I am currently on froyo unlocked and rooted. I really want to use gingerbread, but still hold onto my root access. Reading around on here seems to be people saying to use the OTA update, some saying not to... just kind of confused.
My main phone is a droid 2 and all I had to do to get rooted GB ROM is sbf to froyo, root, CWM to GB, CWM to custom rom. The atrix seems to be a whole different ball game. I already have the phone unlocked, whats the next step?
U can CWM to get gingerbread and still have root but if u happen to lose root access u can just root again after installing gb. There's a learning curve but it isn't rocket science
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Please don't use the development forum for this. You will get hostile answers.
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If you're on AT&T, then just flash cwm (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138541) and then copy http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159385 to your sd card, boot into cwm (Vol down+power, then scroll down to android recovery and hit vol up, dont hit vol up before this.) and you should be done. Thats what i did, and i backed up my data using titanium backup.
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OP = You've been a member here for nearly two years... you should know better than to post this in development...
Read sticky in dev forum.
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well theres a lot of old info out there, having a hard time sorting some of this stuff out!
I have a stock Eris that came from Verizon with 2.1 on it already. I'd like to root it, but does that mean I have to install a custom ROM? or is there a way to get root with the ROM thats already on the phone? Sorry noob questions I know but I've read over the adb command stuff and it sound easy, but I'd like some clarification on what each command does and what each file is for, etc...I have the sdk set up already on my computer. I hear stuff about bootloader versions, radio versions and stuff too, does this stuff get modified as well during this process? and if so, is there a way to revert to 100% stock if I have to send it in for warranty or insurance? keep in mind this phone already had 2.1 from verizon, if that matters.
You can root your phone using jcase's 1 click root app from the market all you have to do is run the app, reboot into recovery by holding power and volume up or down(mine ia volume up my roomates is volume down) and flash the rootme.zip file the app places on your sd card. Doing this will root your current os and you will not lose any data. At that point you can wipe and flash a custom rom instead of the rootme.zip by having one downloaded and already on your sd card. Make sure its not in a folder. If you want to do things like overclocking you will need a custom rom as the stock kernel does not support it. You can also just flash a new kernel its the same as flashing a rom. Anyway check out jcase one click root thread in the eris development section for more detailed instructions and on youtube lostelement has some great videos showing how to root the eris and flash a rom step by step. Hope this helps.
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can you still root this eris using the command terminal? or do I have to do the 1-click method? and as far as returning the phone to 100% stock, is there a RUU program that will restore everything to stock? I've seen some threads but it seems like many of the download links are getting broken for some reason?
EDIT: also, jcase's 1-click method installs Amon's recovery correct? and this file..."rootme.zip" is this like a "patch" that is applied to the current OS to provide root, whereas flashing a new custom rom will delete and replace everything but this custom rom has been writtn to provide root access already? sorry so many questions, just trying to get a handle on this before I try it and do something stupid/expensive haha
Yes there are ruu's to go back to stock. I believe you can still use the terminal but one click root is easier and it does give you amon ra recovery. Flashing rootme.zip will root your stock os and give you superuser permissions app which allows you to manage what apps are granted root access.
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And customs roms are all ready to for root. If your flashing a custom rom you don't need to flash rootme.zip.
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Does flashing custom roms change the hboot version or the radio version? Also for some reason when I do the vol-up+end when I power on it shows a screen with a red triangle with an exclamation point, is this normal until I flash the new recovery image?
Yea that's normal until you flash a new recovery and the roms don't affect the radio or hboot. They must be flashed separately. Be very careful flashing a radio. A bad radio flash is the easiest way to brick your phone.
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probably wont touch the radio or hboot, not many ppl seem to need to. as far as the RUU goes, it will re-flash the recovery and the rom back to the same as they were out-of-box correct? wondering if anybody has a link to this file, all links i've found are broken
I haven't had to use it but from what I understand its an executable file that you run on your pc while your phone is plugged in via usb. If you need it im sure someone would be able to post a fresh link or email it to you.
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thx steve for all your help so far If anybody has a link to the RUU for the official original 2.1 eris, email it to me or link in this thread, also wondering if theres a link to the official 2.1 ROM (the non-root version and not the leak versions, the "official" OTA is what I mean.) In case something bad happens with a ROM I install that i have the original to flash, thay way I can keep Amon's recovery on the phone instead of using the RUU, personally having a hard time finding it. seems liek all the stock roms are labeled PB00IMG?
After you root, in amonra you can do a nandroid backup, which will completely back up everything on your phone to your sd card. If you don't like a rom or are having problems you can just recover your backup and your phone will be as it was when you made the backup. I keep nandroids of a few different roms and just switch between them sometimes.
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So is there any advantage at all to being rooted on the stock rom? That's where I am now. I will probably stay there for a while until I decide what ROM I want to try. I installed an overclocking widget from the marketplace just to try it out, but from the sounds of this thread, its a waste of time with the stock rom.
Rooted on a stock Rom sucks. Battery life compared to a froyo based Rom is exponentially better imo. Nonsensikal vanilla v7 was the Rom of choice but I'm back to stock because I have to send the phone back to VZW
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Yea I would recommend kaos froyo or tazz froyo. Im currently using kaos 35-1 and the battery life is amazing. Check out DS36 thread on improving battery life by using set cpu and auto killer. I get a day and a half easily with moderate use IE texting facebook and checking xda all the time and a phone call or two. I have the stock battery.
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Steve125 said:
Yea I would recommend kaos froyo or tazz froyo. Im currently using kaos 35-1 and the battery life is amazing. Check out DS36 thread on improving battery life by using set cpu and auto killer. I get a day and a half easily with moderate use IE texting facebook and checking xda all the time and a phone call or two. I have the stock battery.
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Sounds good. I think I am being a bit of a chicken to be honest. Sell me on the safeness of this. I will look at that thread too. Thanks.
tmason68 said:
Sounds good. I think I am being a bit of a chicken to be honest. Sell me on the safeness of this. I will look at that thread too. Thanks.
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It's really not that difficult one click Eris root run rootme.zip download and extract the Rom of your choice. Run amon ras recovery nandroid backup wipe flash new Rom and voila. Easy as pie.
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I did the one click Eris root already, and just applied the rootme.zip. So installing a new rom would mean copying it to the root of the SD card, rebooting and holding down the volume key and then picking that new zip file, correct? I don't know what that amon ras recovery thingy is. Is that part of rom installation, or something that I need to acquire separately?
You need to copy the Rom to your SD card and use estrongs file explorer download from market and long press on the .zip file it will pull up a menu that gives you some options. Extract from the .zip file and hit ok no new path is needed. Now that yuu have the file on your SD card reboot and go to recovery nandroid backup then wipe then flash from zip. After it unpacked and loads then it will prompt you to reboot hit okay and let it do its thing. I'm going to end all this with saying double check the forums for how tos and I'm not responsible for a bricked phone do this at your own risk but have fun itsreally not that difficult
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I'm not responsible for a bricked phone
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Yep, I realize that. You know that you don't actually have to answer my questions right? If I ask more noob questions, know that I am not expecting you personally to answer them.
I'm at work and all of my equipment I maintain is working so I'm killing sometime
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Whats goin on! New here as you can see... Just wanted to know if someone can drop some knowledge on me about the vibrant as far as flashing to a new rom and what I would need to do. Or you could just direct me to a guide. Been reading the forums and been hearing about Odin (no idea what it is or how I would access it on my vibrant) and I tried to boot into download and recovery mode for testing purposes and failed miserably . Anyone care to drop some knowledge.
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First thing first.. congralutations on the Vibrant.. now lets get craking.. What do you want to do? Ther are so many update/upgrade so can do but you will need to let us know what you want so we can direct you to the correct threads..
Well, here's my recommendations:
Whoops, forgot this part, see if you can get into recovery through hardware buttons.
Turn off phone, hold down both volume buttons, then press power button until phone turns on. Keep holding volume buttons until you see the green text (I guess you could also let go when it says Vibrant on the screen). Either rejoice that your handset doesn't have it locked, or be slightly disappointed, but now you know.
1. Root (You can download an app to root you automatically, or root through a pc/mac app, or manually if you'd like.
2. Install rom manager from the market and have it install the clockwork recovery.
3. Create backup!
Now you're pretty much ready to do anything, check out some roms, unlock your phone to work with other carriers, install some lag fixes if you want.
Well looking foward to froyo and knowing samsungs rep on promises I think I might just want to use a custom froyo rom
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Update: just installed clockwork. Did a backup and also applied lag fix. Now my question is will this effect my ota updates... And if I do flash a rom by a dev do I need to uninstall lagfix first ?
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Depends on the rom, just read the first post, should have all the information.
Ok. Thanks for the info . This also shouldnt effect any OTA update I would get from tmobile right? All ive done is rooy, install clockwork, did a backup with clockwork, and lagfixed. Wouldnt think it should seeing as im not running a custom rom.. Correct me if im wrong.. Lol
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Ok. Thanks for the info . This also shouldnt effect any OTA update I would get from tmobile right? All ive done is rooy, install clockwork, did a backup with clockwork, and lagfixed. Wouldnt think it should seeing as im not running a custom rom.. Correct me if im wrong.. Lol
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You should be fine for OTA , since you are not using a custom ROM, not sure how the lagfix will affect the OTA install though(I am sure if anyway it will be negative), might be best to remove that before you install any OTA upgrades ....
Newb Alert!!
Whats up fellow vibrant owners!? I just recently got a vibrant and Im finally ready to take the leap to custom ROMs. Ive scoured the newb guides and followed the steps. My ph is rooted(superoneclick), I have titanium, busybox, CWM, and superuser. I had a stock 2.2 through kies, but I recently used the modified recovery 3e update. Im having issues with not being able to delete any bloatware to make room for busybox even though Im rooted and I have permission/assess to do so. The other thing is...Im stuck in 3e bootloader mode. Ive reinstalled and restarted my ph a 100 times and I still cant flash a new rom....??? At this point Im completely overwhelmed and could use some help here. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Flash back to stock firmware... via odin. And flash your desired rom
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Just go here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
Plenty of useful information for you.
Thx folks for the speedy responses. Ive followed the steps...going back to stock eclair via odin, so Im rooted! Do I still need to run an (update.zip)? Im assuming not cause Im rooted already. Also do I need busybox still? Ive viewed the bible and the newb guide, theyre saved to my favorites. There seems to be multiple ways to get to one end here. Im cool with all the terminology and what does what. Ive backed up, and Im guessing ready to install a rom...? Am I correct with this guess? Thx again for the help.
To delete the bloatware man you need to get explorer or super manager (both are free in market) and then u delete the odexed ones. Should be in the noob guide or vibrant bible.
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Nevermind...think Ive got it going here. Thx again.
since i am new.. long time lurker... i can't post in the dev forum so sorry this is in the wrong spot... but i just have 2 questions about flashing the cm7 rom....
1. It says to install the cm7 zip and then the google app zip and then the tether patch. Do I install all 3 in a row, or should I install cm7, reboot into recovery and then install the google zip, then reboot again and install the tether zip?
2. Just needed some clarification on this statement from the cm7 thread. "There was a problem with the "hijack" name. It is conflicting with the CM7 hijack. NEVER install the original BSR while in CM7DX2! This is a guaranteed way to boot loop your phone!" Does this mean not to run a nandroid back up or recover back to the stock rom while using the cm7 rom, or do I need to uninstall the BSR fron my phone, then reinstall the app... I'm confused.
Again sorry for the wrong forum and noob post, I'm really tired of this pos x2 and want a custon rom... I just can't afford to brick mh phone.
Thanks for any help
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since i am new.. long time lurker... i can't post in the dev forum so sorry this is in the wrong spot... but i just have 2 questions about flashing the cm7 rom....
1. It says to install the cm7 zip and then the google app zip and then the tether patch. Do I install all 3 in a row, or should I install cm7, reboot into recovery and then install the google zip, then reboot again and install the tether zip?
2. Just needed some clarification on this statement from the cm7 thread. "There was a problem with the "hijack" name. It is conflicting with the CM7 hijack. NEVER install the original BSR while in CM7DX2! This is a guaranteed way to boot loop your phone!" Does this mean not to run a nandroid back up or recover back to the stock rom while using the cm7 rom, or do I need to uninstall the BSR fron my phone, then reinstall the app... I'm confused.
Again sorry for the wrong forum and noob post, I'm really tired of this pos x2 and want a custon rom... I just can't afford to brick mh phone.
Thanks for any help
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You can flash all three right in a row then reboot
There is the bsr that you need to use to install cm7 but in that thread there is a bsr that is specific to cm7 that you have to utilize going forward from your install of cm7
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Kool. Bro I mean I doubt u could brick it. But u could end up somewhere u don't wanna b. After u install cm7 u gotta factory data reset so don't worry about the old bsr... then as soon as you get up and running install the cm7 one
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When you are going through the process of flashing CM7, you will be using the bootstrap recovery for the DX2. After you flash and get all set up, you will have to install the bootstrap that is in that thread for future flashing. He is just simply saying the old bootstrap wont work with flashing stuff after you install CM7.
And by the way, if you were planning on starting this as a new thread in the development section, you would have been in the wrong section. lol. The Q&A section would have worked just fine as well. Just for future reference.
awesome I didn't see the bsr for future use on there... thanks for all the replies some much needed direction is appreciated
Also remember to wipe the big three after you flash all three
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ziggityz said:
awesome I didn't see the bsr for future use on there... thanks for all the replies some much needed direction is appreciated
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Know that it takes quite the **** up to brick you're phone. Doing so is kind of hard. And when you actually do brick it, will be a literal brick. If you turn it on and the m logo is the only thing you can see them you have soft bricked. That IS reparable. Do not freak out!
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big 3?
data
cache
dalvik cache?
ziggityz said:
big 3?
data
cache
dalvik cache?
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Correct.
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i got my photon 4g rooted without the loss of 4g(guess rooted but locked?).
anyways the way i got to recovery was thru a wall charger, i would use the app system recovery and it would let me do the following: charge mode(where plugged into wall would charge) and recovery mode(phone would reboot and be in recovery)
well i forgot the name of the app and the source. i know i saw it here and was wondering if you could refresh my memory..
my son was playing max payne when a ota came and he hit install. then i got the failed to load 2 error.
got it boot once and was quick enought to go into recovery. had to do a factory reset cause i lost my memory card and no backup was found, but i cant remember the name of the app. was just a .apk file.
thanX in advance.
Bootstrap
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Check out the sticky thread that says !!!LOOK HERE FIRST!!! by lokifish, it has everything you need. You might want to look there first before posting in the wrong section. This should go under Q&A.
I believe I posted it also in mof's rom thread.
But this really SHOULD be in the Q&A
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sorry guys, thanX...
i remember thats where i got it from just couldnt find it.
once again thanX for the responses.