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[Q] Cant figure out the ROM installs

I just got my Galaxy S and want to update the ROM but dont know the exact process. Various Roms say to apply update.zip first but I keep getting e:signature verification failed so I cant proceed.
I tried update.zip for 'ClockworkMod' and it gave the same error.
Any help appreciated.
Robert

redesignni said:
I just got my Galaxy S and want to update the ROM but dont know the exact process. Various Roms say to apply update.zip first but I keep getting e:signature verification failed so I cant proceed.
I tried update.zip for 'ClockworkMod' and it gave the same error.
Any help appreciated.
Robert
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You need to flash a kernel with clockwork mod recovery such as :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822756
Flash with Odin and put the kernel in the PDA section. Once flashed you will have clockwork mod recovery. The reason you can't apply roms is because you have Recovery 3e which won't apply unsigned .zips.
When booted into clockwork mod just select apply .zip from sd card and choose the ROM you want to install and then reboot.
Simple really

I sure hope you have checked first if your 3-button combo works. Otherwise you soon will be figuring out how to unbrick your Galaxy....

pwhooftman said:
I sure hope you have checked first if your 3-button combo works. Otherwise you soon will be figuring out how to unbrick your Galaxy....
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Yep, forgot to mention this. VITAL thing that you must to first before messing with your Galaxy.
Please check that you can get into download mode before doing anything!

yeah the volume up, home and power works... thats what has been getting me into the boot menu...
Cheers for the answer, Ill try that now

[Q] Rom Manager no clockworkmod recovery

I have thoroughly restored and master cleared my phone twice now. I root it, install Rom Manager and then attempt to install Clockworkmod Recovery and every time I get "Error while downloading from server". Are they down or something?

same story here, I even gave them the $5 and now it cannot even install the clockwork mod What is going on here?!

I believe the server is down for the clockwork mod file that rom manager downloads from. I attached the file that I downloaded from another post.

Thank you,
Thats got it

No change.

zerofx said:
I believe the server is down for the clockwork mod file that rom manager downloads from. I attached the file that I downloaded from another post.
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This didn't change anything for me. Installed via recovery menu. Did I do something wrong?

lunikalm said:
This didn't change anything for me. Installed via recovery menu. Did I do something wrong?
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Did you install it twice? First time does not take.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

lunikalm said:
This didn't change anything for me. Installed via recovery menu. Did I do something wrong?
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Once you put the update.zip on your internal SD card , reboot to recovery and select "reinstall packages"...............you are in ClockworkMod Recovery

mcord11758 said:
Did you install it twice? First time does not take.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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Had the same problem wit the server and can confirm it worked with the update.zip in the post AND the double install(you dont need to reboot again just hit install packets againg).
Thx

I can also confirm that this worked as well. I am rooting my bosses phone(captivate) and clockwork was giving me "server" issues when flashing the recovery. Put the update.zip on the sd card, booted to recovery and ran the update, I am flashing clockwork as we speak! Thanks, this forum never lets me down!

[Q] Need help with ROM Manager

Ok so I'm new to flashing a ROM, and Im having a little problem with ROM Manager. Ive been trying to make a backup of my current ROM prior to flashing to a new ROM. However when I choose the option to backup current ROM it shows me the name of the backup and then reboots my device (Samsung Captivate) into recovery mode. Not really sure what it wants me to do there so I choose to reboot the device, I then check to see if it made the backup and nothing??? Im not sure what it is that Im doing wrong but Im sure I must be missing a step. The phone is rooted, running 2.2 other than that nothing else has been moded. If any of you can help me I would appreciate it, I just dont want to move forward with flashing a ROM before Ive backed up the current ROM. I have made a backup of all apps and data using Titanium.

Xanaki said:
Ok so I'm new to flashing a ROM, and Im having a little problem with ROM Manager. Ive been trying to make a backup of my current ROM prior to flashing to a new ROM. However when I choose the option to backup current ROM it shows me the name of the backup and then reboots my device (Samsung Captivate) into recovery mode. Not really sure what it wants me to do there so I choose to reboot the device, I then check to see if it made the backup and nothing??? Im not sure what it is that Im doing wrong but Im sure I must be missing a step. The phone is rooted, running 2.2 other than that nothing else has been moded. If any of you can help me I would appreciate it, I just dont want to move forward with flashing a ROM before Ive backed up the current ROM. I have made a backup of all apps and data using Titanium.
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When it goes into recovery, is it the ClockWorkMod recovery menu? Green text? If it isn't getting there you need to install it from ROM manager first or just install it off an update.zip file that is floating around XDA and other sites. Once that is setup, you can run the backup through ROM Manager. It should boot into a recovery mode and then start doing a lot of writing of files to your new backup directory.
Post back if you are still having problems.

I did select the option for flashing ClockWorkMod recovery and chose the Captivate as my device. It did say that it sucessfully downloaded the file and Im assuming that it meant it installed it. And to answer your question I think I can safely say that no its not clockwork recovery when it reboots as it does say at the top of the screen "Android Recovery" so Im pretty sure that ClockWork is not installed. But I will look for that update.zip file and try to install it that way...

Xanaki said:
I did select the option for flashing ClockWorkMod recovery and chose the Captivate as my device. It did say that it sucessfully downloaded the file and Im assuming that it meant it installed it. And to answer your question I think I can safely say that no its not clockwork recovery when it reboots as it does say at the top of the screen "Android Recovery" so Im pretty sure that ClockWork is not installed. But I will look for that update.zip file and try to install it that way...
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I'm sorry, you are looking for recovery-update.zip. I would try to run the ROM Manager install again and see what happens. I haven't had to play with the Android Recovery in quite some time but if the recovery-update.zip file is in the root of your sd card, you should be able to install it through the Android recovery. I'll keep looking. If I can find the file on my phone, i'll post it. Good luck.

If this is your first time booting into CWM recovery it will go to the base recovery first. Then you need to "reinstall packages". That will replace the recovery file with the CWM recovery file and return to the main menu. Then choose reintall packages one more time and it should bring you to CWM recovery instead of the base one. From then on it should bring you directly to the CWM recovery.
As for the backup it's done from CWM recovery. So once you get thru the steps above you will see backup and restore options on the recovery menu and you can go thru that process.

There may be some help in here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734163
First try to flash it again through ROM Manager.

mxracer101 said:
If this is your first time booting into CWM recovery it will go to the base recovery first. Then you need to "reinstall packages". That will replace the recovery file with the CWM recovery file and return to the main menu. Then choose reintall packages one more time and it should bring you to CWM recovery instead of the base one. From then on it should bring you directly to the CWM recovery.
As for the backup it's done from CWM recovery. So once you get thru the steps above you will see backup and restore options on the recovery menu and you can go thru that process.
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DUH...I thought there was another step. Thanks mxracer. Give that a go and see if you get what you are looking for.

Thanks!! Trying that now

Ok still having a problem, I followed the instructions just as posted but this is what I get:
-- Install from sdcard --
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
Ok so what do I do? Im thinking I need to find that recovery-update.zip you were talking about?

Xanaki said:
Ok still having a problem, I followed the instructions just as posted but this is what I get:
-- Install from sdcard --
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
Ok so what do I do? Im thinking I need to find that recovery-update.zip you were talking about?
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That update.zip should have been placed there by ROM Manager. Possibly try uninstalling & reinstalling ROM manager. Else, that update.zip should be somewhere. I'd grab the one off my phone but I'm not entirely sure which one it is. My ROM already had CWM with it. I'll try to look for a correct update.zip but I'm at work so I'm not going through XDA all day.

trekie86 said:
That update.zip should have been placed there by ROM Manager. Possibly try uninstalling & reinstalling ROM manager. Else, that update.zip should be somewhere. I'd grab the one off my phone but I'm not entirely sure which one it is. My ROM already had CWM with it. I'll try to look for a correct update.zip but I'm at work so I'm not going through XDA all day.
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you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery

trekie86 said:
DUH...I thought there was another step. Thanks mxracer. Give that a go and see if you get what you are looking for.
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Pirateghost said:
you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery
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Not sure what it is that you're saying I need to do, what is 3e recovery?

Xanaki said:
Not sure what it is that you're saying I need to do, what is 3e recovery?
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this will explain and provide a fix for you....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213

Pirateghost said:
you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery
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You're right, I did miss that. Haven't had to do anything with 3e recovery before. Xanaki, are you on Rogers with their official 2.2 or the leaked AT&T 2.2?

Pirateghost said:
you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery
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I missed it too. The above post regarding 3e recovery is what you need to do, one of the phones I have I need to do the same process after flashing back to stock. Sorry for the confusion.

Been having a similar issue when it takes you to stock recovery, I hold down both volume buttons and power until I see AT&T let go of power it usually takes me to clockwork recovery menu, I then select whatever I want to do backup, recover, or install from sd.
I don't know why it started doing that but that's what I found works. Hope it helps.

trekie86 said:
You're right, I did miss that. Haven't had to do anything with 3e recovery before. Xanaki, are you on Rogers with their official 2.2 or the leaked AT&T 2.2?
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Im on the leaked AT&T version of 2.2 not Rogers. I haven't had the chance yet to try the recovery method mentioned but I plan on doing so today, I will update as to if this works or not. Also I did read somewhere that flashing a new Kernal might resolve this issue, I do have SGS Kernal Flasher but I dont have another Kernal to flash to...

[Q] Trying To Root (Installation Aborted) Error

Im Am Trying To Root My Samsung Galaxy Ace gts5830 And Everytime i try to install the zip file provided by the forum I Keep Getting Error
E:Error In /tmp/sideload/package.zip Installation Aborted .............PLZ Help

What firmware are you running? If its ktq there's a previous step (cuz that firmwares system is full). There's a thread on that.
Other than that, which zip are you trying to flash (maybe link to post)?
How are you trying to flash it?

It Is Android Version 2.3.4......Baseband s5830dtlki4..........kernel 2.6.35.7-perf-cl568978 [email protected] #1.
Build Gingerbread.dtlki4
I Went into Recovery mode And Tried root.zip and update.zip wich i cant remember exact thread but both were of the forum
And Ive Read Lots And Cant figure it out

There's one called AceGingerRoot.zip, same stuff, go ro recovery (stock recovery, not cwm recovery) install zip from sd card. Then just update the superuser app from the market and its binary:
http://db.tt/e33J6E1P
Good luk

Thank U So Much It Worked ......

I am having the same problem, root.zip gives 'installation aborted'. I went to the link you gave for AceGingerRoot.zip and google chrome said 'malicious code and has blocked it'.

neuronetv said:
I am having the same problem, root.zip gives 'installation aborted'. I went to the link you gave for AceGingerRoot.zip and google chrome said 'malicious code and has blocked it'.
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Which recovery mode are you using to install root- Stock or CWM?

mahithm said:
Which recovery mode are you using to install root- Stock or CWM?
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thanks for your response but I've solved it now by doing the full /root/internal memory/ flash thing, I now have jellybean running on my SGA and lots more internal memory.

neuronetv said:
thanks for your response but I've solved it now by doing the full /root/internal memory/ flash thing, I now have jellybean running on my SGA and lots more internal memory.
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:good:

Gt- I819ON ROOT (silver surfer needs help)

Gentlemen.
Your assistance is required please.
I am trying to root my wifes phone in order to install a custom rom,
I thought I had managed to do this using odin (all went well)
however upon trying to install the (UPDATE-SuperSU-v 1.25) zip file I put on the phones external sd
I get the message E: Failed to verify whole-file signature E: signature verification failed.
I am at a loss at the moment what to do next.
heres the info possibly needed below,i appreciate your tolerance
MODEL GT-I8190N
VERSION 4.1.2
BB VERSION I819NXXANF2
KERNEL 3.0.31- 1549853
BUILD JZ054K.

harryj22 said:
Gentlemen.
Your assistance is required please.
I am trying to root my wifes phone in order to install a custom rom,
I thought I had managed to do this using odin (all went well)
however upon trying to install the (UPDATE-SuperSU-v 1.25) zip file I put on the phones external sd
I get the message E: Failed to verify whole-file signature E: signature verification failed.
I am at a loss at the moment what to do next.
heres the info possibly needed below,i appreciate your tolerance
MODEL GT-I8190N
VERSION 4.1.2
BB VERSION I819NXXANF2
KERNEL 3.0.31- 1549853
BUILD JZ054K.
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First of all which recovery are u using???
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Labs

ninjasoft said:
First of all which recovery are u using???
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Labs
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well,as above is all I have on the phone,as I said I ran odin and that was fine (UPDATE-SuperSU-v 1.25) was put on the sd card 1st.
as for recovery I guess it was what was on phone already,just pressed power/vol/home and tried to install (UPDATE-SuperSU-v 1.25) but had the errors above
also tried cwm on sd card but that was the same when trying to install.
I appreciate you getting back to me on this.
regards,Harry

harryj22 said:
well,as above is all I have on the phone,as I said I ran odin and that was fine (UPDATE-SuperSU-v 1.25) was put on the sd card 1st.
as for recovery I guess it was what was on phone already,just pressed power/vol/home and tried to install (UPDATE-SuperSU-v 1.25) but had the errors above
also tried cwm on sd card but that was the same when trying to install.
I appreciate you getting back to me on this.
regards,Harry
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Ok now try this: go to novafusion.pl dowload twrp recovery for s3mini of course, install with Odin, the reboot in recovery power+home+vol+, go to settings and flag no zip signature. Try to install and let me know!!!
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ninjasoft said:
Ok now try this: go to novafusion.pl dowload twrp recovery for s3mini of course, install with Odin, the reboot in recovery power+home+vol+, go to settings and flag no zip signature. Try to install and let me know!!!
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Will do,........and thanks

harryj22 said:
Will do,........and thanks
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ok,got file from nova,installed through odin on my laptop,,all went ok.
reboot in recovery power+home+vol+
cannot see settings option......
options are ........
reboot sys now
apply update from aob
apply update fron ext sd
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
apply update from cache
did try to install superSU zip,and twrp golden nova,but just got same "unable"

harryj22 said:
ok,got file from nova,installed through odin on my laptop,,all went ok.
reboot in recovery power+home+vol+
cannot see settings option......
options are ........
reboot sys now
apply update from aob
apply update fron ext sd
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
apply update from cache
did try to install superSU zip,and twrp golden nova,but just got same "unable"
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Reflash TWRP using odin and untick "Auto Reboot"

3liteking148 said:
Reflash TWRP using odin and untick "Auto Reboot"
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that's great,many thanks guys, I have now got into "team win recovery"
so I guess now I look for a suitable rom?...any suggestions?
once again my sincere thanks.

harryj22 said:
that's great,many thanks guys, I have now got into "team win recovery"
so I guess now I look for a suitable rom?...any suggestions?
once again my sincere thanks.
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OK,i have decided upon installing resurrection remix,
I am confused as to what gapps to install with it,i have looked on the site but unsure of what option to d/load
any help?
thank you.

harryj22 said:
OK,i have decided upon installing resurrection remix,
I am confused as to what gapps to install with it,i have looked on the site but unsure of what option to d/load
any help?
thank you.
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http://opengapps.org - use 5.1 and select either the nano or pico variant for less Google bloatware (can be installable from the play store anyways)