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I was running on a rooted 3.1 with tiamat 1.7 overclock
What I did was:
tried to follow [UPDATE][US WIFI ONLY]Android 3.2 on Xoom WiFi, Root, via ClockworkMod Recovery
then I did this: Note also if you are coming over from a custom ROM, wipe your cache partition (under main menu) and dalvik cache (under Advanced) in ClockworkMod Recovery prior to performing the following steps.
next I applied the 3.2 update
Now Im stuck in the boot animation.
From what I understand Im getting this because I was not on the stock kernel, can anybody help me fix this and get me to 3.2
Thank you
download the stock images here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080963
and flash via fastboot, this will get you out of the boot loop, i had the same issue
should I try and flash the 3.2 or the 3.1 given my current situation?
If you made a backup in cwm just restore it. If not, I would say go back to the beginning and flash stock 3.0. If you plan on rooting unlock the bootloader right then. Setup the Xoom, connect to wifi and take the 3.1 ota update. Setup and connect to wifi again and wait a bit to see if 3.2 ota update notification appears. If it does, take it and root it (see my guide in dev section). If it does not pop up, you can update manually (see bauxite's guide in dev section) then root. This way you should have no issues. I know it sounds like a lot to do, but it all should take you less than hour. I did one for a friend and it took me 34min to do everything. After your rooted you can restore apps with titanium if you have made and saved the backups. Good luck.
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jase33 said:
If you made a backup in cwm just restore it. If not, I would say go back to the beginning and flash stock 3.0. If you plan on rooting unlock the bootloader right then. Setup the Xoom, connect to wifi and take the 3.1 ota update. Setup and connect to wifi again and wait a bit to see if 3.2 ota update notification appears. If it does, take it and root it (see my guide in dev section). If it does not pop up, you can update manually (see bauxite's guide in dev section) then root. This way you should have no issues. I know it sounds like a lot to do, but it all should take you less than hour. I did one for a friend and it took me 34min to do everything. After your rooted you can restore apps with titanium if you have made and saved the backups. Good luck.
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You probably should wipe user data in recovery along with the caches. That's what got me out of the bootloop and into the updated stock 3.2.
i flashed the stock images from the first link provided via fastboot and it worked perfect, the thread said you can flash from whatever to whatever by using those images so i flashed 3.2 and it fixed everything. Took about 5 minutes to do, I wonder if this way will give me problems when I try to root (pretty sure I lost root) but everything now seems to work fine
Hi,
I had the same issue. i fix by going back in cwm making factory reset and install again the same image.
after the first reboot i restored soft with titanium and all working good.
Tomate2K8 said:
Hi,
I had the same issue. i fix by going back in cwm making factory reset and install again the same image.
after the first reboot i restored soft with titanium and all working good.
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Yep, that's the easiest solution, but whatever works!
I just tried to flash Tiamat 2.0 and the boot image with it (I followed the directions and did them in the correct order), and it's now stuck at the Motorola boot screen (not the animation). Any suggestions? I'm not sure how to get back in to CWM now.
Edit: Managed to get in to CWM, did a factory/data reset and wiped cache before re-flashing. Still stuck on the boot screen.
i updated my aussie telstra xoom 3g to tiamat 2 (3.2) and booted fine but did not see 3g, so i used a bul.prop from 3.1 and got the bootloop prob, rebooted to recovery and did wipe erase, when it booted up again tried the euro build.prob and all worked, i suspect the issue relates to buil.prop so a bit of tinkering will always win in the end, bassically these things seem to be bullet proof when it comes to screwing summin up
phekno said:
I just tried to flash Tiamat 2.0 and the boot image with it (I followed the directions and did them in the correct order), and it's now stuck at the Motorola boot screen (not the animation). Any suggestions? I'm not sure how to get back in to CWM now.
Edit: Managed to get in to CWM, did a factory/data reset and wiped cache before re-flashing. Still stuck on the boot screen.
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What HC version were you on when you flashed 2.0? I'm just wondering if you needed to flash the boot image. It's hard to help you if we don't know what configuration you are coming from. Also Is your Xoom US wifi or 3G or Euro wifi or 3G?
zbee said:
i updated my aussie telstra xoom 3g to tiamat 2 (3.2) and booted fine but did not see 3g, so i used a bul.prop from 3.1 and got the bootloop prob, rebooted to recovery and did wipe erase, when it booted up again tried the euro build.prob and all worked, i suspect the issue relates to buil.prop so a bit of tinkering will always win in the end, bassically these things seem to be bullet proof when it comes to screwing summin up
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Yeah, they really are almost bullet-proof. Good thing too, seeing all the abuse they have to take.
: )
okantomi said:
What HC version were you on when you flashed 2.0? I'm just wondering if you needed to flash the boot image. It's hard to help you if we don't know what configuration you are coming from. Also Is your Xoom US wifi or 3G or Euro wifi or 3G?
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My fault, I guess some information would have been helpful. The Xoom is a US WiFi version and I was running 3.1 when I started this, which I now realize was probably really stupid. I should have probably gotten 3.2 on there before I started. Is there a way to update to 3.2 at this point? Or do I need to go back to stock and start over?
I appreciate the help.
Edit: Or should I just install another ROM per these directions.
phekno said:
My fault, I guess some information would have been helpful. The Xoom is a US WiFi version and I was running 3.1 when I started this, which I now realize was probably really stupid. I should have probably gotten 3.2 on there before I started. Is there a way to update to 3.2 at this point? Or do I need to go back to stock and start over?
I appreciate the help.
Edit: Or should I just install another ROM per these directions.
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Are you rooted? If so, you can flash the Tiamat Xoom Rom 1.1 which is for 3.1. You don't need to flash any additional kernel. You can get it from the appropriate thread in Development. You will probably have to do a full wipe in CWM Recovery (user data, cache).
From there, you can flash the Team Tiamat Xoom Rom 2.0 Manta Ray right on top of the Rom 1.1, no wipe needed. That should get you the HC3.2 update, preserve your root, and give additional functionality. I love it. I updated in a more roundabout method...I could have done it this way if I had waited...
If you are not rooted, you need to root first..see any one of the guides to root in HC3.1.
Good luck!
okantomi said:
Are you rooted? If so, you can flash the Tiamat Xoom Rom 1.1 which is for 3.1. You don't need to flash any additional kernel. You can get it from the appropriate thread in Development. You will probably have to do a full wipe in CWM Recovery (user data, cache).
From there, you can flash the Team Tiamat Xoom Rom 2.0 Manta Ray right on top of the Rom 1.1, no wipe needed. That should get you the HC3.2 update, preserve your root, and give additional functionality. I love it. I update in a more roundabout method...I could have done it this way if I had waited...
If you are not rooted, you need to root first..see any one of the guides to root in HC3.1.
Good luck!
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Yeah, I was rooted before all of this. I had done a full wipe in CWM and then did the boot/kernel and now I'm here. I think I should have just done the Tiamat Xoom Rom 2.0 in stead. Can I just flash the 2.0 ROM over what's on there now?
Edit: Now, I can't seem to get in to CWM. I'm not really sure how to other than using adb reboot recovery, but windows isn't picking up the device now.
Edit #2: I got back in to CWM. I'm running CWM 3.0.2.5, FYI.
I just flashed Tiamat Xoom Rom 1.1 and now it's back up and running. Thanks a ton for helping! I'll probably be putting 2.0 on there pretty quickly.
phekno said:
I just flashed Tiamat Xoom Rom 1.1 and now it's back up and running. Thanks a ton for helping! I'll probably be putting 2.0 on there pretty quickly.
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Great! Have fun with it. I think you'll love it.
I have a problem restoring my xoom to stock.
I flashed the Katana OC kernel onto my Wifi Only US Xoom with 3.2. I oc'd to 1.5 ghz and it worked fine. Then I left it on during the night. When I woke up the next morning it was stuck in a boot loop, so I though maybe I should flash the Katana without OC instead. That I tried but It got stuck halfway through (Maybe I should have waited longer...).
After this the xoom wouldnt boot (not that surprising..) so I flashed it back to stock with the official Motorola images. However the Xoom still wont boot up, gets stuck either on Moto logo or on the Honeycomb boot screen.
When I flash the 3.2 images and a custom kernel (Tiamat 2.0) then I can get into Android but it stops responding after a few minutes.
The Xoom seems to be running good before it freezes, I cant find a solution to get my Xoom back to life.
Any ideas?
blee00 said:
I have a problem restoring my xoom to stock.
I flashed the Katana OC kernel onto my Wifi Only US Xoom with 3.2. I oc'd to 1.5 ghz and it worked fine. Then I left it on during the night. When I woke up the next morning it was stuck in a boot loop, so I though maybe I should flash the Katana without OC instead. That I tried but It got stuck halfway through (Maybe I should have waited longer...).
After this the xoom wouldnt boot (not that surprising..) so I flashed it back to stock with the official Motorola images. However the Xoom still wont boot up, gets stuck either on Moto logo or on the Honeycomb boot screen.
When I flash the 3.2 images and a custom kernel (Tiamat 2.0) then I can get into Android but it stops responding after a few minutes.
The Xoom seems to be running good before it freezes, I cant find a solution to get my Xoom back to life.
Any ideas?
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Have you done a full wipe user data/factory reset in CWM recovery? You may need a clean slate to proceed.
Also, do you know if debugging is set to on? If you can't boot you can't get into settings but that could prevent you from accessing your Xoom from your pc.
okantomi said:
Have you done a full wipe user data/factory reset in CWM recovery? You may need a clean slate to proceed.
Also, do you know if degugging is set to on? If you can't boot you can't get into settings but that could prevent you from accessing your Xoom from your pc.
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Thanks for your reply! =)
I have done the "Wipe user data/factory reset" in CWM, If I do that I usually can boot Honeycomb, but I rarely get past the setup wizard (although sometimes I do), but then after a few minutes it freezes again.
Also, I can access my Xoom through ADB.
Hi,
I updated my A500 from 3.1 stock to Taboonay 2.0 HC 3.2. For some reason I decided to revert back to HC 3.1 Stock but in trying to do so I messed up and lost both CWM and Root Access. Now I can still boot into Taboonay 2.0 HC3.2 but I cannot access CWM and I cannot flash any other ROM as I do not have Root Access. Also due to lack of Root Access I cannot install CWM.
Can someone please help me regain control of my device??? Please!!!
Try iconiaroot.
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jm77 said:
Try iconiaroot.
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Already tried it and the previous version for it. It seems that they only work HC3.0 & 3.1.
Thanks for the advice though.
farazjk said:
Already tried it and the previous version for it. It seems that they only work HC3.0 & 3.1.
Thanks for the advice though.
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Iconiaroot is for 3.1,Quick answer:Acer Recovery Installer: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.interphaze.AcerRecoveryInstaller&feature=search_result
Acer recovery installer also requires a rooted device to perform all of its functions including installing recovery.
D/load and flash a full rom some of them will work thru reg Acer recovery for your SD card.
erica_renee said:
D/load and flash a full rom some of them will work thru reg Acer recovery for your SD card.
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Ok will give it a try. Do I have to rename the ROM as update.zip?
farazjk said:
Ok will give it a try. Do I have to rename the ROM as update.zip?
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No,just leave it as it is.
After the update, I hane access more to the USB flash memory as wll as to any Fat 32 USB hard drive. Do you have the same problem.
farazjk said:
Hi,
I updated my A500 from 3.1 stock to Taboonay 2.0 HC 3.2. For some reason I decided to revert back to HC 3.1 Stock but in trying to do so I messed up and lost both CWM and Root Access. Now I can still boot into Taboonay 2.0 HC3.2 but I cannot access CWM and I cannot flash any other ROM as I do not have Root Access. Also due to lack of Root Access I cannot install CWM.
Can someone please help me regain control of my device??? Please!!!
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Same problem at my end...
erica_renee said:
D/load and flash a full rom some of them will work thru reg Acer recovery for your SD card.
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Acer recovery needs "root" access....superuser can be seen in the list of apps but it is denying permission to all apps despite setting "allow" to all apps on default!
What to do?
Tried iconia root....."denied root access"
Tried Acer recovery....."needs root access"
CMW can't be booted into as somehow it is not there!
Tried factory data reset......no change in problem!
??
Help/suggestions needed!
Erica's Cure Worked for me!!!
Ok after taking advice from Erica, I downloaded the official full ROM package from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159443 and extracted the update.zip from it and placed it in the root of my external sd card. Switched off the A500 and rebooted it pressing Vol (down) & Power button till white text appeared in top left corner of the screen. A500 then started updating and successfully completed the full ROM install. On completing A500 automatically rebooted and all is good now. I am now on Stock A500 ROM HC3.1. I have not rooted or installed Acer Recovery app yet. I am going to wait for the official HC 3.2 from Acer Malaysia which I think is due on 10th September.
Thank you everyone on this amazing forum for helping fix this issue for me. Hope this solution also works for others having similar issues.
Additional steps to the last procedure
Ok... Last procedure though restored my A500 to Stock HC3.1 but was not allowing the OTA updates. So I copied update.zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113878. (you must ensure that you download the ROM that is specifically for your device region... mine is Thailand).
I repeated the same procedure as I did before (see last post). After installation completed, and device rebooted. I checked for new updates (from settings menu / About Tablet / Updates). Voila!!! new updates were detected and are downloading now. These are not HC3.2 updates but HC3.1 update patches.
Cheers!
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farazjk said:
Ok after taking advice from Erica, I downloaded the official full ROM package from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159443 and extracted the update.zip from it and placed it in the root of my external sd card. Switched off the A500 and rebooted it pressing Vol (down) & Power button till white text appeared in top left corner of the screen. A500 then started updating and successfully completed the full ROM install. On completing A500 automatically rebooted and all is good now. I am now on Stock A500 ROM HC3.1. I have not rooted or installed Acer Recovery app yet. I am going to wait for the official HC 3.2 from Acer Malaysia which I think is due on 10th September.
Thank you everyone on this amazing forum for helping fix this issue for me. Hope this solution also works for others having similar issues.
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Not working...after extracting "update.zip" placed "update.zip" into root of sd card....inserted sd card..rebooted....pressed power+vol down....it booted normally into the taboony which was already there instead of updating....???
What to do?
Help needed!
Neet said:
Not working...after extracting "update.zip" placed "update.zip" into root of sd card....inserted sd card..rebooted....pressed power+vol down....it booted normally into the taboony which was already there instead of updating....???
What to do?
Help needed!
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Worked now...had to use "Power+ Vol Up" button in portrait mode.
Thanks
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So, my problem is that when I backup my Nook Color with CWM 3.0.2.8 and reboot, my device gets stuck looping the rainbow Nook Color animation screen. This will also happen if I try to restore a backup or anytime I do anything but a factory reset from CWM.
Rooted with manualnooter 4.6 on the B&N 1.3 update for months and had no issue til now.
Any ideas? Thanks
mastigia said:
So, my problem is that when I backup my Nook Color with CWM 3.0.2.8 and reboot, my device gets stuck looping the rainbow Nook Color animation screen. This will also happen if I try to restore a backup or anytime I do anything but a factory reset from CWM.
Rooted with manualnooter 4.6 on the B&N 1.3 update for months and had no issue til now.
Any ideas? Thanks
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Have you considered Titanium Backup?
patruns said:
Have you considered Titanium Backup?
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Ya I have. The reason I haven't tried it is because I want to figure out why it started doing what it is doing now. I want to know if it's a hardware or a software thing. My nook does a few things I don't see anyone else having a prob with.
Actually I don't think the problem has anything to do with CWM. Anytime I reboot my device it freezes at the rainbow Nook Color/nookdevs animation. Actually after a fresh install, I can reboot it with no problems until it updates my apps. I have titanium backup now, and thats great for restoring all my stuff, but that doesn't change the fact that I have to completely reinstall everything on my device anytime I reboot.
Totally confused
SOLUTION:
Bear in mind this is for folks like me who run manualnooter, CM7 users shouldn't have this problem or at least this is not necessarily the solution for that build. Basically when the market updates after a fresh root it becomes incompatible and once you reset the device it will just loop or halt at the Nook Color loading animation. The fix is to disable the updater...here is the link to the thread where ACSER describes what to do.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/barnes-noble-nook-color/57633-what-do-stuck-boot-loop.html
Boot loops with cwm also in nook devs/boot screen
Im Having the exact same problem I also have titanium backup installed and ROm manager installed and updated and CWM 3.2.0.1 insalled. ive made a backup directly with CWM and results in Boot loops. ive tried doing it with rom manager and the results is the same. ive tried wiping/cache..wipind dalvik no help.. I have to do a factory reset and start over to get it to work again. any ideas why we can make a backup?
My experience has been the Adobe apps cause the problem: Flash, Air and Acrobat. I've become paranoid and always uninstall the old before installing the new.
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Here is the fix i did you must uninstall adobe air and flash player with titanium backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18518923
hi guys,
i want to root and flash custom rom on my acer iconia with 3.2 OTA.
Correct me if i'm wrong...
i understand that i have to:
1. revert to 3.0.1 via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1276227
2. root my iconia via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1055354
then i don't know whats next? can i already install custom rom after root?
or do i need to install some kind of recovery to flash this custom roms..
Please help.. thanks!
exactly my friend revert first then root, then download acer recovery app install recovery start flashin
jhannbernas said:
hi guys,
i want to root and flash custom rom on my acer iconia with 3.2 OTA.
Correct me if i'm wrong...
i understand that i have to:
1. revert to 3.0.1 via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1276227
2. root my iconia via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1055354
then i don't know whats next? can i already install custom rom after root?
or do i need to install some kind of recovery to flash this custom roms..
Please help.. thanks!
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Once you root install this:
Acer Recovery Installer
That will install CWM (recovery).
thanks for you both. i will try all of this on weekend.
but before doing this.. how can i backup my current rom? it is possible? thanks
You should install the Acer recovery installer first, then boot into CWM. When you are in there you will have the option to perform a full backup. This backup function will become your best friend.
thanks.. can't wait for the weekend to do this.
lastly, can anyone give me suggestion on what rom should i try in our opinion? thanks
jhannbernas said:
thanks.. can't wait for the weekend to do this.
lastly, can anyone give me suggestion on what rom should i try in our opinion? thanks
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IMHO the stock based ROMs are the most stable, and trouble free. Head over to the DEV section and pick one out
There are plenty of ROMS to choose from. Some are better than others, and some work better for others. Taboonay seems to be the most popular. I liked Lightspeed because it basically removed EVERYTHING that I didn't need. Citvao seems to be gaining momentium. There is also another guy by the name of THOR who created a custom ROM that incorporates some files from the transformer stock ROM that is pretty good too.
I'd try them all and see what one you like best
Steps to using CWM?
If there's a thread to using CWM please direct me to it.
I have taken a short cut in using it by watching a YouTube video for installing a custom ROM and not learned all the in's and out's of using CWM.
I had installed the OTA HC 3.2 over a rooted 3.1 and lost my rooting as I expected. I decided I wanted to have root capabilites but with HC 3.2, so I found the (Oct 5 )version here and started over again.
I started with the Method 2 approach to install HC 3.2 update (that was already rooted here on this web site) to get to HC 3.0.1. However, initially when I got to installing the HC 3.2 zip it just booted afterwards and then went to a blank screen. So I tried it again only not doing all the clearing of user data, caches, etc., that was mentioned in the YouTube Video for installing a custom ROM. That worked. I now have a Acer Iconia 16 GB A500 rooted with HC 3.2 on it which what I wanted.
I would like to try some other ROMs and still go back if I could but I'm not sure about what exactly has to be cleared every time you load a new ROM. I don't want to have it hang again to a blank screen and maybe screw it up so I can't fix it.
Any directions?
Oh, BTW, when I installed the HC 3.0.1 from Method 2, it was so unstable that I couldn't make a WIFI connection. I had to go right to 3.1 to be able to use WIFI and get Acer Recovery Installer and continue on to installing HC 3.2 rooted.
Thanks
Redevil06 said:
If there's a thread to using CWM please direct me to it.
I have taken a short cut in using it by watching a YouTube video for installing a custom ROM and not learned all the in's and out's of using CWM.
I had installed the OTA HC 3.2 over a rooted 3.1 and lost my rooting as I expected. I decided I wanted to have root capabilites but with HC 3.2, so I found the (Oct 5 )version here and started over again.
I started with the Method 2 approach to install HC 3.2 update (that was already rooted here on this web site) to get to HC 3.0.1. However, initially when I got to installing the HC 3.2 zip it just booted afterwards and then went to a blank screen. So I tried it again only not doing all the clearing of user data, caches, etc., that was mentioned in the YouTube Video for installing a custom ROM. That worked. I now have a Acer Iconia 16 GB A500 rooted with HC 3.2 on it which what I wanted.
I would like to try some other ROMs and still go back if I could but I'm not sure about what exactly has to be cleared every time you load a new ROM. I don't want to have it hang again to a blank screen and maybe screw it up so I can't fix it.
Any directions?
Oh, BTW, when I installed the HC 3.0.1 from Method 2, it was so unstable that I couldn't make a WIFI connection. I had to go right to 3.1 to be able to use WIFI and get Acer Recovery Installer and continue on to installing HC 3.2 rooted.
Thanks
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This has been posted in another thread by another member, and I saved it. I just can't remember who posted it again.
It's how I do EVERY flash and NEVER have problems.
"Before installing:
Boot into CWM
1/wipe cache
2/wipe data/factory reset
Advanced Menu:
3/wipe dalvik
4/wipe battery stat
Mount and Storage Menu
5/format (system, data, cache )... leave SD card alone.
install the zip ( new rom ) file !
Once done installing... repeat steps #1 - #4 only ( this is to assured that you are cleaned 110% in regard to the NEW rom that you have just installed )
DO NOT DO THE STEP #5 AFTER THE INSTALLATION !
Reboot system into initial Android greeting screen."
Some would say it's a bit on the "overkill" side, but better safe than sorry.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I think I also found where some of the information I wanted was in:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205204
I should have done more searching.
Thanks again
Oh, BTW, I have read your other posts on this site and like what you have to say. Also, the last step you have, Step 5, isn't in the YouTube video. Maybe that's where I fouled up and somehow recovered by doing again without some of the clearing. I think I just lucked out and got it working. Initially, without WIFI, I was stuck on how can you install Acer Recovery Installer without going to the "Market"? I had to go to 3.1 to get WIFI and then install it from the Market. I searched the internet with a computer for it, but couldn't find the apk to download so I could move it to a SD card and the Acer. Anyway it's working now and looking forward to more new ROMs and maybe Ice Cream if that's going to be the way to go in the future.
hardslog said:
You should install the Acer recovery installer first, then boot into CWM. When you are in there you will have the option to perform a full backup. This backup function will become your best friend.
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Unfortunately he cannot use Acer Recovery Installer as long as he does not have root and that is why he cannot backup his current configuration i.e. OTA 3.2. Taking the risk of reverting is in first place if he insists on using a custom ROM.
Right on!
drkalo said:
Unfortunately he cannot use Acer Recovery Installer as long as he does not have root and that is why he cannot backup his current configuration i.e. OTA 3.2. Taking the risk of reverting is in first place if he insists on using a custom ROM.
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+1
Some people don't read before posting
kjy2010 said:
+1
Some people don't read before posting
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MY BAD!
I thought I read that he rooted it already and wanted to make a backup of that......
drkalo said:
Unfortunately he cannot use Acer Recovery Installer as long as he does not have root and that is why he cannot backup his current configuration i.e. OTA 3.2. Taking the risk of reverting is in first place if he insists on using a custom ROM.
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got it. thanks!
Something got messed up when I tried to flash my acer a500 from a rooted version of 3.1. One problem I have (and I admit it was my fault) is I did not move my backed up ROM to my external card - so I don't have anything to restore.
My device will boot to CWM (v5, rev 1.3.4), I've tried loading several different ROMs just to flash something on there to get my device back to square one.
I got in this predicament because I had regular OTA 3.2 and couldn't root. I downgraded to 3.1 (buggy and endless FC), but I was able to run gingerbreak for rooting, do a backup (titanium) and my impression at that point was I could flash a custom mod through CWM.
Nothing is working. I have formatted the sd card in CWM and tried ROMs like Thor 14.2, Tabooney 3.0 and several 3.1/3.2 Acer stock ROMs. After wiping data/factory, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik and Battery Stats and then trying to load a zip file from /sdcard it either tells me the installation fails (which most believe is a bad dl), or (in the case of CWM_ROM_A500_701414_GEN1.zip), the install actually goes through - Finding update...opening update...Installing update... - but whenever I reboot after a *successful* install my device just hangs at the Acer logo/splash screen forever.
I've tried resetting the device (power/ + vol /lock on/off/on/off) and it hangs for a long time Erasing Cache.
I'm overwhelmed. I just want to get a stock ROM on that will install successfully so I can have a functional machine back. Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong or what I can do here? Thanks
Never mind
I used a different SD card and that did the trick
jcs1 said:
I used a different SD card and that did the trick
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Probably have a corrupted SD. Might just do a full format on it and still be usable.