Any help would be appreciated at this point :/
Phone had been rooted, installed TWRP, downloaded the ROM I wanted and put it on external SD card... good so far?
Rebooted into recovery, made sure ROM and gapps were in the correct folder, wiped everything accordingly...The *contents* in the folder in which the ROM and gapps were placed were deleted. The folder its self was not, nor were any other folders or their contents in the mother folder.
Any clues? Now I'm sitting here stuck in either recovery or download mode whichever I so choose and the computer cannot identify the phone for me to transfer files over.
Uh......
phr0zen said:
Any help would be appreciated at this point :/
Phone had been rooted, installed TWRP, downloaded the ROM I wanted and put it on external SD card... good so far?
Rebooted into recovery, made sure ROM and gapps were in the correct folder, wiped everything accordingly...The *contents* in the folder in which the ROM and gapps were placed were deleted. The folder its self was not, nor were any other folders or their contents in the mother folder.
Any clues? Now I'm sitting here stuck in either recovery or download mode whichever I so choose and the computer cannot identify the phone for me to transfer files over.
Uh......
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Odin back to stock ROM.
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You could uninstall and reinstall the USB drivers and use a USB port that directly connects to the motherboard (back of the PC) and try flashing stock again via Odin. Or, head down to Walmart and grab a micro sd card to place your rom, gapps, backups, etc on. I highly...HIGHLY recommend using a micro sd card if you plan on living the rooted life
How about taking out the external sd card, plug into computer and transfer rom and gapps onto card, put card back into phone and then reboot back into recovery.
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Odin back to stock ROM.
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This is your best bet. Otherwise you could adb push the ROM and gapps to your sd. But if you're not set up for adb, that's a lot of work.
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Thanks guys for all the information. I have been having issues with installing the drivers correctly (Win8) but Kies seems to work well for the most part. I decided to open Kies and do the emergency restoration and it's back to normal now.
Question: If one were to restore it via Kies, could another model number be searched for and installed? ie the i9500 or i9505 firmware? Just a thought.
Anyway, thanks again... oh and I do have a micro sd card. I came from the Skyrocket and flashed probably half a million times lol. This is what threw me for a loop, deleting the ROM from inside the folder but not the folder, nor anything else on the sd card.
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I don't think it would work and it wouldn't be a good thing to do. Bricks are made from less
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I don't think it would work and it wouldn't be a good thing to do. Bricks are made from less
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Hehe, I figures just as much. Wasn't going to try it anyway, unless it was maybe the Google version without all the crapware, which is supposed to be released shortly from my understanding
getbuzzin said:
How about taking out the external sd card, plug into computer and transfer rom and gapps onto card, put card back into phone and then reboot back into recovery.
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I always do this. It will save you time to make sure you keep a hard copy of your main roms on your PC. And have a way to transfer them to your mini sd (old phone, usb device, or mini to full size adapter. As most PC's have a full size slot. This method has saved me countless hrs.. Flashed about 15 roms on my new S4 and haven't even downloaded Oden.. But I've had to use this method twice. Works great.
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First I want to say there is a lot of information on this site, I have about 20 tabs open right now with threads that I think could help me, but I can not seem to put everything together.
I used the tutorial on nexusshacks to try and unlock my Nexus S. I first had to figure out how to get the drivers working, which kind of work on my laptop, as in I can see the phone in my computer, but I still get errors about some driver when I plug the phone into my laptop.
But on my desktop I can't get it to do anything after the first round of driver error messages.
I have Vista on my laptop, and Win7 on my desktop.
But now that I have that out of the way, I have been looking for some Odin thing to fix my phone. But I have no idea what is what and when I think I found what I need the links don't work.
I have:
Basebond version # I9020UCKD1
Bootloader Version# I9020XXKA3
My phone locks on the Google screen with the unlocked symbol.
I want to unlock and root it so that I can put MIUI on again, like I had on my N1.
This is proving much more difficult then the N1 though.
Any help would be great,
Thanks,
When the lock icon appears the phone is unlocked. You don't need root to install MIUI. Just get cwm recovery for your device, flash it via adb, navigate into custom recovery, mount sd card, copy miui on the device, wipe everything, install miui from sd card.
Get drivers from pdanet.
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rentaric said:
When the lock icon appears the phone is unlocked. You don't need root to install MIUI. Just get cwm recovery for your device, flash it via adb, navigate into custom recovery, mount sd card, copy miui on the device, wipe everything, install miui from sd card.
Get drivers from pdanet.
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ok I got drivers from pdanet, but I still can not seen the device in my computer.
I managed to get CWM recovery v3.0.2.4 on my phone and I am in it.
But now all the phone does it go into CWM recovery screen.
I can not see the phone from my computer, so can not place a zip on it to try and install from zip.
And no actual sd card means I can not just take it out and pop it into my computer
Did hou mount sdcard in mount&storage than went to mount usb storage?
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rentaric said:
Did you mount sdcard in mount&storage than went to mount usb storage?
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Worked like a charm once I did that
Thank you!
hi, I rooted my TAB and tried to flash a theme. I did not flash a ROM. Now my tab will not boot. It stops on the samsung logo. Do I have to flash a custom rom. How do I do a full wipe? How do I get access to the SD card? What to do? Please help me - i'm a newbie.
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hi, I rooted my TAB and tried to flash a theme. I did not flash a ROM. Now my tab will not boot. It stops on the samsung logo. Do I have to flash a custom rom. How do I do a full wipe? How do I get access to the SD card? What to do? Please help me - i'm a newbie.
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It depends, do you have a ROM.zip or a backup saved?
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unfortunately I have nothing saved................... Is it possible to get the tab back to its orginally state?
Holding volume - and power will boot into recovery mode, you will find the wipe options there. Go to advanced, wipe dalvik cache. Go back and wipe both cache and data and then reboot. Cross your fingers haha. Worse case scenario just wipe a full ROM if my first suggestion doesn't resolve the issue.
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My friend did the same thing and I am trying to figure it out. I can't even get into odin mode. When I hold down volume down and power nothing happens I get a connect ping on my computer than an instant disconnect ping. No Samsung logo no options menu. What do I do?
Disconnect from PC and hold volume down and power (long) then it should go....
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mullemulle86 said:
Disconnect from PC and hold volume down and power (long) then it should go....
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ok got it now where do I get a rom. any kind of rom to flash with odin. This devices has no roms on its sd. I can't get adb to pick it up and it won't show me usb storage so I have no way to flash anything with it. So im stuck.
I am far from an expert on this stuff but here is an idea.
If you can download an app from the market and are rooted, try installing Samba Sharing which will allow you to see your SD card on your networked PC. If you get that far, you should be able download whatever ROM you want to the PC, transfer it to your SD card and install it.
As part of the process, you should probably try to backup whatever you have on the Tab first.
Bob
Stalte said:
ok got it now where do I get a rom. any kind of rom to flash with odin. This devices has no roms on its sd. I can't get adb to pick it up and it won't show me usb storage so I have no way to flash anything with it. So im stuck.
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Go to recovery wipe everything then boot. It will ask you to setup the tab, input your wifi info, connect to wifi. open a browser find xda search for galaxy tab 10.1, go to development thread, and download the rom of choice. Power off boot into recovery and install rom
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Stalte said:
ok got it now where do I get a rom. any kind of rom to flash with odin. This devices has no roms on its sd. I can't get adb to pick it up and it won't show me usb storage so I have no way to flash anything with it. So im stuck.
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For ROMs you need to just copy them to your storage on your tab, then boot into recovery and flash them. Odin installs .tar files and the likes. Sounds like your best bet is to find a stock recovery image/file and push it through Odin and then re-root and copy a ROM and flash it in CWM.
so apparently when i flashed cm10.2 6/7 nightly build it frreezes my phones and wont boot up... CM team is aware of this bug and is telling people not to flash.
Problem: I only have 1 backup from TWRP from when i initially flashed my phone from touchwiz to CM10.2 and this Backup is on my PC.. and Im unable to transfer any file from my PC to phone, can anyone help, i have no older build of CM on my phone at all, just the bugged nightly.. i am able to get into TWRP recovery..
have you tried mounting in twrp? otherwise, use adb or run and grab an sdcard.
Do what beerdroid suggested. Push a rom on with adb. At least you learned a lesson, always keep a working nandroid on your phone just in case.
Take your pick. This is the easiest way.
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=nightly&device=jflteatt
fosser2 said:
Take your pick. This is the easiest way.
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=nightly&device=jflteatt
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Yea, but he still needs to push it onto his phone. Might as well push the nandroid.
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have you tried mounting in twrp? otherwise, use adb or run and grab an sdcard.
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I dont know how to use the Mounting method, but i do see the option in TWRP. I dont have a SD card so what method should i choose?
jd1639 said:
Do what beerdroid suggested. Push a rom on with adb. At least you learned a lesson, always keep a working nandroid on your phone just in case.
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yea i should have saved a working nightly, how do i go about pushing a rom by adb?
thanks guys for the help, and quick response :good:
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I dont know how to use the Mounting method, but i do see the option in TWRP. I dont have a SD card so what method should i choose?
yea i should have saved a working nightly, how do i go about pushing a rom by adb?
thanks guys for the help, and quick response :good:
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Setting it up is a fairly involved process. Google sdk tools and adb. You'll need to install sdk. But not having an external sdcard isn't going to help. Probably the best thing you could do is get a sdcard and reader to connect to your computer and use those rather than adb. But it's up to you
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Setting it up is a fairly involved process. Google sdk tools and adb. You'll need to install sdk. But not having an external sdcard isn't going to help. Probably the best thing you could do is get a sdcard and reader to connect to your computer and use those rather than adb. But it's up to you
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so if i grab a micro SD and plug it to my pc, would i be able to just drag and drop a older stable nightly onto the card? or would formatting be required?
Adb sideload ftw.
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Nice I'm back on via SD card method, thx everyone for support
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rafael707 said:
Nice I'm back on via SD card method, thx everyone for support
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Glad you got it sorted. You're going to grow to cherish that micro SD card. That'll be the best $15 you ever spent. Cheers
Hi, so Im kinda new to the smart watch thing and I have an issue. I recently purchased a ZGPAX S5 on ebay the other day, seller said he tried installing a launcher and soft bricked the device. Upon receipt of the item I found that when powering on the device, it would freeze at the splash screen. After manually booting into TWRP, I found that there was no OS installed. I have been googling solutions, and found the dump files for SPTools, but the device is only recognized for a moment and then disconnects. Because of this I cannot use SPTools to flash. I cant find any other solutions besides the SPTools suggestion.
PLEASE HELP!!!
THANKS!!!
stenkonia said:
Hi, so Im kinda new to the smart watch thing and I have an issue. I recently purchased a ZGPAX S5 on ebay the other day, seller said he tried installing a launcher and soft bricked the device. Upon receipt of the item I found that when powering on the device, it would freeze at the splash screen. After manually booting into TWRP, I found that there was no OS installed. I have been googling solutions, and found the dump files for SPTools, but the device is only recognized for a moment and then disconnects. Because of this I cannot use SPTools to flash. I cant find any other solutions besides the SPTools suggestion.
PLEASE HELP!!!
THANKS!!!
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Load backup of the operating system on an external SD card and plug into the zgpax, then navigate to External SD and restore...
If you sent me the watch i could ADB sideload a TWRP restore and have you up and running... pm me if you want
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Load backup of the operating system on an external SD card and plug into the zgpax, then navigate to External SD and restore...
If you sent me the watch i could ADB sideload a TWRP restore and have you up and running... pm me if you want
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Thank You so much for the quick reply!
I tried your solution but the instal failed, its seems that almost everything in twrp fails, wipes, partitions, formats, fix permissions, and to top it all off. the screen is only half the size, the left half specifically, making it impossible to read the labels on the buttons, as they overlap and go "offscreen" , and twice as hard to select anything, any ideas on what might be the issue?
stenkonia said:
Thank You so much for the quick reply!
I tried your solution but the instal failed, its seems that almost everything in twrp fails, wipes, partitions, formats, fix permissions, and to top it all off. the screen is only half the size, the left half specifically, making it impossible to read the labels on the buttons, as they overlap and go "offscreen" , and twice as hard to select anything, any ideas on what might be the issue?
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What exactly did you try to install that failed?
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What exactly did you try to install that failed?
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S5_Backup.zip downloaded from the other thread for this device, the ext_sd in the file manager looks empty, but when i hit install and select external sd the file shows up, it will start to install but ultimately fails.
stenkonia said:
S5_Backup.zip downloaded from the other thread for this device, the ext_sd in the file manager looks empty, but when i hit install and select external sd the file shows up, it will start to install but ultimately fails.
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U can also try reflashing the recovery first and then the s5 zip file. Otherwise the only thing i can think of is using adb side load to flash
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Just ordered one of these just wondering if they are rootable and if theres any custom ROM support. Browsed this forum didn't see anything so quessing no but thought I'd ask. Thanks.
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There are few on other web sites, most command that either remote isnt working or wifi malfunction.
I also just ordered 2days ago, any chance chamge to 3 foot power socket?
Hi,
The device is rooted by default.
Still waiting for custom rom. Seems it will take a time.
Can anyone please provide me with a backup of a stock recovery image to cs918 plus? I have replaced the original one with TWRP and now I cannot update the device with new firmware because I cannot find the stock recovery anywhere.
You can easy make a backup copy of stock recovery with Flashify app then put it into the internet and give me a link so I can download it and flash it into my CS918 plus.
Thanks in advance guys!
Please help
I can't upgrade my firmware either cuz I can't even figure out how to get into recovery, I'll get you a copy of stock recovery when I am home tomorrow.
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To flash a new firmware use that instruction:
To get a new firmware type in google: "csrk3288p 20150609", enter the link location and download the file from the web site.
(Unfortunately I cannot put the exact link because I am a new user)
Then put the unpacked downloaded file into the main directory of your external sd card (/mnt/external_sd/) and change the file name from t031_8723bs_CSQ_splaire_20150609.img on update.img.
Then turn on the device but first hold down the button at the bottom of device and keep holding it until you willl get into recovery or install the "Reboot recovery" app.
Then you can choose "data/factory reset" but you don't have to - be careful that will erase all your apps and data installed but will not erase your external sd card.
Then choose "update rkimage from external storage" to flash new firmware.
PS. To navigate in recovery I'm using external keyboard connected to one of USB ports.
If you will have any troubles just ask.
I would be grateful for the stock recovery image for CS918 PLUS device.
Does anyone know if there even is a Source drop for this device ? What methods are used to flash a new rom/firmware ?
I don't have the device but can look at the code.
Perseus said:
Does anyone know if there even is a Source drop for this device ? What methods are used to flash a new rom/firmware ?
I don't have the device but can look at the code.
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I don't have the firmware of cs918 plus, but I know how to flash the firmware. I think the procedure is same with cs918 and all rockchip based android tv box.
Using the RKBatch Tool to flash the firmware.
1. Connect to your computer with micro usb cable when device is off
2. Hold reset and power on
3. If one of connected device turn green, browse to the firmware (*.img)
4. Press "Restore" button and wait. Remember "Restore" button, not "Upgrade"
Does anyone can provide me with stock recovery image?
grzesior said:
Does anyone can provide me with stock recovery image?
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Can't you pull the recovery from the firmware update IMG? I figured out how to update firmware from SD card but used a app called reboot to get into recovery because there's no button on the bottom of my device. That firmware from 0609 called splaire is horrible as is the 2nd newest firmware. I with I had never updated mine it was better before...
I just spent an hour trying to get the recovery for u using flashify, it says it backed it up to SD card but its nowhere to be found on it, it says it backed up to dropbox but the folder it created on Dropbox is empty... Any other way to backup the recovery for u?
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grzesior said:
Does anyone can provide me with stock recovery image?
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Here you go bro
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfbu0d1r5zr5kcr/stockcs918p.img?dl=0
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Perfect!
Thank you very much. Works well.
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Perfect!
Thank you very much. Works well.
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Edit: finally got rkbatch to recognise the unit, fixed now.
Glad to help. My unit is completely bricked now it seems. I upgraded to the June 29 firmware and a lot of functions on the remote stopped working so I wanted to downgrade so I tried to reboot to recovery but root was lost with this update.... So I tried the rkbatch method but I could never get the green connected to show up. I gave up after half an hour and plugged it into my TV now I have no signal I can't even get anything to show up on my TV...super stressed out now...
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The link below:
h[ttttttt]ttp://chinagadgetsreviews.com/download-latest-android-kitkat-4-4-2-stock-firmware-for-cs918-plus-4.html#comment-1036
shows last ROM for that device.
Seems that is the best rom ever made.
Thanks for leaving that up and available mate.. Trevor
ISITBRICKED said:
Here you go bro
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfbu0d1r5zr5kcr/stockcs918p.img?dl=0
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Thanks for the file.. So I can rename it to...... Copy to the micro sd card and then restore?
Currently I can only get to the boot to recovery options... ADB options etc etc.
Thanks friend may help me out as well ...