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[Q] How to flash the ROM?

Hi is there somewhere a guide how to flash the ROMs and any list of available ROMs?
Can you advice, recommend some particular ROM?

Hi first of all you have created 2 new threads when you could of created one and asked both questions.
Im assuming that you are rooted looking at your other thread. You need to make sure you have clockworkmod recovery installed, if you haven't the easiest way to do get it is to download ROM manager from the market. Load the app and at the top it will say flash clockworkmod recovery. click on this and this will install CWM recovery for you.
ROM manager is a great tool that les you down load and install ROM's from within the app.
The ROM's available in ROM manager are as follows I'm not going to go in to to much detail, I recommend you have a good read through the dev section about the different ROM's that are available.
CyanogenMod: Is the one of the most popular ROM's available, it is pretty much stock with a few awesome tweaks.
Virtuous: A custom Sense based ROM
MIUI: a really unique ROM that looks more like the iPhone UI, some people love it offers a lot of eye candy and some cool built in features.
There are lots of other ROM's available in the DEV section.
You can download the above ROM's directly from ROM manager and install them really easily just by following the pop ups. Or you can download ROM's from the the DEV forum and place on to your sdcard. Here is a step by step guide.
1, Download your chosen ROM to your sdcard.
2, Reboot in to recovery, select this option from within ROM manager.
3, You will now be in CWM recovery, select back up and restore then backup, this is really important and you should do this before flashing anything. it will enable you to restore you phone to a previous problem free state if you ever mess anything up.
4, Select wipe data, you should do this whenever flashing different types of rom, for example if you are running MIUI and want to switch to virtuous you need to wipe data.
5, Wipe cache, all ways do this regardless of what you are flashing.
6, Head to advance, and wipe dalvik cache.
7, Now time to flash your ROM,
8, Select install zip from sdcard.
9, choose zip from sdcard
10, Navigate to your ROM and select it for flashing.
11, Once complete reboot your phone and you should be running a custom ROM.
It will be worth investing in an app such as titanium backup, this will allow you to back up all your apps and settings, when you install a ROM for the first time and you have to wipe data you will lose everything you have installed and all you settings, Titanium Backup will allow you to restore your apps and setting once you installed a new ROM.
If you want a recommendation for a ROM my personal preference is CM7.
With regards to your other thread, don't worry to much about not having a back up there are guides available for unrooting and going back to stock if you ever need to, not that you will want to after trying custom ROM's
Hope this helps, good luck

Thanks a lot for your reply ,this is exactly what I was looking for now a little calm down

Ok I have tried to flashed clockworkmod recovery and the following issue notification appeared:
"An error occurred while attempting to run privilege commands!"
???

Sebalos said:
Ok I have tried to flashed clockworkmod recovery and the following issue notification appeared:
"An error occurred while attempting to run privilege commands!"
???
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Are you Rooted/S-Off? That's the first requirement.

They should be in case I have proceeded according one of the guides successfully.
However I will check if s-off in bootload but where I can check if rootrd?

Sebalos said:
They should be in case I have proceeded according one of the guides successfully.
However I will check if s-off in bootload but where I can check if rootrd?
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Do you have superuser installed?
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Yes i have it .

Ok while I wanted to update superuser I've received notification: file package was not correctly signed.
So I think I don't have maybe a root, but I was proceeding exactly according to the guide...
How can I solve it in the best way?:/
Ok it seems that problem with flashing clockworkmod recovery solved by itself, I've flashed it already but still I am curious what about problem mentioned above?
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Sebalos said:
Ok while I wanted to update superuser I've received notification: file package was not correctly signed.
So I think I don't have maybe a root, but I was proceeding exactly according to the guide...
How can I solve it in the best way?:/
Ok it seems that problem with flashing clockworkmod recovery solved by itself, I've flashed it already but still I am curious what about problem mentioned above?
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Have you tried booting in to recovery?
Try downloading superuser again you might of got a bad download. But if you have flashed CWM successfully you will have root.
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My phone is rooted, Super User is running for ROM manager. I get an error every time i click "Flash ClockwordMod Recovery" HTC G2 is clicked, then i get the error "An error occured while flashing your recovery"
Help please, Im rooted and SU is running fine. I also have busybox.. not that it has anything to do with it

cjward23 said:
Have you tried booting in to recovery?
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I have just done it, it works pretty well.
Superuser still the same problem. However maybe I forget to mention it but I've already installed it. It was installed automatically during I was rooting my phone using adb command. Now I just wanted to update it and the problem appears as I described in one of the previous posts herein.
Maybe it is not necessary to update it but I am curious why this problem occurs.
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Sebalos said:
I have just done it, it works pretty well.
Superuser still the same problem. However maybe I forget to mention it but I've already installed it. It was installed automatically during I was rooting my phone using adb command. Now I just wanted to update it and the problem appears as I described in one of the previous posts herein.
Maybe it is not necessary to update it but I am curious why this problem occurs.
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Not sure about the superuser problem, maybe one of the genius in this forum has an idea.
Have you tried flashing a rom yet?
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cjward23 said:
Not sure about the superuser problem, maybe one of the genius in this forum has an idea.
Have you tried flashing a rom yet?
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You have helped already sufficiently a lot.
Now I ma trying to flash the ROM and as the first one I've chosen CM7
Before I'll do it pls confirm if I'm thinking the right way.
First I'll do backup all my apps (also titanium, Superuser and Rom manager need it? I suppose Yes, or somehow they backup automatically?) Maybe better question is what should be backuped, I am asking because on the list in titanium there are also apps like clock which are delivered with the software. You know after flashing a new Rom and restoring all aps I'd like to avoid overwriting them by the backuped ones.
The second is after apps backup I need to move created file from my phone into my PC,right? The same after system backup by clockworkmod recovery?
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Sebalos said:
You have helped already sufficiently a lot.
Now I ma trying to flash the ROM and as the first one I've chosen CM7
Before I'll do it pls confirm if I'm thinking the right way.
First I'll do backup all my apps (also titanium, Superuser and Rom manager need it? I suppose Yes, or somehow they backup automatically?) Maybe better question is what should be backuped, I am asking because on the list in titanium there are also apps like clock which are delivered with the software. You know after flashing a new Rom and restoring all aps I'd like to avoid overwriting them by the backuped ones.
The second is after apps backup I need to move created file from my phone into my PC,right? The same after system backup by clockworkmod recovery?
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With titanium you just want to back up user apps and data (apps you have downloaded and installed). You can choose to back up system apps but you don't want to restore them after flashing the new rom.
You don't need to copy back up files to your pc, your memory card will not get wiped during the flashing process.
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Ok, then I am starting to do my first Rom flashing
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Sebalos said:
Ok, then I am starting to do my first Rom flashing
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Cool let me know how it goes.
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Ok, let's start the show
I will use simply list from Rom manager. There are two CMs RC1 and RC2... which one do you have?
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Sebalos said:
Ok, let's start the show
I will use simply list from Rom manager. There are two CMs RC1 and RC2... which one do you have?
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You want to use RC2
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Ok I am choosing with Google aps then after status bar reached 100% some error occurred:
Rom download error.
?
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HELP!!!

I have deleted com.android.providers.contacts.apk(contact storage) by mistake...I have already rooted my phone...not able to install from root explorer

Wipe data factory reset in cwm.
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I have done that also but not working

just put the file back into ur /system/apps folder
then set permissions properly so it matches other files in that folder .. reboot phone then u back to normal

if you are willing to then you can use ruu

I have set permission n tried but dint work.....help me with ruu

iceman99393 said:
Wipe data factory reset in cwm.
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Do that... and reinstall ROM from scratch and it will work again.....
hope you backed up your contacts with google contacts sync..

kp.nikhil said:
I have set permission n tried but dint work.....help me with ruu
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One do you have CWM installed. If so boot to recovery and wipe Dalvik cache and wipe cache partition.
Make sure these are the only permissions set ON; Read-Owner, Read-Group, Read-Others and Write-Owner.
This should reset the application back.

how to install cwm???srry im a noob..i need everything in detail..plss

kp.nikhil said:
how to install cwm???
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Unofficial ClockworkMod Recovery v.5.0.2.6

cwm installed.dalvik cache wiped...how to set permission ON for Read-Owner, Read-Group, Read-Others and Write-Owner??

many force closes r occuring google services framework and android.process.acore

Sounds like you did more than delete the com.android.providers.contacts.apk.
You might be better off re-flashing your ROM or do as ahmadns said and just run the RUU to restore your phone.
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how to set permission ON for Read-Owner, Read-Group, Read-Others and Write-Owner??
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You can use ES File Explorer from the market, its free. Navigate to the apk(/system/app) and set the permissions.

i havent deleted anything else..hmm ok help me with re-falshing or running the RUU

By chance did you try to change the permissions on the apk after you copied it back? Then you would need to reboot the phone after, my bad I forgot to state that.
But if that did not work, then go to here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074445 and find your version RUU.

ya i changed da permission...should i put da same RUU or can i put a different one?? i was planning to do this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1260590

kp.nikhil said:
i was planning to do this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1260590
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Since you have CWM installed then do use Jikantaru ROM, he does excellent work!
Other wise if you ran the RUU it would over right the CWM and root, so you would have to do that all over again, unless you just extracted the rom.zip file and installed that thru CWM.

ok...will this fix my problem?? i have 4 custom roms im a lil confused which to select http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314430..i would prefer this bcoz i need internal memory or this 1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317931....then cm7 port and da other one which i hav already told u b4...

In essence yes. This will wipe and install a fresh ROM. If I was you, try all of them to find which one better suites your needs. They are all developed by talented people with each there own style and taste. Just try them at least for two days each to properly understand the differences. You will not go wrong with any in my opion.

after installing custom rom can i change back to original rom??

[Q] Pre-rroted Kernel (px 3.0) in 2.3.6 stock-rom (XXKTF )

Hello,
I installed phiexz's 3.0 kernel for stock-rom on a plain 2.3.6 (XXKTF) GIO. After the reboot everything worked wonderful and smooth. Problems began, when I tried to prepare the phone for the installation of the necessary additional apps by installing link2sd. I thought, the kernel ist pre-rooted, but link2sd complained that it couldn't obtain root privileges. As phiexz isn't longer available in this forum and doesn't answer messages sent via his homepage (phiexz.com) maybe someone else can give me a hint what to do? I do have some linux expereinces and do knbow hoiw to use a shell, if thta helps to find a solution.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Madelgijs

Link2sd is for cm7 roms only
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voetbalremco said:
Link2sd is for cm7 roms only
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I'm sorry, but I doubt that. I'm succesfully using it with Particle ROM which is based on stock 2.3.5 and the page for the app on Google Play doesn't state that either: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5idWFrLkxpbmsyU0QiXQ..
Regards, madelgijs

You need to root manually before flash is kernel.
And for me link2sd works perfectly on 2.3.6.

And how di I root manually. That's probably exactly what I need ...

madelgijs said:
I'm sorry, but I doubt that. I'm succesfully using it with Particle ROM which is based on stock 2.3.5 and the page for the app on Google Play doesn't state that either: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5idWFrLkxpbmsyU0QiXQ..
Regards, madelgijs
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It was before, maybe it got updated
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see this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633888

S2E is currently only reserved to CM7, but there are works going on to port it to CM9.
Link2SD works perfectly on stock with custom kernel that support ext4. I use it all the time after all the disappointments with CM.
There are different methods, too, but Link2SD seems the easiest and most reliable.
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madelgijs, maybe you didn't mount /system before flashing the kernel? I forgot this plenty of times and it was the cause of no root nor superuser.apk.

madelgijs said:
Hello,
I installed phiexz's 3.0 kernel for stock-rom on a plain 2.3.6 (XXKTF) GIO. After the reboot everything worked wonderful and smooth. Problems began, when I tried to prepare the phone for the installation of the necessary additional apps by installing link2sd. I thought, the kernel ist pre-rooted, but link2sd complained that it couldn't obtain root privileges. As phiexz isn't longer available in this forum and doesn't answer messages sent via his homepage (phiexz.com) maybe someone else can give me a hint what to do? I do have some linux expereinces and do knbow hoiw to use a shell, if thta helps to find a solution.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Madelgijs
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Unmodded stock rom (before deodex and/or bloatware removal) has system partition almost full, so there's no more space left for su and superuser binaries (I ran into this issue several times). You can check free space even on unrooted devices using Android Commander (PC app).
TIP: also, CWM recovery has adb root enabled and you can use Android commander for root operations while in recovery mode (don't forget to mount /system first!).

Ah, right! I totally forgot about that. For me it was natural to purge crapware from stock . About 50MBs free more.

Thanks for all the hints and tips. I was succesful by rooting the ROM first and installing the kernel afterwards. Everything works fine - but I should clean out some crapware, too, good idea ;-)

Clean ROM

Hi. I want a clean ROM having HTC Sense. I want it the closest possible to stock so that everything works although I would not mind if it is unlocked so that I can move apps to sdcard. I cannot download from football's thread as I tried and all roms i tried failed. Is there another one? I am currently running CM9 but I dont like it very much as it is slow and does not have sense.
Thanks

I have made a flashable zip from the RUU HTC Asia India. If you want you can get it here:
Http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025124

Maybe install stock rom with root, then install Dust kernel ( with overclock) then install Link2SD + No-frills CPU+ APP Quarantine --> And You have a stock fast and space free rom

Thanks. I will try these during the weekend and let you know.

link2sd
Hi. I really thank you for your help. I found this ROM really good, exactly how I had it when I got the mobile. I have only one problem so far. I installed link2sd however when I try to move apps such as facebook it fails and says that it cannot get root access. In a forum I found that I should install the superuser app. I did this however when I opened link2sd I did not get the message to allow superuser rights and I still could not move apps. IS there a solution for this please?
Thanks

psaila said:
Hi. I really thank you for your help. I found this ROM really good, exactly how I had it when I got the mobile. I have only one problem so far. I installed link2sd however when I try to move apps such as facebook it fails and says that it cannot get root access. In a forum I found that I should install the superuser app. I did this however when I opened link2sd I did not get the message to allow superuser rights and I still could not move apps. IS there a solution for this please?
Thanks
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It says that my device is not rooted. I had rooted it before. Can you guide me to the easiest way to root it again?
Thanks

I replied to your PM. Check it.
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[Q] Rooted my phone, can't flash any roms (I made a huge mistake)

A couple of months ago, I was getting bored of my phone so I decided to upgrade to android 2.3.3. I like it, but I felt like I should root my phone too. Heres the problem, I couldn't get unrevoked to work so I used revolutionary instead. They didn't have my hboot version so I proceeded with one of the hboot versions listed.
Everything went smoothly, my phone was now rooted, and I was able to free up more internal storage. I really wanted to flash a new rom though, so I commenced with the MIUI rom, and ended up getting stuck in a bootloop. I tried cynogen and the same thing happened. I tried a couple of other roms too, but none of them worked. I was just continuously getting stuck in a bootloop. (Yes, I cleared dalvik cache, wipe data etc..)
Has anyone else on the Desire done the same thing as I have? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Hard to say what goes wrong on your end. First, I would suggest you to go ahead with stock hboot from http://alpharev.nl/ and flash a newer recovery tool, e.g. this one (4EXT Touchrecovery).
Then try one of VJ's JB roms and post the results.

have u ext patition on ur sdcard for the a2sd scripts?

jmcclue said:
have u ext patition on ur sdcard for the a2sd scripts?
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I'm sorry I have no idea what you mean by that.. can you noobify it for me? LOL

k3v1ng1994 said:
I'm sorry I have no idea what you mean by that.. can you noobify it for me? LOL
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a2sd is a script that allows you to install apps onto your sd card (specifically an ext partition). This is very useful since the desires internal memory is pretty bad, and with a2sd you can have around 1gb of space for apps. Some roms need an ext partition to work properly/boot.
Follow this guide to make the partition.

chromium96 said:
a2sd is a script that allows you to install apps onto your sd card (specifically an ext partition). This is very useful since the desires internal memory is pretty bad, and with a2sd you can have around 1gb of space for apps. Some roms need an ext partition to work properly/boot.
Follow this guide to make the partition.
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Thanks, but will this solve my main problem which is not being able to flash roms?

k3v1ng1994 said:
Thanks, but will this solve my main problem which is not being able to flash roms?
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It's worth a try. I've seen a lot of people not being able to boot into a freshly installed ROM because they don't have an ext partition.

chromium96 said:
It's worth a try. I've seen a lot of people not being able to boot into a freshly installed ROM because they don't have an ext partition.
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Didn't work unfortunately Oh well I'll just go back to using stock. Thank you anyway dude! Really appreciate your help.

k3v1ng1994 said:
Didn't work unfortunately Oh well I'll just go back to using stock. Thank you anyway dude! Really appreciate your help.
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I spoke too soon! I installed the rom that you're using and it worked haha AWESOME!

chromium96 said:
It's worth a try. I've seen a lot of people not being able to boot into a freshly installed ROM because they don't have an ext partition.
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I have another problem now, I've lost pretty much everything =/ How do i restore my apps etc?

k3v1ng1994 said:
I have another problem now, I've lost pretty much everything =/ How do i restore my apps etc?
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You should have used titanium backup for backing up your apps.
If u still have a nandroid backup of stock, you could restore it, backup apps with tb, flash the new rom, and finally restore the apps with tb.
Its quite a bit of work though...

chromium96 said:
You should have used titanium backup for backing up your apps.
If u still have a nandroid backup of stock, you could restore it, backup apps with tb, flash the new rom, and finally restore the apps with tb.
Its quite a bit of work though...
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I have infact backed up with Titanium, but how do I go about restoring it if the application is not in the app drawer?

k3v1ng1994 said:
I have infact backed up with Titanium, but how do I go about restoring it if the application is not in the app drawer?
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Download it from the play store...

chromium96 said:
Download it from the play store...
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I don't have a playstore anymore. I tried downloading it but it wouldn't open. And sorry if I'm annoying you with my stupidity with the whole flashing process :L You have been great help though and I thank you for that.
I'm going to try flashing that gapps to get it back, hopefully.

k3v1ng1994 said:
I don't have a playstore anymore. I tried downloading it but it wouldn't open. And sorry if I'm annoying you with my stupidity with the whole flashing process :L You have been great help though and I thank you for that.
I'm going to try flashing that gapps to get it back, hopefully.
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u dont have playstore coz u havnt flashed gapps (google apps) play store is google app

jmcclue said:
u dont have playstore coz u havnt flashed gapps (google apps) play store is google app
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I flashed the Gapps zip file and all it gives my is the news and weather.. which i dont even use! Ffs I give up...

k3v1ng1994 said:
I flashed the Gapps zip file and all it gives my is the news and weather.. which i dont even use! Ffs I give up...
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No play store? Are you sure? Look in system/app. Is there a Vending.apk there? Does it have the right permissions?

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No play store? Are you sure? Look in system/app. Is there a Vending.apk there? Does it have the right permissions?
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Erm I don't think so. Hmm at this point in time I'm not really keen in wasting more time sorting this out. Thanks anyway though.

k3v1ng1994 said:
I flashed the Gapps zip file and all it gives my is the news and weather.. which i dont even use! Ffs I give up...
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i just looked at the gapps for that rom and it has play store (phonesky.apk) u sure u downloaded the right one?
pa_gapps-full-4.2-201330202-bravo_signed, and its 172mb

jmcclue said:
i just looked at the gapps for that rom and it has play store (phonesky.apk) u sure u downloaded the right one?
pa_gapps-full-4.2-201330202-bravo_signed, and its 172mb
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Hey, it did turn out to be the wrong one. Thank you.