Root Optimus v Root Questions

[AndyOpie150]

Andy - I was able to follow your post fine even with no paragraph breaks....It's the rest of the the hundreds of pages of post in threads that I get lost in. Between you, Mac and Jerry I at least got the direction and many things cleared up.

Mac Thanks for the file. I opened it and it got temp root first try, rebooted and I have now installed superuser and Titanium Backup.

Thanks to all.

Do you guys recommend downloading rom manager and installing the clockword recovery.

After you established a temp root you did push su and Busybox with command prompts,right?

 

[jsthrower]

Yeah Andy I pushed them, downloaded titanium pro, Rom Manager installed clockwork recovery without boot looping issues,made rom backup.repartitioned my sdcard, loaded link2sd and moved apps to free up space. then made a second rom backup. I'm a very happy camper. Thanks for the help. Once I got the bugs worked out it was easy. I did hold my breath a few times. The pre packaged sdk was great...thanks for pointing me that way. so you are saying that clockwork might not do a good job if I need to recovery my present rom backups in the future. I may need to install Xionia. I was thinking of trying cm7 later...thus my clockwork decision... that's what I have on my nook color (not backside )...want to make sure there are no issues with it first like mms or data ...things like that. I see you are running cm7...what is green machine. Thanks for the help, maybe one day I'll be able to give some good advice...that seems to be the best way to get the info...Less strained eyes searching...

 

[AndyOpie150]

Yeah Andy I pushed them, downloaded titanium pro, Rom Manager installed clockwork recovery without boot looping issues,made rom backup.repartitioned my sdcard, loaded link2sd and moved apps to free up space. then made a second rom backup. I'm a very happy camper. Thanks for the help. Once I got the bugs worked out it was easy. I did hold my breath a few times. The pre packaged sdk was great...thanks for pointing me that way. so you are saying that clockwork might not do a good job if I need to recovery my present rom backups in the future. I may need to install Xionia. I was thinking of trying cm7 later...thus my clockwork decision... that's what I have on my nook color (not backside )...want to make sure there are no issues with it first like mms or data ...things like that. I see you are running cm7...what is green machine. Thanks for the help, maybe one day I'll be able to give some good advice...that seems to be the best way to get the info...Less strained eyes searching...

ClockWorkMod is perfect for all the CM7 based ROM's
Xionia is perfect for the Froyo based ROM's.
When you make a backup it doesn't matter what recovery you flash over it, the backup will be in that recovery as well.
I'm a bit of a worry wart. When you hadn't said anything about pushing su,and Busybox(absolutely necessary) then I figured I better make sure just in case.

You can rename your backups with ROM Manager so it's easier to keep track of them.
Go to Manage and Restore Backups. When you click on the date stamped back up. A window pops up. Click on rename. I named mine BACKside_#07302011 which is the build before last.(Hmmm I guess I forgot to flash the latest build)

 

[jsthrower]

Andy, Thanks for asking for the update never hurts to verify I have it right. So are you happy with your cm7 and what are the drawbacks? Don't you have to reinstall all your apps each time you flash a Rom.

 

[AndyOpie150]

Andy, Thanks for asking for the update never hurts to verify I have it right. So are you happy with your cm7 and what are the drawbacks? Don't you have to reinstall all your apps each time you flash a Rom.

If your just updating an installed ROM all you have to do in recovery is wipe cache partition and Dalvik cache. You don't have to wipe data(I didn't know this right at first until JerryScript mentioned it)Now, every time I update this ROM I still have everything right were it was.

If you flash a different ROM, or are coming from stock ROM, then it best to wipe cache partition,Dalvik cache,and wipe data/factory reset(only use the one in recovery,never the one on the phone). You should also format boot,system,data,cache. This means you lose all data.

If you use Titanium Backup never install a system app from it. The ROM will have the right system apps for it.

It never hurts to put the contents of your SD card in a folder on your PC,just in case something were to happen to it.

The only drawback right now is the headset doesn't work to talk on phone. It works fine for playing music.
The latest build 08032011 was having some issues with WiFi and data(now I remember why I didn't install that one)only a couple of people were experiencing it though.
Build # 07032011 seems alright with the WiFi.
I'm sure JerryScript+Blarfie are working on it and will come out with a fix in the next build.

The plus's are to many,and some have to be experienced to be understood.