Ok I put the new one on the card. Do I need to do a back up? Also do I need to delete the old one? When im at the green and black screen do I do a wipe then flash zip from sdcard?
personally, I suggest doing a backup. You don't need to delete the old rom, and you shouldn't have to do a wipe unless the ROM you are flashing calls for it.
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I rooted my phone last night. So far it's been a nightmare. Phone takes twice as long to boot and some of the stock apps I used a lot aren't there anymore and no way to get them back (Amazon MP3, and Ringtone Trimmer). Now, I can't even flash the RUU becuase it's WINDOWS ONLY! Unless you are a windows user, DON'T CONSIDER ROOTING!
Yes, it does take a little longer to boot, but how often do you reboot anyways? I hardly ever do.
Also, it is possible to get those stock apps back. Download THIS and extract it, then look in the apps folder. You should be able to find the apks of the stock apps that you're missing. Just transfer them to your sd card and reinstall them. The only one I don't see in there is the Amazon mp3 app. But I think you can find that apk if you search around the xda CDMA Hero forum a little. If I find it I'll post here where you can find it.
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Thanks, I got the ROM on the phone eventually. The only instructions for NON-Windows that I could find are these which have some errors (such as boot recovery) that wiped my phone. But I did get it. I know the kitchen will allow me to put some of the apps back, But my point is that if you don't use Windows, you can't use it. I don't use Windows, don't have Windows, don't have access to Windows.... it does me no good. I'll put them back on manually if i have too, but I haven't found anything that shows how to do it. Everyone just says "Use the kitchen".....
Yeah, everything is definitely geared towards Windows users.
I used this guide when I rooted mine. It's a guide for Ubuntu Karmic, but there isn't really anything ubuntu specific so it should work fine with any linux distro.
If you have Astro File Manager or ES File Explorer you can just put those .apk files from the Kitchen download on your sd card and then go to where you put them with one of those file managers and click on them to install them. If you don't have a file manager you can download either of those from the market for free.
There is an app in the market called RingDroid that is an excellent ringtone maker. Let's you trim any sound file on your phone and set it as ringtone or alert tone etc...
I rooted my phone last night. So far it's been a nightmare. Phone takes twice as long to boot and some of the stock apps I used a lot aren't there anymore and no way to get them back (Amazon MP3, and Ringtone Trimmer). Now, I can't even flash the RUU becuase it's WINDOWS ONLY! Unless you are a windows user, DON'T CONSIDER ROOTING!
Not everything for this phone is geared towards windows. Most of it is, because most people use windows, and that's to be expected. But there are still guided for other operating systems if you look.
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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.
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.
well just a couple solutions to your problem.
1. Have any friends? I am sure they have a windows computer they would let you mess with.
2. Ever hear of dual booting a Mac? Yep, you can do that as well. Would cost you (legally) around $100, others can find it cheaper.
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.
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well just a couple solutions to your problem.
1. Have any friends? I am sure they have a windows computer they would let you mess with.
2. Ever hear of dual booting a Mac? Yep, you can do that as well. Would cost you (legally) around $100, others can find it cheaper.
1. Yes, but they know better than to let people install things on their windows computers.
2. Yes, built several of them. Not going to be able to touch Windows LEGALLY for under 299 since I'm not buying OEM, or have a legal copy of windows to upgrade from.
1. Yes, but they know better than to let people install things on their windows computers.
2. Yes, built several of them. Not going to be able to touch Windows LEGALLY for under 299 since I'm not buying OEM, or have a legal copy of windows to upgrade from.
maybe i'm out of the loop here, but here is windows 7 for $129
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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.
Yes, I did do the research, I researched everything on this and the XDA forums. Problem is I made some assumptions that I shouldn't have made such as following the MAC guide explicitly when it didn't work. Or assuming that the guides for putting the stock apps back on would work.
Also, the updgrade process wiped my phone, I did do the Nandroid backup but AFTER the phone had been wiped. If I can flash that and go back to stock, fine, I'll do that. Don't know that it can be used that way. What I read leads me to believe it just backs up data and setting, not the stock Rom.
If I could find an IMG for stock to reflash, I'd do that too, but all I can find on these forums is the Radio Unit Upgrade exe for windows.
Oh my. Just forget I said anything. I'm sorry to have bothered ya'll.
I'm assuming your problem was never solved? I'm not sure where the resistance is coming from wrt using a Mac. There have to be more people who don't use Windows in any fashion. It seems pretty unreasonable to me to that we get images that you can flash using the phone or the sdk for everything but the stock rom.
That's the only reason I haven't restored my phone and unrooted it. I also researched everything and didn't see any information about what version of the android base was being used in all the rom's so I assumed it would be greater than 1.5. That is what makes sense logically. The only thing I really saw from these rom's was that I was given the ability to uninstall the Sprint apps. Not sure why a rom built on 1.6+ without senseui hasn't emerged but once I figure out how to restore my phone from my MAC using the sdk, I'll just wait until Sprint releases the update themselves since it will probably be that long until a rom that is complete arrives here.
Thanks guys and gals for all your work. If I still had the free time, I would help where I could.
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I'm assuming your problem was never solved? I'm not sure where the resistance is coming from wrt using a Mac. There have to be more people who don't use Windows in any fashion. It seems pretty unreasonable to me to that we get images that you can flash using the phone or the sdk for everything but the stock rom.
That's the only reason I haven't restored my phone and unrooted it. I also researched everything and didn't see any information about what version of the android base was being used in all the rom's so I assumed it would be greater than 1.5. That is what makes sense logically. The only thing I really saw from these rom's was that I was given the ability to uninstall the Sprint apps. Not sure why a rom built on 1.6+ without senseui hasn't emerged but once I figure out how to restore my phone from my MAC using the sdk, I'll just wait until Sprint releases the update themselves since it will probably be that long until a rom that is complete arrives here.
Thanks guys and gals for all your work. If I still had the free time, I would help where I could.
No, it hasn't been solved yet. I did get the tethering working... sort of. It at least launches now. Now, If i could only get it to shut down.
Ya, i hear what you are saying about the stock Rom.... I haven't been able to find one to flash back to my phone. The Radio Unit Upgrade executeable has to be built on ... something, right? But so far, I haven't found it. I tried restoring the nandroid backup to go back to stock (AS WAS ADVISED HERE) but that didn't get anywhere, just wiped my phone again. Again, i assumed it would work.
I assume that all the CDMA Hero Roms are 1.5 since 1.6+ hasn't been released from Sprint. I think there is some 2.x ones in beta but they have issues from what I read. All I can find on individual ROMS is that people either like them or hate them. I checked the developer page for the Fresh ROM, nothing on it about what to do with the issues I have. Oh well, I'll figure it out.
there are developer ROM's that are 1.6+. I haven't messed with them much.
Try posting a thread on XDA about your issues with Mac, and I would bet someone a little more knowledgeable than us will be able to help you quite quickly
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No, it hasn't been solved yet. I did get the tethering working... sort of. It at least launches now. Now, If i could only get it to shut down.
Ya, i hear what you are saying about the stock Rom.... I haven't been able to find one to flash back to my phone. The Radio Unit Upgrade executeable has to be built on ... something, right? But so far, I haven't found it. I tried restoring the nandroid backup to go back to stock (AS WAS ADVISED HERE) but that didn't get anywhere, just wiped my phone again. Again, i assumed it would work.
I assume that all the CDMA Hero Roms are 1.5 since 1.6+ hasn't been released from Sprint. I think there is some 2.x ones in beta but they have issues from what I read. All I can find on individual ROMS is that people either like them or hate them. I checked the developer page for the Fresh ROM, nothing on it about what to do with the issues I have. Oh well, I'll figure it out.
rlundeen, sorry to hear about your findings, but I wanted you to know that I am a heavy mac user and did nothing with windows and am currently running GBhils 1.6 with donut 0.1 and .31 kernel, but this was probably my 4th ROM. I selected this one even though there are issues ie bluetooth and speaker phone, but these are some of the trade off that come with running a rooted phone and ROMs. Believe me, I was just as frustrated with you when I first started this process, which was about a week ago, but after reading the rights threads and gaining feedback from the developers and not just random people, I got my stuff all in line and I am not looking back. I would be more than willing to send you some links to threads or give you tips on what worked for me and what did not, just pm me. Good luck!
For all of this talk about non-windows OS's having trouble rooting, wouldn't one think a lot of this stuff would be for Linux? The Kernel is linux, and all that. I mean...? I happen to dual-boot with a lot of Windows and Linux distros so just wondering here.
For all of this talk about non-windows OS's having trouble rooting, wouldn't one think a lot of this stuff would be for Linux? The Kernel is linux, and all that. I mean...? I happen to dual-boot with a lot of Windows and Linux distros so just wondering here.
My issue isn't the inability to root, it was the inability to unroot after determining that there was no rom that fulfilled my needs. Your question just proves my point about why it is so odd that we can't do everything using a non windows platform. I ended up firing up vmware, ran the million security updates on windows and ran the ruu to get my phone back to stock.
Not really, VM is quite fast if you have the correct hardware. The reason you can't do everything from a non-windows box is pretty obvious. The people who make these applications are going to make them for the platform that they'll get the most use. Simple enough.
VirtualBox runs very well also...if you have the correct hardware. By that I mean a processor that supports virtualization and enough RAM to dedicate to the VM guest.
Yes, you see my comp for all of this is not my main comp, so I don't screw anything up for work, and has 2gbs of ram and only a half-decent processor, I'm sure it'd fly on my core 2 quad, but...
i have been trying to root my hero with the auto root but I'm having problems. The error when I hit the ? mark to do a diagnostic, the error says it doesn't recognize the phone and asks if i have fresh rom. How do i put fresh rom on if the phone isn't rooted yet? I am so confused. Do I need to put the 1.1 rom somewhere after I download it? Then what do i do
FWIW, I'm on a mac and rooted/rom'd my hero this afternoon with no issues.
I flashed to Fresh 1.1 with the Gumbo kernel.
I do have one question however, it looks like there might be some kind of memory bleed from something. I keep seeing the avail memory get smaller and smaller.
The only app I've installed since rooting is setCPU.
Will this stop at any point, or just keep eating memory? Has anyone else seen this?
FWIW, I'm on a mac and rooted/rom'd my hero this afternoon with no issues.
I flashed to Fresh 1.1 with the Gumbo kernel.
I do have one question however, it looks like there might be some kind of memory bleed from something. I keep seeing the avail memory get smaller and smaller.
The only app I've installed since rooting is setCPU.
Will this stop at any point, or just keep eating memory? Has anyone else seen this?
I noticed that too in the first couple days after I rooted. I rebooted and my memory went right back up, I haven't noticed any reduced memory since.
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i love fresh 1.1 in combination with the gumbo kernal. BUT has anyone tried the 1.5 gumbo rom with the gumbo kernal allready in it? im not by anymeans complaining about the performance with fresh and gumbo combined but wondering maybe if having the gumbo rom might make it just that much more faster???
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Gumbo 1.5....
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i love fresh 1.1 in combination with the gumbo kernal. BUT has anyone tried the 1.5 gumbo rom with the gumbo kernal allready in it? im not by anymeans complaining about the performance with fresh and gumbo combined but wondering maybe if having the gumbo rom might make it just that much more faster???
I have heard nothing but great things regarding Gumbo's 1.5c build. Flashed with the updated kernal, it does well with battery life and performance. I tried it out, but was a little to basic for me, went with the hero 0.1 dounut that gbhill put together off of ASOP's 1.6. Downside is no speaker phone, (installed car mode for fix) and no MMS, my sms works well.
Just uploaded the MoDaCo 2.2 rom, with the MoDaCo kernal. Loving it, boots up very quick compared to Fresh 1.1.
However, all these roms I am playing with are all temp, until a custom 2.1 comes out, after the official 2.1 release
Hey Tank, can I upload the nexus one boot screen using pre-kitchen with the modaco rom? Or they don't work together?
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I am using fresh 2.1 rom and with his new kernel it is the closest thing to what 2.1 will be. I am even using the new pinch to zoom on the homescreen. Not really worth all the hype about 2.1 coming though. This does make some small tweaks and changes but nothing dramatic except for pinch to zoom in sense.
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thats what i thought too tatonka but he says that this rom has the pinch to zoom homescreens. flipz 2.1 (in the first place i thought wasnt even a real 2.1 rom) but as of now barring the update doesent have multi touch capabilities, and darchs doesent have 2.1 sense just 2.1 home i dunno im confused
