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[Q] How to enable update from sdcard on JPM

He,
In order to get Arabic Android Generic Update for FroYo, I have to apply an update.zip from sdcard.
I rename the flash file update.zip and put in the root directory of my sdcard but when I boot on recovery and check this item <update.zip from sdcard> the reponse is "can't open /sdcard/update.zip".
Is there any solution to get it ?
Thanks for help

[HELP] Alternate Method?

Does anyone know an alternative method to getting CWM or rooting you phone because i updated my android to the official 2.3 update
and now i cant do anything and it says im not rooted when i am so could someone give me a link to get CWM without connecting it to the computer via USB?
Thanks!

You can replace the recovery.img, which is on .cust_backup/image with a file explorer with root access from the device(e.g es file explorer, root explorer...). You also need the "remount" app(you can find it on google play).
You must first run remount app, find the .cust_backup and remount it as rw. Then just copy the cmw recovery.img(from sd card in which you have previously put it) to the .cust_backup/image folder with the help of file explorer app.

need more info, what phone type?, what 2.3.5 upgrade did you use? if it is B526 or below, get hold of super one click 2.3.3(I think) and use it to root the phone, there is a thread on how to do this in the u8800 android development section. Then do as above and copy the recovery.img into the correct folder. Reboot and you will have cwm recovery.

[Q] HELP i9000 efs not mount

Hello to all,
I upgraded my i9000 (Galaxy S) from the rom JVP in [ROM][4.1.2] Slim Bean - I9000 [2.7].
I lost imei and found the standard imei samsung 004 ....
I have a total backup of efs folder. But the problem is that every time you restart the folder is deleted entirely. I tried to copy files from the backup-fs via ADB, root explorer,setting permission of file manually too, trying on different rom as jvs, jvu, ic.
When you flash the rom with odin, it tells me "unable to mount efs". Everything works except the modem and now the imei is empty.
I do not know what to do. I think the problem is mounting the efs folder, but I'm not an expert on linux. Is there a way to delete all the mount point? you can do a real hard reset?
Can you help?

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extrat ota

hey guys, Somebody help me extract ota

Do you have root? If so just copy the ota zip from /cache to /sdcard. If you don't have root then there is no way

Soft-Bricked phone (SM-9005, OS: 4.4.2), problem with /system

So Hello everyone, i got interesting problem...
I bricked my phone
Phone: SM-9005
OS: Android 4.4.2
Firmware: N9005XXUGNG1
Recovery: TWRP 3.0 installed.
Root software installed which may be interesting "Xposed Additions, Lucky Patcher, SuperSu, Greenify"
Step by step.
// maybe helpful - cache / dalvik cache wiped and after reboot i started playing stuff
I used Root Browser (com.jrummy.root.browserfree) to copy 2 directories from my /downloads to /system.
There were /lib & /bin which contained unique libs and one executable so this would not affect system if everything went ok, but i didn't
After i started coping, root explorer asked me that "File already exist, overwrite or make a copy"? i pressed overwrite, in same second all apps in android started to generate "unexpected error", i tried to reboot and got boot into recovery
after i watched /system i found that what i tried to copy actually copied not to /system/lib & /system/app but to /system/system/lib & /system/system/app.
So i think there was some folder or file called system in /system directory which was overwritten. Or any kind of problem with dir / file permissions.
Any ideas of how to fix this / what was in /system/system / where to get bootlog to find after what "kernel panic" takes place or any other help?
Thanks.
// maybe somebody with same model version, same os version can upload zip file of own /system folder without /apps, /priv-apps and build.prop so i can compare whats lost compared to my data?

Fixed myself, root browser set wrong permissions to /system while was coping files... set back to 755 and it works