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Kaoscinate on mesmerize

I don't know if anyone has tried this but I've been running kasoinate on my mesmerize since his v0 release. If you want to try it make sure you were already on a voodoo kernal. Download kaos's kernal and Tom from the fascinate forum. Boot into cwm and wipe,than run the rom zip first than the kernal zip. Make sure you install gapps also. Reboot and you should be in froyo heaven.
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This works but do it at your own risk. Im working on a mesmerize build so if you can wait a few hours I may have something up for you all that is a little safer.
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Awesome I can't wait to try it. Its not that dangerous if your comfortable with cwm and you can always revert back to your mesmerize voodoo kernal and nandroid backup. And of course we have Odin. But I can't wait to try your rom..keep up the great work!!
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Are you referring to the [ALPHA] rom located in the Fascinate forum?
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palisoulja1 said:
Awesome I can't wait to try it. Its not that dangerous if your comfortable with cwm and you can always revert back to your mesmerize voodoo kernal and nandroid backup. And of course we have Odin. But I can't wait to try your rom..keep up the great work!!
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There have been issues even with people on the fascinate getting boot-loops after messing with that ROM. It's only a soft brick, but, you must remember, there are a lot of people who would piss their pants at the sight of a frozen Samsung logo.. We don't really want to encourage flashing things labeled for another device onto a different device. If the other ROM say had a Verizon radio in it.. well, it wouldn't turn out well. In this case, that is not a problem, but that's not always the case.

If Koasinate works, what about jt's stableish froyo build he released a couple of weeks ago?
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Any aosp rom for the fascinate should work, they just need to be compiled using files pulled from a mesmerize.
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where can i find TOM and what is it? lol

Lol I don't think you'll find Tom, he's extremely elusive!
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now how do I go back lol?
I have a nandroid backup but it didn't work

Boot into CWM, wipe your device, install the vodoo kernal for your mesmerize than install your nandroid back up by goint to backup and restore and hitting restore and picking the most recent nandroid backup. In my case if I wasnt able to wipe or install I would have to do a battery pull and boot into CWM once or twice. Hope that helps.

palisoulja1 said:
Boot into CWM, wipe your device, install the vodoo kernal for your mesmerize than install your nandroid back up by goint to backup and restore and hitting restore and picking the most recent nandroid backup. In my case if I wasnt able to wipe or install I would have to do a battery pull and boot into CWM once or twice. Hope that helps.
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go through the whole voodoo install process again or just go into cwm and install voodoo again?

go into cwm and install vodoo again than do a nandroid restore, if you try to stay on kasocinates kernal youll get an md5 mismatch when trying to do a nandroid restore

palisoulja1 said:
go into cwm and install vodoo again than do a nandroid backup, if you try to stay on kasocinates kernal youll get an md5 mismatch when trying to do a nandroid restore
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it just freezes at samsung now

after you do the vodoo kernal install the nandroid backup in cwm, this should go through the whole process of restoring your nandroid backup and than reboot through CWM and it should get you past the samsung screen.

palisoulja1 said:
after you do the vodoo kernal install the nandroid backup in cwm, this should go through the whole process of restoring your nandroid backup and than reboot through CWM and it should get you past the samsung screen.
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I did a complete wipe then install zip from sdcard select 1221 test voodoo then blue letters come up then samsung comes up and phone freezes.

Ok now do the nandroid restore.
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palisoulja1 said:
Ok now do the nandroid restore.
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i have to pull the battery again to get back into recovery. is that right? thanks for your help im freakin

says mismatch
also it says cant mount no such file or directory, when I try to wipe

try pulling the battery and redoing the wipe again....if this is not working for you I suggest just resetting your phone back to stock with odin, the instructions are in this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881064 dont freak out too much, your phone is still recoverable. just read everything in the link and you should be back to stock in a matter of 10 minutes. hope this helps

[Q] How to remove custom rom?

Hi guys,
I installed the Android Revolution rom for my HTC Desire HD this morning, just to test it. Works great, but, I want to remove it and get back to my original HTC rom. However, when I try to restore the backup with the Rom Manager the phone will boot and get stuck at the HTC bootloader (the HTC image). Also I tried different options when I did a hard reset, but nothing seems to work.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Dirk

There have been some problems with the latest version of Clockworkmod recovery. If this is what you have been using it it may be worth trying a previous version of it and then trying your backup restore again.

Thnx for the reply!
I used Rom Manager for backup and restore. From the author Clockworkmod. Is that the same?

Why not flash a stock rom and push it to sdcard to flash?
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I am looking for a stock but can't find it. I was hoping there was a nice way to just remove the custom rom and restore my old backup.

Look for instructions on how to flash Odin.

Odin is only for Samsung?

[Q] New CWM allows backup and restore??

Hey guys,
I think the new CWM allows backup and restore? I used it to backup my current rom, but can anyone verify whether there are still issues when attempting to restore backups? Last thing I need is to brick my charge.
Thanks guys!

Is working
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Please confirm....
Have you successfully restored using the BLUE font CWM?

tsitalon1 said:
Please confirm....
Have you successfully restored using the BLUE font CWM?
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I could not get restore to work but it didn't brick my phone either. From what I've heard some people have had it work tho.

Is this the CWM from the Android Market? And, if so - Am I supposed to let CWM rewrite the Recovery Mode like I did on my Moto Droid?

Sooo hoping backup and restore is working, I know he didn't test it completely but that certainly doesn't mean it wont work :] Post in this thread if it worked for you!

I just installed cwm and did a backup before rooted. And was having issues tethering and wanted.to revert back. I went into cwm and attempted a restore. And it failed saying could not unmount /system. Then it froze. Next time i booted to cwm it booted in a basic mode with only options to reboot or apply update.zip
This is my first experience modding a Samsung phone i just upgraded from my droid 1. phone is working and plan to do more this weekend when i have more time to explore.
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I am having the same issue as witmore. I can create a backup but it has issue with /system. It doesn't brick the phone but I would like to make a good backup incase things go bad one day.

Is the Market CWM working properly for backups and restores yet? I really want to try some new ROMs ...

The market app still does not work.
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kvswim said:
The market app still does not work.
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Bummer!
Is there any other method out there that can do a full backup / restore for a rooted Charge yet?

Try OdinMaker by P3Droid. It is 2 bucks on the market. I believe it works fine.

I cant get OdinMaker to reliably finish.
I saw somewhere on here that CWR backup works but to restore you have to reflash (Odin) your rom, kernal and recovery. Then in CWR you do an advanced restore and do /data only. I have not confirmed this works.
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BillLee3 said:
I cant get OdinMaker to reliably finish.
I saw somewhere on here that CWR backup works but to restore you have to reflash (Odin) your rom, kernal and recovery. Then in CWR you do an advanced restore and do /data only. I have not confirmed this works.
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The advanced restore worked for me. Thanks for the info. Much needed. Started to lose it for a little bit.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13856086
I don't see why this wouldn't work.
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Try 0817_charge_recovery.tar.md5
The imnuts cwm 0817_charge_recovery.tar.md5 works very well. IT is is stable the only issue is lagfix ext4 does not work. However this may not be a cwm issue but rather a kernel issue. Dan

does anyone have a link for this new CWM?

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does anyone have a link for this new CWM?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112804
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge

Newbie Help

Ok just got this phone and have decided to go with Phoenix Blood rom, but how do i start? I have to be on froyo to root? Im coming from samsung epic on sprint that i flashed so im not completely retarded. Thanks for any help

Use superoneclick to root on froyo.
If your on 2.3.3 gb there's a flashable. Zip in development section to root.
Also you will want to use tgagunnmans nvflash method to install clockworkmod recovery in dev section.
Phoenix blood is a great choice btw, enjoy!
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You're still on Froyo? To my understanding it's a good idea to flash the OTA GB first so that you'll get the up to date baseband. Once that's done just go ahead and flash PB.

no im on gb jsut thought i had to go back to froyo to root, so i just flash clockwork mod then pb and thats it?

reeshmd23 said:
no im on gb jsut thought i had to go back to froyo to root, so i just flash clockwork mod then pb and thats it?
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Yes, but make sure you're using NVFlash to get CWM. Don't use Rom Manager.

Easiest way is using the tool unlockroot. It supports gb on the G2X. Or you can use nvflash, whichever you prefer.
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Easiest way is using the tool unlockroot. It supports gb on the G2X. Or you can use nvflash, whichever you prefer.
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If he wants to change Roms he will still need Nvflash regardless how he gets it rooted.

GTWalling said:
If he wants to change Roms he will still need Nvflash regardless how he gets it rooted.
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Agree. Nvflash=bullet proof.

what is nvflash?

reeshmd23 said:
what is nvflash?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
From that thread:
Flashing the custom recovery using NvFlash is the only way to ensure that in the case your phone will not boot up, you will be able to get into recovery to fix the issue / flash a ROM / restore from nandroid backup. That is what this app will do for you.
If you flashed the ClockworkMod recovery from ROM Manager it does not flash the recovery to your phone, it fake flashed it. The only way you can gain access to ClockworkMod recovery is through ROM Manager at that point. Using this method is the only way to flash recovery so it is persistent and accessible booting to recovery.
If you have already flashed through ROM Manager you can still proceed with this method. Flash Away!
(You can use both ROM Manager CWM and have the nvflashed version working together. You just access either or one at a time, having the nvflashed one means you can boot to CWM. Welcome to Tegra2)
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Follow the link. This is a must for tegra 2 based phones. It is always better to be safe than sorry and it also allows you to do a ton of other things, such as making backups and flashing roms. Let us know if you need help. The phone is pretty much unbrickable after you do this. It gives you the ability to recover from any major mistake.

Its in the dev thread, it low level flashes clockworkmod recovery to our phones internal memory partition. You need to install apx drivers first in order for the g2x to be nvflashed.
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thanks for the help guys got it all set up

Just to add in, nvflash allows u to boot into cwm recovery whenever u want and u don't need to be next to a computer. I think that is how it worked for Samsung phones and Odin, where u needed a computer, but haven't used a Samsung phone so I could be wrong. Remember always make a back up of everything and play around with the different roms, not every rom works for everyone
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Actually Odin is just like nvflash. It is used to put cwm on you phone and to put the stock recovery back on.
Once you have cwm you can flash what ever rom or kernel without the need for root. Just back up your stock unrooted stock rom before flashing anything else.
If you do that you will have your own stock backup with no need of finding it in the forums if you need to go back to stock.
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[Q] TWRP vs. CWM

I remember seeing over in the Dev. forums that CWM recovery isn't restoring the kernel properly when people try to restore their backup of the stock ROM
Does this happen with TWRP as well? Or is the issue with the stock ROM / Kernel?
I'm hesitant to try CM9 and would like a clean way to recover to the stock ROM without having to use the downgrade method and reinstall everything.

edgemaster191 said:
I remember seeing over in the Dev. forums that CWM recovery isn't restoring the kernel properly when people try to restore their backup of the stock ROM
Does this happen with TWRP as well? Or is the issue with the stock ROM / Kernel?
I'm hesitant to try CM9 and would like a clean way to recover to the stock ROM without having to use the downgrade method and reinstall everything.
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From what I read in the CM9 thread someone had the same issue when using TWRP.

Nandroids don't include the kernel i believe it must be restored seperately

It should, wouldn't that be in boot.img? I know on my Droid Inc I have gone between sense and aosp backups, both using different kernels.
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