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[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] obsidian_eclipse:
All the drivers are different for gingerbread thats why there are lots of custom ROMs. Gingerbread and Eclair handle system apps in different ways so thats possibly why you cant restore them.

Its not a simple thing to just swap eclair for gingerbread. Microsoft windows for example contains gigabytes of drivers for all the possible hardware configurations, the kernal is relatively small in comparison. Its the same with Android, if all the possible drivers were included you could end up with gigabytes of space being used up on the phone when in reality only 10mb is needed for a particular model.

I downloaded the android dev kit for windows recently, its huge! All that for an OS thats less than 80mb...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] txcforever:
I bought a few weeks ago an Xperia Play locked on the 3 Network of UK. I removed the sim locked through one of the many sites that offer this service (htccode to be exact) and debranded it through wotanserver.com.

The problem I have is that I tried unlocking the bootlader of the device to no avail since I just can't enter fastboot mode no matter how many times I try (the blue light just doesn't light up). I've read quite a few other posts on this forum and a few other sites but I just can't find a clear answer as to why this is happening. I mean I unlocked the sim lock, I changed the firmware with a "clean one" and still it refuses to enter fastboot mode.

I tried rooting my phone through Gingerbreak or Superoneclick but they didn't work either. Is there any method (preferably an easy one) to root my phone? It's on Android 2.3.3.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] txcforever:
Just a quick update to inform you that after a little more tinkering I managed to root my phone, and I might as well share with you how I did it.

Basically again using the wotanclient I returned my FW to 2.3.2 and tried Gingerbreak again. This time it worked like a charm! I also discovered that in 2.3.2 the 3g that didn't work on 2.3.3 now works like a charm so I might stuck with this FW for a while longer (maybe I will try 2.3.4 at some point as well).
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dousan:
Your bootloader is locked by your provider and it won't help unlocking the sim nor debrand it with flashing another FW. That's why it didn't help doing the stuff you did.

Look at this thread for unlocking the bootloader and accessing fastboot (it'll cost some money though, not much afaik):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1232050

Further more gingerbreak/superoneclick etc. only works on gingerbread 2.3.2 as the loophole got patched in the higher builds. So if you want to retain root when updating do it by OTA or if you get fastboot going you can do it via CWM (clockworkmod) with a flashable .zip.

Regardcs Dousan.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solitarymonkey:
or you can flash doomkernel (which has many advantages, but again, need to enable fastboot mode on your phone, to then unlock bootloader before you can flash the kernel)

i highly recomend using alejandrissimo's service. i did, and i've never looked back :)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cj360:
Is there a way to downgrade my phone's fw if im on 2.3.3?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dousan:
Yes there is mate. I take you have a R800i.

Go to the dev section and find a FTF file of FW build 2.3.2. Then grab flashtool 0.2.9.1 beta. Flash the FTF file and there you go. Downgraded and ready to root.

There's an easier way to root now, i take that's why you want to downgrade, just use the zergRush to do it. That works on any FW build. Check out the dev section for a thread about 'rooting with zergRush'.

Regards Dousan...
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cj360:
I forgot about the zergRush post cuz I bookmarked it but didn't read it that well. Are their bugs for doing it on the higher fw tho?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iDoc21:
I've just always used ClockworkMod (and never had any problems), but always see people post that AmonRA is superior, but I haven't seen why? Is there really a big advantage of one over the other? Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggsack:
The only time you would ever see an issue is when you have a problem. AmonRA eliminates ever having a recovery issue. Amon also has a couple more features that come in handy.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plainjane:
Neither is perfect, but Amon Ra tends to have less problems. That's not saying that no one has ever seen an issue with Amon Ra, but it's less likely. Amon Ra supports both edify and amend scripts where CWM only supports edify. I prefer the way Amon Ra is organized - the menus make more sense to me. I haven't used ClockworkMod since I first rooted my phone almost a year ago, so I can't tell you the difference in options. Back then, Amon Ra had more options, but I haven't seen the updates to ClockworkMod. Clockwork has been known to have some problems wiping properly as well.

If you're comfortable with CWM and have not had any problems, I see no reason to switch. I believe that Amon Ra is better, but that doesn't mean that I believe that everyone should use it. If you do have a problem, you'll know what to switch to. Or you can go ahead and switch now and see if you like it better.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spyd312:
I was never able to successfully update my radio, wimax, etc when I used cw. However, that was back in the 3.x days and I haven't messed with the latest version. Like the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Well the version of cwm was broke at that time, therefore I switched to Amon-ra. I haven't had any complaints since. If you do switch, you'll need to make a new backup since the recoveries aren't compatible with each other. Good luck.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omair2005:
amon ra doesn't have advance restore data so thats a drawback..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottspa74:
FWIW, I've been using amonRa 1.80 since July '10, and I have never had a recovery problem or bad flash or bad wipe. And it flashes anything I throw at it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duce415:
I've always used clockwork no matter wat phone I was using.. not sure about a.r. but i say if it aint broke don't fix it...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bakarus:
I use amonra solely bc it has the wimax backup feature. Not sure if cwm has that but I got burned before not using amonra when I decided to fiddle with radio updates and lost 4g. Sorry if I went off topic but I vowed to myself to always use amonra and not kick myself in the ass again
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacobjohn:
I used to use clockworkmod until i read the "how to root for dummy's" thread and switched to amon ra. I have no idea why, i just did.

I did notice, however, that when I was using clockworkmod I would have to reflash a certain rom 2-3 times to stop it from berserking. Maybe it didn't wipe my data correctly? Who knows. But after switching to amon ra, I didn't have to relfash a rom. That scenario could have been caused by a completely different reason but I'm sticking with it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blz_phnx:
try teamwin recovery
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
2.1 Aeonflux rom based on RCmix 2.2b

This rom is based on RCmix 2.2b rom, updated the lib files and some other stuff.

Thread

Features:

WWE based on 3.35.118.1 T-Mobile PL, (deodexed),

it says PL but it has all WWE languages.

Fly-kernel 13 By erasmux

Added cool semi transparent lockscreen(*New) Thanks to Capychimp for it.

Added mail widgets from HTC Legend (3 widgets)

Added Flipclock as default

Reverted to old APNs for now, let me know if yours is missing. (*New)

Power menu, reboot normal/bootloader/recovery in the rom by default

Rooted (su+superuser+busybox)

Apps2SD (Darktremor)

dalvik-cache moved to cache

no bootsound, custom home and lockscreen wallpaper

custom hosts file from 18 Aug, no more adds in browser and applications (well almost anyway)

transparent notification area

HTC Friendstream + widget

HTC Newsreader + widget

Rosie with extra config (toggle LW and shake to overview etc.)

Transparent Geniewidget (news and weather)

Browser with enhanced text selection

Gallery 3d

Voice call and Voice search

MyTouch Music (some free streaming music)

Opened Orange Mail setup

HTC IME mod by jonasl

HTC CIME only in Asian Flavour

HTC Facebook

HTC Transfer data (from wildfire)

ROM Manager

Semi working Live wallpapers, turn them on in Rosie extra config.

Peep ( htc twitter ) is working

Updated Superuser

Note:

any bugs please report.

Download:

Mediafire

waze:

Wazefix

after testing the fix we found out that waze runs, but getting some random FC.

Thanks to :

Dev. from org. RCmix

Erasmux for the flykernel 13

and the rest that i forgot.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
release note 5-10-2011:

changed the update script , flashing schould not be a problem anymore

when you already installed this rom no need to update.

release note 6-10-2011:

Updated Superuser
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Haha, rdejager has created a trend :D might flash soon, but I just flashed Kimera and will give that a go first ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
Yes he has

This one is for peeple that cannot live without social media
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Lirasina will hate it :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I love the concept, it's exactly what I've been hoping for in a sense 2.1 rom. one that actually has all of the useful widgets (friendstream and mail so I don't actually have to install launcherpro plus (or another scrollable-widget-supporting launcher plus a paid friendstream widget) just to get a working friendstream widget).

the right kernel for the job.

and so on.

IF this is as fast as kimera I'll probably use this instead.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Never gets past hero screen. Tried everything I can, rewiping, reflashing, waiting 30 minutes on hero screen.

Really want these features in a working rom... So hope it can be fixed.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] puppyko:
Me too. Stay forever at hero screen :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
Thanx for the report

i did test it a again on my device but i don't have any problems to flash the rom.

i use clockworkMod recovery v.2.5.0.7 to flash the rom

Can you get a logcat maybe ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] davrave:
A lot of members like myself, use AmonRa. Is this perhaps what the problem is when trying to install this rom?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
I HATE Social stuff and I HATE Clockwork mod :P

I always sign my files for ARA so all can flash it :P ATM I am on Kimera and just got back from a sort of vacation. Sad one but still :P And my glasses are dirty. But yea I do not like the social stuffs :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I require social stuff and love clockwork mod. LOL

But still it doesn't work. I don't have adb setup with hero so can't get logcat I'm afraid.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Well if people need me they can text me or call me :P But I do not want to end up in a relationship with someone that is like. Why you no respond to my FB crap!!!!????

A good relationship off a friend of mine ended that way.... Stupid social stuff :P

But this one is based on RCMix. When I am in the mood I will try it out. (eventually)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
I will make a update when i get home.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nicolasfoto:
I flashed this rom using RA-hero-v1.7.0.1 Works like a charm.. Still having issues with Waze though..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Great that it works for some people, strange about waze since 2.1 sense roms are best for waze on the hero imho.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Lira found out why Waze stops working on my roms XD VE6 and all the other I got at home. Yes I also got one from RCMix too and VR12 and 13 XD and Froyd, ect. But yea I got waze now on VE6 :D and in this rom prob the same story as in VE6 :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
yea that's awesome! will try it on ve6 since that's still the fastest rom around.

once a 2.1 fast sense rom (that has friendstream and other social networking widgets) will install and run on my phone then I'll try it on there too.

I wish there was a package that could flash friendstream onto any 2.1 sense rom... it would open up our options a lot!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
ok, so since I couldnt' get this rom to boot I tried rcmix and tried killing peep and installing twitter widget instead. well, twitter logged in ok but friendstream in rcmix still wouldnt' login (still used peep code for login).

too bad.

BUT - good news, I wiped all and flashed this rom again over top of rcmix (agian, with FULL wipe first), and it works now! I confirmed that it's 2.1 aeonflux and it is, and it logs in to friendstream ok and so on.

very nice!

I'm happy now :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Here is a package to get Friendstream and that newsthingy for any 2.1 sense rom (I guess). I haven't really tested it, but as it only pushes the apks to system/app i don't see why it could fail.

Am I missing something? As this seems like a way too easy thing. Shouldn't you be able to do this? :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] whitealien:
It's not that easy. HTC Sense is closed framework and it is not compatible backwards with older SDK. You can't just pull some app from ROM and make it work to other. You have to resolve resource issues between frameworks and then sign widget with HTC signature, which only HTC have, or sign whole ROM with test signature and compromise phone security.

I'm developing myself new ROM based on official latest Hero OTA update. I could port few Legend widgets without problems, but I'm stack at friendstream apk updating statuses.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
So even if I took the apks from one rom based on the official 2.1 update to another rom based on the official 2.1 update, it wouldn't work?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] whitealien:
It will, except official HTC Hero ROM never had Friendstream package, so your apk is already a port from another ROM. So it might or might not work depending of dependencies versions.

Whole friendstream package have dependencies with:

com.htc.framework.apk

HtcFacebook.apk

FriendStream.apk

FriendStreamWidget.apk

SocialNetwork.apk

PluginManager.apk

Peep.apk

TwitterWidget.apk
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Why do they have to things so complicated? :P (of course I know why). Anyway, I don't like sense so I'm doing fine without :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
any idea why the flipclock is 3 hours ahead in this rom for where I live? I'm in "pacific time" west coast canada. it changes it to atlantic time "east coast" which is 3 hours later.

update: never mind. sense bug. I work in surrey bc and sense's internal location/timezone database is incorrect for surrey bc. so I turn off auto time updating and manually set flipclock to a known good city near me (vancouver) and it works fine.

so this is not something fixable in the rom. never mind.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
Well friendstream is just a widget that smashes all those things together into one widget... so yea it needs all those things. and like I said in the Kimera topic. you can not just smash the FS APK into the rom. There is some more stuff that is needed for it to work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
oh by the way.

Æon Flux is one of my favorite cool, big budget, yet oddly unpopular scifi movies.

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
Dont know it. but I just downloaded this rom, added a waze fix and some other small optimizations and stuff so gonna see how it runs.

Ok I tried to flash the origional rom but it failed to boot..

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Install>adb logcat
I//system/xbin/busybox( 63): reloc_library[1244]: 82 cannot locate 'sysinfo
'...CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE
I/logwrapper( 63): /system/xbin/busybox terminated by exit(255)

that is all....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
oh a whim I flashed kimera 3.0.1 waze patch on this rom and tried waze again.

before patch: waze showed startup screen then crashed "waze has encountered an error, you may need to reboot your phone" or words to that effect.

after patch: waze showed startup screen then crashed "waze has encountered an error, you may need to reboot your phone" or words to that effect.

so patch doesn't work on this rom in it's kimera 3.0.1 flashable form.

too bad, would have been nice.

by the way, thanks Lira for sharing your helpfulness with other roms, like with your waze patch. it's all about sharing in this forum, but somehow hero devs tend to be very cautious about sharing what they have created.

I'm really happy that you try to work out solutions for other devs as well!

cheers :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
The base open GL file on this rom is different then the one from Kimera 3.0.1

I will make a flasable for this one. since the little redheaded one is in bed XD and I got the kimera file here so its easy to create one for this one.

This may or may not work for waze.

it all depends on how much is changed by arno or Robo or whatever its name was.. But this should work. can not try nor am gonna try cuss I am running Kimera 3.1 and I am happy with that one.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
thanks for trying... didn't change anything for me. I still get the error "Unable to run waze. Oops, we've encountered a problem. We suggest you restart your phone to try again.".

it was worth a try, thank you for your help.

cheers!

Don
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
Jager did what I told him to do, A wonder cuss he never does that... XD so yea it should work if only EGL was the problem. Since I can not test this rom I can not see what the problem is but since my logcat stops in the first sec when booting that says enough for me :P That a lot more is changed :P

Back to Kimera for me :D That one works fine for me :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slobo2712:
Does this rom contains facebook friend stream ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
yes, friendstream is included.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slobo2712:
why i can't write anyone on wall with this,with GeniRus_Salsa 3.0 don't have problems with that
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
This rom is based on a 2010 release of an HTC Rom, Facebook and HTC both changed their code a lot so the old code may, or may not work anylonger. That can be the case.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
Hi

i did made a test and it works here.

did not found any facebook problems.

maybe security setting from your facebook account.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
I updated the htc facebook app from a new rom.

And i tested it and everythings seems to work fine here.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
Then I do not know. I can not run this rom so I can not test it. It still would not boot.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] slobo2712:
don't have option to write someone on wall,just can view,frend stream on this rom not the same like in GeniRus_Salsa+3.0
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
so for install issues, I worked around it by flashing rcmix 2.2 first, wiping all, the flashing aeonflux. it worked.

so something MUST be missing from this flashable zip that exists and works properly in the base rcmix flashable zip.

either way - that is a workaround for people having trouble getting this rom to boot.

and it's worth it - this is an excellent rom.

if the problem with waze can be fixed then it will become my main rom.

why does waze only work on a couple of sense roms, and never on the roms (sense or nonsense) that I actually WANT to use? LoL
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] arnoslag:
i updated the rom today, used the update script from rcmix. it schould now working without a workaround.

i will try tonight to get a update to run waze.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
Downloading now and then I will test it all with waze and all that :P I got a fix in mind.

---------- Post added at 11:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 PM ----------

Ok I got a fix, It should in theory work. It downgrades the OpenGL to stock Sense version, the one waze loves... XD

It disables the entry in the build.prob and downgrades the openGL Qlibcomsomething file in /system/lib/egl

http://www.multiupload.com/9BZH5TBGQM

I am now booting the rom with the fix included but since I am going to bed I will report tomorrow :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
good stuff! I wondered about the Qlibcomsomething file since everyone was on a kick of pushing newer but likely incompatible Qlibcomsomething files from google onto the hero a few months ago. This started when someone did that and found that google nav's drag for 3d buildings feature started working. However that feature is less important to most of us than having a great app like Waze working.

so I'll cross my fingers with anticipation!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
Not in bed yet so I need to do some beaty thingies and girly girl thingies so I will report in a few min already :P stupid shower is taken....

---------- Post added at 11:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:49 PM ----------

The fix should work cuss waze boots in my rom now :D Ok to bed now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
nice! and go kick rene's butt in the shower...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Lirasina:
René is sleeping and who kicks her caretaker XD I don't. No my GF is in the shower
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
oh ok LoL, cheers.

well, the kick would be from me anyhow, just as a prank.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] puppyko:
Finally, all flashed fine now but encountered (major) problem when prompted 'Your SU binary is outdated'.

When tap to update the binary, the update failed with the message 'Failed to find currently installed su binary. Update cannot continue'

Now, my apps that need root access won't work :(

Did a google check on this 'SU binary outdated' thing brought me to the home of superuser website. From the feedback, it seems to have lots of issues with other users as well with this latest Superuser v3.0.1

(Strange that I could successfully update the SU binary yesterday with Ele's Speed v5 reloaded).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saj222:
Give this a try (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.noshufou.android.su.fixer&feature=search_result) it should work.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] puppyko:
Thanks saj222, but the Superuser update fixer didn't help for my case.

Anyway, I did another full wipe again and re-flashed.

This time before every apps get self auto updated again, I freezed the Market Updater via TB and also unchecked the auto update checkbox for superuser app at market.

Phew..finally managed to install/ restore all apps :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Before i flashed the rom i included the latest Su and stuff and the Rom works fine. Better then kimera for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mrpg:
Tried it, unfortunately it does not work for me, i still get "Ooops, we've encountered a problem. We suggest you restart your phone to try again"

I have tried :

1 Uninstalled Waze

2 Removed the Waze folder on my sd card

3 Rebooted to recovery and flashed the above fix

4 Installed Waze

5 Tested Waze , crashed with the above message

6 Flashed the fix again, tried waze , same problem!

Many thanks for trying to fix this, i do love this rom! , it is fast and has friendstream, if only Waze would work on it :(

BR

PG
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nicolasfoto:
Uhm no.. that broke Whatsapp and Facebook, Waze still didnt work, and my phone shut down! lol So didnt work for me..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
There is really no reason for that fix to break whatsapp or something a like.