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How to FLASH my HTC Inspire

Hi, i insert the SDcard in the phone in order to install HD Revolution already downloaded in it, boot into recovery choose install zip from SD then Choose Zip from SDcard and it shows me Error:Can't mount SDcard.
What did I do wrong ???
Please help i don't want to throw my first HTC in a drawer.

corojo said:
Hi, i insert the SDcard in the phone in order to install HD Revolution already downloaded in it, boot into recovery choose install zip from SD then Choose Zip from SDcard and it shows me Error:Can't mount SDcard.
What did I do wrong ???
Please help i don't want to throw my first HTC in a drawer.
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I would try a different SD card or use the PC to format the card and then copy the rom to the SD and try to flash again.
This right here is the main reason I tell everyone to make sure to do a few hours of research before trying to flash anything to their phone.

[Q] Can't flash anything

Flashed instigator kernel onto chimera mod without explicitly checking to see if it would work (i know)
phone soft bricked
fixed using CWM, restored back up, but could not flash anything afterwards
error looks something like this
E:Can't open /sdcard/ROM/vincom/[rom name].zip
(bad)
Installation aborted
Restored to stock using odin, reinstalled CWM but same error. Installed TWRP but same error
everything works perfectly fine but can't flash anything, same error for any flash
never seen this problem before, don't think its in this forum anywhere
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Tried formatting your SD card yet?

T.J. Bender said:
Tried formatting your SD card yet?
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I'm on TWRP 2.2.0 right not, can't get back to CWM because of no flashing thing.
as far as i can see no format sd option on TWRP
is wipe SD the same as format on here?

Turn your phone off, then remove the SD card and plug it into your PC with an adapter. Format it from there. I've had better results that way.
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T.J. Bender said:
Tried formatting your SD card yet?
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yeah both internal and external no change

Brownsugar064 said:
Flashed instigator kernel onto chimera mod without explicitly checking to see if it would work (i know)
phone soft bricked
fixed using CWM, restored back up, but could not flash anything afterwards
error looks something like this
E:Can't open /sdcard/ROM/vincom/[rom name].zip
(bad)
Installation aborted
Restored to stock using odin, reinstalled CWM but same error. Installed TWRP but same error
everything works perfectly fine but can't flash anything, same error for any flash
never seen this problem before, don't think its in this forum anywhere
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Check the md5 for the rom? What's with the E: prompt?
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Out of curiosity, what are/were you trying to flash?
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Ya its like you are trying to flash the path to the rom instead of the rom itself. Is that error message showing up in the cwm ui or in the odin window on your pc?
If it's in odin.. You can't flash a zip file. You'll need to unzip the zip (7zip?) and flash the tar file inside if it is a odin type file. Otherwise flash the rom with cwm or better yet TWRP.
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stoopendis said:
Ya its like you are trying to flash the path to the rom instead of the rom itself. Is that error message showing up in the cwm ui or in the odin window on your pc?
If it's in odin.. You can't flash a zip file. You'll need to unzip the zip (7zip?) and flash the tar file inside if it is a odin type file. Otherwise flash the rom with cwm or better yet TWRP.
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I'm not trying to flash a zip file in odin.
That appeared in CWMT 6.0.1.4, similar message appeared in TWRP.
In each case it has trouble opening the zip file containing whatever rom i'm trying to flash, doesn't matter the path, rom, sdcard, whatever.
pretty sure there's nothing wrong with any of the files or the sd cards, the phone just can't open a zip package from anywhere.
However, CWM worked, once, going from CWM 5 to CWM 6, only time it's done anything in a recovery.
I have attempted to flash multiple roms including cm9, cm10, superlite, and chimera, in CWM 5, CWM 6 sk8terwitskil's version, and TWRP 2.2.0
EDIT:
i had some luck with flashing a zip that just contained google now.
I noticed today that the sd card worked without my normal files on it (the zip was in the downloads folder) and the major difference that I see is before I restored the sd card files android.secure wasn't on the sd card.
I have android.secure on both the internal and external sd cards, (since restoring my original ext sdcard files) not sure if that's normal or not.
Should i just remove android.secure and see if it works? Can the phone do without it if that's not the problem?
is android secure supposed to be on both cards? My gut says no.
What the **** is android.secure anyway?
are zips that contain just apps or services like google now (non-wipe) fundamentally different from ROMs in some way that would let them flash but not the ROM zips?
Thanks to everyone who has responded and helped so far.
If anyone has answers to these questions I would appreciate it.

[Q] CWM installed but can't select the root zip file

I used Odin to install CWM on my Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. When I boot into recovery and try to select the cwm-root-gtab2.zip file. Do I need to rename it to update.zip so it will take it? It is in the root of the sd.

No
You do not need to rename it just flash it
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Mohamedselim said:
No
You do not need to rename it just flash it
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Ok, I redownloaded the file but it still won't load. Maybe its because I have 4.04 OS on mine?

install zip from external sd
Blackroc86 said:
Ok, I redownloaded the file but it still won't load. Maybe its because I have 4.04 OS on mine?
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select the install zip from external sd option, not the update option

acefsw said:
select the install zip from external sd option, not the update option
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Thanks, put a micrso sd card in it with the root zip file. Got it installed and now it says the tablet isn't rooted. Seemed like the install when fine with no errors mentioned.

Blackroc86 said:
Thanks, put a micrso sd card in it with the root zip file. Got it installed and now it says the tablet isn't rooted. Seemed like the install when fine with no errors mentioned.
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After getting the root file installed I tried SuperUser and it wouldn't work, said it needed to be updated but then it couldn't update. Did some more reading and found I had to go to playstore and re download SU. Did that and now it is rooted and working right.

Please can someone help me with a custom ROM error

Hi everyone, I downloaded the Fantasy HD rom v11 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341030 and was very excited to start using it. After rooting my samsung s3 I9300 and installing clockworkmod recovery I copied the downloaded zip file to the my SD card, for some reason it would not copy and kept saying "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected". So i ended up putting my SD card into a card reader and copied it that way and it finally copied onto the card. I loaded up recovery mode, selected install from zip and when I click the rom it says something like installing...(bad) and just stops. Please can someone help me with this I dont understand what is going on. I thought maybe the download was corrupt so I redownloaded the file and still wont copy to the SD card although other files copy to it with no error msg. Any help will be very much appreciated

araujo3rd said:
Hi everyone, I downloaded the Fantasy HD rom v11 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341030 and was very excited to start using it. After rooting my samsung s3 I9300 and installing clockworkmod recovery I copied the downloaded zip file to the my SD card, for some reason it would not copy and kept saying "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected". So i ended up putting my SD card into a card reader and copied it that way and it finally copied onto the card. I loaded up recovery mode, selected install from zip and when I click the rom it says something like installing...(bad) and just stops. Please can someone help me with this I dont understand what is going on. I thought maybe the download was corrupt so I redownloaded the file and still wont copy to the SD card although other files copy to it with no error msg. Any help will be very much appreciated
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can you please give us what cwm says when you try to flash it? all of it is essential.

Please download or check rom weathere the rom is complete.
If its all right then ask the rom developers,other than him none can help as he/they created it..
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Hello,
Try a different sdcard.
Chears.
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Problem In The Meta-inf aka. Mainfest
Change It
And Check If The Rom Is Complete

Superuser zip not showing up in recovery

I downloaded the latest superuser zip and native tethering zip and neither one is showing up in Clockworks recovery. I followed these directions from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpnVV2VqHR4&feature=youtu.be and got all the way up to flash zip and can't find zip files anywhere.
I placed the files on the root of the sd card and in the downloads folder in the sd card and still no luck

soundwavedj said:
I downloaded the latest superuser zip and native tethering zip and neither one is showing up in Clockworks recovery. I followed these directions from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpnVV2VqHR4&feature=youtu.be and got all the way up to flash zip and can't find zip files anywhere.
I placed the files on the root of the sd card and in the downloads folder in the sd card and still no luck
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needs to go on internal

Karl said:
needs to go on internal
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any idea on how to do that on a mac?

soundwavedj said:
any idea on how to do that on a mac?
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use es file manager on your fone to just move them over.. dont use apple man i have no idea how that witchcraft works

Karl said:
use es file manager on your fone to just move them over.. dont use apple man i have no idea how that witchcraft works
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got it. thanks

fyi, the reason it needs to be on internal is the recovery is a port over from the htc one m7 witch didn't have sd card storge