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I thought I might open this up since I didn't see it anywhere. Anyway, ill start with my side.
I was on revolt 1.5 (big thanks mtm) and had a haphazard way of getting to zv7. Anyway, I restored stock without wiping, both system and boot.img from thecubeds original factory band, started up fine. Then used revotoolkit to restore stock recovery, downloaded the update and updated sucessfully. I then rooted with the esteem method, free and clear, and restored, among other things, my apps with data that I backed up in ti. Everything was generally fine, with minor hiccups from restoring app data so just manually wiped data from problem apps one by one. After that, gingervolt had come out and I figured that if I flash it over my current setup, worse case scenario I go back and wipe data and install from scratch. But, as luck had it, after taking awhile to rebuild the dalvik cache, everything was fine and dandy.
So how did yours go? Any stories or experiences? Thought this would be good for general discussion and as insight for everyone.
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If you don't mind please share your secrets on how you of from v4 to v7. I have tried almost everything!
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jackpot08 said:
If you don't mind please share your secrets on how you of from v4 to v7. I have tried almost everything!
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yes tell all as I have heard going right from v4 to v7 was a no go.
You beat me to the punch...I was on Revolt 1.5 and loving it but I want GB. So I downgraded to the stock rooted nandroid backup found here. I went to settings> about phone> software update and...nothing. I tried a few times, I waited for awhile and nothing. I then flashed the z4 tot file, nothing, I updated the z6 file and rooted that and nothing (see a pattern?) I am currently running the Z6 rooted file.
Any help would be appriciated. By the way mtmichaelson you are the man.
I think we are all in the same boat Verizon hasn't uploaded the update to the servers we can download from for now I'm staying stock rooted with stock recovery until they push the update to me so that i can install it when it gets here basically the only thing we can do is wait
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My impressions
I was patient and stuck with a CWM/rooted stock V4 ROM.
I uses MT's ROM stock and followed instructions and upgraded through OTA to GB without a hitch. I also erased the internal SD to remove any gremlins from past experimentation.
I used his root zip and it when without a hitch except for the CWM recovery not sticking after reboot.
I notice that the audio output is louder, not one single crash or forced close, faster 4G and GPS, and faster charging. I plan to wait to see how the custom ROMs perform before flashing it and hopefully the CWM issue will be resolved soon.
We all need to thank everyone who has made this possible!
Just curious, what part of the country are you guys in that can't get the update?
I can't get the update and I'm in central California.
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patsoxfan said:
yes tell all as I have heard going right from v4 to v7 was a no go.
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As far as secrets, I cant think of many hidden things I did. A little more detailed though, I had revolt 1.5, backed up everything, and didnt wipe any data.
I went to cwr, made a nand backup, and without wiping anything went straight to flash thecubed's root nandroid rip with advanced restore, with the stock system.img and boot.img, and that booted fine.
Then in android, I used revotoolkit to flash the stock recovery, and I think its this step that at least partially 'allows' the update. I guess something where it checks what is installed to check if there's an update.
Then I got the update prompt for zv6, and it updated fine, although it wasnt rooted afterward. Shortly after, I got another update and it updated to zv7 and 2.3.4, still unrooted. Although my apps were still there, some had issues from remnants of data from froyo, like force closes. So I manually, selectively deleted data in 'manage apps' as I found problem apps.
Then I used the esteem root to root it, and after finding the working, updated one it went fine.
After that, gingervolt came out, and although it was warned to wipe data strenuously before switching, I figured that if I at least made a nandroid before flashing anything, then the worst case scenario if flashing gingervolt over stock gb turned out to fail, I could either wipe data anyway and reflash like normal, or by some crazy chance it'd work, and I just got lucky when it worked. It just took a good 5-7 minutes to boot I presume because it has to rebuild the dalvik cache (based on what/how many apps you have?) and here we are. I hope this explains more so others may have success stories.
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You beat me to the punch...I was on Revolt 1.5 and loving it but I want GB. So I downgraded to the stock rooted nandroid backup found here. I went to settings> about phone> software update and...nothing. I tried a few times, I waited for awhile and nothing. I then flashed the z4 tot file, nothing, I updated the z6 file and rooted that and nothing (see a pattern?) I am currently running the Z6 rooted file.
Any help would be appriciated. By the way mtmichaelson you are the man.
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It may have to do, like I put above, with putting stock recovery + boot + system.img from stock zv4. Try that if you can and report the results if it deems beneficial.
drutman said:
I was patient and stuck with a CWM/rooted stock V4 ROM.
I uses MT's ROM stock and followed instructions and upgraded through OTA to GB without a hitch. I also erased the internal SD to remove any gremlins from past experimentation.
I used his root zip and it when without a hitch except for the CWM recovery not sticking after reboot.
I notice that the audio output is louder, not one single crash or forced close, faster 4G and GPS, and faster charging. I plan to wait to see how the custom ROMs perform before flashing it and hopefully the CWM issue will be resolved soon.
We all need to thank everyone who has made this possible!
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And I completely have to agree haha. After updating and rooting, I got instant gps lock, have yet to have any fc's or reboot besides the usual routines, and I know Ill have to post a ss to prove it but I was able to get consistent 20-30mbps down with a single 42mbps down speedtest on the speedtest.net app, when before even on a great day it would peak at 16mbps. Loving gingerbread, especially since (coming from a droid) its on a phone meant to handle gb. Afaik, gb's mem manager was more built for 512mb+ (correct me if Im wrong), although it manages everything so much better. As good as gb is on my OG droid, there are a good # of screen redraws lol.
I started from Revolt 1.5. I made a NAND banckup, then got rid of CWM with RevoToolKit. Flashed the v6 tot file with LGNPST, updated to GB OTA, then rooted with mt's script. All-in-all it was pretty painless. I didn't do a data/cache wipe until I went to put on Gingervolt.
ybrian said:
I can't get the update and I'm in central California.
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I got the update, I'm in Sacramento area.
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PinkyTheDevil said:
I got the update, I'm in Sacramento area.
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I cannot get the update in Oakland California
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No update Boston Area
Any chance we are all on business accounts instead of family accounts?
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No update Boston Area
Any chance we are all on business accounts instead of family accounts?
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I'm out in Chicopee mass. Got the update in western Mass
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jackpot08 said:
I cannot get the update in Oakland California
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Strange how it could be out in a few counties only. I would think the bay area should have gotten it quickly. I wonder how the ota push works?
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Virginia beach Virginia no update and I'm on family plan
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no update in southern california....
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No update Boston Area
Any chance we are all on business accounts instead of family accounts?
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I'm on a family plan
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so cal irvine area got the update on monday.
shilohdrummer said:
no update in southern california....
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Odd. On Halloween, in Cerritos, I reverted to stock and got immediate zv6 upgrade download without even going to settings. zv7 came automatically too.
The only thing I can think of is my phone has never been on vz6 before. Are the people who are having trouble ones who downgraded from zv6 to 4 and then rooted?
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When I go to My Apps the screen is blank and white. I can still search for apps and access the app market the only thing verizon wanted me to do us a hard reset which I an not willing to do
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Mine was doing the same exact thing. I updated to Market 3.3.11 but it's still not functional only now it says
"(my acct name) apps and games will be listed here"
Everything else works like normal still.
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same here. i am stock 5.7.893. i know its not a rom think cause i have not flashed any roms or themes and no tweeks. so i think its the update since i didnt have any problems before flashing 5.7.893 update
Having the same issue. Very strange.
neckbonest said:
same here. i am stock 5.7.893. i know its not a rom think cause i have not flashed any roms or themes and no tweeks. so i think its the update since i didnt have any problems before flashing 5.7.893 update
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try fixing permitions its not the update mine works fine
Go to applications and clear the data for the market app. It sounds like you have a permissions problem and hopefully that should fix it.
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cleared data and fixed permitions, still no my app in market. i went strait from 5.5.886 to 5.7.893. wonder if that had anything to do with it
Same issue here -
"Applications and games owned by this account will appear here"
5.7.893
I have a similar issue only the my apps page is just a black screen. I have fixed permissions, removed the market updater, cleared data and cache and even reinstalled the .apk. I can't figure this out to save my life!
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At least I am not the only one so frustrated with this
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For now you can use AppBrain to make sure you don't miss any app updates -- still annoying because you have to accept each one, but the only good way to check until this is sorted out.
i fixed my market isues with my apps not showing up. i did a factory reset and they now show up. i kept root and i am still on 5.7.893 and all is good thought i lost rorever root but just redownloaded the su app from the market.
neckbonest said:
i fixed my market isues with my apps not showing up. i did a factory reset and they now show up. i kept root and i am still on 5.7.893 and all is good thought i lost rorever root but just redownloaded the su app from the market.
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Were you using a custom ROM? What happens when you do a factory reset on a custom rom...
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Were you using a custom ROM? What happens when you do a factory reset on a custom rom...
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i was not on any rom just stock 5.7.893. not sure what will happen if you are on a custom rom
did a factory reset after restore from titanium backup still having problem with no my apps
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How about just restoring your apps next time.
When you restore your settings and data, you are reloading your problems back in to the device.
If that doesn't work. Just restore one app at a time until you find the culprit.
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Market force closes while trying to manually update or install a new app. Automatic updates work fine.
Anyone else having this issue? Running gingervolt 1.2
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Edit: Wiped Data and all is good.
Haven't had that one yet but my browser and Facebook are force closing on me.
GINGERVOLTED!
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Market force closes while trying to manually update or install a new app. Automatic updates work fine.
Anyone else having this issue? Running gingervolt 1.2
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It force closes on me sometimes just by opening it. It will do it a few times in a row. I just wait a couple of minutes and it works fine.
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No market issues here.
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Yeah I had that problem. I re-flashed my phone with the v7 TOT file and all is good.
(note: if you do not do a factory reset, flashing the TOT file does not wipe any of your settings. So you can flash and be back up and going immediately.)
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Yeah I had that problem. I re-flashed my phone with the v7 TOT file and all is good.
(note: if you do not do a factory reset, flashing the TOT file does not wipe any of your settings. So you can flash and be back up and going immediately.)
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I will give this a try. It's weird how it was fine until about 2 weeks ago, dunno what happend?!?
Thanks for the info.
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I feel like the broken out 2.0 rom post has WAYYY too much posts about problems etc. I think if we could all put it in one post it would reduce the amount of spam.
So list some questions and answers and i'll update this thread
Q) My Revo overheats and has vibrates of deaths! What do I do?
A) Try flashing the blitz 3.0 beta. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25299893&postcount=353
Mine did the over heating thing and the vod (vibe of death). I flashed blitz 3.0 beta, and now no issues.
**Disregard the sig. Decided to take a break from my project to try out mt's work.
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I.M.famous XMAN said:
Mine did the over heating thing and the vod (vibe of death). I flashed blitz 3.0 beta, and now no issues.
**Disregard the sig. Decided to take a break from my project to try out mt's work.
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Can you give the link for blitz 3.0? And what's the difference? What exactly happens when you flash it?
Here is the post with Blitz 3.0 beta
Honestly, idk what the real differences are between the two. I DO know that it solved the vod for me.
I.M.famous XMAN said:
Here is the post with Blitz 3.0 beta
Honestly, idk what the real differences are between the two. I DO know that it solved the vod for me.
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Oh. I thought that was just 1.1 with overclocking haha. okay thanks :] wil update the thread!
Both my phone (updated from BO 1.1 without wiping data) and my wife's phone (newly rooted straight to BO 2.0 with wiping data) have errors when trying to open the google calendar app. Had issues with the gmail app too, but I was able to reinstall that from the market.
In case others have the same issue the calandar app isn't on the market, but I found the apk here (haven't tested it with my phone yet though).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667600
Edit: Uninstalling and restoring with Titanium Backup fixed the problem.
I had a problem with my clock, Callender, and calculator not working. There was also a problem with the ROM and it didn't De-bing anything. so I had to reflash my nandroid back up, only to discover I didn't have busybox installed. easy enough fix.
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I also had a problem with constant force closing of a google apps process. Clearing the browser and gmail cache seemed to fix it.
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I also had a problem with constant force closing of a google apps process. Clearing the browser and gmail cache seemed to fix it.
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I just got BO 2.0.1 installed last night and I was having this same problem. Both youtube and gmail crashed at reboot and when I tried to launch them, Play and Maps worked fine. I cleared Caches without any luck, but an uninstall and reinstall of the apps from Play seemed to fix it.
Last night the wifi tether was working fine once I set it to use the Optima S profile. But this morning turning it on reboots the phone.
Over all I like it so far. It's alot more responsive than GV1.3 that I was running before.
Is anyone else having music playing issues? For me it's super choppy, and when using play music it makes weird noises. I have it OC'd to 1.9ghz on 2.0.1 on the blitzkrieg 3 beta kernel. Thanks!
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Calendar app not sync'ing
Hey all,
Searched the thread and still haven't found a solution that works for me.
1.) I started on BO1.1
2.) Flashed BO2.0 and encountered multiple FC errors so....
3.) used LGNPST to go to Z8
4.) OTA update to Z9
5.) Flashed BO2.0
Calendar app doesn't sync
I have tried wiping tha app cache, wiping cache and dalvik through CWM.
Any other suggestions? I've been thinking about using titanium to backup and restore w/o restoring the calendar app and see if it will automatically dl it.
Thanks in advance!
And Thanks to MT and all the others who had put in so much time and effort to make the REVO a usable phone!
Rip the Calender app from a previous back up and push it to your phone with adb. Should fix it. When I get a chance I will rip mine and post it.
If someone beats me to it, a flashable zip would be nice.
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Hmm that'll have to wait till I get home but I'll give a shot tonight.
Thanks
Ok tried installing a clean calendar apk with root explorer and still no sync.
Is there a tutorial for pushing apk's with adb?
Constant VOD
I am also having constant VOD on my revo. I flashed BO 2.00 last night and only had 1 VOD. I used the phone today and had 5 VOD. I will try flashing the BO 2.01 patch and the blitz3 beta. I hope this will solve my problems.
One quick question about installing the patch. Do I have to do anything special with the patching or is it as simple as flashing 2.00?
I keep getting constant reboots and many VOD(usually only when its charging/plugged in.) This has been for me the least stable ROM. When it works its great, but lately it seems every time I pick it up its either rebooting or had just rebooted. I even completely wiped everything and started from scratch and it's still rebooting.
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I keep getting constant reboots and many VOD(usually only when its charging/plugged in.) This has been for me the least stable ROM. When it works its great, but lately it seems every time I pick it up its either rebooting or had just rebooted. I even completely wiped everything and started from scratch and it's still rebooting.
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Same here for me!!! My phone now after several VODs wont even turn on. I think the battery has been discharded beyond the recharge point or my phone has a hardware failure from to much heat. Not sure. But looks like im going to buy a new phone.
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Ok tried installing a clean calendar apk with root explorer and still no sync.
Is there a tutorial for pushing apk's with adb?
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It's the push command.
adb push calender.apk /system/app
adb reboot recovery
wipe dalvik and cache
reboot.
worked perfectly for my wife on her revo, and hers is the same as mine just no theme.
i keep getting constant reboots also, ive tried complety wiping and reflashing to no success, im on zv9 and tried BO 2.0 and 2.0.1 and Blitz 3.0 but nothing works and also most of my problems are when im on the charger also i don't know what to do????
I keep getting the vod's as well. So I Reflashed 2.0 again and it seems to have stopped. I like to use the go launcher ex, could that be the cause of it?
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I just re-installed the GingerVolt 1.3 ROM and then installed the ICS Theme for it, and it worked fine, until i opened the Market Place (or Play store, whatever you wanna call it lol) and then when I download something it causes the Market Place to force close, and every time i try to open the Market Place after that, it just automatically force closes and wont let me open it. Then I reboot the phone, and i will let me open it again but as soon as I try and download something, it does it all over again, and keeps doing it until i reboot the phone again. So I Restored the phone to the last backup I made, which I wasn't having this problem when i made that backup. But now, even after I restored the backup its still giving me the same problem. So I don't know wtf the problem is and how to fix it, restoring the backup i made was my only idea. But as i said, even after restoring the backup, its still happening. So does anyone know what the problem might be, and how I can possibly fix it.
And now its not letting me open it at all. I rebooted my phone 3 times and now it just force closes even if I don't try to download something first. WTF ! This is frustrating, I've never not been able to fix an issue on my phones before, but I can't seem to figure this one out. I wish there was a way to delete the market place and re-install it. But as far as I know there isn't a way....is there ?
As far a being able to reinstall the market you should be able to download gapps and flash it via cwm recovery.
Link
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Google_Apps#20110828
But I am wondering it could be an issue with an incompatible with the newer radio and the one ment for GingerVolt 1.3.... What is your current as version (like mine is vs910v9)? If I'm thinking correctly the last sw version that supported GingerVolt was v7. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
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Try wiping the app cache. If that doesn't work, try that and wiping cache/dalvik.
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I tried wiping the cache a couple times already before posting this, but I hadn't tried wiping the dalvik, but I just wiped both and still no go, and now as soon as my phone loads into the homescreen, it tells me that Google play has forced closed before I even try opening it. Before it wasn't happening til I opened it and tried to download something, then it would start forcr closing everytime I tried to open it, but like I said, now it force closes as soon as my phone boots into the homescreen. So something is definitely corrupted it seems. I think I am gonna have to completely restore my phone back to factory settings. Unfortunately my backup that I made when I first got the phone almost 2yrs ago has been lost somehow, so I am going to have to reset the phone manually. Which I've never done on this phone so I am gonna have to look up how to do it.
Unless anyone else has some suggestions on fixing this issue so I don't have to go to that extreme.
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Oh and baseband version is VS910ZV7
And I don't think gingervolt is my problem cause it worked fine until I installed the ICS aka Kangwhich theme, that's when Google play started messing up and force closing on me.
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You could try just flashing the play store aka gapps. You can get it through the link I gave in my other post.
http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Google_Apps#20110828
If that doesn't work then there's always flash back to stock via the tot file for which ever Version you choose (pain to get it setup but very handy to have if an issue like this arises)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19154278
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