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Hi all!
I've been part of your community for the last few months and am just beginning to get a grasp of how things work.
To sum up my situation now...I had the diamond,but it was broken and then bought the hero not knowing the diamond could be fixed.When I got my diamond back from repair though I thought about,you know,doing a little hacking on it.So I've been flashing ROMs and,of course,have tried android.
I know some of you will say "Why not root the hero and flash a custom ROM on it too?".BUT!I want to keep my hero stock,mostly because of warranty issues and cause I don't want to brick it (always possible,right?).So,having the diamond available for everything and having loved android after hating WinMo,I thought about trying to port an android ROM to it.I've tried all possible android "installations"(so to say,it's never actually installed) and have liked Myn's Warm Donut most of all.Then the idea crossed my mind...As there are so many wanderful android ROMs,why not have one on the diamond?
I am thinking about trying to port either Team Villain's SuperHero or Exit93's Kimera 1.8 from hero,but I haven't got any past unzipping the ROM file!
So,what next?What do I do?If anyone wants to help you're welcome!After all I have thought of it as a community work product!
flashing an android rom isn't possible..for now...but if you want to port an android rom you should start from a rom of the g1...then if you want to do system.sqsh you need a linux distribution and sqsh tools..to use it in a ext2 partition i don't know
I am aware of the situation my friend!I know that,unfortunately,android can't be flashed on the diamond...I just want to make it run on the diamond,through haret!
And for the other thing you said about my PC's OS,I use Ubuntu mainly(much better than Windows,believe me!) and Windows 7 once in a while...So,where do I start from?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=585452. Replace the rootfs with the one from the xandroid archive
Check this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689223
edit : wrong link
HELICOPTER88 said:
flashing an android rom isn't possible..for now...
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Can you explain why?
Thanks
leonatan25 said:
Can you explain why?
Thanks
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the why i don't know but we can only flash a windows mobile rom..maybe there are some troubles getting working linux without using wm...anyway the developers like babijoe and phhusson are working to make this possible
is there a superlite wm rom that just contains the essential stuff to run android?
maff90 said:
is there a superlite wm rom that just contains the essential stuff to run android?
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if you run haret.exe to start android, the WM will be completely shut down. wm is just used to initialise the stuff for android. u can use a full WM, no need to have an extralite one
maff90 said:
is there a superlite wm rom that just contains the essential stuff to run android?
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yes this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623048
is made by yozgtag is quite old but it boot fast android...wm isn't usable for normal use but from wm you can update your android bulid
Anyone knows what I need to replace to get Myn's Warm Eclair running on the diamond(from ext2/3 partition,NoSquash method)???
tolis626 said:
Anyone knows what I need to replace to get Myn's Warm Eclair running on the diamond(from ext2/3 partition,NoSquash method)???
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This is in progress. I managed to get it running till boot animation and this - unfortunately - is relooping. But I've uploaded ito to the dev (=Myn) so he can perhaps fix this
Did you check with adb logcat ? The last time I had some loopings I had some wrong permissions on /etc/dbus.conf.
adb shell , chmod 755 on the file fixed it
Don't know guys,I'm not an expert!
One thing that has come to my attention is that your SuperHero ROM vatoloco might have problems only because of the Sense UI.Try deleting Rosie.apk and Rosie.odex from /system/apps and try again.Haven't tried it yet.Not that I don't like SuperEclair,but wouldn't it be better to have two nice Android Roms instead of one?
When rooting and flashing custom roms, is there any roms which makes your phone work just the same way as it did before? I mean, does all the roms have support for camera(pictures and filming movies), sync (facebook, twitter, email), and so on?
Will I be able to use my phone as I did with the stock rom I guess the question is.
Getting more and more tempted...
aussieglis said:
When rooting and flashing custom roms, is there any roms which makes your phone work just the same way as it did before? I mean, does all the roms have support for camera(pictures and filming movies), sync (facebook, twitter, email), and so on?
Will I be able to use my phone as I did with the stock rom I guess the question is.
Getting more and more tempted...
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yes of course, especially if you want to use back HTC sense, then flash the sense-based rom.
Android Revolution HD is recommended by me
The first answer I have... is you want exactly the same phone you have... keep your rom
Normally in most of the build thread the dev list what is working and what is not.
So read the first post you'll know.
Take also into account (and do it anyway) that you better backup your staff before testing any build. CWM give you the ability to backup everything. That's great for testing new builds.
General advice: never trust an electronic device!!!! Backup is the rule. One day or another you will loose your data (wrong manipulation, memory corruption...).
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yes of course, especially if you want to use back HTC sense, then flash the sense-based rom.
Android Revolution HD is recommended by me
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I've read more about it now and found a genius guide in sweedish (I'm norwegian so that's pretty close, haha) and now I'm quite sure I will have to give RHD a go.
But what about the phone's language? All over I mean, in the menus and everything. Will I get a english phone after flashing custom ROM's, or can I just change the language settings ... ?
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I've read more about it now and found a genius guide in sweedish (I'm norwegian so that's pretty close, haha) and now I'm quite sure I will have to give RHD a go.
But what about the phone's language? All over I mean, in the menus and everything. Will I get a english phone after flashing custom ROM's, or can I just change the language settings ... ?
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Most (if not all) roms based on WWE stock roms have european languages. (At least swedish and norwegian)
peace!
The rom you were thinking of trying definitely has norwegian. Tried it a few days ago with swedish.
Great I can't sit on my hands anymore... *jumps into it* Wish me luck! I hope everything goes the way it's supposed to. I've used Visionary and Titanium Backup to freeze some apps, but that is as far as I've gone... But seems like that wasn't quite enough, if I can get more benefits out of the great phone, I want them
Will the facebook/gmail sync work with RHD? It doesnt say anything about it in the thread. What about the themes for the ROM? They wont override any language-settings or what?
Done! Now I will have to seriously clean up my SD card, as I did double backups of everything, including the stock rom, nandroid backup(?), app, system/settings backup in titanium backup. And I have to check if I will have to install a new radio.
I did. *installs new radio*
Hi,
Today my Defy arrived
Now I have read many threads about the phone and the firmware, but soneones making me confused and other ones doesnt answer my questtions.
So, what I want to know is:
1. Wich is the really latest firmware for the Defy with the red lense? Done
2. when Im going to install CM7, must be flashed an stock froyo rom before? Done
3. because swype is preinstalled in the firmware, how can i update it to the latest version? Done
4. how can i make my own swype theme?
I think thats all (for now )
Greetings
I'll only answer to the ones that I know the answer...
2. The instructions say that you should. Also, from what I read, every tutorial says that you should go to stock. Also, a wipe could be advisable (not to inherit problems and bad settings from the previous ROM)
3. You can get it from the official site. As far as I've noticed CM7 doesn't come with Swype.
Hopefully someone else answers the other two questions.
Have a nice day!
And I'll take the opportunity to ask a few somewhat related noobie questions:
"the Defy with the red lens"
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I've seen a few mentions of different lens colours. What is this? (link to explanation is fine) ETA: Found it myself. Really stupid to ask. Bottom line ATM seems to be that for phones recently manufactured the lens colour is not a reliable indicator of camera module used.
"every tutorial says that you should go to stock" (before flashing)
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Doesn't this mean that you don't need to do anything special (maybe wipe everything, but maybe not that important?) when you flash a new ROM into the phone for the first time?
Or would you still need to first flash a plain stock ROM if your phone came with some telco-provided crappy stuff in the ROM, before flashing a custom ROM?
(Purely hypothetical question for me.)
Bumping this, because I am getting to closer to actually start rooting around (hah!) in the innards of my phone, and I keep wondering about this:
Aspsusa said:
Doesn't this mean that you don't need to do anything special (maybe wipe everything, but maybe not that important?) when you flash a new ROM into the phone for the first time?
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So do I need to flash _another_ stock ROM before I switch to cyanogen or whatever, if my phone is a virgin that came with the stock nordic rom (moto_version.34.177.5.MB525.retail.en.ND/jorem_U3_3.4.2_177-5)?
It somehow seems redundant to me to flash another stock to my phone when I already have a stock froyo (without blur even) on it.
BTW, given the focus of this forum you are all being very very kind to us noobs. Upthread I asked a really really really stupid question (I'll see if I can edit out), and nobody threw rocks at me .
I am still wondering though whether anyone can recommend an alternative forum more suited to Really Basic Questions?
Just root, install second init for recovery, then flash cyanogen...
If you click devices at their website, you can grab the latest nightly ROM, and you will also find the wiki, which has a step by step on how to do everything.
It's really simple, just keep glued too the instructions.
Good luck
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Bumping this, because I am getting to closer to actually start rooting around (hah!) in the innards of my phone, and I keep wondering about this:
So do I need to flash _another_ stock ROM before I switch to cyanogen or whatever, if my phone is a virgin that came with the stock nordic rom (moto_version.34.177.5.MB525.retail.en.ND/jorem_U3_3.4.2_177-5)?
It somehow seems redundant to me to flash another stock to my phone when I already have a stock froyo (without blur even) on it.
BTW, given the focus of this forum you are all being very very kind to us noobs. Upthread I asked a really really really stupid question (I'll see if I can edit out), and nobody threw rocks at me .
I am still wondering though whether anyone can recommend an alternative forum more suited to Really Basic Questions?
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It is recommended as a precaution for a failsafe install but you can install CM7 on any stock 2.2 or above rom.
Sent from my MB525 using Tapatalk
ryan8r said:
It is recommended as a precaution for a failsafe install but you can install CM7 on any stock 2.2 or above rom.
Sent from my MB525 using Tapatalk
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Took the words right out of my mind...
Sometimes I skip right past the important stuff. Lol
hi,
Everythinbg excepted 4. is solved by my own.
For now i just need to know hox to make my own Swypw skin.
BTW: I hate Threadhooligans
MrGentlemen said:
BTW: I hate Threadhooligans
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Mean me? Wanna fight?
BTW, it would be good if you'd change the topic back, or put the old topic in parenthesis to the new one or something. Something like
[request]Swype-skinning ([solved]stock froyo first & red lens latest)
might be good
I was wondering why I was subscribed to a thread about swype-skinning, as it couldn't be further from my interests, but never mind that - there's good info in this thread not related to swype.
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BTW, it would be good if you'd change the topic back, or put the old topic in parenthesis to the new one or something. Something like
[request]Swype-skinning ([solved]stock froyo first & red lens latest)
might be good
I was wondering why I was subscribed to a thread about swype-skinning, .
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Exactly. I was confused, and for an instant, lost in space.. Lol
You big thread hooligan, Mr gentleman
Edit:
To answer your question,
You should probably check with Swype to see if skinning is even capable with their app... (or potentially even allowed)
To my knowledge, skinning Swype is uncharted territory...the app is in beta still.
Some advanced knowledge of Android would be required to hack, disassemble, and recompile any themes for it.
Hello guys,
I'm new to this forum but I read it from time to time since a few months.
I own an Iconia Tab A101 that I already rooted and so far I haven't received the OTA update toward ICS probably beacuse I used a Stock Rom from Vache which is not a full stock rom.
I already found few ICS ROMs but as I use this tablet for my job, I don't want to mess up with it. So far it dosen't say it would work with an Iconia A101, but only a A100. Did anyone already tried it on the A101 ? (I can't aford to lose my 3G conection/driver as I use it everyday to send my jobs forms)
Is there any way I could upgrade toward ICS without losing my applications and datas ? (I can handle the root and adhoc/wpasuplicant issue later..)
I wish I could install/use Nandroid to get a full backup of my tablet before just in case.... Would you advise me to use that application ? How do I do that ?
I alreadytried to install CWM but failed to it. I probably did something wrong or in the wrong order.
Anyway thanks for your help ! I love this forum.
Best regards
Fabien
Try looking harder. There's a leak of the official A101 ICS ROM in the development section.
The official A101 ICS ROM in the development section
FloatingFatMan said:
Try looking harder. There's a leak of the official A101 ICS ROM in the development section.
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Would you be so kind and point me/us to the leak of the official A101 ICS ROM in the development section?
I wasn't able to find it...
Thank you,
Adrian
Try this link http://narod.ru/disk/47785011001.df...cer_AV041_A101_0.004.00_WW_GEN1-root.zip.html (CWM version)
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I already found few ICS ROMs but as I use this tablet for my job, I don't want to mess up with it. So far it dosen't say it would work with an Iconia A101, but only a A100. Did anyone already tried it on the A101 ? (I can't aford to lose my 3G conection/driver as I use it everyday to send my jobs forms)
Is there any way I could upgrade toward ICS without losing my applications and datas ? (I can handle the root and adhoc/wpasuplicant issue later..)
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Acer didn't release ICS for A101 yet, so it's normal that you didn't receive OTA upgrade.
There is a leak of an old ICS build for A101 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25561591&postcount=6
I'm running it and it works fine. I just needed to delete and recreate APN, as the migrated one was disabled for some reason.
(P.S. You need to install all four update.zip from the archive in order. These are incremental and you cannot skip any.)
Thank you leomatt & smokku for you quick and clear answers. That's the spirit!
Thanks again,
Adrian
Thank you so much ! It worked like a charm.
Next step will be root (again), and adhoc support.
This may help:
1.Load Update1.zip onta a SD card. Rename it Update.zip. THIS IS IMPORTANT!
2. Press POWER and VOL- (the top vol button) and flash the ROM. The reboot will hang. Just power off and continue.
3. Repeat for the remaining updates, one at a time.
4. The final reboot will work and the ROM will be flashed. If error messages are encountered or constant rebooting is experienced, do a factory restart.
This worked for me and restored my Acer back to A101. (I had loaded ICS for A100 and lost 3g...I can't help fiddling with things I don't understand........
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Thank you leomatt & smokku for you quick and clear answers. That's the spirit!
Thanks again,
Adrian
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Hey. No need to thank me for telling you it even existed in the first place, that's perfectly OK.
For someone so utterly incapable of finding something so simple (seriously, third hit on a search), I suggest you don't even THINK about flashing it; you'll brick your tab.
Someday you'll get, that this forum is about people helping each other, not feeling superior to others.
FloatingFatMan said:
Hey. No need to thank me for telling you it even existed in the first place, that's perfectly OK.
For someone so utterly incapable of finding something so simple (seriously, third hit on a search), I suggest you don't even THINK about flashing it; you'll brick your tab.
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Insulting people is a bad habit. Some day you will find out why!
Details ?
FloatingFatMan said:
Hey. No need to thank me for telling you it even existed in the first place, that's perfectly OK.
For someone so utterly incapable of finding something so simple (seriously, third hit on a search), I suggest you don't even THINK about flashing it; you'll brick your tab.
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This link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25561591&postcount=6
i about an OFFICIAL rom, not a stock rom modified, or a leaked one, etc..
It would be great if you guys could CLEARLY say what is made for ?
If it's for A100, its for A100, A101 for A101, etc... as well as for which kind of rom it is made for, etc ?
For someone who is used to it, it's easy ! However, even for a newbie there is nothing about Android terminology ! The poor guy is lost and nothing makes sense to him/her.
For example : ROM means Read Only Memory (as oposed to Ram which is Random Access Memory (volatile memory) ) right !!!
Well if the ROM is the operating system, then you don't only read it as you also write in it and can replace its content as well ! However, Android (the os) is a ROM !! Even for someone coming from the IT world, it's kind of confusing ! ;-)
By the way, it says not to install Busybox, but I had to, after to fix some apps.
The wpa_suplicant file however doesn't fix the adhoc issue so far.
I'll get back to the old file in the meantime.
Infomediasvc said:
i about an OFFICIAL rom, not a stock rom modified, or a leaked one, etc..
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There isn't one.
Are you happy now?
smokku said:
There isn't one.
Are you happy now?
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Quite happy !
Didn't I read oficial in "Path for the official A101 updating to ICS" ?
GrigAdri said:
Insulting people is a bad habit. Some day you will find out why!
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I didn't insult anyone, but I can, if you like.
Hello guys. in this thread Mini says:" Only way to fix Wi-Fi for stock is to merge stock source into my current kernel and I really don't want to do that.. so unfortunately users will have to stay on stock kernel for stock roms."
link to her post and thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67372709&postcount=104
anyone can do it? I (I'm sure many others as well) are ready to donate.
I tried to replace some file in the "Module" folder, as well as their entire folder, but without success.
Why do you even need to do that? Just get the Wi-Fi module from a M8 ROM and replace it with yours, you're done. Don't want to do this all, flash the zip in attachment, it will do the work.
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Just get the Wi-Fi module from a M8 ROM and replace it with yours, you're done.
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so simple!!! wow) all worked perfectly!
so, we need to replace files from M*, not Desire eye. right? lol, i don't know that this will be omportant)
thank you very much, bro=) now we have custom kernel for 100% stock ROM!! woohoooooo