Hi, I was hoping someone could answer this question really fast, it would help me out a lot!
After a phone is flashed to cricket (I have an evo 4g here flashed to cricket), will you be able to flash a different rom onto that phone without losing your flash to cricket?
Thanks!
Yes, root, install custom recovery, perform nandroid backup. One ROM at a time, but you can always revert back if need be. Do lots of reading first!
If you do brick your device, just take it back into Cricket, they'll re-flash you I'm sure.
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I was trying to root my brand new nexus s and when i went into fastboot, on lock state, it says unlocked. This put me in an awkward position cause I never rooted the phone but if it's already rooted, awesome. Where do I go from here? I want to get to the stage where i can flash custom roms and some guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.
Go to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=883
There you get various custom roms and kernel for your devices. By the way you, make sure you always do a backup under clockwork recovery before flashing roms, kernel and etc.
Here the list of Roms
http://alchemistar.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-nexus-s-custom-rom-list.html
I have looked really hard to find the answer to this, but I couldn't find it.
I have a HTC EVO Shift, which was already flashed to Boost Mobile before I bought it.
After looking at the Boot Animations and apps, I realized the phone was also running the MikShifted-G ROM.
I have been using the phone for some time now, but after I found that my phone was not getting the upgrade to ICS, I decided that I wanted to switch ROMs, especially ones that were ICS and stuff.
I followed many tutorials and I have done the following:
-I have rooted my phone.
-I have installed ROM Manager, and I have gotten ClockWorkMod to work.
-I backed up my data with the backup option.
Here are the questions I have:
-It says on most ROMS to "wipe everything." If I choose to Factory Reset/Wipe All in ClockWorkMod, will that un-flash my phone back to Sprint? I do not want to factory reset if my phone will not run on Boost Mobile, hence it is a lot cheaper.
-If I install another ROM and decide to go back to the ROM my phone used to have, does installing ROM Manager again on the new ROM allow me to use the backup I made to go back to how my phone used to be?
Thanks,
Sarcasticphoenix
I can't say for sure but doing a full wipe and flashing a ROM shouldn't have any affect on your phone working with boost. Search the EVO threads, I'm sure you'll find a lot of people on boost flashing various ROMs and kernels.
As far as actually flashing the ROM, you should get familiar with using recovery manually, not just relying on ROM manager to do everything for you. Here's a nice guide on how to flash ROMs http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1266885. Be sure to make a nandroid backup before flashing any ROM (If you already made a backup using ROM manager it can be restored either via recovery or the ROM manager app.)
Also consider using Dread 7 Us's modified recovery. Based off Clockwork Mod but with some great differences: super wipe where you can choose which partitions to wipe and do it multiple times automatically(much less tedious than Clockword Mod's wipe each once method) and it also removes the ton of 'NO's' you have to scroll through to confirm an action in Clockwork Mod and others upgrades I don't recall.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...RECOVERY] CW-Enhanced [v1.1b] Updated 5/22/12
Flash it just like Clockwork Mod but do a nandroid before just in case. Make sure to also flash the updated one as the first version had MD5 check issues.
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if i put a rom into my phone and do a backup... can i go back to rooted stock and put another rom and i i dont like it restore to the other rom?
tello2323 said:
if i put a rom into my phone and do a backup... can i go back to rooted stock and put another rom and i i dont like it restore to the other rom?
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As long as you have s-off nandroid restore will work fine. As far as the roms it depends on if the roms have the boost mobile apn's in them or not. A.F.A.I.K. CM7 roms and variants have the most apn support. Might want to do a search on google if cm7 supports boost or not.
i have installed cm10 on htc one v primo-u (india gsm ) and i wish to revert to the original image.
i tried to flash India_1567201recovery_signed.img file but no success.
can someone help me with a procedure how to revert to either 1.56.720 or 2.09.720 image of the phone
romah1 said:
i have installed cm10 on htc one v primo-u (india gsm ) and i wish to revert to the original image.
i tried to flash India_1567201recovery_signed.img file but no success.
can someone help me with a procedure how to revert to either 1.56.720 or 2.09.720 image of the phone
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How did you try to flash the RUU? You can not flash it like a normal ROM
Also if you are looking for the RUU try HERE
I see what you're trying to do, that won't work...you can't flash a recovery to get to stock because stock phone won't flash from recovery, which is why once you get root the first thing you do is flash a custom recovery. Use the RUU to flash it back to shipped state stock, or if you are trying to keep root and just want to use a different ROM. More clarification on what you are trying to accomplish would be nice.
If you did a Nandroid prior to flashing CM10 I would wipe all partitions except SD and restore the Nandroid, if all you want to do is get CM10 off your phone. Remember Nandroid Backups are your friend do them before flashing anything and save them to your PC if you don't want the SD space taken. Doing this has made flashing pain free and hassle free. If I don't like how my phone is running after a flash I can always get it right back to how it was when I was happy with it. Lastly there was a time when I had a Nandroid backup of a Sense ROM and was on AOSP and wanted to flash back to Sense, well my Backup wouldn't flash. After spending hours raising hell I did a clean install of the ROM booted once, then rebooted into recovery and flashed the Nandroid backup that had the settings I was using (when I was on Sense, it won't restore data and apps used on AOSP)...sorry if its not much help but more details are needed. But you have a starting point.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
How did you try to flash the RUU? You can not flash it like a normal ROM
Also if you are looking for the RUU try HERE
I see what you're trying to do, that won't work...you can't flash a recovery to get to stock because stock phone won't flash from recovery, which is why once you get root the first thing you do is flash a custom recovery. Use the RUU to flash it back to shipped state stock, or if you are trying to keep root and just want to use a different ROM. More clarification on what you are trying to accomplish would be nice.
If you did a Nandroid prior to flashing CM10 I would wipe all partitions except SD and restore the Nandroid, if all you want to do is get CM10 off your phone. Remember Nandroid Backups are your friend do them before flashing anything and save them to your PC if you don't want the SD space taken. Doing this has made flashing pain free and hassle free. If I don't like how my phone is running after a flash I can always get it right back to how it was when I was happy with it. Lastly there was a time when I had a Nandroid backup of a Sense ROM and was on AOSP and wanted to flash back to Sense, well my Backup wouldn't flash. After spending hours raising hell I did a clean install of the ROM booted once, then rebooted into recovery and flashed the Nandroid backup that had the settings I was using (when I was on Sense, it won't restore data and apps used on AOSP)...sorry if its not much help but more details are needed. But you have a starting point.
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i have installed CM10 without backing up any image, therefore i cannot restore the orifginal vendor's rom. Nandroid back would have prevented this situation. the second problem is that I couldnt find any RUU for this phone. indeed the link you attached seems to have it bu unfortunately it is in chineese and after pushing all the buttons i couldn't download the file. so my options are
1- to pray that someone will be kind enough to publish it in a manner that it is accessible
2- I have a friend with a simillar phone , can i somehow back up hus rom and restore it in mine ????
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romah1
Hey guys I apologize if this has been answered, I searched but found nothing that addressed my question directly.
My friend decided I should root my One X, the problem is he used an old Clockwork Mod that is no longer supported. What I need to do now is unroot my phone because I'm having nothing but problems with this Rom. From what I understand from videos and everything else is I need to lock the bootloader and flash the stock rom. The issue I have is every guide I've come across so far all start out with "Only use this guide if you first rooted your phone using this method [insert author's rooting guide here]!"
Needless to say, I didn't use any of their methods. I've looked through the guides here and I see various recovery options, I'm just concerned about replacing my recovery tool. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated!
If you want to go back to stock non rooted Sense, relock your bootloader and run a ruu. Check here for more info http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671237
If you want to run another custom rom, you should actually just flash another recovery (read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677447) and flash another rom.
just flash stable cwm recovery-clockwork-6.0.2.8-evita.img
you can just flash it using Flash Image GUI if you can boot into your current rom, reboot recovery and flash the rom you want to flash. i wouldn't go back to pure stock seems like a waste of a good phone imo =)
Hey all,
So I have been reading around a bit now and was wondering if someone could help me understand some general concepts.
my goal: I am trying to remove all the bloatware from a Huawei y300 (no carrier) and put stock android on it.
From what I have been reading, it sounds like I need to first unlock the device, then root it to get access to superuser. Then what? Can I just use the superuser to remove the bloatware? Or do I need to flash it all and install a custom ROM?
Also, I should prob back the whole device up first so that if I mess it all up I can still restore the phone to the way it was when I got it from the distributor. Is that easily possible, or are there risks associated with that? If I mess up the phone real bad is there a big chance I will not be able to get back to its original state?
Now the details of how to do all this are burried in the forums, and I will figure all that out. I am just confused about the order of things a bit. So if anyone could give a high level explanation on the order of steps and the need for each that would be awesome!
Much appreciated, and thanks
The basic process is unlock the device, root the device, flash a custom recovery, flash a custom rom. Flashing a new rom is what will remove the bloatware for you, and you can find a stock android rom that will literally be the barebones version of android. Rooting the device allows you access to flash the custom recovery, which is needed to flash custom roms.
Everything as said above, with a nandroid backup added as soon as u flash the custom recovery is recommended.
BTW there are chances that u can brick ur phone if u don't follow the custom rom flashing instructions properly.
Anyway the nandroid backup will help u in this case.
In case if the nandroid backup even fails, which means there is a heavy mistake also there are very less chances of it to happen, u can try flashing the stock firmware.
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Got it thanks!
parkourkarthik said:
Everything as said above, with a nandroid backup added as soon as u flash the custom recovery is recommended.
BTW there are chances that u can brick ur phone if u don't follow the custom rom flashing instructions properly.
Anyway the nandroid backup will help u in this case.
In case if the nandroid backup even fails, which means there is a heavy mistake also there are very less chances of it to happen, u can try flashing the stock firmware.
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OK so I unlocked, rooted, installed TRWP recovery, and then used that to back up my phone. From what I read online it looks like backing up with TRWP is the same as backing up with Nandroid. I'm prob just not getting it, so wanted to ask what is the significance of Nandroid? Why do both TRWP and Nandroid?