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[Q] trying to install rom

Hello, I'm having a bit of trouble putting a custom rom on my Samsung Infuse 4G. I followed the insructions in gtg465x's latest rom post, but it doesn't work for me. I'm rooted and installed the 3e recovery that says it bypasses the signature verification mumbo, but upon reboot it says "E: failed to verify whole- file signature"
"E: signature verification failed". Should I set it back to factory specs and start over? Yes I'm a noob at this.

I don't think the proper recovery is installed. Maybe it didn't replace the original one like it was supposed to or something.
I would try reinstalling the proper recovery again and then installing CWM.

wrong folder maybe
ok, thanks, I may have put it the wrong folder. I unzipped in on my computer, then dragged the file to the "downloads" folder on the internal sd card. l' ll keep reading maybe ill figure it out.

Jim40216 said:
ok, thanks, I may have put it the wrong folder. I unzipped in on my computer, then dragged the file to the "downloads" folder on the internal sd card. l' ll keep reading maybe ill figure it out.
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Download clockworkmod off the market and flash i9000
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[Q] CWM
ya, did all that, the cwm seems to be doing it's thing, ill try what the other post said and make sure I have the right 3e recovery file for my phone. thanks. Is there a particular folder to put it in? Or anywhere on he internal sd card?

Just put it on ur internal SD card
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Jim40216 said:
ya, did all that, the cwm seems to be doing it's thing, ill try what the other post said and make sure I have the right 3e recovery file for my phone. thanks. Is there a particular folder to put it in? Or anywhere on he internal sd card?
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Yes use Root Explorer and replace the stock recovery in system/bin folder.
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It has to be placed in /system/bin with proper permissions (I forget what perms at the moment).
I believe at this point the easiest way to install Modded 3e Recovery and CWM is to flash the Community Voodoo kernel using Odin (Samsung's update/flash utility)
Unfortunately I can't help you with that, I did it the hard way (replace recovery with modded 3e using the shell and not Root Explorer, since I'm a Linux guy and very familiar with Linux/Unix shells.)

[Q] Can't find zip in recovery mode when trying to install rom

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.

Need Help!! Wiped phone in TWRP, but install zip wasn't on phone! No backups!

Hello everyone! I just downloaded and moved an install zip of a ROM to my sd card using root explorer. Problem is I had wiped everything beforehand in recovery without confirming that the zip was on my sd card! I was sure it was on there as I had done this many times before, but I couldn't find it using TWRP.
How can I fix this? I have an sd reader but it doesn't support sdhc

Try looking in data/media folder. Had that happen to me and that's where it was

Coderedpl said:
Try looking in data/media folder. Had that happen to me and that's where it was
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I swear I looked everywhere, but I'll double check. Is this an issue with TWRP? I never had a problem like this with CWM.
So how do I boot into recovery with the phone off now?

goodfella44 said:
I swear I looked everywhere, but I'll double check. Is this an issue with TWRP? I never had a problem like this with CWM.
So how do I boot into recovery with the phone off now?
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With cwm i had no issue like this. With TWRP i did.
Press and hold volume up +home + power

Thanks! Wish me luck

So frustrating! I know that the damn zip is on there somewhere, but I can't see it! I checked data/media and found TWRP, but no zip. You found the zip on the external card in data/media and not the internal storage correct? Any other suggestions that I can try other than getting a compatible sd card reader/adapter?

goodfella44 said:
So frustrating! I know that the damn zip is on there somewhere, but I can't see it! I checked data/media and found TWRP, but no zip. You found the zip on the external card in data/media and not the internal storage correct? Any other suggestions that I can try other than getting a compatible sd card reader/adapter?
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Where did you put the file?
I found it on the internal storage as thats where I had my file.

did you use the file manager function in advanced to look for it?
and in the future make a folder called 3 and put all flash-able zips in it
i use the 3 becuz recovery has numbers at the top of the list

I always download and move the zip to the root of my sd with root explorer before I flash. Never had any problems until using TWRP. Not saying it's not my fault for not making a backup first, but something screwy is going on with it. I'll be going back to CWM.

If you can't find it... Download the file on your computer... Connect to your phone computer as disk drive... Transfer the file into a recognized folder and then flash it...
Geaux Tigers

Karl said:
did you use the file manager function in advanced to look for it?
and in the future make a folder called 3 and put all flash-able zips in it
i use the 3 becuz recovery has numbers at the top of the list
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yes I used the file manager, but didn't find anything. I think what happened was that the zip was on internal storage and was erased when I wiped. Not sure how it was in internal storage because I'm almost positive I moved it to the root of sd before booting into recovery. I could be wrong though.

Menardo said:
If you can't find it... Download the file on your computer... Connect to your phone computer as disk drive... Transfer the file into a recognized folder and then flash it...
Geaux Tigers
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how can I do that with no OS installed?

you can use the rooted img file and use odin so you can at least boot up

Karl said:
you can use the rooted img file and use odin so you can at least boot up
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That's what I'm talking about! Kind sir, would you please explain in more detail on how to accomplish this?

what do you know?
do you know how to use odin?

goodfella44 said:
how can I do that with no OS installed?
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I've never used TWRP but from the recovery you should be able to mount your phone/ sd card to your computer and transfer files... might be called mount and storage or something close to that...

I know enough to get me into his predicament!
I used this to root (don't think I used Odin with that), but I do remember messing with it for something else as I do have it installed. So I'm no expert as you can tell!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
ok go to the link above download Odin (extract to the folder) and the root66 tar
put them in a folder on your desktop
put your phone in download mode and plug in cable
(Turn off Phone
Hold down Volume Down + Power + Home Button
Press Volume Up when Prompted after the security warning)
Open up ODIN
Put the stock.vzw_root66.tar in the PDA section
Select box: Auto Reboot
it will take awhile "do not unplug" wait for it to say pass it will reboot on its own

Menardo said:
I've never used TWRP but from the recovery you should be able to mount your phone/ sd card to your computer and transfer files... might be called mount and storage or something close to that...
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I tried that and TWRP says unable to open ums lunfile , /sys/devices/platf
Karl said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
ok go to the link above download Odin (extract to the folder) and the root66 tar
put them in a folder on your desktop
put your phone in download mode and plug in cable
(Turn off Phone
Hold down Volume Down + Power + Home Button
Press Volume Up when Prompted after the security warning)
Open up ODIN
Put the stock.vzw_root66.tar in the PDA section
Select box: Auto Reboot
it will take awhile "do not unplug" wait for it to say pass it will reboot on its own
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how do I do that?

goodfella44 said:
I tried that and TWRP says unable to open ums lunfile , /sys/devices/platf
how do I do that?
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which part?

Picked up a g2x off craigslist.

So I picked up a LG g2x off craigslist for 80 bucks and I had to buy a new battery for it. I don't know much about the phone besides the fact that it has Ice cream sandwich and that I think it might be rooted. The previous owner has ROM manager on it, and so forth.
The phone allows me to text back and forth and the speakers work great EXCEPT when I try and make/receive calls, there is a loud clicking sound. I can't hear what the person is saying and they can't hear me.
I'm not very experienced with rooting and was reading that this might be part of the problem for the clicking noise? Could I just do a factory reset and maybe this would help? Any suggestions would be very helpful.
P.S. I'm not sure if this helps but the phone is running android version 4.0.4 and EBloodMod version build5-aosp.
Thank you.

What base band are you on?
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cainG2x said:
What base band are you on?
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M6600A-SCAUTNZ-2.0.9720T 1
MP: TRULGE_08.09.02R_MDM
I don't know if this makes things worse, but my phone rejects my SD card.

What date does your baseband say? I.e. March 2012
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I'd head over to the development threads. Search for new baseband fix, dL the zip, put on phone SD (preferably external SD), reboot phone while holding down power button and volume down button until u see a second LG logo, logo should have blues in it, than let go of buttons. This will bring you into CWM (recovery) select install zip from SD and depending on if u used a microsd card or the phones internal SD u need to navigate to the correct location, select the newbaseband.zip and select ok to flash. Select go back than reboot device. You should be fixed. I have same issue with nearly all Rom. This should fix ya up.
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Here.
http://owain.hopto.org/T-Mobile LG G2x (p999)/Domination/new_baseband.zip[/QUOTE]
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Baseband version says March 11th, 2012
I'm not really phone savy. :/

Go to the link the guy posted right above your post and flash it.
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So according to that link you presented, I just save that zip to my computer, open it up and then what?
Which do I click on? META-INF or system folder? Where do I go from there?
I'm sorry I'm not very good at this haha. Is there anywhere I can find a step by step process? I just really need this phone to work as I am short on cash.

Angrystraw69 said:
So according to that link you presented, I just save that zip to my computer, open it up and then what?
Which do I click on? META-INF or system folder? Where do I go from there?
I'm sorry I'm not very good at this haha. Is there anywhere I can find a step by step process? I just really need this phone to work as I am short on cash.
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1. Download the .zip file to your SD card, the root of it, not in any folders or anything, just to the SD card.
2. Turn the phone off.
3. Hold power and volume down until you see the second LG logo(when you see the second lg logo, let go of the buttons), this will take you into ClockworkMod Recovery
4. From there, if the version says 5.0.2.0 you can use the volume buttons to scroll, and the power button to select an option. If the version says 5.8 then just use the screen to select options.
5. Go to install zip from sd card
6. Choose zip from sd card
7. Now find the new_baseband.zip by scrolling through the list, it should be at the bottom. Find it, click it.
8. Select yes-install
9. Go all the way back out, select reboot and calling should now work.

noahk423 said:
1. Download the .zip file to your SD card, the root of it, not in any folders or anything, just to the SD card.
2. Turn the phone off.
3. Hold power and volume down until you see the second LG logo(when you see the second lg logo, let go of the buttons), this will take you into ClockworkMod Recovery
4. From there, if the version says 5.0.2.0 you can use the volume buttons to scroll, and the power button to select an option. If the version says 5.8 then just use the screen to select options.
5. Go to install zip from sd card
6. Choose zip from sd card
7. Now find the new_baseband.zip by scrolling through the list, it should be at the bottom. Find it, click it.
8. Select yes-install
9. Go all the way back out, select reboot and calling should now work.
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Is it okay If I use a used SD card I got from my girlfriend? Also I'm guessing I plug my phone via usb into my computer and is there a certain way to download the file to the SD card and not just your computer?

Angrystraw69 said:
Is it okay If I use a used SD card I got from my girlfriend? Also I'm guessing I plug my phone via usb into my computer and is there a certain way to download the file to the SD card and not just your computer?
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You can use any SD card, or the internal if you'd like. And you can just download it straight to your phone. Just go to the link on your phone and download it. If you have an SD card it'll download straight to the download/ folder on the sd card, so in clockworkmod you'd have to find the zip there. if you downloaded using no SD card, just select choose zip from internal rather then sd when it gives you the option.

For some reason when I click that link you supplied on my phone it says: An SD card is required to download new_baseband.zip and doesn't give me the option to use my internal SD.
Thanks for all your help so far.

Angrystraw69 said:
For some reason when I click that link you supplied on my phone it says: An SD card is required to download new_baseband.zip and doesn't give me the option to use my internal SD.
Thanks for all your help so far.
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Check the browser settings and see if it gives you an option to where you want to download it.
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noahk423 said:
Check the browser settings and see if it gives you an option to where you want to download it.
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I went to my browser and checked my settings, and all the browser options and there was nothing to do with downloads.

Angrystraw69 said:
I went to my browser and checked my settings, and all the browser options and there was nothing to do with downloads.
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Hmm, ok, there's two ways to doing this, drag and drop from your computer, or borrow an SD card. If you choose to do it from your computer, make sure you have the USB drivers, just Google lg g2x USB drivers and install them.
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Okay I went to http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/G2X-Driver/index.jsp and downloaded the latest drivers on my computer. Now my phone is connected to my laptop via USB. What exactly do I do next? I'm guessing I go to that link you posted earlier(ZIP) but once I get to the zip which exactly do I chose?
Keep in mind, I DO NOT have an SD card.

Angrystraw69 said:
Okay I went to http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/G2X-Driver/index.jsp and downloaded the latest drivers on my computer. Now my phone is connected to my laptop via USB. What exactly do I do next? I'm guessing I go to that link you posted earlier(ZIP) but once I get to the zip which exactly do I chose?
Keep in mind, I DO NOT have an SD card.
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Choose USB storage on your phone, and then your phone should pop up on screen, it should say lg p999 or something, it'll have internel storage there, drag and drop the new_baseband.zip to your internal space.
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So I'm not sure if your explaining this correctly but my phone is plugged into my computer and my phone says it is connected as a media device and the only other option is for it to be connected as a camera. AND there is no such thing as USB storage on my phone, I checked all the settings.
So I'm guessing you meant go to DEVICES on my laptop. Well I did that and I see my phone(LG-P999) under devices. So I clicked that link you shared earlier and saved the ZIP to my computer. Well the WINRAR popped up and there are 3 things I can click on there are 1. ... 2. META-INF and system.I have no idea if I have click any of those But I tried to go to my downloads and drag the basic file of new_baseband.zip and it would not drag.
I have no idea what I'm doing here. Bare with me here, I'm sorry.

Angrystraw69 said:
So I'm not sure if your explaining this correctly but my phone is plugged into my computer and my phone says it is connected as a media device and the only other option is for it to be connected as a camera. AND there is no such thing as USB storage on my phone, I checked all the settings.
So I'm guessing you meant go to DEVICES on my laptop. Well I did that and I see my phone(LG-P999) under devices. So I clicked that link you shared earlier and saved the ZIP to my computer. Well the WINRAR popped up and there are 3 things I can click on there are 1. ... 2. META-INF and system.I have no idea if I have click any of those But I tried to go to my downloads and drag the basic file of new_baseband.zip and it would not drag.
I have no idea what I'm doing here. Bare with me here, I'm sorry.
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Copy the file to it then if it will not drag.
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noahk423 said:
Copy the file to it then if it will not drag.
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I'm attaching a photo show you what I'm looking at. When I right click the "file" the only option it gives me is to copy the download link and there is not an option when I right click my device(lg) to paste anything.

Phone/SD Card Read Issue.

So I had a G2x before. It stopped working on me randomly. I ended up borrowing another G2x from a friend.
It's running 2.3.4.....I went to flash CWM with NV-Flash and it worked fine it seemed. But now the phone won't fully recognize the SD card.
I thought I remembered running into this problem the last time but cannot find anything on it.
The card works. I can put files on it and delete them by plugging the card straight into the computer. But when i plug the SD card into the phone it recognizes all of the folders but none of the files in those folders.
Ideas???

when I'm on stock 2.3.4 my phone actually makes my sd card directory /mnt/sdcard/_ExternalSD
So see if you have that directory...that should be your actual sd card
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Alright that was the issue and _ExternalSD is a folder and has the files in it but CWM doesn't seem to let me into that folder either. :/

Well I guess I should have checked this last night and I don't know why I didn't. Flash CWM with NVFlash but the phone still doesn't have root access. Any ideas on that?

Spectral8x said:
Alright that was the issue and _ExternalSD is a folder and has the files in it but CWM doesn't seem to let me into that folder either. :/
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In clock work do browse your internal or external sd card?
Spectral8x said:
Well I guess I should have checked this last night and I don't know why I didn't. Flash CWM with NVFlash but the phone still doesn't have root access. Any ideas on that?
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Flashing clockwork doesn't give you root... it only flashes clockwork. To get root flash any ROM.

I go into the external SD folder and go to the download folder there where the zips are located and they do not appear. They are there tho I verified that with astro and rom manager can see them but cannot flash the roms through it.
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