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[Q] Cognition 2.3b3 flash fail

Hey guys, I am trying to flash Cognition 2.3b3 from Cognition 2.3b2, and the flash keeps failing in clockwork recovery. I have voodoo lag fix disabled, I flash clockwork recovery, and I have even tried installing the update with the wipe option checked. I keep getting an error during the installation saying "installation aborted. Cannot open /sdcard/Cognition2.3b3.zip.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Did you try redownloading the zip file? It may be a corrupt download?
If not, I wouldn't know since I haven't upgraded to b3 yet

I did try redownloading the zip. I can't figure what the problem is. The file came straight from designgears sight. I do not have winzip installed on my laptop. Could that make a difference?

Just sharing my experiance.
I had stockish eclair with voodoo (deleted one system file by mistake and it wouldn't boot) so i flashed Cognition 2.3b3 thro odin , it went thro without problems kernel detected ext4 present (from previous voodoo) and everything works fine
So you don't need to disable voodoo lag fix if your next rom supports it. And you could also try flashing with odin if clockwork fails.

bparkerson04 said:
I did try redownloading the zip. I can't figure what the problem is. The file came straight from designgears sight. I do not have winzip installed on my laptop. Could that make a difference?
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Give us a Step by step of what you did so we can help further. When asking for help it helps us alot to give as much information as possable

I think I figured out what the problem was. I was deleting some stuff from my internal sd card, and I deleted the update.zip I used to root my phone when it was stock. I didn't think I needed it anymore. The thought occurred to me just now to put that file back, and I was just able to flash the rom. Go figure. Thanks for all of the input guys. I guess I will always need to keep that update.zip on my root sd.

[Q] Cant flash Nexus S ROM's

I have been able to get into CWM Recovery v5.8.0.2 but there are no system files or any files on the phone, i can load new ROM's on the SD Card but every time i install it, it comes back with installation aborted, i have tried multiple different ROM's, any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. The phone does not boot any further

Are you sure youre not flashing a Nexus S 4G rom on a Nexus S. Or the opposite?

I am sure, i downloaded all the correct ROM's from CWM and am sure i have a Nexus S not 4G, it was rooted before and worked fine, i tried getting it back to stock and when it booted, it stopped on the boot ROM, from there i went through the procedure on loading CWM recovery and finally got back into recovery mode but from there i cannot flash anything and as mentioned, there are no file whatsoever on the phone, it is as if it was wiped clean.

Have you accidentally flashed a NS4G recovery by any chance? Try reflashing your recovery.
Also, any other errors listed?

I flashed using the CWM v5.8.0.2-touch on the Nexus S category, so am sure and triple checked and redid the flash a couple of times, its as if the new flash does not find any files to flash and i cannot see any files on the phone, there is only the update.zip file on there

Jpienaar2012 said:
I flashed using the CWM v5.8.0.2-touch on the Nexus S category, so am sure and triple checked and redid the flash a couple of times, its as if the new flash does not find any files to flash and i cannot see any files on the phone, there is only the update.zip file on there
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try a different recovery, or the non touch cwm recovery.

I loaded v5.0.2.0 from CWM and still the same, it changes CWM but cannot load any new ROM's

Jpienaar2012 said:
I loaded v5.0.2.0 from CWM and still the same, it changes CWM but cannot load any new ROM's
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dont load from there, flash a new recovery via fastboot.

I only downloaded the recovery file from CWM but loaded it through fastboot, but still the same result

Jpienaar2012 said:
I only downloaded the recovery file from CWM but loaded it through fastboot, but still the same result
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download from somewhere else and try.

any suggestions on where else i could get it from?

Download stock fastboot.imgs for your specific device. Flash them all = stock and start over

i have also downloaded from nexushacks.com and same result

Sorry, but where can i get the stock files from?

Search Google. Go to official Google site with them. Can't recall the exact URL but it will come up. There is a thread on these forums as well with the links to factory images and instructions if you need them.
PSA. Stay away from nexusshacks. That guy is a tool.

Thanks, will have a look on what i can find

Ihave tried stock and various developers and still no luck, i tried fast boot update from terminal and get
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt
Any suggestions

Jpienaar2012 said:
Ihave tried stock and various developers and still no luck, i tried fast boot update from terminal and get
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt
Any suggestions
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Did you grab your image from here and follow the instructions to start the script?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Thanks, this worked and my phone is back to normal again. Don't trust what other people say on the web cause most of the time they give you crap.

Twrp boot loop

This happened before but I can't remember how I fixed it.
1. Flashed TWRP (over codename if that helps)
2. it bootlooped back to recovery instead of starting the system
3. tried flashing another rom/ didn't work
4. finished season 2 of the walking dead
5. reflashed TWRP didn't help (TWRP flashing failed even tho it was the same file I used to get TWRP in the first place)
6. Took the battery out but that didn't help either
I really don't want to odin or use one click any ideas??

lonoguge said:
This happened before but I can't remember how I fixed it.
1. Flashed TWRP (over codename if that helps)
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Where did you get twrp?
lonoguge said:
2. it bootlooped back to recovery instead of starting the system
3. tried flashing another rom/ didn't work
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What is "another rom"?
lonoguge said:
4. finished season 2 of the walking dead
5. reflashed TWRP didn't help (TWRP flashing failed even tho it was the same file I used to get TWRP in the first place)
6. Took the battery out but that didn't help either
I really don't want to odin or use one click any ideas??
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Meh, lets start with the first two...
To stop the reboot to recovery, you must flash eollie's oneclick with bootloaders (so flash it twice, second time flash bootloaders) and go back to mtd.

bhundven said:
Where did you get twrp?
What is "another rom"?
Meh, lets start with the first two...
To stop the reboot to recovery, you must flash eollie's oneclick with bootloaders (so flash it twice, second time flash bootloaders) and go back to mtd.
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I got it from what I thought was the official XDA TWRP thread but I'm not sure if it was official or not
at first I tried reinstalling codename but now I'm trying Beam (Tuk edition) and it seems to be working

TWRP Major Boot Loop
hey guys, im new here and i desperately need help with my phone!
the other day i was flashing a rom on my samsung galaxy s 4g. Things were turning out fine, until i had some complications on my phone.. so, i removed the rom. when i rebooted my phone, it went directly into the team win recovery project boot loop and every time i try to reboot my phone, it goes into the twrp. I also can't wipe anything and i can't delete anything! Does anybody know how I can solve this or is my phone basically bricked

more details would be helpful..
As in what rom, or what kernel.... etc... and make sure you have the corret phone.

Same problem with t959p
Looks like I'm not alone.......here's my story
the other day I wanted to switch from a stock rom to a custom, so I flashed redux 1.3 which was actually a froyo rom, and it started draining my batt like crazy so I flashed another rom on top of the froyo rom not realizing what I was doing and somehow messed it up cuz now it will only boot into recovery.
Now just to be clear I know this was my fault, I know I should have odin'd back to stock first, but I wasn't thinking at the time.....Ohh and just so you know I've flashed this sucker hundreds of times and was always able to get out of any mess I got in.
So here is the situation as it stands now, 3 button combo to enter download does not work. I can only get it into download with the jig I made. the problem is even in download mode none of my pc's will detect the device as a Samsung composite device, so odin will not see it. I've installed every possible 32 n 64 bit driver I could find including reinstalling kies. Kies wont even see it. I've tried flashing a few roms that I know worked and still it just boots into recovery. Now one thing I'll tell you is that depending on which rom I flash I can get recovery to switch from cwm to twrp. right now I left it with cwm 6.x.
what I need is a cwm flashable stock telus t959p rom complete with bootloaders or at the very least a cwm flashable zip file containing the bootloaders to see if I can recover the phone.
ohh and if your thinking about telling me to google search for the answer then don't bother.......I've spent the last 4 days reading posts and going to different websites and repositories trying to find something that would help me and so far nothing has.
the only thing that might work as a last resort is pushing the bootloaders as per one of raver's or whitehawks posts but it's a little more complicated for me as I would have to set up a laptop with Linux as I don't think i'll be able to pull it off with any of my windows pc's, win7 and win 8 only.
so if anyone has the files I need or can make them please let me know....or if you think you have another solution I could try i'm all ears err eyes.
thanks
Jedi

Have you tried heimdall one-clicks? Maybe it's showing up as gadget or something like that. I've had luck using zadig and heimdall to bring it back from the brink of death.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498

EDIT
Woops replied to the wrong thread .
Nothing to see here, move along

Would like to revive a slightly dead thread.
I upgraded to a Galaxy S3 and no longer use my SGS4G for daily use. I had AOKP and disliked it, FC's and didn't like the feel. I have been trying to install a new rom ( old rom, VH Black Ed. ). Every time It loads into TWRP I have the ability to select the zip, install, it says complete, but reboots right back to TWRP menu. I've tried flashing CWM and it will install, flash the rom, reboot, and right back to this TWRP B.S... what am I doing wrong? I want to continue to use this SGS4g for music and internet duties.
How can I install CWM and have it stay even after a reboot? This TWRP is starting to me off

Did you happen to one click to stock before you went ham at the recovery?
Sent from my SGH-T959V using Tapatalk 4

[Q] Update Binary Script

Hey,
having a problem with installing zips
phone doesn't seem to be able to install any ROM or superuser but can install gapps, google now, recoveries, etc.
the error looks like this
E: error in sdcard/roms/path
(Status 0)
Aborted
Been looking around and people with status 0 problems normally get them by doing something wrong with the update binary when developing their own roms. I recently messed up my phone a little and although I got it working again I think the update binary might still be changed.
Since I know nothing about any of this kind of thing,
Does anyone have access to a stock or tested and working update-binary file that I can replace mine with,
or at least check to see if there's any differences, to see if that's the problem?
If anyone has any ideas about what might be causing the problem i'd appreciate help
Thanks

i would start be reflashing the recovery becasue i highly doubt that the roms that all these DEV have built is the issue with binary script if you want to pull one from a stock rom. you can grab one from Vincoms thread. and not to mention make sure you have atleast attempted to download the rom twice incase you have a bad zip folder. another thing you cant would be to flash from the internal

crashpsycho said:
i would start be reflashing the recovery becasue i highly doubt that the roms that all these DEV have built is the issue with binary script if you want to pull one from a stock rom. you can grab one from Vincoms thread. and not to mention make sure you have atleast attempted to download the rom twice incase you have a bad zip folder. another thing you cant would be to flash from the internal
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No it's 100% a problem with the phone,
I've tried multiple recoveries, multiple roms, that were downloaded multiple times from multiple sources, and while running multiple roms (from recoveries) and all give the exact same error. TWRP's error looks a little different but I'm pretty sure its the same thing.
I thought there was just a .tar file on vincom's thread for the stock firmware
i'll check again to see if I can find what I need from there though,
thanks.

there is a zip stock recovery fashable file, but not a tar one, either revert to full stock via odin then reinstall a custom recovery, or backup your sdcards and reformat them to see if that corrrects your problem

Phone bricked but not bricked...

RESOLVED
This is 4th brick and i normally know how to fix it but this time i cant fix it
Ok so one day my phone was acting up it wouldn't turn on
I flashed repartioned and flashed csc/phone/froyo from hawk (ODIN) - everything was ok
Then i flashed gingerbread (odin)- phone turned on everything worked
Afterwards i rooted it (super one click)- it worked
got sgs kernel flasher
Flashed antonx kernel for gb
when i tried to install cm9 it didnt work i checked logs and got this (im using cmr 6.0.1.2)
I: Cant partition unsafe device: /dev/block/mmcb1k0p
I:Cant format unknown volume :/external_sd
I: cant format unknown volume: /emmc
Any ideas?
Also i was trying to do this
flash froyo + everything from hawk
Flash gingerbread
root
get sgs kernel flasher
flash kernel
install cm9
install cm10
restore my cm10 backup

That's a lot of steps that aren't needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498 2nd post, eollie's one click to stock.
1)Run that, you have stock GB, root, and CWM all in 1 click.
2)Reboot to recovery, wipe and install CM9
3)Profit??

Ill try that
getochkn said:
That's a lot of steps that aren't needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498 2nd post, eollie's one click to stock.
1)Run that, you have stock GB, root, and CWM all in 1 click.
2)Reboot to recovery, wipe and install CM9
3)Profit??
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Thanks for the quick reply ill try that

What CM where you trying to install? Are phone doesn't use /emmc or /external_sd. That's why it failing. Wrong zip from the wrong phone. Look under your battery and tell us what the model number says before you go any further and end up with a true brick.

cmr
... after i installed antonx's kernel i tried to install cyanogen mod 9 and i was using the recovery included in that
And yes i know what phone i have.. sgs4g (sgh-t959v)

What Cm9? It's trying to write to partitions that this phone doesn't use. Link the ROM please.

link
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1730954

That's really weird that your getting those errors. We don't use emmc or external_sd. Heimdall will get you set back up but I've never seen ANYONE in all the time I have had this phone report that error. That's why I was trying to make sure you had the right phone and ROM before you went any further.

now what?
hechoen said:
That's really weird that your getting those errors. We don't use emmc or external_sd. Heimdall will get you set back up but I've never seen ANYONE in all the time I have had this phone report that error. That's why I was trying to make sure you had the right phone and ROM before you went any further.
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Ok so im back onto stock 2.3.6 and rooted... what kernel do i install? oh yea and hermdal doesnt want to work something net framework isnt installing (keeps on failing) and ive tried downloading it from microsoft too

Well, since antons didn't seem to work for you, flash the other one. lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828171

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how do i go from stock to mtd rom? (im on the "other one" i have a 32 gig sd card with EVERY single rom on that list, every kernel, every modem so basicly i dont have to download them)
before i just installed it through cmr but is that right?
I want to go from stock to cyanogen mod 9 MTD
Im creating a backup right now incase i mess up later

That's will work as long as the recovery is CWM 5.x or later. You used to have to flash CM7 first but I'm pretty sure Team Acid fixed it in the new CM9 build. Just check the MD5 of that zip you where trying to flash. Those errors are very strange and I'm thinking you might have accidentally gotten the wrong CM9.

hechoen said:
That's will work as long as the recovery is CWM 5.x or later. You used to have to flash CM7 first but I'm pretty sure Team Acid fixed it in the new CM9 build. Just check the MD5 of that zip you where trying to flash. Those errors are very strange and I'm thinking you might have accidentally gotten the wrong CM9.
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Ok im installing..
Also if this works can i just restore my cm10 backup? or do i have to install cm 10 then the backup?

You can try to restore it. If it's the same version of CWM that you backed up from it should work. Just do all the wipes including system and data before you restore. If that doesn't work for some reason just flash CM10 than do an advanced restore of data only.

Works
ok it works... cid kinda scares me
I guess im going to restore my cm10 backup then...
And thanks for all the help
wow i have to wait five minutes between posts that sucks

restore
got an err when trying to restore E:/format_volume: format_rfs_decive failed on system
Guess im going to install cm10 then restore
What an exciting day... i went from froyo to gingerbread to ics and now to jb

Ahh
Ok so i found out that when i flashed kc1 to kc6 on odin i left the repartiton checked... so some files were missing and i guess that was the problem... what is phone efs clear on odin again? isnt it have to do with something with celluar communications

ok everything is back to normal (except a few apps) And thanks for helping out!

Some apps don't restore. Like xda for example. If I restore a backup it will say app not installed. When I reDL it from Play all my settings are still there though. So it's saving the cache and not the app. I've never really cared enough to look into it. lol