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Please can we have a thread for beginners (who are wanting to learn) to Install Roms

Hello everyone,
Sorry for not understanding but i am new to this and definitely willing to learn, Id like to know what is the best Hero Rom (smoothest with the most things working) and if once i have installed it, is it possible to go back to my normal rom if i dont like it.
Id like to know how to download apps such as Apps2SD and themes such as the good ones on here (is a special rom needed or a certain rom ?)
Sorry for all the questions but please help i am willing to make a dontation to somebody who can help me.
Thanks Everyone

This is a place for discussion for more people who are experienced, thats why its called "development" as for themes those are under the "themes" section.....
if your looking for n00b resources for full on n00bs please don't post annoying threads here. Learn to look **** up on google and in under 10 seconds you would have found
http://theunlockr.com/category/howto/android_how_tos/
for how to root, one click rom install, and how to restore back to factory. Or even above your own damn post there are n00b resrouces.
as for ROMs this is the DEVELOPMENT section. So people need to stop asking for a perfect rom. Use cyanogen stable roms if you want stablility. If not ROMs come out every 2-3 days for evil and every couple weeks for other ROMs. They are NOT stable
Qtek=fastest most stable does not work on most MT3G (this is believed to be kernel issues with 2.7xxxx)
Evil= 50/50 depending on his builds, he likes to f* stuff up alot and patch within a few hours
cyanogen 4.1.11.1=android 1.6 AOSP(android open source project)

Mazziota said:
This is a place for discussion for more people who are experienced, thats why its called "development" as for themes those are under the "themes" section.....
if your looking for n00b resources for full on n00bs please don't post annoying threads here. Learn to look **** up on google and in under 10 seconds you would have found
http://theunlockr.com/category/howto/android_how_tos/
for how to root, one click rom install, and how to restore back to factory. Or even above your own damn post there are n00b resrouces.
as for ROMs this is the DEVELOPMENT section. So people need to stop asking for a perfect rom. Use cyanogen stable roms if you want stablility. If not ROMs come out every 2-3 days for evil and every couple weeks for other ROMs. They are NOT stable
Qtek=fastest most stable does not work on most MT3G (this is believed to be kernel issues with 2.7xxxx)
Evil= 50/50 depending on his builds, he likes to f* stuff up alot and patch within a few hours
cyanogen 4.1.11.1=android 1.6 AOSP(android open source project)
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I did do a search and i did find that site although since i am such a noob i dint even know what rooting my Magic was for :/.
Could you tell me what rooting is for ? eg if i root my device once does that mean i can use all the stuff you guys are uploading eg just put a theme on it straight away?
Cheers James

rooting your phone gives you controll of the / files of yoru phone. It lets you install roms and such. i suggest looking at the latest video of rooting your magic and the video of how to install a rom. it'll put you right at par with where alot of users on this forum are at. only like 15 mins of video too.

Did you miss the sticky in this forum? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538979

[Q] Getting htc one s

I've been an iPhone user ever since they canned out. I unlocked and jailbroken them. My upgrade is due in a month and I wanna get a htc one s. i was just wondering do u really need to root it to get free applications and themes?
Also if I was root it what are my benifits

you dont need to root to get free apps from Google store. Rooting is required for themes though. Rooting is not necessary on android, most ppl root for theming and use it to install roms and backup application and data
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA

For the basic user, rooting is a way to use their phone as a wifi hotspot for free as opposed to paying their carrier a monthly fee. For the average/experienced user, rooting allows you to put custom roms onto your phone. As opposed to apple which makes everything more difficult, you don't need to root your phone in order to get free apps like jags_the1 said. You can always download apk files to root of your sd card and install it from there.

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installing XAP on WP7 Titan

Hi,
Please could someone point a newbee in the right direction for how to install a XAP onto my WP7 Titan. It is currently as it was when it came from HTC . I heard that 'Chevron' method that I was going to try no longer works ?
I use Win7 on the pc
Many thanks for any pointers !
G

Think your best bet is to flash a custom rom unless you want to pony up for a developer account
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21406642&postcount=4
Have a read of that
Edit:for what its worth I currently use this rom

meandu229 said:
Think your best bet is to flash a custom rom unless you want to pony up for a developer account
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21406642&postcount=4
Have a read of that
Edit:for what its worth I currently use this rom
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Many thanks - now have a developer account - all I need to do now is to work out how to use the software..... !

[email protected] said:
Many thanks - now have a developer account - all I need to do now is to work out how to use the software..... !
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Get the WP SDK. Then unlock your phone using a token and use the application deployment tool to get the XAP on your device. XAPs from the marketplace won't be deployable.

Note that we currently don't have a way to interop-unlock the stock ROM of gen2 HTC phones, such as your Titan. This means that you will be limited to 10 (or 3, if you're on a free account) unsigned apps, and that you won't be able to use high-privilege apps.
I and several others are still working on finding more interop-unlock hacks, but it is quite impossible to give any kind of ETA for this. A breakthrough may occur tomorrow, or may never come before we move on to other goals.
If you want high-privilege apps, or large numbers of homebrew apps, you will currently need to install HSPL and a custom ROM.

GoodDayToDie said:
Note that we currently don't have a way to interop-unlock the stock ROM of gen2 HTC phones, such as your Titan. This means that you will be limited to 10 (or 3, if you're on a free account) unsigned apps, and that you won't be able to use high-privilege apps.
I and several others are still working on finding more interop-unlock hacks, but it is quite impossible to give any kind of ETA for this. A breakthrough may occur tomorrow, or may never come before we move on to other goals.
If you want high-privilege apps, or large numbers of homebrew apps, you will currently need to install HSPL and a custom ROM.
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Thanks for your help. The first thing I want to do is to install Nokia Drive on my HTC Why are things So complicated

[email protected] said:
Thanks for your help. The first thing I want to do is to install Nokia Drive on my HTC Why are things So complicated
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You can't install the vanilla Nokia Drive on your phone, but it is patchable to make it work. As a pre-requisite, you need a developer unlock. If somebody is going to suggest it or you read it somewhere: Do not change your device ID to a Nokia phone, that might have broader impact.

[email protected] said:
Thanks for your help. The first thing I want to do is to install Nokia Drive on my HTC Why are things So complicated
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Well, in you're case it's complicated because you're trying to install an app that isn't supposed to be available for your phone. As far as reasons for thing to be complicated go, that's a pretty fair one, I think... and yet by the standards of most of the stuff we do here, it's pretty simple. Of course, if you want to make Nokia Drive *work* on a non-Nokia phone, that's slightly more complex (it requires modifying the app), but - much like creating full-unlocked custom ROMs and bootloader unlocks - somebody else has probably already done that part for you.

[Q] Developers and Custom ROMs

Hi guys!
I heard that developers have control on one's phone when he or she installs custom ROMs. Is it true?

maxtroy0 said:
Hi guys!
I heard that developers have control on one's phone when he or she installs custom ROMs. Is it true?
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Not true 99% of the time, if you get ROMs from spurious sites then it may be a possibility that the ROM is housing some malicious applications but it's is unlikely.
If you're worried download from links provided here at XDA as it is not in our interest or the original devs interest to distribute links to malicious ROMs

[Completed] [Q] Trusting custom ROMS

Hi,
with due regards to all the hard work this forum members have put in creating and maintaining ROMs, one question popped up :
can we trust them?
would it be possible for someone building a custom ROM to place a script on the installation zip that transmits user data or credentials to the ROM maker? Who checks the authenticity of the ROM? Is there a check done before someone is allowed to release their ROM?
asking these, coz most of my banking and financial apps would be installed on android phone flashed with a custom rom.
please guide.

That's a good question. And the simple answer is that if you want to use the rom you'll have to trust them. There is no formal review process. This forum is self policed. However, there are a lot of smart and honest people here and if someone finds something funny going on in the rom it will be reported in the rom thread. That's not good advertising for the rom developer(s). In my years on XDA I've only seen that once, maybe twice.