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Can I install a rom from Rom Manager

I would love some help, can someone tell me how to install a rom using Rom Manager. I've install clockwork recovery downloaded CM7.2 for my ascend. Can I install this, using Rom Manager? I have premium, but I have ruined 2 zio m6000 , 1 samsung moment, and 1 ascend. Up really dont want to loS another phone. Could I get a hand, here? I havE nO clue whaT half the things talked about on here are. But, its starting to cosT to much $ learning.
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As we are speaking about ROMs, any wrong operation can turn your phone in a simple book holder. I am not expert (bought my first HTC 3d ago), but already have good experience to help you A BIT.
- enter ClockWork (reboot your phone, press volume-down as it starts, navigate and enter RECOVERY mode: clock-work is installed in the recovery zone; some ROMs may have a reboot-to-recovery feature)
- navigate and wipe system, user-data, and cache zones
- navigate in menus a either perform a restaure, or apply-patch-from-zip depending on your type of ROM (IMG, zip ... )
You can also try to install your ROM without wipe, BUT, if you see CW does NOT says it will erase or format the partition first, then you are going to have troubles (small troubles: it will boot, but not work properly). You can start by this operation, and when you have found how to flash, then you wipe ... this will avoid having an empty system, and have your phone unusable for a time.
If you have a broken system, you can always put the SD card into computer and push a working rom using SD (then CW) or fastboot.
After successfull flash, you may want to wipe user and cache zones. Again, it just helps having a clean system, and is not mandatory; keeping old user-data usually works, but CAN make bugs trigger.
At your own risks. Good luck.

- how to flash my Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate CDMA. using Rom Manager. with file name .ota .? huhuh. sorry, i'm noob in this kind of thing.!! i;m begging you guys.!! help me , i'm stock to Eclair 2.1 and i hate it,! thanks.!!

-help me guys.!!! thanks.

kakroch99 said:
-help me guys.!!! thanks.
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Learn to help yourself. You are not asking a new question.
1. Use the search function.
2. Use Google.
3. Research!
4. Read, read, read!
5. Don't actually try any modifications until you're confident you know what you're doing and willing to accept the consequences if you screw up.
6. If you fail, do more research and reading so you can...
7. Try to fix it yourself before asking for help.
8. Ask intelligent questions if you do still need help.
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[Q] Complete noob to android and putting on new ROM

technically i'm decent, but can't quite wrap my head around what i need to do to put a new ROM on my Triumph.
i apologize in advance, because i'm sure this info is out there, but i've been snooping a bit and can't find it.
basically, the entire process from a stock Triumph to putting on a custom ROM.....what is it?
THANK YOU.

Depending on what ROM you want to put on your phone, you may or may not need to root your phone separately.
Here's a very basic process:
1. install ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) on your phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282951
1A. In ClockworkMod Recovery, make a backup of your system before proceeding to flash anything else.
2. Download a custom ROM from any of the ROM threads in this forum or androidforums.com.
3. Copy the downloaded ROM to your phone's SD card.
4. Boot into CWM and flash the ROM you downloaded.
5. If your custom ROM is not already pre-rooted (CyanogenMod7, MIUI, and a bunch of the others on this site are already pre-rooted), you will need to root it using Gingerbreak 1.2 (google for it) or use B_randon14's method to link the built-in sudo to su.
Otherwise, evanrobinson put together a very detailed thread on androidforums here:
http://androidforums.com/triumph-all-things-root/429453-everything-triumph-one-thread.html

llorn's missing a crucial step: A lot of the stock-based ROMs need to de-odex your system before they can be installed from total stock, or else you'll get a bootloop. The amended process goes something like this, at least for my ROM (I copypasted, so humor me).
Pre-installation
If you don't have custom recovery on your phone, please install it first.
If your system is not deodexed, please install this ROM first. It will completely deodex your phone and guarantee this ROM will install smoothly.
Installation
Download Black Lightning here, or the ROM of your choice..
Put it somewhere easy to find on your phone's SD card (I made a folder called "0roms" because it goes to the top of the list).
Power off your phone.
Boot your phone into Recovery Mode (While holding Volume Down and Volume Up, hold Power until you feel a vibration.)
Navigate to "Install ZIP from SD Card" (volume keys to go up/down, power key to select).
Navigate to the ROM, choose it.
The install should take around 1-2 minutes.
Press the Menu key to return to the main menu, then choose Reboot.

That's true. If you're using another FROYO based ROM, it's probably best to de-odex first.
Otherwise, if you're going to install the CM7 or MIUI roms, you don't need to.
Oh and one more EXTREMELY crucial step... MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP IN CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY BEFORE FLASHING ANYTHING ELSE.
I'll amend my post with that as well...

this is extremely helpful guys. thank you so much. is there a consolidated place with all the most popular ROMs and some screenshots or must i just look for each one individually?

I'm pretty much sure it's either here (Android Themes section) or androidforums.com. Sdx-developers.com has a Triumph section too...

[Q] Sequence to installing rom?

Hi guys, i am brandspanking new at android as i have only had my phone (lg p500) for 2 weeks. i have however quickly picked up on roms,kernels,basebands etc.. I would really appreciate it if one of you TopDogs would explain to me which i should do first? My question is what sequence must items be installed in ie Rom the gapps then kernel then baseband? or is it baseband first then kernel then rom then gapps?? i really do appologise if this sounds stupid but i will need direction in this regard to be confident enough to go through with flashing a rom which im actually lank amped to do.
Anyways, thanks in advance and keep up the awesome work boys.

Okay..
In regards to baseband, kernel, rom type info, I believe most kernels are packaged with the roms themselves, and if there's any other information about a special installation it would be included on the rom page.
First thing you wanna do is research a bit about your phone and what roms are available to see if you even want to risk bricking your phone for the additional features. You can search for your phone at the top right hand side of the XDA forums. From there you can see what forms of development are available. Most popular forms are NAND and SD based roms. Research a bit on each to see which fits your needs more. NAND will completely replace the stock system but also presents more opportunity for things to go wrong and potentially damage your phone. SD doesn't replace your system, but runs off of your SD card. In any case, selecting the method that works for you is the first step. There will be indications on the rom download pages as to what type of rom it is (NAND or SD).
Second step is prepping your device for the right system. I have and HTC HD2, and it was required for me to install HSPL and update the device radio. These are very important steps and must be done properly or everything following will likely not work.
Next you want to install your boot loader (if one is required). For my device, cLK and Magloader are the popular onese, however yours will likely be different if you need one at all.
Next you will install ClockworkMod(CWM) Recovery on your device, which is the core system that allows the flashing of roms, storage management, and a few other things. Make note of the partition information of the rom you select, because when you flash CWM you will need to partition the boot/system/cache. If you don't do this properly you will likely encounter a boot loop or total failures to boot.
Once you've got CWM on your device, you can download the rom you've selected on your pc and transfer it to your SD card on your phone (which is done by enabling mass storage through CWM). After you've got the rom on your sd card you do the following:
In CWM, select "flash zip from sd" >> "choose zip" >> select your rom zip file >> approve the flash
Sometimes the developers of these roms allow for some selection or customization in the flashing process, so be sure to pay attention to what's going on. You may also need to write down error codes if something goes wrong and you need help.
That's really all there is to it, though it can be more or less complicated than I explained depending on your device and which roms you pick.j
Hope this helps, good luck!

Enter Recovery,
Full Wipe/ Factory Reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe System
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Wipe Battery Stats
Select Zip, Flash ROM
Reboot

Krystov said:
Okay..
In regards to baseband, kernel, rom type info, I believe most kernels are packaged with the roms themselves, and if there's any other information about a special installation it would be included on the rom page.
First thing you wanna do is research a bit about your phone and what roms are available to see if you even want to risk bricking your phone for the additional features. You can search for your phone at the top right hand side of the XDA forums. From there you can see what forms of development are available. Most popular forms are NAND and SD based roms. Research a bit on each to see which fits your needs more. NAND will completely replace the stock system but also presents more opportunity for things to go wrong and potentially damage your phone. SD doesn't replace your system, but runs off of your SD card. In any case, selecting the method that works for you is the first step. There will be indications on the rom download pages as to what type of rom it is (NAND or SD).
Second step is prepping your device for the right system. I have and HTC HD2, and it was required for me to install HSPL and update the device radio. These are very important steps and must be done properly or everything following will likely not work.
Next you want to install your boot loader (if one is required). For my device, cLK and Magloader are the popular onese, however yours will likely be different if you need one at all.
Next you will install ClockworkMod(CWM) Recovery on your device, which is the core system that allows the flashing of roms, storage management, and a few other things. Make note of the partition information of the rom you select, because when you flash CWM you will need to partition the boot/system/cache. If you don't do this properly you will likely encounter a boot loop or total failures to boot.
Once you've got CWM on your device, you can download the rom you've selected on your pc and transfer it to your SD card on your phone (which is done by enabling mass storage through CWM). After you've got the rom on your sd card you do the following:
In CWM, select "flash zip from sd" >> "choose zip" >> select your rom zip file >> approve the flash
Sometimes the developers of these roms allow for some selection or customization in the flashing process, so be sure to pay attention to what's going on. You may also need to write down error codes if something goes wrong and you need help.
That's really all there is to it, though it can be more or less complicated than I explained depending on your device and which roms you pick.j
Hope this helps, good luck!
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Krystov, thank you very much for the awesome reply, you are the man.
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I have flashed most of the ROMS on HTC 32A magic ..
The Below process i have followed always and achieved expected results
1. Must Have custom recovery Image which supports your Phone Borad
2.Download and keep the custom ROM ready
3.Copy the Rom to root of SD card
Reboot phone into Recovery
Enter Recovery,
Full Wipe/ Factory Reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe System
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Wipe Battery Stats(Optional)
Select Zip file which you would like to Flash ROM
After Successful flashing
Reboot
Phone will start with New custom ROM
Cheers
Happy Flashing
Thanks
HTC MAGIC 32A
HTX MIUI 0.23 HINTAY MOD
NR 6.35.x.x.

Yeah I forgot that part. you do want to clear your data, cache, and system files while in CWM, otherwise you'll be writing over your old system. A lot of roms are custom teaked and packed in way different than the stock rom and it can just get screwy if you don't. Make it a good habit of doing that before you flash! You can also back up your roms through CWM so if you don't like the changes you've made after a flash you can always revert back like nothing ever happened. Just don't wipe your SD card or you'll lose your backups! Only do that if you're okay with losing the data on your SD.

As mentioned above...
Full Wipe/ Factory Reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe System
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Wipe Battery Stats
Flash ROM
Flash Kernel
Flash gapps
Reboot
This should work out, if you do the kernel flash before the ROM, it will be replaced with whatever kernel that was packaged with the ROM. If you are trying to flash an ICS based ROM, you may need to flash the ROM a couple times (if it installs too quickly, as in 5 to 10 seconds). This is a known issue.

My phone wont boot into Cmw recovery, Please help.

My phone is rooted (With Super One Click) and when tap the "boot into recovery" option in Rom Manager it just send me to the stock recovery (with Blue text and what not). I have flashed Rom Manager with my Sidekick 4g before I tried to boot into recover. Please, someone help me. The answer is probably right in my face, but my noobish eyes just cant see it. :crying:
Please don't bash me this is my first post. I made sure there wasnt any post like this before i started a new tread.

Don't use ROM Manager with Sidekick 4G as CWM doesn't work the same way. When you reboot you always go into Samsung recovery from where you gotta reinstall packages to 'fake flash' the CWM recovery. If it says permission denied, the recovery file wasn't pushed to /system properly. You gotta reinstall every single time .. till of course you install a custom ROM. I think most come with voodoo CWM which replaces stock recovery, allowing you to go into CWM directly when you go to Recovery.
Firstly you need root, which I'm assuming you already have. Then you have to move a custom recovery to your phone's /system to allow you to install unsigned packages. You can do this using root explorer (paid app, but its the most simple and easy way of doing it) or you can do it using other similar apps that give you R/W (read and write) access. You also need to have a custom recovery file, the update.zip which when you hit reinstall packages (given you pushed the custom recovery file to the phone's system) would bring up clockworkmod recovery.
Read the noob guide here -> link. Its REALLY good and gives you a step by step of how to root / get custom recovery and install custom ROM.
Go here -> link. For more in depth information about getting a custom recovery. And here -> link. for Krylon's recovery files (links on his thread aren't all working).
Edit: Looks like the links on Krylon's page aren't working .. if someone can give an alternative it would be great!

I'm thinking about ODIN my device and start over but this time following one of the guides provided. I got cwm working but now I get a long script of code with a error that saids that it can't mount this and stuff like that. Ill try to post a image to give you a little better look at my problem. And for some reason the cmw logo isn't coming up behind the orange text.
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Those guided really helped me out I spent ages reading up different things so when I finally went and did it, I didn't face any problems!
Important notes:
1. Root, obviously I personally didn't use the latest edition of SuperOneClick (at the time) on the website, but the file the dev posted on his XDA Thread.
2. Don't use ROM Manager or any other 'one click' kind of recovery for this phone. You need to download a custom recovery file and update file (links above, thanks Krylon) and go into CWM Recovery through the official Samsung Recovery through reinstalling the custom update file. This is the only way to access Orange CWM. Most custom ROMs come with the Red Voodoo CWM which is permanent in the sense that when you go into recovery, you should go into CWM (Red), instead of having to go through Samsung.
3. Orange CWM (and some say Red CWM as well) has some mounting issues. Always remember to check your mounts such that System, Data (well just to be safe, all of the items in the list) always say UNMOUNT. Basically when its mounted, means CWM has access to the partition. It says UNMOUNT because it is MOUNTED. I know thats a bit confusing, but think of it like this - there is a light switch that says ON so when you press it, turns the lights on but then the writing changes to OFF because you need to push the switch to turn it off. Erm .. hope that helps?! Lol.
4. Basically if your partitions are showing up as MOUNT, means you need to MOUNT them. Otherwise whatever changes you did won't apply! Instead of getting confused like I did, just make sure the screen says UNMOUNT SYSTEM and so forth for the rest of the items on the list.
5. Before installing a custom ROM, I always wiped x 3, before and after. Means after checking mounts, wipe data / dalvik, etc. 3 times. So for me, after checking mounts I would go to wipe date - yes - done 1; wipe data - yes - done 2; wipe data - yes - done 3. Followed by wipe dalvik and whatever else you want to wipe. Then I'd check mounts again (they usually get unmounted after a wipe .. well for me they always have anyway) before installing the ROM. Oh, sometimes I installed the ROM twice. Then I'd check mounts, wipe x 3, check mounts again before finally rebooting and letting it stand still for around 20 minutes or so. I don't really know if there is a logic or if doing it so many times makes a difference but I know some other people have done this and (other than wasting time) it doesn't really do any harm (someone correct me if I'm wrong) so why the hell not? I think the basic reasoning behind double / triple wiping and installing is to make sure that the changes are properly written as sometimes the system still retains old data.
6. Some people have SD card partitioning issues apparent. I can't remember why everyone went around partitioning in the first place (it must have been for some important reason, completely slipped my mind right now .. I personally did it to link my apps / data to SD card and save internal memory / space) but I personally used Gparted to partition my card on a computer (rather than CWM on the phone as I've heard people have issues with this) and never had a problem.
But I think thats it. I know there is a lot of information but its really worth having a look at the guide and other posts on that thread as that and the ROM thread (I personally use GOV 3.2) really had me prepare for any possible issue beforehand so I started off in a position where I could avoid them.

WTF_IsA_Android said:
I'm thinking about ODIN my device and start over but this time following one of the guides provided. I got cwm working but now I get a long script of code with a error that saids that it can't mount this and stuff like that. Ill try to post a image to give you a little better look at my problem. And for some reason the cmw logo isn't coming up behind the orange text.
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can someone update the sidekick 4g stuff everything is either dead or does not lead anywhere to download any of the required files, thanks.

Not new to this, but a little confused....

Hey guys, so I've been messing around with android products for a few years now, and within the last year and a half I've been getting into rooting and flashing new ROM's. And even though I know how to flash new ROM's, I'm still not understanding a few things, and what exactly they are, or what they mean.
I know that they are key components in flashing/modding.
Before I go any further, I know you're already thinking, "why doesn't this guy use the glossary?" Well, I have, and I couldn't get a firm understanding of what I was reading. I'm a pretty tech savvy guy, but mostly with computers. Phones and tablets are a little different to me.
Ok so here's a few of the questions I have, hopefully someone can put the answers into layman terms for me.
When I see the term update.zip, what exactly is this? I ask that because I see it in ROM Manager, ClockWork Mod, and also when I am reading things about ROM Development in the forums. So I guess my question is, what is it? And what happens if I flash/install an update.zip file from one ROM, and install it on a different ROM. Or what if I don't install an update.zip file altogether? Is it even needed?
Or when I am in Recovery, and I choose install zip from SD Card, one of the options I get is apply /sdcard/update.zip
I also find a file labeled "image.zip" in my ClockWork Mod folder on my SD Card, what would this be an image of exactly? I don't want to install it and end up doing something wrong to my phone.

You can divide Phone softwares in 3 broad parts.
1] Recovery Software
2] The OS
3] Games and apps which you install.
Zip files are used by recovery software to install OS, or installing a rooting software to root your phone or many more things which i don't know.
I have installed "Team Win Recovery" which came as a zip file.
I installed it through default recovery software in galaxy (Volume UP + Power in my phone).
Now when i press Volume UP + Power, i go into "Team Win Recovery" instead of Default recovery, which is now over written by the Zip file of "Team Win Recovery".
I did a full Backup of my current OS.
I then downloaded ROMs from this site, they were also in Zip format.
For flashing new ROM, i go into "Team Win Recovery" (Volume UP + Power). then i Wipe Cache, Dalvik Cache and also do a factory reset.
Then i go to "Install" and browse to Zip file of ROM and install it.
I have mad backups of many different ROMs on my phone, i can switch to any in 10 mins, by Wiping and flashing from backups.

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