I can successfully install Roms thats I download through Rom Manager, but for some reason I cannot install Roms that I download online, put in my SD card and try to flash through Clockworkmod. The downloaded files are in .zip for and I choose to install zip from SD. When I select it, the screen shows that it is installing but takes only a second and doesnt flash successfully. I dont get any errors but for some reason the Rom just doesnt install. If anyone has had this issue or could help it would be much appreciated, thanks.
nevermind, i figured it out. for some reason the files would only work when i compressed them again. its weird but im glad i got it to work
rickyb0127 said:
I can successfully install Roms thats I download through Rom Manager, but for some reason I cannot install Roms that I download online, put in my SD card and try to flash through Clockworkmod. The downloaded files are in .zip for and I choose to install zip from SD. When I select it, the screen shows that it is installing but takes only a second and doesnt flash successfully. I dont get any errors but for some reason the Rom just doesnt install. If anyone has had this issue or could help it would be much appreciated, thanks.
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change the setting on your mac (i know you did not say it was a mac but since this exact thing happened to me i know it must be one) to not "open safe files after downloading" in the preferences - general tab. that way you will not have to zip files again since they get unzipped on downloading.
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Hi,
I am new to rooting Android although I have had a ton of WM devices in the past.
I finally rooted my MT3G Slide and installed Cyanogenmod. However, I need Google Apps and cannot install. I have downloaded the file and placed on my SD card without renaming it. When I boot into recovery there is no place for me to select which zip to install, therefore it tries to install Cyanogenmod again. How do I install this, I need it???!!!
Thanks for helping a newbie (to Android anyway)
galatians51 said:
Hi,
I am new to rooting Android although I have had a ton of WM devices in the past.
I finally rooted my MT3G Slide and installed Cyanogenmod. However, I need Google Apps and cannot install. I have downloaded the file and placed on my SD card without renaming it. When I boot into recovery there is no place for me to select which zip to install, therefore it tries to install Cyanogenmod again. How do I install this, I need it???!!!
Thanks for helping a newbie (to Android anyway)
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the process goes like this... you go into recovery from reboot menu on cyanogenmod right? then you select apply update.zip and if you are booting into clockwork recovery (wich is the only file that should be named update.zip on your sdcard ---> [get it here and rename it to update] then you should be able to select a zip from sdcard. then you just move around with the volume keys and select the file with power button, the file is named google addon mdpi something wich you can get here
I hope this helped, i explained as much as i could xD
Got it, Thanks!
I successfully rooted and flashed ROM on my phone (Skyraider then Inc Re-Engineered). Problem I'm having, when I copy any downloaded ROM and/or KERNEL from my PC to SD Card, I can not find the file(s) on my phone! Yet they're there when viewing via my PC.
Is there something I'm missing in the process? I've repeatedly read 'How to flash ROM/KERNEL' thread but can't figure out what is wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Phone is fully operational. I want to try other ROMS and KERNELS
Thanks in advance,
V
Try flashing manually and see if you can view them through CW
Hope this helps
Thanks for the reply. I haven't a problem flashing thru CW. Problem is, CW doesn't have ROMs and KERNELS I want to try. I'm going to manually delete the device from my Device Manager (PC) and try reloading/reinstalling drivers.
V
Still not working properly...
No good!
For some reason or another, the driver installed reads 'Android ADB Composite Interface'. Is this something everyone is getting?
If I remember correctly, when I first rooted my Inc Droid, the device was listed in Windows Explorer (hence I was able to add/copy a ROM to the SD Card). It only lists it as a 'Removable Drive' therefore I can copy, but can't see it via Root Explorer on the phone.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
V
Make sure you are putting them onto SD by creating a new folder on PC, put the files in it, drag and drop to SD. Name folder something you'll recognize, use astro to find it on device.
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vac357 said:
Thanks for the reply. I haven't a problem flashing thru CW. Problem is, CW doesn't have ROMs and KERNELS I want to try. I'm going to manually delete the device from my Device Manager (PC) and try reloading/reinstalling drivers.
V
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I am now confused by your question. Are you confusing Clockwork and Rom Manager as the same thing? And if you mount the USB storage through CW (Recovery) it should simply load up your SD, I'm almost sure you don't need drivers but someone correct me if I am wrong.
refthemc ... sorry for the confusion/lack of clarity
smtom ... Thanks! your suggestion/tip worked!!!!
Hey, so I'm fairly (very) new to modifying my phone and I was having troubles
I'm on Android 4.1.1 on a SGH-T999V phone, but was unable to install CM10.1.
I rooted the phone, did as all guides said to do, and installed the tmo CM10.1 nightly to my computer as well as GApps. I transferred them to my phone via usb and then unplugged booted into recovery mode. I wiped cache and did the factory data reset, successfully on my way to completion, but then when I wanted to navigate into "choose zip from sdcard" I got an error and was not able to go in at all. I was able to go into "choose zip from internal sdcard" where there was also the CM10.1, but the operation failed. I think it said something along he lines of can't mount sd card or something like that. I was however able to successfully install GApps from the same folder and was then forced to reboot without CM, having wasted all my time.
I downloaded cm-10.1-20121224-NIGHTLY-d2tmo and gapps-jb-20121011-signed
What do I do; where did I go wrong? Sorry for my crappy explanation, but I am not extremely tech savvy.
Common issue. Download Rom manager from marketplace and install the new rom from there
risestar9999 said:
Common issue. Download Rom manager from marketplace and install the new rom from there
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Is there a specific marketplace you recommend? I use getapk but many of the files are outdated or otherwise unusable
When I use ROM Manager Premium, I press "Download ROM" and it prompts me to install CWM Recovery, but my phone isn't on list of supported devices (there's only SGS3 MetroPCS). Because of this, it won't let me use ROM Manager. What do I do?
I tried installing via ROM Manager, and I had it delete cache/data, etc but it still didn't work. Says
-- Installing: /sdcard/cm-10.1-20121224-NIGHTLY-d2tmo.zip
Finding update packag...
Opening update packag...
E:Can't open /sdcard/cm-10.1-20121224-NIGHTLY-d2tmo.zip
(No such file or directory)
installation aborted.
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log. Please open ROM Manager to report the issue.
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Please help :/
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It looks like you might have gotten a corrupt install. Try redownloading it and loading it back on your SD card. Also make sure you have updated and installed any ROM Manager files beforehand
I am running AOKP on my d2att. I am trying to flash a new ROM, and every time I transfer them over from my computer, they get to about 75% and just closes. The file shows up there, but of course, it's not the full file.
I've tried a few things. So far I've tried these:
Trying it on a different computer
Other files seem to work, such as .mp3 files
Tried another nandroid backup
Tried downloading it from goomanager directly
Anyone ever had this issue and/or know how to fix it?
Caduceus46 said:
I am running AOKP on my d2att. I am trying to flash a new ROM, and every time I transfer them over from my computer, they get to about 75% and just closes. The file shows up there, but of course, it's not the full file.
I've tried a few things. So far I've tried these:
Trying it on a different computer
Other files seem to work, such as .mp3 files
Tried another nandroid backup
Tried downloading it from goomanager directly
Anyone ever had this issue and/or know how to fix it?
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When I copy over from my Win8 PC the status only goes to about 60-80% and closes, however the file sizes match properly. If that's not the case a quick fix would be to download the file directly from your phone.
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Fixed, just had to update twrp. derp.
I have a new T-Mobile Note 2. I installed TWRP and SuperSU using the toolkit. I then used Root Browser and deleted a bunch of apps ("bloatware", I thought), and apparently removed too much, as the phone no longer boots android.
I downloaded the two Tweaked 2.4.1 Rom files, checked Md5sums, OK, and coped same to external SD card. I did the recommended wipes using TWRP. Thereafter, also using TWRP, BasicInstall finishes with success, but the Tweaked.2.4.1.UVBMD1.073113.zip install fails with "E: Unable to open zip file". Then I try to reboot, and get a message "your phone does not appear to be rooted", and take the option "Install SuperSU? That also fails.
I think maybe I can't install Tweaked.2.4.1.UVBMD1.073113.zip because the phone isn''t rooted? Is that right? But I can't figure out how to root the phone either. I'm stuck in a loop. Recommendations to fix appreciated.
Thx, Gus
gus_zernial said:
I have a new T-Mobile Note 2. I installed TWRP and SuperSU using the toolkit. I then used Root Browser and deleted a bunch of apps ("bloatware", I thought), and apparently removed too much, as the phone no longer boots android.
I downloaded the two Tweaked 2.4.1 Rom files, checked Md5sums, OK, and coped same to external SD card. I did the recommended wipes using TWRP. Thereafter, also using TWRP, BasicInstall finishes with success, but the Tweaked.2.4.1.UVBMD1.073113.zip install fails with "E: Unable to open zip file". Then I try to reboot, and get a message "your phone does not appear to be rooted", and take the option "Install SuperSU? That also fails.
I think maybe I can't install Tweaked.2.4.1.UVBMD1.073113.zip because the phone isn''t rooted? Is that right? But I can't figure out how to root the phone either. I'm stuck in a loop. Recommendations to fix appreciated.
Thx, Gus
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If you got an unable to open zip file error - even though the md5s check out the only thing I can think of is the zip has become corrupted somehow. Did you check the md5 on a computer and move the file over? Might be worth checking it on the phone (you can use the terminal interface in twrp fwiw - just use the md5sum command).
Bottom line recommendation - try to copy the full zip over to the sdcard again. Also, just to sate my curiosity - did you wipe /system before flashing?
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dwitherell said:
If you got an unable to open zip file error - even though the md5s check out the only thing I can think of is the zip has become corrupted somehow. Did you check the md5 on a computer and move the file over? Might be worth checking it on the phone (you can use the terminal interface in twrp fwiw - just use the md5sum command).
Bottom line recommendation - try to copy the full zip over to the sdcard again. Also, just to sate my curiosity - did you wipe /system before flashing?
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I did recopy the two Tweaked .zip files to the sdcart - repeated attempt to install on phone, same problems.
I also unzipped the two Tweaked files on linux, and although I don't know exactly what I'm supposed to see, there's no errors and a bunch of directories and files that generally look reasonable
I think I did wipe /system on the phone before flashing - could that be my problem? Also, when I go into terminal mode in TWRP on the phone, I get a hang at "Updating partition details"
Is it possible I've accidentally deleted the unzip program on the phone?
Is there stuff I could/should do from an adb shell on my PC through a USB hookup to the phone?
thx, Gus
You could flash stock rom with odin and start over.
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gus_zernial said:
I did recopy the two Tweaked .zip files to the sdcart - repeated attempt to install on phone, same problems.
I also unzipped the two Tweaked files on linux, and although I don't know exactly what I'm supposed to see, there's no errors and a bunch of directories and files that generally look reasonable
I think I did wipe /system on the phone before flashing - could that be my problem? Also, when I go into terminal mode in TWRP on the phone, I get a hang at "Updating partition details"
Is it possible I've accidentally deleted the unzip program on the phone?
Is there stuff I could/should do from an adb shell on my PC through a USB hookup to the phone?
thx, Gus
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Hmm... maybe reflash recovery? That's very strange - especially if the first zip worked fine and the second had the issues...
rail205 said:
You could flash stock rom with odin and start over.
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I wish I could! But when I try that it hangs at "Waiting for USB debugging to be enabled". And that's even if the phone is booted into download mode.
Gus
Odin back to stock. Twrp started failing everything I tried to flash also. That's why I stopped using it. But you need to Odin to stock
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[SOLVED] Stuck ...
dwitherell said:
Hmm... maybe reflash recovery? That's very strange - especially if the first zip worked fine and the second had the issues...
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Finally got it working. dwitherell was more or less right about the problem. Here's my steps: 1) did a low-level format on the external sda card 2) recopied the two Tweaked zip files onto the external sda card 3) Cheked md5sums for both files on the external sda card 4) ainstalled from TWRP, as before. BUT - this time it worked.
I'm guessing either the external sda card or one of the zip files was corrupted - as dwitherell had suggested. Thanks to him and other forum members for helping out.
Gus