Hello to all,
Firstly first post to this site and also new to the world of rooting/flashing so bare with me on this one..
Ok as title states I would like to know on how to successfully flash my x10 and receive the benefits that xda have given to alot of us!
Phone specs:
Xperia x10a.
Ver 2.1update1.
Rooted via super one click.
So far I have only been able to root the phone.. I have TB and have performed a back up recently. I do also have the Rom Manager app whilst watching a tutorial via youtube flashing using the Rom Manager I was not able to use the Flash ClockworkMod Recovery as the x10 was not in the listing to proceed. I have also got xrecovery ver 0.3 and tried another method using this but I was not able to install xrecovery properly.. I downloaded it all well and good but went to install and the 3 windows never became ticks just crosses.. Uninstalled and reinstalled but to no avail it did not work..
So my questions are:
Have I done something wrong on my end for this not to work? (knowing my luck yes).
And all I'm after if someone could take the time out and lay out a clear somewhat easy path in order for myself to be able to flash and install custom Roms? cm7 is what I would like to use unless if a good recommendation is given.
Thank you in advance to all and I do apologize for the long post I just wanted to make sure I covered everything.. Still new to this
Kind Regards.
Agera.
Xrecovery installer can be a bit troublesome. Sometimes it doesn't even work for me.
In my opinion, the best way to install xrecovery, root, & jit enable your x10 is through flashtool. You will need a PC but the process works better than the installer. Try that method and find out if that works.
Hey thanks for your reply, my noobness is showing greatly at this point regarding xrecovery... it'll help if I actually click install busy box and destination folder (duh) made me look....yeah Ok well now I have a phone that has been rooted and now have xrecovery in operation, I guess now comes to install a custom rom.
Now to sum it all up basically I have to copy paste desired rom and google rom pack load it onto the sd card (not in any file inside sd but just on sd) perform final backup get into xrecovery factory wipe first? I believe then custom rom reboot then get back into xrecovery then install google apps reboot and done?
I hope I got that down I'm trying to remember processes without having to go back to a tutorial, if I left anything out permission to give me a clip over the ear
Cheers.
When you pick a ROM, make sure the phone's baseband matches the ROMS baseband the developer wants. Also, follow how the way the dev wants the ROM installed, like phone wiped and cache wiped and stuff. And sometime there are multiple files that needed to be flashed in a specific order in xrecovery. So make sure you follow all the devs directions. Hope this helps.
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and you can find different ROMs that don't require you to flash googleapps as well, that just makes it confusing. I started with FreeX10, as it was simple and easy to install. once you have a hang of it, I recommend using Trip's GB MIUI. and you said you backed up phone before you installed xrecovery? I recommend you backup using xrecovery first
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fixed phone was able to get back into xrecovery and do a restore...
Ok, something I want to ask regarding what I did today when I went to update to a newer o/s eveything went fine until after the phone rebooted and came back to the home screen the 2.2.1 froyo rom I used seemed to be refreshing itself every 2 seconds which made it next to impossible to navigate around the phone... The arc version 2.3.1 opened up and about 30 seconds it froze restarted and shut down again did that for a while... So both didnt work for me only other thing I opened up was the google pack so I could get the market and gmail, I also tried it without installing google apps... same thing happened.
So my question is have I forgotten to put an extra file in? or was it my blind luck that I used to unstable roms?
I've really tried here.. if anyone can please post a link that is certain to work with exactly what i need to do and what files I need that would be really great. Whether its 2.2 or 2.3 it doesnt matter to me so long as it works at this stage I'm having no luck getting something solid here...
Cheers.
Hey all.
Just wanted to know, that dose someone else hase or have problems with INSTALLING Titanium Backup?
Yesterday I flashed the ROM(I think it was Code.ROMv1:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122198) and all was going well, untill I was going to Market and try to install TB. It wont installed. OK. I downloaded it from net, but it to SD and installed it from there. installed! Now I was tryed to open it and it just force closed(FC). Then I thinking, that it is somehow the ROM problem. Refflashed it and still the same. I was pissed!
Then I installed from SD DEODEXED ROM and still the same(OF COURSE, BEFORE EVERY FLASH WITH ODIN OR INSTALL FROM SD, I WIPED ALL CACHE AND DATA/FACTORY RESET).
After flashing like 6-7 times I finally managed OPEN TB v.3.6.4(I was tryed several versions and this one installs and opens CORRECTLY, I must mention that I have PRO version of TB)!
Now I want to know, what can cause this kinde of problem. If you faced similar problem, let us know here. Maybe we can find the solution to this one!
Thanks in ADVANCE to all, who bothers to read this and answering!
Sorry if there is typing mistakes.
CHEERS!
Hello. I am quite new to the scene, and I have very little technical knowledge, so I feel real lost in this forum.
I have tried Slade's CM v7 umm Cyanogen or something, the latest version - v5. I loved it to begin with. But after a week or so, phone seems to be getting more and more laggy, and more and more unstable. I tried Over Clocking it, but that resultet in instant reboot. So I do not use OC. Yet my phone reboots all the time. (Literally, several times a day)
I play alot of games on my phone, this is mainly what I do. I'd love to be able to Over Clock it alittle, but I want stability more than anything.
Now I am considering trying FroyoComb - only because I read somewhere in a post that it did well on benchmarks, but I really have NO idea what I should go for!
Does anyone have any reccomendations? I play alot of games, don't want alot of reboots.
Thanks for any quick reply (I am ready to just flash this ROM right away! If I can find out what CWM is and how to install it)
go here for the froyocomb rom..ive try it and its good for playing game..and here for the CWM..gud luck
Hey man froyocomb is alright but cyanocomb is the same rom but cleaner and with more fixes it was made also by d4
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Hello and thanks for help. The problem is, I cannot get xrecovery working. I had the same problem for weeks when I installed the ROM I currently have.
Dark's automatic D4 app does not work at all (it literally does nothing upon launch/pressing buttons)
The 0.3 xrec installer worked successfully after I entered Root Explorer first, mounted /system/bin as R/Wm but still nothing happens when I boot and press back.
I have installed busybox both in /system/xbin and /system/bin, I have tried with newest version 1.19..and I have tried also 1.17 and 1.15. Aswell as in with a combination with manually placing chargemon and xrecovery.tar in bin, and editing their permissions correctly.
Nothing works for getting xrecovery to work, and I wish I remember how I solved it last time. I think someone wrote a post somewhere about mini pro specifically, and with latest version 2.A.0.6 (or what it is) and it said something like "fool proof way of making xrec work" and it actually instructed to just copy two files and NOT edit their permissions.. But like I said, I can't find that post now and there is basically 100 posts about people not getting xrec to work, with different symptoms.
Any idea what I should try?
charger trick pull battery n plug in charger let it charge n then turn on then pull charger
PerKiller said:
Hello and thanks for help. The problem is, I cannot get xrecovery working. I had the same problem for weeks when I installed the ROM I currently have.
Dark's automatic D4 app does not work at all (it literally does nothing upon launch/pressing buttons)
The 0.3 xrec installer worked successfully after I entered Root Explorer first, mounted /system/bin as R/Wm but still nothing happens when I boot and press back.
I have installed busybox both in /system/xbin and /system/bin, I have tried with newest version 1.19..and I have tried also 1.17 and 1.15. Aswell as in with a combination with manually placing chargemon and xrecovery.tar in bin, and editing their permissions correctly.
Nothing works for getting xrecovery to work, and I wish I remember how I solved it last time. I think someone wrote a post somewhere about mini pro specifically, and with latest version 2.A.0.6 (or what it is) and it said something like "fool proof way of making xrec work" and it actually instructed to just copy two files and NOT edit their permissions.. But like I said, I can't find that post now and there is basically 100 posts about people not getting xrec to work, with different symptoms.
Any idea what I should try?
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PerKiller said:
Hello and thanks for help. The problem is, I cannot get xrecovery working. I had the same problem for weeks when I installed the ROM I currently have.
Dark's automatic D4 app does not work at all (it literally does nothing upon launch/pressing buttons)
The 0.3 xrec installer worked successfully after I entered Root Explorer first, mounted /system/bin as R/Wm but still nothing happens when I boot and press back.
I have installed busybox both in /system/xbin and /system/bin, I have tried with newest version 1.19..and I have tried also 1.17 and 1.15. Aswell as in with a combination with manually placing chargemon and xrecovery.tar in bin, and editing their permissions correctly.
Nothing works for getting xrecovery to work, and I wish I remember how I solved it last time. I think someone wrote a post somewhere about mini pro specifically, and with latest version 2.A.0.6 (or what it is) and it said something like "fool proof way of making xrec work" and it actually instructed to just copy two files and NOT edit their permissions.. But like I said, I can't find that post now and there is basically 100 posts about people not getting xrec to work, with different symptoms.
Any idea what I should try?
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Download the new Recovery Installer app! Just choose the recovery nd ur done!
I had trouble with xrecovery too, the method I found to work is to grab titanium backup form the market, then click on problems in titanium backup and it downloads busybox, after that grab a terminal emulator and use the aais installer, thats the only way I got mine to work.
The new installer seems to be working fine too so should be easyer.
CWM works perfectly and slades cyano roms are using it already, I prefer the cm6 tho, still based on froyo but almost perfect, cm7 still bit buggy.
Actually im using froyocomb, since thats the last most updated version and based on cm6.
overclock never worked on my mini pro, it always ends in crash loop.
I can play all games allright on froyocomb, still lags a bit on some games but the battery last way longer than any other rom ive tried.
CyanoComb! Done.
P.S. I loved the title (''forest'' thing)
No methods for installing xrecovery works. I cannot get off stock rom (again).
Use quagger's AAIS its in the forums, scroll down!
I tried his AAIS! ;P
Now I am using SEUS to start over. So this is my plan:
-Restore phone to stock.
-Root phone with SuperOneClick - NOT install busybox with it. NOT install busybox through Titanium Backup (although it seems like thats not an option anymore with newest version anyway), NOT install busybox through busybox installer from market.
-Use AAIS to install "xrec for mini pro"
Does this sound like the correct approach?
or you can just after restore phone to stock, root it and then install Mini ROM Maneger and with this app install CWM Recovery. than you can install custom rom
Eyama said:
or you can just after restore phone to stock, root it and then install Mini ROM Maneger and with this app install CWM Recovery. than you can install custom rom
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I tried that now. But I tried it AFTER I tried D4's xrec installer. Then trying to install xrec manually. Then I tried the ROM manager CWM-installer, which yielded NO results.
I want the most failproof way here. I don't want to SEUS any more
you don't need to SEUS all the time if any of recovery isn't installed.
use this xrecovery for manual installing and you have great tutorial there.
when you successfully installed xrecovery than you can install CWM Recovery form Rom maneger.(CWM Rcovery is better beacuse is included in all roms)
i hope you could make it working
Eyama said:
you don't need to SEUS all the time if any of recovery isn't installed.
use this xrecovery for manual installing and you have great tutorial there.
when you successfully installed xrecovery than you can install CWM Recovery form Rom maneger.(CWM Rcovery is better beacuse is included in all roms)
i hope you could make it working
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But so many say different things. Some say: Install busybox from market (which is 1.19 atm) Some say: DO NOT INSTALL BUSYBOX cause xrec comes with it. Some say: Download Titanium Backup and click problems to install busybox. Some say: Let superoneclick install busybox. Some say: It doesn't matter if you installed busybox first or not, xrec will correct it. Some say: OMG if you install wrong version of busybox you cannot make xrec work; SEUS.
So... should I install manually? And what is permission chmod 777. Read, Write, Execute. Read, Execute. Read, execute.?
EDIT: And already now I am getting conflicting instructions. One person is telling me to install CWM through the "ROM manager" and another person is telling me to install xrecovery manually. I don't want to start spamming 20 different ways of doing it to my phone again, just feeling like I have no idea what I am doing or what the results are.
PerKiller said:
No methods for installing xrecovery works. I cannot get off stock rom (again).
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To get to stock rom again, just follow my guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125587
[FIRMWARE]2.1.1.A.0.6 Greek .ftf+.sin files. Install the .6 kernel with 015 baseband!
In my guide, FlashTool is included with which you can root, flash roms and INSTALL xRecovery with just ONE CLICK!
Yeah, I know, I am the best, just click THANKS! xD
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leajian said:
To get to stock rom again, just follow my guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125587
[FIRMWARE]2.1.1.A.0.6 Greek .ftf+.sin files. Install the .6 kernel with 015 baseband!
In my guide, FlashTool is included with which you can root, flash roms and INSTALL xRecovery with just ONE CLICK!
Yeah, I know, I am the best, just click THANKS! xD
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Sorry, but "I cannot get off stock rom" means I was stuck with stock. I have no problem getting back to stock.
Anyway, now I got xrec to work. From what I understand, the newest ROM-releases are made in zip-files made for CWM (CWM is like xrec, but upgraded and better) correct? So now, I downloaded cwm3minipro.zip but I have no idea what to do with it.. how I make CWM replace xrec?
Thanks
Sorry, I need to revise my phrasal verbs... xD
Yeah, xRecovery now belongs to the past, CMW is the future. To install CWM just flash this .zip through xRecovery and here you go!
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PerKiller said:
I tried his AAIS! ;P
Now I am using SEUS to start over. So this is my plan:
-Restore phone to stock.
-Root phone with SuperOneClick - NOT install busybox with it. NOT install busybox through Titanium Backup (although it seems like thats not an option anymore with newest version anyway), NOT install busybox through busybox installer from market.
-Use AAIS to install "xrec for mini pro"
Does this sound like the correct approach?
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Install busybox using superoneclick root and use AAIS?
hi perkiller
try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913136
its the one click root and xrec solution from mikevhl and until now has worked on all mini pro's which were difficult to xrec or root
greetings
metachuh
hello i just did a clean fresh install on official se 2.1, rooted, busybox installed, flashed xrecovery about ten times now so i can flash the new zKernel. i can only get xrecovery to actually work prob 1 in 10 power ups and iv flashed the 20072011.zip file 3 times now yet it doesnt actually work. when i open about in settings its still the stock kernel, is there a way of flashing the new kernel using the flash tool or just plain without xrecovery????
cheers if anyone can help
What baseband are you using with the zkernal and tell me how to you make xrecovery appear on the boot up? There is only one way to do it.
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had the same problem... just made a work around which worked for me.. as i see, flashing zkernel does not delete anything... but this uuntz kernel delets the stock kernel any applies the custom kernel... so what i do is first flash the uuntz kernel which deletes the stock kernel and applies itself.. and straight after it without reebooting i flash the zkernel... and it works... i dont know how the hell it works this way but it works...
im having problems with xrecovery as well so flashing the two kernels is proving to be difficult. iv had xrecovery for about 6mths and booted into it fine everytime but now im on official se rom as i mentioned less than 1 in 10 boot ups will boot into x recovery
its giving me the ****s i hacked/flashed different roms from day 1 of owning this phone but now im on se rom nothing works iv even let se pc suit update it three times and started from scratch. ill keep trying xrecovery cheers for your help