Hi all 
I've joined the forum in the hope that someone might be able to help me. Today I bought my first Android phone - the San Francisco Orange. Before I bought it, I read several reviews, and the only downside was that this particular phone comes loaded with several unnecessary Orange applications, and that the old 2.0 version of Android is a bit slow.
However, I bought the phone on the strength that it can easily be upgraded to the latest version of Android.
I've found several websites with instructions on how to upgrade, and I've followed them to the letter. The problem is with ROM Manager, I've spent the last 5 hours tearing out what little hair I have left with this application. First of all, I've managed to get as far as rebooting the phone into recovery mode. Powering up the phone and holding the volume 'down' button doesn't work, so from within ROM Manager, I try to select the "Reboot into Recovery" option, but every time I do so, it says "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!"
I've tried to uninstall and reinstall the application - several times! but I get the same thing every time. I even tried another application called Quick Boot, but that also gave me an error message that I can no longer recall.
Is there any other way around this problem? Do I have to use ROM Manager? Or is there an alternative app I can use? Is there an older version of ROM Manager that I can download to my PC and install manually? Has anyone else encountered this problem and been able to solve it? Thanks very much for reading, and thanks in advance for any help that can be offered.
Chris
I've joined the forum in the hope that someone might be able to help me. Today I bought my first Android phone - the San Francisco Orange. Before I bought it, I read several reviews, and the only downside was that this particular phone comes loaded with several unnecessary Orange applications, and that the old 2.0 version of Android is a bit slow.However, I bought the phone on the strength that it can easily be upgraded to the latest version of Android.
I've found several websites with instructions on how to upgrade, and I've followed them to the letter. The problem is with ROM Manager, I've spent the last 5 hours tearing out what little hair I have left with this application. First of all, I've managed to get as far as rebooting the phone into recovery mode. Powering up the phone and holding the volume 'down' button doesn't work, so from within ROM Manager, I try to select the "Reboot into Recovery" option, but every time I do so, it says "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!"
I've tried to uninstall and reinstall the application - several times! but I get the same thing every time. I even tried another application called Quick Boot, but that also gave me an error message that I can no longer recall.
Is there any other way around this problem? Do I have to use ROM Manager? Or is there an alternative app I can use? Is there an older version of ROM Manager that I can download to my PC and install manually? Has anyone else encountered this problem and been able to solve it? Thanks very much for reading, and thanks in advance for any help that can be offered.
Chris
