I’ve got a question. I try to install e OS, but the sideload installation doesn’t work. Terminal says “no emulators/devices”. I didn’t install the additional patch because I don’t know how. In the tutorial it says: " Additional Patches : Flash this patch on your i9305 before flashing /e/OS".
But how can I do that? ADB also says no such device. Could someone give me the command please?
I also tried to install it from micro sd card. But after 1 hour 15 and still not finished I stopped the installation. There must be something wrong.
I installed the patch from sd card now. After that I tried to install the OS from the sd card. In half of the installation the blue bar stops in the middle of the screen. The installation process says:
“Patching system image unconditionally”. What does that mean?
Is usually a “good thing” (in that TWRP is reporting what you asked for: to overwrite system with no barriers), from memory that is usually followed by a few more lines … then the “success” message.
The setup process run over night. It’s still running without progress. I guess something is wrong. It can not be that it takes so long. Has anybody an idea? TWRP and patch are installed. Maybe I try again with laptop and fastboot with adb? Don’t know what else I can do.
I deleted the original system (Android 4.4). I think it is stable so far. The installation process should happen in 1 or 2 hours. I can not imagine an installation process that takes 2 days. Something is wrong. Do I need to delete something on the device first?
I think you must rename the patch file, because of the " ( " character in system(sim_support).zip, that is not supported here by the adb sideload command
I run the setup now over the whole night again (3. time). No progress. The patch with the sim support is installed. What is the problem is that the OS doesn’t install. The bar stops in the middle and the system says: “Patching system image unconditionally”.
I finally have made it to install e-0.16-n. It happened very quick. Some problem must be in e-0.17-n. Don’t know what it is. But the problem now is: my sim card is not recognized. Don’t know what to do. Have no internet and can’t call somebody.
Using the TWRP install feature, select storage, select zip, install the recommended version for the patch : twrp-3.0.2-1-i9305.img, go back to the main menu, and choose reboot to recovery
after the format /data (if needed), and go back to main menu, choose reboot to recovery,
do the advanced wipe /system, and NOW
with the install feature, after selecting the sim patch, don’t swipe to confirm flash immediately,
choose add more zip, now select the /e/for-i9305.zip and then swipe to confirm flash.
Do we know if the device was on the latest Samsung stock ROM, before you started?
/e/ is built on such foundation.
Your link https://eu.dl.twrp.me/i9305/ shows an unusual development history for this device (4 recent TWRP versions in 3 months). It seemed to evolve naturally to v.2.8 - December 2015 (where it remained top dog for 5 years) till it was jumped up to v.3.5 this spring! (One could speculate that v3.5 is not problem-free for this device!)
If you are now adept at flashing the device, you could even go back to v2.8, there is no guarantee it will work, but this is likely the generation of TWRP in use when our documentation was produced.