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Ubuntu ROM Flashing

Hi, guys, just wanted to ask it it possible to flash a ROM using Ubuntu (or in that case any other distro of Linux) or do you Need ActiveSync for that ?

If you havent got MS on your pc, then the best thing you can do is flash from memory card.

lipa47 said:
If you havent got MS on your pc, then the best thing you can do is flash from memory card.
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then that's what I'll do
Thanks, Lipa!

you can flash from sd...simply rename the file ...nbh in kaisimg.ngh, put on sd and than hard reset

i just stumbled across this thread while looking for a solution to this problem. i am currently transfering everything over from my windows vista to my ubuntu so that i can eventually delete the entire windows partition. however, i do not have an sd card, so does anyone know a way to do this without one?

Windows computer or SD card.
You can get an SD card for like $20 at radioshack.
Just make sure to format it to FAT32 before you kill windows, else the bootloader on the phone won't read the image.
Edit:
http://shop.kingston.com/PartsInfo.asp?ktcpartno=SDC/2GB&promo=XD07PH
ten bux.

opgadgets said:
i just stumbled across this thread while looking for a solution to this problem. i am currently transfering everything over from my windows vista to my ubuntu so that i can eventually delete the entire windows partition. however, i do not have an sd card, so does anyone know a way to do this without one?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=399762

i have ubuntu and i flash using this app, works perfectly cause i used to flash with the sdcard but some of the newer cooked roms wont flash thru the sdcard. The app is very simple and self explanitory, you just have to put in bootloader mode (hold cam+power while softreseting) then plug it in when you get to the 3color screen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=399762

thanks guys

[Q] No image found

I have windows7 on my pc, and when i try to install Rom it just says img not found... Same if i just copy it onto the sd(via usb transfer if it matters)

super2 said:
I have windows7 on my pc, and when i try to install Rom it just says img not found... Same if i just copy it onto the sd(via usb transfer if it matters)
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If you could give more information about the complete process that you have done, it would be easier for someone to help you.
For example, what is the name of the ROM?
How are you decompressing it?
Are you trying to flash via WMDC or SD Card?
I am also running Windows 7 on my computer and have no trouble at all.
I think it may be something to do with the process you are doing.
Let us know what it is. I'm sure we'll be able to help in some way.

For example, what is the name of the ROM?
How are you decompressing it?
Are you trying to flash via WMDC or SD Card?
It is http_://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=536751 this one and i already have installed max sense on the phone, and what to change it tolower ram usage and etc... Tried titantium and sense 2.1 no success. I tried via the usb connection. but cannot locate a device, after it is being rebooted. And then i tried to transfer the divimg.nbh to the sd card and reboot, no success - no image found.

one thing is clear: if you try to install the rom from sd card, your Rom name ("divimg....") is wrong. It should be something like "raphimg.nbh".
How do you establish connection between PC and your TP? There are reported some difficulties connecting your TP with the PC via Windows 7 using device center. Using the search may help...
good luck

Please post [Q] in general section.

borisku said:
one thing is clear: if you try to install the rom from sd card, your Rom name ("divimg....") is wrong. It should be something like "raphimg.nbh".
How do you establish connection between PC and your TP? There are reported some difficulties connecting your TP with the PC via Windows 7 using device center. Using the search may help...
good luck
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I see, that should be the problem, thank you. Yes i am using the device center.

Divimg.nbh? Where'd you come up with that, lol?
It needs to be named RAPHIMG.nbh. Make sure the extension is correct, and you don't have RAPHIMG.nbh.nbh, or something like that. And the card has to be formatted to FAT32, and the image must be on the root of the card. That's all there is to it. You also need to have hard spl.

It worked just with the normal file.

same problem
Hi there...
I try to flash the new rom on my TP, and:
1) HardSPL is done, I flash one time a month ..
2) via SD card is written: Image not found - card has been formatted to FAT32, name of the image IS RAPHIMG.nbh.
3) via USB installation goes to the installation screen where "Image not found" is written also ... Active sync has been made, I've checked, that "USB support" is OK.
I have placed ROM and the *.exe file into one folder ..
Can anyone help me?
EDIT: Win XP Prof. 32BIT, Touch Pro and the ROM is ENERGY 23699 Sencity/Touch of Glass - tried both of them.

I could really use a hand with this pickle

okay, so i've found myself in a bit of a pickle. Recently I've been running the CM7 nightly's, but today I tried out the RoyalGinger rom and I believe it either corrupted my SD card or it's blocking my SD card from being used/read.
Tried several times to reformat it but each time it said 'checking SD card', but the weird thing is I have an active wireless connection, but I'm not getting texts. I can download from market, get on Facebook, etc, but my texts won't come in until I reboot the phone. A few times I booted it up and it wouldn't allow me to even see my homescreen because it'd pop up with EVERY app force closing (including google services, framework, etc), I was able to get back to my homescreen by clearing by Dalvik Cache luckily, however I'm still unable to do most anything. I went in to wipe/restore but it says cannot find SD card, directory invalid, cannot mount, etc.
Is there a way to reformat my SD card through terminal? If so could I get the code procedure for it? or anyone have any ideas other than picking up a new micro (which isn't a big deal but I'm strapped on money til Friday) but i'd still prefer to know that it's JUST my SD card and not my phone memory. Anyone? Anyone? Beuler? Beuler? Thanks in advance. I'm really sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, but c'mon, everyone gets one.

Ok so do u have a stock backup rom? Ide say go to rom manager and go to recovery and whipe etc.. Then install that stock back on it.....And can ur sd card even read at all? Just get any.file manager and check your sd.
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I think I have a backup rom of CM6, but not an actual android stock rom. It won't allow me because it says 'must have an SD card inserted' then it says must have clockwork mod recovery installed, which I do, the current version. Now that it says that I'm afraid to boot my phone into recovery, and I can't really tell if my SD card will read. I was able to use my file manager and the entire SD folder is blank.

ten minutes later: still boots into recovery, none of my backups are available on it. I was thinking about downloading a rom from the phone and trying that way, but I don't know if it'd save to the (apparently unreadable) SD card.

Ok try this...... Find out what recovery you use 3.0.0.5 or the normal 2.5.1.4 for froyo then download a rom thats the same recovery as the one u have on it right now...... If its the same as your cyanogenmod 6 then install that from the recovery manually!!!
if its not then download a rom that is and make sure you use a file manager to see if the download sticks in your sdcard. And if it doesnt stick then......your problem sir might be a corrupted sdcard, or a phone that cant read your sd.
Hope its not either or, so give it a shot.....
And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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And ur supposed to have a stock backup as soon as you root and switch roms man Lol makes life easier
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Lol agreed that's saved me a couple times now
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It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.

Hey guys I'm pretty sure it's just my SD card. I tried saving an image, just to test it and it says 'an SD card is required to download images.bin', so I'm HOPING it's just my SD Card, however my notifications are working properly so I can at least deal with it til friday, if it IS my SD card reader in the phone, well... I have a plan for that, however due to already technically breaking that I shouldn't go into it. Thanks to you guys for taking the time to post and if you know anything else that might help me I'd gladly accept it.

darinmc said:
It sounds like he doesn't have access to his sdcard. It doesn't matter how many backups you make if that's the case...
If you happen to have a sdcard reader or a microsd usb adapter you could format it in windows, copy the files you need, and start again. Also did you try connecting to your pc and seeing if it's readable that way? You can format the card if your pc recognizes it. If you have adb set up you can push the recovery image to the phone without a sdcard. But once again without a working sdcard you won't be able to flash a new rom.
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Hi, I have a reader on my laptop but not the adapter, so I can't tell and yes, you were right, I can't see any of my backups (which I have my stock, then cm6 and cm7) so I either need to find an adapter or get a new SD card. luckily I pulled all of my camera images off my phone last night when I put the new rom .zip on the phone sd, so I'm not really worried about 'losing' anything as long as I get my phone working back in proper condition.

Well that happened to me before as well.. All i did was replace sd cards lets the phone do its thing flash a different rom like CM6 or CM7 and then once replaced i got the adapter for my old sd card reformatted through windows and put it right back in and it worked.. So try that?

Ill have to. Thanks a lot guys I do appreciate any comments and suggestions and ill be picking up a new sd later thia week to fix it but can amyone recommend a good brand sd to pick up? the apparently failed one was a samsung 8gb
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Hp is very good, u probably can find one with 8 gb. At best buy.. But if u want a 32 gb then thats online all day
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I usually use sandisk so yeah try that?

Something similar happened to me. Your SD card likely has a bad or corrupted file. I used Win7 to copy over what I could to a folder in my PC. The Win7 automatically refused to copy over the corrupted files while carrying over everything else. In XP, your file transfer stops and you have to try again to ensure you have everything that's not corrupted transferred over.
After copying, I just went ahead and formatted the SD to FAT32, transferred everything back, installed on my phone, and voila.

Go into recovery and partition the card. You'll lose everything on it but it should be useable after that
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[Q] Copying files from sdcard to computer harddrive

I copyed most stuff from the sdcard already but for some reason I cant complete the rest of it the USB storage mode keeps shuting off while copying then it stops never had these problems before can it be because im using windows 7 now I just upgraded not long ago so im thinking that might be a issue I flashed back to stock that didnt work either

Can't copy files from sdcard large or alot storage keeps demounting is this a windows 7 thing
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sigh wtf I cant copy a back up to computer I need to send this phone in to samsung anyone?

barmanham said:
sigh wtf I cant copy a back up to computer I need to send this phone in to samsung anyone?
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If you are having issues with Windows 7 and have not tried a computer with XP for example then that is what I recommend you do.

[Q] 32gb SD card wont format HELP!

Hey i started up Modern Combat 3 on my phone and i was playing for about 30 seconds when i got a error and the game closed i tried to open it but i wouldn't open at that point i figured there must be a problem with the sd card so i went in to settings and clicked on "SD & phone storage" the phone said my sd card Info was unavailable i so i tried to format it but i just would give a error I then booted into recovery and tried to format from there but when i do it, its says formatting... and it stays that way for 15 minutes never telling me that the format was successfully any ideas? this sd card is only just over a month old.
Also when the phone is on i can't go into disk mode it doesn't give me the option but when i do so from recovery my entire sd card loads and shows up on windows even showing all of my files, i can copy some files off the card others give me a error also instead of saying "removable disk" the drive now says "SDdata" when attached to my pc anyone experienced this I've also tried formatting from windows it just gives a error? I've been trying all night and can get it to work...Sucks and i can't return it because it crapped out like 2 weeks after the return policy
sorry about my grammar if its bad Im a little excited

Umm Anyone?

Try getting a card reader, connecting it directly to your computer and format it.

I recommend to use Gparted. Download iso image and burn it to cd, then boot from cd and do format. It is the best tool to manage filesystems, far better than windows.

CuttyCZ said:
Try getting a card reader, connecting it directly to your computer and format it.
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Do you think a card reader would really make a difference?

libertasanti said:
I recommend to use Gparted. Download iso image and burn it to cd, then boot from cd and do format. It is the best tool to manage filesystems, far better than windows.
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Thanks ill try it out

Lostmymind904 said:
Do you think a card reader would really make a difference?
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Yes it should i had it happen to my wifes phone. The card look wipe nothing on it threw the phone. Took at out and put in card reader and there it all was so i copyed it to the pc and then formatted it. Put the pics save s and such back on and was good to go. So o would try it. They are pretty cheep if you dont have one.
Good luck
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Format ur as card by pc. Then after format with phone will work.
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jasminthoria said:
Format ur as card by pc. Then after format with phone will work.
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I've tried formatting by pc like15btimes windows give an error Nd the phone won't format either

lucky 69 said:
Yes it should i had it happen to my wifes phone. The card look wipe nothing on it threw the phone. Took at out and put in card reader and there it all was so i copyed it to the pc and then formatted it. Put the pics save s and such back on and was good to go. So o would try it. They are pretty cheep if you dont have one.
Good luck
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Thanks ill give it a try

Lostmymind904 said:
I've tried formatting by pc like15btimes windows give an error Nd the phone won't format either
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That's not good. As said above, try GPartEd. It's available as a stand alone image, but it's probably easiest to get by downloading Ubuntu and using a program such as InfraRecorder (Burn Image command, not just copying the ISO) to burn that to a CD. Set your BIOS to boot from CD, and start up Ubuntu. Once you're on the desktop, click the Ubuntu logo in the top left hand corner, it'll open something called the Unity Dashboard, which has a search box on it. Type "gksudo gparted" and hit enter. From there, find your card in the list and right click it's analysis, click Delete Partition. Then Right click it again and hit New Partition, select FAT32 and close the dialogue box. Then Apply in the left corner. It'll say that any changes are irreversible and can damage the device. Just agree and hope it'll fix it.
However, after writing all that and thinking it over, it sounds a lot like hardware failure. Good luck.

lucky 69 said:
Yes it should i had it happen to my wifes phone. The card look wipe nothing on it threw the phone. Took at out and put in card reader and there it all was so i copyed it to the pc and then formatted it. Put the pics save s and such back on and was good to go. So o would try it. They are pretty cheep if you dont have one.
Good luck
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Are you sure? It seems like you have alot of trouble typing. Are you eating cheetos right now?