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Superuser won't install

Hi, I'm a complete newb to rooting Android phones, so I'd like to apologize in advance. I current;y have a Galaxy S2 SGH-T989, and I wanted to flash some custom ROMS onto it. I have just rooted my phone (after many painstaking hours) and am now atempting to install superuser, which didn't come with the root. When I open clockworkmod, it cant detect the .zip file containing superuser. HOWEVER, once I moved the .zip to a subfolder (DCIM), clocworkmod could detect it, bit could not finish installation and aborted. Any tips on how to make it see it under the main directory? Or how to tell it to complete installation?

R u putting it on the external sd?
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It has to be on the root of the sd

Sometimes it takes a few times for it to stick ...

Put su in external sd, flash you will Get a error then do nandroid backup and then restore
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OK this is what u got to do... when on computer and u are dragging the su zip over to your sdcard. (Has to be external) make sure u are not sticking it in a directory ( or sub folder) just drag it and pretty much drop it under the folders make sure it does not go into any of the folders like I said. Then u should see the su zip . Now when u go into clock work mod go to install from sdcard (make sure u choose external) find the zip....again it shouldn't be in any directories (folders). Flash it it might error out....but do not leave cwm stay in there and reflash it until it says it installed correctly. Should take two or three times. Then boot up u will see su in app folder. Go to market. Dl busy box. Install it then go into app and install busy box. Now u are good to go. Also after all that is said and done go back into recovery and go to backup and restore and choose backup. Now u will have a backup of rooted stock rom in case something happens on custom rom u can always revert back to ur backup.........also did u install recovery thru Odin? U had to because rom manager needs root....anyways if u flashed recovery (cwm) thru Odin. I don't think u technically need to root. U can just flash any custom from (there all rooted). The reason y don't have to root is because unlike from manager which needs root first to install recovery. Odin didn't thus this is why u technically don't need to root if u want to tho do it and remember always make a backup! Before flashing custom roms !

Thanks for all the replies, but I have one problem,I don't have an external sd card. Us there any way around this?

gogenvy said:
Thanks for all the replies, but I have one problem,I don't have an external sd card. Us there any way around this?
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basically, no. If u don't have much money I recommend buying a really cheap one off eBay, can get them for $2 USD.

I could be wrong but I think a cheap SD card will have bad performance and speed
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zxrider1986 said:
I could be wrong but I think a cheap SD card will have bad performance and speed
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All he is trying to do is install SU and any cheap sd can accomplish that

xcrazydx said:
All he is trying to do is install SU and any cheap sd can accomplish that
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thnx x, he completely missed the point

same thing happened to me but after i did a nandroid backup it worked..

[Q] Bricked?

OK, I'm in a bit of a pickle and am hoping that someone with more knowledge can help me out. This is what I did.
Rooted the phone
Installed FreeGee
Installed TWRP through FreeGee
Copied a new rom to SD card
Entered TWRP and ERASED EVERYTHING BEFORE MAKING A BACKUP
Couldn't load rom from SD card
When navigating through the TWRP directory, there is a folder titled SD card. I thought my ROM would be in there, but it is not. I know I should have done two things that I didn't.
Backup my data
Copy the ROM to root folder like the instructions said to,
But I didn't do those thing. Now, I have a phone that will enter TWRP, but I cannot get it to find any ROMs I put on the SD card. Is there anything I can do to remedy this situation that I have caused?
Thanks an advance for your ideas.

Try connecting the phone to your computer and manually copying over another ROM.

If you didn't copy it to external card, and you wiped internal, then you don't have an operating system and need to use LG flashtool to get back to stock.
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psal217050 said:
If you didn't copy it to external card, and you wiped internal, then you don't have an operating system and need to use LG flashtool to get back to stock.
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It is definitely on the external card, but I cannot see it via TWRP. I am getting ready to use flashtool to see if that fixes the problem. I will update my progress.
Thanks.

ScootDiggity said:
It is definitely on the external card, but I cannot see it via TWRP. I am getting ready to use flashtool to see if that fixes the problem. I will update my progress.
Thanks.
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If you are using the hacked TWRP go up a level a couple of times and look for ext-card.
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I guess I don't have hacked TWRP
psal217050 said:
If you are using the hacked TWRP go up a level a couple of times and look for ext-card.
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The TWRP that I am using was the one click install from FreeGee. It looks like this is not the hacked TWRP. When going up as many levels as I can, this is what I get. For future reference, do you know where I can get the hacked TWRP?
Current Progress - In the process of downloading LGE980AT-01-V10g-310-410-APR-03-2013.zip to use with LG Flashtools. Not the fastest server, but am very thankful that someone is hosting this file.

ScootDiggity said:
The TWRP that I am using was the one click install from FreeGee. It looks like this is not the hacked TWRP. When going up as many levels as I can, this is what I get. For future reference, do you know where I can get the hacked TWRP?
Current Progress - In the process of downloading LGE980AT-01-V10g-310-410-APR-03-2013.zip to use with LG Flashtools. Not the fastest server, but am very thankful that someone is hosting this file.
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Tap at the top where it says "Internal Storage." It should let you switch to the external SD.

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RaiderDuck said:
Tap at the top where it says "Internal Storage." It should let you switch to the external SD.
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When I do that, I can only choose internal storage. I'm guessing that's one of the reasons there is a hacked TWRP.

ScootDiggity said:
When I do that, I can only choose internal storage. I'm guessing that's one of the reasons there is a hacked TWRP.
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IIRC, the hacked TWRP is merely to ensure that the Official CM builds (which are marked for e986 only) can be installed on any LGOG Pro phone. You should still be able to see the external SD even with the FreeGee TWRP. Try fooling around in TWRP a little bit and see if you can get it to recognize the external SD.

Fixed It
Well, I tried looked throughout TWRP and could not find a resolution.
What did work was LGFlashTool and madmacks awesome instructions. Thanks everyone for your ideas.

ScootDiggity said:
Well, I tried looked throughout TWRP and could not find a resolution.
What did work was LGFlashTool and madmacks awesome instructions. Thanks everyone for your ideas.
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OK, next time, if you forget to backup before you flash, boot your phone into TWRP recovery, select mounts and then mount usb storage, connect your phone to the PC and you should see in "my computer" the phone as a drive, copy the ROM you want to flash to that drive, if it is a CM ROM remember to copy the Gapps also. Disconnect from the PC and then continue with the ROM flashing procedure that we all are so familiar with. This way it saves you the trouble of having to go back to stock again in order to flash a custom ROM.
Glad you got it fixed.
Erik

[Q] Cyanogenmod 11

Hi,
I have recently flashed cyanogenmod 11 to my galaxy grand duos and i have a problem with its sd card.
Some apps like app backup restore cannot find sd card whereas my file manager shows it.
Music and galary dont have files that are on the sd card.
Can someone help me...?
My email - [email protected]

femin1999 said:
Hi,
I have recently flashed cyanogenmod 11 to my galaxy grand duos and i have a problem with its sd card.
Some apps like app backup restore cannot find sd card whereas my file manager shows it.
Music and galary dont have files that are on the sd card.
Can someone help me...?
My email - [email protected]
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It's the apps that you're using that are fault.
Basically, Kitkat has had some code changes and the apps need to be updated to detect the external-SD and function correctly in 4.4 ROMs.
So any third-party app that you are installing from GooglePlay that is not detecting your sdcard, you will have to wait for the app dev to update it or find a different app for it.

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It's the apps that you're using that are fault.
Basically, Kitkat has had some code changes and the apps need to be updated to detect the external-SD and function correctly in 4.4 ROMs.
So any third-party app that you are installing from GooglePlay that is not detecting your sdcard, you will have to wait for the app dev to update it or find a different app for it.
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The app doesnt have any fault as it used to work on 4.2.2
Can you tell me something which i can do ?
newer version of cyanogenmod ?
when will it come ?
Give me some good idea of reading my sd card plz plz plz.

femin1999 said:
The app doesnt have any fault as it used to work on 4.2.2
Can you tell me something which i can do ?
newer version of cyanogenmod ?
when will it come ?
Give me some good idea of reading my sd card plz plz plz.
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Read what I wrote again. All apps that were working fine on ICS, JB etc need to be updated if they can't detect your sd card before they can be used on Kitkat.
There is no "good idea" in reading your sd card, the developer of the application needs to update his application so it can be used on Kitkat.

HOW
femin1999 said:
The app doesnt have any fault as it used to work on 4.2.2
Can you tell me something which i can do ?
newer version of cyanogenmod ?
when will it come ?
Give me some good idea of reading my sd card plz plz plz.
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If a newer version comes how can I update my phone with it ?

femin1999 said:
If a newer version comes how can I update my phone with it ?
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Check Google Play if the application has updates available

[Q] help! external sd card emulated

I am trying to install apps in my external sd but on the settings>apps the "move to sd" option is not present (my s3 have that). I installed Appmgr III and got this error "device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated. Moving apps to SD function cannot be supported by this device."
My device is rooted with stock rom installed. Foldermount app also installed.
How do i fix this?

Hello..I have LG Stock Rom on my G Pad. Never rooted..never installed custom Rom. But I can not install apps to external SD storage too..and they told me that LG G Pad 8.3 does not support installing apps to external storage such as SD.
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Foldermount can move the app data to the SD card for you. There is an option, app analyzer to determine the size of the different data files for the apps. It's just a matter of a few clicks and you will see the internal storage shrink as the data files are moved to the SD card. The apps will remain on the internal memory though. I personally wouldn't be too worried about that as typically the large files are all the data / support files and the apps are relatively small. In most cases anyway. Personally I have about 60 different apps with their files running off my external SD card with no issue. All moved via Foldermount.

i also used folder mount and works fine. now can i also ask, i've rooted my tablet using this methodhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2553192 can i now proceed in installing custom recovery or do i need to do something else before i do so? i want to flash cm11 nightlies

Nope, that's it. You should be good to go to install custom recovery. Here is the version that I used.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551499

cbb77 said:
Nope, that's it. You should be good to go to install custom recovery. Here is the version that I used.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2551499
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Are you using CM11 now? how is it? Is the "move to SD" options now available?

cbb77 said:
Foldermount can move the app data to the SD card for you.
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This works with a stock v500? Thanks!

goldengutz13 said:
Are you using CM11 now? how is it? Is the "move to SD" options now available?
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Nope, still running stock. Was going to upgrade to Mahdi but a couple of initial bug reports had me wait. Those have been fixed but now with the official KitKat version right around the corner I decided to wait. Thus rooted, but still stock with TWRP custom recovery installed.
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opti1 said:
This works with a stock v500? Thanks!
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Yes, but you have to at least be rooted.

Does anybody know how to install apps to SD card on g pad 8.3 without root?
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cbb77 said:
Nope, still running stock. Was going to upgrade to Mahdi but a couple of initial bug reports had me wait. Those have been fixed but now with the official KitKat version right around the corner I decided to wait. Thus rooted, but still stock with TWRP custom recovery installed.
I am thinking about waiting for the official update too. When the update arrives, can we update via OTA if we are rooted (stock recovery installed)?
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goldengutz13 said:
cbb77 said:
Nope, still running stock. Was going to upgrade to Mahdi but a couple of initial bug reports had me wait. Those have been fixed but now with the official KitKat version right around the corner I decided to wait. Thus rooted, but still stock with TWRP custom recovery installed.
I am thinking about waiting for the official update too. When the update arrives, can we update via OTA if we are rooted (stock recovery installed)?
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You should be able to update via OTA if you're on 4.2.2 stock with a stock recovery. At this point, though, you may not be able to install a custom recovery after you update.
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woody1 said:
goldengutz13 said:
You should be able to update via OTA if you're on 4.2.2 stock with a stock recovery. At this point, though, you may not be able to install a custom recovery after you update.
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Why can't I install a custom recovery then?
I have another problem now, whenever I install a new app I always get an error "Insufficient memory" but I still have 10gb+ on my internal memory. How can I fix this?
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goldengutz13 said:
woody1 said:
Why can't I install a custom recovery then?
I have another problem now, whenever I install a new app I always get an error "Insufficient memory" but I still have 10gb+ on my internal memory. How can I fix this?
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I'm not sure if the custom recoveries have been adapted for the new release. I've read some accounts that indicate that they are not available yet. If they're not yet working, I think they will be soon. Keep an eye on the discussions about the stock updates to see if anybody is able to install a custom recovery after an OTA update.
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[Q] External sd wont mount

HI, I'm in a bit of a problem here. I recently rooted my phone and it worked fine. But recently I downloaded an apk, g pro recovery off the internet. I know it was dumb for me to do that and I should've researched better. The problem is, I installed the apk and installed the custom recovery (cwm) and it rebooted but after that my external sd card just wont mount. I tried hard resetting my phone and I did a factory reset but no luck. The phone isn't bricked but I think the custom recovery is installed is still there. I would like to know if theres a fix for it because my phone seems to be working fine except that the sd card wont mount. Its a phone problem as I tried using the sd card on multiple phones and it worked and I tried using another sd card on my phone but it didnt work so its a phone problem. it just shows "SD card insterted" but it doesn't really do anything other than that. Please help as I have a titanium backup of all my stuff in my sd card.
this is the link from where i downloaded the recovery:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2284298

Try flashing original stockrom kdz file by lgflashtool2014.
Then all should be original again

I have the same issue. Will flashing to kdz overwrite any current settings???
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calltsr said:
I have the same issue. Will flashing to kdz overwrite any current settings???
Sent from my LG-E980 using XDA Free mobile app
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Ofcours, its like you get it out the box