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Ok I am just starting to understand flashing themes, roms, etc. I booted up to cwm to flash a new theme. I clicked on install zip from sd card and the screen went black, but my soft keys were still lit up. I did a battery pull, tried it again same thing. Battery pull again, and this time just tried to reboot system now, black screen again. What do I do? I would like to try this theme, but I would like my phone to boot up even more.
 
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I just tried to reflash the EC10SC292x_DXC.tar.md5 file and it didn't work either. What did I do?
 

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Ok I am just starting to understand flashing themes, roms, etc. I booted up to cwm to flash a new theme. I clicked on install zip from sd card and the screen went black, but my soft keys were still lit up. I did a battery pull, tried it again same thing. Battery pull again, and this time just tried to reboot system now, black screen again. What do I do? I would like to try this theme, but I would like my phone to boot up even more.

Are you booting into blue recovery or red?

Sent from my SC'd 2.9.2 ComaVolt'd Fascinate
 
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Ok I am just starting to understand flashing themes, roms, etc. I booted up to cwm to flash a new theme. I clicked on install zip from sd card and the screen went black, but my soft keys were still lit up. I did a battery pull, tried it again same thing. Battery pull again, and this time just tried to reboot system now, black screen again. What do I do? I would like to try this theme, but I would like my phone to boot up even more.

Are you booting into blue recovery or red?

Sent from my SC'd 2.9.2 ComaVolt'd Fascinate

booting into red
 

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Ok I am just starting to understand flashing themes, roms, etc. I booted up to cwm to flash a new theme. I clicked on install zip from sd card and the screen went black, but my soft keys were still lit up. I did a battery pull, tried it again same thing. Battery pull again, and this time just tried to reboot system now, black screen again. What do I do? I would like to try this theme, but I would like my phone to boot up even more.

you probably just pressed the search button on your softpad when you were here.
 
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Ok I am just starting to understand flashing themes, roms, etc. I booted up to cwm to flash a new theme. I clicked on install zip from sd card and the screen went black, but my soft keys were still lit up. I did a battery pull, tried it again same thing. Battery pull again, and this time just tried to reboot system now, black screen again. What do I do? I would like to try this theme, but I would like my phone to boot up even more.

you probably just pressed the search button on your softpad when you were here.

I made sure I pressed the home key the last few times, It was stuck on a black screen. I flashed an older rom through odin, this one is booting up. Once this boots up, i will reflash 2.9.2 and try again later.
 

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You can't flash a tar file. That needs to be done with odin. Things that can be flashed with cwm are zip files; roms, themes, kernels, etc. Odin requires you to put your phone in download mode in order to posh the tar files.

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Ok, I used the wrong lingo. I used odin again and got my phone back to 2.9.2, but I would like to try some themes still. What did I do wrong last time to get a black screen?

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Hmmmm.....will have to do some playing. Never had that happen. Have you tried it since getting your phone back up and running?

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I have, it doesn't come up with as list of files from my sd card. How long should it take to show all the files?

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I have never experienced a lag in the files showing up. Is your sd card mounted?

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I figured it out. I have been pressing the home soft key, and apparently I need to press the back soft key. I feel like an idiot....

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Awsome. That was going to be my next guess. Happy flashing.

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