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OK - no compatible RUUs available.

Go back into TWRP (recovery option from hboot screen).

Mount - do you have an OTG-USB option?
If so then your best bet is to get an OTG-USB cable (not expensive).

Put the Candy 5 zip on a USB stick, plug in to the phone via the OTG-USB cable, mount it, and install from there.

If not, your only hope is to get adb working.

Let's start with the TWRP mount option - does it have OTG-USB?
 
Yep, my phone does have a USB OTG option but I do need to buy the cable.

In the case that I do get one, all I need to do is to put Candy5 v1.5.1 and Google Apps onto a USB, plug it into the cable, mount it and install it?

Do I need to do anything else, such as flashing a boot.img?

Also, could you please supply me a link for Google Apps 5.x.x. It'll be good to have all files sourced from a reliable source. Thanks!
 
Also another thing, my phone does have an USB OTG option, however when I click it, the box to the side doesn't get marked.

Same thing happens when I touch Internal Storage. Does that mean that it isn't available?
 
Yeah I'm not sure about your internal storage after what happened so I'm thinking we can sort that later after we get you running.

I don't expect the OTG-USB mount to do anything until you get the actual device plugged in.

Here's the reliable Candy source -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-x-att/development/rom-t2964941

I suspect that you used that because you had the right rom download.

From there, gapps, get the one at the top -

https://basketbuild.com/gapps

Next to the download is a click to show what the md5 will need to be, and you already know the way - move the download to your sdk-tools folder first and say -

md5sums gapps-lp-20150222-signed.zip

If you have to separately flash the boot.img that's done from the pc and no way to predict it, so let's get this far to start.

If it doesn't boot, use my instructions to get the boot.img out of Candy 1.5.1 and fastboot flash it.
 
Okay I'll be going out to get the OTG USB cable soon so I'll keep you posted on that.

And yep, both Candy5 and GAaps are the ones I downloaded before so that should be fine.

And should I put Candy5 AND GApps onto the USB so I can download them simultaneously? Or just Candy 5 like you said?
 
Okay so I've bought the cable and the USB OTG option is now avaliable.

What do I do next? When I press Mount USB Storage, it goes to a USB Storage Mounted screen with the option of only Unmounting. How do I install the files from here?
 
Backup to the main screen, Install, look for the button to change from Internal Storage to OTG-USB.

The button might look like a fixed label but it's a button.
 
Okay cool, got that fixed.

Just flashed Candy5 and it came up with a Successful message. Do I reboot the system or just go back to home and flash GApps?

A step-by-step tutorial from here on end would be great to get me over the finishing line!
 
Flash GAPPS next.

Unmount OTG-USB. Remove usb device when phone is ready.

Reboot to system.

You don't need to do anything fancy because you already wiped the phone earlier.

If it doesn't boot, FASTBOOT USB mode (you can boot to fastboot from TWRP).

Extract boot.img from Candy zip, into sdk-tools folder.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

Reboot or fastboot reboot
 
Okay thanks! I'll get the process started.

Again, I'll write down the steps in case I screw up:

1. Connected phone to USB using OTG cable
2. Flashed Candy5 v1.5.1
3. Flashed GApps 5.x.x
4. Rebooting to system
5. 4 flashing orbs revolving around the screen
6. Candy5 ungrading, installing 99 applications
7. Process taking forever......
8. ......And........ Done!!!
9. Going through phone setup
10. Phone finally running Lollipop 5.0..2!!!

Thank you so much for all of your help! You are by far the best experience I have had on any forums. From staying up till 4 in the morning helping me, to writing up huge tutorials for me to follow and providing reliable links to all files needed. You have done everything and even more!

All my files including my photos, music, apps and my contacts but luckily I have back up all of them onto my PC.

Again, thank you for all your help and support, but if it isn't a hassle, could you please lead me to some useful Android apps that I could download, and also tips and tricks to best harness my new phone?

Thanks for your continual support! Know that it was greatly appreciated! :D
 
So... it turns out my jubilation was fairly premature...

It turns out that my phone has no internal storage. My phone has around 7 GB in reserve so that I can download small apps and save settings. However the remaining 24 or so GB cannot be loaded. :(

Which means that I am unable to take any photos and I won't be able to import any music or videos.

Is there any way that I can recover this internal storage?
 
(oops, missed your most recent, see next post)


:)

Nicely done my friend.

Go into settings, developer options, uncheck nuplayer.

Also - if you want - you can do even more with root privileges.

Flash SuperSU from TWRP.

http://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip

Not sure, but try holding down power for menu and choose reboot. If it has the advanced power menu, you can go straight to recovery.

If everything is good, you can flash SuperSU from Internal storage.

Now - most important thing you want to do - go into TWRP, Backup - accept the defaults of boot, system, and data. That's called a nandroid backup.

Reboot system, find the TWRP folder in storage - back that up to your pc. It's a perfect image that if you have to, you can restore with one single action.

After you have restored everything important to you and have set up everything just the way you like - nandroid backup again, save to PC again. You can nandroid backup at any time, and if space is a problem, remove the TWRP folder at any time, as long as you have it copied to your pc.

I'll check in on you later with some more suggestions as you asked.

Enjoy your like-new phone. :)

PS - I had one of those for 2+ years so I know you'll enjoy it.

PPS - want a cool clock and weather widget?

Check out "Transparent clock & weather"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.transparentclockweather
 
KSIXephos938 said:
So... it turns out my jubilation was fairly premature...

It turns out that my phone has no internal storage. My phone has around 7 GB in reserve so that I can download small apps and save settings. However the remaining 24 or so GB cannot be loaded. :(

Which means that I am unable to take any photos and I won't be able to import any music or videos.

Is there any way that I can recover this internal storage?
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Go into your settings, look for a factory data reset there.

Failing that, go to TWRP, wipe, and the default is a factory data reset as well.
 
Should I make a backup before the factory data reset?

And will it return my phone back to square one and I will have to flash Candy5 and GApps again?
 
If that doesn't work -

Download this recovery.img -

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2MPU5MqABTXV0FhZ1NsbC1KUW8/edit?usp=docslist_api

Extract the recovery.img file and place into the sdk-tools folder.

FASTBOOT USB mode and -

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Follow these instructions, but don't download his files, don't worry about adb to reboot, and only flash what I say. The video is for the procedure ONLY, flash what I say below at 3:33 into the video -


When at 3:33, flash the TWRP I gave you.

fastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.6.0-evita.img

No small trick getting you that recovery.img lmao. :D
 
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Gah... so a bit more work to before my phone runs without any stutters.

So what I do first is a Factory Data Reset, see if that fixes the problem. (Do I need to do a backup?)

If that doesn't work, then flash recovery.img and then TWRP again.

Is that how it goes?
 
KSIXephos938 said:
Gah... so a bit more work to before my phone runs without any stutters.

So what I do first is a Factory Data Reset, see if that fixes the problem. (Do I need to do a backup?)

If that doesn't work, then flash recovery.img and then TWRP again.

Is that how it goes?
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Don't worry about the backup just yet.

My idea and I don't know if it will work -

Inside TWRP, Wipe - factory data reset

It might not work. It might. Don't know.

Can't hurt to try.

The video fix (from a trusted One X developer) is -

Flash recovery.img

Factory reset in bootloader

Flash TWRP
 
I had to hunt down a German recovery for the Evita that I think will match your setup.

If the video fix doesn't work, I'll have to look again.

I'm fairly confident it would work. Not 100% but mostly. If not I'll have to hunt some more.

So like I said at the beginning -

Don't panic. :)
 
Okay so I've decided to become your guinea pig and try your way...

But it didn't work, the reset failed because of a mount error.

So I'll go ahead with the video way.

So to clarify:

- Flash recovery.img
- Factory Data Reset
- Flash TWRP

So Candy5 and GApps remain on the phone?
 
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