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Can't install rom?

Well, im tryin to install it Touch-IT V5.061 but my phone keeps saying 'no image file'. Ive used hard-spl and ive installed other rom's but these are stock rom's never a custom one. Im trying to install it using the sd card method. It just wont work. Is there anything i can try? Thanks in advance.

Try it with another sd card.maybe is card's problem.My 1G card is also can not flash rom,but the 4g one is ok.

Well i have had no problems before, and i tried installing and older stock rom and that works fine.

Anyone? Please? Ive tried searching but i cant find much.

did you renamed image to Kovsimg?
did you have .nbh file extension?

Yes, both of those. Like i said im used to rom flashing before on my phone, but this just wont work with this rom. It works with any of the standard xperia roms.

liam08 said:
Yes, both of those. Like i said im used to rom flashing before on my phone, but this just wont work with this rom. It works with any of the standard xperia roms.
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Perhaps your copy of the nbh file is corrupted ?
Try downloading the ROM file again.

are you sure you 3 colour screen says 0.52.OliNex if not you have to hard spl again until it says so. without working hspl your not able to flash custom roms phone will say no rom found

Sorted now, i used the rom update utility. Enjoyin the rom now.

The SD card has to be formatted in FAT32 for it to work

Phone Won't Boot

I also posted this over at HowardForums:
Long story short, I was trying to root my phone and flash it with the latest CM using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4848777&postcount=506 Basically, somewhere along the line I f***ed up, and now when I try to turn it on it gets to the Rogers screen and hangs there. I've tried everything I could find to fix it and nothing has worked. I've tried basically everything I could in recovery, and when I go to fastboot, it's a wierd screen that has sort of a rainbow-ish background and for the first line that says what SPL it is, it doesn't say anything.
Just woundering if anyone knows how to fix this or if it's even at all fixable? And if not, is it possible for me to take it in to Rogers and have them replace it or is that not possible? I bought the phone in early July of this year, so I'm not sure if it's under warranty or anything.
Thanks in advance.

Well atleast you haven't bricked the thing. When you boot in to recovery, is it the stock recovery or Cyanogen's recovery image?

I think it's Cyanogen's. It's the one that says something like CM 1.4 + JF at the bottom.

Ah, in that case you're fine I'm not too familiar with the flashing process for cyanogen ROMs, so I can't really help you out there, but if you choose to use other ROMs you will only need to flash one file.
To get your (newly-rooted) phone working again, you could
download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567023 ROM
put it on the root of your sdcard (do not unzip it)
boot in to recovery
wipe
choose flash any zip
follow the promts to flash the ROM
If you don't have a card reader to mount the sdcard, boot in to recovery, then the console and type 'ums_enable' and it will mount on your computer. Then use 'ums_disable' when you're done.

Ok I'll try flashing another ROM and see if it works. Any suggestions for a good non-CM ROM xD?
I think I may have screwed it up since CM now needs you to flash the 1.6 Android, then CM or something. Maybe I did that part wrong. Anyways, I'll try another ROM and post back whether it works or not.

Thanks for the help. I tried flashing a AOSP T-Mobile 1.6 ROM I found and it worked. Now I'm woundering if anyone has any suggestions on other ROMs to try out?

DiSTroy3d said:
Thanks for the help. I tried flashing a AOSP T-Mobile 1.6 ROM I found and it worked. Now I'm woundering if anyone has any suggestions on other ROMs to try out?
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Dwang's ROM sounds good, might want to give that a try. I meant to link to it in my last post, but I guess I forgot :-S

DiSTroy3d said:
Thanks for the help. I tried flashing a AOSP T-Mobile 1.6 ROM I found and it worked. Now I'm woundering if anyone has any suggestions on other ROMs to try out?
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You can try Dwangs. Also, if you decide to install cyanogen's rom, follow his instructions on his wiki, but remove the radio.img inside the ADP recovery just to be safe and resign.

Restore i896 Factory Rom

I have a captivate i896 and i ran into some problem flashing cognition onto my phone. So now all I can do is use odin to flash the stock i897 rom onto my device.
The problem with this is and the cognition roms are that I have to mobile data connection (but i have voice) on these roms. I cant access 2g/3g data, does anyone know how to fix this?
But my main question is how to restore the stock i896 rom back onto my device.
When I use rom manager to try to flash the stock rom found on this page (hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-I896) it just doesnt work. Maybe im going something wrong, but I cant seem to get it to work.

That file is not a rom, its a backup that you need to restore with rom manager. Copy it to your sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/rogers_stock directory and restore it with rom manager.
If you want the actual rom get this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BD2EF4WF

peachpuff said:
That file is not a rom, its a backup that you need to restore with rom manager. Copy it to your sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/rogers_stock directory and restore it with rom manager.
If you want the actual rom get this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BD2EF4WF
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thanks so much

Ok so i tried flashing this rom
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=03X7E4UW
which is suppose to be the stock rogers captivate rom with rom manager.
However when i do so, after selecting the .zip file in cwm it gets up to "installing update..." with a empty status bar at the bottom.
I left it there for about 30 minutes and it didnt change.
Can anyone help me get back to stock i896!

SteveCheeseman said:
Can anyone help me get back to stock i896!
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Read my post above, you need copy the images to the sdcard and restore them, not install the zip file.

I'm really interested to know if those backups and stock roms actually restore you to stock. The first phone I had got soft bricked when I tried to restore the backups I had made from by own phone. So if this works for anyone I'd be really interested to hear about it
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896 using XDA App

You could also try using Heimdall, new Open-Source Flashing Software and this dump generated from stock Rogers phone.
I haven't seen any reports of tests on Captivate yet, but it seems to work well on other Galaxies. Check Heimdall thread for more info, and if it works well for you, please report to this thread. Good luck!

Newbie Here :-) MIUI Question!

Hi Forum
I'm still a newbie in all this android business, I try to read as many threads as possible before asking questions, however I just read A LOT about this MIUI, and people said there was released one for Optimus 2X? I just can't find it anywhere on the MIUI site.
Also if I do want this, how do I go about installing it? Can something go bad? I just don't want to brick my phone as I was close to doing so when I was playing around with flashing my SE phones
Help would be greatly appreciated
Kind Regards
~Neefy

Hi, you might wanna start and flash CyanogenMod first, also that is the best path to MIUI since the whole structure of MIUI for O2X is CM7. So go ahead to the CM7 thread and follow the guide there (I believe there is one).
I can't however tell you that not everything will go OK, since I don't know what knowledge do you have, but just be careful and everything will go great.
As for the MIUI installation it is somewhere in the only miui Thread at the moment in the development section.
Sent from my Optimus 2X using XDA App

miui germany .de celebration HD beta version ^^

i think they removed the link

I found the link, but what is the process? I understand I have to install RomManager, then clockworkrecovery, place the miui .zip on my SD card (only got internal, is that ok?), boot into recovery, "install from zip"
Is that all? Anything I need to do before?

i am also interested in this

Anyone with time and generosity who wants to help us newbies ?

External is needed if I'm right someone may be able to back me up with that but basically use rom manager to flash clockwork mod recovery (cwm). Use volume buttons to move up and down Recovery menu and power button to select, it's recommended to make a nandroid backup before flashing so you always have an go back to how it was if anything goes wrong. Next step after backup is to factory reset, wipe cache partition, go into advanced and wipe dalvik cache and battery stats. Now go to install zip from sd card and then choose zip from sd card and select your rom and flash and reboot. I'm new to this also so hope this helps.
Sent from my Optimus 2X using XDA Premium App

but where does one get the zip image

The zip file is no problem, are you sure about the external SD thing tho? I don't have one

if you wqnt to flash roms you should get one. i got a 16gb one for about 14 euros from amazon

Could you link me to that ?

unfugor said:
if you wqnt to flash roms you should get one. i got a 16gb one for about 14 euros from amazon
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Wrong ! There are 2 versions of CWM. One for external and one for internal.
Go to dev section and search

As others have said, start with cyanogen to "cut you teeth" and then you can move to the MIUI ROM

MIUIUIUIUIUI is *dogshite* awful, but the installation process still remains the same. Flash zip. You do not need an external SD, you just need to read a bit more on recovery mounts.
Personally, CYANOGENMOD ALL THE WAY.

But what is the point installing cynagenmod and then installing MIUI right after?

the current MIUI for o2x is based off CM7.

But wouldn't it be the same as installing it from Stock in comparison to installing it from CM, won't I have to wipe and factory everything anyway?
Please clarify As said, I'm still very new to all of this!

if you are concern about bricking i suggest u make a nandroid backup or have another working rom on your sdcard. other than that process is the same.

Is there any way to do this without internet connection on my phone? My carrier stopped my internet connection because I forgot a bill I can't get rom manager due to not being able to get to market, any .apk or such?

Help Returning to Stock without PC (Vivid)

Hello, I got a vivid second hand and am trying to flash it back to stock so i can get the ICS OTA. I dont mind if I lose root, here is the situation. I got it with a custom rom (rumraider 2.3.7) so I suppose the bootloader is unlocked and its rooted. Bootloader still says S-ON by the way. Now I downloaded the PH39IMG for stock ATT firmware and placed it in my sd card, but when I boot in bootloader, i dint see it checking for update files like Android phones usually do. So it doesnt detect it. How can I fix this or is there something I overlooked?
Sorry for my ignorance, this is my first HTC with the whole bootloader locking fiasco so im kinda new on how things work here.
Or if there a CMW flashable stock rom I can download (could not find) or if someone is nice enough to upload a nandroid backup of a stock rom also, id really appreciate it. I dont have access to a PC ATM so I cant do the RUU method, im looking for a way to do it on the phone itself if possible. Thanks

Are you using the PH39.img from the super guide? Also did you put it on your external sd card and on the root of the card, not inside of any folders, etc.?

megatronisabeast said:
Are you using the PH39.img from the super guide? Also did you put it on your external sd card and on the root of the card, not inside of any folders, etc.?
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I figured out what the problem is, its not detecting my external sd card. I mixed it up with the phones internal memory. Im gonna have to see if i can pick up another one to test. Wish there was a CWM GB ROM floating around or some nandroid.