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Root Few quick questions about rooting with Revolutionary

1. Download the rom to the SD card.
2. Make backups of your user apps and data with titanium backup.
3. Boot into recovery.
4. Make a backup of your current rom in recovery using nandroid.
5. In recovery do a factory reset/wipe data.
6. In recovery wipe cache.
7. In recovery wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)
8. (This step is not always needed but I suggest it for DT's roms) In recovery format /system (under mounts and storage)
9. Install zip from SD card, choose zip and navigate to it, if you download the rom from the dev on the stock browser it should be located at /sdcard/download/
10. Wait until it finishes and reboot, let it sit for a while for the initial boot and then sign into google and start restoring your backups.

Edit: I do not use the data cable at all. You can verify your download using the MD5sum which is ususally given by the dev and can be found on the phone using AFV(android file verifier) from the market.
 
excellent instructions, went perfectly...thanks!

I have 1x...which I had on Liquid too...think that's my area at the moment? STL area, I usually get LTE here
 
Ok so I rooted my friends, and restoring his apps, only 39 (I had 72) it said out of space?

why would it do this?
it says Interna: 2.64 GB free
SD card: 30 GB free
 
Reboot to see if that helps, if that doesn't then try clearing cache.

Have you flashed a rom on this phone or is this on the stock rooted rom?
 
Yeahha said:
Reboot to see if that helps, if that doesn't then try clearing cache.

Have you flashed a rom on this phone or is this on the stock rooted rom?
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Ok I rebooted...it's working. Just was nervous cause it took me talking him into letting me do it! All is well as of now...
 
I am pretty sure that was a bug with the OS itself. I have had that problem happen on other phones but I couldn't remember what I did to remedy it exactly. Glad it is working for you now.
 
Another thing...none of his contacts came back......would they PLEASE be on his Nandroid I made beforehand?
 
Yeah they should be.

1.Boot in recovery and make a nandroid
2. Restore the first one nandroid that was made then boot up
3. Make sure to sync them with google
4. Boot back into recovery and restore the 2nd backup

Sorry I put it in steps but it was more confusing before I did that.
 
I like steps, makes it easier :)

when I boot into Recovery and go to restore, it lets me pick which Nandroid, right? By backing up his current one won't overwrite the old one?

I am doing this tonight for him, but he seems happy otherwise with the ROM.
 
Ok, I can handle that. Last think (I think), where are the backups stored by default? I was looking on my phone and couldn't locate them...is there a certain naming convention they use, like with the date or something in them? I am attempting the fix in about an hour...
 
They are on the SD, should be in a folder with the same name as your recovery. I use TWRP and mine are located at /sdcard/twrp/backups

I think my backups are named something like "201109220124" which is a time stamp, the recovery needs to verify the MD5 before it will flash a backup so don't rename it.
 
Success. Flashed back to stock with root. He is still down to go back to custom ROM, but was at work, I just wanted to get him his contacts back ASAP. I was relieved...and when I restored, it takes me to the location where the Nandroids are saved...

I have learned quite a bit this week
 
Yeah, it automatically goes to that folder in recovery.

I would say you have learned quite a bit :D you went from being weary of rooting to rooting a friends phone and restoring his contact back, soon you will be posting here more than me ;)
 
Well, actually, I'm not done yet...ONE more thing (for the week).

I read about updating radios, should I do this? What exactly does that mean? And do do I find my current radio version?

EDIT:Baseband Version: 1.39.00.0627r, 0.01.69.0625r

Is that it?
 
You could update to some of the leaked GB radios but the ones you are on should work on any current rom
 
What would be the advantage? Is it just like an install, drop it on the SD card and open it...or is it a whole new setup/install?
 
I think the newer radios provide better handoff between 3g and 4g as well as wifi and network.

You install a radio in hboot, you download the zip and rename it PG05IMG.zip and put it on the root of your SD, then you boot into hboot (power off then power on holding volume down), it will can the card and prompt you to update, press volume up and it updates then reboot. No new setup, it takes a few days to settle in usually so you may notice some higher than normal battery drain for a few days.
 
Awesome will do tomorrow. Rooted a Samsung vibrant today...but cheated and did the one click...oops :)
One day I wont have any more questions to ask you...hopefully!
 
Questions are no problem. If there is a 1 click method that has been tested and works I don't see a issue with it. I thought I saw some posts of yours in there earlier when I was trying to help a guy get into recovery on a vibrant :D
 
Yes, I was there...it was dead over there...I figured it out doing it a different way anyways. You get around! :)

I saw WormDoes just added a new radio today, "5th GB - Possibly Official GB OTA (COMBINED CDMA/LTE) - Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!" Is that the one I should use? I have noticed 3g to 4g switch hasn't been as good since I flashed, but not terrible or anything? If so, I'm going at it tonight!

EDIT: Hope that was the one, I updated it successfully!!
 
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