PawPaw
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Yes great..thank you ..that worked and now i see whats happening ..all is working as planned
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Root Slightly overwhelmed with Rooting optioned
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Yes great..thank you ..that worked and now i see whats happening ..all is working as planned
Its just occurred to me that I haven't done the whole battery calibration routine, charge unplug, power down, plug in etc. Etc. Since rooting, should I be doing that again?!... another thing is people have talked about 'custom hboots' is that something that I have or if not, something that I need?!
Well I'm finally in the world of having a rooted phone! It took a bit of work but it's really much simpler that I initially thought (using revolutionary), you just have to read the faq , read them a bit more then read them loads and loads and loads more and then it suddenly all starts clicking in to place. The most trouble I had was partitioning my card with gparted but I found that using a card reader made it simpler that doing it in recovery on the phone. Now I am going to start looking at custom hboot as I want to flash SU's dGB rom. Thanks to all those who helped me on here with my annoying questions
erry, you used Revolutionary I believe, so it would be possible for you to do the custom hboot thing. What that will do is give you a lot more internal storage.
Read the root memory guide's sections on this, and how to set up your computer to use fastboot. How to actually change hboot has been discussed in some other threads recently, so a search should pull up a step by step recipe. If you do want to do it, we will of course answer any questions - there are a lot of people here who have done this.
It's actually rather simple to do, but it is messing with a critical bit of the phone, so you should make sure you are happy you know what you are doing first. The most important thing is to make sure the image is good before flashing, i.e. check the md5 code matches that given by the source, since flashing a corrupt image is likely to brick the phone. But as with many things in this game, it's quite safe as long as you take care.
Read the root memory guide's sections on this, and how to set up your computer to use fastboot. How to actually change hboot has been discussed in some other threads recently, so a search should pull up a step by step recipe. If you do want to do it, we will of course answer any questions - there are a lot of people here who have done this.
It's actually rather simple to do, but it is messing with a critical bit of the phone, so you should make sure you are happy you know what you are doing first. The most important thing is to make sure the image is good before flashing, i.e. check the md5 code matches that given by the source, since flashing a corrupt image is likely to brick the phone. But as with many things in this game, it's quite safe as long as you take care.
tbh. mate- i think i've already been quite lucky- and i think i might be in over my head, trying to do this, i know its a cop out, but i still don't really understand it all, and i don't want to risk messing up- i'm gonna read around the subject but at the moment its all a bit beyond my understanding
Rastaman-FB
Extreme Android User
good move, take your time
all hadron is saying is were here to help. read, read, and read again. anything you dont understand in our guides just ask us
this might be an odd question, but do i need to do the whole gparted thing if i just intend to run dgb, i'm trying to get my head around the whole custom hboot thing, which i know i need to do to take advantage of the fact dgb is small- and to free up the extra space
is the extra space i need freed up by gparting or installing a custom hboot?- i'm a little confused and cant seem to find the answer in the FAQ's
i have just done the whole 'setting up my computer to use fastboot' thing- after reading the FAQ's but i'm a bit stuck about the next step as far as the custom hboot goes.
i'm referring to this section-- am i looking at the 60mb or 65mb hboot?!.......
There are 2 ways to get the benefits of such a small ROM.
1) Use custom MTD's (see posts linked earlier in this post)
- recommended Layout is "60 3"
2) Custom Hboot.
For each method, you must do a full wipe first. If you are coming from a custom MTD setup to a Hboot setup, Format system, data and cache, boot into fastboot and fastboot flash recovery of your choice, then do the formats again.
The Hboot, as always is flashed via fastboot. See the adb and fastboot faq linked in my signature.
ROM: dGB v1.4
Hboot: dGBrSU 60 60MB /system
MD5 for Hboot = 4f8c99ee896b73155a7e141cdc9d71a1 bravo_alphaspl_dgb60.img
Hboot: dGBrSU 65 65MB /system
MD5 for Hboot = 8b646833d3904fcf0e5dfb52a3bb7f03 bravo_alphaspl_dgb65.img
Apps: apks
SUroot
Extreme Android User
DGB fits in both. The 65 is a little bigger so you lose a bit of app space but gives more room for Theming if desired. The 60 is a tight fit with little room for Rom modifications.
You choose. If you have already got dGB, check the system size using quick system info to ensure it fits in 60, then choose whichever.
Then download the hboot to your pc, pref on c: drive. You can rename it to hboot.img to make it simpler.
Then you just fastboot flash it. Command below is example
Fastboot flash hboot c:\hboot.img
Then reboot device back to hboot to check it worked.
Do a nandroid first just incase. You may need to restore after flashing the hboot
You choose. If you have already got dGB, check the system size using quick system info to ensure it fits in 60, then choose whichever.
Then download the hboot to your pc, pref on c: drive. You can rename it to hboot.img to make it simpler.
Then you just fastboot flash it. Command below is example
Fastboot flash hboot c:\hboot.img
Then reboot device back to hboot to check it worked.
Do a nandroid first just incase. You may need to restore after flashing the hboot
Rastaman-FB
Extreme Android User
its an app from the market
you dont need to partition sdcard for dgb so gparted is not needed atm
that has suddenly made a lot of sense to me.
me too although now i look at it using that quick system app- i think is showing my used space as 88.33mb's (free space 162 mb's)
In system? If so you're not running dGB
I made these hboots only for dGB. No other Rom will fit. You must have dGB first
Any dGB discussions, could we try to keep in the dGB Rom thread please?
i seriously thought i was running dgb, when i go into 'about phone' in my settings it says i'm running cyanogenmod-7.0.3. desire light
is this incorrect?!
edit:-- oh what a muppet- i've been running this the whole time!
CyanogenMod 7.0.3 Light (HBOOT Bravo Oxygen) [11/05/11] - xda-developers
so seeing as i'm gonna be doing a total overhaul anyway i'm gonna try the hboot thing and then flash dgb
back to square one for me!
Jon_LTD
Android Expert
Another noobish question regarding flashing a ROM:
I flashed my Desire with the revolutionary.io method successfully and currently enjoying Cyanogen Mod 7. As my toy has new capabilities I would like to try a few other ROMs to see what I am comfortable.
So I want to go back to HTC Sense but debranded to get rid of the horrible bloatware. If I flash a Froyo (generic) ROM, can I update OTA to Gingerbread?
I flashed my Desire with the revolutionary.io method successfully and currently enjoying Cyanogen Mod 7. As my toy has new capabilities I would like to try a few other ROMs to see what I am comfortable.
So I want to go back to HTC Sense but debranded to get rid of the horrible bloatware. If I flash a Froyo (generic) ROM, can I update OTA to Gingerbread?
shauny13
Android Expert
Do NOT apply OTA updates to a rooted phone, it will cause many problems and you will lose root. Try Teppics new rooted gingerbread rom, it will give you what you are looking for. (nandroid first, then wipe in recovery and flash your new rom). In that order.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200261
Jon_LTD
Android Expert
I want to eventually get onto dgb, but I can't see the next step from here really, its all got a bit too confusing,
I've got cm7 running well and I've got the manu kernal working etc.
I know to install dgb I need to sort out the hboot thing, and I've set up fastbooter, but its trying to open with Nero which is confusing me, aswell
Its not going through the whole setup again that's daunting more the shock I didn't even know I had the wrong Rom going, I just don't want to mess up after getting this far, and I've got all the FAQs open but I've kind of lost my way, cos I've tried to learn everything at once, and I've forgotten which things connect to what!
I've got cm7 running well and I've got the manu kernal working etc.
I know to install dgb I need to sort out the hboot thing, and I've set up fastbooter, but its trying to open with Nero which is confusing me, aswell
Its not going through the whole setup again that's daunting more the shock I didn't even know I had the wrong Rom going, I just don't want to mess up after getting this far, and I've got all the FAQs open but I've kind of lost my way, cos I've tried to learn everything at once, and I've forgotten which things connect to what!
which other programme from the list do i select to run it on?!- cos it doesn't seem to want to let me download it without picking a programme
i'm gonna sleep on all this- i'm sure it'll all be clearer in the morning--- once sleep has emptied the old brain cache's!!
cos i wouldn't mind getting the hboot in place at the same time as flashing dgb