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[Q] OK I am a noob and messed up

OK the last few days I finally rooted tried a few ROMS and seem to run into all sorts of issues that have got me to this point...
Redux: Home and Search Buttons stop working
CM7: Cannot get Marketplace
Oxygen: Will not load
Miui: Did not like it
Now I cannot clear Davlik Cache which I am sure is causing a lot of issues. I never made an original back up before all this.
Question: How do I clear all this crud off as if I never installed a ROM and was going to for the first time? How do I get access to Dalvik Cache? I just want CM7 or Redux to work and not have any issues but I obviously did something wrong at some points. If I clear all the contents off my SD card except the Redux install will I be free and clear? Or is there something in the phones internals I need to do also?
I am also tempted to just return it to complete stock and start all over if I have to. Any suggestions would be great and appreciated. If you need more info let me know....
TYIA

I have an evo so Idk your procedure to get to your recovery image but that's where u need to go when u rooted u should have installed one hopefully amon recovery then once u get into recovery there will be a wipe option then do all the wipe options and u will have a clean cache and be ready to install a new rom. And as far as cm7 goes with u not having a market u gotta make sure u flash the gapps after u boot into the rom so its a 2 part process. Im sure that if u search engine u can find a guide specific to your phone explaing how to access the recovery from a phone off state. But id guess that if u hold vol down while pressing power it will prolly pop up with the bootloader then u can pick recovery from the menu but Idk for sure cuz I don't have ur phone but im sure there is a guide for u if use a search engine
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have you been flashing each rom over the other without doing any wipes?

The first ROM or two I did without a wipe (noob)
I flashed GAPPS twice and still no market but all other Google Apps. Besides that CM7 was good. I did run into an issue where I could not sync with GMAIL but factory reset took care of that.
Also I am on Unrevoked

- For each flash it is better to wipe everything including "dalvik cache".
- Have you read the prerequisites of each ROM before flashing like recommended radio+RIL, S-Off+nand partition table (CM7, Bravo, etc.), and/or EXT partition/s?
It would be very wise to read/learn and ask around first before doing anything st*p*d which could brick your Desire.

Now...to have at least a working desire.
Flash a rooted stock ROM if you do not have any EXT partition.
[edit] or any simple A2SD+ ROM if you have an EXT partition on your SD-Card. Stay away from Data2EXT, Data2whatever, CM7, etc.at this point of time because you need to learn more first. [end of edit]
Learn more and flash the any ROM you want after proper preparations

Thanks..
Like I said though Dalvik cache will not get wiped as Recovery keeps telling me it cannot mount, but will mount the card.
One thing I never did was partition the SD card and its just one big mess. I think a lot of stuff has been installed on the actual Desire itself.

Clipse79 said:
Thanks..
Like I said though Dalvik cache will not get wiped as Recovery keeps telling me it cannot mount, but will mount the card.
One thing I never did was partition the SD card and its just one big mess. I think a lot of stuff has been installed on the actual Desire itself.
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Just wipe everything from recovery, and I would also wipe and reformat the sd.
Then you can flash whatever with no conflicts!

[Q] Looking for GAPPS download

Hey all, I downloaded and flashed MikG's ROM (Sense 2.1 and GB) - but it did not come with GAPPS. Is there a place to download the latest version of GAPPS for flashing onto the phone? Thanks.

You can go here
http://tinyurl.com/4yl4up9
Or, you could try rebooting your phone, normal. That worked for me.

bcarter2000 said:
You can go here
http://tinyurl.com/4yl4up9
Or, you could try rebooting your phone, normal. That worked for me.
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Your link shows plenty of download links for Gapps for CM. No mention of a general download for any 2.3-based ROM.
Also - how does rebooting your phone add something that isn't there? I'm really doubting your "lmgtfy" skills.

http://t3hh4xx0r.com/projects-2/omgb/evo/downloads
The Google apps are available for download here and designed for a ROM with the new update

I've seen this happen to others from not wiping there ext partition but I've read you could clear cache and dalvik cache and that might help not sure though never happened to me and I'm on that ROM and loving it.
Everything has been working for 3 days now.
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I wiped DATA: CACHE: and dalvik-cache before flashing the ROM. Was I supposed to flash ext data?
What if I wanted to revert back to my old ROM, would a wipe of the ext partition prevent me from going back via nandroid?

obscurenetworks said:
I wiped DATA: CACHE: and dalvik-cache before flashing the ROM. Was I supposed to flash ext data?
What if I wanted to revert back to my old ROM, would a wipe of the ext partition prevent me from going back via nandroid?
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Don't wipe your sd card just the ext sd if you have your card partitioned.
I don't use a partition but I've read about this happening to some PPL that don't wipe it.
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obscurenetworks said:
Your link shows plenty of download links for Gapps for CM. No mention of a general download for any 2.3-based ROM.
Also - how does rebooting your phone add something that isn't there? I'm really doubting your "lmgtfy" skills.
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If you would have clicked on the first search result, you would have found what you were looking for. Sorry I didn't do a search for you and then copy the link so you wouldn't waste your precious time. By the way, The new CM is based off of 2.3, I think you meant to say a sense based rom.
Anyway
I assumed you were like me and didn't wipe your ext3 partition. I assumed, and wrongly so. My apologies. All I can say is when I flashed Mik's2.3 I had no GAPPS or ext3 files showing up. I figured it had something to do with the dalvik cache not reading the partition. My guess would be that A2SD is not activated on initial boot. All I know for sure is that it works. I've just updated this morning to Miks new version, and the same thing happened. All i had to do was reboot, and they showed up.
P.S. You could at least thank the guy who did search it for you, and pasted a link to make it easy, but what am I thinking, if you won't bother to do a simple search, then why would you thank anyone that did it for you.

[q] {q} i just want sense!

Hello all!
I am currently running the lastest MIUI on my HTC desire.
However.... i so desperately want sense 3/3.5.
I cant get ANY of the roms to work! Most get stuck in a boot loop, even after flashing a boot loop fix zip file.
AND when they do finally get past the boot loop, they load with the boot image and the top bar (with the battery/signal etc etc.) and nothing more and I cant access anything.
When I first started flashing roms, i could just wipe data, cache, dalvik cache and flash a rom and it worked perfectly.
Now there is all these apps2SD, ext2/3/4 etc etc and i dont get it! and with no full wipe zip for desire, im obviously doing something wrong!
Can someone please tell me how to flash sense 3/3.5 in a nooby/easy way so i can stop stressing!!!
Many many thanks!

electric29 said:
Hello all!
When I first started flashing roms, i could just wipe data, cache, dalvik cache and flash a rom and it worked perfectly.
Now there is all these apps2SD, ext2/3/4 etc etc and i dont get it! and with no full wipe zip for desire, im obviously doing something wrong!
Many many thanks!
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Which ROM are you trying to flash?
and
Do you have an ext partition of any kind?

ive tried to flash the aurora ,cool sensation, kingdom and then the 3.5 ones, bliss, blissymeade etc. they all seem to get stuck. The aurora and blissymeade got past the boot loop, but still didnt load properly.
and not that i know of :/ how do you do that!? haha
thanks

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
Step 5...
It's a great guide, helped me out no end when I first rooted - and if you need a refresher
You'll need to create a fat32 main partition, and a ext4 second partition. Your second (ext4) partition can be any size but I'd recommend 1gb (big enough for most rom's).
All of the current newer sense rom's require an external partition to store the rom data on. I'd recommend a nandroid backup before you do anything, save any apps you've got by using Titanium backup from the market, and also save all of your sd card contents onto your pc so you'll have your pics and music etc.
(You can also make a partition other ways. ROM Manager can do it (but not recommended), and you can also do it in Recovery (or so I believe but I've always used GParted, like in the guide)).

Well if you bother to read the requirements you would know you need an ext partition.....
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zedmarcus - Thanks so much! thats just the kind of easy speak i need! i'll try it now
elliottg61- thanks for your help to...... not

No probs.
Don't forget the thanks.

follow these steps.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
it will make ur job easier
try insert coin

Why not follow the noob guides and then post a question if they dont work??

[Q] [I8150] Memory corruption?

Hi all,
Have anyone experienced memory corruption before? (I think that is what is it, or maybe it is mount point failure?)
The symptoms:
1) Every processes in the background force-close: Google Framework services, Titanium Backup etc.
2) Launching a program that saves anything will force-close.
3) Launching a program will ask you to reconfigure its settings again.
The fix is to reboot the phone, and everything will be working again.
I am running the latest custom ROM from cowithgun (w/o OC).
What kind of system log file I can view to see what actually happens?
Any help/clue is appreciated. Thanks.

before thinking your phone is broke I would suggest, take the latest stock Rom ,do a full wipe (also Dalvick cache) flash it and see if your problem is gone.
good luck

AdliHebat, do you have any info for us? Did you solve it? What was the culprit?

No. But i have not yet have a chance to revert stock rom yet. I am living with it right now. Need a reboot every day.
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_jis_ said:
AdliHebat, do you have any info for us? Did you solve it? What was the culprit?
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It has now become very irritating to me. I suspected corrupted memory card or something like that. The custom ROM is using swapped sdcard, and I guess my sdcard is not very good.
So I have:
1) Create Titanium backup
2) Copy back files i needed to my PC from my sdcard
3) flash back stock 2.3.6 ROM
4) Format Sdcard, format internal usb
5) Root using update.zip method
6) flash CWM
7) Clear cache, clear data, clear dalvik through CWM
8) Remove unnecessary apps and restore my apps/data from Titanium backup.
Seem stable so far.

If you suspect SD card corruption, you can use Mini-Tool to do surface test, it's free and can be used for loads of useful stuff.......
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Just some update.
I have tried
1) latest oc-COW ROM with sdcard swap -- problem still there. USB Storage unexpectedly removed.
2) latest oc-COW ROM with sdcard not swapped -- no longer USB Storage unexpectedly removed, but apps will start force close, and in some apps it is telling you database read-only.
3) Go back to stock ROM -- rooted of course. Stable for 2 days.
4) Flash only oc-kernel from latest COW ROM to my stock ROM. Starts to have apps force close after 2 hours.
5) Restore back my nandroid backup of step 4, so supped to be the same like step 4. Hopefully this will last..
So no luck for me on running custom ROM so far. (I did make my own custom ROM without tweaks--remove and add apps and seems stable, but what the point)
Waiting for my class 10 micro-SDcard...

AdliHebat said:
Just some update.
I have tried
1) latest oc-COW ROM with sdcard swap -- problem still there. USB Storage unexpectedly removed.
2) latest oc-COW ROM with sdcard not swapped -- no longer USB Storage unexpectedly removed, but apps will start force close, and in some apps it is telling you database read-only.
3) Go back to stock ROM -- rooted of course. Stable for 2 days.
4) Flash only oc-kernel from latest COW ROM to my stock ROM. Starts to have apps force close after 2 hours.
5) Restore back my nandroid backup of step 4, so supped to be the same like step 4. Hopefully this will last..
So no luck for me on running custom ROM so far. (I did make my own custom ROM without tweaks--remove and add apps and seems stable, but what the point)
Waiting for my class 10 micro-SDcard...
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Hi Dude..
I'm not going to make you afraid but i want you aware this issue
Did your phone doing force close to for only STOCK ROM ?
My friend phone have same characteristic as you..
Suddenly the phone had brick
It's not cause by flashing but by hardware also
I post in this thread
Regards

Rio Saputro said:
Hi Dude..
I'm not going to make you afraid but i want you aware this issue
Did your phone doing force close to for only STOCK ROM ?
My friend phone have same characteristic as you..
Suddenly the phone had brick
It's not cause by flashing but by hardware also
I post in this thread
Regards
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No, mine only happens on custom ROM. Stock ROM is stable.
And it never restart.
I restart myself after those apps force close.

AdliHebat said:
No, mine only happens on custom ROM. Stock ROM is stable.
And it never restart.
I restart myself after those apps force close.
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Ok that fine..
You use Titanium back up after flashing custom ROM right..
Probably it cause by not complete back up before
If you wanna try,
Just do factory reset after you flashing Custom ROM and install all apps without titanium backup..*homework
Regards

Rio Saputro said:
Ok that fine..
You use Titanium back up after flashing custom ROM right..
Probably it cause by not complete back up before
If you wanna try,
Just do factory reset after you flashing Custom ROM and install all apps without titanium backup..*homework
Regards
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No, I full wipe from recovery (I use CWM recovery) and install everything fresh on every flash session nowadays. I don't trust Titanium backup anymore.

Yeah n in recovery wipe every single folder...system...data....under mount n storage (CWM)
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andynroid said:
Yeah n in recovery wipe every single folder...system...data....under mount n storage (CWM)
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Now that you mentioned it, i never use the format/wipe menu under the mount and storage option.
Maybe next week...i want to convince myself the phone is stable.

[Q] Problem booting into custom rom

I have a rooted gsm desire with s-off running on the froyo stock rom right now.
Lately, I've downloaded sandvold's beta ICS rom and tried to flash it. I've factory wiped the user data, cache partition and dalvik cache in CWM before that. Also, I have more than 1gb of space available in the sd card, if that is relevant.
The installation finished in less than 30 seconds and ended with "Installation completed". However, when I reboot the phone, I'm still on the original froyo rom.
The same thing happens when I flash the MIUI_AU ICS rom. The installation process takes up less than a minute and I return to the stock rom when I reboot.
Can anyone help?

Hi,
Perhaps it helps if you reinstall the recovery?
Which recovery do you use (clockworkmod?)?
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Do you have the correct hboot with the right partitions?
You should find it in the romthread witch one you need.
Sent from my ICS Sensation XE powered by InsertCoin

I've switched my to 4ext recovery. I think I've managed to flash the rom but now it pauses at the white boot screen... it's been at the same screen for 10 minutes now.

What partitions do you have on your SD card?

Erm how do I check that?
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with this but when I select "check partition alignment" it says that my fat32 partition isn't perfectly aligned.

It seems that you dont have the needed partitions then.
via xda app

Is there any way I can fix that?

Read the noob guide in Development section. There is also a step about partitioning the SD card. And in the ROM's thread you find the required partition layout.

Apparently I just needed a stock hboot which I got from alpharev.nl. Everything's alright now.
Really gotta read the FAQ clearly and use the serach function more. Thanks!