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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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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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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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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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I can't find on on the Evo forums. I'd appreciate it. Thanks
U have to flash them from recocery
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I assume this is what you are looking for? That's not an apk, as Javi said, its flashed from recovery.
CyanogenMod 6: http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/6/hdpi/
CyanogenMod 7: http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/7/universal/
Download to SD card, reboot to recovery, turn on signature verification, flash, enjoy.
drmacinyasha said:
CyanogenMod 6: http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/6/hdpi/
CyanogenMod 7: http://goo-inside.me/gapps/latest/7/universal/
Download to SD card, reboot to recovery, turn on signature verification, flash, enjoy.
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Yea sorry people I meant the zip folder and I usually use rom manage to install it. I seriously couldn't find it anywhere...I suck ha but thanks though. Much appreciated!
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Philyteach said:
I assume this is what you are looking for? That's not an apk, as Javi said, its flashed from recovery.
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Thank you to
Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
McFroger3 said:
Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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newtoroot said:
Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Yea...I forgot to mention, that doesn't work either. It will download, then flash it, but upon boot to recovery, its the old recovery.
Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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newtoroot said:
Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/
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Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/
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No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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newtoroot said:
No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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Indeed it did, I would then open winrar, and just drop the new .img file in and overwrite the old one. Maybe I should make a new zip file and add the other config file or whatever it is to the new zip. Otherwise, I am SOL lol.
That's where you are messing up..... give me a min and ill get you the right file
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Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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newtoroot said:
Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.
McFroger3 said:
Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.
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It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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newtoroot said:
Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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newtoroot said:
It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
MedleHed said:
Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.
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No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.
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It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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newtoroot said:
It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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I was just thinking that, I am going to backup the SD and reformat.
Ok let me know....
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Ok let me know....
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Still not working, just does checking the zip and then goes back to hboot. I am going to try formating the internal memory, and put a copy on there and see if that does anything. Would having S-ON have anything to do with my problem?
Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.
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Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.
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Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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Its alright, thank you for the help!
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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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
Hey guys hopefully someone can help me with this issue. I odin'd tp the stock ext4 plus rom in the development forum which works fine however then i flashed genocide 1.0 rom over the top if that to get the OC/UV features and when i booted i got the word "android" in the middle of the sprint boot animation then i flash a custom boot animation now the sprint and custom boot animations are mixed together when booting any suggestions to get rid of sprint animation?
Whenever you have android flashing in the middle, that means you had a bad flash. Just pull the battery and reflash the ROM/kernel in CWM and you should be fine.
acer1096xxx said:
Whenever you have android flashing in the middle, that means you had a bad flash. Just pull the battery and reflash the ROM/kernel in CWM and you should be fine.
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Not true when u have the android name flashing it means it supports custom boot animation. Best bet is to get root explore go into system/ media. Look for bootanimation.zip and delete it then flash the new one
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Estewa_619 said:
Not true when u have the android name flashing it means it supports custom boot animation. Best bet is to get root explore go into system/ media. Look for bootanimation.zip and delete it then flash the new one
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No go brother any other ideas besides reflashing?
justinglock40 said:
No go brother any other ideas besides reflashing?
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Try taking a bootanimation from a rom that u like and push it to system/media. For example download a rom extract it go into the system/media folder look for the bootanimation.zip copy that put it on ur sd card then with root explore take it and copy it to ur system/media then reboot see if that works
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Estewa_619 said:
Not true when u have the android name flashing it means it supports custom boot animation. Best bet is to get root explore go into system/ media. Look for bootanimation.zip and delete it then flash the new one
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Really?? Then I'm confused because the first time I flashed SRF it flashed the android name while trying to boot. Just re-flashing the ROM fixed it. I thought this was the same situation.
acer1096xxx said:
Really?? Then I'm confused because the first time I flashed SRF it flashed the android name while trying to boot. Just re-flashing the ROM fixed it. I thought this was the same situation.
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Na it just means it custom bootanimation compatible
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just flash this stock boot animation cleaner which deletes the stock animation files so you dont have an overlap...
http://chris41g.users.foss-net.org/epic_stock_boot_cleaner.zip
then flash any bootanimation.zip you want, lots in the theme section.. here is the stock animation in bootanimation.aip form.. or as close as can be to the stock animation anyway...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=516330&stc=1&d=1297556826 (made by nubecoder)