On my AT&T Tilt, once you had installed HARDSPL, you could simply run RUU's which were packaged simply as EXE files on your PC and boom ... new ROM.
For those of us who have rooted and run unrEVOked(2) to get us the custom recovery, can someone please explain generally how a new ROM would get flashed.
<edit> tcberg2010 posted a wonderful analysis in a thread with a heading which will guarantee no one reads it... this is what tcberg2010 said:
Download one of the roms from here. http://inc.sodpit.com/. They are mostly stable might get a few random reboots.
Steps:
1. Download Rom of your choice, unrevolved and JagerRomSense are the 2 newest right now.
2. Copy and Paste onto sdcard. Make sure it is not in any directory's of SD card, just on the sdcard.
3. Verify it's there using Astro or some other File Manager.
4. Run Titanium Backup 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.
b. let it run, this will take some time.
5. When that's done use Rom Manager to reboot into recovery.
6. Do "Wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition"
7. Select install zip from sdcard, choose zip from sdcard, then select whatever rom you downloaded.
8. When that's done reboot your phone, once your done setting up, download titanium backup, set that up.
9. 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!!
Wipe, Put rom on the root on your sdcard, then re-name the rom update.zip or leave it, go into recovery, flash update.zip, reboot. Very simple.
All you need to do to flash a custom ROM is:
1. You CAN use ROM Manager to flash one by going to Install ROM through SD Card.
2. You can place the .zip file onto your SD Card (it can be named anything) and then go to Install .Zip from SD Card in the Custom Recovery and select Choose File. This will allow you to browse through the files and select the one you want.
Hope this helps.
its easy... Wipe data....then put on SD card search for it with rom manager or with the custom recovery .. and installl its easier than u think i did for the first time ever yesterday no problem
So far I have used update.zip files from the sd card... you can either flash this from Rom Manager or use Clockwork Recovery to flash update from sd card.
In clockwork you select install from sd card- then navigate to where the update is saved on the card and select the .zip you want to install.
In Rom Manager just select the option "Install ROM from SD card" - all you do is direct the app to the .zip you want to install and it takes off from there.
Just remember to backup first.
eezy peezy...
New ROMs stick- updating recovery does not...
Before we change roms and wipe is there a way to backup text messages and restore them after the new rom is installed.
j1000 said:
Before we change roms and wipe is there a way to backup text messages and restore them after the new rom is installed.
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h t t p ://w w w.appbrain.com/app/com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
SMS Backup and Restore
Works great and fast
sms backup in the market
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I thought it was a super bad idea to try to restore data, am I in error?
I thought one would either use MYBACKUPPRO or TITANIUMBACKUP to take only APPS + App Data; but NOT to backup data itself to be restored on a different rom.
All SMS Backup restores is your txt messages, used it on my wives phone and had no adverse affects. I see everyone say flash update.zip, you may already know this, but the recovery that we use does not require us to change to name to update.zip, you can flash any zip, just know what the name is and flash it.
After renaming backup files with rom manager none of those files I can use
to go to that backup up, not using spaces. Anybody has this problem or
I am doing something wrong.
dito33
A little more info on this, backup is starting and restoring but cant boot after is done, at the end says something ext sd cant be found. I am able to install any rom with no problem but not the back up cuz I renamed it.
dito33
Well clockwork names like this "2010-11-19.22.36.00" that's the name of one of my backups... try renaming to that maby... but I'm not sure how rom manager does it. When I had a nexus one I had same problem when renaming nad backups in its rom manager.
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I guess my problem is escalating I tried reg back up that just made and wiped and went back to restore and wont restore of the original backup (not renamed).
Why the backup don't work anyone please make suggestion. Is that upgrade zip file root file in sd causes any problem.
To be more clear restore is doing its job until at the end says finished but the very last line sd ext image something can't be found.
dito33
dito33 said:
I guess my problem is escalating I tried reg back up that just made and wiped and went back to restore and wont restore of the original backup (not renamed).
Why the backup don't work anyone please make suggestion. Is that upgrade zip file root file in sd causes any problem.
To be more clear restore is doing its job until at the end says finished but the very last line sd ext image something can't be found.
dito33
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I'm pretty sure sd ext is for apps to sd, hope this helps.
Hi every
I used recovery to backup my rom and after I tried another roms I decided to come back the previous one.so I copied the backup folder including all files to Sd-Card and used "restore and backup option" in recovery(CLK),but it seems it cant find any file to restore.
what should I do?
did you move the files fromthe sd card to your computer and back again? did you rename any of the folders?
remembering too taht cwm looks in 'clockwork/backup' not just backup.
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did you move the files fromthe sd card to your computer and back again? did you rename any of the folders?
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of course I moved back to sd card.all files are in one folder.the name is the date and time that I made backup.I think when I copied it to sd-card renamed it to "backup".does it matter?
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remembering too taht cwm looks in 'clockwork/backup' not just backup.
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I didn't get what you are saying.I went to CWR and advanced\restore and backup
Cwr looks in the folder "sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-11-21.23.27.32/" (example date from my backup folder) so it sounds like you aren't copying the backup to the correct place.
When i realized that Rom Manager was not fully functional on our phones I was pissed. One of the reasons is that at first i couldn't get my phone to do a quick backup and restore with cwm or cwm Manager so it seemed to take twice as long when the progress bars were showing during backups and restores. Anyways you dont need to keep rom manager installed to do this but you have to do it at first in order to get the files to enable the quick back up and restore feature.
1. Install Rom manager and enable "quick backup and restore" - this will create a folder and within the folder a number of files one of which is called "hidden progress". Rom manager most likely installed it on your internal sd card and if you do backups to your internal sd card and not your external then you dont need to do this next step of you dont want to, although it wouldn't hurt to do it anyways.
For quick backup and restores to external_sd
2. Copy the clockworkmod folder and its contents (if you already have backups and you dont want them on you internal than just create a new folder on your external_sd and name it clockworkmod. After that copy the hidden progress file over to the clockworkmod folder and thats it. whether you use CWM Manager or just boot into recovery and do it that way, you should always have the quick backup and restore feature back)
*There are a few other files in the clockworkmod folder than rom manager creates. I went ahead and just copied the whole folder including everything inside the folder and thats how i was able to finally get it working, but I think it is most likely just that one file that doe the fix.
Backup and Restores now take me 2-3 minutes as opposed to 5 mins and longer
If this has already been figured out and posted i apologize, i stumbled upon it while trying q b&r on my phone again. I searched and never found a solution.
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hello, I backed up my eclipse ROM to my external storage using safestrap, I did not choose the Compress into zip file option I didn't think it would make a difference. So I decided to delete the ROM and try reinstalling my my backup that I had just created. just in case I really need to do it. I did all the steps again, created slot 1 wipe data, (I compressed the zip in order to flash it) the name of my backup file is TWRP.but anyways when trying to flash it it immediately says Failure. any ideas? I have safestap 3.11 installed.
Never found, I got it lol