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killed ROM, Ok........ Lets start over again....

Here is what I did, and here is what I want to do(presumably)
What I did:
-Installed CWM, did all of the fancy backups, etc. Tried installin g CM7 and it failed, the zip from the CM site keeps failing to install (aborted)
-I then gave up on it and tried installing Eaglesblood ROM which did install correctly. I didn't know that it hasn't been used or updated for a while, but one issue came up.
--Issue: My SD card wouldn't mount(external)? I couldn't recover my contacts or apps that were backed up on my SD card, and searching for it just showed "unavailable" and no option top mount.
-After this failure, I decided to try the Juggernaut ROM and the install failed, because the SD card just wouldn't mount. Nothing on my SD card is usable.
NOW: I want to start over from scratch, and then install a ROM, or just completely delete everything. I don't even want any of the backups on my phone, just a fresh start over again.
Question: What should I do? What would you do as a Noob if you could do it over again the right way?
1.) Clear the phone back to stock again?
2.) Install something more stable?
3.) Find a way to mount SD?
what do I do?!
ps. Merry Xmas

Try formatting the sdcard and see if that makes a difference. I had a sdcard go bad in my wife's phone and it wouldn't mount at all. Swapped in another card and she was golden.
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darock159 said:
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that makes a difference. I had a sdcard go bad in my wife's phone and it wouldn't mount at all. Swapped in another card and she was golden.
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doesn't give me the option to do so on my phone. I'll do it on my backup phone and see if it works.

No Go, it reformatted in the other phone, but amazingly all of the files were still there?
Someone help me solve this mystery, this isn't making sense?!

Try formatting on a computer not a phone if you have a card reader. Go to my computer right click on the sdcard and select format. Then select fat32 option. Back up your stuff if it still reads on the computer. If this doesn't fix try a new sdcard. That's what I had to do for my wife's phone. It wouldn't mount in the phone but worked.fine in a card reader.
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darock159 said:
Try formatting on a computer not a phone if you have a card reader. Go to my computer right click on the sdcard and select format. Then select fat32 option. Back up your stuff if it still reads on the computer. If this doesn't fix try a new sdcard. That's what I had to do for my wife's phone. It wouldn't mount in the phone but worked.fine in a card reader.
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I tried putting it in my nokia N900, and reformat it from the PC using the N900 as a reader. Unfortunately I don't know where my adapter is.
It wont format that way, it lets me see the SD card and select format, but no go. Tried Fat32 and NTFS, but no format would work.
Possible that the card is fried some how, but still readable? The properties show no information on if the SD card is on read-only or not, so I can't figure this out.
Formating it from the N900 says it formats, but all the files are still there after the format.
Mind=Blown

Well it looks like it was the sd card afterall, new card and everything works...... For now of course.
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best way to start over from scratch is to ODIN the factory ROM, (check INDEX sticky)
then you'll be back to original, and use oneclickroot to root it again, then install CWR and go wild with whatever ROM you choose
Goliath27 said:
Here is what I did, and here is what I want to do(presumably)
What I did:
-Installed CWM, did all of the fancy backups, etc. Tried installin g CM7 and it failed, the zip from the CM site keeps failing to install (aborted)
-I then gave up on it and tried installing Eaglesblood ROM which did install correctly. I didn't know that it hasn't been used or updated for a while, but one issue came up.
--Issue: My SD card wouldn't mount(external)? I couldn't recover my contacts or apps that were backed up on my SD card, and searching for it just showed "unavailable" and no option top mount.
-After this failure, I decided to try the Juggernaut ROM and the install failed, because the SD card just wouldn't mount. Nothing on my SD card is usable.
NOW: I want to start over from scratch, and then install a ROM, or just completely delete everything. I don't even want any of the backups on my phone, just a fresh start over again.
Question: What should I do? What would you do as a Noob if you could do it over again the right way?
1.) Clear the phone back to stock again?
2.) Install something more stable?
3.) Find a way to mount SD?
what do I do?!
ps. Merry Xmas
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Goliath27 said:
What I did:
-Installed CWM, did all of the fancy backups, etc. Tried installin g CM7 and it failed, the zip from the CM site keeps failing to install (aborted)
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In order to prevent bad installations in the future, only attempt to flash roms that you obtained from the Developer section of the T-Mobile Galaxy SII T-989 forum. Our phone will not run roms developed for other versions of the Galaxy SII due to hardware differences. You could easily brick your phone flashing something that wasn't specifically designed for it.

AllGamer said:
best way to start over from scratch is to ODIN the factory ROM, (check INDEX sticky)
then you'll be back to original, and use oneclickroot to root it again, then install CWR and go wild with whatever ROM you choose
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Ok well I think I started from scratch again when I updated my firmware using Kies. I lost SU and Root access.
AmbroseAI said:
In order to prevent bad installations in the future, only attempt to flash roms that you obtained from the Developer section of the T-Mobile Galaxy SII T-989 forum. Our phone will not run roms developed for other versions of the Galaxy SII due to hardware differences. You could easily brick your phone flashing something that wasn't specifically designed for it.
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Got it, but I tried it both ways. I think what I really should be asking is:
What roms would you download if this were you?
I really want something in the ICS department but can't really find any roms that are stable enough to download. Anything you recommend?

there are no ICS alpha/beta for our model yet
wait until the ICS sources has dropped from Samsung, then we'll get lots

AllGamer said:
there are no ICS alpha/beta for our model yet
wait until the ICS sources has dropped from Samsung, then we'll get lots
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well, ICS isn't really a big deal. I just want to try out these ROMs everyone is raving about, but there are so many!
Like I said before, I tried installing a rom that just didn't work. And I'd like to try some of the most stable roms out and see which ones I could use comfortably.
This way I don't set up my phone the way I like, just to do it all over again repeatedly.
edit: I see you're running Juggernaut 3.7 + Bullet 2.9 (just like CM7)
Stable enough to try in my n00b state? I understand the risks as well, just wondering how good it is. I know it had some MMS issues but if that's all than I'll survive.
Edit 2: Just installed Jug v4.1 and it's awesome. So I finally got the idea of what I need to do in order to install correctly. Not going to try anything else for a while now lol

I think you're getting confused... there are a lot of variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II, but they are very different inside. It sounds like the ROM you were trying to install was for the international version, which could easily wreck your phone completely. There are no ICS roms whatsoever for the T-Mobile version of this phone, nor are there any complete CM7 roms. You can safely install any of the roms on the "T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development" section of these forums, and that's about it.

skjoldbaerer said:
I think you're getting confused... there are a lot of variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II, but they are very different inside. It sounds like the ROM you were trying to install was for the international version, which could easily wreck your phone completely. There are no ICS roms whatsoever for the T-Mobile version of this phone, nor are there any complete CM7 roms. You can safely install any of the roms on the "T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development" section of these forums, and that's about it.
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Right, which is what I was aware of. The rom that messed me up was one that was labeled as a Tmobile S2 rom, but I think the error was a User error(me).
Now that I did it all from scratch, I have it all running well and I'm now avoiding the use of Rom Manager, and only using CWM.
And of course, I wouldn't think of installing a rom from another forum for another phone, I will be sticking to the t989 section here.

[Q] Flashed a 4.2.1 ROM from a 4.1.2... Don't know what to do with '0' File... help.

Hi, its my first time posting, I figured I wanted to sign up to XDA eventually so why not when I feel like I've completely ruined my phone... or at least internal sd card...
Basically I rooted my phone and was flashing the Jellybam rom, and everything was going smoothly until I got to the bootloader and my phone started bootlooping. My first thought was 'Oh but I have a backup'. So I went to my backup in CWM and to my dismay I got an error saying "No files were found."
I could clearly see my files from exploring around on my sd card however they were now in a file called '0' and CWM could not read them from there. Without a working ROM I started to panic. However I had a zip of CM10 still on my internal sd card so I flashed that and (luckily) it worked.
Not really being too competent with flashing new ROMs yet I was quite happy that I had anything. So I used titanium backup to reinstall my old apps and data. However once they were installed I now get an error with 'the process android.process.media has stopped'.
I'm guessing this has do do with the fact that I have all my files still on the '0' folder. All the other folders from the '0' folder were the same except they were all empty, soooooo I decided to delete them. At this point I'm guessing that was a really bad idea because my initial plan of moving all the files from '0' to my pc then back to my phone, I did not think about the fact that I would be moving 14 Gb of data...
So basically now I'm hoping if someone knows a way to revert my phone to 4.1.2 by somehow moving all the files from '0' back onto the internal storage (basically getting rid of this '0') folder. The CM10 ROM is a 4.1.2 ROM so its not like I'm fudging up my phone further (I hope).
If you could be as detailed as possible as to what to do that would be great, because I'm really really new to this....
From what I've read I've heard a couple of suggestions:
1. updating the recovery.img of CWM will work? How exactly do I do this?
2. opening abd shell recovery and moving the files like that (however I deleted all the other files in the internal storage apart from '0' because that was where all the data was stored and everything else was empty...'
help. :crying:

0Capita said:
Hi, its my first time posting, I figured I wanted to sign up to XDA eventually so why not when I feel like I've completely ruined my phone... or at least internal sd card...
Basically I rooted my phone and was flashing the Jellybam rom, and everything was going smoothly until I got to the bootloader and my phone started bootlooping. My first thought was 'Oh but I have a backup'. So I went to my backup in CWM and to my dismay I got an error saying "No files were found."
I could clearly see my files from exploring around on my sd card however they were now in a file called '0' and CWM could not read them from there. Without a working ROM I started to panic. However I had a zip of CM10 still on my internal sd card so I flashed that and (luckily) it worked.
Not really being too competent with flashing new ROMs yet I was quite happy that I had anything. So I used titanium backup to reinstall my old apps and data. However once they were installed I now get an error with 'the process android.process.media has stopped'.
I'm guessing this has do do with the fact that I have all my files still on the '0' folder. All the other folders from the '0' folder were the same except they were all empty, soooooo I decided to delete them. At this point I'm guessing that was a really bad idea because my initial plan of moving all the files from '0' to my pc then back to my phone, I did not think about the fact that I would be moving 14 Gb of data...
So basically now I'm hoping if someone knows a way to revert my phone to 4.1.2 by somehow moving all the files from '0' back onto the internal storage (basically getting rid of this '0') folder. The CM10 ROM is a 4.1.2 ROM so its not like I'm fudging up my phone further (I hope).
If you could be as detailed as possible as to what to do that would be great, because I'm really really new to this....
From what I've read I've heard a couple of suggestions:
1. updating the recovery.img of CWM will work? How exactly do I do this?
2. opening abd shell recovery and moving the files like that (however I deleted all the other files in the internal storage apart from '0' because that was where all the data was stored and everything else was empty...'
help. :crying:
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1- Your solution
2- Was quite the bad idea to delete it all so this solution won't work now.
clockwordmod.com is where you'll find the latest recovery.

BWolf56 said:
1- Your solution
2- Was quite the bad idea to delete it all so this solution won't work now.
clockwordmod.com is where you'll find the latest recovery.
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So how exactly do I do that? I just download the the latest clockwork mod and flash it? Why can't it be updated via an automatic updater? And what will it do to the file or will it change clockwork mod so that it will scan the entire sd card?
Also if I just remade folders identical to the ones I deleted, will that still work?
I'm just trying to get my phone to be as functional as it was before this all started.
Thanks for replying btw!

0Capita said:
So how exactly do I do that? I just download the the latest clockwork mod and flash it? Why can't it be updated via an automatic updater? And what will it do to the file or will it change clockwork mod so that it will scan the entire sd card?
Also if I just remade folders identical to the ones I deleted, will that still work?
I'm just trying to get my phone to be as functional as it was before this all started.
Thanks for replying btw!
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That's a lot of question for the simple fix I gave you.. I haven't used cwm in a while so Idk what changed in the update but if people said it fixed it, then it did..
0, 1, 2, etc.. Is something that came with JB, it's for the different users. Not much can be done about it.
About how you should do that: Go on their website, FOLLOW their instructions to a T, Enjoy.
As for why it can be updated via an automatic updater.. Well I'm not the person you should ask.

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Wolf56;371questions it's a lot of question for the simple fix I gave you.. I haven't used cwm in a while so Idk what changed in the update but if people said it fixed it, then it did..
0, 1, 2, etc.. Is something that came with JB, it's for the different users. Not much can be done about it.
About how you should do that: Go on their website, FOLLOW their instructions to a T, Enjoy.
As for why it can be updated via an automatic updater.. Well I'm not the person you should ask.
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Sorry for all the questions, I'm just worried that I messed up my phone. Would you know if I were able to be able to access my old clockwork mod backups and used one of them, would it put my 0 files back into the internal storage like they used to? Or would it only revert the settings and I would still be SOL.

0Capita said:
Sorry for all the questions, I'm just worried that I messed up my phone. Would you know if I were able to be able to access my old clockwork mod backups and used one of them, would it put my 0 files back into the internal storage like they used to? Or would it only revert the settings and I would still be SOL.
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Yes, that's the whole point of the cwm update. Now to flash it!

Or, go digg through the cm nightly thread. They had a flash able zip that would restore your internal sd after downgrading Android versions.

BWolf56 said:
Yes, that's the whole point of the cwm update. Now to flash it!
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Well here's my latest problem... I tried to update CWM with an .img however when I tried to run it in the terminal it said there was not enough space... I don't know what to do... there is definitely a couple gigs free so I don't know what is wrong...

mrhaley30705 said:
Or, go digg through the cm nightly thread. They had a flash able zip that would restore your internal sd after downgrading Android versions.
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the cm nightly thread? So theres a zip that would make 4.2 go back to 4.1?
Okay update:
I managed to flash update the new version of CWM... still can't use backup... I get a /system fail

It doesn't downgrade you're ROM. It fixes the 0 folder issue

mrhaley30705 said:
It doesn't downgrade you're ROM. It fixes the 0 folder issue
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Ugh Okay I've given up... I dont know what else to try. Now that I've updated my CWM I cant flash the old CM10 because it reads it as a 4.1 and uncompatable... FML.
Can anyone point me to where I can find the Odin stock factory? I guess I'll just start from scratch...

http://db.tt/rWFbAFiF
Link to restore files from /0 directory
Credits go to madmack
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Helloworld294 said:
http://db.tt/rWFbAFiF
Link to restore files from /0 directory
Credits go to madmack
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OOOMMMMMGggg ahhhhhh, that would have been so helpful but I've already started to factory reset it. Thanks though!
ahhhhhhhhh

Forget cwm it sucks use twrp and be done with all the problems
Sent from the scary door....

Internal storage

Is it safe to delete my internal storage? I've made a backup to my desktop
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Yep. I do it when going from 4.1 to 4.2. Never had an issue
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As long as you backed it up you're fine, I hate 4.2, all because of the multi-user thing and what it does to our memory cards. The average person don't need multi-user support on their damn phone. A tablet on the other hand, yes, I can see where it would be useful, but a phone? Google, you are stupid!! I tried a few 4.2 ROMs not expecting it to creat emulated\0\0\0\0, HORRIBLE!!!! Each time I flashed a new 4.2 ROM it created another folder and placed all my stuff in there. Not to mention the CWM issues when trying to restore back to 4.1. I lost a lot of files in the process of putting my memory card back to the way it should be. There should be an aroma installer where we have the option of ripping the multi-user code out of the ROM. Oly reason I'm still on a 4.1 ROM.

IRIE4IPIER said:
As long as you backed it up you're fine, I hate 4.2, all because of the multi-user thing and what it does to our memory cards. The average person don't need multi-user support on their damn phone. A tablet on the other hand, yes, I can see where it would be useful, but a phone? Google, you are stupid!! I tried a few 4.2 ROMs not expecting it to creat emulated\0\0\0\0, HORRIBLE!!!! Each time I flashed a new 4.2 ROM it created another folder and placed all my stuff in there. Not to mention the CWM issues when trying to restore back to 4.1. I lost a lot of files in the process of putting my memory card back to the way it should be. There should be an aroma installer where we have the option of ripping the multi-user code out of the ROM. Oly reason I'm still on a 4.1 ROM.
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Just a heads up, if you updated your recovery to the latest it should not recreate the /0 folder. Yes I agree there should be an option for having the folder or not, but it isn't going to kill you, and it shouldn't ruin your day.

[q] help with nandroid issues

Please forgive me if this is in the wrong spot or if I broke some forum rule, I have never posted here but I have read a ton, thanks for all the help you guys have posted by the way.
First off I am not by any means an expert on computers and rooting but I have a decent understanding of the basics and can easily follow online instructions to root. I obviously have a d2att, I recently rooted it. I was happy with it unrooted for nearly a year but when samsung released the 4.3 update my phone really started sucking. Eventually I decided to root just to get a rom that functions better. I have been running gummy rom kit kat, I think its the nightly from march 10th, I have had no real issues other than some random reboots here and there. My mom begged me to root her d2att because she also was tired of the buggy samsung 4.3 update. I eventually rooted hers, even though I really didn't want to, knowing that I would get calls about every little issue and I would have to run and fix it... anyway
She has had issues that I have not had, she says that her phone randomly turns to silent periodically and causes her to miss calls, and she also says her bluetooth is intermittent. I don't use blue tooth at all so I wouldn't know but I have not had an issue with randomly going to silent. I have tried a lot of custom roms over the past 2 months since I rooted, including CM11, CM10 (all of them), AOKP, slimroms, of course Gummy, and a variety of others. All of them have had some major bug that is unbearable, from not connecting to wifi or not sending and receiving MMS, except for gummy which I have only had the random reboots.
Okay, so when I rooted mine originally I made a nandroid copy of the original rom after I rooted it, I didn't realize but somehow this nandroid file created to my internal memory instead of my sd card, so when I loaded a custom rom it was deleted. Like I said I'm far from an expert and that was a huge mistake. So anyway when I rooted my moms (same phone) I made a nandroid of her stock rom after the root and saved it to my computer, tablet, flash drive, external hd... etc.
Now that she is having problems with the absolute best ROM that I have found functionality wise, I thought I would restore her stock rom and debloat it, try my best to get it running better. I used her nandroid back up and restored my phone to it, only to get a ton of errors, everything was force closing. I kept getting the popups that "unfortunately ... has stopped" they were nonstop. Literally all I could do was hit ok and try to do the same with the next window, finally I get rid of those and the phone wouldn't run any apps or make any calls etc. So I rebooted to recovery and went restored my nandroid that I made earlier that day and all is fine with my phone again.
So here is my questions. First off when I made the nandroid of her stock rom I renamed the file STOCKROM, that way I would def know what it is and to not delete it. Will renaming a nandroid file make it not work correctly?
Also would a nandroid back up of her phone simply not work correctly on mine? I thought it would but it def does not. Maybe there is saved data that doesn't match my sim card.. I have no clue.
If I used this nandroid on her phone do you think it will work corretly?
If I messed up the file be renaming it, does anyone have a backup for stock that I can possibly use?
Last but not least, any recommendations for custom roms for d2att? I really just want speed, and no bugs
I am really sorry about the excessively long post, but I wanted to fill in the background info before I asked my questions, in case it was needed. Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.
Again please forgive me if I broke a forum rule or posted in the wrong spot, I don't typically post on any forums ever, I just tend to read the posts of others. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY AND ALL HELP, GREATLY APPRECIATED.

sdevans80 said:
So here is my questions. First off when I made the nandroid of her stock rom I renamed the file STOCKROM, that way I would def know what it is and to not delete it. Will renaming a nandroid file make it not work correctly?
Also would a nandroid back up of her phone simply not work correctly on mine? I thought it would but it def does not. Maybe there is saved data that doesn't match my sim card.. I have no clue.
If I used this nandroid on her phone do you think it will work corretly?
If I messed up the file be renaming it, does anyone have a backup for stock that I can possibly use?
Last but not least, any recommendations for custom roms for d2att? I really just want speed, and no bugs
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If you decide to go back to stock 4.3, this thread should help. AT&T I747 UCUEMJB Stock Restore
I've never had to use a nandroid and definitely have not tried one on a phone different from where it was made, but from reading in the past I don't believe that renaming it is causing the problem. I believe it is probably due to either trying it on a different phone or the file structure may have been changed when you moved it to the pc. Hopefully someone more experienced will chime in regarding the nandroid on your phone. If it is still on her phone I think it may work.

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Zdq4DDunit to the pc. Hopefully someone more experienced will chime in regarding the nandroid on your phone. If it is still on her phone I think it may work.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the tips. I know its still on her phone and the name hasnt been altered. I wanted ti try a debloated touch wiz for her. I havr liked Gummy but loaded a carbon jelly beam tonight. So far so good. Any suggestions for custom ROMs for attd2? I have had a time finding one bthats useful. I'm glad I have my gummy on nandroid. When I finish screwing around for her that's where I'll head back to I'm sure. Unless I find a sweet bug free ROM through a reccomendation. I'll check the link in the AM thanks for the reply.

sdevans80 said:
I wanted ti try a debloated touch wiz for her. I havr liked Gummy but loaded a carbon jelly beam tonight. So far so good. Any suggestions for custom ROMs for attd2?
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I have been considering Intergalactic, but I haven't tried it yet.

Any link for that?

sdevans80 said:
Any link for that?
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[ROM] Intergalactic v4.1 [AllianceRom][UCUEMJB][4.3][1/8/2014]

question
You MUST have the UCUEMJB or UCUEMJ2 bootloader and the UCUEMJB modem installed before proceeding or this ROM will not work properly. Your data and wifi may be broken if you do not do this first. These are available here: Bootloader and Modem Options
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Any link for that?
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Quick question. I have only rooted and flashed cm toms and aokp. I haven't done anything specifically to change my boatloadsoor kernel. I really don't have the knowledge absolute that. The first step says what's listed above. What does this mean? Can you help? Thanks for the time and tips.

[Q] twrp question

im having this thing with twrp it doens t show all my file on sd card some roms are missing when i check on computer all roms are on sd zip files im on andriod 5.0.1 htc sense 6.0 software 4.16.401.10 . i was on twrp 2.8.4.0 and i downgraded to 2.8.3.0 same thing.

I would stay on stock if i were you....... You seem to "create" a lot of basic issues looking at your history. And no need to create a new thread everytime for every little question. Keep them in one, but i think we have pointed that out before already.
flash 2.8.4 and mount the sd inside recovery and copy them to the internal storage, see if they are recognized there.

Mr Hofs said:
I would stay on stock if i were you....... You seem to "create" a lot of basic issues looking at your history. And no need to create a new thread everytime for every little question. Keep them in one, but i think we have pointed that out before already.
flash 2.8.4 and mount the sd inside recovery and copy them to the internal storage, see if they are recognized ther
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how else are you suppose to learn if you dont ask question and play with the phone.this the help and trouble shooting is it not.i appreciate all the help i get here

ron31 said:
how else are you suppose to learn if you dont ask question and play with the phone.this the help and trouble shooting is it not.i appreciate all the help i get here
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I won't go in depth, but the term "play" in this context is kinda dangerous. When i say play its playing a game or testing apps. Flashing and modding (different recoveries and roms "playing" inside a custom recovery) is a whole different level. This kind of play could cost ya hundreds of dollars......
Happy flashing