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Root Who's used Koush's ROM?

i just got done uploading this to my droid. install went great and i like it . now to play around with it and see what it does.
 
i've been running this for a couple of days and its great!

the only problems are have are with
-mms
-my LED notifications do not seem to work anymore
-maybe once or twice a day my phone will randomly just turn off and I have to take the battery out and then put it back in to be able to boot it up again.

can't wait for .5!
 
essplode said:
i've been running this for a couple of days and its great!

the only problems are have are with
-mms
-my LED notifications do not seem to work anymore
-maybe once or twice a day my phone will randomly just turn off and I have to take the battery out and then put it back in to be able to boot it up again.

can't wait for .5!
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Same here... I wish they would get their shit together... i keep reading about issues with clock and people having restore problems and various other issues. SPR has been bulletproof for me so far and the idea of swapping over and over is kiling me...


Then again... if .5 is all that I might just stay.. :o



:rolleyes:
 
I believe the display of a higher than normal cell standby is just a display issue, unless it is showing that you have 50 percent time without a signal. If you don't show that amount of time without a signal then it shouldn't be doing anything to your battery life.
 
OMJ said:
From the preview of 2.0 of nextheme it looks amazing. It will be out shortly after 5.05 of cyanogenmod
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You have a link with preview images or info?

emdmao said:
I believe the display of a higher than normal cell standby is just a display issue, unless it is showing that you have 50 percent time without a signal. If you don't show that amount of time without a signal then it shouldn't be doing anything to your battery life.
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correct I had the 50% issue, but would prefer to wait for the next revision
 
the keyboard through me off and then i realized i was using swype so i didn't have any other keyboard. ha
 
jestexman said:
After re-boot phone went in to a boot-loop... This was a first for me. So after pulling battery and holding down x , i used the restore from the clockwork recovery. Now i am back at droidmod 1.0 like i was when i started.

Long story short it seems really hard to mess anything up. These guys tell you to back it up every other post. I now understand i can go from rom to rom theme to theme and if i dont like it just restore it. Just my .02 cents.
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Okay, so this is EXACTLY what I mean when I say that people should learn what is going on behind the scenes when they root their phones via DM Updater. If you understand how recovery works, how to use simple adb commands, etc., you will backup your phone before making a change to your system, and you will be able to explore options that are available to you with your rooted phone.

You switched back to DroidMod and that's cool. If that's the ROM for you, great. But you really can't screw your phone up if you understand enough to take simple, preventative measures. That means you can try virtually ANYTHING and if it throws you in a boot loop, just won't load, is unstable, or you just don't like it...you have only wasted a little time...no data is lost, no harm is done. Today you are on DroidMod...tomorrow, you could jump to the new version coming out :) of the CyanogenMod ROM and if you don't like it...no problem.

Tip: Get Titanium Backup!!! Even the free version will capture things that you can't keep when moving to a new rom (anytime you have to format data). Things like POP/IMAP email settings, call logs, SMS/MMS messages, etc. are easily restored and in some cases (like when switching to a new ROM with the same "Home or Launcher", you can restore all of your icons and widgets as well. BIG TIME SAVER!!! I wouldn't be able to flash so many different ROMs without this!
 
Clockwork Recovery 1.7.5 download....


Anyone have a link to the recovery .img file..... it's to early in the a.m. and I cant find it.


;)


EDIT: Found it... http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/02/clockwork-recovery-image.html

For those users looking to throw the CW .img file on the root of there SD card you can get it here!. Put this and the SPR's 993b .img on the root of your SD card and you can use adb to restore your desired recovery rom if you ever get in a jam. I kinda think of it as my disaster recovery plan... ;)
 
DroidSuks said:
Clockwork Recovery 1.7.5 download....


Anyone have a link to the recovery .img file..... it's to early in the a.m. and I cant find it.


;)
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Just download ROM Manager from the market...you can download and flash the latest recovery from there...nice and easy! :)
 
UBRocked said:
Just download ROM Manager from the market...you can download and flash the latest recovery from there...nice and easy! :)
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Nono... i know that.. lol..;) I just wanted to image so I could push it out via adb / terminal. I'm just trying to stay constant across the board regarding a complete disaster recovery plan. I dont want to lock myself into relying on the app.... and if I have the images I don't have to. Does RoM manager put the .img file anywhere usable?... e.g. \download folder on the SDcard?.


Thanks for your help. :rolleyes:
 
DroidSuks said:
Nono... i know that.. lol..;) I just wanted to image so I could push it out via adb / terminal. I'm just trying to stay constant across the board regarding a complete disaster recovery plan. I dont want to lock myself into relying on the app.... and if I have the images I don't have to. Does RoM manager put the .img file anywhere usable?... e.g. \download folder on the SDcard?.


Thanks for your help. :rolleyes:
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It does put them on the sd card. Under clockworkmod/download/koush.romraid.com/recoveries
 
UBRocked said:
Tip: Get Titanium Backup!!! Even the free version will capture things that you can't keep when moving to a new rom (anytime you have to format data). Things like POP/IMAP email settings, call logs, SMS/MMS messages, etc. are easily restored and in some cases (like when switching to a new ROM with the same "Home or Launcher", you can restore all of your icons and widgets as well. BIG TIME SAVER!!! I wouldn't be able to flash so many different ROMs without this!
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How do u do all this with titanium backup? Mine just backups apps. Do you need the donate version? I use sprite backup for the things u mentioned it, but it always FCs on me during the backup process.
 
ericks17 said:
How do u do all this with titanium backup? Mine just backups apps. Do you need the donate version? I use sprite backup for the things u mentioned it, but it always FCs on me during the backup process.
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menu/batch/ run backup all user apps + system data

I just backup my apps and app data typically. Whenever I go to a new ROM I don't like to bring previous system data over to it.
 
ericks17 said:
How do u do all this with titanium backup? Mine just backups apps. Do you need the donate version? I use sprite backup for the things u mentioned it, but it always FCs on me during the backup process.
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emdmao said:
menu/batch/ run backup all user apps + system data

I just backup my apps and app data typically. Whenever I go to a new ROM I don't like to bring previous system data over to it.
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I like to have EVERYTHING backed up. I agree with endmao...I don't restore it all. I use Titanium backup to restore "all missing apps with data" and then I select the apps that I don't want and uncheck them...then I run the Batch Operation. Easy...but that's not going to do it all for you. You have to click on the main backup/restore menu and then scroll through and find other things you want to bring back. For example...look for 'Email 2.1-update' and then click on restore. It will prompt you to restore "data only". Go ahead and restore that and when it's done, you can go into your email app and see your your various accounts. You can do this for various "system" apps. When you restore SMS/MMS...it doesn't replace your system's messaging app...it just restores your data.

The donate version has more bells and whistles but the free version will do all of this too. Biggest drawback is that it only holds 1 backup for each app...its nice to have 2-3 different backup...just in case you backup something you didn't mean too (maybe cause you hadn't restored it yet...now you just backed up nothing...and you have no failsafe).
 
Just installed this by renaming the file to update.zip and using sprecovery and waiting for 5.0.5. I have to say this is amazing.
 
Thank god he didn't just release 505... they had some major issues with the first test run... would have created a panic with 80% of the people installing it. The been fixed for the most part. Quote below of description from a poster over at Cyan.

"Based on what happened last night, that would be a bad policy. It was a nightmare scenario where Rom manager was okay, but the update hosed recovery. If you wiped data when you installed the rom, but didn't get the Google apps installed before rebooting, you couldn't get into recovery and couldn't re-download RM. Would have been impossible for Koush to help people out of. I got lucky because I didn't wipe. Others got lucky because they installed both pkgs simultaneously. Since we were all communicating we could help each other through. If anyone had done it on their own, unless they got lucky, they'd have been hosed and needlessly afraid they'd bricked. Limited testing in a group environment is a good thing."


Hopefully everyone sticking with SPR gets the same update.zip love for 5.0.5 as was given with 5.4.2 / 3 .....
 
DroidSuks said:
Thank god he didn't just release 505... they had some major issues with the first test run... would have created a panic with 80% of the people installing it. The been fixed for the most part. Quote below of description from a poster over at Cyan.

"Based on what happened last night, that would be a bad policy. It was a nightmare scenario where Rom manager was okay, but the update hosed recovery. If you wiped data when you installed the rom, but didn't get the Google apps installed before rebooting, you couldn't get into recovery and couldn't re-download RM. Would have been impossible for Koush to help people out of. I got lucky because I didn't wipe. Others got lucky because they installed both pkgs simultaneously. Since we were all communicating we could help each other through. If anyone had done it on their own, unless they got lucky, they'd have been hosed and needlessly afraid they'd bricked. Limited testing in a group environment is a good thing."


Hopefully everyone sticking with SPR gets the same update.zip love for 5.0.5 as was given with 5.4.2 / 3 .....
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I for one used this as a learning experience...I'm should start a new thread on the subject so the "DroidMod" rooters who start flashing other roms without thinking or knowing the first thing about what they are doing will take second look at "okay, so what am I actually doing here?"...but I doubt I will...don't think it will do much good. I'll just get "you think your better than us" kinds of comments...like always when touching on that subject.

I got a copy of the test release on this (from secondary source that had informed me about the issues). Knowing what what was going to happen, I wanted to make sure I could fix it and learn what I needed to know. I haven't had to use adb to push a recovery image in a few months now... People would have been screwed if they didn't understand more than how do download a file and apply it as a update.zip in recovery. Really, really screwed! It took me about 30-45 minutes to fix the problems the ROM caused...AND I KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN! The problems left you with no recovery (can't press 'x' while turning power on...nothing), no market (can't download a new ROM Manager), there was no file manager built into the system so you couldn't navigate to your SD card...what a nightmare to someone without a little knowledge about ADB (or maybe ADB never even being set up on their cpu).

But all the discussions I've had about ACTUALLY LEARNING about what your doing when you root...go over really badly!

Thankfully, Koush was wise enough to have a limited test release...The testers (most of them very knowledgeable) would have had problems...they wouldn't have been prepared for it...they would have been okay...but my guess is that it would have taken over a good part of their Saturday!
 
Rumor has it.... tomorrow.. or late tonight. Either way when it comes.... it comes. I'm gonna wait and see how the first installers go. Then... if a compatible update.zip is released for SPR I'll give it a shot.

Then I'll take it from there...... ;) I'm sure it's gonna have it's bugs.... but it's also suppose to be the most cutting edge... so we'll see.
 
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