So I had nero 4.1
Went to flash ginger clone 2
Installed. But phone is stuck on bootloop
So I uzed odin to flash bak to stock
Everything went fine.
Bu not when I go to install the update.zip.... It doesnt seem to install it all the way.
Progression bar moves like a half an inch. Then says it installed.
I do have superuser w.e that **** is installed.
But when I go to flash a rom. It takes me to the "reinstall package screen" which tells me the update.zip did not install.
What can be wrong?
Ive gone bak to stock before. A d rooted again. No problem.
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it SOUNDS like you are trying to flash the ROM useing the stock recovery.....this is a no-no. heres what you do:
1. ODIN back to stock, just to start fresh
2. Root your device, i like to use OCLF app from the market
3. download/install "ROM Manager" from the market
4. Select "Flash Clockwork recovery" (select vibrant as your device)
5. You now have Clockwork setup to be your recovery menu. to access it, just boot into recovery like you usually do, select "reinstall packages"....this will boot you into clockwork everytime.
6. Clockwork is pretty user friendly, to flash your ROM just select "choose zip to install", find your ROM, and flash away! (DO NOT rename your ROM to "update.zip", this name must be reserved exclusively for clockwork recovery...so never rename anything to update.zip, and never delete your existing update.zip)
Now, if you are using Clockwork, it sounds like it may be a corrupt .zip. Redownload the ROM and try again (I would suggest downloading from a PC).
Ty for the quick reply.
Im on the road now so ill try it when I get home
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Ty for the quick reply.
Im on the road now so ill try it when I get home
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ok......were you using clockwork, or no?
Yes I was.
Im pretty savy w this phone stuff.
I was on iphone an jailbroke like 15 of them.
So i dont get whats going wrong
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So u said oclf to root??
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So u said oclf to root??
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thats what i use. download/install OCLF....select root device, when the script finishes, reboot into recovery. select reinstall packages. you are now rooted.....continue on with clockwork installation
Alright ima get on that.
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Oclf doesnt have a root option?
The one from the market right?
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Oclf doesnt have a root option?
The one from the market right?
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do you mean it has it, but you arent able to use it? it should be the first or second option
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if its there, but its not available to you, these means you are already rooted.....which is not possible if you ODINed back to stock...........if you need, i can give you the root update.zip to flash through recovery....basically all OCLF does is install the update.zip to your sdcard for you to flash through the stock recovery. then you flash it and it installs busybox and superuser, and youre rooted.
now once you download ROM manager and select "flash clockwork" it will install the clockwork update.zip to your sdcard (which obviously replaces the previous root update.zip, but you dont lose root).
so do you see how this works now?
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I can't get ANYthing to install via clockwork, everything says can't open <insert file name>.zip, (bad), installation aborted. Uninstalled ROM Manager and reinstalled, etc... can't get anything to install. I apologize if this is a dumb question or if I'm overlooking something but any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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I can't get ANYthing to install via clockwork, everything says can't open .zip, (bad), installation aborted. Uninstalled ROM Manager and reinstalled, etc... can't get anything to install. I apologize if this is a dumb question or if I'm overlooking something but any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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How are you getting into clockwork? Try rom manager of you're not. Also try downloading the roms again
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It is ROM Manager, as stated in the OP, and it's not ROMs I'm trying to install, it's various .zips like the new Swype, original i900 Boot Animations, etc...
Oh I see, what rom are you currently running?
As for the swype, try and use a file manager to open the .zip and manually install it.
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Stock ROM, rooted and lag fixed. The swype isn't an APK.
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In rom manager, did you click "flash clockworkmod recovery"? If not thats what you need to do, select the vibrant option and your phone will reboot into clockwork. Search the forums here there is a good walk through of clockwork installation and usage
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It sounds like you're trying to flash from the stock recovery, not Clockwork. Make sure you click "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" in ROM Manager and possibly "Reinstall Packages" if it still takes you to the stock recovery.
It was definitely from clockwork, but I got it. Apparently by coincidence, all four separate files I had tried to install had been corrupted somehow. Re-downloaded through Skyfire, re-flashed and all is well.
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Thanks for the help anyway guys. Even if it did imply I was clueless
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Was not intending to make you sound clueless friend, have seen others miss that step, and you didn't list it so thought it might help. At any rate, glad you got it resolved.
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I try from rom manager and the side button, takes me to stock recovery. I hit reinstall packages and still doesn't get me in. It says e: can't mount and sd can't find update.zip? This is first time this has ever happened.
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go to rom manager and flash clockwork recovery..
once it tells you "successfully flashed CWM" go to Files and check if there's an update.zip if it's there you are good to go..
then go to recovery.. re-install package ( may have to re-install twice until you see green text) flash away!!
****, I went to reinstall packages and it installed update.zip even though my phone was already rooted now my super user is a ninja looking thing instead of skull and when I try to use anything requiring root it says force close super user not responding
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Help plz
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You have to reinstall pakages twice fir clockwork to come up
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I don't know what's wrong.
I've gone into recovery, and used ADB to clear out a ton of stuff, but whenever I reboot, it says there's still not enough space to install busybox (so I can't root).
It may have been from a lagfix, because ever since I had to ODIN back from Eugene's Dead Horse Kernel, it's done that. Does anyone know what to do? I'm stuck on stock (it also soft-bricks whenever I flash a ROM) until I get this fixed.
can you install other apps?
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can you install other apps?
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It allows me to install other apps, but if I try to root, it doesn't root (won't install busybox and says there's no space), and when I try to flash a new ROM, it just soft bricks.
can you try one click root? if not try to install Eugene's froyo that doesn't brick. that might clean things on your phone.
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Question, can I do this through ODIN (not at home so I can't really look), because flashing through CWM doesn't help.
Sent from a STOCK Vibrant. :O
which one are you talking about?
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Any ROM. Nothing will flash through CWM. I rmemeber seeing that when you flash something, it writes in system. It just doesnt do that anymore.
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Ok so when I had stock 1.83 I used the native recovery app to flash the leaked ota of gingerbread. And ever since when I try to go back to it, it'll just sit with the ! And little android dude. I tap around the screen and nothing. I installed rom manager and tapped flash cwm recovery and went to reboot in cwm recovery and same thing. Any ideas?
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Ok so when I had stock 1.83 I used the native recovery app to flash the leaked ota of gingerbread. And ever since when I try to go back to it, it'll just sit with the ! And little android dude. I tap around the screen and nothing. I installed rom manager and tapped flash cwm recovery and went to reboot in cwm recovery and same thing. Any ideas?
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You should flash Tenfar's new CWM as the old one isn't compatible with 2.3.4. The one in the Rom Manager is incomplete and not recommended for us yet.
You have the link or version number?
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Nvm got it. Will try once I get to a comp. Just im having an issue with the market. Some apps once I hit download ill get an orange triangle in the notification bar. Anyone know what that is. Running the new market and it just started doing that since root and unlock
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You have the link or version number?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138541
You have unlocked the bootloader I suppose?
Only thing is I don't know how to get into /system/etc to find the install_recovery file. I got astro file manager and I don't think I can get into it
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Only thing is I don't know how to get into /system/etc to find the install_recovery file. I got astro file manager and I don't think I can get into it
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You need Root Explorer
That's the one you gotta pay for huh
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do i have to always use a cmd prompt on windows to load into CWM? cause when i reboot and do volume down key and pwr and do the android recovery i get the basic recovery not cwm. and if i use the rom manager it does the same.
Got a new vibrant and was excited to get to flashing and have my ICS Passion back, but ROM manager has been removed from the 2.1 market and im stuck on God Aweful Eclair! Someone help please!
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jdcooper said:
Got a new vibrant and was excited to get to flashing and have my ICS Passion back, but ROM manager has been removed from the 2.1 market and im stuck on God Aweful Eclair! Someone help please!
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Search Google for a Rom Manager apk and download it either to your phone or to a computer and move it to your SD card then install it.
Use AIO toolbox and use that to install a 2.2 ROM. It will put cwm recovery to install the ROM. And from there you can get it from the market.
I am having the same problem. I ODINed back to stock, rooted, and went to the market and there is no free version on the ROM Manager there anymore. I tried googleing for one, found it and then tried installing and got a "parsing error". Now im stuck on a holding pattern until I can find one. SUCKSSSSSSSSSSS
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did you find one? cause i cant find it on the market or on the internets
Go to the noob guide in the q & a section and use the update.zip method to install cwr
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Go to the noob guide in the q & a section and use the update.zip method to install cwr
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This is the ticket. Its the option b update.zip . I had tried flashing it before but forgot I needed to do it twice. Jstewart- download the update.zip, put it on the root of your internal SD card, then use the 3 button method to reboot into recovery, o nce there scroll to reinstall packages, select it, you will see the yellow recovery text scrolling and then it will return to stock recovery, select reinstall packages again and it should send you into CWR. It helps if you already have your chosen ROM downloaded because you can install the zip directly from here, if you reboot you without flashing new ROM you still wont have the app but next time you go to recovery it will be stock again, just reinstall packages once more to get back to CWR and then proceed to flash away.
Now, can someone hook me up with the CM 7 Googleapps.zip?
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Now, can someone hook me up with the CM 7 Googleapps.zip?
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This is the ticket. Its the option b update.zip . I had tried flashing it before but forgot I needed to do it twice. Jstewart- download the update.zip, put it on the root of your internal SD card, then use the 3 button method to reboot into recovery, o nce there scroll to reinstall packages, select it, you will see the yellow recovery text scrolling and then it will return to stock recovery, select reinstall packages again and it should send you into CWR. It helps if you already have your chosen ROM downloaded because you can install the zip directly from here, if you reboot you without flashing new ROM you still wont have the app but next time you go to recovery it will be stock again, just reinstall packages once more to get back to CWR and then proceed to flash away.
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I had a guy odin my vibrant from 4.4 ics back to 2.1 eclair due to my generic imei and 911 calling issues. Now, I have the same problem as mentioned above. He told me not to mess with the update.zip file. What do you guys say? I was able to download rom manager but get an error when trying to flash cwr. Is there any way around this? Please help, I'm stuck with this bad rom until I get the cwr installed so I can go back to WeUI 1.0.
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I had a guy odin my vibrant from 4.4 ics back to 2.1 eclair due to my generic imei and 911 calling issues. Now, I have the same problem as mentioned above. He told me not to mess with the update.zip file. What do you guys say? I was able to download rom manager but get an error when trying to flash cwr. Is there any way around this? Please help, I'm stuck with this bad rom until I get the cwr installed so I can go back to WeUI 1.0.
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I've always used the update.zip file with no problems. Don't know why he would tell you to stay away.
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I've always used the update.zip file with no problems. Don't know why he would tell you to stay away.
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I think I know why I used to get the p-a-r-s-e error. These apps were simply not compatible with the eclair rom. Rom Manager v4.7.0.2 is compatible with eclair, installed, and flashed recovery without issues. I am now on my way to restore my WeUI
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Update: I was happy for few minutes until running into another issue in the recovery. During the update, it says:
E:Can't open /cache/update.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.
Any suggestions?
mbison83 said:
I think I know why I used to get the p-a-r-s-e error. These apps were simply not compatible with the eclair rom. Rom Manager v4.7.0.2 is compatible with eclair, installed, and flashed recovery without issues. I am now on my way to restore my WeUI
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Update: I was happy for few minutes until running into another issue in the recovery. During the update, it says:
E:Can't open /cache/update.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.
Any suggestions?
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You have to put the update.zip on the root of your phone(meaning no folder). When you connect your phone to your pc and click your internal storage it should be at the very bottom and NOT in a folder.
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iTz KeeFy said:
You have to put the update.zip on the root of your phone(meaning no folder). When you connect your phone to your pc and click your internal storage it should be at the very bottom and NOT in a folder.
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It's always been there. The problem lies somewhere else..
It happens when I choose the "Install ROM from SD card" option. I choose the rom from my sd card (root, next to update.zip file). It reboots and gives the error.
mbison83 said:
It's always been there. The problem lies somewhere else..
It happens when I choose the "Install ROM from SD card" option. I choose the rom from my sd card (root, next to update.zip file). It reboots and gives the error.
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From link,scroll down to Odin image,download,boot phone to download mode and flash,with Odin(attached),per instructions.
You can then move on from there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652868
Thanks. I've managed to download the recovery again and it worked this time. It happened to be a bad download, I guess.
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AIO vibrant tool box is all you need
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bfranklin1986 said:
Go to the noob guide in the q & a section and use the update.zip method to install cwr
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I used this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/show... . I followed method A the Root Only Method)(and have root just fine. But like so many others, Rom Manager will not flash clockworkmod Recovery. My question is, even though I already have root, can I proceed with the B part
B " INSTALL CLOCKWORK RECOVERY AND FLASH A ROM THAT WILL GIVE ROOT ACCESS (MY PREFERRED METHOD):
– use the other update.zip (1.7MB) and this will flash CWR for you – allowing you to immediately flash a custom ROM.. . What I mean is....Can I do this method even though I already have Root...without wrecking my Samsung Vibrant. I have the original stock eclair rooted and have done nothing to the phone except rooting it via the Root only method. Any ideas? Should this work for me?
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I used this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/show... . I followed method A the Root Only Method)(and have root just fine. But like so many others, Rom Manager will not flash clockworkmod Recovery. My question is, even though I already have root, can I proceed with the B part
B " INSTALL CLOCKWORK RECOVERY AND FLASH A ROM THAT WILL GIVE ROOT ACCESS (MY PREFERRED METHOD):
– use the other update.zip (1.7MB) and this will flash CWR for you – allowing you to immediately flash a custom ROM.. . What I mean is....Can I do this method even though I already have Root...without wrecking my Samsung Vibrant. I have the original stock eclair rooted and have done nothing to the phone except rooting it via the Root only method. Any ideas? Should this work for me?
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Yes you will be fine doing that, custom ROMs come rooted so that's why everyone usually skips option A unless they plan on staying on 2.1 eclair.
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Thanks for the helping reply. I am new to flashing roms but now I can go ahead!
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iTz KeeFy said:
Yes you will be fine doing that, custom ROMs come rooted so that's why everyone usually skips option A unless they plan on staying on 2.1 eclair.
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mbison83 said:
I think I know why I used to get the p-a-r-s-e error. These apps were simply not compatible with the eclair rom. Rom Manager v4.7.0.2 is compatible with eclair, installed, and flashed recovery without issues.
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Where did you found the ROM Manager apk in version 4.7.0.2?