I am getting ready to flash my first rom on my rooted aria and have a few questions and clarifications. I am considering liberated R012 or FR007. Thank you in advance for your help.
Based on what I have read, if I flash FR007 HTC Sync will no longer work. If so, how would you sync Outlook contacts and calendar events with FR007?
If I flash R012, will HTC Sync continue to work and sync Outlook the same as it does with the stock rom?
If I backup all user apps + system data with Titanium Backup Free version before flashing the new rom, would I simply restore missing apps + system data from Titanium after flashing the new rom to completely restore all of my previous applications and data?
Since I am flashing a rom for the first time, do I need to wipe data, cache and dalvik cache in clockwork before flashing the new rom?
bctf1 said:
I am getting ready to flash my first rom on my rooted aria and have a few questions and clarifications. I am considering liberated R012 or FR007. Thank you in advance for your help.
Based on what I have read, if I flash FR007 HTC Sync will no longer work. If so, how would you sync Outlook contacts and calendar events with FR007?
If I flash R012, will HTC Sync continue to work and sync Outlook the same as it does with the stock rom?
If I backup all user apps + system data with Titanium Backup Free version before flashing the new rom, would I simply restore missing apps + system data from Titanium after flashing the new rom to completely restore all of my previous applications and data?
Since I am flashing a rom for the first time, do I need to wipe data, cache and dalvik cache in clockwork before flashing the new rom?
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1. Can you link to what you have read? As far as I know, Sync will work with FR007 and I'm basing that off of this. FR007 is just a liberated froyo rom. HTC Sync will not work with cyanogen based ROMs.
2. Should do.
3. Yes.
4. I believe the answer to this is yes. It will not hurt if you do as long as you back up your apps and stuff like that. Otherwise you'll need to redownload everything.
zervic said:
1. Can you link to what you have read? As far as I know, Sync will work with FR007 and I'm basing that off of this. FR007 is just a liberated froyo rom. HTC Sync will not work with cyanogen based ROMs.
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Hi zervic, thanks for your response. You may be right that FR007 and HTC Sync are compatible. The post I read is at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840242. It says "HTC Sync will only work with HTC Roms". I read that to mean that it would not work with FR007. Perhaps someone else will confirm this.
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Hi zervic, thanks for your response. You may be right that FR007 and HTC Sync are compatible. The post I read is at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840242. It says "HTC Sync will only work with HTC Roms". I read that to mean that it would not work with FR007. Perhaps someone else will confirm this.
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FR007 is an HTC Sense ROM, so HTC Sync should work.
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Just got my Aria today and I have a few questions I was hoping that people can answer. This is my first Android phone so be patient please.
1. My goal is to remove the ATT crapware and be able to sideload apps. However, I am not sure how stable the LiberatedRom. So is there a way to do that as I wait for a more stable rom?
2. What method of installing custom roms is better? I feel like us android noobs need a wiki for android b/c I have been following the Aria forum since it started and read everything, but I am still very confused.
3. Can you brick your phone rooting? Or is it not as dangerous as flashing a rom on an WinMo?
4. For those that have used LiberateRom, how stable is it?
Thanks for all the help and I have a few more questions, but I forgot them b/c I am excited about this phone. Ill add them once I remember them.
I've been using Liberated for nearly three weeks and it's been perfectly stable. I'm currently using B003 though. Can't speak for the newer betas.
Please take a look at the threads in the Aria Development forum as it would have the answers to most of these questions.
That being said the Liberated ROM is the stock ROM with root and busybox added, but the crapware has been removed. There are no changes to the ROM itself.
I haven't heard anyone bricking their Aria yet, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible. Always follow the instructions posted for flashing. Right now the Unrevoked tool is probably the best way to flash new ROMS though.
Ive been using the Boo3 for a few weeks now and its great because all the ATT crap was removed. It never messed up on me.
The hardest part for flashing this rom is getting into clockwork recovery to flash it. But once you do and you flash you will have root, then you can install ROM manager from the market and reboot into clockwork at any time easily to flash any ROM you want. Did i mention It gives you ROOT
You can always return to stock at any time by installing the original ROM from HTC site.
Thundervore said:
Ive been using the Boo3 for a few weeks now and its great because all the ATT crap was removed. It never messed up on me.
The hardest part for flashing this rom is getting into clockwork recovery to flash it. But once you do and you flash you will have root, then you can install ROM manager from the market and reboot into clockwork at any time easily to flash any ROM you want. Did i mention It gives you ROOT
You can always return to stock at any time by installing the original ROM from HTC site.
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Can you explain the concept of root?
I am sorry if that is a super-noob question, but I like learning stuff. Thanks in advance.
tilt4life2 said:
Can you explain the concept of root?
I am sorry if that is a super-noob question, but I like learning stuff. Thanks in advance.
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Rooting a phone simply means giving it Administrative rights. An unrooted (stock) phone is like having a guest account. With a rooted phone, you can do almost anything; flash custom roms, make a nandroid, permenantly remove unwanted apps.
Just got my Aria about a week ago and researched and rooted it with attn1's Liberated b003 in less than 24 hours, haha. I'm a total android noob myself
churapa said:
Rooting a phone simply means giving it Administrative rights. An unrooted (stock) phone is like having a guest account. With a rooted phone, you can do almost anything; flash custom roms, make a nandroid, permenantly remove unwanted apps.
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Thanks for that explanation. A few more questions:
1. I am still using my Tilt as my phone until the skin and screen protector for my Aria arrive so I don't have any relevant data on there. Would a Nandroid backup still be necessary?
2. What is the proper way to shut down applications? I couldn't do it for the life of me so I downloaded Advanced Task Killer from the market which was great.
3. Can you access Market without entering your Google account info? The reason I ask is that initial in put in my info and it copied all my Gmail contacts to the phone which I didn't want.
4. I am assuming if you sideload apps you can choose to install in on an SD, but is there anyway to install Market apps to sd?
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1. I am still using my Tilt as my phone until the skin and screen protector for my Aria arrive so I don't have any relevant data on there. Would a Nandroid backup still be necessary?
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A nandroid backup is used to restore your phone as it is. If you haven't got any data on it then making a nandroid backup sort of defeats the purpose I think. Also, you need to already have root and clockwork if you want to make a nandroid backup [I think] so it is not as if you even could create a backup prior to rooting.
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2. What is the proper way to shut down applications? I couldn't do it for the life of me so I downloaded Advanced Task Killer from the market which was great.
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It basically depends upon the application. Some have the ability to quit when you select the menu button, while others continue to run in the background.
You can selectively kill apps by going to "running services" found under the "applications" setting on the phone. No app required.
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3. Can you access Market without entering your Google account info? The reason I ask is that initial in put in my info and it copied all my Gmail contacts to the phone which I didn't want.
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I think you must sign into your google account to use market.
However, in "accounts and sync" under the phone's settings there is an option to disable contact syncing for your google account.
Or, you could just create a new google account with no contacts and log in using that.
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4. I am assuming if you sideload apps you can choose to install in on an SD, but is there anyway to install Market apps to sd?
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I think whether or not you can install apps to the SD card depends upon the app, not how you install it
From what I remember Android 2.2 will have native apps to SD support but it will be up to the specific developer to enable this feature on their app.
Check the forums, as there is(are) definitely a thread or two discussing installation of apps to the SD card.
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A nandroid backup is used to restore your phone as it is. If you haven't got any data on it then making a nandroid backup sort of defeats the purpose I think. Also, you need to already have root and clockwork if you want to make a nandroid backup [I think] so it is not as if you even could create a backup prior to rooting.
It basically depends upon the application. Some have the ability to quit when you select the menu button, while others continue to run in the background.
You can selectively kill apps by going to "running services" found under the "applications" setting on the phone. No app required.
I think you must sign into your google account to use market.
However, in "accounts and sync" under the phone's settings there is an option to disable contact syncing for your google account.
Or, you could just create a new google account with no contacts and log in using that.
I think whether or not you can install apps to the SD card depends upon the app, not how you install it
From what I remember Android 2.2 will have native apps to SD support but it will be up to the specific developer to enable this feature on their app.
Check the forums, as there is(are) definitely a thread or two discussing installation of apps to the SD card.
Sent from my HTC Liberty using XDA App
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Thanks for the clarification again. I actually understand Android things now.
Installing a new ROM on the Aria
How do you get into the "command prompts" on the Aria (after installing unrevoked 3) so you can install a new ROM on the device?
notec said:
How do you get into the "command prompts" on the Aria (after installing unrevoked 3) so you can install a new ROM on the device?
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Search is your best friend on the forum. The instructions for installing a new ROM on a rooted machine has been covered on many threads.
Regards,
Tom
Hey everyone,
I recently goldcarded my phone, and now have 2.73.405.5 running on it, but it won't sync with my PC, and I can't import contacts from the memory card either, can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Kev
Reinstall latest HTC sync from HTC site?,... update drivers?
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If you have goldcard downgraded to 2.73.405.5 I assume you're going to install a custom rom so there isn't any point in syncing the data now because its about to be wiped again. Wait until you get onto the custom rom then put the data back.
Also contacts aren't stored on the memory card AFAIK...
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If you have goldcard downgraded to 2.73.405.5 I assume you're going to install a custom rom so there isn't any point in syncing the data now because its about to be wiped again. Wait until you get onto the custom rom then put the data back.
Also contacts aren't stored on the memory card AFAIK...
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Contacts are on /data. Use Google contact sync if u want then backed up.
For now I'm not going to install a custom ROM, as it sounds like 2.1 for Hero is round the corner, with the 1st part being released etc, I'll probably get frustrated and do it in the next few months, but right now I just want to be running standard HTC software, and the possibility of custom ROMs in a bit. I know they aren't installed on the memory card, but you should be able to import them from the memory card, no? That's what I've done in the past...
I've tried re-installing the drivers, but I'll try re-installing Sync.
Thanks
I've been messing with it, and after re-installing the T-Mobile software with the goldcard in, and doing the update to the 2.1 part 1 update it all works fine.
Thanks for your help/
Kevin
2.1 is already fully released officially.
You can backup the contacts using HTC sync, or if they are google contacts they are automatically synced.
Pretty simple question, i want to upgrade to the latest build by mik. Will this basically wipe everything that isnt on my SD card ? i.e. everything on my desktop, all my settings, all my apps etc.
thanks.
Yes, you will have to wipe everything...
If you want, you can backup your data with apps like "Titanium Backup" or something like those...
U will lost all ur settings,sms,contacts,apps..nd u will lost ur data in sd bcoz u hv to do partition for aps2sd..Its recommrnded to do backup of all ur apps,contacts,sms,nandroid before flashing
oh ok. so ill install apps2sd, move all my apps across, backup contacts and what i can with titanium , flash.
what is this google sync business with contacts ??
so i just flashed to the latest, and its booted back in, and everything is still on my desktop ? like nothing got erased.
i did a full batch titanium backup. did it automatically restore everthing ? even my desktop settings ?? im lost
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Pretty simple question, i want to upgrade to the latest build by mik. Will this basically wipe everything that isnt on my SD card ? i.e. everything on my desktop, all my settings, all my apps etc.
thanks.
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Haha so luckily you got me and my patience on your thread lol and you questions are simple yeah but not short to answer!
For your question, yes! flashing any rom will exactly wipe EVERYTHING on your phone.
BUT IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM OLDER VERSIONS OF MIK'S 2.3 ROM, it will NOT wipe anything except your google/facebook accounts information.
By the way, for the manual action of "wiping", it depends what android version you are at.
If you are using Froyo 2.2 NOW, yes wipe everything on the list of your custom recovery.
If you are using Gingerbread 2.3 NOW, then you dont have to wipe anything except [cache] and [dalvik cache]. <- You must wipe these two!
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oh ok. so ill install apps2sd, move all my apps across, backup contacts and what i can with titanium , flash.
what is this google sync business with contacts ??
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I dont get what you mean by "install apps2sd". But whatever you shouldn't do that before flashing a rom. If you mean the Non-froyo App2SD+ (What the hell is non-froyo a2sd?), you should flash it AFTER you have flashed the rom in order to let it activate in the new rom.
Yes. backup all the things with titanium is necessary.
For the google contacts syncing. It is a service provided by Google and it is for you to sync the contacts between your Gmail and your phone. So you can view all your contacts anywhere. You can sync your contacts to gmail and then after rom flashing, the contacts are gone. Simply login back to gmail with the newly flashed rom and then click auto-sync. All of your contacts will be back after a couple of minutes.
But remember one extra point, its sort of a new feature in gingerbread but BE SURE TO UNTICK THE OPTION OF "BACKUP MY DATA ETC TO MY GOOGLE ACCOUNT" after you login your gmail with android 2.3. Why? It actually doesn't backup your data (well for me, i couldnt see it anywhere) but DUPLICATES YOUR MESSAGES WITH NO REASON!
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so i just flashed to the latest, and its booted back in, and everything is still on my desktop ? like nothing got erased.
i did a full batch titanium backup. did it automatically restore everthing ? even my desktop settings ?? im lost
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IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM ANDROID 2.2 FROYO
NO. After you flash, every single thing will be GONE COMPLETELY. You will have to perform a titanium batch restore to get everything back in order.
IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM ANDROID 2.3 GINGERBREAD (older versions of mik's rom)
Then Yes everything is still on your "desktop" (I think you meant launcher) and ALL SETTINGS WILL REMAIN. However in some cases, home screen widgets will have problems and you will have to place them again. Information in widgets (such as your city for weather widgets, your to-do-list widgets) are NOT BE ABLE TO BACK UP USING TITANIUM OR ANY OTHER METHODS. So make sure you have written down what you have wrote in your widgets!
And finally if you have missed or made mistakes in any step, dont panic! You can always restore your phone back with KDZ UPDATER (Picture guide in this link)!
And when you are using mik's rom, and you would like to have a try on franco.Kernel which provides excellent performance, dont forget to discuss them in the thread The fantastic combination of mik_os' CM7 and franco.Kernel!!
Hope I was clear enough and if any parts of my post have helped you, dont forget to hit the thanks button at the bottom of my post
Good luck! Happy playing with mik's roms!
Thanks alot, makes it clearer.
I will definitely put francos kernel on, the phone still could do with some imporvement in performance.
next thing i need to learn about is the launcher. is it essentially just the UI ?
thedawg said:
Thanks alot, makes it clearer.
I will definitely put francos kernel on, the phone still could do with some imporvement in performance.
next thing i need to learn about is the launcher. is it essentially just the UI ?
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erm for the launcher its totally simple - ur phone can have multiple launchers, but you usually only use one. and they gives you the app drawer and some screens for you to place your shortcuts and widgets. how are they? what are their performances? differ on different launchers. they all can simple be found on the market, and after installation you will be able to choose the one you want to use, by clicking the home button.
ADW launcher and Launcher Pro being the most famous ones and you may try GO Launcher as some people are using and appreciating it too.
new users if i have given some help you know what to do and happy androiding.
hello everyone
i upgraded my evo 3d to ics last night. i did a full system backup using 4ext before the upgrade (incase i wanted to go back to gb) but i forgot to backup my contacts to a vcard and i added a lot of numbers since the last vcard backup which will be lost to me
my question is can i use my backup from gb rom to restore my contacts (and/or apps) to ics?
i installed 4ext on ics too and when i choose the backup there are options to restore boot, system, data and cache which one(s) should i choose?
i also have some general questions.
1: facebook imported pictures of my contacts are low res, i had this on gb and still have it on ics. how can i fix this?
2: why doesn't the delivery report notification on the notification bar disappear on its ownafter a while? (it does on my friend's sensation xe) it stays there until i clear, is this normal for evo3d?
3: when i install a new rom on my tablet my apps are synced through market when i sign in with my gmail account. why didn't my evo3d do that eventhough the option was selected on the gb rom?
thanks
Unfortunately it's not that easy to import data from incompatible ROMs. I think the best option would be to keep your contacts synced on Google instead of on your phone. But that doesn't help you right now.
Unless there is magic I don't know about, backup your ICS, restore the GB, backup the contacts, and restore the ICS again.
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1: facebook imported pictures of my contacts are low res, i had this on gb and still have it on ics. how can i fix this?
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No fix, blame Zuckerberg.
3: when i install a new rom on my tablet my apps are synced through market when i sign in with my gmail account. why didn't my evo3d do that eventhough the option was selected on the gb rom?
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It was never really meant to work on GB. On ICS, it's fully working.
plaidcounty said:
Unfortunately it's not that easy to import data from incompatible ROMs. I think the best option would be to keep your contacts synced on Google instead of on your phone. But that doesn't help you right now.
Unless there is magic I don't know about, backup your ICS, restore the GB, backup the contacts, and restore the ICS again.
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yeah that's what i thought but i am looking for an easier solution (if there's one)
isn't there a way to extract contacts from the backup?
or what happens if i restore the data part of the backup for example, can it cause problems with ics rom?
If data file is zip, you could try to unzip it on your cpu
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If data file is zip, you could try to unzip it on your cpu
sent on my Evil Evo running the so called developers kernel
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yes, backup consists of not zip but tar files of data system etc. does anybody know where android os keeps contact files?
ok i got it
if anybody else has the same problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8329322&postcount=4
Hello, Im new to all this Rooting and Flashing roms stuff. I flashed Jellybeer to my G Note i717 AT&T and was restoring system stuff like messages from Titanium Backup and I get a message from Pic #1 after i rebooted and this is what i was restoring and what i think i did wrong (but I dont know what i did wrong if that makes sense) on pic #2. How do i fix this without having to wipe everything again and re flashing the rom? do i just wipe system data from TWRP ?
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Hello, Im new to all this Rooting and Flashing roms stuff. I flashed Jellybeer to my G Note i717 AT&T and was restoring system stuff like messages from Titanium Backup and I get a message from Pic #1 after i rebooted and this is what i was restoring and what i think i did wrong (but I dont know what i did wrong if that makes sense) on pic #2. How do i fix this without having to wipe everything again and re flashing the rom? do i just wipe system data from TWRP ?
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i think i read this somewhere before that the error has something to do with the contacts sync. you can try going into settings>apps>all>google contacts sync>clear data. if that doesnt work you can also try clearing the contacts storage data as well. and then just sync your contacts again.
i also saw this online......if your using facebook: Settings>Accounts and Sync>Facebook>uncheck Contacts
hope this helps...
Backing up and restoring apps, sms, etc.. is the best way to quickly start using your newly flashed ROM, unfortunately, most devs on here DO NOT recommend that for the simple fact that it causes many issues such as the one you are experiencing now.
However, I've found what seems to be a fix: {Good Luck}
Do you have your contacts backed up?
Try uninstalling Facebook if that is installed. If this does not fix your problem then try the following.
Settings>Applications>System Applications>Contacts Sync Adapter and press Clear Data, this error usually goes away. If this doesn't work, try clearing the data on Settings>Applications>System Applications>Contacts or Settings>Applications>System Applications>Contacts Storage.
If problem is fixed, then restore contacts and reinstall Facebook and make sure you don't sync contacts with it.
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Here is the full thread.
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Backing up and restoring apps, sms, etc.. is the best way to quickly start using your newly flashed ROM, unfortunately, most devs on here DO NOT recommend that for the simple fact that it causes many issues such as the one you are experiencing now.
However, I've found what seems to be a fix: {Good Luck}
Here is the full thread.
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Thanks I cleared both Contacts and Contacts storage and the problem is gone what a relief :good:
jrea77 said:
i think i read this somewhere before that the error has something to do with the contacts sync. you can try going into settings>apps>all>google contacts sync>clear data. if that doesnt work you can also try clearing the contacts storage data as well. and then just sync your contacts again.
i also saw this online......if your using facebook: Settings>Accounts and Sync>Facebook>uncheck Contacts
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cleared contacts storage it fixed the problem but my contacts didnt get erased. I guess thats a good thing thanks for the help.