New to android phones and doing the ROM flash thing, coming from iphone (jailbroke all my iphones). I'm getting an error message with ROM manager trying to flash Cognition 3.04:
"error downloading you recovery"
Please advise as to the best course of action
Thanks in advance
Michael
reddragon317 said:
New to android phones and doing the ROM flash thing, coming from iphone (jailbroke all my iphones). I'm getting an error message with ROM manager trying to flash Cognition 3.04:
"error downloading you recovery"
Please advise as to the best course of action
Thanks in advance
Michael
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See my post here, post #2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942217
Thanks but pardon my ignorance but when you say install 2 times, do you just put the files on your sd and reboot in recovery twice or am I missing something? Thanks.
Michael
reddragon317 said:
Thanks but pardon my ignorance but when you say install 2 times, do you just put the files on your sd and reboot in recovery twice or am I missing something? Thanks.
Michael
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Yes put it on your internal sd along with the ROM you want to flash, boot into stock recovery and reinstall packages 2 times, the second time it will be in the green clockwork recovery and you can select install zip and then pick your ROM and flash it.
theres also some more help in this thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942217
Thanks. I'll read over the posts.
One last stupid question (probably not...lol). After I mount my phone and open the icon/folder on my desktop do I put the zip files in the sd subfolder or just on my phone along with the other folders?
ok uhhh to avoid confusion if you have an external micro sd card pull it out connect your phone to your pc (make sure you are in usb debugging mode before connecting) pull down your notification bar tap the option that says "Select to copy files to/from your computer." then mount it on your pc you should get a popup that asks what you want to do with your removable storage click open folder and whatever folder it opens into is the one you put all the files into you should probably have like a DCIM and Android folder in there also
Got it. That does clear it up nicely. Thanks again.
Hi All.
I'm new to this and trying to install my first rom (aiming for cynagenmod 7- it has the language support i need, or so they say)
I rooted my phone and followed a yourtube video titled "How To Install CyanogenMod 7 Nightly on T-Mobile G2x after Nandroid Backup"
When i get to the part where i need to install zip from sd card, i can't find the file. I went back and copied the zip file into a few different folders, and although i can locate the folders, it tells me that the file cannot be found.
How do i get around this? Your help is much appreciated.
Maholly said:
Hi All.
I'm new to this and trying to install my first rom (aiming for cynagenmod 7- it has the language support i need, or so they say)
I rooted my phone and followed a yourtube video titled "How To Install CyanogenMod 7 Nightly on T-Mobile G2x after Nandroid Backup"
When i get to the part where i need to install zip from sd card, i can't find the file. I went back and copied the zip file into a few different folders, and although i can locate the folders, it tells me that the file cannot be found.
How do i get around this? Your help is much appreciated.
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How did you download it? Through rom manager or from the phones xda app, browser? Look in folders with xda or rom manager?? Next time just copy and paste it to the root of the sdcard, not in a folder.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
Downloaded it on a computer and then copied it to sd card
and you can't find where you put it? did you place it in a certain folder already created... you can plug your phone in to pc then enter recovery mode, go to storage and mounts at the bottom select mount usb then copy the zip to your sdcard in no folders.
When i try to do that t tells me unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory).
From recovery mode there are some folders i can't see when i browse the folders on the computer when the phone is booted up normally - and vice versa. Is this an indicaiton of a problem?
Silly question: do you actually have an SD card inserted in your phone? If so, what did you use to format it?
i do have an sd, and i actually didn't format it. should i format? if so, what is the best way?
Your help is much appreciated
Maholly said:
i do have an sd, and i actually didn't format it. should i format? if so, what is the best way?
Your help is much appreciated
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Did you try, while in recovery, taking the back off your phone, pop out the sd card, wait 1 second, then pop it back in?
Stupid question, but it's a mistake some beginners make, but did you unzip it by any chance? That could be a reason CWM isn't seeing it. Once you DL the ROM you need to leave it untouched. Then place on SD.
After that in CWM go to choose zip from sd.
And you attained CWM via NVFlash correct?
buru898 said:
Did you try, while in recovery, taking the back off your phone, pop out the sd card, wait 1 second, then pop it back in?
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Yes, tried that and still no luck
mackster248 said:
Stupid question, but it's a mistake some beginners make, but did you unzip it by any chance? That could be a reason CWM isn't seeing it. Once you DL the ROM you need to leave it untouched. Then place on SD.
After that in CWM go to choose zip from sd.
And you attained CWM via NVFlash correct?
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no, didn't unzip, left it as cm_p999_full-201.zip
and yes, did get the CWM via NVFlash
Maybe you accidentally copied it to internal memory instead of the sdcard. You can check in cwm under internal sdcard I believe is what it is called.
When you connect the phone through USB it mounts both internal and the sdcard.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
My file explorer sees it in both the root and the folder I created in the root - both can't be seen in recovery mode.
Should i list the directories i see in both views?
In cwm are you selecting install zip from sdcard or install update from sdcard
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
I ask it to install zip from sd and not update
Maholly said:
My file explorer sees it in both the root and the folder I created in the root - both can't be seen in recovery mode.
Should i list the directories i see in both views?
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you may have put it on the "internal sd card" instead of external sd card, however this is not an issue if you flash CWM 5.0.2.0 or later, it has an option to install zip from internal sd and external. i renamed my external sd card to avoid future confusion (otherwise i see two "removable disks" when i plug my phone into my computer)
Check your file names on your SD card. Check what you see listed in Recovery. If you see differing file names, then you're accessing the wrong memory.
I'm going to assume you tried booting with the physical buttons. Try booting with CWM which should give you a blue menu.
i did try to boot both ways and both times i did not find it... for the millionth time i took the sd card out and put it back in and rebooted using cwm, and funny enough, it found the direcotry... and yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, cynagenmod7 is my new rom
thanks for all your help, support and commiseration... really, much appreciated. i do ve a few more issues that i have to research now... again, external sd not found though... will probably solicit more help
again, thanks
Facing the same problemm
Hello,
new to this rooting and stuff.. I rooted the rom , installed clockworkmod... Now the rom is just not getting detected... Did it a million times.. What to do.. facing exactly the same problems.. I did all that was mentioned... The file is unzipped only card is inserted, using the cmw reboot and stuff itself so no tension.. plzz let me no what to do... stuck here since hours.. !!
hippoalways said:
Hello,
new to this rooting and stuff.. I rooted the rom , installed clockworkmod... Now the rom is just not getting detected... Did it a million times.. What to do.. facing exactly the same problems.. I did all that was mentioned... The file is unzipped only card is inserted, using the cmw reboot and stuff itself so no tension.. plzz let me no what to do... stuck here since hours.. !!
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Don't unzip the file. When you flash anything via clockwork, it flashes using .zip files.
hi guys,
i was trying to root my phone like the guides say,
but when i go to safe mode and try to choose the update file, it says it doesn't exist. (i have copied it to the main directory of the SD card)
before that, i deleted the partition on the sd (trying to do something else) and created 1 fat32 primary partition and 1 ext2 primary partition. don't know if it's related, but i would really be happy if anyone can help on how to make the phone find the file.
thanks!
You mean recovery mode?
Make sure the file's name hasn't changed, and that you put it in the right partition.
yeah, safe mode,
and the file name is the same as i downloaded it - update.zip in the main folder of the sd card
Ok, what recovery are you using? CWM?
post-mortem said:
Ok, what recovery are you using? CWM?
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i guess,
i have the rom manager
What is the full and complete name of the file you're trying to flash?
the file name that is used for the root (in most guides) is named:
UPDATE.ZIP
had to format card from the phone
all good now ,
thanks
Hello, so I unlocked the Bootloader of my HTC One Mini and installed TWRP as recovery and put the superuser zip in my internal storage to root my phone.
The problem is, when i go to recovery to install the zip it says "Storage : Internal Storage (262mb)" and all the folders that i see don't correspond to my internal storage so I can't find the zip anywhere.
I'm new to this and I hope one of you can help me.
Thanks.
I'm sorry for posting this, I found the solution after
I was using the resurrection remix rom, and needed to do an update, so I did what it said and downloaded the files I needed, saved them to my micro SD card in a folder I created and named "root". I did the wipe and erased everything following the instructions on that page, and now I'm trying to install the files so I can flash them and that root folder is not showing up! Nothing is showing up in my sd directory. I have two directories; one says sdcard, and the other is named external_SD. Inside the external_SD folder is a LOST.DIR file that's completely empty. Inside the sdcard folder is a TWRP file which is also empty and I'm freaking out now because I don't know how to get to my SD card. Everything is saved to my sd card and I have no access to the files I need and my phone is wiped now and doesn't have a rom installed and I have no idea or way to get a rom installed now. I don't know what to do and I'm panicking. If anyone knows what to do in this situation I will be eternally grateful.
I was able to get into download mode and use Odin to install factory firmware. This issue has been fixed.