I have a Galaxy Ace 2 (I8160XXMF2) and I'm following this guide here and I just want to root and install CM because stock JB is so slow.
Problem is after copying the file to the SD card (or even external SD card) the zip file cannot be found using the stock recovery. I can only find some empty folders in the stock recovery.
I hope you can help me out with this. Thanks!
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rooted my phone sgn2 and installed twrp downloaded jelly thunder blackout to my sd card fowllowed steps,dalvc wipe,cache wipe ,wipe system and then i flash jtbo rom and it failed. i got a bad download and im not shure what to do.any help would be appriciated . and i have every thing backed up.
If you made a Nandroid before flashing just restore it. If not and you have an external sd card shut down the phone and remove the sd card and use a computer to dl a rom and put it on the card. Put the card back in the phone and boot directly into recovery and flash rhw rom. If you dont have a ext sdcard then there is probably a way to adb push a rom to the internal sdcard with a computer but you'll have to google that one, , I'm a little rusty on adb. Another option is trying to reboot to bootloader and flash a stock rom with odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...ter - [ATT / Bell / Telus / Rogers / Sasktel]Link for odin instructions and roms.
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If you made a Nandroid before flashing just restore it. If not and you have an external sd card shut down the phone and remove the sd card and use a computer to dl a rom and put it on the card. Put the card back in the phone and boot directly into recovery and flash rhw rom. If you dont have a ext sdcard then there is probably a way to adb push a rom to the internal sdcard with a computer but you'll have to google that one, , I'm a little rusty on adb. Another option is trying to reboot to bootloader and flash a stock rom with odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...ter - [ATT / Bell / Telus / Rogers / Sasktel]Link for odin instructions and roms.
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ill try that thanks for replying
Just mount sd card in twrp and transfer the rom and flash
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sometimes you just need to reboot back into recovery. Just last night after wiping with TWRP I got "Failed" message when trying to flash the best international stock ROM. I simply reboot the phone back into recovery and then it flashed fine.
Hi,
i tried to flash a custom ROM and i found a tutorial which said to use "super wipe android revolution" so i put it in the sdcard like the .zip from the custom ROM.
I launched "choose zip from sdcard" and selected super wipe.zip, but after rebooting on recovery when i tried to apply the next file with "choose .zip from sdcard" it said to me that "no files found"!
When i reboot normally, there is the samsung LOGO but nothing else after 5-10 minutes....
Omg that script is erase all the data so why should i do this before flashing a new rom i can't understand why i can't do anything know execpt going on recovyer/ DL mode.
Can you please help me to find a solution like putting maybe the custom ROM on external SD card ?? is it possible or ?
Thanks a lot i'm very afraid of being in this situation...
No need to panic, you can either flash a stock rom from odin in download mode, or put a custom rom on your ext sd card. You will need to flash a decent recovery though for ext sd something like twrp, you can use odin to flash it.
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Thanks bro !
I have a 6.xxx CWM so i can put my rom .zip on the external SD and select "choose zip from external sdcard" on the recovery to install on my internal sdcard right?
Yep, that should do it.
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I putted my backup on external sdcard, i'm triying this i hope it will work.
Otherwise i 'll try to put my ROM in external and try again.
Good! I just recover my system by putting the backup on my external sd card! Thanks a lot i'll try to put the .zip for flashing the rom now.
Hello,
i wanted to flash Cyanogenmod on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. If I want to install a zip from sdcard, Clockworkmod says can't mount /sdcard.
What's wrong?
Thank you!
More info. Is your bootloader unlock, are you on 2.3.4 firmware, is it the correct cm zip folder? Lots of information missing. Sorry cant help you.
The Firmware version has been 2.3.4 i think. The zip file was placed in the root of my sd card. I have done the following steps:
1. I have unlocked the bootloader
2. I have flashed the boot.img from the cyanogenmod zip file with fastboot.
3. Then in clockworkmod-based recovery I was not able to choose a zip file on my sd card because the message 'can't mount E:/sdcard appeared.
I have not rooted my phone before doing the steps, maybe this was the mistake?
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The Firmware version has been 2.3.4 i think. The zip file was placed in the root of my sd card. I have done the following steps:
1. I have unlocked the bootloader
2. I have flashed the boot.img from the cyanogenmod zip file with fastboot.
3. Then in clockworkmod-based recovery I was not able to choose a zip file on my sd card because the message 'can't mount E:/sdcard appeared.
I have not rooted my phone before doing the steps, maybe this was the mistake?
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Root has nothing to do with the problems your having. What concerns me is why your sd card isnt mounting when it already should.
I am about to flash the ROM provided in this post : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2259071 , but I have some questions.
1- Where should I place the ZIP file, internal storage or SD Card ?
2- Can I use Clockworkmod Recovery V6.0.1.2, coz that's what I have ?
3- Should I remove the SD Card while Flashing the ROM ?
4- If I successfully installed the ROM, I don't want the Transparent Playstore, Can I get the Normal one ?
1) you like, on cwm you can choose from internel or externel SD
2) yes you can, as long as its cwm recovery
3) why you want to do that? If you place your rom on internel sd then yes, you can.
4) by flashing the original one, you can find it by Google
Thanks
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I need to root my note 3 but i have no access to the phone. I'm locked out and i don't want to lose my data. In order for me to use AROMA FM i need to root the phone and add a custom recovery. But how can i do that if i cant get in it?
I own the phone and i don't want to lose the data. Please help
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Learningfast said:
I need to root my note 3 but i have no access to the phone. I'm locked out and i don't want to lose my data. In order for me to use AROMA FM i need to root the phone and add a custom recovery. But how can i do that if i cant get in it?
I own the phone and i don't want to lose the data. Please help
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#1: Remove the back of the phone and remove the microsd card (or buy a cheap one)
plug the microsd card into your computer then download a basic twrp flashable
rom and copy it onto the microsd card and put it back into the phone.
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Here is the direct download link for the basic rom:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23622183712472801
#2: You need to ODIN flash CF-autoroot and TWRP recovery.
None of the above will wipe/delete/erase or destroy your files
or data. Here is the direct download link for ODIN: (just in case you need it)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45687485/odin1.85.rar
#3: Unrar odin to an empty folder and unzip the contents of cf-autoroot
and twrp recovery zip files into the same empty folder as odin is in then
flash cf-autoroot first, then flash twrp recovery.
#4: Once your phone is rooted and has twrp custom recovery, you are
ready to flash the zip file which you copied to your microsd card.
Flashing a basic twrp/cwm flashable zip file rom will not destroy,
delete, erase or wipe your files and data in the phone.
#5: Be sure NOT do perform a factory reset before or after flashing
the rom, twrp or cf-autoroot.
#6: For best results, flash cf-autooot first then flash twrp recovery.
Here are the links for cf-autoroot and twrp recovery:
CF-Autoroot:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45687485/CF-Auto-Root-hltetmo-hltetmo-smn900t.zip
TWRP recovery:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45687485/twrp-2.8.0.0-hltetmo-4.4.zip
Good luck!
Thank you so much for answering. Because i have the same issue. But I'm stuck on 3. It sounds like i have to do them on the computer. If so wouldn't that require that i have USB debugging on and adb?
I don't have that option clicked on the phone and I can't click it due to the fact I can't unlock the phone either.
Thanks for your help. And thank you for any future clarification
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Shyne888 said:
Thank you so much for answering. Because i have the same issue. But I'm stuck on 3. It sounds like i have to do them on the computer. If so wouldn't that require that i have USB debugging on and adb?
I don't have that option clicked on the phone and I can't click it due to the fact I can't unlock the phone either.
Thanks for your help. And thank you for any future clarification
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You don't need to have usb debugging since all you need the computer for
is to copy a twrp flashable zip file rom onto a microsd card which in turn
would be the source of your zipfile rom and then you can use twrp recovery
to flash the zipfile rom.
That way twrp will have a zipfile rom to work with since twrp will recognize
the microsd card as the source for the zipfile rom which you need to flash.
Remember that the microsd card needs to be plugged into the computer
temporarily just so you can copy a zipfile rom file onto it.
Then once that's done the microsd card needs to be plugged back into the phone.
No ADB no USB pushing of files required.
Look at it this way, if your phone was working properly right now and you wanted
to flash a custom rom you would have a choice to flash it from internel memory or
the microsd card in your phone. If the rom is on the microsd card then twrp can flash
the rom from it instead of using the internal memory of the phone.
Good luck!
OK so let's make sure I understand 100%. I only need the computer to download and move the files. I don't need the computer for the process of rooting and flashing.
Odin.rar will be a first. I flash that via the so card and then flash the recovery. After that i will flash twrp/cwm flashable zip? Once this process is complete I can use the aroma file to remove the password.key file. Does this sound right. Again thank you very much. This is great help
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I don't plug the phone in the computer. I take the card out and plug it into a usb Micro sd card reader. I then just put the card back in the phone.