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I'm trying to install Cyanogen on my Xperia L. I've done all the steps until here.

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My problem is on step 5, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. On the sideload method, it says to select install zip > install zip from sideload, but on my phone there is not such option.

In the push and install method it says to navigate to the phone's mounts and storage. But there is also no such option on the phone. What appears in my phone is the following:

  • Reboot system now
  • Apply update
  • Wipe data/factory reset
  • Wipe cache partition
  • Reboot to bootloader
  • Power down
  • View recovery logs

Progress: I've uploaded the CM to my SD card. I've tried to run it using Apply update > from sdcard1. It runs for a while but it ends up in a screen that says:

Cyanogen

Recovery

Install failed

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

Installing update...

This package is for device: C2105, C2014, C2105, C2104, taoshan

this device is .

E: Failed to install /sideload/package.zip

Please take note of all the above lines for reports

Installation aborted.

The problem here is that my device is an Xperia L C2104 (according to the box). I'm starting to think that I should upload it to /sdcard/0/.

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Pay attention to this particular part of the log:

This package is for device: C2105, C2014, C2105, C2104, taoshan
this device is .

The reason why this happens is that CyanogenMod ZIPs have the option to check the device it's being flashed on before it continues, so it won't get accidentally flashed on the wrong device.

If you look inside your ZIP and view the file META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script, you'll see something like this:

assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "C2105" ||
       getprop("ro.build.product") == "C2014" ||
       ...
       abort("This package is for device: C2105, C2014, C2105, C2104, taoshan; this device is " + getprop("ro.product.device") + "."););

Now I find it weird that your recovery does not report the correct device model (this device is .). Your recovery might not have been built correctly.

Anyway, if you remove the entire assert( line up to );, the ZIP should flash just fine. Although if I were you, I'd take a bit more caution, since there is a possibility that the model info reporting isn't the only thing wrong with your recovery.

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