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Flashing over a rom?

So im wondering, what is the standard practise, or based on your own experiences. What is the best way to flash over an existing rom using CWM? What do you do to prepare the fone for new rom, wipe user data, dalvik cache, before or after flashing. Just trying to get a good idea of how to do it.
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going from rom to rom:
put rom.zip on /sdcard/
reboot to recovery
install zip from sdcard
point to rom.zip
flash
reboot
any rom that has been properly done will wipe user data and dalvik cache for you. no need to do it manually

i always flash back to eclair and master clear with odin one click to make sure all files from previous roms are gone then CWM flash new ROM

Pirateghost said:
going from rom to rom:
put rom.zip on /sdcard/
reboot to recovery
install zip from sdcard
point to rom.zip
flash
reboot
any rom that has been properly done will wipe user data and dalvik cache for you. no need to do it manually
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Except I do clear the caches manually, but that's just because I have OCD.

CremeFraiche said:
i always flash back to eclair and master clear with odin one click to make sure all files from previous roms are gone then CWM flash new ROM
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lets look at the master clear function shall we?
when you flash to stock...your entire / is stock (RFS, eclair 2.1, /data /system, etc)
essentially, you have just reformatted your root, think of it like formatting your C drive and your sdcard is like a secondary internal drive that contains storage
master clear at this point will only delete items off your /sdcard
roms dont care about your /sdcard, master clear is worthless when you are stock
there was a time where it was necessary to flash to stock to reset the filesystem and then flash the rom. it has not been needed in months, but it continues to get preached as gospel.
even flashing to stock isnt necessary unless you are trying to come from CM7 or MIUI....or if something goes horribly wrong

Thx for info guys, I have flashed a few times and it seemed like now and then my fone must became bogged down and needed to be fully wiped, sound didnt work or lagfix folders bunch of text docs, just seemed cluttered. So if wanted to really clear out junk what would be a good way without having to flash back to stock?
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Just flash. If you have a problem then back to stock Ans a MC. I have flashed hundreds of time back to stock once.
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Pirateghost said:
lets look at the master clear function shall we?
when you flash to stock...your entire / is stock (RFS, eclair 2.1, /data /system, etc)
essentially, you have just reformatted your root, think of it like formatting your C drive and your sdcard is like a secondary internal drive that contains storage
master clear at this point will only delete items off your /sdcard
roms dont care about your /sdcard, master clear is worthless when you are stock
there was a time where it was necessary to flash to stock to reset the filesystem and then flash the rom. it has not been needed in months, but it continues to get preached as gospel.
even flashing to stock isnt necessary unless you are trying to come from CM7 or MIUI....or if something goes horribly wrong
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I would definitely agree. I have also seen people say to disable lagfix before flashing. I have not done that either and never had any problem.

Would just like to amend the advice already given with the following:
Pre-flashing:
1. Titanium Backup of apps and data
2. Nandroid backup in case something goes boom.
Post-flashing (assuming success):
TB restore of user apps/data only. NEVER RESTORE SYSTEM FILES.
They may not apply to some people, but I feel those are necessary steps for anyone that actually uses their phone daily.

modest_mandroid said:
Would just like to amend the advice already given with the following:
Pre-flashing:
1. Titanium Backup of apps and data
2. Nandroid backup in case something goes boom.
Post-flashing (assuming success):
TB restore of user apps/data only. NEVER RESTORE SYSTEM FILES.
They may not apply to some people, but I feel those are necessary steps for anyone that actually uses their phone daily.
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why not restore system files? Does this apply if coming from flashing back to stock first, or just flashing from one rom to another?
Glad to hear the advice about not flashing back to stock, that's been one of the major reasons I haven't flashed quite as many rom's as I want, too time consuming.........not to say that i'm not flashing a couple rom's a week, but there's just so many options to try

neophile said:
why not restore system files? Does this apply if coming from flashing back to stock first, or just flashing from one rom to another?
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Making "search" a standard practice would be very helpful.
Restoring system is known to mess up ROMs in all cases. Though may not be mandatory, but make it a standard practice to flash stock. Takes hardly 10 mins, and helps save big headaches later.

neophile said:
why not restore system files? Does this apply if coming from flashing back to stock first, or just flashing from one rom to another?
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Incompatibilities across rom versions, mostly. As the guy above me said, restoring system files tends to mess up a rom because you are overwriting part of it with files from a different rom.
There is one caveat, however. If you're flashing back to a rom you originally performed the backup on, you can safely restore system files. For example, if you were running Cog 4.3 and did a full TB backup, then decided to flash Serendipity 6.3, you would want to restore only your user apps and user data. However, if you decided to flash back to Cog 4.3 at some point, you could do a full TB restore without worrying about incompatibilities.

I agree with everyone else. Flashing over another rom seldom causes issues. I make s nandroid backup of my favorite rom with everything setup the way i like it. then flash away trying different roms. When i am done, i just restore my backup and all is good!

I have done a search, couldn't find the specific answer I needed, hence my asking. Could be I wasn't phrasing the search correctly......but here I am.....
To clarify, what do you dpo to get your system settings back after flashing a new rom? I flashed to serendipty 6.4 last night, as per the advice, I didn't restore system files, just apps and data, but that didn't work so well for me. I lost my data connection, could only use my wifi, and had no contacts, or any sms msgs. I don't know what else was missing, but I then went and restored system files, everything came back as needed, and there seems to be no issue......
How do I get my info setting back, or do I just need to manually re-set everything after flashing? Apart from wireless info, msgs and contacts, what else do you lose by not restoring?
Appreciate your help

havent flashed a new rom in a while and forgot if anything extra was needed when flashing a rom over a rom
thx!

[Q] Factory Reset on rocket Rom

hi guys
want to confirm sumthin..
1. there is a function under setting--privacy--restore data factory in my note
im running rocket rom v19 which came originally when i bought this 2nd hand set.. there is also rooted,cwm,jkay inside..
so the question is.. what will happen if i do the factory reset from here?
will my rooted(super user),cwm,jkay gone or erase?
will it go back to stock rom?
2. there is full wipe option in cwm.. izzit wipe all the rom file oso? what will happen when i do full wipe without flashing any rom?
is there any option in cwm to remove all data/account only? ( i mean to make it like super virgin yet still with the same rom with rooted,cwm and jkay)
hope you guys can help on this.. i want to remove all the previous owner data..

You can factory reset from clockwork....its all good just backup what you don't want to lose.
Btw you won't lose root....just do the reset from clockwork.....i have had issues doing it from inside the Rom.
One last thing make sure you keep a zip of the Rom onboard so if you run into bootloops after the reset you can just reinstall the Rom and be brand new.....you could also do that instead of the reset if you wanted also.
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full wipe from CWM will restore your note to default settings
default as in a clean install of:
- current installed rom (Rocket v19)
- Root
- jKay
- CWM
- no apps
So, better you back up using TiBu first whatever you need to restore after defaulting

[Q] Any point going back to stock?

I've had my Bell I9000m for almost two years now. I've loaded lots of roms (at least 8) and right now running hacksung v17.
My phone seems to be working just fine, but;
After all this time would it be worthwhile to flash back to stock rom and then mod again? I am just thinking all those older roms I flashed must of left junk behind on the phone.
Will I have to root my phone again?
I have never done this before, I have read lots of threads and have the stock KG3 rom ready to go.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm sure that you would have to re root but I don't know if it would completly format the phone.

If every thing is running fine there is no reason to return to stock,it is the stock firmwares that contain the "junk", as long as you clear caches,data every once in a while when flashing a new update or new rom then you will be fine , and yes if you go back to stock you will have to re root it before starting again.

Ok, let me put it this way.
Is there anyway I can completely wipe out the phone (all the folders.. etc) without going back to stock and then flash Hacksung 7 again?
thanks

Format SD card?

snapper.fishes said:
Format SD card?
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Has nothing to do with the internal memory. So really is pointless.

You would just have to wipe cache , data and dalvic then reflash rom and gapps( nadroid backup first tho.)
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[Q] Need opinion/help on android 2.3.4

Hello there, I'm kind of new in android world and don't know yet what to do right.
Yesterday I updated my LG Optimus Black to android 2.3.4 (previously from android 2.2.2 if i'm not wrong) and in the beginning everything was fine, until a realized that it had a problem with the front camera (colors diferent from reality), problems sending sms (keyboards fails sometimes) and sending mms (i can't send some pictures and before updated my phone i can do it....).
I don't know what to do, one friend told me to check this forum to see ROMs to install, but i don't know if i wanna install a ROM or downgrade (if its possible) to android 2.2.
Someone can give me an opinion and explain me how to do this of installing ROMs or trying to downgrade the version?

Read my signature OR try a factory reset and everything should be fine.

N00BY0815 said:
Read my signature OR try a factory reset and everything should be fine.
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Yes, i've already seen some solutions but i don't know how to use them.
In this moment i wanna do a factory reset but i don't know how to do it.

rlopes65 said:
Yes, i've already seen some solutions but i don't know how to use them.
In this moment i wanna do a factory reset but i don't know how to do it.
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I've discover how to do factory reset and i've already do it and continues with android 2.3.4
It isn't a way to return to android 2.2?

Look into my noob how to, grab a v10a or any other, you had previously on your phone, take LG extract tool, extract bin and fls files, inject CWM if you wanna root, if not, leave it, flash with smartflash, perform a factory reset and you should be able to enjoy your phone again
Here is the link to the Softwares: http://lg-phone-firmware.com/index.php?id_mod=1

N00BY0815 said:
Look into my noob how to, grab a v10a or any other, you had previously on your phone, take LG extract tool, extract bin and fls files, inject CWM if you wanna root, if not, leave it, flash with smartflash, perform a factory reset and you should be able to enjoy your phone again
Here is the link to the Softwares: http://lg-phone-firmware.com/index.php?id_mod=1
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I've downloaded LG extract tool and v10a, and i've tried to extract the file but it gives me a error
and i've give up...
But then i've found this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1692191
and i don't know if it is the same and how to run cwm, i've searched for everywhere and it says me that i have to press - volume and home but didn't work for me... and then in another website says me that i have to install
sorry i'm a really noob on this thing :x

In my personal experience stock 2.3 is better than 2.2 and they both suck, what i would do in your case is to flash a rooted stock and then flash a new rom, there are a couple great in this forums, if you're too scared to do that just factory reset your phone, i'm sure it will fix your posted issues, to do this press menu soft key > settings > Privacy > factory reset, i must warn you, this will make you lose all your info so save contacts to a google account or something and save all your data not stored in micro SD.
About your last post you can't run CMW cause you don't have it

ErnuB said:
In my personal experience stock 2.3 is better than 2.2 and they both suck, what i would do in your case is to flash a rooted stock and then flash a new rom, there are a couple great in this forums, if you're too scared to do that just factory reset your phone, i'm sure it will fix your posted issues, to do this press menu soft key > settings > Privacy > factory reset, i must warn you, this will make you lose all your info so save contacts to a google account or something and save all your data not stored in micro SD.
About your last post you can't run CMW cause you don't have it
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I've already do the factory reset and still have the 2.3.4 version... still with problems in camera, sending mms...

Upgrade installing on every reboot after OTA XXLPY to XXLRG

i recently upgraded ota from xxlpy to xxlrg. unit is original n7000 germany. never used Odin or such to install firmware.
the problem is, on every restart, the note will say that it is upgrading and installing new apps similar to what happens when the first boot after upgrading. this will take a long time to start from power off or reboot. verified this happens every time. this never happens before when i upgraded from gb to xxlpy.
everything else seem to run ok . i have root and unrooted using simple unroot with supersu without problem. i have titanium pro for backup but afraid to factory reset because of the brick issue. appreciate any feedback.
thanks.
muzz.
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muzzsharpe said:
i recently upgraded ota from xxlpy to xxlrg. unit is original n7000 germany. never used Odin or such to install firmware.
the problem is, on every restart, the note will say that it is upgrading and installing new apps similar to what happens when the first boot after upgrading. this will take a long time to start from power off or reboot. verified this happens every time. this never happens before when i upgraded from gb to xxlpy.
everything else seem to run ok . i have root and unrooted using simple unroot with supersu without problem. i have titanium pro for backup but afraid to factory reset because of the brick issue. appreciate any feedback.
thanks.
muzz.
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In the phone setting uncheck the automatic update.

jonpaslim said:
In the phone setting uncheck the automatic update.
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nope. tried that just to make sure. that setting is for checking if there are any new updates available. thanks anyway. if you read my post again, what happens is that the upgrade to XXLRG (4.0.4) was successful, just that it does the first boot installation (s-memo, crayon. wallpaper etc) again and again on each reboot or start from power off. this makes reboot taking more than one minute. others have same problem?
any guru here have some clue?
tia

muzzsharpe said:
nope. tried that just to make sure. that setting is for checking if there are any new updates available. thanks anyway. if you read my post again, what happens is that the upgrade to XXLRG (4.0.4) was successful, just that it does the first boot installation (s-memo, crayon. wallpaper etc) again and again on each reboot or start from power off. this makes reboot taking more than one minute. others have same problem?
any guru here have some clue?
tia
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nobody having this problem of XXLRG reinstalling apps?
anyway, today another OTA notification saying theres another update.
should i go for it?
regards,

You need to do factory reset. Either to go back to GB and then do wipe, or flash a safe ICS kernel (speedmod, notecore, franco, etc) and do full wipe in recovery. Never do factory reset or full wipe in stock ICS.

kopitalk said:
You need to do factory reset. Either to go back to GB and then do wipe, or flash a safe ICS kernel (speedmod, notecore, franco, etc) and do full wipe in recovery. Never do factory reset or full wipe in stock ICS.
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can you please explain why i need to factory reset?

muzzsharpe said:
i recently upgraded ota from xxlpy to xxlrg. unit is original n7000 germany. never used Odin or such to install firmware.
the problem is, on every restart, the note will say that it is upgrading and installing new apps similar to what happens when the first boot after upgrading. this will take a long time to start from power off or reboot. verified this happens every time. this never happens before when i upgraded from gb to xxlpy.
everything else seem to run ok . i have root and unrooted using simple unroot with supersu without problem. i have titanium pro for backup but afraid to factory reset because of the brick issue. appreciate any feedback.
thanks.
muzz.
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if your getting every reboot on your phone 'Android is upgrading applications..', case here is that you have some apps (I would guess you restored apps from titanium pro) that are deodex and some are odex. Check on your apps again under titanium apps and delete all odex files extension for the same app name. There might be one or more apps that have odex files inside. This is the cause of that message everytime you reboot your phone.
Or the simple way is go back to Stock GB, upgrade again to XXLRG and when you have everything already flashed to LRG.. DON'T restore apps anymore (from your Titanium backup), go clean from now on in just redownloading those apps you have fresh in Google play.
Cheers!