I used ROM manager to flash to Amon Ra Recovery v1.8.0. I'm using the Premium version of ROM manager by the way. I booted into recovery but when I click on install zip from SD card it won't search or come up with anything.
I don't know if it's just me but when I try to flash CWM recovery I get an error in ROM manager. I'm trying to use RA to wipe dalvik but now I'm stuck. I'll do a search for flashable recoveries so I can just do it that way but does anyone know why I can't browse SD card.
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I'm using my second SD card which I formatted 2 days ago. It basically has like 5 things on it and I've had this problem since the beginning but never bothered to investigate since I was able to download and flash CWM recovery.
The zip file has to be on the root of your sd card. It is probably in the download folder if you dont see it. Use astro file manager to move the zip to the root.
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Ok I will try that.
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Have you tried flashing thru terminal app? That was the easiest method for me.
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Yah you can't browse your sd card in the install section. I dont believe you ever could. Astro like dude said is the easiest way to move a file without a computer.
There's only two problems with Amon_ra recovery vs. Clockwork Mod recovery:
1. You can't browse all your files on the root of your SD card in Amon_RA. It only lets you see what will fit on the screen of your. Where as in clockwork you can scroll.
2. Amon_RA doesn't have advanced restore options. In clockwork you can choose to restore only data such as apps, texts, and other settings.
I can't flash clockwork. There's always an issue with ROM manager.
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In his new release you can. Its just not ported to the evo yet.
When did clockwork get the second features? Those ate cool. Done flaws with clockwork:
1. Doesn't backup radios.
2. Has wiping bugs.
Other than those its cool.
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There's only two problems with Amon_ra recovery vs. Clockwork Mod recovery:
1. You can't browse all your files on the root of your SD card in Amon_RA. It only lets you see what will fit on the screen of your. Where as in clockwork you can scroll.
2. Amon_RA doesn't have advanced restore options. In clockwork you can choose to restore only data such as apps, texts, and other settings.
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First off let me say I'm new to root. I rooted my evo last night by following the 2.2 root video guide. Now I'm looking for a rom and kernal that's right for me so please be patient with a noob.
Can someone explain to me (in noob terms please) how to install a rom and kernal. If there is a video guide that would be great. I assume all roms will come with the same files so once I learn how to do it I should be set.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Please use the search tool. Most roms in the development forum say how to also.
And check the sticky in the same forum.
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Novarider said:
First off let me say I'm new to root. I rooted my evo last night by following the 2.2 root video guide. Now I'm looking for a rom and kernal that's right for me so please be patient with a noob.
Can someone explain to me (in noob terms please) how to install a rom and kernal. If there is a video guide that would be great. I assume all roms will come with the same files so once I learn how to do it I should be set.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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PEOPLE USING AMONRA RECOVERY THE ROM AND KERNEL MUST BE ON THE ROOT OF YOUR SD CARD. ONLY ON CLOCKWORK RECOVERY CAN YOU SCAN THROUGH FOLDERS TO FIND YOUR ROM/KERNEL. SOME PEOPLE SWITCH RECOVERYS WITHOUT REALIZING SO TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE I SUGGEST PUTTING ALL ROMS/KERNELS ON THE ROOT OF YOUR SD CARD. ALSO, WHILE ON AMONRA RECOVERY TO GO BACK A MENU/SCREEN YOU MUST PRESS VOLUME DOWN AND VOLUME UP AT THE SAME TIME.
1.) To install a new ROM you first have to download the said ROM. (Obviously.) Second of all, you have to find the kernel you want to use. Most ROMs come with kernels but you can still download the kernel of your choice.
2.) Once you have the ROM and kernel of your choice, go into recovery mode by powering off your phone, turn it ON WHILE HOLDING the VOLUME DOWN button, do not let go of the volume down button until you're at the boot screen. Select "Recovery" by pressing the VOLUME DOWN button and selecting it by pressing POWER.
3.) You're now in recovery mode. Make a NANDROID backup (varies on how to do it depending on which recovery you're using) if you're on Clockword Recovery scroll down until you see something saying "nandroid" when there select it with POWER, then select the option that says "Backup". (Not sure how AmonRAs recovery works exactly.)
4.) Wipe data/factory reset twice, wipe CACHE twice, wipe Dalvik-cache twice. (Dalvik-cache is located in "advanced" in the main recovery screen.)
5.) Choose "install zip from sd card" then "choose zip from sd card", press up once and it'll bring you to the bottom of the list and you should see your ROM, select it, then install it. Once done installing, go back and reboot your phone, it should be all done now. IF, IF, IF, you have another kernel, after installing your ROM, re-wipe CACHE and DALVIK-CACHE, THEN install the kernel.
You're all set.
Ok simple enough. Thank you for the info. Can I download the rom directly to my phone from this site or do I need to download it on my computer and move it to my sdcard?
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Ok simple enough. Thank you for the info. Can I download the rom directly to my phone from this site or do I need to download it on my computer and move it to my sdcard?
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You can download it from your phone, but make sure it's on the ROOT of your sd card. I prefer downloading it from my PC, then putting it on my sd card.
So you mean make sure its on the sd card itself and not in a file like downloads right? Also can I delete the PC36IMG file so it doesn't do that update check every time I go into bootloader?
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So you mean make sure its on the sd card itself and not in a file like downloads right? Also can I delete the PC36IMG file so it doesn't do that update check every time I go into bootloader?
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Yes, make sure it's not in a folder like "downloads". And yes you can ditch the PC36img.
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Thanks you were very helpful
why cant ROMs be in a folder? i have flashed a dozen ROMs that are all in a folder.
ryohei47 said:
why cant ROMs be in a folder? i have flashed a dozen ROMs that are all in a folder.
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They can be, I was just saying my preferable choice. Sorry if this has confused anyone.
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why cant ROMs be in a folder? i have flashed a dozen ROMs that are all in a folder.
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Depends what recovery you are using. Ra recovery has to be in the root folder of the SD card. Cwr you can actually go through folders and search for the zip. So it wouldn't matter where you out it on SD card for clockwork but If ra recovery and its in a folder in SD card you won't see it and can't search through folders for it.
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They can be, I was just saying my preferable choice. Sorry if this has confused anyone.
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Depends on what recovery. This is going to confuse people who use ra recovery and can't ever see their flash zips
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Depends on what recovery. This is going to confuse people who use ra recovery and can't ever see their flash zips
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Yeah it just occurred to me now. I'll edit my post.
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No problem just trying to help out.. I used Cwr then found out the delvik wipe didn't work. I had my SD card organized. Had my roms and kernels in a folder. Switched to ra recovery and couldn't find them. Realized then it had to be in root folder. Thought somehow I lost them during the process. I have a backup on my pc also just in case.
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So amon ra recovery cannot install zip files??? How is his recovery better than clockwork?? Not trying to critisize just curious as to how everyone is saying his is better but cannot install from sd card
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mikeyfg said:
So amon ra recovery cannot install zip files??? How is his recovery better than clockwork?? Not trying to critisize just curious as to how everyone is saying his is better but cannot install from sd card
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What are you trying to install?
How does Among recovery work for you?
You have to put the file you want to install in the root of the sd card
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mikeyfg said:
So amon ra recovery cannot install zip files??? How is his recovery better than clockwork?? Not trying to critisize just curious as to how everyone is saying his is better but cannot install from sd card
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Are you an IDIOT? It installs zip files all day long, and the best part is you don't have to search through all the crap on your sd card it only shows the zip files in the root directory so you don't have to vol down all day to find the file you want to install.
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Are you an IDIOT? It installs zip files all day long, and the best part is you don't have to search through all the crap on your sd card it only shows the zip files in the root directory so you don't have to vol down all day to find the file you want to install.
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Dude chill.
OP, as was stated in post 4, the zip needs to be on the root of your SD for recovery to see it. Are you just getting an error or do the files not even show up?
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Yeah all you have to do is put the file on the root of the card for it to flash files. Amon-RA won't look in different folders just root.
I apologize for my outburst cruise350 and his boyfriend kinda got to me
mikeyfg said:
So amon ra recovery cannot install zip files??? How is his recovery better than clockwork?? Not trying to critisize just curious as to how everyone is saying his is better but cannot install from sd card
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I have the EODv2 Rom and I've been trying to flash the newest radio update EVO_Radio_2.15.00.05.02 and it's not working. Do I need to wipe anything before flashing? The file is in the root of my sd card but for some reason my phone stays on 2.15.00.11.19 after I flash. If anyone can help that would be great. Thanks
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I have the EODv2 Rom and I've been trying to flash the newest radio update EVO_Radio_2.15.00.05.02 and it's not working. Do I need to wipe anything before flashing? The file is in the root of my sd card but for some reason my phone stays on 2.15.00.11.19 after I flash. If anyone can help that would be great. Thanks
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is it from xHAUSx thread?....if so, and u got the combo, you'll notice in the file name i think at the beginning it say PC36IMG.....delete everything in the file name except for PC36IMG and keep it on the root of yur card...boot into the BOOTLOADER and install the update....and thats it...yur good to go.....lemme know how it went....
Use Amon Ra recovery if you're using clockwork.
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No actually its from this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
I actually just scrolled through the thread and it said it doesn't work with Clockwork Mod 3.0.0 but it will work with amon_ra recovery but when I installed that from the market it wouldn't work. It says you can only use this feature with VaelPak (which is the only app for the results when I searched amon_ra in the market) and is what I downloaded. It also says if you are running Vaelpak you did not allow settings root when it prompted and to purchase Rapid Reboot from the market (which I did also). So when I tried to reboot into recovery from this Rapid Reboot app (which I had to pay for) it still boots me into Clockwork Mod! UGH! some of this stuff is so frustrating!
You can install Amon Ra in hboot. Go to their webpage for instructions. Clockwork fails more than it succeeds besides downloading roms. If you flash new radios, Wimax, etc with clockwork it won't work. Learn to flash manually and with both recoveries to achieve optimum results. Here's a link for the newest radios:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
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Damn, hard day?
I don't think you'll be finding amonRA recovery in the market.
Go to his thread, and DL the pc36img version of amonRA 2.3. Then (as other poster said) drop it in root of sd card, and reboot. The file (recovery) is actually posted in 2 of the 3 threads above yours. Check the thread labeled "bootloop, no recovery".
But I would still go to amons thread to check the md5 on it (astro file explorer displays md5s if you need).
Also, if you're using CWM now, you're probably using rom manager as well. If so, I believe you can scroll to bottom (in rom manager) and select 'install alternate recovery'.
Good luck
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Got it. Thanks so much!
My problem is this, I had CMW as my default recovery and decided to install RA as my alternate recovery. Now RA is my default and I can't seem to get back CMW. I tried deleting CMW and then download it again from Market, but it always comes back as RA being my default recovery. So what am I doing wrong?
You could try deleting the recovery and reflash.
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I do not know why you want to use Clockwork as Amon Ra is better, but search in development for ClockworkMod. Download as PC36IMG.zip and put it on the root of your SD card. Boot into bootloader, accept update, and you will have Clockwork recovery again
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Having similar problem. Always used RA, but my girl just got a NS4G and installed CWM. Would like to now install CWM on the Evo, just in case I have to talk her through problems, will have better knowledge of what she us looking at.
Installed Rom Manager and hit the flash recovery option. The phone does its thing and Rom Manager says current recovery is Clockwork. Upon rebooting into recovery still have RA 2.3.
Any ideas how to get CWM to stick. Does anybody have a good pc.img?
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misfit0313 said:
Having similar problem. Always used RA, but my girl just got a NS4G and installed CWM. Would like to now install CWM on the Evo, just in case I have to talk her through problems, will have better knowledge of what she us looking at.
Installed Rom Manager and hit the flash recovery option. The phone does its thing and Rom Manager says current recovery is Clockwork. Upon rebooting into recovery still have RA 2.3.
Any ideas how to get CWM to stick. Does anybody have a good pc.img?
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do as mentioned above, download the recovery, rename it to pc36img.zip, go into bootloader, accept the update, and you'll have clockworkmod
My evo cannot install apk's and whenever i boot up a rom i downloaded from my computer it randomly reboots. The rom's I tried were Alter rom and elite series resurected. The only roms i got to work were evo classic and dark light. Please help me.
Some backstory. It all started when i flashed Evo classic last night and I did not have the Google Play Store. I decided to get an APK. What I did was got an APK from a thread on XDA I tried to install it through the Downloads app but it froze up my phone and just rebooted. I tried this several other times with no luck.
Thanks in advance.
Some roms you have to flash google proprietary files.
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You did not say that you made a nandroid back up of your phone, have you? If not, you just experienced why you should start.
What recovery are you using? Have you tried wiping dalvik and cache to see if that helps?
More details on what you did to get yourself in this situation would be helpful.
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Some roms you have to flash google proprietary files.
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I did that. For dark light i used ICS Gapps. And when I rebooted there was no play store. Also for Classic sense I went through setup, and there was no playstore.
I am thinking this could be a Sd card issue.
You can't flash ICS on anything below 4.0. It won't work
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I tried sense 1.0 and I had a Android backup of dark light I tried to go back to that but no market so I used am on ra to fix permissions then I installed gaaps and there was a market. But when I install an app or apk my phone reboots.
If it were me, I'd:
1) Backup the files on SD
2) In Recovery: Reformat/re-partition SD
3) Copy a ROM .zip to SD
4) In Recovery: Flash ROM
5) In Recovery: Save recovery.log to SD
6) Post recovery.log here
If you do this with AlterROM, you'll need to use the Save Log option at the end of the installer.
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If it were me, I'd:
1) Backup the files on SD
2) In Recovery: Reformat/re-partition SD
3) Copy a ROM .zip to SD
4) In Recovery: Flash ROM
5) In Recovery: Save recovery.log to SD
6) Post recovery.log here
If you do this with AlterROM, you'll need to use the Save Log option at the end of the installer.
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Thanks but I think I found out the problem what I did was install a rom ran gaaps went into recovery fixed permissions took out my SD card booted up the phone downloaded something from the market put my SD back in and everything worked. Also I tried AlterRom but when I got done with aroma and booted it up there was no launcher. So what I am thinking is that its an SD card issue. And other help would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading my tome of knoledge . Any help is appreciated.
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