I am unable to uninstall any cab files from file explorer after a hard reset to my TMobile HD2. The complete error message is "Installation of xxxxx.cab was unsuccessful" and happens immediately (less than a second) after opening any cab.
I went as far as to hard reset the phone again without the SD card in, redownload the cab to local storage, and the problem persists.
I have tried 4-5 .cab's that worked before the hard reset, and I can't get any of them to work.
Anyone have any ideas?
Update: i can install the coreplayer from a cab, but several others i used to have installed do not work: battlog, htc wifi sharing, among others I believe I got from here.
Well that's weird, i re-downloaded the cab from here, and it works. Apparently all the .cab files i had stored on the SD card (in case i needed to reset the phone and quickly reinstall everything) didn't work.
Do the actual .cab files get modified when you use them such that they won't work again after a hard reset?
usernotfound said:
Well that's weird, i re-downloaded the cab from here, and it works. Apparently all the .cab files i had stored on the SD card (in case i needed to reset the phone and quickly reinstall everything) didn't work.
Do the actual .cab files get modified when you use them such that they won't work again after a hard reset?
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nope. been using some of my cabs for years. What probably happened is your sd card got corrupted. I would scan and fix errors on the card or look into purchasing a new one.
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I just wanted to double check before I do this, but I'm currently running DCD 3.2.3 and need to perform a hard reset (too many test programs installed and removed over time).
I'd like to upgrade to DCD 3.2.5. My plan is to just put it in boot loader mode (the tri-color screen) and run BuildNB.bat to let it reset all the programs with the latest and greatest. At this time I can also re-add back in the games and VPN software that I failed to install during my last install.
Is that basically all that I need to do? Once it comes up, I'll install the carrier cab, reprogram the device and install all my programs back.
Can someone whose done this a few times verify that I got that right?
sharper4 said:
I just wanted to double check before I do this, but I'm currently running DCD 3.2.3 and need to perform a hard reset (too many test programs installed and removed over time).
I'd like to upgrade to DCD 3.2.5. My plan is to just put it in boot loader mode (the tri-color screen) and run BuildNB.bat to let it reset all the programs with the latest and greatest. At this time I can also re-add back in the games and VPN software that I failed to install during my last install.
Is that basically all that I need to do? Once it comes up, I'll install the carrier cab, reprogram the device and install all my programs back.
Can someone whose done this a few times verify that I got that right?
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USB method.
1) Get an activesync connection in WM.
2) Using the kitchen, Run BuildNB.Bat.
3) "Play"... then allow the RomUpdateUtility to run.
That's it. Then do your carrier cab etc.
SD Card Method.
1) Run BuildNB.Bat... "Play"... when RomUpdateUtility comes up... just close it. Find the ROM folder and rename the Ruu_signed.nbh file TITAIMG.nbh. Copy it to your formatted (Fat32) MicroSD card (<=2gb non-SDHC)
2) After copied to card, insert microSD card into phone, then do the "Bootloader" method (Power+Camera+reset)
then follow the prompts. Do your carrier cab... etc.
Thanks for the quick reply. This site absolutely rocks!
and no need to do a hard reset prior, installing a new rom will delete everything that you installed, including your contacts. I would recommend just backing up your essentials
evanbriggs1 said:
and no need to do a hard reset prior, installing a new rom will delete everything that you installed, including your contacts. I would recommend just backing up your essentials
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Thanks so much! The install was quick and painless. This ROM is awesome too.
I've flashed both the 1.0 and 2.0 energy roms in the last couple days, and keep having the same problem. When it resets, it goes through the initial configuration stuff again...
I had a problem around the same time where it stopped reading my sd card, but that was fixed by formatting the card.
Then it wouldn't read a RAPHIMG.nbh off the card, bootloader would say "no image file" or something before going to "serial". I fixed that by reflashing HardSPL.
Now it sees the SD, and can flash off it, and has a fresh flash of HardSPL, and a fresh flash of energyROM, but when I reset the rom, (sometimes) it still wants to redo the initial configuration and WIPE ALL MY DATA... AGAIN!!!!
Thank god for PIMBackup, but I really want my phone to be usable again...
maybe you should try flashing through active sync.
Maybe you should post in correct thread?
what phone and operator are you using?
It's an AT&T fuze...
Not sure what the correct thread for this would be as it's happened across a couple roms (granted both energyROMs)
I'm trying NATF 4.6 right now, flashed over activesync, but I'm pretty sure one of the times it happened in the last few days was after an activesync flash. Maybe not though. We'll see, I'm trying to install stuff and restart it a few times to try to get it to happen.
Reflash a stock rom and then flash the EnergyRom back.
Hello
Question do You Have Any Music On your SD?
As DUMB as this may sound i was having a Similar issue a few months back...
My Phone kept Doing Random resets...
Things i did that fixed the issue...
-I Did a LOW LEVEL Format On my Micro sd Card
-Scanned My PC For Corrupt music Files using a Program called MP3 SHIELD
This seemed to fix the issue for me...i haven't had a problem since...
It makes sense because Corrupt Music Files Wreak Havok on an ipod...and our phones scan for new music in the background every now and then...
not sure if it's the same problem but hope it helps...
ohh and one more thing...if you use Active Sync to restore Data You had on your phone...Contacts, files...etc keep on eye on what files are being replaced one of those files can be causing an issue...
my advice is to just clean it completely out...sd, phone etc...new flash...
and only have the absolute necessary...like contacts etc...
run a few days like that and see if you do have the issue if not...then add some more...and go another few days...and so on...
it may be time consuming but it can narrow down the problem...
Hope i was Some help!
and Good Luck dude
Okay, so I don't know if my SD card was hosed or what, did a reformat from disk management into FAT32, 4096 byte sector size. It would flash from SD again then, but i was still having the resets. I did have some corrupt file name (or maybe it was just the ascii (tm) symbol that did it).
The activesync flash seems to have worked, went to NATF's 4.6 via activesync, it's been working fine. I'm debating going back to EnergyROM, or maybe wait for elite rc4...
The activesync flash or NATF's rom must have overwritten whatever was bad in my phone that wasn't getting overwritten by an energyROM SD flash.
Hope this helps anyone else that experiences similar issues.
Not sure if that counted as a low-level format or not. I don't have any sd formatting apps.
After an compulsary hard reset, how can I recover the 60+ apps. laying in my memory card and bringing them to the normal use in Programs??
Last time I had an hard reset I went to the WEB and downloaded again one by one.
I'm sure there will be an easier way, as they are all "smiling" to me at the card and calling me stupid!!!
Help, please.
jcamposlisgolfe said:
After an compulsary hard reset, how can I recover the 60+ apps. laying in my memory card and bringing them to the normal use in Programs??
Last time I had an hard reset I went to the WEB and downloaded again one by one.
I'm sure there will be an easier way, as they are all "smiling" to me at the card and calling me stupid!!!
Help, please.
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use AppBrain for Android...
Use shortcutcreator http://www.bolognini.it/swpc/index.aspx won't work for all your apps
Best way to do it:
Get SKTools and SPB-Backup
BEFORE hard reset: do a thorough cleaning of temp files (SK-Tools Autoclean) and then a registry optimization (SK-Tools)m then backup Your device with SPB Tools (full backup)
THEN hard reset and restore with SPB-Backup.
Many thanks to all of you for prompt help, but (why there is always an but?):
-Spyderman33 : AppBrain is only for Android and my HD2 have WM 6.5
-Westwood01 : only transfered 3 apps. and after blocked
-Troed : Your receipt is for programmed hard reset-Before... etc,etc.
Anyway, tks again and I'm going to redownload all the apps.
if they are installed to your sd card then you just need to make a shortcut to the actual program (.exe) theres no need to reinstall.
won't work for all but will work for most.....
So I was having some issues with my S3. Boiled down to a factory data reset. Used TiBu to back everything up. For some reason decided to re-backup a game cause I wasn't sure if it had been initially. Used Astro for all of this. Had the new game backup on the internal, moved the whole folder (with just the game files in it) to the SD card and merged it with the similarly named folder on my SD card. Popped the SD card out, did the FDR. And here's where everything went wrong.
Firstly the message "Unfortunately, Messages has stopped working" appears every time I start my phone and the Messages app freezes the phone whenever opened, this has caused me to have to get a replacement phone. But the main issue was when I opened TiBu to restore, and none of my backups were there, nor were they on the card itself anymore.
Somehow they were deleted or corrupted or something when I merged the two folders. So I found a data recovery program which was able to find all of the "com.android" blah blah files from the back up. I restored a few of them to test it out, put them back on my phone, I can see them in Astro, but no app installer will detect them. Wtf?? So close...
I was devastated with this loss, so much data in there. So when this program was able to find it all again, a sparkle of hope appeared. Please tell me I'm just missing some crucial little step here, the files look exactly like the original backup files. Same size, combination of numbers, everything. Non-Market Installation is checked and I'm rooted on stock. Please someone be my savior!!
well..... you can go back completely to square one by flashing a stock firmware you can get them from sammobile.com
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Hm, well your response is much appreciated. However, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what I want to do. I'm trying to restore .apk files that I can see in Astro but AppInstaller won't detect, not flash back to stock.
Thanks anyways...
Hi, I'm in desperate need of help, please.
I'm using SGS2. Several months ago my device suddenly started acting weird, thumbnails in gallery didn't load, apps didn't refresh (instagram, facebook etc.)... Rebooting would help but only for a certain amount of time, until it suddenly started to happen again. I realised the internal SD card simply becomes read-only randomly, but I didn't know why. I made peace with it since I'm not a big smartphone user.
Anyhow, today I went through my phone files and saw that several cache folders were oddly big, so I deleted a ****load of files, and then(!!) that one folder would not delete... So I clicked it and saw a bunch of gibberish files that do not want to get deleted.
I tried SD Maid app, but the thing is, once I browse to that specific corrupt folder the SD card goes crazy and becomes read-only, so basically at that moment I realised that folder is what's making the phone act like this.
Connecting it to PC and deleting doesn't work either. Renaming the files doesn't work. Copy/paste does work but is useless. Factory reset/installing new ROM/kernel/whatever doesn't work either. The files will still be there, I've tried.
Anything, please?
yellowjellow said:
Hi, I'm in desperate need of help, please.
I'm using SGS2. Several months ago my device suddenly started acting weird, thumbnails in gallery didn't load, apps didn't refresh (instagram, facebook etc.)... Rebooting would help but only for a certain amount of time, until it suddenly started to happen again. I realised the internal SD card simply becomes read-only randomly, but I didn't know why. I made peace with it since I'm not a big smartphone user.
Anyhow, today I went through my phone files and saw that several cache folders were oddly big, so I deleted a ****load of files, and then(!!) that one folder would not delete... So I clicked it and saw a bunch of gibberish files that do not want to get deleted.
I tried SD Maid app, but the thing is, once I browse to that specific corrupt folder the SD card goes crazy and becomes read-only, so basically at that moment I realised that folder is what's making the phone act like this.
Connecting it to PC and deleting doesn't work either. Renaming the files doesn't work. Copy/paste does work but is useless. Factory reset/installing new ROM/kernel/whatever doesn't work either. The files will still be there, I've tried.
Anything, please?
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What rom were you using when the errors started happening?
What have you tried as far as flashing roms/kernels/custom recoveries?
I'm using Omega v24 XWLSW (4.1.2). What I did was factory reset and every single format option in that CWM recovery screen. I then flashed that same ROM again but fresh.
I don't think this has anything to do with ROM/kernels etc. This is simply a bunch of corrupt files in Device\sdcard\Android. I've tried googling with no success. I need a way to forcibly delete that folder with all those files inside. Any directions on how format?
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I'm using Omega v24 XWLSW (4.1.2). What I did was factory reset and every single format option in that CWM recovery screen. I then flashed that same ROM again but fresh.
I don't think this has anything to do with ROM/kernels etc. This is simply a bunch of corrupt files in Device\sdcard\Android. I've tried googling with no success. I need a way to forcibly delete that folder with all those files inside. Any directions on how format?
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The first thing I would try is to reinstall a stock samsung rom. This sometimes is the only way to fully reset your phone back to original condition. Sammobile.com is the website I have used. You would have to root again but....
Also check out this thread -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/qa-friendly-qa-thread-t1648351
There are some similarities with possible corrupt partitions another guy has(the last few pages of thread), that they are trouble-shooting. You might find some answers there.
yellowjellow said:
I'm using Omega v24 XWLSW (4.1.2). What I did was factory reset and every single format option in that CWM recovery screen. I then flashed that same ROM again but fresh.
I don't think this has anything to do with ROM/kernels etc. This is simply a bunch of corrupt files in Device\sdcard\Android. I've tried googling with no success. I need a way to forcibly delete that folder with all those files inside. Any directions on how format?
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Hey mate.
If you haven't fixed the problem i recommend performing a checkdisk.
To perform a checkdisk you need to:
1. Connect your phone through USB via mass storage mode.
2. The computer should prompt you to perform a checkdisk automatically, in that case just accept and let the computer perform it. If it doesn't prompt automatically you need to do it manully by right-clicking the correct partition on the computer, click properties and then on the 'Tools' bar. Now mine is in Swedish, i don't know how it is in english but press the button on the first alternative. (i.e the button with 'Control' and the administrator logo).
After pressing, just let it be (it will take quite a while) and when finished.. tell me if it worked or not.
Good luck!
Hey, I tried chkdsk and defrag just in case, the files are still there, although some of them are now gone. My phone doesn't go crazy anymore though, which is nice. Maybe I'll just let the corrupt files be there in peace, they won the war XD And as long as my phone works properly I don't really care about them.
Thanks everyone!