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Root Question on installing ROMs

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nolifeking

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I've just rooted my wife's OG droid, using the Soup or Root method and it seemed to work fine. I backed up with clockworkmod, but I can't get any new ROMs to install correctly.

First I tried CM7. The CWM screen said it had installed correctly, so I hit reboot device and it booted to the CM7 splash screen for almost 3 hours, so I pulled the batter. I restored my nandroid and tried again, but had the same result (though only 45min). I then restored and tried Bugless Beast, and the same thing happened (I'm at 50min at time of posting, still just showing the stock droid boot screens).

I realize the first boot will probably take a little while, but would it really be 45min+?

What can I do to get one of these ROMs installed correctly?
 
Your going to have to wipe date and cache when you install a new rom if you don't you will get a boot. If you are just going to the newest update from the dev. you can get away without wiping.
 
Ok yeah, I tried doing it from the CWM app (not recovery screen) and hit the wipe cache/data and it worked just fine. All the instructions I found said to boot into the recovery mode and do it from there =/. All's well that ends well though. Got a GB ROM on there now that seems to be working well.

Thanks!
 
I am having a similar problem. I was unable to install from sd card using rom manager so I went into recovery mode(??) by hitting x and power at startup and then installed using update.zip that I had renamed from download of cyanogen and later bugless beast. It says it installs fine but then gets cought in the startup screen and loops. How do I fix this?
 
pls1390 said:
I am having a similar problem. I was unable to install from sd card using rom manager so I went into recovery mode(??) by hitting x and power at startup and then installed using update.zip that I had renamed from download of cyanogen and later bugless beast. It says it installs fine but then gets cought in the startup screen and loops. How do I fix this?
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restart into recovery mode and wipe data and cache. the reboot and it should be fine. what recovery are you using? is it cw, spf or rzr spr
 
dfib said:
restart into recovery mode and wipe data and cache. the reboot and it should be fine. what recovery are you using? is it cw, spf or rzr spr
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Just to be clear, there are three custom recoveries for the Motorola A855/Droid 1 phone; SirPhsycoS Recovery (SPR), ClockWorkMod Recovery (CWR), and RaidZero Recovery (RZR). Just trying to keep the 'monikers' pure, no offence intended.
 
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