Need help with flashing this rom seems it keeps failing when reading the zip file in CWM
Do the md5 sums match? You can download md5 checker from the market and use that to see if they match.
The thread or site where you downloaded the rom should list an md5 sum that you can compare your download with to ensure your downloaded file is not corrupted and complete.
Sorry if you already know this and it seems simple. Just have to check.
Are you rebooting into recovery to flash, or trying from ROM manager?
Also, which build number? The latest had an issue, and they informed us to hold off on flashing it until they fixed it. I don't run eternity, so I haven't tried flashing the most recent.
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The new R919 had a bug. Now he posted a new version of it. It works I'm running it as of now.
Make sure you are downloading the files from the Link in the OP at infectedrom.
Some people click the runnymede link in the OP here and mistakenly download the wrong file. It is purely a link for others to see what the rom was based off.
If you look in development Virus dropped a new Airborne Sony Xplod ROM this morning for the Tbolt. Very fast. It is in Alpha, but fully functional.
I am currently running InfectedROM. Eternity R193. No trouble flashing in CWM. I also flashed version R191 as well with no problems.
my Infected Thunderbolt using Tapatalk.
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This is partly a question, partly a guide.
I got a nexus S the other day and was trying to decide weather to root/unlock it. The problem I ended up having (had the same issue with my desire) is that I couldn't find a source for the clockworkmod recovery image (most of the root guides point to outdated links, point to downloads with no version info, or point to versions that are pretty old).
I eventually went down the same path with this phone that i did with the desire, download rom manager and get it to download the version it thought was appropriate for my phone. It didnt have root, so downloading was the only thing it can do (btw, if your looking to do the same thing i did, rom manager downloads it to the /sdcard/clockworkmod/download/<some hostname>/cm/recoveries/ directory). It got 3.0.2.4, which i copied off the storage and flashed with fastboot.
However, it makes me wonder where do people actually get clockworkmod recovery from? Is there a single place? alot of the links point to places like mediafire. Lastly, is 3.0.2.4 the version i should be using? (currently on 2.3.4 stock with root/unlock on a i9023).
Shihan said:
This is partly a question, partly a guide.
I got a nexus S the other day and was trying to decide weather to root/unlock it. The problem I ended up having (had the same issue with my desire) is that I couldn't find a source for the clockworkmod recovery image (most of the root guides point to outdated links, point to downloads with no version info, or point to versions that are pretty old).
I eventually went down the same path with this phone that i did with the desire, download rom manager and get it to download the version it thought was appropriate for my phone. It didnt have root, so downloading was the only thing it can do (btw, if your looking to do the same thing i did, rom manager downloads it to the /sdcard/clockworkmod/download/<some hostname>/cm/recoveries/ directory). It got 3.0.2.4, which i copied off the storage and flashed with fastboot.
However, it makes me wonder where do people actually get clockworkmod recovery from? Is there a single place? alot of the links point to places like mediafire. Lastly, is 3.0.2.4 the version i should be using? (currently on 2.3.4 stock with root/unlock on a i9023).
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039584
or a modded and updated version here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
I had the same problem back when I got my NS. I ended up finding a link somewhere here on xda, i think.
Downloading it with Rom-Manager is a good idea too, unfortunately i didnt know about Rom-Manager by that time.
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/02/clockwork-recovery-image.html
Koush is Mr. Clockwork himself. I think he even has a Nexus S.
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Samsung Galaxy S 4G Gingerbread 2.3.6 Update and Root
So i found this over at http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6794946
if anyone has tried this let me know what happens and what you think. I bought this phone used a few weeks ago. I had no idea about rooting and unlocking and roms, I basically learned everyrthing thru research here....so naturally im a tad skeptical of things outside of this forum....silly
Ive rooted and unloked my phone. ive flashed several roms. right now i have the octane v2.3.5...smooth resposive fast
Not sure it's much if any different from what you can get out of the forums here. I'm running rooted 2.3.6.
I'm a 'better to be safe than sorry' type. Looks like that links makes a coupke of references back to here, anyway.
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Don't use anything that isn't on this forum or in RootzWiki. You'll just get flamed for hard bricking by using something from another site.
Rooting and deleting bloat
I got this T959V last week and knew there had to be development on it. I got a Pandigital novel last christmas and learned some good lessons about android over at slatredroid. I was happy to find so much good work here and jumped right into flashing after slogging through this swamp (that's a compliment!) of info and choices. My phone arrived with Froyo 2.2.1 and stock T959VUVKD1. After getting my mind wrapped around the possibility of bricking the thing (which, thanks to the nature of the device and/or the excellent developers here, seems less likely than with the Pandigital) I used Odin to flash right to FW2.3.5, then tonight to FW2.3.6, T959VUVKJ5, kernel 2.6.35.7-T959VUVKF1-CL270364
I have not removed my sdcard (unlike w/pandigital flashing) or sim card on either of the three stops in my upgrading. HOWEVER, when I followed dsexton702's guide to rooting I did have to remove my battery - the red blowfish after loading his first rooting tarball nearly had me dropping a load in my pants. Couldn't power down with the button, so I pulled the battery and hoped. Put the battery back in, powered on and it booted. I thought factory reset, then reflashing 2.3.6 and forgetting about rooting. But I do want to remove some of the bloat from the device, so I just used odin to upload the second rooting tar and prayed! It worked! Thank you, dsxton702!
At least it seems to have worked. When I open titanium it now recognizes the device as rooted. I am using the freebie, which may be my real problem. But, anyway, here's where I am. When I try to delete preinstalled software like slacke by doing FORCE REMOVE APP in titanium I get this result:
finding update package
unknown volume for path [SYSTEM:/app/slackerradio.apk]
Can't mount SYSTEM:/app/slackerradio.apk
Installation aborted
Given these choices, I tried #4 first, then #1:
reboot system
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
The app remains. I know I have to buy the app to freeze other apps; the error message tells me so. But to delete, is my problem that I am using the titanium freebie, or am I doing something wrong with the freebie?
So has anyone tried it? I just want to make sure someone has confirmation before I try this one.
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So has anyone tried it? I just want to make sure someone has confirmation before I try this one.
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Neon - Use the GB Ext4 Starter Pack - It works.
Or use The KJ6 Heimdall One-Click Collection - It works.
Or use ROM-ODIN-2.3.6-Gingerbread Offical - It works.
If there were torrents for downloads things would be much easier:laugh:
Help me with Valhalla Custom ROM flashing
Hello. I just thought this forum to be the appropriate one for posting my issue. I have SGS4G. Using XDA forums help I have been able to upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.3.6. lumin30's "[GUIDES] Fresh out of box Galaxy S 4G | Heimdall One-Click For Dummies" I have flashed my Kernel and installed CWM. Thanks a lot lumin30 for your guide. It really helped a noob like me.
However I am facing below problems
1. From the same link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716 I chose Valhalla Black FB edition. And when i choose "vb-fb-build-4.zip" download link it downloads very slowly and evenif the total file size initially shows as 143MB, however only 20-40MB files are getting downloaded. I have tried several times. Same issue..not sure why. Anyone has any link from where I can get the latest Valhalla Black FB edition?
2. When I tried to take the Valhalla Black FB Edition from "https://github.com/teamacid/valhalla-black (Valhalla Black FB Edition on GitHub) and downloaded it it was around 141MB. The name was "teamacid-valhalla-black-build3-4-ge768021.zip". not sure if this is the FB version or not. Anyway when I try flashing this ROM I am getting "update opening and installation aborted" on top it says "choose the update file from sdcard" or any other location kind of information..
Could anyone help me with these questions. It will really be a great help as I need to flash the ROM. Do I also need to install some more files along with the ROM?
Please help!!
tomzzy said:
Hello. I just thought this forum to be the appropriate one for posting my issue. I have SGS4G. Using XDA forums help I have been able to upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.3.6. lumin30's "[GUIDES] Fresh out of box Galaxy S 4G | Heimdall One-Click For Dummies" I have flashed my Kernel and installed CWM. Thanks a lot lumin30 for your guide. It really helped a noob like me.
However I am facing below problems
1. From the same link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716 I chose Valhalla Black FB edition. And when i choose "vb-fb-build-4.zip" download link it downloads very slowly and evenif the total file size initially shows as 143MB, however only 20-40MB files are getting downloaded. I have tried several times. Same issue..not sure why. Anyone has any link from where I can get the latest Valhalla Black FB edition?
2. When I tried to take the Valhalla Black FB Edition from "https://github.com/teamacid/valhalla-black (Valhalla Black FB Edition on GitHub) and downloaded it it was around 141MB. The name was "teamacid-valhalla-black-build3-4-ge768021.zip". not sure if this is the FB version or not. Anyway when I try flashing this ROM I am getting "update opening and installation aborted" on top it says "choose the update file from sdcard" or any other location kind of information..
Could anyone help me with these questions. It will really be a great help as I need to flash the ROM. Do I also need to install some more files along with the ROM?
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Is there anyone who can help me? I have checked all the forum's and tried all possible options..I am still getting on CWM5
Opening package
Installing package
Installation Aborted.
No other message.
I am on Valhalla Final and trying to flash Valhalla Black FB edition
Please someone help me!!
tomzzy said:
Is there anyone who can help me? I have checked all the forum's and tried all possible options..I am still getting on CWM5
Opening package
Installing package
Installation Aborted.
No other message.
I am on Valhalla Final and trying to flash Valhalla Black FB edition
Please someone help me!!
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Check rom md5 you might have a bad download
And.try the download link.provided on rom thread OP that's it.
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If helped don't be afraid to hit the thanks button it doesn't bite lol
Are you choosing update from zip or install from zip? I haven't looked at cwm in awhile so not exactly sure what it says
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Hi all im having a brain malfunction,
i have infuse 4 g att with latest "non rooted" 2.3.6 gingerbread from at&t I997uckl2
kernal version 2.6.35.7-I997uckl2-cl806505
gingerbread.uckl2
now my malfunction, i have dl the latest zues rom updated 3-5-12
i cannot seem to figure out 2 things. how to install cwm onto phone "need root" i think,
and 2 and here is where i get called a noob, so i placed the zues build onto my sdcard tried to update form there however, 1 when i get into the directory to update from sd i cannot find the zip "dont have win zip have winrar"
can anyone help a poor sod with a slap and direct me/give links to correct program to install cwm/and zues.
i have odin 1.81 i did dl a zip for cwm-uckl2 however i cannot seem to figure out how to interface it to phone to install it ntm from what i can see odin looks for a pit file/ .tar and i show in my cwm folder under updates modem.bin and redbend_ua
ive done this before but after the last update from at&t im lost
check out the forum below, it has everything you need. You need to root the phone first, install 3eRecovery and CWM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1293751
thanks but i think i failed to say this is the STOCK version of gingerbread the one there is no root for.
thats where im having issues windows is blatently retarded and will not allow heimdall to see the phone. if i have the phone on and connected zadig.exe runs finds phone installs drivers and all cool but then when i go to put phone in dl mode all a sudden i no longer have the device"phone " listed.
so i go to super one click ver. 2.3.3 after it loads 198 zerglings and pauses it fails in middle of step 7.
the real issue here is rooting, thats the real problem, once i root and or flash a rom thats rooted in order to finally instal the zues rom is my goal.
so im at a loss as to what file to actually use where it is able to be installed with out this samgung/at&t from feb,
fail rom lol "i hate at&t if you cant tell. thanks for any help
the same guy below was having the same problems as you I think...you have to flash Entropy512's kernel first I believe using ODIN which can be found on the second link I provided. The first link provides everything, I'd try to explain but I don't want to mess you up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480168
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19405569&postcount=2
Thanls for that info you saved me a lot of time! hope all goes well "im sure it will"
thanks for the patience!
uggg glad i deleted what i posted ! before people seen it so far so good
Just an update, ZUES ROCKS!
ok thanks again for the help "i did go nuts for a bit took a lot longer than hoped"
flashed zues up and running ! had a couple of issues but worked thru them!
thanks again!
no problem
Hey there guys,
I'm a noob so I had to post here. Although I've already read the intro guides to installing ROM's. Right now running the CM 11 nightly on my skyrocket. I'm looking for a better rom that has kitkat and I came across the Hellkat/BlueLightning roms. I wanted to install blue lightning but I have a couple questions before I mess anything up (I've read that being fully informed and taking precautions is a must)
So I wanted to know, if I'm installing this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2624875
Can I use the current recovery that I'm using? It's CWM v.6.0.3.7
I read that it's recommended to use a SELinux compatible recovery.
Someone in the thread said to use twrp 2.6.1 but I don't want to change from CWM to twrp.
So can I go ahead and install blue lightning? Do i absolutely HAVE to change to twrp? Or does the newest CWM for my phone work with installing the blue lightning build? (a link would be appreciated!)
Also, a question that I've always had, I don't have to install the first version of the rom right? I can just go ahead and install the zip of the latest build? That's what I've been doing, and when multiple updates come along, I install the latest build and not the builds in between. Can someone clarify this for me? I'm not doing something wrong right?
Thanks in advance for answering my lengthy question and helping me out.
Cheers :good:
svvparakala said:
Hey there guys,
I'm a noob so I had to post here. Although I've already read the intro guides to installing ROM's. Right now running the CM 11 nightly on my skyrocket. I'm looking for a better rom that has kitkat and I came across the Hellkat/BlueLightning roms. I wanted to install blue lightning but I have a couple questions before I mess anything up (I've read that being fully informed and taking precautions is a must)
So I wanted to know, if I'm installing this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2624875
Can I use the current recovery that I'm using? It's CWM v.6.0.3.7
I read that it's recommended to use a SELinux compatible recovery.
Someone in the thread said to use twrp 2.6.1 but I don't want to change from CWM to twrp.
So can I go ahead and install blue lightning? Do i absolutely HAVE to change to twrp? Or does the newest CWM for my phone work with installing the blue lightning build? (a link would be appreciated!)
Also, a question that I've always had, I don't have to install the first version of the rom right? I can just go ahead and install the zip of the latest build? That's what I've been doing, and when multiple updates come along, I install the latest build and not the builds in between. Can someone clarify this for me? I'm not doing something wrong right?
Thanks in advance for answering my lengthy question and helping me out.
Cheers :good:
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Poured your heart out I see. Ill try and clear things up. First of though, you can use either CWM or TWRP recovery's. I actually prefer CWM to. If you are installing Kit Kat though you do need CWM v6.0.3.7 or above! Also you need a Jellybean radio. As for the ROM I am running HellDevs Unofficial CM.11 Built using the Linaro toolchain, Works great! Also No you do not have to install the first versions, Just Wipe data, cache and dalvic. Use any version you want! Hope I helped if you have any more questions id be happy to help.
Thanks!
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Poured your heart out I see. Ill try and clear things up. First of though, you can use either CWM or TWRP recovery's. I actually prefer CWM to. If you are installing Kit Kat though you do need CWM v6.0.3.7 or above! Also you need a Jellybean radio. As for the ROM I am running HellDevs Unofficial CM.11 Built using the Linaro toolchain, Works great! Also No you do not have to install the first versions, Just Wipe data, cache and dalvic. Use any version you want! Hope I helped if you have any more questions id be happy to help.
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Ah, so it's not much different from when I was installing the CM 11. Thanks for the quick reply! :victory:
(P.S. how do you close a thread/mark it as answered?)
svvparakala said:
Ah, so it's not much different from when I was installing the CM 11. Thanks for the quick reply! :victory:
(P.S. how do you close a thread/mark it as answered?)
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Anytime bub! I actually don't know how to close it. But leaving it up could help other people also.. Who have the same question.
Md5 Checksum?
SighIsAnonymous said:
Anytime bub! I actually don't know how to close it. But leaving it up could help other people also.. Who have the same question.
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Actually I do have another question I was hoping you might be able to help me out with. I've heard that MD5 checksum is an important step. I downloaded the blulightning build. But when I copied the md5 checksum they had on the goo page, it didn't match the one on the zip file, or the md5 file that i downloaded (if i click on the md5 number on goo) Is something wrong? Or am i messing something up here?
Can't post this as a reply to the blue lightning thread yet, still under 10 posts :silly:
svvparakala said:
Actually I do have another question I was hoping you might be able to help me out with. I've heard that MD5 checksum is an important step. I downloaded the blulightning build. But when I copied the md5 checksum they had on the goo page, it didn't match the one on the zip file, or the md5 file that i downloaded (if i click on the md5 number on goo) Is something wrong? Or am i messing something up here?
Can't post this as a reply to the blue lightning thread yet, still under 10 posts :silly:
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I usually don't check it. You did it all wrong though. There's a few ways to check the MD5, either through busybox on the phone or a app on the computer. Don't worry I thought the same thing you did when I started.:laugh: But here's a great thread with more information! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17065076 Personally though if you are sure you download the file correctly you should be good. Also most the time if something is wrong CWM Will tell you and not even let you flash it. Check that thread though it could maybe clear some things up for you.:angel:
Tried to root my phone that just came in the mail today. I am stuck at the mi screen.
Tried to download from official site but the download keeps failing.
A mirror to the new update so I can flash stock and any advice would be great!
Thanks all
Which version are you talking about?
Latest is 6.6.6.0 as far as i know.
The version with 6.6.8.0 is only for Asia and not released for the world.
About rooting: use the toolkit v4 (and not v3)
First install TWRP via that toolkit and only then start the root proces.
Worked for me, but if you do in another order, you will get stuck.
http://en.miui.com/thread-117336-1-1.html
Thanks for the reply and the quick guide to rooting it. I may have been trying it with something other than V4 which could have caused the stall at the "mi" screen.
I think I might just have to wait until their servers are back up because I'm pretty sure ill have to do the fastboot flashing method.
@gotmicah
I had problems downloading too the last days...slow speed and after a few MB it kept failing. In miui forum i found a tip about this tool http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Just copy the download link in there, worked great
And i think if you install twrp and flash your Rom, it should be enough.
Yeah, and one more thing. Xposed doesn't work in MIUI, but it does work on my build of CM12.1. Don't try using Xposed, caused a lot of problems for me (like apps disappearing etc) and don't use OTA. Download the update zip from the website and flash manually. Just thought I'd put this out there
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@gotmicah
I had problems downloading too the last days...slow speed and after a few MB it kept failing. In miui forum i found a tip about this tool freedownloadmanager
Just copy the download link in there, worked great
And i think if you install twrp and flash your Rom, it should be enough.
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Thanks dude, you're the true MVP here! I used something similar to freedownloadmanager and was able to get the newest fastboot version in around 2 hours! Sounds slow, but better than a failed DL (I had to remove the link in the quote because im a new member)
Evil Tak said:
Yeah, and one more thing. Xposed doesn't work in MIUI, but it does work on my build of CM12.1. Don't try using Xposed, caused a lot of problems for me (like apps disappearing etc) and don't use OTA. Download the update zip from the website and flash manually. Just thought I'd put this out there
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This is useful, thanks!
ALSO
I just want to let everyone know that may be searching because of a bad flash or similar situation...
If your flash keeps failing, switch computers and try again. My flash would only take a few seconds, say successful but the phone would be stuck in fastboot mode. I installed the same exact files/ drivers on another laptop, tried again and within a few minutes had a perfectly function phone again. Of course this was after hours of frustration and it ended up just being the computer I was flashing it on...