Hello experienced gurus out there, I am in need of some help tonight.
Here is my scenario:
I started out tonight with a stock rooted INC. I saw the thread for the new Skyraider and thought I would try and install it. I went ahead and pushed the PB31IMG to unroot and go back to bare bones stock. I rebooted and then installed Verizon's OTA as instructed in the thread on how to upgrade the radio. I then removed the PB31IMG from my SD card and installed the Dinc_OTA file to upgrade the radio. That went through fine and I double-checked to make sure the baseband version was correct which it was. Next, I rooted using UNrevoked 3 and then make a Nand backup immediately after. I rebooted the phone and then set up my Google account and downloaded Rom Manager from the Market. I flashed the ClockworkMod from ROM manager and then proceeded to Install ROM from SD card option. It goes into recovery and I see a screen with a red exclamation point and the little Android guy and then I hit vol up + Power to go to the recovery menu. I selected install zip from SD and then selected the Skyraider zip and confirmed installation.
It started going through files and in the end gives me a message that says "Installation aborted"
Here is what it actually says on the screen in its entirety (in case this helps):
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:failed to seek /cache/update.zip (Invalid argument)
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
--Installing: SDCARD:SkyRaider2.2Vanilla.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
Thats it...
The first time I tried this, instead of hitting install from SD, I rebooted it to check the system version and then went to ROM manager again. Aas soon as it started it came up with this message that gave three options it seemed. One said "broken" recovery" and I forget what the other said, but it gave a link to email the developer Koush.. something. I clicked where it said broken recovery and then tried installing ROM from SD again in ROM manager. It brought me to the Recovery screen and thats when I went into the Recovery Menu and tried pushing the file from there and then got the installation aborted message that I typed out up there^^^
What should I do? Try to re-install ClockworkMod? Revert back to the old radio and then start from scratch? Anybody in the know please help me.
I reflashed Unrevoked and now SkyRaider IS installing. Just a glitch I guess, although I DID have Superuser before.
Sorry Guys... I need a little help here. ...
Working with a new Epic 4g.
I ran the one-click root and got it to work .. however whenever i try install a ROM i get and error that says "Signature Verification Failure".
The process i used was to copy downloaded ROM to the SD Card root and rename them to update.
Is there something else i should be doing in addition to or instead of what i've done? Thanks
-sun
Try it without renaming the file. I've seen this before and I fixed.it by taking.the. zip off cause my file was. Zip.zip. just select choose zip from SD card. Just a suggestion. Also if you start to get a couple different rom's on your phone all named update.zip how do you know what is what.
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Sounds like your using the newest clockwork 3 and trying to flash a non cw3 compatible rom. If that's the case you need to run a root program that still has cw2 in it and it will change it.
_sunz said:
Sorry Guys... I need a little help here. ...
Working with a new Epic 4g.
I ran the one-click root and got it to work .. however whenever i try install a ROM i get and error that says "Signature Verification Failure".
The process i used was to copy downloaded ROM to the SD Card root and rename them to update.
Is there something else i should be doing in addition to or instead of what i've done? Thanks
-sun
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First off. You should be posting this in the QA section and not in the development section.
What it looks like doing is trying to flash a custom rom in clockwork using either "apply update from sdcard" or "apply /sdcard/update.zip." Neither will work with a custom rom because it requires a signature from Sprint or Samsung. What you need to do in recovery is "Install zip from SDcard" followed by "choose zip from sdcard" then select the zip you're try to flash.
More info. to help you can be found here
I just flashed my phone to use the EG31 packed .tar file system, and I flashed the CWM 5 release that was also repacked with the EG31 kernel.
However, when I go to flash the included .zip for SU in that post, I get this error:
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ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.7
--Installing: /sd/card/Superuser-3.0.6-efgh-signed.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
*****************************
Superuser 3.0.6 for Android 2.0-3.2
*****************************
Mounting SYSTEM...
Deleting SYSTEM:bin/su...
E: Error in /sdcard/Superuser-3.0.6-efgh-signed.zip
(Status 0)
Installation aborted.
I am not sure what I am doing, I have flashed the tar'ed package twice, and tried flashing the CWM recovery twice, tried installing superuser from the internal sd card, and the external sd card, both fail, only difference in the error is the file path.
I am not sure why it is failing, this is the same method I used when I originally rooted my system, and from the looks of it, nothing should have disallowed root access.
Has anyone else experienced problems? If so, how did you fix it? Could anyone recommend me a way to gain root access again?
Try rebooting your phone them flash the su zip, Also when you get installation aborted immediately try flashing it again. I get that too, but on second try it works. Maybe it'll work for you too.
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Have you figured it out yet. When building my stuff, I got the same thing., status 0.... I would toggel the script asserts to enable and things flash fine.
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Yeah, sorry for not going back and updating this.
I toggled the signature check, and then I was able to flash things.
Please help
>I toggled the signature check, and then I was able to flash things.
How did you toggled the check? I going insane on this issue
cvdv87 said:
>I toggled the signature check, and then I was able to flash things.
How did you toggled the check? I going insane on this issue
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Boot into ClockworkMod, and select the option "Install zip from SDCard", and under that menu you will see the option "Toggle signature verification". Completely different phone but had the same issue
papertreeprophet said:
Boot into ClockworkMod, and select the option "Install zip from SDCard", and under that menu you will see the option "Toggle signature verification". Completely different phone but had the same issue
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How did you find this thread and why on earth did you bump it!?
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Originally posted here:
This happened to me yesterday; my phone told me I had some updates from the market, and it froze mid-updating an app (don't remember which one).
I pulled the battery and the phone went directly into recovery, and it has stayed there ever since.
I tried everything, wiping the cache, the boot, dalvik, EVERYTHING. I even did the factory reset/data wipe, and in the end it tells me the same thing:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
Is there something that I overlooked? My phone isn't even able to be "seen" by my computer, the only way I can turn it off is by doing a battery pull, and when I put the battery back in, it goes straight into CWMod's recovery.
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jrizk07 said:
re flash your ROM since you're in recovery. otherwise restore a nandroid backup and that'll get you up and running again.
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I 've tried flashing trinity 2.6 and it aborted the installation citing a (status 7), I had tried to previously install coredroid multidevice (3.5) and it had aborted it as well, citing a (status 1); I downloaded clockwork 5, as well as 2 other roms; miui.us vivow 1.12.30, which was also aborted with a (status 1) and JmzRunyInc2v1, this one managed to go through "deleting stuff", "Installing stuff", "Symlinking stuff", "Installing bussybox stuff", "Flashing kernel stuff" and then "done" followed by "Install from SD card complete", but when I chose "Go back" it gave me the same message:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
So, when I rebooted, it went again into CWMod.
Is there anything else I'm missing?
Doing some reading it looks like your recovery image is corrupted. You'll need to re flash your recovery manually.
You can get into the bootloader correct?
Noob's Guide #6: I just HTC Unlocked, what now?
Thank AgalychnisCallidryas
yeah, when I turn on my phone, it goes directly into CWMod, but I can go into Hboot, and select fastboot, recovery, etc., but the problem is my computer isn't able to identify the phone when it gets plugged in.
EDIT: I tried HBoot USB, and it tells me the drivers aren't correctly installed, something about android 1.0.
Do you have any access to a Linux/Mac machine?
A friend of mine has a mac, yeah. However, my brother also has a droid phone (Incredible 1) and may have the needed drives, would that work?
Edit: I was able to get the android dsk and platform tools from an old backup, I'll try to give this a go with it.
cowboyv said:
A friend of mine has a mac, yeah. However, my brother also has a droid phone (Incredible 1) and may have the needed drives, would that work?
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Use a windows computer, it's pretty simple. You'll probably need to uninstall the current drivers on that computer (Control Panel> Add Remove Programs or Programs under windows 7, Make sure all HTC Drivers are uninstalled)
Then go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298990
Install the HTC USB drivers and go from there.
LOL. I just use mac, no drivers required.
Ok, I was able to download the sdk, and reinstalled the htc drivers, everything's groovy, but the computer is still not able to "see" my phone, it's telling me "device not found".
Should I be using the "push" adb command to push in a new recovery image from CWMod?
EDIT: I tried doing the recovery again, this time, it went through checking the MD5 sums, erasing and restoring the boot image, but when it got to the system restoring, it tells me there was an error formatting the system.
So, since adb can't connect to the phone, what are my options?
cowboyv said:
Ok, I was able to download the sdk, and reinstalled the htc drivers, everything's groovy, but the computer is still not able to "see" my phone, it's telling me "device not found".
Should I be using the "push" adb command to push in a new recovery image from CWMod?
EDIT: I tried doing the recovery again, this time, it went through checking the MD5 sums, erasing and restoring the boot image, but when it got to the system restoring, it tells me there was an error formatting the system.
So, since adb can't connect to the phone, what are my options?
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Read this and take note http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18016711#post18016711
You need to be in the bootloader and not recovery in order to do what you need to do.
You cannot re flash the recovery from CWMod. Remember the white screen with the android guys skating? That's where you need to be.
Either hold down the volume down button and hold power, or if you have your device detected by adb you can
adb reboot bootloader
This is where you flash the recovery image via fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134520
Or you might even want to consider re flashing the stock RUU to unroot and just start over from scratch.
That worked, but...
jrizk07 said:
This is where you flash the recovery image via fastboot. Or you might even want to consider re flashing the stock RUU to unroot and just start over from scratch.
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Ok, thank you! That did work. I just flashed the vivow, vut after trying to restore to the my latest backup, it still gives me the same error logs: it goes through checking the MD5 sums, erasing and restoring the boot image, but when it gets to the system restoring, it tells me there was an error formatting the system before giving me the same error message.
Code:
Error while formatting /system!
E:Error in /cache/recovery/log (Read-only file system)
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
So I guess I'll have to flash the stock RUU and start from scratch. Just a question, though; to flash the RUU, I just follow the same procedure, go into fastboot, plug into computer, and use adb, correct?
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Ok, thank you! That did work. I just flashed the vivow, vut after trying to restore to the my latest backup, it still gives me the same error logs: it goes through checking the MD5 sums, erasing and restoring the boot image, but when it gets to the system restoring, it tells me there was an error formatting the system before giving me the same error message.
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Error while formatting /system!
E:Error in /cache/recovery/log (Read-only file system)
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
So I guess I'll have to flash the stock RUU and start from scratch. Just a question, though; to flash the RUU, I just follow the same procedure, go into fastboot, plug into computer, and use adb, correct?
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Right, Just follow this procedure and start over from scratch completely. Do not restore a backup because it seems to be corrupt.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298990
Ok, I downloaded the zip file vwhk-12102011-c and have extracted it to my C: root, however, when I try to do the first code
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adb shell rm -r /data/local/tmp/*
ADB tells me "error: device not found".
Now, apologies beforehand, as you may have noticed this is my first android phone and I am a noob, so some of my questions may seem a bit obvious to you.
1. I read that I rename the ruu to PG32IMG.zip, is this true?
2. Should I continue and flash the RUU zip via adb, or should I push the RUU?
3. Should I simply put the zip in a microsd and then restart the phone in bootloader?
EDIT: Nevermind, went ahead and did 1. and 3. and that worked. I still have the root access, but I need to re-install a recovery.
Once again, thanks.
Hello all. First off I'm sort of new to the Android rooting scene as I have only rooted my phone and nothing else.
I've recently had my phone prompt me to update. So naturally I hit "install" and let it restart and boot into download mode but, after it goes into CWM it says this;
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CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4
E:Invalid command Argument
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
E: Failed to verify whole-file signature
E: Signature verification failed
Installation Aborted
I can provide the file it's trying to update from if needed, XDA doesn't like me posting links as a new user.
Naturally I thought I should boot up my phone on Odin and just put the Update.zip into the PDA slot. But I'm worried I may brick my phone as I really have no certain idea of what I am doing here.
If anyone could please offer me some support on updating my phone, it would be greatly appreciated. The 3 hour postpone messages are really starting to piss me off.
Please excuse my ignorance and thank you in advance.
if you have CWM you cant install an OTA software update. you must use the original (stock) recovery. also you will use root when you do an OTA update. you could try OTA rootkeeper to keep the root but ive never tried it.
use odin + later firmware.