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Ianlmt

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Just working through putting the amon ra recovery instead of the old one, now i am about to try out mik 2.55 for the first go at ROM'ing.. but before I do I was reading the FAQ and am at the part before changing roms where it is talking about flashing for roms and kernels (still confused on the kernel thing ... only understand roms so far)...

soif I do a wipe with this :

vr superwipe: ZZZVR_SUPERWIPE.zip.

as recommended in the faq, will it mess anything up? I have titanium backup pro but still need to learn to use it (5 mins into it.. lol)...

thanks for any help !
 
Ianlmt said:
Just working through putting the amon ra recovery instead of the old one, now i am about to try out mik 2.55 for the first go at ROM'ing.. but before I do I was reading the FAQ and am at the part before changing roms where it is talking about flashing for roms and kernels (still confused on the kernel thing ... only understand roms so far)...

soif I do a wipe with this :

vr superwipe: ZZZVR_SUPERWIPE.zip.

as recommended in the faq, will it mess anything up? I have titanium backup pro but still need to learn to use it (5 mins into it.. lol)...

thanks for any help !
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before you flash a rom, MAKE SURE you have a nandroid of your stock recovery with your wimax keys and transfer it over to your computer in a safe place....you may need it later and without your wimax keys, no more 4g...

when you get to the point where your gonna flash, first thing you do is put the rom you want to use on the root of ur sd card...then go into the wipe option in your recovery and wipe the cache, dalvik cache, and data...(i do them 3x each) then, go into the flash zip from sd option in your recovery and flash the superwipe zip....then you will have a clean phone to install a rom...

if your using titanium backup pro, and you want to save any apps that you've downloaded off the market, then go into the backup/restore tab and look for the market apps you downloaded then click on it and you'll see an option for backup..just select that...make sure you do this before you do an wiping or your gonna lose it all....
 
DaRayvn said:
before you flash a rom, MAKE SURE you have a nandroid of your stock recovery with your wimax keys and transfer it over to your computer in a safe place....you may need it later and without your wimax keys, no more 4g...

when you get to the point where your gonna flash, first thing you do is put the rom you want to use on the root of ur sd card...then go into the wipe option in your recovery and wipe the cache, dalvik cache, and data...(i do them 3x each) then, go into the flash zip from sd option in your recovery and flash the superwipe zip....then you will have a clean phone to install a rom...

if your using titanium backup pro, and you want to save any apps that you've downloaded off the market, then go into the backup/restore tab and look for the market apps you downloaded then click on it and you'll see an option for backup..just select that...make sure you do this before you do an wiping or your gonna lose it all....
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Im not sure if this suits the same purpose but I have been copy and pasting my ENTIRE SD card to files on my cpu, so i have one that is preroot. now one that is postroot1...next will be 2 and so on... or is that overkill?
 
Ianlmt said:
Im not sure if this suits the same purpose but I have been copy and pasting my ENTIRE SD card to files on my cpu, so i have one that is preroot. now one that is postroot1...next will be 2 and so on... or is that overkill?
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the preroot is the only one you should REALLY be concerned about, just in case you ever have to bring your phone back to sprint....but copying your sd card over to your computer is not the same thing as a nandroid....a nandroid you make in the Amon Ra recovery....it makes like an image of your rom so like i said above if you have to have ur phone serviced or replaced, then you can restore the stock rom, and you'll have to unroot your phone...

nandroids are very important...say you flash a rom, and you mess something up in the process, you can always restore a nandroid to the point before you flashed another rom or if you put any mods in it...this way you dont have to go through the whole reflashing and restoring process...
 
DaRayvn said:
the preroot is the only one you should REALLY be concerned about, just in case you ever have to bring your phone back to sprint....but copying your sd card over to your computer is not the same thing as a nandroid....a nandroid you make in the Amon Ra recovery....it makes like an image of your rom so like i said above if you have to have ur phone serviced or replaced, then you can restore the stock rom, and you'll have to unroot your phone...

nandroids are very important...say you flash a rom, and you mess something up in the process, you can always restore a nandroid to the point before you flashed another rom or if you put any mods in it...this way you dont have to go through the whole reflashing and restoring process...
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yeah the nandroid backups are the postroot folder on my desktop :) along with tiB data :)

just got amon ra and soooooooo happy i did... way better!
 
Ianlmt said:
yeah the nandroid backups are the postroot folder on my desktop :) along with tiB data :)

just got amon ra and soooooooo happy i did... way better!
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nice!!!! much better recovery. just make sure to make a nandroid backup(i know the we keep saying it, but it is very important) and also make sure that you check wimax when making a nandroid backup. you do not have to do it all the time, but you should have at least one backup with it on your computer or somewhere safe. there is a small chance you could loose it and you will not have any 4g, so keep it safe.

now go and get your flash on:D
 
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