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Question about NANDROIDS

I'm almost positive that this question can be answered with common sense...but just in case:
My SD card is running low on memory and I was wondering about whether or not I can delete the ROM .zip folder from my SD card after flashing it. Or does the .zip folder need to be on the card for the ROM to boot up? Any help would be great. Thanks in advance!
sent from my Swagged out EVO, and yes, b_tches be on my d_ck

Yes you can if you have already installed the zip. You can also remove nandroid backups if you have them on your computer. You can push them all back to the phone while connected and in recovery.

tnerb123 said:
Yes you can if you have already installed the zip. You can also remove nandroid backups if you have them on your computer. You can push them all back to the phone while connected and in recovery.
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Thank you. I don't really mess around with adb just because my computer and my phone do not get along at all. It won't even recognize my SD card when I connect it through the phone. I have to put the card in a special SD card reader.
sent from my Swagged out EVO, and yes, b_tches be on my d_ck

likeurface said:
Thank you. I don't really mess around with adb just because my computer and my phone do not get along at all. It won't even recognize my SD card when I connect it through the phone. I have to put the card in a special SD card reader.
sent from my Swagged out EVO, and yes, b_tches be on my d_ck
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Actually if you're using Amon Ra recovery (recommended by every dev I've seen), you can access your sd card on your pc using the "USB toggle" menu option. (Saved me once when I accidentally wiped my sd card before flashing a new rom).
Of course if you still can't access the sd using that option, then that's a hardware issue, yes?

Error while restoring system .. HELP PLEASE

Hi,
I was using CWM to install CM9 and the next thing I know nothing showed on SD card. I tried to restore and I am getting the above. I did a bacup prior yet it is doing nothing...
Have I bricked my phone or ????
NEED HELP cannot get it out of CWM mod mode....

lmarranzino said:
Hi,
I was using CWM to install CM9 and the next thing I know nothing showed on SD card. I tried to restore and I am getting the above. I did a bacup prior yet it is doing nothing...
Have I bricked my phone or ????
NEED HELP cannot get it out of CWM mod mode....
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If you are using the SD card that came with your phone, you probably need to reformat it properly. See if your computer can read the SD card. If so, copy everything off of it and onto your computer hard drive in a safe place. Then install and run this application: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/ and use it to format the SD card. (Do not use Windows's built-in stuff to format the card, it won't fix it.)
After the format is done, copy everything back to the card, and then back into the phone and try it again.

drumist said:
If you are using the SD card that came with your phone, you probably need to reformat it properly. See if your computer can read the SD card. If so, copy everything off of it and onto your computer hard drive in a safe place. Then install and run this application: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/ and use it to format the SD card. (Do not use Windows's built-in stuff to format the card, it won't fix it.)
After the format is done, copy everything back to the card, and then back into the phone and try it again.
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Well the card has NOTHING on it.... I have no clue and CWM states no files either.
I have this gut feeling I just bricked my phone as even I cannot get it into download mode CMW just keeps coming up nice and BLUE ...
UPDATE : I am able to use CWM it seems I tried adding a ROM to the SD card and reinserting yet Nothing... I have the feeling the system is wiped also... IS there a zip file I can use to restore that anyone knows about... I was searching for the Orginal firmware and can't find anything.
Thanks
Larry

Stuck on Recovery - No SD card - Help!

Ok, I really messed up. the phone was almost bricked, but I finely managed to
get back to Clockwork Recovery.
Now I want to restore my backup or update the rom again, but it says:
No files found.
it seems that the SD card is formatted or unreachable.
What can I do? Any ideas?

It's easy to send your favorite Rom to SD
go to CWM --->Advanced ---> mount USB when screen changed connect your device to PC and then your SD card will appear on monitor now you can put Rom on SD and after flashing the boot.img install rom using CWM.

arses said:
It's easy to send your favorite Rom to SD
go to CWM --->Advanced ---> mount USB when screen changed connect your device to PC and then your SD card will appear on monitor now you can put Rom on SD and after flashing the boot.img install rom using CWM.
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I've tried that just now,
it says: "unable to open ums file"
when I click it.
Edit: ok I updated the recovery
and now the mounting works!
Downloading the new ROM now, wish me luck!

[Q] Urgent help needed!

Okay guys i have the n7105 version of the Note 2 and i need some help. I'm using twrp as recovery and was flashing a new rom. However something went wrong and my phone was stuck in a bootloop. So i wiped the usual stuff(dalvik caches etc) but i accidently wiped my internal sd card which has my rom on it. i also wiped my system. I have download another rom onto my external sd card and tried to flash it but everytime i hit the use external sd card option, twrp will reboot so now theres noway i can restore my phone. Also i tried mounting my internal sd card but my pc wont recognize it. Help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

coms159 said:
Okay guys i have the n7105 version of the Note 2 and i need some help. I'm using twrp as recovery and was flashing a new rom. However something went wrong and my phone was stuck in a bootloop. So i wiped the usual stuff(dalvik caches etc) but i accidently wiped my internal sd card which has my rom on it. i also wiped my system. I have download another rom onto my external sd card and tried to flash it but everytime i hit the use external sd card option, twrp will reboot so now theres noway i can restore my phone. Also i tried mounting my internal sd card but my pc wont recognize it. Help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Try flashing the stock recover/firmwares through Odin or RomToolKit. I'm hoping you didn't somehow mess up the partition on the internal.

[email protected] said:
Try flashing the stock recover/firmwares through Odin or RomToolKit. I'm hoping you didn't somehow mess up the partition on the internal.
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okay thank you will try it now and report back.

Need help too
I have a very similar issue right now and am able to still access download/recovery mode. I attempted to use the TOOLKIT V3.0.0 for att to restore back to stock. But the problem is it says "waiting for usb debugging to be enabled" which obviously isnt going to happen since it cant boot. Is this still the case with trying to flash back to stock in Odin manually? Please help. I spent practically every penny on this new phone and havent even had it a week...

Set up odin on your computer...go to sammobile.com dl your fw for your phone..extract it to a .tar. .open odin. Press pda put the. File in yhat slot. Make sure only auto reboot and f reset are cheakd...make sure phone is in dl mode flash away
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coms159 said:
Okay guys i have the n7105 version of the Note 2 and i need some help. I'm using twrp as recovery and was flashing a new rom. However something went wrong and my phone was stuck in a bootloop. So i wiped the usual stuff(dalvik caches etc) but i accidently wiped my internal sd card which has my rom on it. i also wiped my system. I have download another rom onto my external sd card and tried to flash it but everytime i hit the use external sd card option, twrp will reboot so now theres noway i can restore my phone. Also i tried mounting my internal sd card but my pc wont recognize it. Help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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You can always use the advance mode in twrp to copy the file over from external to internal and then flash. Also I'd you have the right drivers installed on your pc you can just connect your phone to computer and copy the ROM over to internal sd. If twrp isn't reading the external do a recovery reboot and try again.
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[Q] no OS and ROM zip files corrupted on external SD!

While on the below thread .. I eventually ended up making my TWRP to format my data, system, cache, as well as internal storage!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46522379&postcount=364
Now it is all gone. successfully.
Note, when i formatted the internal storage - it did ask me to restart to update the partition tables. I did that. I warned me that there is no OS. I went ahead and restarted in recovery. I could browse using TWRP->advanced->file manager and see the zips on external sd card.
I had gapps and rom zip files copied on external SD card. When I try to flash those in TWRP, it throws an error - E: unable to open zip file!
Now I can not flash any of those! there is no OS also on the phone! I suspect that the external SD card is corrupt! I have good zip files on my computer (it has no working sd card reader).
Is there any way, i can transfer these zip files from my computer to phone's internal storage from where i can flash them?
please help!

rohit.bhosale said:
While on the below thread .. I eventually ended up making my TWRP to format my data, system, cache, as well as internal storage!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46522379&postcount=364
Now it is all gone. successfully.
Note, when i formatted the internal storage - it did ask me to restart to update the partition tables. I did that. I warned me that there is no OS. I went ahead and restarted in recovery. I could browse using TWRP->advanced->file manager and see the zips on external sd card.
I had gapps and rom zip files copied on external SD card. When I try to flash those in TWRP, it throws an error - E: unable to open zip file!
Now I can not flash any of those! there is no OS also on the phone! I suspect that the external SD card is corrupt! I have good zip files on my computer (it has no working sd card reader).
Is there any way, i can transfer these zip files from my computer to phone's internal storage from where i can flash them?
please help!
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There's no way to effectively access internal SD without having been mounted first.
But there are two ways you can do this.
1. Take the MicroSD Card and insert into the PC via Card Readers.Then copy the zip files there. Properly eject the card from PC then insert it into the phone. Now TWRP will recognize the files and flash them. If it still does not then its a bad download so download again. Also while there, get the MD5 values as well for your zip files. This allows the recovery to validate the files. If you still have errors then roll back TWRP to version 2.5.0.0
2. Put phone in download mode. Use Odin on PC to flash one of the rooted stock roms. After that, proceed to re-download on phone and try again.
P.S. - I typically never let Recovery to format my external card. Then the file system issues start popping up.
EDIT - I noticed from your other post that your PC does not have a working SD Card Slot. In that case, you could put the card in another phone and then copy the files to this sd card and then use that way.

Perseus71 said:
There's no way to effectively access internal SD without having been mounted first.
But there are two ways you can do this.
1. Take the MicroSD Card and insert into the PC via Card Readers.Then copy the zip files there. Properly eject the card from PC then insert it into the phone. Now TWRP will recognize the files and flash them. If it still does not then its a bad download so download again. Also while there, get the MD5 values as well for your zip files. This allows the recovery to validate the files. If you still have errors then roll back TWRP to version 2.5.0.0
2. Put phone in download mode. Use Odin on PC to flash one of the rooted stock roms. After that, proceed to re-download on phone and try again.
P.S. - I typically never let Recovery to format my external card. Then the file system issues start popping up.
EDIT - I noticed from your other post that your PC does not have a working SD Card Slot. In that case, you could put the card in another phone and then copy the files to this sd card and then use that way.
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How do I flash CM or MIUI ROM using odin? I am trying to search the forums but unable to find anything! odin needs a tar file and all these roms come with zip file! What do I do?

You can't unless the dev specifically made an Odin flashable version, which they never do. Flash the stock root66 firmware with odin.
You can't access the internal storage simply because it's not there anymore. When you chose to format data, it completely wiped out the /data partition. Your internal sd is really located at /data/media, but until you can reboot, this won't be recreated.
I doubt the external sd is corrupt or you would've seen issues before your wiping frenzy. But you can use adb while in recovery to connect the phone to your computer. Search for adb sdk install guide, or similar.
Best option now is to try Odin flashing the root66 firmware.
Oh, and you probably know by now, but never format system! This should only be a last resort type thing imo. Never understood why people recommend it for things like prepping for a Rom flash. The Rom will format system during install anyway.
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I used this
http://apcmag.com/how-to-unroot-your-galaxy-s3-and-flash-it-back-to-stock-rom.htm
and got the stock rom back. appeared like that was the only way to get back to running system. Now it's alright.
to my surprise, following problems disappeared.
1. The SD card no more automatically ejects!
2. battery lasts longer!
3. no random reboots at all!
never thought .. i would feel good getting back to stock rom !

Isn't that exactly what we were telling you to do in the first place though? Use odin to flash stock/root66 firmware? I think you just took the long way is all. I also have all that firmware hosted so people could download it much faster than by using sammobile or samsung-updates hotfile downloads.
Either way though, glad you got it running again!
Just posting so others know if they come across this in the future.
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yes guru! you said it.
I tried adb route too ... but for some reason it never detected my device. I tried removing, installing drivers, getting sdk and all. then tried the odin route.
Now will stay with this rom for some days ... before I get back to MIUI ... want to see it working ... for some reason it was continuously making my phone reboot! now that it is a clean slate, i hope this time, it will work!
fingers crossed!

If you want to try adb again for anything in the future, there's a different driver pkg that would probably help there. Adb universal drivers. Theyre in my driver repo with the rest if you ever need them.
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just copy the zip file on your phone storage

ROM zip files corrupted on external SD!
i think just change your sd card
and its work for you
this happen because of croupted sd card

I have same problem when flash the rom through tarp it shown zip file is currupt. Any one help me I tried more method but I failed every time

ashiqpm14 said:
I have same problem when flash the rom through tarp it shown zip file is currupt. Any one help me I tried more method but I failed every time
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I used this
http://apcmag.com/how-to-unroot-your...-stock-rom.htm
and got the stock rom back. appeared like that was the only way to get back to running system.
Did you try this?