I just rooted my phone and planned on trying out hellfire phoenix, my question refers to the following:
1.) DO NOT use CWM to load the rom to your SD card. CWM has been known to cause file corruption when using it to transfer the zip file.
**Use an adapter or stick**
2.) Ensure you have ATLEAST 80% battery left.
3.) DO NOT touch the rom for atleast 10 minutes after first boot!!! Allow the rom to move in before you go changing the furniture.
4.) Compete SEVERAL on/off cycles before you report an issue. These are usually successful in "pushing" parts of the rom into the proper order and place.
On #1, I'm still a bit new, so would dragging the zip to my SD card while it's in USB mode on my phone be okay? I'm confused as to how you put the ROM on your phone and then how you install it, thanks.
sk8erbg207 said:
On #1, I'm still a bit new, so would dragging the zip to my SD card while it's in USB mode on my phone be okay? I'm confused as to how you put the ROM on your phone and then how you install it, thanks.
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Yeah, copying it to your SD card through the actual Android OS will work. just don't boot into recovery and copy the ROM to the SD card through ClockworkMod.
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So I just got a G-tablet and I'm a flashaholic on the Evo so I wanted to do the same with the G-Tab so I went and followed all the steps but after I mount system and data and o back to install zip from sd card I cant find the rom. When I click on the folder rom it tells me that there is no files in there. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong as I followed the steps and even went back and re read them at least 10 times. Thank you for your help
Do you have a micro SD card(SD Card2) in the tablet if so that may be where the backup went. Check SD Card 2 and you should see a ClockworkMod Folder.
The mistake I was making when I first tried to flash was id drop the file with the name of the rom that you download here right into the card. My recovery was not seeing. I then realised that you have to unzip this file and put the update.zip that you want to flash onto the card and only that. Hope that helps.
So I have been flashing custom rooms and kernels a lot over the past few weeks, with no issues. I have been running lordmod 4.5.2 kernel without issue. Today I flashed the -50 under volt script, taking a android backup beforehand.
So I go to boot it up after the flash, and it freezes up on me. I think no big deal, I will just do a nandroid restore. I boot into clockwork and attempt to do a restore - and it says no files found. I do a install from zip and it let's me browse the sd card. I attempt to flash a rom from there and it fails and says (bad).
I have pulled the battery and reseated the sd card multiple times. At this point I am trying to figure out why clockwork can read my sd card just fine, but not perform any actual functions like restore or flashing.
At this point my device is unusable, looking for help.
Thanks
Update: I was able to do a data wipe and reset from clockwork, and it booted up just fine. I have a titanium backup from last night so I will just restore it, and then try to figure out why clockwork coulnt read the sd card.
So looking at my sd card in a file browser on my phone, all my files andfolders are there, but they're all 0.00B. Wtf happened here? The only important thing on here was my titanium backups, which sucks that those are gone.
Is my card dead?
EvoXOhio said:
So looking at my sd card in a file browser on my phone, all my files andfolders are there, but they're all 0.00B. Wtf happened here? The only important thing on here was my titanium backups, which sucks that those are gone.
Is my card dead?
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I have read that before you unplug your phone from your computer you must use the OS to Eject the SD card. The result of not doing this is supposed to be a corrupt card. Any chance this is what you did?
Edit: This is from the notes on the Hack Kit thread: IMPORTANT: BEFORE SWITCHING FROM DISK DRIVE TO CHARGE ONLY MODE, ALWAYS EJECT THE GOLDCARD WITH PC SOFTWARE TO FLUSH WRITE BUFFERS AND AVOID CORRUPTING THE SDCARD.
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I have read that before you unplug your phone from your computer you must use the OS to Eject the SD card. The result of not doing this is supposed to be a corrupt card. Any chance this is what you did?
Edit: This is from the notes on the Hack Kit thread: IMPORTANT: BEFORE SWITCHING FROM DISK DRIVE TO CHARGE ONLY MODE, ALWAYS EJECT THE GOLDCARD WITH PC SOFTWARE TO FLUSH WRITE BUFFERS AND AVOID CORRUPTING THE SDCARD.
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My phone wasnt plugged into my computer when this happened, nor did i eject my sdcard from the phone.
Hi All.
I'm new to this and trying to install my first rom (aiming for cynagenmod 7- it has the language support i need, or so they say)
I rooted my phone and followed a yourtube video titled "How To Install CyanogenMod 7 Nightly on T-Mobile G2x after Nandroid Backup"
When i get to the part where i need to install zip from sd card, i can't find the file. I went back and copied the zip file into a few different folders, and although i can locate the folders, it tells me that the file cannot be found.
How do i get around this? Your help is much appreciated.
Maholly said:
Hi All.
I'm new to this and trying to install my first rom (aiming for cynagenmod 7- it has the language support i need, or so they say)
I rooted my phone and followed a yourtube video titled "How To Install CyanogenMod 7 Nightly on T-Mobile G2x after Nandroid Backup"
When i get to the part where i need to install zip from sd card, i can't find the file. I went back and copied the zip file into a few different folders, and although i can locate the folders, it tells me that the file cannot be found.
How do i get around this? Your help is much appreciated.
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How did you download it? Through rom manager or from the phones xda app, browser? Look in folders with xda or rom manager?? Next time just copy and paste it to the root of the sdcard, not in a folder.
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Downloaded it on a computer and then copied it to sd card
and you can't find where you put it? did you place it in a certain folder already created... you can plug your phone in to pc then enter recovery mode, go to storage and mounts at the bottom select mount usb then copy the zip to your sdcard in no folders.
When i try to do that t tells me unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory).
From recovery mode there are some folders i can't see when i browse the folders on the computer when the phone is booted up normally - and vice versa. Is this an indicaiton of a problem?
Silly question: do you actually have an SD card inserted in your phone? If so, what did you use to format it?
i do have an sd, and i actually didn't format it. should i format? if so, what is the best way?
Your help is much appreciated
Maholly said:
i do have an sd, and i actually didn't format it. should i format? if so, what is the best way?
Your help is much appreciated
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Did you try, while in recovery, taking the back off your phone, pop out the sd card, wait 1 second, then pop it back in?
Stupid question, but it's a mistake some beginners make, but did you unzip it by any chance? That could be a reason CWM isn't seeing it. Once you DL the ROM you need to leave it untouched. Then place on SD.
After that in CWM go to choose zip from sd.
And you attained CWM via NVFlash correct?
buru898 said:
Did you try, while in recovery, taking the back off your phone, pop out the sd card, wait 1 second, then pop it back in?
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Yes, tried that and still no luck
mackster248 said:
Stupid question, but it's a mistake some beginners make, but did you unzip it by any chance? That could be a reason CWM isn't seeing it. Once you DL the ROM you need to leave it untouched. Then place on SD.
After that in CWM go to choose zip from sd.
And you attained CWM via NVFlash correct?
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no, didn't unzip, left it as cm_p999_full-201.zip
and yes, did get the CWM via NVFlash
Maybe you accidentally copied it to internal memory instead of the sdcard. You can check in cwm under internal sdcard I believe is what it is called.
When you connect the phone through USB it mounts both internal and the sdcard.
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My file explorer sees it in both the root and the folder I created in the root - both can't be seen in recovery mode.
Should i list the directories i see in both views?
In cwm are you selecting install zip from sdcard or install update from sdcard
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I ask it to install zip from sd and not update
Maholly said:
My file explorer sees it in both the root and the folder I created in the root - both can't be seen in recovery mode.
Should i list the directories i see in both views?
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you may have put it on the "internal sd card" instead of external sd card, however this is not an issue if you flash CWM 5.0.2.0 or later, it has an option to install zip from internal sd and external. i renamed my external sd card to avoid future confusion (otherwise i see two "removable disks" when i plug my phone into my computer)
Check your file names on your SD card. Check what you see listed in Recovery. If you see differing file names, then you're accessing the wrong memory.
I'm going to assume you tried booting with the physical buttons. Try booting with CWM which should give you a blue menu.
i did try to boot both ways and both times i did not find it... for the millionth time i took the sd card out and put it back in and rebooted using cwm, and funny enough, it found the direcotry... and yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, cynagenmod7 is my new rom
thanks for all your help, support and commiseration... really, much appreciated. i do ve a few more issues that i have to research now... again, external sd not found though... will probably solicit more help
again, thanks
Facing the same problemm
Hello,
new to this rooting and stuff.. I rooted the rom , installed clockworkmod... Now the rom is just not getting detected... Did it a million times.. What to do.. facing exactly the same problems.. I did all that was mentioned... The file is unzipped only card is inserted, using the cmw reboot and stuff itself so no tension.. plzz let me no what to do... stuck here since hours.. !!
hippoalways said:
Hello,
new to this rooting and stuff.. I rooted the rom , installed clockworkmod... Now the rom is just not getting detected... Did it a million times.. What to do.. facing exactly the same problems.. I did all that was mentioned... The file is unzipped only card is inserted, using the cmw reboot and stuff itself so no tension.. plzz let me no what to do... stuck here since hours.. !!
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Don't unzip the file. When you flash anything via clockwork, it flashes using .zip files.
Hey everyone, I recently decided that it IS worth it to root and flash a custom rom onto my 2.3.3 LG G2X but unfortunately I'm having a bit of trouble getting to that point. I just realized that I'm unable to post a link to the guides that I used until I have more posts :c Hopefully that won't be too relevant and if it is it won't be too difficult to find them since they're the only guides pertaining to rooting a 2.3.3 I could find. Anyway, after following those guides to the tee and reaching the final step of installing the zip from the sdcard, to much dismay I realized that the zip refuses to appear on the phone. If my laptop is to be trusted it is definitely on the root of the SD card so I have no idea why this is happening. Any suggestions or responses in general would be greatly appreciated!
I've also considered simply putting the zip on the phone's internal memory, but I'm kind of at a loss for how to get to it while the phone's in this state :/
Edit: I managed to access the internal sd card but unfortunately the zip does not show up there on the phone either
Also, if more information is needed please don't hesitate to ask! I'm new to android modifcations and wasn't really sure what else to put since the phone is pretty much entirely stock save for an lg driver to fix the white noise/clicking problem on calls and the apx drivers required for this process
I'm assuming that you used the NvFlash method so you should have clockworkmod recovery installed correct? If that is the case finding the rom you would like to flash will depend on the version of cwm recovery you used. The easiest thing to do is to place the rom (it's a zip file but do not unzip it) that you downloaded onto your internal sd card and also put a copy of it on your external sd card. Then reboot (or boot) into cwm recovery by holding the volume down button together with the power button until the LG logo changes to a different color and then let go of the buttons. It should take you to cwm recovery and from there use the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select. Navigate to and then select "install zip from sd card", then "choose zip", and then the rom you placed on the sd card should be somewhere in that list. If it says choose zip from internal and choose zip from external you can pick either one and the rom should be in that list because you copied it to both. Hope that helps
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Hi everyone,
I have a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (P3100) and I have rooted it and installed CWM so I could install the latest CM release. But when I try to install the CM zip file, it says "some symlinks failed". Now my tablet won't boot, the splash screen with "Samsung Galaxy Tab 2" keeps on forever. But I still have access to CWM and the Download mode so I think everything's not lost yet
Here are the exact steps I did:
- Uploaded the CM image (cm-10-20121213-NIGHTLY-p3100.zip), the gapps zip and the root zip to the tablet.
- Installed heimdall on my computer, with the correct drivers.
- Flashed CWM on the tablet.
- Installed the root zip on the tablet using CWM.
- Booted the tablet again just to make sure rooting was enabled (yes, it was).
- Opened CWM again, wiped data, wiped cache.
- Installed CM image:
--- Error: some symlinks failed (status 7)
- Installed the gapps zip file (worked)
- Formatted /system
- Installed CM image:
--- Same error: some symlinks failed (status 7)
I wanted to try another CM images, maybe that one is broken, I don't know, but now I cannot upload more files to the tabled internal SD card. I can't mount it anymore on my computer because the tablet won't boot. I tried using an external SD card (from another Android phone I have) but CWM says "Cannot mount /external_sd" when I try to mount it.
Can anyone help me? I want to flash the latest CM on my tablet.
Thanks!
This seems to me like either a broken recovery or maybe a corrupt download. What version of CM are you trying to flash? Also, what version of CWM are you using and where did you find it?
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Yeah, I also think the download was corrupt. I tried flashing cm-10-20121213-NIGHTLY-p3100.zip (the latest one on the day I flashed) and my CWM version is 6.0.1.1. I downloaded it from ClockworkMod official website, they say that is the latest version for my tablet model.
I believe CWM is working and that the image is corrupt, but I can't find a way to flash another CM image because I don't know how to put another file inside the tablet, or how to flash an image from my computer to the tablet. Can I use something like heimdall to flash a CM to my tablet? Can I upload an image to the tablet so I can use CWM to install it? "adb push" doesn't work, it doesn't detect my device in CWM mode. Do I need some working/stock Android image on the tablet so I can flash CM over? Or it will work no matter what's installed (given that the download is not corrupt)?
Thanks!
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Yeah, I also think the download was corrupt. I tried flashing cm-10-20121213-NIGHTLY-p3100.zip (the latest one on the day I flashed) and my CWM version is 6.0.1.1. I downloaded it from ClockworkMod official website, they say that is the latest version for my tablet model.
I believe CWM is working and that the image is corrupt, but I can't find a way to flash another CM image because I don't know how to put another file inside the tablet, or how to flash an image from my computer to the tablet. Can I use something like heimdall to flash a CM to my tablet? Can I upload an image to the tablet so I can use CWM to install it? "adb push" doesn't work, it doesn't detect my device in CWM mode. Do I need some working/stock Android image on the tablet so I can flash CM over? Or it will work no matter what's installed (given that the download is not corrupt)?
Thanks!
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Please tell me you made a backup after rooting and before modding?
If you didn't (which it sounds like), BAD CRISTIAN!!! But this will make you learn to do it from now on, huh?
Which leaves you only two options, both include using a computer to get a ROM zip to the tab...
1- connect tab to computer in recovery with usb cable and download a new copy to SD card via computer.
2 - remove SD card from tab, place in computer card reader, and download a new copy to SD card via computer.
LeftyGR said:
Please tell me you made a backup after rooting and before modding?
If you didn't (which it sounds like), BAD CRISTIAN!!! But this will make you learn to do it from now on, huh?
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I didn't make a backup :crying:
Yes, now I learnt, I will always make a backup from now on...
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1- connect tab to computer in recovery with usb cable and download a new copy to SD card via computer.
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How exactly do I download a new copy of the image to the SD card? When I plug the tablet to the computer, I can't access its files. It used to show me the files when the Android system booted, but on Recovery mode it won't display them, the filesystem isn't mounted. Should I do anything special? Should I use another CWM version?
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2 - remove SD card from tab, place in computer card reader, and download a new copy to SD card via computer.
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I tried that, but it seems I cannot mount the external SD card using CWM. When I hit "Mount external SD Card", it says "Cannot mount /external_sd". The SD card works fine though, I use it on another phone and on my computer... Is this a CWM problem? =/
Thanks!
cristiandeives said:
I didn't make a backup :crying:
Yes, now I learnt, I will always make a backup from now on...
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Good man.
How exactly do I download a new copy of the image to the SD card? When I plug the tablet to the computer, I can't access its files. It used to show me the files when the Android system booted, but on Recovery mode it won't display them, the filesystem isn't mounted. Should I do anything special? Should I use another CWM version?
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Pull the ext sd card out of the tab and put it into a card reader on a computer using the adapter the micro sd card [should have] come with.
I tried that, but it seems I cannot mount the external SD card using CWM. When I hit "Mount external SD Card", it says "Cannot mount /external_sd". The SD card works fine though, I use it on another phone and on my computer... Is this a CWM problem? =/
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Possibly... However if you can mount your internal sd card, you should be able to place the zip on there. I don't usually suggest using internal, but if that's what you gotta do....
I found out why I couldn't mount my external SD card with CWM: I had to format it with FAT32! I don't know what filesystem there was before, the SD card I have was used by an old Éclair phone. I still couldn't install others CM 10 images (I really don't know why), but I managed to install CM 9 and the brand new CM 10.1.
Thanks, guys! =)
cristiandeives said:
I found out why I couldn't mount my external SD card with CWM: I had to format it with FAT32! I don't know what filesystem there was before, the SD card I have was used by an old Éclair phone. I still couldn't install others CM 10 images (I really don't know why), but I managed to install CM 9 and the brand new CM 10.1.
Thanks, guys! =)
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Awsome. Thank you for providing your solution!!