I've been trying to root my vibrant via the directions I received on this site. It said to install the update.zip to the INTERNAL memory but that didn't seem to work. I then put the update.zip on the external memory and when I went to start it up holding the volume rocker while depressing the power button my phone displayed a green triangle image with a little android robot with a shovel in his hand. Below the image is says "Downloading....." and then at the bottom of the screen is says "?Do not turn off Target!!!" I'm going to leave it alone for a bit but doesn't anyone know what it is downloading, has anyone else come across this during an attempted root? I would appreciate any help, thanks.
sublimeNaz said:
I've been trying to root my vibrant via the directions I received on this site. It said to install the update.zip to the INTERNAL memory but that didn't seem to work. I then put the update.zip on the external memory and when I went to start it up holding the volume rocker while depressing the power button my phone displayed a green triangle image with a little android robot with a shovel in his hand. Below the image is says "Downloading....." and then at the bottom of the screen is says "?Do not turn off Target!!!" I'm going to leave it alone for a bit but doesn't anyone know what it is downloading, has anyone else come across this during an attempted root? I would appreciate any help, thanks.
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un plug it from the PC and just make sure its on the internal memory not the 2gb SD card the phone comes with
rshemeld said:
un plug it from the PC and just make sure its on the internal memory not the 2gb SD card the phone comes with
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I did initially place the update.zip on the internal memory but then when I went to reboot it said it could not find it and it seemed like it was looking in the ext memory card.
When I do it how it is suggested on here I get the message in the recovery screen: "E:Can't open/sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory) Installation aborted."
try this then http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=746129
sublimeNaz said:
When I do it how it is suggested on here I get the message in the recovery screen: "E:Can't open/sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory) Installation aborted."
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This may seem like an obvious suggestion, but if you hide file extesions of known file types the file might actually be named update.zip.zip
Either turn on the file extensions and rename it or rename it update instead of update.zip
When I rooted my phone, I put update.zip onto "/sdcard". I was confused at first too, but that directory is your phone's internal storage. The external memory card is mounted to "/sdcard/sd". I don't know if it can find the update.zip if it's in "/". Good luck.
Shane_pcs said:
This may seem like an obvious suggestion, but if you hide file extesions of known file types the file might actually be named update.zip.zip
Either turn on the file extensions and rename it or rename it update instead of update.zip
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Hmm.....didn't even think about that. Ok, I just redid it, only naming the file "update" no .zip. Trying it now..............................damn it....yes, that seems to be the reason as to why it was not working, now I feel like an idiot. lol
Thanks for your help.
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This question may have been answered before but I just cant find it here.
I tried rooting my vibrant with the classic method described here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723479&highlight=issues+rooting+vibrant
It didn’t work and I got the following message:
E: can’t open /sd card/update.zip
(no such file or directory)
Installation aborted
I copied the update.zip file in DCIM of internal memory card and was still getting the same message.
I copied the update.zip file into my sd card and still got the same message.
I followed the steps exactly as they have been described in the rooting thread.
I haven't tried the one click root method yet.
Would anyone know what seems to be the problem.
Thanks.
You have to replace the update.zip file and flash it with recovery.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk
Are you saying I have to replace with a new update.zip file and repeat the method again?
I was doing it in recovery mode.
Use the one click method. You can find all the info on unlockr.com in the--how to -- (they have a nice video) If it doesn't work then you will need to flash back the T959UVJFD stock through Odin. Look in the bible or search in this website.
Why is your update.zip in DCIM? Download that one from the forum post, rename it to update.zip, and copy it to the root directory of your sd card.
Yea replace the update.zip with a modified one that gives you root access. Its should be on the bible(stickie post) and Recovery mode is correct.
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Sdobron said:
Why is your update.zip in DCIM? Download that one from the forum post, rename it to update.zip, and copy it to the root directory of your sd card.
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Can you explain what is the root directory of internal sd card where I need to place the update.zip file?
Yea replace the update.zip with a modified one that gives you root access. Its should be on the bible(stickie post) and Recovery mode is correct.
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Now my computer isn't recognizing the phone when I mount the sd card. It tries to install drivers for the phone and can not.
Ok, by root directory they just mean the internal 16gb memory.
Ok look, download update.zip. Rename it to "update" without the quotation marks. If you are running windows 7 you dont have to add ".zip" windows knows it is a .zip file, so again just name it update and windows and your phone will automatically know it is update.zip. maybe the problem is you are naming it "update.zip" and your phone is reading it as "update.zip.zip"
Anyways, I don't know why your drivers don't work, but once you get your computer to recognize your phone. Mount your phone to your computer.
Then go to your internal memory, the 16gb one, not the external sd card.
Now, DON'T GO INTO any folders, the root is just the internal memory, again don't go into any folders. Place the "update" file into the internal memory, don't place it into any folder.
Reboot your phone into recovery mode, and then reinstall packages.
good luck.
SamsungVibrant said:
Ok, by root directory they just mean the internal 16gb memory.
Ok look, download update.zip. Rename it to "update" without the quotation marks. If you are running windows 7 you dont have to add ".zip" windows knows it is a .zip file, so again just name it update and windows and your phone will automatically know it is update.zip. maybe the problem is you are naming it "update.zip" and your phone is reading it as "update.zip.zip"
Anyways, I don't know why your drivers don't work, but once you get your computer to recognize your phone. Mount your phone to your computer.
Then go to your internal memory, the 16gb one, not the external sd card.
Now, DON'T GO INTO any folders, the root is just the internal memory, again don't go into any folders. Place the "update" file into the internal memory, don't place it into any folder.
Reboot your phone into recovery mode, and then reinstall packages.
good luck.
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Nevermind. But thanks alot for your response and help. After looking around to find some alternative ways to root..I finally was able to root my vibrant using the method described
HERE
In the end, rooting was as easy as installing a simple app.
Now im going to do some research on ROMs and hopefully flash before doing titanium backup.
sLiKK said:
Nevermind. But thanks alot for your response and help. After looking around to find some alternative ways to root..I finally was able to root my vibrant using the method described
HERE
In the end, rooting was as easy as installing a simple app.
Now im going to do some research on ROMs and hopefully flash before doing titanium backup.
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Ok, make sure you do lots of research. Read the bible, every last word of it.
Don't ever try to downgrade from 2.2 to 2.1 without having the proper 2.1 kernal, becareful with lagfix such as voodoo, and learn odin.
good luck
I have run into another issue. I can not mount my phone to computer.
With USB Debugging off... I dont even get a notification in the slide down menu asking me to either mount/unmount.
With USB Debugging on... I do get the option in slidedown menu to mount my phone. At the same time the computer shows a pop up message asking me to install driver software for Samsung_Android. In the meantime , I press mount sd card which by the way is still not recognized by the computer.
I dont have the driver for samsung_android to install on the computer.
Does anyone know a potential fix for this situation.
Thanks.
after instaling recovery to my phone and copying the Zip rom to the root of my SD card then going to AD recovery instal from Zip the zip file is not shown even after using a card reader, realy stumped has to what is wrong any ideas please
If you have alot of files on your sd card, sometimes it is difficult to find the .zip by scrolling down to it. I have had this happen where using the volume buttons to scroll downward to it wouldn't show the file, but then using the volume buttons to scroll upwards, which loops you up to the bottom, has worked to show the file. I don't know if this is a bug with CWM or what, but it has happened to me 2 or 3 times out of hundreds of .zip installs, and scrolling upwards has always worked for me, maybe will for you too.
If that doesn't work, maybe the .zip is corrupted. Never use MAGLDR's USB Mass Storage option to transfer the file ( surely you know this since you said you used a card reader). Maybe then try re-downloading the rom, transferring with your card reader or mounting the card to the pc using CWM's mounts menu, and try finding it again.
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thanks for the reply i shall give that a go and see if it resolves my problem
OK, I was attempting to root my Simple touch and apparently I pulled the SD card too early.
Now all I have is the Nook by Barnes and Noble screen flashing every 3 seconds and not going any farther.
I can hold the power button down for 30 seconds and get the Read Forever screen that says Your Nook is now starting up, then it goes back to flashing.
Has anyone run into this problem?? Is there a fix? I'd still like to root this touch.
I was able to root my kindle fire with a little finesse in the instructions and I love the abilities it now has.
I know the touch won't have that kind of capabilities but, I'd like it to have more than it came with.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
PJ
Try this:
Touch-Formatter v2
or
n2T-Recovery + Force reset and upgrade to 1.1.
Then re-root with TouchNooter or any flavour of MinimalTouch
EdEd333,
Thanks for the qiuick reply.
I'm using the CRM program, I think I have everything in the right place. The NST has booted with the logo, I'm able to move through the menus, get to the part to Choose zip from SD card and it's telling me E: Can't open /sdcard/update.zip.
I don't know if it's reading the SD card in the NST as the E drive but, when I pull the card out and check it on my laptop, I don't see any files named update.zip.
Did I miss a file somewhere?
the Alpha-formattouch-2.zip file is on the card as well. I've looked at it on my computer and I don't see an update.zip there either.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
GG
grumpygrizzly said:
EdEd333,
Thanks for the qiuick reply.
I'm using the CRM program, I think I have everything in the right place. The NST has booted with the logo, I'm able to move through the menus, get to the part to Choose zip from SD card and it's telling me E: Can't open /sdcard/update.zip.
I don't know if it's reading the SD card in the NST as the E drive but, when I pull the card out and check it on my laptop, I don't see any files named update.zip.
Did I miss a file somewhere?
the Alpha-formattouch-2.zip file is on the card as well. I've looked at it on my computer and I don't see an update.zip there either.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
GG
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You need to select "Choose zip from SD" or something to that effect.
Googie2149 is right.
I just updated the instructions on the thread.
This are the new steps for the v2 zip:
Copy the zip onto the root directory of the sdcard you burned the CWM.(Don't extract them)
Insert the sdcard on your nook, and boot it.
On CWM select install zip from sdcard
Then select choose zip from sdcard
Select Alpha-FormatTouch-2.zip, click yes and wait till the process finishes.
Go back, eject the sd card, and click reboot.
I have a new A500 that I purchased yesterday from a large national retailer. The A500 was the last one in the store (i.e. the display model).
I have not been able to flash a new ROM to replace the existing by using a microSD card. I have tried different versions of the update.zip file on different microSD cards to no avail.
The tablet will boot into recovery (PWR and VOL-) and starts the process (I get the "opening package" screen with the green robot) but quickly that turns into the "Triangle-Exclamation" screen, and the existing ROM is unchanged. I can just reboot back into the existing rom.
I have been able to use an executable EUUS file to replace the "DEMO" system using a USB cable from my PC, but the sdcard version of the update will not work.
My suspicion is that the bootloader is somehow different on the Demo models, but I don't know for sure.
Any thoughts or ideas?
i know this happened to me when my sdcard wasnt in the right format i had to use ubuntu and format it top a fat. not fat32 just fat and worked fine afterwords
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. I think you may be on to something because I get the exact same process if I try to boot into recovery with no sdcard at all, so it's like the tablet isn't seeing the sdcard when it is present.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. I think you may be on to something because I get the exact same process if I try to boot into recovery with no sdcard at all, so it's like the tablet isn't seeing the sdcard when it is present.
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If formatting the sd card in linux/ or another Android phone does not work. Try a different sd card. This has been a issue from the beginning of the iconia with some sd cards. and its random.
or if you are as daft as I. When you rename the zip file just rename it as update not update.zip. Then right click - properties - details and you will see it named as update.zip.
When I renames it first time as update.zip then under the details it was named as update.zip.zip
ethan21 said:
or if you are as daft as I. When you rename the zip file just rename it as update not update.zip. Then right click - properties - details and you will see it named as update.zip.
When I renames it first time as update.zip then under the details it was named as update.zip.zip
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HA! That's happened on about every known device thread at one time or another. You can fix this by changing the Explorer folder options to "display known file types".
(been there, did that)
How easy is it to go back from Aurora 4.1 back to Gingerbread or Froyo? Do I just download the ROM and install it from CWM?
I'm finding that Aurora 4.1 isn't very reliable with wifi so it puts me off when using Viber as I miss calls and messages.
You need to download froyo or gb firmware and in that file there is a appdata.upp file. Extract it and put in dload folder at phone memory. Close the phone, open while holding volume up + down + power button. If everything is right it would install what you want.
If you have a nandroid backup then you can restore it in cwm otherwise you have to use this solution.
Sent from my U8800
When I go to do that it says "Firmware update Step 1/2 Unpacking - Update failed"
Looks like I can't do it that way :/
Mae7 said:
When I go to do that it says "Firmware update Step 1/2 Unpacking - Update failed"
Looks like I can't do it that way :/
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Try to copy dload folder into internal memory and unplug your sdcard. That would work.
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That's what I done
Actually it won't show my internal memory card anymore, and when I go to the camera it says "insert sd card". This is after I restored everything. Argh.
Ok I got it working. I had to use ES file explorer where I could view the internal memory card and I copied the rom from my external sd card to that one through ES file explorer.
Cheers for the help