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Just some Noob questions thanks!:D

Okay so before i mess with my phone again..lol
i rooted my phone with Fresh Kitchen
what does that put my phone at? lol
like ive been looking around is my phone rooted with 2.1 or whats the deal?
i wanna know what cool theme i can put on with out jackin up my phone again hahah
plz and thanks

this just roots your phone..
you are still at 1.5
read up on how to flash roms :]

okay! thanks man got a link? or shall i just google like ive been doing hahah

Very first thing you should do is.. Turn off phone.
Hold down home + power button.. Scroll down to backup/restore.
Then do a nano backup... Not the one with ext.
Then boot your phone back up and open up your sdcard on your comp and go to nandroid/file inside it/ then copy that file to your computer. Always keep it safe.

okay will do!
since im on 1.5 how would i put on 2.1 or whatever..lol
i see some bad ass themes around lol

Jw..heres a link
about 2 comments down you see a picture of a San Fransico theme. Totaly awesome does he have that in Twin Cities? Im from Minnesota lol..

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=665113

AndroidFAN101 said:
okay will do!
since im on 1.5 how would i put on 2.1 or whatever..lol
i see some bad ass themes around lol
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http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=CDMA Hero ROMs
Here is a list of roms.. I prefer damage control 2.07.2 or fresh 2.0d
Download the file and save the .zip file to your sd card.. NOT IN A FOLDER
Boot into recovery and then go to wipe.. Wipe factory/data and dalvik
Press back then go to flash from sdcard.. Find the rom you put on there, click it and watch it go.
After its done reboot your phone and wait.
After that i would prefer reading on how to customize it from there..
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS BACK A NANO BACKUP BEFORE FLASHING ANYTHING

alright!!!
thanks man!!!
Damn! these forums are very helpful!<3

alright!!!
thanks man!!!
Damn! these forums are very helpful!<3

1 question..i did fresh rom 2.0 and did everything the only problem running the rom is it says E:corupt file: verfication failed
whats the deal man?

AndroidFAN101 said:
1 question..i did fresh rom 2.0 and did everything the only problem running the rom is it says E:corupt file: verfication failed
whats the deal man?
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corrupted dl would be my guess. delete from root, redownload, and pop it back on your sd. reeemmmmeeemmmmbbbbbeeerrrr
always nandroid

i tryed that alrdy still no go :/
id really like to have this 2.0 cause all the tight themes ive seen is running 2.0
i put in the 1.1 or whatever and i cant find any themes for it..everything is under 2.0..

AndroidFAN101 said:
i tryed that alrdy still no go :/
id really like to have this 2.0 cause all the tight themes ive seen is running 2.0
i put in the 1.1 or whatever and i cant find any themes for it..everything is under 2.0..
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what recovery are you using?
you might try a different rom (regawmod is my daily)
idkwtf your talking about theres a billion themes for 1.5
ohh, and fyi, its 2.1, not 2.0

lol where can i find them?!?!
umm..im a noob at this just started yesterday with this root ****..i thought i was tight **** when i figure to get free apps with APK hahah now im moving on to this
um..recovery im using Freshkitchen..in my sd card recovery is
recovery-RA-heroc-v1.6.2?!?! lol
lend me some links for the 1.5 lol plz and thanks i cant find any..

Recovery would be the place you get to when you press and hold home+power at the same time.
And you should be flashing a rom from that.

ooo so when im pressin home and turn on its that green and black screen i get? aight aight i see
well thats it i guess lol its whatever is stock to Fresh Kitchen i guess.

Download DamageControl http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=656690. It will be in the very first post.. Boot into recovery.. POWER DOWN....HOLD DOWN HOME+POWER...
Follow the steps someone already said. It just sounds like its a bad download. If you look at the ROM Wiki and scroll down to 2.1 ROMs. There are all the ROMs on this forum.
Also never, ever try to flash anything made for GSM...Always make sure it is for CDMA---Sprint. If you do you phone is screwed.
And like everyone else says Nandroid is your best friend..Well, next to this website.

The only problem with that link is when i click download its taking a while to load then it says connection has timed out..

for the love of god and all that is holy stay in these forums.
do not go searching other places for ROMs.
Why do I say this? Because there is a GSM version of the hero and if you flash a GSM rom then you will fry your phone.
I don't want to see you back here in a a week and be like... "HELP! so yeah, I flashed a rom on my hero and it won't turn on. lol. how can I fix it?"
I will save you the trouble of starting a thread. You won't be able to fix it.

Recovery Image

Is there one for the Droid? I have not kept up with the going ons with the Droid as I just got Verizon today.

there is 2.
Sprecovery and clockwork.
If you download rom manager, it'll flash the recovery for you with one button.

Sweet...I guess Amon_Ra has not come out with a recovery for the droid..

Breakthecycle2 said:
Sweet...I guess Amon_Ra has not come out with a recovery for the droid..
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hi there, could u please tell me where i can find the desire rom for the G1? thanks a bunch mate

zgmf-x322a said:
hi there, could u please tell me where i can find the desire rom for the G1? thanks a bunch mate
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There isnt one. And its a very safe bet that there wont be either. Stuff built for a 1.GHz processor (Desire), wont run correctly (if at all) on the G1 (528 MHz).

Breakthecycle2 said:
Sweet...I guess Amon_Ra has not come out with a recovery for the droid..
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he tried in the beginning, but couldnt get it working graphically. sprecovery came out pretty quickly and so we didnt need it. then clockworkmod came and well, no need.
Plus Amon_Ra is mostly out of the recovery scene now.

I really need this!!

Can anyone show me to a thread where I can get the update.zip or actually just give it to me?

I can haz brain?
BANG! from my shooter...

Sorry.. I'm a Fascinate owner. I rooted my friend's Hero. Totally different. I have to learn within a day and this phone is quite confusing. I rooted as closely to the way I'm supposed to. Yet there is no update.zip.

u dont need a update.zip once your rooted and have a recovery installed just find the rom of your choice dont mess with it in any way like renaming then do the proper wipe procedures for the rom and install it.

Bierce22 said:
u dont need a update.zip once your rooted and have a recovery installed just find the rom of your choice dont mess with it in any way like renaming then do the proper wipe procedures for the rom and install it.
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So weird. I thought I read every post to the point that they're out of date. Never saw anything about an update.zip. I guess that's why.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it a lot. Sorry for my inconvenience. My experience with my phone got in the way.

Every ROM I flash gets stuck on the flash screen. Thoughts?

I just bought a used Hero as a temporary phone and I'm trying to get off the stock rom. I rooted the phone and flashed a MIUI rom. It got stuck on the splash screen during boot. Not feeling like dealing with it, I just ended up RUUing it. Then I rerooted it and tried another rom...same deal. Now I back to stock again. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Thanks

You didn't firate anything, did you?

Try manualy flashing the boot.img in the rom from fastboot. Sometimes thats the problem.
Regards
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

oohaylima said:
You didn't firate anything, did you?
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Urban dictionary tells me that means fake pirating...? If that's the case, no. I haven't even installed anything let alone log into my google account.
EDIT: I'm guessing you meant firerat. Nope, I haven't messed with anything.
flakesdk said:
Try manualy flashing the boot.img in the rom from fastboot. Sometimes thats the problem.
Regards
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
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Good idea. I'd need abd for that though to run the commands right? I'm really trying hard to avoid installing it on my computer.

Why ?? If your going to be modding your phone s-off,eng-bootloader & adb are all tools you will definitely need. If not then you may have a few headaches down the line if something goes wrong.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\

laie1472 said:
Why ?? If your going to be modding your phone s-off,eng-bootloader & adb are all tools you will definitely need. If not then you may have a few headaches down the line if something goes wrong.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
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I won't be doing anything beyond flashing a custom rom.

I just dug up my Hero. It had CM6 previously. I tried flashing an updated ROM and it does not get past the HTC logo. I tried 4 different ROMs. Using CMW recovery. Wipe/Format all...and nothing.

Yeah I'm completely out of ideas. I may just have to suck it up and install adb.

Which version of CWM are you running? I've used 2.5.0.1 for all of my ROMs and never had a problem. I should have the zip to flash through recovery and the HERCIMG flashable through HBOOT if you wanna try.
Sent from my PC36100 using xda premium

Adb is a breeze to install. Takes less than 20 min. Pm me if and when you wanna set it up, and believe me when I say you will not regret it. Adb makes modding your phone a little easier.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\

scl23enn4m3 said:
Yeah I'm completely out of ideas. I may just have to suck it up and install adb.
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What radio do you have? I remember people having issues when using the older radio (.27) instead of the newer (.29). Then again, it might not make a difference at all either. Just a thought.

i second drunkpilots radio idea, thats what gave me a headache for an hour the other night wondering why my cm7 wouldnt boot, updated to newest sprint radio and bam booted right up

Alright I just upgraded my radio. What's the best/easiest way to root it from here since I'm back to stock now?

The Recovery Battle: WCX vs Twrp vs CWM

What recovery do you guys prefer?
I've seen a lot of Vivids with WCX these days.
Post your experience with each one!

Stock CWM ftw

CWM still has a lot of issues. It's been causing quite a few hard bricks. Anyone that still has it, I would highly suggest switching to WCX recovery. I have yet to try TWRP but from what I've heard from all the devs, it still has a few kinks. I wouldn't recommend anything other than WCX at the moment.
I don't really see it as whats "preferred". You don't want something on your device that can potentially cause a hard brick. A recovery is something you don't use very often, so it's best to go with the one that just works.

Nice answer, right now I'm on the stock RUU ICS rom with an unlocked bootloader and I want to flash the WCX recovery, I just have to put the wcxrecovery.img in the microSD root, enter in Hboot, select recovery and then flash it with "fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.exe"?
Do I have to make a backup of something after doing this?
Thanks in advance for your answer.

Archector said:
Nice answer, right now I'm on the stock RUU ICS rom with an unlocked bootloader and I want to flash the WCX recovery, I just have to put the wcxrecovery.img in the microSD root, enter in Hboot, select recovery and then flash it with "fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.exe"?
Do I have to make a backup of something after doing this?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
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Actually, just put the wcxrecovery on your computer where you have adb and fastboot set up. If you don't know where that is, just download the wcxjb root zip from the guide in my signature and unzip it to your desktop. Enter hboot on your phone and select fastboot. Shift + right click on your computer inside the folder you just unzipped and select open a command window here. THEN, type in the command "fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.img" and you're good to go.

slapshot30 said:
Actually, just put the wcxrecovery on your computer where you have adb and fastboot set up. If you don't know where that is, just download the wcxjb root zip from the guide in my signature and unzip it to your desktop. Enter hboot on your phone and select fastboot. Shift + right click on your computer inside the folder you just unzipped and select open a command window here. THEN, type in the command "fastboot flash recovery wcxrecovery.img" and you're good to go.
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Crap I moved back to linux after I s-off'ed, is there anyway I can use fastboot without having to dig out my aging Pentium 4?

Brand New said:
Crap I moved back to linux after I s-off'ed, is there anyway I can use fastboot without having to dig out my aging Pentium 4?
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I know it's possible, but I've never tried it. The best tip I've picked up from the guide was this
- Tip 3: On Linux, remember to run fastboot under sudo
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If you have any idea what that means, it may be of help to you.

Stock CWM. Never used anything else, never had problems, never plan to use anything else.

Brand New said:
Crap I moved back to linux after I s-off'ed, is there anyway I can use fastboot without having to dig out my aging Pentium 4?
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Just download and install the Android SDK for linux, what distribution are you using?
I suppose you're using Ubuntu or some .deb based distribution, this tutorial may serve for you:
Running something on "sudo" is giving superuser attributes to the processes and services that a program or whatever you are running needs to have to function properly. Yes it's important when you flash with fastboot.
If you can flash on a laptop will be better for you, a friend of mine bricked his galaxy sII when he was flashing and there was an electricity short.

Archector said:
What recovery do you guys prefer?
I've seen a lot of Vivids with WCX these days.
Post your experience with each one!
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I use the recovery-beta2 recovery from thecubed. I tried WCX but I couldn't get any ROM's to flash with it... nothing but bootloops for some strange reason (yes I fastboot flashed the boot.img first people). I reflashed thecubed's recovery right after having issues and flashing ROM's worked again. I'm sticking with what works and I've had zero issues with thecubed's recovery after using for several months.

I know I sound redundant, but does anyone have a link to the latest WCX recovery?

You have to download from WildChild's website.... It's included in his ROM zip. You have to have 10 posts on his site before you can download anything so be prepared to "earn" the download.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium

dusty2422 said:
I use the recovery-beta2 recovery from thecubed. I tried WCX but I couldn't get any ROM's to flash with it... nothing but bootloops for some strange reason (yes I fastboot flashed the boot.img first people). I reflashed thecubed's recovery right after having issues and flashing ROM's worked again. I'm sticking with what works and I've had zero issues with thecubed's recovery after using for several months.
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Did you use the recovery un-installer to get rid of CWM before you tried the WCX recovery? I remember some people having issues trying to use WCX over one of the previous CWMs without un-installing it first.

Actually your incorrect,its available freely from the rooting flashing thread on here...as far as earning something....dont like participation dont use my work either way tomorrows another day and life goes on now doesnt it....theres no entitilement to [email protected] "earned" comment....
WC
dusty2422 said:
You have to download from WildChild's website.... It's included in his ROM zip. You have to have 10 posts on his site before you can download anything so be prepared to "earn" the download.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using xda premium
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Some people just throw stuff out like they know what's going on... Wow get facts right first bro

Y'know if CWM loops, it's because your rom of choice had a useless ext4 performance tuning script in it that changed some of the mount options of /cache.
If you have CWM and find that after flashing a ROM that does weird things to your Vivid, just reboot to fastboot, then issue "fastboot erase cache" then boot to recovery and format /cache.
CWM hasn't caused any hard bricks, it's ROM developers that aren't properly checking their 'init.d tweaks' and updater-scripts. Now that we have s-off, a bad tweak or updater-script can and WILL make your phone hard to fix.

just used TWRP on my Sprint Gnex and love the interface! I used CWM on my old Epic 4G and it worked great too. To me, seeing all the options on that screen is easier....seems stable.
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Great point but how would the average Joe know that about a rom before a flash? I'd love to be able to know that and avoid bricking altogether (but wouldn't we all). any tips?

Wild Child said:
Actually your incorrect,its available freely from the rooting flashing thread on here...as far as earning something....dont like participation dont use my work either way tomorrows another day and life goes on now doesnt it....theres no entitilement to [email protected] "earned" comment....
WC
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I don't mind participation... I just find it hard to participate in a forum where I can't download anything. Kind of hard to comment on something that you can't download IMO.
robertmoore208 said:
Some people just throw stuff out like they know what's going on... Wow get facts right first bro
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Not sure if this was directed at me but I'll assume it is. WC closed all of his dev threads on XDA (Vivid forum at least) which is why I assumed it wasn't here anymore (yes I searched before replying). Not sure that I've ever seen dev related content stuck in a [GUIDE] thread (maybe a link to the thread that has it) so not sure why this was the place chosen and probably why I missed it. Apparently I'm not the only one since I've seen multiple people asking who can't find it. I appreciate you keeping me honest though "bro".

Archector said:
What recovery do you guys prefer?
I've seen a lot of Vivids with WCX these days.
Post your experience with each one!
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WCX all the way, ROM's, Recovery, & Kernel. Now, I'm not trying to say that CWM doesn't work, I used it alot when I was rooting & flashing my Aria... but I've had nothing but 100% success using WCX Recovery & ROM's since before I started beta testing for him (along with all the other dedicated members).
I've never used TWRP before, & all I think about when I see that word is Big Booty Shaking!!! ;-)

WCX! I have to say that EVERYTHING that he and his team put out is top notch!