First off, yes i'm a noob
Secondly, i apologise if this is a question that has already been answered but i swear i've been looking for a good while now and can't find the answer.
Thirdly, if this is in the wrong section then i apologise.
Now that i have that out of the way, onto my problem. I have recently purchased an HTC One and I've unlocked the bootloader and rooted it, i now want to i try out some custom roms. The trouble i seem to be having is that recovery mode requires you to flash a .zip file but whenever i download a rom, the end product is not a zip file but a folder that contains numerous other files that contain no zip file. I have still copied the folder to the phone but when i try to install through TWRP there is no recognisable zip file.
I have even tried converting said folder and files into a zip file and trying to flash that but to no avail.
I am downloading the files on a Mac, i don't know if this bears any relevance but i thought i should mention it.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
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Phowie30 said:
First off, yes i'm a noob
Secondly, i apologise if this is a question that has already been answered but i swear i've been looking for a good while now and can't find the answer.
Thirdly, if this is in the wrong section then i apologise.
Now that i have that out of the way, onto my problem. I have recently purchased an HTC One and I've unlocked the bootloader and rooted it, i now want to i try out some custom roms. The trouble i seem to be having is that recovery mode requires you to flash a .zip file but whenever i download a rom, the end product is not a zip file but a folder that contains numerous other files that contain no zip file. I have still copied the folder to the phone but when i try to install through TWRP there is no recognisable zip file.
I have even tried converting said folder and files into a zip file and trying to flash that but to no avail.
I am downloading the files on a Mac, i don't know if this bears any relevance but i thought i should mention it.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
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Which rom are you trying to flash? and if it is downloaded into folders, surely making them into a .zip should make it flashable via recovery? if not then it's a bad rom?
I've tried several ROMs but the latest one I've tried is ViperOne. Well I thought converting it to zip would work also but no.
I never had this issue downloading or flashing ROMs to my Sensation or S2.
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Phowie30 said:
I've tried several ROMs but the latest one I've tried is ViperOne. Well I thought converting it to zip would work also but no.
I never had this issue downloading or flashing ROMs to my Sensation or S2.
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hmm not sure, im running rayglobe v 5.1 at the moment, maybe its a bad build? what recovery are you using?
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What's happening is your browser is unzipping the file instead of just saving it
Thank you very much for that, such a simple solution but its been driving me mad. I'll have a look and see if there is a setting to stop it from unzipping when it finishes downloading.
Thanks guys.
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sorry guys quick questioin. you can delete this as soon as its answered. im trying for the first time to flash on my mac. im usually using a dell. i heard before somewhere that you just have to name the file "update.zip" on a mac for it to work. im trying to flash a rom but it keeps aborting when i try. what do i do to install roms successfully on a mac? thanks guys
I use a mac and all I do is rename the file update.zip and copy it to the sd card
ok hmm. im moving from cyanogen's back to the dudes rom and i renamed the file update.zip and i keep getting a install aborted with the little "(bad)" thing after it
Seeds said:
sorry guys quick questioin. you can delete this as soon as its answered. im trying for the first time to flash on my mac. im usually using a dell. i heard before somewhere that you just have to name the file "update.zip" on a mac for it to work. im trying to flash a rom but it keeps aborting when i try. what do i do to install roms successfully on a mac? thanks guys
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Usually mac's will automatically decompress zip files for you. I had this problem when downloading roms from a mac, so I did this:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=733612
and it kept the zip file intact.
ya its decompressing the files on the download. maybe thats the problem. i will try it now thanks man
it worked man thanks a bunch!!!
Seeds said:
it worked man thanks a bunch!!!
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That's what I'm here for! lol.
next time if you have a question, post in the Q&A forum instead of the dev forum.
I have N1 with FRF83, but with custom recovery image and some other customizations.
Since I can't OTA update to FRF91 or even 85b from custom images, how do I revert back to the stock FRF83 completely?
grab a recovery out of one of the passimg files in the dev section and flash it.
Thanks, but I forgot to mention one thing: I am a complete noob.
If you could say it in English, I'd appreciate it
Screw it, just install this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715799
Rusty! said:
Screw it, just install this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715799
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Every forum needs a sticky of the latest build in both update.zip and customrecovery.zip form. This is insane
Rusty! said:
grab a recovery out of one of the passimg files in the dev section and flash it.
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I agree with what you're saying, but all of the PASSIMG files I've downloaded that are linked in this forum and modaco come up saying that the "Compressed (zipped) file is invalid"
Is there another way to unzip these files?? Can someone post all of the original .img files somewhere so that we dont have to continually **** around with all of this ****.
FFS!
cheetah2k said:
I agree with what you're saying, but all of the PASSIMG files I've downloaded that are linked in this forum and modaco come up saying that the "Compressed (zipped) file is invalid"
Is there another way to unzip these files?? Can someone post all of the original .img files somewhere so that we dont have to continually **** around with all of this ****.
FFS!
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They are normal zip-files that work fine. If they are ok at the source the problem is on your end. I've never had a problem with them.
Try one of those from here. The modaco ones are correct too though.
the PASSIMG.zip files aren't actually zip files, they're "nbh" files. You can't open them up
You just put it on the sd card and boot up into bootloader and it auto loads and recovers back to stock.
Great if you have T-Mobile Nexus One since that's what's out there.
There isn't a working AT&T version that I've found.
You can open them up and extract the contents fine.
Thank you so much for this link. I'm a kind of a noob to this android thing to and I'm learning the hard way.
So i've noticed in most of the rom threads that people are needing to flash the boot.img? Is this a new boot.img? i've searched but obviously used the wrong keywords or something becuase i can't find any information on it anywhere. Can someone point me in the right direction? I remember having to do this with my Nexus 4, but links were posted everywhere for it,..
thanks in advance
Well..
The boot.img was required to be flashed separately at some point. Later one of the devs figured out how to do it using a script.
In most of the new custom roms, its within the zip and the script installs it automatically. You can see it if you open up the zip. I didnt have to flash it separately while installing trickdroid.
watermelun said:
The boot.img was required to be flashed separately at some point. Later one of the devs figured out how to do it using a script.
In most of the new custom roms, its within the zip and the script installs it automatically. You can see it if you open up the zip. I didnt have to flash it separately while installing trickdroid.
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+1 never flashed a boot.img for this phone
boot.img is the kernel
Alright here goes...
Because of this awful mistake I learned alot about rooting and custom recovery etc.
Basically, I have a ROGERS HTC ONE that has been ROOTED, UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER and custom recovery CWM. I tried vanilla android but I did not like it at all.
I wanted to get back to complete bare stock how I started... But I forgot to back up from my original out of box condition.
I used a nandroid provided by XDA (Thank you!) but I can not get my OTAs when I update. I tried to flash the recovery located in the nandroid backup but it still recovers as CWM, most probably because this backup was done THROUGH CWM. I want it to be COMPLETELY STOCK and I know I'm pretty much half way there. I can either do it through RUU or stock recovery of rogers, which is absolutely impossible to find either... so I just need help and guidance in steps to take from here.
Again,
I am UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER, ROOTED, CWM RECOVERY. My HTC ONE is originally ROGERS. I've already restored the nandroid backup XDA provided for rogers. Now I just want automatic OTAs and from my understanding I need a STOCK RECOVERY. Please help me get that set up... thank you so much!!
Regards,
Nuj
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I got a file from HTCdev site. It's a Kernel specifically for Rogers HTC One but it's a .tar file. Do you know how to flash the .tar file? I was wondering if this kernel provided by htcdev for Rogers HTC one will do the trick, if so, how do I flash it because it's a .tar file..
evox2012 said:
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I got a file from HTCdev site. It's a Kernel specifically for Rogers HTC One but it's a .tar file. Do you know how to flash the .tar file? I was wondering if this kernel provided by htcdev for Rogers HTC one will do the trick, if so, how do I flash it because it's a .tar file..
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Sure there's not an img file in the tar? Install 7zip and see if you can see the file, then extract, then flash.
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Sure there's not an img file in the tar? Install 7zip and see if you can see the file, then extract, then flash.
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I am going to try right now and let you know. Thanks so much!
evox2012 said:
I am going to try right now and let you know. Thanks so much!
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Just checked the .tar file. Went through everything, even used the "find" option to search for recovery or boot files. Nothing. Maybe I'm not searching right.. Is it suppose to be in a kernel? Please let me know. Thanks so much
Hi!
I'm wanting to install that unofficial CM 11 for my international I9305, already running TWRP 2.6.3.0 on it and apparently i need to use the custom recoveries posted in the thread.
My question is though, how do i flash the .img files using odin, or an app, or is it possible to do with twrp itself booted up into recovery ? i've searched high and low, and just can't seem to find a straight answer - so here i am, bear with me, i'm tired
You can download an app called mobile Odin and use that to flash your .img files just using your phone!
You need to rename it to recovery.img for it to be detected though!
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If there is another way than that, I'd appreciate it. I cannot purchase apps in the app store currently. So that's unfortunately a no go
CM 11 Q&A thread ???
As you dont have a clue about anything suggest you start by reading the basic faqs and guides before bricking your phone .
Basics read first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
Critical you read the first two posts .
Didn't see that thread at all until earlier as a second glance, i got plenty of clue though.
But an overload of information all pointing in different directions, each of them seeming to be correct is making me a little cautious when all i want is to know how i manually update my TWRP with the provided recovery.img file in that post, but i'll take my answer there instead for help.
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Didn't see that thread at all until earlier as a second glance, i got plenty of clue though.
But an overload of information all pointing in different directions, each of them seeming to be correct is making me a little cautious when all i want is to know how i manually update my TWRP with the provided recovery.img file in that post, but i'll take my answer there instead for help.
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Faqs flash zip via recovery flash tar via odin no if ands or buts .
But....! That wouldn't be a problem at all to flash, except what I was provided was a recovery.img file.. That's my hindrance currently
Flash it with mobile odin.
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If there is another way than that, I'd appreciate it. I cannot purchase apps in the app store currently. So that's unfortunately a no go
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You can get the APK from his thread over here ---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347899