Adding ROM to Flashed Cricket Eris 2.1 - Droid Eris General

HI all I have my Eris flashed to Cricket or Metro PCS, and I want to put a new rom on it. The guy who flashed it put a 2.1 update on it for me and told me he couldn't add the rom I gave him on my phone because it was flashed. So my question is am I stuck with the version I'm running or can I load different custom roms along with it being flashed??
Thanks

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i have mine flashed to cricket. and I have changed to several roms, i of course was able to root the phone. so if yours is rooted then you should be able to switch roms.. i am not expert so if i am wrong please somebody correct me

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Okay thanks for the reply, So can you help me out because I don't know where to start as far as adding a new rom. Do I need to re-flash to cricket after adding a new a new rom or will the flash still work and its just replacing certain things?

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jcaf77 said:
i have mine flashed to cricket. and I have changed to several roms, i of course was able to root the phone. so if yours is rooted then you should be able to switch roms.. i am not expert so if i am wrong please somebody correct me
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Okay thanks for the reply, So can you help me out because I don't know where to start as far as adding a new rom. Do I need to re-flash to cricket after adding a new a new rom or will the flash still work and its just replacing certain things? SORRY FOR DOUBLE POST!!!!

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Puxxie said:
Okay thanks for the reply, So can you help me out because I don't know where to start as far as adding a new rom. Do I need to re-flash to cricket after adding a new a new rom or will the flash still work and its just replacing certain things?
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power off your phone, once off, hold the volume down key while you press the power button if you see a recovery menu telling you, reboot, install from sd card, wipe etc.. then all you do is wipe the data and then install the rom...
but the main thing is to know that you have root access and recovery image

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It will not erase what was written with QPST but the proxy will have to be setup again. I use many roms and just run the same setup for getting the proxy on there working.

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jcaf77 said:
power off your phone, once off, hold the volume down key while you press the power button if you see a recovery menu telling you, reboot, install from sd card, wipe etc.. then all you do is wipe the data and then install the rom...
but the main thing is to know that you have root access and recovery image
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Okay I know that much, how do I now if I have root access and recovery image?

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jcaff77's advice is missing a whole lot.
YES, Before you flash ANY ROM, boot into Recovery (power off your phone, then power it on with Volume Up + Power) then go to Backup/Restore, then do a nand backup.
THIS way, you can ALWAYS go back to the flash that you're on. The guy that gave you that flash has NO idea what he's doing, and shouldn't be charging people money to flash things. Tell him he's basically a hack and a con artist because the information to do this is FREE and ALL around the internet. Tell him you're never going to ask for his help again, because he didn't really help you, he just took your money.
Anyway,
I posted a full tutorial that token419 from HowardForums put together to do this to ANY ROM. Your phone will stay on Cricket in general through flashing ROMs, but to make ANY ROM work FULLY on Cricket, follow this:
(from http://androidforums.com/all-things...ully-cricket-root-reqd.html?highlight=cricket )
Requirements:
Rooted Rom
Autostart (Root) from android market (free)
u2nl.zip from white rabbits site whiterabbit.org (hit Android stuff at the bottom, then get the pre-compiled Droid binary - Eris is included in that file)
Following Brandon's Guide and replace the internet portion with the steps listed below
Step 2. Setting up
What you need: u2nl.zip from white rabbits site whiterabbit.org
install Autostart (Root) from android market
Unzip the u2nl.zip to your androidsdk/tools folder so that u2nl and autostart.sh are in your androidsdk/tools folder. (use the autostart.sh that's in the Eris folder, not the one in the Droid folder!)
adb shell su
(look on phone to push 'Allow' or 'Always Allow' if it pops up - if not, then move to the next line)
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /data/
mkdir opt
chmod 0777 /data/opt/
chmod 0777 /system/bin/
exit
adb remount
adb push autostart.sh /data/opt/autostart.sh
adb push u2nl /system/bin/u2nl
adb shell
chmod 0777 /data/opt/autostart.sh
chmod 0777 /system/bin/u2nl
reboot
click always allow on the prompt to allow the Autostart app to run at system startup
Reply or PM me if you need help with it especially. Go ahead and flash a ROM with it. If you can't get all of this done, your phone will STILL WORK, just not all the apps, Browser Only. For a temporary Browser Only fix, just download AnyCut from the Market on your current phone flash, use AndroZip or ES File Explorer or IO File Manager or ANY program that can 'back up' apps, to back it up, then flash the NEW ROM you want, and Market won't work (until you do the instructions above). Again, to get Web to work, make a shortcut with AnyCut > Activity > Proxy, and click the Proxy shortcut you made. Set Proxy to wap.mycricket.com port 8080.
Like I said, I'll follow this thread, so just reply if you get stuck on any of those steps.

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@pkopalek thanks..yeah I had a feeling he didn't know what he was doing and he was just trying to get paid. Well I'm going to try what you posted for me now and will be back to post mt status or PM and THANK YOU for you help I appreciate it.

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Puxxie said:
@pkopalek thanks..yeah I had a feeling he didn't know what he was doing and he was just trying to get paid. Well I'm going to try what you posted for me now and will be back to post mt status or PM and THANK YOU for you help I appreciate it.
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Yeah, just write back, I'll see it for sure. I did this to my girlfriend's phone, and many others, for free.
Enjoy.

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this is funny

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You'll also want to make sure you extract your telephony.db from /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/ to maintain MMS functionality with a new ROM, since the ROMs you'll use will probably be built for Sprint or Verizon.
You'll need RootExplorer on your phone to go to the above directory -> copy -> paste to your sdcard. Restore it to the same directory once you're new ROM is installed OR download and setup AndroidSDK (google it) and use adb to pull the file;
Code:
adb remount
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db
The file will end up in your /tools/ directory of the AndroidSDK.
Once you're new ROM is installed, you can use the SDK to push it back as well;
Code:
adb remount
adb push telephony.db /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
adb reboot
That should restore MMS to your phone once you have the new ROM installed
-mak

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.mak said:
You'll also want to make sure you extract your telephony.db from /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/ to maintain MMS functionality with a new ROM, since the ROMs you'll use will probably be built for Sprint or Verizon.
You'll need RootExplorer on your phone to go to the above directory -> copy -> paste to your sdcard. Restore it to the same directory once you're new ROM is installed OR download and setup AndroidSDK (google it) and use adb to pull the file;
Code:
adb remount
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db
The file will end up in your /tools/ directory of the AndroidSDK.
Once you're new ROM is installed, you can use the SDK to push it back as well;
Code:
adb remount
adb push telephony.db /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
adb reboot
That should restore MMS to your phone once you have the new ROM installed
-mak
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Actually, APN Backup & Restore already does this job.
If you use mak's way, you won't be needing APN Backup & Restore.
Both methods will work perfectly well.

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pkopalek said:
Actually, APN Backup & Restore already does this job.
If you use mak's way, you won't be needing APN Backup & Restore.
Both methods will work perfectly well.
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Was APN Backup suggested previously? I didn't notice if it had been, sorry.
I also can't speak to the validity of a program I've never used, but I suppose it would be much easier for the OP to use that than adb.
-mak

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you can follow the guide here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=675652
Use the zip to flash from recovery that i created, there are 2 zips, one for just internet, and one for internet + MMS, some say the internet + MMS doesnt work, which is why i provided just an internet one as well.
As always make a nandroid backup first and have fun.
Since your phone is already flashed, disregard all the QPST stuff and simply look at the setting up web/mms portion of the guide.
The zip for MMS + Web works great for me, but your mileage may vary
Good luck and have fun

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token419 said:
you can follow the guide here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=675652
Use the zip to flash from recovery that i created, there are 2 zips, one for just internet, and one for internet + MMS, some say the internet + MMS doesnt work, which is why i provided just an internet one as well.
As always make a nandroid backup first and have fun.
Since your phone is already flashed, disregard all the QPST stuff and simply look at the setting up web/mms portion of the guide.
The zip for MMS + Web works great for me, but your mileage may vary
Good luck and have fun
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The MMS flashes the APNs, but the APN has to be specific for your phone number on your device (in my experience), so I wouldn't expect MMS to work for anyone but you, Token!
I'd stick with editing the APNs to get MMS working, but thanks for the internet patch!

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THanks for all the info guys but I'm stuck on how to add a new recovery image using either the EMA it keeps saying it can't find my device state?