Hi Guys,
One thing I would like to know, before flashing a new ROM can I somehow save/backup my complete ROM so that I am able to restore it when I am not satisfied?
Not PIMBackup - complete ROM
Thanks,
Boris03
No save it, but if you look you will probably find the original ROM that you had on your phone somewhere around here.
But once you have used a cooked ROM, you wont want to go back .
I think he means after he has tweaked it and put his own apps on. Takes me nearly an hour and countless soft-resets to get it how i want it!
Is there a way to copy our ROMs once we have them how we want em?
I'm learning to dig around in Android and start customizing things. I've run into a couple questions I thought I'd post and see if the more experienced guys can point me in the right direction. It's worth noting that I'm brand new to the Android platform. I'm not inexperienced with programming at all, and I'm more than willing to do the research and legwork required.
1) I'm looking to edit my services.jar to remove the clock and alarm icon in the status bar (following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780614). Since the stock ROM is odexed, I don't have a classes.dex file to mess with. What's the best way to proceed? Should I manually deodex my phone (by following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765270 in order to be able to make the changes, or is there another way to do it?
EDIT: I might have found another way to accomplish this here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11460654. **Doesn't work** screen goes blank after boot animation (still accessible via adb though, odd)
2) Going back to the stock kernel from zedomax v3 (to get root on stock) I lost jerdog's boot animation. I also obviously lost CWM. Am I able to rename his mod to update.zip and use the built in recovery? Can you even run custom boot animations on the stock kernel?
Cheers
Another question that popped into my head recently: can you mix and match nandroid backups? For instance, if I want CWM on the rooted stock kernel, could I just slap the recovery.img from a backup of zedomax v3 into the backup of my rooted stock setup?
so i have the bell pay as you go edition of the gio
and when i got it, i just uninstalled as much crap as i could
one of those happen to be 'Talk', which i now discovered is google talk (thought the app was called gtalk)
uninstalling it makes it disappear forever and you cannot find it in the market
in addition to that, i uninstalled whatever app/service needed to run live wallpapers
so if someone could rip/backup those apps and upload it here, many thanks
(i tried installing the talk apk on it's own, and the talk service apks, it does not like me install for some reason)
last question is,
any 5660m users got adobe flash running, i tried the stand alone armv6 apk, installed it, and does nothing
the other flash apk with loading the lib files into the root dir, i have not tried, if i can get the standalone apk working, i'd rather do that
any other tips for the 5660m would be great
thanks
edit - see post #9 (need help with stock browser)
Promise you'll back things up the next time?
Look at my stock rooted ROM for the files you shouldn't have deleted. You should be able to read (not write, at least not in a way the phone can handle) the RFS partitions with MagicISO among others. (Basically any program capable of handling FAT partition images.)
ADB push back the files into place, make sure their permissions are correct.
Can't help you for Flash, I've never tried it myself and my Gio is out of order for the time being.
For flash you need root and push LIB files to /data/data/com.adobeflash***/lib ant set permissions
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Darkshado said:
Promise you'll back things up the next time?
Look at my stock rooted ROM for the files you shouldn't have deleted. You should be able to read (not write, at least not in a way the phone can handle) the RFS partitions with MagicISO among others. (Basically any program capable of handling FAT partition images.)
ADB push back the files into place, make sure their permissions are correct.
Can't help you for Flash, I've never tried it myself and my Gio is out of order for the time being.
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so this is something i cant just grab someone's titaniumbackup files and install?
That too, if you have another rooted Gio at your disposal. I answered based the info I got.
ya, sorry, that's sorta what i meant in the first post,
i was actually asking for someone's to backup the gtalk/talk service/app and the live wallpaper service/app with titanium backup and upload it
if someone could do that for me, much appreciated
Try this and let me know if it works.
View attachment TitaniumBackup.rar
thanks, that did the trick
additionally i want to ask:
is the reason 5660m incompatible with most of the custom roms is the slight difference in hardware?
if i were to change microsd card, is a drag and drop to the new card sufficient or are there hidden/protected files that cannot be copied
lastly,
if i were to update the rom/install custom rom, is there any way to back up settings and apps or would i have to do stuff all over again?
gonna bump this again,
I need the stock browser this time, if someone would kindly back up from titanium backup
i'm just testing some compatibilities on certain websites
anonxlg said:
gonna bump this again,
I need the stock browser this time, if someone would kindly back up from titanium backup
i'm just testing some compatibilities on certain websites
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Enjoy.
FusiveR said:
Enjoy.
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finally got around, i tried installing it, doesnt work
it starts installing, then resets and browser does not appear in app list
tried both app and app+data
anonxlg said:
thanks, that did the trick
additionally i want to ask:
is the reason 5660m incompatible with most of the custom roms is the slight difference in hardware?
if i were to change microsd card, is a drag and drop to the new card sufficient or are there hidden/protected files that cannot be copied
lastly,
if i were to update the rom/install custom rom, is there any way to back up settings and apps or would i have to do stuff all over again?
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Only the roms flashed from Odin usually aren't compatible with our phone anything else such as CM7.1, CM7.2, CM9, and all the other roms able to be flashed from
Recovery mode are mostly compatible with our version of gio hope I helped
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What isn't compatible are the baseband and the bootloaders.
As long as an Odin-flashable ROM contains only system and boot.img you're in the clear. This is mostly a problem with early Europe/Asia 5660 ROMs.
Drag and dropping your files to the new SD card should do the trick. Hidden files and folders for Android (and Linux) have a dot at the beginning of their name, e.g.: /.android_secure/ and by default there shouldn't be any files with the FAT32 "hidden" attribute set on the SD card. The settings of your Windows Explorer will influence whether or not the latter copy over or not.
Backing up your applications and their settings can be done by applications like Titanium Backup. Most should transfer well from one ROM "family" to another. (As in: from stock to CM7, or CM7 to CM9, or CM9 to stock...) Your mileage will vary if you try to transfer system apps, or system settings.
so why do you (have to?) use odin, i thought there is CWM for gio, isnt that better than odin?
and still looking for a titanium backup of stock browser
maybe i should just install the ics rc
anonxlg said:
thanks, that did the trick
additionally i want to ask:
is the reason 5660m incompatible with most of the custom roms is the slight difference in hardware?
if i were to change microsd card, is a drag and drop to the new card sufficient or are there hidden/protected files that cannot be copied
lastly,
if i were to update the rom/install custom rom, is there any way to back up settings and apps or would i have to do stuff all over again?
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I dunno what you are talking about, My canadian Gt-S5660M runs all custom firmwares, kernels, scripts etc just fine.
Odin and CWM are different and each serves their purpose.
Odin works with the lower level Download Mode, and can recover from situations CWM can't. It is also the usual way to install CWM in the first place. (You could also do it with a clever dd command on a rooted phone.) It is however cloakware, undocumented, difficult to install, buggy at times and just quirky overall.
CWM is more stable, doesn't require a computer to run, and is generally much safer to use.
AlwaysDroid: If you look at very early posts about the 5660M, many users encountered major issues after flashing European 5660 ROMs. Screen brightness all over the place and no network connection.
The problem was that those ROMs were Odin flashable "One Package" files that contained bootloaders and radio images as well. Those files were required for users upgrading from Froyo to Gingerbread, as stock Gio 5660s were also sold with 2.2 unlike the 5660M.
to make things easier i renamed the actual backup folder to tmobile stock, im currently running avatar roms, which i dont like , and wanna go back to my backup rom but now it is saying md5 mismatched, does anyone know how i can UNrename the folder to its default or there is no way?
If you put spaces in the backup name just take them out and try again. It should work then.
Example: tmobile stock should be tmobilestock.
Hi im playing around with some different custom roms and trying to replace the default browser in the custom roms
thats located under system/app/browser.apk then pack firmware in new zip
however when ive replaced it and install firmware "browser stoppes" without starting up correctly im guessing this is something
to do with r/w rights in the system, where can i alter in custom rom so it accept the new browser as default and give it read and write
priviligies? to clearify i want to alter inside the custom zip not directly in the phone after installation
Sincerally
Ztealmax