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Ok im kinda new but not a noob I rooted sgs2e4gt and now flashed to straight talk problem is right after flash laptop died crashed done for land of no return so im asking has anyone use ROM manager and if so wat just anything to flash to with out sprint bloatware please help hit sprint 7days in to contact internet sucks a## couldn't even load YouTube
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Not really sure what you're trying to ask...it would help if you wrote more clearly :|. So even with the crash, you rooted successfully?
If you're asking what ROMs are recommended, try BlazerROM or Calkulin. Both of these (and most ROMs) remove bloatware.
As for the internet problem, try flashing another modem. There are like 6 different types of modems that you can consider. There is no best...it varies from person to person so you're going to have to experiment.
Also, for the record, avoiding using ROM Manager once you flash a ROM...it only causes problems.

Ok thank you I did get root successfully but I have no other CPU in house .so there no way I can get this bloatwRe off without CPU only way now for me to change is ROM manager right or do have a better way from Phone and if so I haven't seen one ROM but in ROM manager
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Holy run on sentence, Batman!
Stupidity has no cure. Read the directions. Try harder.

Don't mean to be rude, but please you some punctuation, it's a little difficult to read your posts!
That being said, if you have root, do you have a custom recovery? If so, just flash the ROM's from recovery.
Most of the custom ROM's have all the bloat removed.
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If you are rooted get Root Explorer and delete your bloatware

You can also download zip files from your device. I do it quite often. Once I DL them, I go into astro (or whatever file manger you're using) and copy to external sd. I delete it from downloaded (so I don't flood my internal) Boot into recovery and flash. Voila

[Q] Removing Zips

Once I have uploaded a ROM ZIP, or for that fact, any ZIP file onto my phone and flash it, do I have to leave the ZIP file on the phone?? I set my GS2 up with Darkside 3.7 and want to remove the ZIP if it isnt necessary. I searched through the forum and didn't find anything that answers my question.
Am new to the GS2 and modding it. Only previous phone I modded was the Motorola Zine ZN5 a few years back and the procedures are a bit different.

You can delete them. I like to keep at least one in case I have flashing issues plus any nandroid restoring trouble. Just as an extra backup plan. I also keep stuff I use anytime I flash. Darkside wipes, gapps, etc. To save from having to redownload.
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Thank you. I am still on the fence as far as removing any of them but just wasn't sure if doing so would cause any problems.

I just created a folder for mods that I keep all mine in. Keeps them from floating around the root of the sd card where I'm constantly seeing and scrolling through them
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I have rooted. Now what?

Noobie here. I have rooted, but where do I go from here? Can I flash any rom to it? What roms do you recommend? I would love to change that annoying At&t boot intro! Thanks, everyone.

Welcome. Once are rooted, you basically have access to the system files on your phone.It is sort of like having access to the windows registry on any windows computer terminal access on any linux box. You can delete apps and other things "such as the boot up and down tones and videos", and customize the phone anyway you like. Be warned, unless you back up your phone... you are in for a lot of trial and error being new. the best thing to do is to sit back and let developers develop, and follow anyone instructions word for word.

kryptonx said:
Noobie here. I have rooted, but where do I go from here? Can I flash any rom to it? What roms do you recommend? I would love to change that annoying At&t boot intro! Thanks, everyone.
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Did you install recovery? You need recovery to backup your phone and install new roms.
Get titanium backup and backup your apps. Makes life a whole lot easier when you restore the apps with your preferences instead of downloading one by one. You do not need to backup system apps.
Once you have backups you can try different things. If something doesn't work you can go back to recovery and restore.
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Ok I got titanium pro. I want to change the boot animation. I tried the boot animations ★ root app on from the play store and it doesn't work. It says I need busy box for it to work which I do have.
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kryptonx said:
Ok I got titanium pro. I want to change the boot animation. I tried the boot animations ★ root app on from the play store and it doesn't work. It says I need busy box for it to work which I do have.
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Titanium is good for an App level backup, but not a full recovery.
You'll need a little bit more experience before you totally hose your phablet.
1) get and load a nandroid recovery such as ClockWorkMod (CWM) or Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP).
2) make a system backup... FIRST, NOW. you will be happy to fall back to this if you FUBAR your phone.
Then play with ROMs if you must. I would recommend sticking to AT&T ROMs until you know more about the affects to the various partitions that could get overwritten and thus posibly brick your phone, posibliy out of warranty.
After successful testing of a ROM candidate... Make another full backup to preserve your current position.
Use Titanium to bring back your App level backups as needed (your progress, data, etc will come back) I hate re-doing angry birds after each flash.

ZedZardoz said:
Titanium is good for an App level backup, but not a full recovery.
You'll need a little bit more experience before you totally hose your phablet.
1) get and load a nandroid recovery such as ClockWorkMod (CWM) or Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP).
2) make a system backup... FIRST, NOW. you will be happy to fall back to this if you FUBAR your phone.
Then play with ROMs if you must. I would recommend sticking to AT&T ROMs until you know more about the affects to the various partitions that could get overwritten and thus posibly brick your phone, posibliy out of warranty.
After successful testing of a ROM candidate... Make another full backup to preserve your current position.
Use Titanium to bring back your App level backups as needed (your progress, data, etc will come back) I hate re-doing angry birds after each flash.
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Done and done! TWRP was a breeze. Thanks. Can anyone point me to getting this att boot animation off of here?
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kryptonx said:
Done and done! TWRP was a breeze. Thanks. Can anyone point me to getting this att boot animation off of here?
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There are many themers at work, best to check the theme/app forum. There have been posts to kill the annoying AT&T drop sounds, but I too am seeking a more catchy boot animation like the Android pissing on a flaming apple :laugh:

Thanks guys! Much appreciated. Happy to be onboard . I LOVE THIS PHONE!
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[Q] Issues With Restoring

I just rooted today, and everything went alright (as far as I know). I wanted to download a ROM, so I backed up and it went fine. I downloaded the 1/1 nightly build for the CyanogenMod, but I got stuck at the boot screen, so I restored my backup, and tried 12/31. Again I had issues (this time there was something about setups going wrong once I got past the boot screen). I restored my backup and it went fine this time as well. Then I found the 10.0 stable version, and everything went fine, except this time everything was default and none of my previous settings were retained, nor my apps. I attempted to restore again, but now it says:
Couldn't open directory.
No files found.
I'm completely new to everything about this, so a lot of terminology I've found in related help threads has flown over my head. I followed the instructions in qbking77's cyanogenmod installation video. (I'd link this, but I can't because of the spam policy on these forums).
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to restore the files I previously let in my internal sdcard. It'd be awesome if I got some help with this issue, and thanks in advance.

Flashing cm 10.1 or any 4.2 rom moves your internal storage to the 0 folder. There is tons of info about it around here.
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jeffro18 said:
Flashing cm 10.1 or any 4.2 rom moves your internal storage to the 0 folder. There is tons of info about it around here.
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Could you provide me with said info? As I said, I'm technologically illiterate and the help would be appreciated.

This is probably the most straight forward explanation I have seen.
http://teamw.in/androidmultiuser
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jeffro18 said:
This is probably the most straight forward explanation I have seen.
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Thanks a lot! Follow-up question: how exactly can I apply this knowledge? I've located said folder, but I'm unsure of where to proceed from here.

So are you trying f to restore data from another backup? The no directory coming from your Recovery? Which recovery you using? Also for the future, if you are i treated in. Arrting over data for all you apps with CM builds, you should look into buying Titanium Backup. Little pricey, but after 3 years, I still use everyday (so do most people here)
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reverepats said:
So are you trying f to restore data from another backup? The no directory coming from your Recovery? Which recovery you using? Also for the future, if you are i treated in. Arrting over data for all you apps with CM builds, you should look into buying Titanium Backup. Little pricey, but after 3 years, I still use everyday (so do most people here)
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I previous lay backed up on CWM, before my 3 attempts at downloading the Cyanogen mod. When I attempt to recover from my internal sdcard, it says that the files can't be found or that the sdcard can't be mounted. I had previously downloaded the free version of that, I believe, but I was following the instructions an aforementioned video, which said to use CWM.

Never mind, I've fixed the problem by moving all the contents of the 0 folder into the main phone folder. Thanks!

New problem: is there a way to download the ROM without all my data being erased?

Wangstaa said:
New problem: is there a way to download the ROM without all my data being erased?
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Well you can backup your data and restore afterwards (use Tianium Backup for this), but the thing is that funky issues come up when you do that. Especially if its across different android versions (ics to jb, etc). I would suggest to just reinput what you can and only restore things like SMS, Calendar events (if not synced), etc, only small things like that

Help making an installable zip file?

I want to make a zip file comprised of all the apps I normally use. In the form of APKS. Can someone maybe point me in the right direction as to how to accomplish this?
I tried using an already made zip and replacing the apk in the zip file with all of mine. They installed but a few were completely screwed up.
Skype kept force closing over and over again. I was getting spammed by the force close dialog box and couldn't do anything at all lol.
I'm just lazy and would like to flash them all at once after flashing the rom I'm using.
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H3adru5H said:
I want to make a zip file comprised of all the apps I normally use. In the form of APKS. Can someone maybe point me in the right direction as to how to accomplish this?
I tried using an already made zip and replacing the apk in the zip file with all of mine. They installed but a few were completely screwed up.
Skype kept force closing over and over again. I was getting spammed by the force close dialog box and couldn't do anything at all lol.
I'm just lazy and would like to flash them all at once after flashing the rom I'm using.
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Not sure how you are zipping and extracting but I do something similar with no problems thus far. I add my favorite gizmo apps (so I don't have to download them again) by modifying the rom prior to flashing with the android kitchen. There's a few extra steps I take to add/take away the desired apps but it's all relatively easy. Read the thread below (see link) and thank dsixda profusely! :good:
Android Kitchen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246

Aimless Rambler said:
Not sure how you are zipping and extracting but I do something similar with no problems thus far. I add my favorite gizmo apps (so I don't have to download them again) by modifying the rom prior to flashing with the android kitchen. There's a few extra steps I take to add/take away the desired apps but it's all relatively easy. Read the thread below (see link) and thank dsixda profusely! :good:
Android Kitchen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
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Gonna try this lol
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H3adru5H said:
Gonna try this lol
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It's a pretty useful tool for doing other things too once you get the hang of it. If you got any questions just holler.