Hi I'm a way to get back to gingerbread stock with root and Cwm. I'm running the ICS beta but it's draining the battery like mad on occasion.
Need some normality! As close to stock as possible but with root and Cwm.
Thanks
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Just flash a stock rom with flashtool, then use fastboot to boot doomlords kernel.
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sinkster said:
Just flash a stock rom with flashtool, then use fastboot to boot doomlords kernel.
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Won't I lose CWM?
I don't really want a 3rd party kernel, I want stock..
As I have a unlocked bootloader, I am thinking (hoping), it's just a case of flashing a new boot.img using fastboot and then loading a root filesystem using CWM. Which was the way I loaded ICS, and was pretty simple and painless.
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With x10 we had a recovery menu where we cud try new roms and back up our current roms and go back to the backed up ones. Is this possible with arc? My phone has opened bootloader but I only ever seemed to access the recovery when trying out cm7.0 and after it was gone when flashing stock rom back.
Yes just flash the doomlord kernel and you will get recovery
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what if I want stock kernal without all the changes but want recovery?
soldiers33 said:
what if I want stock kernal without all the changes but want recovery?
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then you will have to connect it to a pc/laptop each time to boot into it via fastboot.
So I would need to run the kernal as boot?
Ok, I have the play, r800ra, i flashed the r800a stock modified rom to it. Now I am assuming from everything I have read since I have a locked bootloader there is no possible way for me to get to cm7. I cant flash a custom kernal or anything like that. I have to stick to the stock roms. Or can I flash custom kernals and then flash custom roms? Any help is appreciated.
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Ok, I have the play, r800ra, i flashed the r800a stock modified rom to it. Now I am assuming from everything I have read since I have a locked bootloader there is no possible way for me to get to cm7. I cant flash a custom kernal or anything like that. I have to stick to the stock roms. Or can I flash custom kernals and then flash custom roms? Any help is appreciated.
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With a locked bootloader,you can't flash anything.How did you even flash the modified ROM anyway?
Anyway,its best if you flash kernels,then the ROMs,in my opinion.
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I just used that flash utitlty and flashed the rom I downloaded. Gave me the erickson generic rom.
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I just used that flash utitlty and flashed the rom I downloaded. Gave me the erickson generic rom.
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Hmm I couldn't flash anything when my bootloader was locked so I just had to use SEMC for stock updates and with a locked bootloader I couldn't do anything else but root.
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Hi, I have a unbranded, unlocked Arc S, running ICS, and I want to flash the 4.04 image, which comes as a CWM zip.
Everything is currently stock but rooted.
The 4.04 update is a ZIP (rather than a FTF), so I think I need CWM installed to flash the update. I can't find anything that tells me how.
I found a easy installer, but it categorically says don't use it with ICS.
HELP!!!
CWM Auto-Installer
Try CWM auto-installer, you can find it in Play Store and it worked to me.
Look in the dev section for the stock ics kernel with cwm is the simplest way.
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Use fastboot to boot either a custom kernel like ArcNight or DoomKernel, or cobratos modded stock. They contain cwm, on boot repeatedly press any of the h/w keys to enter cwm and flash the zip on the sdcard.
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Look in the dev section for the stock ics kernel with cwm is the simplest way.
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I only ever found the old beta kernel for ICS, not the final one. Got a link?
I tried the auto CWM installer, and yes it did install onto stock ICS, and I managed to install the 4.04 ZIP, but now it just hangs on the Sony startup screen.
Any advice on how to get back to something that works?
Sorry I haven't looked at that Rom as it's a dev Rom thats been ported, before installing that Rom did you make a cwm backup? Otherwise you install another Rom.
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CrazyPeter said:
I only ever found the old beta kernel for ICS, not the final one. Got a link?
I tried the auto CWM installer, and yes it did install onto stock ICS, and I managed to install the 4.04 ZIP, but now it just hangs on the Sony startup screen.
Any advice on how to get back to something that works?
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Before flashing a ics rom in zip format you need to flash a complete ics (ftf file) via flashtool /pc companion /seus.
Hey guys, I tried to install this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591279
Which seemed to work as phone was working 100% and was booting up faster
But if I rebooted no blue light would come one and I couldn't go into cwm
So then I tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680793
which wouldn't even boot at all
I'm runny stock 4.0.4 (4.1.B.0.431) with various mods but nothing that should affect kernel
and yes my bootloader is unlocked
thanks
Hi Mate,
If you want to use the stock kernel you could flash the stock kernel using flashtool, root it, then run this program:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5wdnkuQ1dNaW5zdGFsZXIiXQ..
On the other hand, you could just flash a custom kernel like ArcNight or infamous
Jon565G said:
Hi Mate,
If you want to use the stock kernel you could flash the stock kernel using flashtool, root it, then run this program:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5wdnkuQ1dNaW5zdGFsZXIiXQ..
On the other hand, you could just flash a custom kernel like ArcNight or infamous
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hey thanks,
I've known about the x-parts cwm for a while but i have 2 issues with it
1. i don't currently have a wifi router
2. it's not built into kernel so not as reliable
and i've tried archknight but i find the stock is faster
Please guide me after update of firmware to 6.1.A.2.452 I will loose root?.Can I flash another firmware for stock custom rom via flashtool without unlocked bootloader?.Can I unlock my bootloader after the update?Which is the best stock custom rom and other custom rom which is easy to install & better than stock rom
Rooted 4.0.4 rom with locked bootloader
6.1.A.0.452
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Something easy is flash your new firmware and use a kernel like "Advanced Stock ICS Kernel" to root and finally reflash your stock kernel if your want its improvements, you can unlock your bootloader anytime, and the best custom room is Cyanogen, it just needs to flash an file in recovery mode.
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Something easy is flash your new firmware and use a kernel like "Advanced Stock ICS Kernel" to root and finally reflash your stock kernel if your want its improvements, you can unlock your bootloader anytime, and the best custom room is Cyanogen, it just needs to flash an file in recovery mode.
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First I need to flash new firmware then unlock bootloader and flash new kernel?
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