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Root [ROM][WIP] BACKside ROM (CM7) + Green Machine Theme

The BobZohme (VM670NH_recovery.img), and the Touch screen recovery (the best of the IHO recovery's before the COT) required that you put the Xionia recovery in it's zipped form onto the SD card in case of a recovery loop. The COT has that feature as well, so no need for the Xionia on the SD card.
 
ZenGarden Recoveries has the Fix Recovery Boot Loop as well, plus I'm moving away from the recoveries being center around my ROM build. A recovery should be a peace of mind thing that it well work for everything doing almost everything the person needs it to do.

I may take Jerry's CWM-Green Recovery and update some of the features, because I know people like that recovery simply because Jerry built it.

I Am going to edit the IHO git-wiki placing both BobzHome's recovery and Xionia Recovery as a achieve download.
 
Earthnfire78 said:
ZenGarden Recoveries has the Fix Recovery Boot Loop as well, plus I'm moving away from the recoveries being center around my ROM build. A recovery should be a peace of mind thing that it well work for everything doing almost everything the person needs it to do.

I may take Jerry's CWM-Green Recovery and update some of the features, because I know people like that recovery simply because Jerry built it.

I Am going to edit the IHO git-wiki placing both BobzHome's recovery and Xionia Recovery as a achieve download.
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That would be great ... i would rather have just one recovery to take care of everything!
 
so my recovery is CWM based recovery v4.0.1.5. im think im going with COT. how do i switch recoveries? what are the steps to doing it? thanks for all the help :)
 
ScaryMasks said:
so my recovery is CWM based recovery v4.0.1.5. im think im going with COT. how do i switch recoveries? what are the steps to doing it? thanks for all the help :)
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Just click on the link that i posted earlier ,or go to the all things root guide, click on the recovery you want and follow the directions exactly as it says!

MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE FLASHING!!!
NEVER DO A FACTORY RESET!!!

Since you are new to rooting, don't rush into this, one simple mistake is all it takes to have an expensive paperweight.
I did a lot of reading before i first rooted and still bricked my phone, because of a corrupt download. If i would have known about checking md5 sums, i could have saved some money, "and some hair. "

Read the guide, then read it again.
 
So I'm wondering, I've had this rom and kernel for a long time and love the ROM :) been using it for a looooooooong time. Though I am growing tired of the kernel, I'm moving into using the phone for gaming and have heard good things about the franco kernel, though I tried to flash the gamer kernel cause I didn't read everything (as usual) and had to go through the long process of fixing all that, wiping everything and restoring everything bit by bit for link2sd, and getting link2sd to recognize the partition >:(

Anyways, I was wondering what you guys would suggest, things that would be compatible, fix the touch screen yada and improve performance.

Looking to play games like gta3, Spiderman and such. I have chainfire but it doesn't help too much with gta3 even after deleting the audio

edit: also, while I'm here, after reflashing the rom and everything and restoring apps with titanium and link2sd, I have ran out of internal memory, when before I had 50 some mb, anyone have any idea what's up?? I still have like 4 apps I haven't been able to restore cause of this. Tried clearing caches and everything but still to no avail. :/
 
DarthScruff said:
So I'm wondering, I've had this rom and kernel for a long time and love the ROM :) been using it for a looooooooong time. Though I am growing tired of the kernel, I'm moving into using the phone for gaming and have heard good things about the franco kernel, though I tried to flash the gamer kernel cause I didn't read everything (as usual) and had to go through the long process of fixing all that, wiping everything and restoring everything bit by bit for link2sd, and getting link2sd to recognize the partition >:(

Anyways, I was wondering what you guys would suggest, things that would be compatible, fix the touch screen yada and improve performance.

Looking to play games like gta3, Spiderman and such. I have chainfire but it doesn't help too much with gta3 even after deleting the audio

edit: also, while I'm here, after reflashing the rom and everything and restoring apps with titanium and link2sd, I have ran out of internal memory, when before I had 50 some mb, anyone have any idea what's up?? I still have like 4 apps I haven't been able to restore cause of this. Tried clearing caches and everything but still to no avail. :/
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well I tried flashing Franco #4, v19.4 CFS and BFS and gamer.20 but none of them worked :/ I'm assuming this rom just isn't compatible with any of Franco's kernels? I'm just looking for greater performance, the touch screen fix and MAYBE the battery life increase but it's not as important, got any suggestions?? Sick of flashing kernels that get my phone stuck on the LG screen and then restoring, done it 4 times now.
 
I ran the BACKside ROM as my daily driver since it's creation (helped with a lot of the testing). The 01132011 build (still available for download) is the most stable build.
In the All Things Root Guide is a section on the kernels that can be flashed, and to what type of ROM.

Note: The latest MiRaGe ROM is now the best ROM for our phone. I have been puting it thru it's paces for a few months now. It is my daily driver.

Note #2:
You can only overclock to 864MHz with the V. Thats the best the ARM-6 processor can do. No two processors are alike due to microscopic imperfections in their manufacturing.
I have two V's. One can only be overclocked to 825 before it auto reboots. The other can go to the max with no problem.
I would suggest flashing the MiRaGe ROM and learning to deal with your processors imperfections, or lack there of.
 
Does mirage have the customizability things, like the status bar tweeks and long press options? I love how classy my home screen looks with the transparent status bar and dropdown background custom image, also loosing the status bar brightness adjustment will suck cause I use it alot haha
 
DarthScruff said:
Does mirage have the customizability things, like the status bar tweeks and long press options? I love how classy my home screen looks with the transparent status bar and dropdown background custom image, also loosing the status bar brightness adjustment will suck cause I use it alot haha
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I tried Mirage briefly and no, it doesn't have as much status bar tweaking. I chickened out and went back to my trusty 1/31 build of BACKside pretty quickly, but not necessarily just because of that. One tweak that I think BS has additionally that I really missed was the ablility for volume control default to (media volume) instead of phone. I didn't see it if it was there in Mirage anyway. I know that's a really silly reason to chicken out but I really appreciated that feature (without having to install some other volume app or whatever)
 
Can anyone make a recommendation on what kernel with the CPU touch screen fix is compatible then at least? trying to play games on the snes emulators is pretty horrid, and assassins creed is a bit of a chore to play
 
Go to the All Things Root Guide sticky.
Download and put on the SD card all kernels for the type of ROM you are using.
Make a backup of your ROM.
Try each kernel to see which one works the best.
You only have to wipe the cache partition and the dalvik cache to flash a kernel so you shouldn't see any difference In your ROM until you play your games.

Also experiment with CPU Max speeds and governors.
 
Well the problem I have is the multitouch, if I'm holding the d-pad right and then hit b to jump in Mario it turns the d-pad direction to down or it hits the a button instead
 
Try a minimalist ROM like the almost-purity ROM (CM-7 IHO) and then experiment with kernels. As a matter of course, try the Harmonia 2 as well.

Its either that or edit the app to work with the ROM. You will need a computer, the Java jdk-6u41 with the class path to the java.exe set properly and APK MultiTool to extract, decompile, edit, recompile, and sign the app.
Those are your only options.
 
05022012 was the last build. JerryScript no longer supports this ROM because he has moved on to another phone and is spending all his free time (he still has a family too) developing ROMs for it.
Right now the best ROM for our phone is the MiRaGe ROM.
Use the ZenGarden recovery to flash it.
All info is in the All Things Root Guide sticky.
If you need help with anything just PM me.
 
AndyOpie150 said:
Try a minimalist ROM like the almost-purity ROM (CM-7 IHO) and then experiment with kernels. As a matter of course, try the Harmonia 2 as well.

Its either that or edit the app to work with the ROM. You will need a computer, the Java jdk-6u41 with the class path to the java.exe set properly and APK MultiTool to extract, decompile, edit, recompile, and sign the app.
Those are your only options.
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One of us isn't understanding the other haha, I want to keep this rom, I just want to switch the kernal to one the fixes the touch screen CPU spikes. Was hoping someone could just recommend one instead of spending 20 min finding a compatible kernel, backing up, flashing it, get stuck at boot, restore, repeat.
 
DarthScruff said:
One of us isn't understanding the other haha, I want to keep this rom, I just want to switch the kernal to one the fixes the touch screen CPU spikes. Was hoping someone could just recommend one instead of spending 20 min finding a compatible kernel, backing up, flashing it, get stuck at boot, restore, repeat.
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If your talking about the screen freezing try disabling ics screen rotation.
 
Totally forgot about the ics screen rotation problem in the last few builds. Doh?
Good call Thewraith420.

To DarthScruff: Not to many left here but me and whoever pops in every now and again. Don't play games at your level. No Idea which kernel will work for your purpose, if turning off ics screen rotation doesn't work.
 
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