AOSP flashing problem - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi mates. I've gotten a problem on flashing any AOSP based roms. Any time I try to flash these roms I will get this error shown in the screenshot attached. I had this error with Haxynos 5.1.1 rom and aokp.

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No answer?
C'mon there must be a way guys. I really need this.

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Why were you trying to install an older build over the newer one? That is the source of the error I think.

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Jericho Arcelao said:
Why were you trying to install an older build over the newer one? That is the source of the error I think.
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I installed haxynos marshmallow build a month ago. And I always clean flash everything except internal storage before a rom flashing so there shouldn't be any problem with that. The error it give me is cause of an unknown file from flashing that marshmallow rom that I flashed before as I think. So maybe an address to delete that file can help me. And downgrading is something normal in rom flashing. There shouldn't be any error with it. I always can downgrade Cyanogenmod based roms. It is a matter for me to be able to downgrade. But I can't format my internal storage. and I can't boot that marshmallow rom from haxynos even!?!

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Have u wiped ur system before installing?
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Tell me fast

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JohnSmit268 said:
Hi mates. I've gotten a problem on flashing any AOSP based roms. Any time I try to flash these roms I will get this error shown in the screenshot attached. I had this error with Haxynos 5.1.1 rom and aokp.
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wipe data system dev & cache then try agian this will work :good:

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I always clean internal storage before doing any flashes. There is still app cache left even if you do a factory reset, resulting in data incompatible with other ROMs. Those caches might be those files you were talking about. And that is also why I have an extsdcard to store my rom stuff

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AdvaitT17 said:
Have u wiped ur system before installing?
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Tell me fast
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Yes of course I did. Plz look at that screenshot!!! I posted it for you guys.

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Jericho Arcelao said:
I always clean internal storage before doing any flashes. There is still app cache left even if you do a factory reset, resulting in data incompatible with other ROMs. Those caches might be those files you were talking about. And that is also why I have an extsdcard to store my rom stuff
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App cache can be deleted in recovery by wiping cache and I know where app caches are stored. I always delete them. And anyway no app cache can make a rom not to get flashed like this!!!

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ibra993 said:
wipe data system dev & cache then try agian this will work :good:
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As I said I always clean flash. Means wiping these things you said.
Anyway c'mon guys, you didn't even look at the screenshot, I wiped these as shown in that screenshot

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JohnSmit268 said:
App cache can be deleted in recovery by wiping cache and I know where app caches are stored. I always delete them. And anyway no app cache can make a rom not to get flashed like this!!!
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Its weird it happens to me. Like when I install FB and I clean data but not internal there's a folder named com.facebook.katana or something like that still staying there. And there's cache inside. Anyway I remember now that my flash back then was ok even though it was only a ROM migration and not a migration of android version. Just try wiping internal for once. It might just help

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Im also got this error while flashing aokp rom

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AdvaitT17 said:
Im also got this error while flashing aokp rom
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I'm also getting it on flashing Haxynos 5.1.1

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[SOLVED] Solved it myself. Thank you all.
Hi guys. I solved it myself. I remembered that I used to edit the apps that gapps zip files remove from my ROM by editing this file: META-INF>>com>>google>>Android>>updater-script
So I opened my aokp ROM zip and opened that file and see this line in the top of the script:
(!less_than_int(1413593113, getprop("ro.build.date.utc"))) || abort("Can't install this package (Sat Oct 18 02:45:13 CEST 2014) over newer build (" + getprop("ro.build.date") + ").");
that will request the build date and match it with the ROM and if the build date was newer it won't flash the ROM. So I edited the updater-script and removed this lines from it and save the zip and voila! It get flashed and booted. Anyway I think putting this line to the updater-script is a cruel action. Maybe somebody have problems with the current ROM and wanna revert!!

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JohnSmit268 said:
Hi guys. I solved it myself. I remembered that I used to edit the apps that gapps zip files remove from my ROM by editing this file: META-INF>>com>>google>>Android>>updater-script
So I opened my aokp ROM zip and opened that file and see this line in the top of the script:
(!less_than_int(1413593113, getprop("ro.build.date.utc"))) || abort("Can't install this package (Sat Oct 18 02:45:13 CEST 2014) over newer build (" + getprop("ro.build.date") + ").");
that will request the build date and match it with the ROM and if the build date was newer it won't flash the ROM. So I edited the updater-script and removed this lines from it and save the zip and voila! It get flashed and booted. Anyway I think putting this line to the updater-script is a cruel action. Maybe somebody have problems with the current ROM and wanna revert!!
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So it was just with the updater-script. Well good for you