Any recommendations on Custom Roms? - Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Any recommendations on Custom Roms? - Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey everyone.
I recently rooted my Hero GSM phone and tried to play around with some Custom Roms.. I'm currently running FroydVillain with a 691 kernel and I like it a lot, but want to know if there's any other Roms running smoother on the Hero packing Froyo..
I used to have the official eclair (2.1) with launcherpro installed, but wanted to try Froyo out because I heard that it runs 450 % faster than eclair. And since I went over to Custom Roms my batterytime has been lowered significantly..
Also if anyone could tell me what RADIO's are I would be very happy
Sorry for all the questions, but I have just one more..does updating the recovery software help on performance? I have an old version I think.. can anyone please link the newest?
I find the market of available Roms so large and wanted to know if anyone could recommend some Roms and include some links on where to get..
Froyo prefered since I just got used to how it works.
Thanks in advance
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App

Hammerbak said:
Hey everyone.
I recently rooted my Hero GSM phone and tried to play around with some Custom Roms.. I'm currently running FroydVillain with a 691 kernel and I like it a lot, but want to know if there's any other Roms running smoother on the Hero packing Froyo..
I used to have the official eclair (2.1) with launcherpro installed, but wanted to try Froyo out because I heard that it runs 450 % faster than eclair. And since I went over to Custom Roms my batterytime has been lowered significantly..
Also if anyone could tell me what RADIO's are I would be very happy
Sorry for all the questions, but I have just one more..does updating the recovery software help on performance? I have an old version I think.. can anyone please link the newest?
I find the market of available Roms so large and wanted to know if anyone could recommend some Roms and include some links on where to get..
Froyo prefered since I just got used to how it works.
Thanks in advance
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App
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Latest Recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124
The radio I recommend is the latest GSM one at http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?307-radio-roms-download-links
Are you using latest Froyd, as we've got reports of 2 full days of battery life.
But 450% is an exaggeration, as it's based on a nexus 1 without vs. with JIT. You should get > 5 Mflops though in linpack using froyo.

Regarding the question in the title. You could search around here a little on Q&A since it has been asked a lot of times But mostly you'll get the answer that it's different from person to person and everyone has their favourite ROM for instance my favourite ROM is Cronos (anything) but I'm guessing pulser_g2's would be VillainROM (LOL)

Lol. Yeah it depends on what you want. I mentioned Froyd as you're on it already, but sense 2.1 roms do still exist, though you might try disappointed with performance.
I used a sense rom recently and had to remove it as I couldn't bear the slowness, even with oc.
But yeah, search is your friend. Decide what you want, and you'll find it here.

Thanks for the links.
Yeah well, I spent almost an hour reading about different Roms here and there and I see that it's kinda up to one self what you like about the different Roms. I've been very happy with FroydVillain so far, but I guess I should go ahead and give some of the others a try.
I've just backed up my current phone settings with "Titanium Backup" but is this enough if I decide to try a new Rom and want to go back later on? or should I do a nandroid backup?
And again when I flash over the new recovery.img.. Do I need to backup anything beforehand?
My Froyd version is the latest and I've kept on updating whenever I saw new updates. And yeah, two days is in my opinion not much. Beforehand, on the official 2.1, I could easely tweak 4-5 days out of my standard Hero battery, but I guess this has something to do with the kernel?
Sorry.. I'm really a newbie on this

Hammerbak said:
Thanks for the links.
Yeah well, I spent almost an hour reading about different Roms here and there and I see that it's kinda up to one self what you like about the different Roms. I've been very happy with FroydVillain so far, but I guess I should go ahead and give some of the others a try.
I've just backed up my current phone settings with "Titanium Backup" but is this enough if I decide to try a new Rom and want to go back later on? or should I do a nandroid backup?
And again when I flash over the new recovery.img.. Do I need to backup anything beforehand?
My Froyd version is the latest and I've kept on updating whenever I saw new updates. And yeah, two days is in my opinion not much. Beforehand, on the official 2.1, I could easely tweak 4-5 days out of my standard Hero battery, but I guess this has something to do with the kernel?
Sorry.. I'm really a newbie on this
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If you want to go back you need a nandroid backup yes. If your talking about updating your recovery image (lol I'm guessing) no you don't. Just flash it. And the battery has something (everything ) to do with the kernel but if you want better battery set you min freq of your CPU lower or you can lower the max freq.

I see..
Thank you very much for answering.
I have just one minor problem..
How the heck do I flash over the recovery image? Don't I use the FlashRec-thingy? Might have deleted it at some point :S

Hammerbak said:
I see..
Thank you very much for answering.
I have just one minor problem..
How the heck do I flash over the recovery image? Don't I use the FlashRec-thingy? Might have deleted it at some point :S
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I reccomend you flashing Amon-RA. There is a guide in his thread on how to flash it But if you want the ultimate easy noob thing you can download ROM manager from the market which will alow you to download and flash a pretty descent recovery in one click

Yeah.. Flashing Amon-RA is what I'm trying to. It seems I have the 1.5.2 version installed and I just downloaded the 1.7.0 one..
The first time I flashed "Amon-RA" did it with the help of a program called FlashRec. I followed the guide on theunlockr.com and I now end up with a message: "Backup FAILED: Could not run command." when I try to "Backup Recovery Image" through that FlashRec program.
I have an idea of how to work around this but I'm not 100% sure this is what's needed..?
Could I run the phone into recovery mode (through that 1.5.2 Amon-RA thingy) and then flash the never version right onto it or is this the wrong procedure?

Hammerbak said:
Yeah.. Flashing Amon-RA is what I'm trying to. It seems I have the 1.5.2 version installed and I just downloaded the 1.7.0 one..
The first time I flashed "Amon-RA" did it with the help of a program called FlashRec. I followed the guide on theunlockr.com and I now end up with a message: "Backup FAILED: Could not run command." when I try to "Backup Recovery Image" through that FlashRec program.
I have an idea of how to work around this but I'm not 100% sure this is what's needed..?
Could I run the phone into recovery mode (through that 1.5.2 Amon-RA thingy) and then flash the never version right onto it or is this the wrong procedure?
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Lol thats excatly how I rooted my phone too (same recovery and website even) Look in the thread it's described how you flash the new recovery via ADB

Yeah ehm... I'm kinda new to this so all his "code" or whatever it is doesn't give me a hell lot of clues..
Install
There are several ways to install a custom recovery, choose the one that suits you most (I probably forgot a few).
via adb -> Requires a custom recovery (with test-keys) like Cyanogen's v1.4 or my previous recovery
Code:
Copy recovery-RA-hero-v1.7.0.1.img to the root of your sdcard
Boot into your current custom recovery (boot while holding HOME)
Connect your Hero via usb to your pc/mac/...
adb shell
$su (not required if you have root already)
#mount -a
#flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.7.0.1.img
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I fixed the steps underlined but after that I kinda went cold on what the **** to do :S
I boot into my recovery and what I get from his "guide" is that I my Hero should do something when I plug in the USB cable.. but nothing happends.. anyone who can put it down in baby-steps for me? :O
There's another way to do this it seems (2nd guide in his thread) but it seems to involve even more "code" so I guess I'll settle with this if it's possible.. :S

Hammerbak said:
Yeah ehm... I'm kinda new to this so all his "code" or whatever it is doesn't give me a hell lot of clues..
I fixed the steps underlined but after that I kinda went cold on what the **** to do :S
I boot into my recovery and what I get from his "guide" is that I my Hero should do something when I plug in the USB cable.. but nothing happends.. anyone who can put it down in baby-steps for me? :O
There's another way to do this it seems (2nd guide in his thread) but it seems to involve even more "code" so I guess I'll settle with this if it's possible.. :S
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For you I would just recommend installing "ROM manager" from the market and then let it install ClockworkMod recovery that should do for you
EDIT: There seems to be an issue with ROM manager at the moment. It wont flash...

Yeah.. Might as well try this out since no one wants to point out on how to it the "geeky"-way
EDIT:
I seem to get an error when trying to flash the ClorkworkMod Recovery.. Any idea why?
Nvm.. Some dude (erasmux) has made an update.zip and uploaded to the Amon-RA post.. it did the trick

Related

Little Help here? Rom choices/confirm root

so i have root, i think. (how do you know?)
and installed the recovery img (also how do you know/confirm?)
i know im supposed to install another rom, but it works now??
it says i have 2.1 and everything?? do i need to run another rom???
and if i do need to install a rom, which one is best/most stable (opinions)
thank you

to check if you have recovery power the phone off and when you restart hold the VOL UP button and then turn it on..... it should boot up into a black screen with green writing with a list of options (i.e. backup/restore, flash zip file)
as for best rom to flash ....a few options out there depends on what you like..... but if you want a basic very stable 2.1 use Ivans 0.7 official (IMO) ..... but there are some good options out there if you don't want the basic 2.1
just look around
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=652044

rvpartsguy huh?
where i work we sell rv parts too, mostly replacement stuff
anyway, ill restart and try booting that way and see.
that will confirm i have root too?

majorahole said:
rvpartsguy huh?
where i work we sell rv parts too, mostly replacement stuff
anyway, ill restart and try booting that way and see.
that will confirm i have root too?
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Well you could not have flashed the custom recovery image without root, so yes.

ok, thats kinda what i thought, but wasnt sure

so, do i still have to flash to a different rom?
also, ive noticed stuff missing from the marketplace that i had before? sup wit dat?
thanks

You don't have too. However I would. The custom roms are more stabe and have more features that the original root rom. I like this one right now. Did you reboot and test that you have the recovery image?

majorahole said:
also, ive noticed stuff missing from the marketplace that i had before? sup wit dat?
thanks
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Programs that weren't developed for 2.1 and only from 1.5 up to 2.0.1 possibly won't show up.

best option for old rom?

Hi.. just hjoping for a little advice as im unsure what would be the best course of action for my old Hero.. (wife uses it now i bought a desire)
When i got it... i did the root thing,,, and installed one of the first Modaco Roms on it,,, but since then ive not touched it or updated it in any way..
Obviously now there's been alot of updates up to as far as 2.2 i think,,, mines still on 1.5..
Im not to botherd about it keeping rooted or anything.. as my wife uses it and as long as it works and is stable she is happy with it..
So what would be my best option to get a stable, up to date rom that is based on the HTC sense version? and what steps would i need to take to get it installed? ie.. would it need to be unrooted or something first if i just wanted the latest official rom?? or is there better roms out there that are just as stable with everything working?
Many thanks for any advice.. ive been out of the loop a fair while

Moved to Q&A as not development.
You're probably after a 2.1 Sense UI ROM. There's plenty available in the development forums You can flash an RUU if you want 2.1 officially, or just flash a new custom ROM using recovery, after nandroid and wipes.

In my opinion I think that you should flash the rooted update:
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=1973
As its very similar to the official HTC rom, but the phone is still rooted and you can save apps to the SD card.
Remember however that all the data on the Hero will be deleted when applying the update, so everything needs to be backed-up.

I'd highly recommend Villain 12 as a very stable 2.1 Sense ROM. I'v had it running for a couple of weeks now with ZERO issues.
I'd go as far as saying it is as stable (if not more so) as Modaco3.2 when we were all on Android 1.5.
No need to unroot,... you might have to update your recovery but thats hardly a big job. Then flash the new ROM.
There are plenty of guys on here to advise if you need more help with it.

thanks for the replies.... afaik i think i am running with an amon-ra recovery... how would i know if it needs updating? cheers

Chivalryyyy said:
thanks for the replies.... afaik i think i am running with an amon-ra recovery... how would i know if it needs updating? cheers
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Check the version string it gives you. 1.6.2 is latest, 1.7.0 is semi-released beta, and 1.6.2a is a VillainROM special that fixes a bug (that bug is fixed in 1.7.0)

right.. quick update... looks like i got the recovery thing wrong... turns out its 1 by Cyanogen... i installed it in september last year.. so will this need changing? and if i wanted to change to the newest amon-ra ( i think thats the 1 reccomened to use with villainroms?) is it difficult to swith from 1 recovery image to another?
1 other thing i forgot to mention... i now use Windows 7 x64... i heard this can cause problems in certain instances?
thanks again

Having Win7 can be an issue for 1st custom rom flash but shouldn't be a problem for you now.
Ok,... the method I used to install the recovery was using an app called flashrec. Step by step instructions in BTDAG's guide linked in my signature.
I've also heard you can just put the recovery.img on the root of your sd then go into fastboot and it finds it automatically, I find it hard to believe it will do this by itself though.
EDIT.... Nope you do need to run commands whilst in fastboot.
adb shell reboot bootloader
fastboot boot recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img
adb shell mount /sdcard
adb push recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img
adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-RA-hero-v1.6.2.img
adb shell reboot

First Time Rom Flash

Hi all, I'm preparing to flash a ROM for the first time and decided to choose the Das Bamf remix 2.05 beta 6 that just barely came out. Now keep in mind I've -NEVER- flashed a ROM before so I've been reading ALOT trying to wrap my head around all this so I know for sure what I'm doing. I manually rooted the phone several weeks ago with ADB and the command sequences in a command terminal and now I want to mod it further.. so I took a look at the direction in the thread and I have a few questions and I'm sorry, I'm a nub,, so bear with me,... Copied from the thread...
Things to know:
A FULL WIPE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
What is the best way to do this?
Want a smooth camera? Overclock to 1.4ghz. This is the trick others are using to make the camera smooth in their rom
I understand you can use setCPU for this but others have said the Kernel seems to OC itsef a bit and not to use setcpu... which way is best to do this?
Rom Manager seems to cause corruption issues, flash the ROM manually via clockwork.
I did install Rom Manager and bought the premium version. Now I shouldn't be usign it? and I rooted so I have clockwork installed but not sure how I'm supposed to use it to manually with it.
I appreciate any and all help.. even a good link to how to manually flash with clockwork would be fine as well, I don't mind a little reading to get a better understanding! thanks!

seabhac said:
Hi all, I'm preparing to flash a ROM for the first time and decided to choose the Das Bamf remix 2.05 beta 6 that just barely came out. Now keep in mind I've -NEVER- flashed a ROM before so I've been reading ALOT trying to wrap my head around all this so I know for sure what I'm doing. I manually rooted the phone several weeks ago with ADB and the command sequences in a command terminal and now I want to mod it further.. so I took a look at the direction in the thread and I have a few questions and I'm sorry, I'm a nub,, so bear with me,... Copied from the thread...
Things to know:
A FULL WIPE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
What is the best way to do this?
Want a smooth camera? Overclock to 1.4ghz. This is the trick others are using to make the camera smooth in their rom
I understand you can use setCPU for this but others have said the Kernel seems to OC itsef a bit and not to use setcpu... which way is best to do this?
Rom Manager seems to cause corruption issues, flash the ROM manually via clockwork.
I did install Rom Manager and bought the premium version. Now I shouldn't be usign it? and I rooted so I have clockwork installed but not sure how I'm supposed to use it to manually with it.
I appreciate any and all help.. even a good link to how to manually flash with clockwork would be fine as well, I don't mind a little reading to get a better understanding! thanks!
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I only use ROM Manager to reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery. It is the second option when you open ROM Manager. My method of flashing a new ROM (performing a full wipe plus a few steps):
1. Reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery from ROM Manager.
2. Use Nandroid to backup your current configuration. Select backup and restore and then backup.
3. Select wipe data/factory reset. This will wipe all applications, contacts, text messages, bookmarks, etc. There are ways to back this information up (Titanium Backup for applications), but I will not go into full detail here.
4. Select wipe cache partition.
5. Select advanced and then wipe dalvik cache. (Most people recommend doing steps 4 and 5 three times in order to ensure it was done.)
6. Also in the advanced menu, select wipe battery stats. (You should do this when charged 100%, recommended for any new ROM flash.)
For some reason, if you flash in ROM Manager it can corrupt the ROM/flash. To avoid this, always use ClockworkMod Recovery.
If the ROM you flash utilizes one of Imoseyon's kernels (which BAMF does), you can use the speedtweak.sh method in terminal emulator (download from Market) descriped in Imoseyon's kernel thread. With a BAMF ROM, none of this is required. You can utilize the included BAMF Toolkit to overclock/underclock and set the governor. The Toolkit also includes a terminal emulator if you wish to try the speedtweak.sh method.
The above steps should be followed when flashing a new ROM. When upgrading versions of the same ROM, you can generally perform a minimal wipe. My understanding of a minimal wipe is the cache and dalvik cache only (three times).
Hope I didn't leave anything out. If so, others can correct me.

Thank you for describing this.. I watched several videos and read up alot but I don't want to mess up anything and do ti right.. I've got the BAMF remix 2.05 version 6 on my root directory on the SD card now and I'll wait till the phone is at full charge before running thr0ough this procedure. Thank you once more wool!

seabhac said:
Thank you for describing this.. I watched several videos and read up alot but I don't want to mess up anything and do ti right.. I've got the BAMF remix 2.05 version 6 on my root directory on the SD card now and I'll wait till the phone is at full charge before running thr0ough this procedure. Thank you once more wool!
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You will also have to flash the MR2 radio. There is a thread in the Development Forum. If you search the thread, you should be able to come up with the method to do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1115714
I flashed the ROM first, pulled the battery, and then booted in hboot (volume down plus power button). From there, hboot should find the radio and update. Most importantly, make sure the radio file you put on the root of your SD Card is named 'PG05IMG.zip' If you have Windows 7, make sure the .zip is not in there twice. By default, Windows 7 does not show file extensions.

to be safe with ur download make sure to check the md5
command in terminal and adb is
# /system/xbin/busybox md5sum /sdcard/so-so
i think.. lol
checking the md5 ensures ur download is legit.. i had a couple bad downloads causing bootloop.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App

alluzzion2o9 said:
to be safe with ur download make sure to check the md5
command in terminal and adb is
# /system/xbin/busybox md5sum /sdcard/so-so
i think.. lol
checking the md5 ensures ur download is legit.. i had a couple bad downloads causing bootloop.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
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Easy way with the MD5 I found is to download AFV (Android File Verifier) from market. I download the ROM from xda app onto phone, run AFV on ROM from phone and verify MD5 while also having thread up on computer. Seems easier with those long numbers.

New Dell Streak Mini 5 User With ?'s For ROM Help Install?

Which is the best rom to go with?
I've downloaded _n0p_'s DSC v0.7 and Tenorntex's Longhorn 2.1 v2, seeing as these 2 were the newest and latest and had Android 2.3.3
Are there any other better rom's or has anyone tried the 2 I listed, if so whats the difference?
Thanks

Better is very vague when it comes to ROM's it all depends on what you want in a Rom. I have old Simple Streak 1.2. Yes there is newer ROM's out but this one works perfect for what I need. In my Case Stability.

DSC is the most actively developed/supported. Plenty stable for me. I don't think any of the earlier Froyo based ROMs are being developed further.

I meant as far as Stability, Performance and up to date, I don't care about the Stage UI and was gunna theme it myself or use SPB Shell 3D.

Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

n1nj4Lo said:
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Unfortunately I do not believe that anyone can change the way that the Streak works just so it is more convenient for you or so that you don't have to learn anything.
In the time you took to navigate to XDA and make your post you could have flashed a ROM onto your Streak - plugging it in and everything.
The only ROM you can install by just putting it on the SD Card is the same one that is currently on the Streak, if you don't mind holding down a couple of buttons and using recovery mode.

n1nj4Lo said:
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If anyone is wondering why developers leave and give the site a bad reputation look no further. Someone with over 600 posts under his username should not be making noob posts like this one. With so many posts he knows how to use the search engine and the wiki, but I guess when it comes to our device using the search engine and the wiki is an inconvenience, along with renaming a file "update.pkg".

marvin02 said:
Unfortunately I do not believe that anyone can change the way that the Streak works just so it is more convenient for you or so that you don't have to learn anything.
In the time you took to navigate to XDA and make your post you could have flashed a ROM onto your Streak - plugging it in and everything.
The only ROM you can install by just putting it on the SD Card is the same one that is currently on the Streak, if you don't mind holding down a couple of buttons and using recovery mode.
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So would that be this: Streak_407_20707_14.pkg ? According to the first post above me do I rename it?
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
If anyone is wondering why developers leave and give the site a bad reputation look no further. Someone with over 600 posts under his username should not be making noob posts like this one. With so many posts he knows how to use the search engine and the wiki, but I guess when it comes to our device using the search engine and the wiki is an inconvenience, along with renaming a file "update.pkg".
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Some people learn better through interaction where they can actually ask questions... I don't have over 600 posts so who are you talking about? Furthermore if you are talking about first thing I'd do is learn how to read mr wise guy, secondly!! You tell me how one is supposed to learn which rom is the best based on user reviews and opinions, where do I go to find that out and wheres the wiki on that, unless you expect people to read 200 and 300 page threads also? I have barely 150 posts and rarely post at all unless it is to ask questions or make requests. It's not like I have 600 posts and every single one of them are questions.
This is only my second time dealing with android and second time flashing android first time it was simply moving a zip to the sdcard and booting up into safe mode and selecting update through sdcard, so certainly I'd be baffled and have questions when one time it was so easy and the second time I've gotta jump through hoops and everything.
Lastly since WHEN Is asking a Question SOOOO wrong in the Dell Streak 5 Q&A Category???? It's not like I posted it in the wrong area or something, but ohhh no'es how dare n00b be confused and need a lil help/guidance of some experienced users, ohh mercy me the drama in that!!
Last time I checked that is what XDA is here for, for people to learn, not to be attacked by asshat trolls like you.
If anyone is wondering why XDA has a multitude more lurkers than posters look no further than to the hardass that is Strephon Alkhalikoi View Postwho can't stand to see a n00b in need of help!
Like this
Flashing/Updating
Installing a recovery
Download appropriate recovery to flash from Stock Recoveries or Custom recoveries
Enter fastboot mode on your phone
Flash recovery with fastboot: fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>
After flashing is complete: fastboot reboot to reboot
Finished
If you are using a custom recovery see Disabling recovery overwrite in stock roms and follow the steps there to prevent the Streak from over writing the recovery. Re-install your custom recovery after following those steps.
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BUT THE VERY FIRST THING THE WIKI SAYS IS To Stay AWAY From Fastboot, but this tells you to use Fastboot... So what gives and which is it? LoL

n1nj4Lo said:
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Like thisBUT THE VERY FIRST THING THE WIKI SAYS IS To Stay AWAY From Fastboot, but this tells you to use Fastboot... So what gives and which is it? LoL
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I hope that you can actually read better than that. The wiki does not say to stay away from fastboot. It clearly states two commands that should not be used on the Streak. It goes onto give a number of examples of using fastboot.
I hope that you other 157 posts (as I wtite this) on XDA were not as tiresome or ill-informed as the ones you have posted here.
The information you need is here in the forums, available at the links in my signature, and on other forums. Please exercise some patience and read the info.

marvin02 said:
I hope that you can actually read better than that. The wiki does not say to stay away from fastboot. It clearly states two commands that should not be used on the Streak. It goes onto give a number of examples of using fastboot.
I hope that you other 157 posts (as I wtite this) on XDA were not as tiresome or ill-informed as the ones you have posted here.
The information you need is here in the forums, available at the links in my signature, and on other forums. Please exercise some patience and read the info.
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Uhh yea sory... I forgot about the 2 options to stay away from, just the dangerous part stayed with me. LoL
Do I need to be at a certain android version or can I make a semi-major update leap?
Also it says
Installing a stock rom
Reinstalling a stock rom will wipe all data!
1. Download stock rom pkg and recovery to install
2. Copy pkg to sdcard and rename to update.pkg
3. Install matching stock recovery
4. Enter recovery mode
5. After recovery loads press Camera to begin process
6. Finished
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Do I need the recovery.img as well? It said nothing about a img file or anything just said "matching stock recovery" so yea, is that the right thing?
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First I'm gunna try factory reset and see if that fixes the random reboot problem, hopefully it does the seller said he just installed the new screen and never did anything except for just trying to powering it up, use normally and it would reboot suddenly.
WELL NO DUH, you need to restore everything back to default settings with a factory/hard reset. Thats like trying to install a video card or webcam and expecting it to work right away without installing the dirvers. - Hopefully!

Well it's only getting as far as the dell logo screen/splash screen. I've tried the entering safe mode but nothing yet, once it's powered on it just sits at that screen.

dsc is great and very stable if you dont mind the few following quirks.
1. google maps will always run in the background unless you freeze it. This will drain your battery quite quickly
2. Wifi might or might not be broken, if it is broken use wifi analyzer if not profit
the benefits of dsc?
fast
running GB instead of froyo
dpi change is awesome.
screen default orientation is awesome
stable other than those few bugs
Battery life was decent.
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Im however just running 2.2 froyo on a stock rogers. The battery life is amazing on stock 2.2 (a whole day, and still have about 30% with heavy usage and constant 3g) and the wifi works fine. For me this is the most stable rom however it is a bit slow compared to DSC. This phone is used for work so it has to just.. work.
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Havent really tried the other roms yet, but depending on what you want out of the phone you can try the DSC and see if you can live with these little quirks.

Yea I was leaning more towards DSC than Longhorn, it looks like it's updated more frequently too.

Bad & Good News
Turns out when the guy replaced the screen he fried the mobo... Me and a friend at a small local pc store tried everything from rooting with new rom to factory resets. Always had the same problem.
But the guy at the pc store sells phones also and said he'd give me $100.00 credit to a new factory refirbed, rooted and unlocked dell streak mini if I gave him the one we tried to repair.

[Q] Flashing from Froyo to GB

Ok, so I haven't picked up my Streak in about 2 years since I got onto Sprint. I'm in the UK for a couple of weeks so needed to come back since it's GSM. I searched but didn't see a guide on how to flash from a Froyo ROM (Streakdroid 1.9.0) to one of the newer GB ROMs (I'm thinking Longhorn). My baseband is GAUSB1A131800-EU. I don't know what version of Streakmod recovery I'm on. I don't need a detailed guide on how to install Streakmod or the ROM. Just would appreciate if someone could tell me if there is a certain thing I need to do first (like update to the latest Streakmod) and if there are any dependencies between things like matching up a certain baseband with the ROM. Thanks!
I think I'm on CWM so I guess I have to go to Streakmod. Do I need to install stock recovery and/or ROM first? I have a vague recollection that I used to do something like that to update the baseband. I just can't remember because my Galaxy S2 you can independently flash modems and ROMs and of course, I haven't gone between Android versions as it's always been GB. Thanks!

Nevermind, I figured it out. Search really is your best friend...

frankquattrone said:
Nevermind, I figured it out. Search really is your best friend...
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hi can u tell me how to install streakmod? my pc not detect my ds...what should i do?

hanifset said:
hi can u tell me how to install streakmod? my pc not detect my ds...what should i do?
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What do you mean? Are you not able to connect with Fastboot? Is your cable /port broken so it won't connect at all? Anyway, here's what I suggest. First you need to install Fastboot. Search for the thread ADB and Fastboot and download the zip. I unzipped it to my C root directory to make things easy. Then search for the thread Dell Streak5/Flashing Guide. That has all the instructions to install Fastboot, connect with Fastboot. I'm assuming you found the thread with StreakMod so follow those instructions to then install it. If you don't know how to use Fastboot, search for the thread Dell Streak the Complete Guide. The guide is dated in terms of the files it references but the instructions on how to use Fastboot are still accurate. Just replace where it talks about Clockworkmod with StreakMod. Good luck.
Since I already wrote all this, I guess I'll add what I did in case it helps someone. Moving from Froyo to GB requires updating the baseband. To do that, I installed the stock 407 recovery and then stock 407 ROM. Then I installed StreakMod then flash the GB ROM of your choice. I chose Longhorn 2.8. Only had it for about a day but seems to work fine. No issues with reboots. Can't comment on speed or battery life since I haven't used the Streak in like a year so I have no reference.

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That could not be more true.
Always read an entire post before flashing the rom. Its all there.

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