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I am trying to downgrade my RC30 to RC29, so I can root my G1. Well, I copt DREAIMG.nbh to my SD card, but when I go to boot my phone, I get a multi colored screen that stays there, and it says no image found.
Did T-Mobile find a way to block the root capabilities, or am I bieng an idiot.
Please help.
Thank you
use the search option this question has been asked soooooooooooooo many times ....
see thats the thing, I have gone through android-dls and followed the destructions to a T, but I get red/green/blue/white screen that has a white bar with serial0 in it.
I talked to one of the reps @ T Mobile that told be about rooting when I bought the phone on Sat, and now his isnt working......
Here's what you need
http://android-dls.com/files/upload/DREAIMG.nbh
rename this file DREAMIMG.nbh and place it on your sdcard root (the card may repeat may need reformatted -mine didn't but a friends did so try it without first).
then reboot with the camera button depressed, you should get the coloured lines, it should recognise the image. if this doesn't happen reformat your sdcard as fat32 (this is easily done from windows mac or linux) place the image on the sdcard root as above and try again.
At last count this has not been fixed! but most likely will be with the new rc33 roll out!
Let us know how you get on mate.
Right on man, I am starting on it now, will let ya know in a few.....
unfortunately, it still is not recognizing the img, the card has been reformatted to FAT32, and still no avail. The DREAMIMG.nbh is the only file on the SD card
i am on build tc4-rc30, if that helps, doubt it, but I am at a loss as to what to do. I upgraded from the Shadow, and I miss so many of the features, dont really miss WM, but oh well
Did you check the MD5 of the file you downloaded?
Should be: 53840b90a0fe1bfab19fab8ef8fb9724
Did you put DREAIMG.NBH or DREAIMG.nbh? its all caps try that or the file might be corrupted try downloading it again
oh yeah and its DREAIMG not DREAMIMG (sorry for the second post)
Yes it is MD5 53840b90a0fe1bfab19fab8ef8fb9724 and I had it named both DREAIMG and DREAMIMG
I have reformatted the card again, and still, when I reboot with the camera button held, a quick white screen flashes and I can barely see that it says no image found, then back to the multicolored screen, with a white bar, with serial 0 in it. I can soft reset it, but nothing.....
umm try downloading a different file the first time i did i got a update failed message so i just got another one and it worked
see the problem is, I have dl the file from here, http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Root_For_RC30, and http://www.webnetta.com/2009/01/02/how-to-downgrade-your-g1-to-get-root/
And all of them with the same results. Sorry for all this guys, Im not a newb to getting into the guts of my phones, but this one is pissin me off lmao
http://www.modmygphone.com/files/firmwares/DREAIMG-RC29.zip
try this one the android wiki doesnt work i got update failed on that one the 1st time
working on it now
well i tried it on mine right now just for fun lol and it worked so you should be ok just make sure its in the root of the sd card and not in any type of folder
still the same ****. I dont know what else to do
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well i tried it on mine right now just for fun lol and it worked so you should be ok just make sure its in the root of the sd card and not in any type of folder
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it is the ONLY file on the sd card. No folders. 1GB card
umm the i dunno i got the message you said when i tried it with a blank sd card it should show that you have it try the rc 30
Hmmm, okay....so i am trying to Mod my phone, and have read all the ways to do so. I appear to be stuck at the first step though. Formating the SD card.
I connect the phone to the computer and go to the removable disk and try to format, and i always get the error...."Please Insert Disk" and then it automatically disconnects the phone!
Is there something i am doing wrong?
My phone has been updating to crc1 or whatever, no rc29.
Any help?
READ THIS THREAD!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=535232
not the first few pages but the entire thing.
in it you will see all the available ways of doing so. theres a bunch.
anyways. its covered. just get started.
your gonna wanna start with "downgrading" to RC-29 by putting dream.nch (or something similar, check the link)on your sd card. renamimng it update.zip and the rooting. it goes on from there.
ENJOY!!
Basically your computer hates your phone. I have had many problems with mounting the sdcard, which is why i got a card reader. Make sure you don't move the usb cable once it is plugged up to the phone, if it still doesn't work, do you have another device with a sdcard spot thet you can connect it to the computer with. Also its DREAIMG.nbh exactly that. If your card absolutely will not connect to your computer then follow the guide in my sig and download on your phone then move it to the root of your sdcard with astro or something.
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Basically your computer hates your phone. I have had many problems with mounting the sdcard, which is why i got a card reader. Make sure you don't move the usb cable once it is plugged up to the phone, if it still doesn't work, do you have another device with a sdcard spot thet you can connect it to the computer with. Also its DREAIMG.nbh exactly that. If your card absolutely will not connect to your computer then follow the guide in my sig and download on your phone then move it to the root of your sdcard with astro or something.
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Oh...meet one of the masters. He has a point. I'm the proud owner of 3 properly formatted sd cards. . Then I broke down and bought a card reader.
Trust me.....its better to slow down and read then ask a few questions and tate success. The enrire platform is exploding and the things our devs can do is wonderful, understanding the basics will prove to be greatly beneficial soon!!!
Wait till you see the theme threads!!!
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Oh...meet one of the masters.
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what is that suppose to mean lol.
reading and asking questions is for losers lol, not really though it is best to read through the process a few times and make sure you have all the files downloaded before you start, also if you have a cheap little phone you can pop your sim card into in case something takes longer than you plan is a good option thats a plus.
don't do like i did where i had no clue what i was doing and spent like 2 and a half hours trying to root my phone.
Hopefully there is hope for me. I've recently discovered the wonderful world of rooting and rooted my nook successfully. After root I loaded ROM Manager and started the process of backing up with the clockworkmod. (I'm very new to rooting so I'm not sure exactly where I went wrong). Somewhere in the process I got stuck in a menu loop in clockwork. I trolled the forums and attempted several things including CRW removal and Nook complete restore. I'm not sure I attempted them correctly as I was still in the CRW menu screen. Now, my nook will not even turn on plugged in or otherwise. Any help (and please make it detailed step by step) would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep my eye close to this thread throughout the evening. Thank you in advance for helping out a new rooter. ChipD
can't really help other then say that your nook is fine... just keep looking at all the 'bricking' threads in this forum. there are plenty to choose from.
Try this.
Somewhere in the process I got stuck in a menu loop in clockwork. I trolled the forums and attempted several things including CRW removal and Nook complete restore. I'm not sure I attempted them correctly as I was still in the CRW menu screen. Now, my nook will not even turn on plugged in or otherwise. Any help (and please make it detailed step by step) would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep my eye close to this thread throughout the evening. Thank you in advance for helping out a new rooter. ChipD[/QUOTE]
I had the same issue and this worked for me. next time you flash CWR be sure you do a normal reboot B4 doing a reboot to recovery. just flash this...
CWR-removal-rootsafe I cant attach the URL but google it and it will come up in the second choice. let me know...
Thanks jarussillo. I found the file you refereed to and have it on my computer. Please give me a step by step on how to flash it without being able to see anything on my screen. I don't have any backup, all I have is a formatted sd card. Do I put the unzipped file on the card, or do I unzip the files and drop those on the card? Thanks for being willing to help.
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Thanks jarussillo. I found the file you refereed to and have it on my computer. Please give me a step by step on how to flash it without being able to see anything on my screen. I don't have any backup, all I have is a formatted sd card. Do I put the unzipped file on the card, or do I unzip the files and drop those on the card? Thanks for being willing to help.
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You will need to burn a CWR SD card, then drop the zip file into the root of the sd card, then Boot off the SD card, (You might have to hold the power button down for 20secs before you will see it boot) then Flash the Zip file from CWR.
Also read this thread. FULLY read it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
just flash the the CWR to your sd card you can search it on the site.
AWESOME! That article looks like exactly what I needed. I knew it was out there somewhere, I just couldn't find it. THANKS!!!! I'll update (hopefully with success) when I'm done.
Well, no success tonight. I downloaded all the stuff mentioned in the previous article, but the rootpack & the clockwork don't download in a zipped folder (like I even observed in a youtube video). They download as a GZ file. I'm not sure what to do with that because I can't decompress it and send it into the disk imager. What am I missing here? I'll check back in the am, thanks.
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Well, no success tonight. I downloaded all the stuff mentioned in the previous article, but the rootpack & the clockwork don't download in a zipped folder (like I even observed in a youtube video). They download as a GZ file. I'm not sure what to do with that because I can't decompress it and send it into the disk imager. What am I missing here? I'll check back in the am, thanks.
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http://www.7-zip.org/
this can decompress pretty much anything, Plus its free and open source
If I remember right that gz file needs to be unpacked so you can get the img file and then write the img with windisk32 to the SD that has cwr on it. But I may be mistaken pretty new to this stuff to
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What operating system are you using?
Be aware that in the rooting/CWM/ROM world you basically have ROMs and installable zips, you need to be aware of how to handle each.
If windows, you should be using winRAR to unzip image files for flashing to microSD. If the compressed file contains files and folders its most likely an installabe zip thats to be copied to a microSD AS IS and installed using clockwork recovery. If the compressed fiile has an .img file in it, its a ROM and must be burned to a microSD (effectively erasing said microSD) and then inserted into the nook while its off.
For ROMs as described above, uncompress the .img files to your hdd and then use win32disk imager to burn the .img to the microSD using a usb adapter.
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pretty much burn CWR onto a uSD card then put a rom onto the uSD card in the .zip format.
put in the uSD card, plug into PC, hold the on button for a while then you'll hear the PC do the "usb device connected" noise, keep holding that power button until it powers on
most problems can be solved by writing any recent CWR onto a uSD card, the great news is that the nook color's boot priority is straight to the uSD which means any problem on the emmc isn't too big as it'll boot to uSD first
good morning all. I'm gonna get this figured out today, I feel it! Muzzy, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.
Ok, here's where I'm at. I see the endroad (meaning I understand the steps needed for recovery) and have all the tools I need except for a proper CWR file, which seems to be the most important part. The file I downloaded from http://legacyschool.us.to/nookdev/clockwork/0.7/ (took me about half an hour) does not give me a folder with extractable files as seen in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B31y_lyHIA (jump to 45 secs.). Instead it gives me a single gz file that is not compressed. It's not runnable through win 32 diskimager. Putting that file on an sd card and trying to boot my nook with it has no effect.
Edit: Ok, WinZip to the rescue. I was able to extract the file with WinZip and have it cooking in the disk imager now! WOOHOO!
Edit 2: All seems to be installing correctly, fingers crossed...
Getting closer, I had to use the repartition. Now it turns back on and I get the big "n". It's ocupying my entire day, but I'm actually enjoying this. I've learned a lot! Flahing Nookcolor 1.1 now. Hopefully that will finish me off.
She's BACK! Thanks for all the help. I never would have found the right info without people taking the time to point in the right direction. You guys are great!
Hello,
I am so new to this it is not even funny. I have been relentlessly trying to root an SD card for my nook. I am following the thread on this site that gives step by step instructions and all links - ([ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards.). When I download the "image" at the beginning of the steps - the one you have to unzip- my computer downloads it as a .bin file and nothing, and I mean nothing, I have tried will unzip that damn image. I have burned through 2 SD cards trying. I do not know what to do. I have downloaded every unzip utility on both Mac and Windows to no avail. If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
TragykJosh said:
Hello,
I am so new to this it is not even funny. I have been relentlessly trying to root an SD card for my nook. I am following the thread on this site that gives step by step instructions and all links - ([ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards.). When I download the "image" at the beginning of the steps - the one you have to unzip- my computer downloads it as a .bin file and nothing, and I mean nothing, I have tried will unzip that damn image. I have burned through 2 SD cards trying. I do not know what to do. I have downloaded every unzip utility on both Mac and Windows to no avail. If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
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Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and there is a link to a new image file that should work. It says ics on it, but it still works great on CM7.
leapinlar said:
Go to my tips thread linked in my signature and there is a link to a new image file that should work. It says ics on it, but it still works great on CM7.
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Thank you for the help. I downloaded the file from your thread, I get a boot.bin file. When I go to unzip it I get another zipped file with the addition of .cgpz Am I doing something wrong??
TragykJosh said:
Thank you for the help. I downloaded the file from your thread, I get a boot.bin file. When I go to unzip it I get another zipped file with the addition of .cgpz Am I doing something wrong??
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Something is wrong with your PC. It should have a single file in the zip that ends in .img. Try downloading with your nook or a different PC. (Also some PCs hide the .zip ending from you, which I think really sucks.)
leapinlar said:
Something is wrong with your PC. It should have a single file in the zip that ends in .img. Try downloading with your nook or a different PC. (Also some PCs hide the .zip ending from you, which I think really sucks.)
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OKay so I used a different computer - Windows this time, I use a Mac. and I burned the image to an SD and all necessary files. When I loaded it into my nook I got the penguin and the blue script, but then it says Initial install files not found please download from nook.linuxhacker.ru
Any ideas what that is about?
TragykJosh said:
OKay so I used a different computer - Windows this time, I use a Mac. and I burned the image to an SD and all necessary files. When I loaded it into my nook I got the penguin and the blue script, but then it says Initial install files not found please download from nook.linuxhacker.ru
Any ideas what that is about?
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Yes, you need to rename the rom zip file with update- at the beginning. CM changed their naming standard to cm-. You obviously did not use my image or that would have been fixed. You will have to rename the zips everytime you flash a new one.
leapinlar said:
Yes, you need to rename the rom zip file with update- at the beginning. CM changed their naming standard to cm-. You obviously did not use my image or that would have been fixed. You will have to rename the zips everytime you flash a new one.
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Okay I see what I did. I used the wrong file - I had yours and the old one saved and like the dork I am I used the wrong one. I dont know how to add the extension update- to the file, it will not let me make changes to it. So I downloaded your file and I was wondering if I am supposed to unzip them? When I do unzip them I get two files that my computer doesnt recognize and one is named uRecIMG and one is uRecRAM. What am I supposed to do with those files?? Sorry to be a total bother I am just totally clueless. Thanks
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Okay I see what I did. I used the wrong file - I had yours and the old one saved and like the dork I am I used the wrong one. I dont know how to add the extension update- to the file, it will not let me make changes to it. So I downloaded your file and I was wondering if I am supposed to unzip them? When I do unzip them I get two files that my computer doesnt recognize and one is named uRecIMG and one is uRecRAM. What am I supposed to do with those files?? Sorry to be a total bother I am just totally clueless. Thanks
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Yes, unzip them. Just put the card in your PC and copy those two files to the SD. They will replace the two files that are there. That's all there is to it. Next time you boot to sd recovery it will use those files instead of the old ones. And it will recognize the new file names for the rom zips.
leapinlar said:
Yes, unzip them. Just put the card in your PC and copy those two files to the SD. They will replace the two files that are there. That's all there is to it. Next time you boot to sd recovery it will use those files instead of the old ones. And it will recognize the new file names for the rom zips.
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Thank you so so much for all your help. Unfortunately my SD is only 2GB and it says there is not enough room to place to the new files on the SD. I guess I will have to buy a larger card when I can (which sucks I was sooo close). I just wanted to make sure I thanked you for all the help and advice and walking this noob through it. Again thanks I really appreciated it
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Thank you so so much for all your help. Unfortunately my SD is only 2GB and it says there is not enough room to place to the new files on the SD. I guess I will have to buy a larger card when I can (which sucks I was sooo close). I just wanted to make sure I thanked you for all the help and advice and walking this noob through it. Again thanks I really appreciated it
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Something is very wrong there. Those two files are tiny. And they are replacing files already there so should take no more room. You were probably not taking the card out and putting in your PC. You were probably plugging in the USB cable. You need to do the first thing. Put card in PC.
Edit: Something is really wrong with your Mac. First it will not download or read the zips right, then it will not let you rename the rom .zip and now it will not let you copy files to the boot partition. It is your Mac that is the problem, not the card size.
leapinlar said:
Something is very wrong there. Those two files are tiny. And they are replacing files already there so should take no more room. You were probably not taking the card out and putting in your PC. You were probably plugging in the USB cable. You need to do the first thing. Put card in PC.
Edit: Something is really wrong with your Mac. First it will not download or read the zips right, then it will not let you rename the rom .zip and now it will not let you copy files to the boot partition. It is your Mac that is the problem, not the card size.
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I was placing the card into the PC. Also I didnt use my Mac for the card, I used a Windows PC. I followed all the instructions from verygreen when making the card and used Winimage to write it. When I insert the card into my computer I get two different files a boot that contains the boot.bin file and the ram and image files. And then there is a seperate file/drive on the sd labeled SD cm7.
If I make a new SD card, do I use verygreens' image file and then add your two files or do I use your two files only or is there another file I am missing? I might end up paying the 40 for the SD card already done, though I really hate t spend the money if I could just get it right.
Anyway thanks for everything....again!!! and I am sorry for my incompetence
(continued from above) I am attaching screenshots of what the SD card contains when i plug it into the computer.
TragykJosh said:
I was placing the card into the PC. Also I didnt use my Mac for the card, I used a Windows PC. I followed all the instructions from verygreen when making the card and used Winimage to write it. When I insert the card into my computer I get two different files a boot that contains the boot.bin file and the ram and image files. And then there is a seperate file/drive on the sd labeled SD cm7.
If I make a new SD card, do I use verygreens' image file and then add your two files or do I use your two files only or is there another file I am missing? I might end up paying the 40 for the SD card already done, though I really hate t spend the money if I could just get it right.
Anyway thanks for everything....again!!! and I am sorry for my incompetence
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If you are going to start fresh, use my image zip file. Follow verygreen's instructions but use my image file. It is on the same post you got the updated files. It already has the updated files on it. Then it will install the rom zips that have the new naming standard (cm-).
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If you are going to start fresh, use my image zip file. Follow verygreen's instructions but use my image file. It is on the same post you got the updated files. It already has the updated files on it. Then it will install the rom zips that have the new naming standard (cm-).
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Yeah I believe I will start anew. So the image file is the file beneath the ones I downloaded from you? Or is it in another spot. THanks
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Yeah I believe I will start anew. So the image file is the file beneath the ones I downloaded from you? Or is it in another spot. THanks
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Same place.
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Same place.
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I DID IT!!!!!! THank you so much for everything. This is amazing!!
If I pull the card out does it go back to being a nook??
Again Thank you soo much
Yes. But to get back to stock to just run it, press the n key while the cyanoboot logo first shows and the boot menu comes up. Then you can choose to boot to emmc, which in your case is stock. Or just take the card out.
So I'm trying to do the SD Card install of CM10, I will probably want to do the emmc install but wanted to check it out first. I copied the files over to a SanDisk 16GB micro SD, poped it in. It takes a few tries but it will finally load up the bootloader after a few tries. But then when I go to install the zip it tells me it Can't mount emmc or can't mount sdcard. I tried both.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
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So I'm trying to do the SD Card install of CM10, I will probably want to do the emmc install but wanted to check it out first. I copied the files over to a SanDisk 16GB micro SD, poped it in. It takes a few tries but it will finally load up the bootloader after a few tries. But then when I go to install the zip it tells me it Can't mount emmc or can't mount sdcard. I tried both.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
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I know Im not posting in the proper place thats because I don't have enough posts to do so.
Took 6 hours but I used the emmc tutorial instead and it is going smoothly so far, however I can't seem to download gaps the site is down.
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I know Im not posting in the proper place thats because I don't have enough posts to do so.
Took 6 hours but I used the emmc tutorial instead and it is going smoothly so far, however I can't seem to download gaps the site is down.
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I I did the EZ Tutorial and had it done in a flash. Just follow word for word. You might have to reformat your SD card using the SD Card Format Tool to get the full capacity back after you do it.
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I I did the EZ Tutorial and had it done in a flash. Just follow word for word. You might have to reformat your SD card using the SD Card Format Tool to get the full capacity back after you do it.
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It might work from a mac but the directions for PC were to "Use WinImage to write" I was unable to get WinImage to write anything. It would only open the img file. However the other tutorial told me to use "Win32DiskImager" which worked fine and was much more straight forward. Maybe I'm not using WinImage right, but I couldn't figure out how to sue this program to write the image to the SD card. Instructions should clarify, because if I'm having a hard time with it most people would be completely lost.
Got it working now eMMC style. Just need to figure out how to get Swype running.
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It might work from a mac but the directions for PC were to "Use WinImage to write" I was unable to get WinImage to write anything. It would only open the img file. However the other tutorial told me to use "Win32DiskImager" which worked fine and was much more straight forward. Maybe I'm not using WinImage right, but I couldn't figure out how to sue this program to write the image to the SD card. Instructions should clarify, because if I'm having a hard time with it most people would be completely lost.
Got it working now eMMC style. Just need to figure out how to get Swype running.
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I used this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317500
Oh and you could not pay me to own a Mac. OK, you could pay me, but I would put Linux on it.
make ortesAu
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I used this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317500
Oh and you could not pay me to own a Mac. OK, you could pay me, but I would put Linux on it.
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Yea thats teh one that worked for me.
I installed the swype trial from google play but it there a way I can install the full version?
So I made the mistake of turning the device off and back on, now it gets stuck at the CyanogenMod boot screen? What now!