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recovery unable to flash zip files

I recently got a Samsung Epic 4G Touch and immediately flashed the system to ICS, using SFHub's stock rooted FF18.
Phone works great with that rom. But I was trying to apply Kobridge's tweak pack and discovered that recovery is not letting me install .zip files.
I reboot into recovery fine, and can choose "apply update from sd card .zip" fine. I can navigate to the file fine. When I select it though, it immediately switches to an android bot lying down, with its hood open and a red triangle above it.
I then have to pull the battery to re-boot the phone. It boots into normal startup fine, but the tweak has not been applied.
I tried several versions, and other zips, and it doesn't seem to want to let me install anything that way.
Ideas? I'd rather not have to put CWM on the phone or a different rom on the phone just yet.

That is because the install update zips are for official sprint/Samsung upgrades. To flash those you need CWM.
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You're going to need CWM or another custom recovery to flash anything on your phone

Now I feel like an idiot. I thought the version I got had a working recovery in it, but you're right - it didn't.
I installed Agat's and it's working fine now.
Thanks for the help!

No problem. Your not an idiot. It's alittle confusing sometimes.
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g_ding84 said:
No problem. Your not an idiot. It's alittle confusing sometimes.
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No problem and I agree. You're not an idiot. It's also better to ask questions than it is to end up with a very expensive paperweight because you tried to figure things out on your own like some of us have done.

ROOTED Verizon GS4 & Safestrap ROM install ERROR
Good day everyone!
I seem to have bumped into a problem im hoping someone on here can possibly help with.
I successfully rooted my Verizon Galaxy S4 on ME7 and got safestrap installed. I followed all the steps correctly then
I downloaded the Hyperdrive ROM but when I get to the install step for the ROM, it gives me a error saying "The zip cannot be flashed " or something of that matter. Anyone know a way to fix this or work around it?
Anyones help is truly appreciated.

eQwizzy said:
Good day everyone!
I seem to have bumped into a problem im hoping someone on here can possibly help with.
I successfully rooted my Verizon Galaxy S4 on ME7 and got safestrap installed. I followed all the steps correctly then
I downloaded the Hyperdrive ROM but when I get to the install step for the ROM, it gives me a error saying "The zip cannot be flashed " or something of that matter. Anyone know a way to fix this or work around it?
Anyones help is truly appreciated.
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This is the E4GT forum. You need to head over to the S4 forum, specifically the OP for Hyperdrive.
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eQwizzy said:
Good day everyone!
I seem to have bumped into a problem im hoping someone on here can possibly help with.
I successfully rooted my Verizon Galaxy S4 on ME7 and got safestrap installed. I followed all the steps correctly then
I downloaded the Hyperdrive ROM but when I get to the install step for the ROM, it gives me a error saying "The zip cannot be flashed " or something of that matter. Anyone know a way to fix this or work around it?
Anyones help is truly appreciated.
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Even though you're in the wrong forum... It sounds like a bad download, try redownloading the ROM.
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[Solution] APN fix for TracFone (Straight Talk) variant when using custom ROMs

I have a TracFone (Straight Talk) Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 variant. (SCH-S960L d2tfnspr) Whenever I used a custom ROM made for Sprint devices LTE/Data and/or MMS never worked properly. This is because the APNs the SCH-S960L uses differs from the standard Sprint APNs. It was extremely difficult trying to figure out what the APNs were since the TracFone APNs floating around on the internet are for Straight Talk BYOP. (AT&T and T-Mobile)
Finally I discovered a solution. Someone else in my household uses the same model phone but theirs is on stock TouchWiz. Using APN Backup and Restore I backed that phone's APNs.
Now for what I did after backing up the working APNs and for you need to do to fix your phone. You're ROM must support root access. While I'm not quite sure I believe you also need a custom recovery. (You probably have one already since you flashed your custom ROM) So I would recommend using CWM or TWRP. This may be necessary to convert a user app into system app.
Once you have this download the file I've attached. Do not rename it since the app you will be using requires it to be named that way. Go to the Play store and download HiAPN. You will need to give it root access and make it a system app. It will prompt you to do so. The reason it needs all these permissions is to access the APNs. Once you've done this use the restore feature and select the file. The file you downloaded must be in the folder for HiAPN. ~/HiDroid_Net/HiAPN Once this completes, check that the Network Mode in your settings is set to LTE/CDMA/EvDo. HiAPN may change it to a GSM mode which is incorrect. Then just go ahead and restart your phone. The final step is demote HiAPN and remove it if you choose to. It's requesting many permissions and it's partially in a foreign language. (What you need to do is in English) You can use an app like Titanium Backup to remove it since you can't the normal way because it's currently a system app.
I truly hoped this helped you since it helped me. Feel free to ask questions and I will answer them to the best of my knowledge.
Download Link:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s...AEA1_EegEUyZ2qJCfOUGVYhYgBMRcEExkIoI7ySne3rMg
-SirBenjamin
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Is it safe to use and install xposed on sprint galaxy s3 sch-s960l?? If is where could i fine modules for my phone? Cant find any!

SLUDER4 said:
Is it safe to use and install xposed on sprint galaxy s3 sch-s960l?? If is where could i fine modules for my phone? Cant find any!
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This thread has nothing to do with your question, mate. But you can install Xposed on any rooted phone. After you install it, the Xposed app will have a list of modules, although not all modules will work with all phones. Nandroid backup before anything.
Recovery FLASHABLE version now posted near the bottom of the first post of the 3Minit Battery Mod for Conquest-Singularity and both Stock ND8 and NDC with 1000+ animated battery icons..
[BATTERY] Plasma Battery! ??? & wickeddecimalbarwide_colors
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I can't find hiApn
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Security updates on 4.4 rooted

So has anyone applied the security update and maintained root? I ask this because the update says it will fix security flaws and malicious exploits (root falls here) so has anyone had problems with it and root??? Thanks
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I clicked it.
I clicked it and I still have root. Now I am wondering if I screwed up.

Mee too....you probably didn't but I wanted to make sure it didn't break root

4.4 debrick file needed
crazymonkey05 said:
Mee too....you probably didn't but I wanted to make sure it didn't break root
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sir as u have rooted ur phone please do me a favour please make a debrick file and uplad it if u dont mind as i hardbricked my phone after 4.4 update thanks in advance

OK so I applied the update and root is fine so we are good there.... [saqib] I'm not entirely sure how to create a debrick image

In the how to debrick thread I posted a recovery flashable script you can use. Just flash in recovery and itll do the rest. Once done just upload the debrick.img it created on your sdcard.
If you cant find the script, let me know. Might be several pages back in the thread.

crazymonkey05 said:
OK so I applied the update and root is fine so we are good there.... [saqib] I'm not entirely sure how to create a debrick image
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How were you notified of the security update? I'm on TMS3KK-1.1-KOT49H.1747UCUFNE4. It's a TW rooted ROM

Is the script for stock recoveries?

And @OKAstro it was in my status bar....you can also go sys. Settings>more>security>security updates

crazymonkey05 said:
And @OKAstro it was in my status bar....you can also go sys. Settings>more>security>security updates
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I don't see "security updates" under Security

Here is my system info everyone in case its changed

OKAstro said:
I don't see "security updates" under Security
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If you are on a custom rom it was probably removed by the dev, along with the software update service
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debrick file method
crazymonkey05 said:
Is the script for stock recoveries?
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After updating SuperSU, it gave me options to disable KNOX, which disabled the annoying blocking of apps(I believe it did).
2.I installed busybox from the Play Store. I also installed Android Terminal Emulator from the Play Store.
3. I opened Android Terminal Emulator and entered these two lines, entering between them After entering the first, I granted root access, then ran the second line.
su
busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/debrick.img bs=1M count=128
4. After those two lines were ran, the debrick.img file was on the root of either the external or internal sdcard. I copied that file to my desktop, and inserted my sd card into my computer(Using the MicroSD to SD Adapter).
5.Finally, I used Win32DiskImager to write the files to the Micro SDcard. After that, I pulled my battery and inserted the Micro SDCard into my phone and it was able to boot into recovery and download mode.

Nd8 msl?

Hi guys sorry to make a thread for this but how do you get the msl off a sprint gs3 running Nd8 4.4.2? I've tried searching it but can only find methods for up to 4.3. Can someone give me a link or point me in the right direction please!?

I used MSL Utility
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bilgerryan said:
I used MSL Utility
My ROM: WICKED X
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It's not working for me... Could it be because it's rooted?

thewraith420 said:
It's not working for me... Could it be because it's rooted?
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You can't get your MSL without being rooted... Unless you get it from Sprint, lol good luck with that.
My ROM: WICKED X

When I use the msl utility it just gives a blank response and I can't seem to pull it via getprop ril.MSL either

thewraith420 said:
When I use the msl utility it just gives a blank response and I can't seem to pull it via getprop ril.MSL either
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Are you rooted?
My ROM: WICKED X

Yes

thewraith420 said:
Yes
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If you flash my ROM it has MSL check removed... Last thing I can think of. It just completely skips over it. Or I can just give you the hiddenmenu.apk and you can push it to system/app.
My ROM: WICKED X

Well my goal is to flash the phone to page plus would flashing your rom allow accessing the phone via dfs?

thewraith420 said:
Well my goal is to flash the phone to page plus would flashing your rom allow accessing the phone via dfs?
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Maybe never tried it for that purpose.. Thought you were just wanting to edit the ##DATA# menu lol... Idk I got mine before I upgraded to ND8.
My ROM: WICKED X

Do you know if I Could flash an older stock Rom through custom recovery? I've read I can't Odin anything older than Nd8....

thewraith420 said:
Do you know if I Could flash an older stock Rom through custom recovery? I've read I can't Odin anything older than Nd8....
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Yes, you can flash any ROM (don't know if they'll work with the ND8 Modem for sure though), and you are correct about Odin.
My ROM: WICKED X

Having some trouble finding working links for a mk3 stock based rom.. Happen to know of a good one to try?

thewraith420 said:
Having some trouble finding working links for a mk3 stock based rom.. Happen to know of a good one to try?
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Just find any mk3 ROM that works... You're only using it to get your MSL correct?
My ROM: WICKED X

Is rooting that simple?

So I am about to load the ND8 stock tar over my MD4 rom (because I want to ultimately load the latest CM11)... but I am confused.
One of the posts here seems to loosly suggest that after loading the samsung stock tar of MD8, I can simply follow up with ODIN of TWRP. From there I can then load any rooted rom and have root?
Is this right? Seems that in the past, one needed root before installing a recovery.

edufur said:
So I am about to load the ND8 stock tar over my MD4 rom (because I want to ultimately load the latest CM11)... but I am confused.
One of the posts here seems to loosly suggest that after loading the samsung stock tar of MD8, I can simply follow up with ODIN of TWRP. From there I can then load any rooted rom and have root?
Is this right? Seems that in the past, one needed root before installing a recovery.
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Yes, but I highly recommend Philz Recovery over TWRP, it has zero problems with TouchWiz and AOSP, TWRP seems to have problems with TouchWiz. Philz also has a root option in the recovery so you can just root your stock ROM and download SuperSU from the Play Store and done.
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bilgerryan said:
Yes, but I highly recommend Philz Recovery over TWRP, it has zero problems with TouchWiz and AOSP, TWRP seems to have problems with TouchWiz. Philz also has a root option in the recovery so you can just root your stock ROM and download SuperSU from the Play Store and done.
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Thank you so much for the reply! Is it the same if I go to NJ2? Flash the stock and then odin the recovery? Or will NJ2 block me?

edufur said:
Thank you so much for the reply! Is it the same if I go to NJ2? Flash the stock and then odin the recovery? Or will NJ2 block me?
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Yes, it's the same.
My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience

bilgerryan said:
Yes, it's the same.
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Thanks again for your reply. I am trying to find the right "PhilZ" but it seems there is a d2spr and a d2lte version. The spr versions are older. Which one should I go with?

edufur said:
Thanks again for your reply. I am trying to find the right "PhilZ" but it seems there is a d2spr and a d2lte version. The spr versions are older. Which one should I go with?
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https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/philz_touch_6.48.4-d2lte.tar.md5/
Then just run it through Odin (I suggest you uncheck Auto Reboot and wait until it says PASS and then pull the battery and go into Recovery, go to Philz settings and there will be a ReRoot option. Then reboot and download SuperSU from the Play Store, and you have root).
My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience