MIUI Help!

[Parkhum]

Greetings!
While I'm pretty new to the whole flashing thing, I thought I knew what to do. That's clearly not the case.
I downloaded the MIUI Shadow 1.9.9.1 file and placed it on my SD card. I proceeded to boot into recovery, I wipe the data/factory reset, and the cache partition.
I then proceed to attempt to install the .zip from my SD and it always says "install aborted."

i'm really at a loss, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Any thoughts?

 

[craig7220]

Greetings!
While I'm pretty new to the whole flashing thing, I thought I knew what to do. That's clearly not the case.
I downloaded the MIUI Shadow 1.9.9.1 file and placed it on my SD card. I proceeded to boot into recovery, I wipe the data/factory reset, and the cache partition.
I then proceed to attempt to install the .zip from my SD and it always says "install aborted."

i'm really at a loss, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Any thoughts?

Sounds like it could be a bad Download.

sent from Galaxy tab

 

[Parkhum]

Damn, okay. I'll try and see if I can find another one.
The odd thing is, this has happened with two separate downloads. Hmmmm

 

[leftspin]

definitely sounds like a botched download. If you downloaded it over 3G, try downloading it from your computer over wifi. If that doesn't work PM me and I'll send you the .zip I used that worked

 

[Parkhum]

definitely sounds like a botched download. If you downloaded it over 3G, try downloading it from your computer over wifi. If that doesn't work PM me and I'll send you the .zip I used that worked

I originally did it on my computer and I didn't have any luck the second time either.
I'll PM you! Thanks!

 

[Carolina gamecock]

What rom are you running now? I think you need to be on froyo to load any 2nd-init rom like miui or cm7.

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[Beka27]

Did you unmount the sd? Sometimes it needs to be unmounted.

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[Parkhum]

Did you unmount the sd? Sometimes it needs to be unmounted.

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Wait...why would it need to unmounted? I'm a bit confused.

 

[Beka27]

I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, I just know that with some of the Miui files you have to unmount thru CW prior to flashing the file. I don't remember if I had to when upgrading to 1.9.9, so I was just throwing that out there as another thing to try. That might (or might not) be the problem.



EDITED: I'm sorry!!! No wonder you're confused! In my early morning post I typed unmount the SD, I meant unmount the SYSTEM. My mistake for typing before I'm fully awake. LOL!

 

[Parkhum]

EDITED: I'm sorry!!! No wonder you're confused! In my early morning post I typed unmount the SD, I meant unmount the SYSTEM. My mistake for typing before I'm fully awake. LOL!

Haha! No worries! I'm gonna try and work it out, but I'm pretty sure I just need to flash back to Froyo to use MIUI. I recently upgraded to GB right before rooting. That's probably the ROOT of the problem.

See what I did there?!

 

[Beka27]

Lol! We're such dorks! I love it! You do have to be on froyo for Miui to work. Last i heard, they are working on the gb kernal but it's not ready yet. Maybe within the next couple weeks?

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[Parkhum]

Lol! We're such dorks! I love it! You do have to be on froyo for Miui to work. Last i heard, they are working on the gb kernal but it's not ready yet. Maybe within the next couple weeks?

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Haha! Awesome!
Yeah I'm running APEX right now, which is pretty snazzy in itself. I think it'll stick with it until the GB kernel comes out.
Thanks again!

 

[destinydmm]

Gingerbread Kernel is out. MIUI 1.9.16.1
ROM thread here
MIUI Extendend Settings thread here (RW re-post)