WANT TO RUN HERO? READ THIS FIRST
I understand that new people dont really know much about hero, and that is alright. They will learn to search and figure things out on their own, but i am a little frustrated with seeing this constantly in the hero ROM threads. " i am stuck in a bootloop, my phone stays on the htc screen"
THIS IS NOT A BOOTLOOP! A bootloop is when you see the hero with the little green android and then the HTC "flashing" logo. I will post a video of a bootloop in little bit, but in the meantime here are a few ways to fix a bootloop.
For a video of what a bootloop is, click on THIS IS A BOOTLOOP RIGHT BELOW THISTHIS IS A BOOTLOOP
1) wipe phone and wipe ext and reflash.
to wipe the phone boot into recovery and press alt+w or if running CMRecovery 1.3 or 1.4 you should be able to use the trackball and select the option that way. To wipe ext use these commands in either adb shell or recovery console... NOT IN TERMINAL!!!
This is how I installed without any problems:
: rename to update.zip (if you are running cm1.4 recovery you can just place the zip in the root of sd)
: place in the root of sd card
: shut off device
: boot into recovery
: wipe
: go to console and hit enter (you can also use adb shell)
(enter)
# mount -o rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system/sd
# cd /system/sd
# rm -rf /system/sd/*
# reboot recovery
: now wipe again
: repair ext system
: flash
Enjoy!!
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- Courtesy of Drizzy Drake Rogers
2) check to make sure you are running a PVT board. Cant remember right now if it is the three finger salute or power+camera. To do the three finger salute, boot holding the green button, menu, and the red button. At the top of the screen that shows up it will either say PVT or DVT.
3) redownload the .zip file for the rom you are trying to flash. Sometimes you may get a corrupt download or the transfer from computer to sd may go bad. A fresh download may help.
4) reformat your sd and recreate all partiitions usingparted in cyanogens 1.4 recovery image. It is one of the easiest ways to do things if you are not running linux.
5) and last but not least, if all else fails just go back to a stable cyan build or jf build.
Hope this helps everyone and cuts down on the questions junking up threads. I will bump this every now and then unless it gets stickied. Also expect edits to this for other questions that get asked. Before junking up threads try these options and SEARCH!!!
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-helpful links-
CyanogenMod Stable
CyanogenRecovery Image 1.4
How to partition using gparted
THIS IS A QUICK TELL ALL TO GET DANGER SPL, RADIO, AND A STABLE ROM RUNNING
Happy flashing everyone!
WANT TO RUN HERO? READ THIS FIRST
Fantastic Info. People need someone to spell out what's what.
Thank you it works. When I apply updates do you re-do all of this?
bump this. this will cut threads in half
sillyshyme said:
Thank you it works. When I apply updates do you re-do all of this?
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not all updates, always read the changelog for a ROM. if you are simply UPDATING to a NEWER version of the SAME ROM, you MIGHT NOT have to do all this. this is mostly for when you get a bootloop. if you are changing hero roms, i would say yes, do everything you can, wipe, wipe ext, and what not. this will help about the bootloop.
I use Hero-V1.5 by Drizzy and it does not state in change-log.
sillyshyme said:
I use Hero-V1.5 by Drizzy and it does not state in change-log.
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ok so what are you trying to do? go to a different Hero rom? if yes, then you need to wipe phone and ext, if updating from drizzy 1.4, i would say not to wipe, but if you get a bootloop wipe phone and try again.
please make this a sticky!!!! this a good info. hopefully if people search,it will help them out . great write up polosjr
palosjr said:
ok so what are you trying to do? go to a different Hero rom? if yes, then you need to wipe phone and ext, if updating from drizzy 1.4, i would say not to wipe, but if you get a bootloop wipe phone and try again.
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Do this cause I just updated to drizzy's newest hero. I went from another hero Jac hero and I just did the update zip and got bootloop. I did whats on the top of this page and im running new rom so thanks
Ok, so I've followed all of these steps, except repairing the file extensions. When I try to do that I get an error in the recovery console. Does anyone know of anything else I can try?
rp1783 said:
Ok, so I've followed all of these steps, except repairing the file extensions. When I try to do that I get an error in the recovery console. Does anyone know of anything else I can try?
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format your sdcard and then recreate your partitions
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My phones recent history: Up until a few weeks ago, I was running the ION remix rom on my g1. While recovery from surgery (read as: hopped up on pain killers), I was awesome and dropped the tmo 1.6 rom on top of it, without wiping first. The phone has been somewhat unstable, lots of problems, etc.
so tonight, I downloaded all the cm 4.999 files, dump them on to the sdcard, reboot to my old jf 1.42 bootloader, and i can't find flash_image anywhere on the phone. i've looked all over the damn thing. so i get adb downloaded, and i can't get that going because all the usb drivers i've tried have always refused to load on this pc (both vista x64 and win 7 x64).
help? i can't find anywhere i can download flash_image at, and adb just isn't an option.
adnans said:
My phones recent history: Up until a few weeks ago, I was running the ION remix rom on my g1. While recovery from surgery (read as: hopped up on pain killers), I was awesome and dropped the tmo 1.6 rom on top of it, without wiping first. The phone has been somewhat unstable, lots of problems, etc.
so tonight, I downloaded all the cm 4.999 files, dump them on to the sdcard, reboot to my old jf 1.25 bootloader, and i can't find flash_image anywhere on the phone. i've looked all over the damn thing. so i get adb downloaded, and i can't get that going because all the usb drivers i've tried have always refused to load on this pc (both vista x64 and win 7 x64).
help? i can't find anywhere i can download flash_image at, and adb just isn't an option.
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Try using Recovery 1.4 or something like that.
flash_image is part of the recovery.img file that get's flashed. You could search or just use this link to the Amon_RA 1.2.3 Recovery (also in my signature).
Either one will do the job. You can also wipe from the recovery and apply any .zip file as long as it is on the root of your sdcard. It's pretty easy really. Wipe, install, boot. If it works, reboot, nandroid backup (if you use Amon_RA 1.2.3 you can go to terminal and 'switchrom -s ROMNAME') and you only need to do a recovery should anything get messed up again.
Hope that helps.
it's cm 1.4 i'm trying to get installed. i don't have flash_image on my phone and i can't use fastboot to get cm 1.4 installed :/ that's what i'm trying to get help with.
if you want cyans recovery, you can use
su
cd /sdcard
wget http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/cm-recovery-1.4.img
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
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in terminal
note about upgrading to cyan: you can get the single flash version to avoid all the problems caused by a bad htc recovery rom flash while updating to 4.1.999
guys, i don't have flash_image. it's not on my phone i've gone through every directory on the phone either through terminal on it or the console in jf 1.42. it's just not there.
umm, flash image is a command
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so i decide to risk trying adb on my crashy old laptop. it installed and the usb driver is working there, and fastboot devices was listing my phone. fastboot flash recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img (which is on the sdcard) returned "error: cannot load 'cm-recovery-1.4.img'"
i'm about to give up on this thing :/
gridlock32404: here's a transcription from terminal on my phone,
$ su
# flash_image
flash_image: not found
fastboot prob won't work, i suggest a reroot
tried rerooting back to rc29 last night, hardspl is refusing to do it though.
a friend of mine just sent me flash_image from his system/bin, but when i try to mv it to my system/bin, it's complaining about the cross-device link, which i don't recall how to get around atm. and now i'm outta time and have to head to work. guess i'll pick this back up tonight.
hahha o man love all the hijackin
btw to OP
if it says Cm-recovery,img not found or w/e
your not using the right path to the file
put the image in the same folder as the fastboot.exe
B-man007 said:
hahha o man love all the hijackin
btw to OP
if it says Cm-recovery,img not found or w/e
your not using the right path to the file
put the image in the same folder as the fastboot.exe
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you, sir, i owe a beer. thank you!
i accidently flashed the htc image as well and I no longer have /system/bin/flash_image and my recovery is broken. tried to reflash with fastboot and the recovery is still broken. how can i get flash_image back?
rerooting is the only way. flash rc29 and reroot
go to bootloader and load dreamimg.nbh again, start her up, do the old login deal and download telnet from market, put cm-recovery-1.4.img on your sdcard, reboot phone normally when home starts without doing anything else hit enter enter (type) telnetd (press) enter, don't worry about what it does, open up telnet, connect to local host, type:
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd sdcard
flash_image recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img
cat cm-recovery-1.4.img > /system/recovery.img
then reboot, then put on the new SPL, make sure your Radio is good, if not update that and then flash cyans new rom.
Andddd there's a guide here that explains all that a lot better than I did...good thing I typed all that out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563679
guys re rooting isnt the only way....its the easy way lol
instructions to flash the recovery are found in cyans installation issue thread
I am trying to get Nandroid so I can back up my phone I have gone threw 5 or more pages in the last 2 hours reading EVERYTHING, all im getting out of what I have read is there is about 20 different ways to do this non of which I can get to work. I know I need JF's Modified RC30 and in order to get this I need his modified recovery. I downloaded his recovery androidmod and I cant figure out how to flash it onto my phone. (it is rooted.) And if it isn't to much to ask could someone else give me step by step instructions on what to do after I finally get the recovery onto my phone? I am not a linux expert I pretty much know nothing. But I know enough about computers that I can follow instructions when the instructions don't expect me to know Linux already. Thank you everyone sorry if I get in to trouble for posting this but I can't figure it out for my self.
in terminal do:
su
cd /sdcard
wget http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/cm-recovery-1.4.img
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
not sure how you couldnt find this.. ._.
or you just put latest cm recovery image. and click restore but it only works if use that to back it up i think. and also this is the wrong section there is a q and a. seriously dude your post was rude and should be moved and locked
Ummm I don't see how it was rude. It was like 5am I had been at it sense like 10pm (slow connection had problems downloading stuff and also editing pictures) But I didn't realize I wasn't in the Q and A section that was my fault. But I don't think it was rude. I had a sincere question and needed help. Sorry if I am not allowed to ask for help.
coredalae said:
in terminal do:
su
cd /sdcard
wget http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/cm-recovery-1.4.img
flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
not sure how you couldnt find this.. ._.
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Its not that I couldn't find anything I said I found like 20 different things non of which seems to be working... I typed..
su
cd /sdcard
wget http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/cm-recovery-1.4.img
I got this error wget: not found
click that link, download the file, put it on your sdcard. then type the command without the wget command. you can also use the amon_RA recovery image, but either one will allow you to nandroid and restore it from the recovery screen.
Thanks for your help. But I actually found the CyanogenMod forum and am following those steps which will give me the Nandroid. I am just hoping I can figure out how to get my google goodies back. I quite like using them.
if you follow the install instructions... youll have the google apps lol
B-man007 said:
if you follow the install instructions... youll have the google apps lol
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Oh... I thought I read after Google tried stopping him they told him he couldn't include the google apps? Or do you mean if I follow his instructions on how to get them back after I download his app? Lol either way I still hope I have them. I am fairly good at following instructions even if I have no idea what I am doing. So I should be good!
If you look at his instructions, youll see that he requires you install the HTC recovery image. when you flash cyanogens rom on top of it, a script pulls the google apps, making it fully legal. You can also use daveid's single flash rom. it has everything you need in it so you dont have to flash htc's recovery image
really b-man you found a thread from almost 24 hours ago to bring back
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w00t i cant wait till i get there
thats why i gotta bring back threads from the dead
PS this was my 700th post!
Okay i was installing V4.2.1 and after i installed the image 1.6 i turn on the phone and it shows me an imgae of like a black rectangle and an arrow. I try pressing Home + power but i still get the same thing.
Help please!
85Mario85 said:
Okay i was installing V4.2.1 and after i installed the image 1.6 i turn on the phone and it shows me an imgae of like a black rectangle and an arrow. I try pressing Home + power but i still get the same thing.
Help please!
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Tell me what happens when you press home + power then alt + l when the screen comes up. .. and when that screen comes up does the g1 screen come up first? Cuz I think otherwise it might be a guaranteed brick :/
okay i gott itt to go to the menu. but i try to apply the v4.2.1 and it always aborts it =/
Try the Q&A forum next time.
I go to the menu. flash the 1.6 recovery image. Change Cyanogen to update. Try to flash it but it gets aborted
don't know about cy updates but it sounds like your may have a bad file. Have you installed this update before using the "same file"? if not you may try just redownloading the update.
really neeed helpp with this. Tried installing the v4.1.9999 and it still aborts
bummer. I'm not sure what all the prerequisites are for cy mods.. Hopefully someone else can jump in here to help ya :/
Think he may have aborted installation during the radio flash portion of the HTC archive.
From Cyanogen's OP:
cyanogen said:
7- Apply sdcard:choose zip *PICK dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip* from the list
ALLOW IT TO INSTALL FIRST.....you will see the "unbox" image.........then it will automatically reboot HOLD HOME button while it reboots.
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That's not exactly the way it went for me the 2X I've done this, so maybe this is what happened...IDK?
I've had to reboot manually (Home+back) out of recovery following phase 1 of the flash to initiate the start the Radio flash portion. This may confuse some as it's not listed as a step.
Just to be sure, place fresh copies of dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip and cm4.2.1 in /sdcard prior to doing this. Use an external card reader if necessary.
1. Get into recovery
2. Wipe (optional but recommended, problems=include step 2)
3. Flash dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip
4. If phone does not reboot automatically, reboot manually (Home+back) out of recovery and release buttons immediately
5. Let Radio flash (you see the image of the box with the arrow and the eprom chip)
6. Wait for screen to go completely black then hold "Home" button until it reboots back to recovery console.
7. Flash CM4.2.1
I noticed 4.2.1 took an unusually long time to load on initial boot, so be patient.
If this has nothing to do with your issue, sorry for wasting your time. Hopefully this helps somebody eventually.
85Mario85 said:
really neeed helpp with this. Tried installing the v4.1.9999 and it still aborts
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There are 2 things you could do, use cyans file, and make sure you flash the HTC image first, as his update file is a partial update without the google experience (read apps)
This is taken from Cyans OP in his thread and edited for you, please follow the instructions properly.
Note: You need cyanogens recovery image 1.4 or better for this process, as it lets you chose files named other than update.zip
Install instructions for an HTC Dream/ADP1/G1:
1- Perform a Backup......nandroid, etc (ignore since i don't suppose you have anything to backup at this moment)
2- Download: http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s3 Android 1.6 Recovery Image. This isn't the type of recovery image we know. It's HTCs version of an update.zip
3- Download cyanogens ROM. http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/update-cm-4.2.1-signed.zip
4- Mount your phone and place BOTH 1.6 Image and cyanogens ROM on your SD Card.
5- Reboot into recovery mode *Home+Power*
6- WIPE!!!! This will allow google apps to function, correctly.
7- Apply sdcard:choose zip *PICK dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip* from the list
ALLOW IT TO INSTALL FIRST.....you will see the "unbox" image.........then it will automatically reboot HOLD HOME button while it reboots.
(ITS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU HOLD THE HOME BUTTON, BECAUSE IF IT THE HTC ROM BOOTS, YOU WILL HAVE TO RE-ROOT YOUR PHONE)
8- Apply sdcard:choose zip *Pick cm-4.2.1-signed.zip* from the list.
9- Reboot!
OR
download daveid's full update from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=80FXE36J or http://www.mediafire.com/?dnljdtndwnv
and just flash normally.
Oh and to mount your sd card to transfer the rom images to it from your computer when in recovery (Alt-X), use this command (in recovery, on your phone)
echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
Finally, as someone else mentioned, please post in the right section.
how did u get ur phone to go back to the menu because the same thing happened to me
Sorry for may bad english !
I have the same problem. After flash rom OTA 1.6 of HTC, now i lose the recovery cm-1.4.
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When boot in recovery, it look like before hack root, we can't update the other file, exception "update.zip".
When i type "su" in terminal, it return "permission denied".
-I tried to update another rom but i didn't run.
-I tried to flash another recovery by Fastboot but not success.
-I tried to flash another SPL but not success.
-The last hope, i tried to re-hack root by DREAIMG.nbh but not success too.
Okay I had the same problem and know how to fix it.
1. Download 1.5 Cupcake here
2. Copy the file to the root of your SD and name it Update.zip
3. Boot recovery and press Alt + S to install Cupcake
4. Now that you`ve got Cupcake download Flashrec here
5. Make sure that you allow installing non market programs on your phone.
6. Open Flashrec after installing it and click backup recovery!! VERY IMPORTANT, didn`t do it the first time and it didn`t work.
7. After backup is finished you download the recovery given by the program
8. When the download is complete you select flash recovery.
9. Reboot, and flash your Custom Firmware again.
IMPORTANT!: All of the 1 click rooting procedures are putting the Flashrec.apk file and a recovery image on the SD card, installing Flashrec and then using it to flash the new recovery image. You WILL NOT have internal root access after this procedure (it only allows us external root access from recovery)
10. I installed the full version of 4.2.1 which was linked on the previous page of this thread, and it installed the right radio, spl and hboot.
So everything is normal again, thank god. Ow after i installed the full version of 4.2.1 it didn`t work but i had the recovery back and root so i installed the oldskool 4.1.1.1 and it works.
Good luck and this took me 5 hours to find out!
Edj87 said:
Okay I had the same problem and know how to fix it.
1. Download 1.5 Cupcake here
2. Copy the file to the root of your SD and name it Update.zip
3. Boot recovery and press Alt + S to install Cupcake
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After this step, i have this result:
Omg! Exact same thing happen to me!
Please fix this problems for us if possible
this i got from Wildfire S section.
IT CAN BE PUT INTO SALSA, AND IT WORKS.
DWYOR
save the recovery.img and flash_image in the root of your adb folder.
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
make it fastboot usb
Code:
fasboot flash recovery recovery.img
from the hboot menu, go to recovery.
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kanded said:
this i got from Wildfire S section.
IT CAN BE PUT INTO SALSA, AND IT WORKS.
DWYOR
save the recovery.img and flash_image in the root of your sdcard.
Code:
su
Code:
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
Code:
cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin
Code:
su
Code:
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
get into recovery by typing : adb shell reboot recovery
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u tried? get some screenshots up lol is it fully functional with backups enabled?
how did you run these commands? what did you use?
these command should be done via adb debug.
open it, and do the same.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/umo22
keeps failing, heres a screen shot of what its doing.
any ideas?
goes to bootloader then just hangs
man, check your battery, minimum 50% power.
kanded said:
man, check your battery, minimum 50% power.
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it was around 62% but ill charge it up fully and try again.
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OK charged it to 83% tried it again, still hanging for well over 20mins at that point.
somethings still not right.....
i edit the post. check this, i bet you wont get into probs again. let me know.
nope still not working! you missed a t from fasboot lol, but no, tried everything now and still nothing.
Tried from my other computer and still no luck.
sent from my custom HTC Salsa.
it works man, friends did it, why you still not work ?
Have no idea mate, puzzles me to be honest.
sent from my custom HTC Salsa.
let me know your probs, mate,
It stops in exactly same place as before, I've done everything stated. And it just won't nudge lol, even used a different computer with sdk installed,and still does it then.
For now ill leave it be, till I can figure it out.
I've flashed back to rom before and using that now as market is stable there.
What's the idea with this internal memory then? As this rom has very little space left lol and could do with the sapce available really
sent from my custom HTC Salsa.
so, do you have cwm ? if you have its fine. i still wonder wht exactly your problem is. if you got market problem, you just go back to your stock rom, leave the chinese rom, and get back to your original rom.
I've gone back to usable rom now. Leave it there for awhile.
sent from my custom HTC Salsa.
Hi,
@BigBearEvo isn't the case that you perhaps have your device still s-on?
snatch_this said:
Hi,
@BigBearEvo isn't the case that you perhaps have your device still s-on?
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Not likely my friend, the xtc clip makes you s-off.
Sent from my HTC C510e using Tapatalk
After the installation if i wanna uninstall the recovery, can i do it and how?
Thanks...
any_body said:
After the installation if i wanna uninstall the recovery, can i do it and how?
Thanks...
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reinstall your ruu and it wipes the handset completely inc recovery
ok so i've got my phone rooted with superoneclick, i can boot into recovery mode but have no clue what to do when i get in there. I already installed the doomed rom onto my external memory card but i don't know what to do with it from there. Also what do i use the terminal emulator for?
heres what i have on my phone at this moment, ROM manager, Chainfire3D, Terminal Emulator and SuperUser.
Thanks
seems like no one knows the answer to my problems or i'm just not asking them right... Can someone explain how to get the ROM zip file from the external card to actually be on the phone?
Ok go into cwm recover then go to install from sd card then it brings another menu pick which sd card you havbit on internal or external then select it then find the foder its in select it then select the file then select yes wait for it to flash then reboot device. Prior to that you wanna slect wipe data factory reset then yes and wipe cache partition then yes then advanced wipe dalvik and yes then proceed with above
Thrill 4g on O3D
thanks man, i'm trying to figure out how to scroll through the options in recovery now... doesn't seem like any buttons are working...
Edit: Nevermind found it, hoping this works!
...and now i've lost all my contacts and apps...
ok... retrieved most of my contacts from facebook, did like you said in the CWM but when it said "rebooting into CWM Recovery" it just rebooted to my home screen
Did youchve your acct sync with google you may be able to recover them that way
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Losing your apps is normal if you read around in diff dev topics here you will see people are backing up apps with titanium backup and apps like that you just gotta ask diff questions now im sure since i didnt tell u to make a rom back up you didnt do that in cwm that way if you didnt like the rom you switched to you could have went back but you can install thrill stock rom and have it back to that again
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I clicked "backup existing rom" but when I did the reset it deleted ROM Manager and I believe the backup also... superuser was still there but no apps were in it. Thanks for helping, sorry its going to be a lot of help...lol
No problem its a lot to learn but its not to hard to learn
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ok so why is it i'm not rebooting into recovery mode to continue installation? it's just rebooting normally
You have cwm installed right? Power phone off hold 3d button& vol down press and hold power till lg boot animation shows then let go of all buttons. Cwm should boot in that go to backup restore and do a backup then go back to main menu factory reset wipe data then wipe cache partition then advanced wipe dalvik cache and battery stats then go back to main menu then install zip from sd card then install from sd card find folder its in then select it hit yes wait for it to install reboot and enjoy
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ok when i go into recovery these are the only options i have.. i've clicked all of them and thats how i lost my contacts and what not but thats all it's done was delete stuff.
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Ok you dont have cwm on your device thats regular android recovery
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well that explains everything then! thanks, now i'm going to search through and see where i went wrong. I think it's something to do with the recovery.img but someone said i didn't need to do that cause i used superoneclick...
Look in dev section there is a 1 click method to install cwm use that then fallow the steps i had explained earlier remember to back up also before you do anything download titanium backup and back up ur apps and go into contacts and make a backup to sd card that way you can import them back to your next rom
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Is it me or is shortfuse website down?? I've tried to root my phone using viperMOD and it failed to set the UID and GID to 0. I've been trying to download the latest superoneclick, but cannot get to the site. Any thoughts?? Currently running V21B if that helps.
You cant root v21b yet
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ok i'm back to a new phone... i did everything you said but i guess my ROM zip was in the wrong location so i couldn't load it and had to shut it down before that step.
Ok so now you have cwm recovery? Use root explorer or es file manager to move the .zip to whatever folder you wanna use then flash it up
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