Need ROM Experience / Comments

[apollomaker]

Howdy All -- well I finally made the jump. Rooted today, after much study, and seems to have gone well. Backed up, and ready to go with a ROM, ROM manager installed.

So, after untold hours of reading and digging, I cannot come up with a ROM that I can pin down as a good, solid starting point -- or better yet, one I might stick with for a while at least. They are so many.

Did much reading on the earlier Fresh ROMs, but keep gravitating back to the newer ones like Cyanogen, Bugless Beast, etc. But I cannot find any comprehensive talk about these ROMs -- it is just scattered and piecemeal.

So thought I would ask those who have actually downloaded and flashed these ROMs as to their opinion. I use my phone for the basic services. I need solid phone, MSM, Market access and installation, etc. I do not need blazing speed -- much rather stability and function.

Where to begin? What say folks? Any and all comments from your experience with the latest and greatest.....

Many Thanks --- Bob ---

 

[mysticmead]

ok... before getting all excited over Cyanogen...and Bugless Beast.. make sure they're for the CDMA Hero.. if they are for the GSM Hero, you'll brick your phone..

notice, those ROMS are not listed on XDADeveloperWiki - CDMA Hero ROMs which is a listing of all current CDMA ROms

 

[apollomaker]

ok... before getting all excited over Cyanogen...and Bugless Beast.. make sure they're for the CDMA Hero.. if they are for the GSM Hero, you'll brick your phone..

notice, those ROMS are not listed on XDADeveloperWiki - CDMA Hero ROMs which is a listing of all current CDMA ROms

OK, thanks for the tip. Will check it out as well as the list in the link you gave.

 

[ccapasso]

In my personal opinion go with Fresh 2.0d. That or DamageControl. I have had nothing but good results from Fresh, so that is my suggestion .

 

[apollomaker]

In my personal opinion go with Fresh 2.0d. That or DamageControl. I have had nothing but good results from Fresh, so that is my suggestion .

Well heck. All going well then this.

During my install attempt at Fresh 2.0d, went into Recovery Mode.

First I wiped the DATA section. No problem. Worked fine.

Then I attempted to wipe the DALVIK-cache section. I get an error that says:

"Error: Run 'wipe dalvik' via adb!

Not at all sure how to go about this since phone is in recovery mode. Anyone been through this before and dealt with this error??

Help!!! Thanks --- Bob ---

 

[ccapasso]

Try and update to the 1.6.2 Recovery Image. I believe that fixed it for some.

 

[hood420]

What's does wiping the Dalvik do? I've wiped and reflashed at least 10 times now without wiping the dalvik and I haven't had any problems.

 

[mysticmead]

@hood420 wiping davlik is just one way to make sure you don't have any problems. Like you, I've never had a problem with wiping just data.. however, for a lot of people wiping davlik is the only way to avoid a boot loop.

@applomaker upgrade to RA 1.6.2

 

[apollomaker]

@hood420 wiping davlik is just one way to make sure you don't have any problems. Like you, I've never had a problem with wiping just data.. however, for a lot of people wiping davlik is the only way to avoid a boot loop.

@applomaker upgrade to RA 1.6.2

Howdy Guys --- system was down, but now I can respond
The install instructions I was using noted to wipe both data and Dalvik caches....I found some later instructions that said to wipe only the data section. This appears to be a typical instruction when going from stock 1.5 to any other higher number including 1.6 and up. At least that is what I have seen. My present recovery image is a rooted 1.5. I have also reinstalled this after the problems I had. Are you suggesting that I install 1.6.2 as my recovery image then restore to it??

I am still getting the hang of ROM installation. Give me a couple of noob instuctions so I make sure I understand what you are suggesting specifically.

Many Thanks ---- Bob

 

[ccapasso]

After you upgrade (install) 1.6.2 Recovery image, you don't have to restore your ROM (if it is already successfully installed). The Recovery image update is to fix the wipe adb error.

 

[apollomaker]

After you upgrade (install) 1.6.2 Recovery image, you don't have to restore your ROM (if it is already successfully installed). The Recovery image update is to fix the wipe adb error.

OK, I will go through the exact same procedure with 1.6.2 as I did with 1.5.2. recovery image. What you are saying is that this should prepare the phone to accept the Fresh 2.0d rom install (?).

Thanks!!!

 

[apollomaker]

After you upgrade (install) 1.6.2 Recovery image, you don't have to restore your ROM (if it is already successfully installed). The Recovery image update is to fix the wipe adb error.

Just wanted to pass along some thanks for the help --- switching to the 1.6.2 RA did the trick with solving the Dalvik wiping problem. Worked great on both data and Dalvik caches. The ROM loaded fine after that. Am now figuring out Fresh 2.0d ---- thanks again to all that helped with the grand experiment here.

Regards --- Bob ---

 

[ccapasso]

Glad you got it working. Enjoy the shell

 

[davec1234]

Try and update to the 1.6.2 Recovery Image. I believe that fixed it for some.

What is the correct way to put this on the phone?
I put it on my sdcard in the root but still get the old img, I'm guessing I did something wrong.

Thanks

 

[ccapasso]

Lol..You can't simply put it there. Remember when you flashed the 1.5.2 image before? Same steps. Put on SD card and flash it through adb. Do not flash zip from recovery as it isn't a zip

 

[mysticmead]

or use Fresh Kitchen to apply just the recovery (1.6.2)

 

[davec1234]

Lol..You can't simply put it there. Remember when you flashed the 1.5.2 image before? Same steps. Put on SD card and flash it through adb. Do not flash zip from recovery as it isn't a zip

I figured it was something like that.
Originally, I auto rooted (Fresh) then went with Fresh 1.1.
Now I'm on DamageControl 2.08.1.
So, I guess I'll try to figure it out through Fresh.

 

[DFRESH]

a successful rooter....I love to read about it..

best ROM IMO.....is DC 2.08.1 .....