ok so i tried to put rafdroid on my phone (link below):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908528
I have tmobile HD2 running gingerbread 2.3.2. When I tried following the instructions and formatting/partitioning the SD card, my phone wouldnt work. i have clockworkmod recovery on my phone and i used it to install the rom zip file. it got to the screen where it has a picture of android and says dafdroid by dafpigna and stayed there for well over the initial startup time (over 20 min). I tried installing the dafdroid kernel as well (thru clockworkmod) and its still doing the same thing. when i tried formatting the sd card to anything other than quick format it wouldnt work and it wouldnt complete partitioning through the computer it would only work through clockworkmod on my phone. i tried to flash to another rom and even back to windows and it kept giving me an error message about some rampi.dll (something like that) isnt there.
please help! i cant use my phone at all! i have a 500 dollar paperweight
Hi,
Need a bit more information.
Can you still boot into magldr (holding down power button after switching on?)
What operating system are you running on your pc/laptop?
How far did you get when you were fomatting your sd card?
i find it quite common that an android rom wont complete the first boot after flash. mostly, pulling teh battery and booting again solves it.
Its also far more common when you didnt wipe the partitions from the previous rom first. (CWM, wipe data/factory reset, you can later use cwm - advanced restore - and just restore data and sd-ext to get your data and apps from teh previous rom back)
Partitioning, could be a dodgy sd card, no suggestions
rampi.dll - was it rapi.dll? update activesync to latest version.
I have an issue cannot install larger nand roms onto my phone previous roms worked tried various typhon cm7 roms, various miui roms both magldr and clk roms does not matter used task29 increased cwm size from 150 up to 250 and boot just hangs. Noticed roms larger than 90 MB zipped does not work at all they install but just hangs on boot
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I always search and read although this one I have not found what I am looking for.
Issue:
Phone started to reboot over and over right after a phone call. It had been working properly for months never doing this before.
Anytime I boot AD NAND I get "INVALID BOOT IMAGE HEADER"
setup when issue started.
MAGLDR 1.13
CWM 3.0.2.4 135m
Typhoon CM7 3.3.0
I HAVE DONE THE FOLLOWING.....
TASK 29
Reflashed MAGLDR
Reflashed CWM
Used CWM to install typhoon CM7 3.3.0 and also tried 3.3.5 after re-doing those steps
I also tried hd2 ginerbread, Kingdom sprint wwe, and a few others..also re-doing everything first between them.
All of this yeilds the "invalid boot image header" error. It seems to be permanent???
Am I missing something? I have flashed over 40 hd2's and have never seen this error before.
The phone is my personal one and I could not even count how many times I have flashed it. Could the nand be corrupted or would that cause other errors installing magldr/cwm?
PLEASE HELP ME.....like I said its my personal phone and I have no backup
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
Justin
fxdstudios said:
I always search and read although this one I have not found what I am looking for.
Issue:
Phone started to reboot over and over right after a phone call. It had been working properly for months never doing this before.
Anytime I boot AD NAND I get "INVALID BOOT IMAGE HEADER"
setup when issue started.
MAGLDR 1.13
CWM 3.0.2.4 135m
Typhoon CM7 3.3.0
I HAVE DONE THE FOLLOWING.....
TASK 29
Reflashed MAGLDR
Reflashed CWM
Used CWM to install typhoon CM7 3.3.0 and also tried 3.3.5 after re-doing those steps
I also tried hd2 ginerbread, Kingdom sprint wwe, and a few others..also re-doing everything first between them.
All of this yeilds the "invalid boot image header" error. It seems to be permanent???
Am I missing something? I have flashed over 40 hd2's and have never seen this error before.
The phone is my personal one and I could not even count how many times I have flashed it. Could the nand be corrupted or would that cause other errors installing magldr/cwm?
PLEASE HELP ME.....like I said its my personal phone and I have no backup
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
Justin
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Hi. I am not sure , but you can try to formar the SD card, because with the phone seems to be O.K. I am formatting always with Panasonic sd formatter , before flashing.
fxdstudios said:
I always search and read although this one I have not found what I am looking for.
Issue:
Phone started to reboot over and over right after a phone call. It had been working properly for months never doing this before.
Anytime I boot AD NAND I get "INVALID BOOT IMAGE HEADER"
setup when issue started.
MAGLDR 1.13
CWM 3.0.2.4 135m
Typhoon CM7 3.3.0
I HAVE DONE THE FOLLOWING.....
TASK 29
Reflashed MAGLDR
Reflashed CWM
Used CWM to install typhoon CM7 3.3.0 and also tried 3.3.5 after re-doing those steps
I also tried hd2 ginerbread, Kingdom sprint wwe, and a few others..also re-doing everything first between them.
All of this yeilds the "invalid boot image header" error. It seems to be permanent???
Am I missing something? I have flashed over 40 hd2's and have never seen this error before.
The phone is my personal one and I could not even count how many times I have flashed it. Could the nand be corrupted or would that cause other errors installing magldr/cwm?
PLEASE HELP ME.....like I said its my personal phone and I have no backup
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
Justin
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Hi,
It sounds like your CWM partition is too small .
Are you sure you are flashing the correct CWM size according to your ROM's [OP]?
Try using KSUBEDI's TOOLKIT (Don't forget to thank him).
It's a simple way of partitioning your CWM.
yes i make sure CWM is correct partition size
Yes I always make sure I use the recommended partitioning in the op of the rom I choose.
I have formatted my SD-card with the panasonic tool
as far as the toolkit. It may be something I did wrong but this started with my phone after my FIRST USE of the toolkit.......PROBABLY NOT THE TOOLKIT although I would love to know what I did to my phone.
I just flashed another HD2 about 10 minutes ago and no issues at all.
The only thing I can think of is possibly nand corruption but then again all things I try to do complete 100% except booting nand.
yes i make sure CWM is correct partition size
Yes I always make sure I use the recommended partitioning in the op of the rom I choose.
I have formatted my SD-card with the panasonic tool
as far as the toolkit. It may be something I did wrong but this started with my phone after my FIRST USE of the toolkit.......PROBABLY NOT THE TOOLKIT although I would love to know what I did to my phone.
I just flashed another HD2 about 10 minutes ago and no issues at all.
The only thing I can think of is possibly nand corruption but then again all things I try to do complete 100% except booting nand.
fxdstudios said:
Yes I always make sure I use the recommended partitioning in the op of the rom I choose.
I have formatted my SD-card with the panasonic tool
as far as the toolkit. It may be something I did wrong but this started with my phone after my FIRST USE of the toolkit.......PROBABLY NOT THE TOOLKIT although I would love to know what I did to my phone.
I just flashed another HD2 about 10 minutes ago and no issues at all.
The only thing I can think of is possibly nand corruption but then again all things I try to do complete 100% except booting nand.
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Hi,
Did you transfer the ROM by cable or card reader?
Corruption can occur with cable(USB)transfers.
card reader in my laptop.
Like I said I have done this numerous times. Close to 100 times I would guess. I do two hd2s for friends today. no issues with either. although mine is still giving the error no matter what I do.
First time I have seen this error and I do not care about my data or backups or anything of the sort.
I have done EVERYTHING to try and rectify this issue I am having to no avail.
I am stumped at this point
bump I am unsure of what to try now
Did you find a solution????
I also have the invaild boot image header error.
This used to be my phone, but i have handed it down to an employee.
He has caused a fault where it force closes with android.process.media, especially when i go to market.
I thought i would update the rom and hopefully "delete/overwrite" the problem.
One thing i did was a backup with ROM manager and upgraded that to 4.
This phone will boot into the existing ROM - Nightlys typhoon 3.2.8, but if i try to go into recovery I get the error.
Anyone found the answer????
fxdstudios said:
I always search and read although this one I have not found what I am looking for.
Issue:
Phone started to reboot over and over right after a phone call. It had been working properly for months never doing this before.
Anytime I boot AD NAND I get "INVALID BOOT IMAGE HEADER"
setup when issue started.
MAGLDR 1.13
CWM 3.0.2.4 135m
Typhoon CM7 3.3.0
I HAVE DONE THE FOLLOWING.....
TASK 29
Reflashed MAGLDR
Reflashed CWM
Used CWM to install typhoon CM7 3.3.0 and also tried 3.3.5 after re-doing those steps
I also tried hd2 ginerbread, Kingdom sprint wwe, and a few others..also re-doing everything first between them.
All of this yeilds the "invalid boot image header" error. It seems to be permanent???
Am I missing something? I have flashed over 40 hd2's and have never seen this error before.
The phone is my personal one and I could not even count how many times I have flashed it. Could the nand be corrupted or would that cause other errors installing magldr/cwm?
PLEASE HELP ME.....like I said its my personal phone and I have no backup
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
Justin
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well i dont think that 135 is the exact partition ....135 is used for nexus hd2 but for typhoon rom or hyperdroid rom u must use 150 mb systeme partition with 5 mb cach ...try from the start with task29 to clear everything and flash angain i'm sure it will work
Are you still having this? I seem to be having the same problem now. If I restore a backup it will give me "invalid boot image header". If I put a new ROM over my backup it works fine. I have task 29d. Loaded cLK, CWM, and then a new ROM. Backed this up and then immediately restored it and got the same error when trying to boot. I can get into recovery fine. I have tried different cLK partition layouts too. ):
I did it too, this is the problem and the fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1040564
Someone please help me!! Before all i problems my phone kept freezing in boot and i tried everything by cleaning my sd, ad hard reset and changing builds and the same boot freeze kept happening. So after getting tired of that and having to hard reset everyday i eventually flashed TMOUS stock rom then after tried to do the magldr 113 isntall. I got magldr installed on my phone and then i choose the ad recovery. When i do i get this message "no boot source". I tried looking up on these forums and can't find anything to fix my problems. Someone please help me with a step-by-step guide. I don't want to own an hd2 running the crummy wm6.5 :/ I NEED ANDROID
download hd2 toolkit. afterward install magldr update recovery, follow the prompts to install and your done. in a nutshell...you were missing clockwork recovery. let me know if this helps
danielfc741 said:
Someone please help me!! Before all i problems my phone kept freezing in boot and i tried everything by cleaning my sd, ad hard reset and changing builds and the same boot freeze kept happening. So after getting tired of that and having to hard reset everyday i eventually flashed TMOUS stock rom then after tried to do the magldr 113 isntall. I got magldr installed on my phone and then i choose the ad recovery. When i do i get this message "no boot source". I tried looking up on these forums and can't find anything to fix my problems. Someone please help me with a step-by-step guide. I don't want to own an hd2 running the crummy wm6.5 :/ I NEED ANDROID
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do this...depending on the recommended recovery size (typically 5-150-5 for non sense versions) download a recovery from here ..then restart you phone...go into magldr...go to flasher...once the usb is linked to pc run daf.exe from the recovery (extracted folder)...u will then have recovery installed
gdsbalaji said:
do this...depending on the recommended recovery size (typically 5-150-5 for non sense versions) download a recovery from here ..then restart you phone...go into magldr...go to flasher...once the usb is linked to pc run daf.exe from the recovery (extracted folder)...u will then have recovery installed
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YOU SIR ARE GREAT!!! thanks so much!!!!! i can now use android! im glad it works.
Welcome...glad it worked
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gdsbalaji said:
do this...depending on the recommended recovery size (typically 5-150-5 for non sense versions) download a recovery from here ..then restart you phone...go into magldr...go to flasher...once the usb is linked to pc run daf.exe from the recovery (extracted folder)...u will then have recovery installed
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Great ! I will try it out as well. I have been getting this error for the last few times. I am not sure why this happened.
I installed a WP7 rom and then went back to android (hopeless battery drain with my SD card ... not sure if I can ever do something about that). I could not get back to AD recovery.
Thanks again !
gprash said:
Great ! I will try it out as well. I have been getting this error for the last few times. I am not sure why this happened.
I installed a WP7 rom and then went back to android (hopeless battery drain with my SD card ... not sure if I can ever do something about that). I could not get back to AD recovery.
Thanks again !
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If you loaded WP7 it may have locked your SD Card - need to format in a Nokia phone. Or reduced the usable size to 200mb - this can be fixed with a partitioning tool from PC
when go back and forth between WP7 and Android the nand is overwritten ... thats why you loose your AD recovery.
REMEMBER - if you ever try WP7 and come back to Android dont forget youll need to task 29 (to clean out that nasty M$ dirt!), flash magLDR, flash recovery ( i usually stick with a 200 mb partition, as i usually run Hyperdroid, AND that way there are no worries about bad blocks), and then the rom.
although its not NECESSARY its recommended buuuut to avoid weird restarts, FCs, and any other random glitches that may occur down the short road ITS NECESSARY! :-D
good luck
hello everyone! I just installed android on my HTC HD2 successfully but when the phone reboot, shows me the MAGLDR says me that android booting from start and I have to setup android everytime I reboot the phone from the start. someone help me passing this step. thankyou in advance
Yellow XDA!
I've got this thing when trying to get a new Sense 3.0 rom. I've been looking for a good one and found that one. (Please point me to your favorite sense 3.0 ROM)
When installing, I've had some trouble with partitioning SDCard, installing a ROM (status 0 error, aborting installation)
I'm using 2.08 HSPL, MagLDR 1.13, CWM v4 & Radio 2.15.50.XX
I'm able to install a ROM (tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733649)
But when I reboot after installing (in CWM), when it should load, it doesn't go past the Android loading screen
So It boots, MagLDR shows up, no errors, gogogo thingy, then it freezes (splash screen I guess)
I've been looking for some solutions but haven't found anything that works.
Tried other radios, CWM versions, ROMs...
I've got no idea what to do
Any help is appreciated.
Syntax1993
Tmous or regular? If regular, do you have the 1gb ext partition set? Also, that rom will take a while to set up since it requires a lot of stuff to be unpacked onto the SD card.
I've not used that rom but I know some of the big ones take tens of minutes for first boot
samsamuel said:
Tmous or regular? If regular, do you have the 1gb ext partition set? Also, that rom will take a while to set up since it requires a lot of stuff to be unpacked onto the SD card.
I've not used that rom but I know some of the big ones take tens of minutes for first boot
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I used the EU version. I did indeed (try to) partition the SDCard but when clicking advanced, partition, 1024, 0, It told me to wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and when after like half an hour, I pulled out the SDCard, it's 1GB smaller in Windows so it should be done.
Installing works fine.
I'll try starting the ROM again & look if it works after a couple of hours.
Doesn't work. It ran all night, didn't get past the Android screen.
I ran into a similar problem. I downloaded a file from the forum called Wipe_it_CWR.zip before installing the new rom and that resolved my issue
You mean just installing it via CWM before the ROM right? Nothing else special?
Trying it now. So far, it seems like it won't work.
EDIT: Nope sorry. It's really weird.
Hi,
I've got an HTC HD2 here, with Android installed on it. (NAND, I believe.)
It was bought second-hand with Android pre-installed.
Because it was still linked to the google account of the previous owner, I had to restore the whole phone to factory settings. Since that didn't work, I've just decided to install another Rom.
After some messing around, I managed to install Clockworkrecovery. (It wouldn't boot for some mysterious reason) And then I installed an Android Rom. (Energy™ -.¸¸.·´¯ Sense 3.5 Runnymede)
After some time, the phone rebooted and got stuck on the Android boot screen.
I tried to install another Rom, but now they all get stuck on the boot screen. (I have tried another Runnymede rom, and RCMix3D)
Does anybody know how I can fix this?
I wiped my Dalvik Cache, I wiped my Cache partition, I wiped my data/factory reset. I am using the MAGLDR as boot thingie, but that's working perfectly.
I have formatted my SD-card with G-Parted, on my Ubuntu-PC. (First partition FAT32-750MB, Second partition EXT3 - 1GB and a Linux-Swap of 100MB)
For some strange reason, ClockworkRecovery cannot format my SD-card. (Well, it says it can, but as soon as I stick the card in my PC, the PC tells me it's corrupted. (Windows XP on my Father's PC tells me it has to be formatted, on my Ubuntu it doesn't show up as mountable)
Thank you in advance
P.S. I don't mind losing data, there's no personal data on it. Any solution (which doesn't involve buying a new phone) will do.
Quickest solution I would try is format the entire card to fat32, and see if your pc detects it. Once it does, put the rom on it, put in in the phone, boot into clockwork format data/cache/dalvik install the rom then reboot and see if it goes past the bootscreen (keep in mind first boot takes a while, but if it takes more than 2-3 minutes theres still a problem.
Do you know what partition layout of clockwork you installed by any chance? Some roms require specific layouts in order to work correctly.
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortanetly, that didn't work.
I have installed Clockworkmod like they say on jayceooi dot com. (I cannot past links yet, but here's the step-by-step guide:
Step by Step Guide
Power on your phone and don’t let go power button.
DFT MAGLDR Bootloader will be loaded.
Use volume down button to go down to 5. USB Flasher.
Then press call button to load USB Flasher mode.
Connect USB cable from PC to phone.
You should see Wait USB…USB.
At PC, right click on DAF.exe and select ‘Run as administrator’.
Click ‘Yes’ if User Access Control prompt up.
Follow onscreen instructions to install.
Phone will be rebooted after installation finished.
DFT MAGLDR Bootloader will be loaded then.
Disconnect USB cable from phone.
Use volume down button to go down to 8. AD Recovery.
Then press call button.
ClockworkMod Recovery will be loaded then.
That’s all.)
I used the 150MB-Partition one.
Didnt work how? Does the pc detect the sd card now after you formatted?
The directions you posted are right, so maybe try a different partition layout. The roms that you said you tried use different layouts than what you have and that may be a problem. Test a CM7 rom and see if it will boot, they tend to have less problems and are overall more stable than sense roms.
I recommend Typhoons rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=933951
Try to install it and see if it boots. It uses the same partiton layout that you have now. If it boots, thats indication that you may need a different layout if you want to run a sense rom.
Well, I could re-format my sd-card and re-partition it, but it (Android) still got stock at the boot screen.
Using the Typhoon rom, I got the same problem. The Rom appears to be succesfully installed, but it didn't really boot.
I now tried to installed Windows Phone 7, this works fine. (I don't want to install WP7 however, I want to install android)
I tried the following too: (Post by a3r0n1)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18868874&postcount=14
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At the "Using "HD2 Toolkit" select "Magldr repartition" Make sure that you are using the recommended partition size for your rom!" part, I got an error that the file was too big when I tried to choose a partition of 300MB, I honestly have no idea what the partition size should be. (I want a sense-rom, I don't have a clear preference which)
I did install the Clockworkmod with 400MB with succes now.
However, still got the same problem. Android seems to get in a loop somewhere in the boot screen
EDIT:
I noticed that the Micro-SD card always corrupts after CWM installs the Android-Rom.
I think that may be the core of the issue here.
Does anybody know how I can install Android without CWM?
Are u repartitioning the phone? That might be the problem. Hope this helps
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I manager to install an old Desire-based rom with Android 2.2 through a daf installation.
This one works fine but I still would like to install a Rom with Android 2.3 via a more regular way.
One problem I'm facing with this Rom is a very limited amount of internal storage. (about 55MB)
And I've got a big battery leak, the battery drains very fast. Much faster than my Desire HD. (The HTC HD2 we're talking about isn't mine, It's my mother's)
So does anyone know how I can install a regular Rom (preferably runnymede based) without CWM? Or does anyone know how I can resolve my problem?
@akaruna: I do not know how to partition the phone, I believe I didn't do that. Should I? I did partition the SD card. (CWM made unreadable cards for some obscure reasons, so I partitioned the SD card using gparted on Ubuntu)
Thanks in Advanced
Sjoerd
If you have limited internal storage then the main problem is the partition table is not correct. This is also why the roms you install are stuck on the bootscreen. When you install roms that require a bigger partition table than what you already have on your phone they will be stuck in a bootloop.
Go and download the HD2 NAND TOOLKIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090783
Check out the video to familiarize yourself with the features, then repartition your MAGLDR with the correct partition table that the rom you want requires. Go into clockwork and install rom from zip.
Yes the tool kit is the best.
Yea the toolkit works wonders. Even though I still do it the original way ;p I do everything faster that way for some reason
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Oh and yes, always read the thread from that certain Tom so that way u know exactly what partition table/size to use. Usually linked also.
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I tried it again with this rom: "[18Dec 2011] [CMR] Sensation xl Sense3.5/2.3.5 v2.7 BETA OC & marc1706 0.1.3 kernel" (I believe I'm still not allowed to post links)
I used the NAND toolkit this time for the System Partition Size.
The only thing I actually did was clicking 350MB as System Partition Size and then I clicked repartition. And then I followed the on-screen instructions, which involved clicking next and after some installing some drivers everything went fine. (With the HD2 in USB-flash mode of course, it also said the job was completed succesfully)
I wasn't able to choose a bigger size for some reason, it told me the 400MB was too big.
Still the same problem, the phone gets stuck at the Android boot-screen.
Does anybody have an idea? Thanks in advance (Again, I'm not scared of losing any data, if anyone has any solution at all: I'm more than happy to hear it)
I tried another DAF rom and got the following error:
"Error Description: Size is too big.
Info: .\RSPL\RSPL.cpp (800)"
So I tried repartitioning the System Partition Size (MAGLDR) to 400Mb.
However, It gave me the exact same error.
Does anyone know has any idea? (For example, how I can change the partitions in another way)
(Partitioning it at 360MB works fine)
Not sure what it is but the DAF file I use let me partition to 445...... those sense time are heavy and if the partition isn't right it will bootloop or not
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" sense time " and do you have the sdcard partition at 1gb?
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............ sense rom.........
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Something got messed up when I tried to flash my acer a500 from a rooted version of 3.1. One problem I have (and I admit it was my fault) is I did not move my backed up ROM to my external card - so I don't have anything to restore.
My device will boot to CWM (v5, rev 1.3.4), I've tried loading several different ROMs just to flash something on there to get my device back to square one.
I got in this predicament because I had regular OTA 3.2 and couldn't root. I downgraded to 3.1 (buggy and endless FC), but I was able to run gingerbreak for rooting, do a backup (titanium) and my impression at that point was I could flash a custom mod through CWM.
Nothing is working. I have formatted the sd card in CWM and tried ROMs like Thor 14.2, Tabooney 3.0 and several 3.1/3.2 Acer stock ROMs. After wiping data/factory, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik and Battery Stats and then trying to load a zip file from /sdcard it either tells me the installation fails (which most believe is a bad dl), or (in the case of CWM_ROM_A500_701414_GEN1.zip), the install actually goes through - Finding update...opening update...Installing update... - but whenever I reboot after a *successful* install my device just hangs at the Acer logo/splash screen forever.
I've tried resetting the device (power/ + vol /lock on/off/on/off) and it hangs for a long time Erasing Cache.
I'm overwhelmed. I just want to get a stock ROM on that will install successfully so I can have a functional machine back. Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong or what I can do here? Thanks
Never mind
I used a different SD card and that did the trick
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I used a different SD card and that did the trick
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Probably have a corrupted SD. Might just do a full format on it and still be usable.