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Cant flash recovery

Earlier today my phone froze. I left it alone for a few minutes to see if it would sort itself out. That didnt happen so I pulled the battery out and rebooted. After having passed the htc boot screen I got stuck on they cyanogenmod boot screen. It constantly kept rebooting but it couldnt get passed the cyanogenmod boot screen. I tried flashing a recovery image with cwm but that didnt work as I got an error that said
"Error while erasing boot image!" followed by
E:Cant mount /cache/recovery/command
E:cant mount /cache/recovery/ log
E:cant open /cache/ recovery/log
E:cant mount /cache/recovery/ last_log
E:cant open /cache/recovery/ last_log
Tried wiping data and cache and installing the newest version of cm7 through a zip and now I cant get passed the htc boot screen.
I was running the cyanogen 7 RC4 mod and did a perm root using the gfree method.

Another one? This is happening so much lately. It's frightening. :[
As far as I know, no one has found a solution or the cause. I have to assume it has something to do with CM.
Every story I've heard, people were running CM7. And they've all been G2s.
I'm personally just going to have to get a replacement through my insurance for $130. Or if I can find a good deal on a Nexus One on ebay, I'd love to do that.

Yea people been having this issue lately. I guess am not even going to flash any other rom right now, untill somebody finds out what's wrong. Really scary stuff. Another thing I saw with the people getting issue is the use gfree method. Well not saying that can be the caused. I hope someone finds a way to fix this.
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Getting a bit scared that this error is popping up all over out of seemingly nowhere! I'm gonna be extra careful for the moment.
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Its because you did something wrong..I have a US G2 and never had this issue nor has it started
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pokemontrainer4life said:
Another one? This is happening so much lately. It's frightening. :[
As far as I know, no one has found a solution or the cause. I have to assume it has something to do with CM.
Every story I've heard, people were running CM7. And they've all been G2s.
I'm personally just going to have to get a replacement through my insurance for $130. Or if I can find a good deal on a Nexus One on ebay, I'd love to do that.
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You haven't seen any DZs affected by this issue?

Spastic909 said:
Its because you did something wrong..I have a US G2 and never had this issue nor has it started
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Did what wrong? It could be but I doubt it since it was running smoothly up until it froze on me.

theSpam said:
You haven't seen any DZs affected by this issue?
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I haven't read about this happening to any DZs, no.
Spastic909 said:
Its because you did something wrong..I have a US G2 and never had this issue nor has it started
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Same as Don said. Phone was perfect until it randomly froze.

theSpam said:
You haven't seen any DZs affected by this issue?
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This happened to my DZ though

If you have Fastboot on your computer and ENG HBOOT, try this in your Terminal/command line:
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img
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Unfortunately I don't have the ENG Hboot. I hope someone figures out a solution soon. I hate my old sidekick -____-

Revert back to full stock and then reroot using gfree.

I thought about trying that before tried doing that by holding the down volume button and then the power button and selecting factory reset but when I select that option nothing happens. Is there some other way to revert?

DON_58 said:
I thought about trying that before tried doing that by holding the down volume button and then the power button and selecting factory reset but when I select that option nothing happens. Is there some other way to revert?
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Well if you can go to clockwork than the only way is ADB...
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do you mean if I CANT access clockwork the only other way is ADB? Because I can access it im just not sure how go about revert to stock.

Well if you can actually open cwm you should be able to mount the sd card and put the stock image on your sd card, then flash it using the hboot.
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DON_58 said:
do you mean if I CANT access clockwork the only other way is ADB? Because I can access it im just not sure how go about revert to stock.
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Sorry I mean to say if you can't. Yea if you can't go in Clockwork then the only thing that would help is Adb(need Eng-hboot). Other than that I don't know my friend
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I tried flashing to a stock rom that I got from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788489
However, I get an error when opening the zip
E: Can't open /sdcard/PC10IMG....
(bad)
Installation aborted
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When I try and install the new cm7 though, it installs successfully but when rebooted hangs at the htc screen

DON_58 said:
I tried flashing to a stock rom that I got from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788489
However, I get an error when opening the zip
When I try and install the new cm7 though, it installs successfully but when rebooted hangs at the htc screen
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PC10IMG files are flashed through the bootloader (white screen with green skateboarding Androids on the bottom), not through recovery. If you have the PC10IMG.zip file on the root of your SD card, simply enter the bootloader (Volume Down + Power) and it should detect the file and ask if you want to flash the ROM.
In recovery, have you tried formatting the system partition as well as data and cache prior to flashing a custom ROM? Also, do you know what version of CWM you were running? Have you checked out the guide on recovering semi-bricks in the dev section? Since you have ADB working, it has some instructions on flashing recovery and such through ADB (so you flash the latest version for example and try again).

DON_58 said:
Earlier today my phone froze. I left it alone for a few minutes to see if it would sort itself out. That didnt happen so I pulled the battery out and rebooted. After having passed the htc boot screen I got stuck on they cyanogenmod boot screen. It constantly kept rebooting but it couldnt get passed the cyanogenmod boot screen. I tried flashing a recovery image with cwm but that didnt work as I got an error that said
"Error while erasing boot image!" followed by
E:Cant mount /cache/recovery/command
E:cant mount /cache/recovery/ log
E:cant open /cache/ recovery/log
E:cant mount /cache/recovery/ last_log
E:cant open /cache/recovery/ last_log
Tried wiping data and cache and installing the newest version of cm7 through a zip and now I cant get passed the htc boot screen.
I was running the cyanogen 7 RC4 mod and did a perm root using the gfree method.
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I was disscussing the fact that i had the wrong hboot. i was using the one designed for the G2 and I have a DZ. So I decided to change to the correct one, I'm comfortable with ADB so I did not for see any problems. So I flashed the correct hboot 0.84.2000, and everything looked good, rebooted in to bootloader, all good and then finally in to recovery.
Oh crap, some problem as everyone else. You know what they say if "if it ain't broke don't try to fix it". So with that in mind I thought it best to flash back to the G2 hboot. Now I didn't know ADB worked whilst you were in recovery, but it does. I followed the insrtuctions re flashed the G2 hboot and everything works as it did before.

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log

My Gw has recently been semi bricked because I was foolish enough to flash a sense 2.1/3.0 over CM7 without flashing, I know, shame on me and don't worry the replacements on the way but this is really aggravating that no matter what online guides say to fix this I just can't seem to do, I DID successfully flash the PC10IMG.zip through hboot and everything went well but that didn't fix the bootloop. I have wiped EVERYTHING and it still loops and still displays the same error "E:Can't Open /cache/recovery/log" proceeded by "E:Can't Open /cache/recovery/last_log". I have tryed using ADB but have yet to even successfully set it up (I've hopped on the ubuntu 10.04 boat). I do have a windows if someone NEEDS me to use ADB to fix this. Any help appreciated.
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Sorry for the typos, I meant to say "G2" and in the beginningi meant to say "wiping". Would edit but on the XDA app
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What pcimg did you use? And what's the phone state now?
S-on? S-off hboot? Radio?

I get this error now.
I did the tutorial from RMK40. http://www.virtuousrom.com/
E; nevermind ... I saw at the end of the post that this is needed to happen.. >_>

clockworkmod 5 problem

Hy! I'm having the next problem on my device after installing clockworkmod 5 :
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/commnand
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last log
Does anybody have a sollution?
Why did this error appeared? I just flashed the zip...

Use px recovery phiexz.com
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it's offline. any other solution?

Smantanasiceapa said:
it's offline. any other solution?
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Yep.
I bet you use CWM 5.0.2.7, am I right?
So, install CWM 5.0.2.6 and that's all

unfortunately I use 5.0.2.6 , so...what do I do whit that error? I want to install a custom rom, and I'm affraid to go on whit that kind of error. I did a nandroid backup, and it didn't worked. Should PX Recovery do the thing?

Smantanasiceapa said:
unfortunately I use 5.0.2.6 , so...what do I do whit that error? I want to install a custom rom, and I'm affraid to go on whit that kind of error. I did a nandroid backup, and it didn't worked. Should PX Recovery do the thing?
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Well, px-recovery is CWM based...
Install another recovery

hi.problem is for Asia ROM.(as i seen on some cases .ex: my Gio) try use gt-s5660-cwm-recovery-20110826-6.tar i think it can work.
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if not. try using a version 3 CWM.

pcsoft_gio said:
hi.problem is for Asia ROM.(as i seen on some cases .ex: my Gio) try use gt-s5660-cwm-recovery-20110826-6.tar i think it can work.
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A ROM which has 7 Mb kind of weird...
And should I do whit this ROM? Install it via ODIN?

Smantanasiceapa said:
A ROM which has 7 Mb kind of weird...
And should I do whit this ROM? Install it via ODIN?
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yes try it. i have some versions of cwm and i'm not 100% sure which of these versions is asia.but i think this is asia version. trying of it have not lossing of anything. sorry for my bad english

pcsoft_gio said:
trying of it have not lossing of anything
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if you have nothing to lose
man are you sure this will work? have you tried this thing? I repeat...it very strange that it has only 7 Mb

Its stock recovery
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Smantanasiceapa said:
if you have nothing to lose
man are you sure this will work? have you tried this thing? I repeat...it very strange that it has only 7 Mb
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hey man i had the same problem as well as you. and you must sure that is Safe .if it don't works.you can try another version.
use below download link for safe downloading.
Another Download Link

Install CWM EXT4 if your current ROM format's EXT4
Install CWM EXT4+RTFS if your current ROM format's RTFS.

Accessing Internal HD

I have a galaxy that is stuck at the the "Samsung Galaxy III" screen. I was going to try to use the recovery mode but before I did I was wondering if there was anyway I could access the internal hard drive to retrieve some files. Is there away to recover my files?

Well tell us a little more what where you doing or attempting when it got stuck? Are you rooted?
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The phone isn't rooted...I was just downloading music....

And when you connect it to the computer what happens?
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Now nothing. I can only get it into download mode. If I try to boot it up it hangs on the "Samsung Galaxy" screen.

semax10 said:
Now nothing. I can only get it into download mode. If I try to boot it up it hangs on the "Samsung Galaxy" screen.
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Hey your only option now is to go into download mode and use odin to reflash phone to stock.
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Okay, thanks. That's what I was going to do this evening.
I had read that this http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=233 thread had the stock from. Should both the ""Restore" Versions - Wipes your user data" and the ""Nodata" Versions - Keep your user data"" work?
Also, is that the only file I have to flash or do I have to flash the "Modem/Kernel" file also?

semax10 said:
Okay, thanks. That's what I was going to do this evening.
I had read that this http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=233 thread had the stock from. Should both the ""Restore" Versions - Wipes your user data" and the ""Nodata" Versions - Keep your user data"" work?
Also, is that the only file I have to flash or do I have to flash the "Modem/Kernel" file also?
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Correct on the data... But I would just flash the stock tar instead of the one clicks but that's just me. Give it a shot... You should not have to flash modem but you can always go back and do that later.
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I apologize for the dumb question in advance. But what the difference between the stock tar and the one clicks?

semax10 said:
I apologize for the dumb question in advance. But what the difference between the stock tar and the one clicks?
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Don't worry about it right now. If the one clicks work.. You'll be set.
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I was flashing the phone using Odin and I got an error message on the phone that says:
E:failed to mount/system (invalid argument) can't mount system (invalid argument)
Installing package...
E:failed to mount/system (invalid argument)
E:int main.char**):: can't mount /systemE:failed to mount /system (invalid argument)
This message was on the phone. Odin says Pass

okay, I gave up on trying to save my data and used the "Restore" Versions - Wipes your user data file and was able to boot the phone. But now I'm getting an error saying my setup wizard has stopped. what could be causing this?

semax10 said:
okay, I gave up on trying to save my data and used the "Restore" Versions - Wipes your user data file and was able to boot the phone. But now I'm getting an error saying my setup wizard has stopped. what could be causing this?
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Is it rooted? Go into custom recovery from it is wipe cache, Dalvik and do factory reset. Reboot and go through process to log into Google
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It's not rooted. the option is to wipe cache partition. Is that the one I should wipe?
Also, might be another dumb question but does the setup wizard need service? I had switched to my old phone when this happened and haven't activated it yet. Do I need to? Or will the setup wizard work without service?

semax10 said:
It's not rooted. the option is to wipe cache partition. Is that the one I should wipe?
Also, might be another dumb question but does the setup wizard need service? I had switched to my old phone when this happened and haven't activated it yet. Do I need to? Or will the setup wizard work without service?
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Yes te setup wizard needs service... If not it can not connect to the network
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edfunkycold said:
Yes te setup wizard needs service... If not it can not connect to the network
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Okay, let me activate the phone and see if that solves the problem

edfunkycold said:
Yes te setup wizard needs service... If not it can not connect to the network
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I was chatting with sprint and they swapped over my service to the other phone and it was still getting the failed setup wizard error. they rep was trying to have me go through a manual process but I couldn't do that because I was stuck at the pick a language screen. Any suggestions?

semax10 said:
I was chatting with sprint and they swapped over my service to the other phone and it was still getting the failed setup wizard error. they rep was trying to have me go through a manual process but I couldn't do that because I was stuck at the pick a language screen. Any suggestions?
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Find factory reset and do it.
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edfunkycold said:
Find factory reset and do it.
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From recovery mode or am I looking for a file that I have to flash?

edfunkycold said:
Find factory reset and do it.
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I'm just shooting out an idea....If I flashed the link you sent me...Should that get the phone to get past the wizard? After that I can go back to the stock rom?

My Note 2 stuck on Boot screen and not able to flash any ROM

My Note 2 got stuck on boot. Every time I switch it on, it gets stuck on boot screen showing "Samsung Note II". I tried Hard resetting it but of no use. I even tried to do update from SD Card and tried flashing Already downloaded CM 12.1 made by @Ivan_Meler 's latest build. I was having this build already in my phone for last 15 days and it was working fine.
But now I am not able to anything with it now. I even went to Sumsung service center but guys there told me that you have it custumized and hence we cant do anything on it now.
Now While trying to flash any zip update from SDcard1, it is throwing error like "E: Couldn't mount/ block device required"
Please somebody help me.

tintin-ind said:
My Note 2 got stuck on boot. Every time I switch it on, it gets stuck on boot screen showing "Samsung Note II". I tried Hard resetting it but of no use. I even tried to do update from SD Card and tried flashing Already downloaded CM 12.1 made by @Ivan_Meler 's latest build. I was having this build already in my phone for last 15 days and it was working fine.
But now I am not able to anything with it now. I even went to Sumsung service center but guys there told me that you have it custumized and hence we cant do anything on it now.
Now While trying to flash any zip update from SDcard1, it is throwing error like "E: Couldn't mount/ block device required"
Please somebody help me.
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flash stock rom using odin then restore your efs if needed

Just Format Data in TWRP > Wipe.
CAUTION : It will wipe everything except Memory Card.

Hi guys,
Im having the same problem, Note II(UNROOTED) was stuck on Boot screen. I've tried the recovery method(holding power/home/volume up button) but to no avail.
Appreciate if i could get any assistance. TIA

Try Factory Reset From Recovery
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jreyesd said:
Hi guys,
Im having the same problem, Note II(UNROOTED) was stuck on Boot screen. I've tried the recovery method(holding power/home/volume up button) but to no avail.
Appreciate if i could get any assistance. TIA
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Are You Able To Enter In Download Mode?
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I've tried factory reset but it did not fix the issue.
Download mode? was it the screen that tells me that installing custom OS can cause critical problems? If yes, then yeah i can enter the download screen.

jreyesd said:
I've tried factory reset but it did not fix the issue.
Download mode? was it the screen that tells me that installing custom OS can cause critical problems? If yes, then yeah i can enter the download screen.
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Yes That Is Download Mode
Download Stock Rom
Then Flash It
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Thanks for the prompt assistance,
but am I doing it right?
Im currently downloading firmware from Sammobile site and Odin3.10.
Or is there another way (or thread) wherein I can find the stock rom you've mentioned and also the tools for flashing?
Thanks.

jreyesd said:
Thanks for the prompt assistance,
but am I doing it right?
Im currently downloading firmware from Sammobile site and Odin3.10.
Or is there another way (or thread) wherein I can find the stock rom you've mentioned and also the tools for flashing?
Thanks.
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Download Odin And Stock From Sammobile
Goodluck
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Big thanks

jreyesd said:
Big thanks
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Gdluck

Chaudhary Abdul said:
Gdluck
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Just finished flashing with Odin but the problem still exists. My phone is still stuck in the boot screen eventhough it has the message "PASS" on Odin.
Am I missing any step or still needs to proceed further? What will be my next step.
Thanks

jreyesd said:
Just finished flashing with Odin but the problem still exists. My phone is still stuck in the boot screen eventhough it has the message "PASS" on Odin.
Am I missing any step or still needs to proceed further? What will be my next step.
Thanks
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Go to recovery clear cache and then reset
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Chaudhary Abdul said:
Go to recovery clear cache and then reset
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Done with the recovery clear cache and reset but it still loops on the boot screen.
Will rooting(or other methods) resolve this issue? Can i still root my phone at this state?
Hope you could still extend a few assistance here. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

jreyesd said:
Done with the recovery clear cache and reset but it still loops on the boot screen.
Will rooting(or other methods) resolve this issue? Can i still root my phone at this state?
Hope you could still extend a few assistance here. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
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Are u sure that which rom u flashed using odin that is for ur device or region.
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Chaudhary Abdul said:
Are u sure that which rom u flashed using odin that is for ur device or region.
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yes, i double checked the region as well as the phone model.
Recovery shows this message (cant attach the image)
E:failed to mount / data(Invalid argument) can't mount 'data' (Invalid argument)
E:failed to mount / data(Invalid argument)
E: can't mount /data/log/recovery_log.txt

jreyesd said:
yes, i double checked the region as well as the phone model.
Recovery shows this message (cant attach the image)
E:failed to mount / data(Invalid argument) can't mount 'data' (Invalid argument)
E:failed to mount / data(Invalid argument)
E: can't mount /data/log/recovery_log.txt
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Reflash stock rom untick auto reset in odin when flashing complete take off battry 4-5 mnutes from your phone than reinsert clear again cache and factory reset sorry for bad engish.

Chaudhary Abdul said:
Reflash stock rom untick auto reset in odin when flashing complete take off battry 4-5 mnutes from your phone than reinsert clear again cache and factory reset sorry for bad engish.
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No prob with the english
Region is the country where im currently located right?

jreyesd said:
No prob with the english
Region is the country where im currently located right?
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Yes U r right
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Chaudhary Abdul said:
Yes U r right
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Thanks. will provide feedback later.
Thank you for the patience