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Am I ready to install a theme ??

I need some help from someone. I'm kinda n00b to all this rooting stuff. But I want know if I'm ready to install a custom theme like "Hero" for g1
I Have a Unlocked TMobile G1
Running CyanogenMod v1.4 + JF
Mod Version: Cyanogen Mod 4.2.8.1
Build Number: DRC83
Radio: 1.22.12.29
HSPL: 10.95.3000
Can I just go ahead an install a theme ?

It sounds like you are.
You can find most of them at this forum section
Make sure you only install themes that are for your installed ROM/Mod (e.g. CyanogenMod 4.2.8.1) or say that they will work with a VERY similar ROM (e.g. CM 4.2.*).
Also, ALWAYS make a Nandroid backup before you change anything on your phone. That way, worst case, you can restore it and go back to exactly the way things were before you attempted to install something that didn't work or that you didn't like.
Good luck! I guarantee it will not be a problem if you spend the time to read the stickies on the forums.

please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong

I successfully installed the blue haze them for my myTouch. I am running the current cyanogen mod for it. That all worked great, but when I try to install any other theme, I get stuck at boot screen.
I tried the District 9 theme, the clone theme and a couple others.
Am I missing something? I'd feel a lot better if the first theme hadn't worked but it did and now.....GRRRR
Help?

it happens to me too but i dont know why. there are themes who works good and others not.
for example, install a theme and connect your phone to pc, do 'adb logcat ' it will show you all the steps that phone do!!
there are themes that (on my phone) goes on loop at 23% of something, others that launcher give problems and you will see all black!! (except for lockscreen).
if you want to be sure how to install a themes do this passage:
reboot to recovery
install the rom
reboot
watch if the rom works good (it should)
reboot again to recovery
flash the theme
reboot
do adb logcat

P4p3r1n0 said:
reboot to recovery
install the rom
reboot
watch if the rom works good (it should)
reboot again to recovery
flash the theme
reboot
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That's the best advice. And it's best to flash a theme unto a fresh unthemed rom, rather than a themed one. Less probability of having problems. Hope that helps!

so lets say I'm using cyanogen 4.2.15.1
I would wipe, install cyanogen, reboot, install theme, reboot?
Are there some themes that won't work on cyanogen that will on regular donut?
What about the theme CM theme updater? I can't get that to find any new themes.

rudeguy said:
so lets say I'm using cyanogen 4.2.15.1
I would wipe, install cyanogen, reboot, install theme, reboot?
Are there some themes that won't work on cyanogen that will on regular donut?
What about the theme CM theme updater? I can't get that to find any new themes.
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Yes, the process you described is exactly right.
Yes, there are themes that will work on standard 1.6 that wont work on CM because CM contains LOTS of stuff from eclair.
CM theme updater requires a json to be input to search for updates for specific themes. it's not automatic.

ok thanks. I found that I needed to revert back to an older CM version to get that district 9 working. Its working like a champ now.
So there is no way to change the theme (when using cyanogen) without doing a wipe?
Sorry for being a noob!

no, you can definitely change themes without wiping. however, it does cause problems from time to time. I highly recommend metamorph for just this process.

kusotare said:
no, you can definitely change themes without wiping. however, it does cause problems from time to time. I highly recommend metamorph for just this process.
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Is there a good walkthrough for that? I've tried it twice and I locked up my phone both times

htc hero fresh rom 2.3.3 question

on the fresh updater i applied the vanilla lock + vanilla apps + world clock 2 n when i applied it it took away the htc music away & i want it back because i dont like the vanilla music app. i tried to apply the vanilla lock enable to see is that would take it away but i didnt. what can i do thanks

I gave up on fresh 2.3.3 too many issues. No offense to flipz but ill stick to 2.1.2.

im not having that many of issues it runs pretty good to me does anybody else know what to do thanks

After reading one of fresh's release notes on his earlier builds like 2.1.2 or something, i noticed that he had 3 update zips that did different things to sense and vanilla lock screen. You will have to reinstall the rom and choose the basic vanilla lock screen because the other lock screens have issues with sense. Thats why certian sense items are not working. The update zip you choose to run which was the vanilla lock screen plus clock + apps. That paticular update zip deletes parts of sense that are incompatible with the lockscreen.
Hope this helps

ok it makes sense ya ill just reinstall the rom thanks

i tried to back up both nandroid & bart & they both said (error : run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb! & error : run bart via adb!) whats causing that

[Q] Which rom- thats the question

Hello everyone.
I am new to the world of flashing android, I used to flash my previous htc windows phones all the time. I'm currently running IceRom, something one of my friends found off here a long while back.
Can anyone recommend a good stable rom that looks nice ? I have been looking over all the newer ones but I think I want something more established.

What tickles your fancy?
Vanilla Android or Sense Based?
Built in Overclock Kernels or Flashing one of the undervolted/OC goodies that are in plentiful abundance?
That will help start to narrow it down

uhhhh..... well i never know what I'm using so it doesnt really matter. The icerom im using now has a lot of glitches its android 2.2 (think?) the video camera doesnt work on it and i cant play music from myxer (it doesnt support .dm filetype) so it really drives me nuts...
honestly i dont know the difference between vanilla and sense, so anything goes.

Cyanogenmod 6:HERE
icerom is 2.1 aosp ithink you wont go wrong wit cm6

H4k3r4r34l said:
Cyanogenmod 6:HERE
icerom is 2.1 aosp ithink you wont go wrong wit cm6
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I agree... CM6 is the best, and darch has his rc1 out now, so its extremely stable
Sent from my HTC Hero running froyo: take that, Sprint!

If you want to try a good stock rom that comes with apps 2sd go with nfinitefx45's stock .6 odex rom its awesome and gives you the beautiful htc sense!

ok C-6 it is... so another n00b question (Sorry guys, the hero is the first android phone ive had!)
on the c-6 posting it says to update radio if you need to. I dont even know what version I am running let alone how to flash a radio. My last friend who knew how to flash them told me not to flash my radio cuz its a good way to brick my phone.
And seeing as how this would be my first time flashing ANDROID im not sure i should flash a radio without supervision lol

Be careful if you start flashing your radio. If you flash one from a gms hero you can brick your phone.
If you go to "settings>about phone>software info>baseband version" that should be your radio I believe.

ok then im using
baseband version:
1.04.01.09.21
sound right?

i downloaded the C6 rom- but does anyone know a good android syncing software i can use to transfer the rom to my phone? again im not trying to annoy anyone. Once Ive learned the process once I will be able to do it again and again. With windows it was easy there was a program that did everything for you beside the hard reset.
btw is a wipe and a hard reset the same thing or no

Yeah sounds right. Here's where I got my updated radio from - http://geekfor.me/category/hero/radios/

ok awesome looks good. Is it required to flash a radio or no? like will it affect the rom's awesomeness

those radios are all for android 2.1 but it says c6 is android 2.2

Lol, I don't think its required to flash a new radio. I think you find a radio that gives you good signal strength and then you stick with it. I could be completely talking outta my ass though...

alright guys who've helped- thankyou!!
i figured out how to sync my phone using sugarsync so i can update my radio and rom. now im just going to follow flashing directions from c6 thread,
will post back with an update when its done...

ok this is rediculous.... this is the most time consuming thing ive ever tried to do with my phone. I couldnt transfer the c6 zip from sugarsync to my phone so i had to email it to myself...and took forever for my phone to download it. NOW the file is stuck in my download folder and for some reason i cannot move it or copy/paste it to the root folder.
btw, my root folder is NOT in the sd folder.
anyone know how im supposed to get the new rom into my root!????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

download the ROM
copy the .zip file over to your phones SD card in the root directory
Unplug your phone and turn it off
Hold power and home until you boot into Recovery
Select the option to flash zip
find your ROM and press the trackball and when its done reboot
that should work lol.

omgomg!!! i figured it out lol i noticed my old rom zip was in the sd directory so i "copied" c6 to that same spot and was able to boot from that. Restarted my phone, and its currently booting up with cyanogen 6!!
I have successfully flashed my first android phone....

now that thats done...anyone know where i can find the MARKET on cyanogen??

in his thread theres a link for something called "google sh*ts" or something.
Its all the google apps, like gmail and youtube and stuff
you have to download that and flash it and then restart the phone and theyll all show up.
Thats the rom i was using n_n

Still need help ( please )

cant flash any theme keep getting boot loops no matter what i do was running cm6 rc1 bx theme decade #7 kernel and firerats recovery mod flashed back to a sense rom and updated my profile and spl re did the partions and tried to do a nand restore and none of mine worked re did the whole process and still no go even tried flashing anthoer theme and still no go im able to boot up and run roms fine just cant flash a theme need help dont know what to do

laie1472 said:
cant flash any theme keep getting boot loops no matter what i do was running cm6 rc1 bx theme decade #7 kernel and firerats recovery mod flashed back to a sense rom and updated my profile and spl re did the partions and tried to do a nand restore and none of mine worked re did the whole process and still no go even tried flashing anthoer theme and still no go im able to boot up and run roms fine just cant flash a theme need help dont know what to do
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Make sure you are completely wiping your phone before installing new ROMs and switching between them like that. This could be one reason you are getting bootloops.

Wipeing like there's no tommrrow still no go for the bx theme finally got the all black theme working thanks man out of all the members of xda u were the only reply to my quest for help and I posted 3 different threads on this I was sure I would find more help but guess not but thanks for taking the time to reply I appreciate it
Still love my hero and still got love for xda
Sprint HTC hero
Darchstar oc recovery
Firerats recovery mod
CM6 8/22/build
Decades #7 kernel
All black theme
Prl 60670
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Well my guess is that since CM6 is still an ever-changing ROM with new updates and versions coming out basically every day, that's why some of these themes you're flashing aren't working. It's possible that the theme someone designed works on a very particular build of CM6 (that was only available for maybe like a day or so), then as soon as something is updated or changed in a new ROM release, that theme might not be compatible anymore with the new stuff. I don't use CM6 so I can't say that for sure, but I bet it's part of the reason. A lot of themes are only compatible with very specific frameworks and apk's, so if any of that has been changed or updated, the theme no longer works properly, sometimes causing bootloops.

It says in your sig that your using darch recovery, and if you're not using the engineering spl, then that means you have no way of formatting /system, which when you're flashing back and forth between roms on the partition mod, you really need to do. So either change to the spl so you can use fastboot to erase system or go to clockwork recovery and do it there. If you change your recovery, you will have to redo the whole partition hack again from the beginning.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

Fast boot works for me and I did the system wipe threw fast boot and I ran the ruu and rerooted again still no go I think its the theme cause I have the all black theme working again I emailed the Dev mabey hell do an up date thanks for the response
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I heard running adb threw Linux is easier than windows don't know if its true anyways I partition my hard drive and installed Ubuntu. The latest I'm new to this as I've always worked on windows so my question is can anyone point me in the right direction on how to install adb on Ubuntu like I said I'm new to Linux but I want to start learning it I think I might need to in the long run help would b appreciated thanks
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