Hello!
I recently sold an android phone to buy my HTC sensation. Now, I cleaned off my phone to a bare cm7 installation, booted it up once to make sure it was working, and shipped it to the buyer.
The buyer then contactedme to say that the phone won't go past booting screen. Shesaid tthat herattempts to flash a rom have-not worked. She has requested I email her my backups to see if the phone will work again.
Does this scenario make sense? Is there any way that my rom backup wouldn't actually be the solution? How much of a risk is it if I share it with her? (Personal info etc)
I was thinking I should offer to pay shipping and fix it myself, then send it back.
What do you all think?
Sorry for random post, but I would really appreciate the advice.
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Nixit12 said:
Shesaid tthat herattempts to flash a rom have-not worked.
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Sounds like she doesn't know how to flash a rom. Send her a guide how to properly flash a rom.
Not good idea. I agree, send her instructions on how to install a ROM it shouldn't be hard.
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Editing the backup
Hello,
Your could take the clockworkmod backup folder,
1. Copy your backup folder to your desktop
2. Remove all but the system.img, boot.img, and md5 file
3. Edit the md5 file by removing the unneeded lines(leaving only system and boot)
4. Send them that. When they restore it will restore the system and boot only, no personal info.
This is all at your own descression though, just do whatever you are comfortable doing. The cache.img, data.img, and android_secure.img all have personal information in them so keep that in mind for the future.
Rsotbiemrptson
i say fix it yourself so that no information of yours is out in the wild
Thank you all for your replies I think I will do as rsot suggested and remove all of those files.
Short of not sending them, does anyone else have a suggestion to maintain privacy?
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If you flash a rom and don't set anything up why would any of your personal info even be in there? That's what I would do. Talk to her on the phone and guide her through a flashing.
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Oh wait...you don't have the phone anymore. Look around on the phones forum and see if someone has posted a bare nandroid backup.
Well I've thought a little bit more about this and I have one real question remaining:
What advantage, if anything, does giving her a nandroid backup (or any backup) have over her flashing the ROM? Is it easier to do successfully? Why would it succeed when her attempt at flashing a ROM didn't?
Also, I am googling, but if anyone knows where to find a bare nandroid backup, pleeeeease link me.
Thanks again everyone.
Why would you want to spend so much time on editing a nandroid backup.
It's much saver to give her a link to cm7 and a proper guide on how to flash the rom
Well, I don't want to give her a ROM backup of mine (not even edited). She claims to have knowledge of how to do CM7 and other ROM flashings properly, but that it is not working.
She is the one that requested the ROM backup (which is fishy to me in the first place). I have a suspicion that the intention is to get my personal info (and that was the goal from the start) which is why I hesitated at her request and decided to ask this forum about it.
The only way it would make sense to send one to her is if it was more likely to work or easier than CM7 flashing and safe for me. But I don't see how it could be easier or more likely to work. Plus, I checked to make sure the phone worked before I sent it, so it either bricked on the way or this is an elaborate phishing scam. (imho)
Gah, just don't want to have to deal with it.
Just curious... what phone did you sell her that had CM7 on it, and why are you posting it in the Sensation forum... just because you now own a Sensation? LOL
Anyways.... What phone is it? Give her an xda url on how to revert to original ROM or something, and yeah, she screwed up herself, don't send her any of your nandroid backups of that old phone, just say you didn't backup your nandroid for it since you no longer have the phone.
And if she can't figure it out still, have her mail it back to you, and go ahead and just revert it back to stock and mail it back (all at her expense).
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Just curious... what phone did you sell her that had CM7 on it, and why are you posting it in the Sensation forum... just because you now own a Sensation? LOL
Anyways.... What phone is it? Give her an xda url on how to revert to original ROM or something, and yeah, she screwed up herself, don't send her any of your nandroid backups of that old phone, just say you deleted it since you no longer have the phone.
And if she can't figure it out still, have her mail it back to you, and go ahead and just revert it back to stock and mail it back (all at her expense).
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To be honest I did post it here because this is the forum I spend the most time in. i figure the loophole is that this applies to any such scenario (It doesn't really apply any more to the Vision forums, because this is an issue about Backup ROMs) Theoretically, I could have the same issue if I had sold my Sensation or any other phone.
Anyway, thanks for the advice everyone!
DiZzle. said:
Why would you want to spend so much time on editing a nandroid backup.
It's much saver to give her a link to cm7 and a proper guide on how to flash the rom
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This... Any half ass competent person wouldn't want your nandroid backups. Send her a link to cm7, and call it a day. If she needs help with installation, help her out.
The bottom line here is that you sold her a working phone.
Can you clarify with her that she booted up the phone with the "bare-bones" CM7 installation that you put on it.?
If she did so, then this is the limit of your (sellers) responsibility.
What she does with the phone after this point is her responsibility.
It is splashed all over every ROMs threads first post that the dev takes no responsibility if you brick your phone etc
I would be a nice guy though - find out what she tried to flash and give a little support to her as others have suggested.
After all, thats what the community is all about... Right??
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Ok if anyone can help me out on this. I would like to put a list of things you Need to do AFTER rooting your Inspire. Long story short I looked around countless of thread and find bits of pieces of things to do after your root.
Just would like to start something where this is a list to what you need to do after your done. So if ANYONE can help me out and may help others out with just the same ?s. This would be awesome. I know there are somethings like Titanium back up, ROM Manager, ClockWork. But if anyone can help put this together. Thank you.
Also if you have any videos that you can share that shows how to install something(because who does not like a Tut Video lol) rather it be a ROM or making a NANDOID(if thats right) backup if you need or not maybe just some how To's because I had to Root back to stock and this [ROM] AT&T Stock ROM - Sense [Unroot] and the user helped me out, thanks again friend, very informative.
thanks again for any help hints and walk throughs.
I for got to add this in once your done rooting you can check it with super user to see if everything is good. Also I found these guys to become very helpful major Props to them.. ANDROID Applications (How-To Backup & Restore) Titanium Backup just look that up on youtube or something
Not trying to be mean, but did you even take a look at the guide? I could be wrong, but I vaguely remember there being a video posted there.
As for what you do after you root your phone, you can flash a rom if you want... I mean its really a subjective question..
yes I looked just any video dealing with the inspire I hoping that this thread could kind of be one place for some ?s I see all over the place but its worth a shot to see if it turns out that way but for others that see the title of this thread could get some help with out ppl being "mean" for a ?s thats been asked and yes there is a search bar but...hey not everyone use it as much as we reply with "There is a search bar you know" or any other remark..
So Im hoping with that said that this thread could help other out with some Very common ?s. Because other user dont see a thread that looks like what they are looking for so others make a thread asking ?s that has been asked many times so with in time maybe this could help a lot of others.. Idk we will see..
Also after seeing a lot of videos about this there is so many different things that are said to do or to get and its get confusing and I can see how it could throw some user off..Because what through me off is the Making of a Nanadoid back up.. I kind of still dont know how lol.
That would be why the guide is stickied at the top its meant to be a one stop shop for "new rooters". There is about 20 pages of questions and answers, and many of the members will stop by and answer including devs.
And there a four videos posted in the opening post, one for the hack kit (outdated) and one for bubbys root method. There are also two other videos one that shows you how to recover from a soft brick, and how to flash a rom (including a nandroid back up).
The main reason for the guide to be stickied was to elevate the general forum, from getting a lot of redundant questions, which it has helped.
To answer your question, after you root you really don't have to do anything. As I said before you can flash a rom and make a nandroid backup, which is covered in the guide. You can flash a radio, which there is also a link to the thread for this. You can flash a theme for a rom, which is generally the same as flashing a rom. You can install market apps that require root access.
The only thing that "would/should be" required after rooting would be flashing a recovery ie. clock work mod recovery, which is covered in both rooting processes.
As I said before I am not trying to be mean or rude, but that is kind of why the guide was stickied.
I got you chief.. And I dont take it anything personal its the internet LOL! but If you dont mind can you past the link about making that nanadoid back up. and btw your not the only one with videos more then four. But yeah I hear about the same ?s being asked and yea your thread is like 300+ with a lot lol.. but Idk was hoping that this could be more organized I see that you have a lot of fixes and radios..etc..good stuff though.
I hope Im not steeling you thunder for post..
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I got you chief.. And I dont take it anything personal its the internet LOL! but If you dont mind can you past the link about making that nanadoid back up. and btw your not the only one with videos more then four. But yeah I hear about the same ?s being asked and yea your thread is like 300+ with a lot lol.. but Idk was hoping that this could be more organized I see that you have a lot of fixes and radios..etc..good stuff though.
I hope Im not steeling you thunder for post..
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A nandoid back up is as simple as this...
Assuming you're rooted, and haven't flashed cwr yet...
Download ROM manager
Open it and choose flash clockwork recovery.
Once that's done, choose backup current rom
Provide a name for your backup
Let it reboot and do the backup.
If you already have clockwork recovery flashed, you can reboot into recovery and select the appropriate menu choice, though if you initiate the backup directly from cwr, I don't think it let's you choose the name.
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Scott_S said:
A nandoid back up is as simple as this...
Assuming you're rooted, and haven't flashed cwr yet...
Download ROM manager
Open it and choose flash clockwork recovery.
Once that's done, choose backup current rom
Provide a name for your backup
Let it reboot and do the backup.
If you already have clockwork recovery flashed, you can reboot into recovery and select the appropriate menu choice, though if you initiate the backup directly from cwr, I don't think it let's you choose the name.
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That's correct, but the backups are stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/$datecode$ It's very easy to rename them after the fact.... so long as you do it within a reasonable time period.
you can also do it from rom manager and name the backup.
sweet.. I just re rooted like an hour ago just re setting some stuff up
If anyone is able....and willing to help, I'd be most grateful.
I know there are many pages in the forum and the net that touch on this, but as one post puts it, almost too many.j
that is the least of the problems. I am a total newbie and get so confused.
When I originally rooted my phone it was with help from someone, now a friend, who I found on YouTube. I always saw confusing ways to root, where you can't miss ONE character. Somehow, don't ask me, feel free to tell me, we rooted with hardly any of that . Some character typing was done, but a lot was using programs, ROM managers, etc.. and hitting buttons.
So it was Rooted and I had no problems flashing ROMS
Now selling. I was gonna sell with MIUI...as I advertised. It was recommended by someone on here to put the factory firmware on .
1. That means flash the original MyTouch 4g firmware/UI/whatever?? ...or does it mean unroot
2. If it means the former, I found one site it gave me this file PD15IMG can I just flash that. It led me to believe I can. It won't be unrooted but it would be the original ROM
3. Or should I unroot. Is anyone willing to walk me thru some steps on here, maybe thru PM...I just get so confused by this stuff because it talks about s=on or ???
4. Lastly, this gent recommended I flash that OR reflash whatever I am gonna send, then Factory wipe. I thought reflashing WAS factory resetting.
Can you tell me how to factory reset AFTER I flash a ROM
LIke I said, I have searched and did find some of this in different places but in jargon I don't understand
So please if you could answer any one or all of the above Id be grateful. If you like I can paypal you 5-10 dollars or a few more if we spend time on it.
Sincerely
Eric
Did you root your phone with Gfree or the root.sh method?
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Actually you can put the PD15IMG file on your SD card and boot up into bootloader. It will ask you if you want to apply the update...say yes. BE PATIENT. It will get you back to stock.
eric0668 said:
If anyone is able....and willing to help, I'd be most grateful.
I know there are many pages in the forum and the net that touch on this, but as one post puts it, almost too many.j
that is the least of the problems. I am a total newbie and get so confused.
When I originally rooted my phone it was with help from someone, now a friend, who I found on YouTube. I always saw confusing ways to root, where you can't miss ONE character. Somehow, don't ask me, feel free to tell me, we rooted with hardly any of that . Some character typing was done, but a lot was using programs, ROM managers, etc.. and hitting buttons.
So it was Rooted and I had no problems flashing ROMS
Now selling. I was gonna sell with MIUI...as I advertised. It was recommended by someone on here to put the factory firmware on .
1. That means flash the original MyTouch 4g firmware/UI/whatever?? ...or does it mean unroot
2. If it means the former, I found one site it gave me this file PD15IMG can I just flash that. It led me to believe I can. It won't be unrooted but it would be the original ROM
3. Or should I unroot. Is anyone willing to walk me thru some steps on here, maybe thru PM...I just get so confused by this stuff because it talks about s=on or ???
4. Lastly, this gent recommended I flash that OR reflash whatever I am gonna send, then Factory wipe. I thought reflashing WAS factory resetting.
Can you tell me how to factory reset AFTER I flash a ROM
LIke I said, I have searched and did find some of this in different places but in jargon I don't understand
So please if you could answer any one or all of the above Id be grateful. If you like I can paypal you 5-10 dollars or a few more if we spend time on it.
Sincerely
Eric
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Check the development thread for the RUU file posted by Football. Name it pd15img.zip put it on the root of your sdcard, boot into bootloader and let it flash. That's it. Super easy, no dicking around with anything else.
DON'T FLASH IT WITH RECOVERY!
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Phateless said:
Check the development thread for the RUU file posted by Football. Name it pd15img.zip "put it on the root of your sdcard, boot into bootloader and let it flash. That's it. Super easy, no dicking around with anything else.
DON'T FLASH IT WITH RECOVERY!
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Here you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1174344
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Much thanks to the 3 of u. It may be a non issue...as I am not hearing back.from the buyer and it was advertised to be sold with MIUI with pics and he may have liked the iPhone 'look' In answer to your questions I was helped by Mack on YouTube to root. I do t k ow which way. I DO know it was the easy way....it involved very little typing and worrying about messing up a character
I have only used ROM Manager and CWM within that. When I reboot I see the option for bootloader. Is it 'dangerous?'
This is what I am gonna do tell me if correct
Take that last link. Hook up to Computerput in root of SD card. Hit restart except dont hit normal
or recovery...hit bootloader...it will restart...maybe hit yes or enter when asked
-only if he gets back to me today if not tomorrow is the 5 th day since he bought it and I have a 4 day turnaround so I will mail as advertised. He has 0 points, sales or purchases on EBay
-for some reason I am getting no email notification for xda when I select it.
-I get some keys that dont type occasionally it may have started with MIUI. could that be beccause of it. Someone on here, a senior told me as good as MIUI is it is unstable
-regardless of which I flash/leave on. How about the factory research tying. Thought that was just the reflashimg. For MIUI I JUST hit wipe data in recovery right after flashing and restart. I guessed that because I did that once by mistake and it restarted with MIUI there
I appreciate all your help and patience here. For all of you I can't give u more than thanks for hopefully getting me thru this. I dont think its my lack of intelligence that can't do it. Its my anxiety, health situation and lack of fundage to be able to brick a phone. No mas for me
That same gent told me that he thinks in HTC phones that once u flash a ROM he thinks u lose ROOT?
I hope to hear back and have a good day
Eric
eric0668 said:
I have only used ROM Manager and CWM within that. When I reboot I see the option for bootloader. Is it 'dangerous?'
This is what I am gonna do tell me if correct
Take that last link. Hook up to Computerput in root of SD card. Hit restart except dont hit normal
or recovery...hit bootloader...it will restart...maybe hit yes or enter when asked
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No, it is not dangerous. The last link is the RUU (PD15IMG) of the stock ROM. And your steps are good to go. Go into bootloader and let it do its thing.
Flashing rooted ROM's will not make you lose root. You only lose root flashing an unrooted ROM, such as a stock ROM.
Hi, first post, and attempting to stick to forum rules and customs as much as possible... I have a question about recovery mode on my T-Mobile G2x (LG Optimus 2x). A couple months back, I was finally looking into modding and choosing a ROM. However, before doing any of that, I thought it smart to try a nandroid backup, which to my knowledge can be achieved through recovery mode (which I looked up, and found could be accessed with power button/volume down). So I tried it out and successfully booted into recovery mode. Satisfied that I was capable of that I rebooted, and to my serious disappointment and frustration, everything (almost) was gone. Contacts, messages, apps, the whole shebang. Interestingly, however, my pictures/media files remained, along with root access, and certain files I had stored internally. Other than that, I was looking at my phone like it was on day one. Since then, I've been too scared to try anything sketchy at all, and I've been religiously backing up everything with TitaniumBackup. What I want to know is, why did my phone reset like that, why did certain things remain, and how can I safely go about doing a nandroid backup now? I'd rather not delete everything again...
Apologies if that was long, but I hope I've made things clear enough! If you need more information, or if I'm an unknowing rulebreaker, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
Well. Lol recovery mode on stock does a factory reset. Thats why you lost everything. You need to flash custom recovery via nvflasher before you can make your nandroid backup. There are step by step guides on how to do everything on your g2x. Btw the g2x is not the o2x. Their software is not compatible without porting, so make sure you have the lg p999 and not the lg p990. Search guide to getting started with your g2x ,assuming you are on the p999, everything you need to know is there.
EDIT: Guide is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060715
[REF][Guide/Tutorial] Getting Started Modding Your T-Mobile G2x
You need to flash clockworkmod for custom recovery options, backup, and flashing roms. Rooting it is just a tiny step.
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Wow haha. That's obviously where I got confused... totally new to this stuff! If I remember right I was following instructions from a couple different sites at once.. good grief. But thanks for putting it in plain english! So yeah, mine's the p999 and I've actually been to the guide page before. However I think I had seen something else and was under the impression that there was a way I could do a nandroid backup beforehand. One thing though, I guess now I'm wondering what exactly a factory reset even does. Evidently it erases all apps and settings and such, but why do pictures and files remain along with root access? Just curious. If there's a guide to that or a link you know of that I can't find that would be fantastic!
Nonetheless, thanks for being so prompt and helpful!
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Wow haha. That's obviously where I got confused... totally new to this stuff! If I remember right I was following instructions from a couple different sites at once.. good grief. But thanks for putting it in plain english! So yeah, mine's the p999 and I've actually been to the guide page before. However I think I had seen something else and was under the impression that there was a way I could do a nandroid backup beforehand. One thing though, I guess now I'm wondering what exactly a factory reset even does. Evidently it erases all apps and settings and such, but why do pictures and files remain along with root access? Just curious. If there's a guide to that or a link you know of that I can't find that would be fantastic!
Nonetheless, thanks for being so prompt and helpful!
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Factory reset clears all personal data, just like your phone came out of the box (or the factory). The reason pictures and files remain is probably because they're on your sd card.
AS for root, I believe it's on a lower level than recovery (but I may be wrong)
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Factory reset clears all personal data, just like your phone came out of the box (or the factory). The reason pictures and files remain is probably because they're on your sd card.
AS for root, I believe it's on a lower level than recovery (but I may be wrong)
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ya what he said..lol
Sent via G2x on CM7 b135.2 w/faux 52 kernel
Anyone know how I can get the unlock code for my G2x? It's not serviced and probably has bad esn
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Hey folks.
I've had my Rogers One X for about 11 months now, but been running completely stock. Going to make the plunge, Unlock, flash, etc.
My question, is HTC seems to do things differently than I'm used to. I've rooted and flashed quite a few ROMs on some Samsung devices, which were very easy. HTC doesn't seem to have the same utilities. Also, they seem to use a different layout than Samsung does. Previously, I knew to make a nandroid backup, I've saved my efs folder separately, then good to go. Is there a certain folder on the One X I should ensure I back up so if worst comes to worst I can have an attempt at restoring? Generally a Nandroid backup should be good enough, is that the case?
Just want to make sure I'm not forgetting anything yet. I've been having a hell of a time trying to help someone fix their Note II they screwed up, don't want that situation to happen to my phone.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
You can make a nandroid backup in case something goes wrong but typically, if something goes wrong to the point where you can't flash a rom, you also would not be able to access your nandroid backup...
I suggest reading all the stickies and being familiar with adb and fastboot if you're not already before rooting.
Good luck. If you have any questions, there are a few of us that watch this section quite diligently, though we appreciate if you can take the steps to help yourself (reading, searching) before asking for help.
Good Luck!
Hello! I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge.
First of all here is my phone info
Rooted RAZR maxx hd with unlocked bootloader (XT926)
My main objective is to flash custom ROMs and see if any are better and faster than stock.
My problem is I have no idea what I'm doing. I can't seem to find any threads that are simple enough for me to understand what I need to do and in what order I need to do those things.
Supposedly I need to back up my phone which seems to be the same thing as having a recovery???
If there is a thread that simplifies backing up and using a custom recovery please post a link.
I don't understand how to back up my phone, or if I use my computer or phone to do said back up.
I don't understand how to use the app ROM manager, my phone isn't listed on it when I try to download clockworkmod. So I downloaded a file cwm.img and I don't know what the heck to do with it?
I think I have adb on my computer?
I'm so confused and there's too much information and it makes no sense to me. Can someone please help me or post links to SIMPLE walk throughs of what I need to do and tell me what order I'm supposed to do them in?
I'm sorry if you think I haven't searched because I've been searching for a long time over a few days and all I've found is information that is too complex for me.
I appreciate any help! I'm new and I don't want to hurt my phone.
boost4life17 said:
Hello! I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge.
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First of all here is my phone info
Rooted RAZR maxx hd with unlocked bootloader (XT926)
Mine is a Razr HD (XT925) But it's mainly the same except roms and some tools (and probably some other things I don't know...)
My main objective is to flash custom ROMs and see if any are better and faster than stock.
Which is the idea I had a week ago
My problem is I have no idea what I'm doing.
I was exactly in the same position since this is my first smartphone ever ^^
I can't seem to find any threads that are simple enough for me to understand what I need to do and in what order I need to do those things.
Well I had to search a while cause I first of all wanted to backup the most I could before doing anything.
Supposedly I need to back up my phone which seems to be the same thing as having a recovery???
This is a good thinking But there are limitations on what you can do without making the first thing which is rooting your phone "and then unlocking it".
If there is a thread that simplifies backing up and using a custom recovery please post a link.
I don't understand how to back up my phone, or if I use my computer or phone to do said back up.
The first thing I could do, was to backup the Apps/Contacts/etc... by using some apps like : MyBackup
The thing is : these applications are limited until you are rooted, because you wont be able to save apps data like your game scores or whatever
The second way to backup, is to make an entire backup of your system and data, which can only be made after unlocking the bootloader (by installing a custom recovery).
Be careful, unlocking your bootloader will ENTIRELY WIPE the data you have so make backups BEFORE.
I don't understand how to use the app ROM manager, my phone isn't listed on it when I try to download clockworkmod. So I downloaded a file cwm.img and I don't know what the heck to do with it?
Not sure about it because I never got that app before unlocking my bootloader.
I think I have adb on my computer?
To get adb on your computer, you need Android-SDK.
I'm so confused and there's too much information and it makes no sense to me. Can someone please help me or post links to SIMPLE walk throughs of what I need to do and tell me what order I'm supposed to do them in?
If you need more infos, dont hesitate to ask me on your post Ill subscribe to it in case of
I'm sorry if you think I haven't searched because I've been searching for a long time over a few days and all I've found is information that is too complex for me.
I can understand, personnaly im working in IT and I understand how this can be a pain when you have no knowledge at all on that subject :/
I appreciate any help! I'm new and I don't want to hurt my phone.
Once again, good thinking, but even thought, going where you are going is very risked.
And I can tell...because I nearly bricked my phone...as you can see here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2631547
boost4life17 said:
Hello! I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge.
First of all here is my phone info
Rooted RAZR maxx hd with unlocked bootloader (XT926)
My main objective is to flash custom ROMs and see if any are better and faster than stock.
My problem is I have no idea what I'm doing. I can't seem to find any threads that are simple enough for me to understand what I need to do and in what order I need to do those things.
Supposedly I need to back up my phone which seems to be the same thing as having a recovery???
If there is a thread that simplifies backing up and using a custom recovery please post a link.
I don't understand how to back up my phone, or if I use my computer or phone to do said back up.
I don't understand how to use the app ROM manager, my phone isn't listed on it when I try to download clockworkmod. So I downloaded a file cwm.img and I don't know what the heck to do with it?
I think I have adb on my computer?
I'm so confused and there's too much information and it makes no sense to me. Can someone please help me or post links to SIMPLE walk throughs of what I need to do and tell me what order I'm supposed to do them in?
I'm sorry if you think I haven't searched because I've been searching for a long time over a few days and all I've found is information that is too complex for me.
I appreciate any help! I'm new and I don't want to hurt my phone.
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Start
Use Recovery Tools from play to flash your fav img.
TWRP check my Problems post in HD gen. Pocket proof, easy
Not pocket proof:
CWMR be careful of the double touch conformation!-you can use the keys til you are versed w/ the input flukes that inspired Philz recovery. Otherwise solid & simple.
I use Philz which may support everything in Rom Manager soon.
RM works w/ Photon Q recovery works on all the msm8960 phones, xt907, 925, 926, mb886. keys only.
All recoveries
Just because you can format it, it still may not be supported in the backup or even the xml restore (/persist)
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Get a SANDISK 64 GB CARD, FORMAT FROM RECOVERY to default format-fat32. Then when in doubt BACKUP.
All for now
bye
No offense intended, but if it's too difficult for you, than you probably shouldn't touch the phone until you understand everything. Before you start modding, you need to know how to recover it so we don't have another brick. Once you start to understand the minor things, it will be like a light switch and the more complex things will start to make sense.
Hybris95 said:
First of all ..
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Be careful, unlocking your bootloader will ENTIRELY WIPE the data you have so make backups
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This only happens on a moto factory UL.
Not the one for the xt907, 926 & mb886.
I do believe a 925 can save themselves the bother of the factory path if they do not mind it being not reversible. Yet both are irreversibly noticeable.
aviwdoowks said:
Be careful, unlocking your bootloader will ENTIRELY WIPE the data you have so make backups
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This only happens on a moto factory UL.
Not the one for the xt907, 926 & mb886.
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Sorry about that I thought XT926 were close enough from XT925 (which is the only device I own) to have the same unlocking process.
My bad ^^
well if you're already unlocked and rooted, use this
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_xt925
follow the instructions, go to the development forum, download TWRP, CWM whichever floats your boat, and just use adb and fastboot.
id reccomend a backup, nandroid, titianium, etc.
djvita said:
well if you're already unlocked and rooted, use this
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_xt925
follow the instructions, go to the development forum, download TWRP, CWM whichever floats your boat, and just use adb and fastboot.
id reccomend a backup, nandroid, titianium, etc.
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Is post # 5 true for you & your 925 unlock?
Thanks
RikRong said:
No offense intended, but if it's too difficult for you, than you probably shouldn't touch the phone until you understand everything. Before you start modding, you need to know how to recover it so we don't have another brick. Once you start to understand the minor things, it will be like a light switch and the more complex things will start to make sense.
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This is an excellent point. When I first got into this a couple of years ago, I soft bricked my Bionic. I was able to recover it, but I could have avoided the problem if I had read a little more first. Now I read, read, read before trying something new. I found YouTube videos very helpful when I was a noob. Rootjunky is one resource, online and on YouTube. rootjunky.com
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aviwdoowks said:
Is post # 5 true for you & your 925 unlock?
Thanks
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yes i supposedly backed up with cwm, but the last time i got in that option, it did not find that backup.
at least there is a firmware superthread, but my cwm is for 4.4 only, so id have to flash another cwm to go back to stock jb
i find a titanium backup to be better, just backup my sms/calls, wifi keys, and user apps...
RikRong said:
No offense intended, but if it's too difficult for you, than you probably shouldn't touch the phone until you understand everything. Before you start modding, you need to know how to recover it so we don't have another brick. Once you start to understand the minor things, it will be like a light switch and the more complex things will start to make sense.
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No offense taken! I appreciate the constructive criticism. That is why I posted this question. I am reading all I can and I won't be attempting anything more until I understand the concepts. I just didn't know where to go for a more simple explanation of these concepts since apparently I'm not as intelligent as 90% of you guys on this forum!
I have already rooted and unlocked my phone so that's a good start haha. I will now follow the advice given in this thread and hopefully learn enough to understand these more complex concepts!
I appreciate everyone's information and responses!
Thanks ya'll
Jess
Good to hear you've placed these flammers where they have to be ^^
Anyway Nice job on what is done, the hardest and risky is still to come :/
Envoyé de mon XT925 en utilisant Tapatalk
its easy, the scripts i used are noob friendly, most important part is to backup your info!
djvita said:
yes i supposedly backed up with cwm, but the last time i got in that option, it did not find that backup.
at least there is a firmware superthread, but my cwm is for 4.4 only, so id have to flash another cwm to go back to stock jb
i find a titanium backup to be better, just backup my sms/calls, wifi keys, and user apps...
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???
Cwm=Cwmr?
Recovery is made for phone not any particular rom.
I'm glad you didn't take offense. Just keep learning, you are off to a good start.
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