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Flashing a rom on a mac??

is it possible to flash juicy's r2 sense rom on a mac? Also are there any free sync clients like syncmate but it lets you back up and add music? please help

AFAIK, there's no way to use the RUU tool to flash via USB if you're on a Mac. However, if you already have HardSPL, just download the ROM you want and rename the NBH file to rhodimg.nbh, and put that on the root of your MicroSD card. Put the MicroSD back into the phone and manually boot into the bootloader and follow the instructions. It'll flash from your MicroSD just like it would a regular ROM, and it works just as well.

ok thanks, so i guess ill need a micro sd. ive seen someone flash a rom from the sd but the bootloader part looked a little confusing...i guess ill just figure it out. thanks again

ROM is gone

So I installed the Cyanogen mod from RomManager to try it out. The thing is, now my phone is telling me my SD card is damaged and I can't read from it. My backups were on there and I foolishly did not save copies onto my computer.
So, is there anyway to get a stock ROM for the incredible so I can flash that back onto there?

sloan31 said:
So I installed the Cyanogen mod from RomManager to try it out. The thing is, now my phone is telling me my SD card is damaged and I can't read from it. My backups were on there and I foolishly did not save copies onto my computer.
So, is there anyway to get a stock ROM for the incredible so I can flash that back onto there?
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Have you tried booting your phone into recovery.
Then going to nandroid in recovery and choosing your backup to restore?
That damaged message sounds like something you see in rom manager, but you can probably still see your SD card fine in recovery if you haven't tried that yet.

Ditto, except have you tried checking your SD card with a reader straight into the PC? If you can't read it with a reader it may very well be damaged.
If it is actually broken IncredibleRoms (dot) com is usually a good place to look for ROM's.
Looked around and found a stock nandroid backup
incredibleroms.com/roms/stock/
Only other option might be trying to go the RUU route.

This is a rooted stock rom binny made that you can use. Its from a previous thread a few weeks ago
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This is just a stock rom with a few tweeks.
It includes SuperUser, busybox, Wireless -N, Facebook has been moved to /data/local so it can be uninstalled, Zipaling and ROM Manager. CityID has been removed, also the internal task killer has been tweeked so no need to have third party task killers.
I dont plan on working too much on this one, but may update in the future.
http://www.mediafire.com/?uymjmjmmyja
I would recomend wipeing before installing.
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Can't access the card in recovery either. I even took the card out and put it in my computer and can't read it there either.
I found the droid incredible downgrade file for returning to stock without root, I guess I'll have to go this route. I know I can re-root the phone, its just loosing all my apps and data that's painful.
EDIT: or use the rooted rom, thanks kentoe, that definitely saves me some time.

Titanium Backup can take care of the apps and you could pull data to your pc.
Unless the apps and data were on your SD card in which case you'll need some CSI/NCIS tricks to reconstruct your messed up SD.

Hyru said:
Titanium Backup can take care of the apps and you could pull data to your pc.
Unless the apps and data were on your SD card in which case you'll need some CSI/NCIS tricks to reconstruct your messed up SD.
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Yes, I used Titanium Backup for my apps, but unfortunately they were on the card. I'll just have to call it a loss and reinstall my apps one at a time.

Utils for SD recovery
I have a few utils that have been able to recover data from SD cards, flash sticks, CF stuff like that. Look on the net.

Yeah, I somehow actually damaged my friends SD card from his Moto Droid while attempting to root my Incredible. Needless to say he wasn't very happy. So off to google I went and in the morning he had all his files back like it never happened.

heres my gameplan for buddies phone.. what u think?

hes got a sprint cdma hero that he is complaning that theres no room to install programs and its slow.
he has a 8gb sdcard in the phone and another spare
today i tried rooting but it appears that the phone is already rooted
installed titanium backup and backed up all his apps to the sdcard
installed sms backup and restore, backed up to sdcard
went to contacts, settins, and exported to sd card
Q. I rooted and custom romed my other buddies phone and not all his contacts were exported. Is there something else i need to do to get all contacts backed up?
Q. i couldent find "Call Logs Backup & Restore" in the market. Do i really need it?
ok so this point i plan on plugging the phone into ubuntu, and copying all the data on the SD card to my laptop. This should backup all his pictures, contacts, craps onto my laptop.
Then i will install clockworkmod recovery from market. Reboot into recovery.
The use ADB to manually partiton the 8 gb SD card
1 - 7.5GB FAT32
2 - 512MB ext4
3 - 32MB swap
Q. Is this sound like a good layout?
Now that the card is partitioned i will install clockworkmod via the market and make a backup of the current system state, just incase he wants to go back to original. and copy the new rom from the laptop to the sdcard
as far as roms / kernels
i am overwhelmed and confused by the choices, he just wants something fast without bugs and without the sprint preloaded crap. But i dont think he wants any fancy custom hacker looking ****, just something plain fast and works.
Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
sorry about the questions, this is a guy i work with and i wanna show off my leet, but i dont wanna **** his phone as hes goin on vacation soon and needs it to just work. I have a galaxy tab, acer tab, but never messed with a htc phone. i am curious to hear if this sound like the best way to go at it?
thanks

gophet said:
hes got a sprint cdma hero that he is complaning that theres no room to install programs and its slow.
he has a 8gb sdcard in the phone and another spare
today i tried rooting but it appears that the phone is already rooted
installed titanium backup and backed up all his apps to the sdcard
installed sms backup and restore, backed up to sdcard
went to contacts, settins, and exported to sd card
Q. I rooted and custom romed my other buddies phone and not all his contacts were exported. Is there something else i need to do to get all contacts backed up?
Q. i couldent find "Call Logs Backup & Restore" in the market. Do i really need it?
ok so this point i plan on plugging the phone into ubuntu, and copying all the data on the SD card to my laptop. This should backup all his pictures, contacts, craps onto my laptop.
Then i will install clockworkmod recovery from market. Reboot into recovery.
The use ADB to manually partiton the 8 gb SD card
1 - 7.5GB FAT32
2 - 512MB ext4
3 - 32MB swap
Q. Is this sound like a good layout?
Now that the card is partitioned i will install clockworkmod via the market and make a backup of the current system state, just incase he wants to go back to original. and copy the new rom from the laptop to the sdcard
as far as roms / kernels
i am overwhelmed and confused by the choices, he just wants something fast without bugs and without the sprint preloaded crap. But i dont think he wants any fancy custom hacker looking ****, just something plain fast and works.
Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
sorry about the questions, this is a guy i work with and i wanna show off my leet, but i dont wanna **** his phone as hes goin on vacation soon and needs it to just work. I have a galaxy tab, acer tab, but never messed with a htc phone. i am curious to hear if this sound like the best way to go at it?
thanks
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Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Yes
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
No
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
Yes
I wouldn't do the swap partition tho. It will kill the SD card in a less than a month. Cyanogenmod and AOSPCMod are good choices and have settings under the Cyanogenmod settings for memory management and caching so the swap partition really isn't needed. It wouldn't help unless it was at least a class 6 sd card too.

fpineda thank you for the prompt reply

Yea, Cyanogenmod 7 is best. Make sure it's the Heroc one. It will say "aospCWMod-HEROC" on the file name, then the version number. Download it and copy it to the root of the microsd card.
I also agree with gophet about partitioning the SD card. Just leave it alone. You won't have to restore any of the data but it's good that you backed it up on the laptop just in case.
Once you install clockworkmod, shut down. Then turn on the phone while holding down the home key. It will put you in recovery.
From there go to "flash zip from sd card" --> and pick the Cyanogenmod. It will take a while but you should have no problems. Also, the first boot will take a long time.

Sounds like you should look into firerating it, if that's even a word.

RUU cannot find my shift?

Hi, I followed all the steps here but when I run RUU it says it cannot connect to my device. I have HTC sync installed. I'm not sure why it's not working.

Are you using the HTC cord that came with the phone? Some after market cords will keep your device from connecting. You could also try uninstalling HTC sync but not the drivers.
I've never had much luck running the RUU exe either.. If you can't get it to work I would use the PG06IMG.zip. Just put it on the root of your sd and boot into Hboot, it will run the RUU from there. Just a heads ups though, your SDcard may need to be formatted to fat32 in order for Hboot to see the zip.

Yeah, I'm using the cord that came with the phone, about doing the Hboot method... How do I go about doing that? I put the zip file on the root of my SD card, what's the next step? Also if I do need to format the card to fat32, how would I go about doing that? Sorry for all the questions I'm new to Android.. Rooting my palm pre way back when was much easier lol.

kasvaca said:
Yeah, I'm using the cord that came with the phone, about doing the Hboot method... How do I go about doing that? I put the zip file on the root of my SD card, what's the next step? Also if I do need to format the card to fat32, how would I go about doing that? Sorry for all the questions I'm new to Android.. Rooting my palm pre way back when was much easier lol.
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Just put the zip on the root of your sd, power off your phone then boot into bootloader (Hold power and volume down at the same time). The bootloader will basically instruct you from there.
Couple of tips.. SdCard MAY need to formatted to fat32, google how to format it's pretty easy. This will erase everything on your sd, so make a backup.
Make sure you have fastboot disabled. Menu > Settings > Power > uncheck fastboot

looks like I have to format it, it found no image. Yay.. lol
edit: okay formatted currently moving all files back onto the card and will try Hboot again.
edit2: Worked like a charm thanks so much!

[Q] What if I just flash the rom without sd settings?

I have Windows 7.5 (Pradigm) installed in my phone and I believe all the neccessary MGLDR and HSLR are correctly installed.
I had ICS installed by someone I know, and I felt I wanted to test the Windows OS's layout, so without telling him I just booted to MGLDR (with a new sd card) and clicked at USB Flasher, connected through the Computer, and I opened the DFU.exe, and installed the Windows 7.5 (pradigm) and it works perfectly..
now I want to install this rom (andriod)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1930240
I feel I can do it the way I did windows? or there is something else I have to do too?
I've searched through the forums and and read some guides, everything is clear, that I have to run DFU.exe like I did back then while flashing windows.
what I don't understand is what is ext2/4/6, SDNATIVE stuff.. can anybody please elaborate?
Plus, do answer that will it be okey if I download the above rom, connect my phone(usb flasher mode) and flash the rom (DFU.exe of that rom) .. will this be okay or I need to be further instructed in order to flash this rom?

No, you can't do that. You need to repartitoon your phone via USB flasher and flash recovery, then download the .zip of the ROM, place it on the root of your SD card, boot into recovery, choose install zip from sdcard, choose the .zip file, flash, wait for it to do it's job. You're done, reboot. Ext2/3/4 are external partitions of SD Cards, thanks zo them, you can install apps to those partitions without losing any data space.

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