Okay, I've constantly searched but haven't found anybody with my exact problem. I really need some help.
I was running Venusaur ROM and decided to try and get S-OFF tonight. After having a few issues, I finally got it. That's when Jupunotbear's program asked me if I wanted to install a modified hboot. I asked if it was a good idea here on the forums, nobody answered about a half hour later, so I decided why not and installed it.
I think I made a mistake doing so because I believe it was an hboot meant for Gingerbread when I'm running an ICS rom. I tried the other fixes first before I realized this might be the issue. I tried formatting the SD card (after fighting an uphill battle to get past write protection on my desktop) and that did nothing.
I'm unsure how to proceed from here. I kind of know how to use adb, but I'm not sure how I can use this to fix it. Do I flash some image or zip or something? I'm afraid if I pick the wrong file myself, I can end up really screwing my phone up beyond all hope. This is urgent and I hope somebody can help me as soon as possible.
This has been answered in great detail. Go to this thread and your answer is in the very first post and you are correct, that hboot was for GB.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613309
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Q: What's the difference between GB and ICS Leak exploit?
A: In simple terms, Hboot. GB users can use ICS v0.1. But you must NOT flash the hboot when prompted. Decline it. If you want the ENG Hboot, Con had a thread in the development section with instructions.
ENG Hboot GB
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God dammit, can't they make this any bigger? It's so easy to glaze over it and not see it.
Well, I made the bonehead mistake of flashing the hboot when prompted. How do I reverse this? I'm asking because the linked thread there is locked because it's apparently too old. Somebody have another file that works?
EDIT: Nevermind, apparently, I can use the SD card from recovery and USB. I'm not so terrified of being permanently screwed anymore.
Well, I was actually very frustrated for the past few hours and I was so close to just losing it and lashing out in fear that I destroyed my phone, but I think I managed to fix it now. I renamed the file that came in the ICS leak to PH98IMG, put it on my SD card via recovery (toggle MS-USB), and then booted into the bootloader and it worked.
Now storage is working on my rom again. Oh man, I can't keep doing stuff like this. I hope people who made the same mistake as me will be able to find this thread and know that there's still hope if they make the same mistake I did.
Did you read my post? I even downloaded the jb hboot to make sure it worked and its fine. Any more problems try posting in the thread titled "[FAQ] s-off" in the general section. That's the one I linked you to. I can't offer much more help as I have not had these issues but many others have.
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Did you read my post? I even downloaded the jb hboot to make sure it worked and its fine. Any more problems try posting in the thread titled "[FAQ] s-off" in the general section. That's the one I linked you to. I can't offer much more help as I have not had these issues but many others have.
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I did read the post. Did you read mine? I just said I got it working again after I noticed that further at the bottom of the FAQ. Anyway, I got it working now. Also, I posted in that thread earlier but nobody responded and I was starting to lose patience with the fear I locked myself out of my phone.
Glad you got it working. Just saw your post.
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Yay! Nobody got hurt and thus thread has reached a conclusion
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Yep, sure thing!
Now if only I hadn't gotten a class 2 32GB card. Transferring everything back from my backups is literally taking forever. But that's another issue altogether.
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I came from motorola phones so I'm used to locked bootloaders and the methods of hacking them. I've had the Rezound for almost 3 months now, and I'm currently running cleanROM 2.3. A few days ago I see we had a new ics leak, and from what I'm guessing, the rom bases have been updated for it. I'd like to flash the rooted leak, and install an ics rom, but I have a few questions. If I'm on ics already, what steps should I take? Do i have to go back to gb, and relock, or can I flash it through the current rom I'm on? Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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I came from motorola phones so I'm used to locked bootloaders and the methods of hacking them. I've had the Rezound for almost 3 months now, and I'm currently running cleanROM 2.3. A few days ago I see we had a new ics leak, and from what I'm guessing, the rom bases have been updated for it. I'd like to flash the rooted leak, and install an ics rom, but I have a few questions. If I'm on ics already, what steps should I take? Do i have to go back to gb, and relock, or can I flash it through the current rom I'm on? Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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you don't have to go back to gb, but you do have to relock. as for the full instructions, they're somewhere on in the forum. searching helps. as for me, i'm got gonna update mine yet, so that's as far as i can help
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I came from motorola phones so I'm used to locked bootloaders and the methods of hacking them. I've had the Rezound for almost 3 months now, and I'm currently running cleanROM 2.3. A few days ago I see we had a new ics leak, and from what I'm guessing, the rom bases have been updated for it. I'd like to flash the rooted leak, and install an ics rom, but I have a few questions. If I'm on ics already, what steps should I take? Do i have to go back to gb, and relock, or can I flash it through the current rom I'm on? Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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Wrong section bud, we have a Q & A
check out the 1st/2nd post on Wildstang's Twizted rom page. Very friendly instructions.
@mods - 'shut erdown
Ian
Here is the link from CleanRom to prepare you for new base ROMs:
http://www.scottsroms.com/showthread.php/856-HOW-TO-Prepare-for-CleanROM-4-0-Update?p=6527
It will take a while to flash and make sure you do reboot to boot loader the 2nd time so it flashes clean, but I would suggest backing up your SD card and internal storage. Good luck. I love the new leak, in the form of Clear ROM.
I'm having a bit of trouble updating my Rezound. I got the file named correctly and HBOOT detects it, however it loads/checks the RUU (blue/gold bars on the right) and then just goes back to the normal HBOOT menu without any error message or anything changing. I have relocked my Rezound.. Unsure of what else I can do. Any ideas?
You need to enter bootloader a second time for it to complete the full install.
It still isn't doing what it should be. It goes through loading/checking and then back into the normal bootloader menu. I then tried going into fastboot and back into bootloader, and the same process happened again. I also tried rebooting bootloader after it did the load/check process, but i'm not making any progress. By that, I mean it does the same exact thing.
After going through it the second time, what was the screen showing for your radio and hboot versions? Can't remember what the updated #'s off the top of my head but the radio should not be the .95### version.
Figured out the issue. I used an md5 checker and it came out wrong. guess I should try redownloading.. Must have gotten cutoff or something?
Sorry I got back so late, but thanks for the help everyone! Sorry about my post placement, I'm used to Droid forums and their Rezound section doesn't have a Q&A. Searching does help, but like I said, all of this dev support is a bit; overwhelming coming from a phone with little dev support, so people who can break it down for me are awesome.
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I will chime in and say that it is definitely worth it. As said before in the CleanROM thread Scott has a very detailed step by step guide. Just a few pointers before you jump in.
1) make sure you have a card reader for your computer that you can connect your removable micro-SD card to. Trust me, if you screw up somewhere in the process, having a reliable way to access the SD card is a life saver.
2) before flashing always wipe/factory reset 3 times, some think it is overkill, but if you end up with some odd glitch or bug when you just wiped once, you will most likely have to wipe and flash again to get rid of the bug...so of course you are actually saving time and hassle by just doing it 3 times in the first place.
3) make sure your battery is full or almost full before you start the process, you will avoid many problems by not having your phone battery die in the middle of a flash or update.
4) read, read and read again all the information and the instructions on what you are going to be doing, then make sure you understand and are comfortable Before you actually start. Reading through the forums and knowing beforehand what others have experienced, and the fixes, will make your life 100% better while you play with your phone.
All that said, the new RUU is awesome, better radio reception, better battery life for most (once you drain and recharge a few times), and ICS is very cool on the Rezound. Happy flashing people and hope you like ICS as much as I do.
So im new to the Rezound but not to the rom and rooting world. I had made a N00b mistake by flashing ICS to my rezound without following the proper directions. Now I got myself in a situation that im hoping to get out of. When I try to boot it lets me get to my homescreen but then after 10's it restarts the phone. To top it off, I cannot mount my sd. It seems like the phone is getting worst by the minute. Is there a way out of this? Is there some sort of way to access my internal sd from my comp. Just at a clear loss of ideas. Please help.
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So im new to the Rezound but not to the rom and rooting world. I had made a N00b mistake by flashing ICS to my rezound without following the proper directions. Now I got myself in a situation that im hoping to get out of. When I try to boot it lets me get to my homescreen but then after 10's it restarts the phone. To top it off, I cannot mount my sd. It seems like the phone is getting worst by the minute. Is there a way out of this? Is there some sort of way to access my internal sd from my comp. Just at a clear loss of ideas. Please help.
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What did you flash? Was it the new RUU? If you can get to your homescreen then you are still not in bad shape.
The build from the android police leak. I never ran into these problems before. I had the Bionic for a while thought I would give HTC a whirl. My brain is at a stand still lol. I looked for hours and cannot find anything. I usually feel bad posting in a forum but hey im stuck.
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The build from the android police leak. I never ran into these problems before. I had the Bionic for a while thought I would give HTC a whirl. My brain is at a stand still lol. I looked for hours and cannot find anything. I usually feel bad posting in a forum but hey im stuck.
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I guess what I'm referring to is that you say you didn't follow directions. Which directions didn't you follow? The steps are pretty straight forward.
Reading back, I flashed it with the bootloader unlocked and I wasnt supposed to. Also I was supposed to chancg something in a file and i neglected to do as well. Just looking for some type of solution to bail me out.
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Reading back, I flashed it with the bootloader unlocked and I wasnt supposed to. Also I was supposed to chancg something in a file and i neglected to do as well. Just looking for some type of solution to bail me out.
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Flash the ruu then the Rom of your choice. All the instructions are in the ruu thread to lock, flash, unlock, recovery, etc. Then flash a Rom and not the AP one.
You also have the option to flash one of the ICS ROMe with the old firmware patch but I recommend the RUU path.
Not to thread hijack, but just out of curiosity, why don't you recommend using the patch? I know some people prefer to because it doesn't mark the bootloader as tampered, but are there some adverse effects?
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Not to thread hijack, but just out of curiosity, why don't you recommend using the patch? I know some people prefer to because it doesn't mark the bootloader as tampered, but are there some adverse effects?
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Just that the new firmware is more stable with the ROM and everything works as expected.
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Flash the ruu then the Rom of your choice. All the instructions are in the ruu thread to lock, flash, unlock, recovery, etc. Then flash a Rom and not the AP one.
You also have the option to flash one of the ICS ROMe with the old firmware patch but I recommend the RUU path.
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Nils is right on this. You need to flash the RUU again. There are a lot of folks that needed to flash the RUU twice (myself included) to get everything to take.
It sound to me like you this happened to you. If you have the new RUU flashed properly, your phone will boot to the setup language preference screen.
If you had an incomplete/bad RUU update, you phone will boot to your last/current ROM with no SD or internal memory access. Nandroid backups won't restore properly either. Good luck, reflash the RUU with bootloader unlocked, allow system to reboot, flash a new recovery, and rock.
Hi, I'm new so I can't post in the dev threads. Here's my situation, I'd really appreciate anyone's help. Here's my current config:
S-OFF
HBOOT 2.11.2005 (just went back from 2.21)
Amon Ra 3.15
I'm having awful sdcard (both) issues and/or stability issues. What I've tried so far:
HBOOT 2.21 and Scott's Cleanrom 4.4. I can actually read the sdcards fine, but the rom reboots my phone and always gives me sim card errors. I've reflashed umteen times, wiped, wiped, erased davik again and again.
Restored original nandroid backup. Rom boots fine, can't see the sdcard(s)
So, I'm trying to go back to a GB rom (Cleanrom 1.7.5) but when I flash that rom, even with hboot 2.11, it can't see data on the sd cards. I've tried flashing "Old firmware patch.zip" but still can't read the cards.
On a related note, I can seem to talk to the phone fine via windows and adb (I have the htc drivers installed) but when I'm in what I think is "fastboot usb" any commands I run just say "waiting for device".
If I can get the phone back to GBE 1.7.5 I'd be super happy, as I have a titanium backup of it and I need this phone to be a phone again
Thank you.
You posted in the right place, the development forum is for developers to post their work, not our questions or plea for help. My guess is you need the old firmware patch you can find with many roms. All of Scotts roms put it on the SD card for you. Go look in the new CleanRom 4.4 thread and read the instructions on how to install. If that doesnt work find the appropriate RUU and flash that as per instructions.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1508118 Go to this thread and in the very first post there is Instructions about halfway down for old firmware and a download for the patch. Download the patch, put it on your sd card and flash in Amon Ra. Should be good after that. In the future use the search function ar read through some other threads to see if someone else is having the same problem you are.
Actually I've been reading and searching for hours trying to find the right bit, so please don't assume that.
I reflashed RUU and then Scott's GB rom and it looks good again.
Thanks for the help.
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Actually I've been reading and searching for hours trying to find the right bit, so please don't assume that.
I reflashed RUU and then Scott's GB rom and it looks good again.
Thanks for the help.
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I don't mean to assume but with your 2 posts and join date I will stay with my assumption that you haven't read enough. If you decide to try something you see in the forum make sure you read the entire thread from front to back to understand what you are about to do. I'm sure you were having a well documented issue which is why developers actually put it in the instructions to flash the patch immediately after you flash a Rom. But you should know that since you have been reading for hours. I don't mean to be a **** just telling it how it is.
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No worries, don't care.
i've flashed a few Roms already and often i'd have an SD issue after loading. for some reason i'm unable to mount my SD yet everything else would seem to be fine. (thats not the point of this thread but if you may know the reason that is, please let me know). anyway, so i'd try restoring my backup i made with my previous Rom, but for some reason, after finishing the restore process, it never boots up properly. it would always stay at the boot animation. I've had this same issue every time i've tried to restore and i've tried on a few different roms now. I'd always end up having to use the RUU to return to stock and then repeat the whole unlock/root process. i'm S-on, using the AmonRa recovery.
Is nand retsore not possible with the Rezound as of now or am i missing something?
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i've flashed a few Roms already and often i'd have an SD issue after loading. for some reason i'm unable to mount my SD yet everything else would seem to be fine. (thats not the point of this thread but if you may know the reason that is, please let me know). anyway, so i'd try restoring my backup i made with my previous Rom, but for some reason, after finishing the restore process, it never boots up properly. it would always stay at the boot animation. I've had this same issue every time i've tried to restore and i've tried on a few different roms now. I'd always end up having to use the RUU to return to stock and then repeat the whole unlock/root process. i'm S-on, using the AmonRa recovery.
Is nand retsore not possible with the Rezound as of now or am i missing something?
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You are missing a lot. The main problem is you are s-on and on gb firmware still. For the sd card you need to go find a Rom with sd card fix for non ics users. I know bored has it in his rezrom threads or just search for sd card fix. You flash that in recovery after flashing the Rom and before booting up the phone and your sd card problem should be resolved. Now your other problem is also because you are s-on. Recovery will not restore the boot.img unless you are s-off. So every time you restore you most likely have the boot.img from the last Rom you used which now is not compatible with your backup. You need to flash the boot.IMG in fastboot or save the ph98img.zip on the root of your sd card so they flash once you enter the fastboot after flashing the Rom and sd card fix. Now these are well documented issues and instructions are in the first few post of every Rom thread so you should have been able to find this yourself. I have also noticed attention to detail and following instructions is not your strong point so you may not want to attempt s-off on your own but if you try I suggest reading through all known problems and instructions several times so there is no confusion.
Bob out!
Try here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615969
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You are missing a lot. The main problem is you are s-on and on gb firmware still. For the sd card you need to go find a Rom with sd card fix for non ics users. I know bored has it in his rezrom threads or just search for sd card fix. You flash that in recovery after flashing the Rom and before booting up the phone and your sd card problem should be resolved. Now your other problem is also because you are s-on. Recovery will not restore the boot.img unless you are s-off. So every time you restore you most likely have the boot.img from the last Rom you used which now is not compatible with your backup. You need to flash the boot.IMG in fastboot or save the ph98img.zip on the root of your sd card so they flash once you enter the fastboot after flashing the Rom and sd card fix. Now these are well documented issues and instructions are in the first few post of every Rom thread so you should have been able to find this yourself. I have also noticed attention to detail and following instructions is not your strong point so you may not want to attempt s-off on your own but if you try I suggest reading through all known problems and instructions several times so there is no confusion.
Bob out!
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I wouldn't have felt the need to post this question if the answer was in plain sight. i do read through the Rom thread several times before attempting to flash it and when i came across these problems i went through them several more times and even looked through the first 5 to 10 pages of comments to see if anyone else had the same issue and only when i found nothing did i feel the need to post this. its disappointing how no senior member on this site can answer a question without passive aggressively calling the asking user an idiot. I hope that one day you understand when a user has a problem, that there is a possibility that the solution wasn't available to them in the thread and that XDA may have added the Q&A forums so that these users may find these solutions without receiving a demeaning lecture from someone who feels that everyone's level of knowledge on a specific subject must match his own before taking any sort of action.
But i have my answer now so thank you for that..
Not sure you understand how many times your exact questions have been asked. It's tiring answering the same question over and over when if the original poster had looked a little harder would have found the answer. I have personally helped several people within the last 2 weeks with the same problem and if you used the search function or scrolled past the first 2 threads would have found your answer. I apologize for the demeaning answer but I'm sure you will look a little harder before posting next time.
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Not sure you understand how many times your exact questions have been asked. It's tiring answering the same question over and over when if the original poster had looked a little harder would have found the answer. I have personally helped several people within the last 2 weeks with the same problem and if you used the search function or scrolled past the first 2 threads would have found your answer. I apologize for the demeaning answer but I'm sure you will look a little harder before posting next time.
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Can you answer me why I can't restore backups? I get an error just as it starts. It says oops something when wrong. Check the recovery log..
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First and foremost. I BIG Thank You to all the Dev's that give us these awesome tools and ROMS!
I probably should have put this in the Gen section, mods move if needed.
I have sent several hours the last 2 days with a goal in mind. That is to update my Amaze 4g to Jelly Bean, and restore my phone as it is now running JB
I feel that the best option will be AIO, and the 4EXT touch panel...be glad to pay and contirbute to this program and dev.
I believe I have a handle on most things now. But to make sure, I reread the tutorials follow videos etc...then this tutorial seems to direct me to another thread, click on that to ensure I'm not going to screw things up...it will be a dead link. So, back to reading other stuff again.
I finally understand recovery after I saw it mentioned many times. SO, according to the AIO, I'll need to flash a recovery. I couldn't find in my search, do I use the 4EXT contol panel, or the 4EXT free file. Is that what AIO needs. Not sure, did more searching. Still not sure.Then after these steps are complete, do I need to update the kernel? Again, not sure.
Then I come to the point of backing up everything. My goal is to have the new ROM running and then restore everything as it is now runnig ICS.
Is that possible? I'm not sure, as my search didn't find too much useful. I see Backup Pro recommended, will this accomplish my "cloning" if you will of my phone after ROM update....not sure.
Then, in regards to S-OFF. I will use the AIO for that as well. But again, not sure when to use it. Do I do that after the rooting, or before. From what I read, S-OFF will wipe your data. But, I understand it will leave the external SD card alone?
Then I get to the actual Jelly Bean ROM. It seems as though the CM10 seems to be the one to use. So, as i read about it's features; I see that the speakerphone volume doesn't work. Little confused, as to if speakerphone is the actual handset or the speakerphone when selected.
If it's the handset, I don't use BT so I would be DOA. Does this pertain to all the JB ROMS? It looked like there were only 2 actual JB Roms.
My other concern not addressed yet. A mention of the service being dropped on TMOUS with CM10.
So, I have tried to find out my info, but even when I do; it seems to take me to another path of more information. Hence further confusion.
This is not really a question per se, just wanted to show how I followed several paths; and still confused .
I know one of my biggest issues, is not using the search but inputting the correct data to get the answer I'm seeking. Which is why, I was all over the place.
I'm sure some reading this post will be Fire,Ready Aim. That's OK...Life's to short. After 2 days of this, I have to ask myself...is it worth it to me to accomplish this? Answer, Yes. So, I'll keep trying, till I have a comfort level of doing everything right the first time.
I guess, even though you have produced some great "Hand holding" tools, tutorials etc; there are still some "dummies"..me, that can still get confused.
I guess it would be like me putting you into the B737 I fly, even though you have a manual that tells you everything, you'll still have questions.
Thanks for allowing me to vent.
b737
PS mods, if you feel this is a waste of space, please delete....and I'll move on.
b737 said:
First and foremost. I BIG Thank You to all the Dev's that give us these awesome tools and ROMS!
I probably should have put this in the Gen section, mods move if needed.
I have sent several hours the last 2 days with a goal in mind. That is to update my Amaze 4g to Jelly Bean, and restore my phone as it is now running JB
I feel that the best option will be AIO, and the 4EXT touch panel...be glad to pay and contirbute to this program and dev.
I believe I have a handle on most things now. But to make sure, I reread the tutorials follow videos etc...then this tutorial seems to direct me to another thread, click on that to ensure I'm not going to screw things up...it will be a dead link. So, back to reading other stuff again.
I finally understand recovery after I saw it mentioned many times. SO, according to the AIO, I'll need to flash a recovery. I couldn't find in my search, do I use the 4EXT contol panel, or the 4EXT free file. Is that what AIO needs. Not sure, did more searching. Still not sure.Then after these steps are complete, do I need to update the kernel? Again, not sure.
Then I come to the point of backing up everything. My goal is to have the new ROM running and then restore everything as it is now runnig ICS.
Is that possible? I'm not sure, as my search didn't find too much useful. I see Backup Pro recommended, will this accomplish my "cloning" if you will of my phone after ROM update....not sure.
Then, in regards to S-OFF. I will use the AIO for that as well. But again, not sure when to use it. Do I do that after the rooting, or before. From what I read, S-OFF will wipe your data. But, I understand it will leave the external SD card alone?
Then I get to the actual Jelly Bean ROM. It seems as though the CM10 seems to be the one to use. So, as i read about it's features; I see that the speakerphone volume doesn't work. Little confused, as to if speakerphone is the actual handset or the speakerphone when selected.
If it's the handset, I don't use BT so I would be DOA. Does this pertain to all the JB ROMS? It looked like there were only 2 actual JB Roms.
My other concern not addressed yet. A mention of the service being dropped on TMOUS with CM10.
So, I have tried to find out my info, but even when I do; it seems to take me to another path of more information. Hence further confusion.
This is not really a question per se, just wanted to show how I followed several paths; and still confused .
I know one of my biggest issues, is not using the search but inputting the correct data to get the answer I'm seeking. Which is why, I was all over the place.
I'm sure some reading this post will be Fire,Ready Aim. That's OK...Life's to short. After 2 days of this, I have to ask myself...is it worth it to me to accomplish this? Answer, Yes. So, I'll keep trying, till I have a comfort level of doing everything right the first time.
I guess, even though you have produced some great "Hand holding" tools, tutorials etc; there are still some "dummies"..me, that can still get confused.
I guess it would be like me putting you into the B737 I fly, even though you have a manual that tells you everything, you'll still have questions.
Thanks for allowing me to vent.
b737
PS mods, if you feel this is a waste of space, please delete....and I'll move on.
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well this is a really big description and briefly you mean you want to root your phone and then s-off while having a good nanroid back then try the CM 10 JB rom right??
the process would go in this order
Unlock Bootloader >> 4EXT Recovery >> SuperUser >> S-OFF >> SuperCID >> ICS Firmware >> any ROM/OTA
you'll find all the stuff and instructions on how to do it in this post Guide for GB to ICS
cheers :good: