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[Q] How to update your ROM.

Hello guys, I would like to know how to update my ROM using dalvik cache? I have Foxhound ROM 0.3 and i would like to install the 0.4. Can anyone help me ?

Hi Mate
You don't update using the Dalvik Cache. The Dalvik Cache is just something that is best to clear before an update.
In order to flash a new ROM there are a few things you need to have set up on your computer and phone and they are well detailed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
Read the above thread and find out what has already been done. I think your phone will be Bootloader Unlocked and Rooted already. If so flash the latest Clockwork Recovery Mod CWM and then just download the ROM you want and store it on your phone. Once done you will be able to use the above link to easily write it to your phone using CRM and the Flash Update from SD Card Option.
Hope this helps.

jamesmcuk said:
Hi Mate
You don't update using the Dalvik Cache. The Dalvik Cache is just something that is best to clear before an update.
In order to flash a new ROM there are a few things you need to have set up on your computer and phone and they are well detailed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
Read the above thread and find out what has already been done. I think your phone will be Bootloader Unlocked and Rooted already. If so flash the latest Clockwork Recovery Mod CWM and then just download the ROM you want and store it on your phone. Once done you will be able to use the above link to easily write it to your phone using CRM and the Flash Update from SD Card Option.
Hope this helps.
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Ummm. he doesn't have to read that thread..
Just simply download the ROM
Put it on your phone's storage
Boot into CWR
Wipe Dalvik and Cache
Flash ROM
[OPTIONAL] Flash Kernel (if you used one a custom kernel)

zephiK said:
Ummm. he doesn't have to read that thread..
Just simply download the ROM
Put it on your phone's storage
Boot into CWR
Wipe Dalvik and Cache
Flash ROM
[OPTIONAL] Flash Kernel (if you used one a custom kernel)
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If you flash another rom, will your apps be wiped as well? And if you flash an update from the same rom? Just back-up with Titanium or? Thanks.

danielvc said:
If you flash another rom, will your apps be wiped as well? And if you flash an update from the same rom? Just back-up with Titanium or? Thanks.
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Apps are never wiped unless you wipe data/factory. Yes use titanium
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[Q] Flash custom rom for a newbie..!!!

Hello all
I am a noob about flashing custom roms and i want to try the AOKP BUILD 25 for my nexus just to try it.
So my nexus has the following:
Phone: MAGURO GSM
Android OS: yakju 4.0.2 ICL53F
I WANT YOU PEOPLE TO HELP ME IF I GET THESE STEPS CORRECT(so i dont mess up my much loved nexus)
1.Make a backup with CWM(is this what you guys call NANDROID???)
2.Wipe data/factory reset in CWM
3.Put the ROM at the root of sd card on the phone(in pc i connect the nexus and put them right after the galaxu nexus drive where everything is???)
4.Flash AOKP BUILD 25(Do i need to flash previous build before i flash buid 25)
5.Flash Gapps
6. Reboot
My other questions are:
1.Everytime you flash a custom rom,Gapps,custom KERNEL,RADIO, I do these steps one by one or all at the same time????
2.The md5 sums i put them together with the ROM OR GAPPS on the phone or is just for me to check if they are correct
3.If a make a factory/data reset in CWM doesn't that delete my CWM and Titanium apps back ups???
4.Last one is if a flash a custom rom like AOKP 25 after that i cant restore system apps and data???
Thank you all people in advance for your very apreciated help.
Badtazm

badtazm said:
1.Make a backup with CWM(is this what you guys call NANDROID???)
2.Wipe data/factory reset in CWM
3.Put the ROM at the root of sd card on the phone(in pc i connect the nexus and put them right after the galaxu nexus drive where everything is???)
4.Flash AOKP BUILD 25(Do i need to flash previous build before i flash buid 25)
5.Flash Gapps
6. Reboot
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Correct.
My other questions are:
1.Everytime you flash a custom rom,Gapps,custom KERNEL,RADIO, I do these steps one by one or all at the same time????
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Depends on what you're flashing. If you're just updating GAPPS or to a new version of the same ROM you don't have to do a full wipe. That'd be a hassle. Only wipe if they recommend it for the update, or you're switching to a completely different ROM.
2.The md5 sums i put them together with the ROM OR GAPPS on the phone or is just for me to check if they are correct
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That's to check that you had a proper download.
3.If a make a factory/data reset in CWM doesn't that delete my CWM and Titanium apps back ups???
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Its meant to preserve your data but wipe the system for re-flashing.
4.Last one is if a flash a custom rom like AOKP 25 after that i cant restore system apps and data???
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You can restore user apps + data. I would stay away from restoring system data as it usually causes more problems than its worth. As a precaution I like to do a nandroid of the clean ROM before batch restoring with TiBU, because restoring lots of apps can mess things up and you don't wanna wipe and reflash because you borked a restore.

martonikaj said:
Correct.
Depends on what you're flashing. If you're just updating GAPPS or to a new version of the same ROM you don't have to do a full wipe. That'd be a hassle. Only wipe if they recommend it for the update, or you're switching to a completely different ROM.
That's to check that you had a proper download.
Its meant to preserve your data but wipe the system for re-flashing.
You can restore user apps + data. I would stay away from restoring system data as it usually causes more problems than its worth. As a precaution I like to do a nandroid of the clean ROM before batch restoring with TiBU, because restoring lots of apps can mess things up and you don't wanna wipe and reflash because you borked a restore.
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thanks man just two more question..
1.Do i need to flash previous builds before i flash buid 25??
2.And i flash the Milestone 3 after i flash AOKP BUILD 25 AND GAPPS???

badtazm said:
thanks man just two more question..
1.Do i need to flash previous builds before i flash buid 25??
2.And i flash the Milestone 3 after i flash AOKP BUILD 25 AND GAPPS???
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no and no
25 is the full rom (outside of gapps) and i think more current than milestone 3.
all you'd need to do is flash aokp 25 and then gapps.

Thanks very much guys i m going to try it right now and we ll see if i succeed..

Updating Cyanogenmod without losing settings

I've been flashing the nightly cyaongenmod 10.1 builds on my i747m using cwm.
Is there a way to prevent losing all the settings and apps that I have? For example, if I don't clear data/cache will this cause bad things to happen?
Or is there another way to do this?

nmunro said:
I've been flashing the nightly cyaongenmod 10.1 builds on my i747m using cwm.
Is there a way to prevent losing all the settings and apps that I have? For example, if I don't clear data/cache will this cause bad things to happen?
Or is there another way to do this?
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Get titanium backup and do a full backup of your apps/data. When you restore, dont restore any system app but you can restore the rest.
And to avoid problems, always clear cache/dalvik.

nmunro said:
I've been flashing the nightly cyaongenmod 10.1 builds on my i747m using cwm.
Is there a way to prevent losing all the settings and apps that I have? For example, if I don't clear data/cache will this cause bad things to happen?
Or is there another way to do this?
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All you need to do is download the new nightly that you wanna flash, boot into recovery, flash the nightly. If you have any other files that you wanna flash like a kernel, flash them after the nightly. Clear cache & dalvik cache & reboot. You won't lose any apps or settings doing it this way. This is how I update every day. Now if you wanna do a clean install every single time you update, that's another story. The way I just explained to you will work just fine. There is no need in wiping EVERYTHING for every update.
Sent from my Galaxy S3

RobbieL811 said:
All you need to do is download the new nightly that you wanna flash, boot into recovery, flash the nightly. If you have any other files that you wanna flash like a kernel, flash them after the nightly. Clear cache & dalvik cache & reboot. You won't lose any apps or settings doing it this way. This is how I update every day. Now if you wanna do a clean install every single time you update, that's another story. The way I just explained to you will work just fine. There is no need in wiping EVERYTHING for every update.
Sent from my Galaxy S3
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It's not only about wiping everything (Clean flash), having a backup is always good and *needed* imo. Never know when something will go wrong, could be as simple as a corrupted download.

So just to confirm, if I download the latest nightly, boot into cwm, clear cache and dalvik, but don't delete user data, then flash ROM and gapps, it will have all my settings and apps already setup?

nmunro said:
So just to confirm, if I download the latest nightly, boot into cwm, clear cache and dalvik, but don't delete user data, then flash ROM and gapps, it will have all my settings and apps already setup?
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Yes.
Should still concider Tibu. Friendly suggestion.

nmunro said:
So just to confirm, if I download the latest nightly, boot into cwm, clear cache and dalvik, but don't delete user data, then flash ROM and gapps, it will have all my settings and apps already setup?
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Yes.
Sent from my Galaxy S3
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BWolf56 said:
It's not only about wiping everything (Clean flash), having a backup is always good and *needed* imo. Never know when something will go wrong, could be as simple as a corrupted download.
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Thanks. I didn't think about mentioning that. It's kind of a given to me to keep a good nandroid. Some people may not know though. Thanks for adding that.
Sent from my Galaxy S3

I have a touchwiz nandroid and a cm10 nandroid on my SD card and my computer.
Will I have to flash gapps again or will that already be there?

nmunro said:
I have a touchwiz nandroid and a cm10 nandroid on my SD card and my computer.
Will I have to flash gapps again or will that already be there?
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Gotta flash the Gapps everytime you flash a ROM. (Their respective one)

nmunro said:
I have a touchwiz nandroid and a cm10 nandroid on my SD card and my computer.
Will I have to flash gapps again or will that already be there?
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You will only have to flash Gapps the first time. If you update like I told you, you will not have to flash them.
Sent from my Galaxy S3

Changing from stable to nightly
Hi,
I'm currently running on a cm 10.1.3 stable (note 2 N7100). I would like to install cm-11-20141027-NIGHTLY-n7100. Do i have to do a complete wipe or just flash the downloaded file from recovery.

cm upgrade manually w/o losing data
RobbieL811 said:
All you need to do is download the new nightly that you wanna flash, boot into recovery, flash the nightly. If you have any other files that you wanna flash like a kernel, flash them after the nightly. Clear cache & dalvik cache & reboot. You won't lose any apps or settings doing it this way. This is how I update every day. Now if you wanna do a clean install every single time you update, that's another story. The way I just explained to you will work just fine. There is no need in wiping EVERYTHING for every update.
Sent from my Galaxy S3
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Does it apply to stable updates and upgrades also and not only for nightly?
Can I use the same method for updating CM11s to CM12 whenever they release...?

Titanium Backup
Will the Titanium Backup * root be the correct one, or the Titanium Pro?

[Q] Samsung Galaxy s3 i747 stuck in Cyanogenmod boot screen

Hello:
So I rooted my phone today and I downloaded the app, "ROM Manager," and downloaded a ROM from it, which I read that I'm not supposed to do, afterwards. Now, whenever I turn my phone on, it only shows the Cyanogenmod boot animation. I read in another thread that I should clear the cache, which I did, but it did not help. Should I try and flash it to the stock? Please help! I am inexperienced with this and I don't know what to do. Thanks in advance!

dallinrigby said:
Hello:
So I rooted my phone today and I downloaded the app, "ROM Manager," and downloaded a ROM from it, which I read that I'm not supposed to do, afterwards. Now, whenever I turn my phone on, it only shows the Cyanogenmod boot animation. I read in another thread that I should clear the cache, which I did, but it did not help. Should I try and flash it to the stock? Please help! I am inexperienced with this and I don't know what to do. Thanks in advance!
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Alright. First off: what OS were you running before you went to cyanogenmod? was it 4.0.4? 4.1.x? 4.2.x? or 4.3.x?
Second, give us more information about the phone.
Third, you might have to go into recovery mode, wipe your phone (theres two options in the main menu, and one in the advanced called wipe dalvik). Then youll have to reinstall Cyanogenmod.

ChinDaChin said:
Alright. First off: what OS were you running before you went to cyanogenmod? was it 4.0.4? 4.1.x? 4.2.x? or 4.3.x?
Second, give us more information about the phone.
Third, you might have to go into recovery mode, wipe your phone (theres two options in the main menu, and one in the advanced called wipe dalvik). Then youll have to reinstall Cyanogenmod.
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Your phone will get stuck if you did not clear the dalvik as well as the cache. I would recommend first clearing cache again and also dalvik before rebooting back into the operating system or doing something else which may not be necessary.

shortydoggg said:
Your phone will get stuck if you did not clear the dalvik as well as the cache. I would recommend first clearing cache again and also dalvik before rebooting back into the operating system or doing something else which may not be necessary.
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I have already tried to clear the cache and the dalvik and then did a reboot but it didn't change anything.

shortydoggg said:
Your phone will get stuck if you did not clear the dalvik as well as the cache. I would recommend first clearing cache again and also dalvik before rebooting back into the operating system or doing something else which may not be necessary.
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ChinDaChin said:
Alright. First off: what OS were you running before you went to cyanogenmod? was it 4.0.4? 4.1.x? 4.2.x? or 4.3.x?
Second, give us more information about the phone.
Third, you might have to go into recovery mode, wipe your phone (theres two options in the main menu, and one in the advanced called wipe dalvik). Then youll have to reinstall Cyanogenmod.
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I was running the stock jellybean before I installed cryogenmod...my phone is a galaxy s3 it47 (AT&T) network unlocked phone. Also, at the bottom in recovery mode it says
ClockworkMod Recovery v6. 0. 4. 5
I'm not sure whether or not this is important but it is the only thing that I can think of to tell you about my phone.
I don't care whether we keep my data, I just want it to be able to turn on! Can I just restore it using Odin somehow? I tried the wipe user memory option in recovery mode and that didn't help...

Personally, I hate both ROM manager and clockworkmod.
It sounds like you just need to wipe data (or factory reset), cache and dalvik, and then reboot. If that doesn't work, then you might have flashed a version of cyanogenmod that may not be compatible with your bootloader, and may have to manually try another ROM.

shortydoggg said:
Personally, I hate both ROM manager and clockworkmod.
It sounds like you just need to wipe data (or factory reset), cache and dalvik, and then reboot. If that doesn't work, then you might have flashed a version of cyanogenmod that may not be compatible with your bootloader, and may have to manually try another ROM.
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I tried to do a factory reset, it didn't help as far as I know. How do i manually try another rom?

dallinrigby said:
I tried to do a factory reset, it didn't help as far as I know. How do i manually try another rom?
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Can you tell us what version of touchwiz you were running before you tried rooting it? It's important if it's past 4.3.x, or before 4.3.x. Do the following if you were running 4.3.x before you rooted.
Go to http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2att&type=
Choose the one named: cm-10.2.0-d2att.zip
Download it and save it to your SD Card.
Go here and download 10.2: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Google_Apps and put it on your SD card with the above .zip.
Once thats done, power off your phone. Go into recovery mode (volume up + home + power).
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Wipe Cache partition
Advanced -> wipe Dalvik Cache
Go back, and choose Install Zip
Choose zip from /storage/sdcard (find your cm10.2 zip, run it. then run the gapps)
After you "installed" both zips, go back to the main menu and reboot system now
This will be a clean install of 10.2.
FYI: Clockworkmod Recovery is v6.0.4.5, so you have the most up to date.

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Can you tell us what version of touchwiz you were running before you tried rooting it? It's important if it's past 4.3.x, or before 4.3.x. Do the following if you were running 4.3.x before you rooted.
Choose the one named: cm-10.2.0-d2att.zip
Download it and save it to your SD Card.
Once thats done, power off your phone. Go into recovery mode (volume up + home + power).
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Wipe Cache partition
Advanced -> wipe Dalvik Cache
Go back, and choose Install Zip
Choose zip from /storage/sdcard (find your cm10.2 zip, run it. then run the gapps)
After you "installed" both zips, go back to the main menu and reboot system now
This will be a clean install of 10.2.
FYI: Clockworkmod Recovery is v6.0.4.5, so you have the most up to date.
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I don't know what version I had. Is there a way for me to tell? I just had whatever I bought it with, I never downloaded anything else.
It says on that second link to download Torrent or via It Vends, is this the right place, and if so what do I pick?
Thanks by the way, also is there a way I could do this with Odin?

dallinrigby said:
I don't know what version I had. Is there a way for me to tell? I just had whatever I bought it with, I never downloaded anything else.
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I used Goo.im. It's a funky looking website, but it's legitimate. I didn't do this with Odin, I used Cyanogenmod Installer :silly:
If you follow what I posted before, it will update everything, and you will run cyanogenmod 10.2. (What I'm running on my s3). HOWEVER, it will update your phone to 4.3. This means you cannot downgrade it, or it will be bricked. By downgrade, I mean you will not be able to run anything before 4.3. (So you can ONLY install roms that are 4.3, or jellybean).
I'm pretty sure you already updated everything since its stuck in the boot loop.
Any chance you did a nandroid backup(before you did the root)? If not, you've got nothing to lose and might as well go through with CM 10.2 (in my honest opinion).

ChinDaChin said:
I used Goo.im. It's a funky looking website, but it's legitimate. I didn't do this with Odin, I used Cyanogenmod Installer :silly:
If you follow what I posted before, it will update everything, and you will run cyanogenmod 10.2. (What I'm running on my s3). HOWEVER, it will update your phone to 4.3. This means you cannot downgrade it, or it will be bricked. By downgrade, I mean you will not be able to run anything before 4.3. (So you can ONLY install roms that are 4.3, or jellybean).
I'm pretty sure you already updated everything since its stuck in the boot loop.
Any chance you did a nandroid backup(before you did the root)? If not, you've got nothing to lose and might as well go through with CM 10.2 (in my honest opinion).
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Okay, so now it says Android system recovery <3e> at the top and at the bottom is this:
#MANUAL MODE#
--Applied Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : ATT
Successfully applied multi-CSC
Then when I pushed install from sdcard it said E:failed to verify whole file signature
Do i need to unzip it?

dallinrigby said:
Okay, so now it says Android system recovery <3e> at the top and at the bottom is this:
#MANUAL MODE#
--Applied Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : ATT
Successfully applied multi-CSC
Then when I pushed install from sdcard it said E:failed to verify whole file signature
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Don't lose hope, but every site/page I check, it says the error is with you flashing through Rom Manager. It's okay though, there has to be a solution.
I'm going to continue looking for the solution. If you could try and remember what version of the OS you were running before you tried to root, it would help out SO MUCH!
LOL., I forgot to hit post on this.
And no, don't unzip it. The phone can read it fine.
Anyway, after some quick reading, a few people are saying its either your rom that is corrupted, or you don't have the proper recovery. It can't be the rom, because the rom was downloaded from the source. So chances are its your recovery. I'm not sure if you can download the CWM recovery, and flash it from recovery. (if that makes sense?)

ChinDaChin said:
Don't lose hope, but every site/page I check, it says the error is with you flashing through Rom Manager. It's okay though, there has to be a solution.
I'm going to continue looking for the solution. If you could try and remember what version of the OS you were running before you tried to root, it would help out SO MUCH!
LOL., I forgot to hit post on this.
And no, don't unzip it. The phone can read it fine.
Anyway, after some quick reading, a few people are saying its either your rom that is corrupted, or you don't have the proper recovery. It can't be the rom, because the rom was downloaded from the source. So chances are its your recovery. I'm not sure if you can download the CWM recovery, and flash it from recovery. (if that makes sense?)
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I don't really understand this stuff very much, and also I am pretty sure my android version before was 4.1.2, that's jelly bean right? is that what you meant?

If it's CWM that is the problem, you can download TWRP and flash it via Odin if you can get into download mode. Then, you can use TWRP to flash a custom ROM.

audit13 said:
If it's CWM that is the problem, you can download TWRP and flash it via Odin if you can get into download mode. Then, you can use TWRP to flash a custom ROM.
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Where do i get TWRP? It doesn't say that I have Clockwork anymore, since I factory reset it

dallinrigby said:
I don't really understand this stuff very much, and also I am pretty sure my android version before was 4.1.2, that's jelly bean right? is that what you meant?
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Sorry.
I'm kind of conflicted on what's going on with your phone. It is partially a problem with going through Rom Manager to flash cyanogenmod.
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If it's CWM that is the problem, you can download TWRP and flash it via Odin if you can get into download mode. Then, you can use TWRP to flash a custom ROM.
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I guess you can try TWRP. I haven't used TWRP so I can't comment on it. I'll try finding an explanatory video that is simple to follow. (Don't throw out Cm10.2, or the gapps. You will need those to get Cyanogenmod on your phone!)

TWRP installed; Do I need anything else to flash CM13?

Title basically says it all.
I have been able to install TWRP on a S4 Mini. Do I need anything else to flash CM13?

riahc3 said:
Title basically says it all.
I have been able to install TWRP on a S4 Mini. Do I need anything else to flash CM13?
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No, but most people would flash gapps 6 too, else you will miss a lot (must be done at the same time as the ROM the first time to set permissions)

IronRoo said:
No, but most people would flash gapps 6 too, else you will miss a lot (must be done at the same time as the ROM the first time to set permissions)
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What I ment is before flashing it....Afterwards/during of couse Ill flash gapps

riahc3 said:
Title basically says it all.
I have been able to install TWRP on a S4 Mini. Do I need anything else to flash CM13?
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Copy CM13 rom and gapp in your sd card.
Backup your old firmware through twrp.
Do a factory Reset from Wipe.
And install CM13 and gapp respectively.
And enjoy ^_^

syednawaz said:
Copy CM13 rom and gapp in your sd card.
Backup your old firmware through twrp.
Do a factory Reset from Wipe.
And install CM13 and gapp respectively.
And enjoy ^_^
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checked every file hash matches, did exactly as written, done all of above and it doesn't work
TWRP went on in less than 10 second does that sound normal ? and how do you know if its actually on there?

Nope. Installation take atleast 2 or 3 minutes.
and if its installed properly you would have seen different rom from the stock.
Here is what i use for s4 mini(i9192). Also used it on i9190 model as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/development/rom-aokp-rom-25-apr-2016-t3366314
and these steps mentioned in the website.
A. Initial install
1. Copy ROM and Gapps to your external SD Card or internal memory
2. Boot into recovery
3. Wipe
4. Install ROM and Gapps
5. Reboot
Its simple. Should have worked.
I hope you have installed your model rom.

A question the system format is required to install the rom ??

juanpabloml said:
A question the system format is required to install the rom ??
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In TWRP Swipe for factory reset will do the job. you can also do dalvik /art cache in advance wipe. System or other wipe never did it for changing roms.

syednawaz said:
In TWRP Swipe for factory reset will do the job. you can also do dalvik /art cache in advance wipe. System or other wipe never did it for changing roms.
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Ie that enough only to make WIPE FACTORY RESET AND WIPE DALVIK CACHE is not necessary to the FORMAT SYSTEM, DATA AND CACHE ??

sorry i do not understand.
to install a rom just do a factory reset. nothing else is necessary.
If you do not do factory reset, sometimes you will not be able to install a new version of rom(for example, from kitkat to lollipop).
if you do not do factory reset its called dirty flash.
for example
you are using custom rom cm13. and it has a new update released, you go in twrp recovery and install the updated rom without doing factory reset. this way you can keep all the application and data you have.
i hope i am making some sense. it is hard for me to explain.
well do some flashing and you will understand but always make a backup.