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I have a Galaxy s3 mini and I tried rooting and installing Kitkat but I’ve been having some issues.
Here is what I did:
Downloaded Odin and Kies (for the phone drivers, Kies was closed while using Odin)
Downloaded CMW Recovery and a root.zip file
Flashed CMW and placed the root.zip on extSD card.
In Recovery mode, backed up system then installed the root file.
Downloaded Root Checker and it said I have root.
Then downloaded slim4.4_golden.nova.20140630.zip and a gapps file and placed them both on the extSD.
Using Recovery (Vol Up+Home+Power), wiped data and davika (whatever it’s called) and then flashed slim4 file. But I got an error.
I then tried cm11.0_golden.nova.20140823.zip which went smoothly and then gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip but in middle it stopped with an error and said something about process 7 (I think).
Anyone know what I should do? Would it be better to go through Odin instead of Recovery (using Odin compatible files, of course)?
Please respond only if you really know what you are talking about (personal experience or Android geeks…)
Thank you very much!
SiDi™
no reason to use odin to flash a rom. I only use odin to flash if I bricked a phone or to revert to complete stock.
most probably there was an issue with the file/rom you downloaded (I have had a similar issue before).
get it from a different source I usually use xda.
Just a thought. Sometimes you have to wipe the cache also before installing . Should be an option in the first screen of the recovery mode I think. I’ve never had a problem and I use novafusion roms.
Are you on XDA? That would probably be a more appropriate place to get help for this….
You must format cache after install also! It has happened to me that my phone went into a bootloop after installing new firmware if I didn’t format the cache. Also the first time you boot up after a firmware installation let the phone sit for like five minutes on the boot screen. The first boot always takes longer than usual.
BTW, these roms are for the international version only (i8190). If your model is just plain 8190 then it might not work. I think samsung themselves released kitkat update for the american versions.
I understand you’d want to root it to gain access to things that require that, but what do you gain by changing the rom?
Interesting how originally cm worked but now only slim worked and cm got error. Before installation try data dalvik and cache formats. And then wipe your cache and dalvik afterwards too. Then see what happens.
BTW is slim from nova also?
try flashing it back to the last working rom and see if that gets passed the boot loop.
after everyflash you must clear all the caches and logs inc dalvik.
Error 7 is only a problem with cwm according to xda.
Disclaimer: I never did anything with an s3 mini, nor did I read this whole thread that carefully. It’s late.
2 thoughts:
1. Did you try CM11 without gapps to see if it runs first? That would be my first process of elimination when troubleshooting.
2. I’ve had similar ROM problems with samsung htc and other phones which involved having outdated (or too new) firmware (especially the radio version) or the wrong kernel. Just be careful. Messing with firmware could brick things and you can lock things that you don’t intend to.
I’m done here. Good night.
This may seem a bit redundant but try wiping cache and dalvik again. Also the first boot will take a long time maybe 10 minutes.
I’m assuming that before you installed cyanogenmod you did a factory reset/clear user data?
Two more options you might wanna try. One is to try a different rom either older version (or newer if available) of cm or something else. Second, try reinstalling stock rom and then do full data dalvik and chache wipe and reinstall cm. Not sure why this helps but apparently it does for some issues.
Right but reinstalling stock and then installing cm again may help.
On xda search for stock rooted i8190L and someone should have a link posted to download the file. It comes prerooted and is flashed via odin. But the catch is the file is about a gig.
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