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After flashing MinCo 4.1.1 ROM phone shows 4.1 ?

Hi, this is my first post so please be patient with me
Today I finally decided to update my Nexus from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1 up till now I have been running ARHD.
I decided to flash the new MinCo ROM, everything went smooth, I did a Nandroid backup and used Superwipe Light.
Then flashed the ROM via CW, the phone booted fine and I restored my apps and I thought everything was fine till I checked the system information. There it says I am running 4.1 and no mention of MinCo ??? It shows Francos Kernel though
Did I just out myself as a noob or what went wrong ?
Help is much appreciated
PS. Love XDA :fingers-crossed:

I just looked at the build.prop file of my minco download and it shows 4.1.1. in the ro.build.version.release which would dictate what shows up under version. Maybe you downloaded a different rom?
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I downloaded the ROM from the official source.
Here are my steps.
1. Downloaded ROM, Gapps
2. Backed up the phone using CW
3. Wiped the phone using Super Wipe Lite Nexus
4. Flashed ROM using CW
5. Flashed Gapps using CW
6. Rebooted the phone
7. Restored Apps via Titanium Backup
Should I have done a full wipe? I didn't want to loose all my stuff.
Thanks for the help by the way.

Whenever you are flashing a new base you want to do a full wipe. I'm not sure what happened with your download and why it says 4.1 instead of 4.1.1. Probably not worth losing sleep over though.
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Ok seems like I have to wipe the whole thing then.
Will post the results later.
Thanks.

So I did a full wipe and flashed the ROM again. This time the System UI kept crashing.
This kept happening over and over again. I wiped and re installed 4-5 times with the same result.
Then I downloaded the the ROM and the bootloader again and flashed it again. This time it worked and it stopped crashing.
The ROM then showed 4.1.1.
I then flashed Gapps and MinCo+ Stock Mod and after reboot it was showing Android 4.1 again!
I really have no idea what is going on ???

[Q] Custom Rom Wizards crashing

Hey guys i have a samsung i747 from rogers and i'm trying to install custom roms. I've obviously rooted it and installed CM recovery and downloaded roms and gapps. So far i've tried liquidsmooth 2.8. Avatar Rom. Cyanogen. but nothing seems to be working. Every single one of the them keeps telling me that my setup wizard had crashed and my gapps weren't working. I earlier had a Status 7 error installing cyano and avatar so i flashed d2att's 07.05.13 kernel, but that didn't seem to help. I tried running a different version of the clockworkmod recovery too. I've hardly ever "dirty" flashed. Someone help me out here i hate custom roms!!!

Wipe
Data
Cache
Delvik Cache
and Factory Reset.
Make sure you're flashing the correct GApps for android 4.2.x
Flashing a kernel has nothing to do with a status 7 error.
A status 7 error points to a outdated recovery or bootloader.
You should get ANY errors.
If you hate flashing why do it??
I honestly don't get that...
If you're here to make your phone to look "cool" you're in the wrong place.
Galaxy S3 / AoCP / V4A / Turbocharged

duoblade said:
Hey guys i have a samsung i747 from rogers and i'm trying to install custom roms. I've obviously rooted it and installed CM recovery and downloaded roms and gapps. So far i've tried liquidsmooth 2.8. Avatar Rom. Cyanogen. but nothing seems to be working. Every single one of the them keeps telling me that my setup wizard had crashed and my gapps weren't working. I earlier had a Status 7 error installing cyano and avatar so i flashed d2att's 07.05.13 kernel, but that didn't seem to help. I tried running a different version of the clockworkmod recovery too. I've hardly ever "dirty" flashed. Someone help me out here i hate custom roms!!!
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I would get TWRP recovery.. wipe dalvik / factory reset. and re-flash your rom.. I'm on Rogers as well and the status 7 error means that your recovery / bootloader is outdated.
So start by getting the most recent TWRP. I got it from goo.
btw: if you don't like custom rom, i suggest going to the sammobile site and getting your factory firmware. Use Odin to reflash back to stock. That should solve your hiatus towards custom roms...

correction
thanks guys but idk i just tried flashing a custom rom at 4.1.2 and then went up from the there and it was fine... for the status 7 i just adjusted the coding for it so it didn`t have to check the model and this was typed up like at like 2 in the morning where i`m from i meant to say i hate stock roms LMAO:silly:

duoblade said:
thanks guys but idk i just tried flashing a custom rom at 4.1.2 and then went up from the there and it was fine... for the status 7 i just adjusted the coding for it so it didn`t have to check the model and this was typed up like at like 2 in the morning where i`m from i meant to say i hate stock roms LMAO:silly:
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sure but its fine custom Roms can be a Pain in the A$$ thats why am running stock rooted stable, great battery life, fast like custom roms, everything is perfect give a try with stock rooted no issues or problems like custom roms
Synergy Rom 4.1.2 w/ Ziggy Kernel using ATT Galaxy S3
HAPPY ROOTIN :cyclops:

weird issue - not able to install custom ROMs

this is just weird, as i have been installing custom ROM like crazy...
but for some time i was on CM 10.1.2 and didnt install any custom ROM, but i felt like coming back to TW based ROMs, so tried installing DeTmobilized 1.5, but phone stuck at boot screen, i tried to restart by pulling battery out but phone displayed "encryption failed" and kept on showing phone.apk stopped working (something similar). so i decided to ODIN to stock and start fresh, this time i tried installed Dandroid 3.8.1 and it worked, so i thought of giving DeTmobilized one more try, but again it got stuck at samsung letters at the boot.
so i decided to stick with Dandroid for a while, but now i cannot install that too. it gets stuck while booting. but if i ODIN to stock everything works fine on stock firmware, its only the custom ROMs that are not working.
i also tried repartitioning using PIT file along with stock md5 hoping that would solve this issue, but it hasnt.
i need help, i cannot stay on stock ROM.
thank you.

chirantan.f said:
this is just weird, as i have been installing custom ROM like crazy...
but for some time i was on CM 10.1.2 and didnt install any custom ROM, but i felt like coming back to TW based ROMs, so tried installing DeTmobilized 1.5, but phone stuck at boot screen, i tried to restart by pulling battery out but phone displayed "encryption failed" and kept on showing phone.apk stopped working (something similar). so i decided to ODIN to stock and start fresh, this time i tried installed Dandroid 3.8.1 and it worked, so i thought of giving DeTmobilized one more try, but again it got stuck at samsung letters at the boot.
so i decided to stick with Dandroid for a while, but now i cannot install that too. it gets stuck while booting. but if i ODIN to stock everything works fine on stock firmware, its only the custom ROMs that are not working.
i also tried repartitioning using PIT file along with stock md5 hoping that would solve this issue, but it hasnt.
i need help, i cannot stay on stock ROM.
thank you.
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boot into recovery and wipe cache partition along with davik, that should fix the stuck
also do remember first boot will always take a while
also make sure you're using the latest custom recovery (either twrp or cwm)

i would also like to note here that i tried installing AOSP based ROMs also, and AOKP didnt work, got stuck at nexus like boot animation forever, but when i tried installing CM10.1.2 (which is what i was running when i tried to get back to TW based ROM) it worked perfectly, so for now i am back to CM, but i would really get back to flashing different ROMs and trying them out. just makes me wonder if CM is the reason i am not able to install anything else, just a thought...
has anybody else tried going to any other ROMs from CM 10.1.2?
your help is appreciated!

pcshano said:
boot into recovery and wipe cache partition along with davik, that should fix the stuck
also do remember first boot will always take a while
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thanks for your reply, but i have tried doing that, i also wipe data and system along with cache and dalvik before installing any new ROM.

pcshano said:
boot into recovery and wipe cache partition along with davik, that should fix the stuck
also do remember first boot will always take a while
also make sure you're using the latest custom recovery (either twrp or cwm)
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i have latest recovery , TWRP 2.6.0.0 and i have given more than an hour to boot up and still nothing. i have been flashing ROMs like an addict since i got this phone last year, but when CM 10.1 stable was released i stayed on it till today, but now i cannot install any other ROM, i can odin to stock 4.1.1 ROM or install cm 10.1.2 which i did just now, but no other ROM, either TW based on AOSP based is working...which is very weird for me.

Were you able to fix this issue at all? I am facing the same issue, in my case, the phone was encrypted on stock TW. I roooted and put in CM 10.1.2 and now when I try installing Dandroid, the install itself would work but I am struck at the "type password to unlock the screen". If I reflash CM10.1.2, I can login fine. Any pointers?

[Q] Android 4.3 hanging on boot

I have an I747 on T-Mobile.
I recently installed SlimBean 4.3 on it, and it started up and worked fine. But when I went to restart it, it hung on the "SlimBean" screen. Never got to the bootanimation.
I read online that there's issues when coming from another 4.3 rom, and I had previously been running CyanogenMod 10.2, although it was a nightly and it crashed, corrupting my data. I decided not to try that again.
So after that experience with SlimBean, I tried to flash BeanStalk from the T-Mobile GS3 forum. This is also a 4.3 rom, and it ran fine on my I747, except when I went to reboot. It too hung on the logo.
And yes, I have wiped internal storage, and I'm running the latest version of TWRP. I even tried to flash Samsung's stock firmware with Odin, and it worked, but it wouldn't boot (or maybe I'm overestimating how quickly TouchWiz can boot). It overrode my recovery, like I was expecting, so I flashed TWRP with Odin and then proceeded to flash SlimBean 4.3 again. Same problem.
Does anyone have a solution to this? It's been driving me crazy. I will try some other 4.3 roms and see if they're all doing this.

danielhep said:
I have an I747 on T-Mobile.
I recently installed SlimBean 4.3 on it, and it started up and worked fine. But when I went to restart it, it hung on the "SlimBean" screen. Never got to the bootanimation.
I read online that there's issues when coming from another 4.3 rom, and I had previously been running CyanogenMod 10.2, although it was a nightly and it crashed, corrupting my data. I decided not to try that again.
So after that experience with SlimBean, I tried to flash BeanStalk from the T-Mobile GS3 forum. This is also a 4.3 rom, and it ran fine on my I747, except when I went to reboot. It too hung on the logo.
And yes, I have wiped internal storage, and I'm running the latest version of TWRP. I even tried to flash Samsung's stock firmware with Odin, and it worked, but it wouldn't boot (or maybe I'm overestimating how quickly TouchWiz can boot). It overrode my recovery, like I was expecting, so I flashed TWRP with Odin and then proceeded to flash SlimBean 4.3 again. Same problem.
Does anyone have a solution to this? It's been driving me crazy. I will try some other 4.3 roms and see if they're all doing this.
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I had something that sounds similar when I was trying to update from task's 4.2.2 to 4.3. Kept stopping at the kernel screen ( after the usual wiping of caches and system). Finally, someone recommended that, in addition to wiping data, that I format data as well. This basically wipes everything (i was using twrp 2.3.3.1). After doing this, I reinstalled the ROM and gapps and it works now.
Not sure this is what you experienced but it sounded similar. Before doing anything else, be sure that you have a back up and that you have removed any external sd card, should you have to go back. Good luck.

captican said:
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I had something that sounds similar when I was trying to update from task's 4.2.2 to 4.3. Kept stopping at the kernel screen ( after the usual wiping of caches and system). Finally, someone recommended that, in addition to wiping data, that I format data as well. This basically wipes everything (i was using twrp 2.3.3.1). After doing this, I reinstalled the ROM and gapps and it works now.
Not sure this is what you experienced but it sounded similar. Before doing anything else, be sure that you have a back up and that you have removed any external sd card, should you have to go back. Good luck.
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Yeah, I did that. I wiped everything I could and formatted data. Maybe I should try installing a different kernel?
With your issue, was it stopping on the first boot or did you get it running once then it stopped?

danielhep said:
I have an I747 on T-Mobile.
I recently installed SlimBean 4.3 on it, and it started up and worked fine. But when I went to restart it, it hung on the "SlimBean" screen. Never got to the bootanimation.
I read online that there's issues when coming from another 4.3 rom, and I had previously been running CyanogenMod 10.2, although it was a nightly and it crashed, corrupting my data. I decided not to try that again.
So after that experience with SlimBean, I tried to flash BeanStalk from the T-Mobile GS3 forum. This is also a 4.3 rom, and it ran fine on my I747, except when I went to reboot. It too hung on the logo.
And yes, I have wiped internal storage, and I'm running the latest version of TWRP. I even tried to flash Samsung's stock firmware with Odin, and it worked, but it wouldn't boot (or maybe I'm overestimating how quickly TouchWiz can boot). It overrode my recovery, like I was expecting, so I flashed TWRP with Odin and then proceeded to flash SlimBean 4.3 again. Same problem.
Does anyone have a solution to this? It's been driving me crazy. I will try some other 4.3 roms and see if they're all doing this.
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I had the same problem since 4.3 came out. It has to do with partition tables... What i've done to correct the problem:
- Odin back to stock
- Format entire phone. (Complete wipe) + Dalvik and cache
- Odin stock with root
- Replaced TWRP recovery for CWM
- Flashed 4.3 ROM and VOILA
- I have tried every 4.3 rom ever since with no problems
Don't (Complete wipe) with Twrp recovery, it seems to mess up the partitions.
Hope this works for you
Cheers

danielhep said:
Yeah, I did that. I wiped everything I could and formatted data. Maybe I should try installing a different kernel?
With your issue, was it stopping on the first boot or did you get it running once then it stopped?
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It loaded the first time and then rebooted, freezing on the kernel screen. I could get into recovery, and restore a previous ROM but it would hang up on 4.3. I described the steps I had taken when someone suggested reformatting data. I tried again and it is working now.
The method described in the other post may also solve your problem. I say that because I cannot update twrp to 2.6.1, at least via goo manager. I have not tried using Odin to update (yet).

I have this same as problem. It's annoying. I reflashed the rom 15 times yesterday. I'm gonna try and see if Deathstrings idea works.
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I managed to load a stock rom back to the phone but again, it hung on the SAMSUNG screen. Took it to "a guy" and he did a
key sequence and got it to boot. Woulnd't tell me what it was........
ANy one know???

Apocalypse487 said:
I have this same as problem. It's annoying. I reflashed the rom 15 times yesterday. I'm gonna try and see if Deathstrings idea works.
Sent from my SGH-I747 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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This happened to me after I flashed back but formatting data got it to work (but I have had more problems with apps not installing properly but I learned how to deal with that...still cannot update TWRP via goo manager; waiting on trying it with Odin).

KitKat flashes fine, won't survive a soft reboot

I wiped the dust off my old S2 in hopes to get it running again. The last ROM I had on it was Jedi Mind Trick JB 4. I flashed sultanxda's CM11 ROM and it booted up fine(logged into google, installed some apps). I did a soft reboot and the phone never wanted to boot back up. It flashed the Samsung logo and then just sat at a black screen. I flashed CM11 again just to make sure it didn't get corrupted the first time, but it still did not want to come up after a reboot. Then I thought maybe it's the ROM/ZIP so I flashed ParanoidAndroid 4.6-beta5. Same issue, it boots up fine after the flash, but will not start up after a reboot.
I'm on CWM Recovery 6.0.2.7, and I wipe/format the usual before the flash. Also on radio UVMC6. Any ideas?

I'm having the same problem, did you find a fix ?

Rushaan™ said:
I'm having the same problem, did you find a fix ?
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same issue, different roms .

You. Guys are using an out of date recovery. Get the newest version of twrp and you should. Be fine.

CWM: http://www.teamchopsticks.org/p/cm110-release-notes.html
TWRP: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768742