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rowlers said:
Last question - hopefully! When I flash a ROM i'll lose all my apps and data. How can I keep my apps? Esp paid apps like poweramp and rockplayer? The rest I can download via appbrain. Aurax looks
sweet!
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In case you didn't know, if you uninstall or wipe over an app you paid for on the Market, you can download it again for free assuming you sign in with the same Google ID.
 
I echo Dan's thoughts..
Try this:


  1. In your working ROM, backup with Titanium
  2. Reboot to Recovery and do a Nandroid Backup
  3. Install the .zip from Recovery without a Wipe
  4. Reboot and try the new ROM
  5. If it doesnt work, reboot in Recovery again.
  6. Wipe Data
  7. Install .zip again
  8. Reboot
  9. Restore from Titanium

If you do find that there was some app or data from your old config that you really needed, you can do a Nandroid Restore (to the past) and repeat the same steps again!
 
Sweet! I'll get my ass into gear at the weekend and see how it goes, I'll cross my fingers!
(and take some phone insurance out before I start!)
 
well its done, now running leedroid 2.2. (my name is lee so felt obliged!!)
all seems to be running OK, (although I get a Sim change message on each reboot that FCs?!)

what now? what can I do??

I've recovered all my apps and settings, using Ti, everything works.
When doing the restore I got a few "this is a system app, are you sure you want to restore...) I said yes to all these - maybe I shouldn't???
Prob find a few issues over the next few days..
Thanks for all your help...
 
Better not to restore all system apps..Anyway the new ROM already has it, and doesnt do any good overwriting the old one over the newer one.

You may safely restore all Ti's special backups-Contacts, Dictionary etc.. and most user apps. Anyway, you can always try doing everything provided a Nandroid is at hand
 
I thought as much! I can reflash the leedroid, reload the ti back up and skip the system apps.
I've just reloaded all my music too - aahhhgg!
 
If you have a fake sd card (2GB instead of advertised 32GB) then when you have 2GB of data on card, further data writes to card loop round and over write existing data.


Oh by the way, you can just wipe you titanium restore via titanium. No need to reflash.
 
Just looking, the only option is uninstall all user and system apps (use filters and extre,me caution) is this the one?
If I do reflash, do I need to worry about the a2sd or will it sort itself out?
 
sorted, done a wipe in recovery, then restored from ti.

much better, and faster quadrant gives me 1377, which as a hell of a lot faster than before! also don't have any of the orange sh|t on there!
thanks fellas
 
yeh that result was at 998. just used setcpu and knocked the cpu up to 1198(?) and it came back at 1445! you can really see the difference!
 
Yep. Got 2003 at 1152. Got 2073 from 1190 once but phone gets random reboots at that speed. Over 1700 at 998. Just goes to show what a stripped back Rom and kernel can do.
 
haven't even played yet, that is just std rom, plus all my apps back on, need to look into this autokiller/autostarts business!
 
So far, I've had to worry about Battery life and was underclocking it. Now that I have a bigger battery (2400mah), I'm going to try overclocking it..

Dan, can you tell me how undervolted cores work?
 
The standard one is svs. Static voltage scaling. It's basically a table of clock speeds with an associated voltage. If the clock speed is x the kernel looks at the table and draws the appropriate power from the battery.

Undervolted kernels are the same bit the voltages are lower
 
They have a positive affect on battery. Performance does not suffer because CPU is running at same clock speed, lower voltage.

Can be unstable if voltage is too low. Min 875MV causes reboots on min clock for me. 925 is fine though
 
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