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Need help with my sidekick 4g, crazy story.

Well, let me start from the beginning. I am sorta of new to the whole android modification arena, and the sidekick 4g is my first android phone, but I have learned a lot since june and so it's not like I don't know most of my way around the low level software hacking and such. I was there when clockworkmod was released, and I was there when smooth maximus was first published, I know what is going on, and what is in recent sidekick 4g hacking news. That aside, I rooted my phone around june 10th ish, and it was fine. Then I installed clockworkmo, and with a few forum reading I managed to fix all the litte mistakes I made and everything was fine again. Then I decided to flash smooth maximus gingerclone v1 after become more comforable with the whole idea(skipped over the first couple of smooth maximus ROMs). And part of tmobile android is having an app called tmobile contacts backup. EXTREMELY helpful for a person like me, I hate having to put contacts back in, and syncing from gmail didn't solve my problems either, it just wasn't the same . So I could freely download this app from the market wenever I pleased, with no trouble. Getting it back on my phone after flashing gingerclone v1 was no hassle. Then a few days ago gingerclone v2 came out. I followed the same procedures as before, but fell into a bit of trouble when flashing gingerclone v2, ad gingerclone v1 would keep booting up anyway. But I eventually got it working by just kept following instructions again and again. And before I flashed, I backed up a few apps with titanium(great app)(and made a NANDroid backup of course) but I didn't back up tmobile contacts backup because I thought I could just download it from the market(forshadowing). So I got gingerclone v2, and I tried downloading tmobile contacts backup and it was gone from the market. Just plain disappeared. And I looked on other websites, some no link, some saying it had been removed. Then I got the the online market on my computer, and google said that the app was not compatible with my sidekick 4g, not when it had stock ROM, or when it had custom ROM. I was confused. So I did what the poster of smooth maximus said to do if we wanted to keep our apps when we flashed over. In recovery, go to backup\restore>advanced restore> restore data. And all my apps were there(not functioning, but a simple reinstall would fix the problem. But I couldn't reinstall tmobile contacts backup because I couldn't find it anywhere to download. So I decided to restore my entire nandroid backup and I had gingerclone v1 again, but a lott more app were gone(including market, etc.) And I was used to this happening(didn't know if that was a good thing though) and so I couldn't download titanium backup to back up tmobile contacts backup and try gingerclone v2 again. So I decided to ODIN to stock ROM. Seemed easy enough, I had already lost everything, why not try it?(forshadowing). I followed ayoteddy's guide exactly step by step, and when I did ODIN, it got to the last section, and then said FAILED(on the computer) in the box as it turned red. I tried it again and it wouldn't do anything so I figured all I could do it just try and boot up the phone. I did, and it showed the sidekick bootloader but with the android logo flickering along with it. It booted and did all the female robot voices(patitioning...estimated time: 2 minutes, etc.) And then it booted just fine. It really started to mess up this morning, freezing rampantly and going back to a black screen with the android logo and light shining across it(like the windows 7 loading bar) and about an hour later all of a sudden it stopped messing up, everything was quick and jumpy and fast(for a stock rom, it was as fast as smooth maximus gingerclone, and I got a quadrant score of around 1500!, weird I thought so) I double checked to make sure it was stock rom and it was. So I decided to try to root it, and superoneclick rooted it, and always got stuck at putting su in system\xbin, it never got past that part. So I had to leave it at that. I want to ODIN again and try to make it work, but I have no way of getting to "download" mode and doing it. Not through the software, and I tried the volume +, trackball, power combo and it has never worked(trust me, I've tried). So I was hoping maybe you guys can tell me I'm doing something wrong, I'd really like to hear that right now. How do I get to "download" mode without rooting? Maybe take me step by step to do it the hardware way. I might even just root it through adb and make sure everything goes right? Any suggestions would be nice. Thanks in advance everyone for your help!
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Wow.. you went through alot for that Tmobile backups app. but i have it posted in my TouchMIUIwiz ROM thread . Heres the link Tmobile Backup
And heres how you get into download mode. Just remove your battery, open odin and load the pit into the pit slot and the tar into pda, then plug your phone in without the battery. Now this part is a bit awkward but it works 100% , while holding the vol down and trackpad put the battery in. you must put it in while holding that button combo and you will get into download mode
and BTW it was running so fast on stock cause the lagfix was enabled (thats what that voice was doing)

Oh gosh thank you! I need to look more often. I really appreciate your help ayoteddy. After i follow those directions I should know how to handle the rest! On a sidenote, I am a HUGE fan of your work, without people like you and all the other developers who give each android phone a fair chance to flourish(especially the good ones), android would be...not as good as it is now. Once again I'd like to thank you for your help and I hope everything goes fine!

so, I've done download mode and tried ODIN. I get the same fail message. I will continue but I would like to know if this will cause any problems in the future...

ratchetdude101 said:
so, I've done download mode and tried ODIN. I get the same fail message. I will continue but I would like to know if this will cause any problems in the future...
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You will be fine it should boot up normally, and cause no problems
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well i read through your guide again and i checked re-partition and everything went through just fine again! I'm on the road to gingerclone v2 once more...

ratchetdude101 said:
well i read through your guide again and i checked re-partition and everything went through just fine again! I'm on the road to gingerclone v2 once more...
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I hope all goes well
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wow. everything worked out great. i feel like i am treating my sidekick 4g the way it deserves to be treated; with gingerclone v2 AND tmobile contacts backup. thanks again!

[Q] Can you help me get back to stock Gingerbread?

Ok, first off, I'm kind of a newbie and probably did something stupid. Sorry. Let me explain.
I need to send my G2x back to TMobile for warranty replacement. I was running CM7 with ClockworkMod Recovery. I flashed back to stock recovery, and had stock Gingerbread load. Worked great. Only one problem: Superuser was still listed as a program. I don't want to send it in to TMobile with evidence that I rooted it. The only way to delete it seems to be to root phone again.
I tried rooting again, even reinstalled CM7, but couldn't find a way to delete superuser.apk. Then I started doing stupid things. In ClockworkMod I deleted just about everything, including the /system mount. Well, now, I can't seem to reload stock Gingerbread anymore, since I think I deleted the packages.
So, this is where I stand: I have ClockworkMod installed, I can load CM7 or other roms just fine. But when I flash back to stock recovery, I'm screwed. The phone can't find the proper stock Gingerbread files. What I need to be able to do is get it back to completely stock condition, so TMobile is none the wiser.
Please tell me there is a way to fix this! Thanks!

Nevermind
Nevermind, I figured it out. I did a restore of an old backup, then was able to find unroot .zip on XDA. Sorry for previous post -- I was freaking out and thought I had permanently messed up phone! Next time I'll read more before posting.

New 3.2 update bootlooping?

OK, weird one this. Downloaded the update with no issues, it installed ok, it went to android recovery and then rebooted after a few mins into my homescreen. All good! - Then after about 5 seconds it said shutting off.. it then went through the whole updating procedure again. Ok no probs i thought, it needs 2 reboots.. fine.
However it has now done this 5 times!! and counting..I guess thats not right.. so how the hell do i stop it? lol
edit: managed to get quick view of "about tablet" and its still showing as 3.1 so the update is not applying.. i wonder why?

wingnutta said:
OK, weird one this. Downloaded the update with no issues, it installed ok, it went to android recovery and then rebooted after a few mins into my homescreen. All good! - Then after about 5 seconds it said shutting off.. it then went through the whole updating procedure again. Ok no probs i thought, it needs 2 reboots.. fine.
However it has now done this 5 times!! and counting..I guess thats not right.. so how the hell do i stop it? lol
edit: managed to get quick view of "about tablet" and its still showing as 3.1 so the update is not applying.. i wonder why?
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Are you rooted? That would be why. It's not advisable to accept an OTA update when your system has been altered. Unlocked is ok, just not rooted/modded.
If you are rooted and have a nandroid backup from before the update, try to restore from there. If not, boot into fastboot and restore to your model's original stock image (from motodev) then let the OTA updates bring you up to 3.1 and then 3.2. Re-install CWM Recovery, and re-root after that with solarnz' Universal Xoom Root and go from there.
If you're not rooted and your system is just continually rebooting, you should still try the fastboot/restore stock images procedure. There may be something easier, but I'll let someone else advise you on that.
Good luck!

Appreciate the help. No i am not rooted but i certainly dont want to restore a stock image as i will lose everything! Its nothing that cant be restored but why should i go through the hassle after accepting an OTA update if it doesnt work!
Currently now on my 16th reboot! - Getting fed up now...
Any ideas on how to apply this update ok?.. or at least stop it! lol

wingnutta said:
Appreciate the help. No i am not rooted but i certainly dont want to restore a stock image as i will lose everything! Its nothing that cant be restored but why should i go through the hassle after accepting an OTA update if it doesnt work!
Currently now on my 16th reboot! - Getting fed up now...
Any ideas on how to apply this update ok?.. or at least stop it! lol
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I can't think of any way to resolve this that doesn't involve a wipe of some kind. Have you checked any other Moto/Xoom forums to see if anyone else had the same problem?
My condolences on the irritating situation and the potential loss of your stuff. Actually, a good reason to root is that you can back everything up!

Well i took the plunge and wiped by unlocking. Cured the bootlooping (obviously), and so then thought - why not root aswell
All done and running Tiamat 2.2 and very happy!
Appreciate the help peeps..

Urgent Help(apps keep crashing)

hi everyone
yes im a noob
but the only reason im here is because i need desperate help with my htc chacha
iv searched everywhere for an answer, here, and external sites, EVERYWHERE
i still cant find a solution
i have a rooted htc chacha, S-ON, rooted it about a month ago
about two days ago i saw my baby brother messing around with titanium backup
afterwards, when i tried accessing the phone dialer, it kept on crashing with the following message
android process acore has stopped unexpectedly please try again
now, my Facebook, People, and Google Framework have started "crashing unexpectedly" too
i looked into TB, and found out that my contacts storage has been deleted
tried restoring it, did not restore even after nine hours
installed golauncher, just to see if it made any difference, didnt work
tried installing contacts.apk manually, still didnt work
im lost
i love my phone especially after rooting it
please help me out
any assistance would be much appreciated
Regards
Danny

Hmm you might have to factory reset. Did you make a nandroid

yes ive tried resetting several times
didnt work
and, regretfully, no i did not make a nandroid :/

OK, I don't think there is much you can do but flash a ROM, either custom or stock. The problem is TB isn't restoring on ChaCha and I haven't found anyone with a configuration that makes it work.

daniyalsq said:
yes ive tried resetting several times
didnt work
and, regretfully, no i did not make a nandroid :/
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Use this nandroid restore file in clockworkmod recovery
swtesting.ro/alex/downloads/ChaCha1.54CWM_CLEAN.zip
You'll have to set everything up again and reflash superuser, but hey, at least you'll have a working phone again

im really sorry i wasnt able to reply asap
my computer had crashed
anyways
i flashed this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336621
and it worked out PERFECTLY
thanks all!!

[Q] a little help

So I waited to register to this site till I ran into a road block. I have read and searched and search but to no avail have I come up with a answer. So I come to you fellow Samsung Infuse 4G owners for help. I have successfully rooted my phone with super one click, ran clockwork recovery and installed zeuss's build 6 and my phone runs great. Now here is my issue. My friend liked the way my phone was so he went and got a used one then handed it over to me to do the cool stuff. So I set the phone back to factory deleting everything including user data.... I now have installed the new version of one click and this new phone and it says it works and installed but when I run clockwork the superuser never pops up. Now I have checked The settings and its not the issue. I have since factory reset the phone again deleting user data and superuser was still on the phone. I've tried to remove it like 50 times to no avail until today when it finally went away after I tried again the unroot on superoneclick but after restart and I try to reinstall it, it says its already rooted, so I make it reroot and I still havve Tue same issue. I have tried to clear data and reinstall the packages via the Samsung recovery but it says there is a missing path on the internal SD. So now I'm stuck... its been like this back and forth for 3 days. So I ask for a bit of help as my first post. BTW I'm Dustin I'm 27 and I live in Washington state and I love my swet zeuses builded phone. Thanks in advance

Did you push the cwm recovery file to system/bin and fix the permissions
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Go to this post read thoroughly and you will want to download the third link from the top to give you a factory reset gb with too and recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25177681
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Dry with root and clockwork mod
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ThePinky said:
So I waited to register to this site till I ran into a road block. I have read and searched and search but to no avail have I come up with a answer. So I come to you fellow Samsung Infuse 4G owners for help. I have successfully rooted my phone with super one click, ran clockwork recovery and installed zeuss's build 6 and my phone runs great. Now here is my issue. My friend liked the way my phone was so he went and got a used one then handed it over to me to do the cool stuff. So I set the phone back to factory deleting everything including user data.... I now have installed the new version of one click and this new phone and it says it works and installed but when I run clockwork the superuser never pops up. Now I have checked The settings and its not the issue. I have since factory reset the phone again deleting user data and superuser was still on the phone. I've tried to remove it like 50 times to no avail until today when it finally went away after I tried again the unroot on superoneclick but after restart and I try to reinstall it, it says its already rooted, so I make it reroot and I still havve Tue same issue. I have tried to clear data and reinstall the packages via the Samsung recovery but it says there is a missing path on the internal SD. So now I'm stuck... its been like this back and forth for 3 days. So I ask for a bit of help as my first post. BTW I'm Dustin I'm 27 and I live in Washington state and I love my swet zeuses builded phone. Thanks in advance
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What can also do is....run these files in cwm install like a ROM no wipes, do this one 1st and install 2nd back to back:
http://db.tt/NUVg4mjr
Then install this one 2nd:
http://db.tt/fOv83rRY
{U.S.M.C.} "Fraternal Brotherhood of the Highest Order"

Odin it to the stock rooted with cwm 2.3.6 and install from from recovery there. What I do
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thanks all for the help, working on it right now

So a little follow up..... first I wanna say thanks again for the help things worked out well. Had some issues with the recovery but he doesn't need it but its rooted so I did some fine tuning and he loves it. Atleast I know I can get good help here from other techies like myself. Cheers
-Pinky-
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