Need helpwith installing quicksense ROM - HTC Amaze 4G

I have finally got my phone unlocked and rooted. Now I am trying to install the quicksense ROM. I know I am doing something wrong, because all I get is the white HTC screen at start up, and thats as far as it goes. So, here is what I did, and maybe someone can help me out.
I downloaded amazing quicksense and dragged it into my sd card
I booted into recovery
I did a backup
I wiped the cashe
I went to install from sd card and chose the zipped quicksense file
I then got install from sd card complete
I then went back and rebooted phone
From here the phone freezes on the white HTC screen and does not fully boot.
I had to go back into recovery and do a restore to get my phone working again.
What am I doing wrong. Please help.

Seem like you did succeed at everything except the cleaning parts
Please try again by going into recovery and
1. wipe data/factory reset
2. Wipe cache partition
3. Go to Advance then wipe dalvik cache - after that, choose go back
4. Install rom from sdcard
5. Reboot

I will try and do what you have instructed. However I wanted to ask one question before I do this. In your first step to "wipe data/factory reset", will this reset my phone back to factory, essentially wiping all my data and everything I have on it? I know unlocking the bootloader did that, but it would suck if I had to do this every time I installed a ROM. Just want to make sure what I am up against. Thanks

ms2knights said:
I will try and do what you have instructed. However I wanted to ask one question before I do this. In your first step to "wipe data/factory reset", will this reset my phone back to factory, essentially wiping all my data and everything I have on it? I know unlocking the bootloader did that, but it would suck if I had to do this every time I installed a ROM. Just want to make sure what I am up against. Thanks
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Hi
I am by no mean a dev so my advices is more like ... well, advice - not instructions my friends
Wipe data/factory reset mean wiping every personal datas that you had on the device and yes, this will reset your phone back to the present rom that you had on the device - in your case is the stock/factory/carriers rom.
Every time you install a new rom you should - and every dev will suggested this - wipe clean your data and whatever info that may still left on the device from previous rom - you may not need to do this when you update to the new version from the same rom. Sometimes the new version of the same rom featured too many changes then the dev will instructed user to wipe all the data. That's why we user should always read the first, second and third post to make sure we keep ourself up-to-date when flashing rom.
Personal data means your google account, emails, contact list, SMS, wifi password, bluetooth pairing and apps setting ... However, we can backup and restore most of these info using diferrent apps. Here are some app that I found helpful in term of backup:
* Gmail account for contacts list
* SMS backup for SMS and call log
* Titanium Backup for apps and it's data: This app is very useful, for example if you use it to backup your email app it will included your setup and password ect ... so after install new rom and restore a particular app, you have an option to restore the app plus it's data or data/app only
Read this thread for some useful tips on how to using Titanium Backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324291
Googd luck and welcome to the Amaze

I really do appreciate your advice. I will go ahead and backup everything, and then attempt the ROM install again. Hopefully it will work this time. Again thanks.

Not a problem mate
Since you already backup your rom and QuikSense is a Sense rom anyway, it doesn't hurt to try restoring data from the backup. You can do this (after finish flashing the new rom) by go back into Recovery/Backup and restore/Advance restore/choose the backup file (in case you have more than 1 backup)/then chose restore data
I did this when switching from QuikSense rom to Senseless Rom and it work flawlessly
Worst case scenario is you will have to restore again. This will save a lot of steps.

ms2knights said:
I have finally got my phone unlocked and rooted. Now I am trying to install the quicksense ROM. I know I am doing something wrong, because all I get is the white HTC screen at start up, and thats as far as it goes. So, here is what I did, and maybe someone can help me out.
I downloaded amazing quicksense and dragged it into my sd card
I booted into recovery
I did a backup
I wiped the cashe
I went to install from sd card and chose the zipped quicksense file
I then got install from sd card complete
I then went back and rebooted phone
From here the phone freezes on the white HTC screen and does not fully boot.
I had to go back into recovery and do a restore to get my phone working again.
What am I doing wrong. Please help.
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How long do you wait?
The first boot may take several minutes.
Do you have adb installed on your computer? If so then from the command prompt (or terminal if your running Ubuntu) type "adb shell logcat" and if it seems like it's repeating itself over and over again then your caught in a loop and would probably just need to clear the data and caches. Your problem should clear right up.

Binary100100 said:
How long do you wait?
The first boot may take several minutes.
Do you have adb installed on your computer? If so then from the command prompt (or terminal if your running Ubuntu) type "adb shell logcat" and if it seems like it's repeating itself over and over again then your caught in a loop and would probably just need to clear the data and caches. Your problem should clear right up.
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To be honest with you, I did wait for maybe 5 min or less. I guess I thought it would boot normally. I will try again and give it some time.
Being very new to this, I am trying to learn all of this. How do I know if I have adb installed on my computer? Thanks

ms2knights said:
To be honest with you, I did wait for maybe 5 min or less. I guess I thought it would boot normally. I will try again and give it some time.
Being very new to this, I am trying to learn all of this. How do I know if I have adb installed on my computer? Thanks
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Follow the instructions on this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928370
Easiest way to set up ADB.
Hope this helps.

Well, I finally got it to work. My probem was that my sd card was not FAT32 but FAT. I think this was the problem I had with trying to flash clockworkmod. I did everything except the wipedata/factory rest, to see if it would work. And sure enough, I am now running Amazing Quicksense 1.5.1. Thanks for every ones help.

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Need help with booting

hey guys, been here since the launch of evo. rooting, flashing, everything.
today i wanted to switch roms. so i went about my normal process...
d/l new ROM
backup current ROM
backup apps
wipe cache and dalvic
flash new ROM
i got stuck on the last step. i went to flash the new ROM (nocturnal 1.3)
it said something along the lines of blah blah is already unmounted. i didnt pay too much attention to it because i was going to restart and try again. long story short, it will only boot to htc white screen and nothing else.
can anyone help me out?
p.s. im on clockwork recovery
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did you not wipe system and data? I am not super skilled, but maybe it tried to stick the entire ROM into the left over space of the last ROM that is still on there?
It won't boot to recovery? It should boot to recovery
weezymagic said:
hey guys, been here since the launch of evo. rooting, flashing, everything.
today i wanted to switch roms. so i went about my normal process...
d/l new ROM
backup current ROM
backup apps
wipe cache and dalvic
flash new ROM
i got stuck on the last step. i went to flash the new ROM (nocturnal 1.3)
it said something along the lines of blah blah is already unmounted. i didnt pay too much attention to it because i was going to restart and try again. long story short, it will only boot to htc white screen and nothing else.
can anyone help me out?
p.s. im on clockwork recovery
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The error message you received is going to be the key to understanding the issue that occured. When it says unmounted, it is referring to a specific partition, either /data or /system most likely.
For starters, when it hangs on the htc white screen, this is usually either a kernel or ramdisk issue. If the kernel is known to be good, then it is probably a ramdisk issue. most ramdisk issues relate to a mismatch/incompatibility between the loaded kernel and the ROM.
First suggestion would be to reflash the ROM, clearing /cache and /data.
Second suggestion would be to restore a backup. This will confirm there is nothing wrong with your device hardware wise and you'll know it is a specific issue with the ROM you wanted to load.
Third suggestion, find the exact error, word for word, which occured in recovery and post up in the ROM thread asking if other users of that ROM also encountered, how they handled. Also feel free to post back up here.
When writing the programming behind a custom recovery, the error messages are added in there to help allow users and developers better knowledge of the exact issue so they can work to resolve them. Without the exact error message, it is similar to going to a car shop and saying, some light came on my dash, but I don't know what it was and now the car doesn't work. Fix it? Another words, it is very vague.
Hope the suggestions and tips help! Good luck!
my first instinct was to reflash the backup or new rom again but it wont boot to any rom, recovery or bootloader. it just hangs on the htc white screen
idk what happened but i got into the bootloader through battery pull, power+vol down. i know ive tried that in the past but this time it worked. now im restoring a nandroid from yesterday
weezymagic said:
idk what happened but i got into the bootloader through battery pull, power+vol down. i know ive tried that in the past but this time it worked. now im restoring a nandroid from yesterday
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are you on twrp 1.0.x ? There is s charging issue where it won't restart right because it thinks It's already in recovery
sent from my EVO 3D via XDA app
weezymagic said:
hey guys, been here since the launch of evo. rooting, flashing, everything.
today i wanted to switch roms. so i went about my normal process...
d/l new ROM
backup current ROM
backup apps
wipe cache and dalvic
flash new ROM
i got stuck on the last step. i went to flash the new ROM (nocturnal 1.3)
it said something along the lines of blah blah is already unmounted. i didnt pay too much attention to it because i was going to restart and try again. long story short, it will only boot to htc white screen and nothing else.
can anyone help me out?
p.s. im on clockwork recovery
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You missed a step. After you wipe dalvik and cache, you ALWAYS need to wipe /system and /data, do a factory reset to make sure, or download a superwipe tool. The ONLY time you don't need to wipe completely is when you're updating your ROM, but even then it is recommended to wipe everything.
Twolazyg said:
You missed a step. After you wipe dalvik and cache, you ALWAYS need to wipe /system and /data, do a factory reset to make sure, or download a superwipe tool. The ONLY time you don't need to wipe completely is when you're updating your ROM, but even then it is recommended to wipe everything.
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Agreed^^^^^

[Q] Help Getting A Working Rom after Bootloader Unlock

Hi all,
I have a Droid incredible 4g (stock, unrooted/unlocked, w/ the recent OTA update). I saw the Bootloader Unlock exploit in the developer's forum so I gave it a go, and it worked fine. Then I installed the Viper 1.0 ROM, but I haven't been able to get it to do anything after successfully booting except run through a loop of errors such as "Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped working." After I click "OK" on about 10 critical errors, it self-reboots and does the whole thing again.
Unfortunately, I didn't do a backup this time, so I have nothing to restore (first time I haven't done a backup, but also the first time I've ever had any kind of an issue w/ a ROM). I tried using the HTC Android ROM Update Utility 1.0.5.2011 that I found in the dev forum, but that didn't work either. Finally, I installed 2.17.605.2 Verizon Global Sense4.1 Android 4.0.4. It's a lot more stable than Viper was and the phone is basically usable, but I still get lots of critical errors. So this morning I went back to the forum and saw that I needed to downgrade to the old 1.43.605.3 kernel. I tried that and then reinstalled Viper 1.0, but it seemed to have no effect--still stuck in a critical error/reboot loop.
I realize that's the risk of playing with ROMs and I should have done a backup, but anyone have any ideas on how I can get my phone back and running?
Thanks!
Even though it explicitly stated you didn't need to do a backup, I did one anyway, to prevent something like this from happening. Always do a backup.
Did you verify the MD5Sum of ViperLTE?
Did you go to Recovery and Wipe -> Factory Reset and Wipe -> System both twice before trying to install the ROM?
Did you change anything in the ROM before attempting to load it?
There are lots of questions we could ask to ascertain the root of the problem, but these three are among the most important.
Wi-Fi won't work without the old boot.img, and from what I can tell, that's the only thing. It doesn't give critical errors.
I'm thinking since you are new to root you were un-aware the need to wipe before installing a rom.
im thinking that is the issue.
Thanks for the reply!
I didn't check the MD5 last night but I did just now and it matches.
I did a cache wipe the first time but not a system wipe. Then I started getting more desperate and tried reinstalling w/ system wipes and factory resets, but it didn't change anything.
No, I didn't change the ROM. Doing the Bootloader unlock exploit was about the absolute maximum of my technical abilities! The only thing I know I did wrong was that I didn't downgrade to the old boot version the first time (mainly because the wifi thing sounded inconsequential and I didn't want to learn the procedure if I didn't have to).
Anyway, I just tried Ultimate KangBang and it seems to work--no error messages so far. I don't know what I did wrong, but hopefully this keeps working!
IceDragon59 said:
Even though it explicitly stated you didn't need to do a backup, I did one anyway, to prevent something like this from happening. Always do a backup.
Did you verify the MD5Sum of ViperLTE?
Did you go to Recovery and Wipe -> Factory Reset and Wipe -> System both twice before trying to install the ROM?
Did you change anything in the ROM before attempting to load it?
There are lots of questions we could ask to ascertain the root of the problem, but these three are among the most important.
Wi-Fi won't work without the old boot.img, and from what I can tell, that's the only thing. It doesn't give critical errors.
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andybones said:
I'm thinking since you are new to root you were un-aware the need to wipe before installing a rom.
im thinking that is the issue.
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Yes, I took a short-cut that didn't quite work out. I didn't want to wipe the system because I wasn't sure if my pictures would be wiped too, but then when everything died I tried wiping everything and reinstalling and it didn't seem to improve anything. I did end up losing my pictures too. Oh well. Maybe it's just a combination of stuff I did to try to get things working (there was some trial and error in unlocking the bootloader but I did get that to work finally, and then more trial and error with the ROMs).
I guess the best thing to do is leave the phone the heck alone as long as it's working, for now. I just don't know why nothing seemed to work--I thought factory reset/fresh ROM would do it.
franklin411 said:
Yes, I took a short-cut that didn't quite work out. I didn't want to wipe the system because I wasn't sure if my pictures would be wiped too, but then when everything died I tried wiping everything and reinstalling and it didn't seem to improve anything. I did end up losing my pictures too. Oh well. Maybe it's just a combination of stuff I did to try to get things working (there was some trial and error in unlocking the bootloader but I did get that to work finally, and then more trial and error with the ROMs).
I guess the best thing to do is leave the phone the heck alone as long as it's working, for now. I just don't know why nothing seemed to work--I thought factory reset/fresh ROM would do it.
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If UKB ROM works then Viper ROM will too, installing the boot.img is very simple it's one command
I can help you with that if you'd like
in recovery before installing ROM, do a wipe of, (I go in this order, but it doesn't matter.)
1) Factory Reset
2) System
3) Cache
4) Dalvik Cache
then install the ROM
just DO NOT do External storage (unless of coarse u WANT to wipe your SD-Card.)
as long as you don't wipe External Storage you won't lose anything that's on your SD-Card.
in the future it is always good practice to backup(nandroid) your current ROM. I have been burned too many times, always do a nandroid before you do anything in recovery.
your photos are normally saved to the SD, flashing ROMs or wiping the system will not delete them
andybones said:
If UKB ROM works then Viper ROM will too, installing the boot.img is very simple it's one command
I can help you with that if you'd like
in recovery before installing ROM, do a wipe of, (I go in this order, but it doesn't matter.)
1) Factory Reset
2) System
3) Cache
4) Dalvik Cache
then install the ROM
just DO NOT do External storage (unless of coarse u WANT to wipe your SD-Card.)
as long as you don't wipe External Storage you won't lose anything that's on your SD-Card.
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It worked this time! Maybe the difference was that the boot.img file I downloaded was called "boot_signed.img" or something. I had no idea what it was supposed to look like, so I installed it that way and it didn't work. Then I tried renaming it to "boot.img" this morning and installing viper, but that didn't work. And then I restarted and installed UKB, and it worked. Just now I wiped and tried again with Viper and it's working fine. Maybe I did something this morning that caused it not to take properly when I tried with Viper, and then I reset and it worked.
Thanks for the help!
franklin411 said:
It worked this time! Maybe the difference was that the boot.img file I downloaded was called "boot_signed.img" or something. I had no idea what it was supposed to look like, so I installed it that way and it didn't work. Then I tried renaming it to "boot.img" this morning and installing viper, but that didn't work. And then I restarted and installed UKB, and it worked. Just now I wiped and tried again with Viper and it's working fine. Maybe I did something this morning that caused it not to take properly when I tried with Viper, and then I reset and it worked.
Thanks for the help!
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na the name has nothing to do with it. it can be named whatever.
im guessing the wipe worked.
franklin411 said:
Hi all,
I have a Droid incredible 4g (stock, unrooted/unlocked, w/ the recent OTA update). I saw the Bootloader Unlock exploit in the developer's forum so I gave it a go, and it worked fine. Then I installed the Viper 1.0 ROM, but I haven't been able to get it to do anything after successfully booting except run through a loop of errors such as "Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped working." After I click "OK" on about 10 critical errors, it self-reboots and does the whole thing again.
Unfortunately, I didn't do a backup this time, so I have nothing to restore (first time I haven't done a backup, but also the first time I've ever had any kind of an issue w/ a ROM). I tried using the HTC Android ROM Update Utility 1.0.5.2011 that I found in the dev forum, but that didn't work either. Finally, I installed 2.17.605.2 Verizon Global Sense4.1 Android 4.0.4. It's a lot more stable than Viper was and the phone is basically usable, but I still get lots of critical errors. So this morning I went back to the forum and saw that I needed to downgrade to the old 1.43.605.3 kernel. I tried that and then reinstalled Viper 1.0, but it seemed to have no effect--still stuck in a critical error/reboot loop.
I realize that's the risk of playing with ROMs and I should have done a backup, but anyone have any ideas on how I can get my phone back and running?
Thanks!
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weird, i was having the same problem with the same processes stopped working. i wiped cache dalvik and system but not factory reset. once i factory reset, it worked fine. i figured a system wipe would have been enough....

[Q] Custom roms - I might have messed something up

I only recently got into the whole rooting deal, but i followed the instructions precisely double checking and everything went along well , after that i installed most of the apps from here, made a full backup with titianium backup, but then i decided to try and install a custom rom, which was where i made my first mistake, i made a backup of the current(stock) rom and then went straight on to downloading cyagenmod 7.2 to try it out on my phone.
When i started the install i obviously had the pre install options, i only left the one check there which was wipe delvik cache i think figuring that was all i needed to do. Phone rebooted and the loading logo started but didnt go past it and after it had reappeared for 3 times the screen just went in a white screen with differently colored horizontal stripes, i thought my phone was now bricked, but i managed to turn it off and turn it back on and get into recovery mode. I tried to do a recovery which didnt do anything, after that i just selected factory reset thinking it will get me back to the stock rom, but instead CM worked and finally got past the loading logo, i checked in the CWM if i had the backup i had made before trying to install CM and it was gone.
I want to know what i have done wrong(i obviously have), how can i reverse it and how to install roms properly(preferably in simple language). I already found this thread.
Phone: LG Optimus Hub (E-510)
P.S. I am missing the Play store app, is this normal for CM?
1. You got into bootloop because you didn't do factory reset/full wipe (the /data partition wasn't wiped, files on this partition were from stock ROM and weren't compatible with CM) -> this is the reason why it booted after full wipe. Full wipe only deletes data, it will not restore stock ROM.
2. '... i checked in the CWM if i had the backup i had made before trying to install CM and it was gone'
Are you sure you made a backup? Or didn't you delete it?
3. For the Play store - CM ROMs ussually don't have Google Apps in them, you have to flash them after CM installation (look in the ROMs thread for Google apps/ GApps)
1. Thanks for the explanation, im defineatly going to keep in mind to wipe the next time i attempt to install a custom rom. Is the stock rom still in my phone or do i have to look online for one?
2. I belive you are right, i do remember wanting to do a backup, but i might have forgotten about it, i did one now so i can have something to go back to just in case.
3. Dont really understand this, can you please direct me to a thread for this? I tried doing the flash CWM recovery which didnt do anything, could i try using my backups from titanium backup to get the apps back on the phone? It would be quite a mess to get all of it downloaded again.
Edit: i tried installing google play downloaded from other sites and whenever i go into it, it asks me to add an account, but when i press yes, it just closes.
|Madman| said:
1. Thanks for the explanation, im defineatly going to keep in mind to wipe the next time i attempt to install a custom rom. Is the stock rom still in my phone or do i have to look online for one?
2. I belive you are right, i do remember wanting to do a backup, but i might have forgotten about it, i did one now so i can have something to go back to just in case.
3. Dont really understand this, can you please direct me to a thread for this? I tried doing the flash CWM recovery which didnt do anything, could i try using my backups from titanium backup to get the apps back on the phone? It would be quite a mess to get all of it downloaded again.
Edit: i tried installing google play downloaded from other sites and whenever i go into it, it asks me to add an account, but when i press yes, it just closes.
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First things first. Before you do anything else you need to do some reading in order to understand the Basics of Android. Otherwise your going to get yourself in a bind again. In my Signature your going to see some links if your on a PC. You should check them out, they will help with answers to a lot of your questions.
I cant thank you enough, i was looking for something like this! :good:
I will have something to read in my spare time, as little of it i have trough.
Your welcome . Glad I could help.
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[GUIDE][ROM FLASHING][WALK THRU] Easy to do! All Questions Welcome!

This will help anyone who keeps having flashing issues.
More detailed instructions in my GUIDE!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557
THIS IS ONE QUICK/SIMPLE ERROR FREE ROM FLASHING PROCEDURE
This should eliminate a few posts saying, stuck in download mode, stuck at logo. just vibrates and them MANY other issues that somehow, everyone seems to find.
Here is my quick rom flashing process I use ALWAYS (yes always)
THINGS YOU NEED ON extSDCARD
1. Extra kernels (2 or 3 you know works for your device)
2. Optional: 2 recoveries that can be flashed (I use CWM & TWRP)
3. Optional: apps.zip (a zip created from Titantium BU, containing Root Explorer, TU Backup, Quickpic, ES File Explorer and Terminal Emulator)
Flashing the rom: TOUCHWIZ/AOSP ROMS
1. Backup current rom (to the extsdcard)
2. Complete wipe, (I do complete, some people do not) Complete = No Issues [FACTORY RESET + CLEAR CACHE + CLEAR DALVIK CACHE + CLEAR DATA]
3. Flash the rom
4. Flash the kernel (your device kernel) (I know some roms have their own kernel) this is where your problems start.
AGAIN: FLASH YOUR KERNEL, you KNOW it works. 1 more time FLASH YOUR KERNEL. (you can experiment with other kernels after you boot)
AOSP ROMS - require you to flash gapps before you boot. [This is not required for TouchWiz roms]
5. Boot the rom.
FINISHED!!!! SUCCESS!!!
Total time to flash a rom:
7-10min
Errors - NONE
This goes for every rom in my guide.
TIPS:
This flash procedure is for Touchwiz Roms, if you are flashing AOSP roms, you must flash the gapps package associated with the rom you are flashing.
**** SGH-I337M Users: Often requires flashing a different kernel than the one included in most ATT ROMS. Any GT-i9505 kernel will work and Adam kernel and Faux kernel are both confirmed working for us Canadian users.
Note: Flash KERNEL directly after ROM then reboot device.
[Special thanks to blyndfyre for this helpful tip].
The extra recovery I flash if a rom does not like the recovery I am using.
Yes, you can flash recoveries back and forth.
Apps.zip I flash after the rom is up & running. This I use to get the rom setup (like root explorer and others needed)
I am in no way responsible for anything that may do damage to any device - Use these tips at your own risk - period!
If you found this useful in any way, please hit the THANKS button for my effort.
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TheAxman said:
Any questions? Anyone.
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I've been running into a lot of issues when trying to flash different ROMs. For instance, right now I'm on CleanROM 1.6 - I just tried to install PureGv2.
Steps I took:
Have Goo and ROM Manager installed after clean install of CleanROM 1.6
Flash CWM from ROM Manager
Install Recovery Script from Goo
Reboot into recover from Goo
TWRP loads
Wipe data, cache, dalvik, etc
Install PureGv2
I forget the error off the top of my head but it doesn't install
In a nutshell I'm asking what am I doing wrong? Do I need to flash another kernel?
Flash your verizon kernel. Correct. I know it is a vzn rom, but do it anyway.
TheAxman said:
Flash your verizon kernel. Correct. I know it is a vzn rom, but do it anyway.
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Was looking through Tomsgt's Youtube channel and stumbled across a video of his that showed his "About Phone". Everything was identical to mine, so I'm still a little lost as to why I can flash certain ROMs but not others. Sac/Gru's ROM soft bricked my phone, Hyperdrive5.7 didn't install, CleanROM does. It's just funky...maybe I'll just Odin back to stock, flash the MDK and start fresh.
Could the downloads be a problem? I downloaded 2 of the ROMs from work today on a 50meg pipe and they didn't work.
Do you download the ROMs to your phone or to your computer and then move them to your SD card?
If you download to your phone, do you move them to the SD card or leave them in the download folder on the internal storage?
If you do the latter, do you use a micro SD adapter or plug the phone in and move them that way?
harrytery said:
Was looking through Tomsgt's Youtube channel and stumbled across a video of his that showed his "About Phone". Everything was identical to mine, so I'm still a little lost as to why I can flash certain ROMs but not others. Sac/Gru's ROM soft bricked my phone, Hyperdrive5.7 didn't install, CleanROM does. It's just funky...maybe I'll just Odin back to stock, flash the MDK and start fresh.
Could the downloads be a problem? I downloaded 2 of the ROMs from work today on a 50meg pipe and they didn't work.
Do you download the ROMs to your phone or to your computer and then move them to your SD card?
If you download to your phone, do you move them to the SD card or leave them in the download folder on the internal storage?
If you do the latter, do you use a micro SD adapter or plug the phone in and move them that way?
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Download to the computer,then copy to the phones extsdcard, should be ok, make sure you do a md5 check on the files to make sure they are the correct size.
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Download to the computer,then copy to the phones extsdcard, should be ok, make sure you do a md5 check on the files to make sure they are the correct size.
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Alright sounds good. Flashing back to stock later today then re-rooting
thanks for the help
Remember always do a BACKUP before you do anything.
First off, big thanks for this thread.
Now I'm running Cleanrom 1.5. If I wanted to install a new rom can someone please explain exactly what I do to go about it? As jargon free as possible would be awesome.
Sent from my SCH-I545
I certainly scared the carp outta me the other night. I'm using the Carbon ROM and while I do like it, I miss a couple of the S4s features. I picked what looked like a good modified stock ROM and proceeded to flash it.
I'm using Goo and TWRP for the job. I checked of all 3 boxes for clearing cache, davik and factory reset.
Then I chose the file and started it.
The first result, it acted like if was doing everything but nothing changed. Phone still worked fine.
On the next try, I waited for TWERP to start and I reselected the ROM I wanted and flashed it.
When it booted up, I was very happy to see the original screens come up. Then it stopped on the one with the Verizon check mark. The blue LED slowly pulsing and nothing else for about 30 min. I removed battery to try and start over. Same thing again.
Time to goto my backup and restore my phone back to Carbon.
IT FAILED.
Now my phone is stuck in a weird looking boot up loop. After a few tries I was able to get into recovery
mode. TWRP started loading, froze and crashed! Even though I am a total noob at this, I still did not panic.
I'd restart my phone by removing the battery, going into recovery mode and then wildly press every button on my phone hoping to break the loop. It worked! I chose a different save and tried it all over again. FAIL.
ON the next I wiped every bit of old data off. Chose Factory restore crossed my fiingers....it work! My phone is fine now.
Thanks to that ordeal and this thread I think I know what I did wrong even though this never happened to me. before.
1) WIPE THE DATA
2)INSTALL A COMPATABLE KERNAL FIRST
V^^^^V
Vampyre111 said:
I certainly scared the carp outta me the other night. I'm using the Carbon ROM and while I do like it, I miss a couple of the S4s features. I picked what looked like a good modified stock ROM and proceeded to flash it.
I'm using Goo and TWRP for the job. I checked of all 3 boxes for clearing cache, davik and factory reset.
Then I chose the file and started it.
The first result, it acted like if was doing everything but nothing changed. Phone still worked fine.
On the next try, I waited for TWERP to start and I reselected the ROM I wanted and flashed it.
When it booted up, I was very happy to see the original screens come up. Then it stopped on the one with the Verizon check mark. The blue LED slowly pulsing and nothing else for about 30 min. I removed battery to try and start over. Same thing again.
Time to goto my backup and restore my phone back to Carbon.
IT FAILED.
Now my phone is stuck in a weird looking boot up loop. After a few tries I was able to get into recovery
mode. TWRP started loading, froze and crashed! Even though I am a total noob at this, I still did not panic.
I'd restart my phone by removing the battery, going into recovery mode and then wildly press every button on my phone hoping to break the loop. It worked! I chose a different save and tried it all over again. FAIL.
ON the next I wiped every bit of old data off. Chose Factory restore crossed my fiingers....it work! My phone is fine now.
Thanks to that ordeal and this thread I think I know what I did wrong even though this never happened to me. before.
1) WIPE THE DATA
2)INSTALL A COMPATABLE KERNAL FIRST
V^^^^V
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I can not stress enough HOW IMPORTANT THE KERNEL IS!
Hmm so everyone is a now a Oriental Flash Master from the far East now huh?
What recovery is everyone using?
[updated: 07-12-2013]
Flashing Questions
So, if you just need to add something, like different Kernerl, do you have to wipe and start from scratch?
Should you.
If so, and you backup apps and data in Titanium, then what you do a full wipe, flash entire rom, and reinstall the apps and data associated therewith?
Last, I have asked this but cannot seem to get an answer.
Installed Hyperdrive 7 (also had 5.7 and 6). Rom is super smooth and fast, working like a charm. but I want Verizon Visual Voice Mail.
I tried to copy the apk file to the devices system/app directory but get permission denied message....tried to install, and get failed message....
xander45 said:
So, if you just need to add something, like different Kernerl, do you have to wipe and start from scratch?
Should you.
If so, and you backup apps and data in Titanium, then what you do a full wipe, flash entire rom, and reinstall the apps and data associated therewith?
Last, I have asked this but cannot seem to get an answer.
Installed Hyperdrive 7 (also had 5.7 and 6). Rom is super smooth and fast, working like a charm. but I want Verizon Visual Voice Mail.
I tried to copy the apk file to the devices system/app directory but get permission denied message....tried to install, and get failed message....
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did you set the permissions for the app? That should work actually. Look at one of the apps in that directory, and set the permissions the same for the voice app. Reboot and see what happens.
Good luck.
May want to post this question also in my guide thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557
Sorry if this is dumb, but how do I know what kernels for sure work with my device and how do I get them to my external sd card? I suppose the one that is currently on my device(how to get that to sd?), but what others?
Thanks.
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Sorry if this is dumb, but how do I know what kernels for sure work with my device and how do I get them to my external sd card? I suppose the one that is currently on my device(how to get that to sd?), but what others?
Thanks.
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Please bring the question over to my thread up above. It shows also what kernels to use. We will help there.
Another noob question: so you still advise flashing a kernel even if the ROM creator says that the ROM comes with the appropriate kernel and that no extra flashing is required? I've got the Verizon Galaxy S4 variant and specifically am thinking of Dubbsy's Google Play Edition ROM.
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theoneknownasbob said:
Another noob question: so you still advise flashing a kernel even if the ROM creator says that the ROM comes with the appropriate kernel and that no extra flashing is required? I've got the Verizon Galaxy S4 variant and specifically am thinking of Dubbsy's Google Play Edition ROM.
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You would flash the rom, and after, flash your verizon kernel, simple as that.

[Q] Root noob questions

I just want to make sure I understand the process before I go and mess up my phone. If someone could help me out a bit, that would be awesome.
#1 - Backup
I used a tool called Simple ADB backup (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36499906) to backup my phone. I'm not sure if it created an image or what (it's a .ab file at 6GB), but I also used Moborobo to backup contacts & apps. I already have my music, pictures, contacts backed up through gmail and such, so I'm not too worried about the data, only the fact that I want to be able to revert back to a stock ROM in case I mess up.
#2 - Make sure USB debugging is enabled and drivers are installed.
#3 - Wipe / unlock the bootloader through the htcdev website. This wipes all data from my understanding.
#4 - Install CWM or TMRW (this lets me load a ROM?)
#5 - Download ROM and use TMRW to install / load.
Now I've heard various things about S-off vs S-on. IT seems some ROMs can install with or without it and apparently with s-on is safer in terms of avoiding a bricked phone. S-off allows for deeper functionality for certain apps?
Now do I need a toolkit of some kind to do any of this or is that only with certain phone? Where does the SuperSU come into play?
I'm sure this isn't complicated to a lot of you, but this is the first I've looked into rooting. Did the past couple hours researching and figured I need to talk it out before going through with anything. As for ROM, I think I'm leaning towards the Cyanogen right now. It seems like a base version of Jelly Bean but slightly tweaked. I'm mostly looking to keep it clean and simple as possible and removing the bloatware and improve performance.
Thanks in advance, I'm excited!
rumpus01 said:
I just want to make sure I understand the process before I go and mess up my phone. If someone could help me out a bit, that would be awesome.
#1 - Backup
I used a tool called Simple ADB backup (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36499906) to backup my phone. I'm not sure if it created an image or what (it's a .ab file at 6GB), but I also used Moborobo to backup contacts & apps. I already have my music, pictures, contacts backed up through gmail and such, so I'm not too worried about the data, only the fact that I want to be able to revert back to a stock ROM in case I mess up.
#2 - Make sure USB debugging is enabled and drivers are installed.
#3 - Wipe / unlock the bootloader through the htcdev website. This wipes all data from my understanding.
#4 - Install CWM or TMRW (this lets me load a ROM?)
#5 - Download ROM and use TMRW to install / load.
Now I've heard various things about S-off vs S-on. IT seems some ROMs can install with or without it and apparently with s-on is safer in terms of avoiding a bricked phone. S-off allows for deeper functionality for certain apps?
Now do I need a toolkit of some kind to do any of this or is that only with certain phone? Where does the SuperSU come into play?
I'm sure this isn't complicated to a lot of you, but this is the first I've looked into rooting. Did the past couple hours researching and figured I need to talk it out before going through with anything. As for ROM, I think I'm leaning towards the Cyanogen right now. It seems like a base version of Jelly Bean but slightly tweaked. I'm mostly looking to keep it clean and simple as possible and removing the bloatware and improve performance.
Thanks in advance, I'm excited!
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Okay, first, what machine are you on? Linux,mac,xp,vista,7? You can't unlock on 8.1 drivers aren't compatible. But Yes you unlock via HTC dev, I have a tool to help for that if you want to try it it helps first time root you still have to take the info that it gives you and put it into HTC dev then put the code you get from the email you get into the folder but I don't know if you would want that I need someone to test it But continuing.
Unlock via HTC dev if you want to do it manually with the command first.
1. Open a cmd prompt where your fastboot tool is using shift+right click.
2. Boot into fastboot by pulling the battery, then holding volume down and power, then clicking on the first thing which is fastboot by clicking power.
3. Back to the computer type
Code:
fastboot devices
4. If your device is found your good to get your unlock data, if not you need to reinstall drivers/check your connection/or your on windows 8/8.1
5. Now to get your unlock token.
Code:
fastboot oem get_identifier_token
6. Copy and paste this into HTC dev starting at
Code:
<<<< Identifier Token Start >>>>
And ending with this line:
<<<<< Identifier Token End >>>>>
7. Submit the unlock token it will say if its valid or not and send you a email with it is.
8. When you get the email it will have a item called Unlock_code.bin place this item into the same folder in which your fastboot is in.
9. Initiate the command
Code:
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin
10. It will then send the Unlock_code.bin to your phone, you will see a prompt saying "Unlock bootloader" Then volume up and click yes. It will wipe ALL of your data back it all up before you do anything...
11. When your phone finally reboots. If you would like a custom recovery boot back into fastboot again, (Pulling battery then volume down+power button and clicking on fastboot
12. Then once into fastboot, back to your computer download either
TWRP: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/vigor
PhilZ: http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/vigor <-------you must use this if using a ROM by snuzzo "aka Plain-andy or illusion ROM
CWM: Or go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914215 Download one of the zips, Extract it with your favorite extractor. You should get a .img in a folder, extract it and put it in your fastboot folder. This is only for CWM.
Take one of the .img's from above that you just downloaded and place it in the folder with your fastboot.
13.Back to your computer to push the recovery. Then while your phone is still in fastboot and connected to the computer make sure your device is still found.
Code:
fastboot devices
then if your device shows up, you are good to then flash the Recovery. Initiate this command.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img
14. It should write the img successfully.
15. If you would like to go into recovery, you can either press "bootloader" In the fastboot option then click recovery and go into it from there. Or do
Code:
fastboot reboot
it will reboot your phone like normal. Then you can put your ROM and correlating GAPPS of choice onto your phone via USB Mass storage, along with SU. Put it on the root of your external SD card. Then you can reboot into recovery. After booting normal and transferring the ROM of choice you can then enable USB debugging and do
Code:
adb reboot recovery
16. It will reboot you to the recovery that you used. You might get a lot of errors on your phone. IGNORE THEM!!
17. Go to install and find SU from your external SD card. Install that. Then after that I would suggest STRONGLY making a backup (NANDroid) By clicking the backup button in any recovery, make sure you back it up to your external SD card.
18. Make sure that you have your ROM of choice on your SD card.
19. Wipe the hell out of everything once your ready to install your ROM.... EXCEPT SD CARD
20. Install the ROM and GAPPS in that order.
21. After a confirmed flash, wipe, cache and dalvik.
22. Boot into fastboot. (Power+Volume down and clicking fastboot)
23. Take your original <Name of ROM>.zip and extract it. Open the folder. In the folder will be a item called boot.img
24. Place this boot.img into the folder with your fastboot.
25. Again initiate the command
Code:
fastboot devices
make sure the device is found.
26. Initiate the command, this will flash the kernal aka "boot.img"
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
27. Once you've confirmed that it has flashed the boot.img do
Code:
fastboot reboot
it will reboot your device. WAIT AT LEAST 20 MINUTES!!! FIRST BOOT CAN TAKE A WHILE!!!
28. Once rebooted set up
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Now talking about s-off, if you like to flash ROM's a lot I would suggest it, if not and your just staying on one ROM then just stay s-on. s-off allows you to write to every partition to the phone. s-off can be dangerous as if say you flash a ROM made for the S3, well your phone will flash it happily and well brick itself going down happily... But with s-on it will abort the flash or anything. That being said theres also the advantage of s-off being you can flash a ROM for your phone, flash and go, no computer. S-off can do some stuff inside the phone such as bootlogo's etc.. BUT its not needed for almost any app in the play store or any ROM... s-off just simply means you can write to every partition freely. No its not required. Now if you were to mess up and something goes corrupt on the phone and you need to return to stock for some reason......Well.... You almost kinda need s-off for that.... unless you do
Code:
fastboot oem lock
relock your bootloader and run a RUU..... But while s-off you can simply run a RUU (ROM upgrade utility I think ) But you can just run it.... This is how your would "return to stock" if anything messes up.... s-off can be EASILY obtained via rumrunner, use the universal 0.5.0 it will s-off your device http://rumrunner.us/downloads-2/
Unlike the old version of s-off which requires linux and a 22ga wire.... Hope this answers any questions!
I will post anything if i missed something, have to go, typed this real quick, please don't do this yet I think its right though....
edit: Just checked over it and made some changes... This should be exactly step by step... Or for what I did and what most others did. If I missed anything, someone else please post...
After more research, I am editing my original response.
The above is too many steps for me; I know it can be simpler. I'm going to go with the Everevolv ROM and just want to verify my findings on the install process.
- Make sure all Rezound drivers installed
- Install & update Android SDK
- Unlock bootloader / wipe phone data
- Install TWRP
- Put Everevolv ROM .zip on SD card (not extracted)
- Boot into TWRP & Flash ROM
Now, I have not rooted my phone and I am S-ON, so I know I need to flash in fastboot with the command: "fastboot flash boot boot.img".
Does this mean I flash with the android SDK instead of TWRP? Or at what point in the install procedure do I flash the boot.img file?
From my understanding, this ROM does not require root access. Is this correct?
rumpus01 said:
After more research, I am editing my original response.
The above is too many steps for me; I know it can be simpler. I'm going to go with the Everevolv ROM and just want to verify my findings on the install process.
- Make sure all Rezound drivers installed
- Install & update Android SDK
- Unlock bootloader / wipe phone data
- Install TWRP
- Put Everevolv ROM .zip on SD card (not extracted)
- Boot into TWRP & Flash ROM
Now, I have not rooted my phone and I am S-ON, so I know I need to flash in fastboot with the command: "fastboot flash boot boot.img".
Does this mean I flash with the android SDK instead of TWRP? Or at what point in the install procedure do I flash the boot.img file?
From my understanding, this ROM does not require root access. Is this correct?
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1. Unlock via HTC dev.
2. Make sure drivers are installed.
3. Push recovery to phone.
4. Back up stock to SD card.
5. Wipe everything including system.
6. Flash ROM and GAPPS.
7. Flash boot.img in fastboot using
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
8. Reboot phone.
If you have any questions with that. I will explain each step more in depth. But steps 1-11 were unlocking help.
Step 12-19 is pushing the recovery, making a back up, rebooting to it.
Step 20-end actually getting the device to boot after flashing ROM. If I need to explain again. I will. In a ever more simplified version. Plus the reason that there were so many steps is because the longest step literally takes like 2 minutes max. The rest is almost like 30 seconds besides actually flashing the ROM and GAPPS. I tried to do as much detail as POSSIBLE!!! Please consider rereading it, if you don't understand a step, ask and I will gladly explain. But it is a COMPLETE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE. Hope you get your phone rooted, but if you didn't know what fastboot was....you might need some more reading..... I can write up a complete guide of what EVERYTHING means, what EVERYTHING does. But fastboot is just where you flash recovery/boot.img/etc.....any questions, please ask, I will explain or someone can beat me to it
Awesome man, thanks so much! I'll give it another read... I have a few hours set aside later tonight to investigate the whole process once again, so I'll certainly have more questions.
Once again seriously, thanks for the help!
rumpus01 said:
Awesome man, thanks so much! I'll give it another read... I have a few hours set aside later tonight to investigate the whole process once again, so I'll certainly have more questions.
Once again seriously, thanks for the help!
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sweet. Just PM me or post here :good:
pball52998 said:
sweet. Just PM me or post here :good:
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Alright man so after re-reading it, it's starting to make a whole lot more sense now. Initially, I was wondering why the hell there were so many steps in your first post. Now I realize you were just going step by step through the HTC unlock process as well, which I'm guessing HTC walks you through more or less but you clarified it in more detail.
Now in a broader step by step list, you said this:
1. Unlock via HTC dev.
2. Make sure drivers are installed.
3. Push recovery to phone.
4. Back up stock to SD card.
5. Wipe everything including system.
6. Flash ROM and GAPPS.
7. Flash boot.img in fastboot using
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Now my understanding is that unlocking the bootloader wipes all data, but #4 is a backing up procedure... Is this just creating a backup of the stock ROM on my phone at the moment, without any of my apps or personal data? Then #5 would actually be wiping the stock ROM?
These few steps confuse me a little:
20. Install the ROM and GAPPS in that order.
21. After a confirmed flash, wipe, cache and dalvik.
22. Boot into fastboot. (Power+Volume down and clicking fastboot)
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Are GAPPS included with the ROM download?
#21 - Are you telling me to "cache and dalvik" or is that part of the flash process that I don't have to do in separate steps? For example, are you saying
a) After a confirmed flash, you need to wipe, cache, and dalvik.
or
b) After a confirmed flash, wipe, cache, and dalvik, you need to boot into fastboot.
WTH is dalvik?
Now I think those are my only questions regarding the process for the moment; I'm going to check out some YouTube videos of some of these processes individually to get a better understanding. It sounds to me like most of this makes sense once you actually start going through the process and seeing it instead of reading about it, but I wanted to do as much homework as possible first.
Think I'll go ahead and give this a try tonight... It sounds like with S-on, I can only screw it up so much but we'll see. I did all my chores tonight so I can focus on this tomorrow all night if I wonk it out and just be without my phone during the day.
Oh one last question - Will I be able to get updates / update without flashing again?
Thanks again man!!!
Okay. So my "full" step by step makes more sense now? Good now do you see why I had so many steps? It was each individual part. Step by step. With clear detail or at least I tried
So moving onto the "unlocking wiping data" yes it will wipe every piece of data. But leaves stock. What I would suggest is putting su on your SD card and that being the first thing you flash before wiping or backing up..I've heard you can't back up bare bone stock. It must have root, or so I've heard... So put su on your sd card and flash it first (aka go to install and find it swipe to flash. Su should now flash. You now have root or should). Not very hard, just flashing it won't do any damage.
But backing up. When you back up it pulls every piece of info you have and puts it into a folder on your SD card. Like I have no stock... I accidentally erased it... But besides that. Do you see in my signature how I have 3 roms on my rezound. PAC, CM, And sense 5. See every one of those has been backed up. If I were to restore it, it would automatically restore to the point where I made the backup.
So now let's say. You have your backup of stock. It's on your EXTERNAL SD CARD. It should be about 1-3 gb backup. So now we have that backup made in twrp. Wipee we now have stock saved just incase something happens
So then we go in to the wipe button. Youre going to
factory reset 3 times
Wipe data, cache, dalvik cache, boot and system 3 times each. Don't ask why 3 I really don't know. But one isn't good enough...it's proven... So this leaves you with no OS oooo noooo. But the thing is you have your backup on your external hard SD card. And also your ROM/gapps on there. (gapps is google apps) but you must download the two separately. Both in a .zip format. Not a folder... Can't flash a folder... But there should be a need gapps button on the evervolv page? Click it and it should take you to a download for gapps. Remember all this is on the root of your external SD. So now we have 3 things on your SD card and no OS. O Lordy.... Time to hit up the install button!!! ;D now were going to choose the evervolv ROM. Bam, click add more zips, find gapps, click it. Bam, now you have two zips queed to flash. Just swipe to flash make sure you choose the rom before the gapps. so time passes (less than 5 minutes) and rom and gapps are now flashed. When it gets done flashing you should have some options. One being wipe cache/dalvik. That is where your question of the #21 is... Sooo.... Dalvik is pretty much like our java almost... It runs our apps...soon android will be changing to ART (android run time).
Blah blah blah, doesn't matter!! Lol xD so then after wiping your cache and dalvik after flashing your rom, return to the main menu of TWRP you should see a button on twrp's main menu, at the very bottom right, "reboot" when you click on that you should get 4 options, reboot system, bootloader, recovery, power off. We want to choose bootloader. This will bring us to fastboot (it will say fastboot usb in bug red letters if your in fastboot) where you flash the boot.img that you extracted earlier from the zip and placed it in the same folder as your adb/fastboot you remember? We need to open a cmd prompt and flash this boot.img "aka kernel" so were going to type in that cmd prompt: fastboot flash boot boot.img
This will flash the boot.img to your phone once confirmed, (only about 6 seconds to write it) were going to reboot the phone and hope for the best.. Do: fastboot reboot
It'll reboot your phone, remember first boot can take a while....
Also what do you mean by your last question??????
Sent from my crappy Jailbroken apple iPad.....
Freedoms just another word for nothing left to do... Nothin' ain't worth nothing but it's free.....
Hey man! I did not read your full post just now because I'm tired of thinking about this stuff, but I went through your step by step instructions and everything seemed to work out. I'm currently waiting for on my first boot; it's at the Evervol screen with the heartbeat animation going on. Everything made perfect sense once following your guide to the actual process; it just seems risky since there's no good way to practice unless you have a spare phone or something.
The only thing that tripped me up was that my SD card had all the data from my previous ROM even after everything was wiped. So I formatted it in Windows prior to copying the SU, ROM, and GAPPS zips on there.
Oh and I noticed after wiping and booting into the "clean" stock ROM, I had no service... Obviously, I didn't try to fiddle around with that since I was about to install a new ROM, but I can see that being a problem if this ROM ever loads (been about 22 mins).
I did find this info on a different thread:
1. Go to the dialer and press *#*#4636#*#*
2. Click on "Phone Information"
3. You should notice almost towards the bottom radio settings, Make sure the radio is on and change the settings from WCDMA to GSM (auto)
4. Exit out of the screen by pressing the back button
5. Reset the phone and you will have service.
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I'll give that shot if it's no bueno!
Thanks again man, I'll post back tonight if I don't fall asleep before it's done loading, lol. Either way I'll post back tomorrow. Seriously thank you again, can't believe you typed all that out for me, even when the first 11 steps were step by step from HTC too. :good: True internet assistance!
Did you flash the boot.img in fastboot?? That can cause you to stay on the boot screen forever. I've had that problem @rumpus01 and glad it all made sense!!! :good:
Sent from my Rezound running PAC-Man with SENSE!! 4.4.2 S-OFF
pball52998 said:
Did you flash the boot.img in fastboot?? That can cause you to stay on the boot screen forever. I've had that problem @rumpus01 and glad it all made sense!!! :good:
Sent from my Rezound running PAC-Man with SENSE!! 4.4.2 S-OFF
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I did indeed as it was listed in your steps, of course!
It's been about an hour now, so I'm guessing something went askew and it is not going to power up. What course of action should I take from here? I'm guessing go back to stock ROM via recovery (the backup I made), and then do the whole process over again, aside from unlocking and what not. I definitely installed SU before making a backup, so hopefully that works out.
Thanks again! It's never simple...
Okay one question. How much did you wipe before you clean installed the ROM? Did you wipe everything but External SD 3 times? Including system?
Sent from my Rezound running PAC-Man with SENSE!! 4.4.2 S-OFF
pball52998 said:
Okay one question. How much did you wipe before you clean installed the ROM? Did you wipe everything but External SD 3 times? Including system?
Sent from my Rezound running PAC-Man with SENSE!! 4.4.2 S-OFF
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No, I did not... I did everything before your post about that, so I'm guessing that's the problem. I also only wiped cache, dalvik cahce, system, and internal storage. There's an option for android secure and factory reset under the wipe menu as well, but I wasn't sure about those...
I tried pulling battery and rebooting, I'm guessing it's dunzo. I am now booted into recovery mode and going to recover to the backup I made, and try the whole thing again after reading your post about wiping multiple times.
EDIT: To clarify, I am wiping everything 3 times before restoring. Then I'm going to reboot normally to see if the restore worked, and then go through the process again except wiping multiple times before installing the ROM this time.
Crap....sorry I didn't mention that to begin with..... And don't do the recover yet. Try wiping everything.... 3x then try booting. After the boot.img flash in fastboot... Sorry I forgot that man.... First off though, if everolv doesn't work. You can always try another ROM. Go s-off (takes at most like 30 minutes) then flash everolv.... But try wiping everything at least 3 times except the SD card. The reason for the two wipes is because one clears main. Then it goes into emmc and clears I think.. Sorry I completely forgot about it and it went over my head....
Sent from my Rezound running PAC-Man with SENSE!! 4.4.2 S-OFF
pball52998 said:
Crap....sorry I didn't mention that to begin with..... And don't do the recover yet. Try wiping everything.... 3x then try booting. After the boot.img flash in fastboot... Sorry I forgot that man.... First off though, if everolv doesn't work. You can always try another ROM. Go s-off (takes at most like 30 minutes) then flash everolv.... But try wiping everything at least 3 times except the SD card. The reason for the two wipes is because one clears main. Then it goes into emmc and clears I think.. Sorry I completely forgot about it and it went over my head....
Sent from my Rezound running PAC-Man with SENSE!! 4.4.2 S-OFF
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Crap I already wiped everything and tried a restore, which doesn't appear to be working haha. And don't worry man, I can't believe you gave that many instructions to begin with. It's a lot of steps! Nothing happens when I boot after doing my recover install. My computer gives the sound of a USB device but says nothing, and my phone doesn't even light up in any way. I'm going to go wipe everything and try rebooting it normally again.
Well just wipe, wipe, wipe, then install the ROM and gapps. Flash boot.img and you should boot fine.... Btw if you want stock, there's a ROM for that xD
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pball52998 said:
Well just wipe, wipe, wipe, then install the ROM and gapps. Flash boot.img and you should boot fine.... Btw if you want stock, there's a ROM for that xD
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So after wiping everything, I go to "install" and all the zip files for the GAPPS and SU and ROM are on my Internal storage device... didn't I just clear that 3 times???
I cleared everything including internal storage and selected reboot, and recovery told me SU was not installed and asked if I wanted to. I chose yes and rebooted. Then wiped cache/dalvik cahce 3 times each, and now installing the ROM and GAPPS again... I think I wiped my internal SD card & system in addition to cache and dalvik cache after installing SU but before installing the ROM and GAPPS initially... I wonder if this was the main source of the problem.
Okay. Everything's wiped. There is no os installed. So that being said. You have your ROM and gapps on your SD card. Correct? Or external SD card. Either will work dear sir. Install those and then flash the boot
Img and see your result. That should be the easiest way to boot.
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pball52998 said:
Okay. Everything's wiped. There is no os installed. So that being said. You have your ROM and gapps on your SD card. Correct? Or external SD card. Either will work dear sir. Install those and then flash the boot
Img and see your result. That should be the easiest way to boot.
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WELL WELL, IT IS WORKING. IT blew through that Evervolv boot screen in like 2 minutes this time.
I see that my service is not working, and my computer said MTP USB Device drivers failed to install. I now see that has something to do with transferring media files to PC.
Well, whatever. I am cool with this for now, at least it is installed. Very tired, let's all go to sleep! Thanks again for all the help man, feel like I'm paying someone for remote support lol.
Lol gg man. We got it. Cheers!!! :good:
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