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So, I'm really confused on how I would apply one of these to my evo.
Lets say for example, I wanted to apply something from this thread here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=685537
How would I do this?
Can someone walk me through it?
Most of that stuff is flashable through recovery. Just download the zip file and put it on your sd card. Then through recovery just flash it like you would a ROM
saf100792 said:
Most of that stuff is flashable through recovery. Just download the zip file and put it on your sd card. Then through recovery just flash it like you would a ROM
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Yeah, I'm somewhat confused on how you would do that. Because when I tried doing that for one of the clocks in that thread i posted, when i rebooted it just removed the clock i had, and i couldnt find the one i wanted anywhere.
What am i supposed to do?
hmmm theres two links there my guess is you might've downloaded the wrong one or something idk. If you downloaded one of the clocks in the 4th post try the link at the very bottom of the post for the clock you want. I think those are the working ones although im not 100%
Ok, im going to tell you what i did just to make sure im doing this right here.
- Opened quick boot
- Click recovery
- Hit Flash zip from sdcard
- Chose the one i wanted, did all that.
- Hit reboot system now
- When the phone turned on, the usual clock on the main screen of my phone was gone.
- Am i supposed to do something else once i turned my phone on?
Naw you did it right. Thats fine my only guess is you downloaded the wrong zip. Which rom are you using?
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Naw you did it right. Thats fine my only guess is you downloaded the wrong zip. Which rom are you using?
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This is where i get lost, how do i know which rom im using? And to be honest, i dont even know what the heck a rom is.
Sorry :/
edit - If i siad i was using this ROM, would that make sense?
BuglessPete's Bugless Beast ROM
http://bit.ly/az4cWq
you sure thats the right one because it doesn't have sense so you wouldn't have a clock to begin with. In order to check go to settings>about phone>software information. Your build number is the rom you're running
I'm pretty sure that was the one i had, because its the one that was included in the tutorial i used.
Under build number, the exact thing it says is..
1.17.651.1 CL160858 test-keys
Did i do something wrong?
If my memory serves me correctly thats the regular old stock debug rom you're running. Theres no way you could've been running bugless beast if you were able to use htc sense unless im missing something
Hmmm, well, I thought that was the one. Maybe not...
But any ideas on what i should do here now to be able to put my themes and all that good stuff on now?
idk if you can put themes on the debug rom since its not deodexed. I would pick a rom and flash it then try the clock. Don't forget to backup your stuff though. I would try either this one:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700649Make sure you download the one in the second post. Or this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700448
Alright thank you very much for your help, ill give that a shot when I get home later, but do I have to do anything with the previous rom I had, such as removing it or something? Thanks again though
Well other than backing up your apps and contacts etc. Just make sure you remember to wipe before you flash the rom its in the recovery menu
Alright, do you know if that nand backup backs everything up? (contacts)
Sorry if some of these questions I have are stupid, I'm just not very experienced with stuff like this
Thanks
Yea it'll back everything up but you won't be able to restore them to the new rom. For contacts you're best bet would be to put them all on your google account by using an app like vcardio and then improting the vcard on google
Airtight yeah I just downloaded that app now, looks like it'll do the job. Ill give this all a shot later tonight, thanks for all your help, for like the 8th time lol
lol no prob
Is there a ODIN file for the Rogers captivate froyo 2.2? Is it possible to flash roms without the ODIN file?
Do I just flash the JF6 Stock [email protected] Kernel anyways? I'm kind of stuck right now, this is my first attempt to flash and I've already hit a roadblock can anyone help please.
Read this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905042
I downloaded that file, but couldn't figure out what to do afterwards. I watched the mobile tech videos and it seemed that he was able to just click on the file and open the odin, while when I try to open it says "can't find application to open" after I extract it. Also I don't understand why I have to flash back to stock when I'm already at stock.
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First download odin from this thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364
Open it first and then point it to your rom image that you would like to use, you don't extract the file you have, it's ready to use as downloaded.
Please watch the videos again because you don't understand it yet and you're well on your way to a solid brick.
BTW using CWM with a .zip is easier then Odin IMHO, and can be done completely from your phone, no computer needed, it will also let you know if you have the three button recovery ( very important if something goes wrong ).
Read, read and read some more. Flashing a rom is not hard but it does have to be done correctly. If you want an almost guaranteed result you'll do the homework and learn something. I've only been here a while and rarely do I see a question that hasn't been answered 50 times already, your answers are here, go look for them and you'll pick up other things you will need to know when you decide to be a bit more adventurous with setting your phone up JUST like you want it.
Thanks for the information, it looks like I got lots of work to do.. The link you sent me has a broken Odin link on the other side, do you have a mirror or some sort so I can get the file? Also my final question is that since I have a Rogers Captivate I need to JL1 file not a J16 right? I've looked everywhere but couldn't find an answer to this... Thank you.
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Thanks for the information, it looks like I got lots of work to do.. The link you sent me has a broken Odin link on the other side, do you have a mirror or some sort so I can get the file? Also my final question is that since I have a Rogers Captivate I need to JL1 file not a J16 right? I've looked everywhere but couldn't find an answer to this... Thank you.
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do you want to install a custom rom?? like phoenix or cog? if you are already rooted, just install clockwork mod and flash it to phone... then reboot into recovery and choose install zip from sd card... then select 'choose zip from sdcard'. then find the zip of the rom you want to install. I'm a rogers user and I've flashed all the latest roms (currently using andromeda 2.0). Never needed odin.
oh I see thanks, I've tried flashing Cognition via ROM manager with no success. I had Cognition on my SD card, installed and flashed the Clockwork mod and then selected "install ROM from SD card". From their it makes me select my ROM and then after I do it takes me to recovery mode. From here I select Reinstall packages and it says something like "Can't verify file" in red writing and aborts installation. I've always thought that maybe since I skip the whole "flashing ODIN" step that's why it's not working but obviously that's not the case. Do you know why it's not working for me? Thanks for the help.
are you running rogers 2.2 update? it has 3e recovery and will not allow zips to be flashed.
if that's the case, you will need odin3 from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821625
then put a new kernel in the PDA section. I used the tar file listed in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870760
then with your phone powered off, sim card and memory cards out (put back cover on so the battery doesn't fall out) hold 2 volume buttons and plug in usb... should go to download mode. then hit start.
boot up will take a bit while voodoo formats ext4 on your files. after that, you can go into recovery mode and flash zips from sd card
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oh I see thanks, I've tried flashing Cognition via ROM manager with no success. I had Cognition on my SD card, installed and flashed the Clockwork mod and then selected "install ROM from SD card". From their it makes me select my ROM and then after I do it takes me to recovery mode. From here I select Reinstall packages and it says something like "Can't verify file" in red writing and aborts installation. I've always thought that maybe since I skip the whole "flashing ODIN" step that's why it's not working but obviously that's not the case. Do you know why it's not working for me? Thanks for the help.
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Another thing for CWM, the zips must not be hiding in a folder somewhere put them in the root and do not rename them.
Thanks for all your help, you guys give this site the reputation it deserves.
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just flashed Cognition! thanks!
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just flashed Cognition! thanks!
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No problem.
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and PS.
thank the dev's who make all this possible by donating to them if you can afford it!
I have a quick question with this current Kernel Can I flash any type of Rom.. even the ones based on the i9000 like Paragon?
ps: would I have to to flash the stock Kernel/modem if I flashed back to stock?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905042
when you flashed cog it would have put a new kernel on there. when you flash a different rom they come packaged with one the dev chooses. You can switch the kernel after with sgs kernel flasher or cwm
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ps: would I have to to flash the stock Kernel/modem if I flashed back to stock?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905042
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I've never flashed back to stock installing any rom yet.
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thanks for the help rnewton, you have been a life saver
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btw rnewton, how is andromeda 2.0?, would you recommend it?, I really don't see many differences with cog, maybe because I already had froyo(it is much faster though, great work dg), also whats your opinion on phenoix rising?, I just recently downloaded it Do you have any suggestions if I wanted a really fast rom? How many roms have you went through? Sorry for all the questions, I just dont understand all the technical information that comes with all the rom information, maybe I should make a whole different thread for this. Thanks for all your help.
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Hi i was trying to flash my phone back to froyo, cause it came with the gingerbread update on it, i did all of the steps of the nvflash, but i dont know what happend that now my phone's stuck on a black screen with the light blinking over and over again.
I hope i didnt broke my phone =(
can someone help please
AND I TRY TO GO BACK TO GINGERBREAD AND NOTHING IT STAYS THE SAME =S
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Hi i was trying to flash my phone back to froyo, cause it came with the gingerbread update on it, i did all of the steps of the nvflash, but i dont know what happend that now my phone's stuck on a black screen with the light blinking over and over again.
I hope i didnt broke my phone =(
can someone help please
AND I TRY TO GO BACK TO GINGERBREAD AND NOTHING IT STAYS THE SAME =S
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did you install all the drivers for nvidia and follow the guide
yeah i did when im going to the program and click on it, it works even now, i can go to clockworkmod if i want but i cant do nothing right now, i have downloaded two roms and two stock 2.2 recovery roms and nothing one of the roms says sm5 mixmatch something like that.
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yeah i did when im going to the program and click on it, it works even now, i can go to clockworkmod if i want but i cant do nothing right now, i have downloaded two roms and two stock 2.2 recovery roms and nothing one of the roms says sm5 mixmatch something like that.
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are you saying you can boot into clockwork recovery??
yeah i can but as for now it doesnt let me install a rom or nothing. only via the nvflash soft.
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yeah i can but as for now it doesnt let me install a rom or nothing. only via the nvflash soft.
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What does it say on your phone
If the phone boots to anything, your not bricked.
Sounds like your trying to flash it the wrong way or something? Download the ROM you want, put it on your SD, you can mount from CWM if you cant boot past recovery.
Wipe/factory data reset
Then install from zip
Select your ROM and your on your way
Well first the S/W updating screen, then unplug the phone put the battery and reboot to CWM and when im going to do a restore/backup it always says wrong image or no image file or no file or m5 something as for now i cant do nothing to restore my phone.
I have seen where that happens at times, where you cant restore someone else's backup. If you have access to a pc, just download a new ROM. BTW, Gingerbread is far more stable on my phone then any FROYO was
bls2633, Sorry, just looked at the times on the posts. Didnt realize it was kinda like a live help deal going on.
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bls2633, Sorry, just looked at the times on the posts. Didnt realize it was kinda like a live help deal going on.
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not a problem. the brother above is right, it sounds like you are trying to flash the nandroid restore instead of flashing a rom. I apologize for not making more clear when I sent you the post. You can actually restore that but you dont flash from zip you go to backup/restore and choose restore for that file in that post.
1. You must have ROM Manager installed and or ClockworkMod Recovery flashed and an external sdcard installed. Then have the directory and file contents of the "LG-P999-V10f.rar" file extracted to your external SDCard in the _ExternalSD/clockworkmod/backup/ directory.
2. Run ROM Manager and choose Reboot into Recovery or boot phone into clockworkmod recovery.
3. In recovery go down to backup and restore, choose restore.
4. Select LG-P999-V10f and choose Yes - Restore.
5. When the restore finishes do not reboot yet. Do a "wipe data/factory reset" from the recovery menu.
6. When it completes choose Reboot.
the file is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
Ok i did manage to put a rom now uffffffffffff that was close =) now its running without a problem, thanks guys, is there any rom you guys can tell me its a really good one?
daworship said:
Ok i did manage to put a rom now uffffffffffff that was close =) now its running without a problem, thanks guys, is there any rom you guys can tell me its a really good one?
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Glad you got it worked out. The x-boarders stock tweaked is really nice and very stable. Its probably the best IMO. I also like the AOSP by Faux combined with his OC kernel is really nice also. There is also another I have been hearing alot about that seems to be really nice with alot of custom options and tweaks and thats called Weapon. Happy Flashing
Thanks a lot im going to check them out!!!
One more question??
When i go to the sounds menu on the ringtones they appear three times all the sounds, why is that??
Sounds like you have an older SD you may have used in another device? You most likely have them on your SD a few times under Audio or something IIRC
Maybe who knows jeje, but i just flash a froyo rom and it fixed so no worries.
Heylo Guys,
First post (obviously) and I'm kinda stumped.
So, I rooted my phone (Skyrocket on AT&T) with Odin and got CWR on it as well. Then I successfully flashed the Sky ICS rom and was doing all my joyful downloading and stuff of apps. I got ROM Manager and updated my CWR to Touch Recovery. Everyting was fine and dandy. I then wanted to back up everything after everything was set up and my ROM Manager froze. Sooo, I did the recovery via button holding and tried to backup; however, Touch won't backup, it just freezes. So, I started to do other things in touch... but they freeze too! In fact, it even freezes when i just try to go back to a previous menu. My phone still works... I just can't flash anything... or do anything in CWR. Anyone know what's up?
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Heylo Guys,
First post (obviously) and I'm kinda stumped.
So, I rooted my phone (Skyrocket on AT&T) with Odin and got CWR on it as well. Then I successfully flashed the Sky ICS rom and was doing all my joyful downloading and stuff of apps. I got ROM Manager and updated my CWR to Touch Recovery. Everyting was fine and dandy. I then wanted to back up everything after everything was set up and my ROM Manager froze. Sooo, I did the recovery via button holding and tried to backup; however, Touch won't backup, it just freezes. So, I started to do other things in touch... but they freeze too! In fact, it even freezes when i just try to go back to a previous menu. My phone still works... I just can't flash anything... or do anything in CWR. Anyone know what's up?
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dont use buttons to navigate in cwm , dont update cwm through rom manager, but i would suggest to read my sig first
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dont use buttons to navigate in cwm , dont update cwm through rom manager, but i would suggest to read my sig first
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I didn't use the buttons. And I did search... I didn't really find anything that could help me... Such as hold the down button and stuff, but as it seems you know the problem maybe you could tell me what to do instead of pointing out my mistakes... Thanks.
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I didn't use the buttons. And I did search... I didn't really find anything that could help me... Such as hold the down button and stuff, but as it seems you know the problem maybe you could tell me what to do instead of pointing out my mistakes... Thanks.
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the version of cwr that rom manager flashes is very buggy. you should flash a recovery from somewhere in the dev section. i prefer 5.5.0.4, i have never had a problem with it.
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I didn't use the buttons. And I did search... I didn't really find anything that could help me... Such as hold the down button and stuff, but as it seems you know the problem maybe you could tell me what to do instead of pointing out my mistakes... Thanks.
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i did tell u what todo, dont update cwm through rom manager, u can just download touch cwm from this site and use regular cwm(zip file) or odin(tar file) to flash it, but i guess u did search if u didnt know that, like this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472954&highlight=touch+cwm or this, this ones a sticky http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526&highlight=touch+cwm , and i also told u to read my sig, but if its too much work let us know and we wont bother working with u
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the version of cwr that rom manager flashes is very buggy. you should flash a recovery from somewhere in the dev section. i prefer 5.5.0.4, i have never had a problem with it.
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. But since I can't flash through CWR, am i going to have to do it with ROM Toolbox or something on my phone? Or like Odin?
EDIT: Obviously can't do it from phone... Haha... Odin it is.
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. But since I can't flash through CWR, am i going to have to do it with ROM Toolbox or something on my phone? Or like Odin?
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odin
Thanks a lot guys. I really appreciate the time out of the day to help me... I'm just new at this and wanted to make sure I didn't brick my phone with any stupid moves. I Odin-ed that new recovery and it seems to be doing great. There should be a warning for that Rom Manager CWR! xD
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Thanks a lot guys. I really appreciate the time out of the day to help me... I'm just new at this and wanted to make sure I didn't brick my phone with any stupid moves. I Odin-ed that new recovery and it seems to be doing great. There should be a warning for that Rom Manager CWR! xD
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why do u think my sig is the way it is, ive read a few hundred posts here on the i727 forum b4 i even attempted to flash, i did not want to brick my baby.
too many users come on here read a few posts, head straight to the devs, dont understand what they are reading in the devs op, but flash anyways, then cant understand why their phones arent working when everyone else's is, and i dont think you have read it here that anyone has updated or used cwm through rom manager, unless rom developer says u can , so it begs the question, why did you?, if u followed my advice you would b sitting pretty
I'm running Embreo 6.11 right now but when I try the latest offering I get stuck at reboot. You can see Mohan's name and something else (but not the boot screen with the arms) and then it says application installer has stopped. Or not running but I think it says it has stopped, and when I go for a restart it comes up with the new orange restart menu and the pulldown menu is new and orange. But I can't get anything open, I can just get it to boot into recovery. Back on 6.11for now but wish I knew what I did so I could get 7. I did notice that I only was able to download the rom from what was maybe a mirror? I'm not techy at all. Just hard headed, but anyway the normal place I click to get the download on the thread didn't work but the mirror thing seemed to be a good copy since it was on the op. And I saw mohan's name during the boot...
Tried flashing a few times with the exact same result.
I read all the posts on there again and didn't see anything like this.
Anyway I would post in the dev thread but I hardly ever post so I'm not allowed. So if someone could have this moved or offer advice I would appreciate it very much
Don't worry you are in the Q&A that is good enough.
Mohan's Embryo works on UCMC1 radio. you flash the radio first (don't reboot) then flash the ROM right after.
If you've done everything according to the original thread and still no luck, I suggest flashing back to the stock UCMC1 and factory reseting (delete cache and data). Then root and install CMW and clean up cache, data, system, dalvik, (don't reboot) and try flashing your ROM again.
Good luck,
Commodore 64
Bad DL. Check the MD5.
I was confused about the md5 and need to find out how to check that. I flashed his stuff before without learning/hearing about this. I need to do a search but have a baby sleeping next to my computer and suck at typing on the phone so I'll have to wait to do the things advised. Thanks guys very much.
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I was confused about the md5 and need to find out how to check that. I flashed his stuff before without learning/hearing about this. I need to do a search but have a baby sleeping next to my computer and suck at typing on the phone so I'll have to wait to do the things advised. Thanks guys very much.
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Download AFV (android file verifier) from market. Then you can check the md5 sum of the file you downloaded and compare to the md5 posted by Mohan. Hope this helps.
Thank you everyone for the help. I'm glad you guys don't yell at those of us who are a mess at all this just stumbling through it cuz "we want it" and don't pay attention. I never got a bad download before and didn't know to check the md5 sum or that I should always. Glad I haven't broken my phone yet due to carelessness.
I had my first bad DL.
Everything's working great now and SICKEST START UP SCREEN EVER!