My phone hates me (cant flash .zip roms) - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey all, i have been trying for a couple days not to flash various .zip rom builds to my I9000m (i know people who have the M and have had no problems doing what i'm trying to do.)
So here's the deal, i have a stock jh2 build on the phone (have reflashed and repartitioned several times, to no avail)
i have rooted with OCLF, installed rom manager, installed clockwork (latest) and i can boot in to clockwork recovery, but every time i try to flash a .zip i get the error
Finding update package...
opening update package...
E:Can't read /sdcard/....zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.
i get the same result when trying to flash from the stock recovery as well. (2e)
However, i had no problem flashing the .zip for clockwork and OCLF root, and i have no problems flashing with odin.
HALP!

no love?
10char

Are you selecting the update zip from inside rom manager or in clockwork recovery?
I would boot into clockwork recovery and select install from sd card there and see if you can select the zip unless of course this is what you have been doing
Also you could download the zip again as it may have gotten corrupted
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Edit...forget to give some love

yeah, i have done all that, manually selected the zip most of the time, tried 3 different zips from 3 different builds.

That is odd...i am not sure what to say now other than flashing a rom through odin
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any idea how to convert a rom to .tar so i could do that? i have no problem flashing through odin, i just have no availability to jp6 or jpa roms... they're all .zip

Guess it's the 3e recovery that doesn't let you apply sdcard:update.zip.

If it is the issue with 3e, then the message would say signature not verified when trying to use an unsigned zip
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make sure the update.zip is at the root of /sdcard/
are you able to access your internal sd card?
remove the external SD card just in case
it might be a defective internal SD card if it can not see the internal SD when you boot into recovery mode

I don't and have never had 3e, I don't get an unsigned error in either stock or clockwork, I do have the files in the root of /sdcard no problem accessing /sdcard through windows explorer.

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Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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aborted maybe? try to redownload, maybe your file is corrupt.
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Did you root your phone?
Did you install Clockworkmod recovery?
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Try redownloading the rom and install the biggest one first.
Maybe you forget mount system?? Or file corrupt?
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try disabling or enabling the script verification and signature check in install zip from scared option it was worked for someone before
are you try to install CM 7 with CWM Recovery 5 or using Recovery Stock based ?
if you're using CWM 5, then try to re download file zip
try redownload again..
Sent from my GT-S5570 using XDA

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