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How to upgrade from CM7 RC3 to final release?

I saw that the final release of cm7 came out and I'm super excited for it! I've been running RC3 for awhile and it's been working fine, but there have been some issues that I would like to have fixed with the update.
My question is: Is there a way to update the rom without losing all of my data or having to do a full wipe?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

You wont need to do a full wipe, just download the ROM to your sd card, boot in to recovery and do a nandroid backup. Then select wipe cache. Once that has finished head to advanced and select wipe dalvik cache (some people say to do this some don't, I do) then flash the ROM.
You will only lose all your apps and setting if you select wipe data, you only need to do this if you are have serious issues that cant be fixed by any other means. Or if you changing to a completely different ROM.
And remember to do a nandroid before touching anything else in the recovery menu

That's it? Awesome! I know what I'll be doing tonight.

Or you can just do it from rom manager and not check the wipe data. I swear some of you just like taking the long way.
Always do a nandroid?No. Nandroid your original rom? YES. Nandroid custom rom? Only if you like it..but to do a nandroid every single time you flash new rom is ****
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Spastic909 said:
Or you can just do it from rom manager and not check the wipe data. I swear some of you just like taking the long way.
Always do a nandroid?No. Nandroid your original rom? YES. Nandroid custom rom? Only if you like it..but to do a nandroid every single time you flash new rom is ****
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ROM Manager can some time cause issues when you flash directly from the app, Some people prefer to do it manually. Ok it might not be totally necessary to wipe the cache's between flashes but does really hurt?
And I resent you saying that doing a nandroid is "F'in Retarded" how frequently do we see people on these forums who have flashed something there not supposed and there most recent backup was weeks ago. It never hurts to do a nandroid it adds 5 minutes to the total time it takes flash something.
As some one who does do a nandroid every time I take your insult personally. And that sort of language is not appropriate in a forum where people of all ages can view.

LOL i don't even have a nandroid of my original ROM. I just got 1 image of RC4...

So I wanted to be 'better off safe than sorry', and I did a nandroid backup (using the latest CWM) before doing a CM7 RC3 -> CM7 Final non-full data wipe upgrade. I had a bunch of problems from the get go, and wanted to revert back to my RC3 backup as I didn't have time to fiddle with everything to get it tweaked from scratch...
However I can't for the life of me get Clockwork to recover my backup. It stops half way through and I'm left sitting at the main orange menu with no confirmation or details on what happened.
Any thoughts?

cjward23 said:
Glad its not just be with this mentality. Better to be safe than sorry. I haven't had to start from scratch since the first nightly, because I all ways have a recent nandroid, some times things do go wrong.
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I did the backup (2 actually) and just installed the update. Everything seems totally fine so far and I'm really happy with it! Seriously stepping up to cm7 has made my G2 go from a decent phone with a nice keyboard to a flipping fantastic phone!
Many thanks!

raitchison said:
Your definition of *** seems to be basically the opposite of mine. What if an update breaks something (especially if you are cutting corners by not wiping or by using ROM manager) if you don't have a nandroid of your phone before you flashed that update you are screwed, you will need to start over from scratch.
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Yeah, I agree with you completely. Doing a nandroid takes 5 minutes. Then later you can just move it to your desktop computer, to not take up space on your SD card. I have 3 TB of storage on my desktop, so no worries about saving as many nandroid backups as I feel like.
I've seen random issues pop up on my phone for no obvious reason, with no clear fix. But reverting to a nandroid cleared it up.
Really no reason NOT to do it.

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?

Beezwhammer said:
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

Beezwhammer said:
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.

[Q] CWM recovery and the DHD

Hi guys.
I have some question, mostly out of interest really that may help me understand flashing etal better.
When in CWM recovery, if I want to flash a new ROM, I use a fullwipe.zip that I found on this site, to, well, wipe the phone
The last thing wipe.zip says is make sure you install a new ROM.
Now, as I have, afaik, performed a full wipe, if I were to reboot after the wipe and before flashing a new ROM, would I brick the phone, or would it just boot into bootloader etc...
Would CWM recovery still be present on the phone after the wipe is it just running in ram or something?
I also have a load of other questions. But they can wait.
Cheers dudes.
Greg.
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I've never done this, so I'm curious to know what happens exactly.
But as far as i'm aware if you were to boot the phone without a rom installed, you would just get a blank screen or maybe the splash screen. Recovery stays installed, which is good news because you need to get back there to install a rom or the phone won't work. So to do that you would have to plug the phone in and use adb to get back to recovery with "adb reboot recovery" or if that doesn't work, pull the battery, hold vol down + power to get to bootloader and then get to recovery that way to install a rom.

If you run the phone without os you get stuck in a bootloop i think. After that not sure what happeness. It's always easier to install 4EXT recovery, dowload any ROM you like from here and flash through 4EXT. No need for any full wipe scripts since a full wipe is format data/system/cache, erase dalvik which is very simple in 4EXT.
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answer on your question:
CWM still works, even if you flashed a fullwipe or "superwipe".
But, i just want you to know, that you get other problems if you tried to unlocked your bootloader via htcdev, within flashin new roms.

Lol i dont get it,you wiped her,why would you want to blast off into oblivion
Interesting though,rather start picking my rom out?
Theres so much choice now
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If you do that you will be stuck in boot loop as no OS is installed and yes you will still have CWM available. To get out of the boot loop just remove the battery. And then just press vol down and power to get into hboot and then you can get into recovery from there.
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arknailed7754 said:
Lol i dont get it,you wiped her,why would you want to blast off into oblivion
Interesting though,rather start picking my rom out?
Theres so much choice now
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Hey dude. It was purely out of interest.
I was thinking about this after i flashed the LC ICS ROM.
I used CWM to full wipe and flash the new rom zip, but it seemed to install very quickly.
So quickly in fact I thought that it couldn't have installed correctly.
I didn't want to reboot incase the rom hadn't taken and I bricked my DHD so I ended up restoring a nandroid backup I'd made before wiping the phone.
But if CWM recovery would remain on the phone even after a wipe, then I can take the gamble that it had installed.
Cheers for your answers dudes.

TeamDraven said:
Hey dude. It was purely out of interest.
I was thinking about this after i flashed the LC ICS ROM.
I used CWM to full wipe and flash the new rom zip, but it seemed to install very quickly.
So quickly in fact I thought that it couldn't have installed correctly.
I didn't want to reboot incase the rom hadn't taken and I bricked my DHD so I ended up restoring a nandroid backup I'd made before wiping the phone.
But if CWM recovery would remain on the phone even after a wipe, then I can take the gamble that it had installed.
Cheers for your answers dudes.
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Lords ICS does install pretty fast. But it just works... so there's little/no risk there. I try to always do a full wipe before installing but lately with his builds, I've only been wiping dalvik and cache and updating with the newest build. If something doesn't work, then I wipe and see if I get the same behavior with a full wipe. Multiple Nandroid backup points let me restore to whatever point in time that I want. It's a great approach.
Best of luck and have fun!

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Lords ICS does install pretty fast. But it just works... so there's little/no risk there. I try to always do a full wipe before installing but lately with his builds, I've only been wiping dalvik and cache and updating with the newest build. If something doesn't work, then I wipe and see if I get the same behavior with a full wipe. Multiple Nandroid backup points let me restore to whatever point in time that I want. It's a great approach.
Best of luck and have fun!
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Cheers dude.
I just flashed it onto my DHD.
Runs well, the otly first poopy impression I have is the pictures from the camera!
Any suggestion on a 3rd party Camera app?
Cheers.
Greg

I've found better luck with Pudding Camera and Camera 360. For me, the camera is the only hit or miss item atm. Folks have been posting ideas to get it working right, such as disabling the flash or putting it in burst mode with on 1 photos set. Also try clearing the data from the app too. Peruse the development thread... There's a lot of camera tweaks being offered here and there.
Another note, video is also problematic in the rom too... Really, so long as I can scan barcodes using amazon, I can get by otherwise. I look forward to your thoughts as you dig in... More updates are coming daily from Lord!
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Hey dude.
The camera is a real deal breaker for me. With two kids and one on the way I want a good camera and camcorder.
Cheers for your comments though guys.
Greg.

Cycle Reboot issue after Killing Task

Hi,
Two nights ago my wonder became very slow and task killing, unlike usual, didnt help. So i decided to take deeper action and using zedbox, i chose system programs (via root) and ended almost all the tasks (system and non system). I had done this before and i didnt have any problems but, this time the system started rebooting. It keeps rebooting as soon as i stop using it or make a call, so i literally cannot keep it on; it is Cycle Rebooting.
What do i do?
Thanks in advance

You might have accidentally removed or changed a certain periodic settings.
Certain programs or processes tends to run not at all times but at certain time and month only.
Try to wipe dalvik and cache. Then reflash your ROM and gapps(if needed). (this is if you're using Custom ROM's)
If it is stock ROM. Simply do a restore using ODIN.
Then use seeders in your device to reduce lag.

KiD3991 said:
You might have accidentally removed or changed a certain periodic settings.
Certain programs or processes tends to run not at all times but at certain time and month only.
Try to wipe dalvik and cache. Then reflash your ROM and gapps(if needed). (this is if you're using Custom ROM's)
If it is stock ROM. Simply do a restore using ODIN.
Then use seeders in your device to reduce lag.
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Thanks. By "restore" do you mean i install Stock Rom from scratch once again?
And what do you mean by "seeders" which reduce my lag? Can you link me pls.
Thankyou

sevenmad said:
Thanks. By "restore" do you mean i install Stock Rom from scratch once again?
And what do you mean by "seeders" which reduce my lag? Can you link me pls.
Thankyou
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If you're using CM9 based or CM10 based. Just reflash it and wipe dalvik and cache.
If you're using Stock GB ROM (original samsung) restore using ODIN.
Seeders can be found in the General Section of Galaxy W.

KiD3991 said:
If you're using CM9 based or CM10 based. Just reflash it and wipe dalvik and cache.
If you're using Stock GB ROM (original samsung) restore using ODIN.
Seeders can be found in the General Section of Galaxy W.
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i dont understand. Are you saying i should install stock rom via odin once again?
Can you link me to a detailed tutorial pls? Thanks

Link here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467128
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omg. i just fell into a worse situation! I used ODIN to restore but its locked on the final samsung logo and keeps showing the boot animation on and on and on and on....
Odin gives pass saying i should disconnect serial port but im stuck in that repeating wormhole!! I've lost CWM recovery as well!! What do i do now?!!

well i guess i can say the prblm is solved. This is what i did, if you have a better opinion state it here so others can use if need be in the future:
I took out the battery bcuz there was no other way to turn off the phone, then i went into stock recovery, deleted cache partition and did a factory restore... and now im back with a new stock rom!... well im gonna have to install everything once again...
guys... remember! Never touch smth unless you know what ur doing and ALWAYS backup... sigh. Thanks for the help everyone

sevenmad said:
well i guess i can say the prblm is solved. This is what i did, if you have a better opinion state it here so others can use if need be in the future:
I took out the battery bcuz there was no other way to turn off the phone, then i went into stock recovery, deleted cache partition and did a factory restore... and now im back with a new stock rom!... well im gonna have to install everything once again...
guys... remember! Never touch smth unless you know what ur doing and ALWAYS backup... sigh. Thanks for the help everyone
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Hmmm. Usually that should work. But its a good experience for everyone. Thanks for the feedback. Will look through it once again.

jedi mind trick jb

Any thoughts on the new jedi mind trick rom? Any screenshots?

funbulton said:
Any thoughts on the new jedi mind trick rom? Any screenshots?
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The new link was just put up a few minutes ago give peeps some time

funbulton said:
Any thoughts on the new jedi mind trick rom? Any screenshots?
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You can easily flash it and report back to yourself. Make a nandroid first though lol
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I've been flashing a lotta new roms lately so just seeing if I'd wanna flash this one or not

Screenshots are up on page 784 of the thread. I'm downloading it now so no other impressions. Looks good though.

I am using JB 4.1.2, Jedi Mind Trick JB2 build with the beta kernel as a DD. Prior to I was using JMT X4 and this is much nicer IMO.
No issues on my end and all working as it should except for what dev knows about and is working on but those are not show stoppers for me.

Try it you will like it but follow directions
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Any thoughts on the new jedi mind trick rom? Any screenshots?
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I have been flashing roms since the original droid and have made many mistakes, even when I thought I knew exactly what I was doing. That said, after not following the instructions to the letter and having issues, I did follow them and "walla" NO problems. I found that letting it sit the full 10 minutes and using app2zip for program restore works perfectly. Don't theme or modify for a while, let it get use to the new rom. It is smooth, fast and stable.

there are issues with JMT 2.1
there was a lot of SOD=Sleep of Death issues
and cannot get past boot screen issues...
I went back to 1.1 for now and seems good...
btw... there is news of a new kernel version to come out tonight...
see this page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818305&page=845
hope this helped m8

Running good over here just the battery is killing me
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esema1o said:
Running good over here just the battery is killing me
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That shouldn't really be happening. I used to run the Jedi Jelly 5 and that was from a leak and my phone lasted 24 hours at minimum. Get some wakelock apps and see why your phone isn't sleeping.

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its pretty nice i like it

Loved JediKnight 6. Just waiting for it to be as smooth. Hopefully there will be a 5*5 display option. Until then I am on stock JB.
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Just updated the rom today, works REALLY well.Most Buttery smooth stock-ish rom I've ever played with. If I didn't know better, I'd say it had v6 baked in. Or at least some of the edits.
I'd highly recommend it if you're looking for a stock rom, debloated, and running stable. Has Vol Wake mod, which I personally hate, but it's honestly not that bad as far as battery.
Stock battery and moderate usage I can last all day before having to throw it on the charger. By moderate, I mean a few hours of Memedroid, XDA, and Chrome. Perhaps an hour or two of gaming and some phone calls with a bit of texting.

JMT JB3 is out as of yesterday
It's running super smooth seems all good
the toggles even work now
only thing is the little battery glitch
where when fully charged you pull out at 100%
and it drops to 97% or 96% instantly
I am sure ptmr3 will fix that soon

This bug is universal with tmo jellybean roms
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I've had no issue with battery. Then again my phone is new so maybe my battery hadn't gone through heavy usage like you guys.
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I'm on JMTv6 haven't flashed in a long time and trying to update to JMT JB.
I think everyone else seems to know what they're doing, so there arent any detailed tutorials but could you guys elaborate on these for a noob:
TWRP Recovery Recommended! Downloaded and it downloaded some script recovery...what else do I have to do?
ALWAYS FULL WIPE! - how? do I need some darkside wipe script through CWM?
-Download ROM - done
-Backup your apps with preferred method(app2zip is great) - done
-Nandroid - what is this? how do i download/use it?
-Wipe data ( factory data reset) - in CWM recovery?
-Wipe system (Format system (in mounts/storage) if on CWM) - same as above?
-DO NOT RESTORE DATA!!! - uhhh...then how do I get my stuff back?

stryder1587 said:
I'm on JMTv6 haven't flashed in a long time and trying to update to JMT JB.
I think everyone else seems to know what they're doing, so there arent any detailed tutorials but could you guys elaborate on these for a noob:
TWRP Recovery Recommended! Downloaded and it downloaded some script recovery...what else do I have to do?
ALWAYS FULL WIPE! - how? do I need some darkside wipe script through CWM?
-Download ROM - done
-Backup your apps with preferred method(app2zip is great) - done
-Nandroid - what is this? how do i download/use it?
-Wipe data ( factory data reset) - in CWM recovery?
-Wipe system (Format system (in mounts/storage) if on CWM) - same as above?
-DO NOT RESTORE DATA!!! - uhhh...then how do I get my stuff back?
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Download goo manager, go to menu and install recovery alternative, that will give you twrp.
Full wipe is an old term that refers to wiping everything. Twrp handles most of the wiping upon flashing. All you need to do is a factory reset, then flash the ROM off your choice. A dalvik and cache wipe after its optional, but not required. Though has been known to prevent issues.
Nandroid means to backup your current ROM. It's literally a snapshot of your current phone setup. Including apps, settings, and ROM. You can restore any time you want and it will be like you never left. It's built into recovery, just select backup/restore
Some ROMs don't want you to restore data. Jmt says it to prevent conflicting data. I don't see how it could hurt as long as it's just apps and not system apps, I'll have to test this, but basically, it means don't restore your data partition from a previous Nandroid. Titanium backups are fine to restore.
Any other questions just pm me. Writing this from my phone so if I forgot something let me know
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I was okay with it. The drop down status bar was to ugly for me so I switched to hellybean 4.1.2.
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battery?
I came back to the jmt jb ROM after leaving the ICS version for AOKP mr1 builds and the Sons of Androids ROMS (which both frickin rock! btw). But when I returned to the jb version of jmt, v3 to be exact, I found it drained my battery VERY fast. Anyone else having this issue? Am I just spoiled by the customization freedom of the Sons of Android?