hey im new to the forums and to rooting so if this is in the wrong place then i apologize but i need help fast. so i rooted my droid incredible with unrevoked 3 and followed all the steps 100% but when i put the zip files for warm z twopointtwo and other assorted roms and flash with ROM manager, the phone looks like its doing everything but when it boots back up, it looks EXACTLY like stock HTC sense, exactly like when i turned on my phone for the very first time. what am i doing wrong? please help me
thanks so much
rliddane said:
hey im new to the forums and to rooting so if this is in the wrong place then i apologize but i need help fast. so i rooted my droid incredible with unrevoked 3 and followed all the steps 100% but when i put the zip files for warm z twopointtwo and other assorted roms and flash with ROM manager, the phone looks like its doing everything but when it boots back up, it looks EXACTLY like stock HTC sense, exactly like when i turned on my phone for the very first time. what am i doing wrong? please help me
thanks so much
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thats normal after you flash a new rom you have to go through those steps everytime you flash a new rom ..... go through type in all your info like the day you did when you first bought your phone and once you finish setup you will notice the differance..... if i misunderstood you please explain in more detail and i will help
most roms play off of the standard looks and feel of the stock sense. if its a different interface you want try one of the vanilla roms like cyanogenmod.
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Heres the main question at hand before you read my large summary.
1) Why is my ROM's boot image looping constantly?
2) Do I have to NAND again if I revert to a nandroid backup that was made before I nand'ed my phone?
Time for the long, and mostly pointless, summary:
I'm pretty desperate to get things running on a Gingerbread ROM, if you didn't notice in my last topic 2 hours ago.
Anyways, I'm trying to get cyanogenmod7, Stock Gingerbread 2.3.1, or heck, even eVOKINGS-gingerbread ROM to work.
So far, i've tried Cyanogenmod7 and Stock Gingerbread 2.3.1 on my evo; none of which have worked past the boot screen.
Lets take stock gingerbread for example:
I downloaded the new cyanclockwork recovery rom off of rom manager and flashed it after a *long* process of nand'ing and rooting again.
Then, I powered down, booted up, and went straight into recovery in the bootloader. I went to install ROM from SD->chose the .zip .
after waiting for awhile, it said the upgrade was complete (upgrade?)
*notice: the installation bar didn't move at all durring the installation process, if that makes a difference
I rebooted, and was greeted by the HTC screen while it spelt out q-u-i-e-t-l-y-b-e-a-u-t-f-u-l
Nothing happens after that.
It just shows the HTC screen again, getting stuck at the B in beautiful. Pretty much just looping over-and-over again.
Same thing happened for Cyanogenmod7, I was constantly being looped through the skateboarding-droid figure.
I'm doing something wrong here obviously, because all these ROM's have screen captures from a EVO 4G.
Does it make a difference if I use Clockwork recovery 3.0.0.7/6/5? or 2.6.7?
Please help.
I know all my questions are rather long and complicated, but im sick of being ignored at every forum (ubuntu forums, black ops, etc.)
Or I'm impatent and overestimated your forums activenes. No disrespect to the forums or devs (I thought your forum was really active)
Edit: If I for some reason can't get a 2.3.1 ROM to work, would someone kindly point me to a stable Froyo ROM they think is the best?
Have you use amo-ra?
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Heres the main question at hand before you read my large summary.
1) Why is my ROM's boot image looping constantly?
2) Do I have to NAND again if I revert to a nandroid backup that was made before I nand'ed my phone?
Time for the long, and mostly pointless, summary:
I'm pretty desperate to get things running on a Gingerbread ROM, if you didn't notice in my last topic 2 hours ago.
Anyways, I'm trying to get cyanogenmod7, Stock Gingerbread 2.3.1, or heck, even eVOKINGS-gingerbread ROM to work.
So far, i've tried Cyanogenmod7 and Stock Gingerbread 2.3.1 on my evo; none of which have worked past the boot screen.
Lets take stock gingerbread for example:
I downloaded the new cyanclockwork recovery rom off of rom manager and flashed it after a *long* process of nand'ing and rooting again.
Then, I powered down, booted up, and went straight into recovery in the bootloader. I went to install ROM from SD->chose the .zip .
after waiting for awhile, it said the upgrade was complete (upgrade?)
*notice: the installation bar didn't move at all durring the installation process, if that makes a difference
I rebooted, and was greeted by the HTC screen while it spelt out q-u-i-e-t-l-y-b-e-a-u-t-f-u-l
Nothing happens after that.
It just shows the HTC screen again, getting stuck at the B in beautiful. Pretty much just looping over-and-over again.
Same thing happened for Cyanogenmod7, I was constantly being looped through the skateboarding-droid figure.
I'm doing something wrong here obviously, because all these ROM's have screen captures from a EVO 4G.
Does it make a difference if I use Clockwork recovery 3.0.0.7/6/5? or 2.6.7?
Please help.
I know all my questions are rather long and complicated, but im sick of being ignored at every forum (ubuntu forums, black ops, etc.)
Or I'm impatent and overestimated your forums activenes. No disrespect to the forums or devs (I thought your forum was really active)
Edit: If I for some reason can't get a 2.3.1 ROM to work, would someone kindly point me to a stable Froyo ROM they think is the best?
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I'm pretty sure you will still have nand unlocked. The only way you wouldn't is if you unroot.
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I'm pretty sure you will still have nand unlocked. The only way you wouldn't is if you unroot.
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Thanks
I should face-palm myself. I just read the sticked post and I'm going to try some of his suggestions. He pointed out why cyanogenmod wouldn't work.
My whole consept of the framework went out of the window, and now I think of it more like a standard linux distro, in terms of kernel->ROM relationship.
I don't think I need to have a custom kernel for the Gingerbread beta-4, but i'll look it up just in case... Though I don't have a clear idea on how to flash that.
And to the person 2 above, im using Cyanclockwork. For whatever reason, I like its design verse RA recovery. I might try RA recovery just to see if it works better, as everyone has said it does.
I think i needed to clear all my caches and then load the ROM.
So I did a wipe of everything (data, darvik, cache) and trying to install the GB ROM. My boot screen is *still* looping. Do I need to get another kernel? Is it like flashing a ROM? Where are they at? I didn't see any in the software section...
Newbie just get the Desire Z here
okay, the last time I flash my own phone is Dopod D900, which very simple to flash.. but that not the question I would like to ask right now.
I need u guys help me, as title above, which one a custom rom that working well and used original Gingerbread like Nexus S, original UI (not mod), stable, fast, and the function running perfect on Desire Z?
and one more newbie question, how to backup original rom (in case i need to go back to original rom), data like contact and message before flash it to custom rom?
thanks and really appreciate your responses
Um.. not exactly sure what you are asking for but here is a link to a stock Gingerbread ROM by xboarder56: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054574
It's apparently taken straight from the official OTA and is very stock. I've been using it for about 5 days now and really like it. The only thing I see missing is the cool little on/off screen animation but otherwise completely functional with no frills. Very easy to flash as well. I use ROM Manager (Clockworkmod) for backing up ROMS and phone numbers and all contact info is synched with my Gmail account, or otherwise is stored on the SIM. Not sure how Desire Z works or where you are located so I might not be much help on that.....
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Um.. not exactly sure what you are asking for but here is a link to a stock Gingerbread ROM by xboarder56: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054574
It's apparently taken straight from the official OTA and is very stock. I've been using it for about 5 days now and really like it. The only thing I see missing is the cool little on/off screen animation but otherwise completely functional with no frills. Very easy to flash as well. I use ROM Manager (Clockworkmod) for backing up ROMS and phone numbers and all contact info is synched with my Gmail account, or otherwise is stored on the SIM. Not sure how Desire Z works or where you are located so I might not be much help on that.....
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thanks killswitch11
okay look like very easy to flash
To Install
1. Boot into recovery (Hold camera and press power)
2. Perform a FULL DATA/CACHE WIPE
3. Install Zip from SD Card, and select Xboarder56_Pure/Stock 1.x.x
4. Boot into rom and reboot to finsh (Reboot after your on your main screen)
5. Enjoy
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but except that guide, the phone must be root and S-OFF first right before flashing to ROM?
and do you know what is the app that can backup current SMS on original rom, but can restore it again to custom ROM that we flash?
Yes, you must be rooted with S-OFF to flash the ROM. As for SMS backup, I'm not too sure. I use Titanium to back up my apps, but not sure if it will back up actual SMS content as well.
okay bro, thanks very much
really appreciate your response
Well i was trying out the Kingdom rom with 2.3.3 and sense 3.0 and my 4g took a minute to load up and never connected so after waiting 3 minutes i forgot to load up the icons also so i restarted it and tried to put the icons on. In the process i backed up my stock rooted rom because i didn't want to get another rom. But i tried it. And no im not a newbie i did it plenty of times with my evo lol. I won't even let me restore my backup'd image.. Stupid huh. But please if anyone could help me get a link to the stock 2.2 rom. I will be truly helpful. Please and thank you in advance.
If you actually took 10 seconds out of your life to look, you would find MANY threads with the stock roms. The stickies at the top of each page are a great way to find these.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
word...look and you shall find...
I just got my hands on the dinc. I am coming from a rooted D1. Unforuntulny the dinc has been updated and has s-on..
even searched for s-on Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. I love it lol...
Anyways, if i have read correctly if s-on is enabled, I am just SOL in rooting my phone and using custom roms,themes etc till someone finds a workaround , correct?
Also all my game and app data on my d1, anyway to move it over to the dinc?
Updated to GB 2.3.4 and S-On? If so, I found THIS thread a few days ago that seems to be working. Before you do any of that..make sure your SD card is formatted to FAT32.
Apps yes...you can move those over to your Inc. Data would not be a good idea. The data is from a totally different phone so you would cause a lot of issues by doing restoring any app data. My friend who moved on to an Inc from a DX tried to do it and got FC's all over the place.
Good luck and enjoy your new phone!
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Updated to GB 2.3.4 and S-On? If so, I found a thread a few days ago that seems to be working. Before you do any of that..make sure your SD card is formatted to FAT32.
Apps yes...you can move those over to your Inc. Data would not be a good idea. The data is from a totally different phone so you would cause a lot of issues by doing restoring any app data. My friend who moved on to an Inc from a DX tried to do it and got FC's all over the place.
Good luck and enjoy your new phone!
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Thanks for the link, everything i found was s-off only..
As for backing up info,example, all my game progress will be lost? what would be the process to do this? Guessing the phone would need to be rooted?
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Thanks for the link, everything i found was s-off only..
As for backing up info,example, all my game progress will be lost? what would be the process to do this? Guessing the phone would need to be rooted?
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I looked that over and it looked like it should get you back to s-off, rooted froyo. It's a LOT like the method jcase developed for the Tbolt before Revolutionary. If you can get s-off, you're good to go. Flash a custom recovery and flash a rooted ROM. Should be that simple.
thanks for the info!
Yeah, that thread works.
Thanks again guys, i got it to work last night.. Now i just need to decide on a rom? Any suggestions? I loved chevyNo1 on D1 :/
Your going to love the incredible compared to the og droid, everything is so much snappier, and battery life will increase too.
I'm not a sense guy at all but McD's ROMS are super nice.
I really liked chevy's ROMs too. CM7.1 stable and the latest incredikernel on 10/12 by Tiny will get you started in the right direction if you want to stick with AOSP or if you want something more barebones grab IncDeck 1.3 Final... I just went back to CM7.1 because I felt I got a little better batterylife.
Will give them a try. I did download cm7.1 and on re boot after install it gets stuck on the boot loader. Do I need to do a complete wipe or something ?
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Will give them a try. I did download cm7.1 and on re boot after install it gets stuck on the boot loader. Do I need to do a complete wipe or something ?
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Yeah, complete wipe is recommended if you're not coming from an earlier CM7.
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Yeah, complete wipe is recommended if you're not coming from an earlier CM7.
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Ok I'm a little rusty cause on the d1 I never had to wipe.. in the Rom manager just select clear and wipe and that should do the trick ? I got my games backed up so that isn't a issue. But all settings and such will be lost ,correct?
Thanks
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Ok I'm a little rusty cause on the d1 I never had to wipe.. in the Rom manager just select clear and wipe and that should do the trick ? I got my games backed up so that isn't a issue. But all settings and such will be lost ,correct?
Thanks
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Personally, I never use Rom Manager. I flash through recovery; if you use Rom Manager to reboot into recovery, do a factory reset from there and then flash and you should be good.
Ok cool.. thanks for the quick replies.
McD's ROMS i havent seen any of those. I loaded CM7.1 Very simliar to chevyno1's rom.. Trying something different, miui right now, its not bad, reminds me of the iphone though.. Any other suggestions?
I strongly recommend against ROM manager, too. Any dev worth his salt tends to recommend against flashing through ROM Manager because it doesn't seem to do what it's supposed to. It's been a problem child for a long time now. When performing functions done through recovery, it's best to go directly into recovery to perform them. I think the same can be said for the bootloader.
Sorry i meant clockwork, dont know why i keep on saying rom manager. Can anyone help me with roms or should i post a new post on it?
I kind of dig miui but dont like the sms keyboard layout. Its like cm7 and i really like the stock dinc set up. With my big fingers i get less typos with its set up.. Any suggestions?
Here is a list of Dinc ROMs. I personally recommend CM7, but if you like HTC Sense, go for Runny Revolution 3D. Great Sense ROM.
So my first time unlocking/rooting my Dinc2. Sorry for the noob questions but hey I am a noob. Is unlocking the same as rooting?
Quick synopsis.
1. The other night I get is unlocked and flash CM10.1 4.1.2 with correct Gapps, but it has too many bugs ie, weak signal, no 3G, wifi flakey.
I am not blaming the YT uploader but it would have been good to mention to noobs like me, to back up your stock ROM in the beginning of the video, before trying this, yes I am screwed no back up
2. So after a lot of searching XDA and other boards CM 7.2.0 was last supported so I did that and just get boot loops.
3. So I find one on XDA by condemed? and I follow directions and just get constant boot loops like CM7
What am I doing wrong? I need my phone back it's my only one.
1. Am I getting boot loops because this is a downgrade? I was so desperate I even formatted the SD card to remove any "conflicts" with previous ROM installs.
Here is a link to the stock ROM minus bloatware I am trying to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737494
Please any help or suggestions. TIA
Update-So I am trying to get the stock rom w/o bloatware to boot. Before it would go from HTC screen to VZ red eye back and forth, and now it is just stuck on red eye for about 10 minutes.
BeginningRooter said:
So my first time unlocking/rooting my Dinc2. Sorry for the noob questions but hey I am a noob. Is unlocking the same as rooting?
Quick synopsis.
1. The other night I get is unlocked and flash CM10.1 4.1.2 with correct Gapps, but it has too many bugs ie, weak signal, no 3G, wifi flakey.
I am not blaming the YT uploader but it would have been good to mention to noobs like me, to back up your stock ROM in the beginning of the video, before trying this, yes I am screwed no back up
2. So after a lot of searching XDA and other boards CM 7.2.0 was last supported so I did that and just get boot loops.
3. So I find one on XDA by condemed? and I follow directions and just get constant boot loops like CM7
What am I doing wrong? I need my phone back it's my only one.
1. Am I getting boot loops because this is a downgrade? I was so desperate I even formatted the SD card to remove any "conflicts" with previous ROM installs.
Here is a link to the stock ROM minus bloatware I am trying to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737494
Please any help or suggestions. TIA
Update-So I am trying to get the stock rom w/o bloatware to boot. Before it would go from HTC screen to VZ red eye back and forth, and now it is just stuck on red eye for about 10 minutes.
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Never mind couldn't wait just went back and flashed CM10 for dinc2 works now with bugs, hope to find a working camera
Update ur radio..n used my sdw wipe script then flash your desired ROM..cm10.1 n up all have working cams
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