Hi everybody,
I'm relatively new to ROMs and I think I've made a mistake. I rooted my phone with CASUAL (because I'm a noob like that), and after about of week of playing around with my new features I decided to try and get a new ROM, CyanogenMod 10.1. I followed a video guide on youtube called "How to install CyanogenMod 10.1 Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on the Samsung Galaxy S III/3" (can't post links) and used GooManager to flash the ROM over. The phone rebooted and it took me to a teamwin loading screen followed by a menu with 8 options. I thought it was weird, as it wasn't in the video, but one of the options was "install" so I clicked that, it showed the .zip for the ROM so I hit "flash". It rebooted again now and now continuously displays the spinning loading screen for CyanogenMod. I remember reading something something about CM 10 not working with ICS bootloaders, but all of the guides I read about flashing CM made no mention of it, so I didn't think much of it. Is this my problem?
I made a ROM backup with CWM Recovery, app and data backups with Titanium root, and even backed up my EFS folder, so I'm not worried about any data loss involved in a factory wipe or reset, but I need help getting there. I've read things about a USB jig, is this what I need to do? If so, , do I just need to make/buy and plug in the jig? What do I do afterwards?
Any and all help will be appreciated
uberchinchillaz said:
Hi everybody,
I'm relatively new to ROMs and I think I've made a mistake. I rooted my phone with CASUAL (because I'm a noob like that), and after about of week of playing around with my new features I decided to try and get a new ROM, CyanogenMod 10.1. I followed a video guide on youtube called "How to install CyanogenMod 10.1 Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on the Samsung Galaxy S III/3" (can't post links) and used GooManager to flash the ROM over. The phone rebooted and it took me to a teamwin loading screen followed by a menu with 8 options. I thought it was weird, as it wasn't in the video, but one of the options was "install" so I clicked that, it showed the .zip for the ROM so I hit "flash". It rebooted again now and now continuously displays the spinning loading screen for CyanogenMod. I remember reading something something about CM 10 not working with ICS bootloaders, but all of the guides I read about flashing CM made no mention of it, so I didn't think much of it. Is this my problem?
I made a ROM backup with CWM Recovery, app and data backups with Titanium root, and even backed up my EFS folder, so I'm not worried about any data loss involved in a factory wipe or reset, but I need help getting there. I've read things about a USB jig, is this what I need to do? If so, , do I just need to make/buy and plug in the jig? What do I do afterwards?
Any and all help will be appreciated
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If it does anything it isn't a hard brick. Never use rom manager or goo manager to flash something. That is a sure fire way to kill your phone.
If it was an out of date boot loader it wouldn't have flashed.
By the sounds of if your bootloop is from not wiping.
Go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38838122
Everything you need to know is there. Pay close attention to step 5a it's proper wiping for twrp. Re wipe, re flash and you'll be fine. Don't forget to flash the gappps. Those videos are good and bad. Especially if you have no idea what you're doing it's a real fast way to a brick.
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AT&T Galaxy S3
Mac OSX 10.8
I know I can get my device back, I'm just not sure how. I successfully rooted using CASUAL, no problems there. Got the normal root applications installed, did the Clockwork backup, everything was great.
I then decided to try a custom ROM - the Cyanogen 10.1. It downloaded fine, and I selected to also install Google Apps, then it rebooted and the Cyanogen boot screen with the spinning circle came up. However, this lasted way longer than I thought it should, so I looked it up, and what I got from the research is that I had the wrong gapps on there.
So, I followed the instructions in this thread (same problem as me), and wiped the system. However, I believe I used the wrong list item, and now everything I had is gone. I can't boot from recovery because it doesn't exist, and when booting into CM I just get the same error message that setup has stopped working. I thought maybe I could put a new ROM on the sd card or phone harddrive and boot from that, but both are inaccessible through USB on my Mac.
I can get it into ODIN mode (where it says "Downloading... Do not turn off target!"), which I'm thinking is what I want, and I have Heimdall installed and it runs and recognizes my device, but I cannot for the life of me find a tar.gz file to use.
If anyone can offer any sort of help, I would super appreciate it.
chazbot7 said:
AT&T Galaxy S3
Mac OSX 10.8
I know I can get my device back, I'm just not sure how. I successfully rooted using CASUAL, no problems there. Got the normal root applications installed, did the Clockwork backup, everything was great.
I then decided to try a custom ROM - the Cyanogen 10.1. It downloaded fine, and I selected to also install Google Apps, then it rebooted and the Cyanogen boot screen with the spinning circle came up. However, this lasted way longer than I thought it should, so I looked it up, and what I got from the research is that I had the wrong gapps on there.
So, I followed the instructions in this thread (same problem as me), and wiped the system. However, I believe I used the wrong list item, and now everything I had is gone. I can't boot from recovery because it doesn't exist, and when booting into CM I just get the same error message that setup has stopped working. I thought maybe I could put a new ROM on the sd card or phone harddrive and boot from that, but both are inaccessible through USB on my Mac.
I can get it into ODIN mode (where it says "Downloading... Do not turn off target!"), which I'm thinking is what I want, and I have Heimdall installed and it runs and recognizes my device, but I cannot for the life of me find a tar.gz file to use.
If anyone can offer any sort of help, I would super appreciate it.
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Your recovery shouldn't be affected by a wipe (unless you flashed something over it) as ROMs don't flash recovery, therefor vol up + home + power should get you in it. If you success to, You should be able to mount through recovery.
As for Heimdall, it just got S3 support (last week I believe), therefor it might not be easy to find a stock file for it. That being said, if you have access to any Windows pc, that'd be the easiest solution here (using Odin).
Yes, I can still get into the recovery menu, but when I use "backup and restore>restore" it says No files found. Is there anything I can do to just get a working OS running? Or am I just doing it totally wrong, I'm new to the rooting stuff. The Windows computer will be my last resort haha.
BWolf56 said:
Your recovery shouldn't be affected by a wipe (unless you flashed something over it) as ROMs don't flash recovery, therefor vol up + home + power should get you in it. If you success to, You should be able to mount through recovery.
As for Heimdall, it just got S3 support (last week I believe), therefor it might not be easy to find a stock file for it. That being said, if you have access to any Windows pc, that'd be the easiest solution here (using Odin).
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Yes, I can still get into the recovery menu, but when I use "backup and restore>restore" it says No files found. Is there anything I can do to just get a working OS running? Or am I just doing it totally wrong, I'm new to the rooting stuff. The Windows computer will be my last resort haha.
chazbot7 said:
Yes, I can still get into the recovery menu, but when I use "backup and restore>restore" it says No files found. Is there anything I can do to just get a working OS running? Or am I just doing it totally wrong, I'm new to the rooting stuff. The Windows computer will be my last resort haha.
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Windows pc is definitely the easiest option here but you try mounting your SD from recovery, redownload the ROM and Gapps you wanna use, put them on your device and flash them after a factory reset.
If you wiped your SD card, it's normal that you don't have a backup anymore.
BWolf56 said:
Windows pc is definitely the easiest option here but you try mounting your SD from recovery, redownload the ROM and Gapps you wanna use, put them on your device and flash them after a factory reset.
If you wiped your SD card, it's normal that you don't have a backup anymore.
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It's aaaliiiiiiive! Grabbed an extra micro SD I had, threw Cyanogen 10.1.0 RC4 on it, and installed it just fine. Now updating to RC5. My only question now is how to get Google Apps on there. Does this need to be done beforehand, or can it be done after?
chazbot7 said:
It's aaaliiiiiiive! Grabbed an extra micro SD I had, threw Cyanogen 10.1.0 RC4 on it, and installed it just fine. Now updating to RC5. My only question now is how to get Google Apps on there. Does this need to be done beforehand, or can it be done after?
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You usually flash the Gapps right after flashing the ROM, before rebooting.
P.S.: fully reading the instructions helps before flashing
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BWolf56 said:
You usually flash the Gapps right after flashing the ROM, before rebooting.
P.S.: fully reading the instructions helps before flashing
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Gotcha, sorry about that. Thanks for all the help good sir. This is actually way faster than my stock ROM, I'm pretty stoked on it, Google Apps or not.
chazbot7 said:
Gotcha, sorry about that. Thanks for all the help good sir. This is actually way faster than my stock ROM, I'm pretty stoked on it, Google Apps or not.
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No need to apologize. Glad you got it back up! And it was mostly to keep you from making similar mistakes in the future
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also one thing you need to know
First boot after you flash will always take longer than normal. After that, it's fine
What's up guys!
Using ROM installer I flashed vanir 4.4 along with 4.4 gapps on my sprint gs3 sph l710. I wiped the cache and it looked as if it were installing fine but winded up getting stuck in boot loop mode instead. Now when I try to boot into recovery the twrp screen flashes and then it goes straight into bootlop mode from there. Now i cant acsess any of my backups. I can get into down load mode but unfortunately my computers messed up right now. I can't hit the run button on Odin because the screen is too big. I know it sucks!!! Does anyone know some tricks I can use or have any recommendations. Your help would be greatly appreciated! BTW.. I was running illusion 4.3 when this happened.
ddray said:
What's up guys!
Using ROM installer I flashed vanir 4.4 along with 4.4 gapps on my sprint gs3 sph l710. I wiped the cache and it looked as if it were installing fine but winded up getting stuck in boot loop mode instead. Now when I try to boot into recovery the twrp screen flashes and then it goes straight into bootlop mode from there. Now i cant acsess any of my backups. I can get into down load mode but unfortunately my computers messed up right now. I can't hit the run button on Odin because the screen is too big. I know it sucks!!! Does anyone know some tricks I can use or have any recommendations. Your help would be greatly appreciated! BTW.. I was running illusion 4.3 when this happened.
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Can you try using this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
Maybe that'll work, you can use it to return to stock, and if anything I would recommend going back to stock before doing anything else. Also, it may not be the consensus of the site here but in my own opinion, I don't like using rom installer or goo manager or anything. I like doing it all myself in recovery. I've heard one too many stories of people getting hardbricked because their rom installer or whatever downloaded the international version of the rom they wanted :/ always best to check your own md5 checksums and make sure you're downloading the rom for your phone from your phone's forum.
As for the exact reason your phone did that? I couldn't tell you, maybe with a little more info someone more knowledgeable here could tell you
So i got my computer fixed. I havent tried the tool kit in the thread you recommeded. I decided first to use a stock file i have on odin first that has saved me from softbricks in the past. I set everything up hit start, watched the process complete with the pass. Now it shows the stock boot animation but still stuck in bootloop mode. I put it into recovery,which is now stock instead of twrp, wiped cache, davlik cache and factory reset then i reconnected to odin and reflashed the stock file. Still stuck in bootloop mode!!!! Plain reboot and same thing :/ so for the hell of it, i wanted to see if i can to my backups by restoring twrp. So i flashed my cf auto root and then flashed my twrp file and bam!!!! Twrp was full functioning with all my backups!!! :laugh: next i restored my latest illusion 4.3 rom and wala! Ive got a fully functioning rooted phone with a custom rom. I flipped through everything to make sure it looks good and it does. Except.... any photos and music that are saved to phone and not sd card are gone I dont understand, everthing else is backed. Contacts, call logs, messages, text messages, apps, customised settings etc...I even flashed my carbon rom that had the same music and pics. When i open gallery it shows the photo count in snapseed and others im looking for but then they all start dissapearing!!! i also dont understand why the stock file which has saved me from softbricks before didnt work. I dont know anything about checking md 5 checksums but if its worth the time ill do my research! Im happy i got my phone working but i would like to be more solid in what im doing. Maybe someone can help shed some light on this.
It is auto loaded when you load flashify. Then u can select wether u want twrp or cw recovery.
Hope this helps someone as twrp. Wifi t520 is not available on twrp site.
+1 confirmed it worked on mine (t520).
Can also be retrieved here if you want to flash via Odin.
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/picassowifi
I fond myself in a situation where my tablet wouldn't boot and I needed to install a custom recovery, so I had to flash via Odin.
I was just going to post a thread about this. Flashify app is the easiest way I have ever used to install custom recovery!
More details?
All,
I rooted my 10.1 yesterday, since ROMS are starting to come out. I used TWRP and CWM on a Toshiba Thrive prior to own the tab pro.
Anyways...I rooted last night with Odin, but still only have the stock recovery.
Please tell me how to get TWRP installed, without messing up the tablet (it is an expensive device, just want to make sure I don't brick it!)
Just flash the zip from the stock recovery?
Unroot and re-root using flashify or Odin?
I can't wait to get rid of all the Samsung crap!!! (but want to backup first)
Thanks a lot,
Damien
Re twrp for t520 and roms
Wish there was some way to help young 14 year old ik4ver [written first custom rom for our device]...some deadbeat loser keeps sabotaging his account now hijacked to extort a rom for the 12.2!!! I have never seen anything like this...hopefully karma works her magic on this scumbag!
I know right...I fortunately got his v3 rom yesterday before his posts got hacked again.
Tried to flash his rom today and almost bricked the tab, twrp couldn't mount ./system. Got stuck on the Samsung logo after this. Fortunately after 3 tries my twrp backup finally restored properly.
Does anyone know the exact steps to follow in twrp before flashing his rom?
Before not being able to mount system, it was saying can't mount cache, which seems to have resolved itself. Weird...
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rom thread back up
Can't help yet ..I haven't had balls to flash rom yet lol. Looks like his rom thread is back up and running for now.
MrBungle67 said:
I know right...I fortunately got his v3 rom yesterday before his posts got hacked again.
Tried to flash his rom today and almost bricked the tab, twrp couldn't mount ./system. Got stuck on the Samsung logo after this. Fortunately after 3 tries my twrp backup finally restored properly.
Does anyone know the exact steps to follow in twrp before flashing his rom?
Before not being able to mount system, it was saying can't mount cache, which seems to have resolved itself. Weird...
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when u figure out can you post solution? would be helpfull
perhaps young ik4evr will surface with a suggestion.
MrBungle67 said:
I know right...I fortunately got his v3 rom yesterday before his posts got hacked again.
Tried to flash his rom today and almost bricked the tab, twrp couldn't mount ./system. Got stuck on the Samsung logo after this. Fortunately after 3 tries my twrp backup finally restored properly.
Does anyone know the exact steps to follow in twrp before flashing his rom?
Before not being able to mount system, it was saying can't mount cache, which seems to have resolved itself. Weird...
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I did...have balls
spton said:
Can't help yet ..I haven't had balls to flash rom yet lol. Looks like his rom thread is back up and running for now.
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Yep...I tried again...
So, in order, I...
- Rooted using Odin
- Install TWRP using Flashify (thanks to K8108 for the earlier post)
- Went to recovery
- Went to "Mount" and made sure all was checked
- Went to "Wipe", "Advanced"
- Checked everything except internal and external storage
- Install ik4evr's ROM
- Rebooted...
Tablet booted no problem (it stays on "SAMSUNG" for a little bit, which worried me...)
All Samsung apps are gone!!!
that's awesome thanks for the procedure details!
Actually it was young ik4evr that let me know bout twrp being auto loaded in flashify .. that's why I started thread as it's kinda confusing as twrp site doesn't list t520 wifi only.
Good work!
spton said:
Actually it was young ik4evr that let me know bout twrp being auto loaded in flashify .. that's why I started thread as it's kinda confusing as twrp site doesn't list t520 wifi only.
Good work!
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This all forum is freaking confsuing, as it is about 6 (8?) different devices, where some are kinda similar, and others completely different (thinking especially of Exynos vs Qualcomm).
Plus there is no real guide, and takes hours trying to figure out if this thread/recovery/rom applies to our device or not.
Plus 8.4 became modrian, and 10.1 picasso.
Yay, confusing is the right word!!!
well I've loaded Treo with flashify and done full stock rooted rom
Backup. Now have to grow a pair and flash ver3 of ik4evrs rom! So you have zero issues and everything working?
I was going to wait at least till his thread gets sorted out...hmmm...i voided warranty anyway at this point lol
MrBungle67 said:
This all forum is freaking confsuing, as it is about 6 (8?) different devices, where some are kinda similar, and others completely different (thinking especially of Exynos vs Qualcomm).
Plus there is no real guide, and takes hours trying to figure out if this thread/recovery/rom applies to our device or not.
Plus 8.4 became modrian, and 10.1 picasso.
Yay, confusing is the right word!!!
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Treo = twrp
Dang spell correction!
spton said:
Backup. Now have to grow a pair and flash ver3 of ik4evrs rom! So you have zero issues and everything working?
I was going to wait at least till his thread gets sorted out...hmmm...i voided warranty anyway at this point lol
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Zero issue wouldn't the word lol! I did have a bit of a cold sweat yeterday...
I'd say as long as you have the stock rom backup go for it!
I actually started a thread separated from here. I wonder if "wipe internal storage" ok or not...what I can see is that bunch of folders remained from apps installed before flashing the rom.
As far as the steps listed above, I just did it this morning and all went well. As far as deep testing to see if everything is still working, I can't answer yet (at work, no time to play with it).
Let me know if you have any issue...
Ball grown yet?
Alright...so:
- Went to recovery
- Went to "Mount" and made sure all was checked
- Went to "Wipe", "Advanced"
- Checked everything except external storage
- Install ik4evr's ROM
- Rebooted...
Just reflashed the rom, this time wiping the internal storage as well.
After apps update, 472mb used, 11Gb free (was 6gb used before wiping the internal storage).
So far, the only issue is something I read on a post somewhere, but contacts aren't syncing.
I am sure a V4 will be here soon!!
Everything else seems to be working.
MrBungle67 said:
Yep...I tried again...
So, in order, I...
- Rooted using Odin
- Install TWRP using Flashify (thanks to K8108 for the earlier post)
- Went to recovery
- Went to "Mount" and made sure all was checked
- Went to "Wipe", "Advanced"
- Checked everything except internal and external storage
- Install ik4evr's ROM
- Rebooted...
Tablet booted no problem (it stays on "SAMSUNG" for a little bit, which worried me...)
All Samsung apps are gone!!!
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I did the same. All worked.
Unfortunately I cannot restore apps succesfully from Titanium backup. The restore seems to be ok, but I only get FC's. The apps will not start. I cannot find the cause of the errors.
Something in directions of maps destination changed? Knox?
I do not understand it.
I had a hard time with TB also. Had to get most of my apps back from the play store. Lost some data. Oh well. My contacts are syncing from Google, tho.
k8108 said:
I had a hard time with TB also. Had to get most of my apps back from the play store. Lost some data. Oh well. My contacts are syncing from Google, tho.
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I always reinstall from the play store... I like it clean and fresh, and I don't have that many apps to restore.
Now...How did you get your contacts? I just installed google+, and my circles finally synced in the contact app. As far as all other contacts (gmail), can't sync them...
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I don't know why my contacts are syncing. The only difference I can see is that in our flashing the rom, I didn't do the advanced wiping. I just did factory reset and cache wipe. I left my system unwiped. I'm not real savvy on this stuff - I have just been a good instruction follower for the past few years and have spent lots of hours reading here on XDA. I am heavily addicted to my tablets and use them for several hours a day so I have over 100 apps. It's a real pain for me to have to go thru the play store for a restore
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Recently, I have been introduced to Android Rooting and I have successfully rooted my phone with Towelroot. My friend installed Cyanogenmod 11 on his Galaxy S3 the other day and I have been having many problems doing the process myself. I have ripped xdadevelopers to pieces trying to find a solution, but nothing has ever been simple enough, well really efficient enough to fix my problem.
I have ROM Manager installed on my device and the latest CWM Recovery and when I get to the "Recovery" mode it does not give me all the options a normal "Recovery" screen would give me. I can not backup my current stock rom because there is no option. In doing this I accidentally wiped my phone and had no way to recover, so I lost a lot of temporary things, very frustrating.
Basically what I need to know is how to get CWM Recovery to work on my device, etc. Also I forgot to mention before that FreeGee messes up too. It says something about "loki" or something. I am sick of trying several methods that fail in the end. If you can tell me how to get CWM Recovery to work on my phone. I do have an SD Card and my phone is rooted. Please help me! I apologize if all the information is not present, but if you need to know anything specific I would be more than happy to answer your question!
RyeM8 said:
Recently, I have been introduced to Android Rooting and I have successfully rooted my phone with Towelroot. My friend installed Cyanogenmod 11 on his Galaxy S3 the other day and I have been having many problems doing the process myself. I have ripped xdadevelopers to pieces trying to find a solution, but nothing has ever been simple enough, well really efficient enough to fix my problem.
I have ROM Manager installed on my device and the latest CWM Recovery and when I get to the "Recovery" mode it does not give me all the options a normal "Recovery" screen would give me. I can not backup my current stock rom because there is no option. In doing this I accidentally wiped my phone and had no way to recover, so I lost a lot of temporary things, very frustrating.
Basically what I need to know is how to get CWM Recovery to work on my device, etc. Also I forgot to mention before that FreeGee messes up too. It says something about "loki" or something. I am sick of trying several methods that fail in the end. If you can tell me how to get CWM Recovery to work on my phone. I do have an SD Card and my phone is rooted. Please help me! I apologize if all the information is not present, but if you need to know anything specific I would be more than happy to answer your question!
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Have you tried installing the recovery from G.Pro Recovery first? Freegee will not work for me, giving me similar errors, until I first do that. See the to the Bountyman G3 v4.x thread under 'Optimus G Pro Android Development' for more info. Works for me every time (though I choose TWRP; friggin' *hate* CWM).
Long story short, I haven't done any of this stuff for a long time.
I did stuff here: .teamandroid.com/2016/03/08/update-tmobile-galaxy-note-2-t889-android-601-resurrection-remix-marshmallow-custom-rom/2/
I followed the instructions but I think where my hiccup happened was for whatever reason, CWM didn't install it's custom recovery system even though it said it had. So I'm stuck at 3e restore. However, in my stupidity and haste, I already wiped the data because I thought I was already in the CWM menu and didn't realize the 3e system would look so similar to the screen shots. Now I can't install the custom roms because they're not signatured, and I can't install a way to bypass the signature because that stuff is also not signatured. The only access I currently have to my phone is now through an ADB Sideload functionality using my PC.
Trying to at least get back to square one, or is there a way I can flash the CWM recovery system from this location?
Thanks for any help, not sure how to proceed from here (phone has no OS on it)
Nevermind, it restored the old OS
EDIT: For future reference and for those wondering what happened, the root didn't take correctly the first time so the CWM didn't flash properly. After verifying the root and updating SuperSU to kill knox, it was no problem. Flashed 100% perfect like it should have the first time. Dumb user error on my part.