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Root Bricked the Phone :(:(

Outlaw71 said:
Ok step by step...

1. First of all I opened AppBrain and synced all my apps to the cloud.
2. I opened Titanium Backup and made a fresh backup of my apps + data.
3. I opened Bootstrapper and made a fresh nandroid.
4. Then I downloaded the GummyJAR 2.5 zip straight from my phone.
5. I opened Root Explorer, clicked on 'SD card', then clicked on 'Download' and long pressed on the GummyJAR zip file and hit 'Save' from the options that came up.
6. Then I backed out into the SD card again and hit the 'Paste' button. My zip file is now on the root of my SD card.
7. Then I bootstrapped back into recovery.
8. 1st I hit 'Clear Cache', then I hit 'Wipe Data/Factory Reset'.
9. Then I clicked 'Choose Zip from SD card' (4th option from the top). Once it was open I clicked on 'Find Zip File' (2nd option from the top). Then I had to scroll all the way down to the bottom (zip files are always down at the bottom), you can't see it when the screen first opens, you must scroll all the way down.
10. I clicked on the zip file, and then scrolled down and hit 'Yes'.
11. It took about a minute to do it's thing and then said, 'done'.
12. Then I hit 'Reboot System'.

Done.
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Ha ha.............and away we go.......................

Will let you know the results later :)

BTW..thanks VERY much for your efforts :)

Lenny
 
where is the contacts folder stored. i mean, i want to copy it from the internal data. i used to do this with windows mobile called a pim. it can then just be found, renamed, the phone reset, and then all the contacts dissapear, and the phone makes a new pim which is blank until you paste the original again.
can anyone tell me the file name or type . i tried sbu but found nothing. i have root explorer but dont know what i m looking for on android 2.2
 
wow.............things went very well.

I now am running GummyJar. I really like it so far. Like you said, it is quick and clean :)

One question, if i decide to load Apex on here...............what exactly do i have to do?

Thanks
 
For apex, load your last stock backup, then load apex w/o resetting. You'll have data... yaaay! :D
 
I've heard you can load some ROMs without doing a data reset. However I always do a reset just before flashing a new ROM. I factory reset before flashing Apex. You might not need to, but it doesn't hurt anything. If you do a backup in TiBU then your data in your apps will be saved. For instance after I flash a ROM I go into Titanium Backup, scroll down to 'Go Launcher', and click on it. Then I hit 'Restore' and everything comes back except the widgets, those are the only things you have to redo. Widgets don't save for some reason. But everything else goes right back to normal.

For me it's worth the peace of mind in knowing there's no chance anything will get screwed up.
 
Outlaw71 said:
I've heard you can load some ROMs without doing a data reset. However I always do a reset just before flashing a new ROM. I factory reset before flashing Apex. You might not need to, but it doesn't hurt anything. If you do a backup in TiBU then your data in your apps will be saved. For instance after I flash a ROM I go into Titanium Backup, scroll down to 'Go Launcher', and click on it. Then I hit 'Restore' and everything comes back except the widgets, those are the only things you have to redo. Widgets don't save for some reason. But everything else goes right back to normal.

For me it's worth the peace of mind in knowing there's no chance anything will get screwed up.
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So.........i should boot into bootstrap and go thru the same steps you outlined for GummyJar ?
 
Outlaw71 said:
For instance after I flash a ROM I go into Titanium Backup, scroll down to 'Go Launcher', and click on it. Then I hit 'Restore' and everything comes back except the widgets, those are the only things you have to redo.
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That's what I do too, except I restore LPP. Wish there was an easier way. At least Market apps come thru easily. I restore contacts, call history, etc. with MyBackupPro. I haven't checked out how to do it with TI.
 
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