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Root Anothr noob just custom romed his phone!

Worked like a charm! Thank you so much! Would love to thank your post times 50 if I could! I had saw this in the other thread where you helped Sadielynn and wasn't sure if I should attempt before asking. After inputting the missing commands from above, it took only 15 minutes to do everything else and have it up and running!

Thank you again. Now, my final question, am I able to put the Swype Beta on my phone?
 
Glad you got it working! ;)

Yes, you can put Swype 3.0 Beta on your phone. Just go to the Swype beta website, sign up, download the installer, install and run it, then it will install the Swype Beta itself. Make sure you have checked settings>>applications>>unknown_sources so you can install apps outside of the market.
 
Yes, you're able to use the new Swype Beta version after flashing a rom. I'm currently using it with aospCM7. It's pretty simple, just go to Swype | Text Input for Screens, register, go to your email on your phone, follow the link they send you to download the Swype installer...and then the installer is pretty straightforward.
 
JerryScript said:
Sorry, I keep forgetting that Gingerbreak doesn't install flash_image (it really should ;) )

Download flash_image from here, unzip it and put it on your sdcard (not in a folder), then open terminal emulator and type the following:

su(return)
mount_-o_remount,rw_-t_yaffs2_/dev/block/mtdblock5_/system(return)
cat_/sdcard/flash_image_>_/system/bin/flash_image(return)
chmod_755_/system/bin/flash_image(return)

This will put flash_image onto your phone with the proper permissions. Next
open terminal emulator and type:

su(return)
flash_image_recovery_/sdcard/xionia_recover.img(return)
reboot_recovery(return)

That will put xionia recovery on your phone and boot you into it. From there, follow step 3 on from above.
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hey JerryScript,I really think you should make a sticky of all this good 'Nuub" proof stuff. You might not be able to handle all the request for help to :Root,flash_image recovery,backup,wipe,install ROM,etc.
 
Oh well then! That was easy enough. Thank you both.

Jerry, am I able to use other themes with aospCMod? I see one in my 'Themes'. Pretty excited for this!
 
Yes you can theme, in fact, you can make your own them, google UOT Kitchen ;)

If you used ADW Launcher, there are tons of themes available, and look in your app drawer for the theme chooser, let's you change themes quick and easy.
 
Looking through it all now, but question. I saw that you posted an 'Auto-Focus Fix' for the camera in another thread. So I tried to connect my phone via USB to move the file onto my sdcard. Well, USB didn't pop up onto my phone, but it does charge. Little curious on what I can do to fix this.
 
The USB is a little wonky. Plug your phone into your PC via USB, then on your phone go into settings>>applications>>development and check/uncheck USB debugging. A screen will popup asking you if you want to enable USB mass storage. If you want to drag&drop the files onto your sdcard, press the button to enable (you may have to press it a couple of times, be patient, it's wonky). If you want to use ADB, you do not want USB mass storage enabled it, so if it is, press the button to disable it.
 
I also found a "Nuub" proof method for establishing ADB in your system path on computer. Its in the: I need rom tools help(boot animation) Thread.
 
I use a slightly different method:

I downloaded the Java SDK and let it install with defaults.

I downloaded the Android SDK and isntalled it to C:/android

I went into the C:/android/platform-tools directory and created a ROM folder and an sdcard folder and a working folder

I then created a text file with the following two lines and renamed it command.bat

@echo off
cmd

That way I only have to open the platform-tools folder and click on the command.bat file and I'm ready to use adb with the files one directory away (easy typing).

When I'm working on my phone, I keep all files I'm working with in the working folder. Once I have a ROM working on my phone, I put it's install files and a nandroid backup of it in the ROM folder, and I backup my entire sdcard to the sdcard folder weekly.
 
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