I have Alpha 4 of dragonzkiller's CM9 mod for the X2 installed but I am confused on how to update it to Alpha 5 (and beyond). When I looked for the patched BSR the link posted by dragonzkiller is dead as well.
If I can get a hold of the patched BSR do I just follow the installation steps exactly as I did when I installed CM9 for the first time? Or are the steps different because it's an update?
For reference, here is where I was trying to get the patched BSR from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21342515&postcount=1
It should be exactly the same as how you did it the first time. Get into BSR (when you get it) and wipe data/factory reset. Then wipe cache. Then go into advanced and wipe dalvik cache. Then flash the CM9 update zip file then the gapps file. Before you do all that, it would be a good idea to back up all your apps with Titanium Backup. Maybe even do a nandroid backup of your current rom in case something goes wrong, saving you from doing an SBF.
In the future, I would just keep all the necessary files, like the patched BSR, on your SD card for future flashing. Good luck
The link worked for me from my phone. When downloaded locate file using your browser of choice and install apk.
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Update: Nevermind, it was just taking longer than usual to boot. I've got the initial Droid setup screen showing right now. :victory:
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Hello everyone,
I'm new to the Eris. I've had it for a few months, but this is the first "in-depth" thing I've done with it.
I've decided to take the plunge and root the phone. I'm going to use the on-screen method.
My question is this: What do I need to do to prepare? I've got all my apps backed up to the SD card, and the phone is charging right now.
Any suggestions as to what ROM to use? Or what I need to get the Froyo update, etc?
I'm new, so I'm browsing and learning, but any information you guys have would be great. Thanks in advance.
If you want a Froyo rom, that is what you'll need to download. There are about a half dozen in the development section and all mention "Froyo" in the title. Read the entire thread and it's not a bad idea to read some comments. If the developer says you need the google apps aka gapps zip, get it too. Put both files (or only one if gapps isn't needed) on the root (not in any folders) of your sd. Once you're rooted you should enter recovery by powering off, then boot holding power and vol up (rooting instructions may take you there anyway). Youll see options to reboot, ms toggle, backup/restore, etc. Go to back up/restore and create a nandroid by following the prompts. Press vol down until you return to the home screen, then go to wipe. Wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache. Vol down back to the main screen and flash the new rom and gapps (if needed). ENJOY. Note: Read all instructions thoroughly before rooting. If any instructions i've listed are different then those listed in the official instructions, follow them first. Once you're rooted and begin changing roms frequently you need to always make a nandroid of the current rom your own (in case you dont like the new one or have problems flashing it), wipe data and dalvik (ext partition too if your sd card is partitioned and you're using a rom which allows apps2sd via a partitioned sd card - froyo currently does not), and backup your apps/settings via the app of your choice before flashing. If your upgrading your current rom you usually wont have to do a wipe (the developer will indicate it in the instructions).
It's a good idea to back up your apps before flashing new roms. Titanium is my favorite app but its for root only. Search the market. You can probably find an app to use before you root.
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If you want a Froyo rom, that is what you'll need to download. There are about a half dozen in the development section and all mention "Froyo" in the title. Read the entire thread and it's not a bad idea to read some comments. If the developer says you need the google apps aka gapps zip, get it too. Put both files (or only one if gapps isn't needed) on the root (not in any folders) of your sd. Once you're rooted you should enter recovery by powering off, then boot holding power and vol up (rooting instructions may take you there anyway). Youll see options to reboot, ms toggle, backup/restore, etc. Go to back up/restore and create a nandroid by following the prompts. Press vol down until you return to the home screen, then go to wipe. Wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache. Vol down back to the main screen and flash the new rom and gapps (if needed). ENJOY. Note: Read all instructions thoroughly before rooting. If any instructions i've listed are different then those listed in the official instructions, follow them first. Once you're rooted and begin changing roms frequently you need to always make a nandroid of the current rom your own (in case you dont like the new one or have problems flashing it), wipe data and dalvik (ext partition too if your sd card is partitioned and you're using a rom which allows apps2sd via a partitioned sd card - froyo currently does not), and backup your apps/settings via the app of your choice before flashing. If your upgrading your current rom you usually wont have to do a wipe (the developer will indicate it in the instructions).
It's a good idea to back up your apps before flashing new roms. Titanium is my favorite app but its for root only. Search the market. You can probably find an app to use before you root.
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Wow, thanks for getting back to me with such detail. Very, very much appreciated. It turns out however, that I won't be able to do this.
I checked out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742228
I found that I had release keys under my build number, which indicates is the 2.1 leak - which really sucks, because I got the update OTA... why would they send out a leaked platform? That sucks
Ah well, thanks very much for your help. I'm going to take a look at my brothers phone, and see if we can root that. Thanks
You CAN root ANY eris now. Do a little more research.
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my advice would be to save yourself the hadache and just dl the 1 click root app. soo worth it plus it goes to a good cause...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742228
DUMMIES, FOLLOW THIS STEPS TO INSTAL MIK_OS GINGERBREAD CYANOGENMOD 7 PORT:
FIRST OF ALL GO HERE AND READ MIK's POST and thank Mik for his work!!!!!!!!!!!!
READ THE CHANGELOGS AND THE KNOWN BUGS!!!!!
Let's suppose you have Froyo on your device and want to go Gingerbread:
- you need: root, custom recovery, and rom zip from here
- boot into recovery, go to backup/restore and do a backup. For your own privet safety, you could use TitaniumBackup before booting into recovery to backup your files and settings.
- while in custom recovery, go to wipe and perform all wipes. WIPE DATA AND CACHE IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM FROYO! Go to adb shell and make a /system wipe (mount /system in recovery; adb shell rm -rf /system/*), or copy this file on sd, and flash it via cusom recovery to automatically wipe your /system data
- after the wipe, put your rom on the sd card - get the beta2 here , and flash it from custom recovery.
- wait until it boots up and set the phone up. If you're stuck on LG logo it means you didn't performe the wipes corectly, mainly the system wipe.
- you will have no google apps after the install, so go here and get them, or manually download them from market
- you now have Mik_os unofficial CyanogenMod 7 2.3.3 on you phone. Install TitaniumBackup and perform a restore if you used this metod to backup your data as i described in the second step.
Now, if you have an older version of Mik's CM7:
-boot into recovery and flash the newer version just like that. It will update the one you have on your device, and no data will be lost.
GO AGAIN TO THE OFFICIAL DEV THREAD AND RE-READ THE BUGS AND CHANGELOGS. AND AGAIN... THANK MIK FOR HIS WORK!!!!!
If you have questions about Mik's port, go to the correct thread and ask them! This is not a developer thread, it is just for info, or for those of you who are new to xda and cannot post in dev threads.
AND AGAIN, THANK MIK FOR HIS WORK, AND BUY HIM A LOLLYPOP VIA PAYPAL.
I have tried your steps but could not install this ROM. It got stuck on the boot animation. An it wasn't CM7 animation. Tried few times but without any luck. Now i am back to my old rom. atleast i did not brick my phone but i will sure give it a another try
You are probabily stuck at the lg logo. You should try to wipe the system manually, by adb or flashing the zip I linked in the original post, in the third step. I had the same problem, but this solves it.
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Ruwin said:
You are probabily stuck at the lg logo. You should try to wipe the system manually, by adb or flashing the zip I linked in the original post, in the third step. I had the same problem, but this solves it.
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I wasn't stuck on LG Logo. I had Megatron installed, it went through LG logo, then got stuck Megatron's Android Logo. Seems the rom was never installed properly and i have tried few times.
I have wiped everything, i have flashed from the zip you provided, and also i re-partitioned the sd card but it never worked
Did you got any errors when flashing cyanogen zip? From what you said, I think you shoul rewipe everything, part the sd 0 swap, ext 2 to ext3 and ext3 to ext 4. Make sure that you have the check for signed option in custom recovery.
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Ruwin said:
Did you got any errors when flashing cyanogen zip? From what you said, I think you shoul rewipe everything, part the sd 0 swap, ext 2 to ext3 and ext3 to ext 4. Make sure that you have the check for signed option in custom recovery.
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I have done all of the above, may be the zip file got corrupted. Anyway, i will try again this weekend. thanks
How did you do the system wipe? You flashed the zip for wipeing or did you do it from adb shell?
I have another friend that flashed the /system wipe tool, and forgot to flash the actuall rom zip file, and had the exact simptomes as you described.
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Ruwin said:
How did you do the system wipe? You flashed the zip for wipeing or did you do it from adb shell?
I have another friend that flashed the /system wipe tool, and forgot to flash the actuall rom zip file, and had the exact simptomes as you described.
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I used custom recovery, nandroid back up, then re-partition the sd card. then wiped the card, then usb toggle to copy 2 zips on to sd card. flashed debug system just in case and then flashed mik's rom. I don't know where did it go wrong.
Would have been great if someone made a step by step video and put that on youtube
Have you wiped cache/dalvink cache/android secure and the rest from the wipe menu?
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Ruwin said:
Have you wiped cache/dalvink cache/android secure and the rest from the wipe menu?
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Yes, I think so. Don't worry about it for the moment. if it worked for you, it will work for me too. I may have missed something that i can't remember. I will give it a try again this weekend
Although if you could give me the Partition requirements. I know the swap should be zero. But how much should i use for ext2?
Ext partiton can be how big you want, it's where a2sd puts the files and other cache info. I use 512 mb, and works flawless.
I will make a video guide in the morning, and link it in the original post.
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Do I need to install that new recovery? Or is the one you posted a link to OK?
There is a new recovery that's been in the development forum for a few weeks that says it's for gingerbread.
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Do I need to install that new recovery? Or is the one you posted a link to OK?
There is a new recovery that's been in the development forum for a few weeks that says it's for gingerbread.
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The link i posted goes to another thread that explains some basic stuff. Including the recovery. But i didn't find any problems using different versions of custom recovery. So go for which one you like more, as long as it can backup your system
1. go in recovery mode
2. wipe everything
3. then go to others
4. mount/system
5. flash the system zip
6. flash the rom zip
7. reboot
it worked for me. hope it helps
Ruwin buddy, you will be happy to know that i am using Mik's rom. I still don't know what went wrong last time. If some thing that i had done differently, that would not upgrading ext3 to ext4.
Thanks buddy for the support and the tips
Thank you very much!!! Will try this today.
Is it possible to get the SMS widget back? The simple one from Market sucks...
Do I need to partition the SD-card?? The directions made no mention of this.
how to enable 3G mode only in this rom ?
Good work, very useful.
hi every one
i have proove to install the beta for photon and everything goes right untill the poin where i enter in the file with name beta-0.1.2 etc
here i find 2 files
1)meta-inf
2)system
but i have not the posibility to install beta like show qbking 77 in his video
anyone know why hapen this
thank you
did you unzip the file?
You should not unzip the file. Just use the zip and flash it through cwm
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i will proove and let u know
an other question
i have download the 2 files from the site of joker that are in winrar. now i must put the two files in this way in sd card of the phone?
ok i have installed
thank you
but now i can't make call
anyone know what i do bad
Just as a suggestion...always do the clean install method:
- nandroid backup
- format system
- wipe data/factory reset
- wipe cache/dalvik
- reboot recovery
- flash ICS ROM
- flash newest joker gapps
- reboot
- reboot again
Yeah. Most issues are caused by a failure to wipe.
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Make sure you get the cwm from joker too. Dont use the one rom manager gives you. It wouldnt let me flash anything.
I put cm9 on my phone, yesterday. I tryed to put the google apps on my phone by going into recovery and installed from sd card. It did not work. Can someone give me the steps on how to put this on my phone
LAWSON72 said:
I put cm9 on my phone, yesterday. I tryed to put the google apps on my phone by going into recovery and installed from sd card. It did not work. Can someone give me the steps on how to put this on my phone
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Are you getting an error when you attempt to flash gapps? If so, what's the output?
The steps aren't very detailed, download the zip, check the MD5 and flash it from recovery. Wipe data and cache, reboot.
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip
MD5 7c524e1e078164f681e0aa6753180b2c
LaserChicken said:
Are you getting an error when you attempt to flash gapps? If so, what's the output?
The steps aren't very detailed, download the zip, check the MD5 and flash it from recovery. Wipe data and cache, reboot.
http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip
MD5 7c524e1e078164f681e0aa6753180b2c
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i think i may have downloaded a different file thanks for the help. Ill try it again in a little bit.
How exactly did it fail? Flash CM9 from the patched CM7 recovery if already on CM7 or CM9 - Flash Gapps zip - Wipe Data - Wipe cache. It's that simple. Never had a flash fail for me unless the zip was broken or my battery was too low. Oh yeah... Make sure your battery is charged 50% +
I believe there is an updated gapps zip for alpha 4 specifically, so make sure you use that one instead of the old one that's already on your sd card from alpha 3. FYI gapps zip does not install google apps on your phone. You will still need to download apps like maps, earth, youtube, goggles, etc from the market.
Sorry if you know/tried all of that... OP was kind of vague...
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please help..!!
PLEASE HELP
every thing is working perfectly buut as i insert my sim the phone hangs in a few seconds and reboots..
dont want to go to ginger bread ever again PLEASE HELP:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
Installed Safestrap for my first time. Opened app, installed recovery, rebooted and hit menu button when I saw Motorola screen. Nothing happened and it rebooted normally. What am I doing wrong?
You are rooted, correct?
Indeed. Bootstrap isn't installed either. I feel like a noob, but it seems simple to use yet it won't work. I'm trying to install a custom ROM and it gives the link to the Safestrap apk so I know it's the right apk.
JDunc said:
Indeed. Bootstrap isn't installed either. I feel like a noob, but it seems simple to use yet it won't work. I'm trying to install a custom ROM and it gives the link to the Safestrap apk so I know it's the right apk.
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If your on ics make sure ur using safe strap 2.0
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error while restoring /systemorig!
I just updated my razr CDMA X912to ICS (OTA 6.16.211) and used the DroidRaxrUtility 1.7 (thanks mattlgroff!) to root and install safestrap 2.0. I am going through the motions of backing up and restoring but keep getting the error "error while restoring /systemorig!"
I dont feel confident to add a custom rom on my safe system until i know I can restore on my non-safe system.
Steps taken:
-reboot into recovery (safe system :disabled)
-create backup
-reboot
-make subtle changes to wallpaper and add a few apps
-reboot into recovery (safe system: disabled)
-restore for ext-sd
-locate back up made and confirm restore.
it checks the md5 sum and then begins to restore /systemorig and eventually fails.
Update: I had to do a full wipe and recovery using the blur 6.12.181 stock image. now i am able to restore safestrap backups. I used Mattlgroff's 1.7 utility, option 1