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installing Firefly Rom with clockwork

I'm trying to update Firefly from 2.0.5 to 2.2 but for some reason it's not working.
I used Odin to flash to stock Rogers 2.1 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20958367/I896UXJI2-homebinary.tar) which boots fine now. I then rooted and installed clockworkmod and uploaded firefly to my sd card and renamed it to update.zip.
Now every time I use clockworkmod to apply the update.zip, it just flashes a few lines then goes back to the green menu.
Can anyone help me figure this out please?

RandomZero said:
I'm trying to update Firefly from 2.0.5 to 2.2 but for some reason it's not working.
I used Odin to flash to stock Rogers 2.1 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20958367/I896UXJI2-homebinary.tar) which boots fine now. I then rooted and installed clockworkmod and uploaded firefly to my sd card and renamed it to update.zip.
Now every time I use clockworkmod to apply the update.zip, it just flashes a few lines then goes back to the green menu.
Can anyone help me figure this out please?
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why are you renaming the rom to update.zip?
how do you expect clockwork to actually work? when you flash clockworkmod recovery it puts an update.zip onto your sdcard....that gets you into CWM....
stop renaming roms to update.zip!

Leave firefly name alone don't rename it to update.zip and choose install from zip
[ROM] Precision 3.5 [Kernel] Suckerpunch #51

Oooh! I thought I had to rename it
Let me try it this way then, thanks!
edit: Wow I'm dumb. Can't believe it was that simple.

This is how you brick your phone. Read up on how to flash a rom dont just poke around. But its you phone if you what a $200.00 paper weight have at it.

Issue resolved Thread closed. Please make sure you know what you are doing when trying to flash your phone, Being not sure of it will lead to a big brick

NeonGT theme

heya guys,
first of all im really new to all this stuff
ive just installed 2.2 froyo.
and now i would like to install NeonGT on it.
I am rooted.
so i downloaded the NeonGT zip file.
renamed it to Update.zip
so i went to recorvery mode (lower vulume + power + menu buttens)
and click on the 'apply sdcard:update.zip'
but it say'd this
'E:error in /mnt/internal_sd/update.zip
(status 2)
installation aborted'
so i dit some more looking on the web
and it say'd i had to download ROM Manager and so i did.
went to 'reboot into recovery' but it didn't reboot, it didn't do a think.
so i went to 'Install rom from sd card' also dat didn't worked
can anyone help me?

First off, you need to be on a custom ROM because it's deodexed and therefore can accept a theme. You need to be on a custom kernel with clockwork mod in order to flash the zip file that the theme comes in. Finally, you need to make sure that the theme that you are flashing is compatible with the ROM you're using.
Step one; pick a custom ROM and download CWM version and stick it in the root directory of your SD card. Do the same with the theme.
Step two; flash a custom kernel with clockwork mod through Odin.
Step three; enter recovery, clear cache, Dalvik cache, factory reset/wipe and then flash the custom ROM. You're rooted so I'll assume you have titanium backup, if not you should have gotten it and I'm hoping you read these instructions before acting on them....
Step four; flash the theme through recovery mode with clockwork mod. Use "choose zip from SD card", not update.zip
Step five; run the restore on titanium backup, wait for a little while(paid version) or sit there and press install... done for all of your apps.
Step six; enjoy.

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heya Exinferios
thnx for youre reply.
well i have Gingerbread 2.3 the leaked version on my Galaxy s i9000
im very noobish so i dont know what files i have to use.
cause i installed Gingerbread while following a movie on youtube >-<
if you can say what things i need to download to get this working
it would give me a happy day lol
Confirmed working with Spike's 5.1 JPY, Darky's V7.7/8.0 JPY, Insanity 0.3.1 JPY and Doc's V8.0/1 JPY.
New confirmed working with new JS3 roms, like Doc's 9.1/Darky's 9.2 as well as other custom JPX/U/Y and JS3 roms.
so what should i download ?

CWM 2.5: How to upgrade to 3?

I currently have ClockworkMod 2.5 and am trying to upgrade to 3 to install CM&. I currently have Doc's ROM, if that makes any difference.
ROM Manager doesn't give me any options to update to v3.
The CM7 wiki has steps to update for non-rooted users, but I don't think I need to do that.
I am looking for a CWM download to install via Odin. Is this the simplest method?
I've searched this forum as well as the web, and I can't find anything related to the Vibrant.
Any tips would be appreciated...

Do you know that Vibrant has its special sub-forum?
Edit: Yours is Bell's Vibrant. Never mind then. Just flash speedmod kernel.

That's it... Flash a kernel that it has cwm... Isn't depending of the rom.
Escrito desde mi Galaxy S

Have you tried using ROM Manager and selecting Flash Clockwork Recovery?
For me it asked me what phone I was using (select Galaxy S MTD if you want to use CM7) and then asked what version of CMW I wanted. Just choose CWM3.x there and you should be fine. It will tell you that your current phone isn't supported, blah blah, but ignore it.

I'm sure he's going to install CM7, not already installed. Just use speedmod kernel. There's no need for CWM 3. If you got CM7 installed, it's automatically CWM 3.

mawardi said:
I'm sure he's going to install CM7, not already installed. Just use speedmod kernel. There's no need for CWM 3. If you got CM7 installed, it's automatically CWM 3.
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Actually it is not completely automatic, you still need to flash a CWM3 recovery from inside ROM Manager, otherwise you can't see CM7 Nightlies from ROM Manager.

Thanks all.
I was able to get CM7 on my Bell Galaxy S.
I did try the ROM Manager but I couldn't get it to update CWM. It would try to install from Android recovery 3e, not CWM.
After many loops of stock 2.3.3, Doc's ROM 2.2.1, CM7 Nightly 15, and other steps, I was able to manually flash the nightly 18 using CWM.
For some reason, the update method for stock mentioned on the CM7 Galaxy S didn't work for me. Even after flashing speedmod kernel, I still came up with CWM 2.5.
Also, even with CWM 2.5, I was able to flash nightly build 18. Hope this helps someone else trying to update CWM.

[Q] Restoring backup using Clockwork v4

Hello,
I downloaded the CM7 nightly and flashed i ton my phone, everything seems to be great except the camera is kind of lacking. I wanted to check if it was a problem with the rom so I went to restore to a stock odin backup, but it would not restore. No big deal, so I went to flash Cognition and there was an error because the current version of Clockwork apparently did away with the old version of making update.zips which Cognition used. I also read somewhere that I can't restore any non gingerbread roms. So, I decided to install an older version of clockwork, but rom manager says it does not support Captivate (MTD) currently.
Eventually, I found that Serendipity VII is gingerbread so I flashed that. Clockwork said it worked but my phone just booted CM7 again. The website says I need to flash to a Samsung based rom before flashing serendipity, which is doable but I will probably want to restore CM7 so it is a pain.
So basically, is there a way to get clockwork to restore both CM7 and samsung based roms? Also, what does Captivate (MTD) mean in rom manager? Is that a special version of Clockwork for CM7 or something?
Thanks

[Q] Fasty 2.4 to serendipity?

Im currently on fasty rom 2.4 and i want to flash back to serendipity...is it really necessary for me to flash back to stock and reroot and flash cwm again...or can i simply flash it over fasty? pleaase help

If your not flashing bootloaders you should be fine. Be sure to clear your caches and stuff as flashing from 1 ROM to another can build up some FC's here and there.

Thanks...
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Also, you can install cwm directly through recovery without rooting on stock. Once you flash serendipity it will be rooted as its included in the rom. Most people just do this as a precaution but yes you should be fine as theres no need to flash bootloaders unless you're going to serendipity 7. But the instructions for flashing that rom should work from fasty as well.
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