Just wanted to know if I flash to ics what will I lose? Will I still have all my apps and setting or is it going to do a fresh install like it was a new phone or factory reset? I'd hate to lose all my stuff. Also what are the major benefits of ics? Also what is difference soff and son?
Sadly yes..
jeffory said:
Just wanted to know if I flash to ics what will I lose? Will I still have all my apps and setting or is it going to do a fresh install like it was a new phone or factory reset? I'd hate to lose all my stuff. Also what are the major benefits of ics? Also what is difference soff and son?
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You will lose everything, (apps, contacts and anything else you have on your internal storage) and s-off is awesome! no more flashing kernels with the kernel flasher!.. and most roms that will be coming out soon will most likely require s-off.. it's simple I suggest you do s-off and ics is great! other then the battery drains quite quickly when the screen is on. just make sure you backup all your apps with titanium backup and backup EVERYTHING onto your computer (including sd card!) cause not only did it clear out my sd card it also fried my 32gig sd card so just make sure you back it up and then take it out before you s-off. Hope this helped
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Stock meaning so someone else can use phone and still have root. Do I have to revert back to non root stock and root again?
go to the development section and under official rom list flash one of the basic debloat roms like plainjane. its basically stock root.
Heelfan71 said:
Stock meaning so someone else can use phone and still have root. Do I have to revert back to non root stock and root again?
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I'm not sure if you actually want a stock rom or the one you are using is ok and you just want to remove your data for someone else to use it which is what it sounds like, you don't need a new rom. You just need to wipe data/factory reset and remove any of your personal stuff from the sdcard.
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Wiping can be done from recovery or menu->settings->privacy.
After copying sdcard you can clear photos and music with menu->settings->storage->erase SD
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I'm not sure if you actually want a stock rom or the one you are using is ok and you just want to remove your data for someone else to use it which is what it sounds like, you don't need a new rom. You just need to wipe data/factory reset and remove any of your personal stuff from the sdcard.
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Wiping can be done from recovery or menu->settings->privacy.
After copying sdcard you can clear photos and music with menu->settings->storage->erase SD
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Thanks, I think I will do that. I am keeping the SD card (32gb) and put in a new 16gb one I have.
My Thunderbolt received an OTA update last week and keeps rebooting. I have ClockworkMod Recovery so the Install fails. I cleared the Cache with CWM and restarted the phone like it suggests in other posts elsewhere. I get a failed update message, I cancel out of it and reboot the phone. I also used Titanium Backup to Freeze "Update" and "Updater", but the phone keeps self booting into the OTA update every day . I searched for an update.zip and cannot find one on the SD card.
Can anyone suggest how to stop the phone from updating/rebooting everyday? I cannot seems to find the answer anywhere.
Thanks and I wish everyone a safe holiday!
DD
Just to confirm, are you rooted but on the stock rom? If so, you should be able to find some threads to go on from searching, but here are a couple where people got the update install while rooted:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330325
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324682
Sorry I forgot to mention it
Yes, I'm rooted, I'll check out the links.
more than likely you wont have an update.zip but rather an RUU. Remove the RUU from the SD card and see how that works. If I was having this problem I would do a full wipe on the phone backup my full SD card contents and format the SD card and flash a custom rom with CWM. I never understand what the point of rooting is if you are not going to flash a custom rom. Are you afraid? Worried about bricking? I just don't get it. Put the new MIUI on it. You will be pleased.
I installed Liquid ROM 3.1 and it's working like a charm. I was concerned about the 3G/4G compatability problems that most custom ROMS seem to have.
Using Titanium Backup Pro I backed up all my apps then restored them after installing Liquid ROM and re-setup the desktop and all is well.
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I never understand what the point of rooting is if you are not going to flash a custom rom.
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Really? The ability to fix things like security holes, use ad filters, make complete, easily restorable backups, install a certificate for a private CA, or just have fairly complete control over hardware you've purchased isn't enough?
mike.s said:
Really? The ability to fix things like security holes, use ad filters, make complete, easily restorable backups, install a certificate for a private CA, or just have fairly complete control over hardware you've purchased isn't enough?
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I was actually broken hearted that I was compelled in install a custom rom to avoid the problems the op has described. Everything "works" in standard rom. When you go custom you get lots of fun new features but you always lose something..... Could be vzw vvm or nfl live or fast gps lock or photo effects in gallery but it seems there is always someting you lose.
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I was actually broken hearted that I was compelled in install a custom rom to avoid the problems the op has described. Everything "works" in standard rom. When you go custom you get lots of fun new features but you always lose something..... Could be vzw vvm or nfl live or fast gps lock or photo effects in gallery but it seems there is always someting you lose.
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really,cause everything you mentioned has work on soab from the get go.
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So I've done a search of the Rezound threads for info on encryption and came up empty. Google wasn't much of a help either. I work where there's a good chance my phone may come up missing or lost and at times I may have some sensitive work related material on it which I don't care for everyone to see. Has anyone out there actually encrypted their phone and SD card and been successful? And has anyone done it with a ROM installed? I'm running Vigor360 and would like to know if the encryption actually works before I brick my phone when it fails in the process. Would I just be better off encrypting a container on the SD card and not worry about the phone itself? Thanks.
CM9 has built in encryption, in the security tab of the settings app.
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CM9 has built in encryption, in the security tab of the settings app.
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Broken in CM9. Chad was going to take a look.
I'm required to encrypt my internal storage for work; I've never tried the external SD card. I can't recall if I ever tried to encrypt Neo's Rage while I was running it, but I've been able to encrypt most Sense ROMs I've tried. Both of Nils' Business Sense ROMs worked fine as did ViperROM and EclipticRez. I've forgotten what else I've tried; I know I downloaded Vigor360, but I didn't run it long enough for a full test run. I did not have great success on heavily de-sensed ROMs.
There are a few gotchas once encrypted though. Amon Ra can't read the encrypted partition to perform a full wipe or a dalvik-cache wipe. When swapping kernels or anything needing to wipe Dalvik-cache, I do so from a terminal session in the phone first and then boot to recovery to wipe cache and flash the object. This also presents a problem when I want to swap ROMs as I need to re-flash the RUU (I'm running the global leak) to get back to a phone that can be fully wiped and have a new ROM installed. It adds a few minutes to my process when I want to play around, but I've gotten used to it. I take my nandroids just prior to encrypting, but I've never used them as I prefer Titanium Backup and Nova's built-in backup for the launcher settings.
I'm S-On, HTC dev unlocked if that makes a difference to you. My main concern about encrypting your external SD card would be the need for Amon Ra to access it. I keep ROMs, music and backups on the external card with the work stuff on the internal which satisfies the policies with my employer.
I hope this helps.
Matt
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So I've done a search of the Rezound threads for info on encryption and came up empty. Google wasn't much of a help either. I work where there's a good chance my phone may come up missing or lost and at times I may have some sensitive work related material on it which I don't care for everyone to see. Has anyone out there actually encrypted their phone and SD card and been successful? And has anyone done it with a ROM installed? I'm running Vigor360 and would like to know if the encryption actually works before I brick my phone when it fails in the process. Would I just be better off encrypting a container on the SD card and not worry about the phone itself? Thanks.
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I installed INFECTION 2.9.1 over my rooted ICS installation, but decided I liked the look of the ICS sense better, so I decided to restore my nandroid image of ICS. It booted up but got stuck on the screen right after the white HTC one. I flashed back to jellybean and tried a FACTORY RESET. It reboots me into RA-VIGOR with the error message "E:Invalid command argument"
I can boot back into jellybean but now it is telling me there is NO INTERNAL memory. Where did it go?
Have I killed my phone here?
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I installed INFECTION 2.9.1 over my rooted ICS installation, but decided I liked the look of the ICS sense better, so I decided to restore my nandroid image of ICS. It booted up but got stuck on the screen right after the white HTC one. I flashed back to jellybean and tried a FACTORY RESET. It reboots me into RA-VIGOR with the error message "E:Invalid command argument"
I can boot back into jellybean but now it is telling me there is NO INTERNAL memory. Where did it go?
Have I killed my phone here?
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No you just didnt read threads or previous quiestions...upon moving from stock to a 4.2 based rom you got the bug from memory on that...you need to switch to twrp if not on that and mount and partition your emmc and internal sd card....this has been a known bug for the longest time now....dont use Amon Ra (RA-VIGOR) as it gives bugs on rom installs for any rom really and it doesnt play nice....such as possible phone overheats, battery drain, and many random reboots even after not upping your min frequency
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No you just didnt read threads or previous quiestions...upon moving from stock to a 4.2 based rom you got the bug from memory on that...you need to switch to twrp if not on that and mount and partition your emmc and internal sd card....this has been a known bug for the longest time now....dont use Amon Ra (RA-VIGOR) as it gives bugs on rom installs for any rom really and it doesnt play nice....such as possible phone overheats, battery drain, and many random reboots even after not upping your min frequency
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Yep, you are right, I did not read previous threads as I did not know there was a problem with Amon Ra when I first installed it. The Infection 2.9.1 thread recomemended using it! Anyhow, I have since got a message pop up on the screen that said something about bad memory and told me to format it. I did, and now I can see my internal storage again. It is now empty of course, but what was on it when it was factory ? Is there anywhere I could get a copy of those files from?
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Yep, you are right, I did not read previous threads as I did not know there was a problem with Amon Ra when I first installed it. The Infection 2.9.1 thread recomemended using it! Anyhow, I have since got a message pop up on the screen that said something about bad memory and told me to format it. I did, and now I can see my internal storage again. It is now empty of course, but what was on it when it was factory ? Is there anywhere I could get a copy of those files from?
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the files you had on it prior to formatting? no....unless you know how to use pricey data recovery software
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the files you had on it prior to formatting? no....unless you know how to use pricey data recovery software
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Yep, the software that was on it before formatting. It was just whatever default files were on the phone from the factory, and I assume some of them files were to restore the phone to factory. Is there anywhere I could find those files and just copy them back to the phone?
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Yep, the software that was on it before formatting. It was just whatever default files were on the phone from the factory, and I assume some of them files were to restore the phone to factory. Is there anywhere I could find those files and just copy them back to the phone?
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no those arent stored on the phone....thats an ruu that you can download...the links for them here dont work but if needed ever i can point you to them just note it reverts the phone to full stock and theres certain methods for doing this...if done wrong youll brick your phone
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no those arent stored on the phone....thats an ruu that you can download...the links for them here dont work but if needed ever i can point you to them just note it reverts the phone to full stock and theres certain methods for doing this...if done wrong youll brick your phone
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Oh, so I don't need any of the files that were on the internal memory then? That would be good. Hey, as you seem to be very knowledgeable about all this (and i'm most definatly not , what I ultimatley would like is jellybean with the sense clock and weather . I also noticed from the infected rom that the camera did not report how many pictures could be taken with the available memory left. Is there is a rom out there can satisfy my needs? The phone is S-on BTW
Thanks for all your help so far
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Oh, so I don't need any of the files that were on the internal memory then? That would be good. Hey, as you seem to be very knowledgeable about all this (and i'm most definatly not , what I ultimatley would like is jellybean with the sense clock and weather . I also noticed from the infected rom that the camera did not report how many pictures could be taken with the available memory left. Is there is a rom out there can satisfy my needs? The phone is S-on BTW
Thanks for all your help so far
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if you mean internal as in the 10gb usable memory that pictures and stuff store to than thats cool....dont delete anything in the root of system if thats what you mean...ill look into the specifications you want...ive seen a few...as far as sense clock and weather there is a few apps you can download in the market that replicate it and is themable
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if you mean internal as in the 10gb usable memory that pictures and stuff store to than thats cool....dont delete anything in the root of system if thats what you mean...ill look into the specifications you want...ive seen a few...as far as sense clock and weather there is a few apps you can download in the market that replicate it and is themable
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Yes, it is the internal 10gb that I meant. For a while it was not showing, either on the phone or in windows. After the message on the phone came up to format it (which I did) I could then see it in both windows and on the phone. I had not taken any notice of what was on it beforehand. I have only had the phone for a couple of weeks as it was given to me by a friend who was cut off from Verizon for not paying his bill !! I shoved in a TMOBILE sim from a spare phone I had and it works just fine for making calls but only Edge for data (not that it matters as I have a Optimus L9 for data)
Any info you could find would be most appreciated.
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Yes, it is the internal 10gb that I meant. For a while it was not showing, either on the phone or in windows. After the message on the phone came up to format it (which I did) I could then see it in both windows and on the phone. I had not taken any notice of what was on it beforehand. I have only had the phone for a couple of weeks as it was given to me by a friend who was cut off from Verizon for not paying his bill !! I shoved in a TMOBILE sim from a spare phone I had and it works just fine for making calls but only Edge for data (not that it matters as I have a Optimus L9 for data)
Any info you could find would be most appreciated.
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im actually working on a permanent fix for 3g/4g on gsm carriers for the rezound
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im actually working on a permanent fix for 3g/4g on gsm carriers for the rezound
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Thats cool. Hey, you mentioned there was a process to get back to stock ICS. How do I do that? This new rom I'm on keeps rebooting on me
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Thats cool. Hey, you mentioned there was a process to get back to stock ICS. How do I do that? This new rom I'm on keeps rebooting on me
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to go back to stock you actually have to first s-off and unlock the bootloader....also 4.2 reboots furiously if you dont set things up right...try a 4.3 rom like Tachyon or Carbon Rom....on either one of those ive yet to have a randoom reboot on proper settings that i set up
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to go back to stock you actually have to first s-off and unlock the bootloader....also 4.2 reboots furiously if you dont set things up right...try a 4.3 rom like Tachyon or Carbon Rom....on either one of those ive yet to have a randoom reboot on proper settings that i set up
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I was looking at the Tachyon rom yesterday as it happens, but I read somewhere that in 4.3 they changed something with the way memory is handled? and that you can no longer select the external SD card in the camera app, only the internal memory. Is that right?
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I was looking at the Tachyon rom yesterday as it happens, but I read somewhere that in 4.3 they changed something with the way memory is handled? and that you can no longer select the external SD card in the camera app, only the internal memory. Is that right?
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yes but to be honest....stock is the same exact way
Edit...if your looking for a good fresh fast and to have everything work but base build go with tachyon....if your looking for fully customizable everything thats fast and stable go with carbon rom or pac 4.3....also you can download and replace the stock gallery with one that does save to internal sd card which is 10gb...you can always transfer to external sd as well as to a pc
I recently rooted/unlocked my Verizon GN2 using Casual, and I am interested in trying my first ROM. I saw the announcement of Jelly Wiz Rom MJ9 4.3 TW (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2564495), and it looks fairly interesting, so I'd like to give it a go. Before I jump in, I want to be sure I've got my process correct. Pulling in information from that thread and the [GUIDE][VZW Edition]How to Root/Rom/Return to Stock the VZW Galaxy Note II! thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2024207), here's what I think I have to do:
Make sure I've got a good backup
Download the ROM to my internal SD card
Power device off, then hold the Volume up/home/power buttons until I get into TWRP)
Select wipe, then wipe cache. (If I get force close or other issues, boot back to TWRP and wipe data)
Select install, then choose the ROM
Reboot
At this point, I should have the ROM up and running. However, there will be some problem with the modem and WiFi, so I need to fix that by doing the following:
Grab the "Recovery Flashable Modem and WiFi Parameters" from http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23252070760974850
Boot into TWRP
Select install, then choose the Flashable Model and WiFi Parameters zip file
Reboot
Is this all correct? Have I missed anything?
Everything seems to be in good order. You almost always want to perform a full factory reset/data wipe when going between different Roms. I know it's a pain to restore everything back to your liking but you'll regret not wiping 9/10 times. Also, consider keeping the .zips on an external SD Card just in case of accidental internal storage wipe.
Titanium Backup should be my friend, right?
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Everything seems to be in good order. You almost always want to perform a full factory reset/data wipe when going between different Roms. I know it's a pain to restore everything back to your liking but you'll regret not wiping 9/10 times. Also, consider keeping the .zips on an external SD Card just in case of accidental internal storage wipe.
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Thanks for the tips.
I've done a backup of all my apps (system and user) using Titanium, and I can do another before doing my reset/wipe. In theory, I should be able to restore the apps I want to recover, after I'm all done installing the ROM and the patch, right? So it shouldn't be too much of a hassle.
Or am I being naive?
Well all of your Google apps back themselves up to the cloud, so you're good there. In my experience, it's best to only restore Market Apps, games etc... apps that aren't already synced with your google account. But I've always had pretty good luck with Titanium. I pretty much only ever backed up game progress, far too many hours into angry birds to lose it to a wipe.
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Well all of your Google apps back themselves up to the cloud, so you're good there. In my experience, it's best to only restore Market Apps, games etc... apps that aren't already synced with your google account. But I've always had pretty good luck with Titanium. I pretty much only ever backed up game progress, far too many hours into angry birds to lose it to a wipe.
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That makes sense. Sounds like the smart thing to do is to grab all the apps I actually use, give them time to re-sync, and then use Titanium to restore everyone else's data.
Thanks very much!
Exactly! You got it, glad I could help.
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ya i wanna try this but have spent last 2 hrs unbricking my phone after trying to install another tw rom following directions exactly. may just wait to get back to tw rom and stay at cm 11 unofficials