I rooted my Moto Electrify M (which to my knowledge is the same as the Razr M from verizon) and I was attempting to put CM10 on it. I was following the directions from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012093&page=57 and I accidentally deleted my internal storage (which contained my zip files GAPPS and CM10. I now have a rooted/unlocked bootloader phone with no operating system and am unsure how to install CM10.
I attempted using my external SD in another phone to transfer the files. Once I booted up TWRP in recovery mode and attempted to install I could not find said files. I'm a super noob at this whole root thing, please help
I'm not sure what the problem would be, maybe try going into Mount in twrp and unchecking the box for external sd before looking for the files.
to clarify, when I am in "install" there are folders named /sd /sdext etc but there is nothing in the folders. I have tried toggling between external and internal memory while using the install feature.
What version of twrp do you have? I put my rom zips on the root of the sd card, and when I switch twrp from internal to external, everything is right there.
Try using the file manager and see if you can find the files. If you can, but still can't get to them in the install page, use the file manager to move them over to internal storage and see if they appear there.
Do you know how to use fastboot? You could flash cwm recovery instead, and see if that shows the files.
I have version 2.2.2.1 of twrp.
I cannot find them in file manager. I am using a galaxy s2 transfer the files from my pc to the external card. Here are my options for where to store the zip files.
(nvm I can't post links yet)
What I see here is NOT what I see when I use the SD card inside of the Electrify M.
The options available for storing the zip files are not showing up when in the file manager
Interesting.. I would go into fastboot mode and use Matt's Utility to reset the phone to stock and get your OS back. You should already have the right drivers installed, so start up your phone while holding the down volume key to get into fastboot mode, load up the utility and select the first option.
Then I would flash a newer version of TWRP and see if your file browsing issues persist, I'm using twrp 2.5.0.0. Or you could also opt to flash the CWM recovery instead, and see if that fixes your problem. I have used both of these recoveries and never had an issue finding the zips on my external sd.
Another option would be to give Safestrap a try, it will ensure you don't lose your default OS again. Safestrap will let you set up a custom rom installation alongside your stock rom, keeping it perfectly intact.
Fixed it gents. I reformatted my sd card and stuck it in the android folder that was created. I then mounted the external through twrp and found it instantly. My assumption is the problem was user error related. I now have cm10 installed and have my gapps working, but I don't have bluetooth or 4g functionality. Should I make a new thread regarding these problems?
I haven't tried CM10, but honestly I would just try another one(maybe CM10.1 would fix your problems). I'm not big into fixing issues with my roms, I just find one that works and stick with it.
There might be a solution for your problems, and yeah another thread would be the way to go to get more visibility on it, but personally I would just go for Carbon or AOKP or SlimROM, or one of the other options. I have tried out the three I just mentioned, and have had 4G and bluetooth working with each(except Bluetooth on Carbon, I never tested it out but I assume it works)
I wish I could help you more but I just don't know enough to troubleshoot those kind of issues.
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I'm up to the part where I browse the SD card for the ZIP file.
Clockwork claims to be showing my SD Card, but it's actually showing my XOOM's internal memory.
What can I do?
I fixed it. It appears to have been an issue with the root.
It somehow became unrooted. Using the universal method, I fixed it and now CWM sees the SD card.
you might want to change you recovery to tiamats or rogues recovery, they are more suitable for the xoom.
just download either in the .zip file and write the zip in cwm recovery.
I like rogues because it allows you to mount a usb drive.
also stay away from rom manager- great for phones but not the xoom
Finally took the unlock/root/rom plunge and have been enjoying ICS (nightly 14) for a few days now. With nightly 16 it seemed to make sense to update. When i put the .zip on the SD card and tried to use CWMOD to install it gave an error "(Bad)" on the operation after opening the ZIP.
i downloaded again, tried again, no change, then started messing around to get it to work (should have known better). Now, if I boot in CWMOD and select install zip from SD / choose ZIP i see all the folders on my internal memory: all the folders for alarms. music, pictures, etc. I can put the release .zip in there and it will see it, but still fails on the install.
If I look with root explorer (or other tools) when i look in mnt/sdcard it has all the folders for alarms. music, pictures, etc. I can also see /mnt/external1 which is the SD card and does have the files on it.
once booted, from PC I see "Internal Storage" and "SD Card" which look as i would expect and contain the correct files (ie: "SD Card" contains the ROM files)
I've tried another SD card, with no change.
So, somehow i think i have a pointer messed up so SD points to internal memory.
I've tried all the wipes i can find, but can't get past it. Any suggestions on how to reset, or wipe it more fully, would be appreciated.
bdsemple said:
Finally took the unlock/root/rom plunge and have been enjoying ICS (nightly 14) for a few days now. With nightly 16 it seemed to make sense to update. When i put the .zip on the SD card and tried to use CWMOD to install it gave an error "(Bad)" on the operation after opening the ZIP.
i downloaded again, tried again, no change, then started messing around to get it to work (should have known better). Now, if I boot in CWMOD and select install zip from SD / choose ZIP i see all the folders on my internal memory: all the folders for alarms. music, pictures, etc. I can put the release .zip in there and it will see it, but still fails on the install.
If I look with root explorer (or other tools) when i look in mnt/sdcard it has all the folders for alarms. music, pictures, etc. I can also see /mnt/external1 which is the SD card and does have the files on it.
once booted, from PC I see "Internal Storage" and "SD Card" which look as i would expect and contain the correct files (ie: "SD Card" contains the ROM files)
I've tried another SD card, with no change.
So, somehow i think i have a pointer messed up so SD points to internal memory.
I've tried all the wipes i can find, but can't get past it. Any suggestions on how to reset, or wipe it more fully, would be appreciated.
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You see everything in your internal storage (32gb) also called sdcard, because I think you allowed Rom Manager to update your recovery to whatever is newest (4.0.0.4 ?) but that version doesn't play nice with the Xoom's external micro sdcard. This is a known issue, and I and others have written about this a million times, but anyway, you need to reflash the solarnz R4c recovery v 3.2. 0.0 image file through fastboot with your micro sdcard mounted in your Xoom. Then, after that, you can flash from the micro sdcard to your heart's content. The micro sdcard is located at mnt/external1. I don't even use Rom Manager for anything. If you just press the power button as if to actually power down, I think you'll get the boot menu to boot into recovery very easily, if you don't feel comfortable doing it manually. Or you can download Quick Boot.
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You see everything in your internal storage (32gb) also called sdcard, because I think you allowed Rom Manager to update your recovery to whatever is newest (4.0.0.4 ?) but that version doesn't play nice with the Xoom's external micro sdcard. This is a known issue, and I and others have written about this a million times, but anyway, you need to reflash the solarnz R4c recovery v 3.2. 0.0 image file through fastboot with your micro sdcard mounted in your Xoom. Then, after that, you can flash from the micro sdcard to your heart's content. The micro sdcard is located at mnt/external1. I don't even use Rom Manager for anything. If you just press the power button as if to actually power down, I think you'll get the boot menu to boot into recovery very easily, if you don't feel comfortable doing it manually. Or you can download Quick Boot.
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I recall having a similar issue with loading zip files onto the SD card and then trying to flash it just to get an error.
The only was I had a work around for that was to only load the zip file THROUGH CWM. By selecting Mounts and storage > Mount USB, then it takes up to 1 minute for my computer to see the sdcard (removable disk). Then I just transfer the zip to the SD card by this method and then when its done, I return to the main menu and go about the process of flashing.
The rogue recovery works just as well and has a few more options than the tiamat recovery. It also supports internal and external sdcards as well as toggling the backup and/or wipe of /data/media. Just my opinion and preference.
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First of all a big THANKS! I successfully installed the triple boot SD Card. I see there is an update with a new zip file. As a newby I want to make sure I understand correctly: I will burn the zip img to a clean SD Card, install it, power up, and basically follow the steps previously including flashing the gapps, etc. I can then copy anything I have in the old SD Card 7th partition to the new 7th partition. Is that correct? I am asking to make sure I don't just copy something into the existing partitions on the existing SD Card.
When I updated racks triple boot, i did not reinstall Gapps. Just reloaded everything from my Titanium bu and there it all was.
Thanks
Thanks, that is a good idea. May I ask, did you use your existing SD Card and put the zip on the 7th partition and use a blank formatted SD Card. I just wonder if the zip will create new partitions or simply overwrite the existing files in the existing partitions.
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Thanks, that is a good idea. May I ask, did you use your existing SD Card and put the zip on the 7th partition and use a blank formatted SD Card. I just wonder if the zip will create new partitions or simply overwrite the existing files in the existing partitions.
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You don't need a blank formatted card. The zip overwrites files in the existing partitions on your current SD but doesn't create new ones. Nothing on the 7th partition (the SD partition) is affected, nor are your downloaded market apps in the /data partitions. Personally, I have created a folder in the emmc for all the flashable zips. The CWM recovery allows you to install the zips from the internal sd (emmc) instead of the sd sd (7th partition). That way, I can flash zips to a backup or test sd, and flash to my working sd if everthing's OK.
Thanks again
Thanks once again. Those are good ideas and I will use them also. I may have been over-thinking the update but this is all new to me. Thanks again.
Can I add my inquisition to this thread as well? It is exactly what I was wondering....
I have spent a few up and running using the Triple Boot directions found here. Everything has been rock solid.
Now I'm interested in upgrading. Just wanted to make sure I understood this correctly:
1. Since the image I flashed is dated 3/4/12. then does it have all of the changes up to then already baked in? If not....
2. I don't need to do incremental updates, correct? I can just flash the newest images, right?
3. Since the primary (and I believe secondary as well) ROMs have been changed, I need to "boot into the CWM that is included with the dualbootSD and go to "mounts and storage" and choose to format "/system1" "/data1". Remember to also wipe cache."
4. I will need to reinstall all of the following?: gapp and the calendar-email-tts fix even if installing the latest release
Thanks so much. Loving what I've been able to do so far...but just had too many questions to proceed forward with any degree of confidence.
Thanks!
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"1. Since the image I flashed is dated 3/4/12. then does it have all of the changes up to then already baked in? If not....
2. I don't need to do incremental updates, correct? I can just flash the newest images, right?
3. Since the primary (and I believe secondary as well) ROMs have been changed, I need to "boot into the CWM that is included with the dualbootSD and go to "mounts and storage" and choose to format "/system1" "/data1". Remember to also wipe cache."
4. I will need to reinstall all of the following?: gapp and the calendar-email-tts fix even if installing the latest release"
Although a newby I think I can help as I went through the same process. Of course this applies only to Racks triple boot option and how I have done it.
1) What he is doing is upgrading the complete zip file with the most current files so it is complete as in the first install. You could actually install it following the original install instructions.
2) Correct
3) No, it will overwrite any existing files in the partitions with the new, upgraded files.
4) If you have used Titanium to back up your apps and data(which I recommend) - Titanium is one of the apps Racks includes - then no. Once you boot up, etc and have everything running you can run Titanium to restore your apps and data.
Remember that if you update only from the zip you will only have those apps and data that were included originally. Your SDCard partition will remain unchanged so if you have apps/data on that partition then those will simply have to be reloaded/restored.
Hope this helps.
Great...had to give you a "Thanks".
I figured he was updating the original install to include newest upgraded files. Maybe the DualBoot image is not 100% updated? (The image I just installed was dated 3/4, but there are updates dated 3/6 and 3/26). Not sure if I should update those or not.
The file I installed was Mirage_CM7_ICS_CM9_DualbootSD.img.zip dated 3/4/12. I have not yet installed any updated.
Thanks for the additional info. I actually didn't have anything of consequence up to this point as I just decided to do a fresh install on a new 8GB Sandisk card with slightly better random write speeds than the old 4GB card. No data of consequence will be lost, but I will look into Titanium for the future upgrades.
Thanks!
Nice. Did the updates, but had to reinstall gapps. Will try titanium next time. Loving being able to mess around with ICS. Will have to play around as I get more time.
One last question....I only downloaded and updated the mirage CM7 and Encore CM9 files.
I did not update and encore MIUI files, as, if I understand this correctly, this will take the place of my current mirage CM7 boot image...so I will have this brand new interface.
With the Triple boot, you get a flavor of ICS, but you need to choose whether you waint either "CM7 mirage" or "MIUI". And if I choose MIUI...I need to decide whether I want ICS or GB. Is that about right?
Thanks.
Thanks!
I'm having a very weird problem here. I decided to get USB OTG for my phone and flashed a zip that's has worked for me before. Everything worked fine, until I discovered that my SD card didn't mount. Root Explorer could find it fine, or at least the files from it in emulated/0 but ES File Explorer couldn't (both apps had Sdcard as a file in the root, with a toast appearing that told me it wasn't mounted when I tried clicking on it), nor could any app that needed internal storage for something (be it the camera, Play Store couldn't install apps and an emulator I have couldn't find the file/folder). I tried flashing the "recovery zip" from the thread (I will link to it) but that did nothing. TWRP could mount the SD card, unlike everything else though. In addition to that, all three file managers (Root Explorer, ES and TWRP's file manager) had conflicting stuff in the root directory. TWRP was able to mount SDcard, but couldn't find a folder named "storage" that the other two could. Root Explorer could also find the recovery zip that I moved to the root (since I wasn't able to download stuff, I had to use OTG to get it on the device), while the other two couldn't. Root explorer could also find the emulated/0 folder which contained all the files and folders from the SDcard. This is very strange and I haven't been able to find anything on this. Factory reset is my last resort, mainly because it takes so long for titanium backup to set up all the apps again .
Here's some info on my phone (before I flashed the USB OTG zip):
16GB Nexus 4
Beanstalk 4.4 ROM
Faux Kernel
Multi ROM Manager installed
TWRP as a custom recovery
Thread I keep talking about: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/orig-development/usb-otg-externally-powered-usb-otg-t2181820
If you need any more info just ask!
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
bump, please. I can't do a titanium backup, which means if I factory reset, I will lose everything. I have some good scores on some great game, might sound a little sad but I don't want to lose it, plus some other stuff that I've managed to accumulate that will piss me off if I lose it. Anyone?
Happy new year everyone!
After removing MultiROM using the uninstall method and also flashing uninstall .zip file in recovery the phone stopped booting the OS. I think some MultiROM leftovers messed the boot process. Flashed the boot.img and recovery.img, than the TWRP recovery again, but nothing worked. Wiped dalvik, cache, system partitions and flashed a stock 5.0.1 zip file and the boot problem was solved.
The issue now is that I cannot see any files on SD Card neither on phone or windows explorer. I however am able to see all the files from the TWRP file manager. After reading some forums I think I have to force some rescan of the SD card or something like that. I tried using apps like SD Rescan, but nothing has fixed the issue.
Root Explorer shows 6GB used and 6GB free although the SD card appears empty. Disc Usage app shows that I have 4GB "System data"which is the files that I have on the SD card.
I got the files using recovery and may try to format the data partition, but don't know if it will work. So any ideas that will spare me from that exercise are very appreciated.