Root Upgrading to Cyanogen 7.0

maplewood · Feb 17, 2011

Okay, I'm the village idiot. I'm fine with that.

I've got Rom Manager (free version).
I've downloaded the Cyan 7.0 and the Google Zip to the root of the SD card.
I select "Reboot into Recovery" from the ROM Manager menu.

From what I can read something should happen but the only thing that does is that I boot in the HBOOT/FASTBOOK screen (whatever that is called) and that's where it stays -- forever.

S-Off does appear at the top of this screen.
Selecting "Recovery" merely takes me the "FASTBOOT" version of the screen.
REBOOTING from "FASTBOOT" just reboots into the normal Droid home screen.

What am I missing?

(And do I need to update the radio? It shows as 2.15.00.07.20)

DPDAndroid · Feb 17, 2011

You can install the ROM straight from ROM manager.......

maplewood · Feb 17, 2011

DPDAndroid said:
You can install the ROM straight from ROM manager.......

Yes, so I would think. But as noted in my original posting, nothing happens other than being taken to the boot screen.

DPDAndroid · Feb 17, 2011

What version of Clockwork Recovery are you using? It will not work through ROM manager with 3.0.0.5 You need to downgrade to 2.5.1.2

scottysize · Feb 17, 2011

DPDAndroid said:
What version of Clockwork Recovery are you using? It will not work through ROM manager with 3.0.0.5 You need to downgrade to 2.5.1.2

How do you downgrade? I have not been able to. 3.0.0.5 doesn't work on my phone at all!

DPDAndroid · Feb 17, 2011

In ROM Manager, last option on the bottom is "All Clockwork Mod Recoveries" When you press it it give you the option to flash a alternate recovery. You want 2.5.1.2

Medion · Feb 17, 2011

DPDAndroid said:
What version of Clockwork Recovery are you using? It will not work through ROM manager with 3.0.0.5 You need to downgrade to 2.5.1.2

You have it backwards. Cyanogenmod nightly 35 and onward, to include RC1, requires the new CW 3.x. Older nightly builds will allow you to use 2.x though.

bjanow · Feb 18, 2011

maplewood said:
......
I select "Reboot into Recovery" from the ROM Manager menu.

From what I can read something should happen but the only thing that does is that I boot in the HBOOT/FASTBOOK screen (whatever that is called) and that's where it stays -- forever.

S-Off does appear at the top of this screen.
Selecting "Recovery" merely takes me the "FASTBOOT" version of the screen.
REBOOTING from "FASTBOOT" just reboots into the normal Droid home screen.

What am I missing?

(And do I need to update the radio? It shows as 2.15.00.07.20)

Don't sweat the radio yet. So you're sitting in recovery now, right? (doing this from memory) It's the white screen and then you arrow down to the second option (recovery?) and then hit the power button. That will take you to the orange recovery screen. So far so good?

JohnKuczek · Feb 18, 2011

Medion said:
You have it backwards. Cyanogenmod nightly 35 and onward, to include RC1, requires the new CW 3.x. Older nightly builds will allow you to use 2.x though.

I flashed 40 this morning and I am running CWM 2.5.x.x.

Cyanogen does not require CWM 3.x.x.x yet, and it is a good thing. There are lots of people who are having problems with it not backing up, not booting into recovery, not restoring backups from CWM 2.5.x.x or CWM 3.x.x.x, etc.

maplewood · Feb 20, 2011

bjanow said:
Don't sweat the radio yet. So you're sitting in recovery now, right? (doing this from memory) It's the white screen and then you arrow down to the second option (recovery?) and then hit the power button. That will take you to the orange recovery screen. So far so good?

Rolling back to the earlier version seems to have help. A reboot took me to the actual Flash screen.

Now the waiting begins.

Let's assume that this works, what do I do to upgrade the radio (which I assume is the actual device that communicates with Verizon G3, not the thing that plays "All things considered."

iowabowtech · Feb 20, 2011

I wouldn't update the radio at all unless you have problems with your current one. I'm still running hboot 0.77 and the 7.28 radio and been running CM nightlies since they were first started by Crackflashers. Haven't verified RC1 with my setup yet b/c my nightly has been perfect so I haven't changed yet.

To fully answer your question though, radios are packaged as PB31IMG files. So I would download it to a PC, then transfer to your SD card. Then go into hboot where the file should attempt to load. Use volume up to begin the load when prompted. SD card MUST be formatted to FAT32 for this to work. Be damn sure you're loading an Inc radio that has been verified by way of an MD5 sum.

maplewood · Feb 20, 2011

bjanow said:
Don't sweat the radio yet. So you're sitting in recovery now, right? (doing this from memory) It's the white screen and then you arrow down to the second option (recovery?) and then hit the power button. That will take you to the orange recovery screen. So far so good?

Well, I was too optimistic.
The Flash process seems to have run.
I installed both the "update_CM_7.0.0-RC1-Inc-signed.zip as well as the Google Apps zip.

When it seem to be done I rebooted and I got to the endless-loop Cyan7 animation.

As per instructions I found else where I pulled the battery to kill that loop and rebooted into Recovery and Re-Flashed.

After both Zips were installed I choose "reboot."

Alas, still the endless loop animation.

This thing isn't quite a brick but unless you like to watch an animation until the battery dies it's not much better.

HELP (please)

bjanow · Feb 20, 2011

maplewood said:
Well, I was too optimistic.
The Flash process seems to have run.
I installed both the "update_CM_7.0.0-RC1-Inc-signed.zip as well as the Google Apps zip.

When it seem to be done I rebooted and I got to the endless-loop Cyan7 animation.

As per instructions I found else where I pulled the battery to kill that loop and rebooted into Recovery and Re-Flashed.

After both Zips were installed I choose "reboot."

Alas, still the endless loop animation.

This thing isn't quite a brick but unless you like to watch an animation until the battery dies it's not much better.

HELP (please)

Load the rom, let it boot completely. Then flash gapps. No boot loop.

maplewood · Feb 20, 2011

Been there, done that (I think).
I can't "boot completely due to the end less loop.

At present I am in

Clockwork Mod 2.5.1.2 boot screen:
E:invalid command argument

Perhaps I should ask what exactly you mean by "Load the ROM." I think you mean:

boot into recovery
Cursor to "load zip from SD card"
Find the 7.0.0 signed.zip
Select that
Let it do its thing until "install complete."

Just for the heck of it I re-ran both installs. Couldn't hurt. Didn't help.

(BTW, I also re-downloaded the 7.0 zip, just in case it was corrupted).

Thanks for all this help. It is much appreciated.

iowabowtech · Feb 20, 2011

Boot into recovery, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik cache (advanced menu) all back to back. Then load zip from SD > choose zip from SD and load your Rom. Either flash Gapps now or boot into the Rom once, then re-enter recovery and flash Gapps at that point. I've had success using both methods.

If all this still fails, put a different Rom on your card and wipe everything, then go to a different Rom. Or if you have a nandroid backup of the stock Rom or another stable setup, return to that.

maplewood · Feb 20, 2011

iowabowtech said:
Boot into recovery, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik cache (advanced menu) all back to back. Then load zip from SD > choose zip from SD and load your Rom. Either flash Gapps now or boot into the Rom once, then re-enter recovery and flash Gapps at that point. I've had success using both methods.

If all this still fails, put a different Rom on your card and wipe everything, then go to a different Rom. Or if you have a nandroid backup of the stock Rom or another stable setup, return to that.

It worked! Thanks a million.

Now I just have to learn how to use that Titanium Backup thingy I've got (and yes, I saved the latest backup file to my HD).

iowabowtech · Feb 20, 2011

maplewood said:
It worked! Thanks a million.

Now I just have to learn how to use that Titanium Backup thingy I've got (and yes, I saved the latest backup file to my HD).

Once you're up and running you go to the market and download Titanium. It will recognize the file on your SD card by way of smoke and mirrors. You can then restore items which were backed up to your SD card when you last ran Titanium.

If you performed your Titanium backup while on Sense/2.2, be sure to only restore market apps. Too much of a chance of running into problems now that you're on Gingerbread.

For more info on Titanium:
http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/233251-how-titanium-backup-tips.html

maplewood · Feb 20, 2011

iowabowtech said:
Once you're up and running you go to the market and download Titanium. It will recognize the file on your SD card by way of smoke and mirrors. You can then restore items which were backed up to your SD card when you last ran Titanium.

If you performed your Titanium backup while on Sense/2.2, be sure to only restore market apps. Too much of a chance of running into problems now that you're on Gingerbread.

For more info on Titanium:
http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/233251-how-titanium-backup-tips.html

It's all good now. Many thanks.

Is it worth going back to Rom Manager 3.X? Since 2.5.X got me where I need to go perhaps it worth waiting for RM to catch up with Cyanogen?

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