Hello,
I tried searching but didn't see the thread I was looking for. If this came up before then I apologize in advance for asking again. Please just direct me to thread and I'll be grateful.
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 Tmobile and installed Clockworkmod and installed the recovery and made a backup. I downloaded the Slim Bean rom and gapps and when I booted into recovery and wiped everything and tried to install the file, I wasn't able to. I copied the folder exactly how I downloaded it but when I tried to install it there was nothing to install; it wasn't a zip. Am I suppose to make it into a zip folder first then copy it to the sd card?
If someone can explain to me what I did wrong I would be appreciate it.
Thanks
Check the md5. Maybe it was a corrupted/incomplete download?
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Are you copying it onto an actual SD card or the internal SD?
If you're copying it onto the internal then u might be wiping it.
Another option would be to use adb to push the rom zip onto your internal sd card after wiping it.
Code:
adb push /path/to/rom \sdcard
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chromium96 said:
Are you copying it onto an actual SD card or the internal SD?
If you're copying it onto the internal then u might be wiping it.
Another option would be to use adb to push the rom zip onto your internal sd card after wiping it.
Code:
adb push /path/to/rom \sdcard
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I put it on the actual SD but when that didn't work I tried on the internal. When that didn't work, I downloaded a rom from clockworkmod to see if that would work then once it was installing it failed and said something about google.com apps not working or something to that affect. I'm on a Macbook, not running Windows not sure how to push that through dab.
I'll try again tomorrow to make a backup again then try wiping everything and doing it over. I'll try a new download and see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestions.
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I had a read only sd card earlier and fixed it by mounting through recovery and windows found the problem and fixed it.
Now it pooped up two more times buy quickly went away and also I can't seem to flash any ROMs I only tried 3 but I got an error I use ra and never seen this before on that recovery also they were aosp ROMs I guess I'll try a sense one .i can restore my backups so I have no idea what's going on anyone have this problem? Any help would be great thank you.
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More than likely, you need to repartition and reformat your SD card. If you're able to, copy the contents of your card onto your computer. Afterwards, repartition and reformat the card. When you're done, copy a freshly downloaded copy of amon_RA onto your card as well as the rom you want to flash
preferably a freshly downloaded one, and then flash it. Flash the recovery first from the bootloader and then flash the rom.
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More than likely, you need to repartition and reformat your SD card. If you're able to, copy the contents of your card onto your computer. Afterwards, repartition and reformat the card. When you're done, copy a freshly downloaded copy of amon_RA onto your card as well as the rom you want to flash
preferably a freshly downloaded one, and then flash it. Flash the recovery first from the bootloader and then flash the rom.
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My phone is working right now it just popped up 3 times I only had to fix it the first time now it just goes away in like a minute also I never partitioned my sd card but I've been thinking of doing it anyway the only thing thats been stopping me is that I've seen people having these kind of problems after partitioning so I guess that doesn't matter anymore LOL.
Thanks for your help.
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You're very welcome. As for partitioning your SD card, it's very easy. Probably the easiest is probably with a card reader. It can also be done from within recovery especially with amon_RA. Simply select "partition SD card" and set the parameters to your liking.
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I was running FreeGS3, then flashed LiquidSmooth ... now flashed back to FreeGS3 ... and I have this weird '/storage/sdcard0/0/' folder which is my old internal storage folder? Not sure ... sdcard0/ has the directory structure of internal, but it's empty.
It's as if my old internal was 'backed up' to sdcard0/0/, and now there's a new internal storage at sdcard0 ....
WTF??
The same thing happened to me, you just have to move all the files and folders back to the /sdcard0 folder, you can do it with any file explorer or you can do it in your computer. There's nothing to worry about
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Guide here. If you get confused.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36959843
[Guide][How To] Fix Sdcard / Find backups after cm10.1 Flash!
Same thing happened to me like deja vu after i decided to sample BlackBean 7. Seems to be a CM10/AOKP thing. Went back to my stock rooted TWiz rom anyways. If it isn't broken, don't fix.
I just used Estrongs File explorer to move everything back to where they were and deleted the /0 folder.
Sorry if this is a total noob question but how do I free the 9 gigs that became sdcard/ 0? Im now running free gs3 which im liking a lot more. The major problem I have is my internal sd is now totally full on my 16gig card. The way I figure is if I'm not gonna use cm10 cant I just delete it from the card and get the space back? I have an external card but its only 8gig and was using that for storage of music and etc. Im on a sprint gs3 flashed to metro and am wondering if I reformat the card can I flash gs3 back on or do I need to flash a stock TW? Im not really too concerned about the other files on the internal sd as I figure might as start fresh
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Sorry if this is a total noob question but how do I free the 9 gigs that became sdcard/ 0? Im now running free gs3 which im liking a lot more. The major problem I have is my internal sd is now totally full on my 16gig card. The way I figure is if I'm not gonna use cm10 cant I just delete it from the card and get the space back? I have an external card but its only 8gig and was using that for storage of music and etc. Im on a sprint gs3 flashed to metro and am wondering if I reformat the card can I flash gs3 back on or do I need to flash a stock TW? Im not really too concerned about the other files on the internal sd as I figure might as start fresh
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If you aren't concerned with the files you can just wipe the internal SD card. However, there is a guide posted a few pages up on how to fix the 0 folder. Wiping the internal SD card will not affect your ROM so you will not need to flash anything.
ChaseBroyles said:
If you aren't concerned with the files you can just wipe the internal SD card. However, there is a guide posted a few pages up on how to fix the 0 folder. Wiping the internal SD card will not affect your ROM so you will not need to flash anything.
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Yeah I saw that guide and was going to try it but then im still stuck with not having any sd card space. As of right now I can download or install anything. Im gonna just wipe it and start fresh. Thanks....
I can't delete the /0 folder, even through adb, even with su ... "permission denied"
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I can't delete the /0 folder, even through adb, even with su ... "permission denied"
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When I went back to TW for a short time mine deleted fine. Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108 and if that doesn't work, backup your data and wipe the internal SD.
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Man this post made me laugh till I cried!!!! People don't search!!!
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This is the cause of the multiple users feature in 4.2. When a new twrp gets implemented that can handle 4.2 properly, this won't happen. Oh well he didn't Google search! It happens, especially with this kinda thing. Try googleing but we'll always be glad to help.
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Hi all,
I've been trying to flash ROMs on my phone using my external SD card but it always fails with unable to open zip file. I can flash this properly in my internal SD card though.
Thanks!
iRyuzaki said:
Hi all,
I've been trying to flash ROMs on my phone using my external SD card but it always fails with unable to open zip file. I can flash this properly in my internal SD card though.
Thanks!
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Everything I flash is on my external. Sounds like what you use to copy the files isn't doing it properly. I use root explorer to move the files between internal and external before flashing. Double check the file sizes.
I used to use oi file manager. It copies and pastes the file fine but can't move them. You would always get "unable to move some files" but the file would be "moved"
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it works fine for me, I always flash from my external...
I use rootexplorer to move or delete files,
Weird... I used another sdcard and now it works! Thanks for the suggestions!
iRyuzaki said:
Weird... I used another sdcard and now it works! Thanks for the suggestions!
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next time u get a chance, but the other one back in. and format it within the phone. settings, storage, all the way on the bottom.
mdiaz33685 said:
next time u get a chance, but the other one back in. and format it within the phone. settings, storage, all the way on the bottom.
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I'm having a similar issue with a new sdcard that i got (32gb), i have tried to reformat it from the system settings and it fails from there, and then i am trying twrp and it also fails from there?
can someone please help, how can i fix this, i would really like to have the bigger card in the phone!
Hello all, I recently purchased a new GS4 tmobile variant and have rooted it via Odin. SU shows up in the app section and TWRP installed successfully. My problem is when I attempt to flash a new rom i.e. GE 4.3, I almost immediately get a FAILED message and cant get it installed. I created a backup and have been able to restore so its not been an issue however I really cant figure out where im going wrong. The zip file is on my SD card but no luck... I'm just looking for some direction,
Thanks Andrew
th3h0ff said:
Hello all, I recently purchased a new GS4 tmobile variant and have rooted it via Odin. SU shows up in the app section and TWRP installed successfully. My problem is when I attempt to flash a new rom i.e. GE 4.3, I almost immediately get a FAILED message and cant get it installed. I created a backup and have been able to restore so its not been an issue however I really cant figure out where im going wrong. The zip file is on my SD card but no luck... I'm just looking for some direction,
Thanks Andrew
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if you installed the rom correctly to the sd card, using twrp, you should be able to do your wipe data factory reset, wipe cash and dalvik, then press install from sd card, choose zip from sd card and install. make sure the rom is on the root of the sd card. when i first started flashing i was having a issue because my device was mounted incorrectly and the rom was not going to the root of my sd card. i started using a card reader that i can mount as a disk drive and send the rom to that. that solved my issues. also i seemed to be having issues with twrp on my device so i started using it and installed clockwork mod touch recovery and things started working then.Also be sure you are trying to install the correct rom for your device variant.i hope this helps some. good luck
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if you installed the rom correctly to the sd card, using twrp, you should be able to do your wipe data factory reset, wipe cash and dalvik, then press install from sd card, choose zip from sd card and install. make sure the rom is on the root of the sd card. when i first started flashing i was having a issue because my device was mounted incorrectly and the rom was not going to the root of my sd card. i started using a card reader that i can mount as a disk drive and send the rom to that. that solved my issues. also i seemed to be having issues with twrp on my device so i started using it and installed clockwork mod touch recovery and things started working then.Also be sure you are trying to install the correct rom for your device variant.i hope this helps some. good luck
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The .zip file is in a folder called ROMS i created on the root of the internal memory. Right now im stuck without anything as my backup seems to have failed now as well. I've flashed many roms before and have never run into this so im stumped! I've tried using both CWM and TWRP but both through a "failed" error. I downloaded both the rom package from the Tmo variant GS4 forum so i think they should be right...
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The .zip file is in a folder called ROMS i created on the root of the internal memory. Right now im stuck without anything as my backup seems to have failed now as well. I've flashed many roms before and have never run into this so im stumped! I've tried using both CWM and TWRP but both through a "failed" error. I downloaded both the rom package from the Tmo variant GS4 forum so i think they should be right...
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I think ive found your issue. You said you placed the roms in a folder, try this, put the rom DIRECTLY on the root of your sd card, NOT in a folder. Give this a try and let me know. I know when flashing with my last device, the rom could not be placed into a folder, it had to be placed directly onto the root of the sd card. So try going back to the computer and mount as disk drive and directly place the rom onto the sd card, then just scroll down to find the rom while in recovery and this SHOULD work. I had a issue mounting as a disk drive so I just used a micro sd card reader and placed my sd card into the card reader, this automatically is recognized as a external disk drive and I'm able to place rom directly to root of sd card this way. When I tried hooking up my device directly to the computer it mounted as a media device and would not allow the rom to be placed correctly on the root. So that's how I got around that. So keeping these issues in mind, try again and place the rom directly to the sd and NOT in a folder and see if your able to successfully flash after that. After I did these things I was able to flash without any problems. Luke I said when I first flashed these were some issues I encountered that was prohibiting me from flashing correctly. Now I don't have any problems flashing. Please let me know if this works out and enables you to successfully flash. Hope this helps
I wanted to make a clean install of OpemSemc.
So i did a factory reset and also deleted the sd card.
I quickly found out that that wasn't a good idea.
My phone boots into half a system (all black no features).
I can boot into the recovery.
I assume I just need to find a way to get the rom on my sd card and normally flash the boot.img .
How would I go about that?
Thanks for the help.
Greetings from Germany
schpongo said:
I wanted to make a clean install of OpemSemc.
So i did a factory reset and also deleted the sd card.
I quickly found out that that wasn't a good idea.
My phone boots into half a system (all black no features).
I can boot into the recovery.
I assume I just need to find a way to get the rom on my sd card and normally flash the boot.img .
How would I go about that?
Thanks for the help.
Greetings from Germany
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Connect Your phone to pc while in recovery. And then push the rom zip to Your sdcard using adb.
command:
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adb push filename
I think this is not for nozomi because it doesn't have any SD CARD.
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steve's xperia said:
I think this is not for nozomi because it doesn't have any SD CARD.
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Thanks for all the help.
I had the flashtool installed on my mac and just needed to run ./adb push to copy the file.
I apologize for posting this here. I now realize that this isn't the right thread.
steve's xperia said:
I think this is not for nozomi because it doesn't have any SD CARD.
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The internal memory name is shown as sdcard in recovery in nozomi. Plus if OP actually had an external sdcard, then He would never have this problem.