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Can't Flash Kernels / Roms?

I'm an EVO user that's switched over to the ET4G and I'm having some issues with flashing certain kernels and pretty much every ROM.
I'm currently only able to flash one of Zedomax's previous versions of his overclocked kernel and the CWM variants that bubby323 has posted in the thread listed below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1287776
Aside from these three kernels pretty every other kernel and attempt at installing a ROM through CWM makes my ET4G go into a boot loop.I can only access Download mode after that so I pretty much have to flash a stock ROM to make my phone useable.
This is the 2nd ET4G that I've had this issue on with these same 3 kernels being the only ones that will install. Initially I thought the problem was with the sd card since that was the only thing that was in both phones but I highly doubt it.
I've tried everything from hard resets to multiple wipes of data, dalvik cache and regular cache to trying out pretty much every kernel and ROM out there.
I've never come across a problem like this one and I just want to know if anyone has come across anything like this and can at least point me in a direction to solve the issue or just help me figure out what's going on.

you have to wipe /system FIRST, THEN wipe data/cache/dalvik, THEN flash your ROM..All in the same session..Make sure your rom/kernel of choice is on your internal sd card, and that you are using CWM 5.....
Otherwise, its a no go..

what if we dont have any roms on our internal sd. i only have them my external and i cant access them through clockwork mod. and to make things worse im stuck in a bootloop. i was wondering if there are any roms flashable through odin instead.

this should help you and anyone else with questions like this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268548

You can mount USB storage in cwm, plug in to computer and transfer rom to internal storage. That can be accessed and flashed.

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you have to wipe /system FIRST, THEN wipe data/cache/dalvik, THEN flash your ROM..All in the same session..Make sure your rom/kernel of choice is on your internal sd card, and that you are using CWM 5.....
Otherwise, its a no go..
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Ok I'll give this a try and see how it goes.

Yeh, didn't work. I tried it twice from both the internal and external cards and both resulted in boot loops. I'm using the latest CM version.
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this should help you and anyone else with questions like this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268548
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The links in that thread don't exactly address my problem...
Pretty much anything I flash is resulting in boot loops. =/

Hate to freaking triple post but I'm still having this issue and really could use some help guys
I know the problem is related to my phone installing kernels now since pretty much anything will install just fine (example zip files in CWM) but for some reason once I'm flashing any kernel it just causes a boot loop.

[Q] ghost device autoroot trouble?

I've used SFHubs Odin OC to move from ICS back to GB, and then the auto root tool to inject custom recovery. Specifically EL29 Odin OC and then Auto root Rogue Recovery. Several times, no trouble. From my laptop. Recently I used the same laptop to root my friends E4GT with El29 Odin OC (worked just fine) and then Auto root to install Rogue recovery. When I boot into recovery it looks and acts typical. But the recovery cannot properly flash any roms or properly restore a nandroid. It looks normal, but flashes zips too quickly and upon reboot I get a soft brick (hangs at splash screen). Luckily I was able to pull battery and get back to Odin mode.
Does anyone know why this happened? Is the auto root failing because I'm using the same laptop for two different E4GTs? Is there a ghost device borking the recovery installation? Thanks in advance for your help.

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Ive had the same thing happen to me.I did 2 things different at the same time so I dont know which one actually helped.
Used a difderntt USB cable(the cable that came for the.phone)
Deleted Odin the downloaded it again.
Worked after that I hope this helps.

Dr. Fed said:
I've used SFHubs Odin OC to move from ICS back to GB, and then the auto root tool to inject custom recovery. Specifically EL29 Odin OC and then Auto root Rogue Recovery. Several times, no trouble. From my laptop. Recently I used the same laptop to root my friends E4GT with El29 Odin OC (worked just fine) and then Auto root to install Rogue recovery. When I boot into recovery it looks and acts typical. But the recovery cannot properly flash any roms or properly restore a nandroid. It looks normal, but flashes zips too quickly and upon reboot I get a soft brick (hangs at splash screen). Luckily I was able to pull battery and get back to Odin mode.
Does anyone know why this happened? Is the auto root failing because I'm using the same laptop for two different E4GTs? Is there a ghost device borking the recovery installation? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Are you sure your friend's phone has an external sdcard?
If not, pay attention to commands that work on internal or external cards. Some areas you toggle internal/external mode. Some areas you choose specific options that work with internal or external.

sfhub said:
Are you sure your friend's phone has an external sdcard?
If not, pay attention to commands that work on internal or external cards. Some areas you toggle internal/external mode. Some areas you choose specific options that work with internal or external.[/QUO
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First of all, thank you for all your awesome work. I am honored by your reply.
I am not sure exactly what you mean by toggling external vs internal. Rogue gives you the option to choose where to read from or nandroid to; I typically use the external SD.
Yes, my friend's E4GT does have an external SD card. Rogue recovery did write to it when I nandroided her EL29 setup, and it did read the install zip from the SD card as well. I wiped with Calkulin's format-all, then installed the rom (in this case Phantom's excellent Blazer). I knew something was wrong when it flashed, because it flashed way too quickly. After the reboot and subsequent Galaxy S2 splash screen to infinity, I pulled the battery, booted to Odin mode, restored EL29 thanks to your fantastic Odin OC, injected Rogue thanks to your swanky Autoroot tool, attempted another rom flash, same result, Odin OC, back to EL29 stock, Autooot again. Then I attempted to restore the nandroid of her EL29 setup, and that resulted in an MD5 error, which also led to a soft brick. So I Odin OC'd once again and called it a day.
My phone has never had this problem. I think I'll Odin OC and Autoroot tonight, and then restore one of my nandroids just to see if it works. I don't know whats up, but the trouble started when a second phone was added to the equation.
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Basically when CWM comes back right away from an operation, usually some error occurred. One error might be using an external sdcard when it isn't present. There are other possible errors, but that was the most obvious one to ask about.

sfhub said:
Basically when CWM comes back right away from an operation, usually some error occurred. One error might be using an external sdcard when it isn't present. There are other possible errors, but that was the most obvious one to ask about.
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I appreciate your help. Thanks for FD10 btw, i just got done OC'ing it...awesome!

Ok i had this same problem. After OCing back to stock rooted EL29 Reinstall CWM rogue with adb auto root. This will give you a fresh copy of CWM rogue and shouldn't throw you into a boot loop. Also make sure you do a full data wipe and wipe all cashes then run Calkins format all zip prior to running the nandroid backup. Should be good. Hope this helps.

[Fix] couldn’t install on USB storage or SD card issue

So I actually encountered this issue when attempt to flash a different modem that basically was not part of an original leak. So in my case I am running leak FF18 that was fresh ODIN'd was experiencing wifi issues (like a lot of people currently are on the ICS builds) and attempted to flash a different modem (FD26) to remedy the issue. On a side note the FD26 did remedy my wifi issues HOWEVER it introduced the beloved "couldn’t install on USB storage or SD card " error when attempting to install certain apps. The app I was testing with was Crackle. Anyways knowing that this was the only change I had made to my system I tried to flash back the FF18 modem. That was a not go So after a bunch of research I came across an article that basically said to permanently remedy the situation you needed to reOdin. So I figured how about we half ass it the the odin that still preserves data. Cause frankly I am getting tired of rebuilding my device. BINGO! that did the trick. After that I reflashed my custom ROM I am running (Blazer ICS edition) and was able to install all apps.
So now that we are done with the long drawn out story. The take away from this is:
-flashing different modems (and possibly kernels) other than what comes bundled with leak can cause this issue
-grab a copy of the ODIN bundle for your specific leak that preserves data if you dont want a data loss and reflash
-install any app to your liking
I hope this helps somebody
Cheers!

I found something a little different. I figured out a couple of ways to change the modem for ics. If you are already on ff18 and have ff18 modem and want to change to a different one, there are a few ways to go about it. One is to mobile odin flash agat's repack for ff18. Boot into his recovery, wipe cache and dalvik then flash whatever modem cwm zip. After that, boot back into system, update profile then prl then reboot. Use mobile oding to put back the original stock ff18 kernel and that will fix the unable to install thing. Another way is if you're coming from gb and know which modem you want, boot into recovery in gb and flash the desired modem. After that, use mobile odin to flash ff18 one click full wipe version. It won't install the modem so that snafu can work for your benefit. I could say more but it's time for bed for me.

This isn't the case. Agat63 has been working extensively with this error.. It has to do with the zimage file. I Odin every time I update and at this moment I cannot install apps to sd and SB Nation won't install unless I unmount my card. I am glad you've have success with your method, but I'm pretty sure if you install a repacked kernel right now you'll be back to the same situation.

The Root said:
This isn't the case. Agat63 has been working extensively with this error.. It has to do with the zimage file. I Odin every time I update and at this moment I cannot install apps to sd and SB Nation won't install unless I unmount my card. I am glad you've have success with your method, but I'm pretty sure if you install a repacked kernel right now you'll be back to the same situation.
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I was able to reproduce this issue about 4 times last night without fail. Amd every single time I reOdined my phone issue was resolved everytime
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA

I had this same problem and couldn't find the answer I wanted anywhere. I tried factory reset and formatting the SD but it didn't work. Phone isn't rooted or anything. In the end I unmounted the SD card and then I was able to install the game then mount the SD card and it worked great.

thank you that totally worked
zoey said:
I had this same problem and couldn't find the answer I wanted anywhere. I tried factory reset and formatting the SD but it didn't work. Phone isn't rooted or anything. In the end I unmounted the SD card and then I was able to install the game then mount the SD card and it worked great.
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thanks, that totally worked for me.
Do you think this is a ROM issue that will be fixed?

Help problems after flash

Let me start by saying I've played in the rooting universe but I'm pretty much a noob. And my phone is my life line.
Anyway. I was running Caulkins 2 V.1.6 and had no issues but decided to flash an AOPK from for fun and play. After doing so I can do anything no Google apps nothing just the bare phone. I have finally gotten clockwork mod from manager installed along with the recovery. But when I try to flash caulkin back just to get my phone working again it takes me to an android boot loader and says installation aborted. And it seems as though my SD card isn't mounted but in the loader I can find it. I also do have super user permissions. Any ideas. Thanks in advanced.

A 1click stock rooted should fix things for now. Flash the reset user data version of this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
or this if you want Gingerbread instead http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
Read the directions first
In the future read more and flash less

You should have flashed aokp from el26 cwm.
Also after flashing aokp, you need to flash the google apps zip.
But do what he said for now.
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[Q] Flashing a stock kernel? (FI03 app2sd issue)

I am using stock rooted FI03 with AGAT 5.4 kernel and I cannot move any apps to my external SD card (tells me there is not enough space). I want to try flashing a stock kernel with Mobile Odin to see if this will fix the issue, but I want to make sure there are no consequences of doing this that I am unaware of. I figure I will loose Clockworkmod Recovery but will still be rooted, so I can flash back to AGAT 5.4 or another recovery kernel when I am finished. Anything else I should know?
(If anyone has any other suggestions on getting the phone to move apps to the external SD again, I would love to hear it!)

rsngfrce said:
I am using stock rooted FI03 with AGAT 5.4 kernel and I cannot move any apps to my external SD card (tells me there is not enough space). I want to try flashing a stock kernel with Mobile Odin to see if this will fix the issue, but I want to make sure there are no consequences of doing this that I am unaware of. I figure I will loose Clockworkmod Recovery but will still be rooted, so I can flash back to AGAT 5.4 or another recovery kernel when I am finished. Anything else I should know?
(If anyone has any other suggestions on getting the phone to move apps to the external SD again, I would love to hear it!)
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There are others with that issue as well in this thread that may give you another option without going back to stock.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879381&page=7
But no, you shouldn't have any issues with what you've suggested and you already listed what you will/won't have.

Either flash with odin as tar or in recovery as zip
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Well, flashing the stock kernel did not go well for some reason. I flashed the stock FI03 tar with Mobile Odin and got a soft brick, wouldn't get past the Samsung logo. I used Odin to flash back to AGAT 5.4, cleared the triangle and it's working fine.
On the subject of not being able to move any apps to the External SD (reporting no space available), that is finally working again! The kernel flashing I mention above did not fix this issue. What does seem to have fixed this doesn't really make sense to me, but then I don't understand what was causing the issue in the first place...
I was messing around with the Amazon Kindle app, trying to figure out where it was storing covers and books I had downloaded. I downloaded a couple of large free books from the Amazon store and found that it had placed them in the data/data/com.amazon.kindle/files folder. Not wanting them to take up space in my system, I decided to try moving them to the kindle folder on the internal SD (where I also put books I have sideloaded). I found that the Kindle app still accessed them fine here.
Now, at some point after this I happened to notice that Titanium Backup was showing that the Kindle app was on my external SD. I did not think much of this at the time, figuring that moving the 2 books to my internal SD had confused something. But today, before planning on reflashing FI03 to see if it would fix this, I tried moving an app to the External SD (just to be sure it still wasn't working) and it worked fine. Also the Kindle app IS on my external SD card. I have no idea why or how this fixed my issue, but I can think of nothing else I could have done which would have fixed this...

Yesterday, I lost the ability to move to ExtSD again, did nothing I know of to cause this. Made a nandroid, planned to go back to prior nandroid where moving to ExtSD was working, but moving to ExtSD suddenly started working again (on it's own, as far as I know).
The continuing adventures...