Root [Verizon] Carbon Rom keyboard force close issue. URGENT!!

[dmiller2007]

Hey guys, i'm back after a long stint away from the android community. got a free galaxy s3 so i took to rooting and romming it right away. decided to start out with carbon rom. i flashed the most recent one and everything went fine with the flash. but apparently i downloaded a bad version of the gapps. so now my keyboard won't work and i need to find a way to get the correct gapps on my phone without a keyboard.

i made a backup before flashing but it seems to have disappeared. so thats not an option.

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

If you have Dropbox I'm uploading a copy of gapps. I can send you a link to it when it finishes if you want

 

[dmiller2007]

but how can i get it onto my phone? i can find the correct copy of gapps. i'm just not sure how to get it onto the s3.

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

What about if I email you a link to the file then when you download it, it will be downloaded to your phone

 

[dmiller2007]

how so? this is a fresh install of carbonrom. my google account isn't setup. i couldn't even put my wifi password in. i haven't had a keyboard at all on it.

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

I see your problem now, looks like the only way to fix this is with connecting to a pc and drag an drop the correct file that way

 

[dmiller2007]

i'm connected to the pc but can't find my phone to drag and drop it

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

Do you have debugging enabled? And do you have the Samsung drivers installed?

 

[dmiller2007]

yes and yes

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

Look in my computer and it should be the last storage drive on the bottom of drive tree

 

[dmiller2007]

i have been. its not showing up there

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

Try rebooting the pc with the phone on and connected an see if it shows up then

 

[dmiller2007]

i've been trying to download a different version using the goomanager. but it won't download the whole file for some reason

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

Can you get into settings on the phone? If so go in to the keyboard settings and change up some stuff in there

 

[dmiller2007]

i can get into the settings. and that was the first thing that i tried. but there aren't any other keyboards installed. i read some where else that this issue is caused by a bad gapps file. so i'm thinking thats the only way to fix it. also, rebooting the pc didn't work lol

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

Do you think the cable might be bad

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

New idea, remove the SD card, an see if you have a SD card adapter an put the card in it an then connect it to the pc

 

[dmiller2007]

definitely not. i used it to root/ unlock the bootloader a couple hours ago lol can i use odin to push files to my phone? i have it installed but idk what all it does or how to use it

 

[Mikestony]

Just popping in to offer a suggestion, what about reflash the rom and/or gapps.?
Put the external sd card into the computer, put gapps on it from goo.im, put it back into phone and reflash.?
Goo.im Downloads - Browsing gapps

Edit: ninj'ed thanks bamaredwingsfan

 

[dmiller2007]

i've reflashed the rom and gapps a few times. i need a different copy of the gapps zip. and i don't have an adapter.

 

[bamaredwingsfan]

Now time for a dumb idea. What happens if you reload the rom without installing gapps, boot the phone and see if you can get a keyboard to come up. If it does use it to put in your wifi pw an Google account pw if possible and then go from there

 

[dmiller2007]

got a good version of gapps to download through the goo manager app finally and reflashed the rom with it and all is good thank to both of you for all the help. the android community really is something else, and i'm gald to be back on board with it again!