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Root error when installing custom rom

vettegofast

vettegofast

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hey all. I have a galaxy ace. I have rooted it with ace ginger root and installed clock work. now, when i boot up in recovery, i wipe all data, and select my CM7 zip, i get an error stating "error status 7 installation aborted"plus some other text.

This is the first rom i try to install. Can you help me?

Thanks
 
Give more details pls, your exact phone model number and which exact rom did you tried to flash?
And explain the entire steps that you did and what did you get on the screen.
It'll help us determine what caused it and a solution for your problem
 
sure. I have a regular S5830. I rooted with acegingerroot.zip. (running gingerbread latest from kies). verified that it was rooted because i have the superuser icon. Then i pushed ClockWorkMod 4.0.0.9 to the SD card and rebooted in recovery mode, applied the update and now recovery states that its clockworkmod. Then i pushed cm-7.2.0-cooper.zip to the sd card (latest stable). rebooted in recovery and wiped date, cache, dalvik cache, and battery stats. then selected install zip from sd card and picked cyanogen mod. then after it says installing update. it says:

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") =="cooper" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "cooper" || getprop("ro.product.board") == "cooper" || getprop ("ro.product.device") == "GT=S5830" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "GT-S5830" || getprop("ro.product.board") || "GT-S5830" E:Error in /sdcard/cm-7.2.0-cooper.zip (status 7) installation aborted.

This is my first time attempting to root/flash so i am probably doing something wrong.

Thanks for the help!
 
ok i updated to CW 5 and the installation went through! Now when it boots up it just says ANDROID on the screen and nothing is happening. Any ideas?
 
Yes CWM5 is a necessity, you can't flash this CM with CWM4.
Do one thing, go to recovery and wipe cache partition and a factory reset. reboot and see if it boots up.

The version you are flashing is not the latest one, its infact a very buggy version.
Try the latest nightly cm-7-20120722-NIGHTLY-cooper.zip and follow this procedure, yours if fine but needs more wiping.
Enter recovery
1. data/factory reset
2. wipe cache partition
3. In advanced wipe dalvik cache
4. Goto mounts and storage and format data, system, cache and sd-ext(if u have an additional ext partition on sd card)
5.Install zip from sd card

Wiping battery stats is only required for callibrating battery, its only done when u have been flashing roms alot, so not required now.
 
ayush, i just flashed the one you stated. it seems to not work right. the touch screen is way off and when i select one thing, it does another. Even when typing it types the wrong letter. any ideas on this?

Thanks again
 
vettegofast said:
ayush, i just flashed the one you stated. it seems to not work right. the touch screen is way off and when i select one thing, it does another. Even when typing it types the wrong letter. any ideas on this?

Thanks again
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Hmmm...thats strange, nobody else reported that problem with this version. Did you follow the exact steps i gave you?
I myself am using the second latest version of the CM nightly, although its highly modified for performance but there shouldn't be this problem in the latest one.

Must be a bad flash. You can do a fresh flash by flashing the stock firmware via Odin and then flashing this rom again. Would remove any remaining files from previous flashes.

Before that wipe cache, dalvik cache and factory reset. reboot a couple of times and see if the problem improves or not.
 
yup i did it the way you said. I dont have Odin yet either. I tried it a second time, and it still messes up when i type. the latest stable version seems to work fine.
 
lol thanks. hey another q, i want to add an alarm sound in /system/media/audio/alarms but it says i dont have permission. I thought I had root access with "superuser". doesnt look like it tho. what do you think?
 
You have to switch it to read-write mode, take a look at the whatever root file explorer you are using, there must be a button to switch between read-only(r/o) and read-write(r/w) mode.
Make sure your music file is in .ogg format and set the permissions right.
 
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