ok so i had manups, 2.0 rom, then i wanted to go back to cyans rom because it's faster and camera and ect ect ect. i have unrooted and re-rooted, but depending on which of the 1.6 donut roms i flash before cyans rom. i either don't have market, have the market with tmobile instead of downloads tab, or get the market i need but then get some sort of error force close googlecom.gapps something that won't let me download from the market. I'm effing fed up with this. nothing on here has been easy in a long while, and it's annoying. i would really like some help on this please, otherwise i'll have to switch to a better platform...ugh...
Do you need the new market?
Don't blame the platform blame the user because there are a lot of people that try to make this easy, but people don't follow the directions.
You say there is an error with no logcat, so we can't help you with that. (something is not the error message)
You don't need to unroot, just wipe before you flash.
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Don't blame the platform blame the user because there are a lot of people that try to make this easy, but people don't follow the directions.
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People like that should switch to a different platform, perhaps Moto RAZR would work a lot better for OP.
To sum it up, if you read and follow directions - you will not have any problems.
You do not need to unroot and reroot before applying a rom.
With Cyan's roms, all you need to do is wipe, re-format sd, install base room (HTC 1.6) and and the Cyan's rom of your choice. After that that initial hassle, you can just upgrade as usual.
Good luck
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Will someone be kind enough for all the noobs out there and post a complete video of how to get from a completely stock firmware to (well in this case) this hero build, or the newest, latest, or best working hero build. While showing the order to flash radios, spls, and such using the ADB. It will help out a lot of people trust me. And from the looks of all the noobs right now youll have so many views, subscribers, followers or whatever your motive is. Please help noobs out.
If you need it you can find some free desktop recorders to enhance your video here: http://download.cnet.com/windows/vid...ftware/?tag=bc
Completey safe downloads from cnet.
Remember stock to hero!
I would do this myself but i myself do not know how and am on my second g1.
Thank you!
i will have a go at making that over the weekend.
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i will have a go at making that over the weekend.
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Thanks a billion. You dont know how much this will help people. Post a link here when your finished please
Since this thread is for the "noobs", I have a couple of questions to ask.
Excuse my not using the search fully. There are just so many threads and so many responses and none of them are completely clear.
If I were to root my phone with the latest Hero ROM that has flash playet 10, will I still need to upgrade the firmware to 1.5 or is this particular ROM built on 1.5 or what??
Also, does this latest Hero ROM have the famed HTC virtual keyboard or no??
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Since this thread is for the "noobs", I have a couple of questions to ask.
Excuse my not using the search fully. There are just so many threads and so many responses and none of them are completely clear.
If I were to root my phone with the latest Hero ROM that has flash playet 10, will I still need to upgrade the firmware to 1.5 or is this particular ROM built on 1.5 or what??
Also, does this latest Hero ROM have the famed HTC virtual keyboard or no??
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Honestly idk but maybe someone will see this thread and answer that for you or you can start a new thread
There are quite a few videos out there already that show you how its done. Maybe not directly toHero but the whole process is the same - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDPFhJ9noLA
So instead of using JF 1.31, simply use the Hero ROM of your choice, rename it as "update.zip" and put it on the root of your SD card. Turn off your G1, hold the HOME button and press POWER to get into the Recovery image. Press ALT+W (to wipe) then ALT+S (to flash the ROM).
EDIT: I forgot some very crucial information >_< IF you are going to Hero from Stock you do require a few other things. Namely the new Radio and the new SPL (depending on which Hero ROM you pick). Make sure though that whatever you do, you upgrade the radio first to avoid bricking your G1. Look at my signature for links to what you need, like the Radio, SPL etc.
Wait patiently and all should be well...
@OutstandingO
Hero is basically Cupcake (1.5) but with a different interface created by HTC using custom code. So you just flash the Hero ROM of choice and that's it.
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OutstandingO said:
Since this thread is for the "noobs", I have a couple of questions to ask.
Excuse my not using the search fully. There are just so many threads and so many responses and none of them are completely clear.
If I were to root my phone with the latest Hero ROM that has flash playet 10, will I still need to upgrade the firmware to 1.5 or is this particular ROM built on 1.5 or what??
Also, does this latest Hero ROM have the famed HTC virtual keyboard or no??
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YouTube has plenty of view on rooting that's where I learned how to do it, they also have the files u need to root it right there for u to download. Just search it and u will find it. The guy who's vid I followed is tony moreno look for his bids. I don't recommend jumping from 1.1 to hero. Go from 1.0 to 1.1 then jump to 1.5. Also hero is built from 1.5. I myself have tried it but even with all the optimizing its not fast enough for me. It also has the famed HTC IME keyboard. I myself use JF 1.5 APD. With the Hero theme in the themes section with the HTC keyboard. Flash would be nice but it still has issues with speed and force closings. Like I said YouTube the rooting process and search around the thread for other stuff like and and how to use fastboot.
I forgot some crucial information, namely to upgrade the Radio first and that you might need to upgrade the SPL. Have edited my post.
That is in part something that threw me for a loop.
I've seen multiple vids for rooting but none of them seem to address this whole "Radio" issue that you brought up and the steps surrounding that. From what I have been reading this is the most important part.
I love this site but the type of people that post here are guys that already know what their doing in most cases and they speak and post as such.
So have I ever developed an app for the G1, no, but I'm not Danny Dunderhead either. I can read a set of instructions if laid out for me.
So I ask you more experienced gentlemen, can someone either post a link or give me step by step help in checking my "radio", upgrading my "radio" and then installing the ROM??
I would greatly appreciate it.
I did it! I bricked my G1!
Yeah, well...what can you do. I read over the posts here, watched youtube videos, and searched the web as well. Read and viewed everything I could until I couldn't take it anymore. Then...I tried. Tried and failed? No, tried and died.
MAN, I WANT HERO! I am more jealous with every video I see. I don't care if it's a little slow. It is pure Android beauty. But...
There is so much information out there, not just at this forum, but all over the net. And although there are many similarities between the instructions (I use that term loosely for some), many have different steps so it's hard to tell which to follow. Apparently taking what you feel are the best from each is not the way to go. Really, I'm not stupid about these things...well...
So, here is where I started; a T-Mobile G1 running the latest OTA 1.5 update and the 2.22.19.26I radio software. Used Parted Magic to create a 5GB FAT32 and a 1GB EXT2 partition on the SD card. I downloaded everything I though I would need or could find. The original boot and recovery img's along with RC29, RC30, and Cupcake zips. Then I got HardSPL and a bunch of files from Hayruko. I got JeseusFreke, CyanogenMod, and JACHero stuff. Hell, someone said to download the Telnet.apk and put it on the SD card as well. Did that. I found a great thread for installing the JACHero, but it did not go into rooting your phone first. Did that need to be done? I guessed it did. So I started there. Downgraded nicely to RC29. That was easy. Then even went through the telnet and terminal emulator steps. Then trouble. Which recovery.img to use? Some instructions reference the testkeys and some don't when rooting. Figured I would do it that way. So I went through those steps. Loaded CyanogenMods 1.3.1 and 1.33.2005 SPL on the SD card. Flashed (I thought) the recovery.img. Rebooted to get ready to install the SPL. Stuck at t-Mobile G1 now! They really do call it a brick for a reason.
So now that I got that off my chest, a few questions. First, I want to run HERO. I want it! However, I would like to make a request this time. Could someone please post step by step instructions for taking a stock G1 to the JACHero 2.3.4 release. Not just "flash the recovery and SPL" files. I would like more detailed directions. If you know of a good link to send me, please tell me. I thank you in advance for your time. I know it's a real pain in the ---, but I promise I will pass your knowledge along to another such as I!
A few questions first. I believe the steps are something like this:
1. Downgrade to RC29.
2. Copy recovery_teskeys.img and some recovery.img along with some SPL update.zip file to the SD card and "load" them properly. Which files should you use (does it matter), which order should you do it and how?
3. How do I do a Nandroid backup at this point? Do I need/want to?
4. Do I wipe now? Need to ever? Doesn't the image overwrite everything anyway?
4. Copy update.zip (the renamed JACHero 2.3.4 zip file) to the SD card and load it. Do you need to load any other image first other than JACHero 2.3.4.?
5. Enjoy HTC Hero goodness!
I know I am asking a lot, but I need the steps so I can replicate this easily. I am going to want to do this a lot based on what I see out there. Always something new to try and a lot of great developers out there. Thank you in advance for all of your time and effort. I promise to pass it along.
Sorry I'm new around here and I'm hoping this is the right place to ask this...
But, I'm probably about to flash my phone with JACHero.
I just wanted to know if it had the IM apps or not (Yahoo, GTalk, AIM, etc)
And do all the normal apps from the market work or are there "special" apps you need to download. Any info is appreciated.
Are you familier with troubleshooting roms?. iF not cyan 3.6.5 is the best best
jachero require patience you should wait for the most stable hero rom lots of lag and that wounderful bootloop. I was about to give my phone away.
It has gtalk but not the other IM apps. You don't need any "special" apps.
OK, cool. Also, I flashed the cyanogen recovery image. But after I reboot back into the recovery console I get this at the top "E: Can't open cache/recovery/command"
That isn't really relevant.
So what do I do now just continue on with flashing the JACHero ROM now?
Sorry, I was confused and was snappy at alritewhadeva
Yaboiaj said:
So what do I do now just continue on with flashing the JACHero ROM now?
Sorry, I was confused and was snappy at alritewhadeva
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yes, don't worry about that error on the top. Just make sure you have the newest radio flashed as well as the new dangerous SPL flashed first before you do that, as well as the cyanogen's recovery 1.3.1. If you have all that, feel free to flash to your heart's content.
Actually, you need to make sure you have the correct partitions, if you don't know, its on the first post of the JACHero2.7.3 thread. Good luck, you can PM me if you have any problems and you want help fast without starting a new thread.
Please help. Advice and direction are all I am looking for. I have searched and searched for a solution but have only gotten more confused. I posted to a thread that I thought was relevent, but was quite ridiculed. Its been a while since I rooted my phone and feel like i am a noob all over again.
So when things were fine on my phone I was running cyans 4.2.1.2 (i think right around there). Wasn't fast enough, so I tried Super D's rom. Took a while, lots of wipes, but I got it up and running after making sure I had the right spl and radio files installed. But browser wouldn't work.
I am not trying to fix Super D's rom. Here's the thing. I went back to cyan, but still no browser. Wipe, wipe wipe, redo spl and radio, cyan. Still no browser, but now lost market. Nandroid! Back up restored. Browser back but no market.
Solutions I am looking for. 1. A way to fix these without a full revert. But where do I find working source files?
2. How far back do I have to go to get a rom with these included? Back to Stock 1.6? Where can I get it from?
3. I know I am only wiping from cyans recovery. I don't know how to wipe the ext, or the dalek as someone suggested rudely in another thread, and I think this might also be a fix.
Sorry to ask such a specialized question. I didn't see a how-to for reverting EVERYTHING back to stock including my Gapps. If there is let me know!
Also, if I do have to start over, is there a way to save an app I currently have? I still have the Sense version of Beautiful widgets (I never updated it after the legal mumbo jumbo from HTC) Is there a way to save it? I know if I lose it I will only be able to get the Non-Sense version now.
Thanks for taking the time to read this! Any advice would be a huge lifesaver!
It will be way easier if you update your recovery. Go to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566669
and get Amon-RA 1.5.2 and follow the directions to get it installed.
Once installed, boot into recovery and wipe from there. You can wipe everything from his recovery.
Word! Thanks for the tip. I tried yesterday but I guess I didn't follow the directions right. This time I did and was successful! Now I am wiping through amon's, and re-flashing. Lets see if that works!
Once you are done, stick with Super-D for ease of install and the new version of Beautiful widgets is nice. Lots of skins for the flip clock.
sweet. Actually had my old apps too still on my sd card until I noticed the apps2sd wasn't working. Then I repartitioned. Everything running but lost the old widget. Oh well, thanks for the big save- that was easy! Market, browser, like a brand new phone only better! Thank you thank you thank you!
so I got a samsung galaxy s captivate SHG-I896 from rogers and I really want to root it, i have z4root installed, but im hesitating. because i dont want to brick my phone, i have had an apple device, jailbroke a bunch, no problems of brick but android is a whole different story, so i would appreciate a few pointers, sorry for posting such a noobish question
Not sure about the Rogers version, but with the 897, if anything goes wrong, ODIN will return it to factory.
I have the Rogers Captivate as well, I was a little hesitant before I did it too but myself and a bunch of my friends that have the phone have done it with no issues at all. Do the permanent root, if it freezes then just pull the battery, reboot and try again. It took me at least twice to root it but it's remarkably easy. If anything really major goes wrong you can always boot to recovery and wipe data but I seriously doubt you'll need to. I'm just speaking from experience so don't blame me if anything buggers it up but to be honest it's not as easy to brick it as you might think.
Just go for it.
just rooted it
i just rooted my captivate with z4root, can any one give me any like tips/warnings/shoulds/shouldnts
Should:
- Get Titanium Backup and batch backup everything. This app will make your life so much easier and hassle free.
- Also, just be careful and don't go crazy with installing stuff you don't know about. Do your due diligence before flashing anything or installing any app or lag fix. Figure out exactly how it's done before you do it. This might sound basic and common sense but from the short time I've been here I've seen a fair few people complain of bricking their phone just because they didn't follow directions that were pretty clear from the onset.
Enjoy!
how to flash
im looking around the forums so, i copied this from the darky rom post:
HOW TO FLASH
1. Place the ROM on the root of your SD card.
2. Backup your apps using Titanium Backup.
3. Open ROM Manager (Downloadable from the market)
4. Choose "Install ROM from SD card". If after you flash and you have problems like force closes and you can't receive calls, wipe data/cache.
5. Let the phone sit for 5-10 minutes after booting.
6. Have fun!
is that all u have to do? no holding buttons and booting into some menu?
also will these roms work for 2.1 rogers version captivate? Because i checked on the wiki for the captivate rogers version and it said something about "optionally change the model in the update-script from SGH-i897 to SGH-i896"
I'm not the best person to ask about this unfortunately but from what I've read this is definitely one way to flash a new rom. Whether you're currently on 2.1 seems to be irrelevant as the rom will act as your new version of Android as it were.
A few things I've read, make sure you have access to both recovery and download modes, if anything happens you'll probably need to flash back with Odin so learn more about that before you proceed.
Best to start here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364
And finish by reading the remaining stickies and make sure of any special instructions for whatever rom you want to install.
I haven't flashed because, and this sounds strange, I don't actually have access to a computer at my house so I can't use Odin as easily to fix any issues that might occur so I haven't tried yet.
I'll step out and let someone else handle your flashing questions.
If you read the Q&A sticky it would've answered your questions.
Can u root a g1 with super one click application on the computer?
Sent from my x10a flashed 2.1 Brazilian firmware with multitouch xda download Rooted
The G1 is so incredibly easy to root, it takes about 5 minutes. Using an application for it is just plain lazy haha.
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The G1 is so incredibly easy to root, it takes about 5 minutes. Using an application for it is just plain lazy haha.
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Sorry I have the same question as the first user, but didn't understand your answer...
he's saying you can, but it's the lazy way... the g1 is so easy to root, plus if you root it the traditional way it gives you a little better of an understanding on how things work behind the OS
so if you want to try it, go ahead but im not 100% sure if it works...
Ooooor if you want to grow some fuzz on your balls than try following this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098899
I am glad I did my first root using the RC29 methods, where they left a shell connected to the keyboard, as it is good background for someone who likes to tweak their phone directly from the OS level, instead of having someone else write a script to do it all with "one-click". Cyanogen's Dream root how-to is fairly good also, just stop reading any of them after you get recovery flashed, as the info you'll find here is much more up to date, with newer SPL and radios which you will need for most of the recent ROM builds.
Read this thread too, on ensuring you have a good match of radio/SPL/recovery flashed so you don't get a brick. (i.e., SPL 1.33.2003 seems to be good with 1.x and 2.x radios, and 1.33.2005 for 2.x or 3.x radio)
That being said, by the time I got to rooting my third phone, I did build a goldcard to flash whatever I wanted, just to save some time, but I usually don't care to save anything from the phone, so a full wipe is OK for me.
If you think you are ready to start flashing things, start over and read all of it again. It may not be as expensive anymore to make a mistake and brick your Dream, but it would still be very sad to turn a working phone into a paperweight because of missing a step, or doing something in the wrong order.