I have flashed CWM correctly, I have done everything right. I have reset the phone many a time, and am not a stranger to ODIN. However, the Fascinate I'm working on WILL NOT RECOGNIZE ANY ICS zip! I know for a fact that it is not a bad zip, but when I try to flash it, (no matter build 1 or build 2) the phone says "E: Can't open /sdcard/<ICS package name here> (bad) Any responses are welcome! I have to return this phone by tomorrow, so I could REALLY use some help here! Thanks again!
EDIT: Just tried flashing the latest stable CM7.2, the exact same thing happened. Help is needed drastically.
Could be a number of things. it is recommended that a CLASS 6 or higher SD card be used. Also known problems with the USB cable. Try using different ones. Are you by chance following Droidstyles Guide ? Located in GENERAL section, it is known as THE GUIDE for our fascinate. Read it through and follow it to the letter.
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Also, make sure your using CWM4 FIXED FOR CM7.
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Could be a number of things. it is recommended that a CLASS 6 or higher SD card be used. Also known problems with the USB cable. Try using different ones. Are you by chance following Droidstyles Guide ? Located in GENERAL section, it is known as THE GUIDE for our fascinate. Read it through and follow it to the letter.
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Also, make sure your using CWM4 FIXED FOR CM7.
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to add on: you may need to format your sd card, but I wouldn't go that drastic yet. try what ice mentioned first
I am using the correct CWM, and I have tried using every guide I can find. (including the one you mentioned) I don't know how to check whether or not my SD is CLASS 6. I have not tried flashing the files from internal SD, however. I own 2 SDs and am not opposed to formatting one of them. The other is full of valuable data, but if necessary I can back it up.
Should say right on card what class. I'd try your other cards, or buy new.
And like Z said, it could very well be that needs to be formatted.
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Try a jellybean ROM ICS hates SD cards
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Well the SDs do not have a class number on them. One of them has a little 2 in a partial circle, does that mean anything? And I think you have to use ICS build 1 coming from GB.
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Well the SDs do not have a class number on them. One of them has a little 2 in a partial circle, does that mean anything? And I think you have to use ICS build 1 coming from GB.
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It means your SD card is a class 2 ROFL. And no you don't have to go to ICS coming from jellybean that was used when jellybean first cane out you haven't had to do that since 4.1.2 so now it causes nothing bit problems just go straight to gb
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It means your SD card is a class 2 ROFL. And no you don't have to go to ICS coming from jellybean that was used when jellybean first cane out you haven't had to do that since 4.1.2 so now it causes nothing bit problems just go straight to gb
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Oh, great! Is there internal, mountable in CWM storage? I'm pretty sure the Fascinate has 2 GB of internal memory, and CWM fixed for CM7 doesn't seem to recognize any flashable ROM packages from external SDs. So could I use build.prop to switch internal and external SDs, then flash the ROM from there? Will that work?
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Oh, great! Is there internal, mountable in CWM storage? I'm pretty sure the Fascinate has 2 GB of internal memory, and CWM fixed for CM7 doesn't seem to recognize any flashable ROM packages from external SDs. So could I use build.prop to switch internal and external SDs, then flash the ROM from there? Will that work?
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um, I'm not sure how much internal the fascinate has, but my vibrant blows it out the water
EDIT: okay ado maybe the fascinate does have 2GB of storage... then I wonder why it doesn't feel like it's utilized
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um, I'm not sure how much internal the fascinate has, but my vibrant blows it out the water
EDIT: okay ado maybe the fascinate does have 2GB of storage... then I wonder why it doesn't feel like it's utilized
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Yeah, this isn't actually MY fascinate, it's my friend's. I just want to know if build.prop hacks could take effect outside of Android, and still do their desired effect in CWM. (For instance, switching internal and external SDs)
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um, I'm not sure how much internal the fascinate has, but my vibrant blows it out the water
EDIT: okay ado maybe the fascinate does have 2GB of storage... then I wonder why it doesn't feel like it's utilized
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Also, after root and flashing of stock ROM through ODIN, the Fascinate has FCs on basically every app. (including google play services) It's VERy annoying. Any fixes? (besides reinstalling the app)
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Also, after root and flashing of stock ROM through ODIN, the Fascinate has FCs on basically every app. (including google play services) It's VERy annoying. Any fixes? (besides reinstalling the app)
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bro, you don't need to root they phone. just flash stock, then cwm fix and goo from there
I can't. I need a higher class SD. Read the other posts man.
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Currently running Powerwashed, very new but also eager to try others. Anyone hear of " fresh" ?...what would be logical next Ron to step to? Thanks
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Currently running Powerwashed, very new but also eager to try others. Anyone hear of " fresh" ?...what would be logical next Ron to step to? Thanks
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I have been running the powerwashed eh09 gb rom with tks kernal for a day now... I would tred lightly with the cm7,aosp gb roms....I read on rootzwiki some are still having sd cards fried.
I'm not sure about the fried sd-card on CM7 but CM7 has been working great for me and highly recommend it. Especially, with the nightlies.
I could never successfully run CM7 or any other MTD based rom. CWM would never mount my SD card and CM7 constantly told me my card was damaged.
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I could never successfully run CM7 or any other MTD based rom. CWM would never mount my SD card and CM7 constantly told me my card was damaged.
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Thanks for this reply because it seems everytime I warn folks about those roms, somebody will chime in how well it works for them. Which is perfectly fine but in reality its a crap shoot and cm7,aosp,miui may work for some, but fry others sd cards.
Just wondering, JJHunter, do you use the sdcard that came with the phone or did you buy a new one?
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Thanks for this reply because it seems everytime I warn folks about those roms, somebody will chime in how well it works for them. Which is perfectly fine but in reality its a crap shoot and cm7,aosp,miui may work for some, but fry others sd cards.
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The SD card issue was due to a kernel change that was reverted. There is no SD card issue now.
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The SD card issue was due to a kernel change that was reverted. There is no SD card issue now.
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Yes I know... but I still wont recomend those roms to new users for the simple fact they could easily flash the wrong version and bork a sd card.
Four words: I hate my Fascinate. Is there any way I can make my Fascinate faster, more responsive, and just work better? I've used Com rom, Cyanogenmod, & MIUI and none of them work for me. Community rom seemed to work best for me but about a month of running com rom, it just started forceclosing everything and I lost everything. Then, I went to Cyanogenmod. It was amazing, but I noticed it deleted things off of my SD card by itself. For MIUI. It was just a little to buggy. I just gave up and went to stock and installed OCLF. For some reason, my phone isn't very responsive, it constantly freezes, crashes all the time, the camera app doesn't want to open sometimes, and just today it started not opening up my apps and showing a black screen. I'm sick of it!!! How do I make my Fascinate work better? I'm stuck with it for 2 years and I can't stand it!? Any suggestions??? Ill do whatever it takes to make this thing work better.
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Four words: I hate my Fascinate. Is there any way I can make my Fascinate faster, more responsive, and just work better? I've used Com rom, Cyanogenmod, & MIUI and none of them work for me. Community rom seemed to work best for me but about a month of running com rom, it just started forceclosing everything and I lost everything. Then, I went to Cyanogenmod. It was amazing, but I noticed it deleted things off of my SD card by itself. For MIUI. It was just a little to buggy. I just gave up and went to stock and installed OCLF. For some reason, my phone isn't very responsive, it constantly freezes, crashes all the time, the camera app doesn't want to open sometimes, and just today it started not opening up my apps and showing a black screen. I'm sick of it!!! How do I make my Fascinate work better? I'm stuck with it for 2 years and I can't stand it!? Any suggestions??? Ill do whatever it takes to make this thing work better.
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Im not sure how to respond to this...I mean my fascinate is running cm7.1 w/ glitch v13 and is ****ing AWSOME! Super responsive, gps locks instantly, no lag, no fc's... Im going to go out on a limb and say you must be doing something very wrong or have a bad device.
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back your sd card up, odin dl09 eclair w/ pit and repartition checked, reformat your sd card, then flash rom of your choice. If that dont help, call verizon and have them send you a replacement.
I've never flashed a "pit" thing. I've just flashed the froyo file and called it a "restore." Also, I got a 16gb card withmy phone and it won't flash any CM7 roms, so I bought an 8 from eBay. Did the same thing... I have an old 4 gb that is the only card that will flash a cm7 based rom. Also, if I put my 16/8gb on a cm7 rom, it'll say damaged or unreadable.
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Im not sure how to respond to this...I mean my fascinate is running cm7.1 w/ glitch v13 and is ****ing AWSOME! Super responsive, gps locks instantly, no lag, no fc's... Im going to go out on a limb and say you must be doing something very wrong or have a bad device.
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back your sd card up, odin dl09 eclair w/ pit and repartition checked, reformat your sd card, then flash rom of your choice. If that dont help, call verizon and have them send you a replacement.
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But, what does the Pit and restore do to the phone?
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But, what does the Pit and restore do to the phone?
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the atlas 2.2 pitfile w/ repartition checked does a full wipe of the system...which sounds like what you need.
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the atlas 2.2 pitfile w/ repartition checked does a full wipe of the system...which sounds like what you need.
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OK, so go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746 , download the 2.2 pit file, download Eclair, flash them with partition checked, root/flash cwm, and install CM7 and see how it works? (CM7 is rom if choice)
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OK, so go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746 , download the 2.2 pit file, download Eclair, flash them with partition checked, root/flash cwm, and install CM7 and see how it works? (CM7 is rom if choice)
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yep...but you shouldnt need to root first, atleat I didnt, CM7 is prerooted.
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yep...but you shouldnt need to root first, atleat I didnt, CM7 is prerooted.
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OK, thanks. Ill try this tomorrow.
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here is dl09 eclair...the link was broken in the link you posted.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350373/Android/CI500_VZW_DL09_ECLAIR.tar.md5
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here is dl09 eclair...the link was broken in the link you posted.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350373/Android/CI500_VZW_DL09_ECLAIR.tar.md5
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OK, thanks.
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OK, thanks.
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No problem...if you need some "simplified" instructions, check the mtd install section of my guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
I notices you said something about using the factory USB. Well, there's something wrong with that cord. My computer won't reconfbize my phone with that cord. When I try to charge it with my wall adapter, my phone wants me to connect USB storage. I've been using this cord that came with a crappy archos tablet. I've been using that 1 for months. Is that OK?
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I notices you said something about using the factory USB. Well, there's something wrong with that cord. My computer won't reconfbize my phone with that cord. When I try to charge it with my wall adapter, my phone wants me to connect USB storage. I've been using this cord that came with a crappy archos tablet. I've been using that 1 for months. Is that OK?
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yea you can, but the factory cable is best. If you have issues try and score another factory cable.
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yea you can, but the factory cable is best. If you have issues try and score another factory cable.
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OK, I was going to call Samsung and try to get one about a month ago but just forgot about it. Anywaay, about to download the stuff and brick my phone ahahahaha
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i agree %1000 with Droid...since using his guide, running cm7 now, my device FLIES !!!!!.....this is a sweet phone, just follow guide and you will see.
icemanwbs said:
i agree %1000 with Droid...since using his guide, running cm7 now, my device FLIES !!!!!.....this is a sweet phone, just follow guide and you will see.
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OK. Any major bugs I should be worried about? What's the chance of it frying my SD?
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I would go to Verizon store and get a cable. But no, no bugs or anything. READ READ and READ again through guide so you can Follow steps
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Ok, I need some help. When I click start and all the stuff is selected in Odin, and it says that the eclair thing is unrecognizable... It says it has an unvalid MD5 sum or something like that. HELP?!
And yes, I have retried downloading and using a different browser... Is it OK if I use froyo?
If you read thru Droidstyles guide listed in his reply to you. It says you can use froyo.....you must pay close attention to details and follow guide steps to a " T ". You can do it, I'm sure.
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Is there a mod out there that mounts the external,removable micro sim card as the internal sdcard, and the internal as the external? I have a 32gb class 10 SD card and at this point it is practically empty because all of my nandroids are on the internal SD. It would rock if someone could make this and inwoukd definitely donate to the person who is willing to help. It is getting annoying because I am already almost out of space on my internal SD. Thanks in advance
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I'm not sure how to answer your original question but you can move nandroid backups to your external sd card and if you need it, move it back later.
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Yes i know that, but that takes too way too long and it is a pain in the ass. But thanks
what would possibly warrant posting this in the dev section?
I swear someone did this for the international. Or it may have been another phone I have but I know its been done. But even the Dec who wrote the script.to join the partitions said he wouldn't use it on a daily driver. I think it was just more a proof of concept
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It can be done with CM7. There is a setting in there to swap the cards so that the internal will be emmc and external will be sdcard. Some people have accidently swapped them and didn't know how they did it or how to get it back to normal.
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RockRatt said:
It can be done with CM7. There is a setting in there to swap the cards so that the internal will be emmc and external will be sdcard. Some people have accidently swapped them and didn't know how they did it or how to get it back to normal.
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Good to know. What is the lastest cm7?
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Good to know. What is the lastest cm7?
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Nightly #2
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I went to update to beans build 17 and i might have had a bad download.says unable to open zip.i made a nandroid but some how wiped it out that i can't restore it.So now i have no OS.Iredownloaded another mirror on my laptop but how do i put it on my sd card now that im stuck in twrp?i just need my phone up and running asap as i have to go to work in2hrs!?Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!THANKS
i did the same thing you can either do a adb push if you have adb set up or find another phone camera pc or anything really that has a micro sd slot that you can connect to pc drag zip there reboot into twrp and your good if you don't have one then i would say adb push is your only option or see if twrp will mount your sd but it didn't for me
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I went to update to beans build 17 and i might have had a bad download.says unable to open zip.i made a nandroid but some how wiped it out that i can't restore it.So now i have no OS.Iredownloaded another mirror on my laptop but how do i put it on my sd card now that im stuck in twrp?i just need my phone up and running asap as i have to go to work in2hrs!?Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!THANKS
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Bfitz26 said:
i did the same thing you can either do a adb push if you have adb set up or find another phone camera pc or anything really that has a micro sd slot that you can connect to pc drag zip there reboot into twrp and your good if you don't have one then i would say adb push is your only option or see if twrp will mount your sd but it didn't for me
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Thanks.Im tryin to find someonethat has a phone to do that now !!thank u.if not i will look to see how to try the push thing!
shangrila500 said:
Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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do u have a digital camera or a card reader or anything that has a micro sd slot for that matter
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do u have a digital camera or a card reader or anything that has a micro sd slot for that matter
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Not at th emoment.im working on it !lol
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Ya i got sloppy this time and paid for it!don't think my laptop has a slot for a memory card that i can see
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Usually they will have a fake card in them to keep the slot from getting dust in it. If you truly don't have one you can pick up a USB SD card reader from walmart for cheap. If you want dont want to go that route then ADB would probably be the fastest way of doing it.
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shangrila500 said:
Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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I honestly don't remember the last time I checked md5. I only check them on radios. A bad rom file cannot hard brick your phone. But a modem can
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I finally got some time to say thank u all for the ideas and info! I'm happy to say all is good. Used my friends phone with my sd card and redownloaded the room and it worked perfect! What a relief!Thanks again! !
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I honestly don't remember the last time I checked md5. I only check them on radios. A bad rom file cannot hard brick your phone. But a modem can
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A bad rom download hard bricked quite a few VZW S3's when I was using the S3, they may not brick the N2 but they have been known to brick phones.
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I am not sure how that is possible in my experience it says failed. Redownload flash problem solved indoor have force check md5 tho
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I am not sure how that is possible in my experience it says failed. Redownload flash problem solved indoor have force check md5 tho
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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exactly.
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Anytime I've tried flashing a bad rom file it will just say failed. No flash occurs. That's just my experience I guess
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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Maybe they flashed on Odin haha
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Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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I haven't checked an MD5 since 2010 - did it once then.
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That's always been my experience also but recall quite a few help threads that started with someone flashing a rom and then the phone hard bricking upon reboot. Every single time in those threads where all that had been done was a simple rom flash the only thing we could come up with was the MD5 was bad and every time it was checked it was bad. If I recall it was only 2 roms doing that and both were AOSP roms. I dont know why but that was always what it was traced back to with those 2 certain roms and no one could figure out why it wasn't simply failing instead of flashing and hard bricking the phone.
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We're also going off what they say in the thread. We can't prove that is what did it. I'm trying to be nice, but most of those "oh shhh" panic threads are due to user error.
I've flashed so many ROMs over the years and I never check MD5. I also religiously dirty-flash. I've bricked phones half-asleep (putting my kid to sleep) and recovered them in the morning. It all boils down to the user. I'm not saying for people to be reckless, but blaming not checking an MD5 on a brick is fear-mongering.
If it doesn't flash the first time? Check to see if your recovery has an update. Redownload ROM. Try again. Fail twice? Wasn't meant to be, this is not the ROM you are looking for.
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shangrila500 said:
Pull the battery or use thr Power Off button in TWRP. Then put your micro Sd card in your laptop and drag and drop the rom. Then put it back in your card and go.
You are supposed to check the MD5sum EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you arent going to check the MD5sum then you don't need to flash any roms to your phone, you can seriously mess up and hard brick your phone.
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Agreed, as that would be the easiest fix. Worst case scenario for this approach is that you may need to buy a usb reader for micro sd cards.
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I haven't checked an MD5 since 2010 - did it once then.
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We're also going off what they say in the thread. We can't prove that is what did it. I'm trying to be nice, but most of those "oh shhh" panic threads are due to user error.
I've flashed so many ROMs over the years and I never check MD5. I also religiously dirty-flash. I've bricked phones half-asleep (putting my kid to sleep) and recovered them in the morning. It all boils down to the user. I'm not saying for people to be reckless, but blaming not checking an MD5 on a brick is fear-mongering.
If it doesn't flash the first time? Check to see if your recovery has an update. Redownload ROM. Try again. Fail twice? Wasn't meant to be, this is not the ROM you are looking for.
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Very true, I was just going off of my experience in the S3 threads and that was my first true experience with a truly bootloader unlocked phone, even though I had been flashing Motorola phones for years but that isn't the same, and from what me and a couple other people could put together on the S3 forums was that 2 AOSP roms were responsible for the hard bricks.
Like you said though it is very hard to tell if they even flashed the rom. Hell it could be that they were just lying because they were embarrassed. Nonetheless it is still for the best for people to check MD5s especially on radios and recoveries and it doesn't hurt to check it on roms. I check the MD5 of every rom that I flash or that I plan on flashing in the future just because of that happening in the S3 forums when I was helping there.
I had never really thought about them lying about it but that is a definite possibility..... It's still funny that it was one of 2 AOSP roms every time someone claimed to get bricked after only flashing a rom......
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Hello,
I been reading a lot in the forum, on the internet and I cant find the solution, when I realize I have a real problem, was when I finally install the ICS 4.0.4 and it says Encryption Unsuccsessful, son then I could see thats there no more Internal 16 gb memory and the 2gb memory, was gone too.
It seems to be an issue from Samsung but I came here to find solutions, maybe we can work together to have a fix or at least, a solution to make it work again.
I just could run 2.3.7 but I cant install anything, just phone.
Well, thanks and im very disappointed at Samsung for this.
Thanks for reading!
Did you took a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2177876
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testomat said:
Did you took a look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2177876
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thanks,, It doesnt work I have to add it manually and edit directly the file, I see you are using a Vibrant too,, it was very weird lose the internal SD, I installed ICS but it was sooooooo, slow,, so Im using 2.3.7 and it feels quite normal, but I really would like to get my phone the way it used to be, I was using 4.2.1.
thnks