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Leaked beta Froyo 2.2 update download, instructions, and HelixLauncher user Warnings

There is a thread with this info in it, but it is buried deep in over a hundred pages and I thought the warning for HelixLauncher bared having a new post.
Here is the link to download the update.
http://android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-passion-FRF50-from-ERE27.1e519a24.zip
Looks like that link is dead... here is a mirror
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/113487/signed-passion-FRF50-from-ERE27.1e519a24.zip
And one more just in case the others go down.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b1chb29/n/update-nexusone-FRF50-signed.zip
Warning!! If you use Helixlauncher, uninstall or remove its defaults. It will go into a Force Close loop, making the phone unusable without booting into recovery again and performing a factory wipe/reset.
How to flash the update, I used these steps and it worked fine, but remember, there is always the possibility to brick the phone.
1. Download file from link up there.
2. Rename the file to update.zip.
3. Note that if you're using Windows and don't have "show file extentsions" turned on in the file explorer you won't see a .zip. Just rename it to "update" (no quotes, of course) because it's already a zipped file.
4. Copy the update.zip file onto your microSD card.
5. With your Nexus One off, hold down the trackball and press the power button.
6. You'll be booted into a white screen with three Android robots on skateboards. Select "Bootloader."
7. On the next screen, select "Recovery."
8. Your phone will reboot, giving you a picture of the Android robot and an exclamation point inside a triangle.
9. Now press the power button and volume up button at the same time. It could take a couple of tries.
10. Now (using the trackball this time) choose "Apply sdcard:update.zip" and let things run their course.
Taken from the update-1 instructions on:
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-ma...your-nexus-one
Also, I don't think my phone rebooted own its own after the update. After a minute or two, I tried hitting power and power+vol up to get the menu and reset manually. During that time it reset and booted up fine. So I say give it a few minutes before trying to reboot after the update finishes.
Edit: a ton of threads have popped into existence about froyo, but I didn't see any with early warnings about Helixlauncher.... ah well, maybe this post can be helpful for someone out there.
Edit 2: From what I am seeing, AT&T phones are on a different build of Android than the T-mobile N1. Seems like if you have an AT&T version you are out of luck for right now. This update was meant for the demo devices given to the Press outlets around launch, before the AT&T phone existed.

thanks for this, just a quick question.
Is this ok to use on a nexus one in england? it's not usa only or something is it?
thanks

Can it be flashed over Cyanogen? I read somewhere that it couldn't...

shrub said:
thanks for this, just a quick question.
Is this ok to use on a nexus one in england? it's not usa only or something is it?
thanks
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If it is a US update then using it on a nexus one in England might not be a good idea, but I doubt it would hurt the phone, but some things might not work right.
St.Jimmy! said:
Can it be flashed over Cyanogen? I read somewhere that it couldn't...
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You have to be back to stock recovery, so best to follow the directions in this thread. -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686593

you made my day, man. Downloading...

Marine6680 said:
If it is a US update then using it on a nexus one in England might not be a good idea, but I doubt it would hurt the phone, but some things might not work right.
You have to be back to stock recovery, so best to follow the directions in this thread. ->
I flashed it over cyanogen 5.0.7 Test2 and it worked without any problem. Just helixlauncher is going nuts
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Yeah I had to do a wipe when Helixlauncher went nuts on me, but Android restored all my apps for me lol.

Re: Official Froyo 2.2 update download, instructions, and HelixLauncher user Warnings
So...can we reinstall helixlauncher safely after updating? Just want to make sure

naynada said:
So...can we reinstall helixlauncher safely after updating? Just want to make sure
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Not sure if Helixlauncher will already work with Froyo

i keep gettin installation aborted

Ritmjunk said:
Marine6680 said:
If it is a US update then using it on a nexus one in England might not be a good idea, but I doubt it would hurt the phone, but some things might not work right.
You have to be back to stock recovery, so best to follow the directions in this thread. ->
I flashed it over cyanogen 5.0.7 Test2 and it worked without any problem. Just helixlauncher is going nuts
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Wait what?!?! Your saying it works just flashing over CM? Iv read all day that you have to go back to stock.. Have you tried/know if it works over 5.0.6?
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Crime843 said:
i keep gettin installation aborted
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I cant find it in the market anymore .....

johanove said:
Ritmjunk said:
Wait what?!?! Your saying it works just flashing over CM? Iv read all day that you have to go back to stock.. Have you tried/know if it works over 5.0.6?
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I'm not joking really. I flashed it over cyanogen 5.0.7 TEST 2 and my N1 is working fine. I'm from Belgium and bought the N1 in U.K.
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Ritmjunk said:
johanove said:
I'm not joking really. I flashed it over cyanogen 5.0.7 TEST 2 and my N1 is working fine. I'm from Belgium and bought the N1 in U.K.
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Ok I assume you used Paul's release then?
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johanove said:
Ritmjunk said:
Ok I assume you used Paul's release then?
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Jeeee yes, sorry .... I just saw the header and this topic is about the official release/download. Indeed I used Pauls release..... sorry my mistake.
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naynada said:
So...can we reinstall helixlauncher safely after updating? Just want to make sure
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Ritmjunk said:
Not sure if Helixlauncher will already work with Froyo
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Yeah I'm thinking the new update broke it, helixlauncher is integrated much deeper into th OS than most apps, so it would be more vulnerable to even small changes
Crime843 said:
i keep gettin installation aborted
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I read somewhere, that another person had the same issue. Are you using stock recovery? Also, are you on the latest 2.1 update 1? I'm not sure the issue really. Try a search of the other threads, see if there is a solution.

same here... tried it twice with installation aborted each time. Redownloaded the file... renamed and copied to the sd card again.... same results.

Ritmjunk said:
johanove said:
Jeeee yes, sorry .... I just saw the header and this topic is about the official release/download. Indeed I used Pauls release..... sorry my mistake.
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Cool, ill give it a try then. Thanks for your quick response!
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Can someone post a link to HelixLauncher? Can't find it in the Market.
Thanks!

about the HELIXLAUNCHER:
there is NO NEED FOR WIPING everything! i had the same problem after updating and these force kills were really anoying.
here's what you have to do
1. remove your sim card (necessary because other wise your phone will reboot in safe mode - don't ask me why, but it did)
2. get into safe mode: (menu button long press while the X flashes on the load, give it a few tries, it vibrate long if it works)
3. delete helix
4. reboot
5. pray and thank me ;-)
worked for me!

[Q] Revert recovery mode

Hey, I have the recovery mode that I installed from here currently on my phone, but I would like to revert it to the stock recovery mode, because I'll be needing to take my phone to Verizon tomorrow. How can I go about doing that?

Chiggins said:
Hey, I have the recovery mode that I installed from here currently on my phone, but I would like to revert it to the stock recovery mode, because I'll be needing to take my phone to Verizon tomorrow. How can I go about doing that?
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just flash theOTA (leak v3) it sets the recoveryand everything else back to stock

I downloaded the OTA for 2.1 and tried to install that, but when I did from the recovery mode I have, I got an error saying E:No signature (690 files)

Chiggins said:
I downloaded the OTA for 2.1 and tried to install that, but when I did from the recovery mode I have, I got an error saying E:No signature (690 files)
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make sure the file is in the root of your sdcard
and instead of pressing up volume press down when powering your phone on
it will take you to the bootloader (h-boot)
use trackball as action button to finish installation =)

Yep, I've done that. Gone through h-boot into the recovery mode, and whenever I tried to install the OTA file that I renamed to update.zip, I get the E:No signature (690 files) error

Chiggins said:
Yep, I've done that. Gone through h-boot into the recovery mode, and whenever I tried to install the OTA file that I renamed to update.zip, I get the E:No signature (690 files) error
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you have to name it as PB00IMG.zip
otherwise it will look right past it in h-boot
and give you the option to go into the recovery

I got the same error after renaming the file.

Chiggins said:
I got the same error after renaming the file.
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your pressing volume down + power correct
not power up. power up not your friend in this case we want the bootloader not the recovery.

Well ****, now its doing something in HBOOT. There is a loading bar on the top right doing something.

Chiggins said:
Well ****, now its doing something in HBOOT. There is a loading bar on the top right doing something.
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awesome now your cookin!
enjoy the OTA again haha
glad we could get you moving along.

and remember the action button is the trackball =)

Well, now when I booted back up, I was back in KaosFroyo.
And the recovery mode was the same.

Chiggins said:
Well, now when I booted back up, I was back in KaosFroyo.
And the recovery mode was the same.
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did it say installation complete?
you let it run its course not pulling the battery correct? it took my phone about 5-7 minutes to complete
if so mabey the file was the wronge one.
http://www.mediafire.com/?qymwuzug5gl

I didn't see any text saying installation complete, and I didn't touch the battery. This file is a lot bigger than the one that I had. I'll download and give it a try.
Should I do a wipe to factory before I do this?

Chiggins said:
I didn't see any text saying installation complete, and I didn't touch the battery. This file is a lot bigger than the one that I had. I'll download and give it a try.
Should I do a wipe to factory before I do this?
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no it will wipe everything but your sdcard

All of this will reset my phone to factory settings, right? So when I bring it to Verizon, I'll be under warranty?

Chiggins said:
All of this will reset my phone to factory settings, right? So when I bring it to Verizon, I'll be under warranty?
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factory yes warranty ehhh thats arguable but with the firmware and rom stock they won't be able to tell at all so your fine to even seal the deal further after you reboot your phone it will promt you to install the new ota update just follow the on screen instructions for that and it will be fully updated and vzw approved

Is there anything else that I should do to ensure that they don't find that I've rooted?

Chiggins said:
Is there anything else that I should do to ensure that they don't find that I've rooted?
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mabey clear your sdcard of nandroid and any other roms or patches just in case and any other root only folders like titanium or setcpu etc. etc.

The only thing I did was use nandroid, I already deleted my roms. Where is the setcpu folder?

No Cell Radio after Voodoo

long story short, i had root and oclf, i uninstalled it and installed voodoo, let system sit for 30 mins, i guess i got impatient, so i pulled and restored, i created the disable_lagfix file and it ran through the paces, so i decided to put one of the other roms back on that had d1 update.. anyways, it loaded but i had NO cell radio, none, also i seem to get a invalid argument when booting up to recovery but i can still boot into CWM, i have tried to restore just the modem file part to see if that works but i think it freezes about 2/3 of the way and i get a scirpt ABORTED MESSAGE (STATUS 7).
I really need someones help.
any suggestions

Odin! Or you can just odin clockwork kernal and find the nanadroid back up on here. Then restore.

magicriggs said:
Odin! Or you can just odin clockwork kernal and find the nanadroid back up on here. Then restore.
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tried that, several times, no luck.. i took it back to the store cuz i was under 30 days, it was just easier that way. Ill run a proper CWM back up this time

Andwhy81
Not saying u did this but not having a cell radio is often a symptom of flashing something in the "phone" part of Odin instead of in the "PDA" again not saying u did this but I've seen several instances of people having this problem in irc all being caused by that. Be a little more careful with the new one. I do t think a backup will even save u if u flash something to the phone part. Goodluck sir
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

ksizzle9 said:
Andwhy81
Not saying u did this but not having a cell radio is often a symptom of flashing something in the "phone" part of Odin instead of in the "PDA" again not saying u did this but I've seen several instances of people having this problem in irc all being caused by that. Be a little more careful with the new one. I do t think a backup will even save u if u flash something to the phone part. Goodluck sir
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That is a possabilty, i was up late and tired, thanks for not flaming.
i now have voodoo and loving it,

andwhy81 said:
That is a possabilty, i was up late and tired, thanks for not flaming.
i now have voodoo and loving it,
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You could easily determine this by looking in setting - about phone - baseband version. If it says uknown, you've killed your cell radio by flashing to "phone" instead of "pda." If you have a version number, you're fine.

I flashed CWM into "phone" instead of "pda". Is there really no fixing it? I've tried nandroid recovery, Odin, everything and still no cell radio and also force closes everywhere...
Also will VZ take the phone back? The phone's less than a week old...I'll make sure to be more careful next time

Try and say you tried to run the ota update and it loaded that
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Ahodson1985 said:
I flashed CWM into "phone" instead of "pda". Is there really no fixing it? I've tried nandroid recovery, Odin, everything and still no cell radio and also force closes everywhere...
Also will VZ take the phone back? The phone's less than a week old...I'll make sure to be more careful next time
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Yes, there's really no fixing it. To fix the FC issues you need to get to the OS to do a privacy wipe, or wipe /dbdata from the shell. I would start with restoring everything from the Odin post to get everything back to stock. At least when you go to return it, it will look like a fully functioning phone, with just a radio that happened to crap-out.

namebrandon said:
Yes, there's really no fixing it. To fix the FC issues you need to get to the OS to do a privacy wipe, or wipe /dbdata from the shell. I would start with restoring everything from the Odin post to get everything back to stock. At least when you go to return it, it will look like a fully functioning phone, with just a radio that happened to crap-out.
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yep i flashed something to the phone part of my phone too. no signal and no baseband version. took it to verizon and they said since i didnt get it from them, they cant relplace it. samsung said that i hafta mail it in to be repaired. freakin gay. if they dont fix it, its not much a problem for me cause my contract expires next month so ill make a new one and get the same phone. until then im on my sch-u740 lol
hopefully some baseband files get leaked so those of us who did this can fix it.

This has scared me from using odin behond installing CWM, i hope froyo wont crap anything with voodoo.
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yep i flashed something to the phone part of my phone too. no signal and no baseband version. took it to verizon and they said since i didnt get it from them, they cant relplace it. samsung said that i hafta mail it in to be repaired. freakin gay. if they dont fix it, its not much a problem for me cause my contract expires next month so ill make a new one and get the same phone. until then im on my sch-u740 lol
hopefully some baseband files get leaked so those of us who did this can fix it.
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so there is no way to fix this at the moment?

lucious584 said:
so there is no way to fix this at the moment?
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nope. unless someone somewhere releases the complete baseband file, and we flash that. the only thing we have close to that is the modem update which is just an update to an existing modem.
btw random question that might save us,
if someone skilled pulls SCH-I500_OpenSource.zip from opensource.samsung.com, maybe theres a baseband file there somewhere that just needs to be built? idk just a desperate thought

em.Tea said:
nope. unless someone somewhere releases the complete baseband file, and we flash that. the only thing we have close to that is the modem update which is just an update to an existing modem.
btw random question that might save us,
if someone skilled pulls SCH-I500_OpenSource.zip from opensource.samsung.com, maybe theres a baseband file there somewhere that just needs to be built? idk just a desperate thought
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yeah i fixed my problem i just did a nand restore. Fixed it right up

lucious584 said:
yeah i fixed my problem i just did a nand restore. Fixed it right up
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really? that didnt work for me

em.Tea said:
really? that didnt work for me
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He was talking about some other problem.. There's no way to fix the modem.bin file issue at this point. It's been a problem since the device was released, the only fix I can see in our future is an official firmware release from Samsung.

namebrandon said:
He was talking about some other problem.. There's no way to fix the modem.bin file issue at this point. It's been a problem since the device was released, the only fix I can see in our future is an official firmware release from Samsung.
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Yeah different problem. I found out i did have cell service but it took forever for the phone to find it. It took about 30-40 minutes.

namebrandon said:
He was talking about some other problem.. There's no way to fix the modem.bin file issue at this point. It's been a problem since the device was released, the only fix I can see in our future is an official firmware release from Samsung.
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Yeah lets not start breath holding
For that
Sent from my 1.2Ghz voodoo fascinate

I don't have a baseband file but i may have a fix for this. I just need to know if you are able to boot into CWM.

Cant take update (Q)

So first off im gonna start off and say that I dont really care about being rooted in the first place. I thought id be flashing a lot more stuff but It turns out that I never flashed anything. So on my phone as of now I just have root and I have twrp installed onto it. I did that process to take off the custom recovery status from using motochopper as well. Now my problem is that every time i try to take the ota I get booted right into twrp and then i am unable to take the update. I even downloaded the zip file and tried flashing it and I just get a failed message. Can anyone tell me whats going on? Or point me into the right direction so i can uninstall twrp so I can take the update?

Odin back to stock, then do a factory reset in settings.

Sledutah said:
Odin back to stock, then do a factory reset in settings.
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Will this make everything on my phone get deleted?

blackguy101 said:
Will this make everything on my phone get deleted?
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It did not wipe either internal or extral sdcards when I used odin, been awhile though.

TheAxman said:
It did not wipe either internal or extral sdcards when I used odin, been awhile though.
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Well actually I have one more question. Arent I already stock? I havent even flashed another rom. I literally just got root status and put twrp recovery on it. Do I still need to use odin?

blackguy101 said:
Well actually I have one more question. Arent I already stock? I havent even flashed another rom. I literally just got root status and put twrp recovery on it. Do I still need to use odin?
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You say you are rooted, then do a factory reset, and un-root, then you will be able to get the update.

blackguy101 said:
Will this make everything on my phone get deleted?
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Like axman said, flashing with Odin to stock nothing gets deleted. If you do a factory wipe, everything gets deleted.
You could also try to update with kies instead of ota. Maybe that will work.

The problem is not that you removed root you still are using a custom recovery you need to get back to full stock use odin to get the phone back to full stockso you'll have a stock recovery
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Where can I find a good copy of the full stock recovery for odin

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Where can I find a good copy of the full stock recovery for odin
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40976805

BOOTLOOP

Hi guys, I flashed a jamal's 4.3 rom coming from omega's google edition rom and i did the usual stuff like I always have factory reset etc.. and i reboot the system and fix permissions as usual and my phone is now stuck on the omega's spinning boot up animation with the phone vibrating.
HELP!!!

Re-download the rom, could be a bad download. Did you check the md5sum?

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Re-download the rom, could be a bad download. Did you check the md5sum?
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what's a md5sum? :L i can't since my phone doesn't show up on my computer

sbouzyk said:
what's a md5sum? :L i can't since my phone doesn't show up on my computer
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It's a long alpha-numeric number that is associated with the file. Next time you download a rom look for it on the download page. When you down load a file the md5sum should match the original indicating a good download. There are apps that check the md5 and most file managers will show it in properties

ok, but how do i get out of the bootloop

sbouzyk said:
ok, but how do i get out of the bootloop
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If you've done the factory reset and that doesn't get you out I'm guessing the rom you flashed was a bad download. You made a nandroid backup before you flashed the rom, right. Boot back into recovery and restore it. Then re download the rom and try it again

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If you've done the factory reset and that doesn't get you out I'm guessing the rom you flashed was a bad download. You made a nandroid backup before you flashed the rom, right. Boot back into recovery and restore it. Then re download the rom and try it again
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i didn't make a nandroid backup...

sbouzyk said:
i didn't make a nandroid backup...
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Live and learn, I was afraid of that. You're probably going to have to use Odin then which will return you back to stock. And then start everything over again. Have you let the boot loop go for like 5 minutes. Sometimes it can take that long on first boot, but the vibration isn't normal.

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Live and learn, I was afraid of that. You're probably going to have to use Odin then which will return you back to stock. And then start everything over again. Have you let the boot loop go for like 5 minutes. Sometimes it can take that long on first boot, but the vibration isn't normal.
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the thing is though, i have flash this download of the rom before, and it was fine. i just got bored of it and downloaded another rom. i then decided to go back to the rom again.

sbouzyk said:
the thing is though, i have flash this download of the rom before, and it was fine. i just got bored of it and downloaded another rom. i then decided to go back to the rom again.
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Try flashing it again then. Do all the wipes first then flash it and then flash gapps. Did you flash the gapps package? I'm not sure what rom you're trying to flash but it probably requires gapps too.

jd1639 said:
Try flashing it again then. Do all the wipes first then flash it and then flash gapps. Did you flash the gapps package? I'm not sure what rom you're trying to flash but it probably requires gapps too.
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gapps isn't on my phone so i cant flash it. i've flash it about ten times now and it won't work. it must be a bad download even though i flashed it before. after i flash the rom, it shows the boot animation of the rom i had been using before. werid huh? the only option i have now is to buy a micro sd card and put the rom on that and flash it that way. i really don't want to use odin.

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gapps isn't on my phone so i cant flash it. i've flash it about ten times now and it won't work. it must be a bad download even though i flashed it before. after i flash the rom, it shows the boot animation of the rom i had been using before. werid huh? the only option i have now is to buy a micro sd card and put the rom on that and flash it that way. i really don't want to use odin.
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The sd card is a good idea. You're going to want one anyway.

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The sd card is a good idea. You're going to want one anyway.
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thanks for all your help mate. guess I'm going to be a LOT more careful in the future. now im phoneless anyway cheers for the help

sbouzyk said:
thanks for all your help mate. guess I'm going to be a LOT more careful in the future. now im phoneless anyway cheers for the help
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Np

sbouzyk said:
thanks for all your help mate. guess I'm going to be a LOT more careful in the future. now im phoneless anyway cheers for the help
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You're just going to give up? Seriously? It's really easy to flash stock fw with Odin. And also easy to root afterwards, to each their own.

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You're just going to give up? Seriously? It's really easy to flash stock fw with Odin. And also easy to root afterwards, to each their own.
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What do you mean giving up? I'm going to wait until my microSD card comes and then I will transfer the zip file that way. I don't have time to fiddle with odin. Besides I don't even have a pc, i have bootcamp, which takes a year to boot.