I flashed the rom, radio and wimax. I also pulled down a kernel. At what point do you flash the kernel? Or do I have to? A how to would be great.
Thanks!!!
A Kernel is included with the ROM, so you don't "need" to flash it. However if you want to flash a custom Kernel, you just flash the .zip file from recovery and reboot.
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In flashing roms, I notice that devs are including kernels in the .zip. It appears each dev has their favorites. Without debating which kernel is the "best", my question is can I switch a Zimage (which I assume is the kernel) with another of my liking? Or, if I'm running a particular kernel of my liking, can I flash the Rom without the included Zimage?
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Vegasden said:
In flashing roms, I notice that devs are including kernels in the .zip. It appears each dev has their favorites. Without debating which kernel is the "best", my question is can I switch a Zimage (which I assume is the kernel) with another of my liking? Or, if I'm running a particular kernel of my liking, can I flash the Rom without the included Zimage?
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You should be able to flash a kernel, either through CWM or ODIN without problem.
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You should be able to flash a kernel, either through CWM or ODIN without problem.
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I realize that. My question was in reference to flashing a rom (which all have a kernel included). Can you switch the Zimage inside the rom .zip prior to flashing...or can I just delete the Zimage inside the rom and flash it without one? I'm trying to avoid the two steps of flashing a rom, then flashing a kernel I prefer.
Ah, I've always just flashed the ROM, then flashed the kernel then rebooted out of CWM. Be nice if there was a utility where you give it kernel and rom and tell it to go, might be a nice feature for ROM Manager to add.
Hi,
Can you guys tell me which one have to flash first and so on.
Kernel, Modem, and Rom.
thank you
anything can go first.
Usually Kernel is included in Rom. But if you are talking about separate recovery kernel, then it should be installed after the rom. because if it's installed before the rom, rom will replace your preinstalled recovery kernel.
Modem can be installed before or after the ROM.
thank you so much
Hello,
I was wondering about flashing kernels and Roms separately. I want to flash the SGS2 Streamline kernel and the |ROM|Paradox II|L.O.V.E|. I know that the Rom already has the Darkside kernel in it, which is why I am wondering how this process would work and if I flash the kernel before the Rom or vice versa?
Thank you.
izayani said:
Hello,
I was wondering about flashing kernels and Roms separately. I want to flash the SGS2 Streamline kernel and the |ROM|Paradox II|L.O.V.E|. I know that the Rom already has the Darkside kernel in it, which is why I am wondering how this process would work and if I flash the kernel before the Rom or vice versa?
Thank you.
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Flash the rom first. Let it settle for a while. Then go back into recovery and wipe cache, dalvik then flash kernel. After it installs fix permissions in recovery, then reboot. make sure you give it about 10-15 minutes after first boot to settle in.
Title says it all, really. I want to try custom kernels, but I am not sure if I need a custom ROM to do that, or if I can just flash them with a stock ROM
You can use stock.
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Title says it all, really. I want to try custom kernels, but I am not sure if I need a custom ROM to do that, or if I can just flash them with a stock ROM
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It depends.
You can run a custom kernel on the stock Rom, but you may be missing out without init.d support the stock Rom doesn't offer.
If you use a kernel with init.d script tweaks you should use a custom rom with support added. I know there are some very stock looking roms out there.
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I ran Trinity on stock for a while. Worked great.
One more question about this:
To flash a custom kernel (specifically Franco kernel), do I just flash the small zip in CWM or the like? Also, if I want to back to 100% stock, can I just flash boot.img in fastboot mode, or will their be residual files? (I have a nandroid if I cannot do this)
Yes, flash the .zip using a custom recovery. When you flash a custom kernel, the update package may do more than just flash the kernel itself. So if you flash stock kernel (boot.img) back using fastboot, this doesn't have to be enough to fully return to the pre-custom kernel state. Restoring a nandroid will certainly do that, of course.
When you are willing to spend a few bucks, most popular kernels can be flashed using their control apps available in the play store. I know Franco's updater app allows you to fully backup the stock kernel + files before you flash a franco.kernel, and allows you to restore these backups.
So after exploring the many roms there are for this device. I went back to using stock rom to fix battery life. I flashed Flash Kernal.
Great kernal. but I'd like to ask you guys how do you go back to stock kernal if you wanna just flash it so I can try another kernal like ElementX
You gotta flash stock boot.img from whatever update your on. You'll either have to download it from Google factory images and find which update you have maybe May and then unzip it. You'll find the boot.img in there. You'll either have to fastboot flash it or an easier way before I flash kernels I like to make a TWRP backup with especially the boot partition. It's super easy. Then when I want to revert back after flashing and kernel I can go back into TWRP and reflash my stock boot