If you installed a malfunctioning ROM on your android smartphone, it can happen that your android phone no longer works. I have had this often enough to write a blog post on how copy a hopefully better ROM on your device, to install that one.
Why didn’t the ROM work?
- If you install nightlies from cyanogenmod, it can happen that a nightly is actually broken.
- Sometimes the file you downloaded from the internet and copied to your smartphone got corrupt.
What do I need?
This guide will only work when you have ClockworkMod Recovery installed on your phone.
You also need the android SDK. If you are a developer you will already have this. It’s in the folder AndroidSDK/platform-tools.
How to
- Copy your new cyanogenmod ROM (or other) file to this AndroidSDK/platform-tools folder. (Or any file you would like to copy.)
- Give it an easy name, something like cm-11.zip
- Control-Shift click in the folder, and choose Open command window here.
- Boot your smartphone into ClockworkMod Recovery. Every smartphone has it’s own way to do. For the Galaxy S3 you need to push power, volume-up and the home button all together. When the boot logo shows you can stop.
- Go to mounts and storage in the ClockworkMod Recovery menu.
- Make sure it says unmount /system and unmount /data by entering on the items.
- Now go to your shell and start the copy process with this command: adb push cm-11.zip /sdcard/0/cm-11.zip. (Of course, change the files to your filenames!)
- The process can take a while, it will respond with the copy speed and the total bytes / total time it took. That means it was successful!
- Go back, and choose install zip, choose zip from /sdcard to install the MOD!
