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Hi - long time lurker, first time poster...
This issue goes back to the first time i rooted and installed a custom rom on my G2 Touch... any attempt to update the radio version was met with the message E: Can't read MISC...
Anyway, following instructions i found elsewhere, (but using the latest version of the Amon_RA recovery) i managed to make the message go away. Went ahead and flashed another custom rom, and then went to try and update the radio again (following the usual procedure) - appears to be successful (no error messages) but upon booting into the rom the radio version is exactly the same as it was - no change. Am i missing something glaringly obvious?
Just to outline what i'm doing - boot into recovery, select 'flash zip from sdcard', select the radio.zip stored on the card, and then follow the instructions...
It says 'writing radio image', reboots to a logo of green arrows, reboots again into the recovery screen with the message 'formatting CACHE:...' on the screen.
That should be it, right? Reboot and all is done. Well, as many times as i've tried it, it's still not working. Anyone got any suggestions of things i could try?
James
*edit* the radio version is 63.18.55.06EU_6.35.06.18 - what was on the phone initially... i'm running ChocolateEclair 2.0 and the latest Amon_RA recovery...
Might be a bad flash (the radio not being flashed at all) try flashing again
Have done - several times now - should i be renaming the zip to anything in particular? I've tried radio.zip, update.zip (and also leaving the file with it's original name)...
I'm stumped, dunno about u
El_JimBob said:
Have done - several times now - should i be renaming the zip to anything in particular? I've tried radio.zip, update.zip (and also leaving the file with it's original name)...
I'm stumped, dunno about u
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No name doesn't matter. I've tried something similar where I flashed stuff and it said OK but in reality it wasn't flashed... Try reflashing your recovery image and flashing it again
Try downloading the latest radio from here: http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?307-radio-roms-download-links
After downloading, be sure to check the MD5 hash -- if they don't match, you have a bad download so you'll need to try downloading again.
Try re-downloading it. Could be a corrupt download?
Thanks - i'll try re-downloading. As per C0mpu13rFr34k's suggestion to reinstall the recovery, can that be done with flashrec (what i used in the first place)? All that command line stuff scares the hell out of me...
El_JimBob said:
Thanks - i'll try re-downloading. As per C0mpu13rFr34k's suggestion to reinstall the recovery, can that be done with flashrec (what i used in the first place)? All that command line stuff scares the hell out of me...
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I don't know actually The commands are really easy BTW
Ok... MD5 hash checked ok... trying to update again... aaaaaaaand... nope.
Right, will try re-flashing the recovery and then try again (again)...
*hmm... something's definitely not right here... flashrec refused to install the recovery and attempts to do it from adb gave me an error - mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /sd-ext failed: No such file or directory*
Might try a full wipe and start again... oh well...
*edit* Ok, downgraded (with goldcard), flashed recovery, flashed radio from recovery and nada... so what am i doing wrong? i can't have the only phone in the world that can't update its radio... worried that anything further i have to try might be right out of my depth...
THIS THREAD IS NO LONGER RELEVANT AS IT IS FOR A DIFFERENT ISSUE FROM THE PAST... IT GOT BROUGHT BACK TO THE TOP. DONT CONFUSE THIS WITH THE 3E RECOVERY "ISSUE"
THE BELOW ISSUE HAS BEEN ADDRESSED BY KOUSH. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FLASH CWR VIA ROM MANAGER LIKE NORMAL NOW. IF YOU STILL HAVE ISSUES, THERE IS A FIX POSTED BELOW, THANKS!
Update from koush:
@clockworkmod Hey all, flashing recoveries through ROM Manager is busted. We hit a bandwidth/CPU quota on Google App engine.
If you are trying to flash Clockwork Recovery for the first time, it appears that a lot of users are having issues over the past 24 hours.
Normally, you would:
download Rom Manager
Click Flash Clockwork Recovery
it will ask for root privelages
you would select the Vibrant as your phone
after it downloaded CWR you would get a successful pop-up....
you could then click on reboot into recovery (and since it was the first time you would go to the stock recovery, click reinstall packages, and THEN you would go to Clockwork Recovery)....
well.... people can't seem to get there now. I am NOT having issues as I already have CWR. However, if you are, please download this file on your phones browser (just so you dont have to mount your phone to your pc.... which you can do if you prefer)
FILE DOWNLOAD HERE: View attachment update.zip
Move this file to the root of your internal memory. If you have any other update.zip file you can just overwrite it, or delete it prior to moving this file over, your choice....
NOW, go back to your stock recovery and press reintall packages.... you should go to CWR, if not, press to reinstall again... still no luck? blasphemy.
With all of that said, I need someone to post that this successfully works (it should, and you really can't lose anything)
I am contacting koush for an explanation of what's wrong....
i will check this out
everytime i boot into recovery and press reinstall packages my just restarts phone and i can't get into clockwork.
You generally have to tell it to reinstall packages twice.
^ that has not been the case for me.. but try it twice if if doesn't work the first time!
Yeah, it may depend on the ROM being run or something, but I've noticed it quite a bit.
yeah, something happened when rom manager updated in the last day where flashing recovery isnt compatable with galaxy s devices anymore. drove me freakin crazy cuz i just dl'ed nero and went to install and couldnt.
thank you again. +10 internets to u.
I started having an issue after flashing eugenes super kernel. I did a.clean install of axura and problem went away.
Powered by Axura
^ the rom would have nothing to do with it.
Koush has fixed this, it was server related.
THE BELOW ISSUE HAS BEEN ADDRESSED BY KOUSH. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FLASH CWR VIA ROM MANAGER LIKE NORMAL NOW (NORMAL STEPS STILL INCLUDED BELOW). I KNEW THIS WOULD BE A QUICK FIX FOR KOUSH!
As of 10mins ago i was having this problem.
But thanks to this post and installing the downloaded update I'm back up!
Rom manager gave me errors when flashing the clockwork recovery
so had to go to the update.zip and i'm now back!
Dont think rom manager in the market has been updated
[i was coming from a odin[ed] JFD stock.
hope this helps someone else!
Thanks... this works for me :\
I flashed to JL4 and had a freaking wifi boot loop and gotta go back to Eugene's does not brick ROM and found out can't install CWM via ROM manager
I don't know if its supposed to fix it, but even after flashing this Im still having issues with ROM manager. Get an error every time I try to update the recovery. Also, I can't remember the last time fix permissions actually worked (eclair maybe?).
Anyone else feel my pain?
This is a fix, and you trying to update the recovery is no different than those who have issues not even using my .zip....
I updated the op with a tweet from koush. He has a fix on his site too (might as well download it from here though?
I downloaded the new update, still can't get into clock work. When I hit reinstall packages it says ... E: error /cache/update.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
^^^ I'm having the same problem as well right now.
reinstall off market and it works
I thought I was sunk until an hour of searching found this post. Thank you all so much!
I have after upgrade to K6 the error messeage:
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
I've try the update.zip from the 1st post,
reinstalled via market
update und select the Vibrant modell
everytime the same...
the phone is rooted via SuperOneClickv1.5.5-ShortFuse
Any help ?
None of this works because none of it addresses the real problem ,3E signature. Way to much trouble to go thru.
^ This thread was created when the Clockwork servers were down... it has absolutely nothing to do with 3e recovery... as that didnt even exist when this thread was created... hopefully others are not confused now that it was brought back to the top.
I didn't update it yet, because the thread was dead.
And to be fair the OP did have this:
THE BELOW ISSUE HAS BEEN ADDRESSED BY KOUSH. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FLASH CWR VIA ROM MANAGER LIKE NORMAL NOW. IF YOU STILL HAVE ISSUES, THERE IS A FIX POSTED BELOW, THANKS!
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Here's the deal:
I rooted my phone a long time ago, and have been using CM since ICS. Mostly nightlies.
A few weeks ago I decided installing a Carbon nightly (4.3), and everything went smooth as usual.
Then new nightly came, so I decided flashing it. (Dirty flash, but it's that way from what I read in the Carbon thread)
The thing is, my phone boots up correctly, but I can't get into recovery mode. Whenever I try booting recovery mode, the logo appears, then the screen flashes gray. I have tried both the advanced reboot menu, the button combo, and ROM Man...jk
I think something might be wrong with the recovery included in the kernel. If that's the case, would it be OK to flash just a new kernel or do I have to reflash the whole thing?
I have already seen some guides on flashing kernels with mobile ODIN, but they're either ancient or for another model. Also, I don't know if that's the right thing to do under this situation.
I'd appreciate if someone pointed me in the right direction. I don't wanna frak up my phone.
You can install a kernel to see if that will solve the issue, but as far as I can see, the Carbon devs do not provide a stand alone kernel for their rom. You could use AJK or one of the other kernels though. Or you could just reinstall the rom to see if it would clear up the problem.
Or, you could extract the zImage from the full rom and use Mobile Odin.
I didnt want to create a new thread for this and get yelled at.. so I am asking the question here:
I had to do the ODIN method and returned my phone from ShoStock 3 to Stock Gingerbread, because for some reason my phone was getting stuck at the "samsung galaxy s2" boot screen.
So I am back on Stock Gingerbreak Rom and trying to install ClockWork Mod Recovery, so that I can restore the backup of ShoStock that I had created.
I am doing the Mobile Odin Lite method and I downloaded the i777 kernel. When I try to install it, I boot in the Android System Recovery (3e) and get the following errors:
Installing package...
Finding Package...
Verifying Update Package...
E: failed to verify whole-file signature
E: signature verification failed.
Before I get yelled at, I searched google and came up with the solution -- all of which say that the issue can be easily fixed by toggling the setting in ClockWork Mod Recovery Mode, but I have to install it first, and whenever I try to install it, I get the above error.
Can someone help please?
jjack0310 said:
I didnt want to create a new thread for this and get yelled at.. so I am asking the question here:
I had to do the ODIN method and returned my phone from ShoStock 3 to Stock Gingerbread, because for some reason my phone was getting stuck at the "samsung galaxy s2" boot screen.
So I am back on Stock Gingerbreak Rom and trying to install ClockWork Mod Recovery, so that I can restore the backup of ShoStock that I had created.
I am doing the Mobile Odin Lite method and I downloaded the i777 kernel. When I try to install it, I boot in the Android System Recovery (3e) and get the following errors:
Installing package...
Finding Package...
Verifying Update Package...
E: failed to verify whole-file signature
E: signature verification failed.
Before I get yelled at, I searched google and came up with the solution -- all of which say that the issue can be easily fixed by toggling the setting in ClockWork Mod Recovery Mode, but I have to install it first, and whenever I try to install it, I get the above error.
Can someone help please?
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3e recovery is the stock recovery. It means you have not installed a custom kernel yet. Please look at the links in my signature and use the guide information there, which will help you understand what you need to do to install mobile odin lite and then install a custom kernel.
Also, remember that you will need to have the correct version of ClockworkMod Recovery to restore your backup. If the backup and the version of CWM recovery are not compatible, it will not restore.
If you have questions, ask them here, but be aware, I only come on line usually two or three times a day to check the forums.
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3e recovery is the stock recovery. It means you have not installed a custom kernel yet. Please look at the links in my signature and use the guide information there, which will help you understand what you need to do to install mobile odin lite and then install a custom kernel.
Also, remember that you will need to have the correct version of ClockworkMod Recovery to restore your backup. If the backup and the version of CWM recovery are not compatible, it will not restore.
If you have questions, ask them here, but be aware, I only come on line usually two or three times a day to check the forums.
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I followed Step 3a on this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18576627#post18576627
Unfortunately, for some reason, ODIN Lite was not recognizing DD_03042012.zip file. So I went with Siyah and downloaded the TAR file used ODIN to get the clockwork mod. It worked.
Now the problem is I cant restore my backup. I know the same backup has worked before, not it is giving me an error "Error while restoring /system". wth!
I dont remember what version of Clockwork Mod I had. I know it was an older version, becuase it didnt have touch.
How do I get a previous version of CWM?
But my problem isn't even remotely similar to this guy!
I'm trying to ask if there's some way to flash a new kernel/rom without using recovery, taking advantage of the fact that my phone boots fine but I can't boot recovery. That's the reason why I mentioned ODIN.
Also, go make your own thread. My question didn't even get answered
Actually,
Creepyncrawly, thanks for your help.
I downloaded ShoStock 3 and flashed it to get the previous version of CWM, and then was able to do a restore.
Sigh.. no harm done.
You can have your thread back... good luck!!
Mighty_Rearranger said:
But my problem isn't even remotely similar to this guy!
I'm trying to ask if there's some way to flash a new kernel/rom without using recovery, taking advantage of the fact that my phone boots fine but I can't boot recovery. That's the reason why I mentioned ODIN.
Also, go make your own thread. My question didn't even get answered
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Yes, as stated by creepyncrawly, u can use mobile odin or regular odin to flash a kernel.
But i would suggest doing a MD5 check on the Rom u downloaded, because the Rom u flashed may be that of a corrupted download. If MD5 doesn't match then redownload, check MD5 and if good, reflash the Rom.
.....or maybe the nightly is messed up.
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Mighty_Rearranger said:
Here's the deal:
I rooted my phone a long time ago, and have been using CM since ICS. Mostly nightlies.
A few weeks ago I decided installing a Carbon nightly (4.3), and everything went smooth as usual.
Then new nightly came, so I decided flashing it. (Dirty flash, but it's that way from what I read in the Carbon thread)
The thing is, my phone boots up correctly, but I can't get into recovery mode. Whenever I try booting recovery mode, the logo appears, then the screen flashes gray. I have tried both the advanced reboot menu, the button combo, and ROM Man...jk
I think something might be wrong with the recovery included in the kernel. If that's the case, would it be OK to flash just a new kernel or do I have to reflash the whole thing?
I have already seen some guides on flashing kernels with mobile ODIN, but they're either ancient or for another model. Also, I don't know if that's the right thing to do under this situation.
I'd appreciate if someone pointed me in the right direction. I don't wanna frak up my phone.
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Mighty_Rearranger said:
But my problem isn't even remotely similar to this guy!
I'm trying to ask if there's some way to flash a new kernel/rom without using recovery, taking advantage of the fact that my phone boots fine but I can't boot recovery. That's the reason why I mentioned ODIN.
Also, go make your own thread. My question didn't even get answered
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I can see why you could be upset that someone hijacked your thread.
I only see one question in your original post, which I believe I answered. You also requested assistance which I thought I provided.
Let me be a little more specific for you. Yes, you can flash just a kernel without re-flashing the system. However, you will need either an Odin flashable tar of the kernel, or you will need to install Mobile Odin and then you can flash a kernel directly from a zImage file.
However, I think 4-2ndtwin has the right of it. It was probably a bad flash, even though the phone booted normally. You should consider re-flashing the entire rom.
If you are not clear about anything, please ask questions.
Never mind.
I concluded it wasn't worth it just because I was lazy backing up stuff.
I used this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525821, then flashed a clean ROM.
Thanks for the help, you guys are awesome.
Hey there,
I recently rooted my HTC one and loaded up Cyanogenmod. I loaded the most recent version yesterday, the nightly from 2/1 and it caused the phone to go into a bootcycle. I updated via CyanDelta, so it was a small file that was downloaded, and I dirty flashed using CWM. The issue is that my phone now is stuck in a bootcycle. Because I used CyanDelta, I do not have any full versions of CyanogenMod. Infact the only zips on the my phone are the update to the 1/31 nightly and the update to the 2/1 nightly.
Somehow my phone has its usb debugging turned off now, meaning I can not see it on my computer. I am wondering if there is anyway to reconcile this with my phone, since it is basically a brick right now.
I know there is Odin for samsungs, but it does not work for HTC? Is there something like Odin that does work from HTC?
Thank you all for the help.
Sounds like you need to push a ROM onto your sdcard and flash it, then go from there. This may help you out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
raczoliver said:
Sounds like you need to push a ROM onto your sdcard and flash it, then go from there. This may help you out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
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Thank you for the suggestion, however my phone does not have an sdcard, and if I try doing this with any of filepaths I do have show up in CWM I get a message no device found. my /sdcard path is apparantly /data/media but nothing works to push to my phone. I have also tried to sideload and again it does not work. any other ideas?
Fixed It
OK, so I figured out how to fix it.
I flashed the update file (about 4mb) from my phones memory of the 1/31 version, then gapps4.4. Once that was done I got into the phone and enabled USB debugging and after doing so, I loaded up the new full version of Cyanogen, the nightly from today (2/2) and installed it, along with gapps, and the radio update.
Thanks for the help guys.
Hello everyone,
I'm having problems when I'm trying to install 4.4 roms I keep getting this error
set_metadata_recursive: some changes failed
E:Error in/sdcard/cyanaosp-v3.4.0_2.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted
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After looking into it most people say it's cause by old cwm version. However I couldn't find a newer version of cwm for my vibrant.
I currently have semaphore cwm recovery v6.0.3.8
Please help
SoulEater- said:
Hello everyone,
I'm having problems when I'm trying to install 4.4 roms I keep getting this error
After looking into it most people say it's cause by old cwm version. However I couldn't find a newer version of cwm for my vibrant.
I currently have semaphore cwm recovery v6.0.3.8
Please help
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Have you tried reflashing right after that error? Please do so. Worked here.
CWM version doesn't have to do much if at all with this if you are above 6.0.0.0. Sometimes I use a March 2014 kernel (Semaphore) which has an older CWM (still above 6.0) and everything flashes just fine.
@nirogu325
Quick question for you that I didn't want to put in the CM11 thread. I have my old Vibrant that I gave to my son and it has Slim 4.3 build 1, Semaphore and CWM 6.0.3.8 on it. I wanted to put him on CM11 but when I flash it I get a Status 7. Normally, I know how to get around this but for some reason it is not letting me flash it because it says that my device is a I-9000. I've checked Settings>About Phone and it shows T959 and I've even checked my build.prop and nowhere does it say I-9000. The only thing that I have from the I-9000 is the GB Bootloaders.
Any ideas?
Woody said:
@nirogu325
Quick question for you that I didn't want to put in the CM11 thread. I have my old Vibrant that I gave to my son and it has Slim 4.3 build 1, Semaphore and CWM 6.0.3.8 on it. I wanted to put him on CM11 but when I flash it I get a Status 7. Normally, I know how to get around this but for some reason it is not letting me flash it because it says that my device is a I-9000. I've checked Settings>About Phone and it shows T959 and I've even checked my build.prop and nowhere does it say I-9000. The only thing that I have from the I-9000 is the GB Bootloaders.
Any ideas?
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Status 7 sometimes tends to be the assert lines inside the ROM .zip. Check inside the zip (I use 7Zip on my PC): META-INF > com > google > android > updater-script. Check in that script (I use Notepad++ on my PC) the first lines. In the picture I attached, I show you an example of the assert lines. Delete those if present. If that doesn't yield resuls, it could be the GB Bootloader. Although I could flash the newer CM builds with them by deleting the assert lines I showed you. I no longer have the GB Bootloader, so I had to flash my way through JFD to ICS and then to KK again.
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Status 7 sometimes tends to be the assert lines inside the ROM .zip. Check inside the zip (I use 7Zip on my PC): META-INF > com > google > android > updater-script. Check in that script (I use Notepad++ on my PC) the first lines. In the picture I attached, I show you an example of the assert lines. Delete those if present. If that doesn't yield resuls, it could be the GB Bootloader. Although I could flash the newer CM builds with them by deleting the assert lines I showed you. I no longer have the GB Bootloader, so I had to flash my way through JFD to ICS and then to KK again.
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I just did it in Root Explorer. Anyways what I did was I deleted those Assert lines, rezipped it up and flashed. Got a failure due to partition errors (probably because for some reason it was still reading as an I-9000) and said if I wanted to continue to reflash the package. So I flashed my "rebuilt" package and gapps. Was faced with the Set-Up Wizard FC issue, so I thought that maybe I would try to reflash the unaltered CM11 zip to see if it fixed it (before I searched for the solution). It went through the first time with no errors. Still have the Set-Up FC issue, but once I get in my house where there is wifi (no sim in this phone), I can fix that right up, cause I know how to use the search function.
Anyways, thanks for your help. If it came down to it, I would have flashed the Froyo BLs, but this was just as easy. If the next time the ROM updates and I can't get past that, I may have to flash them but I doubt it since I "sort of" tested that philosophy with my reflash from above.
Woody said:
I just did it in Root Explorer. Anyways what I did was I deleted those Assert lines, rezipped it up and flashed. Got a failure due to partition errors (probably because for some reason it was still reading as an I-9000) and said if I wanted to continue to reflash the package. So I flashed my "rebuilt" package and gapps. Was faced with the Set-Up Wizard FC issue, so I thought that maybe I would try to reflash the unaltered CM11 zip to see if it fixed it (before I searched for the solution). It went through the first time with no errors. Still have the Set-Up FC issue, but once I get in my house where there is wifi (no sim in this phone), I can fix that right up, cause I know how to use the search function.
Anyways, thanks for your help. If it came down to it, I would have flashed the Froyo BLs, but this was just as easy. If the next time the ROM updates and I can't get past that, I may have to flash them but I doubt it since I "sort of" tested that philosophy with my reflash from above.
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The Setup Wizard FC only occurs if you flash everything at once (ROM + GApps). It's been happening since 4.4.4 was released a month ago. To bypass that you either:
1. Lower the notification panel and press the date on the upper left side. Calendar should open prompting you to enter your Google credentials along with Wi-Fi if not connected. Do so, then tap Back until you go back to the Setup Wizard. No more FC.
OR
2. Flash the ROM alone without GApps. Let it settle for 10 minutes after boot. Then you proceed to flash everything else.