[Dell Streak 7] Ladj:
My newbie experience.

Hi,

I would like to start off saying thank you to the team that put this Cyanogenmod 10.1 for the Streak 7 together. These guys are EXTREMELY talented. It’s very nice that they use their free time to produce such great mods like this one for all of us to enjoy.

I want to share my experience updating my T-Mobile Dell Streak Froyo 2.2 with CM10.1.

Being a complete novelist (newbie), this process took me several hours. It actually went fairly smooth with the exception of a few road blocks that I would like to point out to anyone else who has never done this before. I did read through this entire thread (and a few others) and found some clues that helped me out.

I started with a fresh install of the stock Froyo 2.2 from the wiki page. It matched my tablets version, build and baseband (336, 15420 & 11.810.09.06.00). I don't think this is necessary, but it's how I wanted to start this process.

The next thing I did was watch the video tutorial by giveen "How to Flash your Dell Streak 7". In this video he uses (flashes) HoneyStreak not CM10.1. I was unsure if this process would be different. It was not. I did however get confused when I needed to direct Windows to look for the "APX driver" (giveen's path in the video was for the "WI FI edition only"). He did mention "USBdriver" so I looked for that in the package that I had downloaded. There was a USBdriver folder so I used that path. It worked. The rest of the flash went smooth.

Then I had to "Reboot to Recovery, go to Mount". At this point I was asking, what and where is Mount? I eventually found out that Mount is a process using TWPR. The instruction on page 1 has no mention of TWRP. I had NO idea what to do. I kept reading in this thread and found a comment on this subject. I learned that TWRP is a custom recovery with an easy interface as well as other perks. It is automatically installed with this flash. You need to reboot to recovery, choose the 2nd option (Software upgrade via update.pkg on SD card) and TWRP will start up.

Then the directions are "go to Mount > Use Internal Storage > Install > your_Android_4.2.1_gapps.zip". I taped on Mount. There are two options. “Using External SD" and "Using Internal Storage. The only option in the Mount menu that resembles the directions is the “Using Internal Storage”. I checked the box. Nothing happened. I was looking for an "Install" option. There was none. I did some more reading and found nothing. I decided to go back to the home page of TWRP and tap on the Install button. There I chose the "Using external SD" so I could see my SD card and the gapps.zip that I had downloaded. I installed the file and the process went smoothly. I’m wondering why you would need to go to mount. Why would you use Internal Storage, not Internal SD? I would love to hear if this process has changed or is this something I did wrong. There is no mention of any discrepancy in the forum that I could find.

The last issue was trying to install the correct gapps. There are several files available for download and I was overwhelmed. I came to the conclusion that I should use a “gapps-jb” file (jb for jelly bean) but which one? I downloaded the newest one on the list. After that did not work (major crash and error messages) I tried another, then another. The third time was the charm. I later realized the first file I used was for JB version 4.2.2. I should have read the “Information from the developer” for each file first. Again, newbie.

After I got that installed correctly, the rest was a breeze. It is actually a fairly easy process even though it did take a long time. If I had known then what I know now, it could have really shorten the time overall. Hopefully this will help someone else.

Thanks so much giveen and the rest of the team. I'm glad to say I'm very happy with the outcome. It's really nice to have some new life in my old Streak.

DjL