used any way without wiping all data? Thx for the method though I only blame myself

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