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bingobango

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I managed to root my phone ok using unrevoked. I backed up using titanium and mybackup.

I just ran a nandroid backup successfully - it said it worked ok - but when I rebooted the phone after the nandroid backup, I am stuck in an endless boot cycle!

The phone shows the O2 splash screen, then the screen goes black and the splash screen reappears and it keeps doing this.

What can I do to fix this??!
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Dont panic jus boit recocery clear ure phone bak to factory and reflash rom did u backup rom usin clockwork before flashin as titanium on backs apps up
 
There is a known issue i was warned baout when doing your first nandroid backup, sometimes it will get inot a boot loop.
Just go inot recovery and reflash the backup just taken and it should resolve your issue.
 
Just restore the backup you took. This happens the first time sometimes. I did mention it in my FAQ ;)
 
Just went into recovery and I am currently recovering the backup I just did...its churning away here! [Edit: it completed and booted up ok - all is well again!]

Hopefully this will work and I can continue my quest to get more free space by rooting and installing a custom ROM.

I believe the next step is to format and partition my microsd card? I downloaded Gparted iso and I mounted the image file in my home computer so it would appear as a cd.

I browsed the folders and I couldnt find a way to actually run the program~? Any ideas on how this should be done?

Once I do that then I will partition 512mb and then I guess I have to flash a rom. I havent read instructions on how to do that yet but I guess you just drop it on the sd card and use the recovery util?

Also in terms of which ROM to load, any comments on these:

[ROM] [11/01] Pre-rooted Stock Froyo (2.29.405.5) [Optional mods] - xda-developers


or the LeeDroid one?

I would like to get rid of the O2 boot screens and have some more free space using app2sd+ etc. Other benefits: improved batter life, slight overclocking? You tell me?

Thx
 
You have to Boot into the CD. It runs in a linux environment not windows (android is linux based so this is best, ruling out cross platform issues.)

Again, in my other FAQ :)

You may want to read them both....
 
Thanks DanFrance - how do you boot to the cd? Just restart windows and hold down F12 is it or F10?

[edit]: ok I'm guessing I actually have to burn the img to cd then, you can't just mount the image and reboot.

Who uses cd's anymore? lol
 
bingobango said:
Once I do that then I will partition 512mb and then I guess I have to flash a rom. I havent read instructions on how to do that yet but I guess you just drop it on the sd card and use the recovery util?

Also in terms of which ROM to load, any comments on these:

[ROM] [11/01] Pre-rooted Stock Froyo (2.29.405.5) [Optional mods] - xda-developers


or the LeeDroid one?

I would like to get rid of the O2 boot screens and have some more free space using app2sd+ etc. Other benefits: improved batter life, slight overclocking? You tell me?

Thx
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I'd suggest maybe more than 512mb if you use GParted and can spare the space. No more than 1gig though. I can recommend LeeDroid over a stock rooted rom (assuming you want to stick with what you know - its very similar to stock) as it gives you a few more tweaks - ability to under/overclock amongst them. It adds it own (bios loading) boot screen as well. Also comes with Titanium built in which can be handy as it means you don't have to head straight to the market you can just restore straight away.
 
+1 for leedroid.

I am new to rooting, but Leedroid has a friendly familiar feel about it.

Just be warned though if this is the first time you have installed a custom ROM and you choose Leedroid, the first time it boots up and you hear R2D2 it will certainly make you jump! Or was that just me!?!?
 
GrenW,
Have you tried any other ROM's apart from Leedroid?
As I said i am new to rooting and like the friendly feel of Leedroid but do wonder if trying something else might be fun!
 
Nope - only rooted a month or so back. I am tempted though as LeeDroid is very much Sense+ and feel like a change.

If a proper htc 2.3 rom doesn't come out soon I may be tempted just to try something new. Have been looking at Defrost.

Will probably give it another month, try some themes etc and see what's around.
 
I have been looking at Defrost too. The wife says I already spend to much time messing about with my phone, i am worried changing Rom's could become and obsession! he he
 
I get in trouble on a weekly basis for constantly breaking and fixing my phone whilst trying out the latest mods.
 
dorsetsav said:
I have been looking at Defrost too. The wife says I already spend to much time messing about with my phone, i am worried changing Rom's could become and obsession! he he
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danfrance said:
I get in trouble on a weekly basis for constantly breaking and fixing my phone whilst trying out the latest mods.
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You guys are lucky!!

Mine is starting to think I'm doing some secret C.I.A. shit!! (which I am but don't tell anyone)! :D
 
ha ha ha, the wife hates it, but reaps the benefits when she wants something done or her HTC. That said she is still not confident enought to let me root and theme hers.

besides i'd rather be doing something fun than watching emmerdale or eastenders or desperate housewives (although good eye candy in that one!!! ha ha) or whatever other vile soap she is watching on an almost daily basis!
 
OK - as it stands (for those that are interested):

- phone is rooted ok using unrevoked. There were a couple of issues I had with unrevoked.

1. I didnt realise I would have to undo the previous change I had made (using the noobs guide to move apps to sd with rooting). I got this message a couple of times: “Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?”

2. Unrevoked lost connectivity unexpectedly with the phone

3. Couple of times the zysploit service/app crashed on my phone.


NOW...
- I have backed up using mybackup and titanium to the sd card. I have backed up apps, data etc but I am not sure which I should restore later? I think I read not to restore data?
- I made a nandroid backup easy enough - I used rommanager to boot into recovery and made it there. Took a few mins but it ran smoothly. BUT...
After rebooting from recovery, I was stuck in a endless boot cycle. I recovered the nandroid backup I had just made, in recovery mode and all was well again.

SO..
Later (once I get home) I will
-make sure I have copied everything off SD card to my PC.
-I will then use gparted to partition my SD card (1 GB).
-I will copy the SD backup from my PC back to the phone.
-download leeRoid (2.3d?) and put the zip on my sd card.
-boot into recovery, and load this zip file
I should then have a phone with leeroid on it!
Hasn't been painless, and its not for the fainthearted - but I'm getting there..

Still not sure what a goldcard is for though??
 
A goldcard is like your phone's ROM's unique identifier on the SD card. If you semi-termibnally brick your phone you can reflash a stock ROM although this will most likely mean you lose rooting. You need a goldcard to do this, otherwise the ROM will not recognise the phone and it won't work. Furthermore, if you root but keep a stock ROM (as opposed to flashing DeFroST, Oxygen, etc) you'll need a goldcard to enable you to receive OTA updates. If you don't have this, the phone won't recognise the updates and you'll have problems.

Long and the short of it is, even if you don't think you need a goldcard, it's best to take a belt-and-braces approach and create one, as you can't create one after the proverbial hits the propeller, and it may be the only thing that digs you out of the aforementioned proverbial...
 
bingobango said:
SO..
Later (once I get home) I will
-make sure I have copied everything off SD card to my PC.
-I will then use gparted to partition my SD card (1 GB).
-I will copy the SD backup from my PC back to the phone.
-download leeRoid (2.3d?) and put the zip on my sd card.
-boot into recovery, and load this zip file
I should then have a phone with leeroid on it!
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What about the dalvik cache?
 
Thanks turbohobbit - if I mess up a flash to leedroid, can I not just revert back to my nandroid backup?

LECTER - I wasn't going to do a full wipe if the phone/cache as I read that its no necessary for flashing to something like leeDroid?

Cheers guys
 
To clarify (in case it's not already) - if your phone was originally a branded (02, orange etc) phone then you would, in the past, have received branded ROM updates once released by your provider (if they ever did.....). Creating a GoldCard allows the phone to accept a ROM which is destined for stock, unbranded HTC phones, ie one which has not had all the orange/o2 crap put on it.

Ideally this should also mean that as future updates are made available from HTC you would get these too, as if your phone had always been unbranded. However the last update from HTC did not work on phones with goldcards. No-one (as far as I know) knows whether this is a one off or deliberate. It is possible to apply the new version of the ROM to the phone, but only by using a Rom Update Utility (RUU) which will end up wiping the phone of all apps, user data etc.

Now to us rooted types, wiping the phone is no big deal, as you just restore apps from Titanium etc, however as far as i know this full backup is only available to rooted phones. For those who only debranded and want to keep up to speed with the latest update, this is a big pain as it means downloading all your apps again each time you update the ROM. In the end this was why I rooted, to get full backup authority and to go and explore the world or ROM's.

The suggestion is that if you do really mess up, you might one day find yourself with a semi-bricked phone. At this point the last resort option is to find a stock RUU for your phone and run it. This will (hopefully) restore your phone to life, but at the cost of putting you back to unrooted, and losing all your apps and data, but hey, your phone works again!

You need a goldcard as branded RUU's can't be obtained (as far as I know, certainly Orange ones can't), so the only chance you have is to fool the RUU into thinking you have a stock HTC phone and run a stock HTC RUU. For this, you need a goldcard.

To answer your other question, you need to restore apps+data. It's system settings you don't want to backup and restore.

Also having downloaded LeeDroid 2.3d to the SD card, before flashing it you might want to do a full system wipe, and dalvik cache wipe (from advanced options). Going from sense based ROM to sense based ROM this might not be needed, but it often helps and anyway, you're fully titanium/nandroid backed up now right?

Good luck and enjoy!
 
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