brownythegreat
Lurker
Hello everyone,
Just recieved my new G tablet in the mail. I was getting super excited to load on a custom rom... the problem is I cannot get Clockworkmod to work. I am by no means an expert, I have in the past rooted two droid eris's.
I do feel that I have followed the instructions and have read as many posts about the install as I could find, but after four or five attempts no luck. I have installed the over air update 4 times. After each attempt to install clockworkmod it appears that it wants me to reinstall the update, which I have done.
The steps that i have done are
1) downloaded the files to my pc and connected g tab to the pc
2) dragged them after being extracted to the g tab folder on my pc(not using a sd card just internal memory on the g tab)
3)once there i do see an unzip and recovery file in the g tab folder(also there seems to be one unzipped file there that is seperate from the one i'm moving over from the pc)
4)I shut on g tab power and volume up. and it seems to be installing and says recovery key detected in small black letters in the top left hand corner. It shows a box with an arrow and ends up loading me back to the home screen.
5)I next then shut off power and try to reboot with power and volume up....What I anticipate happening is it loading into the screen where I can flash roms and clear the cache and so forth, but this does not happen. What happens is it says recovery key detected in the corner on the bird screen then goes to the g tab screen and then the the box with the arrow, and repeats that process as long as I hold on to the two buttons. If I let go it goes back to the home screen and once again the over the air update is available to download.
I am sure I am missing some simple step. I have downloaded vegan and also put that on the g tab also with the expectation that I would have been successful. Maybe the over the air update is ok, but I feel like I may be missing out on something awesome if I just settle for that!
Is there any advice some one can give me? It would be appreciated! Thanks
Just recieved my new G tablet in the mail. I was getting super excited to load on a custom rom... the problem is I cannot get Clockworkmod to work. I am by no means an expert, I have in the past rooted two droid eris's.
I do feel that I have followed the instructions and have read as many posts about the install as I could find, but after four or five attempts no luck. I have installed the over air update 4 times. After each attempt to install clockworkmod it appears that it wants me to reinstall the update, which I have done.
The steps that i have done are
1) downloaded the files to my pc and connected g tab to the pc
2) dragged them after being extracted to the g tab folder on my pc(not using a sd card just internal memory on the g tab)
3)once there i do see an unzip and recovery file in the g tab folder(also there seems to be one unzipped file there that is seperate from the one i'm moving over from the pc)
4)I shut on g tab power and volume up. and it seems to be installing and says recovery key detected in small black letters in the top left hand corner. It shows a box with an arrow and ends up loading me back to the home screen.
5)I next then shut off power and try to reboot with power and volume up....What I anticipate happening is it loading into the screen where I can flash roms and clear the cache and so forth, but this does not happen. What happens is it says recovery key detected in the corner on the bird screen then goes to the g tab screen and then the the box with the arrow, and repeats that process as long as I hold on to the two buttons. If I let go it goes back to the home screen and once again the over the air update is available to download.
I am sure I am missing some simple step. I have downloaded vegan and also put that on the g tab also with the expectation that I would have been successful. Maybe the over the air update is ok, but I feel like I may be missing out on something awesome if I just settle for that!
Is there any advice some one can give me? It would be appreciated! Thanks
I think my new nickname should be "The Tinkering Train-wreck" or am i supposed to flash clock work mod before i reboot into recovery each time? Yeah im back to where i was starting over lol I press the power button and a white/greyish screen pops up for a second then goes away and i know theres no button combination for these tabs to load CWM so i have to flash ViewCOMB_3.2_Build_7.2 again. What on God's Green Earth am i doing wrong here. This time i installed Titanium backup and was using that in conjunction so maybe it wont be so painful this time. Maybe i should just use the scheduled backup in ROM Manager lol. Well if anything i sure purchased the right tablet as far as soft bricking/un-bricking goes.
. Also having as many fail-safes i can have as far as backups are concerned the better IMHO. Is it overkill? Yes probably but I'm also trying to learn about Android for lack of a better term (I have a POS Samsung Acclaim that im looking into doing something along the same lines that I have done here) Hopefully that will render the phone useable. So if anyone has a step by step ****** guide or can tell me where im going wrong here please let me know. Is there any difference in the backup current ROM option (which i think i need "koush bootstrap", which i cannot find anywhere besides the market (i cannot afford the 2 bucks) and i wouldnt know where to place the file if i did have it) and doing a backup through CWM. Sorry again ladies and gentlemen for being such a pain in the A$$ here and appreciate any time and knowledge you can lend a Noob with a capital N like myself.