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Where is the data of sideloaded ROMs and GApps (.zip) are saved so that I can delete them after the recovery flashes them all?
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It depends on the Android Version you have. Can you please specify if you are looking for Recovery Log or Application Data ?
The zip file you flashed would be in the folder you downloaded it to.
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Thank you for your reply.
I'm using Nexus 4 and CM Snapshot M7(4.4.2) with PA Stock GApps (4.4.2).
I switched "Install zip from sideload" on Phillz recovery.
What I want to know is the temporary location of these .zip s so that I can delete them later after booting CM and free some space.
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It would be the same location where you downloaded them from the site. Typically it is /sdcard/download
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I rooted my phone (nexus s i9020a at&t) and have superuser and downloaded rom manager. I had no idea how to figure out how to flash a rom onto my device on my mac so I downloaded one of the many cyanogen mod 9's directly in rom manager. The rom loaded up perfectly and runs smoothly except there is no app market. When I try to go back into rom manager it force quits out.
I am very new to rooting and hacking into my phone and tried searching for hours and can't figure out what to do. If anyone knows how I can just flash a new updated version of cyanogen mod 9 without using rom manager that would be awesome. I really just need a step by step way to do it on the mac because every time someone posts a rom .zip file it downloads as a folder with random stuff in it and in recovery mode in my phone I don't know how to go about flashing it. So confused. Any help would be so appreciated.
Jess
Check your PM. I couldn't post links as it would have been my first post.
cm9 issue
thanks did you get my replies to your pm? i can't figure this out haha
download cm9 and the gapps add-on(with your phone) in the first post of the cm9 thread. boot into recovery, fimd your rom and gapps files, flash cm9 there, then flash the gapps(google apps), then reboot. you do not need rom manager.
Hmm cm9 does not come pre loaded with android app market so u will have to download the latest gapps from other posts in this forum... then copy it into ur phone from ur computer...then after going to cwm recovery use the volume up down buttons to scroll and the power button to choose...u will have to remember where u pasted the gapps file and u will have to navigate to it ...choose the gapps file and scroll down to yes to flash it then go back and reboot...that's it u will now have google apps in ur nexus s...Remember u do not need to open the downloaded gapps zip file as there is nothing u can do by opening it...good luck and happy flashing...
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Must not of searched that much if you overlooked that. Gapps is separate. Read the post fully, please.
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okay so i downloaded the g apps file and its a folder on my desktop with a few other folders within with random files. i go to recovery on my phone mount my phone drag this folder to my mounted phone. then i go back and do i do instal zip from sdcard? or do i do apply update from sd card? this is where I'm stuck idk where to go from here. if i click install zip from sdcard it makes me navigate and i find the name of the folder but it just brings me to the smaller folders and little individual files it's not just one big file but a bunch of little ones so i can't choose the whole thing.
so im confused
edit: so i guess on my mac when i download the zip file it must unzip it during download and becomes a folder. so i tried compressing the folder back into zip format and go back into recovery and load it but it says installation aborted.
Jessicaa39 said:
okay so i downloaded the g apps file and its a folder on my desktop with a few other folders within with random files. i go to recovery on my phone mount my phone drag this folder to my mounted phone. then i go back and do i do instal zip from sdcard? or do i do apply update from sd card? this is where I'm stuck idk where to go from here. if i click install zip from sdcard it makes me navigate and i find the name of the folder but it just brings me to the smaller folders and little individual files it's not just one big file but a bunch of little ones so i can't choose the whole thing.
so im confused
edit: so i guess on my mac when i download the zip file it must unzip it during download and becomes a folder. so i tried compressing the folder back into zip format and go back into recovery and load it but it says installation aborted.
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use google chrome browser on your mac and it wont unzip your files
latest gapps http://t.co/LssQaFMj
alright it went through and it's rebooting now..... it worked. thanks everyone for all your help!! im such a noob but i'm learning.
Jess
Jessicaa39 said:
alright it went through and it's rebooting now..... it worked. thanks everyone for all your help!! im such a noob but i'm learning.
Jess
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we were all noobs before. most important is the learning part.
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?
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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?
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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.
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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).
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?
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I have a gapps package for 5.1 and it refuses to flash because gapps already exist on my phone. But the gapps on my phone don't have trusted face. I will modify the gapps with trusted face so it installs even with gapps already on my phone.
I want to know if flashing a zip file with a file that already exists will overwire the existing file with the one in the zip? This is so I know that already existing gapps will be replaced with the new ones.
janekmuric said:
I have a gapps package for 5.1 and it refuses to flash because gapps already exist on my phone. But the gapps on my phone don't have trusted face. I will modify the gapps with trusted face so it installs even with gapps already on my phone.
I want to know if flashing a zip file with a file that already exists will overwire the existing file with the one in the zip? This is so I know that already existing gapps will be replaced with the new ones.
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Yes, but most GApps zips are configured to interrupt it's installation if another version of GApps was detected (like TK-GApps detects Delta GApps was installed when doing an installation). So I highly recommend to wipe /system partition and flash another GApps zip if you want to switch between GApps zips.
Hi,
I installed the unofficial LineageOS 14.1. Now I want to install the Open GApps package. I chose the Super bundle, and created a .gapps-config file at /sdcard/Open-GApps. I flashed the zip file from TWRP, and according to the log file, my configuration file is used, and the stock packages that I want to remove are removed. However, after I boot the system, I found all the stock apps are still there and most of the apps in GApps packages are not installed.
Any idea?
Thanks.
davidshen84 said:
Hi,
I installed the unofficial LineageOS 14.1. Now I want to install the Open GApps package. I chose the Super bundle, and created a .gapps-config file at /sdcard/Open-GApps. I flashed the zip file from TWRP, and according to the log file, my configuration file is used, and the stock packages that I want to remove are removed. However, after I boot the system, I found all the stock apps are still there and most of the apps in GApps packages are not installed.
Any idea?
Thanks.
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You can't even flash Open GApps on Pixel phones and if you try it gives you bright red error message because their script does not support the new partition system right now...