Morning all. Just a quick question. I've read a few posts suggesting before flashing a JB ROM you should Odin back to stock. Is this true or does it not matter? I was always flashing custom ICS ROM's and then just did the usually clean/wiping and started flashing 4.2 ROM's. Will this cause any issues or any benefits to starting fresh?
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I'm on the att version, but I didn't experience any problems either way. Two different handsets (had to exchange due to the black splotches that plague oled screens), but I rooted and flashed to a 4.2.1 ROM from both the ICS and JB stock images. Definitely search some more, but I didn't have any issues whatsoever.
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I'm on the att version, but I didn't experience any problems either way. Two different handsets (had to exchange due to the black splotches that plague oled screens), but I rooted and flashed to a 4.2.1 ROM from both the ICS and JB stock images. Definitely search some more, but I didn't have any issues whatsoever.
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Thanks for the response and info!
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Usually what I do is put titanium backup, rom manager backups, pics and downloads on my ext sd card. Whenever I install cm10 or aokp and go back to touchwiz I format my internal sd and I'm good to go.
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It shouldn't cause any issues flashing a 4.2 rom on your phone. There's no need to go back to stock in order to do it, either. Roms you flash will format and repartition as necessary. Just make sure to do a full wipe and follow instructions to the letter and you'll be fine.
Never had any issues. Just recently been having a strange problem. When I restore my back up there is nothing in my "download" folder or pictures. I know for a fact there were. Now he's the weird part. Plug phone into computer, reboot and do my cleaning then flash my nandroid. Once phone boots back up my computer opens the phones drive up so I can see all my folders on internal. If I quickly open "download" folder from computer, all my files are there for a few seconds then all of a sudden....gone. Hope that made sense
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Never had any issues. Just recently been having a strange problem. When I restore my back up there is nothing in my "download" folder or pictures. I know for a fact there were. Now he's the weird part. Plug phone into computer, reboot and do my cleaning then flash my nandroid. Once phone boots back up my computer opens the phones drive up so I can see all my folders on internal. If I quickly open "download" folder from computer, all my files are there for a few seconds then all of a sudden....gone. Hope that made sense
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4.2 moves them to sdcard/0
Just cut the folders from there and paste back to the sdcard root.
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4.2 moves them to sdcard/0
Just cut the folders from there and paste back to the sdcard root.
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Thanks. I know they moved but they are not there.
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So can someone help me with these problem I'm having.
This has been tested on two epics and the results are pretty much the same but I can't seem to understand whyyy.
Ever since FC09 TW ROMs I've always had these problems. I would wipe everything 3x and I would install the ROM and I would have something broken, either music, video, or pictures. This issue has been on different ROMs and different epics. Everytime I install a ROM one of those 3 has to be broken.
I flashed thunderhawk on my phone and videos always fc'ed no mattter what player I used.
I flashed it on my cuzins phone and music was a problem for him. No music players would work
I flashed TPR and I lost video once again.
I flashed stock deodexed on my cuzins phone and video broke for him.
I flashed mortify rom on my cuzins phone and gallery FC'es.
And when I say something breaks it literally will not work whatsoever. No matter what app I download or what I wipe or how I install it, it just will not work.
What am I doing wrong here? This problem is only on TW ROMs.
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Odin back to FC09. Test these features on stock rom. IF they work, then flash CWM and then a select rom. Test again. Make a backup in CWM.
Odin again, test features again. Flash CWM and select rom. Test again. Make backup in CWM.... rinse repeat.
Once you do that, you should have working backups of each rom to work from.
Since videos, music and pix are on your sd card I suspect your card is failing.
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Odin back to FC09. Test these features on stock rom. IF they work, then flash CWM and then a select rom. Test again. Make a backup in CWM.
Odin again, test features again. Flash CWM and select rom. Test again. Make backup in CWM.... rinse repeat.
Once you do that, you should have working backups of each rom to work from.
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I could try that when I get some time.
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Since videos, music and pix are on your sd card I suspect your card is failing.
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And this may be a reason but I don't think that both of our sd cards are messed up. Unless it has to do with flashing roms and switching sd cards since I have most the roms on my memory card and I flash them and remove the memory card.
I'm gonna try the odin test to see what happens.
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lilajrestnom said:
I could try that when I get some time.
And this may be a reason but I don't think that both of our sd cards are messed up. Unless it has to do with flashing roms and switching sd cards since I have most the roms on my memory card and I flash them and remove the memory card.
I'm gonna try the odin test to see what happens.
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Do you swap the correct card back before booting the ROM for the first time and did you make sure there isn't a .nomedia file in any of the directories giving you trouble?
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Do you swap the correct card back before booting the ROM for the first time and did you make sure there isn't a .nomedia file in any of the directories giving you trouble?
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I flashed a lot of times so I'm not sure which memory card was in the phone at its first boot, but it most likely would be the wrong one.
And yes, there isn't no .nomedia file in any of those.
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Just a little side off-topic quuestion cuz I don't feel like making a new thread. Is there any file explorers that let's me go into data/apps and delete things without having root?
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lilajrestnom said:
Just a little side off-topic quuestion cuz I don't feel like making a new thread. Is there any file explorers that let's me go into data/apps and delete things without having root?
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No. Without root you cannot make system writeable.
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So I'm on cm10.1 and I'm wanting to go back to 4.1 probably frosty jb. Am I able to just flash frosty from twrp or do I have to odin 4.1 first??
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just flash the 4.1 after wiping everything including internal and external storage, (I do and suggest it). This way the emulated/0 folder wont be there and cause you to clutter the threads up. Of course back up your both of your storage areas, if you choose to wipe them.
Beware, it seems going back from 4.2 to 4.1 could break your GPS. If that happens, you can look in the General section on a possible fix.
You can install any Rom with twrp whether you are going from 2.3.2 to 4.2 or vice versa.
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ROM: All-star ROM v7
Kernel: Lighting
Radio: LB7 blaze
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I'm trying to make an app, message if you are willing to help!
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Yup I have just be sure to wipe cache dev cache and delete data a couple times before and after. You should be OK.
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I also flashed the 4.2 rom when I was experimenting when I first got my phone. When I flash back to 4.1.1 I had the emulated /0 folder. At that time I just copied everything out of that folder into the internal. Problem with that is the /0 folder can not be deleted. I have been wondering what is the best method to format internal sd. I am currently on Frosty rom and I have nothing to lose in my internal that can't be replaced. Can I just format and reboot system or do I need to reflash rom after deleting internal? On other devices I have had there was always a risk of bricking if you formatted internal. I would appreciate any advice so that I don't mess up my phone. Thanks is advance. BTW I use TWRP as my recovery method.
~Todd
Thanks for all the help. Wiping data and both caches worked perfectly fine to get back to 4.1
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falcons2 said:
Thanks for all the help. Wiping data and both caches worked perfectly fine to get back to 4.1
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Hey is Bluetooth working in 4.1 cm10? Specifically the music streaming to blue tooth?
Just went back to stock for Bluetooth but I hate stock...
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Imma say... going from 4.2.1 back to 4.1 was a b!tch. Caused me to have to start all over. And as another individual stated above, there is an emulated /0/ folder that 4.2 uses due to the new profile architecture. Basically you wiping your phone, it leaves a copy of your SD card in the /0/. The restore process in CWM (I've not used TWRP on my GS3 so I can't speak for it), it breaks the restore process as CWM can't read from other than it's predefined restore location. Now I've read on the Nexus 7 forums that do restore, you could potentially make a copy of your CWM folder from /0/ into your base sd folder.
I guess just play around with it, but personally I recommend not jumping to 4.2.1. I personally had to ODIN back to stock and wipe everything and start over cuz I ran out of space to move files and it just took too long since each time you wipe, it would embed everything in a /0/ and eventually the copies just overwhelmed.
But basically key understanding of this whole restore/downgrade issue is 4.2.1's profile architecture dumping all your SDcard (phone) content into /0/ and your CWM is used to restoring from SD/clockworkmod/backup rather than looking @ SD/0/clockworkmod/backup.
I flash from 4.2.1 to 4.1.1 and back all the time... Never ever had an issue
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Hey is Bluetooth working in 4.1 cm10? Specifically the music streaming to blue tooth?
Just went back to stock for Bluetooth but I hate stock...
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I'm not sure. I went to frosty not cm10
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I'm not sure. I went to frosty not cm10
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Lol I went frosty also.
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PostMeridianLyf said:
Lol I went frosty also.
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The battery life is insane I'm still shocked that I even left it lol
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Hey guys! Its been a while since I've rooted a phone (HTC Inspire 4G) but last night I rooted my S3. Today I was checking storage and it says I have 2.62GB left on my internal SD card. I run the numbers on apps, downloads, etc. and it just doesn't add up to using 9GBs of space. I'm running LiquidSmooth with gapps (which downloaded my previous apps from stock via my account). Can someone help me out with this? Even if I have to completely wipe the storage space to get the room back, I'm fine with that. I just don't like not having space especially when there should be way more since there are no pictures or music on the phone. Thanks everyone and its good to be back flashing!
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I'm also running into an issue finding flashable .zips that are in my /download folder in Astro but not found when using CWM. Weird...
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Disregard not being to find them... Apparently I have a separate folder labeled /sdcard/0 that I have no idea how it was made... Is there a .exe to full wipe/format my sdcard so I can start with a clean slate and then simply restore my current ROM/Kernel? Factory reset, format system, wiping cache and dalvik cache then restoring backup isn't working.
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You know if you posted this in the right forum you might get some help.
It's not hard to realize that if you're asking a question it should probably be in the forum labeled questions and answers. Think before you post.
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You know if you posted this in the right forum you might get some help.
It's not hard to realize that if you're asking a question it should probably be in the forum labeled questions and answers. Think before you post.
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His question is in the Q&A
Read before posting
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His question is in the Q&A
Read before posting
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It is now that I reported it for being in the wrong section and a mod moved it.
Think before you post.
Anyways, the internal SD card is always going to have much less space then as advertised on the phone. My phone is a 16GB and out of the box I think it had like 13 or so.
You can install TWRP from Goo Manager and use that recovery to make a backup, format your internal storage, then restore data from a backup if you really think you're missing space, but honestly you probably arent.
Thank you for noticing that it was in the wrong forum Tekno.... And for getting that fixed. I understand I have less than advertised but before I rooted it, I backed up all the pictures onto my computer. My phone has no pictures or music on it so I'm trying to figure out where 10GBs have gone.
I will look up TWRP and hopefully that will help...
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Well if you've already backed up that you may as well just backup your contacts and anything else you may need and start clean. And by that I mean do a full wipe before flashing a ROM and don't restore data after.
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TeknoGodz said:
Well if you've already backed up that you may as well just backup your contacts and anything else you may need and start clean. And by that I mean do a full wipe before flashing a ROM and don't restore data after.
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Well, I'm a little too late for all of that now. I soft bricked the phone. Using CWM, I managed to erase everything from the sdcard. All files, all folders, everything. Now when the phone boots it hangs at the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen. I can, however, get into Download Mode and Recovery Mode. Unfortunately for me though, I do not have the stock ROM .tar and cannot download it due to workstation restrictions. I can also get to Recovery Mode but I have absolutely no files on the sdcard at all and I can't figure out a way to force push LiquidSmooth onto the phone. I receive recognition of connection via ODIN but that program only uses .tar/.gz/.img/etc. and I can't put the LiquidSmooth .zip on that way. Hopefully someone can bring me a copy of the Stock ROM in to work tomorrow as I'm on duty and won't be able to leave work for a while (days).
Oh, it's been a while since I've bricked a phone also. Those days I don't miss...
Are there any other options that I may not have exhausted?
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Well, I'm a little too late for all of that now. I soft bricked the phone. Using CWM, I managed to erase everything from the sdcard. All files, all folders, everything. Now when the phone boots it hangs at the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen. I can, however, get into Download Mode and Recovery Mode. Unfortunately for me though, I do not have the stock ROM .tar and cannot download it due to workstation restrictions. I can also get to Recovery Mode but I have absolutely no files on the sdcard at all and I can't figure out a way to force push LiquidSmooth onto the phone. I receive recognition of connection via ODIN but that program only uses .tar/.gz/.img/etc. and I can't put the LiquidSmooth .zip on that way. Hopefully someone can bring me a copy of the Stock ROM in to work tomorrow as I'm on duty and won't be able to leave work for a while (days).
Oh, it's been a while since I've bricked a phone also. Those days I don't miss...
Are there any other options that I may not have exhausted?
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Well heres a few things you can try:
1) ADB to push the rom to the phone
2) Use a proxy service to download original firmware (not sure if your workplace would like that though), Heres a link to the stock ATT firmware, not rooted, pure stock from sammobile http://www.hotfile.com/dl/182319352/b8d55a6/I747UCDLK3_I747ATTDLK3_ATT.zip.html
3) Ask to borrow a co-workers phone to download the file
Thanks Tekno. Finally back online...
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More specifically stock GB27 (which I believe is the latest official update from Samsung on our device). I'm currently on CM10.1 Wild for the Night 4.2.2, but I want to get onto an official release from Samsung even though it'll just be 4.1.2, mainly because I want to see if my battery life will be any better and if so how much, and partly because I'm just tired of dealing with random bugs by now (CM10.1 specifically destroys my battery if I restart for some reason, I can have 85% battery and then if I do a restart I'll have 9% when it turns back on) and I miss the stock experience.
Does anyone know exactly what steps I would have to go through in order to go back to stock from 10.1? I also plan to root once I get back on stock because I like that freedom, but for now I'm a little tired of stock android (AOSP roms, that is). Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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More specifically stock GB27 (which I believe is the latest official update from Samsung on our device). I'm currently on CM10.1 Wild for the Night 4.2.2, but I want to get onto an official release from Samsung even though it'll just be 4.1.2, mainly because I want to see if my battery life will be any better and if so how much, and partly because I'm just tired of dealing with random bugs by now (CM10.1 specifically destroys my battery if I restart for some reason, I can have 85% battery and then if I do a restart I'll have 9% when it turns back on) and I miss the stock experience.
Does anyone know exactly what steps I would have to go through in order to go back to stock from 10.1? I also plan to root once I get back on stock because I like that freedom, but for now I'm a little tired of stock android (AOSP roms, that is). Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Go here http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?p=1902 download the gb27 stock restore one click. Make sure you copy all you stuff to PC it will get deleted. Once you downloaded the one click put your phone into download mode(volume down and power) once in download mode open the one click connect phone via usb cord. Once the Odin detects your phone(you should get a yellow box saying com and a #) hit the start. When done you should be on stock gb27
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Go here http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?p=1902 download the gb27 stock restore one click. Make sure you copy all you stuff to PC it will get deleted. Once you downloaded the one click put your phone into download mode(volume down and power) once in download mode open the one click connect phone via usb cord. Once the Odin detects your phone(you should get a yellow box saying com and a #) hit the start. When done you should be on stock gb27
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So I shouldn't have to wipe data, cache, dalvik, or any of that? And will it wipe only my personal info or will it wipe my entire internal SD? Thanks for the reply, by the way.
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So I shouldn't have to wipe data, cache, dalvik, or any of that? And will it wipe only my personal info or will it wipe my entire internal SD? Thanks for the reply, by the way.
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No you don't need to wipe anything. It will wipe everything that's on your phone. It will not erase what you have on sd card.
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No you don't need to wipe anything. It will wipe everything that's on your phone. It will not erase what you have on sd card.
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ah, okay. I'll backup everything to dropbox right now then I suppose. Thanks!
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ah, okay. I'll backup everything to dropbox right now then I suppose. Thanks!
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You don't even need to do Dropbox. Just make a folder on PC connect phone copy and paste all internal stuff to that new folder you put on PC. Once your back to stock transfer the stuff from the folder to your phone.
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You don't even need to do Dropbox. Just make a folder on PC connect phone copy and paste all internal stuff to that new folder you put on PC. Once your back to stock transfer the stuff from the folder to your phone.
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Good point, thanks again for everything!
OK so here is a deal, today i flashed my first 4.2 rom tried the latest MiBox 4.2 and first had problems in the rom itself. did a clean flash and now any of songs are showing up along with 0 images and videos? i gotta say my first aosp rom experience on my note 2 has SUCKED so far so i just want to go back to TW 4.1 on the asap. what do i need todo in order to go back to TW safe?? please help have a messed up rom with no way out.
What happened is that all your photos and documents are stored on a different partition. They're still there they just need moved over... Or just save everything on your extSD card.
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What happened is that all your photos and documents are stored on a different partition. They're still there they just need moved over... Or just save everything on your extSD card.
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how can i return to TW 4.1?
chuko303 said:
how can i return to TW 4.1?
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Just flash back to Twiz. All your stuff is still there where it was and will be when you flash back, it is just locked in a partition that is not accessible inside AOSP ROMs. Move your stuff over to your external SD card, and then enjoy AOSP. The different partitions is due to a changing of naming convention between TWiz 4.1 and AOSP 4.2 etc. Ofc, it depends on how "clean" you flashed and whether you fully wiped the /data/media partition-which shouldn't be wiped unless you tell TWRP to.
There's a flashable zip file somewhere to move stuff between the AOSP and TWiz partitions automagically. I never use it. Putting everything on the extSD is simpler.
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Just flash back to Twiz. All your stuff is still there where it was and will be when you flash back, it is just locked in a partition that is not accessible inside AOSP ROMs. Move your stuff over to your external SD card, and then enjoy AOSP. The different partitions is due to a changing of naming convention between TWiz 4.1 and AOSP 4.2 etc.
There's a flashable zip file somewhere to move stuff between the AOSP and TWiz partitions automagically. I never use it. Putting everything on the extSD is simpler.
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I heard that something can happen and you can loose everything. I would rather flash that zip your talking about but I have no clue
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I heard that something can happen and you can loose everything. I would rather flash that zip your talking about but I have no clue
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That "something" only happens if you have an external SD card that is *not* formatted FAT32...which odds are unless you did something out of your way really special-your card is FAT32.
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That "something" only happens if you have an external SD card that is *not* formatted FAT32...which odds are unless you did something out of your way really special-your card is FAT32.
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I have a 32gb. Don't only 64 GB need to be formated to FAT32?
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Found the downgrade zip. Now just charging phone before I flash labrats then the zip after then boot I should be fine.
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