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[q] android build good for 1 launch only w/ reboot resulting in failure

OK FELLAS,
i'm not a noob. been flashing for a while now and am pretty much tech savvy, but this one has me for a loop. recently, my phone just started doing this; i can install and launch any and all android builds so readily available here from the XDA chefs. EVEN the DARKSTONE DESIRE HD BETA 2 worked and i played with it for an hour or so. HERE IS THE PROBLEM; i used to in the beginning be able to boot android over and over and over with my android launcher icon thats built into the current energy rom im using. (24631 04 sep) however now after a reboot, I run into a brick wall with the prompt that reads "cant find rootfs. you need to unzip a rootfs file to your memory card. job control turned off"
here are the things i have tried to remedy this:
1. format card= didnt fix
2. try a different card= i have 3 different cards; this didnt fix it either.
Only thing i havent tried which i am reluctant to try is task 29 and reload the WINMO ROM.
ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE EXPERIENCING THIS AND IF SO, HOW DID YOU FIX IT?

bluevmax92 said:
OK FELLAS,
i'm not a noob. been flashing for a while now and am pretty much tech savvy, but this one has me for a loop. recently, my phone just started doing this; i can install and launch any and all android builds so readily available here from the XDA chefs. EVEN the DARKSTONE DESIRE HD BETA 2 worked and i played with it for an hour or so. HERE IS THE PROBLEM; i used to in the beginning be able to boot android over and over and over with my android launcher icon thats built into the current energy rom im using. (24631 04 sep) however now after a reboot, I run into a brick wall with the prompt that reads "cant find rootfs. you need to unzip a rootfs file to your memory card. job control turned off"
here are the things i have tried to remedy this:
1. format card= didnt fix
2. try a different card= i have 3 different cards; this didnt fix it either.
Only thing i havent tried which i am reluctant to try is task 29 and reload the WINMO ROM.
ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE EXPERIENCING THIS AND IF SO, HOW DID YOU FIX IT?
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What Rom radio you using?
Are you using an auto boot or multiboot
Are you renaming the folder to Android and putting that folder on root? And dies your startup file read rel_path=android
If all correct
Seems like task29
And new Rom radio is the answer
Sent from my HTC HD2 using Tapatalk

whynot66 said:
What Rom radio you using?
Are you using an auto boot or multiboot
Are you renaming the folder to Android and putting that folder on root? And dies your startup file read rel_path=android
If all correct
Seems like task29
And new Rom radio is the answer
Sent from my HTC HD2 using Tapatalk
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Radio_2_12_50_02_2
AND ROM IS ENERGY 24631 04 SEP 2010
HSPL3
ALSO AN UPDATE; REFLASHED 24631 UPDATED DATE,TIME,QUICK GPS, AND THEN GET THIS; IT BOOTED DESIRE HD ROM SUPER QUICK BUT OTHER BUILD IM USING Core_Droid_V.0.2 STILL DIDNT WORK. IM GONNA TRY DROPPING ANOTHER ROOTFS.IMG ON THE CARD AND TRY AGAIN.

I had a similar problem, the problem was that I had unzipped the contents of the "android" folder to the root of my SDcard. What I should have done was copy the folder to the root of the SDcard, after I did this it worked perfectly

I have the same problem here, but not only with the DARKSTONE DESIRE HD BETA 2 ROM. A lot Android ROMs boots great the first time, but after a phone reboot I was unable to boot the Android ROM again.
It shows me these message: "cant find rootfs. you need to unzip a rootfs file to your memory card. job control turned off" or the boot loader freezed completely with some stripes on the screen. any ideas?
RAIDO: 2.08.50.05
ROM: Artemis 30.0 GER (5.2.23576)
Update:
Got a solution from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788764
Just extract your DARKSTONE DESIRE HD BETA 2 ROM into "/Storage Card/Android" and boot it. done!

All you have to do is delete the android folder everytime you boot up android. I was running into the same thing after the initial setup worked good but wouldn't boot back after I went back to windows.
Sent from my HD2 running Darkstone Froyo V2.1

[Q] HELP!! EVO SENSE cannot run on HTC HD2

Dear Forum,
All evo roms out there dont work on my HTC HD2, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY!. It just gets stuck at "htc" screen for like literally, hours. (well, just 1.5 hrs). Am i doing anything wrong? Thanks again
-Bhalraam

Bhalraam said:
Dear Forum,
All evo roms out there dont work on my HTC HD2, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY!. It just gets stuck at "htc" screen for like literally, hours. (well, just 1.5 hrs). Am i doing anything wrong? Thanks again
-Bhalraam
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Have you tried other non-sense build to see if they would work? What radio?

weird.. have you tried formating your card? and make sure u copy all the things that come with the download on there. which winMo rom u running? the radio i think it shouldnt matter. has to do with the sd card.. how much memory u have available?

Hated it anyway.. Always the wrong prefix before my numbers..
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

so we're supposed to magically know what happened to ur phone without any information about it?
oKKKAAAYyy. abra cadabra poof! throw ur phone on the floor and it should be fixed.

atekone said:
weird.. have you tried formating your card? and make sure u copy all the things that come with the download on there. which winMo rom u running? the radio i think it shouldnt matter. has to do with the sd card.. how much memory u have available?
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actually the radio version does matter.. it has to be on at least 2.08 for android to run..

Hi Guys,
Kinda similar problem... Hopefully I can share more details.
Im using an Australian Telstra HD2 (T-mobile_leo) Energy.Leo.21916.Sense2.5.Oct.08 with radio 2.12.50.02
The droid build Im using is Mdeejay FroYo Z v.1.1|1.31.405.1|kernel: hastarin R7.5
Formatted, booted, installed some stuff, rebooted again and all seemed well.
But I use phone as a storage device (and have done it before with no issues) then tnings seem to go to poo hell.
OS gets slow and on restart, the launch stalls on the HTC screen and will not progress any further.
Really enjoy the android builds and this is the 2nd build that has done this on my phone.
Any ideas on what I can do to recover?

For the ones having problems on getting stuck on HTC boot image with mdeejay roms, try downloading a data.img from here http://www.multiupload.com/GZ1JUZBYJI and copy it in the /sdcard/android/
( inside android folder ). It should take around 2 minutes to boot after that.
Also try to use a 2.10 or 2.12 radio.

copied the file into the android folder (which was supiciously empty) and pulled the battery 10 min later.
Have I got the right folder or do I need to replace the 1GB .img in the root?

Make sure that inside that folder you have every file found in the .zip folder downloaded from any of the builds threads. ( there should be 10-11 folders+files)
You can either replace it or try and find a 1gb data.img file from here http://www.multiupload.com/BJ2FXF9IRM ( just to make sure ), maybe you already have the right file, but I dont know that
I tested both sizes 512Mb and 1 Gb and both worked ok.

Thanks for the help Viperd.
I bit the bullet this time and reformatted (just because I needed a phone and gps ) but I have grabbed the image files and a quick script to check the files on the card the next time this happens

[q] booting problem

I am facing a strange problem with every android rom i am using.
When i open the haret.exe to run the android then boot screen stops at this error.ss
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
and then nothing happens. i have to take to take out battery and insert again to use wm and den if i again try to run android then same problem occurs.
But if i delete all folders in sd card of android rom except 1gb data.img and den extract all folders back in sd card den it starts working..
But again it wont work on next restart or shut down..
any idea..???
using energy rom oct radio 2.07.50.27_2

no one facing this issue????????????????????

I've heard that you should not have a radio below 2.12
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

Also, try change your womrom and post in the right forum. This is development section
EDIT: winmo rom*
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Have u tried formatting your sdcard
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norpan111 said:
I've heard that you should not have a radio below 2.12
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norpan111 said:
Also, try change your womrom and post in the right forum. This is development section
EDIT: winmo rom*
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veda_sticks said:
Have u tried formatting your sdcard
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Thanks guys for your replies. and i have tried with radio 2.14.50 also.. but same issue.. and i formatted my card many times. still same problem. First boot is ok. everything works fine. but after restart from winmo it doesn't boot.
And I am using Android capable Energy rom. so i think this is not a rom related problem.

mon_money said:
Thanks guys for your replies. and i have tried with radio 2.14.50 also.. but same issue.. and i formatted my card many times. still same problem. First boot is ok. everything works fine. but after restart from winmo it doesn't boot.
And I am using Android capable Energy rom. so i think this is not a rom related problem.
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can you upload the file startup.txt maybe something messed up?
also can you write the folder you are installing the rom, and please write the rom name.
regards

boldman78 said:
can you upload the file startup.txt maybe something messed up?
also can you write the folder you are installing the rom, and please write the rom name.
regards
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Startup file data
set mtype 2525
set ramaddr 0x11800000
set ramsize 0x1e400000
set initrd_offset 0x00a00000
set KERNEL zImage
set initrd initrd.gz
set cmdline "rel_path=android data_size=1024"
#rel_path: Android ( this is the android folder in the sdcard)
# data_size: 512 for 512MB, 1024 for 1gb, 2048 for 2gb ( specify the size of data.img)
and m using tytung nexushd2-frg83 v1.3 release date 12 oct 2010
and i am having this problem with every Android rom i am using. and m extracting all folder in root of sd card.

My to
I experienced this problem to.
Here are some steps i prompted.
1. Format your SD card by using the Format Option at your phone.
2. Run a Stock ROM from HTC, download a ROM update from the HTC website.
3. Always use a Radio 2.08 or above.
So what you are gonna do is as follow.
Format your SD card, install a fresh original ROM from HTC. After that remove the black plate, and press the RED button for 5 seconds. After that install Radio 2.15 it can be found trough Google. Then put Android folder in the root of your SD card, and run the *****!

c0r1tr0n said:
I experienced this problem to.
Here are some steps i prompted.
1. Format your SD card by using the Format Option at your phone.
2. Run a Stock ROM from HTC, download a ROM update from the HTC website.
3. Always use a Radio 2.08 or above.
So what you are gonna do is as follow.
Format your SD card, install a fresh original ROM from HTC. After that remove the black plate, and press the RED button for 5 seconds. After that install Radio 2.15 it can be found trough Google. Then put Android folder in the root of your SD card, and run the *****!
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Thanks for your help. but i dont think 2.15.50 radio is compatible with stock 1.66 rom. for stock roms i think radio with 2.x.51 is needed..
Anyways will try these steps and will tell the result.
big thanks for your help again.

2.15 will run flawless on 1.66 stock rom. I'm running it on a 1.66 stock ROM to.
If it doesn't work, just reply and i'll try to help you out.
Link for the Radio I'm using:
http://www.vbnfiles.com/xda/HTC HD2 (Leo)/Radios/Radio_2_15_50_14.rar
Link to the Android i'm running. It runs verry smooth and flawless.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747492

c0r1tr0n said:
2.15 will run flawless on 1.66 stock rom. I'm running it on a 1.66 stock ROM to.
If it doesn't work, just reply and i'll try to help you out.
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Olryt will try it . but actually i am using 2.07.50 radio which gives excellent battery life and internet speed for my area. i used 2.14,2.10,2.12,2.08. but none of them gave me satisfaction like this radio.
and one more thing. if this is radio related problem then how come first boot is completed?? no robot voice on call fast internet speed and rest of the things working very fine and fine battery life as well on 2.07.50
any idea????
thx 4 ur reply.
edit: I already used that same darkstone rom yesterday for android.. but having same problem..

mon_money said:
Startup file data
set mtype 2525
set ramaddr 0x11800000
set ramsize 0x1e400000
set initrd_offset 0x00a00000
set KERNEL zImage
set initrd initrd.gz
set cmdline "rel_path=android data_size=1024 loop_partition=mmcblk0"
#rel_path: Android ( this is the android folder in the sdcard)
# data_size: 512 for 512MB, 1024 for 1gb, 2048 for 2gb ( specify the size of data.img)
and m using tytung nexushd2-frg83 v1.3 release date 12 oct 2010
and i am having this problem with every Android rom i am using. and m extracting all folder in root of sd card.
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try to add this "loop_partition=mmcblk0to" your startup.txt so the line will look like that:
set cmdline "rel_path=android data_size=1024 loop_partition=mmcblk0"
hope it will help
regards

boldman78 said:
try to add this "loop_partition=mmcblk0to" your startup.txt so the line will look like that:
set cmdline "rel_path=android data_size=1024 loop_partition=mmcblk0"
hope it will help
regards
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NO luck.. i tried it but again same problem. booting stops at same error.
but few new lines comes after adding that line which are as follow
Failed to find rootfs on sd card, you need to unzio a rootfs zip file to the root of your sd card
** it is already present on the root of my sd card..

Strange problem....
My you need to try another SD Card or something? May some files get corrupted by your phone? Cause it seems to boot without problems at the first time, but after that it won't fire up anymore. You tried the Android i listed in my last post already? I can upload it to my host if you want, so you dont need to wait for ages to get the download complete.

mon_money said:
NO luck.. i tried it but again same problem. booting stops at same error.
but few new lines comes after adding that line which are as follow
Failed to find rootfs on sd card, you need to unzio a rootfs zip file to the root of your sd card
** it is already present on the root of my sd card..
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try these steps in running Android, never failed me everytime
you need to have
1. HSPL
2. SDcard formatted with SD Formatter from Panasonic
3. at least an Android friendly WINMO ROM (though some people have reported being
able to run android on the latest stock 3.14 ROM)
as you have a really strange problem
i suggest you do a Task 29 on your device, before flashing the winmo ROM

Your problem is your using 2.07 radio. You need 2.08 and higher. This is discussed in almost every build thread if this section.

c0r1tr0n said:
Strange problem....
My you need to try another SD Card or something? May some files get corrupted by your phone? Cause it seems to boot without problems at the first time, but after that it won't fire up anymore. You tried the Android i listed in my last post already? I can upload it to my host if you want, so you dont need to wait for ages to get the download complete.
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" Thx for your extreme help bro. but i have almost all android roms downloaded already. but this same problem is bugging me alot.. anyways m buying an extra sd card tommorow for android.. will try from that one. then revert you back."
jigners said:
try these steps in running Android, never failed me everytime
you need to have
1. HSPL
2. SDcard formatted with SD Formatter from Panasonic
3. at least an Android friendly WINMO ROM (though some people have reported being
able to run android on the latest stock 3.14 ROM)
as you have a really strange problem
i suggest you do a Task 29 on your device, before flashing the winmo ROM
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" I have hspl2 2.08 installed.. and i formatted my sd card with sony card reader and then again formatted with hd2. i am running android friendly rom ENERGY already.. and i always do task29 before upgrading my hd2 to a new rom..
Everything works fine on first boot.. it is just after restarting it doesn;t work.."
mattfmartin said:
Your problem is your using 2.07 radio. You need 2.08 and higher. This is discussed in almost every build thread if this section.
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" i have tried with 2.10,2.12,2.14 and 2.15 radios.. all .50 but same problem .. no luck.."

Me too!
I'm having the exact same problem. I as well have followed all steps.

not developer
try to format the hd 2

[Q] Booting

When I try to load a custom build of Android, it proceeds like it has already booted before, eg just a few lines of text, vs a bunch of text like the first time I booted Android (The stock desire build) Is this normal?

It depends of the build you are using. Most of them only show a few lines and then an Android logo til installation is done...

Screen turn into black
Hi,
first i copy the andorid to my SD Card. If i strat the "runapplication" @ the andriod folder, the system is booting but after 2 sec. the screen fades into black. After that there is no reaction.
Can help someone? Please
Im using a normal (OEM) HTC HD2 with only CHT.
Thanks!!

I'm having the same problem (using CoreDroid).
I've flashed my HD2 but I did run the CustomRUU.exe because I don't want to lose my pre-installed stuff.
When I try to run Android it won't go any further than the black screen saying "Jumping to Linux kernel.."

sbidy said:
Hi,
first i copy the andorid to my SD Card. If i strat the "runapplication" @ the andriod folder, the system is booting but after 2 sec. the screen fades into black. After that there is no reaction.
Can help someone? Please
Im using a normal (OEM) HTC HD2 with only CHT.
Thanks!!
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If you used the tool in my sig you would've known that you must change your radio (read the guide in my sig to know how to change it)
sjoe538 said:
I'm having the same problem (using CoreDroid).
I've flashed my HD2 but I did run the CustomRUU.exe because I don't want to lose my pre-installed stuff.
When I try to run Android it won't go any further than the black screen saying "Jumping to Linux kernel.."
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The same thing

kawazaki said:
If you used the tool in my sig you would've known that you must change your radio (read the guide in my sig to know how to change it)
The same thing
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Thanks for your response.
Before running this update ROM it gives you the warning it will delete all your personal installed files/data. A friend of mine still had all his pre-installed applications and such, can you give me more information on this?

sjoe538 said:
Thanks for your response.
Before running this update ROM it gives you the warning it will delete all your personal installed files/data. A friend of mine still had all his pre-installed applications and such, can you give me more information on this?
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If you flash just a radio then you will not lose anything on your device. If you flash a ROM (either on its own or with a radio) then it has the same effect as a factory reset - you lose all apps and data.
Look for just a suitable radio if you don't want to flash a ROM.

This is about the CustomRUU.exe file running through active sync..

Hi,
I'm back I have fixed the problem.
@ my hd2 is the spl version 3.00 installed also I can't install the hspl and i can't update the radio (my oem radio is 2.18).
I have only uploaded the android files to the card an run it. After 9 minutes the device restarted and now is froyo with sense running on my phone.
Special thanks to all (the xda app is great)
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

[Q] Need help getting android

Ok im new and nobody has written me back about this so i have to ask this way but i flashed to the energy rom and i want android on it, i dont know how to go from where im at to that as all the threads ive seen has said download this and that but i really dont kno how to get energy off to do that but when i hit the launch android button it says "CLRCAD.exe was not found on your storage card...proceeding to launch Haret anyway" ok then "Haret.exe was not found on your storage card..." so can any body help me get android???
Hardware is:
RAM size 576MB
Flash memory size 1024MB
Data bus 32 bits
Software is:
OS version 5.2.21916
Manila version 2.5.20191914.0
ROM version 26 Jan.2011 WWE
Radio version 2.10.50.26

Firstly there are 2 ways of running Android, 1st via sd card and 2nd via NAND memory. The option you choose depends on whether or not you still want to use winmo. If so you need to use the sd card based Android builds. If you only want to use Android then you need to go the NAND based Android build approach.
As you mention running clrcad and haret I'm assuming you want to use the dual bot method, ie both winmo and Android. You will then need to device which Android build you want to try (from the Android SD dev forum) and carefully read the first few posts to see the dev's instructions, but in most cases you need to download and unzip the rom and copy the Android folder to the root of your sd card. In the NRG roms, clicking on the launch Android icon he includes in his build will run the clrcad and haret automatically and boot to Android.

thanx for your reply..thats the thing when i hit launch android it wont go...so when i copy the folder do i download everything even if it says its already on an if installed it might not work? thats where im lost

Try formatting the sd card completely so that there are no funnies on the card, copy the entire Android folder to the sd card root and you can ignore the warning about files that may not work etc.

ok ill give it a try

when you format your sd card will it erase the NRG rom and then you have to put it back on there?

1989jeremy said:
when you format your sd card will it erase the NRG rom and then you have to put it back on there?
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No! Unless you will install nandroid.
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ok just checkin..i want android on my sd card

ok i formatted my sd card then copied the android folder to it and it still did launch an when i clicked on the folder to run clrcad it didnt do anything an when i clicked the heret it just went to the htc screen and thats it...what did i do wrong??

Did you give it some time? I would ask the question in the thread for the actual rom you are using. Other users may have a solution for you.

1989jeremy said:
ok i formatted my sd card then copied the android folder to it and it still did launch an when i clicked on the folder to run clrcad it didnt do anything an when i clicked the heret it just went to the htc screen and thats it...what did i do wrong??
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Good, so you've formatted your sd card and copied the android build, clrcad and haret.exe files to the root....Tapping clrcad (to run) doesn't show any visible signs but its actually working in background, then tap haret...u should see haret loading up & a bunch of text briefly (depends d android build)...The htc screen u saw means d android build is working silently in d background so give it some time...check d android build's page for how long you should wait..(most tk abt 8-20mins, i use nand now so i'm not so sure).....if the above still doesn't work for you,then u should try using d various android/winmo dual-booting cab files out there...
P.S. Devs say its best u load up android within 3 secs of loading WinMo, so be as fast as u can...u could also try disabling htc sense to give a quicker loading time....If dat still doesn't work, then u might have to reflash an android-friendly WinMo ROM.

lol i dont think i gave it enough time..kinda impatient but i got it at the htc screen right now..im using the froyostone v4.0 build

1989jeremy said:
lol i dont think i gave it enough time..kinda impatient but i got it at the htc screen right now..im using the froyostone v4.0 build
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Dis you read the faq of the build you use? Like, wait 10-15mins on first boot...
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1989jeremy said:
lol i dont think i gave it enough time..kinda impatient but i got it at the htc screen right now..im using the froyostone v4.0 build
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Great...Remember 2 always read instructions carefully..the Devs put em there for a reason.

hmm...its been like 40 min an still at the htc screen...i looked for the thread but i cant remember which it was as ive been to a couple of them but neither one says how long the first boot would take

1989jeremy said:
hmm...its been like 40 min an still at the htc screen...i looked for the thread but i cant remember which it was as ive been to a couple of them but neither one says how long the first boot would take
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Try core evo sd series.
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do you have the link to the thread? i dont wanna download somethin different you know as a lot of things pop up in search

1989jeremy said:
do you have the link to the thread? i dont wanna download somethin different you know as a lot of things pop up in search
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Just go to sd development section, it should be on the 2nd page of that section. Try core evo v0.8 by sergio76 or evo carbon remix by motoman.
By the way, what sd card do you have? Model, make, size, class.
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ok thanx..itll work with the energy rom right?

1989jeremy said:
ok thanx..itll work with the energy rom right?
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Of course. That's what I was using before nandroid.
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