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So I just rooted

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So I just rooted my DX. I have milestone overclocker and titanium backup as well as ROM manager and wireless tether.Now what do I do ? I'm sorry for being a complete noob but I'm eager to learn. I have heard a little about flashing custom ROMs and was just wondering if there was one that is like Gingerbread (2.3) out for the DX. I just got this phone a month ago and I ready to jump on the Rooting Wagon
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onveiledwings said:
Hey,
So I just rooted my DX. I have milestone overclocker and titanium backup as well as ROM manager and wireless tether.Now what do I do ? I'm sorry for being a complete noob but I'm eager to learn. I have heard a little about flashing custom ROMs and was just wondering if there was one that is like Gingerbread (2.3) out for the DX. I just got this phone a month ago and I ready to jump on the Rooting Wagon
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I would recommend looking around the Droid X android development forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=691
Here is where you will find a lot of the discussion and posts from Developers about their ROM's. I think Fission (latest is 2.5.7) has a gingerbread theme set up. I believe there are others as well.
When it comes to ROM's its really a personal decision. In my opinion, all the bigs ones (Rubix, Fission, Liberty, Cobalt, GummyJar, Tranquility, Apex) are all AMAZING roms. It's really just what you like the feel of... I personally use Liberty 1.0 right now. Its a combination of Kejar31 and Jrummy's work. There is a "new" dev team, phoenixdevs, that will be picking up the GEM series that cvpcs (one of the most amazing android developers ever) had been doing.
To start, just make sure you have a nandroid backup from Koush's recovery, and then try out the different ROM's you are interested in and see what you like best.
If I can make a recommendation about themes...check out Bignadad's themes... He does work for Rubix, Liberty, and GummyJar. Here is his latest work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896403
If you have more questions, feel free to ask!

Thank you so much. You are such a big help. I have rom manager and did a backup but I was wondering how do I get nandroid?
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onveiledwings said:
Thank you so much. You are such a big help. I have rom manager and did a backup but I was wondering how do I get nandroid?
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No problem. You can grab it from the attachment below =)
then just move it to your phones sdcard. Use a file manager like Astro File Manager (free on the market) to browse on your sdcard. Press on the .apk file and then press the install option.
Then in your application menu, find the app, then click the first option (this hijacks the boot process the same way that ROM manager does). ROM manager has a built in version of this app and does the same thing. I just prefer to do it through Koush's app personally.
After you click the top button a pop up should come up with the word success (press this). Then click reboot recovery. From there, use the volume up/down buttons to move the green cursor that highlights the options, and use the camera button to select. Go down to Backup and Restore (press camera button to select), then press camera button when Backup is highlighted. (I am merely suggesting how I do it, as I don't rely on ROM manager for much personally. that and I dont remember how ROM manager manages backups... LoL).
It will do its thing, then bring you back to the main menu when it is finished. Click the camera button on "reboot system now" and you now have a working backup. They are stored on your sdcard in the following hierarchy: /sdcard/clockworkmod/backups
Then you just use that same menu if you ever want to restore using the restore option instead of backup =D
I also use Koush's app to install my custom ROM"s and themes as well. You just go down to the option that is something like "install .zip from sdcard" and then you can browse your sdcard for any ROM/theme/mod you have downloaded and saved there...
Hope this helps! Ask if you have more questions, I'm glad to help =)

Wow you made this sound so simple that I just did a nandroid backup on my phone for the first time! I have had my X now for about 4 months its been rooted since day one but I've never had the courage to go forward with roms. So is it really that simple , just dl the rom and flash it with Koushs bootstrap? If I flash a rom but want to update via ota to gingerbread I would just flash my nandroid using the flash rom from. Zip option? Im excited to start with roms I never ralized it was this easy to get back to stock!
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Also do you have to use titanium backup to backup apps to use in new rom, or can you use what is in the nandroid to reinstall apps on rom?
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Thanks in advance
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owenbeals said:
Wow you made this sound so simple that I just did a nandroid backup on my phone for the first time! I have had my X now for about 4 months its been rooted since day one but I've never had the courage to go forward with roms. So is it really that simple , just dl the rom and flash it with Koushs bootstrap? If I flash a rom but want to update via ota to gingerbread I would just flash my nandroid using the flash rom from. Zip option? Im excited to start with roms I never ralized it was this easy to get back to stock!
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Yes it really can be that simple. just keep track of any backups you make, and always restore back to a clean nanroid for when OTA's come out, and you should be good. Just make sure if an OTA comes out and the bootloader version gets updated, don't go back to a nandroid with a different bootloader...you will brick your phone.
Example: on old ota (2.3.15) and update to 2.3.34. Then try to go back to 2.3.15=brick =(

Thanks this is great and so helpful
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Thankyou!!
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Do you have to zip the nandroid for the file to work to restore the phone? Im sport that im such a newb
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owenbeals said:
Do you have to zip the nandroid for the file to work to restore the phone? Im sport that im such a newb
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Nope, the recovery from koush saves it in a recognizable format for you. Just leave it as is =)
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Thanks again! Liberty will be flashed to my phone this evening!
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owenbeals said:
Thanks again! Liberty will be flashed to my phone this evening!
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No problem, glad to help
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I flashed liberty and I'm lovin it! I can't figure out how to get Google nav back?
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owenbeals said:
I flashed liberty and I'm lovin it! I can't figure out how to get Google nav back?
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Go to Android Market, and download Google Maps

Sweeeet! One more thing would make this perfect. Can I get the 3g hotspots app anywhere? I can't seem to get my ps3 concted via wifi tether.
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owenbeals said:
Sweeeet! One more thing would make this perfect. Can I get the 3g hotspots app anywhere? I can't seem to get my ps3 concted via wifi tether.
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Depends on what you mean by 3g hotspot. There is "wireless tether for root" in the market for free. This allows you to tether using your 3g signal. The default Verizon app (don't think it is in Liberty...) requires a paid service... People have found hacks to get by this, but I don't recommend it, since it is cheating the service provider (Verizon) out of money if you hack their app.
I see no problem with wireless tether for root tho! Totally a dev's own work to get free tethering.

Thanks
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I have been unable to root my DX, can you tell me where you got your information on rooting?

flashing without loosing apps

Sorry, I am new and maybe this is a silly question. Can I flash a new rom without loosing my apps and their settings and my games and their saves ? Like backing-up all these.
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If you are rooted use titanium backup from market, but the fact you asked this indicated you need to study more before you start flashing roms
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hahaha. Thank you very much for your quick answer ! Maybe you are right. The fact is that I already flashed my phone 2-3 times but never interested in backing-up. On the other hand now, I have spent a lot of time with it and I do not want to loose my apps. Is there something specific I should do with titanium back-up ? or I just back-up with this app and then, after I flash, I restore ? ( sorry haven' t used it before )
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Yeah you just backup before flashing, restore after. Bear in mind I don't think it is compatible between cm7/miui and samsung - based roms.
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Well restoring app data can cause problems, but that is depending on what rom you are flashing to and from, and like any app you need to learn to use it I recommend paid version as it allows you to batch restore and backup
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I am going to flash an oficial rom. 2.3.4 Don' t know which yet.
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Darth_kospo said:
I am going to flash an oficial rom. 2.3.4 Don' t know which yet.
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And what rom are you on now?
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The greek official rom. 2.2
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You may have problems with app data but I'm really not sure, you will know if you do because you will get a lot of fc of apps
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thank you slaphead20 and jaju123 very much ! I will try to save anything I can with titanium. flashing is much more important for me.
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Some games store their save files on the SD card (data or similar). So if you flash a new ROM, all you need to do is reinstall the game and you can start where you left.

Thank you !

ive never had any problems backing up and restoriing ONLY user downloaded apps between cm7, stock and miui using titanium. the only thing which would cause you problems would be restoring system apps..
if you wish to backup messages also and use them with other firmwares u could also use GoSMS, which has a backup function

New to root

Guys, I just rooted my Motorola Droid X and I was wondering what are some neat things to do. Apps, themes, etc. Thanks.

Some usefully apartment can be titanium backup, root explorer, rom manager. You can also install a custom ROM using rom manager that can make your phone faster and cooler
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Grab Adfree from the market.
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MyBackup Root is a great way to backup parts of your ROM.
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[Q] Reinstating a deleted stock app?

During some fevered app removals from my rooted N7, I removed the stock Swype keyboard (I normally use Graffiti). Now I want to reinstate it as an option but neither 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 upgrades have shoved it back in.
How can I get it back, please?

Just go and get it out of one of your backups.
You do make backups before you start modding things willy-nilly, right?
What's that? No backups? *sigh*
How about if you make a backup of your current ROM, install some ROM that has the files you want in it, copy the files out of that ROM to your SD card, restore the backup from the first step and patch the files into place?
Check this out too: you could actually use a pure stock ROM as the source of your missing files, and while you have it temporarily installed, make a backup of that, too! Then you would have a backup of a ROM which is capable of accepting the OTA! Wow!
Think of the possibilities: the next time an OTA comes around, you can restore the pure stock ROM backup, perform the OTA on that... and ... and.... make a backup of that new pure stock ROM too!
Oh My Dog, my head is beginning to spin with the possibilities. I better step away from my tablet before somebody gets hurt.
Make Backups. Early and Often.

Removed? Or disabled? Could just need to set apps back to default?
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Swype is an app downloadable from the play store. The stock Android keyboard is called Android, even though it does support swype type operations now.
If you want the Swype keyboard, just download and install it.
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rmm200 said:
Swype is an app downloadable from the play store. The stock Android keyboard is called Android, even though it does support swype type operations now.
If you want the Swype keyboard, just download and install it.
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I don't see Swype in the play store.
You can get the Swype beta (the latest and greatest) by signing up at the Swype web site. I put the Swype beta on all my devices, even the ones that come with Swype.
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Right - the Swype web site is where I got the beta. Really installed it for the excellent included voice support.
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Polaris office restore with TiBu on MEA

I recently flashed mint jelly. I liked Polaris office 5. I'd like to keep using it. Question is, would restoring app+data thru TiBu, a backup which was made on MDL, to my new MEA base work? Or would the pre installed app have an entitlement check of some sort that wouldn't allow me to use it?
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It most likely will work. I'd give it a shot. You don't have anything to loose. Make a nandriod first just in case.
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Planktron said:
I recently flashed mint jelly. I liked Polaris office 5. I'd like to keep using it. Question is, would restoring app+data thru TiBu, a backup which was made on MDL, to my new MEA base work? Or would the pre installed app have an entitlement check of some sort that wouldn't allow me to use it?
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You can jump download it off the samsung apps applications

balpreetsaini said:
You can jump download it off the samsung apps applications
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Haha. Thanks man. :thumbup:
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