Flashing a rom though ODIN - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

For whatever reason clockwork recovery is not recognizing my external sd card. Unfortunately that is where I put the zip file for the rom I am trying to flash. I only realized this after I already wiped data, and formatted the system. Since I can't get the phone back on to move the zip to the internal memory, is there a way I can flash the rom using odin? I'm not sure which parts would have to be extracted from the zip file for it to work, if it is possible.

You can Odin to stock and then try again with the rom on internal memory this time.

dkmdlb said:
You can Odin to stock and then try again with the rom on internal memory this time.
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Is there a tar file for stock out there?

Are you familliar with ADB, you could push a copy of the rom from your PC to /mnt/sdcard
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Odin to stock thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737855

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28740768
This will get you back to stock and root.
Flash with odin. So you don't trip your flash counter
Then download Rom manager and flash cwm.
Put the zip file on your internal sd card and flash.
Same thing happened to me when I started messing with my s3 without reading
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boot loop

My epic 4g touch is doing bootloop in the 4g screen. Need help. any ideals how to recover this. I tried flashing rom but clockwork sees no files in external sd card. Plus, how do you transfter files to your internal sdcard in clockwork?Any help is appreciated. Thanks
When I had to recover from a bootloop I actually had to remove my sdcard, put the phone in download mode and reflash it. Flashing with a .tar on your SD card has caused many problems for me =/
As a rule, here is my emergency ROM evacuation plan:
1) Can I get to recovery? If so, I will simply wipe everything (factoryh reset) then reflash fresh.
2) If not, then just boot to download mode (power+volDown) and Odin over a clean kernel (most bootloop issues are going to be from a kernel issue)
3) If all that doesn't work, then flash a stock rom from scratch using Odin
It sounds like 1 is not an option to you. I don't think you can copy from sd to internal without mounting them on a pc and doing the copy on that side.
In any event, you are gonna need a PC.
HTH
You can put files on your SD card by enabling SD mount somewhere within cwm. However I would listen to that guy^
That is probably the best way to "abort" a ROM
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Oh and I wanted to ask: what ROM did you install because SD mounting doesn't work with any of the AOSP ICS ROMs...
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EpicFlair said:
Oh and I wanted to ask: what ROM did you install because SD mounting doesn't work with any of the AOSP ICS ROMs...
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With ICS, I haven't been able to mount anything but internal storage... But I have been rooting since I got my first Intercept on day 1. I'm a danger seeker

[Q] Really messed up Epic 4G Touch

Hey guys,
I was trying to flash the Starburst ROM onto my Epic 4G Touch yesterday and really messed things up. I followed the instructions on the starburst website and formatted everything. I couldn't, however, find the rom on the SD card, so I used the format /sdcard/ function and put the rom back onto the microsd card, not realizing that the /sdcard/ folder was internal memory and not external.
No matter what kernal I use, from what I can tell, there is no ROM to boot to. How can I get a ROM onto /sdcard/ if I can't get it to boot into anything?
No big deal my man. There is a factory rom you can flash using odin the get you back working. Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420 then stick with Chris 41g's lostkernel.
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In recover go to moutns and mount usb. Then you can copy a rom to your sd card.
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Ok so after 2 days of working on this I figured out that I could only get USB to recognize this device if I used CWM 5.0.2.3. It mounted USB and I copied Starburst over and I think everything is good. I would like to go back to the stock, plain ROM. I destroyed my backup so is there somewhere I can download the normal rom?
Use odin to go back to stock
Odin will only let me go back to the stock kernel. What if I want the stock samsung rom?
Folow the link I posted that is odin for the stock rom.
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Use odin to go back to stock then redo to flashing guide only don't mess up this time
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tried to flash new rom

wipe cache and dalvik and phone just sits at the screen with the yellow triangle.....i can get to odin even though i odin a stock tar it doens't the same thing on reboot......
help
Your putting the file in the PDA slot and only have "auto-reboot" checked when doing Odin?
You could always flash a kernel in Odin that had a custom recovery(cwm, rogue etc) and then flash a rom from there. Hold volume up and power from the phone being off for that, after its flashed from Odin, if you choose that route
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yes i am doing that. and it just sits there with the yellow triangle screen
You could try on of these in Odin(a .tar file not zip). That will give you cwm. Then can flash a rom from there
http://chris41g.devphone.org/index.php?dir=EpicTouch/Stock+Repack/EL26/
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**** i have no roms to flash on my internal memory except the epic aospmodv2.5.1 zip and it installs but don't start up
Don't have an SD card? Should be able to mount storage in cwm and transfer
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paniro187 said:
**** i have no roms to flash on my internal memory except the epic aospmodv2.5.1 zip and it installs but don't start up
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What was your previous setup (ROM/kernel)?
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el 26 stock thing is i got desperate and wiped all user data and wiped dalvik and cache
how do i mount the sd card i'm in cwm right now and i chose to mount it but my comp done'st recognize a sd card
also el 26 kernel. looks liek the problem is i have the kernel set up an the modem but there is no rom the phone can run apparently
paniro187 said:
el 26 stock thing is i got desperate and wiped all user data and wiped dalvik and cache
how do i mount the sd card i'm in cwm right now and i chose to mount it but my comp done'st recognize a sd card
also el 26 kernel. looks liek the problem is i have the kernel set up an the modem but there is no rom the phone can run apparently
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Did you try sfhub's full ROM/kernel/modem Odin flashable tar? I would go for a completely fresh start. Your PC does recognize the phone right?
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Maybe I've missed something in this thread but sounds like you're able to get into download (Odin) mode, flash a FULL recovery tar of your choice. The missing ROM pieces should be corrected.
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Use sfhub's stuff. He provides top notch support too..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416477
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since i couldn't find a way to mount the sd card in recovery i got "smart" and used a friends of mines phone took her memory card out plugged in my comp put the roms on then put it back on my phone lol. more than one way to skin a cat

Bricked!

Did an internal/external SD swap and now my SGS3 is bricked, sort of. I can access recovery but cannot download ROMs. Phone does not go any further than the boot-up screen/animation. Is this salvagible or ready for the recycle bin?
You could the phone into download mode and try to flash that way with ODIN.
See if you can get it into download mode. If you can, then you can Odin back to stock with a stock rom.
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If the first Samsung screen flashes quickly, but it stays on second, just reflashing your ROM or using ODIN to restore will fix it.
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I don't have enough room on my internal SD card, that's why I think Odin is not working. BTW, my phone came back to life after I put a blank external SD card in it. Do you think it still senses the ext. SD as my internal? The only way that Odin will work is if I make a LOT more room on my internal. Right now I have about 450GB on internal storage.

TWRP not reading sd

So I'm having a problem with my internal sd being read. I flashed a rom from rootzwiki. Ive run pretty much every rom on here, AOSP and TW. I flashed back to Frosty jelly right now and after using the rom from Rootzwiki TWRP wouldn't read my internal SD. I noticed that the samsung file explorer wouldnt read it either. It was showing a different extension I think.
So I flashed the fixer located on one of the aosp threads. Now my file manager will show all my files but I cant get TWRP to see my files on the internal sd.
Any help would be appreciated, suggestions?
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stevekixs said:
So I'm having a problem with my internal sd being read. I flashed a rom from rootzwiki. Ive run pretty much every rom on here, AOSP and TW. I flashed back to Frosty jelly right now and after using the rom from Rootzwiki TWRP wouldn't read my internal SD. I noticed that the samsung file explorer wouldnt read it either. It was showing a different extension I think.
So I flashed the fixer located on one of the aosp threads. Now my file manager will show all my files but I cant get TWRP to see my files on the internal sd.
Any help would be appreciated, suggestions?
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You could try 1 of 2 things:
1. Re-flash recovery mode.
2. Change the type of recovery mode you use.
You can flash recoveries by downloading the .zip file for it and flashing it in the recovery you have. I suggest putting it on the external sd since the internal does not work
I did re flash Twrp. I guess I could try flashing cwm and see what happens.
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