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How To Install Khalpowers V4 Rom for motorola XT720

Hello, This is a guide on how to install khalpowers V4 Rom for motorola XT720
1. The rom can be find here http://www.multiupload.com/OBEJWF9QF download and unrar, then download the patch here http://www.multiupload.com/ETK2TR4VG7 DO NOT UNZIP THIS! then you can download the radio patch http://www.multiupload.com/1CZ6BX1VFI
2.Now we going to root the xt720, download the .apk here http://www.mediafire.com/?q814b0pxrwy7n24 , install to the phone, then click on root, it should say woot, your root or something now your rooted.
3.Go here to download open recovery http://www.4shared.com/file/OZbPemP4/OpenRecovery.html install to your phone open it up, click on install recovery then click normal reboot.
4. this is not needed but you SHOULD if you have sense.open up open recovery (called system recovery in the drawer) then click on the recovery reboot. when the screen has loaded up go to nandroid then backup then click the top 5 (using the volume buttons to move and the camera button to select,) this should 5 mins to 10mins if not take out battery and try again.
5. when you have done that go to your sd card and copy and paste the personaRedV4 folder to the folder nandroid/openrecovery/paste here if you dont have that folder go to step 6 then step 7
6.when you have done this paste the metamorphframework file you downloading to openrecovery/update folder
7. Also i you should install this theme because the one which comes with the rom isn't great. download here http://www.multiupload.com/2ZJWXWUTGI then copy this to openrecovery/update folder.
8.if you didn't back up your rom then make a folder on your sd card called nandroid then create a folder called openrecovery in that folder. paste personaRedV4 folder into it
9. make a ext3 on your sd card look it up use google
10. now go to openrecovery and click on recovery boot, when it's loaded like before go to nandroid>restore>personaRedV4 then restore all whens it finished go back to the main menu then go to apply update then click on metamorphframework then go back to apply update menu and install the radio and galaxyxt like you did before.
11.when finished go to main menu click on clear davik cache/cache partion then wipe / factory reset then reboot
12. enjoy many thanks to khalpowers Dexter xavwanted's Mioze7Ae Fjfalcon
for more info go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993
Thanks

Nice list. One thing that sometimes trips people up when installing Open Recovery using Dexter's apk: you must have the SD card mounted on the phone when you install Open Recovery (i.e. USB Charge Only mode). The easy way to make sure this is true is to unplug USB. Otherwise "install recovery" will report "success", but Open Recovery won't actually be installed.
TL;DR: unplug the phone before you press the "install recovery" button in step 3.

Mioze7Ae said:
Nice list. One thing that sometimes trips people up when installing Open Recovery using Dexter's apk: you must have the SD card mounted on the phone when you install Open Recovery (i.e. USB Charge Only mode). The easy way to make sure this is true is to unplug USB. Otherwise "install recovery" will report "success", but Open Recovery won't actually be installed.
TL;DR: unplug the phone before you press the "install recovery" button in step 3.
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Yeah, thanks but i thought most people would get it lol

mintaeroboy said:
Hello, This is a guide on how to install khalpowers V4 Rom for motorola XT720
1. The rom can be find here http://www.multiupload.com/OBEJWF9QF download and unrar, then download the patch here http://www.multiupload.com/ETK2TR4VG7 DO NOT UNZIP THIS! then you can download the radio patch http://www.multiupload.com/1CZ6BX1VFI
2.Now we going to root the xt720, download the .apk here http://www.mediafire.com/?q814b0pxrwy7n24 , install to the phone, then click on root, it should say woot, your root or something now your rooted.
3.Go here to download open recovery http://www.4shared.com/file/OZbPemP4/OpenRecovery.html install to your phone open it up, click on install recovery then click normal reboot.
4. this is not needed but you SHOULD if you have sense.open up open recovery (called system recovery in the drawer) then click on the recovery reboot. when the screen has loaded up go to nandroid then backup then click the top 5 (using the volume buttons to move and the camera button to select,) this should 5 mins to 10mins if not take out battery and try again.
5. when you have done that go to your sd card and copy and paste the personaRedV4 folder to the folder nandroid/openrecovery/paste here if you dont have that folder go to step 6 then step 7
6.when you have done this paste the metamorphframework file you downloading to openrecovery/update folder
7. Also i you should install this theme because the one which comes with the rom isn't great. download here http://www.multiupload.com/2ZJWXWUTGI then copy this to openrecovery/update folder.
8.if you didn't back up your rom then make a folder on your sd card called nandroid then create a folder called openrecovery in that folder. paste personaRedV4 folder into it
9. make a ext3 on your sd card look it up use google
10. now go to openrecovery and click on recovery boot, when it's loaded like before go to nandroid>restore>personaRedV4 then restore all whens it finished go back to the main menu then go to apply update then click on metamorphframework then go back to apply update menu and install the radio and galaxyxt like you did before.
11.when finished go to main menu click on clear davik cache/cache partion then wipe / factory reset then reboot
12. enjoy many thanks to khalpowers Dexter xavwanted's Mioze7Ae Fjfalcon
for more info go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002993
Thanks
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Hi
Thanks for the really detailed tutorial, but the rom link seem's to down. Could you please give us another link

krishn said:
Hi
Thanks for the really detailed tutorial, but the rom link seem's to down. Could you please give us another link
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http://www.multiupload.com/OBEJWF9QFI
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mintaeroboy said:
http://www.multiupload.com/OBEJWF9QFI
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hows the rom everyone?

Instead of using the PersonaRedV4 archive, can I follow your guide and use the GalaxyXT one that khalpowers put up? http://www.multiupload.com/VAIZTZJWMM <-- this one here

Beako said:
Instead of using the PersonaRedV4 archive, can I follow your guide and use the GalaxyXT one that khalpowers put up? http://www.multiupload.com/VAIZTZJWMM <-- this one here
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Yes of cousre
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Hello All,
I'm knew to Android but since I got my XT720 I have been looking for ways to make it better since it doesn't have a lot of internal memory. I would also like to share how I installed it GalaxyXTv4.
I basically followed this Video
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943368
I download it the Galaxy from using this link
http://www.multiupload.com/VAIZTZJWMM
Finally I downloaded the whole root and openrecovery using this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=946973
I also replace the content of the openrecovery folder with the extract of the GalxyXT, and the followed the Video.
The only difference is that I did reset everything cache, davlik, and factory defaults. When the phone rebooted, I was doing the initial setup and the phone rebooted itself twice, so I decided to remove the microSD card let the phone boot and then add the SD card back, I formated the card using the phone option and it has been working great (only a few hours since I installed the Galaxy).
The phone is performing better than when I was on 2.1 with apps2sd and definitely better than using 2.2.1 v4 BLUR make

My quick office is gone and when I wanna watch youtube videos the phone will reboot by itself. Help, please.

nnbmj said:
My quick office is gone and when I wanna watch youtube videos the phone will reboot by itself. Help, please.
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1. I can't do anything about quickoffice sorry I miss it to but use documents to go and abode PDF (thats what I use) or go to filestube.com and search quick office apk download and install
2. Idk about YouTube if its the app make sure you have flash, and with the browwser videos aren't very good playing
Hope that's helps you
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I followed this guide and it worked, but when I powered off and powered on my phone just now.. it just stays at the white Motorola circle logo and then powers off. It's not bricked... is it?
Edit: Managed to get back into Openrecovery to wipe all 3 cache things. Now it's working okay.

After I format the SD card, I put to the phone, and it is not able to be read anymore. Please help

Re format it or buy a new card
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[Q] Installing Bionix Frost on SGS4g

I have been trying to install the Bionix Frost SGS4G rom from team whiskey, but I am having a lot of trouble doing so. I downloaded the file posted in the original thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119986), downloaded Rom Manager through my phone, then CWM through ROM Manager. I attempted to install the .zip file from the SD through ROM manager. Everytime I click the button to install from my SD card, I choose the folder and then my phone restarts and hangs on the "Galaxy S" startup screen. After about a minute, it starts up normally. I know I must be doing something wrong, so would it be possible for someone to walk me through installing this ROM (in somewhat detail)? Thank you in advanced!

I don't know specifically what's going on, but I just installed it on an otherwise stock+rooted T-Mobile SGS4G and it worked splendidly. Did you follow their steps exactly (emptying the cache and all that, and mounting /system)?

Thanks for the quick response. I never get the options to mount/clear because once I choose the .zip file, the phone restarts. I also have rooted, but otherwise stock. I haven't done much with it. Did you just put the zip file on your sd card and run from rom manager? Im not sure if there are any steps prior to this that I am missing. Thanks.
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Use Krylon's CWM to install rom, do not use Rom Manager for now.
Uninstall Rom Manager, go to CWM Final thread download files and follow instructions.
Hope it helps

Flashed it and running good. What themes can I do? I want a gb theme.
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Ddang was right. I soft bricked twice because of rom manager.
Always use cwm from krylon's post.
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I just boot into recovery. Then do it. I dont use rom manager but I have the cwm from it though.

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ok. i uninstalled ROM Manager. Then I went to the CWM Final Thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099374) and downloaded the 2 files. I Used Root Explorer to overwrite my recovery file. Then I placed the update.zip file onto my SD Card. I just dragged and dropped into the SD card. It is not in a folder or anything and located in /sdcard on my phone. Then I redownloaded the Bionix Frost SGS4G rom and placed it in my /sdcard directory as well. I reboot my phone press the power button, along with both volume buttons to get into recovery. I get into the "Samsung Recovery Utils --for BML--, I see the options to reboot system now, reinstall packages, delete all user data and delete cache. But before I do this, I want to be sure I am on the right track. This is the recovery screen that everyone uses right? I do not see anywhere that it says ClockworkMod. If it is, I know I will have to choose "delete all user data", followed by "delete cache data". But after this step, how do I get to the options to "Mount storage and mount /system"? Thank you for all of the help

Click on reinstall packages ... that will load update.zip and that's how u get into cwm
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got it!
Wow. i got it to work. thank you all so much for all of the patience and guidance. this was my first time flashing a rom and it worked great. since i was complete noob, anyone who needs any help with starting from scratch, i can walk you through it step by step. team whiskey, expect a donation soon.

cjry said:
I don't know specifically what's going on, but I just installed it on an otherwise stock+rooted T-Mobile SGS4G and it worked splendidly. Did you follow their steps exactly (emptying the cache and all that, and mounting /system)?
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I'm not sure if you got your problem fixed because I haven't read all the way thru this thread. But I had similar problems from what you described when I installed Bionix Black Ice with voodoo lag fix. I found that when I flashed the rom things didn't work right. My fix, after making a backup of everything, do a data/factory reset, then delete the cache, then delete delvik cache, then flash your new rom. After that, reinstall your apps thru the back up you created and all is good. I am using CWM to flash with and My backup root to backup my apps, files and what nots... Hope this helps!

sea, thats great advice. also, if you guys get any force closes, go back into cwm and go to advanced and fix permissions.

[Q] Couple of questions concerning CWM and Backups

So I've read on different ways to boot into CWM then flash to the Krylon fix, but the way I (have) to do it is completely different; First, hit ROM manager then boot into recovery. From there, I cannot click the update from zip option - I get an error and it fails - instead, I go to mounts and storage. Instead of the regular options, my only option is Mount USB Storage. I click that and after some script that I never read, my phone freezes. After the holding the power button to restart, it boots me into the CWM fix that I need to be in in order to flash my ROMs. - Why does it do this?
Also, every time I flash a different ROM, I use a nandroid backup. Recently I almost restored data on an old backup I had from a month ago. How do I delete the old backups that I don't need?

Jabrutal said:
So I've read on different ways to boot into CWM then flash to the Krylon fix, but the way I (have) to do it is completely different; First, hit ROM manager then boot into recovery. From there, I cannot click the update from zip option - I get an error and it fails - instead, I go to mounts and storage. Instead of the regular options, my only option is Mount USB Storage. I click that and after some script that I never read, my phone freezes. After the holding the power button to restart, it boots me into the CWM fix that I need to be in in order to flash my ROMs. - Why does it do this?
Also, every time I flash a different ROM, I use a nandroid backup. Recently I almost restored data on an old backup I had from a month ago. How do I delete the old backups that I don't need?
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to delete old backup you need to do it manually from the computer when your phone is mounted its in the folder clockworkmod/backups. or delete it from a file manager while on your phone. and what krylon fix are you trying to flash ? are you on stock ?

its the CWM3XX.zip file that I need to get to before flashing ROMs. I can get to it fine, its just that I use a different method of getting there than instructed in the dev threads. I'm running your gingerclone rom. and thanks for the backup advice.
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Jabrutal said:
its the CWM3XX.zip file that I need to get to before flashing ROMs. I can get to it fine, its just that I use a different method of getting there than instructed in the dev threads. I'm running your gingerclone rom. and thanks for the backup advice.
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what is the Method your using ?

said method above - flash to cwm, go to mounts ->mount USB (this is my only option) -> frozen screen -> restart ->and when i restart it boots to the krylon fix

That CWMxxx.zip should be update.zip, just checking to make sure you did that. try my updater script, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15831175&postcount=124
it will add the modded recovery binary and push krylon's good update.zip, and reboot you into recovery.

Recovery problem

First off. I havent rooted my phone before. I really dont know much about it but I have been reading what I could and am running into a problem. I downloaded this ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227075
and have been following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220484
I have the ROM saved on my sd card but when I get the phone into the recovery mode it stops at a picture of a phone with a triangle and ! in the middle of it.
After some reading I read that I can hit the up arrow and power and it brings up another menu. So here I cleared out the cache and even wiped the phone through here.
the error message I get is
E:Can't open /cache/recover/command.
I have rebooted the phone multiple times and nothing has changed. what am I doing?

So did you do the adb method or via the revolution method?
It sounds like clockwork didn't get flashed.
Boot the phone normally and check to see if root is successful.
After its verified you have root, download rom manager and choose flash clockworkmod recovery.
Then reboot to recovery via rom manager or the power + volume down (make sure the PG05IMG.zip is renamed or removed from your sdcard with the power + volume down method) .
Once in clockwork recovery, choose backup and restore, choose backup.
once finished wipe data/factory reset.
Then choose install from zip
Find your zip file.
Install
reboot.
Rename your backup to remind you its the stock backup.
This can be found /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.
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ibsk8 said:
So did you do the adb method or via the revolution method?I dont know, the instructions I saw basically said to download the root and then go into recovery.
It sounds like clockwork didn't get flashed. does it normally come with the rom?
Boot the phone normally and check to see if root is successful.I dont think the root was successful, it just sits on the sd card
After its verified you have root, download rom manager and choose flash clockworkmod recovery.
Then reboot to recovery via rom manager or the power + volume down (make sure the PG05IMG.zip is renamed or removed from your sdcard with the power + volume down method) .
Once in clockwork recovery, choose backup and restore, choose backup.
once finished wipe data/factory reset.
Then choose install from zip
Find your zip file.
Install
reboot.
Rename your backup to remind you its the stock backup.
This can be found /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.
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I dont know anything about this stuff. I am reading what I can and there doesnt seem to be a simple instruction guide..(I am a car guy, not an electronic guy, but I am trying to learn this stuff).

i can almost guarantee you don't have clockwork recovery installed. pm me I'll see what I can do for I
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Difficulty Installing Custom ROM

I'm having a lot of difficulty installing a new ROM on to my Sidekick 4G. I root my phone using SuperOneClick. After that, I downloaded Quick Boot, Root Browser, and ROM Manager. I use ROM Manager to get a custom recovery image through CWM. With Root Browser, I copy the Recovery file and paste it to /system/bin and overwrite the recovery file that's already in there. I use Quick Boot to reboot into Recovery. This is what I did when I went into Recovery.
1) Reinstall Packages (Stock Recovery)
2) Install zip from SD Card
3) Choose zip from SD Card
4) I picked whatever zip file had the custom ROM on it
After the installation, everything is fine. Its says its successful or completed. But when I reboot it, the screen is stuck on the screen where it says "T-Mobile Sidekick 4G". I've tried different ROMs and they've came out with the same outcome. And after I do install a ROM and fails, I have to go into Download Mode and unroot the phone again. Its getting a bit tedious and annoying.

You did it wrong
Reinstall packages (stock)
Factory reset/ wipe dalvik an cache
Mounts! Make sure system is unmounted
Then install zip
Reboot system
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Yes! It worked! Thanks for the help!

No problem
To install a different rom you have to install update (red) to (yellow) cwm must use yellow/orange to install new roms an just make sure you wipe everything an mounts
Ps back up your mobile (app)
An recovery an backup (just incase of malfuctions later on)
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immorality said:
No problem
To install a different rom you have to install update (red) to (yellow) cwm must use yellow/orange to install new roms an just make sure you wipe everything an mounts
Ps back up your mobile (app)
An recovery an backup (just incase of malfuctions later on)
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why from red to yellow?