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Root Who's used Koush's ROM?

Well don't you need his recovery to do it? Or can you still use spre to flash his ROM? If we need his recovery then forget it.. I'm not switching back and forth between recoveries lol. ROM switching is enough already! :cool:

You do need his recovery unless someone has made a nandroid of it with spre and started distributing.

The 2.1 launcher was quite stable. I forget if it worked in landscape
 
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Does his recovery console work with other ROM Nandroid backups and update.zip files? I know it won't be compatible with the current backups I have. What I'm wondering is this - if I flash his recovery, will I have to flash SPRecovery back to the phone in order to apply, say, Pete's ROM if I don't like Koush's.

Also, is the theme custom? Any screenshots?
 
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Does his recovery console work with other ROM Nandroid backups and update.zip files? I know it won't be compatible with the current backups I have. What I'm wondering is this - if I flash his recovery, will I have to flash SPRecovery back to the phone in order to apply, say, Pete's ROM if I don't like Koush's.

You would have to flash back to sprecovery to load other roms
 
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The dock is awesome! What's the drama? I'm not in the know...


Not really drama, just my personal opinion.


Fadelight said:
Dealbreaker. He is turning into an iPhone. Everyone else in the entire community is using sprecovery, but he claims you HAVE to use HIS recovery in order to get the ROM working. blah!
 
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I wish SPRecovery would have used the correct version of nandroid like Koush does. If SPRecovery used a proper version of nandroid then all nandroid ROM's would be compatible with it. Also the reason his recovery is needed is because to flash the CyanMod ROM you need certs disabled but SPRecovery doesn't do this so it won't allow you to flash it. This isn't Koush trying to lock things down. It's actually Koush doing everything the correct way and well SPRecovery doing it a......different way. Oh and he just added ROM manager support!

Koush said:
Note: SPRecovery was using a heavily modified version of Nandroid (it was using tar rather than mkyaffs2image/unyaffs). This has it's benefits, but its pitfall is that those images are not fastboot compatible (which Droid does not support). I have chosen to use OFFICIAL Nandroid, as that is the tool of choice for every other recovery image (like Amon Ra) out there, and it IS fastboot compatible. No offense to the Sholes.info folks intended, but I don't want to go against the Android modding community grain, and I need a recovery system that works well on any phone. These backups are incompatible with SPRecovery backups. If you want to convert an SPRecovery backup, simply restore it via SPRecovery, flash my recovery, and choose Backup!
 
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I wish SPRecovery would have used the correct version of nandroid like Koush does. If SPRecovery used a proper version of nandroid then all ROM's would be compatible with it. Also the reason his recovery is needed is because to flash the CyanMod ROM you need certs disabled but SPRecovery doesn't do this so it won't allow you to flash it. This isn't Koush trying to lock things down. It's actually Koush doing everything the correct way and well SPRecovery doing it a......different way. Oh and he just added ROM manager support!


I stand corrected.

Any other tid bits I should know about? Are other roms compatible with his recovery as well?
 
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I wish SPRecovery would have used the correct version of nandroid like Koush does. If SPRecovery used a proper version of nandroid then all nandroid ROM's would be compatible with it. Also the reason his recovery is needed is because to flash the CyanMod ROM you need certs disabled but SPRecovery doesn't do this so it won't allow you to flash it. This isn't Koush trying to lock things down. It's actually Koush doing everything the correct way and well SPRecovery doing it a......different way. Oh and he just added ROM manager support!

I know that he's technically the one doing it the "right" way, but when everybody in the Droid community has already been doing it a different way, it's a bit disheartening to have to change everything.
 
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I'm using it right now. the recovery he uses is SUPER easy to flash, just download "ROM Manager" from the market and you can use it to download/apply the new recovery console for you.

The ROM itself is also awesome. I love the launcher and the ability to dock items. I installed the ported NexusTheme (I believe it was posted above) over top of the theme and now it looks great. Everything runs smoothly, and the ROM has included within it the ability to overclock (only to 1GHz, but it's good enough for me for now).

Also love the ability to have the phone auto-rotate in all directions (180
 
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