So, I have been developing for 15 years and I never would have thought of holding down VOL -, inserting the USB AND Holding down the POWER BUTTON.... EVER EVER EVER. Thank YOU so much for coming up with that moment of clarity, I want to kiss your mother on the cheek and shake you fathers hand. What a ****ing kid they got!! Fortunately I found your post AND downloaded a package titled 'CWM 5.0.2.7 written by ZAD' that had all the batch commands to reboot, adb install, framework install - so once I got into CWM from your neat little trick all I had to do was clear cache, install the rom AND reboot the phone using the batch file from Windows (becuase it would not reboot and I was not going do a battery pull after the drama I had.
Here's to you.
DC
Here's to you.
DC
I finally got my AT&T U8652 functioning (as a serious 'noob' who nothing about 'root', 'unlock', and 'ROM's a few days ago. The bad news is that I have no idea how I got past the worst hurdles. Here were my struggles, as best as I can remember them.
1. The drivers link listed above is dead, and I couldn't find another one. However, on about the 3rd reboot without them, I got a diagnostic method that asked if I wanted to install a generic one (ADB?). The process worked pretty well then.
2. In every case of trying to get the Clockwork thing to run, it was a pretty difficult dance to get it to kick in. In the end, I had to hold down the Vol. Down, then simultaneously plug in the USB cable and press the power button.
3. In the Clockmod menu, I found the choices a little bit confusing. Be sure to use the one that calls for the install .zip from sd card.
4. Be sure to leave the .zip whole. You don't want to extract it on the sd card. Clockmod does that for you.
5. Unexplained issue - Once I got the button dance going, it took about 4 tries to get the mod to take. At one point it was locking up on the ATT screen, then it would alternate between two Huawei screens (locked up). Then I went through probably 2 hours of not being able to do anything (brick!). I pulled the battery out, and walked away from it for 12 hours. When I came back I was able to install successfully and have a phone really working well.
A couple of notes so far for newbies like me:
1.While the C7 rom does wipe all the AT&T bloatware, you will see a lot of apps you are not used to seeing. I am working my way through discovering what each is, and deleting if I don't want them.
2. Also, this mod allows you to designate which apps are saved to the sd card. This is what lets you work within the meager memory that came with the phone. However, I bet some apps won't like running from there, so keep an eye on which ones. For example, since I loaded Angry Birds, the phone has slowed quite a bit, so I think it's going to go away.
3. I am currently running everything I wanted to have (other than Angry Birds), and I have about 3/4 of the on board memory still available.
BRAVO to me for figuring it out, and to all the community who contributed to the mods. This phone is going to be hugely popular (until AT&T realizes they are going to lose a lot of contracts over this phone), so I expect to see a lot more cool stuff come along.
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