Setting up aosp

[MahaloCat]

Cool Fixed.....
Too bad you can't post the Boot !

Thats a busy Screen Don!

 

[DonB]

I probably can if I take a picture with the camera instead of the phone.

Cool Fixed.....
Too bad you can't post the Boot !

Thats a busy Screen Don!

 

[JB in AZ]

A little cold for Florida, eh?

 

[MahaloCat]

A little cold for Florida, eh?

Colder than it should be down there.
I heard yesterday that over 600 manatee's have died due to the cold....

 

[DonB]

No chit feels like I am in the Mid West, LOL

A little cold for Florida, eh?

 

[LBPHeretic]

A lot of people with HTC Sense UI felt REALLY cold when the Clock/Weather Widget was showing 0

 

[MahaloCat]

I know...It was a frigid 68 this morning...my son asked for a blanket to take on our walk!

 

[paully]

a journal of my steps...

(please feel free to correct my misconceptions. (I see that there are a few of these posts recently, there's a handful of you guys working over time educating noobery, but here's mine. if you've lived in norman, OK, i'd buy you a beer. but as it is, i'll push the thanks button ALOT )


I forgot to titanium back-up when i started. not that I'm certain what that would've gained me (could've re-installed my favorite apps more quickly, I guess). But the first ROMing to AOSP 2.2 worked otherwise. definitely snappier, will have fun setting that up.

now time for experiments...

booted to recovery, made a nandroid (some flavor of back-up preserving something i've done?) of the AOSP rom

wiped all three things...

now trying to get back to stock 2.1...

hrmmmm... that didn't work as anticipated...

tried to find the original nandroid I made, to get back to stock 2.1. how does that work? or am I missing the nandroid "point" entirely? a nandroid is a back-up image of the rom as I had had it tweaked via the various settings available, right?

I had this vision of practically being able to set up a dual boot. or is there a loss of all personalization every time you boot between nandroids?


UPDATE: see continuation post 12-24-10, 10:21 AM

 

[DonB]

Well once you rooted you should open Rom Manager and Flash CWM recovery, then make a Nandroid Backup, that would of made a back up of your stock rooted phone, this way if you ever wanted to go back to stock, then you simply either stay as is, and delete the Bloatware that you want to get rid of, or you find yourself a Rom and you put that on your SD card along with Gapps which is the google applications providing your are not using a None Sense Rom, then instead of using Rom Manager, then you turn your phone off, once off then you boot into recovery (Volume down and End button at the same time for a few seconds, then once prompted hit the home button to boot into recovery) once in recovery, then you do a full wipe, Wiped Data/FR, Wipe Cache, then scroll down to advance and Wipe Davlik, then hit the back button and then scroll to install zip from SD card, then find the Rom you want to flash and follow the instructions, once done, then do the same for Gapps from Dec 13, once done then reboot your phone, and you should be on your new Rom. Follow the instructions on setting up your Gmail and then set your phone exactly as you want it and download all your apps, then once you have that Rom exactly as you want it, turn your phone off again and boot into recovery again as mentioned above and make yourself a fresh Nandroid of that Rom. Now you know the process if you need anything else let us know

a journal of my steps...

(please feel free to correct my misconceptions. (I see that there are a few of these posts recently, there's a handful of you guys working over time educating noobery, but here's mine. if you've lived in norman, OK, i'd buy you a beer. but as it is, i'll push the thanks button ALOT )


I forgot to titanium back-up when i started. not that I'm certain what that would've gained me (could've re-installed my favorite apps more quickly, I guess). But the first ROMing to AOSP 2.2 worked otherwise. definitely snappier, will have fun setting that up.

now time for experiments...

booted to recovery, made a nandroid (some flavor of back-up preserving something i've done?) of the AOSP rom

wiped all three things...

now trying to get back to stock 2.1...

hrmmmm... that didn't work as anticipated...

tried to find the original nandroid I made, to get back to stock 2.1. how does that work? or am I missing the nandroid "point" entirely? a nandroid is a back-up image of the rom as I had had it tweaked via the various settings available, right?

I had this vision of practically being able to set up a dual boot. or is there a loss of all personalization every time you boot between nandroids?

 

[JB in AZ]

paully, you understand it properly! To restore to a previous setup (2.1 rom?) ..you need to boot to recovery. Make a new Nandroid backup before continuing! Then select the option to restore (I'm not using Clockwork as my reovery, rather Anon RA 1.6.2...so the name of the option you see may be different..mine says backup/restore) Slecting that should get you a screen with a folder name with a bunch of numbers...inside that folder, will be your nandroid backups. Sekect one, (they are dated, if you look closely, you will figure out which one to use, if there are more than one...and tell it to restore. You now have your previous rom, all set up.

BTW, you can rename your nandroid backups, even save then to your computer...just don't use any spaces in the name.

ex: NFXromDecember16201010AM = my backup made of NFX ROM December 16, 2010 at 10AM

Let us know if you figure this out, or need more assistance. It can be very confusing at first! You'll get it!

 

[andygu3]

I never rename nandroids, I always use date stamp of the nandroid and then write it somewhere or save it to the computer.

But like JB stated, never have a space in the nandroid, instead use underscore_____________

 

[paully]

So froyo life is fun, nice to be able to finally sync my work's Corporate Google email account to my calendars and such.
I do miss typing a person's contact name directly into the phone program and it directly searching the call log and contacts. (Yes, its just a coupla extra clicks to hit the search button and select a number, but clicks are precious )

Any program recommendations?

 

[DonB]

Try Dialer One from the market let me know if that works for you, click >>>> Here

So froyo life is fun, nice to be able to finally sync my work's Corporate Google email account to my calendars and such.
I do miss typing a person's contact name directly into the phone program and it directly searching the call log and contacts. (Yes, its just a coupla extra clicks to hit the search button and select a number, but clicks are precious )

Any program recommendations?

 

[paully]

Try Dialer One from the market let me know if that works for you, click >>>> Here

Very nice. Great improvement. The "hard" phone button lets you select 'dialer one' to be the default dialer. So now the trick is to get the "soft" phone button on the home screen to link to it too.

 

[DonB]

Umm you should be able to hit it and it should ask you which one you want to open and then you can check mark and choose which by default

Very nice. Great improvement. The "hard" phone button lets you select 'dialer one' to be the default dialer. So now the trick is to get the "soft" phone button on the home screen to link to it too.

 

[paully]

Umm you should be able to hit it and it should ask you which one you want to open and then you can check mark and choose which by default

hrmmm... that's exactly how it worked with the hard, physcial green phone button at the bottom (next to the home button). but the virtual phone button on the home screen still brings up the stock dialer. I've tried everything suggested here:
DefaultDialer - dialerone - Instructions to setup Dialer One as default dialer - Project Hosting on Google Code (that's my post from today)

Then I tried:
1. Uninstalling Dialer One, then rebooting
2. Confirming that both virtaul and physical phone buttons open the stock dialer
3.In application manager, clearing data for both the Dialer and Dailer Storage (both stock)
4. Installing Dialer One (haven't opened the program yet, just installed. haven't touch either phone button yet), then rebooting
5. After boot up, gave it a min, touched the virtual phone button on the home screen, opens stock dialer (no prompt option)
6. clicked back button
7. clicked physcial phone button, gives prompt to choose program with which to complete action
8. selected Dialer One, w/out checking 'use by default for this action', it opens Dialer One (thought I'd add this, since last time, which lead to my 1:30pm post above, I selected this)
9. back button, tried virtual button, still stock dialer
10. repeat step 7, but this time checked the box
11. now physcical button loads Dialer One, and virtual button loads stock.

hrmm...
not sure where to go next. my Windows brain thinks I need to redefine the path string for the virtual phone button shortcut to point to the Dialer One executable, but I'm pretty ingorant on how to make that happen in a Linux world with a terminal program as my tool.

 

[DonB]

Looks like you have covered every options, the only other thing I would do is post over @ XDA and mentioned what you did there maybe be a way to force by Terminal Emulator, you can also try emailing the developer and see if he has any options. In the meantime I will try it now and let you know if it does the same for me

hrmmm... that's exactly how it worked with the hard, physcial green phone button at the bottom (next to the home button). but the virtual phone button on the home screen still brings up the stock dialer. I've tried everything suggested here:
DefaultDialer - dialerone - Instructions to setup Dialer One as default dialer - Project Hosting on Google Code (that's my post from today)

Then I tried:
1. Uninstalling Dialer One, then rebooting
2. Confirming that both virtaul and physical phone buttons open the stock dialer
3.In application manager, clearing data for both the Dialer and Dailer Storage (both stock)
4. Installing Dialer One (haven't opened the program yet, just installed. haven't touch either phone button yet), then rebooting
5. After boot up, gave it a min, touched the virtual phone button on the home screen, opens stock dialer (no prompt option)
6. clicked back button
7. clicked physcial phone button, gives prompt to choose program with which to complete action
8. selected Dialer One, w/out checking 'use by default for this action', it opens Dialer One (thought I'd add this, since last time, which lead to my 1:30pm post above, I selected this)
9. back button, tried virtual button, still stock dialer
10. repeat step 7, but this time checked the box
11. now physcical button loads Dialer One, and virtual button loads stock.

hrmm...
not sure where to go next. my Windows brain thinks I need to redefine the path string for the virtual phone button shortcut to point to the Dialer One executable, but I'm pretty ingorant on how to make that happen in a Linux world with a terminal program as my tool.

 

[DonB]

Well just installed it and it gave me the options on both the screen and the actual button, try rebooting in recovery and wipe Cache and Davlik and try it again and see

 

[paully]

Well just installed it and it gave me the options on both the screen and the actual button, try rebooting in recovery and wipe Cache and Davlik and try it again and see

So this time I:
- uninstalled Dialer One
- booted to recovery, wiped cache and davlik cache
- restarted, reinstalled Dialer one,
- sameas before

 

[paully]

Well just installed it and it gave me the options on both the screen and the actual button, try rebooting in recovery and wipe Cache and Davlik and try it again and see

Keep you posted on the saga

 

[DonB]

The only other thing I can think of would be flash the Rom over your present Rom again, make sure you Nandroid, and see what happens let us know

Keep you posted on the saga

 

[andygu3]

Deca put out a new CFS kernel, DecaFuct

768 #51
DecaFuct-Stable-12202010.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download


691 #51
DecaFuct-Stable-691-12202010.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download


Boot recovery and wipe cache and Davlik cache
Flash kernel
Reboot

 

[MahaloCat]

How is it?

 

[johnny124]

Well just installed it and it gave me the options on both the screen and the actual button, try rebooting in recovery and wipe Cache and Davlik and try it again and see

Same problems here. Any news on how to fix this so the soft button launches dialer one?

 

[DonB]

Nope I do not have that issue, the only other thing I can think of is do a Nandroid and then reflash the Rom and see if that solves the issue

Same problems here. Any news on how to fix this so the soft button launches dialer one?