So I want to try some lollipop roms and I'm not 100 percent sure on how I can do that. I'm new to HTC but I'm comfortable with rooting and flashing. So my question is how do I go about flashing lollipop roms? Do I need to flash a different firmware? And where would I find that, I've seen some forums with different firmware but they fail to flash. I would like to try both viper and sky dragon lollipop, could someone direct me to where I can find those versions please?
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I have rooted 3 phones prior to this one. I have it all set up and running Refuse 1.7. I have seen that there are a good load of roms available for the infuse 4g. Many of them say 2.3.5, etc. Is that the android version needed by the phone before installing the rom? I am on 2.2.1 and am worried about installing any other rom, than one which has froyo in the name leaving me with only 3 choices. Any help would be appreciated I want to try a miui rom or something else from here but am worried that since I have 2.2.1 when I install one that has 2.3 in its name I will brick.
Cjohns8792 said:
I have rooted 3 phones prior to this one. I have it all set up and running Refuse 1.7. I have seen that there are a good load of roms available for the infuse 4g. Many of them say 2.3.5, etc. Is that the android version needed by the phone before installing the rom? I am on 2.2.1 and am worried about installing any other rom, than one which has froyo in the name leaving me with only 3 choices. Any help would be appreciated I want to try a miui rom or something else from here but am worried that since I have 2.2.1 when I install one that has 2.3 in its name I will brick.
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No bro, the " 2.3.5" or "2.3.6" its that ROMs Android version, not the one needed to install it, still you do need a modified recovery to easily install a custom rom. I would personally recomend this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220088
as a good guide for new guys trying to install custom roms since the instructions are very detailed and hardly would give you trouble. After installing that rom you would have gathered the necessary knowledge to choose your next rom like MIUI or CM7 or another samsung Infuse rom or Samsung port to Infuse.
Hi,
I was using SGS I 9000 and with the official 2.3.3 DDJV6 version which is very very slow. After that i have tried so many leaked firmwares but unfortunately none of them works well for me..none of them are stable & bugfree.
Right now i am using DDJV9 with voodoo lagfix. This is also not running effeciently..phone gots very very hot upto 55C.
Kindly help me reviving my sgs experince. Please kindly also share the link also for the same.
Thanks alot in advance.
No roms not even OEM roms are free of bugs mate, try flashing some other custom roms until u find the one that suits ur needs.
I agree none of them is bug free. But Whichever leaked firmware i have used is not not even stable. I just want stable & fast firmware.
People kindly help.
rahulshanu said:
I agree none of them is bug free. But Whichever leaked firmware i have used is not not even stable. I just want stable & fast firmware.
People kindly help.
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No one will be able to tell you what will run well on your device with your set up. Try roms out till you rind one that works for you. Each device is different and so are the way we use them.
Try ROM Mintberry, link to post
zelendel said:
No one will be able to tell you what will run well on your device with your set up. Try roms out till you rind one that works for you. Each device is different and so are the way we use them.
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Thanks..
Right now i am little confused. Till now i have only checked the different firmwares not tried any ROM.
Are firmware and ROM are 2 different things or same? Sorry if it is too basic..
Firmware and ROM are sort of intertwined. The firmware mostly relates to the underlying infrastructure that the ROM depends upon. Things like the kernel and radio. The ROM is the actual implementation of the OS. When you flash new firmware, you also get a new ROM along with it.
Some custom ROMs, such as Darky's ROM, are very closely related to the stock ROM, and have mostly performance and cosmetic changes. Other ROMs such as Mintberry MIUI and Onecosmic are quite significantly different from any of the stock ROMs.
They also depend on particular parts of the stock firmware. Onecosmic and MIUI both require gingerbread bootloaders to have been previously installed from a stock firmware package.
If you want my two cents on what to use, I am currently using Onecosmic RC2.11 (waiting for the phone to charge to full, then going to install RC3) and it is excellent. It is based on Ice Cream Sandwich, it runs quickly, and it looks beautiful.
There is a link to the XDA thread here.
how can i flash kitkat rom on galaxy grand??
Ashutosh Jain said:
how can i flash kitkat rom on galaxy grand??
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There is currently no official release of KitKat for your device. I don't know if Samsung will ever release KitKat for your device.
What you can do is try to find a custom KitKat rom for your device. I haven't searched for any, but if there is a custom rom for your device, it's sure to be on XDA.
Flashing a custom ROM means you will lose all Samsung software and S apps like S Planner, S voice..etc. But you might end up loving your phone even more and the stock android experience. Plus, there are a lot of new features that you can find in custom roms.
To get started with custom roms, you will definitely need a custom recovery installed. You should start reading on what this means. A lot of reading. You can easily find information on google, videos on youtube, and lots of sites with instructions.
Flashing roms can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Make sure you read very carefully and flash roms, kernels and recoveries that have been made specifically for your device. Anything else will probably brick your phone.
And always search on XDA, or post a question if you are not sure.
I am new to this forum, but have been doing some research about different custom ROMs. I was wondering if anyone has come across a custom Android Oreo that will run on the edge. I downloaded the OTA update of Oreo 8, but being new to flashing and tweaking of ROMs, I am a little nervous about playing with something that I am not sure will work. Any hekpo r information would be great. Thanks.
Hey everyone, apologies if this has been asked before.
I recently flashed the Pixel Experience custom rom and for the most part I'm loving it.
One of the reasons I chose this rom over something like Lineage OS is that Lineage requires the flashing of firmware before flashing the custom rom. PE didn't require this so I went with that.
My question is what firmware do I need exactly? If I do decide to try out other roms in future where do I get this file? I looked online and found the full MIUI rom which is about 2.5 gb and I also found just the updates which is about 80mb. There's obviously a huge size difference here and I want to avoid issues in future
Search for Xiaomi Firmware Updater here on XDA. A member wrote a script which creates links for the latest firmwares (approx. 70 MB).
Thank you, I think I got confused. I wasn't sure whether I need the firmware or the full MIUI, glad it's the smaller file.