Root gapps / cyanogenmod 7

[ocnbrze]

try reflashing everything. do this:
1.make a nandroid
2.wipe i use vr superwipe, but you can use calkulins format all as well you can get them in the rom/kernel sticky
3.flash cm7 and reboot
4.flash gapps and reboot

try that and see if that helps. wiping is very important when going to and from aosp roms and sense roms.

 

[joehornback]

I successfully intalled cyanogenmod 7. Then I d/led gapps and tried to flash gapps the same way I flashed the rom. I got stuck at a boot screen with only choice of emergency dial or change language. Neither of them did anything. Had to do a battery pull to reboot the device. I guess that was the incorrect way to install gapps?? I tried reflashing the ROM but got the same results. I finally did a restore from my last nandroid and that got me back to stock rooted rom.

Help! I really like cyanogenmod and want to reflash it but I need my gapps too!

 

[ocnbrze]

oops moved my own post above yours. sorry but look up. lol hope that helps.

 

[9to5cynic]

try reflashing everything. do this:
1.make a nandroid
2.wipe i use vr superwipe, but you can use calkulins format all as well you can get them in the rom/kernel sticky
3.flash cm7 and reboot
4.flash gapps and reboot

try that and see if that helps. wiping is very important when going to and from aosp roms and sense roms.

How's vr superwipe? Never heard of it till now, might have to give it a try.

 

[9to5cynic]

oops moved my own post above yours. sorry but look up. lol hope that helps.

LMAO, I thought it looked weird, but then I thought this was a tread for all the CM7/gapps problems people seem to have.

You should definitely play it off as a deliberate action lol.

 

[ocnbrze]

thanx for derailing this thread. lol

but yeah it is great. it just uses calkulins format all and his cleartemp three times. works really well. try it out.

 

[9to5cynic]

thanx for derailing this thread. lol

but yeah it is great. it just uses calkulins format all and his cleartemp three times. works really well. try it out.

>< oops...

Cool, I'll check it out for sure.

And to get this back on topic...
I would also suggest doing a wipe and re-flashing

 

[joehornback]

>< oops...

Cool, I'll check it out for sure.

And to get this back on topic...
I would also suggest doing a wipe and re-flashing

Thanks all, I will try these tomorrow, for now I nandroided back to stock rom (nandroid IS my friend! Give her a try again tomorrow when I'm refreshed

 

[joehornback]

Thought of another thing. Maybe I installed the wrong version of gapps. What is the latest version for cm7? I dled one from wiki on cm site. But there was no evo version for cm7 only for cm6. Are they compatible?

 

[ocnbrze]

nope checkout the roms/kernel sticky. i put a link to the latest gapps file there.

 

[joehornback]

Just to let everyone know I successfully installed cyanogenmod 7 and gapps on my friends phone today and it rocks. I can't wait for them to get us into this new oTA ver of gb so I can root mine '

 

[ocnbrze]

nice, yeah cant wait for the exploit to be found as well. we should get a lot of people rooting there phones. one of the reason i rooted was because the last ota 3.70 sucked and added way more bloatware. keep checking this forum. it will blow up once we get root access to the latest ota.

 

[9to5cynic]

Just to let everyone know I successfully installed cyanogenmod 7 and gapps on my friends phone today and it rocks. I can't wait for them to get us into this new oTA ver of gb so I can root mine '

I'm sure it won't be too long.

 

[joehornback]

Another question...do I need to flash a radio now? And I noticed that her kernel is now a cyanogen kernel. Does cm7 come with it's own kernel? (apparently)

 

[ocnbrze]

every custom rom has a built in a stock kernel. i would recommend trying tiamat kernels. just keep in mind that every phone reacts differently. so what works for me may not necessarily work for you. you can get it in the roms/kernel sticky.

and no you do not have to flash a radio.

 

[9to5cynic]

nice, yeah cant wait for the exploit to be found as well. we should get a lot of people rooting there phones. one of the reason i rooted was because the last ota 3.70 sucked and added way more bloatware. keep checking this forum. it will blow up once we get root access to the latest ota.

Lol, that's what finally pushed me into rooting too. I looked for hours trying to see if there was a way to get rid of NOVA and Blockbuster without root, even called sprint. They said to uninstall it through app manager. :\

I rooted a couple of days later.

 

[joehornback]

Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do when I sit down at my computer is check these forums for the new root/exploit!

Thanks everyone for all the help! This place is awesome!

 

[The Big]

Sorry for raising a necro-thread, but it seemed more appropriate to find a related thread rather than start a whole thread for a really minor issue.

Finally decided to try CM7 on my Evo. When I booted into CM7 for the first time, and got the popup to install all the Gapps, I read the notice which talked about setting up wifi first, run it again later, yada yada yada... so I hit cancel, thinking it would be somewhere later so I could run it that one time to set up Gapps--but nada. Am I missing something? Or am I just too slow to grasp the instructions on that first popup, and there is no way to go back to it? Or, alternately, am I expected to set up my wifi, then reboot to AmonRa, and re-flash the Gapps zip?

Thanks for your help...

 

[ocnbrze]

Sorry for raising a necro-thread, but it seemed more appropriate to find a related thread rather than start a whole thread for a really minor issue.

Finally decided to try CM7 on my Evo. When I booted into CM7 for the first time, and got the popup to install all the Gapps, I read the notice which talked about setting up wifi first, run it again later, yada yada yada... so I hit cancel, thinking it would be somewhere later so I could run it that one time to set up Gapps--but nada. Am I missing something? Or am I just too slow to grasp the instructions on that first popup, and there is no way to go back to it? Or, alternately, am I expected to set up my wifi, then reboot to AmonRa, and re-flash the Gapps zip?

Thanks for your help...

i cant remember, but you might be able to get to it by going into accounts and sync and just log into google. if not then just wipe dalvik cache and cache and reflash the gapps file.