Hey y'all, so I got a problem
I was trying to install a new ROM (CRdroid, great rom) but I accidentally wiped internal storage instead along with everything else necessary. So, the new ROM was gone, along with my stock backup.
So, I figured I could just connect it to a computer and transfer the ROM onto the phone via MTP. I downloaded it, checked the md5, dragged it over to the phone in the file browser, and it showed up on the phone just fine, but I got the error: "E: Error executing updater binary in zip..." when trying to flash it. I tried several ROMs and it still didn't work.
I thought maybe windows wasn't copying the ROMs over correctly, so I got an SD card, put the ROM on that, and tried to flash it from there but still no luck.
As suggested by several sites, I tried wiping, then flashing&getting the error, then rebooting and flashing again, but I still got the error.
What's going on?
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So excuse me in advanced and I've been searching pretty extensively to no avail.
I have an HD2 and a samsung vibrant, I've rooted the vibrant using one click root. I put on ROM manager and downloaded eugenes eclair build, put the vibrant9.zip on the micro SD card and went into rom manager to install it, it then says "no such file or directory" and then eventually does nothing. I've tried flashing other builds and also tried flashing the stock kernel, all with the same results.
I know I'm just missing something stupid, and apologize if its painfully obvious. I just need a couple you genuises to help me fix it
tl;dr rooted phone wont flash rom "no such file or directory..." ?
You need to put the file on the phones internal storage not the sdcard.
I'm trying to flash gingertazz and recovery said cannot open file(bad) I removed android secure folder with supermanager and did a nand backup. When I went to flash rom I get the error. I placed the rom and gapps in SD card. I have never had issues flashing rom's before! What did I do wrong?
It could just be a bad download. I would suggest downloading from a different file host than the one you used previously. Then try flashing again and see if it works this time.
I went and downloaded it from Hotfile and the MD5sum I'm getting is:
1041c8ad2b4cdddf4845e79bc9efa0f2
Does that match yours? I haven't tried flashing it since I'm working on some things but if yours is different, then one of us has a corrupted file.
That worked thanks! To bad its pretty much the same rom that I had already
Hey guys,
I have a little problem I can't find a solution to by searching.
I have a GS3 i9300 rooted with CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4.
When rooting, a version of CWM was installed (5.something).
Later, when installing af custom rom, I followed instructions and updated to a newer CWM (6.0.1.2):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1719744
Later, I was thinking about restoring my original system backup, which I had made with the older CWM version right after rooting.
The new CWM can't restore my older backup. It can't recognize the file, not even when I copy it manually to the new CWM folder.
How can I solve this problem?
Do I need to install an older CWM again?
If yes, then one more question: As I said, my original CWM was installed when rooting. Can someone give me a download just for the CWM tar file included in the mentioned CF-Root?
Thanks a lot in advanced,
Agoston
Replace with older CWM root .
From Original Development section .
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still not recognizing + weird directory tree
After trying out three custom ROMs and after updating CWM, my system directory is rather weird. Besides the usual system folders, there is a "0" folder, that contains another set of system folders, and another "0" folder, containing the same. Also, my free internal storage as good as disappeared, from 8 GB to 1 GB. So, it looks like I have several systems on each other?!
How can I reduce this weird directory tree to just one? Do I need to wipe the SD-card?!
And by the way, I rooted the device again through Odin, and the old CWM is now installed again. Still though, it can't recognize the old backup.
As you probably imagine, I am hesitating to format SD-card, especially if CWM can't restore my factory ROM.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
szaboagoston said:
Still though, it can't recognize the old backup.
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I copied the backup directory manually to the "most superficial" CWM folder, and now trying system restore. I'ts not easy with four (!) different CWM directories.
Unfortunately I got an "error restoring data" message, and the phone is stuck in Samsung logo when booting.
Also, when trying to do a factory reset, I get the message: "error mounting /sd-card/.android_secure!"
Could this be because there is not enough space or something?!
If someone could help me with how to proceed, I would appreciate it!
Thanks.
Okay, the issue is solved. I admit, I might have been a little inpatient. Despite the "error restoring data" message, the stock factory system booted after a few tries - I might not have waited long enough. It seems that these "Folder 0"s were all just security copies of the old systems, and of course consumed a lot of hard disc space, so I just deleted them. Haven't met any negative consequences so far. I just got scared because of the error message and the too long boot time. Also this phenomenon with "Folder 0"s is not something I met before on other devices.
Little bit of history. Stumbled into CM13 and android 6 via a "Nightly" download. So hadn't read up on it beforehand!
So chickened out and went back to CM12.1 and android 5.1.1.
I got so fed up running out of memory when reinstalling all my Apps so looked into increasing the partion size .
The thread I followed , by gsstudios, indicated I needed to have the pit file and the recovery file in at the same time.
That bit worked for me.
I could not get Iso Rec or TWRP to load up on my phone via Odin so I am stuck with CWM 6.0.5.1.
I am able to get into Recovery with CWM, clear all the caches, select a 12.1 zip file and confirm install. Next the android comes up briefly with some text, a couple of lines that disappear too quickly for me to see and it drops back into the CWM menu.
I have installed the files "emmc" , on my SD card, to check for "bricks" in the memory, again they take me straight back into the CWM menu so I have no idea if they have run correctly?
I have an identical phone, Samsung GTi9100 intl, running CM12.1 and android 5.1.1, just trhe sd card a different size,
so if anyone has an idea how to clone this onto my sick phone and get it working, "I'm yer friend for life"!!
Just referring back to when I briefly had Cyanogen Recovery on my phone when it failed to do something in recovery I could not read the writing that came with it so no use to me!
Volume Two
During one of my tries to flash a zip file from my SD01 card whilst using CWM, the error I was able to read said "something" like unable to load this file " you need TWRP Recovery".
So first lesson learnt, do as you are told!
So after a lot of searching and reading through the threads I found this one worked for me Via Odin.
AOSP.LP-Kernel+_25-08-2015.TWRP-2.8.7.0 tar. Sorry to the "Author" can't remember where I got it from but you know who you are and thanks. It may have not been an exact "Fit" but it got me TWRP on my phone!
An observation whilst using "Odin", a few of the posts seem to indicate it can be a bit "Flakey". I was using version 3.10.7 in the end and adopted the method of removing the battery and the USB lead after any error, bringing up "Odin Mode" on the phone again, starting the program in supervisor mode on the PC and reloading the files again.
I suspect if I had followed this method in the first place a few more "ideal" kernels would have worked for me!
So that's a second lesson.
Now I have a working TWRP. So I go into TWRP, (don't see many People using it on Youtube?), and the"Wipe" button gives me the basic wipe of the caches but I see some errors occuring, so I run it again and it shows just one error. So I go for broke a try and install a Zip file, it fails. So I look at the "in depth" wipe that shows up a heap of registers you can select so I select the lot and eventually I get a clean result but i've managed to wipe my SD card 01 with all my Zips on it.
I enabled USB storage in TWRP and was able to view my SD card 01 on my PC .So I tried to reload a Zip file to it "not enough storage"! Only 36 MB of a 15 GB SD card available?? Tried a Format of the SD card 01 from the PC that didn't help, although through the PC "Disk Manager" I could see the full 15GB.
So I formatted it in TWRP and that solved it I was able to reload my Zip files. After a "Careful" "Wipe" I was able to load a CM13.0-20160209-NIGHTLY-i9100 and BaNkS-Dynamic-GApps-6.x.x-10-20-15.
pa-gapps mod pico 5.0.1-20150221 came up with an error when I tried to load it.
I have read in one of the threads that later "Nightly's" have some problems?? I am having problems with MD5 failures indicated after the download finishes so perhaps I've been lucky?
If I look I'm sure there's and better GApps recommended out there.
When the Cyanogenmod loads it gives an option to use "Google Settings" to download your apps and settings, so as I had an identical phone I thought this was a quick way to get my apps loaded up. According to the write up on Android 6 that feature has been "Dropped/Discontinued",Shame!!
I should point out that I used a i91001GB_6GB.pit when I loaded my Kernel that all indicated a "Pass".
I reinstalled all my Apps from my PC and did not get a "not enough memory" error but will wait until I get a few updates OTA before I call that a success.
Hope this helps some one out there that there is another "Div" out here trying to make sense of it all.
Reminds me of IBM "Maps". Who does that ring a bell with??
Hello everyone,
I need your help. Sorry for the long post.
I have a OnePlus One. It was running on CM 13.0 (Android 6.0.1). I had TWRP and MultiROM installed.
I have had an issue where whenever I flash a zip file in TWRP, the phone will show an error after installing the zip: "Unable to mount storage". This appeared in red color on the screen right after showing the progress of the zip installation. The phone worked fine and all the flashed zips worked great as well. However, the error that appeared every single time when I flash a zip file bothered me. So I tried to fix it. (I know, if it's not broken don't fix it, but sadly I tired).
I followed this video to get rid of the error => (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7yDPszoQ5s). However, instead of getting rid of the error, I ended up with a huge problem. My phone couldn't recognize the data in the internal storage. It showed that the internal storage was empty. When I tired to reboot in TWRP, It said: "No OS installed are you sure you wish to reboot". I realized that the video I followed was for a different problem and that I ended up with the same issue the video was trying to fix! I tried every single option the video suggested to fix the problem and nothing helped.
I connected my phone to my laptop and downloaded the latest CyanogenMod zip for my phone and I flashed it. when I rebooted my phone I got a screen that asked for my password. I typed a random password (I discovered later that the phone will accept any password and say it's correct). I got the following error: "Decryption Unsuccessful... The password you entered is correct, but unfortunately your data is corrupt... To resume using your phone, you need to perform a factory reset. When you set up your phone after the reset, you'll have an opportunity to restore any data that was backed up to your google account...Then the only thing I can select is "reset phone." ". I pressed the reset button on the screen, the phone rebooted and showed the same error. Then I tired flashing PAC ROM and I got the same error again. Then I flashed OmniROM and the phone worked! It didn't show the error.
I have a Titanium backup for all my apps and I also have a nandroid backup for my previous ROM (in my memory stick using an OTG cable). However, I don't have any backups for my internal storage (photos, videos, documents... etc). I am guessing that these files are still in my internal storage. I didn't copy any new files to my phone because I think if I do, then the phone will keep replacing my old files (that I can't see) with the new ones.
My question is: Is there a way to get back these old photos and videos from the internal storage? Note that I didn't delete these files, but the phone can't read them. Also, I checked the nandroid backup that I have and the file system type of the previous ROM was EXT4. My current file system type is the same, EXT4.
Thank you for the help!