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Hey guys, I just wanted to share my experience so far. I can't post on the MIUI page because I don't have enough posts, so I'll share here for anyone interested.
For anyone wanting to try MIUI for the DX, here's my experience, some tips, and suggestions.
-Beware, installing or trying to install ANY ROM may brick your phone. although it's very rare and unlikely to be unable to find a solution to problems, it can and has happened. so take caution and read instructions and so-forth carefully.
Some history of my DX. I soft-bricked my phone back in the early months of the DX trying to deodex it to install themes. It was stuck on M logo for 2 days before i learned enough from scratch to find out what an SBF was, where to find it, and how to flash my phone back to stock. Ever since then these nice folk on XDA-developers forums and other droid forums have helped me successfully mod my phone many times, through Q&A, detailed instructions, and a little luck.
I've rooted my phone using the command method, Z4Root, and several other processes. Some were hard to figure out, some soft-bricked my phone, most were easy as pie. I'm on a Z4Root atm.
The first successful ROM I installed was GUMMY-JAR. I liked it, it was good to me. nothing like the comprehensive ROMs out now though.
Then I jumped to Liberty 1.5, Liberty x.x etc... Liberty was awesome, but was still basically Froyo with advanced options. I loved it.
Now, just today, I've installed MIUI. And let me tell you, its amazing!
For anyone running Froyo Liberty ROMs, I believe that you can install MIUI right over the top. I didn't think it was going to work, as I hadn't seen anyone mention if it did or not over the top of Liberty 1.5.
If you want to install MIUI, go here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1181486
You MUST be rooted, and be running FROYO, NOT GB! You must also have the Droid X bootstrapper.
I won't give instructions, as I'm not qualified to do so. But I can tell you what I did from Liberty 1.5. MAKE SURE TO MAKE A BACKUP FIRST! 1) I downloaded the MIUI ROM from the above XDA post to my SD card on my phone. 2) I clicked 'bootstrap recovery' on the DX bootstrapper app, then 'reboot recovery.' My phone booted into clockwork recovery mode. 3) wiped data/factory reset. 4) cleared cache. 5) install from SD Card. 6) install MIUI.zip i downloaded from the link i posted above. let it run it's course. rebooted. DONE.
It's really that easy if you are running the DX stock Froyo kernal.
Keep in mind with MIUI, it does NOT auto-sync your Google account. you need to go into the options>>accounts/sync and add your Google account. You can then re-install apps from your backup or just re-download them. Make sure you've synced your contacts with your Google account so they will be there when you add your Google account.
Some thoughts on MIUI...
There is NO STOCK APP DRAWER. I recommend ADW launcher or Launcher PRO. The MIUI launcher inst bad, but it's like iOS in that there's no app drawer. It's just a bunch of screens with all your app icons like an iPhone.
You can download theme's and customize themes through settings>>personal>>theme manager. MIUI allows you to change fonts, boot animation, boot audio, lock-screen style, status bar, icons, launcher, wallpapers, text style, dialer style etc. There's tons of pre-made packages, but you can also change them all individually and create one you like best. You can do all of this directly from the settings menu including looking up new themes, downloading them, and applying them.
MIUI is running on 2.3.4 GB. So it wont say 2.2 anymore after you install. (I believe the kernal is still Froyo though? Please correct me if I am wrong)
I really hope this helps some of you newbies. I am thankful for all of you that have made posts like this that I have found useful in the past.
Note- some people are having issues installing MIUI. They are getting bootlooped on the M logo for some reason. I have no idea why this is, it worked perfectly for me first try. Just remember to follow the instructions on the ROM page, and that you are running the correct version of Android. You shouldn't get a boot-loop if you do so.
Hope this helps!
i have a question.... and this question is what will decide if i keep this or go back to liberty gingerbread....
how the hell do i flash anything.. i can't even install clockwork mod without getting bootloops.... and i'd love to flash certain apps onto this.... but if this can not be done i will have to go back.... the only thing going into recovery does is use the retarded original recovery... and that is a big deal.. if i ruin my phone on the go and need to pullup a backup i can not do this with this rom and i will end up phoneless until i can get to a computer to sbf
nosboost300 said:
i have a question.... and this question is what will decide if i keep this or go back to liberty gingerbread....
how the hell do i flash anything.. i can't even install clockwork mod without getting bootloops.... and i'd love to flash certain apps onto this.... but if this can not be done i will have to go back.... the only thing going into recovery does is use the retarded original recovery... and that is a big deal.. if i ruin my phone on the go and need to pullup a backup i can not do this with this rom and i will end up phoneless until i can get to a computer to sbf
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What exactly are you asking? "Flashing" is the process of basically overwriting your current Android OS with an Android OS SBF. If you are trying to install MIUI, you cannot do it with Gingerbread installed on your phone. "You MUST be on CyanogenMod 7 or .340 Froyo to flash this rom!" (MIUI)
If you want to install MIUI, i think the best bet would be SBF flashing to stock DX 2.2 .340 FROYO, re-rooting, then using the DX boot-strapper to boot into recovery. Then installing the MIUI .zip from SDcard in the recovery menu. Everything should work fine after that. Rmember you CANNOT go into recovery using DX boot-strapper once this ROM is installed. you CAN go into recovery with this ROM using ROM-manager. This is what I have experienced so far, and what others have said also.
no.. i already have the rom installed... i just want to be able to go into recovery without needing to be booted up.
i'm trying to install some zips through clockwork such as the old blur camera and a few other things... i will install rom manager and see how it goes from there... i love the UI of this rom but as far as being comfortable and stable.. liberty gingerbread has my vote as of now
i've cleared my cache and data several times and i get force closes alot. and this is a clean install coming straight after an SBF.
with liberty gingerbread i had the ability to set it so every phone reboot, even if a battery pull, would boot directly into clockwork mod.. making it easy for me in case i installed a zip that would get me into bootloop
Hmm, sorry mate, I dunno what to tell ya. Try looking aroudn forums or startign a new thread. someone more knowledgable than you or me will help you out.
thanks for everything though!! this really is a beautiful rom and i'd love to stick with it... i'll bite the bullet for the meantime and post around to get some help... i'd love to post in the developer section but i don't have enough posts yet.. haha
nosboost300 said:
no.. i already have the rom installed... i just want to be able to go into recovery without needing to be booted up.
i'm trying to install some zips through clockwork such as the old blur camera and a few other things... i will install rom manager and see how it goes from there... i love the UI of this rom but as far as being comfortable and stable.. liberty gingerbread has my vote as of now
i've cleared my cache and data several times and i get force closes alot. and this is a clean install coming straight after an SBF.
with liberty gingerbread i had the ability to set it so every phone reboot, even if a battery pull, would boot directly into clockwork mod.. making it easy for me in case i installed a zip that would get me into bootloop
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You need to install Rom Manager, and select flash Clockwork Recovery. Make sure you select Droid X (2nd Init). Then you can reboot into recovery with Rom Manager :-D
laxattack said:
You need to install Rom Manager, and select flash Clockwork Recovery. Make sure you select Droid X (2nd Init). Then you can reboot into recovery with Rom Manager :-D
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but the problem is that i would like to be able to go into recovery without having to do it through an app... i'd like to make it so every reboot (including battery pull) makes it boot into recovery. thats how i had liberty gingerbread doing it... if not.. i can live with it.. i'll just be a little more careful on what i'm installing
Just wanted to chime in about MIUI rom, I just flashed it yesterday and am ABSOLUTELY loving it thus far. I had no trouble at all installing the rom what-so-ever. I used ROM Manager to do the whole thing: downloaded newest ver. of MIUI, backup current ROM, wipe data and dalvik. Let it run its course and it rebooted and was up and running in no time flat!
so, i finally got the kindle fire utility to work, but now i've got some very nubish questions...
so, right now, i have twrp installed, android market, and go launcher ex. however, i do not believe that I have permanent root, at least when i check with the utility it says i don't.
so, here's some questions.
I am still running on the stock os correct, so the web browser is still the same, and everything is still running through kindle fire's stock os?
what exactly is twrp? is it essentially a boot manager of sorts?
how do i return my kindle to stock factory settings (original os, no root, etc.)?
what is CM7? is that an entire os, or just a launcher?
in nutshell, my question is this: i used kindle fire utility (v. 7 btw) to install twrp, android market, and go launcher ex, what exactly does that mean to me?
thanks for your patience and help!
Well I just got my fire today myself but I can tell u that cm7 is a custom android and the original amazon stuff will be deleted if u install it. I have cm7on my phone ...
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If I were to install cm7, is it more or less fully functional? Does it have features to make up for menu, back, etc. Buttons? How do I remove it and go back to stock amazon os?
Ok guys after doing a bit of reading and looking around I finally decided to root my A500. As far as I can tell, everything went fine, but I have a couple questions.
First, I hope I didn't dink myself, but after downgrading to 3.0.1 and using Iconia root, I installed Acer Recovery Manager and used that to get CWM 1.3.4.
I did do the backup when Acer Recovery Manager prompted me to, but I didn't do a nandroid backup in CWM before flashing the Thor 14.2 rom...is it too late to do one, or this going to cause an issue?
And second, am I correct in my understanding that you can switch back and forth between different ROM's as often as you want, just by following the step #3 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205204
Any help on these questions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I don't get what you mean by "is it too late to do a nandroid backup"
If you want to back up a copy of your device from before you flashed the Thor rom.. yes, it is too late. A nandroid backup is like a recovery point in windows, it is a carbon copy of your current system configuration. You can make a nandroid backup at any point you want, but it will only give you a restorable version of what is currently on your device.
And yes, those are the steps for flashing a new rom on your device.
The reason to do the backup BEFORE YOU FLASH your first rom .before you remove acer bloat ware. This is so you can go back to a full STOCK State . well other then root. But you can unroot as well.
so if you yes should do a backup. but it will be of the rom you flashed NOT The above near stock state.But you are not lost there are stock roms floating around. If you decided to take a ota and get back to stock there is still a way..
Hope this explains it better for you....
Do not get to flash happy.. Giggles..
Ok thanks for the replies...I don't anticipate myself needing to go back to full stock, as this Thor 14.2 seems to work great.
I'll go do a Nandroid on the current 14.2 and that way I at least have some back if worst comes to worst. Thanks again!
ohlin5 said:
Ok thanks for the replies...I don't anticipate myself needing to go back to full stock, as this Thor 14.2 seems to work great.
I'll go do a Nandroid on the current 14.2 and that way I at least have some back if worst comes to worst. Thanks again!
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Glad you're enjoying it. I liked the 14.2 at first too, but then some odd problems started cropping up so I switched to a ROM from XDA and haven't looked back.
imo there's no reason to go stock any more, especially when you can overclock/underclock and get superuser access with a rooted device.
Well I'm coming over to the Xoom area now. Picked up two Xoom's (32 gb/WiFi) on Amazon for a good price and looking fwd to all the development you guys have going on over here. Currently been pretty hooked on my Razr w/ the latest round of soaks and OTA's for 4.0.4 along w/ the custom roms.
Right now just reading as much as I can so when both tabs get here on Tuesday I'll be ready to go, have all my files in place, etc.
I promise I won't ask any stupid questions in your guys' section w/ out searching, searching, searching!!!
Figure I'll run one stock 4.0.4 and the other w/ CM9 or EOS. Whichever I like better I'll put on the stock 4.0.4 and give to my g/f. As you can see I've had a variety of tabs/devices and always wanted a Xoom. Thought about getting some of the latest and greatest like the Excite or TF300 but I'm a sammy and moto fanboi and just can't bring myself to do it. I'd rather Moto give up on the Xyboard and release a front runner soon since Sammy looks like they have no intentions of going for performance, and instead focusing on price (ala Galaxy Tab 2, nothing wrong with that btw).
Hey young man
Nice to see another one coming to the dark... *cof**cof*... light side of the force lol
Just kidding... Anyway, if you want root I recommend my tool (LordAIOTool), as many people it's easy and good to do that kind of stuff on Xoom, one guy even mentioned it as "The Ultimate Xoom Tool". Hope you have fun here
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Well the first tab arrived and let my g/f have that one. Came from Amazon Warehouse and it was a used India Tab. Therefore got it to US 3.0 and then upgraded to 4.0.4 allowing system updates to run their course. I then unlocked and used your tool to root. Worked flawlessly. Thank you for that!
Then tried adb'ing both eos recovery and team rogue recovery. Both I'm having issues with. The issue is it will go to either recovery fine immediately after flashing. However if I let the tablet boot up or reboot and try to access recovery again, it goes back to the stock recovery. Either way I got EOS 2.0 Rom installed which is a lovely piece of work. Will probably run their nightlies when my Xoom gets here.
Just wish I could figure out that issue w/ returning to stock recovery. I've searched and searched and searched and no such luck. Doesn't matter much, I suppose, as my g/f doesn't like me messing with her devices and having to factory reset so I suppose I will leave it as is, for now.
got556 said:
Well the first tab arrived and let my g/f have that one. Came from Amazon Warehouse and it was a used India Tab. Therefore got it to US 3.0 and then upgraded to 4.0.4 allowing system updates to run their course. I then unlocked and used your tool to root. Worked flawlessly. Thank you for that!
Then tried adb'ing both eos recovery and team rogue recovery. Both I'm having issues with. The issue is it will go to either recovery fine immediately after flashing. However if I let the tablet boot up or reboot and try to access recovery again, it goes back to the stock recovery. Either way I got EOS 2.0 Rom installed which is a lovely piece of work. Will probably run their nightlies when my Xoom gets here.
Just wish I could figure out that issue w/ returning to stock recovery. I've searched and searched and searched and no such luck. Doesn't matter much, I suppose, as my g/f doesn't like me messing with her devices and having to factory reset so I suppose I will leave it as is, for now.
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You don't want stock recovery on the Xoom...can't really do anything with it.
got556 said:
Well the first tab arrived and let my g/f have that one. Came from Amazon Warehouse and it was a used India Tab. Therefore got it to US 3.0 and then upgraded to 4.0.4 allowing system updates to run their course. I then unlocked and used your tool to root. Worked flawlessly. Thank you for that!
Then tried adb'ing both eos recovery and team rogue recovery. Both I'm having issues with. The issue is it will go to either recovery fine immediately after flashing. However if I let the tablet boot up or reboot and try to access recovery again, it goes back to the stock recovery. Either way I got EOS 2.0 Rom installed which is a lovely piece of work. Will probably run their nightlies when my Xoom gets here.
Just wish I could figure out that issue w/ returning to stock recovery. I've searched and searched and searched and no such luck. Doesn't matter much, I suppose, as my g/f doesn't like me messing with her devices and having to factory reset so I suppose I will leave it as is, for now.
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adb'ing the recovery isn't the best way to go about it. Use fastboot (fastboot flash recovery recovery.img) should work fine.
What I'm saying is guys, I have added custom recoveries (by way of fastboot flashing the .img recovery file). Tried both Rogue and EOS recoveries. They work fine the first time I flash them, but then no matter if I try to use the hard buttons or just use commands to get into recovery it always reverts back to the stock recovery. (As in, dead android, red triangle, then I have to hit power + vol up which brings up stock recovery).
It's as if the custom recoveries aren't sticking.
With stock recovery, do you have the option , "install zip from sd card"?
If you do, I will send you a recovery zip, not image, to be installed from within recovery, not adb... let me know.
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There you go, http://goo.im/devs/teameos/recoveries/wingray/eos-recovery-r6.zip
Just boot into your existing recovery,
Choose install zip from sd card and flash this.
If it doesn't work, I am afraid you need to to unlock your bootloader again and flash the recovery image again. If that is needed, will help you with steps. Try this first and let me know.
Good luck.
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We're gtg all. Don't think I did anything different but Rogue recovery works every time now.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions! W/ being on EOS 2.0 my g/f has practically streamed Netflix non stop all day starting at 71% battery life and she just plugged the charger in a little bit ago. It was one of those lazy days and she's in the middle of a season on one of her shows.
Crazy good battery life.
got556 said:
We're gtg all. Don't think I did anything different but Rogue recovery works every time now.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions! W/ being on EOS 2.0 my g/f has practically streamed Netflix non stop all day starting at 71% battery life and she just plugged the charger in a little bit ago. It was one of those lazy days and she's in the middle of a season on one of her shows.
Crazy good battery life.
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Oh yeah, and the wifi Xoom is slated to get the jelly bean os update next month! You really made a great choice!
There was an app I wanted that wouldnt work on a rooted phone,so I decided to go back to stock from a custom ROM.
All went well. I wasnt looking forward to having to set the phone up how I wanted, but hey ho! what can you do?
Anyway, all went well, but was surprised that my phone was exactly as it was before.All apps (including root apps,which obviously dont work), launcher as it was.
I thought when using Odin it completely wiped the phone?
Stock rom is nowipe
Must make all wipes before because stock rom is nowipe.