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[FAQ] Flashing UPDATE.ZIP the old fashioned way (How and Did It Work?)

I put together a diagram image showing how the file structure for how to take the various update.zip files to flash your rom or add functionality not obtainable via apk files or market. It was suggested we have a faq using this image to describe this process. I have only done this 3 times so I hope this is correct!
The basic thing it needs to explain is:
1. how to load up the filesystem with the update zip file and command file
Here is a diagram that shows either of the 2 methods to make this work, you can download zip files from Viewsonic's TNT page and just rename them to update.zip (then you have to create the recovery folder and command file), or you can download files here, some are rar'd which means the actual zip has been zipped/rar'd again, just extract it out, and if there are no recovery/command, you have to create them. A trick I use is to have this structure already defined on my laptop as a staging area, then I can just copy over a zip and a folder over to my device or sdcard.
I personally don't know how all this works, I believe the device first looks to the microSD card first for the recovery command file, then over to the internal storage for the same, but I could be wrong.
NOTE 1: Just make sure that if you use the external sd card, you have the correct command file notation (SDCARD2 not SDCARD).
NOTE 2: There are TWO dashes at the start of the command file contents, the image doesn't show it well (--update_package=SDCARD:/update.zip) or (--update_package=SDCARD2:/update.zip)
NOTE 3: This command file has NO file suffix, it is a text file, but make sure it is named command
NOTE 4: After a recovery is invoked, the process will have removed your command file (whether it was successful or not), and you will have to replace it when you are ready to flash again. A trick you might like is to copy the command file to command.bak, and each time you want to flash, just copy the bak file to command so you don't have to upload it each time. It is safest just to recopy the update.zip and command files back into their respective places each time you plan on reattempting recovery, just to make sure both files have the appropriate content.
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2. how to boot into recovery
Power down the unit. Once it has gone blank, press and hold the Vol +, then press and hold the power button
3. how do you know recovery is booting up (Text at the top of the screen)
You should see tiny text in the upper left that says "Detect a Recovery Key Pressed", and then a 2nd line that reads "Recovery Image Detected", or something to that effect.
4. how do you know recovery did not see either the update.zip or command file or both (exclamation mark, plus no changes after reboot)
I have not personally hit this yet, but if you don't see a cardboard box logo in the middle of your screen with a progress bar at this point, chances are you have something incorrect. If you don't see any changes or see an exclamation point, then you don't have the filesystem exactly as described in the diagram in #1. Or your update.zip file isn't really the proper file, maybe you took a RAR file and just renamed it, etc. If you open the zip file, you should not see any zip files, but IMG files or BIN files or SYSTEM folders, etc.
Now, if you identify the issue and resolve it and are about to run another recovery cycle, take a look at #1 NOTE #4 above...
Hope this helps!

Thanks so much, this will be a time saver for us devs. A great reference for getting clockwork installed, or for people who don't want to use clockwork.

Stuck because it's worth it

Yeah, thanks.. Might keep me from answering the same question 52 bazillion times.....

you should add a note that the command file will be deleted after it has been run, regardless if the update occurred or not - always double check that the (correct) command file is there or you will get the exclamation point

brian_h_kim said:
you should add a note that the command file will be deleted after it has been run, regardless if the update occurred or not - always double check that the (correct) command file is there or you will get the exclamation point
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Good point, I will add it. What folks could do (I have done this) is to make a file called command.bak, and you can just copy that to command every time you want to flash.

TeamSpeed said:
Good point, I will add it. What folks could do (I have done this) is to make a file called command.bak, and you can just copy that to command every time you want to flash.
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Or just install Clockwork 0.8 and be done with the recovery folder/command file all together.

Sprdtyf350 said:
Or just install Clockwork 0.8 and be done with the recovery folder/command file all together.
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some people may not want to use CWM as it breaks OTA updating

brian_h_kim said:
some people may not want to use CWM as it breaks OTA updating
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I understand and also know that some people like driving without tires too. Doing an update via OTA is way overrated. All I am saying is the benefits that can be gained by installing clockwork outweigh the negatives of not.
As soon as the OTA update comes out someone here will have the download location in seconds. That download can be installed from clockwork just like any other update file. Why Viewsonic doesn't just supply the file on there site is beyond me.
So... not running clockwork so you can wait for an update that comes every other month, or maybe never again versus having the security of easy to perform backups, the ability to easily install updates, fix the inevitable boot loop, mount storage, etc just doesn't make sense to me...

Sprdtyf350 said:
I understand and also know that some people like driving without tires too. Doing an update via OTA is way overrated. All I am saying is the benefits that can be gained by installing clockwork outweigh the negatives of not.
As soon as the OTA update comes out someone here will have the download location in seconds. That download can be installed from clockwork just like any other update file. Why Viewsonic doesn't just supply the file on there site is beyond me.
So... not running clockwork so you can wait for an update that comes every other month, or maybe never again versus having the security of easy to perform backups, the ability to easily install updates, fix the inevitable boot loop, mount storage, etc just doesn't make sense to me...
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having a choice is better than not having a choice

I keep a complete library of files on a separate storage, and I only copy over what I want on the tablet. Just because you may like cwm,doesn't mean everybody does or will. This works just fine for me, and I am sticking with the stock OS until viewsonic stops supporting it, which means I wait for the ota updates.

TeamSpeed said:
I keep a complete library of files on a separate storage, and I only copy over what I want on the tablet. Just because you may like cwm,doesn't mean everybody does or will. This works just fine for me, and I am sticking with the stock OS until viewsonic stops supporting it, which means I wait for the ota updates.
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And like the post above says.. Choice is good. If what you are doing works for you that's great.
It is not so much whether I like, or dislike clockwork. It is just a tool. For someone that buys a tablet, has no intention of doing anything but using it as it came, no clockwork is fine. But for those that want to keep the stock firmware but play around and add all the little updates, fixes, apps, or even play with all the other roms then I think you do yourself a disservice by not using clockwork. One of those things you do to your tablet will eventually end up in a bootloop. Or something you installed will not work and you will want to revert back to what you had before. You can't fix that with the stock recovery, but you can do it with clockwork.
Not trying to start an argument. I just see many advantages to using it versus not.
I think a lot of people don't want to use it because they are afraid of breaking there tablet. Installing a lot of different things available here, and other places is much more scary... And without a viable backup, or recovery method can be a real pain to fix.
Wanting to keep your tablet stock is fine. But if you bought a car that came stock with no brakes, I guess you could drive it. But if there was a really simple method to add brakes to augment your feet wouldn't you want them? Maybe not.. But I do...
I am glad you took the time to write this guide. Even though it is listed all over these forums how to do what you wrote it seems people don't read much anymore. So hopefully it will help some folks...

Sprdtyf350 said:
Wanting to keep your tablet stock is fine. But if you bought a car that came stock with no brakes, I guess you could drive it. But if there was a really simple method to add brakes to augment your feet wouldn't you want them? Maybe not.. But I do...
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I like this point so much!

TeamSpeed said:
Good point, I will add it. What folks could do (I have done this) is to make a file called command.bak, and you can just copy that to command every time you want to flash.
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I've only used the latest version, but have noticed a behavior not covered here:
rather than deleting the /recovery/command file, it deletes the contents of the file. This seems to happen whether or not the update actually happens.

mwmeyer said:
I've only used the latest version, but have noticed a behavior not covered here:
rather than deleting the /recovery/command file, it deletes the contents of the file. This seems to happen whether or not the update actually happens.
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I can't remember on whether or not it happens when it doesn't actually run the update. However, it has always deleted the command file for me.
/recovery/command
ends up
/recovery/

Can't root into gtablet
Ok fellas I must be super retarded. For sOme dumb reason I can not add colckwork or TNT or root into my g. I've tried everything and the stock g sucks bad. I am used to the apple firmwares. This is my first droid product so bare with me. I've used winscp to hack into my root folder but I can't into my gtablet. Please help I need to hack my tab. Any suggestions?

scopes44 said:
Ok fellas I must be super retarded. For sOme dumb reason I can not add colckwork or TNT or root into my g. I've tried everything and the stock g sucks bad. I am used to the apple firmwares. This is my first droid product so bare with me. I've used winscp to hack into my root folder but I can't into my gtablet. Please help I need to hack my tab. Any suggestions?
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Some of this may be outdated now but it will get you started. Read Read Read....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874258
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
http://gtabfans.com/

scopes44 said:
Ok fellas I must be super retarded. For sOme dumb reason I can not add colckwork or TNT or root into my g. I've tried everything and the stock g sucks bad. I am used to the apple firmwares. This is my first droid product so bare with me. I've used winscp to hack into my root folder but I can't into my gtablet. Please help I need to hack my tab. Any suggestions?
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Read this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
The first post

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ClockworkMod Recovery not working

Hello all Im hoping someone can help me out. I have read many threads and followed all the tutorials available. I have a Captivate on stock 2.2. I want to install Cognition. I rooted the phone and installed rom manager. I installed Clockworkmod but when I boot into recovery it goes to the stock recovery screen. I tried to download clockworkmod and put it straight on the phone but when i select reinstall packages it says signature verification failed.

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Search captivate development there is a thread that covers this by exist
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Thanks! I followed the guide in the first link and flashed the recovery down to 2e and then to clockworkmod and now im installing cognitionion, thanks again.

Marcusw882000 said:
Hello all Im hoping someone can help me out. I have read many threads and followed all the tutorials available. I have a Captivate on stock 2.2. I want to install Cognition. I rooted the phone and installed rom manager. I installed Clockworkmod but when I boot into recovery it goes to the stock recovery screen. I tried to download clockworkmod and put it straight on the phone but when i select reinstall packages it says signature verification failed.
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Same exact problem here. THEN I cleared cache, rebooted, fixed file privs, rebooted, and still, I can't take a backup. Is this a CWM barfs on Froyo thing? Every time I select Take a Backup, it boots into the main CWM menu "reboot/ clear user data/ reinstall packages/ format SD" and won't take a flippign backup!
I uninstalled ROM Mgr, re-installed from Market, used it to download latest CWM, same stuff all over again. I wanna take a backup!

markmensch said:
Same exact problem here. THEN I cleared cache, rebooted, fixed file privs, rebooted, and still, I can't take a backup. Is this a CWM barfs on Froyo thing? Every time I select Take a Backup, it boots into the main CWM menu "reboot/ clear user data/ reinstall packages/ format SD" and won't take a flippign backup!
I uninstalled ROM Mgr, re-installed from Market, used it to download latest CWM, same stuff all over again. I wanna take a backup!
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so boot directly into CWM, without going through ROM manager and run backup / restore.... its pretty easy to do

Ok, really embarrassing...how do I get into CWM directly? Is it the 3 finger reboot?
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Yes, hold vol up, vol down, and the power button at the same time
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Same problem! I 3-finger powered-on and this is what I get, word for word (no backup option):
<in blue>
Android system recovery (3e)
Samsung Recovery Utils
- for BML -
Enter: POWER Key, Select: Vol UP/ Vol Down
reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
format internal sd-card
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-- Movi-check Start..!!
checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]
Not need checksum confirmation
-- Movi_check already executed!!..
-- movi_checking done!...
update media, please wait
update media, finished
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
installing Multi-CSC
Install default apk-files, please wait
install default apk-files, finished
[end]
Again, this is ATT Froyo, rooted, killed bloatware, side-loading enabled, latest ROM Mgr re-installed, updated CWM to latest (via ROM Mgr). Could this possibly because I left a file in the wrong place after enabling side-loading??
Please help, any info appreciated!

3e RECOVERY
THAT is your problem......it has been stated 150,000 times on these threads since what, October? have a look around

Pirateghost said:
3e RECOVERY
THAT is your problem......it has been stated 150,000 times on these threads since what, October? have a look around
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wow, thanks for that. You're exactly right: it IS listed in 150,000 threads, though I'm not sure which one is supposed to help...or how I should have intuitively known my broken ROM Mgr is associated with the search text "recovery 3e"...?
Reading through MANY threads (in XDA and others) from googling "Captivate recovery 3e sig" it seems that 149,999 of the threads are belittling us noobs for not finding the 150,000th thread that actually tells you how to do something about it. Well, I still haven't found the 150,000th thread, and I'm still looking. Unless you have a phobia against repeating that 1 rare thread, or perhaps want to help, maybe you can confirm the following (w/o going lethal on me and tricking me into bricking my phone out of spite:
1. The 3e recovery means every zip will be checked for signatures, even if I tried to turn it off
2. This means I can't install new packages (I'm not trying to)
3 this ALSO MEANS I CAN'T TAKE A BACKUP??? (never found that thread)
4. Either way, I need to go back to 2e or get the modified 3e that doesn't check for signatures (that will help me take backups again HOW?
so I should follow the steps in "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213" and download " 3e_recovery_no_sig_check.zip" and then use terminal to:
1 enter command "mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/stl9 /system"
2 copy the recovery file to /system/bin and replace the one there
3 reboot and you should have a modded 3e recovery with no signature verification
and then I can take backups again??

yeah, i guess it would be too hard to read the fkn stickies in the captivate section when you spent too much time typing up **** i wont read.
since you are too lazy to do so, here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052991

c'mon man, give a guy a flippin hint! Ran outta patience, and followed instructions above to replace the froyo stock 3e recovery in /system/bin with the modified version, all commands worked, then rebooted, and still no Backup option displayed in recovery!
-"Throw me a frickin bone here people. I've been frozen for thirty years, 'kay?"

I have the same problem, when I asked about 5 guys started belittling me sayin crap like try looking for a search button, I too read tons of threads and to absolutely no avail, then got bombarded for asking. Like these guys werent newbies one time
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markmensch said:
c'mon man, give a guy a flippin hint! Ran outta patience, and followed instructions above to replace the froyo stock 3e recovery in /system/bin with the modified version, all commands worked, then rebooted, and still no Backup option displayed in recovery!
-"Throw me a frickin bone here people. I've been frozen for thirty years, 'kay?"
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really? you replaced the recovery? do you have an update.zip on your /sdcard? did you hit REINSTALL PACKAGES on the 3e recovery screen? what exactly HAVE you done or bothered to learn, because you have given absolutely nada about what you have actually learned and applied.
Rjpover81 said:
I have the same problem, when I asked about 5 guys started belittling me sayin crap like try looking for a search button, I too read tons of threads and to absolutely no avail, then got bombarded for asking. Like these guys werent newbies one time
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i was a newbie once. but you know what? i fkn read and learned exactly what i needed to know. i didnt fire up new threads on XDA because i was smart enough to gain the knowledge i needed by reading the INFO that is already out there......amazing eh?
people here hate repeating the same fkn information over and over and over, its fkn tiring....you would feel the same way if you have read the same fkn questions 1000 times over and you already knew the answers where here.
want to know WHY there are 1000 threads that dont have answers and only a few that do? BECAUSE RETARDS POST NEW THREADS WITHOUT SEARCHING!!

Pirateghost said:
yeah, i guess it would be too hard to read the fkn stickies in the captivate section when you spent too much time typing up **** i wont read.
since you are too lazy to do so, here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052991
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been there, done that. New modified 3e recovery, just like I read from that thread, and still no backup option in recovery, regardless of whether I choose Backup from Rom Mgr, or I 3-finger my way in...
If you're gonna talk smack at someone for being lazy, put enough effort in to make sure they're BEING lazy, eh? I spent all afternoon reading through those threads, including the one you tossed me. However, what I HAVEN'T found in ANY of those threads, is some kinda mention that this is related MISSING BACKUP option from recovery.
Are you just barking up the wrong tree?

markmensch said:
been there, done that. New modified 3e recovery, just like I read from that thread, and still no backup option in recovery, regardless of whether I choose Backup from Rom Mgr, or I 3-finger my way in...
If you're gonna talk smack at someone for being lazy, put enough effort in to make sure they're BEING lazy, eh? I spent all afternoon reading through those threads, including the one you tossed me. However, what I HAVEN'T found in ANY of those threads, is some kinda mention that this is related MISSING BACKUP option from recovery.
Are you just barking up the wrong tree?
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no
fail
you should be given an option when you boot straight into recovery now....STOCK RECOVERY, and one of those options is REINSTALL PACKAGES
if you have the update.zip from ROM manager on your /sdcard then all you have to do is hit reinstall packages, it will reboot to recovery and then hit reinstall packages AGAIN!
boom. you are in CWM where you can take your backup
now i know this has been typed half a million times on here because i typed it up more times than I can count......

Pirateghost said:
really? you replaced the recovery? do you have an update.zip on your /sdcard? did you hit REINSTALL PACKAGES on the 3e recovery screen? what exactly HAVE you done or bothered to learn, because you have given absolutely nada about what you have actually learned and applied.
i was a newbie once. but you know what? i fkn read and learned exactly what i needed to know. i didnt fire up new threads on XDA because i was smart enough to gain the knowledge i needed by reading the INFO that is already out there......amazing eh?
people here hate repeating the same fkn information over and over and over, its fkn tiring....you would feel the same way if you have read the same fkn questions 1000 times over and you already knew the answers where here.
want to know WHY there are 1000 threads that dont have answers and only a few that do? BECAUSE RETARDS POST NEW THREADS WITHOUT SEARCHING!!
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Man, you can talk some good smack. I followed the instructions from the thread you posted exactly; I *studied* them. There were several options there, I chose "FIXING 3e:", "Method 2 (manual)", following the link there, which was the same exact link I first referenced few hours ago. copied over recovery [actually backed up first] then rebooted, just like it said. Go back to the first thread, and it says, "at this point you are ready to install cwm recovery via update.zip or rom manager and flash whatever you wish." I chose the via "rom manager" as I wished. then booted into recovery again, and... no backup option.
Obviously, I'm missing something between the lines in these posts, I followed them to the letter. Now, you can step up, act like a Sr member and help someone, or you can continue act like a little ****-flinging monkey, calling people 'retards'.
*ring* *ring* hello? Do you have any SENIOR Sr. Members? This one's acting a little immature...

markmensch said:
Man, you can talk some good smack. I followed the instructions from the thread you posted exactly; I *studied* them. There were several options there, I chose "FIXING 3e:", "Method 2 (manual)", following the link there, which was the same exact link I first referenced few hours ago. copied over recovery [actually backed up first] then rebooted, just like it said. Go back to the first thread, and it says, "at this point you are ready to install cwm recovery via update.zip or rom manager and flash whatever you wish." I chose the via "rom manager" as I wished. then booted into recovery again, and... no backup option.
Obviously, I'm missing something between the lines in these posts, I followed them to the letter. Now, you can step up, act like a Sr member and help someone, or you can continue act like a little ****-flinging monkey, calling people 'retards'.
*ring* *ring* hello? Do you have any SENIOR Sr. Members? This one's acting a little immature...
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welcome to the jungle kid. this has been posted time and time and time again
sooooooooo
in ROM manager, you FLASHED CLOCKWORK RECOVERY?
then it booted into STOCK RECOVERY and you hit REINSTALL PACKAGES?
then it rebooted back into STOCK RECOVERY and you hit REINSTALL PACKAGES again?
then....wait for it.....it boots to CLOCKWORKMOD

yesss it has and that is exactly what i did was re inst packages,what is this i hear about downloading the modded 3e recovery and using root exp to move it to system/bin (I downloaded the modded 3e but where can i find the system/bin file to move it to looked through my phone and didnt find it

Pirateghost said:
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you should be given an option when you boot straight into recovery now....STOCK RECOVERY, and one of those options is REINSTALL PACKAGES
if you have the update.zip from ROM manager on your /sdcard then all you have to do is hit reinstall packages, it will reboot to recovery and then hit reinstall packages AGAIN!
boom. you are in CWM where you can take your backup
now i know this has been typed half a million times on here because i typed it up more times than I can count......
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OK, that was somewhat helpful. Now I need to find the update.zip from CWM, I don't know if I have it laying around...or whether or not ROM Mgr woulda put it there. I actually tried the Re-install packages option, but perhaps there was no update.zip in place...
Now realize, that piece wasn't mentioned in those threads! Maybe you typed it so many times they're all running together in your head.

Ubuntu User - Rom help plz

Alright... i keep reading about this KIES deal... since its windows native, i cant install that.
So i need some help...
Im wanting to know how to load a flashing system... and which one...
then wanting to load Infused v1.
Im doing this all from Ubuntu 10.10
__________
Im already rooted, along with the current (stable) BusyBox loaded... so i got that far.
i just wanna know what i gotta do, cause everything seems to rely on this KIES deal, and i dont have that.
I guess im asking for a walk-through... if anyone is willing to help?

re: Ubuntu
Ph0z3 said:
Alright... i keep reading about this KIES deal... since its windows native, i cant install that.
So i need some help...
Im wanting to know how to load a flashing system... and which one...
then wanting to load Infused v1.
Im doing this all from Ubuntu 10.10
__________
Im already rooted, along with the current (stable) BusyBox loaded... so i got that far.
i just wanna know what i gotta do, cause everything seems to rely on this KIES deal, and i dont have that.
I guess im asking for a walk-through... if anyone is willing to help?
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Kies is not required for what you want to do, but without knowing
if your Ubuntu OS can reconize your phone as an external USB
flash drive device and or if you have a microUSB card reader and a
microUSB memory card in your phone its difficult to tell you the
exact step by step way to flash roms to your phone.
I can help, but I do need to know these things first.
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Ph0z3 said:
Alright... i keep reading about this KIES deal... since its windows native, i cant install that.
So i need some help...
Im wanting to know how to load a flashing system... and which one...
then wanting to load Infused v1.
Im doing this all from Ubuntu 10.10
__________
Im already rooted, along with the current (stable) BusyBox loaded... so i got that far.
i just wanna know what i gotta do, cause everything seems to rely on this KIES deal, and i dont have that.
I guess im asking for a walk-through... if anyone is willing to help?
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If you have all that just download the rom zip, place on SD, reboot into recovery, install zip from SD, choose the zip you desire and then select yes and wait .
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Ph0z3 said:
Alright... i keep reading about this KIES deal... since its windows native, i cant install that.
So i need some help...
Im wanting to know how to load a flashing system... and which one...
then wanting to load Infused v1.
Im doing this all from Ubuntu 10.10
__________
Im already rooted, along with the current (stable) BusyBox loaded... so i got that far.
i just wanna know what i gotta do, cause everything seems to rely on this KIES deal, and i dont have that.
I guess im asking for a walk-through... if anyone is willing to help?
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first dont ask questions in dev
next kies does nothing but install drivers for the infuse. you.have ubuntu. you.dont need drivers.
what you need is cwm to flash roms and heimdall to return to stock.
google heimdall download. get the frontend package and the backend package and install. you may need to set permissions.as executable.
for.cwm the easiest way is to use heimdall to push a kernel to the.phone. download the comunity kernel. extract the .zip and place the zimage in the kernel slot in heimdall
the phone needs to be in download mode look it up.
alternatively yu can use sgs kernel flasher. get it in android market. that app is self explainatory.
there is another way we used before we had these cool custom kernels but i wont get into that.

re: flashing rom
VtHondaGuy08 said:
If you have all that just download the rom zip, place on SD, reboot into recovery, install zip from SD, choose the zip you desire and then select yes and wait .
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My, the way you explain things so fast, complete and with
such few words....... I never seen anything like it!
For me to explain the same thing you have just now would
take me well over a hundred words for sure
Have a great day,
Enjoy!

VtHondaGuy08 said:
If you have all that just download the rom zip, place on SD, reboot into recovery, install zip from SD, choose the zip you desire and then select yes and wait .
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lol, he never said he has clockwork mod.
op pm me if you have trouble. i run mint 10kde. its basdically identical to ubuntu kde edition. i havent run gnome in a while but i think i can still help.

I've used heimdall on my install of ubuntu and it works fairly well. 1.3.0 should be compatible with 10.10

Misterjunky said:
My, the way you explain things so fast, complete and with
such few words....... I never seen anything like it!
For me to explain the same thing you have just now would
take me well over a hundred words for sure
Have a great day,
Enjoy!
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LOL I'm a chef so I do everything at light speed! Id go more into depth but its 4:56am and I have to be at work in 6 hours.
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hmm,. i just updated to heimdall 1.3.0 im not sure i like it.
i prefer 1.1.0. it was very strait forward.
edit: after further use i definately prefer v1.1.0, 1.3 isnt as friendly for flashing kernels. it wants a firwamre.xml file in the .tar or something, i need to read up on the new heimdal, the old one let you flash the different partitions individually. and the files were not .tar achives, you just extracted the images from the odin packages.
im sure the new version has its purpose but for simplicity id say get 1.1.1. the 1.1.1 frontend package seems to work over the 1.2 comandline package.
v1.3 seems to be for compatability with future devices(or current ones) that have a different partition table, the firmware.xml file can specify what device the files get flashed to. this is more advanced and not for everyone.

Dani, just go to the "Flash" tab. The old style of doing things is still there.

LinuxBozo said:
Dani, just go to the "Flash" tab. The old style of doing things is still there.
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thanks linux, but i couldnt see how to insert the files. it lets me search for a pit but nothing else.
does the phone need to be connected first?
does it now require a pit before the other files?(i cant get the unbrick ackage to download at this time to test that)
should it be in a .tar file or still extracted like it was before?

Misterjunky said:
I can help, but I do need to know these things first.
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Like i said... i have NOTHING as far as recovery, flash software, ect... Im rooted and thats it.
When i plug my phone in, and enable USB, it sees my internal & external memory separately, so im good to go.
So if you could help me though this, that would be spectacular.
Hell... i might even be cool and donate you a few bucks on PayPal

What you might want to look into are the "Odin" flashable ROM packages - these will at least get you root and CWM recovery.
The Ubuntu equivalen of Odin is Heimdall, as mentioned previously. There are a few tricks to flashing a complete Odin firmware package with heimdall, next time I'm at my Ubuntu box I'll go into more detail.
To use Odin/Heimdall, once you've got them set up and have something to flash - turn off your phone, and then hold VolUp and VolDn at the same time while plugging in the USB cable to the phone. A yellow screen with an Android doing construction work will appear.
Edit: And Heimdall 1.3.0 is just as easy to flash kernels with as 1.1.0... 'heimdall flash --kernel zImage' (I don't use the GUI frontend ever)

Ph0z3 said:
Like i said... i have NOTHING as far as recovery, flash software, ect... Im rooted and thats it.
When i plug my phone in, and enable USB, it sees my internal & external memory separately, so im good to go.
So if you could help me though this, that would be spectacular.
Hell... i might even be cool and donate you a few bucks on PayPal
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no donation needed.
Ubuntu doesn't need any special packages or drivers on these phones at all.
actually a heimdall install on ubuntu iis a lot easier than an Odin install in windows, there are never driver issues. infact Ubuntu is eaiser to install than windows so all these Mac users doing the vm thing with windows and Odin are making life hard for themselves.
you can get cwm recovery by flashing a voodoo kernel. this can be done in heimdall (1.1.1 is self explanitory, 1.3.0 might need some explaining but I figured it out so feel free to ask if you need to.) the kernel can also be flashed in a market app called sgs kernel flasher.

Entropy512 said:
Edit: And Heimdall 1.3.0 is just as easy to flash kernels with as 1.1.0... 'heimdall flash --kernel zImage' (I don't use the GUI frontend ever)
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but us linux newbs like the gui, it reminds us of windows.
but yeah, you're right that is easy.
the new gui requires a pit to flash individual partitions. I found it odd. but its not too difficult.

re: flash custom rom
Ph0z3 said:
Like i said... i have NOTHING as far as recovery, flash software, ect... Im rooted and thats it.
When i plug my phone in, and enable USB, it sees my internal & external memory separately, so im good to go.
So if you could help me though this, that would be spectacular.
Hell... i might even be cool and donate you a few bucks on PayPal
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First download this cwm recovery kernel here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?srhipjqvy7mpdde
Then rename the downloaded zip file to "update.zip"
and copy it to root of your INTERNAL SD card.
Now boot to the blue text recovery screen of your phone
pressing the up/down and power keys at the same time
then after 10-15 seconds letting go.
If you have trouble getting into the stock blue recovery
menu you can go to the market and download a free
app called "reboot recovery" that way you can go to
the recovery menu with one click.
After you are in the blue recovery menu select "reinstall packages"
You may have to do this twice the first time, then you will see the
clockworkmod recovery menu and you will be ready to flash a
custom rom.
I do now know which custom rom you want to download, so go
ahead and download a custom rom of your choice (must be a zipfile)
and then copy the custom rom zipfile to the root of your internal
sdcard.
After that reboot the phone into recovery using the "reboot recovery"
app or by pressing vol up/down and power keys after the phone is off.
Then you get to the cwm recovery menu and select
"install zip from sd card" then you will see the files in sdcard.
Select the custom rom zipfile from the the menu by going up/down
on list using vol up and vol down buttons. When you highlight the
file you want press the power button and let it start flashing
the custom rom.
On first bootup on custom rom it usually takes twice as long
to complete the boot process.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Good luck, and yes a donation is always welcome
Have a great day,
Enjoy!

alright... got it loaded...
-phone didnt catch fire.
-the sketchy beaner down the road hasnt stolen my car yet
-i still have 1/2 a pot of tea left...
:: UPDATE ::
STEP 9) Press OK and hold your breath. When 3e recovery comes up, just select reinstall packages.
yeah... i never got that... is that an issue?
2nd thing, was kinda hoping it would be a bit louder... since it has voodoo sound. I DLed the FREE manager, but it doesn't seem any different...
3rd thing, how do i change the lock screen back to the default? (just the large pane, instead of the sliders)
That aside... now that ive had it up and running for a few hours and able to play online and play games to really test it. I really like it. nice and smooth, quick as hell too!
@MisterJunky - It appears my PayPal was attacked, so once i get it sorted and un-frozen, ill send ya a few bucks for helping me.

help on my previous.... anyone?
.....?

voodoo sound is mainly for recording and headphones( headphones more so than recording) . it had no effect on the external speaker.

[GUIDE]How to load CM9 on GSIII

**this was a very early guide and most of the files and methods referenced in it are long outdated, sounds crazy I know as the phone has barely been out, but i recommend finding more recent guides at this point. I wanted to leave this up for archival reasons though. As of 7-22 I am running dhackers CM10 build with great results. Just don't forget to set max cpu clock back down to 1500 mhz if you don't want it over locked out of the box **
As per the usual disclaimer....at your own risk, be aware of IMEI loss issues and whatnot...basically cover your own butt.....and enjoy.....
7-15 2:46pm **As of right now voice and SMS are not working on my phone while other people report they are working fine. While you can still play around and see just how amazingly fast CM is on this phone, YMMV. If it doesn't work you need to know how to go back to stock before trying this.
7-29 this guide is very old, it pre-dates kexec and is only here for historical purposes
For clarification: The question was asked if one is supposed to follow the original Team Epic Kexec kernel instructions or these steps and the answer is two fold. If your goal is to install the UNOFFICIAL CM9 built by Invisiblek (which is the purpose of this thread), then you follow the steps in THIS THREAD ONLY. There are a couple steps and a couple files linked to in the original Kexec page that will not allow you to install CM9. That page was made for those wanting to try out their Kexec Proof of Concept KERNEL, not install a ROM of any kind.
This thread makes some assumptions, such as you already have a working install of the Android SDK and ADB, you already have the drivers installed, you are using the original USB cable that came with your phone, you know how to move around DOS to get to the directory where you downloaded the files, etc.......those lower level tasks are for another thread.
To Try Our Proof-of-Concept Kernel <<<The base of these instructions was the Team Epic Kexec Kernel page seen at this link, Many Thanks to them
Thanks to Invisiblek for clarifying and helping me get steps just right.
The following is an adaptation of the CM Kexec kernel proof of concept with the changes in files and steps necessary to load the latest CM9 work in progress. Be advised I take no credit at all. This is the work of Team Epic and Invisiblek. I just put this together for myself and for others who would like to try it with one caveat. DATA doesn't work! Voice and SMS only....and maybe 1xRtt data.....so you will be relying on WiFi for data! You've been warned!
Also, I highly suggest you use a free MD5 Hash checking utility to verify the integrity of the files you are downloading. That is why the MD5 hash is provided, so you can be sure you didn't get the wrong file or a corrupt download that could cause a BRICK!
If you don't follow the directions carefully you can end up with a brick! Ask questions after reading the OP if you still aren't sure. I probably won't know the right answer for sure. You may have to wait on someone with more experience in this to answer your question.
DO NOT ACCEPT AN OTA UPDATE WHILE RUNNING THIS SETUP
1. Download the recovery.img (MD5: f1c01ad20e02751a73188f173eb412ca), which combines our source-based kernel with our previously released CWM v4.
2. Flash the recovery.img following these instructions, that is:
Code:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/
adb shell
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 bs=256k
sync
3. Reboot into recovery (using volume up, home power buttons), wipe data, install one of invisibleks CM9 roms>click here for all of his CM9 roms< which do not have boot.img integrated, then continue with the steps below:
4. Download these additional files:
(required download)boot.img (MD5: db058f4b15df0fa1b9ee04a5c17cf103), which is invisibleks custom boot.img
It would be good at this point to read ahead and determine where you will be loading the next file. Keep in mind if you are in stock recovery and choose to wipe data, this will wipe the internal memory.
if you plan to load onto internal memory download this file boot_emmc_boot_img.zip (MD5: 84a3f98c194f6dedc583dbc75ccc34c2)
or
if you plan to load onto sdcard (ext) memory download this file boot_sdcard_boot_img.zip (MD5: 88904d7e69d455ff88756b4d1ad79aac), which are applied in recovery to kexec (boot) the custom boot.img.
5. Place boot.img either on the internal SD card (the /sdcard/ folder), or on the external SD card (the /mnt/extSdCard/ folder).
The boot.img kernel boots directly out of one of these folders, it will not (and should not) be flashed to the device.
6. If you're using the internal SD card, place boot_emmc_boot_img.zip in /sdcard/ as well. If you're using the external SD card, place boot_sdcard_boot_img.zip in /mnt/extSdCard/.
7. Reboot into recovery.
8. If using the internal SD card, select "Install zip from sd card" and then "choose zip from internal sdcard", then "boot_emmc_boot_img.zip". Alternatively, if using the external SD card, select "choose zip from sdcard", then "boot_sdcard_boot_img.zip".
At this point, the device should reboot "in the middle" of applying the update, temporarily booting boot.img. If the update "completes" and returns to the CWM menu, kexec has failed or the wrong recovery was loaded in the beginning. Please check the locations of boot.img, and boot_emmc_boot_img.zip or boot_sdcard_boot_img.zip and verify recovery.img file used was the correct one, verify using an MD5 hash checker.
9. Once booted, the custom kernel can be confirmed by checking "Kernel version" in "Settings", "About device". It should report:
3.0.8-gdefeb6f
[email protected] #1
SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 8 04:27:58 EDT
2012
10. To reboot into the stock kernel, select "Restart" from the Power menu, which will actually reboot into CWM recovery. Press the Power button to select "reboot system now" and leave recovery.
11. You cannot simply power on your phone with this setup! In order to power on your phone you will have to hold volume up, home and power to boot into recovery and load the zip file you chose at step 4 where you chose either internal or external memory, so either "boot_emmc_boot_img.zip" or "boot_sdcard_boot_img.zip". If you do accidentally boot up by just hitting power, no big deal, it will give you all sorts of force closes, simply pull battery and boot back up using the Vol up, Home, power method.
If anyone would like to suggest further clarification, please do. To get the stock Google apps such as Play Store get the package HERE and install in recovery
Alternatively a more condensed version of this install procedure has been posted by nbsdx and can be found HERE.
7-15 2:46pm **As of right now voice and SMS are not working on my phone while others are working fine. While you can still play around and see just how amazingly fast CM is on this phone, YMMV. If it doesn't work you need to know how to go back to stock before trying this.
If you want to return to bone stock, simply go to THIS THREAD to get STOCK ROM IMAGE and then put your phone into Odin Download mode by following THIS THREAD and be sure to flash it using the PDA button. It will take a while, probably 20 minutes or so, it will take forever to boot up the first time but you will be on bone stock like new.

Very informative. Would read again.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201

dual boot
Being that we have to use kexec anyhow, it would be nice (especially with the state of current cm9 rom) if we could fully dual boot so as to keep stock system and data for stock kernel.
Like here,
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/07/dualboot-cm9-on-sgs3-lte-sprint-t.html

I just installed successfully using the instructions in the OP so I can confirm it works correctly. Holy crap it's fast.

Anybody want to put up a video of how well it runs for us that aren't brave enough to put it on our own phones?
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dakalter said:
Anybody want to put up a video of how well it runs for us that aren't brave enough to put it on our own phones?
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I'll leave that part to someone who doesn't sound like a retarded redneck on video.

silasrye said:
I tried to install the vzw cm9 (with with invisiblek's boot.img put back into the zip) via this method exactly.
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/07/dualboot-cm9-on-sgs3-lte-sprint-t.html
fake cwr works, and everything went fine, but when i try to flash boot_cm9.zip i stay in cwr.
I am using the cwr from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773514
I had started with the twrp from that post, but it didn't recognize my internal sdcard.
So, I don't see why this shouldn't be a doable thing. But something probably needs to be redirected somewhere.
The good news is, I boot into my normal rom without problem.
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If you follow the steps in this thread, including using these links for your files, it will work without a problem.
I can't comment on why other guides on other sites using other files don't work.....and not really sure how it applies to this thread. Lets try to keep it on topic. If you have issues with the dual booting instructions, you might start a new thread to address that or jump in irc.freednode.net/verizons3 and graciously ask the people for help
When you flash the the CM9 rom built by Invisiblek it will come back out to CWR menu. At that point in the process I realized I hadn't copied the boot.img file into the root of my sd card, so i left it on the CWR menu, popped out the sdcard, copied the boot.img file over (already had the boot_sdcard_boot.img file on the root of sdcard), and popped the sdcard back in, chose advanced->reboot recovery, then followed the steps in this guide, worked perfectly.

silasrye said:
I tried to install the vzw cm9 (with with invisiblek's boot.img put back into the zip) via this method exactly.
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/07/dualboot-cm9-on-sgs3-lte-sprint-t.html
fake cwr works, and everything went fine, but when i try to flash boot_cm9.zip i stay in cwr.
I am using the cwr from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773514
I had started with the twrp from that post, but it didn't recognize my internal sdcard.
So, I don't see why this shouldn't be a doable thing. But something probably needs to be redirected somewhere.
The good news is, I boot into my normal rom without problem.
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You need to add one line to Invisiblek's updater-script that "flashes" the boot.img to the bootloader partition in the multi boot folder. Check out the sprint cm9 install for the line to add.
I have tested dual booting to work perfectly.

is the data not working due to the ril??

suzook said:
is the data not working due to the ril??
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yes, will update OP once we have working 3G/4G data
as of right now my voice and SMS isn't working while others is.....trying to figure it out

I flashed back to stock, simply because I need to have voice and SMS working. I could deal without 3G/4G data for a little bit and use WiFi, but no SMS/Voice was a deal breaker on my phone. I have to be easily gotten in touch with for work and such. It was fun while it lasted.

Will these same instructions work for the CM10 build that is in the server list?

17akota said:
Will these same instructions work for the CM10 build that is in the server list?
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No. Different files used, probably a different step or two also. I plan to edit this once CM10 builds are ready for public consumption. These instructions also don't include the automated kexec scripting work done recently that allows your device to cold boot into CM9.
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neyenlives said:
No. Different files used, probably a different step or two also. I plan to edit this once CM10 builds are ready for public consumption. These instructions also don't include the automated kexec scripting work done recently that allows your device to cold boot into CM9.
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I figured that.
Could you point me in the direction of the new Kexec? I read about it somewhere and would like to try it out.

17akota said:
I figured that.
Could you point me in the direction of the new Kexec? I read about it somewhere and would like to try it out.
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irc.freenode.net #verizons3
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i came from a thunderbolt, and know how different a RIL can be from phone to phone, so i ask this quite seriously...
How different is the RIL from the Gnex to the SGIII?

seang said:
i came from a thunderbolt, and know how different a RIL can be from phone to phone, so i ask this quite seriously...
How different is the RIL from the Gnex to the SGIII?
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Completely different processors.

Is there anyway to get the TouchWiz Camera on CM9? I really like that camera app.
I tried just putting it in /system/app and changing the permissions to rw-r--r-- and rebooting and nothing
Then i tried just installing it like a normal apk and it failed.
I would love CM9 if i could just get the stock camera app too work.
BTW im using DHacker29's CM9 and its amazing. So much easier to install.

17akota said:
Is there anyway to get the TouchWiz Camera on CM9? I really like that camera app.
I tried just putting it in /system/app and changing the permissions to rw-r--r-- and rebooting and nothing
Then i tried just installing it like a normal apk and it failed.
I would love CM9 if i could just get the stock camera app too work.
BTW im using DHacker29's CM9 and its amazing. So much easier to install.
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It probably requires touchwiz frame work. It will take significantly more work than just dropping in an apk
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DHacker's CM10 is awesome!! I've been running it all day and Jelly Bean is really smooth on the S3.
http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/files/category/26-sgs3/
Check it out guys.

TWRP unable to flash CM10

Hello everyone
I am unable to flash the cm10 rom on my tf300t using TWRP 2.3.3.0. Most forums i read have cwm, but I am having some other issues with cwm so i have to use TWRP. The error is status 7, see attachment below. (I have already verified and md5 is alright)
Any help or pointers are appreciated.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app

the screenshot says no MD5 file is found. Not saying that is your issue, but just an observation since you said you checked it.
Also, it appears the zip file is inside a directory? try moving it to the root of the SD card. sometimes the paths for various functions of the flash assume that you are operating out of the root directory on the SD card.

thorrules said:
Hello everyone
I am unable to flash the cm10 rom on my tf300t using TWRP 2.3.3.0. Most forums i read have cwm, but I am having some other issues with cwm so i have to use TWRP. The error is status 7, see attachment below. (I have already verified and md5 is alright)
Any help or pointers are appreciated.
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Please see the line assert failed: getprop("
If you are using a tf300t then your error is in your build.prop file. It does not identify your unit as such.
The file you are trying to flash is the first cm10 download for the JB bootloader. I don't believe you will be pleased with that version.
If you still want to use it you will need to edit your zip to remove the asserts!

tobdaryl said:
Please see the line assert failed: getprop("
If you are using a tf300t then your error is in your build.prop file. It does not identify your unit as such.
The file you are trying to flash is the first cm10 download for the JB bootloader. I don't believe you will be pleased with that version.
If you still want to use it you will need to edit your zip to remove the asserts!
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Why do you say I would not be pleased with that version? As per http://get.cm/?device=tf300t it seems to have been released on 13-Nov. I was looking for a stable CM10 and that is the most stable I found. Also why does it not identify my unit? Is that an issue with the TWRP? FYI -- TWRP was the first recovery I had flashed, but since it gave status 7 error, I flashed CWM. CWM gave me some MBR signature errors, and it was completely useless, since it would not even take backup of my ROM, so I again moved back to TWRP. Thanks by the way.
mike-y said:
the screenshot says no MD5 file is found. Not saying that is your issue, but just an observation since you said you checked it.
Also, it appears the zip file is inside a directory? try moving it to the root of the SD card. sometimes the paths for various functions of the flash assume that you are operating out of the root directory on the SD card.
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Actually I had verified MD5 when I downloaded it on the phone (using FileManager app). I will try moving to the root directory, but I feel like that is not the issue. Thank you for your response.

thorrules said:
Why do you say I would not be pleased with that version? As per http://get.cm/?device=tf300t it seems to have been released on 13-Nov. I was looking for a stable CM10 and that is the most stable I found. Also why does it not identify my unit? Is that an issue with the TWRP? FYI -- TWRP was the first recovery I had flashed, but since it gave status 7 error, I flashed CWM. CWM gave me some MBR signature errors, and it was completely useless, since it would not even take backup of my ROM, so I again moved back to TWRP. Thanks by the way.
Actually I had verified MD5 when I downloaded it on the phone (using FileManager app). I will try moving to the root directory, but I feel like that is not the issue. Thank you for your response.
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That cm10 was released prior to the first cm10 nightly. If I remember correctly it didn't support gps and may not have supported wifi. It was placed in stable because it couldn't be released in nightlies at that point.
The md5 failure is normal if you don't have a properly named md5 file in the same directory as the zip and have the option set to use it.

tobdaryl said:
That cm10 was released prior to the first cm10 nightly. If I remember correctly it didn't support gps and may not have supported wifi. It was placed in stable because it couldn't be released in nightlies at that point.
The md5 failure is normal if you don't have a properly named md5 file in the same directory as the zip and have the option set to use it.
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Thanks. So I guess that CM10 was not useful to me anyway, I was looking for a stable and complete ROM. I think I will then try something else, maybe superclean, have read that it is stable too. Personally I do not like stock, instead prefer AOKP or CMs but I guess I have no choice then. Any other ROM that you had recommend? (stable + complete)?
About md5, thanks for that, I wasnt really worried about md5, since I had verified it already (before flashing).

thorrules said:
Thanks. So I guess that CM10 was not useful to me anyway, I was looking for a stable and complete ROM. I think I will then try something else, maybe superclean, have read that it is stable too. Personally I do not like stock, instead prefer AOKP or CMs but I guess I have no choice then. Any other ROM that you had recommend? (stable + complete)?
About md5, thanks for that, I wasnt really worried about md5, since I had verified it already (before flashing).
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I know it says nightly but the recent cm10.1 releases are stable and everything I have used works properly. I don't have a dock so I can't address that. It is a good daily driver for my use.
Some people are bothered by having a 0 directory on the internal sdcard for the first user. Yes it is multi-user. Android 4.2.

tobdaryl said:
I know it says nightly but the recent cm10.1 releases are stable and everything I have used works properly. I don't have a dock so I can't address that. It is a good daily driver for my use.
Some people are bothered by having a 0 directory on the internal sdcard for the first user. Yes it is multi-user. Android 4.2.
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I dont use a dock either, so that should work for me. I have never tried 4.2 ROM, will look for more details (esp the multi-user thingy) and then try it.

thorrules said:
I dont use a dock either, so that should work for me. I have never tried 4.2 ROM, will look for more details (esp the multi-user thingy) and then try it.
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OK, that is the reason I mentioned 4.2 and multi-user.
Good Luck!