[Droid Pro General] donlloreda:
Help needed!!

:o Well hello... first of all thanks for the effort you people have been putting on this, I am, myself, trying also to contribute in development for this phone, but of course every android geek would love to try any ROM they can catch up for their phone....

Well this is my situation (and please consider Ive tried a LOT of times with the same result)

I have a sprint XPRT, I live in Colombia, the phone was flashed with the 4415SPRINT something SBF when I bought it, so it had BG running since day 1, After I jolted a bit with my phone I discovered CM7 for it and of course, after properly bootstrapping and rooting and just in case backed it up, I got CM7 running... but then I wanted CM9.

First thing I did: try to install it OVER CM7, of course I had cwm recovery and root access, but once I had downloaded and copied the CM9 files to the SD card, I came with a strange/creepy error, the files (both the cm9 zip and gapps zip) took a LOOONG time to copy... then I tried to flash them (I did factory reset, data, cache and dalvik cache separateli just in case..) Anyway, any time I tried to flash it CWM would hang a while opening update package, and then throwing me up a cannot open blablbal.zip (bad) installation aborted.

I thought: "must be a bad download", so I did the obvious thing, and downloaded both files direcly from the phone. did the same steps above AGAIN, and tried to flash again, and the same error has hit me on the face.. AGAIN.

Then I thought, ok the wifi may have dropped a second and the download was corrupted... So I did the obvious thing again, tried to download it on a different PC, and just in case the phone was doing something funny to the files due to media share or debugging or anything I was safe and used a SD card adapter.

Same error AGAIN.

Try a different sd card? yes it has been done. the error still comes up.

I finally thought there could be some sort of communication, confiuguration or something between the phone and the SD so I did the next best thing; adb pushed the install files to the system memory, and did the "no memory card method" for flashing stuff... (it involves using adb to push the zip files, and then trick the recovery to think that folder is the sd card) no success..

well after all this, I am about to give up... I really want to give this a go, for testing and helping with some tweaking and developing if possible, but I cannot test/tweak/dev something I cannot use.....

Another creepy thing; LAst time I downloaded the files on a PC, I did check the file´s integrity both with winrar and winzip, when on the pc they are totally fine, once they get in the phone, if I try to extract the contents with ESfile explorer it will say that the zip file is damaged, If I pull the file from the phone (exact same file that tested OK on the pc) and check it again it eill come out as a corrupt file.

Hell, I even downloaded, and copied the files using ubuntu just to find out this situation to repeat all over again.

So anyone has a clue of wtf is going on in here?????

this is not a priority since Im really really happy with the way my phone looks/works right now (Im building some kind of "clean" version of the stock rom with some minor theming, OC´ing, and patching here and there)

BUT I wanna try!

I wanna try!!

If anyone can help me It would be superb, but right now I think this shouldnt be discussed on a technology thread but on a witchcraft/voodoo site.

Thanks in advance guys and keep up the good work and cool community!

---------- Post added at 07:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:57 PM ----------

I forgot something, I also did download the files with the phone using different browsers, and wiping the phone before each download and each install of each browser!!!

Tried using stock, opera, firefox and dolphin...

Am I cursed or what? I bet no one has ever ran into this piece of crap....