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Hi is there somewhere a guide how to flash the ROMs and any list of available ROMs?
Can you advice, recommend some particular ROM?
Hi first of all you have created 2 new threads when you could of created one and asked both questions.
Im assuming that you are rooted looking at your other thread. You need to make sure you have clockworkmod recovery installed, if you haven't the easiest way to do get it is to download ROM manager from the market. Load the app and at the top it will say flash clockworkmod recovery. click on this and this will install CWM recovery for you.
ROM manager is a great tool that les you down load and install ROM's from within the app.
The ROM's available in ROM manager are as follows I'm not going to go in to to much detail, I recommend you have a good read through the dev section about the different ROM's that are available.
CyanogenMod: Is the one of the most popular ROM's available, it is pretty much stock with a few awesome tweaks.
Virtuous: A custom Sense based ROM
MIUI: a really unique ROM that looks more like the iPhone UI, some people love it offers a lot of eye candy and some cool built in features.
There are lots of other ROM's available in the DEV section.
You can download the above ROM's directly from ROM manager and install them really easily just by following the pop ups. Or you can download ROM's from the the DEV forum and place on to your sdcard. Here is a step by step guide.
1, Download your chosen ROM to your sdcard.
2, Reboot in to recovery, select this option from within ROM manager.
3, You will now be in CWM recovery, select back up and restore then backup, this is really important and you should do this before flashing anything. it will enable you to restore you phone to a previous problem free state if you ever mess anything up.
4, Select wipe data, you should do this whenever flashing different types of rom, for example if you are running MIUI and want to switch to virtuous you need to wipe data.
5, Wipe cache, all ways do this regardless of what you are flashing.
6, Head to advance, and wipe dalvik cache.
7, Now time to flash your ROM,
8, Select install zip from sdcard.
9, choose zip from sdcard
10, Navigate to your ROM and select it for flashing.
11, Once complete reboot your phone and you should be running a custom ROM.
It will be worth investing in an app such as titanium backup, this will allow you to back up all your apps and settings, when you install a ROM for the first time and you have to wipe data you will lose everything you have installed and all you settings, Titanium Backup will allow you to restore your apps and setting once you installed a new ROM.
If you want a recommendation for a ROM my personal preference is CM7.
With regards to your other thread, don't worry to much about not having a back up there are guides available for unrooting and going back to stock if you ever need to, not that you will want to after trying custom ROM's
Hope this helps, good luck
Thanks a lot for your reply ,this is exactly what I was looking for now a little calm down
Ok I have tried to flashed clockworkmod recovery and the following issue notification appeared:
"An error occurred while attempting to run privilege commands!"
???
Sebalos said:
Ok I have tried to flashed clockworkmod recovery and the following issue notification appeared:
"An error occurred while attempting to run privilege commands!"
???
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Are you Rooted/S-Off? That's the first requirement.
They should be in case I have proceeded according one of the guides successfully.
However I will check if s-off in bootload but where I can check if rootrd?
Sebalos said:
They should be in case I have proceeded according one of the guides successfully.
However I will check if s-off in bootload but where I can check if rootrd?
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Do you have superuser installed?
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Yes i have it .
Ok while I wanted to update superuser I've received notification: file package was not correctly signed.
So I think I don't have maybe a root, but I was proceeding exactly according to the guide...
How can I solve it in the best way?:/
Ok it seems that problem with flashing clockworkmod recovery solved by itself, I've flashed it already but still I am curious what about problem mentioned above?
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Sebalos said:
Ok while I wanted to update superuser I've received notification: file package was not correctly signed.
So I think I don't have maybe a root, but I was proceeding exactly according to the guide...
How can I solve it in the best way?:/
Ok it seems that problem with flashing clockworkmod recovery solved by itself, I've flashed it already but still I am curious what about problem mentioned above?
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Have you tried booting in to recovery?
Try downloading superuser again you might of got a bad download. But if you have flashed CWM successfully you will have root.
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My phone is rooted, Super User is running for ROM manager. I get an error every time i click "Flash ClockwordMod Recovery" HTC G2 is clicked, then i get the error "An error occured while flashing your recovery"
Help please, Im rooted and SU is running fine. I also have busybox.. not that it has anything to do with it
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Have you tried booting in to recovery?
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I have just done it, it works pretty well.
Superuser still the same problem. However maybe I forget to mention it but I've already installed it. It was installed automatically during I was rooting my phone using adb command. Now I just wanted to update it and the problem appears as I described in one of the previous posts herein.
Maybe it is not necessary to update it but I am curious why this problem occurs.
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Sebalos said:
I have just done it, it works pretty well.
Superuser still the same problem. However maybe I forget to mention it but I've already installed it. It was installed automatically during I was rooting my phone using adb command. Now I just wanted to update it and the problem appears as I described in one of the previous posts herein.
Maybe it is not necessary to update it but I am curious why this problem occurs.
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Not sure about the superuser problem, maybe one of the genius in this forum has an idea.
Have you tried flashing a rom yet?
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cjward23 said:
Not sure about the superuser problem, maybe one of the genius in this forum has an idea.
Have you tried flashing a rom yet?
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You have helped already sufficiently a lot.
Now I ma trying to flash the ROM and as the first one I've chosen CM7
Before I'll do it pls confirm if I'm thinking the right way.
First I'll do backup all my apps (also titanium, Superuser and Rom manager need it? I suppose Yes, or somehow they backup automatically?) Maybe better question is what should be backuped, I am asking because on the list in titanium there are also apps like clock which are delivered with the software. You know after flashing a new Rom and restoring all aps I'd like to avoid overwriting them by the backuped ones.
The second is after apps backup I need to move created file from my phone into my PC,right? The same after system backup by clockworkmod recovery?
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Sebalos said:
You have helped already sufficiently a lot.
Now I ma trying to flash the ROM and as the first one I've chosen CM7
Before I'll do it pls confirm if I'm thinking the right way.
First I'll do backup all my apps (also titanium, Superuser and Rom manager need it? I suppose Yes, or somehow they backup automatically?) Maybe better question is what should be backuped, I am asking because on the list in titanium there are also apps like clock which are delivered with the software. You know after flashing a new Rom and restoring all aps I'd like to avoid overwriting them by the backuped ones.
The second is after apps backup I need to move created file from my phone into my PC,right? The same after system backup by clockworkmod recovery?
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With titanium you just want to back up user apps and data (apps you have downloaded and installed). You can choose to back up system apps but you don't want to restore them after flashing the new rom.
You don't need to copy back up files to your pc, your memory card will not get wiped during the flashing process.
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Ok, then I am starting to do my first Rom flashing
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Sebalos said:
Ok, then I am starting to do my first Rom flashing
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Cool let me know how it goes.
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Ok, let's start the show
I will use simply list from Rom manager. There are two CMs RC1 and RC2... which one do you have?
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Ok, let's start the show
I will use simply list from Rom manager. There are two CMs RC1 and RC2... which one do you have?
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You want to use RC2
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Ok I am choosing with Google aps then after status bar reached 100% some error occurred:
Rom download error.
?
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Hey guys,
I come to this site quite a bit but only just made an account to ask this question. I have the Desire HD with android 2.3.3 and sense 2.1. Now I've been trying to install some skins onto my phone, but it doesn't seem to be working. I've done it before a while ago and it worked fine, I have no idea what the problem is now.
So I move the .apk onto my SD card into a folder called "skins", and using Astro, I select install. It seems to install it fine, but the skins just never show up in the skin picker. I've tried deleting the data for skin picker and rebooting and re downloading and moving the files but nothing seems to work :/ any ideas?
Thanks in advance guys, keep up the good work
Are the skins for sense 2.1? There's a few skins here you can try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048894
yeah they are, that's actually the thread I got the skins from, and also the skins I successfully installed a while ago
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Stock or custom rom? Rooted or not?
It can give more info for finding a solution for you.
Um I haven't rooted yet, I'm not sure I will but everything is stock.
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TheSaintStoney said:
Um I haven't rooted yet, I'm not sure I will but everything is stock.
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Unfortunately there isn't much that can be done from your side if it is not rooted and stock.
Last thing though, are you using the stock package installer? or Astro installer?
If you are using astro installer try using the stock installer instead.
Last resort is to factory reset and try again.
Thanks for the help, its just that I've installed skins this way before? I'm not entirely sure whether that was before or after the 2.3 update though.... Also, how do I use the stock installer to install the file that's on my SD card? I'm currently using Astro because its how I view the files on the card.
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Thanks for the help, its just that I've installed skins this way before? I'm not entirely sure whether that was before or after the 2.3 update though.... Also, how do I use the stock installer to install the file that's on my SD card? I'm currently using Astro because its how I view the files on the card.
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Does it give you an option to chose which installer when you open the apk? if not, then it is running the stock package installer. And at that point you have 2 choices.
1. Re-download another 2.1 skin and try installing and if fails... quit
2. Factory reset and see if that sorts out the problem.
Ok so I'm new to androids completly. Was looking to root my new phone. Let me start off by saying I'm in Japan and have the HTC Evo 4G. I was attempting to use unrevoked but seem to be stuck at how to get to the hboot. I just updated to 2.3.4 and when I power off my phone then hit volume down and power button to gain access to hboot it simply turns the phone back on. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Head over the the revolutionary.io site, you should be good to go. You have to use that method to root for gingerbread on the evo.
Check this thread for rooting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1218386
And turn off fast boot in settings/applications and then try to boot into hboot I think thats where it is I'm not sure I haven't been on sense in a while I'm not even sure if a stock ROM has it but look there to boot into hboot.
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done
disregard this post please
Take out the battery, put it back in, hold volume down + power key for 3-5 seconds to get into bootloader. Theres a youtube video, can't remember what its called, but it shows step by step on how to root through Revolutionary. Very easy. Took me like 5 min to root
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Rooted!!
Ok so I managed to get it rooted without bricking. Currently backing up the phone then will look into ROM's. Thanks for the posts
Problem
Ok so my phone states it's S-off but I have DLed some things like titanium backup, adfree and when I go to use them it says unable to gain root access??
jaydub5150 said:
Ok so my phone states it's S-off but I have DLed some things like titanium backup, adfree and when I go to use them it says unable to gain root access??
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did you flash a recovery and super user apk?
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linsalata28 said:
did you flash a recovery and super user apk?
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Umm ok apparently not. so now I got that downloaded on my PC how do I flash it to the phone??
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Umm ok apparently not. so now I got that downloaded on my PC how do I flash it to the phone??
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the recovery should be a PC36IMG.zip you flash that in hboot just make sure its on the root of your sdcard not in any folders then when you go to hboot it will find the update just except it.
The su apk should be a flashable zip just boot to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache then go to flash zip and choose that zip and flash it then reboot.
If this is your first time in recovery before you do anything make a nandroid backup this will backup everything in case anything goes wrong you can restore the backup and your phone will be just the way it was when you made the backup.
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linsalata28 said:
the recovery should be a PC36IMG.zip you flash that in hboot just make sure its on the root of your sdcard not in any folders then when you go to hboot it will find the update just except it.
The su apk should be a flashable zip just boot to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache then go to flash zip and choose that zip and flash it then reboot.
If this is your first time in recovery before you do anything make a nandroid backup this will backup everything in case anything goes wrong you can restore the backup and your phone will be just the way it was when you made the backup.
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Ok got it all figured out. To be honest you had me lost and I almost made another noob post but I got it now. Figured out the whole flash to SD card deal. I am 100% rooted now. Now for a ROM
I downloaded the synergy rom and it deleted my carrier email app. Do all roms do this?? I'll say it again here, I'm in japan so might be a little different from the states. Anybody know how I could get it back using this rom?? Or a good rom to use that won't delete this app.
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I downloaded the synergy rom and it deleted my carrier email app. Do all roms do this?? I'll say it again here, I'm in japan so might be a little different from the states. Anybody know how I could get it back using this rom?? Or a good rom to use that won't delete this app.
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What happens is when you flash a rom, its a whole new phone basically [os] so it comes packaged with its own apps, themes. What you can do is:
- go into recovery, backup your current rom
- restore your initial backup
- use / download es file explorer [free] from the market
- enable su permissions, then navigate to /system/app and copy it to your sd card
- go back to recovery, restore the synergy backup
- once booted, install the app from the sd card
or if it was backed up, open titanium backup, restore the app and data.
Thanks for the help teh roxxorz. I got the mail thing figured out. Worked with es file but didn't work to well with titanium backup. Took some trial and error to find all the files needed cuz the paste the whole folder didn't work. Having other issues finding the contacts and getting force closes, so I decided to just not use that rom. On to finding another good one that works.
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So I tried miui and that didn't work as well. Couldn't get the mail to work at all on that rom. Anybody happen to be in Japan and using this phone and could suggest a good rom to use that they have their au email and contacts moved over on, and have minimal issues?
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Hi guys,
is it possible to install android market with cm7 rom ?
I tryed to do it with aptoide , but when i download file apk and i try to install it, i didn t work.
Download gapps n flash it
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Thanks for the link, when you say flash the it? flash the gapps using clockworkmod?
Yes, put the file on the root of your SD card and flash it as you would do with any other rom.
ROM Manager premium can download Gapps on the phone and flash it for you, piece of cake.
<--CM7
Having same question
Do CM7 users just don't use Market to get apps?
get g apps from cm official site.. put it in your sd card and flash it using cwm
and then you will have market installed on your devce with all other google apps
NiGHTsC said:
<--CM7
Having same question
Do CM7 users just don't use Market to get apps?
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Flash this using clockwork mod: http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
Yah, I got them, just wondering why they aren't included in CM7
Thanks for the reply, I have now flashed gapps. I have now a market. but my gmail and youtube is always force closing. any ideas?
and also I want the old messaging from wfs, it has a backup and restore feature, any suggestions for cm7?
Use Go sms pro, the best app for sms.
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If I put the .apk for titanium backup in system apps folder will the app be available in the app drawer if I do a full wipe and flash another rom? Will it be installed already?
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shinigamikris said:
If I put the .apk for titanium backup in system apps folder will the app be available in the app drawer if I do a full wipe and flash another rom? Will it be installed already?
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No, full wipe and flash will wipe /system/
shinigamikris said:
If I put the .apk for titanium backup in system apps folder will the app be available in the app drawer if I do a full wipe and flash another rom? Will it be installed already?
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no, it won't be there...
just make an update zip file using it which u can flash from recovery anytime
vivek_bhoj said:
no, it won't be there...
just make an update zip file using it which u can flash from recovery anytime
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Thanks! Where does this update.zip file get stored? Do I choose apply update in clockwork mod or install?
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Been a while since I've done it, but I think it creates update.zip on root of SD. Flashable from CWM (recommend booting the ROM between ROM flash and update.zip flash).
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Thanks! Where does this update.zip file get stored? Do I choose apply update in clockwork mod or install?
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It's stored on sd card, just scroll down and u will get it
Just go to recovery and choose install zip from sd card and install it after booting ur Rom once though
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vivek_bhoj said:
It's stored on sd card, just scroll down and u will get it
Just go to recovery and choose install zip from sd card and install it after booting ur Rom once though
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Thanks for that. Figured it out. Great little tool that is. I'm a flash junkie and some of the roms don't come with a file explorer so I have to keep downloading one to get to my tb.apk but with this.... its awesome wish I knew about this before...
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shinigamikris said:
Thanks for that. Figured it out. Great little tool that is. I'm a flash junkie and some of the roms don't come with a file explorer so I have to keep downloading one to get to my tb.apk but with this.... its awesome wish I knew about this before...
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You are welcome
This is why I love tb
If you have it you can flash anything any number of times in ur Rom without worrying about apps data anything
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