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Root Finally rooted my phone..... But

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nitris

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HI all i have rooted my phone and after i install the new rom the phone hangs when turning on the phone.? any help will be much appreciated.

First off i have followed the revo guide
http://androidforums.com/desire-all-things-root/439627-guide-s-off-root-htc-desire-revolutionary-windows-published-4th-november-2011-a.html

The only thing different is i could not get cwm to work so i used 4ext.

When i boot the phone and hold down -volume.
the screen says
Revolutionary
bravo pvt3 ship s-off
hboot-6.93.1002
microp-051d
touch panel-synt0101
radio-5.11.05.14
aug 10 2010

i have flashed these roms
AceSMod007-3D (Sense 3.0 | GB 2.3.5 | A2SD+) [STOCK | CM7] [v28 | 19/02
and
AceSMod007 (Sense2.1+3 | GB2.3.3 | Stable | A2SD+) [STOCK | CM7] [v42 | 29/12

neither of them work. What happens is when i turn on the phone after the roms have been copied over with the recovery (the recovery also says that it installs correctly), the phone just hangs on the screen my telco has put on there, i guess most of you have a htc screen there. I have let it run for 15-20 min. Nothing seams to happen apart from the phone getting hot.

Now this is where i ****ed up, i got distracted during the install and forgot to backup the phone.. Even though i read it a million times over the last few days.

The phone still lets me get into hboot and recovery so im sure its just something im doing wrong. Any help will be much appreciated.

OH and also when i load 4ext at the bottom it says to configure it with the 4ext app.
 
Did you partition your sd card, as described in the root memory faq? Those "newer Sense" roms need this to work at all. At least 1GB ext4. The rom is too big to fit in internal storage so can't install properly otherwise.

Options: you could try partitioning the card (back it up first!), copy rom back onto it and try flashing again. Could even use 4Ext to partition. Or copy a rooted stock rom onto it (is a link to list of roms in All Things Root Guide sticky post) and flash that just to get going again.

If you have a partition already, did you wipe phone before flashing?
 
Thanks Hadron

I did wipe the phone before installing but i didn't change the size of the partitions. I will chase that up and get back...

Travis
 
In the 4Ext menu: tools - > partition sd card.

You want to add a single ext4 partition. No swap or stuff like that. As described in root memory faq.

Will erase card, so copy content to computer first. If haven't a card reader can mount card on usb when in recovery.

Gparted is prob still best way to partition, but 4Ext much better than other Desire recoveries for this, and will be easier.
 
Cheers mate...

i put a stock rooted rom on for now. and i will chase down that faq to work out how to get that ext4 partition in the program 4ext. Best forum ever !!!!
 
Hadron said:
In the 4Ext menu: tools - > partition sd card.

You want to add a single ext4 partition. No swap or stuff like that. As described in root memory faq.

Will erase card, so copy content to computer first. If haven't a card reader can mount card on usb when in recovery.

Gparted is prob still best way to partition, but 4Ext much better than other Desire recoveries for this, and will be easier.
Click to expand...

Although gparted is probably the favoured method, does 4ext actually do this? I.e. Is it tried and tested? It could take the faffing out of installing VMWare/Bootable iso.
 
Not really tested myself, but SU & Rasta thought that it used a better tool than the other recoveries. It also has tools for checking partition alignment, which is the main concern with using the other recoveries for partitioning. The fact that it includes this is a promising thing imo, and of course means you can test it was done right (and I've used the alignment test with good and bad partitions and it worked).
 
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