BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
That's what I did. Worked all three times . Lol.
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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole
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That's what I did. Worked all three times . Lol.
Let me know if I may help you by showing you or recommending stuff. 
Congrats!
Congrats!I'M UNLOCKED & ROOTED!!!!!!!!
Happy Dance!!
jbdan
Extreme Android User
What willyjay said
Just so ya know, remember when you backed up/nandroid'd? That blue text menu screen? That is CWM (clockworkmod) recovery.
You can either flash in CWM like you would a ROM or kernel or other flashable mod, or you could move the .zip with Root Explorer or File Explorer to the proper location as willy said.
To flash, dnld to your PC, hook your phone up, drop it on the virtual SD card (your phone) NOT inside a folder just by itself, reboot into CWM (through ROM Manager), install zip from sd card, choose zip from sdcard, select it, confirm and flash it, "go back" till you can select reboot system now. Volume button scrolls and power button makes selection.
BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
What willyjay said
Just so ya know, remember when you backed up/nandroid'd? That blue text menu screen? That is CWM (clockworkmod) recovery.
You can either flash in CWM like you would a ROM or kernel or other flashable mod, or you could move the .zip with Root Explorer or File Explorer to the proper location as willy said.
To flash, dnld to your PC, hook your phone up, drop it on the virtual SD card (your phone) NOT inside a folder just by itself, reboot into CWM (through ROM Manager), install zip from sd card, choose zip from sdcard, select it, confirm and flash it, "go back" till you can select reboot system now. Volume button scrolls and power button makes selection.
You can also download to drop box and grab it from there if you don't have a USB cord.
Gave blood today. It's 8 pm and I have an hour to go at work. I feel more tired than usual. I wonder if that's from the loss of blood?
BB, If you want me on Gtalk and I have the ability to talk I'd be glad to help you. The hardest part about unlocking and rooting is getting the right driver installed while in bootloader mode. You have to do it manually. It's all gravy after that.
Lemme know via PM if you want my gtalk.
see: http://androidforums.com/verizon-ga...t-rooting-easy-newbs-right-here-yup-i-am.html
BB, If you want me on Gtalk and I have the ability to talk I'd be glad to help you. The hardest part about unlocking and rooting is getting the right driver installed while in bootloader mode. You have to do it manually. It's all gravy after that.
Lemme know via PM if you want my gtalk.
see: http://androidforums.com/verizon-ga...t-rooting-easy-newbs-right-here-yup-i-am.html
RazorSharp
Android Expert
I've been browsing this thread, and my favorite one was actually not made by the OP:
I might just go ahead and install this one!
BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
Thanks!!!
I have to say, the toolkit made that part ez-peezee. It installed all the bits and parts and drivers for me. And thank God for altimax and jbdan last night to help me out when the toolkit didn't finish its job. But I may decide to lock er up ans try to unlock the long way so stand by for pm in the very near future.
jbdan
Extreme Android User
I've been browsing this thread, and my favorite one was actually not made by the OP:
I might just go ahead and install this one!
Some really cool ones in that thread! Just make sure you get the one for your ROM 4.0.2 if you're going to flash in cwm
RazorSharp
Android Expert
Well here's the direct link to the one I downloaded and am flashing now:
[Boot Animations] Boot Animations for Galaxy Nexus ~ Updated 01/07/12 - RootzWiki - Page 7
I followed your instructions and chose to flash it. It brought up a screen with the ROM Manager icon in the middle, and it's been on that for a few moments now. How long should I expect this to take? Thanks.
EDIT: Hrmm, it's been about five minutes now. Getting a little worried. :/
EDIT2: Almost ten minutes now, I'm assuming I did something wrong. The screen is still blank with the ROM Manager icon on it. How can I safely reboot without damaging anything to try again?
What willyjay said
Just so ya know, remember when you backed up/nandroid'd? That blue text menu screen? That is CWM (clockworkmod) recovery.
You can either flash in CWM like you would a ROM or kernel or other flashable mod, or you could move the .zip with Root Explorer or File Explorer to the proper location as willy said.
To flash, dnld to your PC, hook your phone up, drop it on the virtual SD card (your phone) NOT inside a folder just by itself, reboot into CWM (through ROM Manager), install zip from sd card, choose zip from sdcard, select it, confirm and flash it, "go back" till you can select reboot system now. Volume button scrolls and power button makes selection.
Thanks jbdan!
I prefer extracting just the bootanimation.zip and moving it myself, that way I don't have to restore a nandroid if I don't like it. I actually have a couple of boot animation zip files in /data/local and just rename them when I want to try a new one.
Curious...does flashing from a folder mess up a zip install? I usually put flashable zips (roms, mods etc.) in the root directory of the sd card, but I've tried to clean things up by moving them into folders, then flashing/installing the zips from there.....is this a no-no?
It shouldn't take that long to get into CWM....you may have to go back into rom manager and flash the appropriate recovery before rebooting into CWM (that's if you didn't set permanent CWM to over right the stock recovery)
RazorSharp
Android Expert
I got into CWM just fine; opened ROM Manager, selected Reboot into Recovery, chose "install zip from sd card", "choose zip from sdcard", located the zip, and then picked install, and it brought up the blank screen with the ROM Manager icon on it, and it's now been stuck on this screen for quite a while now.
Anyway, I'm assuming I did something wrong, so how can I reboot safely?
brightside
Newbie
i've been following the franco kernel thread over at XDA and on there, they talk about updating the bootloader for 4.0.3 roms. supposedly it can help with battery life and is recommended by google if you are running a .3 rom:
xda-developers - View Single Post - [KERNEL][GPL][9 JAN - #11] franco.Kernel | 4.0.3 | OC | TUN | INIT.D | COLORS+
i haven't personally done it yet, but i just thought i'd throw that out there in case anyone is wanting even better battery life...
xda-developers - View Single Post - [KERNEL][GPL][9 JAN - #11] franco.Kernel | 4.0.3 | OC | TUN | INIT.D | COLORS+
i haven't personally done it yet, but i just thought i'd throw that out there in case anyone is wanting even better battery life...
Hmmm, strange....the only thing I can think of is it's a boot animation zip specifically for 4.0.3 and you're running 4.0.2, or vise versa....
RazorSharp
Android Expert
Yeah, certainly possible, the poster in the Rootzwiki thread didn't specify. Well, regardless, how can I reboot now?
It's stuck in CWM at the logo? No sure how to get back (never had that happen) but try button combos to get back to CWM blue menu...not sure what a battery pull would do.
You can still try to move the bootanimation.zip yourself without flashing (that shouldn't be version specific like a flash would)
BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
And BB's just in case...build 15 is out for your ROM (just dnld, wipe cache partition and dalvik) if you're still using it, and it has a color chooser on the fly for the softkey nav bar at the bottom
I still haven't finished setting this up so I'll flash 15 but I have a feeling I'll be running aokp for a while. Sheer laziness to set other things up.
jbdan
Extreme Android User
I still haven't finished setting this up so I'll flash 15 but I have a feeling I'll be running aokp for a while. Sheer laziness to set other things up.
No worries just wanted to let you know thought you'd like the color changer nav bar! And you don't have to wipe data so nothing to set up again. Just wipe the 2 things I mentioned. Nothing changes your setup or apps.
This is only the case when your upgrading the same rom.
BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
No worries just wanted to let you know thought you'd like the color changer nav bar! And you don't have to wipe data so nothing to set up again. Just wipe the 2 things I mentioned. Nothing changes your setup or apps.
This is only the case when your upgrading the same rom.
I'll be downloading when I get home.
Could be, but it's temporary. However:
As a life that was saved thanks to blood donors, I wanted to take a quick moment to THANK YOU and all others who give blood! It took two units to keep me around... the Darling Bride almost cashed in the life insurance and would have, were it not for people like you.
While I can no longer donate blood, I never miss an opportunity to say "thanks" to those who do
RazorSharp
Android Expert
I pressed the power button again and it actually brought me right back to the recovery menu; however, when I choose "reboot system now", it goes to the screen with the CWM logo again. I assume it's because the boot animation I tried to load was for 4.0.3 only. How can I go back to the stock animation?
EDIT: Actually, any option I choose from the recovery menu takes me to the screen with the CWM logo.
I did do that rename, and the nandroid I did the other day was successful. Seems like a different problem now.
BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
Could be, but it's temporary. However:
As a life that was saved thanks to blood donors, I wanted to take a quick moment to THANK YOU and all others who give blood! It took two units to keep me around... the Darling Bride almost cashed in the life insurance and would have, were it not for people like you.
While I can no longer donate blood, I never miss an opportunity to say "thanks" to those who do
I second this. I'm not able to give blood anymore either but thanks to all who do.
How did your daughter's MRI turn out the other day? (Or was it ct scan or surgery?) Regardless, I hope she is well.