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[Q] Im new and lost

I just had my dad do a full root on my evo just for the wireless tether. i really love the options that have opened up and want to pursue them. i want to be able to install boot animation, lock bars, and themes. the problem i am having is i really dont know where to start. ive done alot of research on things but doesnt really tell me exactly what i need to do. i have been told that i need to get a new rom to be able to use custom themes and lockbars and stuff like that. with that i was told i need to do a nanoid backup. so what i am asking from you guys (the expertts with alot of patience for noobies is step be step instructions on what i need to do. i dont even know how to do a nanoid backup. tell me what actions i need to take and what apps i will need to make all this happen. please help me all the other forums tell me is stop being a noob are use the search feature. i just dont think other peoples posts are exact;y what i am asking for so please give me help so i wont be such a noob and have a custom look on my evo.

I'll help you start by flashing a custom recovery which will allow for nandroid backup, data wipes, and flashing custom roms.
1. Download Rom Manager from the Market
2. Open Rom Manager and flash ClockworkMod recovery, which is the first option in Rom Manager. You can use this recovery, which should be installed if your father ran UnRevoked 3.2 to root your EVO.
3. However, I recommend scrolling down to the bottom of Rom Manager and flashing the alternate recovery, Amon Ra. This is the one I prefer to use to flash my roms and whatever else.
4. Grab Quick Boot from the market for easy reboot into recovery or you can just power off then hold vol down + power on to boot into HBOOT. From HBOOT, you can scroll to select recovery, which should put you into Amon Ra.
5. In recovery, you should see Backup/Restore option. Click this and do a nandroid backup. Let it run through until it states completed.
6. Return to main recovery menu, and goto wipe. Select wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik cache. You can do each wipe twice just to be on the safe, if you like.
7. Once nandroid and full wipe done, you can select USB-MS to connect your SD card to your PC to load a custom rom onto the root of your card. Once loaded, just disconnect the SD card by hitting power button and return to main recovery menu.
7. If your custom rom is on the SD card root, you should see the rom zip file when you select flash zip from card. Scroll to the rom and select it. Let the rom flash process complete and then reboot the phone.
8. This should take possibly 3-5 minutes to completely load the custom rom onto your phone.
9. Hopefully, everything worked out and the phone boots into the custom rom's homescreen or handsfree setup.

WoW
WoW i dont even know where to begin on telling you how big of a help you was, you answered my post exactly how i needed it answered for me to understand it and be able to do it......thank you soooo much

I do have an additional question to this, what custom rom should I use? Will it have 2.2? And are there tutorials how to install themes? Do I need to have sense to install these themes?
I really appreciate your assistance!!!

Hit up the development forum and check out all the roms. Look at the screenshots and features. When you find one you like, grab it. Check out Fresh 3.3 and Myn's Warm twopointtwo. I've used those both in the past. Those both have Sense and Myn's ROM is already themed (and looks nice in my opinion). Themes are flashed the same way as roms and the descriptions will tell you if they're Sense-compatible.
Remember to make nandroid backups frequently. Find a rom, get it set up to your liking, nandroid, and then get another rom and do it all over again until you decide on one.
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groovdafied said:
I do have an additional question to this, what custom rom should I use? Will it have 2.2? And are there tutorials how to install themes? Do I need to have sense to install these themes?
I really appreciate your assistance!!!
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choice of rom is up to you, most you'll see will be 2.2 which you'll want for full flash support, to be able to install themes you will NEED and (deodexed) rom. Look for deodexed roms, and there are plenty. A lot of themes will be flashable zips which you install the same way you install a rom (through recovery-install zip from sdcard-choose zip from sdcard).

louforgiveno said:
choice of rom is up to you, most you'll see will be 2.2 which you'll want for full flash support, to be able to install themes you will NEED and (deodexed) rom. Look for deodexed roms, and there are plenty. A lot of themes will be flashable zips which you install the same way you install a rom (through recovery-install zip from sdcard-choose zip from sdcard).
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TheMagicalSock said:
Hit up the development forum and check out all the roms. Look at the screenshots and features. When you find one you like, grab it. Check out Fresh 3.3 and Myn's Warm twopointtwo. I've used those both in the past. Those both have Sense and Myn's ROM is already themed (and looks nice in my opinion). Themes are flashed the same way as roms and the descriptions will tell you if they're Sense-compatible.
Remember to make nandroid backups frequently. Find a rom, get it set up to your liking, nandroid, and then get another rom and do it all over again until you decide on one.
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Thanks you guys! I sorta figured out how to apply themes using the recovery screen after boot up, but it caused the screen to go black HAHA. But anyways, I couldn't find a definitive answer to what I was looking for. I will check out the deodexed roms, thanks!

I one more EXTREMELY important thing about themes, do wipe cache and dalvic twice, but DO NOT WIPE DATA. That is probably why your screen went black. Eithe that or the rom was not de odexed

kernel help
hi i have no idea where to go about this....i just want to download setcpu and apparently a kernel is needed....help?

every rom has a kernel. It's only if your wanting to overclock etc you would want setcpu and maybe different custom kernel
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Dark Temptation said:
hi i have no idea where to go about this....i just want to download setcpu and apparently a kernel is needed....help?
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The kernel and setcpu would all depend on what your trying to do.
Sent from my Creamed out Classic EVO

help as in i didnt understand one thing you just said

Ok what he is sayinis if your wanting set CPU your going to have to flash a custom kernel one that will let you overclock what version of Rom are you on
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[Q] Custom rom on FRG83D

Hey guys i've been on the forums for the longest but just never posted, long time reader though. Ok so i'm new to android and love it , i have a nexus one and have had it for about 4 months now, bought it from someone on craigslist for about 450 brand new, worth every penny and is treated as my firs born. Rooted but never installed a custom rom, was nervous i would ruin something. Seeing how there are so many options in custom roms, i really want to install cyanogen now, only problem is that i updated to frg83d, so can i still install cyanogen? if so can someone give me a link or a little help? i know gb will be here soon but not sure when and i'd like to add enhance my phone a little, also if i were to install a custom rom how hard would it be to then install gb would it need to be reflashed back to the stock rom? tia.

If you updated to FRG83D and rooted...(not rooted and updated, for updating OS will unroot your phone)
1. Using ROM Manager is the easiest way for starters.
- Download ROM Manager from Market.
- Run ROM Manager, then flash Clockwork Recovery into your device.
- Once it is done, make your nandroid backup first by choosing 'Backup Current ROM'. It's a 'must', so you can restore everything when flashing custom ROM goes wrong.
- Backup your account, application & data. You'll need to restore them after installing custom ROM(when rooted, backup tools like My Backup Pro can backup application data).
- Dump everything in your SD card to HDD in case.
- Now partition your SD card. It's optional, but needed for A2SD+. SD card will be formatted during partitioning. Once it is done, copy your backups to SD card.(backup is always a must)
- Download custom ROM you want, copy it to root of SD card.
- In ROM Manager, choose 'Install ROM from SD Card'. Then Clockwork Recovery will do the things.
- Done!
2. If you downloaded and flashed other recovery like Amon Ra's, you'll need to do all the job in the recovery mode. However, it's not much harder than using Clockwork Recovery and ROM Manager.
**Currently, many custom ROMs(which are still developing) are based on FRG83(D). Once 'completely' working Gingerbread(current build: GRH55) ROM is out, such custom ROMs will be updated.
**Read other topics, especially pinned ones. Usually they cover things you want to know.

Thanks for the quick response lfact, but i'm having a problem, whenever i try to install rom from sd card and it goes to install i get a screen with the android and an exclmanation point, any reason why?

Make sure you flashed custom recovery on your device. Oh, and.... If you have any question, post that on Q&A, not general.

Got everything working lfact thanks alot, mods sorry if this was in the wrong section.

[Q] Need help rooting

I'm trying to root my Telus fascinate (SGH t959D) not to sure if i should be posting this here or in the vibrant section...
anyways I've tried numerous rooting methods and none have worked, I'll list what I've tried. I've also made sure I have the 64bit drivers for windows 7 installed.
super one click root - goes through the process, appears to be working, says ROOTED, but does not provide root access, it also disables haptic feedback on my 4buttons until a restart
galaxy s one click root - restarts into recovery mode (3e), although no "reinstall packages" option is available. The option i do have is apply sdcard:update.zip which fails do to a signature error.
various other 2.2 root files - same error as in the one click root, except i manually boot into recovery mode via the volume buttons.
various market one click root tools - none work, I got really desperate.
also, im looking for a download link to nero v5, the team whiskey website doesnt have one that i can find...

I haven't tried flashing a new rom with odin yet as some guides say to do... I want to backup files on my phone with titanium backup first, but that needs root.
can anyone recommend any other backup app that doesnt require root?

z4root is flaky and buggy but sometimes it gets the job done.
Replacing just a system partition will not destroy your apps, though it would of course be a good idea to make sure you are flashing a rom based on the stock for your phone to have the lowest chance of FCs on startup. Most roms out there are intended to be flashed in CWM. CWM is actually a kernel flashed to the recovery partition with Odin, but it also lets you make a nandroid backup which will backup almost everything on your phone except the kernel; subsequent restores will make it so you reboot into your phone exactly as it was at the time you did the nandroid. Might want to consider that, as if all goes well you can just flash the rom you want, keep your apps, and be done with it. If not, well, you did make a nandroid after flashing CWM but before flashing your rom, didn't you?

comradesven said:
z4root is flaky and buggy but sometimes it gets the job done.
Replacing just a system partition will not destroy your apps, though it would of course be a good idea to make sure you are flashing a rom based on the stock for your phone to have the lowest chance of FCs on startup. Most roms out there are intended to be flashed in CWM. CWM is actually a kernel flashed to the recovery partition with Odin, but it also lets you make a nandroid backup which will backup almost everything on your phone except the kernel; subsequent restores will make it so you reboot into your phone exactly as it was at the time you did the nandroid. Might want to consider that, as if all goes well you can just flash the rom you want, keep your apps, and be done with it. If not, well, you did make a nandroid after flashing CWM but before flashing your rom, didn't you?
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I'm quite familiar with nandroid backups, I'm coming from an HTC hero running modaco's custom rom with some different custom recovery image.
I've tried using z4root before but I'll give it another try. right now I'm looking at an alternate method which i found here using linux. going to give that a try tomorrow.
As for the custom kernels and roms, im still on stock and haven't flashed anything yet with odin. would it be possible to flash clockwork with odin before i get root? will that mess anything up?

So I was at my girlfriends today and decided to give the super one click root another try... it worked.
I've had problems with the usb ports before but I forgot to consider it as an option
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No Market

Just tried to flash a rom and the phone rebooted and when it came back I have no market at all. I press on the market icon and I get a note saying to send a message and report it. I am freaking out.
Vinny

Did you flash a gapps (Google apps) package?
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Yeah, you need to flash a Google Apps zip. Roms don't come with them, or well, some do, but technically that isn't legal and Google doesn't like it.

did you do a nandroid?
And here, not sure how these work on a non cm7 rom, but you can give it a go.
http://goo-inside.me/google-apps/
The universal dpi for cm7 might work. You would probably need to wipe your phone
cm6 hdpi might be your best bet

I did a back up and my rom never flashed due to the new recovery I used on rom manager. My original rom (stock with root obviously) came back with al my google apps but the market. I DL the market thru my browser but my phone will not allow the download. Tried going into recovery but the new recovery I dl thru rom manager will not allow me to use my back up or the other roms I have on my sd card. When I go into recovery I get the triangle and the little guy, I hit the power button and volume up and go into this weird looking recovery that doesn't allow what I need.
Help me I'm screwed I think. I think the new recovery I dl screwed me all up.
Vinny

Put the old recovery on it then, and restore your nandroid.
If you ended up with stock, you may have lost your root. So root again and install the recovery that you made the nandroid with.

vinnyjr said:
I did a back up and my rom never flashed due to the new recovery I used on rom manager. My original rom (stock with root obviously) came back with al my google apps but the market. I DL the market thru my browser but my phone will not allow the download. Tried going into recovery but the new recovery I dl thru rom manager will not allow me to use my back up or the other roms I have on my sd card. When I go into recovery I get the triangle and the little guy, I hit the power button and volume up and go into this weird looking recovery that doesn't allow what I need.
Help me I'm screwed I think. I think the new recovery I dl screwed me all up.
Vinny
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I'm a bit confused.
It looks like you're using the stock recovery. Somehow you corrupted flashing a recovery.
You're far from screwed. If you can flash clockwork 3.0 from ROM manager. If that doesn't work, try this.
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/15/how-to-flash-a-new-recovery-image-if-you-are-already-rooted/
I would advise using clockwork, as it has tight integration with ROM manager. Here's the download for that.
http://mirror1.kanged.net/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-2.5.1.4-passion.img
IF you lost root, you're going to have to go through a lengthy process. Let me know if you need help.

Noob haha

So Im a complete noob...I did the easy 123 root...Now Im wanting to backup my phone somehow incase I mess up,and then I need a new ROM right? which rom do u recommend,i just want a faster snappier feel without all the bloatware. Im not sure how to backup either,if anyone can give me a simple walkthrough that would be cool,thanks alot!!! sorry for the noobish questions.

well got to fission rom manager point,it restarts and just boots as normal,doesnt install the rom like it should...any ideas?

bump anyone?

Seems like ANY rom I load with clockwork/fission etc wont load,it restarts to black screen for a second and loads the factory rom as if nothing happened.

Strange, backup using clockwork then SBF back to stock (just google this for instructions)
re-root and try again.
Did you wipe both caches before flashing the new rom?

you dont use rom manager to install roms on the d2, you use the droid 2 bootstrapper to get into CWM and install from there.