How easy is it to go back from Aurora 4.1 back to Gingerbread or Froyo? Do I just download the ROM and install it from CWM?
I'm finding that Aurora 4.1 isn't very reliable with wifi so it puts me off when using Viber as I miss calls and messages.
You need to download froyo or gb firmware and in that file there is a appdata.upp file. Extract it and put in dload folder at phone memory. Close the phone, open while holding volume up + down + power button. If everything is right it would install what you want.
If you have a nandroid backup then you can restore it in cwm otherwise you have to use this solution.
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When I go to do that it says "Firmware update Step 1/2 Unpacking - Update failed"
Looks like I can't do it that way :/
Mae7 said:
When I go to do that it says "Firmware update Step 1/2 Unpacking - Update failed"
Looks like I can't do it that way :/
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Try to copy dload folder into internal memory and unplug your sdcard. That would work.
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That's what I done
Actually it won't show my internal memory card anymore, and when I go to the camera it says "insert sd card". This is after I restored everything. Argh.
Ok I got it working. I had to use ES file explorer where I could view the internal memory card and I copied the rom from my external sd card to that one through ES file explorer.
Cheers for the help
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I've been trying to root my vibrant via the directions I received on this site. It said to install the update.zip to the INTERNAL memory but that didn't seem to work. I then put the update.zip on the external memory and when I went to start it up holding the volume rocker while depressing the power button my phone displayed a green triangle image with a little android robot with a shovel in his hand. Below the image is says "Downloading....." and then at the bottom of the screen is says "?Do not turn off Target!!!" I'm going to leave it alone for a bit but doesn't anyone know what it is downloading, has anyone else come across this during an attempted root? I would appreciate any help, thanks.
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I've been trying to root my vibrant via the directions I received on this site. It said to install the update.zip to the INTERNAL memory but that didn't seem to work. I then put the update.zip on the external memory and when I went to start it up holding the volume rocker while depressing the power button my phone displayed a green triangle image with a little android robot with a shovel in his hand. Below the image is says "Downloading....." and then at the bottom of the screen is says "?Do not turn off Target!!!" I'm going to leave it alone for a bit but doesn't anyone know what it is downloading, has anyone else come across this during an attempted root? I would appreciate any help, thanks.
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un plug it from the PC and just make sure its on the internal memory not the 2gb SD card the phone comes with
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un plug it from the PC and just make sure its on the internal memory not the 2gb SD card the phone comes with
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I did initially place the update.zip on the internal memory but then when I went to reboot it said it could not find it and it seemed like it was looking in the ext memory card.
When I do it how it is suggested on here I get the message in the recovery screen: "E:Can't open/sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory) Installation aborted."
try this then http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=746129
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When I do it how it is suggested on here I get the message in the recovery screen: "E:Can't open/sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory) Installation aborted."
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This may seem like an obvious suggestion, but if you hide file extesions of known file types the file might actually be named update.zip.zip
Either turn on the file extensions and rename it or rename it update instead of update.zip
When I rooted my phone, I put update.zip onto "/sdcard". I was confused at first too, but that directory is your phone's internal storage. The external memory card is mounted to "/sdcard/sd". I don't know if it can find the update.zip if it's in "/". Good luck.
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This may seem like an obvious suggestion, but if you hide file extesions of known file types the file might actually be named update.zip.zip
Either turn on the file extensions and rename it or rename it update instead of update.zip
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Hmm.....didn't even think about that. Ok, I just redid it, only naming the file "update" no .zip. Trying it now..............................damn it....yes, that seems to be the reason as to why it was not working, now I feel like an idiot. lol
Thanks for your help.
This question may have been answered before but I just cant find it here.
I tried rooting my vibrant with the classic method described here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723479&highlight=issues+rooting+vibrant
It didn’t work and I got the following message:
E: can’t open /sd card/update.zip
(no such file or directory)
Installation aborted
I copied the update.zip file in DCIM of internal memory card and was still getting the same message.
I copied the update.zip file into my sd card and still got the same message.
I followed the steps exactly as they have been described in the rooting thread.
I haven't tried the one click root method yet.
Would anyone know what seems to be the problem.
Thanks.
You have to replace the update.zip file and flash it with recovery.
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Are you saying I have to replace with a new update.zip file and repeat the method again?
I was doing it in recovery mode.
Use the one click method. You can find all the info on unlockr.com in the--how to -- (they have a nice video) If it doesn't work then you will need to flash back the T959UVJFD stock through Odin. Look in the bible or search in this website.
Why is your update.zip in DCIM? Download that one from the forum post, rename it to update.zip, and copy it to the root directory of your sd card.
Yea replace the update.zip with a modified one that gives you root access. Its should be on the bible(stickie post) and Recovery mode is correct.
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Sdobron said:
Why is your update.zip in DCIM? Download that one from the forum post, rename it to update.zip, and copy it to the root directory of your sd card.
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Can you explain what is the root directory of internal sd card where I need to place the update.zip file?
Yea replace the update.zip with a modified one that gives you root access. Its should be on the bible(stickie post) and Recovery mode is correct.
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Now my computer isn't recognizing the phone when I mount the sd card. It tries to install drivers for the phone and can not.
Ok, by root directory they just mean the internal 16gb memory.
Ok look, download update.zip. Rename it to "update" without the quotation marks. If you are running windows 7 you dont have to add ".zip" windows knows it is a .zip file, so again just name it update and windows and your phone will automatically know it is update.zip. maybe the problem is you are naming it "update.zip" and your phone is reading it as "update.zip.zip"
Anyways, I don't know why your drivers don't work, but once you get your computer to recognize your phone. Mount your phone to your computer.
Then go to your internal memory, the 16gb one, not the external sd card.
Now, DON'T GO INTO any folders, the root is just the internal memory, again don't go into any folders. Place the "update" file into the internal memory, don't place it into any folder.
Reboot your phone into recovery mode, and then reinstall packages.
good luck.
SamsungVibrant said:
Ok, by root directory they just mean the internal 16gb memory.
Ok look, download update.zip. Rename it to "update" without the quotation marks. If you are running windows 7 you dont have to add ".zip" windows knows it is a .zip file, so again just name it update and windows and your phone will automatically know it is update.zip. maybe the problem is you are naming it "update.zip" and your phone is reading it as "update.zip.zip"
Anyways, I don't know why your drivers don't work, but once you get your computer to recognize your phone. Mount your phone to your computer.
Then go to your internal memory, the 16gb one, not the external sd card.
Now, DON'T GO INTO any folders, the root is just the internal memory, again don't go into any folders. Place the "update" file into the internal memory, don't place it into any folder.
Reboot your phone into recovery mode, and then reinstall packages.
good luck.
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Nevermind. But thanks alot for your response and help. After looking around to find some alternative ways to root..I finally was able to root my vibrant using the method described
HERE
In the end, rooting was as easy as installing a simple app.
Now im going to do some research on ROMs and hopefully flash before doing titanium backup.
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Nevermind. But thanks alot for your response and help. After looking around to find some alternative ways to root..I finally was able to root my vibrant using the method described
HERE
In the end, rooting was as easy as installing a simple app.
Now im going to do some research on ROMs and hopefully flash before doing titanium backup.
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Ok, make sure you do lots of research. Read the bible, every last word of it.
Don't ever try to downgrade from 2.2 to 2.1 without having the proper 2.1 kernal, becareful with lagfix such as voodoo, and learn odin.
good luck
I have run into another issue. I can not mount my phone to computer.
With USB Debugging off... I dont even get a notification in the slide down menu asking me to either mount/unmount.
With USB Debugging on... I do get the option in slidedown menu to mount my phone. At the same time the computer shows a pop up message asking me to install driver software for Samsung_Android. In the meantime , I press mount sd card which by the way is still not recognized by the computer.
I dont have the driver for samsung_android to install on the computer.
Does anyone know a potential fix for this situation.
Thanks.
Hey, today I acquired an IDEOS X5.
I have checked out a few things and wondering.
Could anyone make it clear for me within this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13083454&postcount=1
"Ensure that there are no Huawei rom updates on your SD-Card in the dload folder and unplug the phone from your computer"
Where is this dload folder?
Next thing that seems unclear...
"Connect the phone to your computer. In windows it will automatically mount one mass storage device which corresponds to the /cust_backup folder on your phone. If your OS supports EXT3 it will mount multiple devices, look for the one with an images directory and this is the device to use."
Will I get a drive called /cust_backup or something?
Next sup, my phone is using B133, bought it from Teknikmagasinet.se. I noticed the sound isn't the best and camera has strange colors at time by time, plus when I call my voice sound disorted. Recoding sound doesn't sound bad.
So I wanted to try out this rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059753
The thing is how do I install and will it damage anything if done correctly?
By seeing the installation guide I am guessing you would have to take the update option, not the install from zip option. Will it be a conflict with my swedish rom as it uses swedish and such things.
I really hope anyone would kindly help me !
Thanks in advance !
You wont have a "dload" folder on your sd-card unless you actually put one there.
Before flashing anything, visit this page and grab a copy of the correct rom so you have a backup of the original - in your case I believe it to be the sweden expert rom (has the swedish in it). http://wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Huawei_Firmware_U8800
Then put that on your SD-card in a folder called "original rom".
If things go pear shaped during flashing an alternate rom, just rename the folder to "dload" and you can then go into bootloader (both volume keys and power) and it will flash back to original, as if you had just taken the phone out of the box.
To get started first download the above rom and put it on your sd card as i stated.
Then download this recovery replacement: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1067490
Next, making sure you have no dload folder on the sd card (keep the backup as "original rom", put the phone into bootloader mode (purple screen).
connect it to the computer, and the cust_backup drive will show up. Rename the recovery image in that drive to recovery.bak, and copy the image recovery image downloaded to the drive. Now you have CWM installed.
From here you can try the BM160 rom by copying it and a bootloader to your sd card and using "install zip from sdcard" in clockwork recovery.
To get to clockwork recovery, turn the phone off, and press power + up volume.
hope this helps.
dash8brj said:
You wont have a "dload" folder on your sd-card unless you actually put one there.
Before flashing anything, visit this page and grab a copy of the correct rom so you have a backup of the original - in your case I believe it to be the sweden expert rom (has the swedish in it). http://wiki.modaco.com/index.php/Huawei_Firmware_U8800
Then put that on your SD-card in a folder called "original rom".
If things go pear shaped during flashing an alternate rom, just rename the folder to "dload" and you can then go into bootloader (both volume keys and power) and it will flash back to original, as if you had just taken the phone out of the box.
To get started first download the above rom and put it on your sd card as i stated.
Then download this recovery replacement: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1067490
Next, making sure you have no dload folder on the sd card (keep the backup as "original rom", put the phone into bootloader mode (purple screen).
connect it to the computer, and the cust_backup drive will show up. Rename the recovery image in that drive to recovery.bak, and copy the image recovery image downloaded to the drive. Now you have CWM installed.
From here you can try the BM160 rom by copying it and a bootloader to your sd card and using "install zip from sdcard" in clockwork recovery.
To get to clockwork recovery, turn the phone off, and press power + up volume.
hope this helps.
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Thanks for the reply !
Glad to see someone giving their time to respond
So here is my situation...
I would like one flash one of the new ICS roms and have run into an annoying problem.
I created a directory on the SD card called "Root", and downloaded the rom and placed it in the directory. I then rebooted into Recovery and after selecting update from zip on SD card, the file can't be located.
The only file in the Root directory is the first ROM I flashed and gaaps.
I can't seem to locate those files from Es file manager though.. Thoughts??
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cbradberry said:
So here is my situation...
I would like one flash one of the new ICS roms and have run into an annoying problem.
I created a directory on the SD card called "Root", and downloaded the rom and placed it in the directory. I then rebooted into Recovery and after selecting update from zip on SD card, the file can't be located.
The only file in the Root directory is the first ROM I flashed and gaaps.
I can't seem to locate those files from Es file manager though.. Thoughts??
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From recovery your sd card is called SD CARD.
from within say file manager your sd card will be in mnt/external_sdcard.
Some sd cards has a issue being read by cwm recovery. Often formatting the card in a Android phone or with sd format app. if k downloaded the rom file from within windows . In android file manager long tap on the file and click properties . check to see if the file is names xxxx.zip.zip
if you have stock recovery . the file must be on the root of the external sd card NOT in a folder at all. But your message makes me think you have cwm installed . if you are sure none of the above is the issue. Try re download the rom of your choice and try again.
Good Luck
cbradberry said:
So here is my situation...
I would like one flash one of the new ICS roms and have run into an annoying problem.
I created a directory on the SD card called "Root", and downloaded the rom and placed it in the directory. I then rebooted into Recovery and after selecting update from zip on SD card, the file can't be located.
The only file in the Root directory is the first ROM I flashed and gaaps.
I can't seem to locate those files from Es file manager though.. Thoughts??
Sent from my Acer Iconia A500 using Tapatalk
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Erica is right. When you copy your file to EXT SD Card, you should copy it straight to the card. NOT put it in some folder. This will make it easy for your Recovery to find.
This is the basic method. Depending on which recovery you use (RA or CWM) there are other locations you can use as well (USB Drive, Internal memory) but best to get familiar with the basic method first.
This worked for me... Thanks.
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I try to install the gingerbread on my Ideos x5 pro because I recently received "The blue screen of death" on it. It occured when i installed a 2.5.7 rom ontop of stock 2.2.2 firmware and couldnt boot. I then went into CWM and deleted cache, Dalvik etc and deleted to much obviously...
The problem is that I tried everything but when I hold the volume UP, volume DOWN and power, It will only go to pink screen and not "upgrade" screen ...
I have dload folder on my SDCard but it still does not work, I could install the first update.app but not the others Please help me!
Regards
Did you format your sdcard before putting dload in it?
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Yeah, i formated it into fat32 format before i put dload folder into it and i dont have any other file on it
Take battery out and boot with USB connected.
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Take battery out and boot with USB connected.
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Didnt work, still pink screen I pressed volym UP + volym DOWN and while holding it in i connected the USB, still nothing. Those it matter if the USB is connected the PC or the charger?
Tried with the USB connected to both charger and PC, still didnt work
Downloaded 2.2.2 official update but still got the problem that it only shows the pink screen. I cant understand why i could install step1 of the upgrade but not step2 I need to get this phone back to life guys, i only had it for a week
Update: Okay i searched around the internet and found out that if the phone cant find the sdcard it goes into pink screen and the solution is to put "dload" folder inside of the INTERNAL sdcard. Anyone got a way of doing this with my current problem? when i connect the ideos to the PC with the usb it only goes into blue screen and the "image" folder comes up exactly like i boot into pink screen :s
if ur issue is still alive, try 512mb card, instead of 1gb or more.
In my case it works. To upgrade stock from sd.
Update: Okay, i returned the phone to the company i bought it from and it ended with a new phone and 50% cheaper price ;D
They sayed it was a connector to the screen that broke lols xD
Help me please!
Fillingen90 said:
Update: Okay, i returned the phone to the company i bought it from and it ended with a new phone and 50% cheaper price ;D
They sayed it was a connector to the screen that broke lols xD
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I have the same not-upgrade problem
I tried with the Official B512 and the official B521
With B512, I managed to do the first step.
Then, I copied the new UPDATE.APP from step with, (I did not delete the log file).
NOTE: I Just copied that file. Should I rename it to update_g.app?
I went into pink screen, no update.
I formated the card, tried again nothing.
I copied the dload folder in the internal SD, nothing.
Restored defaults (unfortunately).
I tried the B521 update.app nothing.
Generally, I cannot upgrade and I am furious with myself because I lost all my personal data and the customizations because the backup did not stored data (for example, where on earth is the Lama files stored?)
s91066 said:
I have the same not-upgrade problem
I tried with the Official B512 and the official B521
With B512, I managed to do the first step.
Then, I copied the new UPDATE.APP from step with, (I did not delete the log file).
NOTE: I Just copied that file. Should I rename it to update_g.app?
I went into pink screen, no update.
I formated the card, tried again nothing.
I copied the dload folder in the internal SD, nothing.
Restored defaults (unfortunately).
I tried the B521 update.app nothing.
Generally, I cannot upgrade and I am furious with myself because I lost all my personal data and the customizations because the backup did not stored data (for example, where on earth is the Lama files stored?)
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I managed to found the English PDF and thus, to apply the correct procedure, which is to:
Create a dload directory in your SD card (it's not important if it is the internal or the external. If you use the internal card, make sure that NO external card is installed.
Insert the update.app file from Step 1
Rename the update.app from Step 2 to update_g.app and copy it to the dload folder of your SD card
Update the phone.
It cant mount sd card, i cant format sd card and now i have blue screen error. By mistake i deleted everything I made a file image and put amss.mbn
boot.img
EMMCBOOT.MBN
recovery.img
to in it but still cant oopen phone What will i do?