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[Q] Can't upgrade clockwork mod from 2.5

Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.

McFroger3 said:
Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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newtoroot said:
Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Yea...I forgot to mention, that doesn't work either. It will download, then flash it, but upon boot to recovery, its the old recovery.

Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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newtoroot said:
Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/

McFroger3 said:
Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/
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No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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newtoroot said:
No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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Indeed it did, I would then open winrar, and just drop the new .img file in and overwrite the old one. Maybe I should make a new zip file and add the other config file or whatever it is to the new zip. Otherwise, I am SOL lol.

That's where you are messing up..... give me a min and ill get you the right file
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Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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newtoroot said:
Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.

McFroger3 said:
Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.
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It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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newtoroot said:
Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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newtoroot said:
It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
MedleHed said:
Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.

McFroger3 said:
No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.
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It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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newtoroot said:
It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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I was just thinking that, I am going to backup the SD and reformat.

Ok let me know....
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newtoroot said:
Ok let me know....
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Still not working, just does checking the zip and then goes back to hboot. I am going to try formating the internal memory, and put a copy on there and see if that does anything. Would having S-ON have anything to do with my problem?

Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.

McFroger3 said:
Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.
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Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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newtoroot said:
Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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Its alright, thank you for the help!

Cyanogen mod, cannot get google apps to load

I am loving cyanogen, but I am definitely missing something when I flash google apps. I get to the installation, but when I try to install it always gets interrupted. I try to skip it, but I cannot get back to it later, opening market does not work. How am I supposed to come back to install gapps later?
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[email protected] said:
I am loving cyanogen, but I am definitely missing something when I flash google apps. I get to the installation, but when I try to install it always gets interrupted. I try to skip it, but I cannot get back to it later, opening market does not work. How am I supposed to come back to install gapps later?
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Re-download the gapps.zip, put it on your SD card, go into cwm > flash gapps.zip > reboot.
It should work. If not, then extract the zip and copy the .apks one-by-one to your SD card, and push them to your system/app. Not sure if that would actually work, but it's possible.

Reflashing doesn't do anything I just tried it again. The only way to get it to try installing again is to wipe data, then I have to sign back in and I get interrupted again. There is a way to cancel it to come back later but when I hit cancel I can't figure out how to come back.
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you're making sure to flash the gapps.zip from the cwm recovery, right? it has to be on the root of your sdcard, then boot into recovery and go to "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip" -> scroll to gapps.zip

Yep I am doing it that way, just tried again right now and nothing happens on reboot unless I do a factory reset. If I just knew how to come back to it later it would be ok
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1. Clear data, dalvik, cache - rinse and repeat 3 times total.
2. Re-odin EH17 stock, found in the dev forum. Let the phone boot to startup.
3. Boot into CWM recovery, flash the GAPPS file.
4. Restart phone - check to see if the flash took.
5. Boot into CWM recovery, clear dalvik, cache 3 times, flash CM7 over EH17 stock...
Let me know if this process works for you.
May or may not work, it would solve the problem temporarily for me but would soon have problems. I shortly moved away from CM7 to Urban Metamorphosis.

OK, thanks I might give that a try, if it was just a temporary fix for you though it will probably only work for a while for me too. Doesn't anyone know how to postpone running it? It says to do so right when the app runs, but no one knows how to do it?

You don't need to flash the GAPPS pack - only if you want to use the market, sync contacts etc. and use voice/maps so on. If you continually cannot get past try ODIN'ing a different modem. EH06 worked much better for me over EH17.

I'm uing eh06 modem. Never went to eh17
Anyways, I downloaded all the gapps from the market one by one. I flashed the zip and they didn't show up so I did it the long way
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A_Flying_Fox said:
I'm uing eh06 modem. Never went to eh17
Anyways, I downloaded all the gapps from the market one by one. I flashed the zip and they didn't show up so I did it the long way
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I'm on the ec05 modem, but I had to flash the gaps.zip then download everything from the market also
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where do u download gapps.zip from I have been looking for it everywhere...can u post a link plz\...thx

systems6 said:
where do u download gapps.zip from I have been looking for it everywhere...can u post a link plz\...thx
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Isn't it in the OP in the CM7 ROM thread?
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Strange issue after clearing cache...

Rooted, Stock ICS 4.0.4.
After clearing cache using the Darkside cache cleaner or whatever it is, I can no longer update hosts file with Ad-Away. Also, I cannot update BusyBox, and I cannot mount directories as r/w within Root Explorer. I tried to reinstall the Superuser.zip, and it said it was removing the old one and putting it back (in recovery mode), but it still hasn't fixed the issue....
Some of the applications that were already granted Superuser access do function properly...such as Titanium Backup...and they detect that the phone is rooted.
What's going on? How do I fix this?
Thanks!

nuggstein said:
Rooted, Stock ICS 4.0.4.
After clearing cache using the Darkside cache cleaner or whatever it is, I can no longer update hosts file with Ad-Away. Also, I cannot update BusyBox, and I cannot mount directories as r/w within Root Explorer. I tried to reinstall the Superuser.zip, and it said it was removing the old one and putting it back (in recovery mode), but it still hasn't fixed the issue....
Some of the applications that were already granted Superuser access do function properly...such as Titanium Backup...and they detect that the phone is rooted.
What's going on? How do I fix this?
Thanks!
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Try installing "supersu" instead of using superuser. this should fix the problem. it did for me.

nuggstein said:
Rooted, Stock ICS 4.0.4.
After clearing cache using the Darkside cache cleaner or whatever it is, I can no longer update hosts file with Ad-Away. Also, I cannot update BusyBox, and I cannot mount directories as r/w within Root Explorer. I tried to reinstall the Superuser.zip, and it said it was removing the old one and putting it back (in recovery mode), but it still hasn't fixed the issue....
Some of the applications that were already granted Superuser access do function properly...such as Titanium Backup...and they detect that the phone is rooted.
What's going on? How do I fix this?
Thanks!
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Are you using CWM 5.x.x? I was having the same issues, until I switched to 6.x.x

idbl_fanatic said:
Are you using CWM 5.x.x? I was having the same issues, until I switched to 6.x.x
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Yeah I believe so. You got a link to the new one?
So what do I have to do. Just flash over the current recovery with 6.0, clear cache, reinstall superuser? Or is it not necessary to clear cache again?
Thanks!

nuggstein said:
Yeah I believe so. You got a link to the new one?
So what do I have to do. Just flash over the current recovery with 6.0, clear cache, reinstall superuser? Or is it not necessary to clear cache again?
Thanks!
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This is what I did:
Download ROM Manager, and use that to install it.
Do restore, and you should be good.

idbl_fanatic said:
This is what I did:
Download ROM Manager, and use that to install it.
Do restore, and you should be good.
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...um, what?

Install ROM manager from the store, run it, update CWM in it.
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idbl_fanatic said:
Install ROM manager from the store, run it, update CWM in it.
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How am I supposed to update CWM if nothing is getting root access?...even though it says Superuser is granting perms.

So I did exactly that...installed new CWM....reinstalled Superuser...still nothing is working. I tried ES file manager...fails to mount anything as rw. Tried re-updating superuser binary...fails to mount rw. I cannot mount any directory to rw...yet some root applications work...what is going on?!?!?! How do I fix this?

nuggstein said:
So I did exactly that...installed new CWM....reinstalled Superuser...still nothing is working. I tried ES file manager...fails to mount anything as rw. Tried re-updating superuser binary...fails to mount rw. I cannot mount any directory to rw...yet some root applications work...what is going on?!?!?! How do I fix this?
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I suggest flashing a different recovery, like TWRP 2.22 or sk8r's CWM 6.xx, and reflash your ROM, clean install
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Had the same thing happen to me had to delete the android file in sd card and ex sd card then start over with odin nothing i did fixed it untill i did this . Cant remember who said it or where i read it wish i could give credit to them but its been awhile it happened to me comming from gb to 4.0.3 id have root for a few hours then would lose it . U might beable to just delete those and reflash root file and it might work if not delete those and reflash through odin . I know its alot of work but it works. I guess data from ur previous os is corruting the new one and breaking root. I tried reflashing fresh from odin several times before deleteing those files and it never worked untill i deleted those .
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head33 said:
Had the same thing happen to me had to delete the android file in sd card and ex sd card then start over with odin nothing i did fixed it untill i did this . Cant remember who said it or where i read it wish i could give credit to them but its been awhile it happened to me comming from gb to 4.0.3 id have root for a few hours then would lose it . U might beable to just delete those and reflash root file and it might work if not delete those and reflash through odin . I know its alot of work but it works. I guess data from ur previous os is corruting the new one and breaking root. I tried reflashing fresh from odin several times before deleteing those files and it never worked untill i deleted those .
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It just doesn't make sense honestly..
I tried reinstalling Superuser..and even flashing SuperSU...but no luck. This is the STRANGE PART!!
I can actually download ad-away updates and install busy box within the first few minutes of the phone booting. I can also mount /system as rw while the phone is still in the process of booting up. Once this takes place however, I can no longer mount anything as rw...and busybox won't install, ad-away won't update, etc.
But applications can request permission for superuser...and do work!! I don't understand!?!??! What is causing rw to change to ro after boot?

All of this... have you tried simply reflashing your current ROM?

daveid said:
All of this... have you tried simply reflashing your current ROM?
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I don't feel like wiping my phone again haha

nuggstein said:
I don't feel like wiping my phone again haha
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I said nothing about wiping, just reflash the ROM.

daveid said:
I said nothing about wiping, just reflash the ROM.
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Reflashing the ROM won't overwrite/wipe anything? What exactly will this do?

nuggstein said:
Reflashing the ROM won't overwrite/wipe anything? What exactly will this do?
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It just overwrites your /system and /boot partitions, leaving /data alone. Unless you specifically wipe or factory reset, your data remains.

daveid said:
It just overwrites your /system and /boot partitions, leaving /data alone. Unless you specifically wipe or factory reset, your data remains.
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So all of my applications, settings, etc. will still be there?

Not going to work i wiped everything and reflashed through odin and still had the same problem untill i deleted the android folders . U can wipe as much as u want but the data is still in ur android folders im trying to help . I was pissed cause i tried everthing and nothing worked untill i did that .
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head33 said:
Not going to work i wiped everything and reflashed through odin and still had the same problem untill i deleted the android folders . U can wipe as much as u want but the data is still in ur android folders im trying to help . I was pissed cause i tried everthing and nothing worked untill i did that .
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I cannot find these android folders you speak of...where are they? If I delete them do I lose settings? Do I have to wipe/reflash?

[Q] help i screwed up

i forgot i unrooted my t989 and installed a ROM, i didnt back up and know its stuck on cyanogenmod load screen for a long time now. can some1 plz help me

How did you unroot and then flash a rom?
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Spastic909 said:
How did you unroot and then flash a rom?
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i just went into supersu and click fully unroot, then i followed instructions from this site http://www.teamandroid.com/2013/04/...3-android-422-jelly-bean-firmware-tutorial/2/

Which recovery are you using? You don't have to be rooted to flash a ROM. Try re-downloading the ROM and install it again.

meekrawb said:
Which recovery are you using? You don't have to be rooted to flash a ROM. Try re-downloading the ROM and install it again.
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twrp, and i cant access the sdcard, i tryed so many times on reinstalling the rom, clearing the cache and stuff, it just stays on the cyanogenmod for a long time now
i just tryed cmw and didnt work either

Why did you start two threads on the same issue?
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gc84245 said:
Why did you start two threads on the same issue?
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i started 1 on the wrong model so some1 told me to come here than a moderator moved it here after i started this 1

shadowvox said:
twrp, and i cant access the sdcard, i tryed so many times on reinstalling the rom, clearing the cache and stuff, it just stays on the cyanogenmod for a long time now
i just tryed cmw and didnt work either
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When you say you can't access the SD card, do you mean when you hook your phone up to the computer? Even when you go into TWRP mounts and storage and press mount USB storage? If you can't do that you are going to have to Odin flash the stock firmware with your PC.

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When you say you can't access the SD card, do you mean when you hook your phone up to the computer? Even when you go into TWRP mounts and storage and press mount USB storage? If you can't do that you are going to have to Odin flash the stock firmware with your PC.
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i got it working ty, it was a bad rom i guess so i downloaded the rom from this site and now its working

Aroma only installs selected apks not system files

When I try to install Hyperdrive rom latest release 15 I select all i want in the aroma but then it starts to install only the apps i chose. It is not installing any of the mandatory system files which makes sense why it installs in like 10 seconds.. I wipe everything sys, delvik cache, cache, data.. using TWRP 2.7.0.1

please help me
This is also happening when I try to install Wicked Rom so ANY suggestions would be awesome. I'm probably going to return to stock and then flash new rom

after reinstalling stock firmware through odin and then trying to install a custom rom same thing is still happening so im guessing i should try and go to stock and than completely wipe everything and then try from there?

I'd install a ROM that doesn't have an aroma installer. Then install the one you want with aroma.
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After successfully installing stock and TWRP recovery 2.7.0.1
I took your advice and tried install gpe rom and still after rebooting i just get a black boot screen samsung galaxy s4 screen
Is there more i could wipe like a partition that is still bad maybe?

I'm going to go to stock again but this time with odin 3.07 not what i was using which was a much older odin and im going to then install a custom recovery and root and please do tell me your favorite recovery im probably gonna try oudhs cwm and then ill see if i run into problems installing roms.
The main problem is the rom likes to install all its apk options for example adobe reader or samsung music app but it will NOT install any mandatory system files which make the phone work.
after i get stock i also wipe data factory reset in stock recovery which delete everything which is fine i knew it would.
This time i'll also be resetting the flash counter which i havent done

Have you tried using clockworkmod recovery with ROM manager?
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Have you tried using clockworkmod recovery with ROM manager?
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I haven't but i will try. At the moment i am at stock firmware and I would like to know what my filesystem should look like.. When I go into just "/" section before sdcard it shows me lots of folders some looking unnessary and maybe in the way of installing my rom normally View attachment 2650548
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Could this be a bootloader issue or something with my filesystem because I can tell these roms are all avoiding like half of their installation. They should be extracting more files and take more than 20 seconds to install

Which bootloader do you have?
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How do I see what kind of bootloader i have i search google and im still unsure.
And do you think i could try deleting everything in my filesystem and then odin stock flash and then try to flash rom?

In settings, about phone what is your baseband? Mine for example is FNB4.
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Reinstalling stock for 4th time when i get it up ill give you that baseband version.
I was looking on Odin at this Nand erase all and i googled alot and looked around but i don't think its useful in my case so i wont check it
there was a thread saying that you could repair your phone if your data was set to a read only not write but i checked with adbshell mount and all my stuff is rw so im good there..
I haven't ever had a problem where rom doesn't fully install..
I was minding my own business on GPe rom from Kot94h and it was good but i decided hmm this has been my daily driver for queit some time ill switch to hyper drive and bamm i realize stuff isn't going right.

My Baseband Version is M919UVUAMDL
on Android 4.2.2
I feel like I've tried every trick in the book with no success

I'm wondering if it's the team win recovery. I'd try cwm.
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Karakoram2 said:
I'm wondering if it's the team win recovery. I'd try cwm.
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I've tried CWM CWM-oudhs thing and ive tried team win.
for now im going to run stock and restore my stuff but hopefully i can get to the bottom of this
I can't think of where the source of the problem is.
I find it interesting how while an app installs i see it installing like system/app/blahblah.apk and that is like the first thing it starts to install
i think if i can remember a rom usually does system/framwork or something along those lines first
I have also MD5 checked all my files and they are all perfectly matching

Any Ideas?

I have this idea to try and erase every file on my device and then flash a room is that even possible

Could someone download root file explorer and go to their "/" and just snap a pic of the folders i want to compare your folders properties for example one of mine say rwxr-xr-x

Or i have another idea.
Is it possible to reformat my system partition with odin maybe with a PIT file??
Think, why would a rom skip installation of system files? It looks like it blazes through the installation after installing a few system apps