It's currently running cm10.x and using twrp. I've downloaded the firmware file from asus.com. It is a zip file that contains another zip file. Do I just extract the contents and then flash the extracted zip file?
thanks
mrjayviper said:
It's currently running cm10.x and using twrp. I've downloaded the firmware file from asus.com. It is a zip file that contains another zip file. Do I just extract the contents and then flash the extracted zip file?
thanks
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yes extract once and flash the second .zip file
JoinTheRealms said:
yes extract once and flash the second .zip file
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I downloaded the latest ROM from the ASUS website. I extracted the zip file once and I then copied the extracted zip file into my tablet. I then open the zip file and extracted the contents using solid explorer. I did this just to verify the zip file can be opened.
After this, I rebooted my tablet into TWRP and wiped data/system/cache/dalvik. I then flashed the zip file but when it finished, I tried rebooting my device BUT TWRP is complaining no OS is installed?
Any ideas what I did wrong? thanks
mrjayviper said:
I downloaded the latest ROM from the ASUS website. I extracted the zip file once and I then copied the extracted zip file into my tablet. I then open the zip file and extracted the contents using solid explorer. I did this just to verify the zip file can be opened.
After this, I rebooted my tablet into TWRP and wiped data/system/cache/dalvik. I then flashed the zip file but when it finished, I tried rebooting my device BUT TWRP is complaining no OS is installed?
Any ideas what I did wrong? thanks
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Obviously the flash failed since you still have TWRP. You did a little too much at each step. Flashing a complete firmware file wipes/formats everything: system, data, recovery, bootloader. No need to do that prior.
I don't know why your flash failed, but it could be a bad download, could be that the file got messed up when copying to the tablet or when you extracted it.
I would download another copy of the firmware, extract it once on your PC and then transfer that file to your tablet and flash it.
mrjayviper said:
After this, I rebooted my tablet into TWRP and wiped data/system/cache/dalvik. I then flashed the zip file but when it finished, I tried rebooting my device BUT TWRP is complaining no OS is installed?
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That's correct. You wiped your OS, and installed the new firmware to the staging partition. The bootloader will flash it from there to the final partitions after the next reboot (with the blue progress bar).
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I downloaded the "CoreDroid_Desire_HD_GB_2.3.3_V4.5". I tried flashing the zip file using clockwordmod however it fails. When i extract the Zip file i find only boot.image, installbusybox file, data folder, META-INF folder & system folder... Can you please advise how can i flash this rom where there is no DAF.exe or any installer?
Thanks,
mohamed_baher said:
I downloaded the "CoreDroid_Desire_HD_GB_2.3.3_V4.5". I tried flashing the zip file using clockwordmod however it fails. When i extract the Zip file i find only boot.image, installbusybox file, data folder, META-INF folder & system folder... Can you please advise how can i flash this rom where there is no DAF.exe or any installer?
Thanks,
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What phone do you have?
Sorry forget to mention. HTC HD2.
What is the proper method of "returning to stock"?
I see a note in the Hydra Rom installation section that says returning to stock will delete clockwork recovery so I'm ASSUMING "returning to stock" means more than just flash a stock rom because simply flashing a "stock rom" wouldn't affect recovery, would it?
EDIT: So I found my answer, to return to stock you simply need to download the appropriate firmware package from the ASUS website, extract the zip inside of the zip it downloads as, then flash the extracted zip. It returns you to stock ROM and after a reboot, stock recovery.
shrumhead said:
EDIT: So I found my answer, to return to stock you simply need to download the appropriate firmware package from the ASUS website, extract the zip inside of the zip it downloads as, then flash the extracted zip. It returns you to stock ROM and after a reboot, stock recovery.
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Hi everybody,
I'm in the same situation of the author (but for me is CM9).
Like him, i've downloaded asus firmware, extract the zip but i don't understand the step in red bold.
Anyone can explain how to "flash" ?
Thanks in advance (and sorry for my poor english)
if you like to flash stock from recovery. You extract the dl file one time.
You now have a zip file which contains a blob.
Put this zip file to your internal sd.
Goto recovery and choose instal zip, then choose zip, then go to the zipfile and select it, then choose yes and flash it.
After this you are back to stock.
Best doing it with CWM, cause some users like me had problems doing this with twrp
I am owning a rooted Motorola Xoom running JB 4.2, and planning to flash a new KK 4.4 rom on it. On the thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506997), it suggests that version 2.6.3 of TWRP must be flashed first, I downloaded a zip file already and found out it contains sub folder with a couple of files inside. The img file is named recovery.img. Should I extract the img file first? Last time I flashed TWRP over CWM by use of Recovery Tools app from Play store, but the img is a standalone file.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Hi All,
I've downloaded the carbon rom form xda developer's site but it does not see to install with odin.
Can you please tell me if there is other flashing software that I need to have to use this rom?
I'm attaching a screen shot of what the rom file looks like when extracted.
IonKilla said:
Hi All,
I've downloaded the carbon rom form xda developer's site but it does not see to install with odin.
Can you please tell me if there is other flashing software that I need to have to use this rom?
I'm attaching a screen shot of what the rom file looks like when extracted.
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Yeah you don't want to extract the zip file, but copy the .zip to an sd card and install it from custom recovery.
If you don't have custom recovery you would go here https://goo.im/devs/daniel_hk/recovery/TWRP/p6200/ and download and flash in Odin (its the 2.8.0.0 that ends in .tar, you put that in the PDA box)
skurys said:
Yeah you don't want to extract the zip file, but copy the .zip to an sd card and install it from custom recovery.
If you don't have custom recovery you would go here
Hi and thank you very much for the reply.
I've installed Custom recovery to my Tab through Odin.
Can you please tell me how to use Custom Recovery?
Can't find it on the phone...
Kind regards
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You need recovery. In the development version has twrp2.8.0.0, you can use odin written
It's very easy.put the zip in sdcard.go to recovery mode.chose install zip from sdcard.chose install from external sd.some how u need to wipe data factorry reset..but on my device.no wipe and i don't see any problem.
I managed to get to the stock recovery back from cwm.....thanx to @eoh7678
But now I want to get access to the recovery "menu". I get into the recovery and end up at the android logo with a " ! "
I tried some key combinations but didn't help.
Please help me, thanks
The stock recovery does not have a menu. The only thing it can do is flash a stock firmware file loaded to the root of your internal storage (or external after renaming it). So what you are seeing is perfectly normal.
What are you trying to accomplish and how?
berndblb said:
The stock recovery does not have a menu. The only thing it can do is flash a stock firmware file loaded to the root of your internal storage (or external after renaming it). So what you are seeing is perfectly normal.
What are you trying to accomplish and how?
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Actually I want to update it from stock 4.2.1 to 4.2.2. I have downloaded the update file from asus website but I don't know how to update it now. Can you please explain me properly? I have copied the update file in /cache. I made a file named command in /cache/recovery
and in that file I inserted "--update_package=/cache/<the update filename> .zip " and saved the file and then booted into recovery.
Nothing happened, the device did not update.
And then I again booted into the OS and found that the "command" file no longer existed! I have tried this 3 times.
-Ngu said:
Actually I want to update it from stock 4.2.1 to 4.2.2. I have downloaded the update file from asus website but I don't know how to update it now. Can you please explain me properly? I have copied the update file in /cache. I made a file named command in /cache/recovery
and in that file I inserted "--update_package=/cache/<the update filename> .zip " and saved the file and then booted into recovery.
Nothing happened, the device did not update.
And then I again booted into the OS and found that the "command" file no longer existed! I have tried this 3 times.
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The file you downloaded is called something like bla_bla_UPDATELAUNCHER.zip.
Extraxt that zip once and you end up with another zip: bla_bla_user.zip
Take the user.zip and put it into the root level of internal storage. NOT into any folder, just alongside your Downloads, Pictures folders etc., so into /sdcard/
The system should automatically recognize the file and give you a notification. If it doesn't, reboot.
If still nothing happens you either have an incorrect file or read this:
http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...irmware-tf700-tf300-tf101-possibly-tf201.html