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[Q] Now that im rooted..

Now that im rooted, custom rom already installed, if i ever got tired of my current rom..would it be possible to install another one and get rid of the old one? If so, how would i be able to do this? Thanks

xxMAGIC MANNxx said:
Now that im rooted, custom rom already installed, if i ever got tired of my current rom..would it be possible to install another one and get rid of the old one? If so, how would i be able to do this? Thanks
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The easy way would be to use ROM manager, open rom manager, do "backup of current rom" first to back up this working rom in case you want to revert after flashing a new rom, next go to "download Rom" and choose a new rom to download (there are only currently three roms offered in rom manager CyanogenMod,Virtuous and CyanogenMod Nightlies but I dont recommend Nightlies for noobs could have lots of bugs) it will ask if you want to install it, remember to select wipe data/cache any time you switch roms, and let it install the rom.
Other wise you will have to download a rom install it to the root of your sd card, open ROM manager, select boot into recovery, wipe data, wipe cache, select install zip from sd, select choose zip from sd, choose the rom zip you installed and apply, when done reboot and finish. Remeber in either case do a backup in rom manager first.

Thank you so much, do you happen to know where i can find a sense 2.2 rom??

xxMAGIC MANNxx said:
Thank you so much, do you happen to know where i can find a sense 2.2 rom??
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Thats Virtuous, its what I use, use rom manager and download Virtuous 0.8.1 full rom and install.
Remember to wipe when changing roms, you don't need to wipe when applying updates.
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Okay, how do you like the rom? Does it run smooth??
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xxMAGIC MANNxx said:
Okay, how do you like the rom? Does it run smooth??
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Ive tried them all. It runs great.different roms offer different things, but so far this is my favorite.
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Okay just making sure..and not to be a hassle or anything but can u write out the instructions in numbered form if you can cause im still all new to this and dont want to mess up my phone. If u can it would be greatly appreciated
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xxMAGIC MANNxx said:
Okay just making sure..and not to be a hassle or anything but can u write out the instructions in numbered form if you can cause im still all new to this and dont want to mess up my phone. If u can it would be greatly appreciated
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open rom manager
select backup current rom if have not already done this (it will boot into recovery and backup your rom then it will reboot back into your current rom)
after that go to download rom
select virtuous
select download full Virtuous 0.8.1
it will download two files Virtuous 0.8.0 and update from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1
when its done it will open rom pre-installation screen
select wipe data and cache
then press ok
it will reboot into recovery and install the rom
that its

I will let you know how it goes

You are the man! couldnt have done it without you! Lol
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Just an F.Y.I... there is a great tutorial over @ theunlockr.com
thanks for the detail joemm ;-)

I can't connect to the htc sense server are you having the same problem?
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xxMAGIC MANNxx said:
I can't connect to the htc sense server are you having the same problem?
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Never used the service, but in going to the website its not loading on my home computer the server might be down. I would try again later. If you still have issues please search the following thread for a fix and if there is no awnser for it you can post your problem there too...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837042

Ok thanks. Did all your apps load onto ur rom or did u have reinstall them?
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xxMAGIC MANNxx said:
Ok thanks. Did all your apps load onto ur rom or did u have reinstall them?
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Anytime you install a fresh rom, it starts fresh, you can use the app titanium backup to make a backup of your apps, and info and reinstall them onto diffrent roms. I would suggest to start reading the diffrent threads in this form and start learning how you use your new rooted phone and all the options you now have. Remember there are some roms and radios you dont want to intall on your phone, like the ones made for the desire z. Also might want to check out gfree for your phone. That will give you radio s-off and a true permroot, but you have to use adb to do this. It will also unlock the carrier and carrier id for the phone(so you can use other carrier sim cards). Here is another video on how to set up adb on your computer and the driver needed for your phone.
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/
Remember dont do anything unless your sure you understand the directions. Keep reading and searching, this is what is gonna help you understand diffrent aspects of modifying your phone, another good resource is youtube, look up videos on how to do diffrent things, have fun.

Alright thanks
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Sms issues

For some reason my messages keep deleting themselves for no apparent reason. I do not use handcent or any other secondary messaging service. I've checked and double checked all of my settings and i do not have it set up to automatically delete anything at any time. I'm currently using Incredibly Re-engineered v2.3.1 and Lou's #8 kernel. The problem didn't ever occur when i was using the stock rooted rom.

So does this happen after a reboot, or just something you notice after putting your phone down then coming back to it...? Odd.
Try flashing another ROM, Lou makes a great EVO based ROM called Incredible Revolution. Give that a shot just to see if it is a ROM based issue.

Its a known issue... really annoying.
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It just does it at random. I've even been looking through them and its happened. Is it just the rom you think?
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I have had it happen to me on EVERY 2.2 rom I've used. Its yet to happen on 2.3.2 for me.
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Any 2.3.2 sense roms that you'd suggest? I like my sense widgets.

None exist yet.
Graydon1 said:
Any 2.3.2 sense roms that you'd suggest? I like my sense widgets.
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Dang it. Alright... any temporary patch that can fix the problem until some stable gingerbread roms come out?

Nope... Just hope it doesn't happen often. I use omfgb and its stable it just doesn't have sense. Cm7 is also great.
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Dang it. Alright... any temporary patch that can fix the problem until some stable gingerbread roms come out?
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Bit of a noob question and no reason to open a new thread, but will i lose any data on my phone's harddrive when i flash a new kernel? And should i do a complete wipe as if i was flashing a rom? Thanks alot.

Anyone? I don't want to do it until i have my facts strait.

Graydon1 said:
Bit of a noob question and no reason to open a new thread, but will i lose any data on my phone's harddrive when i flash a new kernel? And should i do a complete wipe as if i was flashing a rom? Thanks alot.
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Nope. Only full wipe when switching roms. Although if youre switching kernels like u said, if youre going from one made by 1 dev and switching to another by a diff dev i would wipe the dalvik cache under advanced in recovery
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Thanks alot, and another quick one, if i were to flash a rosie mod, would i do it just as i would flash a rom/kernel? And would I want to wipe the dalvik cache for that too?
EDIT: Man i have alot of stupid questions, but also how would i remove the old kernel... or do i not have to? lol.

Graydon1 said:
Thanks alot, and another quick one, if i were to flash a rosie mod, would i do it just as i would flash a rom/kernel? And would I want to wipe the dalvik cache for that too?
EDIT: Man i have alot of stupid questions, but also how would i remove the old kernel... or do i not have to? lol.
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Its all good yo. Just flash the rosie mod no wipes. The old kernel will be removed wen you flash the new one. Lol youll get the hang of it man
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Evokings titanium rom but band still locked

I recently flashed my first rom...yes im a noob. I installed some root friendly apps that say I don't have my nand unlocked. Can someone send a link my way to instruct me? I thought I did it...evo4g...running evokings black titanium
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androidFIERCE said:
I recently flashed my first rom...yes im a noob. I installed some root friendly apps that say I don't have my nand unlocked. Can someone send a link my way to instruct me? I thought I did it...evo4g...running evokings black titanium
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Some more details would be spectacular, such as which apps you're trying to use that give you that error. Do any other root apps work? What method did you use to root? Do you have the 'super user' app installed on your phone? When you boot to the bootloader, does it show Ship S off or Ship S on? What method did you use to flash the rom? Did you do it manually in recovery, or did you use ROM Manager?

When I boot to recovery it shows s-on. I don't remember the exact app name but it was used to manage power and cpu usage to boost performance. I used unrevoked root method found on xda.
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I flashed rom from sd manually via zip
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androidFIERCE said:
I flashed rom from sd manually via zip
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Okay, you should be S off, not S on. Since you have custom recovery installed, you need to download the unrevoked forever s off tool, and flash it in recovery. Then boot back to your bootloader, and be sure that you're S off. At that point, I'd boot back to recovery, do a full wipe (data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache, and flash calkulin's format all.zip), then reflash your rom. See if it works after that.

Much appreciated friend. To be continued.
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androidFIERCE said:
Much appreciated friend. To be continued.
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Not a problem. And if you are on the newest version of clockwork recovery, you may not be able to flash that Calkulin's Format all.zip. You may need to flash King's format all zip instead, which I will attatch for you. Just remember, that after you flash either of the Format all.zip's, you need to flash a new ROM before you boot up. Once you flash the Format all.zip, everything geti's wiped, and you won't be able to boot up.

So instead of calkulins use kingsmod? Now.I don't wipe again one I use kingsmod do I?
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Nevermind. Flash the format all.zip then flash rom.
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androidFIERCE said:
Nevermind. Flash the format all.zip then flash rom.
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That is correct. Don't try to boot after flashing format all, until you first flash a ROM. Let me know how you make out

androidFIERCE said:
So instead of calkulins use kingsmod? Now.I don't wipe again one I use kingsmod do I?
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Correct, they both do the same thing, except king's is edify compatible, which makes it gingerbread and clockwork 3.0+ friendly.

Also...kings black titanium is my first flashed rom. I like it...but I don't want to miss out on something better. I am sure I will try other roms ...but in the meantime...any suggestions for performance and stability roms. I've seen screenshots of overclocked phones....the response of my current rom is great...but I am into full customization. Any ideas from those who know?
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...sounds like you should try CM7

I recommend CM7. You just need to download and flash the latest gapps with it.

Someone wanna give the pros and cons of cm7? I have heard it plenty of times. Same type of thing right? I can flash cm7 straight from. Zip on my sd card?
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When u say gapps that's foreign to me...I am still noob. Is this a cynagen rom. I see alot of screen shots with people clocking their androids way ocmver the stock 1 gig. How do they accomplish this. Sorry for all the questions.
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androidFIERCE said:
When u say gapps that's foreign to me...I am still noob. Is this a cynagen rom. I see alot of screen shots with people clocking their androids way ocmver the stock 1 gig. How do they accomplish this. Sorry for all the questions.
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http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/7/universal/ < gapps [google apps] you flash them in recovery after flashing a new gingerbread rom, its so that your market, gmail, ect installs and work. And CM7 offers a lot of customization, plenty of themes, ect. You can overclock your phone using setcpu or from settings > cyanogen mod settings > performance > cpu settings. The only real con is a few select apps don't have gingerbread support yet, like juice defender, I believe. And if you want to update your PRL, you have to flash a sense rom, update, flash back, but that's easy.

Okay so that zip file is the gapps for cm7 rom? Now is the cm7 fast and responsive and is it a gingerbread based rom? I've been doing this replying back and forth from my phone...havent done the research yet.
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PERFECT!!!
Okay now I am S-OFF. Thanks for the help guys...also...i was peeping in on mikifroyo 4.6, if i can get another lead on flashing roms...first data/factory reset, then wipe cache, then wipe dalvik, then i can flash new rom? Or do i need to flash a format all.zip first?

im running myns warm 2.2 i love sense i've been to cm7 and back a hundred times that with netarchy's 4.3.1 kernel is nice fast pretty decent battery life too but ya gotta give it day or so to see better life and lots of mods for myns too. id rather wait for gingerbread til someone other than cm to come out with one

Help me please..

I see more people look at the General section more then the Q and A so im going to post this here. Im running CM7, 7.0.3. Ive been using it since the cm7 release candidates. This happened during the RC's too, i would be using it, and it would work beautifully for about 3 weeks, then near the end of the week i would boot the phone, and then a bunch of apps force close. Every app that i open force closes, i cant do anything on my phone without something force closing. I cant receive texts, check emails or anything. I open an app and it just closes. Im really really sick of it. I tried re flashing 7.0.3, didnt work. Im looking for either a fix for this, a for sure fix. Or looking for guidance to the original froyo stock rom with sense. It might just be a gingerbread problem, i was rooted on stock for over a month before trying roms. I really need my phone to be working. Please give me some help i would greatly appreciate it!!!!

Well then i make that 1%. Last time it happened when i had Cyanogens last update to CM7 i tried fix permissions, both in recovery and through rom manager. Didnt help. Only thing that helped was installing the update for the next version, worked for about 3 weeks, and now im getting the same force closes. I already tried it today before you posted, didnt help to fix permissions. I can have rom manager open for about 5 seconds then it FC's. Never had this problem on my stock rooted froyo.

Any help? i need phone working alright by tomorrow hopefully.

Can you flash a 2.2 rom.
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Idk, can i? I thought you had to do something else to downgrade from gingerbread to froyo.

Nope. Download another 2.2 rom and flash back. The only problem is the kernel but that's in the rom and would change when you flash. I flash between gbread and froyo all the time. If you go Froyo I recommend a z rom. If you want you can do newtoroots new optimized shift its really stable.
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Could i get a link to the z rom?
Nvm i got it.
What about a link to the shift rom?

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Could i get a link to the z rom?
Nvm i got it.
What about a link to the shift rom?
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Its in the op. It will take you to the mikforums. Its in there. I think he has the hidden off. Just go to newtoroots roms.
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It fast and badass. You'll love the lock screen.
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http://themikmik.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=157&t=1136
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Says full whipe is required, that means whipe sd card? or the cache, data and factory reset?

Beezwhammer said:
Says full whipe is required, that means whipe sd card? or the cache, data and factory reset?
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Wipe data factory reset, cache. Don't wipe SD card. Go to advanced then and wipe dalvik cache too. Just don't wipe SD card.
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Okay thank you it looks and sounds like a great rom.

Beezwhammer said:
Okay thank you it looks and sounds like a great rom.
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My personal opinion it is. Very stable. But all the roms are great just depends what your looking for. This seems to be most stable for my needs but I haven't tried the dream teams synergy nightlies yet either.
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Transfering it to my phone right now. Ill let ya know how it goes

Its funny how the sprint boot comes up lol

That exact thing Used to happen to me all the time, that why i gave up on CM for awhile...for me it happened because i was using titanium backup...i stopped using titanium and now i never get that problem

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Its funny how the sprint boot comes up lol
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Hope it works better for you.
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Well its running alright, had a couple of random force closes for reasons i dont know. Its fairly slow rom tbh.. I have about 70 MB of memory normally, with CM i had about 200. Ran fast. I tried to look at overclocking, but no app would allow me to. Would any kernel be okay for it? Like chads incredikernel betas? I really need some more performance in this thing, its just running so darn slow! Other then that i really do like the rom.
Is there any way to kinda increase the memory available? Besides closing background apps and removing widgets.

Well i installed beta 8, and it wont go passed my HTC Incredible white screen now, it goes to that then goes black.. Uhhhhh what do i do now? I can get into recovery tho. I cant transfer any files. ****
Someone tell me what to do now... Im screwed..
Was able to mount through recovery, transfering the rom to the phone and going to reflash. ugh!!
Another edit, gah i wish i could just get s-on and not worry about rooting now anymore lol. I just want good performance and a useful phone.

Is this the Sprint Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch section of the forums?

Just asking cause I flashed the starburst rom and it boot looped my phone. I got into the main screen once but, the task bar kept force closing and it kept boot looping... Any help would be great.
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Yes this is the Sprint Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch section.
Did you make a nandroid backup 1st? (If Yes, restore your backup) Did you go into "mounts and storage" and format "/system" before you wiped data/cache/dalvik cache?

Odin another rom.
Search for and download odin v1.85. Then download a .tar file. Where ever you find these items, you'll also find good instructions.
Then try flashing starburst again.
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Just asking cause I flashed the starburst rom and it boot looped my phone. I got into the main screen once but, the task bar kept force closing and it kept boot looping... Any help would be great.
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Yes, I did make a nand and got back to it, the starburst rom section told me to flash through cwm. But, it didn't work. I odined a tar last night, I'm fine now, but, how should I go about flashing again? Yes, I did wipe.
I'm running the oc'd zedomax or however thats spelled.
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veladem said:
Yes, I did make a nand and got back to it, the starburst rom section told me to flash through cwm. But, it didn't work. I odined a tar last night, I'm fine now, but, how should I go about flashing again? Yes, I did wipe.
I'm running the oc'd zedomax or however thats spelled.
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Did you format /system prior to flashing Starburst? That'll cause bootloops if you failed to do so.

Yup, did that, what cwm do I need?
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veladem said:
Yup, did that, what cwm do I need?
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I would suggest 5.0.2.3, or 5.0.2.6 Also...make sure you format cache/dalvik/data/system at least 3X each. If that doesn't work, then try redownloading the ROM. Might've gotten a borked download.

veladem said:
Yup, did that, what cwm do I need?
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Use this: LoStkernel or this: CWM
But I'm willing to bet that you either didn't format system in the mounts and storage menu or it didn't take when you tried. I would retry StarBurst again first, making sure to Format System Under Mounts and Storage and making sure it succeeds. Then you won't have to worry about any of the other stuff.

Yeah, CWM can be quirky
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12MaNy said:
I would suggest 5.0.2.3, or 5.0.2.6 Also...make sure you format cache/dalvik/data/system at least 3X each. If that doesn't work, then try redownloading the ROM. Might've gotten a borked download.
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I wiped cache and dalvik, but I didn't format them. I also didn't even bother to wipe and it worked just fine.

It's just not working... Idk why, this is the only problem with a phone I've ever had in cwm...
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Got it! It's pretty sick to. What roms do you guys suggest though?
For some reason I had to go back to stock? Doesn't matter, works now.
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Just flashed starburst v 1.8 10/22 over 10/19. Went perfectly, no wiping anything. But, what should I try next. I love flashing roms...
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veladem said:
Just flashed starburst v 1.8 10/22 over 10/19. Went perfectly, no wiping anything. But, what should I try next. I love flashing roms...
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I'm running viperROM v2 and it's pretty sweet. It's a really tough choice between this and starburst.

Hm... I keep getting sms like this after a flash...
//LL:1563:1319692697855:MZC:C:gDMa4uO2LcH60QAxcWBcCA==:BPEAXC0OZLE8VPAUKXDGLY8HQDAUBR0T
Any ideas?
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help help help please
my lil brother thought it wud b great if he tried to root my phone...i apologize if in the wrong spot ive been searching forums googling for like 6 hours with no luck. my phone is stuck in the galaxy loading logo screen the one with the yellow triangle i can not get it out using odin kies or notta please help me thanks

This is Dial A Prayer ...
veladem said:
Just asking cause I flashed the starburst rom and it boot looped my phone. I got into the main screen once but, the task bar kept force closing and it kept boot looping... Any help would be great.
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The place to post ANYTHING about using a Starburst ROM on Epic 4 G Touch is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1276320