Looking for a rom I can install via Odin . Needs to be a tar file but I cant seem to find one at the moment......any pointers very welcome.
Thanks
sr
You don't have custom recovery working to flash .zip?
Can flash stock firmware found on Intratech thread. Will lose root, but can flash CF-root kernel from Chainfire thread to get root again...... All with Odin.
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Sorry
...quite new to all this. I have installed a rom on the sd disk but when I go to install zip from sd card can't see it !!
If its ok could you explain your method ....as Im a bit of a thicko !!
thanks
sr
Depending on what version of cwm 4 or 5 you have will make a slight difference but essentially these process.
Place the Rom zip on your internal sdcard not the removable external sdcard.
Navigate to flash .zip from internal sdcard in recovery. If you are changing versions if android or. 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 or flashing between different Roms, maybe best to factory reset, wipe.cache, and wipe dalvik (in advanced) from within recovery. Immediately flash ROM, and then reboot, give it a few minutes. You will lose your data etc, but will help to ensure you don't get boot loops or force closes etc
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Thanks
...for the prompt reply, problem is I can only get rom onto the external sd card. Can't see a way of getting it onto the internal one !
Guess this looks like my evenings planned with the wife moaning at me!
sr
Boot up. Connect USB to PC and transfer the file.... If your still not sure if your putting it in the correct "sdcard", power off and remove extrenal sdcard.
You could also connect cable to PC in recovery, then "mount USB storage",. Transfer file to USB storage, "unmount", then flash from internal sdcard (look for the USB storage within).USB storage is just a sub directory of the internal sdcard.
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Oh yeah, about the moaning. Know the feeling full well......... (good or bad
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Me again..
I have the phone working but the PC will not recognise and storage on the phone which means I can't update etc. Do you have any ideas of what is needed to fix this. At the moment the only thing that I can use is Odin. I did have another rom on the sd card but cant open it.
Sorry about this !!
Steve
Have you installed Samsung Kies? You need the diverts from that installed to PC. Just remember that you need to close kies before using Odin.
Edit :You have selected connect from the phone (maybe have notification on phone status bar?)
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Phew....
Managed to open another rom zip and installed, things back to normal (and before the wife gets home) !
One last question .....I install roms on the internal sd as I can never see them when installed on the external sd, guess I am missing something simple ?
Thanks for your help this afternoon
Steve
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Well the title pretty much says it all
I ****ed up pretty bad and i have no Roms on my SD Card
Is there any way I can mount the storage from CWM so I can copy a rom into it and flash it?
I've tried Mount USB Storage from the Mounts N Storage Menu but that doesn't seem to be doing anything
It has to work if you did that but theres always a second choice you can select the option DOWNLOAD MODE and odin and once you finish odin you can xopy the rom you want on your sd card and flash it via cwo recovery..
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Yea.. It's weird
The drives show up on my computer but I can't actually access any files
I guess I just didn't want it to come to that but oh well, downloading the TAR file now
Thanks for your advice
Edit: Guess Someone Should Close This
Hey there guys.
I have been using my phone everyday with no problems - currently using CM7 by Mik.
Anyways, I put some songs into my SD Card through USB yesterday and I went on with my day, no problems.
I got home, and I notice the SD card was removed. I reset my phone but now my phone does not recognize the SD card.
I tried the SD card on my sister's Android phone and it works perfectly. I can't even get the USB connection to work.
How do I go about fixing this? I tried getting in through the Android SDK, still no luck. I tried mounting via recovery and no such luck also.
Any help would be great, thanks.
just flash the rom which u are using (u said mik's rom) from recovery without formatting system and without any data or cache wipe, i think that should work.
Your data will be as it is but u need to flash again the zip files u flashed after rom install previously (like google apps zip file from mik, ap2sd zip file, any theme zip file etc. whatever u flashed previously).
mak.3736 said:
just flash the rom which u are using (u said mik's rom) from recovery without formatting system and without any data or cache wipe, i think that should work.
Your data will be as it is but u need to flash again the zip files u flashed after rom install previously (like google apps zip file from mik, ap2sd zip file, any theme zip file etc. whatever u flashed previously).
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Hey there.
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but how do I flash a ROM without an SD card?
I'm using thunderg recovery
See if your sd card can be mounted on pc through recovery..try mount usb storage
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Tried mounting it from recovery. No luck :|
Is it a problem with the phone itself?
Did it gave an error or nothing happened
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use a different sd card and see if u r able to flash from recovery
Nothing happened, just says "no such directory" or SD card cannot be found.
No error or anything.
I put my SD card into my sister's Android and it still works. I used her SD card and it doesn't work on my phone but it works on hers.
I think it's the ROM or the phone itself. How do I go about flashing the phone through the PC without an SD card? Or how do I flash a ROM from recovery without SD card?
Wipe everything afterbackup and try usb storage it may work
Can you browse through sd card in recovery under install zip
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Wipe everything afterbackup and try usb storage it may work
Can you browse through sd card in recovery under install zip
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Hey there, nope, can't browse through recovery under install zip.
Also, if it is a problem with the SD card and I wipe everything and still don't have access to it, will I be able to still a flash a ROM some way or will my phone be bricked?
Did you try other sd card in your phone..
See if theywork
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I think u should flash stock rom from lgmdp.
follow "cook your custom rom" till step 2
cook your custom rom- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901417
(disable lg modem before start)
Now start lgmdp and
select port
select image folder the created "stockrom" folder
Now uncheck "recovery image" option (to have custom recovery retained)
then download.
(donot disconnect untill it shows download complete)
Note: i didnot test it , but i think it should work.
samrox144 said:
Did you try other sd card in your phone..
See if theywork
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Hi, as I said before, I've already tried sticking other SD cards in my phone. They aren't being read, but when I try to put them into other phones, it works OK.
mak.3736 said:
I think u should flash stock rom from lgmdp.
follow "cook your custom rom" till step 2
cook your custom rom- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901417
(disable lg modem before start)
Now start lgmdp and
select port
select image folder the created "stockrom" folder
Now uncheck "recovery image" option (to have custom recovery retained)
then download.
(donot disconnect untill it shows download complete)
Note: i didnot test it , but i think it should work.
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Hey there, I'll look into this, though I doubt I'll be doing all of this since I'm not very proficient in doing all those commands and whatnot :|
Anyone else have any other ideas before I start doing mad scientist stuff to my phone?
After rooting my Flyer via revolutionary, it has a custom version of CWM recovery on it. But this version won't allow me to flash anything from zip. I have attempted to update recovery via ROM Manager, but the flyer is not listed in the device list when I select. Is there any alternative clockwork mod recovery available at the moment? Google has only pointed me back to the same revolution version. I've also tried an older version but it will not flash after parsing the file.
Is any one else getting these problems?
Thanks
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What exactly do you mean it won't let you flash anything from zip? What happens?
Hey globatron...
I was hoping you would see this, when I put any thing on the flyer to flash, be it a battery mod, rom, theme etc, cwm does not 'see' it, it returns a zip file not found error. I've tried to ext-sd as well as internal memory, just no luck...
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ok, I was hoping it would be something like this. There are a few things to try before assuming that it's the recovery. If recovery runs running I personally doubt it's a recovery problem.
Ok, point #1 is that you were correct to think it might be ext_sd, it is, you can only use the external SD for flashing.
You need to make sure that it is formatted fat32, but I doubt that is an issue or it would not have mounted.
If you're transferring to the sdcard via mounting under windows, make sure you "safely remove" before attempting to flash or it might not flush to SD and you'll see no file, the same applies to doing a "umount" first in linux.
One way of being sure it's really there is to push with adb, but that is not necessary if you do the above. You should not use unmount usb storage in recovery for this purpose, you must unmount from the PC side first.
Hmmm, OK I've sent the data in many ways, as you have suggested,via adb push & including Bluetooth, but the thing is, not even all of the sdcard contents show up on the drive, should I try a different SD all together? What if I download directly on the flyer? This is boggling me, desires and gtabs are for more straight forward... lol
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Maybe try reformatting the sdcard, or as you said use another card. You you could try a direct download to the flyer also.
Could it be the folder structure? Will try a different card and report back, Captain!
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OK, did a full format on the card, didn't work
Wiped the partition and recreated it as fat32, loaded the zip files and she's all good, busy flashed zips as I type!
Who woulda thought huh...
Thanks for all your help Globatron!
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I highly recommend getting this utility for formatting Sd cards. It's much better than the Windows or Mac built-in format and can fix things when they are really messed up.
SD Formatter 3.1 for SD/SDHC/SDXC
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/
Yay, my first day of flashing roms and already ****ed up...
I whiped everything for flashing a new rom and before flashing i seen the option "partition SD card" me like a retard partitioned it whiping everyithing off the card (lol). now my phone has no ROM. SO what should I do? tried download mode and kies but it won't recognise it (well obviously, phone is empty) so i'm guessing i need to flash it using Odin?
Could anyone point out for me the correct odin version and what else i need, and preferably a gingerbread 2.3.5 or 2.3.4 for european SGA please because i don't want to brick my phone doing something stupid....
and maybe a brief guide
Cheers
I also forgot to point out that obviously i still have the CWM 5.x.x on the phone and my PC doesn't have an SD card reader
if this info helps with anything...
Can u go in recovery mod.
If not then try odin
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plzzzz hit thanks if I helped you in any means .......
Jokerman170 said:
Yay, my first day of flashing roms and already ****ed up...
I whiped everything for flashing a new rom and before flashing i seen the option "partition SD card" me like a retard partitioned it whiping everyithing off the card (lol). now my phone has no ROM. SO what should I do? tried download mode and kies but it won't recognise it (well obviously, phone is empty) so i'm guessing i need to flash it using Odin?
Could anyone point out for me the correct odin version and what else i need, and preferably a gingerbread 2.3.5 or 2.3.4 for european SGA please because i don't want to brick my phone doing something stupid....
and maybe a brief guide
Cheers
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How come ur phone have no rom..? I always wipe cache, system, etc before flashing new rom and it doesn't delete the current rom..
If u have cwm 5 installed, then u just need to flash new rom from cwm..
Yup bro it is impossible. I m also little confused
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plzzzz hit thanks if I helped you in any means .......
Im guessing is what u did is wipe data,cache,dalvic, and format partition... Wow. U cant recover files now from sd.. what u can do is if u still have cwm in hboot, reboot to recovery, mount sdcard and transfer any rom like infected rom, then install it....hope u have titanium backup files saved on ur pc,if not u need to reinstall all.apps again...hope i answered ur Q.
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Go to recovery, connect mobile to pc via usb, mount usb storage.. transfer rom to sdcard, unmount storage. Flash!
I mounted sdcard, but i'm not sure how should i transfer from pc to sd card, no drive shows up?
Mount usb STORAGE not mount usb.
Oh i got it now, thanks
thanks to all of u
hello,please help me with my SGA s5830,Gingerbread 2.3.4,rooted...
because,when i tried installing cyanogenmod 7,and rebooted it..
im stucked in ANRDOID (text only written on the middle w/o any symbols)...
i know i did a mistake,i didnt install clockwork mod first...
=i just putted the .zip file in sd card..
=put my phone into recovery mode
=apply update from sdcard
=reboot
then thats it,it stuck,i tried wiping the data and wipe cache but didnt work,also i tried to use odin to install new firmware,but it says usb code error:5 .. kies cant read my phone too...
sorry for my bad english...
please help...
T.T.... thanks...
You should have put "install zip from sd card" and not "apply update from sd card" in recovery I guess.
Oh well...you didnt have CWM!
Atleast try to do that now and see if it works.
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Can you get your phone into USB storage?
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Download the CWM5 zip into your SD card if you could get it into your mem card. Go to recovery. Apply update. Select cwm5 recovery. Reboot into cwm. Clear everything. Select install zip, then the rom you want to install. You're done.
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Sir,galaxy ace 152... i cannot find "install zip from sd card"..
Sir Cnghost,no,i cannot get it into usb storage...
can i remove the sd card w/o safely removing it since i cannot open my phone, so i can put the cwm5.zip there?..
thanks for emmediate reply...
ran_bryan said:
Sir,galaxy ace 152... i cannot find "install zip from sd card"..
Sir Cnghost,no,i cannot get it into usb storage...
can i remove the sd card w/o safely removing it since i cannot open my phone, so i can put the cwm5.zip there?..
thanks for emmediate reply...
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Do you have CMW5 installed in your phone? If no, you should install it using odin first and after you can install zip from sd card using CWM5. ;D
To install CWM5 you can follow this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552695
thanks sir..^^...
ill try to do what u said,
hmmm....is it ok for my phone to remove sd card without safely removing it, so i will use instead a card reader to put the CWM5 there?...i really cant open my phone and kies cannot read it...
odin can detect my phone but,it always fail saying"usb error code 5" ...
Put the CWM5 file in your SD card and install update from zip, select the folder and file.... and... done!
After install CMW5, you can install your prefer rom from SD card using Install Zip From SD Card.
Good Look!
XD
Sir,sorry to ask you again....is it safe to remove sd card without safely removing it?...
even it is turned off..
i am just confused,,i am very noob at this,,,..
thanks a lot ...^^..
If your phone is turned off, no problem!
ok.^^..
thank you so much sir..^^..
i ll do what u said...
i wish it works...T_T..
Put ur in download mod and install clockwork mod using Odin .. and install zip from sdcard
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hi,sir..thank you so much for the help...
how many minutes will it take for my SGA to install CM7?
atleast its not on the ANDROID (text only),its now on the android who is skate boarding..^^...
oh i wish its ok now...
Installation takes 2-3 minutes ...
First boot takes 4-8 minutes ... just wait :thumbup:
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i install CWM5 using recovery mode...
it successfully installed but when i tried backup,it said installation failed..
Backup of what? ? Current rom? ?
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sir, if ever, it takes more than 15-20 mins,,,what should i do?
i ve red some threads,saying that it took so long and failed...
Make sure clockwork mod installed ...
Wipe cache partition, wipe dalvik cache, wipe restore factory settings ..
And then install custom rom:thumbup:
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sir,shall i wait until it reboots its self while in the android symbol or shall i reboot it manually?...
is it safe if i reboot manually while in android symbol...??...
sorry i have many questions....T_T