My sister's Eris wouldn't boot (boot loop hell). She brought it to Verizon and they told her its broken and she needed a new phone. Her 2 year contract is not up yet, so she isn't qualified for an upgrade.
Luckily she told me about it and so I gave it a shot trying to fix the Eris. I'm usually only on the Viewsonic GTablet forum, so know nothing about the Eris. After about a couple of hours going through a number of posts on XDA >HTC Eris, I figured it out that for some reason, the Eris' recovery ROM (PB100IMG.zip) was missing on her SD card, not sure how this happened. I downloaded the PB100IMG.zip file on XDA, copied it to the SD card, booted up recovery mode, and told it to reloaded Eclair. And the phone is now functional.
And all this happened without me posting anything, this forum is awesome. I'm gonna try to root it to get CWM and maybe one of the xtr roms on her Eris next. Thanks to everyone that put in the time and effort to make XDA an awesome resource for Android devices.
TLTR: Vz told sis that her Eris was fubar'd. I fixed her Eris thanks to awesome XDA community.
bebopblues said:
My sister's Eris wouldn't boot (boot loop hell). She brought it to Verizon and they told her its broken and she needed a new phone. Her 2 year contract is not up yet, so she isn't qualified for an upgrade.
Luckily she told me about it and so I gave it a shot trying to fix the Eris. I'm usually only on the Viewsonic GTablet forum, so know nothing about the Eris. After about a couple of hours going through a number of posts on XDA >HTC Eris, I figured it out that for some reason, the Eris' recovery ROM (PB100IMG.zip) was missing on her SD card, not sure how this happened. I downloaded the PB100IMG.zip file on XDA, copied it to the SD card, booted up recovery mode, and told it to reloaded Eclair. And the phone is now functional.
And all this happened without me posting anything, this forum is awesome. I'm gonna try to root it to get CWM and maybe one of the xtr roms on her Eris next. Thanks to everyone that put in the time and effort to make XDA an awesome resource for Android devices.
TLTR: Vz told sis that her Eris was fubar'd. I fixed her Eris thanks to awesome XDA community.
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Don't use CWM it has been known to brick phones. Use Amon Ra recovery instead.
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Don't use CWM it has been known to brick phones. Use Amon Ra recovery instead.
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Oh boy, you probably just opened a big can o worms... CWM has been working on the Eris for awhile now and many on this forum react badly to people saying it does't.
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I personally am too scared to use cwm I've only used amon.
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Oh boy, you probably just opened a big can o worms... CWM has been working on the Eris for awhile now and many on this forum react badly to people saying it does't.
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Get over it. I Just stated my opinion and from what I hear CWM has been found to brick the Eris.
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Get over it. I Just stated my opinion and from what I hear CWM has been found to brick the Eris.
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I don't care one way or the other, was just a warning since I've seen the flames that type of coment can flame.
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ianoob said:
Oh boy, you probably just opened a big can o worms... CWM has been working on the Eris for awhile now and many on this forum react badly to people saying it does't.
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You say that, but there is another example of a potential brick that happened from a clockwork recovery on androidforums: http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/350856-htc-eris-ruu-wont-run.html#post2795130
I don't recall seeing that from a phone with Amon_RA as the recovery - if there are examples, there are far fewer. Root methods that put Amon_RA on the Eris seem to be much safer. (Running clockwork as a flash from Amon_RA seem to work just fine; I do this all of the time now, because I prefer Clockwork's data wipes and Nandroid backup procedures.)
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warning
do not be an idiot like me and use the partition sd card option in rom manager. It will mess up the phone's master boot record and you will have to rewrite the original one in order for voodoo kernels or anything that modifies the boot record to work properly.
once again don't be an idiot like me! Thank you
I don't know what to say to this... I think this is why you aren't getting any replies. Lol.
good thing this was put in development. Hey dev's, did this help you in creating your newest rom/kernel?
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do not be an idiot like me and use the partition sd card option in rom manager. It will mess up the phone's master boot record and you will have to rewrite the original one in order for voodoo kernels or anything that modifies the boot record to work properly.
once again don't be an idiot like me! Thank you
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Thanx For The Warning....
I Was Recently Considering Doing It Too! But To Be Honest, In The Back Of My Mind, I Was Wondering If I'd Have To Deal With The Possibility Of Eff'n Up My Phone!!
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So this is what happened to me. Could someone be so kind as to tell me how to rewrite the master boot record so I can get my phone back? Please and thank you! And please!
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I have DJ05, don't know if that changes anything. Thanks!
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If you do this to your sd card, will the kernel not rewrite the MBR when you reboot? Like the first time you flash a Voodoo kernel.
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Thanx For The Warning....
I Was Recently Considering Doing It Too! But To Be Honest, In The Back Of My Mind, I Was Wondering If I'd Have To Deal With The Possibility Of Eff'n Up My Phone!!
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Uhm... in light of your signature, you do realize this is the Verizon Samsung Fascinate forum, right? Not the Sprint HTC Hero forum.
Because this post does not apply to HTC phones. Or Motorola phones. Or LG phones. Or any phone that isn't a Samsung Galaxy S.
Check below:
http://galaxysense.com/Fascinate/
That site was allowing to browse directories a couple of days ago. I guess owner is here, on forum.
so i tried to flash the full rooted ruu rom via hboot, i had it sitting on my table with the batt door off and knocked it on the floor ( accident ofcourse ) and the batt came out halfway during the process so now it goes into the htc screen then blank htc screen then blank and i cant get into cwr so my question is can i salvage it or am i f**ked?
Have you tried hbooting to recovery? Volume up and power down when the phone boots up.
cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
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cant keep it in cwr long enough to do anything, keeps rebooting and when it does go into cwr it says something like cant mount cache i think
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Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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eh im done with the tbolt, i took it to a wireless repair place here in slc and the tech guy gave me 100 for it for parts so im goin back to my dx and im much happier!! but thanks for the advice and help!!
Wow glad everyone doesn't give up that easy or we would never get any roms or root =P
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Feel good thread of the year! Or it could be the beer I just had.
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i wouldnt say i gave up way easy, i know i could have fixed it but im just not into the tbolt anymore!!
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Flash the stock ruu in hboot. Would be my only guess.
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+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
For some it's a good idea to have insurance too.
You can get a replacement minus the deductible if you "lose" your phone.
Just make certain you call VZW as soon as you lose it.
I don't suggest selling the phone for parts and saying it's lost, but I'm sure others have done this to cover their deductible.
Those without insurance...I have heard people have had great success with warranty replacement when using over the phone support when the phone doesn't boot or bootloops.
Since you send the phone back to VZW by mail, their replacement standards are much lower than dealing with their retail and face to face support.
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+1. That's exactly what would have worked. I know it's too late for the lad now, but for future users...
If you're ever stuck in a boot-loop and can't hboot into recovery, you'll need to copy and past the PGIMG05.ZIP file onto the root of your SD Card. This will be about a 200-400 meg file and would usually be a stock rooted RUU or stock signature RUU. After it's on the root of your SD, make sure it's the only PGIMG05.zip file on there! Then start the phone by holding down power + volume up. This will force the phone to hboot the PGIMG05 file which will get you past the boot-loop.
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I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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jaymccoubrey said:
Putting the stock Rom on took the root off of it but didn't fix my boot loop. So I returned it and got a free thunderbolt.
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Your the reason Verizon hates rooters you are wasting there money on a device that is out of warranty because you would rather send it back than fix it yourself.
Thanks, jerk.
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F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Nonetheless YOU damaged ur phone so it really doesn't matter how long you spent trying to repair it...
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I'm new to this, just rooted my thunderbolt the week before last (have rooted a total of 4 phones though since and created my own bootimage with sound and everything! lol!), and that's what came to mind when I read the original post but I didn't "know" for sure. Thanks for confirming it. This stuff is fascinating to me. I like to understand what is going on. I'd like to someday write my own rom. Perhaps it's a pipe dream but is there someplace you could point me where I could start my education?
Heather
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I believe you could start with os kitchen or another UI for extracting certain parts of a rom. I think in large part its knowing java script.
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F u dude. I tried everything to fix it. I spent over 60 hours working on it
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Hey Chevy I crashed my car into a tree and now it doesn't work. Oh dont worry I spent hours trying to fix it with no luck. So yea go ahead and give me a new one don't worry its still under warranty.
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I have the Fascinate and I love it.
But for the last few days I have tried many different roots, all work until I want to go into clockwork. What are the correct steps from step one to loading clockwork and load a rom, preferably miui. I had the og droid and was great at booting and loading rom's but the fascinate is throwing me for a loop.
Soo with that said I would like to make a request for anyone willing to do it, please show/tell me how to do this. I have seen posts on new roms, but not rooting updates and etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1212239
Check this out... hope it helps
Actually went with froyo full root and its great so far. Now I'm trying to find out how to update my market. Its the verrrry old one lol
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droidusa said:
Actually went with froyo full root and its great so far. Now I'm trying to find out how to update my market. Its the verrrry old one lol
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I believe power washed ed05 froyo has the latest market.
Just saw Koush tweeted he picked up a Rezound today. Looks like we'll be seeing an official CWM Recovery soon.
Whoohoo! http://bit.ly/xh3Ano
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Sweet, this means full use of Rom Manager hopefully?
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JC1500 said:
Sweet, this means full use of Rom Manager hopefully?
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most likely since they're usually both integrated together
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We have recovery and touch recovery now, confirmed from his Twitter
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This will be really nice, but since I obtained Root through Amon Ra, switching to CWM maybe a headache. Think I'll wait until ICS update before I change anything on my phone. Still glad to know my paid Rom Manager app will be of some use soon.
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We have recovery and touch recovery now, confirmed from his Twitter
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Hmm , just refreshed twitter and didn't see a new announcement other than the one 13 hours ago saying he picked up a rezound ?..but that sounds great if he is already done .
I am hoping this will also lead to a CM port from him
Ill keep amon ra thanks. Had the evo 4G for 6 months with amon ra. Clockwork just feels cumbersome.
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I don't see anything on his twitter, either. But, I do show Recovery and Touch Recovery options available on his website. I'm assuming this means that support is now official. =)
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Edit: I was looking at his personal twitter and not the @clockworkmod feed. Stupid me.. I didn't notice the link in the OP. lol
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I don't see anything on his twitter, either. But, I do show Recovery and Touch Recovery options available on his website. I'm assuming this means that support is now official. =)
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
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hit twitter said that theres touch recovery and recovery in rom manager now for vigor.
It's on the market, thought I'd try it out, caused my phone to bootloop
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so whats the deal on this? it crashes everytime i decide to try it out? any plans for the future
Use amonra or twrp. They are either equal in capability or better.
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Use amonra or twrp. They are either equal in capability or better.
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oh i already use something different, was just wondering if there were any plans for the rezound any further. thanks though con.
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oh i already use something different, was just wondering if there were any plans for the rezound any further. thanks though con.
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Idk what happened. We got two builds real quick that had issues. Then nothing.
I'd wait until the charging issue gets addressed, not sure if it has yet with CWM. Its always nice to have more options though.
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I use cwm touch, and found out today that yes it still has charging issues. When I used amon ra I thought I had problems with it, but looking back I don't think that was the issue.
CWM is going the way of WebOS. Yes, that makes me happy. There are far superior alternate recoveries out there. CWM has lived its life in the spotlight but the likes of TWRP and others are slamming CWM to the ground release after release, update after update. Just throwing this out there.
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CWM is going the way of WebOS. Yes, that makes me happy. There are far superior alternate recoveries out there. CWM has lived its life in the spotlight but the likes of TWRP and others are slamming CWM to the ground release after release, update after update. Just throwing this out there.
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You are totally right...didn't think I would believe that statement until I tried TWRP. Thank you con for porting that amazing recovery!
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ProTekk said:
CWM is going the way of WebOS. Yes, that makes me happy. There are far superior alternate recoveries out there. CWM has lived its life in the spotlight but the likes of TWRP and others are slamming CWM to the ground release after release, update after update. Just throwing this out there.
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hrm.
I use recovery to factory reset, wipe cache, and flash roms. I'd wager that's what 95% of people use them for. What is there left to be done in recovery development that can slam another recovery to the ground, when it does the 3 things everyone uses it for?
Aside from the dead battery charging issue in CWM, the only thing I see in Amon that's handy is rebooting back to bootloader.
I'm sure I must be missing something - something I don't need, but is apparently monumental?
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the only thing I see in Amon that's handy is rebooting back to bootloader
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TWRP does has an option for this as well.
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I saw in NilsP's rom thread that people have been working on clockwork mod recovery to see and get it working. I read that with a file copy and an advanced setting you can get backups to work. The main problem being the infamous charging bug.
Here is what is posted in that thread.
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I wasn't aware of this but when you plug the phone in, it boots what looks like a mini-recovery kernel. I suspect something with this isn't supporting the battery charge. I am going to flash back to Amon Ra and see what the differences are.
Just select "backup to external SD card" in ROM Manager Settings. You might have to enable "advanced settings" to get the option.
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OK here is where I am as memories come back.
If you select backup to external and set progress off it does not actually turn off progress unless you copy the hideprogress file from internal to external. The bad part is the backup hangs if you don't copy the file.
When you select install ROM from SD Card it shows what is on the internal card to select not the external.
I have not tried a restore yet but I remember if you do it from RM it deletes the boot (kernel) but can't restore it due to s-on. Gonna test that in a minute.
EDIT: Backup and restore worked fine after copying the hideprogress file
EDIT: Just had to select internal from the menu when selecting install ROM from SD Card in RM
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So, ideas/thoughts?
its been workin fine as long as u dont let the battery die
just use amon ra. It is better anyway. I don't understand why everyone like CWM so much better.
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its been workin fine as long as u dont let the battery die
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Yep. I recovered my original GB after using an early CleanROM ICSE ROM. I think I used Scott's CleanFlash tool to flash back the correct kernel for GB.
All my recoveries have backed up flawlessly since, but I am currently only running stock rooted. Haven't tried recovering any ICS backups.
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con247 said:
just use amon ra. It is better anyway. I don't understand why everyone like CWM so much better.
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I came from the Dinc and that's what almost everyone used on that. So its what I know.
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Flyhalf205 said:
I came from the Dinc and that's what almost everyone used on that. So its what I know.
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They look very similar (pretty much only a color change depending on the version) and operate almost exactly the same.
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They look very similar (pretty much only a color change depending on the version) and operate almost exactly the same.
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And since I bought ROM Manager while using my DInc I'd prefer to use CWM. It's a reasonable, personal choice and I've never let my batteries fully discharge, so never had charging issues.
And I don't avoid full discharge because I use CWM, I avoid full discharge because it's actually bad for the batteries.
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con247 said:
just use amon ra. It is better anyway. I don't understand why everyone like CWM so much better.
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ive always said amon was better than cwm.
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And since I bought ROM Manager while using my DInc I'd prefer to use CWM. It's a reasonable, personal choice and I've never let my batteries fully discharge, so never had charging issues.
And I don't avoid full discharge because I use CWM, I avoid full discharge because it's actually bad for the batteries.
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As long as you are actively aware of how to prevent any issues that might arise, enjoy CWM
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I came from the Dinc and that's what almost everyone used on that. So its what I know.
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Im pretty sure this is the reason bc it was the same for me untill the rezound and now all i use it amonra
Wasn't there a touch screen recovery for us a while back too? Whatever happened to that?
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And since I bought ROM Manager while using my DInc I'd prefer to use CWM.
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I bought a Nintendo64, years ago, and now I own and use Wii. Sometimes it's just time to move on.
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trickster2369 said:
I bought a Nintendo64, years ago, and now I own and use Wii. Sometimes it's just time to move on.
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That's not to say there's anything wrong with the N64. I still love it and play it with my friends almost every weekend. I didn't intentionally make it analogous with CWM and Amon Ra or anything: since I used to use CWM on the Incredible and now I'm using Amon Ra--but I just really love N64. I'd take it over the Wii any day.
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Wasn't there a touch screen recovery for us a while back too? Whatever happened to that?
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Touch screen is still out there. I use it. I also use Rom manager to backup and restore my roms. You just got to know how to avoid errors and everything works perfect.
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I bought a Nintendo64, years ago, and now I own and use Wii. Sometimes it's just time to move on.
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LOL. Some get and some don't. It works the same as cwm just without issues. It's amazing and annoying to see people posting almost daily on charging issues yet they refuse to use amon ra because they are comfortable with cwm. I to was hesitant to use it at first but quickly felt like I was in a familiar place once installed. My Rezound has never seen cwm. I have seen the light and I am just thankful there are other options.
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LOL. Some get and some don't. It works the same as cwm just without issues. It's amazing and annoying to see people posting almost daily on charging issues yet they refuse to use amon ra because they are comfortable with cwm. I to was hesitant to use it at first but quickly felt like I was in a familiar place once installed. My Rezound has never seen cwm. I have seen the light and I am just thankful there are other options.
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I think I mentioned earlier that I had no issues charging. But I am also not saying that Amon Ra is bad. Just that I have a preference and that I know how to handle/avoid the pitfalls.
Interestingly, there were many in the DInc threads who didn't like CWM or ROM Manager, but no one there made snarky comments about personal choice... (not talking about you, snowride)
I think any CWM thread will just devolve like a Sense thread will. At least in the Rezound forums.
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LOL. Some get and some don't. It works the same as cwm just without issues. It's amazing and annoying to see people posting almost daily on charging issues yet they refuse to use amon ra because they are comfortable with cwm. I to was hesitant to use it at first but quickly felt like I was in a familiar place once installed. My Rezound has never seen cwm. I have seen the light and I am just thankful there are other options.
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I also bought CWM while on the Incredible and it did it's job nearly flawlessly. I installed it on my Rezound after rooting in Dec., had issues, flashed AmonRa, and haven't looked back. Superior, IMO. I'll keep using what works.
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That's not to say there's anything wrong with the N64. I still love it and play it with my friends almost every weekend. I didn't intentionally make it analogous with CWM and Amon Ra or anything: since I used to use CWM on the Incredible and now I'm using Amon Ra--but I just really love N64. I'd take it over the Wii any day.
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Would it make a difference if I had said Atari instead on N64? Or Xbox instead of Wii? The point is the same.
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Touch screen is still out there. I use it. I also use Rom manager to backup and restore my roms. You just got to know how to avoid errors and everything works perfect.
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What was it called? I thought I saw a thread about it when I first got my rezound. Now I can't seem to find it. That and it isn't mentioned under the recovery choices in one of the pinned how to threads.
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What was it called? I thought I saw a thread about it when I first got my rezound. Now I can't seem to find it. That and it isn't mentioned under the recovery choices in one of the pinned how to threads.
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CWM Touch, I think. hasoon2000's tool can install it for you, or you can download it directly from the ROM Manager website, I think.
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