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A little confused....

So i am new to the phone hacking scene and have a few baisic questions.
1. How do you use/do a nandroid backup.
2. How do you instal themes like the Sense-able 3.1.
If you could just point me in the right direction it will help sooo much
Thanks

MMcCoy1127 said:
So i am new to the phone hacking scene and have a few baisic questions.
1. How do you use/do a nandroid backup.
2. How do you instal themes like the Sense-able 3.1.
If you could just point me in the right direction it will help sooo much
Thanks
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You'll have to install the recover img. Use Eris Master Application for rooting and installing recovery. When you're ready to go into recovery, boot up the phone while holding the Up volume key. Then select Restore/Backup and do nand backup.
2. Put Senseable on the root of your sd card. Not in any folders or anything, just put the zip directly into your sd card. Then go into recovery (up on the volume button and the power button) and click wipe data/factory and dalvik cache. Then choose flash from zip and select your rom. Then hit the down volume button to go back into the menu's and select reboot system now. If you need more help just lemme know.

ok so a few more questions....
1. What is a ROM, recovery image, and root image???
2. im guessing i gotta root my phone before i can do a nandroid backup???

that is correct

You have some reading to do...
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I used this guide to help me root my Eris about a month ago, but it is still up to date:
[Walkthrough] From stock (1.5) to rooted 2.1 (update - new link)
h t t p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=647707
OR
You can try this application by ECLIPS3 and Jamezelle which does the same rooting process in a few simple clicks:
[Application] Eris Master Application [R00T]
h t t p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=661413
Let me try to answer your questions as best as I can:
1. A ROM is essentially the operating system of the phone. When you flash (install) a new ROM, it's like installing a new version of Windows or Mac OS X or Linux or what have you.
2. A Recovery Image is like a separate partition on your phone dedicated for back ups and the obvious one recovery among other things. I'm using RA 1.6.2 but there are other recovery images out there. I suggest just sticking with RA (other members might agree with me or not. I'm no expert).
3. I believe the Root Image is the update.zip file that you will see in those guides that I referred to. If this is the case, then all it is is a ROM that you will flash that gives you root access (the core folders and settings) on your phone.
Try and look for the Rooting FAQ. It's somewhere around here. Best of luck to you.

semmtexx said:
You have some reading to do...
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+over 9000
i understand there are a lot of new faces here all the time but in the same respect you should at least look over the forums before starting to ask questions. Literally all of the OPs answers are sticky'd at the very top of the the dev section.
I've said it before and Ill say it again, I lurked a long time and read a lot of information before posting any types of questions at all...call me old fashioned but I think you should at least have a bearing of the situation before you start spouting off the most basic questions about rooting or installing custom ROMs (i.e. "
1. What is a ROM, recovery image, and root image???")
that is all. best of luck with your root experience, youll never ever want to use anything stock again.

For ANYONE having difficulty installing TnT Lite 2.00-2.xx

Read This
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9542514&postcount=662

Alternatively, just read my installation instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
I think I'm going to start using a rar format - might be a way to differentiate between the actual release and the update.zip inside. Not sure why I didn't think of that, before.

Still not that simple for me, since even a "Gtablet Vet" like myself tried the OP method and failed. My second out of box new Gtablet went in perma-loop when simply installing straight to 2.0, via recovery folder & update.zip. Ended up having to get CW on the device by putting on the sd card, remapping command and stopping the loop with power + volume to get CW installed. I then had to install TnT 1.02 and then finally got 2.0 installed after that (cache and data wipe of course).
Cleanest way seems install 1.02 via recovery folder / update.zip method and then install 2.0 the same way. Thats is unless I just had bad luck with second Gtablet. VERY possible.
added:
Frankly, we seem at the stage now where CW seems a survival requirement- IF you want to keep trying new roms & updates.

roebeet said:
Alternatively, just read my installation instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004
I think I'm going to start using a rar format - might be a way to differentiate between the actual release and the update.zip inside. Not sure why I didn't think of that, before.
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u didn't think of it because it was only a problem to ppl that half read the instructions, downloaded the zips and just tried to install as-is...
Also don't understand why ppl want to keep standard recovery, clockwork is made to install custom roms so its easier for these task

LRiley said:
u didn't think of it because it was only a problem to ppl that half read the instructions, downloaded the zips and just tried to install as-is...
Also don't understand why ppl want to keep standard recovery, clockwork is made to install custom roms so its easier for these task
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The only issue with cwm is that it's not easy to remove it, once you have it. I think you need to use nvflash to get rid of it. I love cwm but I can't assume that everyone uses it.
And trust me, not everyone does. I sees posts here and I get PM's as well, and many people are still using standard recovery.

roebeet said:
The only issue with cwm is that it's not easy to remove it, once you have it. I think you need to use nvflash to get rid of it. I love cwm but I can't assume that everyone uses it.
And trust me, not everyone does. I sees posts here and I get PM's as well, and many people are still using standard recovery.
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Installing TnT 1.0 roms appears to zap CW pretty good.

roebeet said:
The only issue with cwm is that it's not easy to remove it, once you have it. I think you need to use nvflash to get rid of it. I love cwm but I can't assume that everyone uses it.
And trust me, not everyone does. I sees posts here and I get PM's as well, and many people are still using standard recovery.
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I have found that you can put the stock recovery img (let's call it recovery-stock.img) on the sdcard and get an adb shell while booted into cw recovery. Then it's just a
Code:
flash_image recovery recovery-stock.img
That should get you back to stock recovery.
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App

LRiley said:
u didn't think of it because it was only a problem to ppl that half read the instructions, downloaded the zips and just tried to install as-is...
Also don't understand why ppl want to keep standard recovery, clockwork is made to install custom roms so its easier for these task
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I had to go back to stock at first because I kept getting status 7 errors with CW. Roebeet's suggestion to partition sdcard with CWR seems to have solved that.
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Flashed 2.0.0
I liked TnT 2.0.0 and it really helped performance but the gtab is still full of issues....
Out of the box my Gtab's proprietary email and photo app forced closed before ever loading. the viewsonic update didn't fix it and so I flashed it with TnT 2.0.0.
I got a System UID's warning while I did it and I guess that was the cause of those apps not working. I then did a system reset to factory default or whatever its called and lost everything but after flashing TnT 2.0.0 again it worked a lot better and the email app worked great, photo app still doesn't work. My new problems are that the sound and and flash don't work anymore. I reinstalled flash and the browser just crashes whenever flash is involved with a site. Sound will sometimes work when I first boot up but it quits after a while, especially after waking from sleep. A lot of the time I get crackles and pops when I first boot up or wake it from sleep.
I am returning this Gtab and I am going to buy another one from somewhere else in hopes that I don't get these issues out of the box.....I haven't read anywhere that anyone has experienced these specific problems other than the sound; as this is a TnT error; so I warn all, DON'T BUY FROM STAPLES!!!

custom rom help for a n00b

OK so first off I want to apologize, I am a noob. Im on many other differedt types of forums and I know n00bs are universally hated. So bear with me.
I know a decent bit about computers/phones/technology. Well more then your average bear at least. Not as much as you guys though.
My phone is permarooted, and now im looking to put a custom rom on. My brother permarooted it for me.
OK I know you guys are gonna say omgz read all the info on the site it's all here. I went to the android dev forum and there are sooooooo many builds I don't even know where to begin. I know none of the cm mods are 'stable' yet. But surely some more then others, no? What are the differences between 6, 6.1, and 7? Any reccomendations? I will be attempting this tomorrow.
If anyone can give me some pointers, point me in the right direction, newb friendly teks.
Any advice or input in very appreciated.
Thanks.

If you like stock android, I would highly recommend cyanogen mod 7. It turned my mt4g into a speed demon. And it is stable enough to a daily driver.
If you like sense, ( why would anyone) then I'd recommend the ice glacier rom, it is close to stock but with alot of bloatware removed.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916930
I guess.I'd like to go with this build.
The instructions aren't very newb friendly. Is there a guide somewhere that goes a bit more in depth on the steps?
INSTRUCTIONS:
-First time flashing CM 7 to your MT4G (or coming from another ROM)?
1. Unlock/root your device and install Clockwork Recovery via ROM Manager
Clockwork recovery is an app? How does one install via rom manager?
2. Do a Nandroid backup!
What does this entail/what tools would I news to do this?
3. Flash ClockworkMod Recovery 3.x 3. WIPE
???
4. Install the ROM
???
5. Optionally install the Google Addon
Why wouul one want to do this and what would the benefits bbe? How would you go about it as well?
I know y'all are prolly like wtf how annoying. But is really apprexiate the help. I have my reasons for doing this, I don't just think its cool or something.
Im more then willing to do the research myself there's just so much info out there i dontknow where to go. Even a point in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks.

kr00kd said:
1. Unlock/root your device and install Clockwork Recovery via ROM Manager
Clockwork recovery is an app? How does one install via rom manager?
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"ROM Manager" is an app (search the Market). Clockwork Recovery is installed via ROM Manager (do it two or three times, sometimes it won't "stick" right after you are rooted).
kr00kd said:
2. Do a Nandroid backup!
What does this entail/what tools would I news to do this?
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This is done from Clockwork Recovery. You can either run ROM Manager and choose "Reboot to recovery" or power the phone down then power back up while holding volume down. There will be a backup menu (nandroid). Make a backup (it saves on your SD card).
kr00kd said:
3. Flash ClockworkMod Recovery 3.x 3. WIPE
???
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Search the forum. Sorry, I'm running a ROM that doesn't require recovery 3.x. Once you find the recovery image you need to flash it via adb or directly from a Terminal Emulator app on the phone. Usually flash recovery <your_recovery_img> or via adb in fastboot mode fastboot flash recovery <your_recovery_img> You can also perform a full (SYSTEM) wipe in recovery mode.
kr00kd said:
4. Install the ROM
???
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DL the ROM, place the zip on your SD card. Reboot into recovery (should be there already after doing a wipe in step 3) and pick "Install zip from SD card". Scroll to your ROM's zip, select it, confirm, watch the magic happen.
kr00kd said:
5. Optionally install the Google Addon
Why wouul one want to do this and what would the benefits bbe? How would you go about it as well?
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I don't use a CM ROM on this phone but did on my G1. Search the CM site or the forums here. CM ships "bare android", aka the AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Things Google adds (Gmail, Calendar, Navigate, etc) can not ship with CM due to copyright. You can, however, download and re-install them (since they came with your phone anyhow).
I suggest you read things thoroughly and treat everything like you will brick your shiny new toy before ever attempting it. Make sure you're willing to spend $450 retail on a new phone if you screw up. The first time through any of this is NOT for the faint of heart, and you cannot be overly cautious.
You'll probably get a lot of flames of "OMG DONT DO ANYTHING YOU DIDNT SEARCH AND READ", but good luck. Just seriously, be sure to read everything at least three times before doing it. It gets easier once you've been doing it for a few years, but the first trip....It's a deep rabbit hole

[QUIDE] Install Paul's ICS Port and Restore HC

This is just a mini guide to help you flash ICS and restore back to fully functional Honeycomb.You re doing everything on your own risk.Don't bother asking Paul for further instructions.If you still hesitate to flash and try then you re not ready for such things and its better to stay with Honecomb until Asus decides to roll out the ICS OTA
Preparations:
1)Make sure you ‘re rooted and you have clockwork mode recovery installed!
2)Make sure you have enough free space on your external SD-card.
3)Download the latest ICS port and place it in your externals sd-card root.
3)Boot into recovery and perform a Advanced nandroid backup. You will need around 1GB of free space in the SD-Card.
Installation:
1)While you re on CWM recovery perform a “Wipe data/factory reset”.
2)Choose install zip from sd-card.Find the desired file in your sd-cards root and choose.You ll have to verify that this is what you want and then the flashing procedure beings.
3)After flashing is finished reboot system and you re ready to go.
Going back to Honeycomb.
1)Making that nandroid backup was really crucial.In case you didn’t like it at all or you find it still buggy you can restore your system prior to the ICS state.
1)Shut down your tablet.
2)While off keep pressing volume down and at the same time press and hold the power button. After a while you ll see the ASUS logo and on the top of the screen you ll see some small letters.Quickly release everything and press volume up. This will get you into recovery mode! (credits to xuser)
3)Navigate through the menu and choose Backup and restore. Choose restore,select your image (usually the title is the date when the backup was created) and the process will begin.
4)Because the CWM Recovery wont backup the HC kernel you must flash the kernel afterwards in order to boot back to Honeycomb.In case you dont have it you could always flash the ROM you were using before right after the nandroid restore process without applying any wipes.That way you ll have a fully functional Honeycomb tablet like it was before! (thx ValenteL for the reminder)
Credits to Paul for his great work

thank you !

Thank you very much

Ivanovic said:
Going back to Honeycomb.
3)Navigate through the menu and choose Backup and restore. Choose restore,select your image (usually the title is the date when the backup was created) and the process will being.
4)When done hit Reboot to system and you re ready to go!
Credits to Paul for his great work
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Hi Ivanovic
Thanks for Your nice guide. Whit this I advanced to install the ICS ROM and it work very well.
But before the step 3 of Going back... must have something more.
The recovery 3.2.0.1 don't make the kernel backup. In this case the Restore don't have the HC kernel. I made Restore whit the ICS kernel flashed and after restore the TF don't started. I closed, enter on recovery and flashed the HC Kernel then rebooted and HC rom started well.
When people don't have HC kernel to flash make a ROM install only to choice of language (here the HC kernel was flashed yet). Close here, enter on recovery and restore. Work well.
You agee whit this?
Thanks.

ValenteL said:
Hi Ivanovic
Thanks for Your nice guide. Whit this I advanced to install the ICS ROM and it work very well.
But before the step 3 of Going back... must have something more.
The recovery 3.2.0.1 don't make the kernel backup. In this case the Restore don't have the HC kernel. I made Restore whit the ICS kernel flashed and after restore the TF don't started. I closed, enter on recovery and flashed the HC Kernel then rebooted and HC rom started well.
When people don't have HC kernel to flash make a ROM install only to choice of language (here the HC kernel was flashed yet). Close here, enter on recovery and restore. Work well.
You agee whit this?
Thanks.
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You re completely right.I forgot to add this part into the guide!

Please edit your op to say that if you have problems following this guide or questions about the rom, please don't ask them in paul's development thread. Now that you put together this guide people who probably should NOT be attempting to use paul's INCOMPLETE ROM are thinking it's ready for use because this guide is now in the general section. This is going to bother paul and possibly distract him and others working on finishing the rom.
Noobs are already wandering into the development thread, citing this guide, asking questions that have already been answered.
Good intentions here with this guide, but i think it was premature..if you need a guide to figure out how to flash a specific incomplete rom then you probably aren't prepared to use that rom or rollback to your old rom, imho

More info added on the OP
I believe that people should have something to rely on when trying new stuff and not only a zip file.
We all know that when we mess with custom roms,kernels,mods etc our device can brick,become semi functional or whatever.
This is for people that want to experiment with something new!

Spoliti / fala / blagodaram / ef̱charistó̱

Ivanovic said:
More info added on the OP
I believe that people should have something to rely on when trying new stuff and not only a zip file.
We all know that when we mess with custom roms,kernels,mods etc our device can brick,become semi functional or whatever.
This is for people that want to experiment with something new!
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Thanks, anything we can do to keep the newbies from bothering the devs
Not trying to be mean to them, but they don't need to bother paul he is doing great work for free, us non dev tf101 owners can help with questions so long as they don't post them in his dev thread, i for one don't mind answering questions on his behalf so he doesn't have to be bothered by them

Ivanovic said:
Hi @luna_c666
Preparations:
1)Make sure you ‘re rooted and you have clockwork mode recovery installed!
2)Make sure you have enough free space on your external SD-card.
3)Download the latest ICS port and place it in your externals sd-card root.
3)Boot into recovery and perform a Advanced nandroid backup. You will need around 1GB of free space in the SD-Card.
Installation:
1)While you re on CWM recovery perform a “Wipe data/factory reset”.
2)Choose install zip from sd-card.Find the desired file in your sd-cards root and choose.You ll have to verify that this is what you want and then the flashing procedure beings.
3)After flashing is finished reboot system and you re ready to go.
Going back to Honeycomb.
1)Making that nandroid backup was really crucial.In case you didn’t like it at all or you find it still buggy you can restore your system prior to the ICS state.
1)Shut down your tablet.
2)While off keep pressing volume down and at the same time press and hold the power button. After a while you ll see the ASUS logo and on the top of the screen you ll see some small letters.Quickly release everything and press volume up. This will get you into recovery mode! (credits to xuser)
3)Navigate through the menu and choose Backup and restore. Choose restore,select your image (usually the title is the date when the backup was created) and the process will begin.
4)Because the CWM Recovery wont backup the HC kernel you must flash the kernel afterwards in order to boot back to Honeycomb.In case you dont have it you could always flash the ROM you were using before right after the nandroid restore process without applying any wipes.That way you ll have a fully functional Honeycomb tablet like it was before! (thx ValenteL for the reminder)
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In my opinion this is a generalist guide for all ICS or HC ROM's. I Installed 5 ROM's on Transformer and many updates and I can confirm that this is right.

ValenteL said:
In my opinion this is a generalist guide for all ICS or HC ROM's. I Installed 5 ROM's on Transformer and many updates and I can confirm that this is right.
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Yes, but honestly if you needed the guide, you are still a noob, no offense but i think everyone here would agree.
And, if you are a noob, you are likely not to want to use the ics wip rom for anything but experiment, as it is missing many functions that general users cannot be without.
Just be patient, paul's ics will be just as good as other custom roms, when it has been finished

luna_c666 said:
Yes, but honestly if you needed the guide, you are still a noob, no offense but i think everyone here would agree.
And, if you are a noob, you are likely not to want to use the ics wip rom for anything but experiment, as it is missing many functions that general users cannot be without.
Just be patient, paul's ics will be just as good as other custom roms, when it has been finished
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Yes I agree You. On HC I think Im'not a noob but here to install a ics wip I am a noob. I needed this guide to decide advance to.
Now the HC development is a little stoped and I will go work and test whit this ICS for a time. I like the ICS. I don't wait, now I will test all updates of this.

Wait, one question, why is this a "quide"?
Sent from my ADR6425LVW

username235 said:
Wait, one question, why is this a "quide"?
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Because he's Greek.

Ah, okay. Is their q an English g sound or what? Nice guide to the op though, thanks
Sent from my ADR6425LVW

Is charging indicator broken or my power adapter is broken?

Heres my rubbish video for a little preview of the build.......dont know how the sound manages to run ahead of the image but oh well........and as a scotsman we speak fast!! if it makes you laugh or its a little helpful then hit the thanks rather than report!
If i get 500 hits i promise not to make any more lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rupHezNOY_Q&feature=youtu.be
if anyone wants to enbed it any where then feel free

Nice song

Nice video for all who need assistance, you nailed it.
On a similar note. I love how international the TF is. I'm used to the US crappy CDMA network phones lol.

Great guide. One suggestion though you should probably highlight or bold the part where it says you have to flash the kernel. I did catch this in the thread and did flash the kernel. As i found out the hard way you need this if you have overclocked and want to go back to stock. It is probably a good idea to download the origial stock kernel from revolver parts (if you are using revolver I'm sure that prime et al have something similar) or elsewhere. Not having the proper kernel can really be a BIt of a CHallenge.
Sent from my Transformer boring stock TF101 using Tapatalk

This is weird...

im trying to put a recovery on my vibrant that i have and i have root access but when i try to intall rom manager so i can get the recovery i do not find it in the app store. i still have the OLD app store that has lots of green borders. When i look for rom manager, i find te paid version but not the free version and when i try manually installing the apk...
it says parsing error. can i get some help wth the please.

Not sure, but here is the direct downloaded ROM Manager (free)
http://www.mediafire.com/?523y13j76z66lb7

Thanks for the download.
I tried installing it but it did the same thing. It said parsing error

Download cwr from my signature. Put update.zip on your internal and make sure it is only thing labeled that on there. Boot into stock recovery (blue) and hit Reinstall Packages, let it cycle, hit it again and stock (blue) now becomes cwr (green) and flash away

Woodrube said:
Download cwr from my signature. Put update.zip on your internal and make sure it is only thing labeled that on there. Boot into stock recovery (blue) and hit Reinstall Packages, let it cycle, hit it again and stock (blue) now becomes cwr (green) and flash away
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will do but is it safe to do this if i rooted with zRoot and if i am on stock rom 2.1-update1

Yes that is the best way as a matter of fact. Btw what ROM are you wanting to flash?

i want to get any form of ICS on the vibrant, if yo could also help me with that i would greatly appreciate it.

lol i just saw your sig, you are very prepared in helping noobs xD

WOW i have been trying to install CWM since thursday and with your method i did it within a matter of seconds! Thanks!!

Again see link in my signature for ICS install instruction. I suggest you play with a 2.2 like Fishman 's Bionix and familiarize yourself with handling functions like flashing, restoring, ram tweaks, ....otherwise you might get into more than you can handle. ICS is a pretty advanced flash and could potentially brick your device if something goes wrong. Not as easy as just flashing update.zip, hence my guide. Also see warning at the top of the guide. Very important and the cause/solution is still WIP.
Also you are on your own for finding the needed files. Sorry but my dropbox acct has been getting flexed lately so i am giving it a break. Good luck and make sure you hit Xrider's thanks for posting in two separate threads to helps you with the .apk.
Going to bed. Good luck.

Woodrube said:
Again see link in my signature for ICS install instruction. I suggest you play with a 2.2 like Fishman 's Bionix and familiarize yourself with handling functions like flashing, restoring, ram tweaks, ....otherwise you might get into more than you can handle. ICS is a pretty advanced flash and could potentially brick your device if something goes wrong. Not as easy as just flashing update.zip, hence my guide. Also see warning at the top of the guide. Very important and the cause/solution is still WIP.
Also you are on your own for finding the needed files. Sorry but my dropbox acct has been getting flexed lately so i am giving it a break. Good luck and make sure you hit Xrider's thanks for posting in two separate threads to helps you with the .apk.
Going to bed. Good luck.
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Thanks you are a big help.
i am just a noob in this phone. i have been flashing and roting ever since the G1, i had the G1, Mytouch3g, Mytouch 4g, and i am currently using my amaze 4g, but i also have a vibrant that i want to root and put ICS on it but thanks!