Hey guys,
As I wrote in the title I ran into a problem when installing the new CM11 nightly build from Quarx on my Defy. Here's what I did:
1) Downloaded the recovery update: http://defy.bytekiste.de/cm11-nightly-defy+/update-recovery.zip
2) Downloaded this CM11 nightly build: http://quarx2k.ru/roms/defy-cm11.0/cm-11-20140501-NIGHTLY-mb526.zip
3) Rebooted into recovery and installed the recovery update. The install seems to have finished without problems, although after another reboot my recovery still read as "JB Recovery v5.7.0-jordan".
4) Did a data and cache wipe.
5) Tried installing CM11, but the installation was aborted by a "status 0" error right after the "installing update..." part.
What am I doing wrong? I assume this has something to do with the recovery update, but since as far as I can tell it was successfully installed I don't know what could I do to fix it.
Now that I got time I started reading Quarx's CM11 thread and apparently in these cases installing CM10.2 first may help (I was using CM10), as it also updates the recovery, which is TWRP in the case of the as of now latest CM10.2 nightly. After I did this I tried installing CM11 again and this time the install went without a hitch. So if anyone else runs into this issue try this first.
For the next time remember that you've to reboot the device after installing that recovery in order to TWRP do the actualization
MaicolS said:
For the next time remember that you've to reboot the device after installing that recovery in order to TWRP do the actualization
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I did restart my phone after installing the recovery update, I just forgot to mention it.
Since my last post I realized that the problem was that the CM10 nightly build I used before still came with the CWM recovery, not with TWRP. The reason is that some of Quarx's old builds didn't play nice with TWRP at the time. Since Quarx didn't explicitly say in his thread that the recovery update was for TWRP I just assumed that it was for his old builds that came with CWM. That doesn't seem to be the case however.
Chawitsch said:
Now that I got time I started reading Quarx's CM11 thread and apparently in these cases installing CM10.2 first may help (I was using CM10), as it also updates the recovery, which is TWRP in the case of the as of now latest CM10.2 nightly. After I did this I tried installing CM11 again and this time the install went without a hitch. So if anyone else runs into this issue try this first.
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Easier method: just flash defy_twrp_recovery_2.6.3.0.zip, as explained in the installation guide.
Thanks for the link Proverbs, I'll do that the next time I'll need to update TWRP. Like I said, I didn't realize that Quarx's recovery update was for TWRP. If I did, I would have flashed TWRP separately and then CM11. What matters is that everything turned out OK in the end.
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I've been trying to upgrade from CM 7.2 to CM 10.{0,1,2}, but my phone keeps getting stuck with the red LED after the Motorola. My understanding is that this means that there is not a viable OS installed. When I flash the appropriate zip the recovery is updated (e.g., TWRP 2.5.0 is installed with CM 10.1). I've tried wiping cache, data, Dalvik cache before and after install, but it doesn't help.
Can anyone suggest what might be happening?
Here's the full story:
I've been running CM 7.2 for a long time and it's been great and stable. But, I saw that CM 10.2 was available a while ago and wanted to give it a try. I originally tried flashing straight to CM 10.2 from CM 7.2 but the installation aborted (status(0)). I posted on the CM 10.2 thread and _mak_V_ suggested that I needed to install TWRP or go through 10.1 first.
I installed Defy TWRP version 2.1.1 from the TeamWin webpage, but was still unable to install CM 10.2. Same problem, and I'm guessing that the recovery is still too old.
So, I decided to go through CM 10.1. I flashed this using TWRP 2.1.1 along with gapps-jb-20130812-signed.zip and the installation seemed to go smoothly. However, I was stuck at the red LED.
I reverted my TWRP backup to CM7.2 and then tried CM 10 with gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip -- same thing.
To make sure I wasn't completely losing it I installed CM 9 which I tried before. This worked perfectly, but I still can't upgrade to CM10 or above.
Apologies if this question has been answered already. I'm sure that I'm missing something simple, but I've combed the Bravo and Defy threads and can't find anything to help. Can anyone suggest anything?
Thanks for your help!
still no answer?
sjbonner said:
I've been trying to upgrade from CM 7.2 to CM 10.{0,1,2}, but my phone keeps getting stuck with the red LED after the Motorola. My understanding is that this means that there is not a viable OS installed. When I flash the appropriate zip the recovery is updated (e.g., TWRP 2.5.0 is installed with CM 10.1). I've tried wiping cache, data, Dalvik cache before and after install, but it doesn't help.
Can anyone suggest what might be happening?
Here's the full story:
I've been running CM 7.2 for a long time and it's been great and stable. But, I saw that CM 10.2 was available a while ago and wanted to give it a try. I originally tried flashing straight to CM 10.2 from CM 7.2 but the installation aborted (status(0)). I posted on the CM 10.2 thread and _mak_V_ suggested that I needed to install TWRP or go through 10.1 first.
I installed Defy TWRP version 2.1.1 from the TeamWin webpage, but was still unable to install CM 10.2. Same problem, and I'm guessing that the recovery is still too old.
So, I decided to go through CM 10.1. I flashed this using TWRP 2.1.1 along with gapps-jb-20130812-signed.zip and the installation seemed to go smoothly. However, I was stuck at the red LED.
I reverted my TWRP backup to CM7.2 and then tried CM 10 with gapps-jb-20121011-signed.zip -- same thing.
To make sure I wasn't completely losing it I installed CM 9 which I tried before. This worked perfectly, but I still can't upgrade to CM10 or above.
Apologies if this question has been answered already. I'm sure that I'm missing something simple, but I've combed the Bravo and Defy threads and can't find anything to help. Can anyone suggest anything?
Thanks for your help!
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Oc someone's going to tell you to use search or Google it but I'm not that person shortly I'm going to install cm10 on mine so I'll go through the steps and let you know what to do or might have happened I'll keep you posted.
just made the same mistake
Try updating the recovery and when you wipe you have to do it in ext3 if you want to revert to gingerbread and ext4 for jb as far as I know
I've encountered a strange problem with my nexus 7. As soon as I install a custom rom (I've tried the latest nightly of Carbon and Slimbean) with a full wipe my device does not boot up. It stucks on the carbon, respective slimbean, bootscreen. Another strange thing is that the latest CM nightly seems to work without any problems.
I even tried to flash a factory image and then reflashed the recovery (TWRP 2.6.3) to try the mentioned custom roms again. Still no luck - CM did work again.
So, do you guys have a solution to this problem? I've used both roms in the past as my daily driver, so I am out of ideas for now...
No suggestion, but I just flashed SlimBean on mine from a full wipe, and I'm having the same issue.
I tried SlimBean again, and it worked. Here's what I did:
1. Updated my bootloader. Mine was still 4.13, and it looks like the most recent version is 4.23. I flashed the img from this post using NRT.
2. Went back to unrooted stock with NRT. (I had to update my bootloader to do this.)
3. Let it boot back into unrooted stock, wept with joy, made a nandroid from NRT.
4. Flashed the SlimBean 1.9 weekly and minimal gapps from NRT's advanced area.
5. Watched in amazement as it boots obediently. Let sit about 10 min, and rebooted.
I'm essentially lazy, so yes I used NRT instead of manually pushing everything with ADB. ADB was plan B. It was briefly plan A, but I got tired of trying to convince the Android SDK that I did in fact have the Java JDK installed.
Mhhhh....
PatrickMac said:
I've encountered a strange problem with my nexus 7. As soon as I install a custom rom (I've tried the latest nightly of Carbon and Slimbean) with a full wipe my device does not boot up. It stucks on the carbon, respective slimbean, bootscreen. Another strange thing is that the latest CM nightly seems to work without any problems.
I even tried to flash a factory image and then reflashed the recovery (TWRP 2.6.3) to try the mentioned custom roms again. Still no luck - CM did work again.
So, do you guys have a solution to this problem? I've used both roms in the past as my daily driver, so I am out of ideas for now...
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Well I have the same problem with booting Ubuntu touch.... Either it's stuck on white Google Logo or stuck on Cyanogenmod Logo... Have flashed it with TWRP and MultiROM...
I got bored today and decided to pull out the old N7, 2012 version. I update recovery to TWRP 2.8.7.0, installed CM 12.1, realized this tablet crawls with any version of Android other than shipped version, so I went and got CM 10 and GApps for JB, wiped and flashed them back on. I didn't see any errors when flashing them, but when rebooting after, it just boot loops. I see the Google logo with the unlocked icon at bottom, then reboot and back to Google/unlocked again. So I wipe and reflash cm12.1 and it's GApps and all boots and works fine, other than being slow. I'm assuming the recovery is the problem as I've run into something similar before on another device, but in that case, the recovery was too old and needed updated, but it makes sense that a recovery could be too new as well.
Am I correct that the recovery is the problem? If so, what should I run for CM 10 to flash and work?
Try cwm recovery
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Try cwm recovery
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I don't' know if it was using CWM or that I also tried CM 10.2 at the same time, but it's working now. On CyanogenMod's own page, there was no MD5 for CM10, but there was for CM10.2, so it's possible my copy of CM10 was a bad download. Either way, it's working now, so thank you good sir, or madam, or person on no specific gender.
Hi,
Yesterday I "blindly" installed the latest CM nightly without noticing that I was installing CM13... After the install, no Google App was working (as expected). When I noticed I had installed CM13, I tried downloading OpenGapps (all from nano to stock for ARM, -not ARM64-), and none of these can be installed, I always get an error (Status Code 1). After a lot of trying, I coundn't even make a wipe (I got an error while formatting data).
After flashing a stock ROM via Odin, the phone worked again, so I tried reinstalling. Now the issue I have is that I can't install any custom ROM to the phone, I have tried flashing CyanogenmodRecovery (for CM12 and CM13) and CWM 6.0.4.7, all of them let me install the latest CM12.2 nightly (26.12), but the phone always hangs on the Cyanogenmod Bootscreen. Wiping is not showing any errors anymore.
Any thoughts? Am I missing something? I am relatively new to the S4, and I got mine already with CM11 on it, and until yesterday I was always able to update without any issues... Am I missing some step?
Small update: I get some errors in the recovery logs: unable to mount /efs. I don't understand why I get this error when a OEM Kitkat works, but well, will keep trying, maybe I find a way to get it working...
1. Use TWRP, CWM is outdated.
2. "Nightly" realeases are testing firmwares. CM13 for GT-i9505 is in early releases too. They have lot of bugs still.
3. - Download the latest stable CM firmware: HERE and copy it to your SDCARD external + Gapps (ARM+ android 5.1 + nano).
- Go to DOWNLOAD MODE and flash TWRP. Boot in TWRP - Select Wipe - Advanced Wipe and wipe all (less usb-otg and external memory).
- Flash CM12.1 firmware and GApps then. Reboot and enjoy.
Use TWRP. Google for s4 twrp. On that page you will also have various install instructions. Afterwards you can flash pretty much any custom rom.
Well, tried exactly these steps, I only skipped gapps for now. I installed following version: cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1JN-jfltexx. However the phone still hangs while booting... I will let it for a while and see if it boots, but I think it's still stuck... The stock Samsung Kitkat flashes properly from Odin and can be booted... Really strange. Is there anything I can do to see what's going on? I only get the Cyanogenmod Bootscreen, but no adb access...
Well, I am getting some errors: unable to mount /efs... This seems to be the problem, no idea why this is happening... I will keep looking around for a fix... I still don't quite understand why a stock KitKat works...
mschmiedel said:
Hi,
Yesterday I "blindly" installed the latest CM nightly without noticing that I was installing CM13... After the install, no Google App was working (as expected). When I noticed I had installed CM13, I tried downloading OpenGapps (all from nano to stock for ARM, -not ARM64-), and none of these can be installed, I always get an error (Status Code 1). After a lot of trying, I coundn't even make a wipe (I got an error while formatting data).
After flashing a stock ROM via Odin, the phone worked again, so I tried reinstalling. Now the issue I have is that I can't install any custom ROM to the phone, I have tried flashing CyanogenmodRecovery (for CM12 and CM13) and CWM 6.0.4.7, all of them let me install the latest CM12.2 nightly (26.12), but the phone always hangs on the Cyanogenmod Bootscreen. Wiping is not showing any errors anymore.
Any thoughts? Am I missing something? I am relatively new to the S4, and I got mine already with CM11 on it, and until yesterday I was always able to update without any issues... Am I missing some step?
Small update: I get some errors in the recovery logs: unable to mount /efs. I don't understand why I get this error when a OEM Kitkat works, but well, will keep trying, maybe I find a way to get it working...
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Try dowloading the rom from a thread here on the forum.
You didn't mention what phone model you got so I assume it is a GT-I9505. You can find the official thread in the I9505 original android development section. The maintainer is AntaresOne.
It is the GT-I9505, I now was able to install a stock Kitkat, and it now is allowing me to update via OTA, (first time I got a message that I had a "changed" phone and OTA was disabled). I will let it install this way and see what happens.
Last time I tried with TWRP I was getting the error "unable to mount /efs", but after flashing an ODIN ROM the phone works, I have LTE Data and can place and receive calls, IMEI is there, so I am now confused about what can be wrong.
When this OTA update works, I will try to reflash TWRP via Odin (and not mess around with heimdall anymore), and see if then I can install CM12...
I downloaded the version from the Cyanogenmod site, the latest stable CM12.1 release, so I guess it should be as good as downloading it from an xda thread...
I don't know. It's worth a try.
If you get errors about efs,be careful.The EFS partition contains the most important stuff like your IMEI.There are some backup/restore tools of EFS, you should check them out.Wipe everything,flash cm,then restore EFS backup.
Hi all,
I was running the official Google 5.1.1 version until this morning. I now did an oem unlock using fastboot and installed the latest twrp recovery 3.0.0, and finally copied overy CM-13 nightly (and Chroma-2016-02 for testing purposes) using adb.
Flashing itself work flawless, there is no warning or error message, but when hitting "Reboot" within twrp the Google logo shows up for a few seconds and it directly boots into twrp again. This is with both, CM-13 and the latest Chroma.
So I basically cannot get my Nexus-4 bootet regulary any more.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
Any help is welcome,
regards, mistersixt.
Mmmh, strange, I did a factory installation (latest 5.1.1 from Google) and started the same thing from scratch ... and guess what... the system is booting fine now.
No idea why it did not work on my first attempt .
Regards, mistersixt.
mistersixt said:
Hi all,
I was running the official Google 5.1.1 version until this morning. I now did an oem unlock using fastboot and installed the latest twrp recovery 3.0.0, and finally copied overy CM-13 nightly (and Chroma-2016-02 for testing purposes) using adb.
Flashing itself work flawless, there is no warning or error message, but when hitting "Reboot" within twrp the Google logo shows up for a few seconds and it directly boots into twrp again. This is with both, CM-13 and the latest Chroma.
So I basically cannot get my Nexus-4 bootet regulary any more.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
Any help is welcome,
regards, mistersixt.
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Same here. Running stock until today, wanted to see a different ROM, flashed TWRP 3.0.0, it refused to boot anything else. Tried to flash DU, then tried Chroma. Did a full wipe, then an advanced wipe selecting everything, then a full format, same thing. Installed TWRP 2.8.7, same thing. Finally installed latest stock, it is now booting, optimizing apps. I don't know if installing a custom rom will work or not yet.
Edit: Yeap, after flashing stock 5.1.1 and installing TWRP 3 again, the phone is now booting into DU.
First time I did a wipe with TWRP, it complained that it couldn't mount /data. Since this is the first time doing it, I assumed it was normal. After going through a full format, it didn't complain about data anymore, but it did complain about something to do with /dev/zero and another file under /dev/. I assume it was trying to dd /dev/zero to a file under /dev/ that didn't exist.
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Done the whole process from scratch again and worked like a charm
Hello, same story here.
First I:
- unlocked bootloader
- flashed TWRP (last version)
- flashed Chroma and Gapps
- reboot
=> I consistently rebooted on TWRP. No way to properly install the ROM. No error message at all.
Then I found this thread, and did as described:
- flashed the latest stock ROM
- flashed TWRP again (took me ages to manage to do this: TWRP would not install. I don't know how I finally did it, but at some point it suddenly worked. Probably a driver problem)
- flashed Chroma and Gapps again
Bingo, this time it worked! I don't know why it didn't work the first time. Could it be linked to the bootloader unlock thing?