Hi all.
I got a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S2 (unlocked) that had Stock Android 4.0 (I think it maybe have been rooted before).
I wanted to upgrade it to at least the official Jellybean from Samsung or to a Kit Kat ROM.
So I downloaded CyanogenMod 11- the latest build for Galaxy S2, and GApps 4.4.2 zip.
I copied them onto the internal SD card of the phone, booted into Recovery, wiped the phone, partition and dalvik cache, and went to installing the CM 11 zip.
But then it couldn't access the internal SD card. My phone was bricked essentially.
I searched the web amd found out that the card needs to be formatted to FAT-32. but the computer didn't recognize the phone at this point.
So I put the ROM on an external microSD, and tried to flash from Recovery, but it wasn't able to install: "E: Error in '...zip' (Status 7) Installation Aborted".
So I then downloaded an old CM 9 ROM, booted into Odin Recovery, and it flashed it successfully.
The problem is A. The phone doesn't seem to have Kit Kat, but rather Jellybean I think. B. It gets stuck, and the keyboard doesn't work, which makes it unusable. C. If I remove the microSD from the phone, it can't boot into the OS.
After all that mess, bottom line is that I want to install on the internal SD card either Stock Samsung Jellybean or later (whatever there is) or a custom Kit Kat Rom, and to use a recent and stable ROM (CM 11?).
Do I need to format the phone to FAT-32? I'm a bit scared to format it at this point.
From what I read a bit, it may be that I need to install a different bootloader. If so, how do I do this?
I'm a newbie to all of this, and I would greatly appreciate if you can help me doing this easily without wrecking my phone.
Thanks!
Update: I installed the wrong GApps zip, that's why the keyboard doesn't work. Now it's working, running Android ICS 4.0.4.
Now my questions are: A. How to install latest Stock Samsung Jelly Bean or newer version of CyanagenMod for Kit Kat? B. How to install it on the internal card?
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Hi,
I was hoping to flash my (Canadian) SGH-T999V with 10.1.0 release. Did a Titanium backup, saved it to my external card. Tried to do a system backup in CWM, but I didn't have enough space and CWM 5.8.4.7 had no option to save it directly to my external SD card so I stupidly went ahead with my update anyway.
I decided I wanted to do a clean install so I formatted /system, cleared the caches, ect.
What I didn't expect is that when I installed 10.1.0 I would run into an issued described here. Basically, my bootloader was "old" and CM decided to only allow the newer bootloaders to minimize problems. I don't have the new bootloader, so I can't install 10.1.0.
The solution, installing an updated bootloader, is available and it is posted here
Unfortunately, I have no ROM installed and no backup available to revert to. The only ROM I have available is 10.1.0 and I cannot flash this.
What is the best way to proceed? I assume it would make sense to place the bootloader update (available in the second link) onto my internal sdcard; however, I'm not sure how I could do this. The other option would possibly be to copy the bootloader update to my external SD card and put it back into my phone, but I am not sure how I can install an updated from it (is it possible with CWM 5.8.4.7?)
Update 1
** I should add that under "Mounts and Storage Menu" I do not have a mount USB Storage option. If I did, this wouldn't really be a problem.**
Update 2
I am unable to connect to my phone via ADB. I hoped to do an ADB push of the new bootloader. I've installed the Samsung USB driver (and Kies), but Windows fails to recognize my phone when it is plugged in an in CWM recovery. At this point my options are getting few and far between.
Update 3
Solved below. Used Odin to flash a stock, rooted firmware.
Thanks for the help.
3doubled said:
Hi,
I was hoping to flash my (Canadian) SGH-T999V with 10.1.0 release. Did a Titanium backup, saved it to my external card. Tried to do a system backup in CWM, but I didn't have enough space and CWM 5.8.4.7 had no option to save it directly to my external SD card so I stupidly went ahead with my update anyway.
I decided I wanted to do a clean install so I formatted /system, cleared the caches, ect.
What I didn't expect is that when I installed 10.1.0 I would run into an issued described here. Basically, my bootloader was "old" and CM decided to only allow the newer bootloaders to minimize problems. I don't have the new bootloader, so I can't install 10.1.0.
The solution, installing an updated bootloader, is available and it is posted here
Unfortunately, I have no ROM installed and no backup available to revert to. The only ROM I have available is 10.1.0 and I cannot flash this.
What is the best way to proceed? I assume it would make sense to place the bootloader update (available in the second link) onto my internal sdcard; however, I'm not sure how I could do this. The other option would possibly be to copy the bootloader update to my external SD card and put it back into my phone, but I am not sure how I can install an updated from it (is it possible with CWM 5.8.4.7?)
Update 1
** I should add that under "Mounts and Storage Menu" I do not have a mount USB Storage option. If I did, this wouldn't really be a problem.**
Update 2
I am unable to connect to my phone via ADB. I hoped to do an ADB push of the new bootloader. I've installed the Samsung USB driver (and Kies), but Windows fails to recognize my phone when it is plugged in an in CWM recovery. At this point my options are getting few and far between.
Thanks for the help.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think if you just flash root 66 or stock firmware through Odin you should be fine.
Sent from my SGH-T999
marcoxx626 said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think if you just flash root 66 or stock firmware through Odin you should be fine.
Sent from my SGH-T999
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I checked Odin and that still works just fine. This seems like a safe move to me. I will flash a pre-rooted stock ROM from here.
I'll hold off for a bit to make sure there aren't any objections.
Thanks a ton!
That solved it. Thanks a lot. Cheers.
Glad I could help!
Sent from my SGH-T999
hello all,
I used Odin to upload a new bootloader to my ATT S3 and that went fine, but where i messed up was my attempt to install gapps. I didnt realize it, but i installed the new 4.3 July 29th versions, which didnt play nice with Cyanogen mod 10. It broke the keyboard before i had a chance to install clock work mod rom manager.
I thought no worries, i will just install the rooted rom through ODIN, but that rom i downloaded wont boot (root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3)
does Odin not format the SD before flashing and thus i still have parts of CM and gapps keeping the stock rom from booting up? does the stock rom take more than 10 minutes to boot the first time?
please help!!!
thanks
stormtrupr
All but one of the att stock ROMS are no wipe flashes. The only 1 that will wipe is LG1. BUT. It will also wrote your internal sd card, which is the same thing that will happen when you factory reset from stock recovery.
Forgive me posting what has probably been asked hundreds of times but over the last 2 weeks I have read so much information that I have got myself completely lost and I need help. (hard to admit that but there it is)
I have a Galaxy W that came with Android Gingerbread
A While ago I decided to upgrade that to KitKat using instructions I found online. this involved firstly installing Cyanogen Mod on my phone and then copying the ROM? to my SD card, rebooting and installing.
This worked perfectly and I was running KitKat, the only issue being that the camera didn't work because the phone couldn't see the SD card... there seemed to be no fix for this so I decided to try and change the software to Jelly Bean.
This is where I came unstuck. I copied Jelly Bean to the SD card, and tried to follow the same procedure as I did with KitKat, no good, just kept getting error 7 messages.
Eventually I restored the handset back to Gingerbread, copied the Jelly Bean Rom over to the phone itself and then ran the upgrade again... still the error 7 message.
I now appear to be stuck on Gingerbread, with no way of modernising the handset..
Can anyone help, please don't give me links to read, the chances are I've read all of them and they just confuse me, I need someone kind enough to walk me through all this.
Thanks
derekmines said:
Forgive me posting what has probably been asked hundreds of times but over the last 2 weeks I have read so much information that I have got myself completely lost and I need help. (hard to admit that but there it is)
I have a Galaxy W that came with Android Gingerbread
A While ago I decided to upgrade that to KitKat using instructions I found online. this involved firstly installing Cyanogen Mod on my phone and then copying the ROM? to my SD card, rebooting and installing.
This worked perfectly and I was running KitKat, the only issue being that the camera didn't work because the phone couldn't see the SD card... there seemed to be no fix for this so I decided to try and change the software to Jelly Bean.
This is where I came unstuck. I copied Jelly Bean to the SD card, and tried to follow the same procedure as I did with KitKat, no good, just kept getting error 7 messages.
Eventually I restored the handset back to Gingerbread, copied the Jelly Bean Rom over to the phone itself and then ran the upgrade again... still the error 7 message.
I now appear to be stuck on Gingerbread, with no way of modernising the handset..
Can anyone help, please don't give me links to read, the chances are I've read all of them and they just confuse me, I need someone kind enough to walk me through all this.
Thanks
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What kitkat ROM did you flash? Silly question, did you root your phone first?
dec0der said:
What kitkat ROM did you flash? Silly question, did you root your phone first?
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Ok, so you're already losing me a little... if it helps, I used the following files:
CyanFox-2.0.2-20140101-UNOFFICIAL-ancora.zip
CyanFox-Gapps-2014-03-02.zip
I also installed Clockwork Mod (I think that's the rooting part?) but I can't remember which version and I don't know how to tell!
derekmines said:
Ok, so you're already losing me a little... if it helps, I used the following files:
CyanFox-2.0.2-20140101-UNOFFICIAL-ancora.zip
CyanFox-Gapps-2014-03-02.zip
I also installed Clockwork Mod (I think that's the rooting part?) but I can't remember which version and I don't know how to tell!
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I'll assume you already have the latest CWM installed.
1- Install the stock CM11 and GAPPs by arco68 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588495
2- After flashing CM11 and before rebooting, select the wipe data/factory reset option
** you might also want to format you SD card too to remove remnants of older ROMs.
This guarantees a clean install with minimal issues.
derekmines said:
Ok, so you're already losing me a little... if it helps, I used the following files:
CyanFox-2.0.2-20140101-UNOFFICIAL-ancora.zip
CyanFox-Gapps-2014-03-02.zip
I also installed Clockwork Mod (I think that's the rooting part?) but I can't remember which version and I don't know how to tell!
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Okay, I'll make it more specific.
To check your CWM recovery version (same as booting manually), read HERE
If you want to install kitkat ROM, you need to have at least CWM version 6.0.4.5 and up installed on your phone (not really sure about the version but 6.0.4.5 will work ). But if you get status 7 error, flash this via CWM. CWM 6.0.5.0 flash-able.zip
If you want to use the latest CyanogenMod 11.0 (20140721), download the following and put them in your external sd-card:
cm-11-20140721-UNOFFICIAL-ancora.zip credits to @arco68
7-24_GApps_Minimal_4.4.4_signed.zip credits to @BaNkS
Then enter CWM and do the following strictly/ carefully: credits to @arsradu
select "wipe data / factory reset"
go to "mounts & storage" and format /system. This is extremely important!
under the same menu, format /sdcard0 (be careful NOT to format /sdcard1 (external_sd) by mistake)
install cm-11-20140721-UNOFFICIAL-ancora.zip (from the external sd)
install 7-24_GApps_Minimal_4.4.4_signed.zip (from the external sd)
reboot your phone
Done
dec0der said:
Okay, I'll make it more specific.
To check your CWM recovery version (same as booting manually), read HERE
If you want to install kitkat ROM, you need to have at least CWM version 6.0.4.5 and up installed on your phone (not really sure about the version but 6.0.4.5 will work ). But if you get status 7 error, flash this via CWM. CWM 6.0.5.0 flash-able.zip
If you want to use the latest CyanogenMod 11.0 (20140721), download the following and put them in your external sd-card:
cm-11-20140721-UNOFFICIAL-ancora.zip credits to @arco68
7-24_GApps_Minimal_4.4.4_signed.zip credits to @BaNkS
Then enter CWM and do the following strictly/ carefully: credits to @arsradu
select "wipe data / factory reset"
go to "mounts & storage" and format /system. This is extremely important!
under the same menu, format /sdcard0 (be careful NOT to format /sdcard1 (external_sd) by mistake)
install cm-11-20140721-UNOFFICIAL-ancora.zip (from the external sd)
install 7-24_GApps_Minimal_4.4.4_signed.zip (from the external sd)
reboot your phone
Done
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OK, so I tried to follow step one of the first link in your post but the phone won't go into recovery mode, I press and hold the correct button combination but the screen just says RAMDUMP MODE - Cause: Force Upload
If I try and reboot normally I get the Samsung splash screen then nothing... help?!!
Scratch that Mr dec0der Sir... I'd like to buy you a virtual pint.
Your instructions have got me back up and running from what I thought was a bricked phone.... not only that but I have a new version of Android to play with.
Thanks so much.
Hello guys, I've searched a little and didn't find any posts that could help me specifically for the Galaxy Nexus.
I've flashed my phone a long time ago and have been using Paranoid Android for probably over a year.
The problem is, my cellphone was really really slow. So I decided to try a new ROM and re-flash it. And So I did.
I've tried flashing this Full_Auto R11 kernel then the CyanogenMod 12 and finally GAPPS.
I was getting error status 6 on Clockwork mod on gapps, but eventually got around it. But it didn't install play store, I've tried manually adding but it didn't work.
So I went for another 5.0 ROM (I'm really interested in getting android 5.0). Wiped all the data, all the cache, installed everything and rebooted.
Bam! Infinite booting screen.
No, I didn't create a nandroid backup because I'm really dumb.
So, I need your help. What I want to do is to get my phone working again with a 5.0 ROM (if possible).
I can boot into ClockWork Recovery just fine, if that helps.
Thank you for the attention.
I would recommend to install latest full factory package from Google.
Then you will start with everything stock, so flash latest TWRP recovery via fastboot (CWM is no longer supported, so error 6 when installing new Lollipop Google Apps appears).
Then in TWRP, do a factory reset, wipe /cache and /system partitions.
Then you can install your Lollipop ROM (over ADB or by pushing ROM package to emulated sdcard).
After this, install latest Full_Auto kernel.
At the end, install Pico Google Apps.
You must install the Pico version, because our /system parition is too small to handle Lollipop with all Google Apps included.
This should work for you, and you will have fully working Lollipop on your Galaxy Nexus
P.S: If you intall the AOSP Lollipop ROM by @freshgiammi and you miss root access, install latest SuperSU flashable zip.
Thank you!
Thank you man!
I've ran into some troubles but managed to do everythings correctly =)
This post can be locked up now.
Thanks again for the reply, LamarrCZ!!
Hi all! I am completely new in Android phone rooting and flashing. I decided to upgrade my Galaxy Nexus (I9250) phone with CM 13(latest version). I flashed the recovery mode with the CM flash image and also uploaded the .IMG files of CM and Gapps to the phone. Once I tried to install CM it was working fine but the Gapps installation failed with error 70 "insufficient memory" or something like that. I checked some posts in internet and performed factory reset of the phone, then I wiped all the data. However I lost the .IMG files of CM and Gapps and now the phone is without software.
I tried to restore the factory ROM using ODIN but it keeps crashing with "ODIN has stopped working" on my Windows 7 based PC.
Could you please advise how can I recover the stock ROM or to install any Android version? I also have a backup of all the data initially.
And at the end I am just wondering if this Nexus can read data from an USB flash drive using a cable from micro-USB to USB as there is no SD card present for this model.
I hope you can help.
KR,
Emilian