I was trying to install a custom rom on my international I9500 with stock 4.4.2 kit kat. I rooted it correctly, installed FTWR, made a backup of my EFS, everything was going fine until i got to the actual step of installing the ROM, I DO NOT have an Micro SD card on my phone, I had placed the .ZIP file of the rom on the root of the device from my windows computer. i went ahead and wiped everything required EXCEPT internal storage (because the ROM file was there) however now I am unable to find the file on the install section of FTWR, what can I do?
Im not giving up, but is it ok if i restore my phone with odin right now? (stock firmware of course) I need to go out in a couple of hours.
Any help will be appreciated.
leomar91 said:
I was trying to install a custom rom on my international I9500 with stock 4.4.2 kit kat. I rooted it correctly, installed FTWR, made a backup of my EFS, everything was going fine until i got to the actual step of installing the ROM, I DO NOT have an Micro SD card on my phone, I had placed the .ZIP file of the rom on the root of the device from my windows computer. i went ahead and wiped everything required EXCEPT internal storage (because the ROM file was there) however now I am unable to find the file on the install section of FTWR, what can I do?
Im not giving up, but is it ok if i restore my phone with odin right now? (stock firmware of course) I need to go out in a couple of hours.
Any help will be appreciated.
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If you successfully copied the ROM then it should be there. Try and copy the ROM when you are inside recovery (connect your device to your computer and then mount the internal card).
Yes it's ok to restore your phone if you want.
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Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
Benji1992 said:
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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I9100?
Can get to DL mode?
Can get to recovery?
Get an older Odin version and flash siyah just to see if it can be flashed again.
If you can get to recovery, Nuke Script is the way to go.
It sounds to me that maybe your memory is corrupt...
Not just yet, smells like soft brick.
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Hi,
I also have a question regarding this topic. Does anyone know, what I mustn't do to preserv the content of the internal SD-Card?
I did the following:
1. made a backup copy with the ClockworkMod Recovery (of Android 2.3.6)
2. flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Android 4.2
3. I forgot something in the old firmware so I tried to recover it.
3a. made a backup of the current firmware with ClockworkMod (I think 5.xx)
3b. tried to restore it (see step 1). this failed.
So - now I try to get a running system on my device. I would like to use the factory rom of samsung, that I downloaded. (last Android 2.3.6)
Can I flash with odin without loosing the data of the internal SDCard? I think I do not have to check "Re-Partition"? Any hints?
Regards,
Georg
Georg.E said:
Hi,
I also have a question regarding this topic. Does anyone know, what I mustn't do to preserv the content of the internal SD-Card?
I did the following:
1. made a backup copy with the ClockworkMod Recovery (of Android 2.3.6)
2. flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Android 4.2
3. I forgot something in the old firmware so I tried to recover it.
3a. made a backup of the current firmware with ClockworkMod (I think 5.xx)
3b. tried to restore it (see step 1). this failed.
So - now I try to get a running system on my device. I would like to use the factory rom of samsung, that I downloaded. (last Android 2.3.6)
Can I flash with odin without loosing the data of the internal SDCard? I think I do not have to check "Re-Partition"? Any hints?
Regards,
Georg
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Soon as you flashed 4.2 it erased your Internal SD your internal SD card will get wiped always when restoring back to stock and yes you have to check repartician
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ok - so can anyone tell me if I can access the content of the internal SD Card befor I destroy it?
When I upgraded to Android 4.2 (Cyanogan Mod) it didn't wipe my sd card.
Cheers,
Georg
Georg.E said:
ok - so can anyone tell me if I can access the content of the internal SD Card befor I destroy it?
When I upgraded to Android 4.2 (Cyanogan Mod) it didn't wipe my sd card.
Cheers,
Georg
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Cyanogenmod is a different patrician layout it should have wiped it and if it didn't you could have very easily got a brick you always wipe the internal memory when switching rims and no there's no way to get the internal memory you should have a SD card or not even try a ROM how the hell did you flash cyanogenmod anyway? Side load?
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Georg.E said:
Hi,
I also have a question regarding this topic. Does anyone know, what I mustn't do to preserv the content of the internal SD-Card?
I did the following:
1. made a backup copy with the ClockworkMod Recovery (of Android 2.3.6)
2. flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Android 4.2
3. I forgot something in the old firmware so I tried to recover it.
3a. made a backup of the current firmware with ClockworkMod (I think 5.xx)
3b. tried to restore it (see step 1). this failed.
So - now I try to get a running system on my device. I would like to use the factory rom of samsung, that I downloaded. (last Android 2.3.6)
Can I flash with odin without loosing the data of the internal SDCard? I think I do not have to check "Re-Partition"? Any hints?
Regards,
Georg
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There seems to be some confusion about what you're referring to as your "internal SD card". When you do a backup with CWM, it's written to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/date-derived-folder-name/. This is on your removable SD card. The backup you made of your GB ROM should still be there.
If you used cwm4_fixed_for_cm7-CWM.zip to do the backup, chances are that the date used to name the folder is wrong - year 2000 something... Do not rename it! Some older cwm versions use the name in calculating the CRC before you restore.
Anyway to restore that original backup you must Odin back to stock, install the same cwm version used for your backup, and then you should be able to restore.
Good luck with it
You won't be
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Sounds great!
With "Internal SD-Card" I mean that I did not plug in any microSD card. /sdcard/... is not re-partitioned? sure?
I will try to flash back via odin and restore my backup.
Sorry for asking so strupid but I think it is better to ask one more time than making something that I cannot revert. I am no android expert, sorry.
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I flashed it the simple way: rooted my phone, flashed it via CWM (10.1 nightly zip on internal /sdcard) and than rebooted. Everything worked fine as expected. The only thing, thats not working, is the cam - but that is another topic...
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hi,
I have been unlocked and what not for a long time.
My latest ROM installed through TWRP was CM10.2. It really worked well... until it didn't anymore. I would reboot and it would get stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" white logo.
I wiped, did fresh clean install of same ROM and thought, surely that'd do it. Nope. Still same problem.
Did something get corrupted?
I used TWRP to restore the stock ROM (months ago as soon as I rooted and unlcocked, I backed it up). Phone works great, no problems, but I really liked the AOS/KP roms.
The thing is when I connect phone to PC, I can't even access the internal or external SD to copy an updated version of (any) rom. All that shows up is a folder that's marked as a CD (as if I inserted a CD) with samsung driver installer .exe and a couple of other files. I went ahead and ran the installer, still no go for SD card.
I also installed the toolkit found here on xda. Nothing. Still can't access the internal storage or SD card
What can I do?
Thank you!
edit: I am able to access the SD card from TWRP 2.6.1.0
bracca said:
hi,
I have been unlocked and what not for a long time.
My latest ROM installed through TWRP was CM10.2. It really worked well... until it didn't anymore. I would reboot and it would get stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" white logo.
I wiped, did fresh clean install of same ROM and thought, surely that'd do it. Nope. Still same problem.
Did something get corrupted?
I used TWRP to restore the stock ROM (months ago as soon as I rooted and unlcocked, I backed it up). Phone works great, no problems, but I really liked the AOS/KP roms.
The thing is when I connect phone to PC, I can't even access the internal or external SD to copy an updated version of (any) rom. All that shows up is a folder that's marked as a CD (as if I inserted a CD) with samsung driver installer .exe and a couple of other files. I went ahead and ran the installer, still no go for SD card.
I also installed the toolkit found here on xda. Nothing. Still can't access the internal storage or SD card
What can I do?
Thank you!
edit: I am able to access the SD card from TWRP 2.6.1.0
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WHen you plug your phone in, is it set to MTP or PTP. You should have it set to Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). Also take your sdcard out and make sure it can be read by a pc period.
dragonstalker said:
WHen you plug your phone in, is it set to MTP or PTP. You should have it set to Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). Also take your sdcard out and make sure it can be read by a pc period.
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Yes, MTP is what I was trying. the sd card works fine. I restored an old rooted stock rom from the first day I unlocked and rooted months ago.
Then after booting into stock rom, the PC "sees" my phone's SD.
I am no expert, but it seems something in the boot got currupted or messed up. No 3rd party roms go passed the white note 2 logo anymore.
I wiped and tried
- the CM 10.2 build that had been working awesome
- a new CM 10.2 build
- PAC MAN rom.
They install fine, first boot into the fresh TWRP-installed rom works fine. But when I reboot, they get stuck. The stock ROM restores fine and I can reboot no problem.
What can I do?
I'll try to change the topic name.
edit: well, I can't edit the topic name. If a mod can, please change to: "cannot boot into custom ROMs."
Did you fully wipe your SD from going to 4.1 -> 4.2/.3? That could cause an issue, maybe. I had a lot of issues changing from 4.1 to 4.2+. Some of the roms, like Carbon, would not let me connect to my computer. I finally settled on PACMAN and it works great. I would just try backing up internal storage, fully wiping everything on the internal memory, and installing one of the roms.
I always wipe internal storage
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What version of windows are you running? And have you tried casual again in your phone?
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dragonstalker said:
What version of windows are you running? And have you tried casual again in your phone?
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Windows 7 home premium.
haven't tried causal again. I need to, I guess, because I miss the custom ROMS.
I just installed Beanstalk 4.4 ROM on my Samsung Galaxy S3 i747m. Everything is working fine and I am almost done but I just noticed one peculiar problem which i can't seem to correct.
When i boot into recovery (CWM), the files that i see in SD card is whole different set of files that i see in ES Explorer on phone or on my computer. I tried reinstalling the ROM to no avail. I know the files are there because i used the same files to reinstall ROM and Gapps.
Now, any file i copy to SDcard through computer or download doesn't show in recovery. In system storage, it says I am using 4GB of storage while only showing about 122MB of files. I am only using internal storage and no SD card.
Any help will be really appreciated and let me know if you need more info.
Hi guys,
I can't work out why but when I go to wipe all settings then install custom rom from zip file in cmw recovery, it completes normally but after the reboot it just stays on the android bot. I went back into recovery and managed the phone through usb to my PC & saw that in the phone storage there was nothing where there is obviously supposed to be boot files. I have installed this custom rom before & it has been no problem. I also have tried a few other roms (all that i've tried before & they all work) and the same thing happens. I have found one rom that worked strangley and when I manged the phone on my PC i saw that it has placed the boot files on the sd card (not the phone storage).
how can i fix this.
i am very new to rooting so please no complicated talk
can someone not help? this is a big issue.
ill try and explain the problem in more detail below...
i have been messing with my phone lately using CMW TOUCH to wipe my data then install rom from zip. everything was going great until now.
i want to install a rom (that i have installed before.so i know its compatible with my phone), i go through tge same procedure of wiping data then installing from zip.all goes the way it should with it telling me its installing from zip, after a while it tells me to reboot the phone. when i do all that happens is it stay on the green android bot for 1 min then reboots. i went into CMW TOUCH to connect phone to pc & found out that it installed nothing, nothing on the phone storage and on the sd card except the custom rom.
i have tried this with few other roms all with the same results.
NOW...
ive managed to find a rom that will install so it is functional all except recently after a reboot it has stopped detecting the sim，weird.
i connected the phone to my pc to find that all boot files are stored on the sd card not phone storage like it used to.
i had an idea that i will try later today and that is to move the custom rom over to the phone storage from the sd card. remove the sd card during install. maybe that will force the install to use the phone storage for the boot files
will let you know the outcome
jamos
i have just tried to install the rom with the sdcard removed from phone & the same thing happened. even though during the installation it tells me that it is formatting system then installing it installs nothing to the phone storage.