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...
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Hey guys, so ive been getting used to my milestone, and ive figured out how to put the update.zip folder in my SD card and ican get to the boot screen, but when i try to update it always, gives me the same error E:/Verification Failed or soemtihng and it says Installation Aborted!
is there any way around this? would prefer official moto 2.2 froyo instead of using a custom rom since im not experianced with flashing and what not any help??
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Hey guys, so ive been getting used to my milestone, and ive figured out how to put the update.zip folder in my SD card and ican get to the boot screen, but when i try to update it always, gives me the same error E:/Verification Failed or soemtihng and it says Installation Aborted!
is there any way around this? would prefer official moto 2.2 froyo instead of using a custom rom since im not experianced with flashing and what not any help??
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You have to flash the vulnerable recovery in order to be able to apply the update.zip
here it is:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jzzjmmrvwkz
Hey guys got some questions down the same line of thought. I have a milestone and a hero. On the hero I installed rom manager from the market and downloaded a few roms and then transfered them to the sd card and loaded them with the rom manager. And it works. But when I tried that with the milestone I get the same error. I can not figure out what I am doing wrong!!! I am on cellular south network and wonder if that is the problem but I dont think so. Can you load roms through the rom manager on the milestone? Thanks in advance I am still learning.!
Well, CDMA Milestone is a tricky question. It should be exactly same as Droid except the name, the question is if you rooted the phone ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7902606&postcount=4
You simply have to work as if you have a Droid, not Milestone - as your phone is equal to Droid and very different to Milestone sold in other countries.
hey the milestone is from telus canada unlocked to use it for GSM fido, but the other issue is that its not the same as Droid because for i.e droid you need 2 press "x"a nd power button to go into recovery meny, for milestone you need to press camera key and power button to go into that recovery... also how would i go about flashing the vulnerable recovery??
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hey the milestone is from telus canada unlocked to use it for GSM fido, but the other issue is that its not the same as Droid because for i.e droid you need 2 press "x"a nd power button to go into recovery meny, for milestone you need to press camera key and power button to go into that recovery... also how would i go about flashing the vulnerable recovery??
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1. Install your motorolla drivers
2. Install rsd lite
3. Get the vuln recovery from the link I posted above and extract it
4. Turn off your phone
5. Boot into the bootloader (Power Button + Dpad Up)
6. Connect your phone to computer via usb
7. Start Rsd Lite
8. Flash the vulnerable recovery sbf file
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hey the milestone is from telus canada unlocked to use it for GSM fido
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Yeah, i was answering to "J W". Even if you both have Motorola Milestone, J W's Milestone is a Droid with different name, your Milestone is a true Milestone. That's why i redirected J W to the Droid way .
hey thanks for the step by step i flashed it and im still gettin gthe same error message :S
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted
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my file is named update.zip (not .zip.zip but just .zip) and its not working!! really frustrating
Follow this guide exactly (make sure you download the correct NON-service vulnerability SBF for your region): http://android.modaco.com/content/m...m/308422/milestone-2-1-update-and-root-guide/
The instructions are pretty much the same as what Vlad has been saying, but they are a lot more detailed and outline some of the same problems that many of us international Milestone users have experienced with rooting.
Hey guys i did this and all this managed to do is reset my phone to factory settings.. i still cant update to 2.2 i flashed it and everything im getting same errors!!!
Once you root it, and make sure that you root it correctly like here: http://android.modaco.com/content/m...m/308422/milestone-2-1-update-and-root-guide/
Use the ADB recovery method to flash the image. Don't just update, but do a recovery of your custom ROM.
dude i dont know how to flash it i dont know how to make nandroid its so complex
Follow the guide above. Once that is accomplished, watch this video:
http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/29/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-motorola-milestone-using-nandroid/
Make sure that you actually have root access first before trying to load a custom ROM. Check if you have root access by downloading Titanium from the Market.
It took me several hours - had to repeat the initial root about 4 times to get it right - but it works for sure.
dude wow worked : D but my question is now, i only could upgrade to 2.2.1 GOT one. Is it because Telus Milestone is locked bootloader or something and wont let me flash, i tried to flash to motofrenzy but it would install and get stuck on boot at teh Droid and the eye thing :S
Also is milestone capable on running on WIND 3G, what if i installed European SBF??
btw thanks so much, does this forum have a "rep" system?
You can't flash the radio frequencies because the hardware just isn't there. I have an international 900/2100 version, so do you want to trade?
All of the Milestone ROMs on here work, even the Moto Frenzy one, but you have to do a recovery instead of a clean flash like the GOT version. Personally, I'm loving the GOT ROM. It seems to give better battery life than the others that I've tried and is pretty fast.
i tried to flash it like the links you gave me and it just gets stuck on start up (usually the Android thing, but MotoFrenzy gets stuck on the droid Eye, and dont get me wrong i liek the GOT but i dont know how to apply the fixes )
Applying the fixes is easy. Just install the ROM again. This time, reboot the phone again after it auto-reboots when the installation finishes.
Now, upon 2nd reboot, you should get the "Welcome to Milestone" screen. Reboot into recovery and go into the GOT update and apply the root, then the fixes.
My Moto Frenzy installation only worked after I rebooted the phone several times. It can take a few minutes to get past the Droid eye logo.
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Now, upon 2nd reboot, you should get the "Welcome to Milestone" screen. Reboot into recovery and go into the GOT update and apply the root, then the fixes.
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Which GOT Update?? i only downloaded the SBF thing off that website, there was no "fixes" but i was reading about them..
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My Moto Frenzy installation only worked after I rebooted the phone several times. It can take a few minutes to get past the Droid eye logo.
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I tried it and i left the phone on nothing happned just stuck in boot loop, treid to manually reset it and nothing worked, updated to GOT 2.2.1, and rooted with Universal Androot
In Korea, Motorola Korea says XT720 (MOTOROI) will be updated next month to Froyo 2.2.1
huhuhuh... when is official Froyo reaching Milestone!!..
XT720? I tot moto just annouce it won't get Froyo?...
Im at a beach house in north Carolina for a week and i rooted my aunts Droid 1 (i have a Samsung fascinate rooted with cm7 and some oc kernel, i have a bit of experience with android) She had stock 2.2.2 and i originally tried to root with z4root 1.3 then i read up it doesn't work with that android version so i then found a guide to root from whatever android version (http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/74028-root-droid-1-regardless-os-version.html) and i followed every step perfectly and everything went smoothly then i booted to see if it worked and su was there so i tried to download rom manager to test the su but it wouldn't cause apparently there was no data... I had perfect cell signal could make calls and whatnot but no 3g data so i broadcasted wifi on my phone and got it that way and installed cm7 and some other kernel thinking it would fix the data issue but it didn't... Im posting this long story so u know exactly what i did and if there's a way to fix this 3g data issue please help me.. I've reflashed many different versions of cm7 and also rsdlite a stock .Sbf file for 2.0.1 and 2.1 still no data please help.
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I've got a CDMA Hero 200 running on the MTS network here in Canada. This may be a stupid question, but if I flash the Cyanogen Mod to it so I can save apps2SD and wipe the cache/settings as it seems I'm supposed to do, will that wipe all the programming from the phone that connects me to my network? It's CDMA so you can't just pull the SIM card b/c it doesn't have one.
In other words will I have to get the phone reprogrammed so it will connect with the mobile network for voice/data or do those settings stay in the phone even if you wipe it before flashing the new ROM? I'm guessing my carrier likely frowns upon rooting and flashing third party ROM's so they probably wouldn't be interested in programming the phone for me if it wipes those settings. I guess I just don't want to flash a ROM in the hopes of making my phone more useful only to make it useless by eliminating the programming and data connection.
If any of you seasoned vets could help a stupid noob out I'd appreciate it.
upgrading (and i mean upgrading lol) your phone from stock to cyanogenmod will not touch any of your network settings.
the only thing i can really think of that doing something would wipe your network settings would be a rtn reset, or an ruu stock rom flash which you wont even be close to doing.
flash away i say, cyanogenmod, ics and zero hero are way better than the stock rom
Just do a backup of your current stock ROM in case anything goes wrong.
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I'm an MTS user, if you use a rom like Cyanogen7, it is slightly faster then most roms but it will say SPRINT on the lockscreen and pulldownbar, that is tough to get rid of, I like ZeroHero cause its awesome!!!
Vedrick said:
I'm an MTS user, if you use a rom like Cyanogen7, it is slightly faster then most roms but it will say SPRINT on the lockscreen and pulldownbar, that is tough to get rid of, I like ZeroHero cause its awesome!!!
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That's actually very easy to get rid of.
Push this eri.xml in /data after a factory data reset (before reboot). Change cellular south to your carrier...
Link: http://db.tt/F5qqpVKk
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Like Dastin1015 said, backup then install the any rom to your hearts desire.
Try the Zero Hero Sense based rom. It's pretty snazzy!
Okay so I've got everything ready to go with the ROM on my SD card, but I'm wondering when I click to flash the ROM in ROM Manager do I just select the .zip version of the ROM from my SD card or do I have to unzip it first?
Thanks for all the help. I can't wait for my phone to be useful again.
to my knowledge...
nothing will mess with the modem of your phone unless you somehow flashed a GSM HERO rom.
but i don't have a canadian hero cdma :/
winphone said:
Okay so I've got everything ready to go with the ROM on my SD card, but I'm wondering when I click to flash the ROM in ROM Manager do I just select the .zip version of the ROM from my SD card or do I have to unzip it first?
Thanks for all the help. I can't wait for my phone to be useful again.
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Don't unzip.
I always reboot into recovery and install zip from there. You can format and wipe after making a nandroid. I've never installed a zip from rom manager... but thats just me.
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Hey Guys, I don't think this has been posted before, so thought I'd share. I managed to get CM9 working with my Bell XT860 *without* needing to change up the phone using another country's fastboot file.
My phone was Bell 2.3.6, rooted, otherwise stock. I used Hashcode's safestrap to make a nandroid backup and install the latest patched CM9 from Rick#2 available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465297
I actually didn't expect it to boot up, but thought I'd give it a go since even if it failed the worst that could happen is that I'd have to SBF anyways.
At first it was a black screen, I had to do a battery pull. After the battery went back in, it started booting up with the animation screen, which showed multiple times over about 5-10 minutes. Then the phone started up Ice Cream Sandwich!
I've been testing it out a bit.. not much yet, but Market is working, data 3g seems to be working 2700 kbps up / 1341 kbps down (with a server that's super far away, 321ms ping). GPS is working... Wifi good. Camera does not work.
Wow, I never expected this. I think this gives hope to those who want to try out Ice Cream Sandwich but still want the ability to go back to stock. Or am I missing something?
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Hey Guys, I don't think this has been posted before, so thought I'd share. I managed to get CM9 working with my Bell XT860 *without* needing to change up the phone using another country's fastboot file.
My phone was Bell 2.3.6, rooted, otherwise stock. I used Hashcode's safestrap to make a nandroid backup and install the latest patched CM9 from Rick#2 available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465297
I actually didn't expect it to boot up, but thought I'd give it a go since even if it failed the worst that could happen is that I'd have to SBF anyways.
At first it was a black screen, I had to do a battery pull. After the battery went back in, it started booting up with the animation screen, which showed multiple times over about 5-10 minutes. Then the phone started up Ice Cream Sandwich!
I've been testing it out a bit.. not much yet, but Market is working, data 3g seems to be working 2700 kbps up / 1341 kbps down (with a server that's super far away, 321ms ping). GPS is working... Wifi good. Camera does not work.
Wow, I never expected this. I think this gives hope to those who want to try out Ice Cream Sandwich but still want the ability to go back to stock. Or am I missing something?
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If you bootloop while in safe mode DON'T SBF. Safestrap works by renaming /system to /systemorig and making /preinstall your new /system.
This means when you're in safemode you can always access recovery. So if you bootloop just battery pull to get out of the loop and then you'll e able to hit menu and enter safestrap. Either flash a different rom or return to nonsafe. If you are using safestrap 1.08 and not 1.08d you can't even flash nonsafe mode (1.08d is tweaked to allow advanced user to flash over their nonsafe, for example I have both liberty and eclipse roms on my phone no stock at all)
Also first boot of a rom always takes a long time. After that it should boot much faster
As another note if you do manage to screw up /systemorig somehow you can use motofastboot utility to flash just the system.img part of the SBF package. This will only replace the rom, then you just reboot, install safestrap and restore you backup.
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Wow, thanks for the warning, very good information! It's so good to be able to try some custom roms again. I'm out of CM9 already for lack of camera but so far am really impressed with Liberty, it's like my phone has come to life again. Very quick and responsive, amazing ability to customize as well.
Endoroid said:
If you bootloop while in safe mode DON'T SBF. Safestrap works by renaming /system to /systemorig and making /preinstall your new /system.
This means when you're in safemode you can always access recovery. So if you bootloop just battery pull to get out of the loop and then you'll e able to hit menu and enter safestrap. Either flash a different rom or return to nonsafe. If you are using safestrap 1.08 and not 1.08d you can't even flash nonsafe mode (1.08d is tweaked to allow advanced user to flash over their nonsafe, for example I have both liberty and eclipse roms on my phone no stock at all)
Also first boot of a rom always takes a long time. After that it should boot much faster
As another note if you do manage to screw up /systemorig somehow you can use motofastboot utility to flash just the system.img part of the SBF package. This will only replace the rom, then you just reboot, install safestrap and restore you backup.
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hi there ,i using 1.08d and try to flash willis111's bell 2.3.6 rom ,and I want to flash it to the orig system ,not the preinstall ,but every I flashed it ,the my xt860 restart and into the ori rom(2.3.5 bra),not the bell 2.3.6.
here is what i do
1 restart my xt860,and press menu
2 in the safestrap,wipe date ,format system ,then in advance flash .zip nonsafe
3 restart my xt860,and still the 2.3.5 bra rom ..
sorry for my bad English ,and great thx
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Endoroid said:
(1.08d is tweaked to allow advanced user to flash over their nonsafe, for example I have both liberty and eclipse roms on my phone no stock at all)
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all I want to know is how to ....thxxxxxxxxx
That's how it should be done
Last time I flashed my /systemorig was before 1.08d had been released so I did it co ming off a fresh fastboot flash using bootstrap to flash liberty, then installed safestrap. I haven't found a rom to replace liberty in my /systemorig yet so I haven't tried the advance flash yet. Sorry.
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newaxis said:
hi there ,i using 1.08d and try to flash willis111's bell 2.3.6 rom
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Hi
i' desperate for willis111's bell 2.3.6 rom but can't download from rapidshar, there is a way you upload the file to non-repidsher site?
Thanks ahead
Hello everyone,
Not quite sure where else to put this, but I can't reply in the android dev thread since I am a new member.
I flashed (using SafeStrap 3.05) the newest stable Avatar rom for D3 (using CM 10.1 and android 4.2.2 I think) and it booted ok, mostly everything seemed to work fine (except for camera but that seems to be expected) however I have absolutely no cell service. Not even just data, but the basic cell service for texts and calls isn't on. I tried doing the Verizon activation call, but it would tell me to turn airplane mode off, (which I did, but it either seemed to turn itself back on or not matter if it was on or off anyways).
Has anyone else had this problem and has a work around for it?
Thank you
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Hello everyone,
Not quite sure where else to put this, but I can't reply in the android dev thread since I am a new member.
I flashed (using SafeStrap 3.05) the newest stable Avatar rom for D3 (using CM 10.1 and android 4.2.2 I think) and it booted ok, mostly everything seemed to work fine (except for camera but that seems to be expected) however I have absolutely no cell service. Not even just data, but the basic cell service for texts and calls isn't on. I tried doing the Verizon activation call, but it would tell me to turn airplane mode off, (which I did, but it either seemed to turn itself back on or not matter if it was on or off anyways).
Has anyone else had this problem and has a work around for it?
Thank you
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Do you have a sim card in the phone? This was an issue with some Jellybean/ICS roms. It happens to me as well. For some reason when placing a sim card in the phone(it doesn't need to be active) it allows your phone to get reception.
pandam00nium said:
Do you have a sim card in the phone? This was an issue with some Jellybean/ICS roms. It happens to me as well. For some reason when placing a sim card in the phone(it doesn't need to be active) it allows your phone to get reception.
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Hey,
So this actually worked, thanks for the heads up!
step by step
apefist said:
Hello everyone,
Not quite sure where else to put this, but I can't reply in the android dev thread since I am a new member.
I flashed (using SafeStrap 3.05) the newest stable Avatar rom for D3 (using CM 10.1 and android 4.2.2 I think) and it booted ok, mostly everything seemed to work fine (except for camera but that seems to be expected) however I have absolutely no cell service. Not even just data, but the basic cell service for texts and calls isn't on. I tried doing the Verizon activation call, but it would tell me to turn airplane mode off, (which I did, but it either seemed to turn itself back on or not matter if it was on or off anyways).
Has anyone else had this problem and has a work around for it?
Thank you
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Hey, Glad u got your issue resolved..
i am getting my first Android phone (Droid 3 XT862 Gingerbread 2.3 ) and i want to install a custom rom the same way u have..... i was wondering if you or anyone else on the forum could give me step by step guide on how to go about installing the custom rom with the ability to revert back to my original stock OS wen i need to......
i had posted a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378162 and i got some good advise so far:
you or anyone here could reply with the instructions i need or at least send me a link to a tutorial .... as i said this is my first Android so i really dont want to make any mistakes while doing this..
THANX MUCH !!!!!!!
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Hey, Glad u got your issue resolved..
i am getting my first Android phone (Droid 3 XT862 Gingerbread 2.3 ) and i want to install a custom rom the same way u have..... i was wondering if you or anyone else on the forum could give me step by step guide on how to go about installing the custom rom with the ability to revert back to my original stock OS wen i need to......
i had posted a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378162 and i got some good advise so far:
you or anyone here could reply with the instructions i need or at least send me a link to a tutorial .... as i said this is my first Android so i really dont want to make any mistakes while doing this..
THANX MUCH !!!!!!!
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Hey, so this was my process.
First, I made sure that the stock software on the phone was up to date. I did this since that way if you have to go back to stock, you are on the latest version, and you can confirm that you are using the correct rooting application. The root tool I link to below will work on 5.7.906 which I believe is the latest.
Second, root your phone. You will need to go HERE to download the tool. Follow the instructions on the page, and it should go fine. The phone will reboot several times during the process, this is normal. Once the program says it is done, you can go check for the Superuser application in your app drawer (it might be SuperSU or something similar, I can't quite remember).
After you have root access on your phone download the safestrap application for Droid 3 HERE. Make sure you get the one that is specifically for Droid 3. Transfer that file (should be called Droid3Safestrap-3.05.apk) onto your phone.
There are a few ways to transfer files onto your phone. You will also need to do this later to transfer the .zip of whatever ROM you decide on). If you have a micro-sd card that you can put into your computer, that works. Or, you can have the phone on and plug it into the computer and transfer it that way. I believe you can transfer to either the micro SD or the internal memory. I prefer micro SD since you might want to wipe the internal memory to fix things or switch ROMs.
After the .apk is transferred find where you put it using a file manager (I personally use Root Explorer but I think Astro or stock will work), and install it. Go to the new app and run it and it should request root access, which you grant, and it should flash the recovery.
Once you have the recovery installed you can install whatever custom ROM you want, pretty easily. Safestrap is great because even if you screw up the ROM somehow, you can always just boot back into Stock.
Here is where you'll have to chose what custom ROM you want. Now as far as I know, the Droid 3 is fairly limited in its ROM selection. It does have a Cyanogen Mod 10 version, but it is not a stable version and in my experience, doesn't run super great. If you want to try Cyanogen Mod 10, I actually suggest you get the Avatar Rom variant HERE, but keep in mind that apparently you do need a SIM card inserted for the cell signal to work at all. Overall it did seem to run fairly choppy but they are still releasing newer nightly versions (July 20th was the last) so it might have gotten better. One thing to know about these ones is that the camera does not work at all, so if that matters to you just skip these.
Now those two (CM 10 and avatar) are ROMS that will bring the droid 3 up to Android 4.2 Jellybean. If you don't care about getting up to the latest version (Jellybean actually isn't the latest anymore but still pretty darn close), then there are a few other Gingerbread ROMS out there that work a bit better.
HERE is a list of a few other droid 3 ROMs, my favorite Gingerbread one that worked overall really well and stable was Steel Droid. Otherwise, you can just look around and see what's available or what other people are suggesting. Choose your ROM (or several, it's fairly easy to install them so try a few!), and download it. You should get a .zip that is approx. 150-170 MB in size. As an aside you will probably also want to download the corresponding GApps package HERE and put that on the SD card as well. I think some ROMs have that included, but if you boot into a room and it doesn't have the Play store installed, you need to go back into safestrap and install the GApps package over it. You don't have to delete and recreate the rom slot, just go back into install and install it over. When I say corresponding, the different packages go with different versions of Android so for example the one labelled 20110307 would go with Android 2.3.4 which is Gingerbread, the version that Steel Droid uses.
For whichever one you choose, the install process is mostly the same. Reboot your phone, and after the Motorola Logo comes up, you should see the Safestrap splash screen. To get into the recovery menu you have to hit the "Menu" soft-key (the one all the way on the left) within 10 seconds so keep an eye on it.
From the recovery menu go into "Boot Options" You should see 5 options, rom-slot 1-4 and Stock. When you want to switch what ROM you are booting you select on the corresponding slot, and hit activate, then you can reboot through the menu option and it will start that ROM.
To install you will go into "Boot Options" chose whichever rom slot you want (most likely #1). You will have to create that slot, which can take a few minutes. After the slot is created, back out of boot options, and go to "Install". Find the .zip of whichever ROM you chose, and select that to install, and then you can install the corresponding GApps package.
After the install is complete, you can reboot (make sure it says rom slot 1 is selected up to), and it should boot into the Setup process of the ROM. If you ever need to go back to stock, just reboot, go back into Safestrap > Boot options, activate the "Stock" one and boot into that.
A few notes, if you want to switch ROMs, or install multiple ROMs you can do that using the different rom slots with a few exceptions. The Cyanogen Mod 10 and the Avatar Rom (most Jelly bean ones I think) have to be installed in rom slot 1, so if you're doing those and another like Steel Droid, put the Jellybean one in rom slot 1 and the Gingerbread on in rom slot 2. Also if you want to install a different ROM, it's generally best to just completely erase the rom slot and recreate it, then install the different ROM in the newly created rom slot. You can always create backups with Safestrap and restore them with Safestrap. Oh and make sure your phone has a decent charge before doing a lot of the safestrap stuff (I would say at least 60%) you can also have the phone plugged in while doing this stuff, but I'm not always confident it is charging so try and get it charged up before hand.
Finally, if you ever mess up to the point where you're worried that you broke the phone, (boot loops or it is stuck on the Motorola Logo) you can download this restore tool HERE. This should completely wipe and restore the stock software on your phone. It will bring it back one version previous though, so be sure to go through the standard update process to bring it back to 5.7.906 so that the root tool will work. This tool has saved me a few times and is pretty easy to run.
Sorry, I know that is a lot of stuff and looks pretty scary. It really is just a few steps that you should research and make sure you are comfortable doing.
1: Get Root access on the stock software on the phone
2: Install safestrap and flash the custom recovery
3: Boot into recovery and install whichever custom ROM you want
If you have any questions feel free to ask!
Much appreciated !!! ..... i will try these steps as soon as i get my phone..... hope it doesnt make a difference if my D3 is an unlocked GSM phone because all service providers in my country uses GSM
Tha slayer said:
Much appreciated !!! ..... i will try these steps as soon as i get my phone..... hope it doesnt make a difference if my D3 is an unlocked GSM phone because all service providers in my country uses GSM
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if you are using gms you may need Rom version with a modified build prop, most of the roms threads will have a modified version for GMS, in the OP or somewhere in the thread. if you can't find it just ask in the original rom thread
also some good how to videos here https://sites.google.com/site/tomsgt123/all-videos/videos-page-4