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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.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

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.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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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] What to do after rooting?

I perma-rooted my T-Mobile G2, but now I'm lost.
Since I can't flash official ROMs, what can I do to update OS? Are there any options besides CM7? If I switch to CM7, does it mean I lose all my previous installations? And does it mean I'm stuck with CM forever? When do you expect official version of CM7 to be released?
Thank you in advance.

You can flash any ROM you want. There are many good solid ones in the Development forum here and other android forums of course.
If you're looking to back up your apps before you install a ROM (because you must wipe all data when installing new ROMs) I'd advise you download an app called Titanium Backup. I use it regularly when switching ROMs and it really is necessary. This can back up all apps, app data, and even system data if you want. You can then restore after flashing your new ROM.
CM7 is at RC-1 (Release Candidate) which means that it has been declared stable enough with few enough bugs for the general public. I've personally been running nightlies for a few weeks now with no issues, and the RC-1 seems to be similar. There really is no date for when it will become an official release, but if you're up for waiting that's totally understandable.
If you don't wanna go with the CM7 RC route, you can always go to one of the other Sense-based ROMs, or even CM6 which has been extremely stable for a long time now. You can always just check out one of the stock 2.2 roms as well, they're often optimized with no bloatware and often run quicker than the stock ROM with perm root you have now.
Changing ROMs is easy, and just because you decide one doesn't mean you can't switch to another. Just use the app "ROM manager" to backup, wipe, and install different ROMs as you see fit.
Basically which ROM you choose is up to you. Just look through the dev forum and check out the offerings, read then ask questions and try them out. I definitely recommend reading some of the stickies about backing up/flashing/etc. before you get going.
Kinda hard for me to give more info because it seems like you're pretty new. I'd just advise that you read up on everything and always do backups before you flash any ROM or update in order to restore if you run into issues.

tulgaa said:
I perma-rooted my T-Mobile G2, but now I'm lost.
Since I can't flash official ROMs, what can I do to update OS? Are there any options besides CM7? If I switch to CM7, does it mean I lose all my previous installations? And does it mean I'm stuck with CM forever? When do you expect official version of CM7 to be released?
Thank you in advance.
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1. Download and install ROM Manager and within ROM Manager flash ClockworkMod Recovery. This will allow you to create and restore complete backups of your phone. This should be the first thing you do. Second, create a backup (a Nandroid). It will be almost impossible to screw things up permanently with ClockworkMod Recovery installed and a backup on your sd card.
2. After you have a backup created, you can start trying different ROMs and if you don't like it, just try another one or restore your backup. You can even have multiple backups of different ROMs and switch back and forth if you want.
3. You are going to see a lot of references to gapps, which is short for Google Apps. Many ROMs come pre-loaded with gapps - Cyanogen was stopped by Google from incorporating them into his ROM's so the package is made available to flash immediately after you flash a CM ROM. Once you log in to Google with your account (use the same one every time) all your market apps will start downloading from the market automatically - that is all the apps that you had actively installed before you switched ROMs. Your phone will be sluggish at first while it updates all your market apps. To backup apps that you've installed from your sd card, download Titanium backup.
4. Now that you're rooted you aren't stuck with anything. Your options are wide open. Just look over the XDA site. It'll be obvious how much you can do with your phone now.
I'm on CM7 now and its very stable. Download build #41 - 42 should be out by the morning. If you decide to go with that, you won't believe how much more your phone has to offer than the stock ROM. I don't believe you'll ever want to go back to stock again, but if you do there's information here in the forums to do that including unrooting your phone.

I agree with this, read about the different roms in the G2 Development Section especially.
It's a bit confusing with all the roms, but as long as you backup your rooted setup now, you should be free and fine to try several different ones. (See step 1 about by EdKeys).
I recommend purchasing Titanium Backup...it will allow you to reinstall all your apps relatively quickly and keep all saves/settings.
Try out a sense rom (for example Virtuous) as well as CM7. I tried out sense before, but it makes the phone feel slow despite being very cool. When I first rooted my G2 I went straight for Cyanogenmod 6.1.1, as it was the stable version. Cyanogenmod 7 RC1 is way better.
Good luck and I hope you find something you like!

I highly recommend Virtuous.
Also, this isn't stated anywhere normally, so I'll share with you: I absolutely suggest using ROM Manager for most everything - it's a GUI for Clockworkmod, basically, and makes things a bit easier.
HOWEVER
The only ROMs you'll find in ROM Manager are ones that the developer has submitted. Not all devs care that much, so you'll find a TON more ROMs to try in the Development subforum. To flash one of those, simply download the .zip file of the ROM to your memory card (it doesn't matter where, you could put it on the root or you could create a 'romstotry' folder if you wanted).
Once you have the zip file on your memory card, open ROM Manager, choose 'Install Zip from SDcard' and show ROM Manager which zip file you want to use. IT'll then pop up and ask if you want to wipe, and if you want to backup your current ROM.
If you're switching between two different ROMs, you *always* want to wipe. Always. If you're simply installing a new version of the ROM you currently have installed, you don't *need* to wipe (unless the dev specifically says that you need to, so read the changelogs), but it's a good idea to do so anyways. You'll have a bit more setup to do, but wiping will prevent most problems that people seem to have.
hope that helps.

Thank you very much all. I installed CM 7 RC1 and it works great. I will try other ROMs when I get familiar with CM.

tulgaa said:
I perma-rooted my T-Mobile G2, but now I'm lost.
Since I can't flash official ROMs, what can I do to update OS? Are there any options besides CM7? If I switch to CM7, does it mean I lose all my previous installations? And does it mean I'm stuck with CM forever? When do you expect official version of CM7 to be released?
Thank you in advance.
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Hi - the first thing I did after perma-root was change the boot animation for my G2 - you can do it by hand, or you can use an application located in market - just search for 'boot animation.'
After that's it's straight to the custom ROMs - I'm using Sense Virtuous 1.0.0 and loving it.

MIUI on my DX - And my DX experience so far.

Hey guys, I just wanted to share my experience so far. I can't post on the MIUI page because I don't have enough posts, so I'll share here for anyone interested.
For anyone wanting to try MIUI for the DX, here's my experience, some tips, and suggestions.
-Beware, installing or trying to install ANY ROM may brick your phone. although it's very rare and unlikely to be unable to find a solution to problems, it can and has happened. so take caution and read instructions and so-forth carefully.
Some history of my DX. I soft-bricked my phone back in the early months of the DX trying to deodex it to install themes. It was stuck on M logo for 2 days before i learned enough from scratch to find out what an SBF was, where to find it, and how to flash my phone back to stock. Ever since then these nice folk on XDA-developers forums and other droid forums have helped me successfully mod my phone many times, through Q&A, detailed instructions, and a little luck.
I've rooted my phone using the command method, Z4Root, and several other processes. Some were hard to figure out, some soft-bricked my phone, most were easy as pie. I'm on a Z4Root atm.
The first successful ROM I installed was GUMMY-JAR. I liked it, it was good to me. nothing like the comprehensive ROMs out now though.
Then I jumped to Liberty 1.5, Liberty x.x etc... Liberty was awesome, but was still basically Froyo with advanced options. I loved it.
Now, just today, I've installed MIUI. And let me tell you, its amazing!
For anyone running Froyo Liberty ROMs, I believe that you can install MIUI right over the top. I didn't think it was going to work, as I hadn't seen anyone mention if it did or not over the top of Liberty 1.5.
If you want to install MIUI, go here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1181486
You MUST be rooted, and be running FROYO, NOT GB! You must also have the Droid X bootstrapper.
I won't give instructions, as I'm not qualified to do so. But I can tell you what I did from Liberty 1.5. MAKE SURE TO MAKE A BACKUP FIRST! 1) I downloaded the MIUI ROM from the above XDA post to my SD card on my phone. 2) I clicked 'bootstrap recovery' on the DX bootstrapper app, then 'reboot recovery.' My phone booted into clockwork recovery mode. 3) wiped data/factory reset. 4) cleared cache. 5) install from SD Card. 6) install MIUI.zip i downloaded from the link i posted above. let it run it's course. rebooted. DONE.
It's really that easy if you are running the DX stock Froyo kernal.
Keep in mind with MIUI, it does NOT auto-sync your Google account. you need to go into the options>>accounts/sync and add your Google account. You can then re-install apps from your backup or just re-download them. Make sure you've synced your contacts with your Google account so they will be there when you add your Google account.
Some thoughts on MIUI...
There is NO STOCK APP DRAWER. I recommend ADW launcher or Launcher PRO. The MIUI launcher inst bad, but it's like iOS in that there's no app drawer. It's just a bunch of screens with all your app icons like an iPhone.
You can download theme's and customize themes through settings>>personal>>theme manager. MIUI allows you to change fonts, boot animation, boot audio, lock-screen style, status bar, icons, launcher, wallpapers, text style, dialer style etc. There's tons of pre-made packages, but you can also change them all individually and create one you like best. You can do all of this directly from the settings menu including looking up new themes, downloading them, and applying them.
MIUI is running on 2.3.4 GB. So it wont say 2.2 anymore after you install. (I believe the kernal is still Froyo though? Please correct me if I am wrong)
I really hope this helps some of you newbies. I am thankful for all of you that have made posts like this that I have found useful in the past.
Note- some people are having issues installing MIUI. They are getting bootlooped on the M logo for some reason. I have no idea why this is, it worked perfectly for me first try. Just remember to follow the instructions on the ROM page, and that you are running the correct version of Android. You shouldn't get a boot-loop if you do so.
Hope this helps!

i have a question.... and this question is what will decide if i keep this or go back to liberty gingerbread....
how the hell do i flash anything.. i can't even install clockwork mod without getting bootloops.... and i'd love to flash certain apps onto this.... but if this can not be done i will have to go back.... the only thing going into recovery does is use the retarded original recovery... and that is a big deal.. if i ruin my phone on the go and need to pullup a backup i can not do this with this rom and i will end up phoneless until i can get to a computer to sbf

nosboost300 said:
i have a question.... and this question is what will decide if i keep this or go back to liberty gingerbread....
how the hell do i flash anything.. i can't even install clockwork mod without getting bootloops.... and i'd love to flash certain apps onto this.... but if this can not be done i will have to go back.... the only thing going into recovery does is use the retarded original recovery... and that is a big deal.. if i ruin my phone on the go and need to pullup a backup i can not do this with this rom and i will end up phoneless until i can get to a computer to sbf
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What exactly are you asking? "Flashing" is the process of basically overwriting your current Android OS with an Android OS SBF. If you are trying to install MIUI, you cannot do it with Gingerbread installed on your phone. "You MUST be on CyanogenMod 7 or .340 Froyo to flash this rom!" (MIUI)
If you want to install MIUI, i think the best bet would be SBF flashing to stock DX 2.2 .340 FROYO, re-rooting, then using the DX boot-strapper to boot into recovery. Then installing the MIUI .zip from SDcard in the recovery menu. Everything should work fine after that. Rmember you CANNOT go into recovery using DX boot-strapper once this ROM is installed. you CAN go into recovery with this ROM using ROM-manager. This is what I have experienced so far, and what others have said also.

no.. i already have the rom installed... i just want to be able to go into recovery without needing to be booted up.
i'm trying to install some zips through clockwork such as the old blur camera and a few other things... i will install rom manager and see how it goes from there... i love the UI of this rom but as far as being comfortable and stable.. liberty gingerbread has my vote as of now
i've cleared my cache and data several times and i get force closes alot. and this is a clean install coming straight after an SBF.
with liberty gingerbread i had the ability to set it so every phone reboot, even if a battery pull, would boot directly into clockwork mod.. making it easy for me in case i installed a zip that would get me into bootloop

Hmm, sorry mate, I dunno what to tell ya. Try looking aroudn forums or startign a new thread. someone more knowledgable than you or me will help you out.

thanks for everything though!! this really is a beautiful rom and i'd love to stick with it... i'll bite the bullet for the meantime and post around to get some help... i'd love to post in the developer section but i don't have enough posts yet.. haha

nosboost300 said:
no.. i already have the rom installed... i just want to be able to go into recovery without needing to be booted up.
i'm trying to install some zips through clockwork such as the old blur camera and a few other things... i will install rom manager and see how it goes from there... i love the UI of this rom but as far as being comfortable and stable.. liberty gingerbread has my vote as of now
i've cleared my cache and data several times and i get force closes alot. and this is a clean install coming straight after an SBF.
with liberty gingerbread i had the ability to set it so every phone reboot, even if a battery pull, would boot directly into clockwork mod.. making it easy for me in case i installed a zip that would get me into bootloop
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You need to install Rom Manager, and select flash Clockwork Recovery. Make sure you select Droid X (2nd Init). Then you can reboot into recovery with Rom Manager :-D

laxattack said:
You need to install Rom Manager, and select flash Clockwork Recovery. Make sure you select Droid X (2nd Init). Then you can reboot into recovery with Rom Manager :-D
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but the problem is that i would like to be able to go into recovery without having to do it through an app... i'd like to make it so every reboot (including battery pull) makes it boot into recovery. thats how i had liberty gingerbread doing it... if not.. i can live with it.. i'll just be a little more careful on what i'm installing

Just wanted to chime in about MIUI rom, I just flashed it yesterday and am ABSOLUTELY loving it thus far. I had no trouble at all installing the rom what-so-ever. I used ROM Manager to do the whole thing: downloaded newest ver. of MIUI, backup current ROM, wipe data and dalvik. Let it run its course and it rebooted and was up and running in no time flat!

[Q] ROM Manager vs Acer Recovery Installer

So I am getting a A500 soon and been looking into rooting/flashing. I am a complete noob but from what I can tell the device will come with 3.0 which means it will be rootable via gingerbreak apk.
after that, the guides say I will need to flash cwm recovery. most of the guides say to install acer recovery from the marketplace, however there also seems to be ROM Manager which is very popular but I could not find any info if it works with A500.
So which one should I be using? It seems ROM manager comes with an updated version of CWM compared to Acer Recovery Installer. Will ROM manager work with the A500?

no
you can not use rom manager..
the acer recovery installer is used to install . thors .Recovery.. its a custom version of CWM. c. its designed for the a500 ONLY.. and its the ONLY one you can use on our device to date..
also after you get the acer recovery installer installed go to tegraowners.com yo get the latest version . i think 1.6.2 of the cwm recovery. you can flash it by putting it on your sd card and use acer recovery installer...
PLEASE THANK BOTH DEVELOPERS AND PAY PAL THEM.. Without them we would all be boring and stuck on stock. PEOPLE ARE TO Colorful and different to be forced to be all alike
If you are android 3.2 or above os . you will need to look at the downgrade to update to 3.2 and above or fallow the post by Timmy Dean. with his back door exploit . this is all due to the encrypted boot loader
Good Luck and fallow all instructions . you will be no longer a virgin soon.. Giggles

Listen to Erica. DO NOT USE Rom Manager. Just because somebody has a newer recovery, does not mean it is meant for your device They are all different.
But,,,, if you want to listen to what the phone guys say, by all means,,, use it. See what happens If you haven't noticed, that thing sitting on the table, is a lot bigger than a phone. And, it has a different operating system on it.
Run the acer recovery, like she said. THen flash thors recovery. You can always go to his site later, and upgrade it. Takes 5 minutes.
Don't wanna sound rough, but trying to keep you from bricking your tab.

Moscow Desire said:
Listen to Erica. DO NOT USE Rom Manager. Just because somebody has a newer recovery, does not mean it is meant for your device They are all different.
But,,,, if you want to listen to what the phone guys say, by all means,,, use it. See what happens If you haven't noticed, that thing sitting on the table, is a lot bigger than a phone. And, it has a different operating system on it.
Run the acer recovery, like she said. THen flash thors recovery. You can always go to his site later, and upgrade it. Takes 5 minutes.
Don't wanna sound rough, but trying to keep you from bricking your tab.
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where can we pick up acer recovery & thors recovery? I am familiar with GB and previous. My a500 was rooted before the camera screen magically cracked and when I got it back from Acer they had of course wiped it and updated it to 3.2 so I was unable to use gingerbreak anymore. Since then it has run horribly. It was slow stock before I rooted it the first time but now it has become almost unbearable. I just finished rooting and need to figure out whether I am going to get acer recovery off the market (is that where or is it in the threads here along with thors recovery??)
Thanks in advance

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where can we pick up acer recovery & thors recovery? I am familiar with GB and previous. My a500 was rooted before the camera screen magically cracked and when I got it back from Acer they had of course wiped it and updated it to 3.2 so I was unable to use gingerbreak anymore. Since then it has run horribly. It was slow stock before I rooted it the first time but now it has become almost unbearable. I just finished rooting and need to figure out whether I am going to get acer recovery off the market (is that where or is it in the threads here along with thors recovery??)
Thanks in advance
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Acer recovery is available in the market. The supplied recover image is ok for flashing roms. so don't worry.
But, if you want his newest recovery (after installing from acer recovery), then aftwerwards, go to tegraowners and get his newest recovery. Just copy the zip to sd, and flash. No wipes needed.

Moscow Desire said:
Acer recovery is available in the market. The supplied recover image is ok for flashing roms. so don't worry.
But, if you want his newest recovery (after installing from acer recovery), then aftwerwards, go to tegraowners and get his newest recovery. Just copy the zip to sd, and flash. No wipes needed.
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I got it installed just now (acer recover) and chose thor's cwr as the boot image. Where do I find *tegraowners*? is it a site? is it a link in the app? on the market?
Thanks!! Trying to figure out which rom to flash now..suggestions?
*Update* - Flashed Taboonay. Still very open to suggestions since this is the actual first time I've been able to flash a rom to my tablet. Been able to do it to a lot of SGS1's (mesmerize, vibrant, captivate & SGSII Att variant) but always had trouble with the acer. Since I got it back from acer for broken camera lens it was stock and was to the point it was unbearably slow. Given I had a lot of crap apps on there but still my captivate before it died ran faster than the acer. I'm just looking for a bloatware free rom that's fast, silky smooth. I don't need a bunch of add on animations and crap. I just want it to work & work well ...
Thoughts & ideas appreciated.

. I'm just looking for a bloatware free rom that's fast, silky smooth. I don't need a bunch of add on animations and crap. I just want it to work & work well ...
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Any of the Near stock rooted roms.. is always the best bet for reliability and comparability. With that said i think Thors rom is the fastest. I use the honeylicious icy rom with some personal touches that suit me..
i would say most important thing is.. I see you kinda unclear on the whole rom/flashing procedures.. With that i suggest to go in the dev forums and read threads to post about flashing roms and rom versions.. Nobody can tell you whats right for you..
Good luck and HAPPY SAFE FLASHING...

erica_renee said:
. I'm just looking for a bloatware free rom that's fast, silky smooth. I don't need a bunch of add on animations and crap. I just want it to work & work well ...
Thoughts & ideas appreciated.
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Any of the Near stock rooted roms.. is always the best bet for reliability and comparability. With that said i think Thors rom is the fastest. I use the honeylicious icy rom with some personal touches that suit me..
i would say most important thing is.. I see you kinda unclear on the whole rom/flashing procedures.. With that i suggest to go in the dev forums and read threads to post about flashing roms and rom versions.. Nobody can tell you whats right for you..
Good luck and HAPPY SAFE FLASHING...[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the feedback Erica. I already did taboonay and see that it is not quite as smooth as I'd like. I don't know why my tab seems to be slightly sluggish or jittery but it is. I'm dl thors v14.2 atm and will give it a try. Now that I have cwr (or variation there of) installed doing any flashing should be a breeze.

Google date restore after flashing
LAGGY FEELING..
this is something i have had a issue with
after installing a new rom.. during the initial setup.. while setting up your google account you have two options one to turn on google backup.. one is to restore.. Turn this feature off if you do not care about your previous data that google collected.. Sometimes it will load crap back on your rom/device that caused the issues to begin with . it will even load some of the acer apps that the rom developer removed..
i dont use this service from google at all.. I take nanandroid backups with cwm . but for my apps and app data i use TI Backup.. thou its not the most user friendly experience . it required a bit of setup and expects the user to understand there terms.. they have a very good help files on there site if this helps you.. after i reflash a rom one click run of ti i can restore my tablet including all apps there data shortcuts on home screen with widgets and so on.. But im sorry that i cant help you set yours up i dont know enought to do so ..

erica_renee said:
LAGGY FEELING..
this is something i have had a issue with
after installing a new rom.. during the initial setup.. while setting up your google account you have two options one to turn on google backup.. one is to restore.. Turn this feature off if you do not care about your previous data that google collected.. Sometimes it will load crap back on your rom/device that caused the issues to begin with . it will even load some of the acer apps that the rom developer removed..
i dont use this service from google at all.. I take nanandroid backups with cwm . but for my apps and app data i use TI Backup.. thou its not the most user friendly experience . it required a bit of setup and expects the user to understand there terms.. they have a very good help files on there site if this helps you.. after i reflash a rom one click run of ti i can restore my tablet including all apps there data shortcuts on home screen with widgets and so on.. But im sorry that i cant help you set yours up i dont know enought to do so ..
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Have you heard of/tried Rom Toolbox?

Read the description of that app.
its based on the rom manager code. with some added tools it looks like...I DO NOT think its in any way compatible.
AGAIN . THE ONLY RECOVERY ROM MANAGEMENT FOR OUT Acer iconia a500 is .
Acer Recovery Installer.
Thors Recovery Partition..
of course as always adb. (don't ask ) developer.android.com i think is url
I use no add on tools or memory task managers android can do this well on its own..

lanisan said:
Have you heard of/tried Rom Toolbox?
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Rom toolbox, was not made for HC 3.2, It was made for gingerbread. 2.3
Some features work. Some, well,,,,,,,,,
Lag in the screen apps, it is HC 3.2 Can't fix it for now.
Well, it's not smooth as some "phones". It works, so until 4.0 releases, it's what we have.

Which is the best combination for Flashing MT4G?

I have look deeply in the forums and I still cant find the answer for this question, or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I have this MT4G already root, and I was planning on flashing it for better performance and battery life. I have seen Roms, Kernels and Radio flashing, but I haven't see a post where I can get like the right combination of those 3 and which one you have to flash first in order to have the 3 of those. If anyone know, please let me know with links, or with own experience.
And yes my friends, I'm new in this thing and I'm trying to learn everything thats has to do with androids.
I'm sorry if this thread has been post and any mod are free to delete it, I'm just looking forward to know every detail if possible.

Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.

Jack_R1 said:
Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
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this rom so far has the best combination, battery is awesome it is stable and fast, and there is weaks for you to chose from.Here's a link to the ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401556

ThaPirato said:
this rom so far has the best combination, battery is awesome it is stable and fast, and there is weaks for you to chose from.Here's a link to the ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401556
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Thanks! I will try it right now.

Crazy, as a smart phone newbie on my MT3G I read for days before flashing radio and I am a tech, can be confusing... but
1. Radio. I have stock Gingerbread radio. This will be good enough to flash a variety or ROMS, although there are newer versions. The 1st answer is correct to read about the radio - that is where you could brick you phone if you mess up. Read about good and bad EMMC
2. You need a Recovery. Clockworkmod is usually a starter and then 4EXT IMHO, both of which you can get from the market ... Once you have recovery, you can wipe cache data etc... flash and backup ROMS. A decent sized SD card is necessary for backups. My Sense backups are ~1 GB. Between backups and music etc... you will need a decent card.
3. You can flash a different kernel but mostly they are included in the ROMs, as stated. I find there are, in a way, 3 flavors of ROMs: Sense, MIUI, and CM. My favourites are all by the same developer - CM7.2 (current ROM), Darkside Sense 4.0, and MIUI but there are a lot of good ones out there and ICS is on the way.
Look at the Resource Bible for radio how tos, and that and the development section for a good idea of some of the best ROMs and experiment. I suggest backing your ROMs as you may want to go back to them later because you might find you did not get all you could out of the ROM just cuz you didn't know enough yet.
Summarizing: Once the radio is good, all the 'combination' stuff you asked about will fall in place. Just remember to read about radio and emmc first. If you get stuck hit me up and I will help you out. Don't flash radio until you know what you are doing.

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Don't touch the baseband (radio) until you read enough to understand what it is and what it does.
Flashing ROM includes a kernel.
Switching kernels on the same ROM is a matter of preference.
Switching ROMs is a matter of preference.
There is no "best". There are different things to suit different people.
Read more, until you understand, what a ROM is and what a kernel is. There is LOTS of info on the internet, and if you're new and trying to learn, you should know that your path doesn't lay through asking questions on the forum, but through reading what's been asked ages before you, because as a newcomer, you have no new questions to present and can safely assume that all you have to ask, has been answered 10000 times.
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I know there is no best combination, but what i know is other users with good experience that maybe will suit me, thats why I want recommendations from others experienced users

Homerbsharp said:
Crazy, as a smart phone newbie on my MT3G I read for days before flashing radio and I am a tech, can be confusing... but
1. Radio. I have stock Gingerbread radio. This will be good enough to flash a variety or ROMS, although there are newer versions. The 1st answer is correct to read about the radio - that is where you could brick you phone if you mess up. Read about good and bad EMMC
2. You need a Recovery. Clockworkmod is usually a starter and then 4EXT IMHO, both of which you can get from the market ... Once you have recovery, you can wipe cache data etc... flash and backup ROMS. A decent sized SD card is necessary for backups. My Sense backups are ~1 GB. Between backups and music etc... you will need a decent card.
3. You can flash a different kernel but mostly they are included in the ROMs, as stated. I find there are, in a way, 3 flavors of ROMs: Sense, MIUI, and CM. My favourites are all by the same developer - CM7.2 (current ROM), Darkside Sense 4.0, and MIUI but there are a lot of good ones out there and ICS is on the way.
Look at the Resource Bible for radio how tos, and that and the development section for a good idea of some of the best ROMs and experiment. I suggest backing your ROMs as you may want to go back to them later because you might find you did not get all you could out of the ROM just cuz you didn't know enough yet.
Summarizing: Once the radio is good, all the 'combination' stuff you asked about will fall in place. Just remember to read about radio and emmc first. If you get stuck hit me up and I will help you out. Don't flash radio until you know what you are doing.
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This is what i was looking for.
I was reading the MT4G post for new ppl and already check my EMMc and its the good one. Already root my phone with the visionary app using a guide from here to do the PermaRoot. I already read already a little about MIUI and Radio ( of course i need to read more ) I know there is an app called Titanium that is good for backup, read about Rom manager and what it does. But believe me, I will keep reading like a maniac lol
Btw, this is what my phone have right now:
Ver. 2.2.1
Baseband ver. ( Radio if Im not mistaken )
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26M
Kernel
2.6.32.21

Songo07 said:
This is what i was looking for.
I was reading the MT4G post for new ppl and already check my EMMc and its the good one. Already root my phone with the visionary app using a guide from here to do the PermaRoot. I already read already a little about MIUI and Radio ( of course i need to read more ) I know there is an app called Titanium that is good for backup, read about Rom manager and what it does. But believe me, I will keep reading like a maniac lol
Btw, this is what my phone have right now:
Ver. 2.2.1
Baseband ver. ( Radio if Im not mistaken )
12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26M
Kernel
2.6.32.21
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Excellent, finding you have the good EMMc is nice thing.
You have froyo radio, allowed you to root, so you just have to flash more recent radio and you are good to go.
Couple of other things:
1. Especially for radio but for all downloads use an md5 checker; I am using SnapMD5 on xp - free, seems to work well. There are also other programs and you can also do it in terminal mode or adb.
2. After radio, get clockworkmod and install recovery.
3. Download your ROM, put on SD card, then boot into recovery.
4. Backup ROM. Wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik when flashing ROMS, cache and dalvik for updates only.
5. Install from SD card - choose your ROM zip file ...
FYI, if you are not using pro version I find mybackup root to be better for mass restoring apps ... but I use Titanium as well.
One last thing that is your original request for what you want is battery life and performance IMHO = CM, my favorite being TDJs 7.2 however trust me and the others, you won't know what you want just yet ...

Homerbsharp said:
Excellent, finding you have the good EMMc is nice thing.
You have froyo radio, allowed you to root, so you just have to flash more recent radio and you are good to go.
Couple of other things:
1. Especially for radio but for all downloads use an md5 checker; I am using SnapMD5 on xp - free, seems to work well. There are also other programs and you can also do it in terminal mode or adb.
2. After radio, get clockworkmod and install recovery.
3. Download your ROM, put on SD card, then boot into recovery.
4. Backup ROM. Wipe data/factory reset, cache and dalvik when flashing ROMS, cache and dalvik for updates only.
5. Install from SD card - choose your ROM zip file ...
FYI, if you are not using pro version I find mybackup root to be better for mass restoring apps ... but I use Titanium as well.
One last thing that is your original request for what you want is battery life and performance IMHO = CM, my favorite being TDJs 7.2 however trust me and the others, you won't know what you want just yet ...
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Got it.
I already update my Radio to 26.08.04.30 gingerbread, haven't seen a big change ( maybe because im from PR ) lol and i have the stock one in case I start having problems with that one.
On my way now to do the clockworkmode to get the recovery so i can move one to the ROMS.

Songo07 said:
Got it.
I already update my Radio to 26.08.04.30 gingerbread, haven't seen a big change ( maybe because im from PR ) lol and i have the stock one in case I start having problems with that one.
On my way now to do the clockworkmode to get the recovery so i can move one to the ROMS.
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After you use clockwork download 4EXT, it is awesome and now has 'touchcovery' which is so, so slick - it has a 'wipe all except for sd card' which is really good for changing ROMs.
Not sure if you have your card partitioned with 4EXT but you might want to go that way at some point. You can do it from within recovery but note when partitioning and formatting cards you can wipe your data so best to just pull everything to your PC first - e.g. if you have some pics and music on your card.
You are about to have a lot of fun!

Homerbsharp said:
After you use clockwork download 4EXT, it is awesome and now has 'touchcovery' which is so, so slick - it has a 'wipe all except for sd card' which is really good for changing ROMs.
Not sure if you have your card partitioned with 4EXT but you might want to go that way at some point. You can do it from within recovery but note when partitioning and formatting cards you can wipe your data so best to just pull everything to your PC first - e.g. if you have some pics and music on your card.
You are about to have a lot of fun!
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Already bought Rom Manager Pro ( yes...i know lol there are maybe other free apps ), since I had problems doing the CWM with terminal and ADB. I did the backup of my rom and system files. The only thing that is left is to download the ROM and wipe everything and im done. I was reading about 4EXT and was about to download it to install it and give it a try. So far, everything good with the radio. Btw, can you wipe other things from 4EXT apart from the sd?

For wiping:
Wipe data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache when doing a new rom. If you are at 100% batter you may want to wipe battery stats - optional.
A lot of people have strange issues because they don't do a good wipe and just do cache and dalvik. I have found that only appropriate if going between minor version differences.
You don't wipe the SD card FAT partition. This is also why I like the 4EXT option to wipe everything except for SD.

Homerbsharp said:
For wiping:
Wipe data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache when doing a new rom. If you are at 100% batter you may want to wipe battery stats - optional.
A lot of people have strange issues because they don't do a good wipe and just do cache and dalvik. I have found that only appropriate if going between minor version differences.
You don't wipe the SD card FAT partition. This is also why I like the 4EXT option to wipe everything except for SD.
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I havent try it yet but I already download it and installed. I was planning on do a complete whipe to the phone anyways lol. Whats the point on erasing battery stats? Oh and im downloading 3 different roms. I will.get back.with the names.later but.one of them is CM7

Btw, I wanted.to.know if im doing something wrong using terminal.or ADB since on ADB I was trying to push some files to the sdcard but said something about permision denied.

If you still out there, i finally finish everything. I'm running Virtuous Affinity 1.48 at 1.3ghz ( will test later at 1.5 ) with the gingerbread radio and so far is running smooth and awesome. Already install Rom manager pro, 4EXT and some other cool apps that the Rom already had. And i can say it was thanks to you and the bible lol

Oh and btw, now I'm gonna read about the galaxy S since my wife have one, Im gonna try with that one too hahaha

depends on preference
if you prefer sense over stock vanialla android, i would suggest one of the many sense 3.5 roms on the forum. They have been optimized amazingly to work wihtout lag on the mt4g. I'm running Darkside 4 and have been satisfied with the indcluded kernel. As for radio, don't touch it unless you see that someone else has had success.

battery life
I kno I'm a nood but for me I've keep my WiFi and data shut off . I was on unity but went to coredroid what a sick Rom .