Help Sigh, Rom Manager "Unable to contact server"...

[demalii]

Long story short, starting from scratch seems to be a challenge for this junk phone..

I installed the default cricket os to the phone, then z4root, permanent root, reboot, install rom manager, flash cwm recovery..... unable to contact server, for 24 hours straight now..

any ideas so I can get cm7 back on this phone, I'm stuck just trying to get cwm installed an don't know how to go about doing it another way since modding tools are so.. non-existant on the market these days.

Thanks!

 

[ShinySide]

Fast boot it. Ditch RM.

Download this FastbootCWR-3.0.2.8.zip extract it to your desktop, put your phone into fast boot and select "install recovery" for your system

install-recovery-linux.sh if your comp is a Linux
install-recovery-Mac.sh if your comp is a Mac
install-recovery-windows if your comp is a windows machine

Turn the phone off and press End Call + Volume Down and tap the power and it should stay on the white huawei screen then plug it in to your comp and run one of the files according to your os

 

[demalii]

It was literally that easy.. thanks so much. I really appriciate you taking the time to put those instructions down for me. Back to cm7, sheesh, next time I'll remember to keep my backups on the sdcard!!

 

[Scur]

For future reference, RM needs the paid version to work outside of certain hours. And I'm with Shiny, if I find RM on a custom ROM, I get rid of it. Can't stand it. It causes me more problems than it solves. Some folks love it, though, so it's a personal preference.