I just rooted my tmobile samsung galaxy s 4g phone. I am trying to do new ROM for it. I downloaded the update file, tried to to reboot in recovery mode. It keeps giving me error messages. I am new to this and really need help figuring this out. How else can I get new ROM on my phone?
If you want to get on gingerbread, follow my GB starter pack guide. It's in my signature. Don't forget to check out audiophile ftw or valhalla since those are the main GB roms right now.
If you really wanted to though, you could stay on the stock rom if you skip the CWM rom installation step and just do the busybox_installer step.
marcus8141981 said:
I just rooted my tmobile samsung galaxy s 4g phone. I am trying to do new ROM for it. I downloaded the update file, tried to to reboot in recovery mode. It keeps giving me error messages. I am new to this and really need help figuring this out. How else can I get new ROM on my phone?
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You say you downloaded the update.zip file but you do not mention the other file you need. The modded recovery.bin. That needs to be pushed in system/bin in order for the update.zip to work.
Did you also download and apply the modded recovery.bin? You need both files.
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Where do I get the mooded recovery bin file? Thank you in advace.
If your attempting to get cwm through krylon360's cwm final thread then both the update.zip and the modded recovery file are there.
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So do I download these files on my computer, hook my sd card up the computer and push them onto the sd card, or download them on my phone? Thank you.
Download them to your computer. Move them to your SD card. Leave update.zip on root of SD card. Use a file explorer app such as super manager to push the modified recovery.bin to the folder system/bin. Make sure your file explorer app is set r/w. Then boot into recovery and hit reinstall packages. You should boot into cwm recovery.
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so i have a samsung galaxy s 4g that is rooted with superoneclick. right now i have clockworkmod recovery 3.2.0.0. i like amon ra much better. i had this on my G1.im trying to flash 2.2.1. i cant seem to get it to flash. in terminal emulator it doesnt recognize the command "flash_image" it is "not found". i have adb setup but when i try "adb root" i get a message "adbd cannot run as root in production builds" i cant seem to get into bootloader by holding down buttons or by using "quick boot" i tried rom manager, "flash alternate recovery" is greyed out. please help!
No amon ra or ROM manager for this phone.
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jager555 said:
No amon ra or ROM manager for this phone.
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Is the 3E stock recovery the only reason?
I don't understand why its not an option....
Was it built for this phone?
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A bunch of things you need to know for galaxies vs aosp
1. I also came from a g1. I loved it.
2. AOSP, Sense, Motoblur.etc excluding Touchwiz(These types run on the basic file format. Install rom from a signed zip, start up using a bootloader spl, you must be familiar with hardspl. A boot.img, this is the kernel, and a zip with /system, and other stuff. Also a recovery.img(Amon Ra). And a modem.img
3. Those phones have a posibility for ADB Remount command and fastboot.
eg adb remount, or fastboot flash recovery.img
4. Touchwiz is Galaxy. They run on 2 bootloader binary files, a zImage as a kernel, and mainly the /system partition called factoryfs.rfs is stockly available on a computer flashable tar file which has the files. The tar files usually with files that include factoryfs.rfs, datafs.rfs, cache.rfs, param.lfs, boot.bin, sbl.bin, zImage and modem.bin.
5. Factoryfs = /system zip datafs = /data partition cache = /cache partition, param includes core files like splash image 1 for the g1, and boot and sbl are bootloader, zImage = boot.img with different coding, modem.bin = modem.img
6. zImage contains the recovery.img partition on GB and the /system partion has recovery in froyo roms.
7. Touchwiz has odd mounts, and flashing alternate recoveries has the potential to make your phone an expensive paper weight.
8. There is a feature kind of like boot loader and spl mode for g1(rainbow screen) called download mode. This is where you connect to the computer to flash the big tar files.
9. The smart devs have created a clockworkmod recovery, which has more functions then amon ra and allows you to flash zip files with sgs4g roms.
10. Boot animation cannot be changed unless you have a kernel supporting them. Instead of bootanimation.zip, they use 2 files called bootsamsung.qmg, and bootsamsungloop.qmg
11. DON"T FLASH ANYTHING NOT MADE FOR THIS PHONE, ESPECIALLY BOOTLOADERS AS THEY MAY MAKE YOUR PHONE UNUSABLE, THE REST USUALLY CAN BE RECOVERED.
so is there a way to backup/restore my galaxy s like i could my G1
1. the galaxy s 4g is not a G1
2. yes, you can back it up by going to "backup and restore" in CWM and then clicking "Backup". this will back everything up.
you can restore by choosing the same option in cwm, but "restore" once in the menu.
if you are on a rom that you want to keep, you can go to advanced restore in the backup/restore menu and restore only your data.
gdofwar has a tutorial out on how to backup/restore the phone. does this help?
when i go into ROM Manager and click "backup current rom" it takes me to the screen in the picture. there are no backup options. incase you cant see the pic. the options are:
reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data.
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when i go into ROM Manager and click "backup current rom" it takes me to the screen in the picture. there are no backup options. incase you cant see the pic. the options are:
reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data.
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ROM manager does not work on this phone. You cant use ROM manager. ROM manager does not work.
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Exodian said:
ROM manager does not work on this phone. You cant use ROM manager. ROM manager does not work.
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so what can i do?
Omfg
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Dev section krylon 360 cwm final thread. Read it follow it.
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Bali on Froyo. drhonk's GB kernels.
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Cool THank you for the thread! i have the update.zip on my sd card. when i try to push the other file it says "failed to copy 'recovery' to '/system/bin/recovery': Read-only file system" how do i work through this? thank you much!
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Omfg
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You read my mind with that post. LOL
htaak said:
You read my mind with that post. LOL
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Im looking for help not criticism. im obvisously not on your level.
ok. look for the bali 3.3uv threads. odin this file using the instructions in the thread. this will give you the proper cwm and root.
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Im looking for help not criticism. im obvisously not on your level.
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I hope you are above my level LOL.
It wasn't meant as criticism, Jager just happened to post exactly what I was thinking at the moment I was thinking it as I read through the thread, and it made me laugh. It was like a mini version of Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch.
I sincerely apologize if it came over that way. I am not here to argue with or upset anyone.
lokeycmos said:
Cool THank you for the thread! i have the update.zip on my sd card. when i try to push the other file it says "failed to copy 'recovery' to '/system/bin/recovery': Read-only file system" how do i work through this? thank you much!
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Flash, not push. Unless you're rooted, the file system is set to read-only. If you are rooted, download root explorer or any other file system explorer, set to R/W, and push again.
To flash, boot to recovery and select the update.zip option (don't remember exact wording).
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Flash, not push. Unless you're rooted, the file system is set to read-only. If you are rooted, download root explorer or any other file system explorer, set to R/W, and push again.
To flash, boot to recovery and select the update.zip option (don't remember exact wording).
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if you do it this way for the love of god dont forget to remont the system as r/o after you copy the recovery file to the system bin folder ....
Hey trying to install CWM on my SGS4g
I overwrote recovery with the one from the thread linked below. I even extracted all the files from update.zip to their proper locations on the filesystem to no avail. It still boots to the Samsung recovery. WTF?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374
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Hey trying to install CWM on my SGS4g
I overwrote recovery with the one from the thread linked below. I even extracted all the files from update.zip to their proper locations on the filesystem to no avail. It still boots to the Samsung recovery. WTF?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374
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Did you even read the OP?
Place in the root of your SD. If you have a update.zip there already, delete it, and replace it with this one.
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Where in that quote does it say to extract the update zip and place it anywhere except the root of your sd card ?
You just place the zip file itself not extracted on your sd card and don't ever do anything with it, don't flash it don't extract it.
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When you get to the 3e recovery you need to select re install packages to enter cwm. The other option is to Odin flash the latest Bali kernel.
i never knew that downloading and moving around 2 files could be so hard for so many people.
Click on the Bali + CWM link in my signature for the easy to follow Odin instructions.
I'll ignore the snarky comments and thank the poster for the hint to reinstall packages. I ran into the same problem and that final step wasn't obvious from the instructions in the thread, nor from use of ROM Manager.
youre not supposed to use rom manager on this phone. and trust me, when the issue on cwm/rom manager has been addressed as many times as it has, it doesnt count as a "snarky" comment.
anyway, you are better flashing bali than krylons cwm. you are going to flash bali/voodoo cwm anyway, so might as well make it easy and do it now. think of bali/voodoo cwm as an upgrade to krylons (even though krylon made all this possible)
I rooted my phone (nexus s i9020a at&t) and have superuser and downloaded rom manager. I had no idea how to figure out how to flash a rom onto my device on my mac so I downloaded one of the many cyanogen mod 9's directly in rom manager. The rom loaded up perfectly and runs smoothly except there is no app market. When I try to go back into rom manager it force quits out.
I am very new to rooting and hacking into my phone and tried searching for hours and can't figure out what to do. If anyone knows how I can just flash a new updated version of cyanogen mod 9 without using rom manager that would be awesome. I really just need a step by step way to do it on the mac because every time someone posts a rom .zip file it downloads as a folder with random stuff in it and in recovery mode in my phone I don't know how to go about flashing it. So confused. Any help would be so appreciated.
Jess
Check your PM. I couldn't post links as it would have been my first post.
cm9 issue
thanks did you get my replies to your pm? i can't figure this out haha
download cm9 and the gapps add-on(with your phone) in the first post of the cm9 thread. boot into recovery, fimd your rom and gapps files, flash cm9 there, then flash the gapps(google apps), then reboot. you do not need rom manager.
Hmm cm9 does not come pre loaded with android app market so u will have to download the latest gapps from other posts in this forum... then copy it into ur phone from ur computer...then after going to cwm recovery use the volume up down buttons to scroll and the power button to choose...u will have to remember where u pasted the gapps file and u will have to navigate to it ...choose the gapps file and scroll down to yes to flash it then go back and reboot...that's it u will now have google apps in ur nexus s...Remember u do not need to open the downloaded gapps zip file as there is nothing u can do by opening it...good luck and happy flashing...
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Must not of searched that much if you overlooked that. Gapps is separate. Read the post fully, please.
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okay so i downloaded the g apps file and its a folder on my desktop with a few other folders within with random files. i go to recovery on my phone mount my phone drag this folder to my mounted phone. then i go back and do i do instal zip from sdcard? or do i do apply update from sd card? this is where I'm stuck idk where to go from here. if i click install zip from sdcard it makes me navigate and i find the name of the folder but it just brings me to the smaller folders and little individual files it's not just one big file but a bunch of little ones so i can't choose the whole thing.
so im confused
edit: so i guess on my mac when i download the zip file it must unzip it during download and becomes a folder. so i tried compressing the folder back into zip format and go back into recovery and load it but it says installation aborted.
Jessicaa39 said:
okay so i downloaded the g apps file and its a folder on my desktop with a few other folders within with random files. i go to recovery on my phone mount my phone drag this folder to my mounted phone. then i go back and do i do instal zip from sdcard? or do i do apply update from sd card? this is where I'm stuck idk where to go from here. if i click install zip from sdcard it makes me navigate and i find the name of the folder but it just brings me to the smaller folders and little individual files it's not just one big file but a bunch of little ones so i can't choose the whole thing.
so im confused
edit: so i guess on my mac when i download the zip file it must unzip it during download and becomes a folder. so i tried compressing the folder back into zip format and go back into recovery and load it but it says installation aborted.
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use google chrome browser on your mac and it wont unzip your files
latest gapps http://t.co/LssQaFMj
alright it went through and it's rebooting now..... it worked. thanks everyone for all your help!! im such a noob but i'm learning.
Jess
Jessicaa39 said:
alright it went through and it's rebooting now..... it worked. thanks everyone for all your help!! im such a noob but i'm learning.
Jess
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we were all noobs before. most important is the learning part.
noob here just learning the game, i used odin last night and put a rooted stock rom on my infuse,i want to put a custom rom on it now and was looking into the aeon 1.3.1 rom. ok i read up on how to do it and it said to put zip file on internal sd card. after downloading the file i see it isnt a zip file. mine was a rar file with 2 directories. can someone help me out a little . thx alot
cain308 said:
noob here just learning the game, i used odin last night and put a rooted stock rom on my infuse,i want to put a custom rom on it now and was looking into the aeon 1.3.1 rom. ok i read up on how to do it and it said to put zip file on internal sd card. after downloading the file i see it isnt a zip file. mine was a rar file with 2 directories. can someone help me out a little . thx alot
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Thats strange...what are the two directories of the rar? it should download as a .zip...are you sure you downloaded the aeon rom? Did you use the link in the OP? what is the name of the .rar? Os it named aeon.rar or something like that?
also...i know your on a rooted stock rom, but do you have cwm recovery? That os also required for flashing roms...you cam easily get it by flashing qksters heimdall package of entropies latest kernel (heimdal is just like odin...except less steps involved...)
Also can you send me the link you downloaded from...either as a reply or pm doesnt matter...im curious what this rar is...
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Not sure where you went for the AEON rom.
This is the main thread for AEON. It has a correct download link that is definitely a zip file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1545239
thats the xact page i got it from but the 1st one listed kept taking me to a goofle drive page so i went on down the page and downloaded the aeon black chrome one. right under the change log stuff. also the rooted rom i have on mine has cwm red on it and i can access it through the recovery mode. the two files are meta-inf and system and they downloaded in rar format. i unrared them to my desktop and put them in afolder and renamed it update.zip. but i havent done anything since. also what is the fix permissions talked about on the aeon install instructions. the first rom aeon 1.3.1 from 5/8/12 is the one that took me to google drive. also the file said it was a winrar zip archive.
That's not the rom... Its a theme...
Anyways yeah just click download on the Google drive... Should take you to a Page that says can't do a virus scan... Then click continue and download anyway...
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thx man, it was downloading while i was leaving for work. one more question. in the instructions on how to load it there is a fix permissions listed. i am not sure what that means, can you tell me anything about that.
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also...i know your on a rooted stock rom, but do you have cwm recovery?
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He used Option C of the Odin packages I put together. That already has Entropy's latest daily driver kernel and CWM recovery. No need for Heimdall in this case.
Remove post didn't read past onea
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ok i am trying to put the aeon rom on my infuse, it is rooted with cwm installed. i downloaded the rom from this site , went thru the whole google drive thing and all.ok it downloaded in winrar format , so i created a folder and renamed it zip and put on desktop and then transfered to internal memory on phone. ok i rebooted to cwm , did the wipes like it said then went to install zip from sd, it found the zip and when i selected it it showed all the files in the folder, data,meta-inf,scripts sd card,system ,updates and install busybox. now i am lost as to what to do . do i select these 1 by 1 or did i screw up somewhere before hand.
The file you downloaded should be a zip. Not sure about all the shuffling you did, but you should be able to place the zip you downloaded on your internal sd and flash from recovery. You should not have to do a single thing to the ROM when downloaded other than flash.
Edit...sounds like you were unable to flash the ROM because it was a folder, as opposed to a zip file. Don't pull stuff out of the package, just try changing it from..rar to .zip..then flash.
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**** , it keeps downloading as a winrar file , anyway to fix that
ok i did away with my winrar and now have winzip, is that what your talking about or is zip file different, ok looks like i got it now thx alot for the help
Glad you got it. For future flashing, the package you download should be all you need to flash in recovery. No need to pull out files or recreate zips. The devs try to make it easy as possible.
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I think your winrar/winzip is just the program.associated with he .zip...i think it was always a .zip...as winzip is not a file...winrar is not a file either...they are just two different programs...
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I think your winrar/winzip is just the program.associated with he .zip...i think it was always a .zip...as winzip is not a file...winrar is not a file either...they are just two different programs...
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Yes sir i pm him on that...but your correct...
Yes both are programs, however, you need either one if you want to unzip any file or folder!!!