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I'm posting here because I don't know what else to do, my phone freezes using any froyo rom. It happens randomly and sometimes will not happen until I reboot the phone, but it makes my phone pretty much unusable. I've tried the leaked froyo rom, BB, CM 6 1&2 and countless others. I've tried wiping data / cache and formating the SD card (worked until i put my music back on), and I'm about to just try stock 2.2 and exchange it for a new one if it wont work.
Anyone else have this problem that could help me?
One thing I didn't see you do...
Have you at all root your phone to install the desired froyo rom for your phone?
Yes I am rooted, I'm currently on CM 5.0.8 and very happy but I would really like to get froyo working.
Alright. This is what I've done to get Froyo working on my Droid: I rooted my phone, downloaded BB v4 and changed the name of the file to update, installed Rom Manager on my phone(then found out I can download the roms from here as well), reboot into recovery through rom manager, wiped data & cache, selected install zip, then selected reboot phone. It took a bit to register but it converted over with BB v4.
I think I've found my problem
droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/67526-music-sd-card-causes-bb-4-freeze.html
this sounds like my exact problem, I'm going to look through my library and see if there is a corrupt file then try again
Hopefully that is the source of the issue and that'll be solved quickly. Good luck to ya
ok guys i have looked EVERYWHERE. I joined this forum just to ask this question, as the name suggests, i was a recent iphone/ipod touch jailbreaker and just recently switched to android, and am currently not very familiar with the terminology and exploits..
I have been using a rooted A854 on Ntelos. It is a pretty locally based company near charlottesville, va. It is quite similar to telus in canada, but with very close ties to sprint in the shenandoah valley.
when i originally tried to root via a vulnerable recovery with rsd lite and a froyo, prerooted version, it kept failing so my friend downloaded and installed universal androot which worked like a charm. The only thing was that nandroid wasnt possible via that method, and i still didnt have Froyo.
Recently, when i installed ROM manager, I was able to flash Clockworkmod's open recovery, and was able to successfully make a nandroid. I am however interested in installing a custom ROM with froyo.
I have looked into Motofrenzy and Cyanogen 6 (unofficial port for Milestone)[/URL] which were available via nandroid restore.
When i was looking it was telling me to put the file for the rom in nandroid/adbrecovery but i have no such location on my sd card.
It also says that in order for me to maintain 3g access, i need the local 3g band file, which is also not available from the rom sites.
if anyone was successful in flashing a custom rom to the A854 via nandroid restore with custom 3g bands, could you please help me.
Also any additional help would be appreciated...
Thanks in advance
~iphoneconvert
Links:
android DOT doshaska DOT net/cm6
dext3r DOT komodin DOT org/
i also have da same phone with ntelos its really a rebranded moto droid not milestone which is a gsm phone so only flash droid roms . in clockwork mod after flashing recovery go to back up current rom and do a nandroid back up . because it only gives da sdcard about 20 sec. to mount it usually say error cant mount just quickly hold down x and power and it will boot into recovery on da second try . go down 2 nandroid do a back up then reboot in clockwork go 2 download a rom and flash away
so your saying that i need to boot into recovery twice? and yeah i know its a rebranded droid but i thought that i needed roms for the milestone (i guess they were referring to the gsm version). Are you sure that any droid rom will work? Because the bootloader is locked down and the roms depend on changing that correct?
OK. i think i found out one of my problems. Since my friend and i were never able to successfully flash a vulnerable recovery, my phones recovery mode kept booting into android default. I had an update.zip with GOTS recovery in it and it would fail signiture verification, but when i booted into recovery through rom manager it would let me into clockworkmods recovery... i updated to it there and it went through so i think i can flash a rom now... if only i werent so chicken
yeah droid1 roms (cdma) i don't know much about open recovery or vulnerable recovery i just used androot 1 click root to get root then used rom manager to flash clockwork mod recovery did a nandroid and been rom surfing ever sense. im on like my 4th 854 and they all have dat boot twice issue it only when u try to like install a rom straight from clockwork
Man, i can not tell you how much you helped me, i have searched everywhere for weeks for what you just told me!
So i can just install roms straight from rom manager and they will all work? freaking beast. Thanks a ton
Oh and btw if you havent overclocked i recommend you do so with an app from the market, milestone overclock... SO HELPFUL, it makes the phone so much faster... i have it set to 1200 mhz and 80 vsel with no distinct loss in battery life.
so which roms have you been using and how did you get froyo
i have da paid version of rom manager so i just flash overclocking kernels from there to go with wuteva rom i flash cause most custom roms max at 800mhz just make sure it says kernels for any rom . i been using a rom i got from the custom rom section on the droid forums called ultimate droid 2.1.0 really customizable if dats a word lol
Ntelos
So you have th ntelos milestone using a custom rom, how did you get your data and mms working ? Do you have the APN setting for ntelos?
I dont have to change those? my data worked but I didn't try mms
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Ahh ok I just finished flashing to cm6.1 and it works flawless then you simply go to voice dial and say open apn's and edit the mms setting to be ----mms.ntelospcs.net then all is well, I have voice, data, and mms all working.
so m tried froyo but it wouldn't recognize my sd... I got back by putting in my other sd and installing cyanogen 5 again... i really want cyanogen 6.1... ugh... imma try again to update to froyo but with my other sd
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flash back 2 your stock ntelos rom click on voice dialer it should say " say a command " then you say "open APN's" sometimes it takes a couple of tries but it will show a list of APN settings copy it down on a piece of paper . now when you flash another rom do the same thing with da voice dialer but change da settings from verizon to da ntelos settings you wrote down press menu click save changes . reboot now you should have mms working . hope this helps
Ok guys thanks for all this help for everyone here and especially me. If someone wanted to make this into a non question post with maybe a step by step guide? i suppose i could but im feeling awfully lazy right now so yeah..
Ntelos
Yea not much love for the Ntelos folks here so we need to stick together
yeah we really do
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well today is a new problem, i flashed the liquid frozen yogurt 1.95 and lost my data 3g connection, i can turn it off then back on and it will come on for about 10 mins then 3g will be gone until i turn it off and on again...Any ideas?
well does it switch to 1x or does it just leave... you could also try to toggle airplane mode on/off... every so often my data switches from five bars 3g to 2 bars 1x and toggling airplane mode normally fixes it... but if you lose it completely I recommend you try to either nandroid back to stock or attempt to send mms or call someone and see what happens...
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also try what eboogie said...
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I resolved my loosing data connection, there is a setting in the connections and wireless tab that you can choose Home or automatic and it was set to automatic, I changed it to Home and bingo all good...
well, i have an xt860 droid 3 here.
it came shipped with maverick mavrom 4.0, which was not bad, but lacked due to english only (and no german to choose, which i want) and actually not beig android 4.
i searched around a bit and found out, that most 4.x-roms lack a working camera, but i found the Steeldroid 5.6 rom over at droidforums.net (which had partially working camera)
it worked a little time, but i noticed, that there is no umts/3g and no data-point (apm) createable or selectable, so no data useable.
so i wanted to go to another rom. i tried liberty's rom, avatar's & liquid smotth, but all 3 didn't install - maybe because i still have safestrap 1.8 and don't know about the partition 1 or 3 stuff.
So for now i installed minimoto, just to have a "working" rom and starting phone. I don't want to use this rom, as it's also not multilanguage (or just not german included), so my question:
i want a working 2.3.x rom (or maybe a 4.x rom, but those might all lack of camera, so rather the other one), which has everything working and is multilanguage and working with safestrap 1.8. (or otherwise a link to how to update my safestrap.
thanks in advance.
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well, i have an xt860 droid 3 here.
it came shipped with maverick mavrom 4.0, which was not bad, but lacked due to english only (and no german to choose, which i want) and actually not beig android 4.
i searched around a bit and found out, that most 4.x-roms lack a working camera, but i found the Steeldroid 5.6 rom over at droidforums.net (which had partially working camera)
it worked a little time, but i noticed, that there is no umts/3g and no data-point (apm) createable or selectable, so no data useable.
so i wanted to go to another rom. i tried liberty's rom, avatar's & liquid smotth, but all 3 didn't install - maybe because i still have safestrap 1.8 and don't know about the partition 1 or 3 stuff.
So for now i installed minimoto, just to have a "working" rom and starting phone. I don't want to use this rom, as it's also not multilanguage (or just not german included), so my question:
i want a working 2.3.x rom (or maybe a 4.x rom, but those might all lack of camera, so rather the other one), which has everything working and is multilanguage and working with safestrap 1.8. (or otherwise a link to how to update my safestrap.
thanks in advance.
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I am using a droid 3 XT862 at the moment from USA Verizon.
I did have a Bell XT860 from Canada till i had it stolen 2 weeks ago.
I attached a zip with the proper safestrap version 3.05 made specifically for the droid 3 (XT860 and XT862)
unzip the .apk file from the zip. and the easiest method (for me) to install it is to copy it onto your phone (i would copy it onto the phones sd card, and then while the phone is powered on, just find the file with your file explorer app on your phone, and click it to install.
Remember you need to be rooted for it to work.
I would also probably uninstall the older version of safestrap before you install the new one..
then once its installed, open it, grant it root access, and select the install recovery option.
NOTE: i think this must be done from your stock rom.. and you can probably backup your other roms to reinstall in the new safestrap, but if it was up to me, i would probably boot into the stock original phones rom, be sure you are rooted, uninstall the old safestrap, and install the new one.
I am somewhat new to all this also, but i have been playing around for a while now so learning lots.
I hope this works, otherwise let me know what problems come up, and i will try to help as much as i can. or maybe others will provide some input.
I hope my attachment works for you to download. if not let me know
you can also check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315982
well, thanks to this, i now have a new recovery (worked pretty easy., now i see, what's meant with thiese rom-slots. So now I'm just running and figure out a rom that works well.
(wlan, phone, data/3g, camera, keyboard and german language, so i'll just test and try.
well, it somehow didn't help_ i now can create a rom in romslot 1 or 3 but neither liberty's nor avatar's roms boot for me
so now i have a newer recovery, but still no working rom. can anyone help me?
is there even a rom which supports gsm/umts here in germany?
no problem. im glad it helped.
I have been installing all the steeldroid roms, and a few like minimoto, and some jb ones.. just to see what works and what doesnt.
post your results once you do the same. im interested to know your feedback
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satani said:
well, thanks to this, i now have a new recovery (worked pretty easy., now i see, what's meant with thiese rom-slots. So now I'm just running and figure out a rom that works well.
(wlan, phone, data/3g, camera, keyboard and german language, so i'll just test and try.
well, it somehow didn't help_ i now can create a rom in romslot 1 or 3 but neither liberty's nor avatar's roms boot for me
so now i have a newer recovery, but still no working rom. can anyone help me?
is there even a rom which supports gsm/umts here in germany?
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just noticed your response.. after i posted my last message. anyway
those also did not work on my old xt860 either.
what did work was minimoto (the xt860 version), aswell as a couple of the steeldroids (5.5, and 5.6 oc, and 5.0)
and dont worry if you dont get any data, or cell service to start. just get the rom to boot up proper, and then i can help you with your apn settings as well as getting your wireless radio to work.
first things first.. to try to get a working rom.. cuz my needs were the same as yours. and i got them all working except the ones you already tried.
i am chatr wireless which is also gsm/umts
noleng said:
no problem. im glad it helped.
I have been installing all the steeldroid roms, and a few like minimoto, and some jb ones.. just to see what works and what doesnt.
post your results once you do the same. im interested to know your feedback
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just noticed your response.. after i posted my last message. anyway
those also did not work on my old xt860 either.
what did work was minimoto (the xt860 version), aswell as a couple of the steeldroids (5.5, and 5.6 oc, and 5.0)
and dont worry if you dont get any data, or cell service to start. just get the rom to boot up proper, and then i can help you with your apn settings as well as getting your wireless radio to work.
first things first.. to try to get a working rom.. cuz my needs were the same as yours. and i got them all working except the ones you already tried.
i am chatr wireless which is also gsm/umts
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well, after updating the recovery, i managed to find the maverick 4.5 rom over on droidforums and installed that, as it came shipped with mav 4.0 and seemed ok,
Calling seems to work now, except the phone still sometimes tells "invalid sim card" and no signal, but is capable of calling. strange ? Sometimes, a switch between global and umts/gsm zone and also a switch gsm only and both manages to get a signal. (vodafone.de using) i have not tried further on data, but the menu is accessible.
so far, for me the maverick 4.5 ist the most stable one.
a smal question besides: how can i find out, if the phone has a simlock on? (i tried an o2-sim, which was completely not detected (and said to be not unlocked for this network). and if it's locked, how can i unlock?
update: after trying around today, i found out: (maverick 4.5)
apn-setting can be added, but are not stored/saved. so there is no possiblity of creating an apn.
the "invalid sim card" message is still, BUT the calling works (the "phono"-app does not show the own number, but shows signal and provider)
Good afternoon all,
I have an HTC One PN072. I've flashed the phone from Sprint to Cricket. They were very adamant about me not "resetting" the phone as it will remove the information, or flash they've added.
I've done several searches and can't seem to find a thread indicating 1) if this is possible and 2) a guide to doing so. The phone already is rooted and has TWRP on it as well.
If anyone knows of a thread I would love a link to a guide.
heartspains88 said:
Good afternoon all,
I have an HTC One PN072. I've flashed the phone from Sprint to Cricket. They were very adamant about me not "resetting" the phone as it will remove the information, or flash they've added.
I've done several searches and can't seem to find a thread indicating 1) if this is possible and 2) a guide to doing so. The phone already is rooted and has TWRP on it as well.
If anyone knows of a thread I would love a link to a guide.
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I have a Sprint One fully flashed to Verizon and I flash custom ROMs all the time without any problems. I have never lost any settings and I don't even have to re-activate my phone. I would think that as long as you dont use Bootloader to flash a complete RUU image you should be fine. Goin s-off if your not already might cause issues here as well. (If someone knows for sure please correct me) I would say just download a ROM and install it with TWRP. I have updated firmware as well with no issues as well, however the firmware I upgraded with did not contain a radio update, which I am hesitant to do since I imagine that will effect my flash. I did my flash myself but it seems like a headache re-doing it.
electroblood said:
I have a Sprint One fully flashed to Verizon and I flash custom ROMs all the time without any problems. I have never lost any settings and I don't even have to re-activate my phone. I would think that as long as you dont use Bootloader to flash a complete RUU image you should be fine. Goin s-off if your not already might cause issues here as well. (If someone knows for sure please correct me) I would say just download a ROM and install it with TWRP. I have updated firmware as well with no issues as well, however the firmware I upgraded with did not contain a radio update, which I am hesitant to do since I imagine that will effect my flash. I did my flash myself but it seems like a headache re-doing it.
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The wipes in TWRP usually recommended before flashing a custom rom don't remove their flashed data?
heartspains88 said:
The wipes in TWRP usually recommended before flashing a custom rom don't remove their flashed data?
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Not that I have ever experienced. That was true on my EVO LTE and has so far been true on my One. I have the newest TWRP and in the past two days I have flashed EclipticOne, Elegencia and Insert Coin. On my old Droids Clockwork recoveries reset worked fine as well. DONT do a factory reset from inside the ROM. I have not tried it on my One, but on my EVO and my Droid 1/2/3 phones that would undo parts of a flash and I would have to reactivate. If I were you I would just work within my current firmware and flash what was available.
It is possible for you to flash your phone back to Cricket for free but its requires a lot of setup and can be a real pain in the ass. Getting 3G on Verizon was particularly painful and I have many screen shots and pages of notes on the actual procedure. When I upgraded from my EVO to the One I managed to get it right the first time by following my notes but it was still a serious hassle.
electroblood said:
Not that I have ever experienced. That was true on my EVO LTE and has so far been true on my One. I have the newest TWRP and in the past two days I have flashed EclipticOne, Elegencia and Insert Coin. On my old Droids Clockwork recoveries reset worked fine as well. DONT do a factory reset from inside the ROM. I have not tried it on my One, but on my EVO and my Droid 1/2/3 phones that would undo parts of a flash and I would have to reactivate. If I were you I would just work within my current firmware and flash what was available.
It is possible for you to flash your phone back to Cricket for free but its requires a lot of setup and can be a real pain in the ass. Getting 3G on Verizon was particularly painful and I have many screen shots and pages of notes on the actual procedure. When I upgraded from my EVO to the One I managed to get it right the first time by following my notes but it was still a serious hassle.
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i was thinking about getting my one flashed to verizon but how does it work?? say i get my phone flashed.. is it verizon pre paid?? does that come with unlimited data?? text & talk?? how much would my bill be a month? sorry for all the questions
I apologize, so just to be as clear as possible, if you follow all of the wipes that roms usually ask you to perform in TWRP then you should be fine? However, do not perform a factory reset in the rom itself once loaded?
Doing a wipe through TWRP's wipe feature is fine as long as you dont go into 'Advanced' and mess with settings. Do not do the factory reset within the ROM once the ROM is loaded. If, while installing a ROM, the installer wants to do a wipe, that is fine as well.
I have just recently restarted using this phone due to my uscellular S4 getting turned off. I am now back on my LG-P990 currently rooted and running CM10.1. BUT most importantly to me is the fact that I have all my wonderful apps on my s4, I want to be able to use them by using the LG phone as a tether and calls not much else BUT CM10.1 tethering does not work, so i find myself flashing rom after rom, avatar rom, older CM mods, none would turn on tethering, so i flashed a modded version of MIUI for this phone and it worked except for ONE thing no signal, tethering turned on just fine so i decided to look around for other roms and found Slimrom TRYED to flash it didnt work, try to flash actual MIUI roms off there site, didnt work, met with an error in CWM Recovery after some searching I found its because Im running the OLD Bootloader -_- THIS is the issue im having IF MIUI does NOT work is it possible to downgrade the bootloader again so i can restore my CM10.1 backup? I have been working at this for a week, if there is something here about this can someone please just point me at it? I would appreciate any help.
On a side note i DID soft brick the phone the other day and found a program called nvflash witch flashed an install of CM mod. Dont know if that will help any.
Jeffril said:
I have just recently restarted using this phone due to my uscellular S4 getting turned off. I am now back on my LG-P990 currently rooted and running CM10.1. BUT most importantly to me is the fact that I have all my wonderful apps on my s4, I want to be able to use them by using the LG phone as a tether and calls not much else BUT CM10.1 tethering does not work, so i find myself flashing rom after rom, avatar rom, older CM mods, none would turn on tethering, so i flashed a modded version of MIUI for this phone and it worked except for ONE thing no signal, tethering turned on just fine so i decided to look around for other roms and found Slimrom TRYED to flash it didnt work, try to flash actual MIUI roms off there site, didnt work, met with an error in CWM Recovery after some searching I found its because Im running the OLD Bootloader -_- THIS is the issue im having IF MIUI does NOT work is it possible to downgrade the bootloader again so i can restore my CM10.1 backup? I have been working at this for a week, if there is something here about this can someone please just point me at it? I would appreciate any help.
On a side note i DID soft brick the phone the other day and found a program called nvflash witch flashed an install of CM mod. Dont know if that will help any.
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I really do not understand how other ROMs deny Tethering. Did you flash the latest 2.x kernel by pengus77 after installing the rom? Did you make a clean install(wipe everything then install)? On the other hand, yes you can switch bootloaders as much as you like, just remember that changing the bootloader wipes everything on your internal memory, so do a backup. Did you try just plain old stock 4.0.4? Should work there. Ask anything you want, if you're still having questions.
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I really do not understand how other ROMs deny Tethering. Did you flash the latest 2.x kernel by pengus77 after installing the rom? Did you make a clean install(wipe everything then install)? On the other hand, yes you can switch bootloaders as much as you like, just remember that changing the bootloader wipes everything on your internal memory, so do a backup. Did you try just plain old stock 4.0.4? Should work there. Ask anything you want, if you're still having questions.
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As to the flashing to stock i lost the original rom backup i had made along time ago and cant find the original firmware anywhere online. When I flashed CM 10.1 I just ran with it, when i go to try tethering it says "Turning on portable wifi hotspot." and it stays on that no matter what untill i restart, left the phone running for 2 days once and that was still stuck on that before i restarted. As for flashing a 2.x kernel i had no idea about that. But yes when i did the installs i would do a clean wipe and install. Most of what i read online led me to believe that there was an error with CM 10.1 nightlys that was not being fixed for the tethering. So that is why i decided to go to another rom. Two questions one how do i go about finding the original firmware for this phone and two how would i go about updating or downgrading the bootloaders and could i be pointed to the files please?
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As to the flashing to stock i lost the original rom backup i had made along time ago and cant find the original firmware anywhere online. When I flashed CM 10.1 I just ran with it, when i go to try tethering it says "Turning on portable wifi hotspot." and it stays on that no matter what untill i restart, left the phone running for 2 days once and that was still stuck on that before i restarted. As for flashing a 2.x kernel i had no idea about that. But yes when i did the installs i would do a clean wipe and install. Most of what i read online led me to believe that there was an error with CM 10.1 nightlys that was not being fixed for the tethering. So that is why i decided to go to another rom. Two questions one how do i go about finding the original firmware for this phone and two how would i go about updating or downgrading the bootloaders and could i be pointed to the files please?
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Okay, This is SFSP by @sgspluss which is a pretty fast, stable and battery-friendly slimmed down version of stock ICS. It is available for both Old and NewBL, so you might want to try that first. This is AIO Toolkit. I know that you've used it and bricked your phone, but try again, and for the love of God install the nvflash drivers because most people skip that part. You have to do it manually and if you're running Windows 8 you need to disable Driver Signature Verification. But yeah, you switch bootloaders with this.