So, I finally decided to take the leap into custom ROMs with MiUi (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879064). I got Darksides Super Wipe (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955) as the instructions listed.
I followed the instructions to the T: I did a back up, I flashed Darkside, then I flashed MiUi. Everything worked until I tried to flash MiUi and all I got was E:Can't open /sdcard/MIUI...... (bad) Installation aborted. I tried to flash my backup through CWM on my external SD and that also isn't working. I have no idea what to do and I'm terrified my battery is going to run out and I'm going to be SOL.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You shouldn't use darkside wipe.
Did you check the md5 sum of the download?
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xcrazydx said:
You shouldn't use darkside wipe.
Did you check the md5 sum of the download?
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I actually just figured out how to fix it, I guess I jumped the gun on coming to the forums. I guess I'd rather just look dumb and have an answer than wait for my battery to go from 44-0
I was just doing what they said to do on the instructions. Doesn't it basically just reset to factory default/wipe cache?
I want to try again, but I don't know where I went wrong the first time. Should I not have put it on my external SD card?
SlushySolid said:
I actually just figured out how to fix it, I guess I jumped the gun on coming to the forums. I guess I'd rather just look dumb and have an answer than wait for my battery to go from 44-0
I was just doing what they said to do on the instructions. Doesn't it basically just reset to factory default/wipe cache?
I want to try again, but I don't know where I went wrong the first time. Should I not have put it on my external SD card?
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No one has used darkside wipe for a long time. I don't see anywhere in the instructions where it says to use that script.
External sd is the best place to put it. Make sure it's on the root of the sd card though.
Did you check the md5 sum?
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xcrazydx said:
No one has used darkside wipe for a long time. I don't see anywhere in the instructions where it says to use that script.
External sd is the best place to put it. Make sure it's on the root of the sd card though.
Did you check the md5 sum?
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Uhhhh, I'm looking at how to do that and I have a MD5 Check, but where do you find the Hash Sum?
I feel like I dived in over my head....sorry for all the questions. I read up on some of the guides, but I guess I didn't understand it as well as I thought.
EDIT: Okay, I have it verified, about to try again.
I've now tried CyanogenMod and gotten the same message about it being bad. I'm so confused...
SlushySolid said:
I've now tried CyanogenMod and gotten the same message about it being bad. I'm so confused...
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What recovery do you have?
The md5 sum is on the page where you download the Rom.
Are you putting the zip on the root of the card?
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SlushySolid said:
I've now tried CyanogenMod and gotten the same message about it being bad. I'm so confused...
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You're probably going to have to Odin back to stick and start over. Do you know how to use it? And where to find the stock rom?
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xcrazydx said:
What recovery do you have?
The md5 sum is on the page where you download the Rom.
Are you putting the zip on the root of the card?
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I found it, it's verified. And yeah, I'm putting it on the outtermost file of my external SD card.
jd1639 said:
You're probably going to have to Odin back to stick and start over. Do you know how to use it? And where to find the stock rom?
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I did, I rooted my phone a while back. Isn't there a link to the stock rom on the sticky?
EDIT: Just if I misunderstood you, I am currently on the stock ROM. I managed to get back to it by using a backup.
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I found it, it's verified. And yeah, I'm putting it on the outtermost file of my external SD card.
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What version of recovery?
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What version of recovery?
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Oh, sorry, CWRM v5.5.0.4
This 5 minute timer thing is killing me...
SlushySolid said:
Oh, sorry, CWRM v5.5.0.4
This 5 minute timer thing is killing me...
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That recovery is outdated and will cause you problems
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That recovery is outdated and will cause you problems
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Just updated to 6.0.1.4 and tried again, but I'm still getting the same error.
SlushySolid said:
Just updated to 6.0.1.4 and tried again, but I'm still getting the same error.
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I would say your sd card needs formatted then.
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xcrazydx said:
I would say your sd card needs formatted then.
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Just did that too, didn't work
Thanks for all the help so far though!
SlushySolid said:
Just did that too, didn't work
Thanks for all the help so far though!
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What are the exact steps you are doing and what Rom?
Put it on the internal and try to flash it.
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What are the exact steps you are doing and what Rom?
Put it on the internal and try to flash it.
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Okay, I boot to recovery, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, and then install zip from SDcard>choose zip from SDcard>MiUi.... at this point I get the error so I just have to go to backup and restore from backup.
I'll try that when I get home from work today, but I tried it earlier with the older version of CWRM and still got the same notification. Maybe the update will change that.
How about formatting /system?
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How about formatting /system?
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Tried that too, still getting Installation aborted.
Related
i tried to flash mt4gs lite rom with the Clockworkmod Recovery 5.5.0.4 and it failed (i **** my pants) why if the recovery is latest one the rom flash failed?
What exact steps did you take to flash? Are you leaving the rom zipped up, or did you unzip it? Did you check that the size of the rom that you downloaded matched the size it should be?
And what error was you givin? When I found the first ROM I ever built for the speedy I'm like oh yeah I'm gonna flash this bisch to see how far my work/ROM has came, so about 6 seconds into the flash it aborted because amend scripting was no longer supported and the new recovery will flash edify only. Now I'm not sure if you all had to make that transition or not but that's one cause of a recovery rejecting an older ROM
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What exact steps did you take to flash? Are you leaving the rom zipped up, or did you unzip it? Did you check that the size of the rom that you downloaded matched the size it should be?
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Rom to the root
Recover
Full wipe
Flash the rom
Yes, I used it months ago.
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strapped365 said:
And what error was you givin? When I found the first ROM I ever built for the speedy I'm like oh yeah I'm gonna flash this bisch to see how far my work/ROM has came, so about 6 seconds into the flash it aborted because amend scripting was no longer supported and the new recovery will flash edify only. Now I'm not sure if you all had to make that transition or not but that's one cause of a recovery rejecting an older ROM
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Its was running perfect until it reach (I don't remember good) I think when it was overwritting the data.
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koete said:
Its was running perfect until it reach (I don't remember good) I think when it was overwritting the data.
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Yeah if it was a script error it wouldn't have even started the flash, try to transfer to your sdcard again and reflash
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I tried to install the kexec recovery and my phone is rebooting the whole time. It says installation aborted. What do I do?
Was able to flash the back to stock zip. Am I supposed to flash a rom first before I flash the kexec kernel?
kench33 said:
I tried to install the kexec recovery and my phone is rebooting the whole time. It says installation aborted. What do I do?
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How did u try to install the kexec recovery easiest way if your are rooted is download ez recovery from play store. Choose version 6 not not touch or twrp and flash recovery then reboot recovery u will then have successfully booted into a kexec recovery
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So all I do is start ez recovery then cwm 6.x then reboot? Then I can flash a rom?
kench33 said:
So all I do is start ez recovery then cwm 6.x then reboot? Then I can flash a rom?
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Sii
VERIZON GALAXY S 3
Okay. When you back up the stock where is it usually placed? I remember it was in clockwork on my dx
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kench33 said:
Okay. When you back up the stock where is it usually placed? I remember it was in clockwork on my dx
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should be in clockworkmod/backup on either the internal storage or external sdcard depending on how you have it set up. The latter requires the card being formatted as FAT32 atm though.
Is there anyway I can switch it to external sd? It saved to my internal. Or will it save to external if I change it to fat32?
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kench33 said:
Is there anyway I can switch it to external sd? It saved to my internal. Or will it save to external if I change it to fat32?
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There should be a backup to external sdcard option in recovery that will work once the card is reformatted.
Sorry don't mean to be annoying, but if my card is fat32 it would have automatically saved there?
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kench33 said:
Sorry don't mean to be annoying, but if my card is fat32 it would have automatically saved there?
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Not that I'm aware of. When you go into backup and recover in cwm there are multiple options. The standard backup or restore options go to internal. The ones labeled external go to the removable sdcard
And if it's not fat32 will it tell me it won't work?
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kench33 said:
And if it's not fat32 will it tell me it won't work?
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Forgot the exact error but the first and second options for backup and restore are the only ones that work if it's exFAT.
Okay, also if I do backup from internal will that wipe everything on there if I wipe data? Kind of a stupid question but just want to make sure.
kench33 said:
Okay, also if I do backup from internal will that wipe everything on there if I wipe data? Kind of a stupid question but just want to make sure.
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Part of the internal storage is labeled as sdcard and protected from the data wipe in cwm. Otherwise you'd be sol'd if you wiped data and then wanted to flash something. :laugh:
Haha yeah just wanted to make sure. Thanks a lot for answering my questions!
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kench33 said:
I tried to install the kexec recovery and my phone is rebooting the whole time. It says installation aborted. What do I do?
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Use ez recovery for gs3. It makes things really simple. Make sure to get cwm 6.1.0 for k exec or else you will not be able to boot. And all ways back up your current ROM for safe flashing
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Flashing Odin back to stock keeps failing
I got stuck in a bootloop and have been trying to flash back to the factory image from samsung-updates.com and it keeps failing. Im trying to find a different stock image to see if a different file will work. Any help would be appreciated
On the guide vzw gs3 edition there one step 3 go to the RootzWiki link and there is a revert back to stock image.
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I went from synergy 1.3 rom to beans build 5. i wiped all 3 and installed, for some strange reason on beans i would lose signal 70% of the time so i decided that i would go back to synergy. i wiped all 3 again and flashed and now i cant get any signal at all! i dont know what i did that would cause this. does anyone know how to fix?
Did you flash kexec then Beans? Also did you mess with the phone info settings at all?
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Hurleyzero1 said:
I went from synergy 1.3 rom to beans build 5. i wiped all 3 and installed, for some strange reason on beans i would lose signal 70% of the time so i decided that i would go back to synergy. i wiped all 3 again and flashed and now i cant get any signal at all! i dont know what i did that would cause this. does anyone know how to fix?
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Did you backup your imei.
droidstyle said:
Did you backup your imei.
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Should I be concerned with IMEI if I just plan on flashing kexec and then Beans ROM?
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Should I be concerned with IMEI if I just plan on flashing kexec and then Beans ROM?
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I would back it up even before rooting or flashing anything...its easy and will save alot of headaches down the road.
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I would back it up even before rooting or flashing anything...its easy and will save alot of headaches down the road.
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Just using the terminal command?
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i flashed beans with cwm 6,0.1.0. i did back up my imei, i thought it was the same thing so i restored it with the terminal and rebooted and its still the same. and no i did not mess with any of the system settings all i did was wipe wipe wipe and flash and when it booted i had no signal
Edit: can you also explain how to flash kexec? i always thought that you had to have the kexec able recovery and it did it on its own.
Why does it say to not use the method on backing it up? Is there another method? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791291
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Why does it say to not use the method on backing it up? Is there another method? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791291
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i used the terminal method and i think it worked haha i dont even know if that was my problem in the 1st place. but this is the method they recommend now. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
Okay, I saw that. It doesn't show how to back it up just recover, I guess? So if I lose it I just go this route instead of backing it up? Sorry if that's confusing.
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Okay, I saw that. It doesn't show how to back it up just recover, I guess? So if I lose it I just go this route instead of backing it up? Sorry if that's confusing.
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oh sorry i gave the wrong link lol. here you go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29462530#post29462530
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Just using the terminal command?
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Hurleyzero1 said:
i flashed beans with cwm 6,0.1.0. i did back up my imei, i thought it was the same thing so i restored it with the terminal and rebooted and its still the same. and no i did not mess with any of the system settings all i did was wipe wipe wipe and flash and when it booted i had no signal
Edit: can you also explain how to flash kexec? i always thought that you had to have the kexec able recovery and it did it on its own.
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If you flashed beans r5 then you already have a kexec kernel.
Hi, I want to switch from CWM to TWRP.
I tried flashing TWRP on SGH-T989 before but I started from unrooting my phone then root it (just flashed TWRP instead of CWM and flash SuperSU)
I would like to know if I can just flash TWRP using ODIN on this phone if I'm currently using CWM 5.0.x.x?
Please let me know.
Thank you
Anon1992 said:
Hi, I want to switch from CWM to TWRP.
I tried flashing TWRP on SGH-T989 before but I started from unrooting my phone then root it (just flashed TWRP instead of CWM and flash SuperSU)
I would like to know if I can just flash TWRP using ODIN on this phone if I'm currently using CWM 5.0.x.x?
Please let me know.
Thank you
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Why go through that trouble when you can just download goo. Manager app in the playstore and install from there?
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Why go through that trouble when you can just download goo. Manager app in the playstore and install from there?
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Just do this. Also my touchpad seemed to ignore the flash at first but a couple tries later got into twrp.
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Why go through that trouble when you can just download goo. Manager app in the playstore and install from there?
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+1 easy peasy
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whassupmyninja said:
Why go through that trouble when you can just download goo. Manager app in the playstore and install from there?
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I... ummm third this. Took me 2 flashes to get it to stick.
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Thanks for the answer guys but I can't seem to flash it through goomanager. Tried 3-4 times already. it just keep saying invalid md5 file.
Anon1992 said:
Thanks for the answer guys but I can't seem to flash it through goomanager. Tried 3-4 times already. it just keep saying invalid md5 file.
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You dont flash anything. You open goo manager hit menu and press "install open recovery script" it will open up directly to the right file for skyrocket recovery and then download and automatically install. Simple
But before you do anything now on.. Read this thread about how to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622917 so you dont do something bad.
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You dont flash anything. You open goo manager hit menu and press "install open recovery script" it will open up directly to the right file for skyrocket recovery and then download and automatically install. Simple
But before you do anything now on.. Read this thread about how to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622917 so you dont do something bad.
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Hi, my bad I just used the wrong word. I did exactly what you said above but goomanager just keep force closing / just stuck there and nothing happened. That's why I flashed it on Odin with my SGH-T989 because the same thing happened.
Is there any other easy methods?
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Hi, my bad I just used the wrong word. I did exactly what you said above but goomanager just keep force closing / just stuck there and nothing happened. That's why I flashed it on Odin with my SGH-T989 because the same thing happened.
Is there any other easy methods?
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That's as easy as it gets man. Must be user error if it's happening on 2 different phones. Works fine for everyone else.
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That's as easy as it gets man. Must be user error if it's happening on 2 different phones. Works fine for everyone else.
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So in this case can I just flash it with Odin?
Or should I unroot the phone and start from 0?
Thanks
Anon1992 said:
So in this case can I just flash it with Odin?
Or should I unroot the phone and start from 0?
Thanks
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If there's a tar file for twrp sure, make sure it's the right file.
I don't know what Rom you're on or what you're doing, but I know the open recovery install works and its very easy to do.
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If there's a tar file for twrp sure, make sure it's the right file.
I don't know what Rom you're on or what you're doing, but I know the open recovery install works and its very easy to do.
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I will try to restore to stock and do it again.
and yes I do have the tar file for twrp but my question is do I need to unroot my device or it is fine to just flash it by ODIN?
Could always just http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/94
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Anon1992 said:
I will try to restore to stock and do it again.
and yes I do have the tar file for twrp but my question is do I need to unroot my device or it is fine to just flash it by ODIN?
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You don't need to unroot.
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If I turn my phone off im screwed, Any help would be amazing it failed to copy over to my SD card and somehow corrupted it?
JTidler said:
If I turn my phone off im screwed, Any help would be amazing it failed to copy over to my SD card and somehow corrupted it?
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Shouldn't it look a little like this.
ro.product.model=SCH-I535
ro.product.name=d2vzw
ro.product.device=d2vzw
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Shouldn't it look a little like this.
ro.product.model=SCH-I535
ro.product.name=d2vzw
ro.product.device=d2vzw
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its corrupt the file is empty there is so much more
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its corrupt the file is empty there is so much more
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Did you make a backup of your current rom? You can boot into recovery and restore system only from advanced restore.
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its corrupt the file is empty there is so much more
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A copy is all i did, NEver did backup.also if I turn my phone off it will not boot back up
JTidler said:
A copy is all i did, NEver did backup.also if I turn my phone off it will not boot back up
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PM me an email. I'll send you the one from the 32GB.
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It also depends on the rom you are on though because some are tweaked. Whatever rom you are on download and copy that build.prop to your SD card or if it's stock download a stock rom. Or pull it out if you already have one downloaded.
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