how to downgrade to ZV3 to flash to rooted ZV4 ????!

[petermg]

I've literally been looking for like 2 hours... I KNOW I saw a thread about this BEFORE I got my volt.. but now that I have it.. I CANNOT LOCATE IT. I read people saying search for it but I cannot find it again!?!?!?!






If anyone could post me the link I would greatly appreciate it.. Thank!

 

[petermg]

Or maybe this is it???

http://androidforums.com/threads/the-so-you-upgraded-to-z4-and-lost-root-guide.874943/

 

[bg4m3r]

That's it...although it references donjuro's 'updated' z4 zip, which has been removed. You can just download the old one (in the same thread), but be sure to get the radio.zip and flash it too when you flash the ROM. You'll also have to flash the kernel with flashify after everything else. Just pull the boot.img from the ROM zip.

 

[KennyFiesta]

That's it...although it references donjuro's 'updated' z4 zip, which has been removed. You can just download the old one (in the same thread), but be sure to get the radio.zip and flash it too when you flash the ROM. You'll also have to flash the kernel with flashify after everything else. Just pull the boot.img from the ROM zip.

This is the step im missing. Would i fastboot boot the cwm then install radio zip? How do i flash the kernel? Where do i find these files?

 

[petermg]

Ok I did everything last night and my phone is working got it activated and everything but I did NOT flash the kernel. I didn't read anything about needing to flash the kernel in those tutorials. How can I do this and is it possible that I do NOT have to flash it? Also why do I need to flash the kernel?

Thanks for the info!

 

[bg4m3r]

There is no need to fastboot anything since we can flash cwm now. Use Flashify to flash both cwm (recovery) and the kernel. If you open the ROM zip file, grab the boot.img and flash it with Flashify to get the kernel.

 

[bg4m3r]

You don't HAVE to flash the kernel or radio, but you should. Many of the benefits of v4 are from them.

 

[KennyFiesta]

I flashed the radio but not my kernel. Why wouldn't I already have that kernel from the ROM zip, since that's what I loaded on to my phone?

 

[bg4m3r]

I flashed the radio but not my kernel. Why wouldn't I already have that kernel from the ROM zip, since that's what I loaded on to my phone?

Because the updater script didn't install it, same with the radio.

 

[petermg]

What version is the new kernel? Because I successfully flashed the radio following your instructions, but when I tried to flash the boom.img from the v4 ROM zip file, it seems like flashify just rebooted the phone, didn't go into CWM Recovery, and my kernel is the same version as it was before I rebooted, which is 3.4.0+

Thanks for your help!!!

 

[bg4m3r]

What version is the new kernel? Because I successfully flashed the radio following your instructions, but when I tried to flash the boom.img from the v4 ROM zip file, it seems like flashify just rebooted the phone, didn't go into CWM Recovery, and my kernel is the same version as it was before I rebooted, which is 3.4.0+

Thanks for your help!!!

You can't just look in the software info because it's still the same version of Linux... Check this post ( #188 ):
http://androidforums.com/index.php?posts/6741467
(You can just use terminal emulator)

 

[petermg]

You can't just look in the software info because it's still the same version of Linux... Check this post ( #188 ):
http://androidforums.com/index.php?posts/6741467
(You can just use terminal emulator)

Cool THANK YOU! I'm on the august version I see

 

[m4p]

Quick question regarding root for this phone. Do I need to format my microSD card in any special way, such as Ext2 or FAT32? Also, do I need to make 2 partitions for the microSD card? I've only modded one phone before a few years ago and I recall I had to do that to the card. Thanks!

 

[bg4m3r]

Quick question regarding root for this phone. Do I need to format my microSD card in any special way, such as Ext2 or FAT32? Also, do I need to make 2 partitions for the microSD card? I've only modded one phone before a few years ago and I recall I had to do that to the card. Thanks!

No... The only reason to do any formatting or partitioning is to use link2sd.
It's already fat32, BTW.

 

[m4p]

Thanks very much. I had injured my knee so took me a while to root the phone, but finally did it last night. I did end up making the 2 partitions because I want to use Link2SD.

Thanks again, really appreciate it.

 

[southp4w]

Hey I was able to downgrade to v3, flash custom cwm, root using towelroot, flash zv4, and flash radio update. However when I try to flash the boot.img from zv4 to update the kernel, i lose root access. Any idea why this is happening?

 

[bg4m3r]

Are you flashing it with Flashify?
No idea why you would lose root, but you can just reflash superuser or supersu through cwm.
http://download.chainfire.eu/396/SuperSU/