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question after root and custom roms

I have a few questions which I am a little unclear after rooting my Eris:
What is the purpose of partition sdcard option on the Android Sys Recovery Menu? Within it, there are 4 options and what are they?
is Nand backup sufficient or do I need Nand + ext backup? I am getting an error when running Nand + ext.
When installing custom rom, do I have to do the amon's recovery image step or do I just boot the phone with the system recovery, wipe and flash zip from sdcard?
Thanks.

Aman Ra replaces the default recovery. IE when you hold volume up while powering on you are in Aman Ra, this will be a permanent change unless you unroot I think. Essentially as long as you installed it when you rooted, you never install it again.
The partitions are used for Apps2SD. as is the ext partitions. Unless your using Apps2SD you only need to do a nand backup. Once you start using Apps2SD you will want to do both.
Lastly often enough when a nand+ext back up will not work, it is because you are missing a /sys/sd folder.

thx for the info
I got it now, so for installing custom rom, all I have to do is boot to the recovery, do a wipe, flash sd card. I am glad I rooted

install a nwe nand rom

for installing a new nand rom after having tried another need to reinstall magdlr and cw???

if they have the same cwr partition then you can go in mgldr menu AD recovery-wipe data/factory reset then AD Recovery-advanced-wipe dalvik then you can flash the new rom. but if they have different CWR partitions then you must flash the new CWR partition using usb fasher in mgldr menu,then you can flash the new rom. install of new mgldr is not necessary

[Q] Phone won't start

Today I rooted my U8800, I installed Clockworkmod, made a backup, and tried installing a Honeycomb ROM, I put the zip file in my SD card, and booted in recovery mode.
I did the following things: wipe data/factory reset; wipe cache partition, wipe dalvik cache, and tried installing the rom from my SD card, however clockworkmod didn't see the .zip file in my SD card, so I rebooted my phone and it didn't start. Then I chose recovery (from my backup) in Clockworkmod, still didn't work.
I can see the booting screen (it says IDEOS), it stays there for a while and then it just goes black and boots itself again.
Is there any way to fix this issue?

What do you mean by a honeycomb rom? You need CM7, MIUI or Oxygen for your phone which are all gingerbread based and available in the development section of this forum. Honeycomb is for tablets only.
What phone do you have? a regular u8800 or a u8800pro?
Which recovery do you have?
What does the recovery do when you select restore from backup?
Lastly, does the recovery see anything else on the sd card?

PaulMilbank said:
What do you mean by a honeycomb rom? You need CM7, MIUI or Oxygen for your phone which are all gingerbread based and available in the development section of this forum. Honeycomb is for tablets only.
What phone do you have? a regular u8800 or a u8800pro?
Which recovery do you have?
What does the recovery do when you select restore from backup?
Lastly, does the recovery see anything else on the sd card?
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Right, I thought I could get Honeycomb, I completely screwed up...
I have a regular u8800, Clockworkmod Recovery 4
When I select restore from backup, it just does exactly what it's supposed to do, at the end it says that the recovery was succesful, but I'm still stuck in bootloop.
Yes, the recovery can see different things on my SD card.
If I downloaded CM7, put it on my SD card, and then installed it via CWM, would it work?
Oh and is there a way to access my SD card without my phone actually being turned on?

If it is an external card, use a sd card reader to put files onto it. If not, get an external card and card reader!
You can try wipe userdata, cache and dalvic cache then restore backup, otherwise I would definitely get hold of CM7 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068766
Oxygen from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149150
MIUI:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354680
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362963
Install one of them and hopefully you should be back up and working.

I did try wiping userdata, cache, and dalvik cache, however it still doesn't boot...
I'm going to get an SD card reader later today, but I'm not very optimistic since it doesn't boot even with the backup I had from CWM, so I don't think it'll bot with CM7 or something..

So I figured out what my problem was, I didn't put the .zip file in my phone memory, I put it in an external micro-SD card, because I thought that's what I was supposed to do.. so now I'm pretty much screwed.
Is there any way to make CWM search for the .zip on my external SD, or is there any way to access my phone memory without actually booting it?

Vertikal307 said:
Is there any way to make CWM search for the .zip on my external SD, or is there any way to access my phone memory without actually booting it?
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Since you have ClockworkMod Recovery, I'll assume your bootloader isn't useless: Download {L,X}Ubuntu and burn it on a CD or make a bootable USB. Boot it and put your phone into the pink screen mode: you'll be able to mount the internal SD card. For me, I find Genokolar's CWM to be weird with the external card: the only time I can get it to see the card is if I boot into Android, unmount the card and then do an "adb reboot bootloader" from my computer

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Since you have ClockworkMod Recovery, I'll assume your bootloader isn't useless: Download (L/X)Ubuntu and burn it on a CD or make a bootable USB. Boot it and put your phone into the pink screen mode: you'll be able to mount the internal SD card. For me, I find Genokolar's CWM to be weird with the external card: the only time I can get it to see the card is if I boot into Android, unmount the card and then do a "adb reboot bootloader" from my computer
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I'm going to try this, currently downloading Ubuntu, although I've never used it before, so I'm really scared of just messing everything up.

Thank you SO much guys, especially qwerty12.
I installed Ubuntu and put the CM7 .zip file on my internal memory, and succesfully installed CM7, now my phone booted normally, and I have CM7 installed!

Great stuff,glad you got it sorted

Stuck at splash screen

hello,
i have flashed a nand android rom over my previous nand rom, but im stuck at the splash screen for sometime.
can anybody tell me why its taking so much time, The rom I've flashed is NexusHD2 ICS.
and i tried searching but the results werent fruitful.

Did U flashed correct partition layout for this ROM?

icke said:
Did U flashed correct partition layout for this ROM?
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how to do that, im new to this, just bought the phone today,
read in a guide that i have just to install zip from sd card via CWM.

Installations:
Please use at least 165MB system partition and at least 2MB cache partition.
Please refer to ksubedi's HD2 NAND Toolkit and/or mskip's guide.
Cache partition (/dev/block/mtdblock4) is only used by CWM.
Cache partition size is not important because the data partition (/dev/block/mtdblock5) is used as the cache space when running Android.
If your HD2 has bad NAND blocks, you may need larger partitions.
Wipe
Wipe Data/Factory Reset while doing a fresh install. (Optional: also delete /sdcard/Android folder or format your SD card if you have any strange issue.)
Advanced -> Wipe Dalvik Cache while upgrading from an old version and wanting to retain data.
Flash this ROM.
MAGLDR: Flash NexusHD2-ICS-CM9_V1.5.zip, then reboot.
　 cLK　 : Flash NexusHD2-ICS-CM9_V1.5.zip and the cLK kernel, then reboot.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090783
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044830

Me Install But Not Show SD Card.

[Q] How to remove NAND Rom and keep SD rom

Hi all,
I previously had a NAND install of android working fine on my device, i did test a SD install in parallel for the few last weeks and i'd like to stay with it.
I setup MAGLDR to boot to my SD Android but i would like to clean the NAND install, do you know how i could do this?
The NAND Rom i'd like to remove: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1945425
The SD ROM i'd like to keep: http://nexushd2android.tytung.com/nexushd2-gingerbread/v3-3/download
thanks in advance for your answers,

Nuke everything with task29, install magldr, install the rom you want. You should get the same results using CWM and wiping everything from the menu.

zokisvasta said:
Nuke everything with task29, install magldr, install the rom you want. You should get the same results using CWM and wiping everything from the menu.
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Thank you for your answer.
I just have one last question about the impact of the wipes from CWM.
I don't understand which rom will be impacted my the "wipe data/factory reset" from CWM, the NAND rom? the SD? both?
Is there a solution only to wipe the NAND rom and not to touch my SD rom?
thank you again for your help,

cimourdain said:
Thank you for your answer.
I just have one last question about the impact of the wipes from CWM.
I don't understand which rom will be impacted my the "wipe data/factory reset" from CWM, the NAND rom? the SD? both?
Is there a solution only to wipe the NAND rom and not to touch my SD rom?
thank you again for your help,
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I don't feel qualified to talk about this, but here's my understanding. CWM will only mess with your phone storage and remove everything there. The SD rom will stay on your SD card (unless you formated or partitioned that too), so as long as you have magldr set to boot from SD it'll boot the rom you want with nand being gone.
All I know is that if I were in your position, I'd wipe everything, both the card and phone, and just put the rom back again on SD. You can't miss with that. Make sure you backup the stuff you want from your card before you format it, should you decide to do so.

cimourdain said:
Thank you for your answer.
I just have one last question about the impact of the wipes from CWM.
I don't understand which rom will be impacted my the "wipe data/factory reset" from CWM, the NAND rom? the SD? both?
Is there a solution only to wipe the NAND rom and not to touch my SD rom?
thank you again for your help,
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The wipe data/factory reset option will wipe the ROM on your NAND and your SD EXT partition but shouldn't affect your SD ROM. If you're worried then just backup your data.img from your SD ROM to your PC before wiping.