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Openfire ROM Problem

Apologies for the double post but I'm dying to get my wildfire back working.
Rooted it yesterday with unrevoked, attempted to add the Openfire ROM this morning with everything going fine untill the reboot. I'm now stuck on the white HTC screen and have been for the last hour. Any help would be great, cheers.

did u do nandriod back up first
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I backed up the stock firmware I already had manually, before it prompted on the flash.

did you do a full wipe before flashing the rom?

No i didn't, thought it would be safer incase something went wrong?

run your restore then I couldn't get it to work either
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if you did a nandroid backup of your stock rom then you should be fine to wipe, since you did not wipe and flashed the new rom over your stock rom, apps and settings will conflict, therefore not work...

Right I see, I'm currently going through what I'm guessing is the restore....recovery - Nandroid, I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks again.

Nope I seem to be getting nowhere here, can someone point me in the direction of the restore?

you didn't do nandroid backup did you haha, you'll have to install an RUU file to return to stock rom, or just do a full wipe and flash a new rom like openfire or wildpuzzle.

Where can I find the RUU file and how do I access my SD card? USB won't let me get to it, I'm guessing the phone is in charge mode?

go into recovery - partitons menu - mount sd card (or somthing like that) to open your memory card

Spot on, I'm on downloading an ruu file now, going to load it up with a stock rom then try flashing it again, but wiping it this time.

Infact how do I do a full wipe? I'm after the easiest way to get the phone booting up so I can flash it properly?

Anyone?
I'm still no further than I was three hours ago!
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BREAKTHROUGH!!! =D
Restored it to before I flashed it incorrectly. Nearly threw the phone across the room in excitement.

go into clockwork recovery and click the title "wipe data/factory reset" and then flash the ROM you want to use.. to install a ROM:
- "install zip from sdcard"
- "Choose zip from sdcard"
- "click the zipfile"
- "yes"
- "reboot"
and if you want to install RUU dont ask me never done that

Reggie24 said:
Anyone?
I'm still no further than I was three hours ago!
EDIT:
BREAKTHROUGH!!! =D
Restored it to before I flashed it incorrectly. Nearly threw the phone across the room in excitement.
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How did u restored it .....????

sunny_16977 said:
How did u restored it .....????
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From the HBOOT screen go to recovery, then nandroid, restore, and to the appropriate time/date.
I've still had no luck with actually flashing the phone though. Back to Android 2.1 for me.

I'm 99% percent sure you have the OC issue some ppl incl myself on here have - try reinstalling openfire if thats what you wanna use - and then go to wildpuzzle thread - dl 0050 and flash it. If i'm correct phone will be fine and use openfire - but will NOT be overclockable. I wish Jacob had my phone or got hold of a phone w that problem...

I had problems with the Wildpuzzle 8.0.11 ROM, it would just sit there (did a ADB logcat on it, but I've lost the actual log... sorry! ) ignoring a duplicate entry (yeah, I did a full wipe . Removed WP and put on the latest OpenFire ROM... omg... what a difference to the stock ROM! Soooo much faster, even before I overclocked it.
I'd say, if you have boot issues with WP give OpenFire a go. Certainly worked a treat on my Wildfire.

[Q] Need help rooting

I'm trying to root my Telus fascinate (SGH t959D) not to sure if i should be posting this here or in the vibrant section...
anyways I've tried numerous rooting methods and none have worked, I'll list what I've tried. I've also made sure I have the 64bit drivers for windows 7 installed.
super one click root - goes through the process, appears to be working, says ROOTED, but does not provide root access, it also disables haptic feedback on my 4buttons until a restart
galaxy s one click root - restarts into recovery mode (3e), although no "reinstall packages" option is available. The option i do have is apply sdcard:update.zip which fails do to a signature error.
various other 2.2 root files - same error as in the one click root, except i manually boot into recovery mode via the volume buttons.
various market one click root tools - none work, I got really desperate.
also, im looking for a download link to nero v5, the team whiskey website doesnt have one that i can find...

I haven't tried flashing a new rom with odin yet as some guides say to do... I want to backup files on my phone with titanium backup first, but that needs root.
can anyone recommend any other backup app that doesnt require root?

z4root is flaky and buggy but sometimes it gets the job done.
Replacing just a system partition will not destroy your apps, though it would of course be a good idea to make sure you are flashing a rom based on the stock for your phone to have the lowest chance of FCs on startup. Most roms out there are intended to be flashed in CWM. CWM is actually a kernel flashed to the recovery partition with Odin, but it also lets you make a nandroid backup which will backup almost everything on your phone except the kernel; subsequent restores will make it so you reboot into your phone exactly as it was at the time you did the nandroid. Might want to consider that, as if all goes well you can just flash the rom you want, keep your apps, and be done with it. If not, well, you did make a nandroid after flashing CWM but before flashing your rom, didn't you?

comradesven said:
z4root is flaky and buggy but sometimes it gets the job done.
Replacing just a system partition will not destroy your apps, though it would of course be a good idea to make sure you are flashing a rom based on the stock for your phone to have the lowest chance of FCs on startup. Most roms out there are intended to be flashed in CWM. CWM is actually a kernel flashed to the recovery partition with Odin, but it also lets you make a nandroid backup which will backup almost everything on your phone except the kernel; subsequent restores will make it so you reboot into your phone exactly as it was at the time you did the nandroid. Might want to consider that, as if all goes well you can just flash the rom you want, keep your apps, and be done with it. If not, well, you did make a nandroid after flashing CWM but before flashing your rom, didn't you?
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I'm quite familiar with nandroid backups, I'm coming from an HTC hero running modaco's custom rom with some different custom recovery image.
I've tried using z4root before but I'll give it another try. right now I'm looking at an alternate method which i found here using linux. going to give that a try tomorrow.
As for the custom kernels and roms, im still on stock and haven't flashed anything yet with odin. would it be possible to flash clockwork with odin before i get root? will that mess anything up?

So I was at my girlfriends today and decided to give the super one click root another try... it worked.
I've had problems with the usb ports before but I forgot to consider it as an option
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[Q] tabbonay cookbook update issue

running taboonay 2 and villian. Tried to update using the taboonay cookbook to get a new boot animation and home button. Boot animation works great' but when i push the home button it says system ui stopped unexpectedly. I really like the new buttons though. Tried installing again to no avail. How do i fix it and keep the buttons?

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running taboonay 2 and villian. Tried to update using the taboonay cookbook to get a new boot animation and home button. Boot animation works great' but when i push the home button it says system ui stopped unexpectedly. I really like the new buttons though. Tried installing again to no avail. How do i fix it and keep the buttons?
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Check the taboonay thread, vache stated he fixed the problem. Kitchen has been fixed, just re-cook what you want and flash
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Yes it's fixed indeed.
Just cook again ;-)

I'm about to give up hope on root. I think I messed something up with my lack of experience. Here's the story.
Rooted and everything went well. Installed clockwork and taboonay 2 with villian and everything was going great. Then I tried the cookbook thing on taboonay. And got a system UI failure constantly. So I decided I had made a mess of my sdcards trying to figure things out. So I was going to reset everything back to factory, to include clockwork, and start over. I used clockwork to restore things back to before I put on taboonay and villian. Then, without thinking I unrooted the tab before changing clockwork back. I moved my backups from clockwork to my computer and formatted my sd cards. Now the tab won't reroot. I tried to move my backup files back to path sdcard/clockwork/backups but clockwork says it can't find them. How do I get clockwork to find my backup files? And if I restore to a point the tab was rooted, will it again be rooted? How do I reset everything back to factory and start over?

think I figured it out. Rooted again anyway. Is there an easy way to reset everything at one time? Including recovery?

As far as I know the answer is "NO".
You may restore kernel and OS with a nand backup/retore and you can flash the recovery in tree ways : adb, zip, Acer Recovery app but not all at the same time.
First thing to do :
install the recovery
then flash kernel and rom from sdcard or you restore a nand backup.
Your clockwork backups should work if you put them back in the /clockworkmod directory of the external SD card. Did you pay attention to the directories structure ?
For Thor recovery, the path you mentioned is wrong to me.
On the external sd it should be :
/clockworkmod /backup/[date of backup]/*
The [date of backup] is like : 2011-08-26.20.00.12
(date and time)

id pay for an app that did it if anyone has any ideas.... OK. I got clockwork off. I'm going to unroot again and reset the whole thing again and start over.

I 've edited my previous post, will this help you ?

yes, very helpful. Got everything put back together, and even got the mods from taboonay cookbook working. You all are awesome. Learned more from xda in two days than two years of college. Ofcourse, that probably says something about my effort in college. Ive got another question though. Think im going tonstart a new thread for it. Ive got adfree on my tab. Every time it blocks an ad it puts the little green android picture in where the ad should be. Wouldnt it be cool if you could personalize that pocture that pops up? Is that possible?

[Q] question about backing up stock rom.

K so I have searched the net for days about this, with no success. what I want to know is it possible to transfer a backup of a stock rom, from one tablet to another of the same kind for recovery? if so can you post instructions or a tut, I've lost my original due to currupt data. and I want my Dolby digital sound back.
acer iconia minimalist rom
edit: I do have access to another tablet running stock.

thundercub88 said:
K so I have searched the net for days about this, with no success. what I want to know is it possible to transfer a backup of a stock rom, from one tablet to another of the same kind for recovery? if so can you post instructions or a tut, I've lost my original due to currupt data. and I want my Dolby digital sound back.
acer iconia minimalist rom
edit: I do have access to another tablet running stock.
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Using cwm do a full nandroid backup, transfer the backup to microsd, put the microsd into the other Iconia and use cwm to do a nandroid restore.
At least, that's my guess.

well that's a start, I was about to start ripping my hair out over this simple sound issue lol but thanks.

thundercub88 said:
well that's a start, I was about to start ripping my hair out over this simple sound issue lol but thanks.
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Hmmmmm. Can't you use use a full update.zip and flash a copy of the stock rom? Never tried using a nandroid backup on a system it was not created on - it might work, but it might not, I really am not sure.
But just flashing a full update.zip or installing Acer recovery tool to flash a stock rom sounds easier and more likely to work to me - am I missing something and is this not an option?

I tried flashing two or three times before, sent it into a bootloop, I even tried the Acer update decrypter but my laptop is 32 bit, and until today when I finally decided to post the question is when it occurred to me about possibly transferring it. btw, is there a set destination for the nandroid back up?

thundercub88 said:
I tried flashing two or three times before, sent it into a bootloop, I even tried the Acer update decrypter but my laptop is 32 bit, and until today when I finally decided to post the question is when it occurred to me about possibly transferring it. btw, is there a set destination for the nandroid back up?
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Nandroid backups go to the external SD by default (I think) - have you tried using Acer Recovery Installer on the tab with the issue? Assuming you can still boot it and have root you may be able to go back to stock using it.

acer recovery
Tonto the market. Download the new version of Acer recovery installer.install third recovery. Go back into Acer recovery got last box .choose a rom for your location.let it download then install.point and click simple and will fix your issue.if you have failed attempts. You might want to try a different SD card.good luck
This did work for me
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Erica Renee
Urban geeky blonde like me can do it surely a strong man like yourself willnfigure it out. Giggles

I have tried Acer recovery installer as well, I have 2.3 in fact I tried just a moment ago, and I get boot screen with android the triangle and the exlimation point.

confusion
OK Acer recovery installer is not the recovery just a means to install and work within it and run pre defined scripts.as in there backup and so on
If you are getting that.you need to
1.open Acer recovery installer
2.Install Recovery.the first black box acroos screen.it will askbifnyoubwant to back up stock recoverybdo so.(this is the recovery program only not the system) .
3.boot into recovery and backup your whole tablet.or use the far right black button to d/load and install a new rom from his list.fallow the instructions there clickishly simple
Good luck
So what Acer recovery installer does is replace the stock recovery. To allow you to install non stock decryptedand other. Zip files of course it will install stock recoveries as well.read the Acer recovery install thread under Dev section it's al in there
Again Google luck

OK so here is what I did and it worked like a charm, installed cwm did a custom restore (everything but data) mounted the SD card on other tablet restored and voila I have Dolby mobile back! thank you guys for all the help and info, now I can truly mess with roms and be safe knowing I have a non currupt back up

thundercub88 said:
OK so here is what I did and it worked like a charm, installed cwm did a custom restore (everything but data) mounted the SD card on other tablet restored and voila I have Dolby mobile back! thank you guys for all the help and info, now I can truly mess with roms and be safe knowing I have a non currupt back up
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SWEET! Glad you got it figured out!

[Q] CWM won't recog drives, can't do Nandroid backup

Updated my rooted Honeycomb AT100 with Dale's Rooted Stock ICS ROM ... downloaded some new apps and reloaded some old ones extracted from a prior nandroid backup and got the thing running just the way I want it (almost, sometimes the screen locks up during sleep and won't come back without a poweroff and reboot.)
Anyway, I had it to the point where doing a backup is mandatory and discovered it just won't allow it.
It WON'T soft boot into recovery mode using apps like ROM Manager or Titanium (and it won't flash a new version of CWM because the AT100 is unsupported.)
It WILL hard boot into recovery mode using the volume/off button but when it does it returns can't find E:SD Card when I try to do a backup. I tried to work around this by backing up to a USB stick, but CWM resolutely refuses to recognize and mount the USB device.
Here's another weird thing, ROM manager reports I have CWM 5 installed but sometimes when I hard boot into recovery mode I get the old "push button" version of CWM, other times I get the "touch" version ... it seems to be random selection .
I thought, perhaps, the best solution would be to uninstall and reinstall CWM but now matter how I (pardon the pun) I root around I can't find anyway to do that. Your help would be very, very appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Give my twrp a try, its been far less touchy then cwm has been.
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