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Root ultimate ascend customization guide.

So far so good. Thanks you very kindly!

Just for a couple quick questions:
1. Is there anything special I need to do now for Wifi, Market or any of that?
2. I downloaded the CM6 that was posted on the guide. Should I be worried about there being an update or newer version? Or is there a way to get it updated through the rom?
3. Why do you guys rock the casbah so hard?
 
chevelle1313 said:
So far so good. Thanks you very kindly!

Just for a couple quick questions:
1. Is there anything special I need to do now for Wifi, Market or any of that?
2. I downloaded the CM6 that was posted on the guide. Should I be worried about there being an update or newer version? Or is there a way to get it updated through the rom?
3. Why do you guys rock the casbah so hard?
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lol, no just make sure you make a backup before flashing cm6 just in case, but make sure you download the gapps also, the one for cm6 not the gapps for cm7, and market,wifi,mms and all that will work right after you flash cm6, Good Luck!!!:D
 
nuttmeg said:
lol, no just make sure you make a backup before flashing cm6 just in case, but make sure you download the gapps also, the one for cm6 not the gapps for cm7, and market,wifi,mms and all that will work right after you flash cm6, Good Luck!!!:D
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Done and done. Damn that was easy. I'm trying to register my phone for CM updates right now, taking a bit but meh.

Now to completely relearn a phone I've had for a while... how awesome is that!

Turning Ghetto Metro in to Radassedness!
 
chevelle1313 said:
Done and done. Damn that was easy. I'm trying to register my phone for CM updates right now, taking a bit but meh.

Now to completely relearn a phone I've had for a while... how awesome is that!

Turning Ghetto Metro in to Radassedness!
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cm updates is not going to work, so save the time registering...
 
Well, I've got another wee problem. Everything s setup perfect with no issues. I can text, get web access, wifi, but I cannot make outgoing calls. My signal has been real spotty and touchy since I got my phone on CM6, but I didn't try to make a call until now and it immediately ends it saying it was lost.

Obviously this is a phone so ideally I'd like to make calls and would hate to have to revert back to the old slowness. So again, any help is much appreciated.
 
Hey. Just did the CWM Recovery on a Macbook, and had problems on the last step - had to manually load the .sh contents in the terminal, and point them to recovery.img (since the recovery image was not named correctly in the shell)
 
As of now I run Icarus. I've been wanting to try CM6 but I see that Metro finally released the 2.2 update. So, I'm wondering which is better?
 
i havent tried CM6 but i for one have CM7 w/Metro, & it totally ROCKS!!! no plan i going w/2.2 anytime soon. oh by the way my alarm clock started working again, WOOHOO!:D
 
Just want to say thank you to all of you. I've been lurking through the forums for a couple weeks now, trying to get the balls to root/rom my phone... I was planning on doing it this Friday, but got a wild hair last night and did it. So far I've followed the instructions word for word, I'm now on icarus1.1 and loving it. I'll give it a try for a few days then move on to cm6. :)

Thanks again to all the extremely helpful people here.
 
So I was on here a week back or so trying to get my phone to work because it would keep freezing on the loadup screen and then it finally went through and worked and I thought I was done and even posted on here that it worked but honestly it worked for about 5 minutes and then just started restarting itself and then almost loading all the way up and then restarting again. I kept playing with it and trying CM6 and CM7 but it just keeps freezing on the screen. I finally went back to stock so I could use the phone but I would love to have CM6 or CM7 and have probably tried reinstalling it about 2-3 dozen times hoping it will work but only occasionally get it to the opening screen to push the android guy to set up google befoer it freezes on me again and goes into a restarting cycle.

PLEASE help me if you no what else I can try. I have tried using all the different CWM versions and have been using the newest versions of CM6 and CM7 I can find on the prepaidandroid site.

Thanks, sostler
 
Glarence111 said:
can you post how to do this? I have no computer and have no access to one for a awhile
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1. You must be rooted.

2. You must be able to copy files to your SD card. If you don't know how to do this you must find out first before attempting this procedure.

3. Download and install Android Terminal Emulator from the Market - Free

4. Create a directory called recovery on your SDCard.

5. Unzip both the recovery.zip and the flashimage.zip attached to this post. Unzipping these will yield 2 files. Recovery.img and flash_image.

6. Copy Both files to your SDCard in the directory /sdcard/recovery
If your SDCard is not in your phone, insert the card before continuing.

7. Open Terminal Emulator and execute the following commands.

$su (enter)

#mount -o remount,exec /dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard (enter)

#cd /sdcard/recovery (enter)

#./flash_image recovery recovery.img (enter)
The flash will take approximately 3 seconds

8. Power off the phone.

9. Holding the UP Volume button and END call button and then the power button will boot your phone into recovery mode. From their you can make a backup of your Phone.


flashimage.zip (12.27K)

recovery.zip (3.52MB)
 
Ok so I tried your emulator idea and the links were dead..i found em on a different forum but its still not working. Im thinking a computers the only way to go. Thanks amyways tho
 
where can i find an updated link to the gapps? that's the only thing I havent been able to download.

and of course booting to debug mode isnt happening. it just does a regular reboot? i'm doing voldown+end+power. i tap them, i hold them. is booting to debug the same as booting to recovery?

EDIT: I've figured it out and have found success! Just had to put on my geek hat :)
currently doing initial setup
 
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