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Package File Invalid

My phone wont download apps from the marketplace or my sdcard anymore. It keeps saying the "package file invalid" and with apps from my sdcard it just says not installed. What gives? After a soft reset I was able to download one thing but after than nothing would install

amallama said:
My phone wont download apps from the marketplace or my sdcard anymore. It keeps saying the "package file invalid" and with apps from my sdcard it just says not installed. What gives? After a soft reset I was able to download one thing but after than nothing would install
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Helpful information:
What ROM you're using?
What was the last thing you did before this began happening?
Did you make Nandroid back up, if so -- have you restored?
Have you tried reinstalling the market application?
Have you tried changing to a different ROM and seeing if the problem occurs?
We're here to help, just gotta give us a little more info.

okay
Im using the Fresh Rom,
the last thing I did was install an app of my SdCard.
I didnt do a restore, only because I haven't done a backup in about a week, and I didnt want to lose all the stuff I've done since then.
I dont really know how to reinstall the market app, but does that also control installs from the sdcard?
and ive been using this rom for about 3 weeks with no problems so I dont know if that was the problem

amallama said:
okay
Im using the Fresh Rom,
the last thing I did was install an app of my SdCard.
I didnt do a restore, only because I haven't done a backup in about a week, and I didnt want to lose all the stuff I've done since then.
I dont really know how to reinstall the market app, but does that also control installs from the sdcard?
and ive been using this rom for about 3 weeks with no problems so I dont know if that was the problem
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Hmm...interesting.
The first thing you should do is make a back up. Save all the stuff you have. Then, while still in recovery, I would restore your OLD back up and see if anything changes.
I've created an update.zip file that will automatically delete your Market application (Vending.apk) and then reinstall it. This might or might not fix your problem. Download the file below and copy it to your SD Card, then flash it through recovery.
Tell me what happens.
EDIT:: File was removed due to bad update-script, please see post below.

thanks for the post. I would flash this but when I tried it said that the directory didnt exist. I think it has to do with the permissions or something and I haven't the slightest clue how to do it... grrrr!!!

amallama said:
thanks for the post. I would flash this but when I tried it said that the directory didnt exist. I think it has to do with the permissions or something and I haven't the slightest clue how to do it... grrrr!!!
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Directory didn't existed? I've never heard of that error. You have rooted your phone phone and installed a recovery image, correct?

yes my phone is definitely rooted. Irony is I did a restore from a previous backup, but now its doing the same thing!!
But this is what I get when I try to flash it,
E:cant chown/mod /system/bin
(No such file or directory)
E:Failure at line 10
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0 755 SYSTEM:bin

amallama said:
yes my phone is definitely rooted. Irony is I did a restore from a previous backup, but now its doing the same thing!!
But this is what I get when I try to flash it,
E:cant chown/mod /system/bin
(No such file or directory)
E:Failure at line 10
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 0755 0 755 SYSTEM:bin
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Well, I'll be honest, I know exactly why you're getting that error... the update script I included in the update.zip file was incorrect. However, I've fixed the problem and uploaded a second version of the update.zip. Please download this file, copy to your sd card and flash. You shouldn't have any problems this time.
Again, this will remove your Market application and then reinstall it. Hope it works, tell me if you have problems. Sorry again.

Thanks! It worked like a charm..Lets hope it stays that way!

amallama said:
Thanks! It worked like a charm..Lets hope it stays that way!
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Well, I'm glad to hear that! Hope things work out. Good luck!

Darn, it worked now Im back to not being able to install stuff again! Im at my wits end with this!

amallama said:
Darn, it worked now Im back to not being able to install stuff again! Im at my wits end with this!
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Wow. Are you using Apps2SD? Also, maybe you should try running a Sprint RUU on your phone, bringing it back to the original factory settings and see if you have problems. If not, try installing a ROM again and see what happens. Otherwise, I'm not sure what's going on here.

Yea I am using App2SD. Im not sure what it is either. It works and then it doesnt sometimes. Its very strange. Reinstalling the Market did work for a little bit, but I don't know. I just keep clearing out the caches and stuff. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Thanks for all your help!

amallama said:
Yea I am using App2SD. Im not sure what it is either. It works and then it doesnt sometimes. Its very strange. Reinstalling the Market did work for a little bit, but I don't know. I just keep clearing out the caches and stuff. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Thanks for all your help!
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Apps2SD = All of your applications will be installed and stored on your SD Card instead of the internal memory on your phone, thus supposedly increasing performance and such. It's best to have a a decent sized card, but also one labeled "Class 6", as it has the fastest transfer rates, so again better performance. I don't think Apps2SD is your problem, but for the hell of it... if you want, you could try disabling it.
**Before trying this, you need to back up your sd card -- meaning, copying all the stuff from the card onto your Desktop or somewhere on the computer before proceeding to the next step.
To do so; go into recovery and choose:
1. Partition sdcard
2. Partition SD
3. Press Home to confirm
4. Set Swap-size to O MB (Use trackball)
5. Set Ext2-size to 0 MB (Use trackball)
6. Fat32-size = Leave that to Remainder
7. Press Home to confirm.
This will FORMAT (erase) everything on your SD card, but not the phone. After its done, you can reboot, mount your SD Card and copy what you saved to the desktop back onto the SD card, like nothing ever changed. However, what did change is that your applications will no longer be saved to the SD card, but rather the internal memory on the phone.
Also, I would reflash the update.zip that I uploaded the other day and see if this Market thing happens again. If it happens again, I'd say you're better off running the Sprint RUU (bringing your phone back to factory settings) and then starting over from scratch, but that's just me.

Okay I will try that!

Problem when rebooting back to android

Hi Bro,
Im running android on my HD 2
Energy rom (rom version 6 aug 2010)
Radio 2.10.50.28_2
Android rom (mattleo 1.7 / froyostone 2.2 both rom will give the same problem)
I keep getting problem when rebooting back android on my HD2 (2nd or third time). normally the first time i boot android its quite slow (its normal). the second time its faster. but when this problem came it take very long to boot back to android. Below is the message appear
"failed to find rootfs on SD card. You need to unzip rootfs zip file to the root of your SD card. (i didnt delete any rootfs file from ny sd card????)
/bin/sh:cant access tty; job control turned off"
this problem is random...normally the 3rd or fourth time i boot android or sometimes the 2nd time i boot. when the message above appear, it will take way to looooonnnng to boot back to android.
any thing that i miss bcos i follow all the direction on installing android on HD2. first time boot all working, 3g, wifi, no robo voice, marketplace, internet access all working superbly...
sorry my english not that good, im from the longhouse of borneo island..

Do you have the files stored in the root of your sd card or in "Android" folder? I would put everything in the "Android" folder; it just keeps things more organised. You may need to edit your startup.txt file to point to where your installation is.

dammit.....i put it on root...
sorry for my mistake n ignorance not reading the readme file...
thanks n will let you know if its solve the problem.

how to cancel the clean boot on acer s200??

hello everyone as the title says how to cancel the clean boot on acer s200 Because it gives me after I touch the screen aligner target until it back in the middle, after she gives me nothing always the same screen​

Hello, Exodix-i´ve had the same problem:Hardreset,clean boot and then calibrating the touchscreen. It allways took longer and longer and you can do nothing about it.... makes you feel verrrrrrrry lost!! The longest time i have been following the cross ´round the screen was 2 h !!!!! There is no way (as far as i know) to skip this part of the setup-so keep on and stay patient. B t w -i used my fingers at the end-You can setup the touchscreen later again to work more exactly.
Greetings-Frank. (If Brainmaster reeds this-are you from H in Ger??)

roadrunner1 said:
Hello, Exodix-i´ve had the same problem:Hardreset,clean boot and then calibrating the touchscreen. It allways took longer and longer and you can do nothing about it.... makes you feel verrrrrrrry lost!! The longest time i have been following the cross ´round the screen was 2 h !!!!! There is no way (as far as i know) to skip this part of the setup-so keep on and stay patient. B t w -i used my fingers at the end-You can setup the touchscreen later again to work more exactly.
Greetings-Frank. (If Brainmaster reeds this-are you from H in Ger??)
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The solution should be very simple - just make a blank welcome.not file and copy it on your SD Card. The existence of the welcome.not file stops the Calibration and Welcome screen.
@ Frank - Yes. How did you knew?

@ Brainmaster: "Frohes Neues..."! ...what for a file?? how to get it and how to boot from SD???? I`m not so familiar to all of this...just an unknowing user...!!...probably this could have worked with my m800. It had the same problem and does now RIP-the service at Pearl couldn´t fix it......! (b.t.w.: your Weather told me!!! I`m from Burgdorf.)
all the best-Frank.

Open notepad on PC - save a empty file named "welcome.not" (just a empty file!) - extension of the file must be .not and not .txt - copy it to the SD-card - reboot your Phone ...

[Q] bad blocks

hey guys ik there are threads already on this but dont want to revive a dead thread, i have recently found that i have about 9 bad blocks on my device. i have ran task29 a few times and they are still there. i have also tried to flash the leodev file with no luck on the flash comes back saying not signed and bs... is there any way i can fix my baby?

How do you know, that you have bad blocks? Is there any programm to check this?

how to see
How to See if you have Bad Blocks: Okay since people are asking, here is a short step by step for both EU and TMous: 1) Format your Boot, Data, Cache, System, Dalvik Cache (Eu users your Dalvik Cache is on your sdcard on the SD-EXT) 2) Flash your rom. 3) After flashing DO NOT REBOOT. 4) Go to Advanced, then Error Report. 5) This will copy the Recover.log to your SDCard. 6) Go Back and enter Mount & Storage. 7) Mount USB SD. 8) On your computer navigate your SD Drive. 9) Look for a folder called: clockworkmod. 10) Inside you will find a file called: recovery.log 11) Copy this to your Desktop. 12) Open with Wordpad or Notepad++ If you see in that whole log, Could not erase blah blah bad block, or anything that says bad block, with the exception of a location called "system/xbin/badblocks" (This location is normal hats a file name), then you have bad blocks, and the more you have, the smaller your cwr partition actually is.

try task2a

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623356:
F.A.T.M.T.I.D.Q:
(Frequently Asked TOO Many Times Infuriating Damn Questions):
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1: "After task 28, I get this output in MTTY: Total Bad Block in CE: x"
2: "After task 29, I get this output in MTTY:
ERASE block xxx FAIL !!!
ERASE block xxx FAIL !!!"
(where x is a random number)
This has been asked 100+ times in the Diamond thread so this is the final time I will answer:
IT MEANS NOTHING..NADA..ZIP! I have not experienced ANY problem with this output...Please stop asking!
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well then explain to me why this damn thing is constantly freezing and becoming un responsive.

valdezpa09 said:
well then explain to me why this damn thing is constantly freezing and becoming un responsive.
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I have also nearly the same problem with my babe: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944464&page=2
Mtty shows me 3 bad nand blocks and have big problems with booting wp7, have also startet a new thread.... have also not found a solution for my actuall problem.
With my old HD2 i had the problem that its often crashed down by freezing or random reboots,...sometimes about 10x per day.
do you want to know, what was the solution in that case?
Had installed stock rom (3.14) and let my HD2 to fully drain the battey until the device has not response any more.
Then had fully charged the battery (green light on mobile), restart the device, charged the battery again until the green light was shown again.
Had installed wp7 and the problem never occured any more... try maybe this

[Q] AmericanAndroid SD boot problem

Hi,
This is my first time with android - that's why I'm trying SD.
All went ok for about 3 days - I tried many apps from the market & all of a sudden my phone rebooted!
When it booted again I saw the lock screen & can see the tiny icons on the status bar then it just reboot again!
After several attempts I got it booting but most of the apps now force close - my contacts are gone so as my SMS.
Any idea what might caused something like that? is Android so vulnerable that
installing some application can cause a total loss of the system?
- Do I need to re-install every thing again?
- will deleting data.img is enough to force a clean install?
- Is there a way to restore my old data from data.img?
- Is there a recommended book to upgrade from a noob to an educated user?
Thanks,

it's strange because when Americn android craches, it should bootloop.
here's a couple of suggestions:
backup the valuable contents of your SD card then search for file system errors, if your card has a corrupt file here and there it might be the one causing the problem, for the how to, it's in my troubleshooter, check my sig.
Usually a fresh data.img file is considered a clean install unless you've messed with root explorer (or any similar app) and did something wrong to your sytem files.
I'm not sure how to get the data back, I know you can access the data.img contents using a special tool, see here for info http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows
there's also a tool on softpedia to do so.
but you can try to look for the SMS data somewhere on your data.img, extract them to your harddrive, then copy them back using android explorer. I haven't tried it, and theoretically it might work, but I can not guarantee it.
My advice is that don't put too much pressure on the device, it's running Android from the SD which is not designed to work as NAND. let the device take a breath for a few seconds after each installation, it may say it finished, but it's still doing something in the background, I learned that the hard way. and always backup our data before you do something new.
and yes, if you use a fresh data.img you will have to install everything again.