I was wondering I'm looking to get into android development and I have a few questions that I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction?
I'm looking to make custom roms for the LG Phoenix P505 from scratch or use someones to learn how to? Tutorials or books or something would help, I'm not familiar with the code but I wanna learn so any help would be great, I'll be going into Computer Engineering Technology at a local college so I'm looking for a little head start in some areas.
I understand that a recovery menu or something around those guide lines is needed to use those custom roms? Is there one out for the P505 or is there a compatible one made from a previous rom?
I have the source code for the P505 its up on the LG open source website, can someone tell me what my next step would be?
url for LG Open Source: " lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensource.jsp"
I have the same phone but i cant find any support for recovery or roms! Can we get any help on that?
It would be nice, yeah... seeings how theres a fair amount of developers here,
even tellings us if someone is trying would be nice. I wouldn't mind
customizing my phone a bit more than what stock can do. So a shout
out to the developers, please let us know if anything is going on?
Or is everyone ditching this phone and going for the Thrive?
Any update on this?
I bought a Pheonix as my first android phone and would like to learn how to develop roms for it.
Unfortunately not that I know of, I haven't done any recent searching but yeah like you, the phoenix was my first phone too. Guess perhaps the devs don't wanna do anything for this phone?
Same here. There seems to be progress being made in this thread with the prepaid counterpart but this forum's pesky 10 post minimum doesn't allow me to post in that thread to glean some more information.
rom will be coming for this phone soon I'll make one. But how to you deodex a rom.
giandeli said:
rom will be coming for this phone soon I'll make one. But how to you deodex a rom.
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you can deodex files using this kitchen:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
instructions can be found here (i believe for your scenario you only need to do steps 3 and 5 and your ready to go):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901417
Well, considering I already subscribed to this thread, I'll keep standing by.
yea giandeli we are all here by u! but please keep us updated! but shouldnt we first work on getting a kernel though n then a rom?
Well if its a modification of the original rom, can't you still use
the standard kernel? Or does it need some modification to it first?
i think the most important thing we need for ours is overclock cuz they are a bit slow but i think we need a kernel for that.
This guy is in agreement. Still waiting for something before I up and get another phone with support.
Well, its been two weeks. Is there any progress?
well it seems there is a rom made it isnt much but it is something heres a url:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215542
Sweet. Going to check it out when I get home.
however i dont see any instructions to flash it or use it as an update,
so if you have any pointers that'd be great.
I'm in the same boat dude. I've been doing a ton of reading just haven't had the time to act on any of it.
So i have an easy way to get clockworkmod recovery on, however heres my dellema, will and At&T rom work on a rogers phone if it is not unlocked? So is it pointless then for me to install the Carlos rom for phoenix?
** as a note,
A: backups are great
B: AT&T roms on rogers stay stuck at the AT&T logo in a loop of sorts
C: so that means i guess i need help in cooking a rogers rom for my Phoenix... (any pointers/help)
For those that are willing to give it a shot, i sort of had a P500
rom working perfectly, display wise, on a P505....
This is what i did:
1. Installed ClockWorkMod for optimus one through android
market app "Rom Manager"
2. Downloaded the final release of "Devoid"
url: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=887281
3. ***MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP***
4. Wiped data, cache, and Dalvik, as well as battery stats
5. install from sd the "devoid" rom zip
Now theres 2 possible routes here....
1. Reboot now, you get the funky cyan messed up video screen
2.... Advanced restore in CWM of your boot partition...
the second route fixed the display, but upon boot, it said the battery
was over heating... and did a shutdown... i have yet to do a boot
up with ac power only, to see if that effects it.
**If anyone can point this at some devs, this may be a possible
work around for some roms?
The rom was a Froyo 2.2 and my boot was for a rooted 2.2.2,
what implications does this have?
So yeah thought i'd post my finding and if anyone knows anything
to add onto this, i don't have 10 posts yet, so I cant put this in
the develop area
***As an update
The "Devoid" Final rom was working full on the P505 from the method above
only if it was plugged in to a power source... It gave 2 errors,
1. When it was plugged in, it said "heat sensor detected high
temps, remove battery and place in cool dry place"
2. When not plugged in, "Battery overheateing, shutting down for safety"
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I'm trying to do my very first mod to my gtab. I've posted some questions already but have more before I proceed. I'm running bootloader 1.2-4349. Do need to set up nvflash before I attempt flashing to a different ROM? Is there a CWM that is specific for my bootloader? I've searched for these answers on the forums but was unable to find them. I found many posts about these subject but no one answred them directly. Any help is much appreciated.
NVFlash is never needed to flash a rom. It's a tool typically used to recover from a "softbrick." It CAN be used to flash a rom, but there are much safer alternatives. In fact, NVFlash is considered to BE the alternative to the regular methods.
starting with 4349, 1.2 bootlaoder, you can use the stock recovery to flash just about any of the 1.2 roms.
Which Rom are you interested in? The only roms that do not have a 1.2 equal are the gingerbread type roms. For instance, if you wanted Vegan 5.1.1, then Brilliant Corners is the 1.2 alternative. That's what I'm running. It's got to be one of, if not THEE, most complete rom available right now.
most 1.2 rom information is located at Slatedroid, not here.
I suggest that you check out the new website created by a user here (GoodIntentions). It's a "G-Tablet for Dummies" website. It contains a ton of useful information for beginners like yourself.
There IS a CWM that is specific to the 1.2 bootloader, but becuase the recovery on stock 1.2 has more options than the stock recovery used on 1.1 bootloader, it's not absolutely necessary. It's a good tool to have, but not necessary.
Your basic flashign technique for a 1.2 rom is as follows...download the .rar file the coincides with the rom you want. Unzip it to the root of your G-Tablet's memory. Restart the G-Tablet while holding down the volume up key. The tablet will boot into the stock recovery, and use the files you unzipped to flash the new rom. The rar file will contain to objects, a file called update.zip, and a recovery folder with a "command" file in it. What will happen when booting into recovery is that the tablet will first check to see if there is a recovery folder present. Think of this as a PC checking the floppy drive for a boot image before booting from the hard disk. If it sees the recovery folder, it will, by default, run the command file within it. The command file will unpack and install (flash) the rom image from the update.zip file.
With most of his roms, Roebeet has included the 1.2 CWM image in the package. It will not install automatically. There are threads available (on slatedroid) that contain instructions on how to activate the 1.2 CWM. There are various methods, if one doesn't work the first time.
If you are dead set on flashing a 1.1 rom, you'll first need to downgrade back to firmware 3588, which is a 1.1 bootloader firmware. Gojimi has posted instructions on XDA on how that is done.
So, your first step, is research the roms on XDA, Slatedroid, and other Android Tablet forums to find which one would best suit your needs.
As a beginner, I highly suggest that you steer away from the honeycomb roms, as they are still in alpha status and mainly used for testing and troubleshooting. In other words, they won't work perfectly, so to save yourself headaches, wait until your more comfortable with a more polished rom. ALL HC ROMS ARE 1.2 BOOTLOADER ROMS
The gingerbread roms are pretty stable, and from what I hear, pretty fast, but they lack a few things, namely full hardware acceleration. At the same time, if your heart is set on streaming netflix movies, then these might be the best choice for you. THE MOST POPULAR GB ROMS ARE 1.1 BOOTLOADER ROMS
The Froyo roms, while the most prehistoric are the most stable, most complete, and less "buggy" of all the roms. There are many varieties, based on various tablet user interfaces. FROYO ROMS CAN BE EITHER 1.1 OR 1.2 BOOTLOADER ROMS...BUT, the 1.2 branch has more of them, and there are 1.2 equalivents to just about all of them, so sticking with 1.2 for a Froyo rom is the best option because you'll still have the advanced stock recovery if you decide to stick with it.
That being said...why not mess around with the stock 4349 firmware to get a feel for the tablet a bit more? Check some things out. Get Titanium Backup and practice a bit with backup up apps and restoring them (you'll use this a LOT, especially if you rom jump trying to find the best one for you). Find out what you want the tablet to do, based on the stock firmware limitations. Some people are still using stock and not finding it too horrible. Spend a week with it, see what else you want it to do, and ask again when you know what you want out of your G-Tablet. And above all, ENJOY...you just entered a whole new world of personal computing...don't rush into anything and end up regretting your purchase.
P.S...I highly recommend you check out "G-Tablet for Dummies"
DarkHorse281 said:
I'm trying to do my very first mod to my gtab. I've posted some questions already but have more before I proceed. I'm running bootloader 1.2-4349. Do need to set up nvflash before I attempt flashing to a different ROM? Is there a CWM that is specific for my bootloader? I've searched for these answers on the forums but was unable to find them. I found many posts about these subject but no one answred them directly. Any help is much appreciated.
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Check out my website written for beginners. It will explain everything you need to know.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/
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Make sure you read my page on flashing a rom.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/rom.htm
Also, check out my page on CWM.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/clockworkmod.htm
Much appreciated...awesome!
You guys are both awesome and a credit to the anroid community. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you help. I didn't go into much depth on this thread because I had already written one earlier in the day that shared my background and future intentions for my gtab. I didn't want to sound repetative plus I realize people don't care to read a novel in these forums. So I figured short and sweet I might get a better response, and I was right. Anyway, I hear what you're saying about messing around with the stock firmware TJ. The truth is I've had the tablet now for 3 weeks and I've played with it constantly. I have to say it's not as bad as I thought it would be but it lacks so many things that I've come to love about my Samsung Galaxy Indulge. Many people make fun of or pick on Metropcs and make fun of them as a company, but I have to say here in Florida they're great. I love my phone even though its not the top of the line galaxy phone. And their 4g service is fast in my neck of the woods. Having had such a great experience with that android device, I would really like to make something awesome out of my gtab. I want to use the 4g on my phone to connect to the internet and turn this tablet into a completely mobile multimedia device (Xvid, Avi, Mp3, Netflix, Hulu). I would also like to get the gps software put on it so that I can put my google maps app from my phone on it. Once I am be to get the phone rooted and the wifi or usb tethering up I can use it for navigation as well. I also miss the Android Market. I would love to get that back up and running on my tablet so that I can download some of the apps that I'm familiar with. I really like the dolphin browser on my Indulge and would love to have it on my tablet. I had it for a while on the gtab but had to do a factory reset because of something my kids did and now that I'm back to having nothing on my tablet I thought now would be a good time to try a different ROM. Besides it seemed a little glitchy anyway. Sorry about the novel guys, but now that you know a bit about me and what I want to use my tab for, which ROM do you think will suit my needs? Do you still think that Brilliant Corners is going to cover what I'm wanting out of my gtab? I'm going to check out GoodIntentions' web site and maybe I will get a clue. Thanks for your help guys. I hope to hear back soon.
P.S. One additional question. What's up with the bluetooth pairing? I can't get this thing to pair with any phones. I've tried mine and my gf's and it absolutely will not work.
Which is the best rom to go with?
I've downloaded _n0p_'s DSC v0.7 and Tenorntex's Longhorn 2.1 v2, seeing as these 2 were the newest and latest and had Android 2.3.3
Are there any other better rom's or has anyone tried the 2 I listed, if so whats the difference?
Thanks
Better is very vague when it comes to ROM's it all depends on what you want in a Rom. I have old Simple Streak 1.2. Yes there is newer ROM's out but this one works perfect for what I need. In my Case Stability.
DSC is the most actively developed/supported. Plenty stable for me. I don't think any of the earlier Froyo based ROMs are being developed further.
I meant as far as Stability, Performance and up to date, I don't care about the Stage UI and was gunna theme it myself or use SPB Shell 3D.
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
n1nj4Lo said:
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Unfortunately I do not believe that anyone can change the way that the Streak works just so it is more convenient for you or so that you don't have to learn anything.
In the time you took to navigate to XDA and make your post you could have flashed a ROM onto your Streak - plugging it in and everything.
The only ROM you can install by just putting it on the SD Card is the same one that is currently on the Streak, if you don't mind holding down a couple of buttons and using recovery mode.
n1nj4Lo said:
Could someone point me in the direction to an easy install rom?
I don't wanna install "these update pkg's" after renaming and then plug my phone into the pc and open cmd and then type this in on the pc. et cetera et cetera
I just wanna download a zip drag it to the card, bootup in safemode and install from sd card.
I'd consider doing all that work if I weren't testing out the device.
I won it off ebay, the guy replaced the screen and said it's been randomly rebooting ever since. But he never did a factory reset or new rom install ever since fixing the screen, so I just wanna simply install a rom and see if it works then go on from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If anyone is wondering why developers leave and give the site a bad reputation look no further. Someone with over 600 posts under his username should not be making noob posts like this one. With so many posts he knows how to use the search engine and the wiki, but I guess when it comes to our device using the search engine and the wiki is an inconvenience, along with renaming a file "update.pkg".
marvin02 said:
Unfortunately I do not believe that anyone can change the way that the Streak works just so it is more convenient for you or so that you don't have to learn anything.
In the time you took to navigate to XDA and make your post you could have flashed a ROM onto your Streak - plugging it in and everything.
The only ROM you can install by just putting it on the SD Card is the same one that is currently on the Streak, if you don't mind holding down a couple of buttons and using recovery mode.
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So would that be this: Streak_407_20707_14.pkg ? According to the first post above me do I rename it?
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
If anyone is wondering why developers leave and give the site a bad reputation look no further. Someone with over 600 posts under his username should not be making noob posts like this one. With so many posts he knows how to use the search engine and the wiki, but I guess when it comes to our device using the search engine and the wiki is an inconvenience, along with renaming a file "update.pkg".
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Some people learn better through interaction where they can actually ask questions... I don't have over 600 posts so who are you talking about? Furthermore if you are talking about first thing I'd do is learn how to read mr wise guy, secondly!! You tell me how one is supposed to learn which rom is the best based on user reviews and opinions, where do I go to find that out and wheres the wiki on that, unless you expect people to read 200 and 300 page threads also? I have barely 150 posts and rarely post at all unless it is to ask questions or make requests. It's not like I have 600 posts and every single one of them are questions.
This is only my second time dealing with android and second time flashing android first time it was simply moving a zip to the sdcard and booting up into safe mode and selecting update through sdcard, so certainly I'd be baffled and have questions when one time it was so easy and the second time I've gotta jump through hoops and everything.
Lastly since WHEN Is asking a Question SOOOO wrong in the Dell Streak 5 Q&A Category???? It's not like I posted it in the wrong area or something, but ohhh no'es how dare n00b be confused and need a lil help/guidance of some experienced users, ohh mercy me the drama in that!!
Last time I checked that is what XDA is here for, for people to learn, not to be attacked by asshat trolls like you.
If anyone is wondering why XDA has a multitude more lurkers than posters look no further than to the hardass that is Strephon Alkhalikoi View Postwho can't stand to see a n00b in need of help!
Like this
Flashing/Updating
Installing a recovery
Download appropriate recovery to flash from Stock Recoveries or Custom recoveries
Enter fastboot mode on your phone
Flash recovery with fastboot: fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>
After flashing is complete: fastboot reboot to reboot
Finished
If you are using a custom recovery see Disabling recovery overwrite in stock roms and follow the steps there to prevent the Streak from over writing the recovery. Re-install your custom recovery after following those steps.
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BUT THE VERY FIRST THING THE WIKI SAYS IS To Stay AWAY From Fastboot, but this tells you to use Fastboot... So what gives and which is it? LoL
n1nj4Lo said:
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Like thisBUT THE VERY FIRST THING THE WIKI SAYS IS To Stay AWAY From Fastboot, but this tells you to use Fastboot... So what gives and which is it? LoL
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I hope that you can actually read better than that. The wiki does not say to stay away from fastboot. It clearly states two commands that should not be used on the Streak. It goes onto give a number of examples of using fastboot.
I hope that you other 157 posts (as I wtite this) on XDA were not as tiresome or ill-informed as the ones you have posted here.
The information you need is here in the forums, available at the links in my signature, and on other forums. Please exercise some patience and read the info.
marvin02 said:
I hope that you can actually read better than that. The wiki does not say to stay away from fastboot. It clearly states two commands that should not be used on the Streak. It goes onto give a number of examples of using fastboot.
I hope that you other 157 posts (as I wtite this) on XDA were not as tiresome or ill-informed as the ones you have posted here.
The information you need is here in the forums, available at the links in my signature, and on other forums. Please exercise some patience and read the info.
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Uhh yea sory... I forgot about the 2 options to stay away from, just the dangerous part stayed with me. LoL
Do I need to be at a certain android version or can I make a semi-major update leap?
Also it says
Installing a stock rom
Reinstalling a stock rom will wipe all data!
1. Download stock rom pkg and recovery to install
2. Copy pkg to sdcard and rename to update.pkg
3. Install matching stock recovery
4. Enter recovery mode
5. After recovery loads press Camera to begin process
6. Finished
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Do I need the recovery.img as well? It said nothing about a img file or anything just said "matching stock recovery" so yea, is that the right thing?
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First I'm gunna try factory reset and see if that fixes the random reboot problem, hopefully it does the seller said he just installed the new screen and never did anything except for just trying to powering it up, use normally and it would reboot suddenly.
WELL NO DUH, you need to restore everything back to default settings with a factory/hard reset. Thats like trying to install a video card or webcam and expecting it to work right away without installing the dirvers. - Hopefully!
Well it's only getting as far as the dell logo screen/splash screen. I've tried the entering safe mode but nothing yet, once it's powered on it just sits at that screen.
dsc is great and very stable if you dont mind the few following quirks.
1. google maps will always run in the background unless you freeze it. This will drain your battery quite quickly
2. Wifi might or might not be broken, if it is broken use wifi analyzer if not profit
the benefits of dsc?
fast
running GB instead of froyo
dpi change is awesome.
screen default orientation is awesome
stable other than those few bugs
Battery life was decent.
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Im however just running 2.2 froyo on a stock rogers. The battery life is amazing on stock 2.2 (a whole day, and still have about 30% with heavy usage and constant 3g) and the wifi works fine. For me this is the most stable rom however it is a bit slow compared to DSC. This phone is used for work so it has to just.. work.
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Havent really tried the other roms yet, but depending on what you want out of the phone you can try the DSC and see if you can live with these little quirks.
Yea I was leaning more towards DSC than Longhorn, it looks like it's updated more frequently too.
Bad & Good News
Turns out when the guy replaced the screen he fried the mobo... Me and a friend at a small local pc store tried everything from rooting with new rom to factory resets. Always had the same problem.
But the guy at the pc store sells phones also and said he'd give me $100.00 credit to a new factory refirbed, rooted and unlocked dell streak mini if I gave him the one we tried to repair.
where should i begin to root ? where should i read on how to flash rom ? what is boot strap recovery ?
admin why isnt there a section of tutorial for noobs (i am one ) ?
i come here for a week ive been trying to read and read and i have no clue what to do and how to do it ?
there is no video demonstration or anything what so ever ?
some help please ?
Well Dont know a whole tutorial but some basics. Really gotta read alot and hard to follow I know.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341578&highlight=razr+utility
Make sure the drivers are downloaded and installed first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486718&highlight=razr+utility
I used this utility and it helped alot.
Depending on the Rom you want depends on the version you have to start with. The Rom I installed I needed to be on .173. I used the utility #6 install safestrap.
Then #13. The phone reboots and shows safestrap. Do what it says which brings you into CWM (clockwork mode). Then depending on the Rom again how you install. Most require wipe cache, mount system etc.. If you really screw up you might have to use RSD to load the factory system. Sorry not really explained well but I had to read alot and jump right in. I screwed up but went to a chat room and had a person help and walk me through recovery.
Did you also see this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518472
More info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492708
So alot of reading and different ways to do it.
http://hash-of-codes.blogspot.com/p/how-to-safestrap_24.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391900
I know alot of reading but all in the right direction.
im soo confused bro,
my phone is rooted. i got that bootstrap thing installed.
and the rest is just going over my head because its all jibberish to me. like updating radio ? looking at rom requirements like ive never heard of this before i jumped from samsung to motorola cause of battery life. and its extremely disappointing and now im pretty much desperate to make this work some how.
your on cdma i believe. i think gsm is different
there are no like videos that take you step by step or like guide i guess. very disappointing but i'll keep trying and reading but i have a lot of questions and concerns cause it seems to be information overload at this point for me
so what is next after boot strap installation ?
Well if your already rooted the only difference is the Rom you want itself. Since you have bootstrap installed this utility might help and make it easier.
All this is just an example. There are many threads and I found videos with a simple google search. You need to find a gsm rom based on your phone and area.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1486718.html
post #8
Enable Usb debugging on your phone and installation from unknown sources
Install Rom on your phone (external sd card)
Clear Dalvik(which you would scroll down and its in advanced)
Wipe data and rest
Wipe cache
May want you to mount system
Install from Sd Card
From your Sd card fine the Rom you put there and select.
Hopefully someone with more experience on GSM phones might jump in.
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Ok, so I'm going to start by saying that I am the furthest thing away from being an android noob, but this is my first Moto android device. I can see right away in terms of rom and kernel flashing it's a bit different than all the other android devices I've owned. I Picked up a RAZR for a really good price and it came loaded with Safestrap and had a 4.2.2 AOKP nightly loaded already on it. KI'm completely unfamiliar with bootstrap and how it works (I plan on reading up and learning everything today), but the guy that gave it to me said he accidently deleted the stock rom. To me, coming from all htc devices, I didn't think that was a big deal because who wants stock anyways? So, I'm not sure if it's critical to get that stock rom loaded back on in one of the slots or not.
I guess the point of this post is to see if anyone would care to share a couple helpful pointers for a first time moto user and hopefully make this learning process a bit easier.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to reply with something other than "Read the stickies"
If you are happy with the AOKP, no need to install stock ROM. Stock ROM probably have less bugs, working 1080 camcoder, but lack options, that AOKP has.
localceleb said:
Ok, so I'm going to start by saying that I am the furthest thing away from being an android noob, but this is my first Moto android device. I can see right away in terms of rom and kernel flashing it's a bit different than all the other android devices I've owned. I Picked up a RAZR for a really good price and it came loaded with Safestrap and had a 4.2.2 AOKP nightly loaded already on it. KI'm completely unfamiliar with bootstrap and how it works (I plan on reading up and learning everything today), but the guy that gave it to me said he accidently deleted the stock rom. To me, coming from all htc devices, I didn't think that was a big deal because who wants stock anyways? So, I'm not sure if it's critical to get that stock rom loaded back on in one of the slots or not.
I guess the point of this post is to see if anyone would care to share a couple helpful pointers for a first time moto user and hopefully make this learning process a bit easier.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to reply with something other than "Read the stickies"
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Next time, make sure dont to delete the stock ROM, you can install other custom ROM on other ROM slots, make your stock rom as a backup if anything happens.
If you want to go back to stock ROM, or if your razr is bricked, i suggest you to download the fastboot file and flash the xml.zip you downloaded using RSD lite from the PC. Its just the same as 'Odin' if youre Samsung user. Download the fastboot file in the link given and also download rsd lite,you can google for it
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I'm trying really hard to do this without being dopey. I want to get my Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 to slim down and speed up, so I want to root and apply a new ROM. This much I'm pretty sure of. I understand that I need to replace the recovery code, which will allow me to replace the stock ROM with a modded ROM. (How am I doing?). I think I need Odin running on my PC to load the new recovery. I understand booting into recovery mode (I think). I've read about putting the new ROM on my device and rebooting into it. I believe I then need to install google apps to get some of the basic stuff (like Play store) back on the device. I assume that is because they are not part of the modded ROMs? But... how the heck does one decide WHICH recovery, WHICH ROM, WHICH gapps and the right versions of each? I'm going around and around. I'm willing to do the research, but I'm not even clear on the high-level process and steps, let alone the details, finer points. I'm a retired app developer (client server, Oracle, Powerbuilder) so I have some idea of what I'm doing. Just some. Thanks in advance if anyone cares to help.
jberthoty said:
I'm trying really hard to do this without being dopey. I want to get my Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7510 to slim down and speed up, so I want to root and apply a new ROM. This much I'm pretty sure of. I understand that I need to replace the recovery code, which will allow me to replace the stock ROM with a modded ROM. (How am I doing?). I think I need Odin running on my PC to load the new recovery. I understand booting into recovery mode (I think). I've read about putting the new ROM on my device and rebooting into it. I believe I then need to install google apps to get some of the basic stuff (like Play store) back on the device. I assume that is because they are not part of the modded ROMs? But... how the heck does one decide WHICH recovery, WHICH ROM, WHICH gapps and the right versions of each? I'm going around and around. I'm willing to do the research, but I'm not even clear on the high-level process and steps, let alone the details, finer points. I'm a retired app developer (client server, Oracle, Powerbuilder) so I have some idea of what I'm doing. Just some. Thanks in advance if anyone cares to help.
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A custom ROM can be installed via custom recovery or Odin, so you don't really need a custom recovery before installing it, however it is higly advised.
To say it all, you don't even need root to flash a custom recovery. Some custom recovery like CM also come already rooted.
It is because they are not part of the custom ROM, since including gapps source code would take up more space and some other issues. Regarding the fact about which recovery and ROM to choose... the fact that there is a lot of them doesn't mean that they are very different. Some are based on the source code of another and just add little features that one must be looking for in order to be interested. Generally, TWRP and CWM are the ones most documented. With a simple google comparision research you should be able to decide. Custom ROMs are also based on two vastly documentet projrcts: CM and AOSP. Start with the regular ones, try them both, stock with one if you don't need anything else or start looking around among the forks.
However, I started using custom ROMs with an objective: build source code. For this scope, I decided to use CM for it's huge documentation, since I was looking for a kernel that did one particolar thing, but there wasn't one so I did it on my own. Just to say, I don't know how it feels like to be in decisive about what ROM to pick up.
Ciuffy's SM-G900F CM 12.1 spirit hath marked this way.