Ok this goes with my thread below, but it is a different issue. I need a fully stocked rom. In my frustration at around 4 am last night I did something very very stupid. I was trying to make that when cwm said it was formatting the necessary partitions it did, and in the process formatted my wifes sd card as well. Now I'm not too worried about this alone because after I idiotically did this i remounted the sd card before rebooting and copied this update.zip and adrynaline's rom over to root, but my nandroid backups are now gone. Not to mention the fact all my titanium backups as well. I've had so many close calls with phones from my G1, to my og droid, to my tbolt, to even my friends DX that I thought was toast, but always abd or sbf I've been able to fix it, I'm completely stumped as to what happened last night and learned some valuable lessons.
1. keep rooting and romming still better that stock lol.
2. stupid things happen at 4 am when you've been pulling your hair out since 11 pm.
3. remember you have an amazing og droid you don't use sitting in a drawer and you can activate it to wife's phone before you something stupid in lesson 2.
edit: I know there are a few posts about similar issues, and I've been reading them all, just nothing is working so dont rage to forum search please.
Go get in the IRC
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trailblazer101 said:
Go get in the IRC
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im in there i think its the right one lol
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Ok Ive been a long time iphone owner since they came out and ive never owned an android product. Im tired of the crappy service I get with att anywhere outside of large cities and the iphone in general so me and my wife are switching over to verizon. We both ordered the droid x two days ago and somehow we are getting them tomarrow despite the aug 4th ship date that they said. The more I review about android OS and the droid x the more I think I will love it compared to the iphone. My question is which meathod of rooting should I take. Ive never rooted before of course so should I use the one click method or the list of instructions method. Im real tech savvy so if the list instructions way to root it is the best im comfortable with that. My next questions is on updates. Do i need to have the phone unrooted everytime that I preform an update or is that unnessisary? Also if I delete or rename some basic bloat ware do I need to make sure it is all back the same before I update? Thanks for any help and I look forward to be on the droid side
Ok i have my phone. Any answers to my post? Is this the wrong site to be asking this?
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I rooted mine using better terminal emulator right on my phone. Took all of 15 mins maybe. I've never done the one click thing but have heard great things about it. I guess its really what you're comfortable with. Just make sure you take your time and don't miss any steps!
Good luck & welcome to DROID!
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Thanks for your reply. If i root now will it conflict with future updates?
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It shouldn't. At least it hasn't yet. Just be careful with what bloat you delete. Make sure you keep anything that is blur related and verizons backup assistant. Its been said you will brick if you delete any of those.
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I've rooted several phones and the one click was so easy. Once I extracted the files & installed the drivers it took less than a minute.
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+1 for the one-click method!! it worked flawlessly!
I'm very torn. I have been using a myTouch for the past year and loved it. The guys in the G1 forum have been awesome and my phone was modded about as extreme as possible.
But now I have this beauty. Its so pretty and runs so smooth out of the box. Do I root right away or enjoy the bloatware for a bit?
Anything I should check out right away?
do whatever you want to. can't go wrong either way. (rooting is extremely easy)
There is an awesome sticky at the top of this forum. I suggest you start there
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There is an awesome sticky at the top of this forum. I suggest you start there
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dang it....go to a forum enough and you skim right over the stickies.
Thanks!
PS: I'm no stranger to rooting. I played with the bloated stuff for a solid half hour. I'm over it now.
Time to root!
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PS: I'm no stranger to rooting.
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You know the rules and so do I.
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rudeguy said:
dang it....go to a forum enough and you skim right over the stickies.
Thanks!
Ps: I'm no stranger to rooting. I played with the bloated stuff for a solid half hour. I'm over it now.
Time to root!
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root root! :d
Just picked mine up today. Had a mytouch 3G rooted the day I got it. Did the same with my new beast! Played with it stock for a few hours and then rooted!
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I too just picked up a Vibrant today. Coming from a Sprint HTC Hero. Haven't rooted yet. Will be in the next couple of days. Loving the phone so far.
good to see folks switching over
And I think I already borked it. Did I do something bad if when installing clockwork, I chose to partition?
After the boot logo, I just get a black screen. I even tried Odin and that didn't work???
You're not supposed to partition with clockwork. When u do that ur partitioning, ur partitioning internal and not SD card. There's a thread about it for a brick. Find it.
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You're not supposed to partition with clockwork. When u do that ur partitioning, ur partitioning internal and not SD card. There's a thread about it for a brick. Find it.
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Thanks! I foung the thread. I'll give it a whirl when I get home.
I think lots of people asked this already but i have no idea how to get my sism 3 back i flashed a bunch of rims here and when i decided to play sims 3 it was gone lol could anyone help me out??
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I think lots of people asked this already but i have no idea how to get my sism 3 back i flashed a bunch of rims here and when i decided to play sims 3 it was gone lol could anyone help me out??
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Flash back to stock, take it to tmo and ask for sims 3 say the games were not there. since they don't know how to get the games back at the tmo store, they'll probably give you another new phone. LOL
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Flash back to stock, take it to tmo and ask for sims 3 say the games were not there. since they don't know how to get the games back at the tmo store, they'll probably give you another new phone. LOL
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Lol that's a good evil plan
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I'm actually wondering about this, too. I tried restoring the game from Titanium, but it never reappears.
If we could find a ROM that it's included in we could probably yoink it from there. Idk which or where to find that off hand.
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Flash back to stock, take it to tmo and ask for sims 3 say the games were not there. since they don't know how to get the games back at the tmo store, they'll probably give you another new phone. LOL
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But do they change it only in 7/14 days period?
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Flash back to stock, take it to tmo and ask for sims 3 say the games were not there. since they don't know how to get the games back at the tmo store, they'll probably give you another new phone. LOL
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No reason to do that. The data gets wiped when you use odin to repartition. I have a .apk to get it back but you will have to pm me. Not sure if it's against forum rules to post here
Acid_Wir3 said:
I think lots of people asked this already but i have no idea how to get my sism 3 back i flashed a bunch of rims here and when i decided to play sims 3 it was gone lol could anyone help me out??
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I feel your pain with this problem my friend... as I had the exact same problem myself and couldn't find anybody to help me! Luckily I was able to figure it with a little help from one of the forum members. Here are the steps, it's EASY!
If you have a backup of the application from titanium backup, restore it. Yes, I know it doesn't restore the launcher for the program. We'll fix that.
Next shoot the file I've attached to somewhere on your internal SDCARD.
Download App Monster and install the .apk file for the launcher. You can also try running adb install, however depending what ROM your running that might not work. App Monster makes it relatively painless, and it's free from the market.
Viola! The Sims 3 game is reinstalled!
Hopefully you have a backup of the game. I've got the full .apk file for it, however I'm hesitant to upload it on any threads for obvious reasons.
And like previously mentioned, you can also just restore to stock ROM and all will be right as rain.
Hope this helps!
just google "The Sims 3.apk"
Will these methods work for getting sims 3 and the office suite on a custom rom if I backup with titanium first? since they are part of my phone package I would hate to lose them.
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Will these methods work for getting sims 3 and the office suite on a custom rom if I backup with titanium first? since they are part of my phone package I would hate to lose them.
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Should work, you just need to find the correct .apk packages that launch the apps. I know quite a few people who have restored the think free office stuff that comes stock on the phone with no problems.
Btw thanks
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i found this thread and thought we have great devs over here in the DINC forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847423
its a way to dual boot two roms on our phones!! right now he's updating to the link is down but it will be up soon
but i look forward to someone implementing this into clockworkmod or amon_ra somehow
mod's feel free too move this if you feel its not development related
I'd like to see if this could be figured out I assume this is kind of development.
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Wow that would be pretty cool...interesting.
Wow, very cool idea. Would be nice to have a stock, unmolested ROM on there as a failsafe and then whatever you want on the other.
think about it though, none of the folders are shared, you have to install apps separately, texts need to be backed up/restored.
this is basically like having a nandroid IMO
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think about it though, none of the folders are shared, you have to install apps separately, texts need to be backed up/restored.
this is basically like having a nandroid IMO
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I agree I can't find the need to ever want to do this/..
Ok here's my thought say I wanna play some games on my phone. I put it on airplane mode so I'm not bothered then you can boot up the aosp rom from the SD and okay games with a wiimote. That's why I want it
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I agree I can't find the need to ever want to do this/..
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Ok here's my thought say I wanna play some games on my phone. I put it on airplane mode so I'm not bothered then you can boot up the aosp rom from the SD and okay games with a wiimote. That's why I want it
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why not restore an aosp rom?
Nandroid restores take me like 15 minutes usually
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Nandroid restores take me like 15 minutes usually
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whaoh.
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Is this not normal?? It sits at reading md5sum for a good ten minutes if not more.
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I am moving this to General for the time being. If it happens to become a project, someone PM me and I will gladly move it back. For now I'll leave a 1 week redirect.
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I really love the idea of dual booting a phone. Has anyone heard about the VMWare and LG concept to essentially run VM'd OS's on a phone. Basically the ability to run two phones simultaneously on the same phone. Now that is some pretty awesome stuff!
Dual boot is a good idea.
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/02/18/video-droid-incredible-actually-running-honeycomb/
another reason why our phone (and the devs) are awesome
Looks nice, thanks for the heads up.
The gentleman in the video had actually posted up a thread about it on the forum about a week ago and for some reason the admin's shut it down pretty quickly......
Does anybody know where to get the zip file for this port?
Cool but this was done by r2doesinc...nuff said
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And the link for it is here.
http://t3hh4xx0r.com/?p=1350
So, not sure what I did wrong, but when I try to instal OMHC, it won't allow me to. Running Gingerbread based Recovery, ClockworkMod. Is this something that can be worked around, or no?
Is it CWM 3.0?? I know a bunch of things have issues with that recovery.
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Cool but this was done by r2doesinc...nuff said
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Who gives a ****?
These devs are great.
Smokeey said:
Cool but this was done by r2doesinc...nuff said
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With u on this
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Who gives a ****?
These devs are great.
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With you on this
dpwhitty11 said:
Who gives a ****?
These devs are great.
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Agreed. He's awesome. No ones perfect. I personally don't care about all of the drama, I just care about how the ROMs.
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And back to trying toto help the Guy who made this thread. Are you using version 3.0 recovery?
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For what it is worth, I can state that this will install using recovery 2.5.0.5, as I just got done doing so.
Yep, i've reverted back as far as ROM manager allows and so far so good with backing up any ROM and flashing any ROM
As far as this Honeycomb port goes, I wish I had this on my Gtab. Obviously needs some work, but wow this is a 10 on the cool factor. Who cares who did it or not, these Dev's deserve mad respect for their time and hard work. I actually approached the dev for a port on the Gtab and he says he's been trying, but still no luck. As an owner and avid Gtab forumster, I can say that many people on the Gtab forums would consider this guy a god if he were successful on porting this over.
Everybody chill out about the drama and give props where it's due. This is awesome news and fantastic work.
Yes, it is. Is there another recovery I could use?
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Yea go into rom manager and at the bottom it has older recoveries use a 2. whatever one.
flashed for a little but forgot to install gapps. pretty useless right now most stuff doesnt work. along with the bad lag its also pretty hard to navigate since its made for a tablet. things are really small and the mouse has to be moved with the toggle which is a pain in the ass among many other things. might go back to it and try gapps just for ****s and gigs. otherwise useless. will be cool when the bionic comes out and a port comes to that.