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tatonka_Hero · February 2nd, 2010, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by rlundeen

The Mac guide "worked" but isn't accurate. For instance, where it says to hold the HOME button and Power on the device to enter the recovery so you can do the nandroid backup, is incorrect. All that did was boot the phone and wipe out all my apps and data. The Volume Down needed to be held while powering on the phone, not the HOME button. I also found the organization at the bottom to be confusing. in the middle of flashing a rom it talks about partitioning the memory card and then goes back to talking about a rom. And that's just getting the rom on the phone. Once i got it on i find that the Fresh 1.1 rom is not as I expected. It's slow, takes a long time to boot (4x longer than stock Sense), Some of the apps don't work (es file browser, wireless tether, Messages) I have on icon on the taskbar that looks like a phone with circles around it, I can't get rid of it nor can I find anything that tells me what it is. I just want to go back to stock but I can't becuase I don't have windows. So until I shell out another $600 minimum for a windows computer I'm stuck in this ... whatever with a phone that is only a quarter as useful as it was just a day ago.

perhaps you should do some research before rooting/ROM'ing your phone. You can put any custom taskbar you want on, which should get rid of that phone icon. Fresh appears to take longer to boot, and does the first couple of times, but then is about the same. The apps that don't work require a little more settings changing to get them to work. There's instructions all over XDA for using wireless tether. I certainly can't help you with that one, since I don't have enough service at home to use it...wish I did.

You can go back to stock without Windows. That's why you made a nandroid backup before putting the ROM on. You did make a backup, right?

You can also just flash the recovery image that you put on your SD card (I think), and that would bring you back to stock. Or download the factory image, and put it on the phone, and run it from the phone, because that's how it's supposed to be done anyway.