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ChrisR36

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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 bogged down with several unnecessary Orange applications, and that the old 2.1 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 various methods on how to do it, and I've followed them all to the letter. The problem is with ROM Manager, I spent 7 hours yesterday, tearing out what little hair I have left with this application. First of all, I 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 tried to select the "Reboot into Recovery" option, but every time I did so, it said "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!"

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the application - several times! but I got 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.

Well, eventually, I did get ROM Manager to work. I rooted the phone again, and this time everything worked as it should, except when I rebooted the phone, it didn't reboot into recovery, it just rebooted as normal.

In my frustration, I've already tried all the other methods that bypass the use of ROM Manager, and none of them seem to work. It almost feels as if the phone manufacturers have made a few small modifications themselves in order to prevent the phone being upgraded, I can't understand why this isn't a standard option on the phone anyway, I'd willingly pay to upgrade if there was.

I've read that I can reboot by pressing the power on button together with the volume down button, but I've tried and tried again, and this doesn't work for me.

Can anybody help please?

Chris
 
Thanks for that Shadowninty. I've just installed it, but when I tried to reboot, a message came up - "Sorry su is not available on your phone" ??
 
Yes, and I tried it more than once. I downloaded it from different locations in case it was corrupt the first time.
 
Wiping? I don't understand. You mean reinstall it? I tried that about 4 times.

I know I attempted the TPT. Can't remember exactly what I had to do now, but I know I stopped because either something wasn't working, or it was getting too complicated. Altogether, I spent 7 hours on it yesterday, and It's all a bit of a blur now, but I did try just about every method out there. I'm usually good at this kind of thing, but yesterday, nothing would go right for me. :(
 
It all works well until I try to reboot into recovery .... it just won't do it :(

Thanks for your help though, I appreciate it.
 
Hi Chris....just a couple of suggestions.


1) for rooting Blade permanently, try Z4Root, modified by kallt_kaffe, Hero from Modaco: Android @ MoDaCo will need to become a member, but that is a good thing!!!

2) are you using appropriate version of Recovery, the latest versions are just for GEN2 Blades/OSF.....and you have a GEN1 for sure......

When you Launch RM, what Recovery version does it display at the top??
Where Flash ClockworkMod Recovery shows the current Recovery??

anything over 3.0.1.4 will not work on GEN1 Blade/OSF's.

If your version is wrong for the phone you have, you can flash an appropriate version by going to the bottom in ROM Manager, tap "All ClockworkMod Recoveries"....you should get a list there, which includes 3.0.1.4.

Select that and tap OK, and the 3.0.1.4 should be flashed to your phone.

Hope this helps.....
 
I know I have a GEN1, I downloaded an app to find that out.

My ROMManager is version 4.3.2.3

I'm trying your other suggestions right now, so I'll be back later to let you know how I get on - thanks! :)
 
Ok, I've managed to install the modified Z4Root, but when I try your other suggestion in MODManager, I select version 3.1.0.4, but when I tap 'Ok' I get a message: "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!"

Is it possible to uninstall MODManager and download an older version from anywhere? Would that have the same effect?
 
Basically you can't seem to get root :L
So odd

You'd probably be best to just do the TPT but we can try diagnose the problem if you want
 
Chris.... so when u run Z4Root.... what did u get?

Does it say you already rooted.... at the bottom of screen.

you can re -root or unroot.

I will post a pic if it will help..... later... having a few pints just now.
 
The Z4Root actually installed and said that it had rooted my phone successfully, it didn't say anything about being rooted already?

shadow, that whole volume up and power button thing doesn't work for me at all, I don't know why :(

Having said all of that, I think I'm actually getting somewhere. I'm currently trying the method used on this page: OneClickRecovery - version 2.0 (now also works in CM7) - Android @ MoDaCo

I've managed to boot into recovery, and I'm now backing the data up, fingers crossed. Now I'm just looking for the most suitable rom to upgrade to, there's so many out there, any recommendations?
 
Ok, now I'm really in trouble. I've downloaded the ROM, copied the image file to the SD card, both zipped AND unzipped as a precaution. I now have the phone in recovery, just backed it up. I selected "apply sdcard:update.zip", and that didn't work, so I tried "Install zip from sdcard" and that doesn't work either!! It says ""Can't open /sdcard/update.zip (No such file or directory) Installation aborted" - I've no idea what to do next :(
 
Ok, panic over, I thought I had bricked my phone for a minute, then I realized that all my data was still intact when I rebooted.

I found a website with instructions on how to upgrade, and I've picked up at the stage where I'm at right now. Unfortunately, I'm still having problems :(

I've rebooted into recovery, I've downloaded my ROM, and I've got as far as this:

Use the Volume buttons on the side of the phone to highlight mounts and storage.
Press the Home button to select.
Highlight mount USB storage and press the Home button.
A new storage device should be recognised on your computer. On your computer, copy the ROM (the zip file) you downloaded during Step 2 and paste it straight to the root of the storage device. Do not paste it into any folders, just the root of the device. Do NOT unzip or extract the file.
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The problem is, when I highlight "Mount USB Storage", I get this message: "Unable to write to ums(?) lunfile (No such file or directory)"

I'm way out of my depth on this now, so I'm open to any suggestions. I've run into problems every step of the way, so I'm thinking this just isn't meant to be :(
 
Ok, I simply took the SD card out and copied the ROM over manually using an SD card reader. I've placed the SD card back in the phone with the zipped ROM on it, and it appears to be installing - at last!
 
And it works!! :) I've successfully upgraded to Swedish Spring! phew!

Listen, I want to thank all of you guys for helping me out, I would have been totally stuck without you. Thank God for this forum! :D
 
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