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[Q] Flashing a custom ROM the official way?

Is it not possible to code a custom ROM so as to then flash it the same way an official ROM is flashed?

Greetings, fellow Oklahoman.
What do you mean "the official way"? RUU? PD98IMG.zip?
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inconceeeivable said:
Greetings, fellow Oklahoman.
What do you mean "the official way"? RUU? PD98IMG.zip?
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Hi. Thanks for the reply. What I mean is how an official ROM is flashed when an upgrade is issued. A notice is given that there is an upgrade and you download and install the upgrade. Can a custom ROM not be installed this way? Rather than having to go through the process of rooting the phone and then flashing one of the available custom ROMs. I would think it would be possible to issue a rooted ROM as an upgrade flash.

Wow. U must be truly a noob. The only way u can flash a custom rom is that u have to be rooted and have s off achieved first. And once u achieve that, you are talking about an over the air update. Which that only can happen from an unrooted totally stock phone. The only thing that comes close to that is an update from rom manager, in which u have to be rooted first before rom manager will work properly, which will download and install a custom rom of your choosing.
In other words, you have to be rooted and s off in order for u to do anything outside of stock
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Bro, very nicely stated.
cavsoldier19d said:
Wow. U must be truly a noob. The only way u can flash a custom rom is that u have to be rooted and have s off achieved first. And once u achieve that, you are talking about an over the air update. Which that only can happen from an unrooted totally stock phone. The only thing that comes close to that is an update from rom manager, in which u have to be rooted first before rom manager will work properly, which will download and install a custom rom of your choosing.
In other words, you have to be rooted and s off in order for u to do anything outside of stock
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cavsoldier19d said:
Wow. U must be truly a noob. The only way u can flash a custom rom is that u have to be rooted and have s off achieved first. And once u achieve that, you are talking about an over the air update. Which that only can happen from an unrooted totally stock phone. The only thing that comes close to that is an update from rom manager, in which u have to be rooted first before rom manager will work properly, which will download and install a custom rom of your choosing.
In other words, you have to be rooted and s off in order for u to do anything outside of stock
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I think the OP was asking if its in anyway possible to flash a custom rom via RUU not OTA. In the same way that ROMS for Samsung devices can be cooked to flash via ODIN as opposed to CWM...
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[Q] ClockworkMod ROM Manager

I was trying to make a backup of my current ROM/info before I installed a new kernel, but when I click "Backup current ROM", I get a pop up that says
Flash Clockworkmod Recovery
You must have CLockworkMOD Recovery Installed before continuing! Install the recovery through ROM Manager first.
I click Install and it asks me to confirm my phone model, but the closes thing that it offers to my phone model is the Samsung t-Mobil Galaxy S2. Is this the one I should use? Or is there another way I should be going about this?
Sorry for all the n00b questions, just want to make sure I do everything right incase I have to fix my phone. haha

Select t-mobile.
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Yes you must choose tmobile galaxy s2. Its the same as our phone, ours is not listed. But that is what everyone who uses rom manager does

Don't choose Motorola Startac, you're phone will explode....

As mentioned, the T-Mo Clockwork mod option is the one you want. That is, unless they have added proper Skyrocket option since the last time I flash in CWM.

Grut said:
Don't choose Motorola Startac, you're phone will explode....
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Lmao¡! T-Mobile is the one u want to choose.
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help
when i have to confirm my phone model i cant find my SE xperia x10 mini pro please help me

osama3zaizeh said:
when i have to confirm my phone model i cant find my SE xperia x10 mini pro please help me
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Wrong forum bub

shendre said:
I was trying to make a backup of my current ROM/info before I installed a new kernel, but when I click "Backup current ROM", I get a pop up that says
Flash Clockworkmod Recovery
You must have CLockworkMOD Recovery Installed before continuing! Install the recovery through ROM Manager first.
I click Install and it asks me to confirm my phone model, but the closes thing that it offers to my phone model is the Samsung t-Mobil Galaxy S2. Is this the one I should use? Or is there another way I should be going about this?
Sorry for all the n00b questions, just want to make sure I do everything right incase I have to fix my phone. haha
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I made a proper skyrocket recovery. Check in the development section for clockworkmod touch
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sk8erwitskil said:
I made a proper skyrocket recovery. Check in the development section for clockworkmod touch
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And don't use the one in rom manager (touch recovery), it doesn't work on our device. . I tried and it messed things up.
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Wow I use it all the time works fine for me
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hcyplr29 said:
And don't use the one in rom manager (touch recovery), it doesn't work on our device. . I tried and it messed things up.
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I just installed the Touch Recovery from Rom Manager using the Android Market in-app purchase. Updated my CWM to 5.8.1.3, from what I gather on the website, this is the T-Mobile SGS 2 version. Works fine from what I can tell/tested.

[HElP]Not able to install custom roms !!

Dont know whats wrong with my phone but i am not able to install roms through cwm recovery.
It gives me an error,previously i was using uc kernel recovery then i channged to original cwm recovery which is in cf root.The problem is that when i click on install zip it says "can able to open" And i am also not able to mount my sd.
Please help!!!!!
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hi,
I've had the same problem couple of days ago. the only way I was able to solve it was to flash back to a stock rom by odin. after that I was able to flash again from cwm

robby081262 said:
hi,
I've had the same problem couple of days ago. the only way I was able to solve it was to flash back to a stock rom by odin. after that I was able to flash again from cwm
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I will do that.
Is there no other way?
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TheSG said:
I will do that.
Is there no other way?
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any problem flashing XXKPE->XXKPQ ?? cause sometimes such kind of errors can cause problems in custom roms even if you manage to flash it.....
its better to go clean......

help! about my lenovo a1

a friend recently gift me the lenovo a1 but the stock firmware sucks I installed cm7 and now I saw that lenovo recently release a beta ics for the a1 but I'm not sure if I can install ics from cm7 and not from the stock firmware, anybody has installed from cm7? if yes tell me how. ( sorry for my bad english I'm mexican) I,m the only that have a small softkeyboard, icons, options, etc.?

Jpe230 said:
a friend recently gift me the lenovo a1 but the stock firmware sucks I installed cm7 and now I saw that lenovo recently release a beta ics for the a1 but I'm not sure if I can install ics from cm7 and not from the stock firmware, anybody has installed from cm7? if yes tell me how. ( sorry for my bad english I'm mexican) I,m the only that have a small softkeyboard, icons, options, etc.?
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You can install the slimdroid port using CWM if you want to install the full version from Lenovo you will need to make sure you have the stock recovery installed. It is tricky but it works. Do a quick search and make sure you understand how the bootable sdcards work. The A1 is almost unbrickable but it can get scary at times as long as you have a boot sdcard you will be fine.
I have been running it for a couple of days it works well the battery drains a bit faster but much better than stock. CM7 is very nice too you can't go wrong with either one.

jpisini said:
You can install the slimdroid port using CWM
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SlimDroid v7.20 ONLY STOCK RECOVERY
CWM=brick

Good to know the other versions all worked on CWM looks like you will need to install the stock recovery before continuing.
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A1 "brick"
Well, i installed the Cmw version of ICS, gmarkall version, but the rom is very unstable, i install the stock recovery but when i tried to boot in recovery it only shows the android and it turns off, any suggesttion? i dont want that horrible Rom

Gmarkell doesn't have a version of ICS he makes CM7 it works very well.
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He does
jpisini said:
Gmarkell doesn't have a version of ICS he makes CM7 it works very well.
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yes he does, he make a flasheable version of ICS for CWM look here: t=1624979http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624979

We can try and fix your issues or we can argue your choice.
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jpisini said:
We can try and fix your issues or we can argue your choice.
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Well, I flash someone's rom with cwm and its very unstable it doesn't have wifi , gapps, and usb mass storage but it has usb debugging, I was thinking to change the files of the recovery to cwm using adb and do a fresh install of gb, is that ok?

The first thing you are going to want to do if you want to go back to stock and that is probably best and then go from there is download the following.
http://download.lenovo.com/slates/a1/OTA/A107W0_A234_001_015_2643_US.zip
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~grm08/ideapad/cyanogenmod/stock-a1-ramdisk-2643.zip
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~grm08/ideapad/cwm-5.0.2.7-rev3-ideapad-a1.zip
If you have a 16gb device grab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23471133&postcount=409
First flash CWM 5.0.2.7 (you can use the newer one later if you want to but use this one for this)
Then if you have the 16GB model flash stock-mbr.zip and reboot into CWM. (if you have a 2GB device this will hose it the device don't do it)
Then flash the ram disk followed by the 2643 OTA.
If you have an issue installing CWM grab a bootable sdcard there are instructions in the ICS threads and use that to flash CWM.
The A1 is almost unbrickable unless you have a hardware problem you should be able to get it working again.

I inatall the alimdroid but the space for install apps is very reduce and the apps can't move tp th sd card is there any form to change that?
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[Q] its not possible flash any custom roms

Hi everybody, i got seriously problem. I tried all possible solution to flash my i9003 but without any results. Anytime when i try install any zip file with Custom Rom my phone just write message Can't open /sdcard/RemICS.....zip (bad)
Instalation aborted....
What is wrong with it???? Its Galaxy i9003, reflashed with Odin to Gingerbread DDLF2, with root and Custom Recovery. Iam wanna throw it tru window Any ideas please??? I could not find anything when i google it. thanks for any advice.

Try another rom like resurection Remix or cm10.1 alpha9.
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don't format system after flashing ddlf2.
directly install 10.2 or any custom rom over it.
procedure =
1) flash ddlf2
2) root it
3) go to recovery and directly install 10.2 or any rom you like.
4) wipe data/reset. (optional)
(don't format anything or else it will give you
that error)
hope this helps you.

thanks
very thanks people, i did it exactly as you recomended, but still i got the same error its my first phone what i can not flash...very sad But thanks for your advice.

Are the Roms that you're trying to flash based on 4.3?
If yes in CWM recovery go to "mounts and storage" and mount all that is unmounted.
Than flash the Rom.
It worked for me.
You can even try to redownload the Rom file, it can be corrupted.
Cheers

Lol, people still use this phone?

pointystar said:
Lol, people still use this phone?
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Our devs made this device rocks, we have a good development of rom and kernels, better than other high- end devices.
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acuicultor said:
Our devs made this device rocks, we have a good development of rom and kernels, better than other high- end devices.
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I had this phone like 4 years ago, my first smartphone ever. Loved it, eventually traded it with my brother for a laptop.