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[Q] CWM Signature Verification Error?

When I try to flash CWM, I get a signature verification fail error. I replaced the recovery binary but it still won't work.
I am using this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139326
Does anyone know a fix for this?

The link is broken... Have tried to Odin one of Dr Honk's kernels?
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The link is working again. It looks like that kernel needs adb to access recovery, which I haven't been able to get to work. Do you have any other ideas?

Eraser310 said:
The link is working again. It looks like that kernel needs adb to access recovery, which I haven't been able to get to work. Do you have any other ideas?
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you just trying to get it into recovery? If so, do you have the Android software developer kit (SDK) installed? The SDK includes the adb binary. Download it, install it, then open a command prompt, cd to the 'platform-tools' directory where the SDK installed, insure your phone is on & plugged in via USB, and issues the command: adb reboot recovery.
If I'm off-base with what you're trying to accomplish, my apologies.

Eraser310 said:
When I try to flash CWM, I get a signature verification fail error. I replaced the recovery binary but it still won't work.
I am using this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139326
Does anyone know a fix for this?
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Don't use a KFx rom, the KF1 and KF2 versions of Gingerbread were really buggy and will give you more trouble than they're worth. You're better off flashing Octane, Valhalla or ICBINB which get updated frequently.

FBis251 said:
Don't use a KFx rom, the KF1 and KF2 versions of Gingerbread were really buggy and will give you more trouble than they're worth. You're better off flashing Octane, Valhalla or ICBINB which get updated frequently.
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Which also means that you need to flash a KG4 leak or newer for the proper GB bootloaders. If not, you'll get a rainbow screen.

Similar Problem
Hey Guys,
I had a similar problem. I am using Fire Expert to overwrite the new recovery to the \system\bin folder. However, I realized my mistake was that I did not mount as r/w. After I did that though and I held the volume up, down and power, I stay stuck at the initial splash screen and can't go into the stock recovery screen. I can't boot regularly either; I have to Odin recover. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

apodictic said:
Hey Guys,
I had a similar problem. I am using Fire Expert to overwrite the new recovery to the \system\bin folder. However, I realized my mistake was that I did not mount as r/w. After I did that though and I held the volume up, down and power, I stay stuck at the initial splash screen and can't go into the stock recovery screen. I can't boot regularly either; I have to Odin recover. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Overwriting the old recovery and putting the update.zip file on the sdcard for CWM Final was for Froyo ROMs only, not Gingerbread (GB) ones. What ROM are you currently on?
In order to get into recovery since flashing the GB boot loaders I have to:
Power off the phone
Hold down Volume Up, Volume Down, and the Power button
When the Galaxy S screen comes on, wait a second, it'll get a tad bit brighter. When that happens let go of only the Power button
Wait a few seconds and you should be in recovery
Sounds like you might be a bit goofed at this point, though. If you were on GB before I'd suggest using one of the ROMs in bhundven's The KJ6 Heimdall One-Click Collection. The last one in the list will also give you root, CWM, and voodoo lagfix.

Hey. Thanks for the quick reply.
I am currently on Froyo, Kernal version 2.6.32.9.
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apodictic said:
Hey. Thanks for the quick reply.
I am currently on Froyo, Kernal version 2.6.32.9.
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Weird. All you should have to do is put the updated recovery in /system/bin & put the update.zip on the root of the sdcard.
What is the current state of the phone? I know in the previous post you said you would have to use ODIN to recover. Did you do that?

Yes I did use Odin to recover. I did it following the link provided in the sgs4g 10 commandments. This is the second time I recovered. After I recovered he first time, I tried the process again and the same thing happened: stuck at the initial splash screen.
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apodictic said:
Yes I did use Odin to recover. I did it following the link provided in the sgs4g 10 commandments. This is the second time I recovered. After I recovered he first time, I tried the process again and the same thing happened: stuck at the initial splash screen.
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Which step in the 10 Commandments did you follow to recover in ODIN?
What's the current status of the phone?

This is the Odin tutorial I used.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759
Also, I am not too sure what you mean by the current state/status of my phone.
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apodictic said:
This is the Odin tutorial I used.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759
Also, I am not too sure what you mean by the current state/status of my phone.
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Just wondering if your phone is currently working or not. I wasn't sure given that you reflashed with ODIN.

Yes everything is fine right now. Lucky all of my settings and apps were still there after following that tutorial.
Perhaps file expert doesn't work?
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apodictic said:
Yes everything is fine right now. Lucky all of my settings and apps were still there after following that tutorial.
Perhaps file expert doesn't work?
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I've not used it but if it allows you to mount /system read/write, then it should work fine as long as you're putting the 'recovery' file in /system/bin & the update.zip on the root of the sdcard.
If you try it again then reboot into recovery, what happens?

FBis251 said:
Don't use a KFx rom, the KF1 and KF2 versions of Gingerbread were really buggy and will give you more trouble than they're worth. You're better off flashing Octane, Valhalla or ICBINB which get updated frequently.
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can you help me ?
my xperia play literally cant flash at all i go to recovery mode and try to install a rom but it aborts it and says signature error ive tried around 5 roms what shall i do please some one help me
ive tried everything and im a noob i dont know how to flash properly so please be very descriptive pleaseeee

UKemal said:
can you help me ?
my xperia play literally cant flash at all i go to recovery mode and try to install a rom but it aborts it and says signature error ive tried around 5 roms what shall i do please some one help me
ive tried everything and im a noob i dont know how to flash properly so please be very descriptive pleaseeee
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21272961

New ROM

Whenever i try to flash a new ROM it doesn't want to load. I've tried the CM7 nightlies and the pheonix ROM. This is what I do.
I root my phone via one click root.
Install clockwork recovery via app.
wipe
install ROM via recovery (install zip)
start up
Locks at LG screen. Ugh!
Any advice?

Turague said:
Whenever i try to flash a new ROM it doesn't want to load. I've tried the CM7 nightlies and the pheonix ROM. This is what I do.
I root my phone via one click root.
Install clockwork recovery via app.
wipe
install ROM via recovery (install zip)
start up
Locks at LG screen. Ugh!
Any advice?
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What OS are you coming from?

Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik cache
Wipe data
Wipe system
Flash.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!

Turague said:
Install clockwork recovery via app.
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NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492

Волк said:
NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
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Why? What happens if you did from the ROM Manager? Sorry im a noob to this device
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Волк said:
NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
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This is a must for the g2x. If you use from manager it only fake flashes clockwork mod recovery and makes you unable to flash roms.
Typical way to achieve root on the g2x is to.
1. Nvflash cwm
2. Create a nandroid backup.
3. Flash a rom that has root.
Don't bother with rom manager or super one click.
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Just as a quick question. Does wiping the system, wipe ANY of my data? Like does it only wipe the existing ROM? Ive been confused of it since the first time i flashed a ROM
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Волк said:
NO, NO, NO! It's one thing to do this, alot have, it's another to not read threads or research it.
NEVER flash CWM from an app, you HAVE TO flash via NVflash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot and get back to you. I don't think it had to do with the wipe as I always ran a wipe script before installing. I thought it had to do with the kernel.... (don't have a clue though)
I'll flash the clockwork via nvflash, and get back to you, thanks.
EDIT:
IT WORKS. NVFlash the recovery, make sure to change the command if you have a different version you plan to flash/

I used rom manager and all, my roms have worked fine... :S
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theNOOBuser said:
I used rom manager and all, my roms have worked fine... :S
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You sir are a very lucky man.

Lol. I'm guessing it was a noob-move getting clockwork through ROM Manager. Ill probably use nvflash when I get home just to be safe hahaha
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theNOOBuser said:
Lol. I'm guessing it was a noob-move getting clockwork through ROM Manager. Ill probably use nvflash when I get home just to be safe hahaha
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you definitely want to do that. do you have a nandoid backup of your original system? if your phone breaks, that is the only way to revert it back to original for an exchange (unless ofcourse you take a hammer to it).

Yeah. I have a Stock froyo backup.
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jblah said:
you definitely want to do that. do you have a nandoid backup of your original system? if your phone breaks, that is the only way to revert it back to original for an exchange (unless ofcourse you take a hammer to it).
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i first flased cwm using nvflas... but then i updated it thru rom manager ... is it ok?

rohitmohanihm said:
i first flased cwm using nvflas... but then i updated it thru rom manager ... is it ok?
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I think so. Catch is that I don't know if doing that will actually update anything, the whole problem is that ROM manager doesn't flash it properly/to the right place. The only thing to do is make a nandroid and try it out and if ti doesn't work, then reflash with NV flash and you're good.

Волк said:
I think so. Catch is that I don't know if doing that will actually update anything, the whole problem is that ROM manager doesn't flash it properly/to the right place. The only thing to do is make a nandroid and try it out and if ti doesn't work, then reflash with NV flash and you're good.
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I flashed a few other ROMs after i updated CWM thru ROM manager.. and all of them flashed with out any problems.. the only Issue i had was when i tried flashing Morfic's Trinity kernal .. my phone would get stuck at the boot animation.. i wiped every thing and reflashed CyanogenMod and my phone is working agin [I wiped cache and Dalviks before i flashed the kernal.. i guess my phone cant handle it] http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/mad.gif .. Thanks Bro

[Q] Help after new rom

Just installed victoryrom v1.1 and after a reboot, I noticed that I no longer boot into CWM. Do I need to redo the bootstrap recovery?

squid4 said:
Just installed victoryrom v1.1 and after a reboot, I noticed that I no longer boot into CWM. Do I need to redo the bootstrap recovery?
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No, you need to flash CWM on boot.

Im sorry, but what do you mean by flashing it on boot?

squid4 said:
Im sorry, but what do you mean by flashing it on boot?
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Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to do.....
I was under the impression that you expected your phone to reboot into CWM when you reboot your phone. Otherwise, what you need to do is open the Atrix 2 bootstrap app and click "boot recovery" and it'll reboot into recovery.

Yeah I want my phone to boot into CWM every time I reboot. I'm just not sure what you mean by flashing CWM on boot. Thanks for the quick replies.

squid4 said:
Yeah I want my phone to boot into CWM every time I reboot. I'm just not sure what you mean by flashing CWM on boot. Thanks for the quick replies.
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Did it do that before? How did you get it to do that? The only way I know of is by flashing a mod called CWM on boot.....but u sounded like u didnt know what i was talking about when i suggested you flash it.
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Check development forum
The development forum has the link for the Atrix2 bootsrapper. Here is the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346977. I have used this to help with a bootloader issue I had. The developers and people on these forums are helpful. This will give you the CWM make sure you give it root access this will help with booting into recovery.

thethird84 said:
The development forum has the link for the Atrix2 bootsrapper. Here is the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346977. I have used this to help with a bootloader issue I had. The developers and people on these forums are helpful. This will give you the CWM make sure you give it root access this will help with booting into recovery.
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Having the bootstrapper installed wont boot him right into cwm upon reboot though. Besides, doesnt the rom he installed come prerooted?
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I redid the bootstrapper app and flashed the Razr cwm by JY Daddy again. It seems to be working just fine.

squid4 said:
I redid the bootstrapper app and flashed the Razr cwm by JY Daddy again. It seems to be working just fine.
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Glad you worked it out

squid4 said:
I redid the bootstrapper app and flashed the Razr cwm by JY Daddy again. It seems to be working just fine.
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Don't forget cwm on boot generally wrecks GPS.... if you want it back you have to get rid of can on boot.... you can flash it out with a zip same place u got cwm on boot....

daavvis said:
Don't forget cwm on boot generally wrecks GPS.... if you want it back you have to get rid of can on boot.... you can flash it out with a zip same place u got cwm on boot....
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Yeah, if you're having an issue with GPS this is likely the culprit....but I've used RebelROM and now VictoryROM with CWM on boot and GPS worked fine.

916x10 said:
Yeah, if you're having an issue with GPS this is likely the culprit....but I've used RebelROM and now VictoryROM with CWM on boot and GPS worked fine.
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Cool I didn't know anyone figured it out
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Custom Unlocked Lock Icon On Start Up and OTA Updates

Okay, so I recently noticed that there was an icon that said "Custom" and it was an unlocked lock on my start up. And, when I try to do an OTA update, it fails. I even flashed the stock recovery. And, when I try to install custom ROM's, it says something like "Error 7, installation aborted."

Did you unlock your bootloader yet?

Neverendingxsin said:
Did you unlock your bootloader yet?
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I don't believe so...what would this do for me?

Raikurou said:
I don't believe so...what would this do for me?
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Well i'm almost 100% sure that all roms now require an unlocked bootloader, so by unlocking it and flashing a custom recovery you should be able to flash roms and it'll make the custom icon go away as well.

Neverendingxsin said:
Well i'm almost 100% sure that all roms now require an unlocked bootloader, so by unlocking it and flashing a custom recovery you should be able to flash roms and it'll make the custom icon go away as well.
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So how would I go about unlocking the bootloader?

Raikurou said:
So how would I go about unlocking the bootloader?
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If your already rooted just download EZ Unlock from the market and it'll do it with the press of a button I advise flashing a custom recovery first though.

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Neverendingxsin said:
If your already rooted just download EZ Unlock from the market and it'll do it with the press of a button I advise flashing a custom recovery first though.
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Okay, I flashed CWM Touch and then did the unlock. Will this allow me to do the OTA update?

Raikurou said:
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Okay, I flashed CWM Touch and then did the unlock. Will this allow me to do the OTA update?
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U should flash the OTA from 1 of the "OTA threads" here.It's safer & u won't lose root.
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Raikurou said:
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Okay, I flashed CWM Touch and then did the unlock. Will this allow me to do the OTA update?
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Make sure it's for ur carrier/phone.. I seen a post that someone had the same error code and they flashed a rom for a different carrier..
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igloohed73 said:
U should flash the OTA from 1 of the "OTA threads" here.It's safer & u won't lose root.
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Okay. How do I do that?

Raikurou said:
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Okay, I flashed CWM Touch and then did the unlock. Will this allow me to do the OTA update?
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There's a stock rooted Rom of the latest ota in the development section that you could flash

Neverendingxsin said:
There's a stock rooted Rom of the latest ota in the development section that you could flash
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Can you send me a link? I can't seem to find it..

Raikurou said:
Can you send me a link? I can't seem to find it..
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You can flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941334 . This is latest . Make sure boot loader is unlocked .
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huedawg said:
You can flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941334 . This is latest . Make sure boot loader is unlocked .
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Okay, thanks. Or would it be smarter to just install CM10 from ROM Manager?

Raikurou said:
Okay, thanks. Or would it be smarter to just install CM10 from ROM Manager?
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Don't recommend installing any rom through Rom Manager.

prdog1 said:
Don't recommend installing any rom through Rom Manager.
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Okay, well through CWM.

Raikurou said:
Okay, well through CWM.
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that would be safe general rule now, do all your backing up, flashing, etc, by manually booting into recovery first, that's the only sure fire way to make sure it gets flashed on okay. I don't even keep rom manager on my phone anymore and i used to use it religiously on previous phones.

Neverendingxsin said:
that would be safe general rule now, do all your backing up, flashing, etc, by manually booting into recovery first, that's the only sure fire way to make sure it gets flashed on okay. I don't even keep rom manager on my phone anymore and i used to use it religiously on previous phones.
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Just tried to install CM10...Status 7.

Don't you need TriangleAway to get rid of the lock icon?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

LLStarks said:
Don't you need TriangleAway to get rid of the lock icon?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
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Unlocking the boot loader should kill it.

recovery stuck

im getting this issue where i cannot flash another recovery after i flashed twrp 2.5....im trying to flash roms and its not working without an error, and its telling me i have no OS so im not sure what to do or what options i have, ive tried flashing boot.img first but still no OS or rom is being flashed

How are you trying to flash the recovery?

bananagranola said:
How are you trying to flash the recovery?
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through fastboot, i flashed clockwork, trying to get rid of twrp and now its like i have two recoveries...? like i flashed the rom and now im sitting on the boot screen...i followed the guide, im just not sure why i can access both recoveries and now flash the rom properly
i cannot get into the OS only recovery

What command? Is your phone in fastboot? Do you volume keys work?

bananagranola said:
What command? Is your phone in fastboot? Do you volume keys work?
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Well, I followed everything correctly...buts it's like I have two recoveries now...clockwork and twrp, idk why, but sometimes one will show and sometimes the other will...but when clockwork comes up, I can now flash custom roms
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Rocklee99 said:
Well, I followed everything correctly...buts it's like I have two recoveries now...clockwork and twrp, idk why, but sometimes one will show and sometimes the other will...but when clockwork comes up, I can now flash custom roms
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You didn't answer a single one of my questions...but I guess your problem is somewhat solved anyway.

bananagranola said:
You didn't answer a single one of my questions...but I guess your problem is somewhat solved anyway.
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I'm sorry, yes, I think it's solved, I don't remember exactly what was going on, it was really late when I was working on it, sorry for the ignorance when it comes to these things,but ty for the help
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