What is the best way to transfer a rom to/sdcard so it can be installed?
Copy and paste
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Copy and paste
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What do you mean copy and paste? How?
Copy and paste. Find the rom in your files, copy the zip and paste it in your SD card.
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sly-tendencies said:
Copy and paste. Find the rom in your files, copy the zip and paste it in your SD card.
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Thanks for the reply' but how how do i copy the rom to my phone first? Once i got on my phone, what tool do i use to copy/paste it into /sdcard?
Wow, if your asking this, you might as well start reading how to unbrick your phone, I think it's inevitable.
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Wow, if your asking this, you might as well start reading how to unbrick your phone, I think it's inevitable.
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I am a noob and i am reading and trying to learn. So a little help would be appreciated!
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I am a noob and i am reading and trying to learn. So a little help would be appreciated!
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Fair enough, don't rush into anything then. Read, read, read..... Plug your phone into your computer, click in the downloaded rom, drag it into your internal sd card (phone) or your external card (micro sd) reboot into custom recovery, wipe, then flash rom, then reboot
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Check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27745443
It might seem like a lot of reading and info at first but if you are interested in flashing roms it's worth it to avoid turning your device into a brick.
To respond to your op I use es file explorer to copy files from pc to device via lan shares.
Flash rooted stock firmware via oden on your pc. Install custom recovery (cwm I find works best for stock and asop or aokp over twrp) and make sure you do a backup (nandroid) and IMEI prior to flashing a Rom.
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markdexter said:
Fair enough, don't rush into anything then. Read, read, read..... Plug your phone into your computer, click in the downloaded rom, drag it into your internal sd card (phone) or your external card (micro sd) reboot into custom recovery, wipe, then flash rom, then reboot
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Or u can get xda app on phone and when u download a rom it will go to ur sd card automatically
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Or u can get xda app on phone and when u download a rom it will go to ur sd card automatically
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Use to do that all the time on my skyrocket but the wifi on gs3 ends up interrupting my download... mind you the bigger file sizes doesn't help lol
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Ok I know this is probably the stupidest question I have ever ask. I promise I think I know what I'm doing lol. When flashing a custom rom "syndicate frozen" I understand everything from ext4 to clockworkmod3. What I have not figured out yet is how to copy the stupid rom to my sd card? Do I use mass storage? Ps I have the samsung drivers and have rooted my epic. Thanks for all of your help.
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Ok I know this is probably the stupidest question I have ever ask. I promise I think I know what I'm doing lol. When flashing a custom rom "syndicate frozen" I understand everything from ext4 to clockworkmod3. What I have not figured out yet is how to copy the stupid rom to my sd card? Do I use mass storage? Ps I have the samsung drivers and have rooted my epic. Thanks for all of your help.
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If the rom is on ur PC just connect ur phone to ur PC with the mass storage clikck on the rom and drag it to.ur SD card. Make sure u don't put it in any folder then power down ur phone boot into cwm. Then flash the rom and ur good
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So last night I was running Starburst Rom and decided that I wanted to theme it, so I downloaded the theme I liked for it, flash it in recover, but when I reboot the system it kept boot looping. So I figured that I needed to format it, so I went back into recovery and used Caulkins Format All zip, flashed it, then flashed the theme again. OUCH this time my phone would just show the yellow triangle and Samsung logo ( start up page). I can still go back to recovery but all my other Roms are gone so I cant even restore my phone or anything! What can I do? I used Heimdall to root, can I go back and re root again? Would I still get the stock rom? HELP
Download a rom onto an sd card and flash it from recovery. Format all wipes your entire system, you use format all to have a clean slate before you flash a new rom. You have no os now.
Edit: You could also flash the stock .tar they just put up in the development section, just make sure you read the instructions first or you could hardbrick.
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How do I download a rom to a phone that has no OS? Thats where I am stuck.
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Download a rom onto an sd card and flash it from recovery. Format all wipes your entire system, you use format all to have a clean slate before you flash a new rom. You have no os now.
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Is there a way to download and flash a rom in Download mode? What if I try to reroot again?
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How do I download a rom to a phone that has no OS? Thats where I am stuck.
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You don't. You download it to a pc or mac and then transfer it to a micro sd card and then put the card in the phone and flash the Rom from recovery.
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poppygt said:
You don't. You download it to a pc or mac and then transfer it to a micro sd card and then put the card in the phone and flash the Rom from recovery.
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Ouch so that means I will need another phone to do this.....
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Ouch so that means I will need another phone to do this.....
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Your going to need a computer at some point if you've lost root. You can at least get the phone working again though.
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Your going to need a computer at some point if you've lost root.
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I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.
Do you still have a custom recovery or just the Samsung recovery....sorry i should've asked sooner.
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Jess813 said:
I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.
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your computer doesnt have a sd card slot on it? if not yes that what your going to have to do.
Jess813 said:
I have a computer, and I can dowload a rom into it, no problem, my issue is that I cant get this on my SD card due to me not being able to mount the phone in recovery. I tried and it wont. So my solution would be to go to a friends house that has an Android, download a ROM into their phone with my SD card then go back to my phone and flash it.
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I meant an external sd card.
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poppygt said:
Do you still have a custom recovery or just the Samsung recovery....sorry i should've asked sooner.
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I am able to go into CWM recovery, but I get this message off the bat at the bottom...
CWM-based recovery v5.0.2.3
E:failed to open/etc/recovery.fstab(no such file or directory
E unkown volume for path[/cache/recovery/command...etc etc etc...it keeps going
But at the top I can still scroll up and down with volume and choose with power.
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I meant an external sd card.
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I have lots of those, the one on the phone is a 16GB and it has NOTHING on it.
I'd just flash through Odin or Heimdall and start over.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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I'd just flash through Odin or Heimdall and start over.
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Right I am with you, but my question is, if I flash through Heimdall again will I get the stock rom? I know by using this method I am flashing a kernel, but since I have no OS as you stated because mY dumb *&^% formatted all, would I get the rom back this way?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
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The problem with that is that I have a Mac....
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Right I am with you, but my question is, if I flash through Heimdall again will I get the stock rom? I know by using this method I am flashing a kernel, but since I have no OS as you stated because mY dumb *&^% formatted all, would I get the rom back this way?
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The link i posted is stock. After thats done you can reroot and go from there. Make sure you uncheck the boxes in the instructions or you'll brick. If those options aren't shown then don't flash it. I don't know macs very well.
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The link i posted is stock. After thats done you can reroot and go from there. Make sure you uncheck the boxes in the instructions or you'll brick. If those options aren't shown then don't flash it. I don't know macs very well.
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Let me research to see if Odin is Mac compatible but I doubt it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
Heres another option I've used myself. As far as I know you have to use Heimdall, its the mac version of Odin but I don't know any of the commands or how to use it.
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i have the Damaged SD card message. but if i go into recovery and flash from external sd i can see all the files and folders anyone have an idea whats going on and how to fix it because i dont wanna format it to make it work like normal. i wiped and re flashed i also used zoots super wipe and re installed everything anyone???????
Re: Damaged SD Card Message BUT!!!!
Copy all the data to internal storage via recovery then format it...
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UtkarshGupta said:
Copy all the data to internal storage via recovery then format it...
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great idea let me figure that out thanks.
walkerkd said:
great idea let me figure that out thanks.
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Hit thanks
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Hit thanks
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hey i didnt see a way to go from external sd to internal but i can go the other way.
Attrib -h -r -s /d /s path/*.* try this
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Attrib -h -r -s /d /s path/*.* try this
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That are command prompt commands aren't they ?
How can he insert them into note 2 ?
Are they compatible with linux and/or terminal emulator?
It looks like you own a different device so I want to tell you that note 2 doesn't directly mount storage rather it exposes the storage under device.
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yea it wouldnt work under a terminal emulator
Why don't you just copy the files to your PC, reformat the card then put the files from the PC back to the card.
Nope cant even get on the computer i have a mac and i have a virtual machine ive tried several different software and nothing. i think its a lost UGH!!!!!!
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Nope cant even get on the computer i have a mac and i have a virtual machine ive tried several different software and nothing. i think its a lost UGH!!!!!!
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Have you tried the procedure I told ?
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Have you tried the procedure I told ?
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He wasn't able to do it, he said it in the post where he quoted you complaining about him not "thanking" your post. Thanks aren't that important, you know.
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Solved !!!!!!!!!!
i was able to fix and backup my SD after going to cmd prompt and typing (chkdsk D:\ /f) wait patiently dont do anything it will run it corse. anyway once it was done after 30 minutes or so i could see it on my virtual machine. i copied everything off the SD card and i was wondering if i could place back in phone well i did and low and behold it worked and is still working. i didn't even have to format it. i will but not now i just wanna see if it will break again. not sure why it happend but anyway thats a fix that worked for me. thank all you guys
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hey i didnt see a way to go from external sd to internal but i can go the other way.
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You mean in recovery?
Go to root. Then storage then extsdcard.
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UtkarshGupta said:
You mean in recovery?
Go to root. Then storage then extsdcard.
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i could see it in recovery thats it so i knew everything was there including pics and music but it wouldnt work. so if you follow my solved message everything is still working without a flaw thus far.
sd card not recognized
I have 64 mSD memory card, I flashed a custom room und my card is not recognized, I try a different room ...the same problem but in cwm recovery the card is recognized ...I format the card still not working. Can somebody give a little help thx
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I have 64 mSD memory card, I flashed a custom room und my card is not recognized, I try a different room ...the same problem but in cwm recovery the card is recognized ...I format the card still not working. Can somebody give a little help thx
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Try a different format (exfat fat32)
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still not working
I format exfat ,fat nothing work, the SD card is OK (work perfect on stock room)
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U always beg for thnx lol
Hello,
I am a new member of XDA but have been using XDA for a while without an account. I have a Droid Incredible that I achieved S-off and rooted. I just recently tried installing Cm9 on it using ROM manager and cwm. For some reason my cwm didn't work (wouldn't come up,no recovery) while trying to install cm9. I decided to take battery out and forget about it. It work for all of 3 hours then rebooted and now will not leave a boot cycle I have tried multiple pb31img.zip files but it always says wrong image. I am obviously not so familiar with the dinc as I am with my Samsung galaxy exhibit because that phone is running cm10 and running perfectly so this isn't my first time. So if anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it
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Sounds like your sdcard hasn't been formatted properly. You need to ensure your sdcard is formatted to fat32. First, back up your data off it to your computer, otherwise you'll lose it all. Then format your sdcard. As for recoveries, try the latest TWRP (they get more updates, more features, and less issues than CWM for our device, imo) at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38633018&postcount=163 then go back to flashing the ROM of your choice.
Well there's another problem. I can't get my phone to connect to the computer..
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If it won't leave the boot cycle, and you can't connect to the pc, how did you get multiple PB31IMG.zip on there? Remove sdcard and use an external reader to plug it directly into the pc, perhaps?
I used my Samsung galaxy exhibit and downloaded to external SD and put it in the other
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Bump still need help
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Do as pons said and use a mirco sd to usb adapter to read and write to the card with your pc. If you dont have an adapter you can get one for like 4 bucks at walmart. Or try using the sdcard out of your other phone. Or use your other phone to format the sd of the inc.
My problem is, I have a fresh reformatted external SD fat32 I place the pb31img.zip file on SD (no folders) and I get something to the sort of
Checking pb31img.zip
Wrong image!
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My problem is, I have a fresh reformatted external SD fat32 I place the pb31img.zip file on SD (no folders) and I get something to the sort of
Checking pb31img.zip
Wrong image!
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Where are you getting the ruu from? Try one from here http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/. 4.08.605.15 is the latest ruu we have. Or are you trying to reflash recovery? If so try one from here http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/.
OK so I will try to reflash twrp recovery and as far as I understand I can only ruu thru computer right??
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Where are you getting the ruu from? Try one from here http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/. 4.08.605.15 is the latest ruu we have. Or are you trying to reflash recovery? If so try one from here http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/.
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Thank you sooooooo much I followed the link and reflashed the latest twrp and it worked I reset the phone to factory settings from there I appreciate all your help
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OK so I will try to reflash twrp recovery and as far as I understand I can only ruu thru computer right??
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No you can also ruu with a PB31IMG.zip thru hboot.
Glad you got it working.
How do I manually update my boot loader to md4?
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i downloaded the md4 baseband from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787677
flashed via recovery and everything is working perfectly. only for sprint tho
Flash this in recovery. http://db.tt/Qt6NcH0a
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edfunkycold said:
Flash this in recovery. http://db.tt/Qt6NcH0a
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Is u.s. correct?
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Also is this gonna finally solve my problem of not being able to flash out of 4.1.2? I had it on 4.2 before I hard bricked it like a dummy
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This is the Sprint section correct? Sprint phones are US variants right? My sig says I support the S3 and Galaxy Nexus right? Your signature says SPH-L710 right? Too many rights for it to be wrong.
If you sprint phone is not one of the new ones with the issue mounting storage then yes this will work for you. This updates your bootloader, fimware/modem to the latest md4 updates.
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
Thanks ed. I wasn't sure because I had the JTAG done. I really thought this s3 was history. I wanna get it back to my 100% liking before I bother to fix this glass I broke. But this isn't the first time you helped me out and for that a million thanks dude
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edfunkycold said:
Flash this in recovery. http://db.tt/Qt6NcH0a
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Since I haven't flashed it yet do I have to factory wipe and all that?
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Since I haven't flashed it yet do I have to factory wipe and all that?
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No flash and reboot
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No flash and reboot
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I can not get that file to show up in twrp. I can flash it through too manager but I don't really want to do that how do I get it to show up?
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You downloaded that file right? When you boot into recovery click on flash zip from internal storage that's where it should be. Then look in the download folder.
When you download files you should be able to choose the download path, so that you know exactly where it's going.
I download everything to my external storage (sd card) then using root explorer I move it to my file system which I set up, roms, kernels, apps, mods, so on....
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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You downloaded that file right? When you boot into recovery click on flash zip from internal storage that's where it should be. Then look in the download folder.
When you download files you should be able to choose the download path, so that you know exactly where it's going.
I download everything to my external storage (sd card) then using root explorer I move it to my file system which I set up, roms, kernels, apps, mods, so on....
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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I had to update TWRP and I can see it now. There's no reason this should fail right I don't like this thing in paperweight mode
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I had to update TWRP and I can see it now. There's no reason this should fail right I don't like this thing in paperweight mode
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Nope that should never fail.
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Nope that should never fail.
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So little update, I can't flash from internal storage. Any zip I put there becomes invisible in recovery. I can only see them when its on external sd
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IDontKnowMang said:
So little update, I can't flash from internal storage. Any zip I put there becomes invisible in recovery. I can only see them when its on external sd
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That's because you have flashed a 4.2 rom and your internal storage has moved to a different location. It's there you just need to find the correct path.
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I'm still 4.1 because I can't find that file in recovery
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I'm still 4.1 because I can't find that file in recovery
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What recovery are you flashing from? The newer phones have issues mounting sdcards. Check:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391616
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What recovery are you flashing from? The newer phones have issues mounting sdcards. Check:
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I have no issues mounting storage I just can't see zips.in the goo manager folder theres zips I don't even have on my phone anymore. I'm in twrp 2.6.1.0 as of right now I just saw there's a 2.6.3.0 that just came out
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