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★★★ NOOB GUIDE :: Root :: Odin :: Files :: Guides ★★★
PLEASE READ THIS FIRST POST IN IT'S ENTIRITY!!
As of July 2011, I am no longer updating this guide.
Please feel free to check here for updates (if any are made).
STEP ONE – RETURN TO STOCK JFD - USING ODIN
FOLLOW STEPS 2 - 4 :: THIS IS A GUIDE TO GO BACK TO JFD.
IT HAS ALL OF THE FILES NEEDED
I encourage you to use HashTab to verify the MD5 (verify it is a good download). These are large files – if it is NOT a good download you could really cause some issues. It takes 10 seconds – do it.
Once you are done, come back and proceed to ROOT.
GREAT, I AM ON JFD - HOW DO I ROOT?
You are likely still connected to your PC and booted up to the T-Mobile jingle. Great, drop the notification bar down and mount your phone...
There are two options here. Choose which is best for you, before you start.
ROOT ONLY METHOD:
A – This is an update.zip (633KB) that roots your phone only. You can then install Rom Manager from the Market to flash CWR (Clockwork Recovery) and install custom ROMs.
INSTALL CLOCKWORK RECOVERY AND FLASH A ROM THAT WILL GIVE ROOT ACCESS (MY PREFERRED METHOD):
B – use the other update.zip (1.7MB) and this will flash CWR for you – allowing you to immediately flash a custom ROM.. I do this because it's faster.
1.
A: Download this update.zip file to root your phone. You plan to install Rom Manager to flash CWR and a new ROM later.
B: Download this update.zip file to flash CWR... you will need to flash a custom ROM for Root. I prefer this method.
NOW DOWNLOAD THE ROM YOU PLAN TO FLASH
2.
Copy the update.zip (and the ROM) to the INTERNAL SD (not the external SD Card). sdcard/
3.
Unplug the USB (assuming you are still connected after using ODIN)...
Hold down volume up + volume down + Power for about 9 seconds.
If you prefer, you can power off your phone, then hold in all 3 buttons to boot into recovery, I don't see the point in waiting for the phone to power off.
This will get you to a recovery menu (blue/purple text) after some yellow text.
4.
In this (the stock recovery menu) select 'Reinstall Packages'
Use volume to navigate + power to select.
5.
It will cycle a bit, you will see that yellow text again, then it will return to the stock recovery. Select Reinstall packages again.
You are now in CWR (clockwork recovery).
You can either reboot, flash your new ROM or make a backup now...
I COVER HOW TO FLASH ROMS LATER – JUST KEEP READIN BELOW
Yeah, it is that easy!! Read below for more information if needed.... but at this point you probably are done with what you came here for. I would encourage reading below for general knowledge and making sure you are doing things as easily as possible.
OKAY, I HAVE ROOT - NOW WHAT? BACKUP!!!
** Below are a list of several things I suggest backing up **
Titanium Backup – APPS
Download Titanium Backup from the Market and Open it. The Paid version is worth it's weight in gold... it does everything automagically. Buy it if you plan to flash a lot or have a lot of apps.
Click Menu > Batch
Click on "Run" by backup all user apps
Click on Run the batch operation
All your apps are now backed up.
Please note that if you backup/restore System Apps, you are asking for problems. I do not ever mess with system apps and do not encourage it - unless you plan to stay on the same build. If you do, be smart about it.
Clockwork Recovery / Nandroid Backup!
Reboot into CWR (both volume buttons held in) while booting until you see “Vibrant'
Once there, go to Backup and run that. Should take about 5 minutes, maybe more.
If all hell breaks loose, this is a snapshot of your phone at that point... it's important to do this before flashing a new ROM!
Backup your Alternate Launcher (if you use one)
If you use a home replacement like ADW or LauncherPro, you can backup your home screen settings/icons (widgets cannot be restored however).
Launcher Pro: Click Menu > Preferences... scroll down to the bottom and click on backup.
ADW EX: Menu > ADW SETTINGS > BACKUP.
Once you flash your ROM, you can now RESTORE your settings.
Rooted... Got a Backup... let the fun begin!!
WHAT ROM SHOULD I FLASH?!?!?!
This question is asked a LOT. The most often answer? Read the development section and pick the one that seems to fit you... if that does not work, backup your apps and try another. This is a very liquid process. Things change, phones are different, people tastes are different. Try and try again.
I will point out that if you have backed up your apps, moving from rom to rom is NOT a hard process. You can ODIN to JFD and have a new ROM booting in 10 minutes. Easy.
OKAY, HOW DO I FLASH A ROM?
* I typically root/flash immediately after using ODIN. This is assuming you did not.
1 – Download the ROM to your PC. ROMs are typically 140-190+MB’s. So yeah, it’s a big file.
2 – Check the MD5 if so inclined (Using Hastab – linked above).
3 – Mount phone to PC
4 – Drag ROM to root of internal memory (the large SD card where folders like the DCIM folder appears).
Should appear as: sdcard/TheRomName.zip
You DO NOT need to rename the ROM
5 – Unmount and reboot into clockwork recovery (using Rom Manager, or by pressing in both volume buttons and power… holding… and releasing power once the Vibrant logo is up).
6 – OPTIONAL (in CWR): Do a Factory Wipe, Wipe Data, & Wipe Dalvik Cache (advanced menu)
7 – Go to “install zip from sd card”, select zip from sd... choose your ROM and flash it (volume keys move up/down, power selects)
8 – OPTIONAL (I do not do this): After flashing, choose to wipe data and dalvik cache
Do NOT factory wipe again
9 – Reboot phone
10 – Your new ROM is going to boot. Initial boot will take a LONG time (10 minutes maybe).
You may hear a lady's voice (Linda) converting your file system – this is normal if your ROM has the Voodoo lagfix. No worries.
Do not touch the phone for 5-10 minutes after it has booted... Seriously, Do Nothing!. . This helps clear any possible bugs. Once you've waited, reboot phone by holding in power for about 9 seconds (rough guess)... And then....
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RESTORE!!
After the phone boots and you waited, go to Market, Sign-in, Approve terms, Re-install Titanium Backup. I strongly suggest the Paid version (MUCH better)
Restore all Missing Apps+Data.
Again, I really do little with System apps.. too many issues, but the green ones may be fine to restore.
Restore anything else you have. (ie launcher)
Reboot again.
I dont use Facebook, but I've been told you need to remove it and add it sometimes?
WHAT ABOUT IF THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE ROM?
Let's assume you flashed Axura 2.2.6 and then a week later 2.2.7 is released... well, how do you update?
Easy, just download it, place it on your internal memory, backup using titanium backup, reboot to recovery, make a nandroid backup, flash the new rom and reboot.
Now... if you are going to try a new rom (not an update to your existing ROM), you may want to go back to stock first, then flash the custom rom.
Why go back to stock? Some say that if you are on one rom and go to another rom there may be ghosts left behind from the previous rom. Using ODIN to get back to stock and then flashing a ROM ensures this is not going to happen.
RECONDITION YOUR BATTERY
AFTER FLASHING A ROM IF BAD BATTERY IS NOTED
Use phone til it dies on it's own, completely dead.
Charge phone completely, plus 30 minutes longer.
Unplug phone from charger
Reconnect, you'll notice it's not full, charge till it is again.
This is bump charging and NOT something you want to do often, a few times is okay, in my opinion. You could skip the bump charge if you like.
Phone remains plugged in.
Boot into recovery (volumes + power)
Advanced > wipe battery stats, reboot.
Use phone til it's literally about to shut off (or does)
Charge till full +
Use phone like normal
Everyone has a method, that's how I feel it works best.
WORSE CASE SCENARIO - YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE - WHAT TO DO?
Almost always a phone is not actually bricked. If you can get into download mode or see ANYTHING you can ODIN back to stock and your phone is good to go.
If you are NOT able to get into download mode, please read the thread below to make a Jig!
TRY A NEW KERNEL/MODEM
New modems can increase signal and data speeds. Here is an incredible list of each thanks to XDA user scrizz.
Please pay notice to the version of android you are running (2.1, 2.2, etc.) CLICK HERE FOR A FULL LIST OF VIBRANT MODEMS
Kernels can overclock your processor, undervolt for battery, or remain stock but optimize things so the phone is snappier. These are always changing and there are always new builds coming out, so PLEASE review and make sure what you installing. These should install just like a rom... download, move to internal memory (sdcard/ ) and flash in clockwork recovery like you would a rom (install zip from sd).
NEED THE STOCK APPS BACK?
1 - Use the app BLOATER by Roman, it is found here!
THIS IS FOR THE MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO CAN NOT GET INTO DOWNLOAD MODE OR STOCK RECOVERY. This used to be much more detailed, but is no longer an issue. Links saved here, just in case.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9663212&postcount=53
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305]
I think that is an excellent idea. As a noob myself, its easy to get confused. Maybe a noobs guide to odin, or how to back your phone up to your pc. One can never have to much info.
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Do something on ODIN. I made a nandroid backup of my stock root but I have no idea what to do with it should something go wrong.
Great idea, I think most will appreciate something like this.
I think you may want to make sure you include a section about the various lagfixes. How to install, the importance of uninstalling and of course their definitions. I think it would help clear up the forums a bit.
I am actually NOT going to mention lag fixes at all. They are not for noobs and really do not benefit the user THAT much. If someone wants to add using lag-fixes, go for it... but it's not something I am going to recommend for a noob. With froyo especially, I consider these pointless (unless you want to see a high quadrant score).
Good point, maybe you'll want to mention them as evil and not meant for the weak at heart or anyone not willing to have a nice paperweight.
How about adding something for those new users who purchased a used phone. Maybe teach then what to look for before they flash anything.
Alright, not even close to being done...but I am at a stopping point right now. Will try and pick it back up later today. Please let me know what you guys want added.
ColorNapkin said:
Do something on ODIN. I made a nandroid backup of my stock root but I have no idea what to do with it should something go wrong.
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I agree, an "Odin for noobs" would be awesome.
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Great tut, but stuff like this will cause more "noobs" even with the simplicity you will get questions regarding how to do something. Lol whats your next step? Record yourself doing it, I.would die if you do.
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Guide added to WIKI
So added this link to Wiki for the Vibrant. http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S_SGH-T959#Good_Links
There is already a Odin guide on there under the [GUIDE] FIX AND RESCUE YOUR VIBRICK!
iwillkillyou said:
Great tut, but stuff like this will cause more "noobs" even with the simplicity you will get questions regarding how to do something. Lol whats your next step? Record yourself doing it, I.would die if you do.
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Actually... I probably was going to ODIN my phone (video 1), root it (video 2) flash clockwork (video 3) and flash a rom (video 4).....
I was cautious to accept the request to make an even simpler tutorial... frankly I spent a lot of time on the sticky and if that was not enough, well... perhaps you should not be rooting. That said, by doing this it will really clean up the sticky when it's done AND I need more space since I am running out, again.
Not many noobs asking for much... perhaps this effort is not needed?
If you want you can also link to my guide on how to fix Vibricks if you get a lot of questions about that as well x)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9370249
If you are going to create the be-all "brick" thread, could you at least explain that they are NOT BRICKED????
I think that this is great thread. I did ryans oclf to root my phone, because it seemed to be the easiest way to root. I think I will undo and start over using this guide. Before There always seems to be some question popping up where I find myself wondering what was meant so I would never take the plunge into flashing a rom.This seems to be more straight forward for me. I personally would love to see the video walk through which would make everything crystal clear. Thanks for this OP
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s15274n said:
If you are going to create the be-all "brick" thread, could you at least explain that they are NOT BRICKED????
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There, I semi-fixed it for now, I'll add more details later
Thanks so much for your wonderful work. I am a nubie and I am sure it will be a great deal of help to me. Is there any way you could include what fastboot is and how to use it? And when to use it? Once again thank you for your kind and generous efforts.
I went ahead and flashed axura 2.0.5 without any problems ( thanks to the vid on axura download page), but now I'm not sure about getting the Black froyo theme. It says to download zip and flash through clockwork recovery. Is that the same steps as flashing the rom? sorry in advance if this is a stupid question, but unless it is crystal clear I am very hesitant. thanks again
roly17 said:
I went ahead and flashed axura 2.0.5 without any problems ( thanks to the vid on axura download page), but now I'm not sure about getting the Black froyo theme. It says to download zip and flash through clockwork recovery. Is that the same steps as flashing the rom? sorry in advance if this is a stupid question, but unless it is crystal clear I am very hesitant. thanks again
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I think you download the zip to your internal sd card, boot into clockwork recovery and install the zip from there.
As for a ODIN guide for n00bs, not sure how much easier you can get:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ
Thats what i think too, but not sure. Do i click on install rom from sd card to get to the theme zip file? I tried this and it brought me into clockwork recovery(?), but the install of the zip was not obvious to me. So I just rebooted and nothing happened. I know I did something wrong , just not sure what.
Tuesday night I loaded CM7, and then the Market wouldn't update my apps so I decided I would restore BAMF 1.5. After doing so, the Market just gave me "Fails" trying to update, and I could not access recovery, as I was going to do a complete wipe and reflash. Most of Wednesday, an extremely helpful & knowledgable member, Mattgyver83, tried diligently to help me rectify the situation, but to no avail. We tried to Fastboot, tried flash_image, tried fix permissions...shoot, I practically wore out adb..anyway, I ended up reverting back to stock and unrooted. I used jcase's method to revert back to stock, and that was painless, and successful. I decided last night to try rooting again, thinking a fresh root would solve my issue of not being able to access recovery. Root was successful, but I still cannot access recovery, through rom manager, or through bootloader. When I attempt it my Tbolt goes to white HTC screen, and stays there. All functions of my phone now work, and all aspects of root work, except I cannot flash anything. Rom manager shows I have clockwork recovery, but I just can't get to it.
Sorry for the long ramble. If anyone has had this issue, or if anyone knows a fix, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I wait for Gingerbread.
Thanks
Happened to me with CM7 builds. For some reason they were erasing the recovery. Just have to reflash the recovery in Rom Manager and you'll be all set in the future.
do what i do pull batt leave out for a min, then put the batt back in and connect usb right away.
travishamockery said:
Happened to me with CM7 builds. For some reason they were erasing the recovery. Just have to reflash the recovery in Rom Manager and you'll be all set in the future.
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Tried that, but thanks. Still just goes to white HTC screen, and stays there until I do battery pull.
jr4000watts said:
do what i do pull batt leave out for a min, then put the batt back in and connect usb right away.
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I can get to bootloader, just not able to get into recovery.
I'm stabbing in the dark at this, but this did work for me with my Droid...
I had a similar issue with my Droid. Someone recommended that I flash recovery multiple times before trying to reboot. The comments were basically that you need to flash recovery 3-5x until the flashing process is a mere few short seconds. Evidently that is an indication that the flash has occurred correctly.
Ie. Flash recovery and wait until the confirmation pop-up/message only takes a few seconds to pop up. If the message takes longer than 5 seconds or so, re-flash recovery and repeat until the confirmation comes up quickly.
This sounded retarded to me, but I was at the end of my rope so I tried it. It worked like a charm.
M.
monolithic said:
I'm stabbing in the dark at this, but this did work for me with my Droid...
I had a similar issue with my Droid. Someone recommended that I flash recovery multiple times before trying to reboot. The comments were basically that you need to flash recovery 3-5x until the flashing process is a mere few short seconds. Evidently that is an indication that the flash has occurred correctly.
Ie. Flash recovery and wait until the confirmation pop-up/message only takes a few seconds to pop up. If the message takes longer than 5 seconds or so, re-flash recovery and repeat until the confirmation comes up quickly.
This sounded retarded to me, but I was at the end of my rope so I tried it. It worked like a charm.
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Thanks, but that didn't work. I think something in my os got lost when I restored BAMF from CM7.
Yea I spent a good few hours yesterday trying to help Orio out and we attempted a ton of things to try and fix the recovery issue, this post should offer a bit more insight to the methods used, this is running off memory;
adb reboot recovery failed
Reinstall latest Rom Manager apk and Flash CWM
flash latest rom manager via fastboot (CWM only)
(fastboot flash recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.5.img)
**did not do fastboot erase recovery first**
"return to stock safely and properly" XDAthread by jcase
return to stock image [RUU], reroot, try again
try to boot into recovery via hboot
manually installed fix_permissions.sh script and busybox on rooted stock, ran.. didnt fix
tried to see if flash_image method would work, didn't
All of the above have failed and we basically tried almost all combinations. Not once would this phone get back into recovery, even after flashing the appropriate RUUs which include either stock android or CWM recovery. The only thing we have not currently attempted which might be the last thing left is to do is manually install the nandroid.sh script and do an advanced restore of the recovery image only from a nandroid backup on SD. I would rather not go down this method as it could have an undesired result, I have done it to restore a G1 back in the day but not 100% if its gonna work on a tbolt. Thankfully his phone boots, and we can get into hboot, but yea.. pretend recovery just doesnt exist at all...
Curious if anyone has any knowledge above what we have already tried.
monolithic said:
I had a similar issue with my Droid. Someone recommended that I flash recovery multiple times before trying to reboot. The comments were basically that you need to flash recovery 3-5x until the flashing process is a mere few short seconds. Evidently that is an indication that the flash has occurred correctly.
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I recall the same thing and its a good thought however that was mostly a generic error due to a CWM update and CM6 (I think) but either way flashing an RUU should override this shortcoming and im pretty sure that issue was worked out in CWM as well.
Not to be rude, but I don't think this question belongs in the development section.
Orio56 said:
I can get to bootloader, just not able to get into recovery.
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do you still have the P zip file for the radio (baseband) on your SD card? if you do....try to delete it...then hold power and volume down button down....then see if you can get into recovery....
probably not going to work...but it is worth a try......
hogowner said:
do you still have the P zip file for the radio (baseband) on your SD card? if you do....try to delete it...then hold power and volume down button down....then see if you can get into recovery....
probably not going to work...but it is worth a try......
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Thanks, but no, I deleted that after loading it. I actually reverted back to stock/unrooted last night and rerooted and the problem still remains. It's quite strange.
maybe i missed it if someone suggested this but what about flashing an older version of CWM?
shelooga said:
maybe i missed it if someone suggested this but what about flashing an older version of CWM?
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That is what I was going to suggest. In ROM Manager at the very bottom try and flash an older version.
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SUCCESS !!!
I fixed it !
Apparently, when I loaded up cm7, files showed up about the same time on my sdcard in clockworkmod download file. I deleted those files, and reflashed clockworkmod in rom manager, (which this time took like 3 - 4 minutes), and rebooted into recovery and it worked...did it again, just in case it was a fluke and it worked.
All is well now...the planets are realigned !!!
Thanks everyone for your ideas and especially thanks to mattgyver83 who helped me for something like 4 hours yesterday. Exceptional kindness !!
mods...you can close this thread.
GREAT NEWS!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
THANKS FOR REPORTING BACK!
This may help out other members with the same problem!!
now go ahead and start playing with your T-BOLT again!
That's a very odd solution. My first two things to try would have been:
1) fastboot:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery C:\some\local\path\recovery.img
You can't, well, probably shouldn't, flash a recovery from the /sdcard. When in fastboot mode I don't think the sdcard is even mounted. Either way, I think fastboot needs the img file on the local file system.
2) Create a PG05IMG.zip file with the recovery.img file in it, and flash that through HBOOT. Although this should have been done in some form or fashion when you downgraded or re-rooted, so YMMV.
hello i have resently unlocked my bootloader through htc's unlock method. i then followed that with installing cwm 4.0.1.4 and then rooting my phone through cwm.
i have read over http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193948 to understand everything i would be getting with the synergy rom. however i cannot seem to find an installation guide anywhere and after researching everything thing i could find from my understanding i need to do these things
install my rom OM|Nightly|◄●|Synergy 3Dvo|●►|2.3.4RLS1(zeus mods)|☆TESTING EXT4 TWEAKS|
flash over a compatible kernel
flash over a proper radio img (which from my understanding if done wrong WILL brick my phone)
my questions are. 1 in what order do i do these things? 2 how do i flash my radio? 3 is this the correct command for flashing a kernel (fastboot flash boot bootimgname.img)
thank you in advance for any response and i do apologize for all the questions. im just really fearful of bricking a $600 phone
Simple
Ok first off odds are you have the latest radio go into settings>about phone> software information>more if your baseband version is 0.97.10.0808 you have the newest radio. To flash the synergy rom download the appropriate file plug in your phone to your computer and move the zipped file to the root of your SD card don't unzip it move the whole zipped file. Power off your phone and then holding the power button and the volume down button your phone will reboot just keep holding them until it does you will be at the boot loader after it runs through the loading option scroll down to recovery press the power button to go to recovery. Once in recovery scroll down to apply zip from sd card press the power button press the power button gain on choose zip from sd card you should now see the synergy rom you place there on the root of you SD card press the power button again to flash the rom once it had finished continue going back until you get to the main screen and click on reboot phone viola your done you don't need a different kernal the one that comes with the rom works just fin hope this helps if you get stuck you cam PM me and I will try and help
chemicalinferno said:
hello i have resently unlocked my bootloader through htc's unlock method. i then followed that with installing cwm 4.0.1.4 and then rooting my phone through cwm.
i have read over http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193948 to understand everything i would be getting with the synergy rom. however i cannot seem to find an installation guide anywhere and after researching everything thing i could find from my understanding i need to do these things
install my rom OM|Nightly|◄●|Synergy 3Dvo|●►|2.3.4RLS1(zeus mods)|☆TESTING EXT4 TWEAKS|
flash over a compatible kernel
flash over a proper radio img (which from my understanding if done wrong WILL brick my phone)
my questions are. 1 in what order do i do these things? 2 how do i flash my radio? 3 is this the correct command for flashing a kernel (fastboot flash boot bootimgname.img)
thank you in advance for any response and i do apologize for all the questions. im just really fearful of bricking a $600 phone
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if your going to flash synergy use the offical build i wouldnt use the unoffical till u have tried out the rom. firt you will place the rom on sd card it doesnt matter where as long as you know where it is when you go into recovery after that reboot your phone then if you want flash a kernal you will also do that in recovery as for radios there is a sticky post in the cdma dev thread where it says root/roms/guide just go to the radio section if you have anymore questions ir need help with anything you can pm me anytime i will be more than happy to help
Thanks guys. I flashed CleanROM 2.3 right after I posted this. Its pretty much the same thing just wasn't sure and I've bricked an older phone before so I just wanted to makes sure I didn't do it with my 3d. Thanks again!
no problem if u ever need help with anything pm me i will happy to help
Hey so I installed synergy and ran into a few issues with it. One issue was none of the restart shutdown options function how they are support to. Most just reboot the phone rather than booting into recovery or shutting down. I also couldn't restore batch backups in titanium backup. I had a few other issues that are currently slipping my mind. Could this be happening because I'm using my stock kernel?
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.
TheAxman said:
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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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.
Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 2
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You would flash the rom, and after, flash your verizon kernel, simple as that.
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?
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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?
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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....
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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....
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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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