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Hey all!
I was thinking of rooting my eris, but after reading the forum some, I still have a couple questions about Eris rooting and rooting in general.
First off, if I use the one click root app, I will not have to install a new rom, correct? Also, how likely is it to brick my phone? If bricked, is there a method of restoring it?
Secondly, if I install the FroYo rom, would I be able to go back to the factory build of OTA 2.1? Or would I be stuck with custom roms then?
The only reason I am concerned with restoring the factory rom is that if something happens to the phone, I'd like my warranty to still be able to cover it (I'm 99% sure that they won't cover a rooted froyo thats overclocked).
Also, sorry if these have been asked before, I just wasn't able to find them on my own.
You need to ask these questions n the Q&A forum. This is a Dev forum and should only have questions relating to Roms and issues with custom roms.
Get ready for the dog pile.
Uh oh, my bad. I thought it was in the q&a...
Sorry guys, I'll see if I can delete it from the app and repost
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there are answers to ur questions all over these forums , ushouldnt have any troubles finding them
Phandroid is reporting the official G2 gingerbread ROM has been leaked, anyone been brave enough to try it out?
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Um it's in the development thread. Did you look?
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Been out yesterday posted by football and yes it gave my soft brick a revival!!
david279 said:
Um it's in the development thread. Did you look?
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Just saw that thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074852 ). I wasn't quite sure why a final T-mo rom would be in the development forum, seems a little counter intuitive? I guess the dev forum really means the rom forum. anyway, thanks guys.
izzelsizzel said:
Just saw that thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074852 ). I wasn't quite sure why a final T-mo rom would be in the development forum, seems a little counter intuitive? I guess the dev forum really means the rom forum. anyway, thanks guys.
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step back and think about it.....
wouldnt you want a rom dev to get their hands on it to work their magic?
izzelsizzel said:
guess the dev forum really means the rom forum. anyway, thanks guys.
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Its got a lot more than just ROMs, but also kernels, radios, guides, and other tools. Some stuff are custom or modded, some are stock tools that developers and others will find useful.
Please help -- how to flash this new stock gingerbread rom to a rooted g2
I have a rooted G2 running CM7, but the gps is totally dead. I'm too much of a noob to flash a new radio, which I think would do the trick. Flashing this stock gingerbread rom seems like the perfect solution because it includes an updated radio and i am just sure it will fix the gps problem.
I bought the phone rooted and I know how to flash new rooted roms through clockwork (so easy), but I have absolutely no idea how to flash a rom like this that updates everything.
I'm sure this question has been asked here before, but can someone just point me to a step-by-step instructions about how to flash this particular stock gingerbread rom to a g2 that is rooted and has clockwork installed?
Thanks~! This is my first post.
sship said:
I have a rooted G2 running CM7, but the gps is totally dead. I'm too much of a noob to flash a new radio, which I think would do the trick. Flashing this stock gingerbread rom seems like the perfect solution because it includes an updated radio and i am just sure it will fix the gps problem.
I bought the phone rooted and I know how to flash new rooted roms through clockwork (so easy), but I have absolutely no idea how to flash a rom like this that updates everything.
I'm sure this question has been asked here before, but can someone just point me to a step-by-step instructions about how to flash this particular stock gingerbread rom to a g2 that is rooted and has clockwork installed?
Thanks~! This is my first post.
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Flashing a radio is easy. Just follow the steps in the radio thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970809
I know the second method (fastboot and radio.img files) is supposed to be safer. But that looks like it might be over your head, and you need the Eng Hboot to do it.
Flashing a ROM is easy, too. Just move the file to your SD card, and flash from ROM Manager. You will see an option "Install ROM from SD Card". Browse to the file, and the rest is the same as if you downloaded the ROM using ROM Manager.
Thanks, but a few more questions . . .
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Flashing a ROM is easy, too. Just move the file to your SD card, and flash from ROM Manager. You will see an option "Install ROM from SD Card". Browse to the file, and the rest is the same as if you downloaded the ROM using ROM Manager.
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Thanks for the reply! I think you are underestimating how new I am to this, though. My question is really this: does it matter, when flashing the new gingerbread rom for g2 that just came out, that the rom is not just a rom, but also a radio and everything else? it is titled in the "PC10IMG" form, which seems to me, from reading other threads, to be a special thing.
[full title: PC10IMG_Vision_Gingerbread_S_TMOUS_2.13.531.8_Radio_12.52.60.25_26.08.04.30_M3_release_188635_signed]
also, would you recommend that i wipe stuff before flashing? when the person who flashed my phone with me last time did it, he wiped dalvik cache and two others (can't remember which, or where he found them in recovery), and user data as well. but if you go to do it within clockwork, it doesn't ask you to do that, does it? again, i'm sure there is a thread about this somewhere.
sorry sorry to be so new to this! and thanks a ton for the help.
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Thanks for the reply! I think you are underestimating how new I am to this, though. My question is really this: does it matter, when flashing the new gingerbread rom for g2 that just came out, that the rom is not just a rom, but also a radio and everything else? it is titled in the "PC10IMG" form, which seems to me, from reading other threads, to be a special thing.
[full title: PC10IMG_Vision_Gingerbread_S_TMOUS_2.13.531.8_Radio_12.52.60.25_26.08.04.30_M3_release_188635_signed]
also, would you recommend that i wipe stuff before flashing? when the person who flashed my phone with me last time did it, he wiped dalvik cache and two others (can't remember which, or where he found them in recovery), and user data as well. but if you go to do it within clockwork, it doesn't ask you to do that, does it? again, i'm sure there is a thread about this somewhere.
sorry sorry to be so new to this! and thanks a ton for the help.
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well, it's a bit complicate.
supposedly the rom will return your phone to a totally stock state, which will give you the new radio etc, but you will not have root - this was already confirmed. One other forum member mentioned that he flashed the rom and did not loose S-OFF, which is a controversy...
update: lol, dude having CM on your phone means you already have clockwork installed. you just need the /system part of the leak and it's available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074852
Really all he needs to do is run vision efs wipe. This been gone over a million times. CM + gps broke = needing efs wipe. No need to get into radios and all that just yet.
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you can solve your gps issues by following two basics:
1. match libs in /system/libs with your radio version,
2. wipe two partitions like it is explained here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1028405
You don't need the new rom, though - it still has the 2 muted seconds when receiving an incoming call - for me that is the no go.
sship said:
Thanks for the reply! I think you are underestimating how new I am to this, though. My question is really this: does it matter, when flashing the new gingerbread rom for g2 that just came out, that the rom is not just a rom, but also a radio and everything else? it is titled in the "PC10IMG" form, which seems to me, from reading other threads, to be a special thing.
[full title: PC10IMG_Vision_Gingerbread_S_TMOUS_2.13.531.8_Radio_12.52.60.25_26.08.04.30_M3_release_188635_signed]
also, would you recommend that i wipe stuff before flashing? when the person who flashed my phone with me last time did it, he wiped dalvik cache and two others (can't remember which, or where he found them in recovery), and user data as well. but if you go to do it within clockwork, it doesn't ask you to do that, does it? again, i'm sure there is a thread about this somewhere.
sorry sorry to be so new to this! and thanks a ton for the help.
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I thought you were talking about the version of the leak that is mentioned in the last post (#10) and also mentioned above in post #4, which is pre-rooted. Thats the one you want. Flash from ROM Manager.
If you are talking about flashing this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074391
This is the official ROM, and as stated in the previous post, you will lose root. So you probably want to avoid this.
PC10IMG.ZIP files are flashable from Hboot (CWM not required). But since you have Clockwork, I believe you can flash any ROM or patch, as long as its a ZIP file. Its safer to flash from CWM anyway, so avoid Hboot for flashing ROMs.
Not positive, but I think you can keep your data since you are going between similar ROMs (Gingerbread, non-Sense). Wiping dalvik and cache are advisable. Not doing so when switching ROMs can lead to random bugs, and there is no real reason to not wipe them. You can wipe dalvik and cache in recovery. If you want to wipe data, you can also do that in recovery, under "advanced". But you will lose all your user data.
If you flash from ROM Manager, it will ask if you want to wipe. But I've never been clear on what all exactly is wiped (dalvik, cache, data). It might be all 3 of those.
Sorry, I've just stated a bunch of things I'm not completely sure about. So hopefully somebody else can confirm these.
The good news is, do a backup of your current ROM in ROM Manager before you flash anything, and if you screw up anything, you can just go into recovery and load your backup.
please help -- do not want to brick
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well, it's a bit complicate.
supposedly the rom will return your phone to a totally stock state, which will give you the new radio etc, but you will not have root - this was already confirmed. One other forum member mentioned that he flashed the rom and did not loose S-OFF, which is a controversy...
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I actually would prefer this to flashing a version of this rom that someone else has extracted/altered, however little. My fear is two things:
1 -- Will it brick my phone to flash a PCIMG file? (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838484)
2 -- what do I have to do differently to flash a PCIMG file other than what I normally would do in clockwork to flash another rom (for example a CM rom)
THANKS!
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Really all he needs to do is run vision efs wipe. This been gone over a million times. CM + gps broke = needing efs wipe. No need to get into radios and all that just yet.
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I have tried that, to no avail. I see others who have tried that and failed, and things seem to get tricky after that. I agree, I would rather avoid the nitty gritty stuff.
So I am devastated to see that there is no lock animation =(. That was something I was really looking forward to, despite the insignificance.
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sship said:
I actually would prefer this to flashing a version of this rom that someone else has extracted/altered, however little. My fear is two things:
1 -- Will it brick my phone to flash a PCIMG file? (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838484)
2 -- what do I have to do differently to flash a PCIMG file other than what I normally would do in clockwork to flash another rom (for example a CM rom)
THANKS!
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My opinion, you're better off flashing the rooted ROM. If you flash the official PC10IMG.ZIP, you will lose root, and not be able to get it back without downgrading (negating the purpose of flashing the official ROM in the first place).
Are you worried about malicious, or accidentally harmful modifications to the ROM (in the rooted version of the leak)? I don't worry much about ROMs for reputable developers. But admittedly, I don't know anything about that user that posted the rooted version of the leak.
In response to your questions:
1) As the thread you posted indicates, its safer not to flash those files unless you know exactly what you are doing.
2) I think you can flash from Clockwork. But as I said, if you aren't sure what you are doing, its not a good idea. You will lose root, and I think some people have also gotten S-On by flashing the official ROMs also. I which case, you may be pretty screwed (as far as getting root), since you can't flash other ROMs with S-On.
Alright so I've reading through all sorts of different forums and feel lost and exactly what to do. I downloaded the official 2.3 update ROM for the G2 that Football had released off of a mirrored site from my phone's browser then renamed it PC10IMG and moved to the root of the SD card. I then did the whole volume down + power button to load the zip but for some reason it says:
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.82.0000
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Sep 2 2010,17:59:38
SD checking...
Loading...[PC10DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PC10DIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading...[PC10IMG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PC10IMG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
I have no idea what to do or anything so help would be much appreciated. Now I would post this in that forum but because I just recently joined this site it will not allow me to do so. So, yea. Thanks.
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Alright so I've reading through all sorts of different forums and feel lost and exactly what to do. I downloaded the official 2.3 update ROM for the G2 that Football had released off of a mirrored site from my phone's browser then renamed it PC10IMG and moved to the root of the SD card. I then did the whole volume down + power button to load the zip but for some reason it says:
VISION PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.82.0000
MICROP-0425
RADIO-26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Sep 2 2010,17:59:38
SD checking...
Loading...[PC10DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PC10DIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading...[PC10IMG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PC10IMG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
I have no idea what to do or anything so help would be much appreciated. Now I would post this in that forum but because I just recently joined this site it will not allow me to do so. So, yea. Thanks.
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Make sure it is named PC10IMG.zip and not PC10IMG.zip.zip
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So I checked it out and it's named PC10IMG.zip so I don't know what could be wrong. I find it weird that I'm the only one having this problem.
Hi All
Wonder if anyone can help here, I have ran some search on the forum as well as many others but unable to find a define answer to this so hopefully you guys can help me. A beginners guide would be helpful.
My dell streak is currently rooted and running on DJ Steve's Rom streakdroid 1.9.0, how ever I would like to restore my streak back to factory rom as I am selling it. My Dell streak is a O2 streak baseband is gausb1a131921-eu.
Can some one kindly advise what I need to do to unroot and restore it back to factory settings?
Any help would be appreciated.
Before the thread gets moved because it's in the wrong place...
Radimus’s Universal Guide to Flashing a ROM – MUST READ if you want to flash a ROM or upgrade
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Before the thread gets moved because it's in the wrong place...
Radimus’s Universal Guide to Flashing a ROM – MUST READ if you want to flash a ROM or upgrade
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Thanks for your response and I will check it out, apologies for posting in the wrong section. Feel free to move it to correct section if needed mods. Thanks
I really hope this doesn't violate the rules of this board, but I am not able to post in the Dev forum, and I have a TON of questions. Most of my questions are being answered by other users having the same issues as me and I've followed this thread religiously.
I have been having intermittent Wifi errors since I started using CM7 for the Epic 4G. First, I Flashed my ROM with CM7 nightly 2, but realized by looking through the thread that I did it wrong. I was supposed to flash RC0 first, then flash the nightlies over it. Noob mistake, no worries.
Now I've been flashing each nightly, and last night's (#4) broke my Wifi again. Two other people have had the same problem.
Also, I have tried deleting /etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf but still get the same error.
Could I get some help, or someone send a carrier pigeon to the l33t dev forum to bring up this issue again?
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I really hope this doesn't violate the rules of this board, but I am not able to post in the Dev forum, and I have a TON of questions. Most of my questions are being answered by other users having the same issues as me and I've followed this thread religiously.
I have been having intermittent Wifi errors since I started using CM7 for the Epic 4G. First, I Flashed my ROM with CM7 nightly 2, but realized by looking through the thread that I did it wrong. I was supposed to flash RC0 first, then flash the nightlies over it. Noob mistake, no worries.
Now I've been flashing each nightly, and last night's (#4) broke my Wifi again. Two other people have had the same problem.
Also, I have tried deleting /etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf but still get the same error.
Could I get some help, or someone send a carrier pigeon to the l33t dev forum to bring up this issue again?
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I flashed #4 last night and wifi is working fine for me.. (i'm on it constantly at work) i didn't do a clean install though, i just wiped both caches and flashed over RC0.
I will try wiping the caches and re-flashing #4 again. I have just been flashing each nightly over top the previous nightly without wiping caches.
Please try to Odin back to EC05 stock, OTA to EI22, then flash back to CM7. This fixed wifi on two of my Epic's. I can't explain why. Please report back if this fixes the issue for you?
Still getting an error, going to try deleting /etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf after Titanium is finished restoring.
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Please try to Odin back to EC05 stock, OTA to EI22, then flash back to CM7. This fixed wifi on two of my Epic's. I can't explain why. Please report back if this fixes the issue for you?
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I'll try this next if deleting /etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf doesn't work.
Not to be a douche nozzle or anything, but this is the General Forum Why didn't you post this in the QnA forum haha.
But i guess IMO CM7 unofficial works different on different phones, some have the problems and some don't.
XxLostSoulxX said:
Not to be a douche nozzle or anything, but this is the General Forum Why didn't you post this in the QnA forum haha.
But i guess IMO CM7 unofficial works different on different phones, some have the problems and some don't.
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That's a good question, and the only answer I have to that is that I saw other people had posted ROM-specific problems in this forum so I thought it would be a good start.
I figured that the Q&A form was more for questions like "How do I root my phone?" as opposed to asking troubleshooting questions for specific ROMs.
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That's a good question, and the only answer I have to that is that I saw other people had posted ROM-specific problems in this forum so I thought it would be a good start.
I figured that the Q&A form was more for questions like "How do I root my phone?" as opposed to asking troubleshooting questions for specific ROMs.
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Not true lol i have threads and they get troubleshooted all the time hence the "QnA" Part lol. All questions go there and sub questions related to the specific thing causing it stays in the dev section in that thread. whereas this forum is the general stuff.
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Not to be a douche nozzle or anything, but ...
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Too late.
djmeph said:
... I figured that the Q&A form was more for questions like "How do I root my phone?" as opposed to asking troubleshooting questions for specific ROMs.
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Nope, the "Q & A" forum is for all questions related to the Epic. All unrelated stuff is what the "General" forum is meant for. Though you wouldn't think that looking at how cluttered "General" is with similar threads.
Also you titled your thread with "[Q]", so that would be a clear indicator you should have posted in the "Q & A" forum. It's all good, I'm not harping on ya.
Wish I could assist with your problem, but I don't use CM. Good luck in finding a resolution.
Let its know if you get out fixed. I've been thinking about switching over to mtd but have held off because of the reported wifi problems.
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Let its know if you get out fixed. I've been thinking about switching over to mtd but have held off because of the reported wifi problems.
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Its not too bad and you might be lucky some people have the issues and some dont, just give it a shot. once it connects it'll stay connected unless you tell it otherwise.
Thanks for the advice, and I'll keep this in mind for the future. If anyone wants to move this thread to Q&A that is fine with me, but hopefully I'll get to 10 posts soon and none of this will be an issue.
Something strange has happened since I Odined back to Froyo. I cannot connect to my wifi, but not the same error. I'm able to scan for networks, but when I try to type in my network key it won't authenticate. This means the OTA to Gingerbread will take a bit longer, but I'm hoping that this is just a glitch and I'll have wifi working again soon after Gingerbread or flashing CM7.
Also, I should note that I'm using the Ronin7 kernel, I flash it every time I do a nightly CM7 update and I did upgrade my modem to EI22 before flashing CM7.
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Its not too bad and you might be lucky some people have the issues and some dont, just give it a shot. once it connects it'll stay connected unless you tell it otherwise.
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Had I done it right the first time, this would have been the first wifi problem I've had with MTD, and the way it's looking there is a slight chance that this is unrelated to any mods, but hopefully it will work with stock Gingerbread or a reboot.
@ OP:
Open this post and snag the update file. Waiting for OTA sucks.
RE: different kernel -- If you used ODIN to go back to EC05 and still have Wifi issues, then try being on 100% stock and retry. When troubleshooting issues, try not to toss in anything new/different.
Weird, wifi is now working with stock Gingerbread update. About to root and flash CM7.
Noobnl's root + CWM script does not seem to be working with EI22. Is there a good reason I should be doing this, or is it just to get the EI22 modem, because I can flash that manually.
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Noobnl's root + CWM script does not seem to be working with EI22. Is there a good reason I should be doing this, or is it just to get the EI22 modem, because I can flash that manually.
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One-click root method does not work with Gingerbread.
You will need to ODIN a rooted kernel, then ODIN CWM. If you keep the stock kernel, then it will overwrite CWM with stock recovery every time.
You can find the steps for all of this in the linked post in my previous reply here. Just be sure to use CWM v5 rather than v3. Version 5 was not release when I wrote that guide.
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One-click root method does not work with Gingerbread.
You will need to ODIN a rooted kernel, then ODIN CWM. If you keep the stock kernel, then it will overwrite CWM with stock recovery every time.
You can find the steps for all of this in the linked post in my previous reply here. Just be sure to use CWM v5 rather than v3. Version 5 was not release when I wrote that guide.
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Thank you, but do you really think this is necessary or is the only reason for this to get the EI22 modem?
You don't have to jump through so many hoops for a clean install. Just odin ec05 and cwm, flash the ec05 to ei22 modem zip in cwm, then flash the cm7 zip.
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OK i rooted my phone and got un install happy in titanium back up. something happened to my phone that threw it into a boot loop so i wiped the phone but i cant get passed start up because "Unfortunately Settings won't open" .
I was hoping someone can guide me to where i can flash the stock rom through odin and get any files i accidentally removed in titanium back so i can use the phone again . Pleaaaasssse help i love this phone. thank you
someone please help me out i need to know i can flash the stock firmware
In the development section, labelled "factory stock"
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In the development section, labelled "factory stock"
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your a life saver thank you!!!!!!!!!
superandroidalex said:
OK i rooted my phone and got un install happy in titanium back up...
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If you're new to titanium backup, it may not be immediately obvious, but you can freeze the apps instead of delete them. It will have the same effect as deleting the apps, but you can defrost them to restore them to full function if you have problems. It's always a good idea to freeze apps first, and only delete them if there are no negative side effects after a period of time.
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