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How 2 - ADB, Rooting(reflash), Unrooting, Nandroid, Remove/Install App, roms, kernels

So far, this is going to be a guide for noobs. Please read through this, and ask any questions that you have. This has been compiled from different guides around XDA, and information has been stripped that does not relate to our phones. More will be put up here when I find it, and all credit will be provided. This will be from 'duh' to 'didn't know that'. The idea is to provide a beginning to end explanation: Stock Incredible to Rooted with custom Rom.
Topics so far - ADB, Rooting (reflash), Unrooting, Nandroid, Remove/Install Apps, roms, kernels...
I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE DOING ANY OF THIS.... REGARDLESS OF WHY. Yadda, yadda, yadda...
**********At this point, I'm going to ask that you uninstall HTC Sync. Also, please uninstall HTC Driver... (whatever it's called) Nobody likes them (really though, it will mess up a lot of things. You can install them later when all this is done).**********
1) Setting up ADB
ADB stands for Android Development Bridge. It is used by Android developers for programming. For us, it is used to hack into our phones . For our purposes, just know that it is like the cmd (command prompt) that allows us to send commands to our phone. This is extremely useful when we're in the custom recovery
Download the Android SDK from Google: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Unzip to your desktop
Take the "android-sdk-_**-windows" folder and move it to the root of your hard drive (C:\)
** will change, it is revision of SDK, like "r6"
****The below is not necessary, but is useful sometimes if you just want to run "adb shell" from anywhere without going into the sdk directory****
Right click on My Computer and click properties
Select the Advanced Tab or Advanced System Setting (Vista/Windows 7)
Select Environment Variables...
Press New
For Variable Name type: adb
For Variable Value type: C:\android-sdk-_**-windows\tools
****End of the "This is not necessary thing****
Now, we get USB drivers to work. Some use HTC Sync for drivers, however HTC Sync does not like to play nice with the reflash tool (later on this), so we will use the generic google USB drivers.
1. Run SDK Setup.exe
2. If it gives you any error go to settings and click on "Force http//....."
3. Select usb driver package, let it download and install
4. Some say the below step is not needed, but I did this so I'm posting it
Go to tools folder, and edit "android_winusb.inf" (you can do this by opening it via wordpad). Add the following at the end of the [Google.NTx86] and [Google.NTamd64] blocks:
;HTC Incredible
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E&MI_01
%SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C94
Save the file and exit.
5). Plug your phone into PC, when windows asks to install drivers for new found hardware, point the New Hardware Found wizaed to android_winusb.inf that you just edited.
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2) Preparing your phone for ADB
Go to Settings on your phone
Select Applications
Select Development
Make sure 'USB Debugging' is checked
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3) Check if your phone is detected by ADB
Open up Command Prompt (Go to run, type in cmd, press enter)
Type in:
cd C:\**your sdk name**\tools (Press Enter)
adb devices (Enter) You should see your device listed
adb shell (Enter) you should see $ in the next line
**After you obtain root**
su (Enter) you should see # in the next line if you are already rooted
**you may need to allow adb shell to run as root. Look at the phone and see if Superuser.apk is asking for your permission to allow adb root access. Click on "Remeber my selection" and select yes.
Now you are all set to run adb commands as root or as a regular user
**Note: for a list of commands that you can type using adb type "adb" in cmd
All Credit for Topics 1 - 3 go to user XDA member nephron. I mostly copied all of his guide, but updated some information on it to make sense for our phones. Also, removed some stuff I didn't see necessary. Please go to the original thread for the G1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719&highlight=nandroid+guide for a list of further Credits, and for information I've left out. If you like this thread, please donate to HIM
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4) Rooting your phone - READ THIS WHOLE SECTION BEFORE GOING TO ANY EXTERNAL LINKS PLEASE. At this point, running the UnrEVOked reflash3 tool will root your phone and install a custom recovery. To try to make it really easy to understand, recovery allows you to access your phone to make PERMANENT changes (something we can't do while booted yet), flash custom roms, and save your sorry little @$$ if you do something that you weren't supposed to
Ok, at this point, I'm going to ASSUME that you don't have HTC SYNC installed (or uninstalled it), and that you have the Google USB drivers installed (i.e. you read at least some of this post). The first thing we're going to do is:
1) Read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6875912&postcount=1
2) If you read #1, you already went here: http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php?id=public:windows_hboot_driver_install
and downloaded the MODIFIED (i.e. changed, not the same, DON'T SKIP THIS STEP) driver and installed it
3) If you read #1, you already downloaded the reflash tool executable
4) If you read #1, you've already done #2, and 3, and this is just a worthless step of me explaining how important it is that you did #1
5) Lets do this. #1,2,3 and 4 were "get ready" steps. By now, you installed the modified driver, went to the webpage and downloaded the UnrEVOked3 reflash tool. HTC sync is also uninstalled. Plug in your phone (normally booted) to your pc and select "Charge Only" when asked how to connect to PC, and click on "remember my selection". Click Done.
6) Unplug Phone from PC.
6a) If you have double twist installed, at this time open the task manager on your pc, and kill doubletwist.devicehelpder....
7) Run the "reflash_package" executable that you just downloaded. Notice the path that it lists and click "install". This will unzip "reflash.exe" and a bunch of other stuff that is needed to the directory that you just noted. Go to this directory (usually the same one where the executable you just ran is) and run "reflash.exe"
8) Plug in your phone.
9) When the program is finished, you should see koush's clockworkmod recovery on your phone's screen and reflash will say that it's done. Congrats, you have root and a new recovery.
If something went wrong, and you're not on koush's recovery and reflash says it's done, don't worry, just re-run reflash. You can run it as many times as necessary. It will not hurt anything AT THIS TIME (this may change later)
10) Koush's recover works a little differently:
a) Vol+ and - scroll up / down
b) the Power button work as a "Back" button, and will turn off screen if you're at the root of the menu. If your screen goes blank, don't read, just hit Power again
c) To make a selection, click the optical trackpad
11) Reboot your phone by highlighting the selection and choosing it
For the most part, these instructions were written from memory, but all credit goes to UnrEVOked, Shadowmite, and anyone that they've given credit to in original links.
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5) Unrooting - I didn't want to re-invent the wheel, so I'm posting an external link:
http://androidforums.com/all-things...ideo-howto-unroot-incredible-downgrading.html
Just follow the instructions. Credit goes to the OP. If this link ever goes to a 404, pm me and I will find another link with instructions and update this. Also, if you don't understand something, just ask in this thread, someone will answer (maybe even me ).
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6) Whats is a Nandroid Backup?
**Using Koush Recovery:
Power takes you "bacK" in menu's. On root of the menu, it will turn on/off screen. Hit Power again to turn it back on.
Vol+/Vol- lets you scroll up/down through menus
Pushing optical trackpad in makes your selection
Nandroid Backup is a tool allowing your Incredible that has koush ClokworkMod Recovery to create a full system backup and restore it, which, when flashing and testing different roms can be very useful.
A) Creating a Backup using Nandroid
Boot up your phone in recovery (Turn off, then turn on while holding Vol- and Power. Press Vol- once to highlight recovery, hit Power once to go into it)
You will now see your new koush recovery
Scroll down (Vol -) to "nandroid" and select it (press the optical button in)
"Backup" will be highlighted. select it
Let it work, it might take a while for a full system backup
Once its done, your backup is complete and is saved on your sdcard in the "clockworkmod" folder. Normally it's stored in the "nandroid" folder, however our Recovery does things a little differently.
B) Recovering to Your Nandroid Backup
Make sure u made a backup and its in the clockworkmod folder on your sdcard
Boot up your phone in recovery (Explained Above)
Go into "nandroid" in the recovery (also explained above)
Select "restore backup" and select from the backups you have (if you have multiple) that you want to restore; this will do a simple, "restore all" of your latest nandroid backup
:OR:
Select "Advanced Restore", choose from the backups that you have on your SD card, and then what you want to restore. You can individually restore "system", "data", "cache", etc....
In "Advanced Restore", i have not seen a way to restore multiple options (cashe AND system, etc...) Koush, am I missing something?
Let it work
Once its done, restore more options through the Advanced Restore menu, or reboot your phone and your selections will now be restored!
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7) Remove Apps
**Using Koush Recovery:
Power takes you "bacK" in menu's. On root of the menu, it will turn on/off screen. Hit Power again to turn it back on.
Vol+/Vol- lets you scroll up/down through menus
Pushing optical trackpad in makes your selection
1) Go into Clockworkmod Recovery (With phone turned off, Vol - + Power, then Vol - to select recovery, then hit Power)
2) Select "partitions" from menu, then select "mount sytem" You can also "mount sdcard" if you want to back apps up to sdcard
3) Connect Phone to PC
3a) Open a command prompt and navigate to your sdk\tools directory
3b) Type: adb remount (it shoud return successful)
4) Open Adb Shell on your pc (Type: adb shell)
It should automatically show #, otherwise type "su"
Type:
cd /system/app (enter)
5)Type ls (this will show you all of the stuff in the /system/app directory)
6) To "delete" apps, type the following:
/system/bin/mv Your_APP.apk Your_APP.apk.bak (i.e. CityID.apk CityID.apk.bak). If you want to clear up space on your internal storage for whatever reason, you can replace Your_APP.apk.bak with /sdcard/Your_APP.apk.bak (this will move the app to the root of your SD Card instead of just change it's name)
If you don't get errors, you're done.
*This does not delete apps, but changes their file type so they will not show up as an app, in case you want to get them back at any time later you still have them and don't have to frantically post threads on XDA asking for them.
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8) Install Apps to /system/app
**Using Koush Recovery:
Power takes you "bacK" in menu's. On root of the menu, it will turn on/off screen. Hit Power again to turn it back on.
Vol+/Vol- lets you scroll up/down through menus
Pushing optical trackpad in makes your selection
1) Place your app you want to install into the root of your sd card (this is easiest)
2) Go into Clockworkmod Recovery (Explained in 7)
3) Mount system and sdcard under partitions (Explained in 7)
4) Connect Phone to PC
4a) adb remount in command prompt (should sow successful) (again, in 7)
5) Open Adb Shell on your PC
6)
IF NOT at #, type "su" to go from $ to #.
Type:
/system/bin/mv /sdcard/Your_App_Name.apk /system/app/Your_App_Name.apk
7) If you don't get errors, you're done. You can unplug phone, and reboot
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9) Flashing Custom Roms
Download a ROM that you want to try. One of the roms from here are a good starting point: http://inc.sodpit.com/. They are mostly stable might get a few random reboots.
Steps:
1. Download Rom of your choice
1a. Right now, there might be two ROM types, a nandroid backup and an update.zip type file. For right now, I recommend sticking with the update.zip kind. These instructions are meant for it, but I just want you to make sure you know which type it is before you try to flash it.
2. Copy and Paste the downloaded file onto sdcard. Make sure it is not in any directory's of SD card, just on the sdcard (the "root" of it).
3. Verify it's there using Astro or some other File Manager just to be safe.
4. Download and Run Titanium Backup from the Market if you haven't already. (If you don't have it, get it, it's must have for root users.)
a. Select Menu, Batch, Backup user apps. (in Titanium Backup)
b. let it run, this will take some time.
5. When that's done open your command prompt, navigate to your sdk\tools directory, and type "adb reboot recovery" (Not within adb shell, but in command prompt in that directory. I'm not going to explain how to do this because it's already explained above. Also, if you're flashing roms then you're already familiar with it, or maybe you shouldn't be flashing roms ).
6. Do "Wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" in Recovery **This WILL WIPE your phone**
7. Select "install zip from sdcard", then select "choose zip from sdcard", then select the name of the zip you want to install.
8. When that's done reboot your phone, once your done setting up all the settings, download titanium backup from the market again, and set that up.
9. In Titanium, Select Menu, Batch, Restore User apps.
After that's done you'll have all your apps that you had before, data included, with a fresh new rom to try out. Hope this helps!!
All credit for these instructions goes to tcbert2010, they were suggested to me, and I liked them. I modified them a BIT, so they make more sense to me and hopefully to you. See post #2 in Original Thread = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6953608#post6953608
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10) Installing custom kernels
I'm only mentioning Hydra's kernels. I'm running the Undervolted, NOT overclocked kernel with wireless N to preserve my battery to get more life out of it
**Taken from website's FAQ**
Q: So how do I install the kernel?
A: First step is to either download the kernel zip file straight to your phone, or download it onto your computer and put it on the sdcard of your phone. Next you turn the phone off hold volume down and power at the same time. When the phone is in HBOOT wait a few seconds for it to initialize then hit volume down once and then power to boot into Clockwork recovery. Once in clockwork recovery you want to select "Install zip from sdcard", then "Choose zip from sdcard". You will now see a listing of files on your sdcard select the kernel zip you downloaded, or if you downloaded strait to your phone go to the Downloads folder and select the kernel zip file. The kernel will now install to the phone and once it's done it will say install complete. Now you can hit the power button once to return to main menu and select "reboot system now" . Your phone will now reboot with the new kernel.
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Go to: http://hydrakernel.net/ to download the kernels
Please read: http://hydrakernel.net/faq.htm to educate yourself. It's worth it.
Credit to EJHEART for the wonderful kernels! Where are my 2.2 kernels EJ ?
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Again, if you have suggestions, requests, or whatever please post or PM me.
PM Me if I missed giving someone credit. PLEASE!!!

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Updated
Updated with Reflash instructions.

dreamersipaq said:
Help I'm stuck at waiting for system to settle
check these common issues:
- You switched your driver to the one from this post? It's NOT identical to the SDK one.
- You don't have any usb applications that might be taking focus while we are working with the phone right?
- Is the SD card present in the device?
- You did give su permenent access when you allowed it in superuser right?
More to come...
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Good start, iPaq! I just want to plug Linux AGAIN. I had zero problems using reflash for linux and using Gparted in Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint mint means one can do all kinds of things that will become helpful very soon if not already (e.g., manipulate ext and swap partitions on the sdacard!). Aside from linux being Android's native file system, using a Linux distro just makes 110% good sense if you plan to do any developing for the DI/Android. Why poeple struggle so much with Windows when Linux is free is beyond me
2 cents deposited!

Additional items to add
1) After I have rooted and reflashed - How do I flash new ROMs
2) After I have rooted and reflashed - Is there an easier way to get back in and get rid of CityID, etc?
3) How do I update to a later version of ClockworkMod

Great topic
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

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jdmba said:
1) After I have rooted and reflashed - How do I flash new ROMs
2) After I have rooted and reflashed - Is there an easier way to get back in and get rid of CityID, etc?
3) How do I update to a later version of ClockworkMod
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1) - Will update soon
2) - I BELIEVE that this works:
1) Go into Clockworkmod Recovery
2) Mount Internal Storage under partitions
3) Connect Phone to PC
4) Open Adb Shell on your pc
Type:
su (will change to #)
cd /system/app
mv CityID.apk CityID.apk.bak
you're done.
Not in front of my phone at this sec, but if mv does not work, try
busybox mv CityID.apk CityID.apk.bak or
/system/bin/mv CityID.apk CityID.apk.bak
*This does not delete it, but changes the file type so it will not show up as an add, in case you want to get it back at any time later.
If I'm wrong please correct me.
3) The easiest way to update recovery at this time is through Koush's Rom Manager. However, at this time I've read somewhere that it's not persistent. Let's give this a few days.

Updated
First Post Updated.

here is my problem, apparently when I got root I didn't push superuser.apk as a system app correctly.
SO, I have root in the OS after each boot, once I install superuser.apk.
Problem is, I can't get back in recovery to fix this. I have gotten into recovery with ADB again (maybe twice in the 2000 times I have tried again), but when I get to the step where you do the update and push the zip file at the same time, it never works now. So I am unable to push the apk as a system file.
So, the unrevoked recovery flash fails because it doesn't have su rights when it gets to the os on reboot.
Anyone want to help me out?

qwho said:
here is my problem, apparently when I got root I didn't push superuser.apk as a system app correctly.
SO, I have root in the OS after each boot, once I install superuser.apk.
Problem is, I can't get back in recovery to fix this. I have gotten into recovery with ADB again (maybe twice in the 2000 times I have tried again), but when I get to the step where you do the update and push the zip file at the same time, it never works now. So I am unable to push the apk as a system file.
So, the unrevoked recovery flash fails because it doesn't have su rights when it gets to the os on reboot.
Anyone want to help me out?
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Take this opportunity to flash up to HBOOT 79, wipe, and re-root. Start fresh. Re-reflash w/unrevoked2. Alles in Ordnung! At least, that solved all of my problems. Start with the big headache to avoid later headaches. Once you have a nandroid of a "proper" root, you'll never have to do the annoying initial root again.

So you can get HBOOT 79 how? by flashing the latest HTC rom RUU?

qwho said:
So you can get HBOOT 79 how? by flashing the latest HTC rom RUU?
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Exactly. Doing will wipe out all userdata, everything not stored online, on your card, or on internal disk. It's really the best way to go, to start fresh and remove all the little variable piecemeal rooting has placed in your path to date.

can you point me to the RUU you would use? I did some searching, here and at htc.com, and I couldn't find an RUU anywhere.

qwho said:
can you point me to the RUU you would use? I did some searching, here and at htc.com, and I couldn't find an RUU anywhere.
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Just down this, run it in Windoze, and before it tries to flash (you don't need your DI connected!), go into your AppData/temp directory, find the ~142mb rom.zip file, rename it to PB31IMG.zip, put it on /sdcard root directory, boot into bootloader, let the card/file get picked up while holding down-volume, ok the flash, no need to ok the reboot, then boot into to recovery and proceed with adb shell/rooting process one

I've been having some trouble with the nandroid step, and creating a backup. I've done everything listed prior to that with success, but when I load into recovery I don't see the option to create a nandroid backup. I have also dl'ed RomManager and have tried to create backups through that.
I also dl'ed the unrevoked reflash and tried running that, but that also fails. I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong, so any help wold be appreciated!

sanchagrins said:
I've been having some trouble with the nandroid step, and creating a backup. I've done everything listed prior to that with success, but when I load into recovery I don't see the option to create a nandroid backup. I have also dl'ed RomManager and have tried to create backups through that.
I also dl'ed the unrevoked reflash and tried running that, but that also fails. I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong, so any help wold be appreciated!
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Not sure what you mean. Go into Hboot, and select recovery. When Koush's recovery loads, use Vol- to highlight "nandroid". Click the optical button in, and you'll enter another menu. Select the first option, which should be highlighted by default, which should be "Create Backup" or "Backup Device" or something like that.
Let me know if that works.

When I go into recovery the only options I get are:
Reboot System now
Apply sdcard: update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe Cache partition
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E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
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I'm not seeing anything about nandroid backup. I'm assuming I'm either not doing something correctly (I'm currently not booting into recovery while running reflash.exe) or somehow the clockworkmod isn't correctly installed.
Any ideas? Or what other information could I give you to help better answer my question?

sanchagrins said:
When I go into recovery the only options I get are:
I'm not seeing anything about nandroid backup. I'm assuming I'm either not doing something correctly (I'm currently not booting into recovery while running reflash.exe) or somehow the clockworkmod isn't correctly installed.
Any ideas? Or what other information could I give you to help better answer my question?
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You can't install anything to recovery that will stick until you get root via procedure 1, then reflash with unrevoked 2. Sounds to me like you've gotten ahead of yourself

0028002 Not Allow

I want to root my g1.
i did this steps
1. Plug your USB cable into your computer and then plug your phone in.
2. Mount your SD card by sliding down the notification bar and selecting mount.
3. Go to My Computer and access your SD card.
4. BACKUP ANY FILES THAT YOU WANT ONTO YOUR COMPUTER. VERY IMPORTANT!
5. Go back to my computer and right click on the drive that is your sd card. Click format. Choose FAT32 from the drop down and hit the format button. This removes all data from your memory card.
6. Once the format is complete: drag and drop "DREAIMG.nbh & Update.zip files that you downloaded into the sd card. (DO NOT create a folder or anything, just put it right in the SD card)
7. Unmount your phone by going through the notification bar and then unplug your phone Turn your phone off. from your computer.
8. Press and hold the camera+end key until until you see a screen with colored bars, then let go. This is the bootloader. The screen will turn gray with blue writing on it.
But 0028002 Not Allow problem.
i need a help
sorry for my bad english
thanks

Because those instructions are very us centric.. and maybe a tad dated.
If you have a T-Mobile phone look up androot and installing a custom recovery (re-recovery) this won't require the downgrade and is thus easier/safer. Particular than flashing an out of region rom.
If its not T-Mobile more info on the phone will help.

i'm root my phone with universal androot 1.6.1
what's next ?
i want to cyanogen mod 6. (2.2 froyo)
phone info:
Model Number = T-Mobile G1
Firmware version = 1.6
Build number = DMD64

Well you are at a good point.. rooted and operating just need to break out of the T-Mobile system some to replace everything on the phone..
The following will give you an idea.. but please read it all carefully first or you may find yourself while probably not bricked without a functioning android install.
You will want the following
1) Download and install both the android SDK and fastboot http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s2
2) Download the flash image tool http://cyanogen-files.carneeki.net/flash_image.zip
3) Download ra-recovery http://rapidshare.com/files/387558152/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img MD5Sum: 11ae63afee9813a9b76cb3f7fd5ac2ad
unzip flash_image.zip and put the resulting flash_image in the same place as recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img
form your computers command line run the following (preferable from the same directory as flash_image and recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img, some people find it easier that this also be the tools directory adb is contained in but if you are comfortable at the command line this is not needed)
Code:
adb push flash_image /data/local/flash_image
adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/flash_image
adb push recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img /data/local/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img
adb shell
this will now place you on a command prompt on the phone continue:
Code:
su
flash_image recovery /data/local/recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0-cyan.img
exit
exit
now power down the phone and turn on while holding down the home button you ought to now be in ra-recovery optionally run a nandroid backup and then you can continue to install 1.33.2003
After 1.33.2003 is installed you can either continue the instructions on that link to 1.33.2005 *OR* check out Custom MTD
Once all of that is done its off to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Upgrading_from_CyanogenMod_4.2_to_CyanogenMod_5/6 to install the rom.

can i follow this guide from II) Flashing a Recovery Image ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727688
because i think its easier than your guide for me

Two things,
1) flashreq expects a root exploit that wont exist on your rom I'm unsure if it will fall back on using su for root
2) if you feel its easier you don't like or are confuses with installing the sdk/fastboot, while there may be ways around it (rom manager comes to mind) if you ever run into trouble in the future you will need it.. once you learn how it works some you will find it easier thank messing with the apk.. as for the shell commands they will be cut copy and paste..
3) I don't recommended rom manager because if something goes wrong and you find yourself without a rom or recovery you will have a hard time getting your phone to boot without a gold card (once the engineering spl is installed 1.33.2005 you can take that route)
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As I said before your phone is still running the T-Mobile rom take your time and understand the process and options to installing the rom.

My english is bad
i dont understand this post.
what must i do to root my phone now ?

[HOW-TO]Unlock, Root and install CWM step by step

This HOW-TO is meant for individuals who like to do things manually and see each process as they occur, versus using a toolkit. I prefer manually unlocking/rooting as I can confirm each step visually and I believe it makes for a more educational experience. Familiarity and confidence with fastboot/adb can be beneficial later on for restoring/troubleshooting/flashing etc down the road.
Unknown at this point if OTA updates will install after flashing CWM. There may be a check file in the OTA that could prevent installation if modified file structure is detected. I’ll edit when I confirm. At any rate, not really an issue as you can flash the OTA yourself as someone on XDA will most likely post it up, or you could re-flash the stock recovery using fastboot which you will now be comfortable with after using this guide! Additionally, if an OTA causes you to lose root you can revisit the appropriate steps to flash SuperSU again.
There are several ways to do these procedures, and I’ve certainly taken the long way on some of them. So by no means am I claiming this to the best or most efficient method, but my hopes are to make things a little more clear and simple based off some of the questions and challenges I’ve seen in a few threads.
This how-to was written for Windows and uses adb and fastboot for installation.
Please let me know of any corrections, additions or errors. Many thanks to the members and devs who made these files available.
1. Download all of the following files and place them in the same directory. I will note whether you need to extract them or not.
Download and extract platform-tools-v16.zip from here: (thanks to efrant)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
Download and extract [ADB/FB/APX Driver] Universal Naked Driver 0.72 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20058157&postcount=1
Download SuperSU from here: (look for UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.25.zip or current version)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Download ClockworkMod from here: (look for Galaxy Nexus 7, Download Recovery 6.0.3.1 or current version – Recommend non-Touch as of ver 6.0.10, some reported issues with the Touch version)
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager/
2. Now we will install the drivers and verify they are working. If you cannot verify drivers are functioning in both normal boot and recovery you need to stop and figure out what you are doing wrong. Proceeding further would be pointless. If you are having trouble, visit the Naked Driver thread listed above or here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29044502&postcount=735
a. Make sure you have USB debugging enabled on your Nexus: setttings ->develop options ->USB Debugging.
b. USB connect your Nexus to your Windows pc. If you get a notification for unknown/driver not found, look in Device Manager for the exclamation point, and right click for update driver software, then browse my computer, then point to where you saved and extracted the Universal Naked Driver folder. If you get a warning from Windows complaining the driver is not signed, hit ‘Install driver anyway’. After the driver installs, you should now have ‘Nexus 7’ listed under ‘Portable Devices’ with no exclamation point.
Now we will verify using adb. You will need to launch a command prompt from the directory you saved all the files from step 1 to. Easiest way is to navigate to the directory via file explorer, then hold down shift and the RIGHT mouse button, and select “Open command window from here”.
In the cmd prompt, type:
adb devices
You should get a response with your Nexus serial number. If not, stop. Drivers are not loaded, re-read above and visit threads mentioned, try again. You should see something like:
List of devices attached
945d3339495 device
if instead you see:
List of devices attached
945d3339495 offline
then most likely you need to look on your nexus for a notice to allow the connected computer permissions to use usb debugging. If you don't see a notice, disable/enable usb debugging in "Settings -> Developer options" and then you should get the prompt. You should select 'remember this computer', if not you will have to do it again upon reboot.
c. Now we need to reboot into the bootloader and load the drivers again. So type:
adb reboot bootloader
and your Nexus should reboot into the bootloader. My laptop found the driver on its own, note that in Device Manager it is now listed as ‘Android Device’ instead of under ‘Portable Devices’. If your system does not find the driver, follow the same steps as above to update your driver after you located the exclamation point in Device Manager.
Now we will verify that the driver is installed correctly while in the bootloader. Again from a command prompt opened from the directory where you saved all the files from step 1, type:
fastboot devices
You should get a response with your Nexus serial number. If not, stop. Drivers are not loaded, re-read above and visit threads mentioned, try again.
3. Perform device unlock. NOTE: !!!THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR USER DATA!!! Please backup accordingly.
Your Nexus should still be in the bootloader. Type:
fastboot oem unlock
Your Nexus will prompt you to accept. NOTE: !!!THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR USER DATA!!! After a short moment, the device should report unlocked under “lock state”. Reboot device by typing:
fastboot reboot
After rebooting, sign in, etc.
4. Copy over SuperSU . In windows explorer locate the UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.25.zip and copy it to your Nexus internal storage area. Don’t put it any of the folders, just dump it in there. Now reboot into the bootloader again by typing:
adb reboot bootloader
5. Flash CWM. Once in the bootloader type:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-6.0.3.1-grouper.img
after you get ‘finished’ from the command window, reboot your Nexus into CWM recovery by navigating with the volume buttons to ‘recovery mode’, then press power button.
6. Root Nexus. Using the volume keys, navigate to ‘install zip from sdcard’ and hit the power button. Now select ‘choose zip from sdcard’ and hit the power button. Navigate down to UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.25.zip’ and hit the power button. Select ‘Yes’, hit power. Once done select ‘go back’, then ‘reboot system now’.
Congrats, you’ve unlocked and rooted your Nexus!
Now at this point CWM recovery may or may not still be present on your device. There have been mixed reports on whether it will ‘stick’ the first time you flash it. The stock ROM has a check file that will replace CWM with the stock recovery upon reboot. To determine if CWM is still present simply reboot into recovery and see if it is there. Type:
adb reboot recovery
Obviously if you see the droid with exclamation point CWM did not stick. If you have no need for CWM, and simply wanted root you could stop now. Wait a few minutes and your device will reboot on its own and you are all done.
However, if you desire CWM then proceed on.
7. Rename recovery-from-boot.p to prevent stock recovery re-installation. Your Nexus should be booted normally at this point.
a. Go to the Play store and install ES File Explorer File Manager. Under settings enable ‘up to root’, ‘root explorer’, and ’mount file system’.
b. Navigate to /system and rename:
recovery-from-boot.p
to
recovery-from-boot.bak
by long pressing and selecting ‘rename’. Note: Be careful while navigating your device with these options enabled, a typo or slip-up could cripple your device and require a restore. I suggest once this rename is competed to disable the above options to avoid any mistakes in future exploring.
8. Flash CWM again.
a. Reboot into bootloader by typing:
adb reboot bootloader
b. once in bootloader type:
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-6.0.3.1-grouper.img
c. reboot device by typing:
fastboot reboot
d. verify CWM stuck by rebooting into recovery:
adb reboot recovery
And that should be it!
Some additional notes: CWM does make notice on rebooting with a message ”ROM may flash stock recovery on reboot. Fix? This can not be undone”. I don’t know what CWM will do there, so I prefer to rename the recovery-from-boot file so that I could easily restore it if I wanted. But perhaps that is what CWM does, although the message persists even after I renamed the file. Maybe someone could clarify this.
Hope this helps some people out in enjoying this great device even more, thanks for reading.

4.1.2 and 4.2.1 updates...
Thought I would revisit the thread as we've had two updates since I wrote the above. I installed 4.1.2 OTA with no problems but as expected, I lost root and CWM.
Because I'm lazy, I didn't worry over it much and then 4.2.1 shows up and also installed perfectly. Finally got around to getting root back and here are the steps I used.
Notes:
* Need to make sure drivers are correctly installed. See first post.
* I never really used CWM so I elected not to permanently install it this time.
* This update is a brief synopsis of how I got root back. If the steps are not clear, review the first post as the procedure is very similar.
1.) Ensure USB debugging is still enabled. On 4.2.1 "Developers options" are hidden by default. To enable simply tap "Settings > About tablet > Build number" 7 times. Back out and "Developers options" should now be available. In my case USB debugging was still enabled.
2.) Download SuperSU v0.99 and CWM 6.0.1.9 from links in first post. I used non-touch version of CWM.
3.) Transfer SuperSU over to internal storage of your Nexus. Be sure you know where you dumped it.
4.) Reboot into bootloader: adb reboot bootloader
5.) Temporarily boot or permanently install CWM so we can install SuperSU zip.
for temp boot type: fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-grouper.img
for perm install type: fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.9-grouper.img
6.) Once in CWM select:
a. install zip from sdcard
b. choose zip from sdcard
c. navigate to /0/ then wherever you put SuperSU
7.) Once finished back out and reboot system now. I selected "No" on allowing CWM to disable stock recovery. If you are only temp booting CWM then this likely won't matter either choice you make. If you perm flashed CWM then you may wish to choose 'Yes".
That should cover it. Thanks for reading, any questions or corrections be sure to let me know.

I have a question about this:
I rooted and installed CWM on my 4.2 N7, but now, then I try to install the 4.2.1 OTA update, I get this error:
Code:
assert failed: apply_patch_check("/system/lib/libweb rtc_audio_preprocessing.so", "bin_number", "big_number""),
E: error in /cache/jop40d-from-jop40c.zip
(Status 7)
It's wise to apply this if I already have a rooted+CWM N7?

Some root procedures, or third party apps like Titanium Pro can make changes to certain system files that will cause an official update to fail. In your case, it appears at least "rtc_audio_preprocessing.so" located in "/system/lib/libweb" has been altered.
The easiest solution is to flash the current factory image then root. You can find them here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#nakasi.
However, you will lose your data. So back up accordingly.
If that's not an option, you can try:
a.) figure out which app you have that caused the change, and see if it has a 'revert' option or if uninstalling will put the file(s) back to stock.
b.) find the unmodified contents of /system/app and /system/lib and replace yours. Needs to be from 4.2 in your case.
c.) find a modified manual update patch (either zip for CWM or .img for fastboot) that has been altered to ignore the integrity check.

Curious, just went looking for "rtc_audio_preprocessing.so" in a factory 4.2 system.img and can not locate it, or the lib/libweb directory. Perhaps a third party app made these additions and thus the integrity check is failing as the files are unknown/unaccounted for?
At any rate, I went ahead and sourced a 4.2 system.img and extracted the /app and /lib directories in case this helps you or anyone else searching along.
Extracted from: nakasi-jop40c-factory-6aabb391.tgz
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34704640/sys_apps_dir.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34704640/sys_lib_dir.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34704640/sys_apps_dir.zip.md5
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34704640/sys_lib_dir.zip.md5

so I factory-reseted my N7, but it didn't helped. I found the file /system/lib/libwebrtc_audio_preprocessing.so so I tried to replace it with the file you posted (thanks btw!), but while using a console (su, then cp file.so file.so.backup) I get the error saying it's a read-only system, so I can't replace that file
any other idea?
EDIT: So I was playing around with the N7 (although I can really remember, I think I formated /system ?):
So, yeah, I actually formated /system for some unknown reason and there is no OS to boot, so I'm downloading at 25 KBps (yes...I know) and I'll be installing the JOP40D version for the N7.

ah, so the file is actually:
/lib/libwebrtc_audio_preprocessing.so
not
/lib/libweb/rtc_audio_preprocessing.so
That makes a little more sense. On cp over the original file, as you discovered the /system partition needs to be remounted as writable before you would be able to make changes. You could easily accomplish this with one of the root file explorers from the market. I use "ES File Explorer" as its free. Then simply copy over your file.
Or if you prefer adb: mount -o remount rw /system
Regardless, you are starting over from scratch so no worries. One of the things I love about this device is the option to start fresh-from-factory with minimal fuss.

igot a question. im currently running or 4.2.1 (rooted/unlocked). i used wugsfresh to root and unlock my device. wugfresh uses TWR and i want to try CWM and remove the TWR, would it be possible? i want to try different roms like cyanogen and i think CWM would be a good option.TIA

cub0ne said:
igot a question. im currently running or 4.2.1 (rooted/unlocked). i used wugsfresh to root and unlock my device. wugfresh uses TWR and i want to try CWM and remove the TWR, would it be possible? i want to try different roms like cyanogen and i think CWM would be a good option.TIA
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I am also on 4.2.1 unlocked and rooted with wugfresh toolkit. I downloaded CWM from the play store, the app can download the latest CWM recovery and flash it for you. That is what I did, All I have used CWM for is a nandroid backup, but have booted into recovery and wiped cache and fixed permission
Has anyone had issue is SuperSU and CWM running Fix Permissions in the CWM app? I get an error...

Thank you!
Thank you very much for the excellent guide, your explanations were very clear!
It was a lot of fun following it, and I am very happy for choosing this guide over the 'one-click' toolkits.

I'll give it a try
After trying a "all in one toolbox" to unlock and root I think I'll give this a shot. I got stuck at not being able to root and like your OP said, doing it manually would help with the learning curve.
Quick questions that has popped up is.
Do I lock my bootloader back to use your guide?
I've noticed drivers I have in device manager have different names. Does this mean there are dif drivers that do the same thing? Should i delete them and use the ones in the OP?

Late response, but I'll answer for future users following this thread...
Once your bootloader is unlocked by any means, no need to relock in order to follow this guide. We simply have to have it unlocked so we can gain root
Drivers are probably the most common issues people have in any instance of trying to interact with their device. While its not imperative that the names are the same, what is most important is that you can communicate with the device. There really isn't the right or wrong driver name, just that the driver works! Having said that, if you are wondering whether you have the correct drivers installed, simply follow the steps and attempt a "adb devices" or "fastboot devices" command depending on your device status as is outlined in the tutorial. If you do not have the appropriate response, then you need to stop and determine the issue.

Update after OTA 4.2.2
Lost root as expected, and followed procedure in post #2 to gain root back. Also updated OP file versions to current as of this post as they all worked successfully.
Only thing I would note: If you get a "offline" notice after trying 'adb devices', be sure to check your nexus for a notification to allow the connected computer access for USB debugging. If you don't see one, go to "Settings -> Developer options" and disable/enable USB debugging and it should pop up. I don't remember this behavior when I first wrote the tutorial, so it may be something new for 4.2.2. After reboot it will require approval again, so you may wish to select 'remember this computer'. I added this note in the OP as well in the appropriate step.

Boot loop problem

Hello,
I tried installing a custom ROM on my 7310 and it had issues. I have tried installing the original ICS from the sammyfirmware site using ODIN. Now I have a boot loop. I think I need to repartition, but when I click the repartition checkbox in ODIN I get an error.
Do I need to repartition? If so, how do I do it? If not, how do I fix this error?
Thanks.

A few questions:
spazlon said:
I tried installing a custom ROM on my 7310 and it had issues.
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What did you try to flash and how did you try doing it (CWM, ODIN, ...)?
What 'issues'?
I have tried installing the original ICS from the sammyfirmware site using ODIN. Now I have a boot loop.
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How far into the boot sequence does it get?
Are you able to get into recovery?
If so, what recovery do you have (Stock vs CWM)?
Have you tried seeing what is causing the boot-loop using adb?
Do I need to repartition? If so, how do I do it? If not, how do I fix this error?
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This is an action of last resort. Exhaust all other avenues first.

boscorama said:
What did you try to flash and how did you try doing it (CWM, ODIN, ...)?
What 'issues'?
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I used CWM to flash AOSP 4.1.2. It seemed to work fine for a day or two, but then it needed charging (as normal). I let it charge over night and in the morning it had less battery. I figured the charger or cable were flaky so I tried another set on another outlet and same thing. Then it finally ran out of battery. I let it charge again over night and when I tried to turn it on it was really slow. The boot animation was only 1 frame every couple seconds. It would eventually boot all the way up, but it was still REALLY slow. So I went into CWM and reflashed the same ROM. Then I got a boot loop of the boot animation. I couldn't get into CWM any more, so then I went into download mode and flashed the official firmware and flashed it with ODIN.
boscorama said:
How far into the boot sequence does it get?
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Now when I turn it on it just says, "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
I can flash again with ODIN and it will get to the Samsung boot animation and just pulse SAMSUNG.
boscorama said:
Are you able to get into recovery?
If so, what recovery do you have (Stock vs CWM)?
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If I hold power and volume down I can get into download mode or Samsung recovery, not CWM, and power with volume up doesn't do anything.
boscorama said:
Have you tried seeing what is causing the boot-loop using adb?
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I don't know anything about adb and I'm not sure what I would be looking for. Is there a tutorial I can follow somewhere?
Thanks for any help!

This worked for me with similar problem
Hi Spazlon,
Sorry I'm not allowed to post links yet as I am also very fresh. But I've underlined the addresses so you should be able to find them
I just spent the best of 2 days trying to solve a similar issue - my 8.9 P7300 kept running in boot loop. It had been running ICS stable for several weeks, then suddenly started to loop boot for no good reason. Anyway - you need two programs installed on your computer as well as USB drivers for your tablet. The two programs are Odin and SDK developer package. Odin3 v 1,87 and 1.85 are found here: filecrop.com/Odin-1.87 - try some of the links, one of them should work without having to type a password. The SDK is found here: developer.android.com/sdk You can find more about how to use the developer package on that site as well, but I installed as support for Android 2.1 through to 4.1
Also install the USB driver files for your tablet on your PC. For example from here: xpdrivers.com/usb/_1_24.cfm?gclid=CL2iDs7MCFWF7cAodxFYANQ
You also need the following recovery files which you can find by searching the developer forum for galaxy tab 8.9:
ClockworkMod_Recovery_v5.5.0.4.tar
P73xx_Stock_Recovery.tar
Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip
and finally a ROM of your choice, for example the ICS rom cm-9-20121028-NIGHTLY-p5.zip that I just used. You can find the latest official ICS ROM's here get.cm/?device=p5
Now - hold down the volume down button on one of the boot cycles. You should now get into a menu with two choices - Download and Recovery. Default is "Download" - if you press volume down you switch between the two choices. Press volume up to select the choice you want.
First you want to select the "Download" option. Then connect your tablet to your PC. The drivers should now install and your tablet should read that you are connected.
Now start Odin3. Click the PDA button and select your P73xx_Stock_Recovery.tar file. Then press Start.
Once finished the tablet will reboot, and you now need to once again get into the recovery menu. Now select the recovery option, not the download menu. You get into the stock recovery menu where you navigate with the volume buttons and select choices with the power button. Do a full factory reset and wipe the cache. WARNING - you will loose ALL your data, but it'either that or stick to a bricked tablet so.... You will also loose your root access,m which is why the next step is needed.
Now that everything is wiped clean you can use Odin again in "download mode" to install ClockworkMod_Recovery_v5.5.0.4.tar with the same procedure as before. You now have root access.
Reboot again and once again into the recovery mode (not download mode). Once you get into the CWM recovery menu you are ready for the final step, which is to install your new operating system.
Go to your SDK installation folder and find the folder named "platform-tools".
First you want to copy two files into this folder (provided you want to install Cynaogen Mod 9):
Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip
and
Your ROM file of choice
Press shift and right-click in that folder and select "Open command window here". In the command prompt write
adb shell
Note - I had some problems here which was caused by lack of permissions. On your tablet in the CWM menu there should be a choice under the advanced menu for fixing permissions. Use that and you should be able to get into the terminal shell afterwards with the adb shell command
Now write the following command sequence:
• mount /data (don't worry if you get an error message - it means the folder is already mounted)
• cd /data
• mkdir media (if you get an error message saying the folder already exists, that's also OK!)
• exit
• adb push Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip /data/media
Now you may have to wait a little while until your command prompt is back confirming that the file was uploaded.
Now on your tablet go to the menu point "install zip from sdcard" and find your CWM file that you just uploaded and run that.
Reboot once again into the "recovery mode" - we are now nearly finished.
Run the above push command again from the computer terminal window, this time to upload the ROM file you want to install. (the command is adb push [filename].zip /data/media)
Now on your CWM recovery menu once again run the zip file you just uploaded from the "install zip from sdcard" menu
When completed and you now reboot you should have a completely fresh android installation. Hope this helps.
Remember to mark this thread with solved if it works!
Thanks to kallt_kaffe and all the others who helped me through their various posts (hope that coffee isn't getting too cold again), as well as the following web sites that indirectly helped me resolve this issue googleymind.com/2011/11/guide-so-you-think-you-bricked-your.html#.UJUNN8XAd8G and galaxytabhacks.com/galaxy-tab-10-1-hacks/how-to-root-galaxy-tab-10-1-the-easy-way/
Good luck.

Thanks! I'll give this a try when I get home. I'll let you know how it works out.

Don't ever try to 'repartion unless you really know what you're doing. You're soft bricked. Repartion and you'll hard brick.
I'd go back and get hc from sammobile and flash that with Odin. Ics has had some problems.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app

jd1639 said:
Don't ever try to 'repartion unless you really know what you're doing. You're soft bricked. Repartion and you'll hard brick.
I'd go back and get hc from sammobile and flash that with Odin. Ics has had some problems.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
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Agreed - my procedure avoids manual repartitioning - I tried lots of other procedures but none worked. I think my data partition had become corrupt because I kept getting error messages. My first try was to recover with my cwm recovery file I made originally but I kept getting back to the boot loop .

spazlon said:
Hello,
I tried installing a custom ROM on my 7310 and it had issues. I have tried installing the original ICS from the sammyfirmware site using ODIN. Now I have a boot loop. I think I need to repartition, but when I click the repartition checkbox in ODIN I get an error.
Do I need to repartition? If so, how do I do it? If not, how do I fix this error?
Thanks.
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I always got something like that ...
After bootloop just go to recrovery mode then factory riset ... its 100% WORK
Sent from my GT-P7300 using xda premium

I followed the steps outlined by mobjunky and was able to get an official Honeycomb ROM installed, boot the official and copy my custom ROM and CWM 6.0.0.8 on it. Then install CWM 5.4.0.4 followed by 6.0.0.8.
Now my problem is that any custom ROM I put on there just does a boot screen loop. I tried CM10 and the latest AOSP. To install the ROMs I just booted into CWM, installed the ROM from zip, then installed the gapps. I've tried with and without formatting the cache, user data, and Dalkiv, same results.
What am I doing wrong? I have loaded tons of ROMs on this before without any issues, then all of a sudden I can't get anything except official loaded.

spazlon said:
I followed the steps outlined by mobjunky and was able to get an official Honeycomb ROM installed, boot the official and copy my custom ROM and CWM 6.0.0.8 on it. Then install CWM 5.4.0.4 followed by 6.0.0.8.
Now my problem is that any custom ROM I put on there just does a boot screen loop. I tried CM10 and the latest AOSP. To install the ROMs I just booted into CWM, installed the ROM from zip, then installed the gapps. I've tried with and without formatting the cache, user data, and Dalkiv, same results.
What am I doing wrong? I have loaded tons of ROMs on this before without any issues, then all of a sudden I can't get anything except official loaded.
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Sorry - being a newbie myself I'm at a loss. It worked a charm for me.

spazlon said:
I followed the steps outlined by mobjunky and was able to get an official Honeycomb ROM installed, boot the official and copy my custom ROM and CWM 6.0.0.8 on it. Then install CWM 5.4.0.4 followed by 6.0.0.8.
Now my problem is that any custom ROM I put on there just does a boot screen loop. I tried CM10 and the latest AOSP. To install the ROMs I just booted into CWM, installed the ROM from zip, then installed the gapps. I've tried with and without formatting the cache, user data, and Dalkiv, same results.
What am I doing wrong? I have loaded tons of ROMs on this before without any issues, then all of a sudden I can't get anything except official loaded.
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did a format /system before installing the custom roms? This is an important step.

prince93 said:
did a format /system before installing the custom roms? This is an important step.
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This fixed it. Never had to do it with any of my other devices. CM10 loaded quickly after that. Loving how fast JB is!
Thanks!
Sent from my GT-P7310 using Tapatalk HD

It worked
mobjunky said:
Hi Spazlon,
Sorry I'm not allowed to post links yet as I am also very fresh. But I've underlined the addresses so you should be able to find them
I just spent the best of 2 days trying to solve a similar issue - my 8.9 P7300 kept running in boot loop. It had been running ICS stable for several weeks, then suddenly started to loop boot for no good reason. Anyway - you need two programs installed on your computer as well as USB drivers for your tablet. The two programs are Odin and SDK developer package. Odin3 v 1,87 and 1.85 are found here: filecrop.com/Odin-1.87 - try some of the links, one of them should work without having to type a password. The SDK is found here: developer.android.com/sdk You can find more about how to use the developer package on that site as well, but I installed as support for Android 2.1 through to 4.1
Also install the USB driver files for your tablet on your PC. For example from here: xpdrivers.com/usb/_1_24.cfm?gclid=CL2iDs7MCFWF7cAodxFYANQ
You also need the following recovery files which you can find by searching the developer forum for galaxy tab 8.9:
ClockworkMod_Recovery_v5.5.0.4.tar
P73xx_Stock_Recovery.tar
Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip
and finally a ROM of your choice, for example the ICS rom cm-9-20121028-NIGHTLY-p5.zip that I just used. You can find the latest official ICS ROM's here get.cm/?device=p5
Now - hold down the volume down button on one of the boot cycles. You should now get into a menu with two choices - Download and Recovery. Default is "Download" - if you press volume down you switch between the two choices. Press volume up to select the choice you want.
First you want to select the "Download" option. Then connect your tablet to your PC. The drivers should now install and your tablet should read that you are connected.
Now start Odin3. Click the PDA button and select your P73xx_Stock_Recovery.tar file. Then press Start.
Once finished the tablet will reboot, and you now need to once again get into the recovery menu. Now select the recovery option, not the download menu. You get into the stock recovery menu where you navigate with the volume buttons and select choices with the power button. Do a full factory reset and wipe the cache. WARNING - you will loose ALL your data, but it'either that or stick to a bricked tablet so.... You will also loose your root access,m which is why the next step is needed.
Now that everything is wiped clean you can use Odin again in "download mode" to install ClockworkMod_Recovery_v5.5.0.4.tar with the same procedure as before. You now have root access.
Reboot again and once again into the recovery mode (not download mode). Once you get into the CWM recovery menu you are ready for the final step, which is to install your new operating system.
Go to your SDK installation folder and find the folder named "platform-tools".
First you want to copy two files into this folder (provided you want to install Cynaogen Mod 9):
Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip
and
Your ROM file of choice
Press shift and right-click in that folder and select "Open command window here". In the command prompt write
adb shell
Note - I had some problems here which was caused by lack of permissions. On your tablet in the CWM menu there should be a choice under the advanced menu for fixing permissions. Use that and you should be able to get into the terminal shell afterwards with the adb shell command
Now write the following command sequence:
• mount /data (don't worry if you get an error message - it means the folder is already mounted)
• cd /data
• mkdir media (if you get an error message saying the folder already exists, that's also OK!)
• exit
• adb push Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip /data/media
Now you may have to wait a little while until your command prompt is back confirming that the file was uploaded.
Now on your tablet go to the menu point "install zip from sdcard" and find your CWM file that you just uploaded and run that.
Reboot once again into the "recovery mode" - we are now nearly finished.
Run the above push command again from the computer terminal window, this time to upload the ROM file you want to install. (the command is adb push [filename].zip /data/media)
Now on your CWM recovery menu once again run the zip file you just uploaded from the "install zip from sdcard" menu
When completed and you now reboot you should have a completely fresh android installation. Hope this helps.
Remember to mark this thread with solved if it works!
Thanks to kallt_kaffe and all the others who helped me through their various posts (hope that coffee isn't getting too cold again), as well as the following web sites that indirectly helped me resolve this issue googleymind.com/2011/11/guide-so-you-think-you-bricked-your.html#.UJUNN8XAd8G and galaxytabhacks.com/galaxy-tab-10-1-hacks/how-to-root-galaxy-tab-10-1-the-easy-way/
Good luck.
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WOw! This fixed my Tablet! thank you ever so much!!

mjramos15 said:
WOw! This fixed my Tablet! thank you ever so much!!
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mobjunky said:
Hi Spazlon,
Sorry I'm not allowed to post links yet as I am also very fresh. But I've underlined the addresses so you should be able to find them
I just spent the best of 2 days trying to solve a similar issue - my 8.9 P7300 kept running in boot loop. It had been running ICS stable for several weeks, then suddenly started to loop boot for no good reason. Anyway - you need two programs installed on your computer as well as USB drivers for your tablet. The two programs are Odin and SDK developer package. Odin3 v 1,87 and 1.85 are found here: filecrop.com/Odin-1.87 - try some of the links, one of them should work without having to type a password. The SDK is found here: developer.android.com/sdk You can find more about how to use the developer package on that site as well, but I installed as support for Android 2.1 through to 4.1
Also install the USB driver files for your tablet on your PC. For example from here: xpdrivers.com/usb/_1_24.cfm?gclid=CL2iDs7MCFWF7cAodxFYANQ
You also need the following recovery files which you can find by searching the developer forum for galaxy tab 8.9:
ClockworkMod_Recovery_v5.5.0.4.tar
P73xx_Stock_Recovery.tar
Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip
and finally a ROM of your choice, for example the ICS rom cm-9-20121028-NIGHTLY-p5.zip that I just used. You can find the latest official ICS ROM's here get.cm/?device=p5
Now - hold down the volume down button on one of the boot cycles. You should now get into a menu with two choices - Download and Recovery. Default is "Download" - if you press volume down you switch between the two choices. Press volume up to select the choice you want.
First you want to select the "Download" option. Then connect your tablet to your PC. The drivers should now install and your tablet should read that you are connected.
Now start Odin3. Click the PDA button and select your P73xx_Stock_Recovery.tar file. Then press Start.
Once finished the tablet will reboot, and you now need to once again get into the recovery menu. Now select the recovery option, not the download menu. You get into the stock recovery menu where you navigate with the volume buttons and select choices with the power button. Do a full factory reset and wipe the cache. WARNING - you will loose ALL your data, but it'either that or stick to a bricked tablet so.... You will also loose your root access,m which is why the next step is needed.
Now that everything is wiped clean you can use Odin again in "download mode" to install ClockworkMod_Recovery_v5.5.0.4.tar with the same procedure as before. You now have root access.
Reboot again and once again into the recovery mode (not download mode). Once you get into the CWM recovery menu you are ready for the final step, which is to install your new operating system.
Go to your SDK installation folder and find the folder named "platform-tools".
First you want to copy two files into this folder (provided you want to install Cynaogen Mod 9):
Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip
and
Your ROM file of choice
Press shift and right-click in that folder and select "Open command window here". In the command prompt write
adb shell
Note - I had some problems here which was caused by lack of permissions. On your tablet in the CWM menu there should be a choice under the advanced menu for fixing permissions. Use that and you should be able to get into the terminal shell afterwards with the adb shell command
Now write the following command sequence:
• mount /data (don't worry if you get an error message - it means the folder is already mounted)
• cd /data
• mkdir media (if you get an error message saying the folder already exists, that's also OK!)
• exit
• adb push Clockwork_Recovery_6.0.0.8_GT-P7300.zip /data/media
Now you may have to wait a little while until your command prompt is back confirming that the file was uploaded.
Now on your tablet go to the menu point "install zip from sdcard" and find your CWM file that you just uploaded and run that.
Reboot once again into the "recovery mode" - we are now nearly finished.
Run the above push command again from the computer terminal window, this time to upload the ROM file you want to install. (the command is adb push [filename].zip /data/media)
Now on your CWM recovery menu once again run the zip file you just uploaded from the "install zip from sdcard" menu
When completed and you now reboot you should have a completely fresh android installation. Hope this helps.
Remember to mark this thread with solved if it works!
Thanks to kallt_kaffe and all the others who helped me through their various posts (hope that coffee isn't getting too cold again), as well as the following web sites that indirectly helped me resolve this issue googleymind.com/2011/11/guide-so-you-think-you-bricked-your.html#.UJUNN8XAd8G and galaxytabhacks.com/galaxy-tab-10-1-hacks/how-to-root-galaxy-tab-10-1-the-easy-way/
Good luck.
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Gee thanks. This saved my tab. I'd almost given up on it and then voila.

[Q] Full tutorial to put KitKat on N1. Who wants to test?

Hi all, I wrote a long-winded Tutorial to put Evervolv KitKat on a stock N1. I don't have a stock N1 (I stumbled all the way through this process and got done yesterday, was so excited I wrote this tutorial) and don't know how to get it back to stock, so I'm wondering if anyone who has one and has experience putting new ROMs on other devices would like to test this out and let me know if anything doesn't work as written. Please go ahead if you like and reply your updates! Once it's dialed I'll make it a thread in the N1 ROMs forum.
Here's the text:
How to put KitKat on a Nexus One (And have computing power & space to spare):
Things you'll need:
1. A Windows/Linux computer with internet connection, USB port, and terminal
2. A USB Cable
3. A Nexus One with the most recent stock gingerbread rom (Settings->about, look for Android 2.3.6 or GRK39F, else apply/google updates to get to that version)
Before you begin, note that you're playing with a generally safe form of fire, but when playing with fire, you may brick your phone. The maker of this guide and any sites you visit during the process assume no responsibility, the user assumes full responsibility for lost work and damaged or ruined phones. Your warranty will be voided about six times over. Save all your stuff somewhere, save apps with Titanium Backup (Google it) or something, and do a full Nandroid backup (Goog that too) before you begin. You will be fully wiping your phone and SD card multiple times. Make sure at every step of the process that your battery is at least half full. Running out of battery during an update can cause bricks. In this guide, “Boot” means standard boot, the way it normally turns on. Not hboot or fastboot or recovery.
I did part of this from a Windows7 computer on Cygwin and part on Ubuntu 12.04, each presented some annoyance but by far the greatest was due to my Linux ineptitude with PATH and Root. If you're trying the same, I've made an appendix for that.
It may help to have a brief conceptual overview of what you'll be doing in case you run into snags and have to step out of the walkthrough. Your N1 has a few basic parts: Internal memory that is chopped into 3 partitions: One for the system files (System) , one for the files that they will need to make during the first bootup and use in order to operate, along with your apps and their created files (Data) and one for temporary files that your OS and apps can regenerate (Cache). Somewhere in there it also has space for a Radio (that also includes some critical power functions, flashing a new radio is the easiest way to brick an N1 but we won't), as well as a Recovery partition and an Hboot&Fastboot partition. We will be messing with Recovery and Hboot. The virtual machine that turns all the friendly pseudo-english computer code into 1s and 0s for the processor to deal with is called Dalvik, named after a town in Iceland where some old dev's family is from. It has its own Cache (the VM, not the town, as there are no longer any fish in Iceland ). It's SOP to wipe Cache & Dalvik before and after applying any updates, and wipe Data (Factory reset) before applying most updates. Sometimes when my phone bogs I reboot to recovery and wipe caches just for funsies. This makes it take longer to boot the phone and to use each app just the first time after that, while the files are created fresh. The phone also should have an SD-Card. You should have or buy an 8+MB, Class 10 SD card. The class relates to read/write speed, anything less than 10 will noticeably slow your Nexus One's operation. Why?
Because we're going to put some of your operating system on the SD card. We're going to use a special recovery system (aka recovery ROM) called “4ext” to partition your SD card. Mine is 16GB, partitioned to 14GB for storage and 2GB to use as fake internal memory, where my system's Data and Cache live. The KitKat System files that normally live on internal memory's System partition are too big for a normal N1, so we'll use a special Hboot called BlackRose to repartition your internal memory so you can fit KitKat, and then after you first boot it up we'll use an app called Mounts2SD to install a startup script so that every other time you boot it up after that, it will know to find Data and Cache on the SD card. In order to install BlackRose, you'll need to be running CyanogenMod Rom as your main OS, and in order to do that you'll need ClockWorkMod Recovery ROM. So the installation order will be: ClockworkMod recovery->Cyanogen7OS (Gingerbread based)->4ext recovery to partition SD card->BlackRoseHboot to repartition internal memory->Evervolv KitKat-based N1 ROM-> run Mounts2sd for startup scripts ->reboot to your new life among the anatomically modern cyborgs (and then you're on your own for getting all your apps and music and contacts and stuff back on the phone from wherever you saved it).
Ready? Here we go!
1. Install the Android SDK on your computer.
1. Get the appropriate version here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Unzip it.
3. Run the setup.exe (if using windows)
4. When asked which packages to install, choose “Android SDK Tools”, “SDK Platform Android 2.1″, and “Usb Driver package” (If you use eclipse, check that last link for instructions on using the ADT plugin (Not the same ADT that cuts your paycheck, much less inept))
5. Make sure the USB drivers installed properly (windows).
1. Go to printers and devices in the control panel, or device manager
2. If you see an android device with no warnings, you're golden. If it has warnings, right click it and go properties->update driver (driver can be found in your android sdk directory where you unzipped the sdk bundle, in \usb_driver).
6. Boot up your N1 and plug it in to the computer. If the computer recognizes it and they play nice, you're set with the sdk. To extra check, open terminal and cd to the sdk's platform-tools folder that should contain the adb utility. Type #adb devices and see if it comes up with a message telling you that it's running a daemon on a port like 5037, and then lists something like HT9CPP800063 device. This is your phone, it's telling you you're beyond connected. You've got the sdk working. Else have your friend Google help you get the SDK properly installed.
2. Root the phone so it will let you dig in.
1. Put your N1 in USB debugging mode (Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging)
2. In the terminal, in the platform-tools folder, type #adb reboot bootloader. (((My phone has a power hardware issue and will not reboot while plugged in ever to any mode ever at all ever, if yours does too you can unplug (first type #adb kill-server to make it ok to unplug) the usb cable, power down, wait five seconds, and hold the trackball and power button to power back up into the bootloader, then plug in again. There was a lot of unplugging, waiting fifteen seconds, booting while holding buttons, plugging in, adb devices -ing that I will omit henceforth due to low likelihood that you have the same problem.)))
3. Using the onscreen directions on the phone and the hard buttons, navigate to fastboot mode. It may be unresponsive and throw some not-found messages for five seconds before it lets you do anything.
4. In the terminal on your computer, in the platform-tools folder, type #fastboot devices to see if your devices is connected (it should come up with the same HT#XXX###### number).
5. This step will gain Root access, unlock the bootloader, and WIPE ALL YOUR ****. Now type #fastboot oem-unlock . You may have to accept the warranty voiding. If for whatever reason it doesn't work, use this method http://code.google.com/p/bexboot/, and unzip the files to the platform-tools folder.
6. Using the phone buttons, reboot. Your little lock logo during the bootup should be unlocked now.
7. Power down and boot again for good measure. Re-enable usb debugging in the phone app dev settings.
3. Get ClockworkMod Recovery.
1. Download koush's ClockworkMod Recovery from : recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-passion.img and put it in the platform-tools folder.
2. To make sure the file is not corrupted and will not brick your goods, check the md5sum. This is the result of a complicated equation that easily reveals even a single flipped bit in the file by vastly changing the output. Google how to do this, in windows you'll need to download a tool like winmd5free. The output for this particular file should be: md5: 45716c8d51ed2375873f01f0b14b2184 If it's anything else don't use it.
3. Reboot to the bootloader again, either by #adb reboot bootloader or by powering up while holding the trackball, and navigate to fastboot.
4. Verify that you're connected with #fastboot devices
5. Flash ClockworkMod Recovery by typing #fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-passion.img
6. It should give a success message. Reboot to recovery from the fastboot menu. It should be a sweet new blue and white ClockWorkMod recovery. Power down and reboot to recovery by holding volume up as you power up, just for good measure.
4. Get CyanogenMod7 ROM.
1. On your computer, go to http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=passion&type=stable and download the latest stable CM7 zip. Put it in the platform-tools folder.
2. Check its md5 as you did in part 3.
3. Do #adb-devices, which should give you that serial again, and the word recovery.
4. Place the zip file on the root of your SD card by doing #adb push cm-7.2.0-passion.zip /sdcard/
5. If that last step failed, try running #adb shell mount /sdcard or #adb kill-server then #adb devices then #adb shell mount /sdcard, then try the push again. Or mount the sdcard through the recovery menu before running that push command. Or use your computer's file system to drag and drop the .zip to the root (lowest) folder of the sd card.
6. Using the recovery menu, in backup and restore options, backup your current ROM.
7. In the format menu, do a wipe data/factory reset. Wipe the cache and dalvik cache while you're at it.
8. Back in the main recovery menu, do install zip → choose zip from sd card.
9. Select that CM7 zip file.
10. Return to the main menu and reboot the system. It should come up with a totally different looking leaner meaner version of Gingerbread, that gives you more control and speed and saves battery. But even with this system, given modern app sizes, you'll soon run out of room on the internal memory if you stop now. And besides, you're having too much fun.
5. Get 4EXT recovery
1. Go to 4ext.net and download the free .apk file: http://www.4ext.net/get.php?apk Congratulations if you're about to install your first not market app (apps are now .apk, not just something you get from the store's GUI.). Save it in platform-tools. Or, to be really nice to Max, you can just buy the app in the play store and skip the next two steps.
2. Enable USB debugging, plug in and #adb-devices.
3. # adb install 4EXTRecoveryUpdater.apk. You should get back a success message in a fistful of seconds.
4. At this point you may need to back out to regular settings, turn on wifi, and hook up to your wifi router.
5. Open the 4ext recovery updater app. Go to settings. Allow superuser permissions and everything else. It should detect Nexus One, connect to the internet, and boot you back to the main menu.
6. Go to online install. They're all release candidates and no stable versions, so just go with the newest one. Select install.
7. Wait for it to finish and then reboot to recovery, either by # adb reboot recovery or manually. You should have a beautiful new touchscreen recovery.
6. Partition your SD Card
1. In recovery, go to tools->partition sd card->remove all partitions and start from scratch.
2. For the first Ext partition, where you'll be keeping a good chunk of your OS, The consensus online is not to go above either 1.5GB or 2GB. I'm working fine with 2GB aka 2048MB.
3. You can skip the 2nd Ext partition.
4. The internet says Swap size should be 0.
5. Internet says File system should be ext4. This should do the partitioning, the rest of your SD card will still be great for storage as before.
7. Repartition internal memory using BlackRose:
1. I have never used BlackRose on Windows, but here goes: go here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1270589 and download this zip archive: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1016437&d=1334971685; It has windows and linux files. The site also has a manual in case this walkthrough lets you down.
2. Unzip it into a folder in your platform-tools. Execute it with a ./ in linux or a .exe in win. It should say waiting for devices.
3. Reboot your phone manually. BlackRose should hijack the startup, install itself, and quit. Boot your phone up again.
4. Blackrose is rumored to have an interactive guide to partitioning, but it didn't work for me and at least some other genius on the internet, but being an industrious Austrian, he figured out the fix: Run Blackrose in Editor mode. Type resize as prompted.
5. The post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540366 on Evervolv KitKat implies that 250MB for System works with enough space for Gapps (Google does not allow their standard apps like Play Store to be included with Mod roms anymore, so you will need to install them from recovery too, but they distribute them bundled so it's not hard.), and some commenter said 260MB, but that didn't work for me long enough to run startup scripts and move some of it off. So I had to redo it and I went with 265MB for System and 10MB for Cache, which is working fine. Give it a name, I went with Kat.
6. BlackRose will shut down, but it will leave a golden turd in the form of a file called hboot_brcust.nb0 probably in the folder called “other.” That's what you want.
7. Put that file in the same folder as the Blackrose utilities fastboot-l and fastboot-w if it's not already there. Then boot your phone into fastboot again, via adb or manually. I think. Maybe try this from being standard booted up if the next part doesn't work.
8. Run # fastboot-l flash hboot hboot_brcust.nb0 . Windozers should use fastboot-w instead. Blackroot will wait for the device again.
9. Reboot your phone into the bootloader manually, by holding the trackball while powering up. The image should install on this boot, resizing your phone's internal memory partitions.
10. Run # fastboot -w. Your Bootloader should be loaded up, with the 1st line saying something about BlackRose and the 2nd line saying 265/10/161. This is how you know it worked. That 265 is where it's at for KitKat. Your main OS had been destroyed, but your Recovery ROM should still work.
8. Install Evervolv KitKat.
1. Go here http://evervolv.com/devices/passion and download the latest stable release. At press time that's the 4.0.0p4.2 version. Save it to platform-tools.
2. Reboot to Recovery from the menu in the BlackRose bootloader.
3. Do # adb devices. Then do # adb push ev_passion-4.0.0p4.2-perdo-squished.zip /sdcard/ . If it doesn't work, try using the touch recovery menu to toggle mount USB, then push, then unmount. Or mount USB, use the computer's file system to move the file to the root of the sd card, then unmount USB. Or try as root if you're using linux.
4. From the main recovery menu, select install zip from SD card → choose zip → select the ev_passion-4... zip. Wait up, it could take a while.
5. Success!! Right? Right. #adb kill-server, you can unplug now and won't need to plug back in! Reboot the phone, you're getting perilously close! This boot could take five plus minutes, or just one, but be patient.
9. Install Gapps.
1. You are such a lucky dog. Gapps bundled updates are available through the Evervolv toolbox. So you can get Play Store and everything else will come easy. Go to settings → wifi, turn it on, hook it up to your wifi router.
2. Back up to settings, and go Evervolv Toolbox → Updates and swipe over to the Gapps section. Tapp the most recent Gapps-kk zip. Tap the down arrow to download.
3. Reboot manually to recovery.
4. From the main recovery menu, select install zip from SD card → choose zip → select the gapps-kk... zip. This could also take a sec.
5. Reboot again! You're almost done! When it's all loaded up, Play Store should now be installed, as well as various google options that you can enable through the Evervolv settings.
10. Install Mounts2sd.
1. Go to the Play Store and get Mounts2sd.
2. Hit the top right corner for application settings. You'll need to install a startup script. Agree, give it permanent superuser status.
3. Reboot.
4. Go back into Mounts2sd, and go to the Tool menu (Wrench). Note that boxes aren't checked unless they're green-checked.
5. Enable the Cache to move cache partition to data or sd-ext. Storage threshold is up to you. Make sureApplications, Libraries, Data, and Media are all checked. Dalvik should stay unchecked, System apps can too.
6. Reboot again.
11. You're done!!! Or at least we're done. You still have to restore your apps and put all that music back on and figure out how to resync your contacts and... Good Luck.
12. If you want to get extra tricky, it's believed to be possible to leave app data on the real internal memory by default, and use Titanium Backup to move the data of most of your apps to the SD-ext, thereby leaving the data of your favorite apps on real internal memory. Use at your own risk.
ENJOY!!
Appendix 1:
Linux PATH env: I put all my android stuff in a file called androidy, so my path to my platform-tools was /androidy/adt/sdk/platform-tools, and my blackrose was in there too. So to set my PATH, I used: $ export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/sean/androidy/adt/sdk/platform-tools:/home/sean/androidy/adt/sdk/platform-tools/blackrose_120421/binary"
In order to make sure that while using it as root (as was necessary for some fastbot operations), I referenced the same PATH instead of the messed up root PATH, I used sudo env PATH = $PATH a few times.
Appendix 2:
The only actual bug I've noticed in a few days with this ROM is that my Chrome bookmarks don't add shortcuts to the homescreen when I tell them to from within Chrome. The widget-adder (longpress homescreen) has a bookmark option though, so if you bookmark it you can put it on the homescreen from there.
Huge Thanks to everyone involved with ClockworkMod, Cyanogen, 4Ext, BlackRose, and Evervolv!
Sources:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_passion
http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-...n-how-to-unlock-bootloader-on-your-nexus-one/
http://marian.schedenig.name/2012/07/22/installing-android-4-ics-on-the-google-nexus-one/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540366&page=24

Wooooh, Amazing book ! Everything is soo.... deep. In my opinion, tutorials should be only few lines.
Some mistakes :
Why installing CM7 and then backing up ? (You can install non market apps without CM7, and when flashing CM7 you erase all user data)
Why using m2sd if the rom has a built-in feature called a2sd ?
Why installing CWM then 4EXT recovery ? (TWRP is a touch one, and you can flash recovery once you have root access)
"You should have or buy an 8+MB, Class 10 SD card" ? typo ?
In my mind, big steps should be :
1) Backup SD, and SMS and Apps
2) Root
3) Install recovery (TWRP is advised by evervolv, but CWMRecovery is OK)
4) Partition SD
5) Install Blackrose (using 260mB system)
6) Flash ROM
7) Flash GAPS
8) A2SD Y N Y
Notes :
About SD-Ext size, i recommend reading this post from his creator : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124
A2SD is an old version of INT2EXT+
Using terminal is not friendly for beginners. Avoid it at maximum.
Provide a link for a MD5 sum checker.
I don't know if it works with actual stock rom, but when i rooted my n1, i used SuperOneClick. Plug, Click, Wait, Smile. (I still have it if needed)

ldFxl said:
In my opinion, tutorials should be only few lines.
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This tutorial doesn't need to exist at all. All the information is available elsewhere on the internet, I did nothing original. Its only value is that it puts all the information in full detail in one place so you don't have to look in the forums for elaboration on each line of a more concise tutorial. Hopefully with info this detailed, someone with more chops than me could script it.
ldFxl said:
Why installing CM7 and then backing up ? (You can install non market apps without CM7, and when flashing CM7 you erase all user data)
Why using m2sd if the rom has a built-in feature called a2sd ?
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I had already installed CM7 when I thought to write this, Marian (my 3rd source) seems pretty skilled as he is the only one who could make BlackRose work for me so I trusted his advice that it was the easiet procedure he found. Have you put TWRP Recovery on from stock after unlocking the bootloader (fastboot oem unlock)? And have you successfully repartitioned SD (fat32 &ext4) from TWRP? If so and you want to quickly write up the steps, I'd gladly replace my steps 3-6, that would save people a lot of time and doing.
ldFxl said:
Why installing CWM then 4EXT recovery ? (TWRP is a touch one, and you can flash recovery once you have root access)
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4EXT is also touch, CWM cannot repartition SD. If you can go stock to TWRP this might be the best option. Or if not, stock to 4ext.
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"You should have or buy an 8+MB, Class 10 SD card" ? typo ?
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Yes! Thanks.
ldFxl said:
Using terminal is not friendly for beginners. Avoid it at maximum.
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Don't you have to use terminal to use the built in A2SD? At any rate, it didn't work for me (I'm kind of a beginner), Mounts2SD's GUI seemed a little more beginner friendly. Also I certainly wouldn't have been able to make BlackRose work
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Provide a link for a MD5 sum checker.
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Good idea
ldFxl said:
I don't know if it works with actual stock rom, but when i rooted my n1, i used SuperOneClick. Plug, Click, Wait, Smile. (I still have it if needed)
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I once used SuperOneClick on another phone, it looked like it struggled and finally worked with a DDoS style attack, it seemed simpler to just do it the way the manufacturer intended (if that's even a thing). But I suppose if it works with one click it really is simpler as seen by the user. Anyone have a report on whether it worked from stock N1?

Fituate said:
I had already installed CM7 when I thought to write this, Marian (my 3rd source) seems pretty skilled as he is the only one who could make BlackRose work for me so I trusted his advice that it was the easiet procedure he found. Have you put TWRP Recovery on from stock after unlocking the bootloader (fastboot oem unlock)? And have you successfully repartitioned SD (fat32 &ext4) from TWRP? If so and you want to quickly write up the steps, I'd gladly replace my steps 3-6, that would save people a lot of time and doing.
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On my first flash, i was pretty beginner, so i followed a tutorial ; ) . And they used CWM. But flashing a recovery procedure from .img file doesn't differ with the recovery. TWRP allows you to partition SDCard. I did it last week (on HTC wildfire S, TWRP 2.6 as for N1).
Flashing step is the same -> just replace img file name. You can get it Here (From official TWRP Website)
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Download the above file. Turn off your device. Turn on the device and keep holding volume down until a menu shows up. Select fasboot from the menu list. Plug the device into your computer. If you have the right drivers installed, your screen should now say FASTBOOT USB. Run the following command via the command line:
fastboot flash recovery recoveryfilename.img
Note that you will need to change the last part to match the name of the file that you just downloaded. This method requires that you have the drivers installed that come with the HTC Sync software that are available here. You will also need adb and fastboot for your computer.
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6. Partition your SD Card
1. In recovery, Tap Advanced
2. Tap Partition SD Card
3. Set 2048 (MB max) on EXT Size and 0 on Swap Size
4. Tap EXT4 then swipe to start partitioning
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3. Reboot your phone manually. BlackRose should hijack the startup, install itself, and quit. Boot your phone up again.
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Backrose is a custom Bootloader-> it replaces your HBoot/Fastboot
You don't need to reboot your phone to install blackrose. You just need your phone in ADB over USB, then the win setup will install blackrose.
Once done, run setup again, your phone will automaticaly go to HBoot, then choose 1, and 1 again.
Then enter "resize", "260" and "8".
In case that the installer don't work correctly, you can get flashable HBOOT from [Provide a nb0 (texasice recommend 260/8/168) AND MD5 Checksum]
While googling to find some infos (I don't remember me unlocking my bootloader) I found this guide : http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/HTC_Nexus_One/Flashing_Guide
Apperently SuperOneClick does not even need unlocked bootloader on 2.3.3 or previous ...
Isn't what we are trying to write down ?
There are many links pointing to this forum aswell.