It's coming from China so I imagine there will be a few annoying icons but nothing major.
I want to root the phone.
Then install a CFWM & Backup Original Stock Rom
I don't plan on using anything other than the orginal stock rom however one day if I fancy a play and mess it up I can roll back.
The main thing I carer about is the root feature.
Anyone suggest any tutorials I cant find any specific for this phone just copys of roms from need rom, I need to know how to root and instal CFWM first!
Also can I chose what rom to boot when powering on, almost like running it dualm boot, one for work and one for play?
Thanks
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I tried searching in the Captivate forums and I couldn't find anything about it. I already installed the Unleash The Beast ROM, and then a little bit afterwards, I put in the ROM with the circle battery in it, and everything from the Unleash the Beast ROM seemed to still be there afterwards.
My question now is this: would putting in another ROM undo anything else that was put into the phone?
everything you have done is not a ROM, they are a mods.
A ROM will completely reinstall the operating system of your phone.
the update.zip's you have been using arent roms, they just patch or add files into the system, so as long as your not using 2 mods/updates that change the same files then they will not replace eachother
Curious as well.
If my phone is rooted, and I want to change the rom, could I do it without restoring everything to the way i bought it? And do you recommend just going back to everything he way it was when I bought it and just doing one of these mods and patches on the forums?
Hello XDA fourm people! First of all, I want to say thank you to all the devs out there working hard to get us nice things on our phones
I am a noobie at flashing custom roms so I need a bit of help. I have a cricket Huawei Ascend running 2.1 update 1. I recently read about the CM7 rom that has been succesfully ported over to the ascend but I have no idea where to even start. My phone IS rooted using z4root, but i really want to install CM7.
I know you have to do a nandroid back up and then used clockwork mod? I have somewhat of an idea of what these things do, but I dont know how to use them or where to get them. Any help would be appreciated.
Lol and I know that some of you are looking at this rolling your eyes, but I'm just new and trying to get the hang of it.
prepaidandroid.org/index.php?title=CM7-Ascend
They make it where almost anyone can do this so if you have further questions feel free to ask as I have been bricking my phone and reflashing it back to normal since I bought it lol...also you might look into getting multiple custom ROMS at that same site as one is not really better than the other so you'll want to check out all of em at some point
Myself I have flashed Icarus 1.1 and CM7-Ascend-04052011 (also flashed the nightly release of this but just for a recovery reason which failed) I would suggest Icarus 1.1 if you want an extremely stable ROM that runs off the current system you have on your phone. CM7 is still a little unstable but I run it as an everyday driver because it uses 2.3.3 gingerbread and it also allows for system overclocking to 710mhz without the use of third party apps. Like I said though, test drive them all and have fun with it. Just make sure you make a factory back up and a back up directly after each launch of flashing just in case something does go wrong you can also go back to the bulky OS your running now ;-)
tony442 said:
prepaidandroid.org/index.php?title=CM7-Ascend
They make it where almost anyone can do this so if you have further questions feel free to ask as I have been bricking my phone and reflashing it back to normal since I bought it lol...also you might look into getting multiple custom ROMS at that same site as one is not really better than the other so you'll want to check out all of em at some point
Myself I have flashed Icarus 1.1 and CM7-Ascend-04052011 (also flashed the nightly release of this but just for a recovery reason which failed) I would suggest Icarus 1.1 if you want an extremely stable ROM that runs off the current system you have on your phone. CM7 is still a little unstable but I run it as an everyday driver because it uses 2.3.3 gingerbread and it also allows for system overclocking to 710mhz without the use of third party apps. Like I said though, test drive them all and have fun with it. Just make sure you make a factory back up and a back up directly after each launch of flashing just in case something does go wrong you can also go back to the bulky OS your running now ;-)
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Thank you! I followed a thread that showed me how to flash CM7. It is buggy and unstable, but I love it! I've wanted to flash Icarus too, but i think Im going to play around with CM7 for a bit and see how it works out.
Newly rooted HTC Inspire, my picture messaging stop working after i rooted my phone does anyone know how to fix it?
I haven't flashed any ROMs to my phone yet or done anything to it fo real
The ROM left on your phone after rooting it was never meant to be left on there. Pick a new ROM and flash it to your device.
Also you might wan't to flash a new Radio/Ril because I was/am still having some problems. It gets a little easier though once you can flash ROM's and Radios faster.
hey guys, i just got my htc one s from ebay.
and it seems like its branded by t-mobile. so i have some useless apps which i dont want to have. even the browser is branded
now i'm asking myself, if i should flash a ROM from an unbranded htc one s and to get mine so unbranded too. (but i have no idea where i can find an unbranded one s ROM)
or is this a bad idea at all and gives me some hidden disadvantages?
i know i can just remove some system apps but e.g. the browser i dont really want to remove and i cant get the brand out of him.
i hope you know what i mean and can help.
PS.: sorry for my not perfect english
if you want to keep your current stock ROM, get root and use titanium backup to remove all the bloatware..
If you want to flash a custom ROM, choose something just like stock, For example Zero One S ROM (nice stock ROM but themed) Or virtuous ROM (with sense) Or even Modaco (hasnt been updated in a while)
There are others too. Including Senseless ROMs..
Make a nandroid before you do anything.. if something goes wrong, restore it
but i cant remove the branding in the browser with uninstalling system apps. this would remove the whole browser.
and custom rom i dont want either to be honest. the past with my lg optimus one showed me that in custom roms alsways something isnt working right.
do you have a link for me where i can download the original one s firmware without branding stuff? this would be the best i think.
download an unbranded RUU, use the methods to extract the rom.zip modify it to suit your device and flash that..
Or just remove all the branded stuff of your phone and re install the stock unbranded apps.. For example, delete the browser (dont know how this is branded but) and get the browser apk from another ROM and install it on yours
be quicker and simpler to do that
thx for your help but i just found a clean untouched ROM.
now if i root my phone with this method (i just also found) i can install clockworkmod and then backup my temporary system and flash the clean rom, right?
You sure can
okay, it failed
I dont get root acces with this method. and with the install-superboot-windows.bat either
i only have CWM now, but no root...
and flashing the stock rom (which already is rooted) failed. it just doesnt start.
I dont use superboot. did you flash the root zip file ??
just flash a custom ROM there are several out there that are identical to stock..
ok, i made a mistake. i wanted to flash the ROM buts its a nadroid and i have to restore it. now with restoring it woked fine.
so everything is fine now, rooted phone + no branding.
thx anyways
Hi there, I have been trying for countless hours to make a custom ROM work on my P920 with no results, always some issues. I've managed to brick my phone in different ways a billion times now, then spent billion hours unbricking it and in the end I'm always back to where I started. I would really love some help please.
My phone is P920.
The android version I'm running is: 2.3.5
Kernel version: 2.6.35.7+
Software version: V21E
Rooting method: megatron
Now I would like a ROM that uses Android 4 and that can still use the 3D features such as 3D camera, the ROM calledthe Darkroom International would be an example I imagine.
While that's one of the ROMs that I would want, I've tried many, and always encountering issues, let me clarify.
First of all my device has to be rooted and since SuperOneClick doesn't work for me as it gets stuck on step 7, I use megatron which works well. I even double check if my phone is rooted with the Root Checker from the Android store. Now according to the guides I've read I need a custom recovery system, so I install Clockworkmod. I then place the ROM on the SD card, in the recovery menu I delete cache, that other cache, format it, format system, data, everything those guides tell me to. Afterwards, I install the ROM by selecting the zip and then I reboot. I've tried like 3 different ROMs, jellybem, cyanogenmod and some other. Yes I know none of them support 3D features - I didn't know at the time. Anyway, the issue was always the same, right after the LG logo there would be a screen with some weird colors showing the display of what happened before the phone crashed. Before it crashed? Yes, the phone would actually boot into the ROM but only for a few minutes, crashing afterwards. The next time I would boot, it would show that weird screen with those fancy colors with what happened just before it crashed. So I followed some steps and I got back to the original 2.3.5 ROM, everything back to normal.
I tried doing some more research and I came across the Darkroom Intentional ROM which had a bit different instructions. It asked me to install TWRP recovery with a bootloader, so I did, successfully, then did all the clean cache etc, installed ROM, bam, wouldn't boot at all. Oh boy have I had issues here, I couldn't even get it back to the default 2.3.5 stock ROM because my phone wasn't even recognized in the device manager. So I did some more research, found a solution, managed to flash back to 2.3.5 stock and I'm back to square one.
Now, could someone please help and explain to me what exactly have I done wrong and how I can make it right? I've spent countless hours now trying to install a custom ROM with no success. Sorry about the long read. If you need me to supply some more information please let me know. Thank you.
First of all if u want to use an ICS ROM then u need to update to ICS FIRST u can't flash it directly from 2.3.5 u can use xbsalls thread to update......
Next if cm based Roms are crashing then u need to flash bootloaders which means u should use os_hacking tool to flash ICS bootladers if u wanna update
Or flash GB bootloaders
So first update if u want
Root
Flash bootloaders
Flash recovery
Flash Roms
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