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[General Questions and Answers] klembo1957:
Noobie confusion

Hello All.

OK this question is either going to establish my status as a SUPERNOOB forever, or I will finally be shown the light, and permanently eradicate the fog of confusion surrounding my thought processes.

I have the desire to root and install a custom rom on my LG SPECTRUM (VS-920, 4.0.4 ICS I THINK). I have taken the advice of your forum to heart, and read everything I could find associated with the subject.

There is only one stumbling block; for me anyway. Everywhere I look it insists that I do a NANDROID BACKUP before rooting or installing any custom items. That makes plenty of sense.

But, everywhere I go, the instructions insist that the phone be rooted BEFORE I can accomplish a NANDROID backup.

How can I do a backup on a phone before rooting, when the phone has to be rooted to do the backup?

OK, which comes first, the chicken or the egg?

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I just posted a similar question. I am definitely a NOOB, witrhout a doubt.

I've read everything I can find, but everywhere I go, it states taht I need to do a NANDROID backup BEFORE you root your phone.

HOWEVER, in order to do a NANDROID backup, your phone must be rooted. Does that make any sense? I have a problem with it. Chicken or the egg?
[General Questions and Answers] rex28818:
NANDROID BACKUP is a similar image of your rom. You need root to take nandroid backup..

1.root your phone

2.install costum recovery like CWM,TWRP.

3.Then from recovery you can take nandroid backup and restore from there.
[General Questions and Answers] eddieinfuse:
links not working

I am trying to find a working link to Darky's ROM 10.1. All of the links I've been trying no longer work. I have spent hours reading and searching, but mostof the links to the GB ROMs for my infuse no longer work!!! Any help would beappreciated. I need to flash a new ROM, I was playing around with JB ROM's but they don't have wifi calling for TMo.
[General Questions and Answers] tirtha231:
best file explorer

Try root "Root Explorer" .. it's what you are searching for. It gives you all the options to manage every kind of files in your rooted phone in all

possible ways.:good:
[General Questions and Answers] kiripo7:
Great job Bros!

Hello dev.,I'm new here,... is there any solution in fixing Walkmen music info download error (security error) and also CRT effect didn't work as well on GalaxyPeria HD V3. Movies didn't workout that good as Xperia device!

My device is Samsung GT P3100 @ 1.6 GHz using CM 10.1 nightlies and Galaxyperia HD V3. Blackhawk kernel next with dualboot.
[General Questions and Answers] nitrorusty:
Huawei Mytouch 4g (Ascend G312) Soft Bricked

Hi, about a week ago i was playing with an app called ROM Toolbox and I was trying to change my status bar data in/out symbol and I got a whole lot of force closes and then I decided to restart to phone... So now i'm soft bricked at the Android 4G T-Mobile logo and I can go into Download Mode (Pink Screen) and stock recovery because I didn't have ClockworkMod recovery installed.. Yes I know that was stupid :crying:

So I was wonder if somebody here would help me with this. Thanks guys!
[General Questions and Answers] kthle:
Hi everyone,

I've had my Samsung Galaxy S3 for almost a year now, and I was thinking of rooting it using this method. I just wanna know, if I don't flash any custom ROMs to my phone and Samsung releases an OTA update, will I be able to receive this update without bricking my phone?

Another question, if I decide to flash Android 4.2.2 on my phone (the latest update for the S3 is currently 4.1.2) and Samsung pushes out 4.3 (as rumors suggest), how would I go about receiving this update? Would I have to unroot my phone?

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] albniosquid:
Differnce between rom releases.

So if I'm using CarbonRom on my S4 or CM whats the difference between some versions.

Like on the CM wiki it shows nightly, snapshot, release, stable.

But for Carbon the versions on goo.im show nightly, testing, release.

What's the difference?

And Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] ryaniskira:
CM:

Nightly: generated every night

Snapshot: soft freezing of the code every month

Release Candidate: a candidate for a stable build

Stable: that's pretty much self-explanatory

Carbon idk.

Nexus 4 CyanogenMod 10.1Nightlies XDA premium

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Nexus 4 CyanogenMod 10.1Nightlies XDA premium
[General Questions and Answers] albniosquid:
Thanks I suppose Carbon goes from nightly to testing then release. Seems to make the most sense.
[General Questions and Answers] robertos_477:
Hi, I am new to a lot of this and have just installed the Android Revolution HD ROM to my HTC one. There's just one issue, when I scroll fully left on the home screens, there's a stripe down the left edge, of blurred colours. The same happens when i scroll all the way to the right. Just wondering if I have done something wrong? It doesn't affect the performance, but it doesn't look good either.

Thanks in advance... :fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] ryaniskira:
Maybe its part of your wallpaper. Change it and see if it keeps happening.

Nexus 4 CyanogenMod 10.1Nightlies XDA premium
[General Questions and Answers] tirtha231:
:good:

You are right .... only one or another could be there, either chicken or egg . But bro , yes u can take nandroid backup without practically rooting ur device as irrespective of root access u have to have CWM recovery ported to ur device. So simply flash CWM recovery to your device using

flash tool and scatter_mmc.txt file and then boot into CWM recovery mode and take the nandroid backup. U can also use ADB Backup also to take full backup of your device to your computer (but i thnk its available for devices on android 4.x.x ) . But always you can google for both of the processes ..
[General Questions and Answers] tirtha231:
Have you turned on "USB debugging mode" on ur device ?? If yes,:laugh: then simply flash CWM recovery using flash tool . Then u can boot into CWM mode. Now u can flash any rom u want ( first u have to put the zip file of that rom on SD card).:victory:
[General Questions and Answers] konkuruseyyi:
helo i'm using hyperion 8 pregm2 with black reactor kernel on my gt-s5360 i'm having this problem

in ss error on wifi hotspot.

can you help me 4 solution without reflashing from scratch/stock? thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Akash Narayan:
Hi. You guys are cool.!! Tried most of your suggestions. That was awesome..

I have a problem in my Micromax a110 that whenever I connect earphones with mic I'm not getting bass but without mic I'm getting bass.

Can you help me plz ???
[General Questions and Answers] EmsCar:
What's better than Samsung Phones?
[General Questions and Answers] hellakarsh:
Oneplus One... ;)
[General Questions and Answers] jakhar13:
Can anyone provide some help please!!!

I am getting a strange kind of problem on my desire 816w dual SIM

There is no option for checking updates under about phone in the settings

I don't know how this could have happened

Guys help me please:confused::crying:
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
Actually galaxy s6 is the best currently.............. Asus is the second but all these is what I think...... The truth is that you can't simply put one manufacturers devices over another's........ Everything depends on what you want
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
If you're certain that it's not a driver issue then you can still try flashing the ROM with fastboot or as you've already been told, through some flashing tool.
[General Questions and Answers] SuperDroid519:
Can someone please help me with my lock screen? I'm trying to change the lock icon but none of them are working.

I'm using aosp slimcat

I've tried x blast and gravity box. They change the lock ring icon to flash symbol but I want the punisher icon or my own.
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
I was wondering if it would be possible to port cm11 alpha ROM for tab 3 4.4.4 to stock 4.4.2 ROM.

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] EmsCar:
I'm using Note 4 and I admit it, I'm not happy with touchwiz. I'm looking forward to buy other brand like htc, lg, sony next time. Because I find touchwiz as a ram eater. Lol.
[General Questions and Answers] madbat99:
Port cm11 to stock? What does that even mean? Cm11 and stock tw are two different things. They don't port to each other.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
That's the beauty of rooting and customizing android devices, you don't have to keep the stock operating system, I don't base my device choices on what comes on them stock because I'm not gonna keep it on there anyway. Hardware would be what made my decision.

Besides, stock touchwiz is easily modified.

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3
[General Questions and Answers] EmsCar:
Agree bro! I just root and install custom rom on my note 4 in like 5 hours ago :)
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
Your choice....It's just that I love the new touchwiz
[General Questions and Answers] Megaflop666:
Switch to a nexus device and you'll never regret it. No crappy touch wiz and compete freedom over your phone. Note 4 is a poor excuse for tw Roms though, is a complete piece of junk. Sold mine after a few months because I hated it so bad. If you are going to go with a Samsung tw phone, get the s6. Absolutely amazing phone after you root it and clean off all the Knox and bloat bs.

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You are a sick bastard if you "love" touchwiz. Lol
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
Need help, running cm11 alpha on gal tab 3.7.0 and WiFi sucks, can I edit build prop to improve or is it another file?

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I go a step further than that, I research devices to find what I'm getting next and find the custom stuff available for it and download all the needed files and tools before I even get the device and it goes straight from the box to being flashed, lol

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
Have you tried s6..... If no than just shut your mouth before saying anything
[General Questions and Answers] EmsCar:
Hahaha. Lol bro. I've done it with my former phone which is note 2 :)
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
Hey guys, so I did an update with all my updates via a zip file: batch actions - all -> recovery -> app+data.

Now the question is a don't know what to do once o do a clean install to a new custom ROM... After I install ROM+Gapps and reboot, shall I set up Google account download titanium (since I can only backup the pro key), and go to recovery to flash my update zip of ignore the Google account set up and go straight to recovery and flash the zip and finally set up the Google account?

Hope you can help me.

Thanks in advance!

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] Megaflop666:
First off, I was making a joke with you, so chill out.

Secondly, yes, I own the s6 and have had it since may 1st with tmo early release. If you had read everything in my two part post, you would've read that I had it and praised it for being a great phone. Unfortunately it is hindered by tw rom though. On aosp, that thing would be unstoppable.
[General Questions and Answers] Tyaginator:
Lol, i completely agree.. Touchwiz look like 90's UI.
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
This is not a social thread to share your likes or dislikes, it's for people who need help.

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] totallybeachin:
Not sure where to post this question and figured here was the perfect spot!

I have a BLU Studio 6.0 HD 651u that just updated to Lollipop.

Before the upgrade my cell service was excellent everywhere, now, my signal drops all the time when I am in my house.

Someone suggested I needed to change the modem to the kitkat version.

I have no idea what that even means!

I have searched for threads here at XDA, and found links to files and what not, but they are in threads that are device specific...i.e. Samsung or whatever.

There are very few threads/posts about my device (that I can find) so it's either too new, or not many folks interested in it.

Anyone able to help me sort this out? Guide me along? Or just tell me it's not possible for me to do?

Any help/info is appreciated.

For the record, I am rooted, but have no custom recovery...(couldn't find one for this phone)

Thanks for reading!
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
I can understand that and I also apologize for over reacting
[General Questions and Answers] hasanu88:
Is there a dock for nexus 6 with port for USB keyboard and mouse
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
It's about personal choice
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
Any one here play offroad legends 1/2, I'm having an issue with accelerator, it reads my imput then stops as if I've taken my finger off and its still I'm same place, I thought it could be my ROM PAC man 5.1.1 but its not as it does it on my sons stock T230 too. Just wondering if anyone else plays it and is having same issues?

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] ZuseZ3:
64GB San Disk sdxc not recocgnized

Im using a rooted Xcover 2.

Today i buyed happily the San Disk SDXC 64 GB SD class 10 card for 20€.

I already tried using it with one 64 GB Fat32 partition, two 32 GB Fat32 Partition and exFat.

Sadly it only told me once i should formate it. By doing that it got stuck.

The rest of the times it didnt even showed me, that a SD card was insert :/

Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Format the card in whatever partitions and formats you want via PC then try it in the phone.

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3
[General Questions and Answers] MrProxied:
I'm not very familiar with BLU phones, (i know what they are, but not familiar with development and whatnot) but there is a forum just for BLU phones. Basically, what that person is saying is that you have to downgrade your modem by flashing an old version. With Samsung, you use Odin but I'm not sure what to use with BLU phones. Next to the XDA logo at the top left of the site, in the type to find device field type BLU and click on "All BLU Devices". Go ahead and look around there and if you don't find anything start a new thread. Fellow BLU users should be able to help you. Cheers! :D
[General Questions and Answers] yhadi123:
I have problem with my Samsung galaxy core 2 g355h My imei is " 000000" can someone help me with this problem ???please
[General Questions and Answers] josh030181:
I have a Sprint m8 and my battery is all of a sudden draining quick. Google services is using allot of battery, I checked with the best battery app, and com.google.process.gapps is using most of the cpu. How can I fix this without resetting or reinstalling a rom again, really trying not to start from scratch.
[General Questions and Answers] v7:
Maybe you can try the guide in my Signature :)

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[General Questions and Answers] gamerboy_010:
Grab the modem.img file from system/etc/firmware of kitkat build. Replace the same with lolilpop one. Change permission and reboot.

Note: u need rooted firmwares.
[General Questions and Answers] HKMI:
I have tried many apps to root my xolo q1000 opus 2 but couldn't root it

Apps I tried

Framaroot

Towel root

Kingo root

King root

Vroot

Root master

Etc
[General Questions and Answers] josh030181:
Thanks for your help...when I opened autostarts it doesn't ask for root access, systemupdateservice isn't list. Under Google play service there is no wakeup to disable but I did disable keep awake, I don't think just doing that fixed it but I'll know better tomorrow after it charges to a full battery.

I was using AppOpsXpsed
[General Questions and Answers] krashd:
It failed on a dozen ROMs, all for different varieties of i9100 :/

Eventually I discovered that it was having an older version of CWM that was causing the problem. Trying to update a Jellybean to a Lollipop first meant replacing my older CWM with a Kitkat-compatible version of CWM (6.0.4.5?) - only one of the ROM authors bothered to mention this in their installation steps. The rest must have assumed everyone would have Kitkat by now.

Thanks for the help though :)
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You must not have been paying attention because you were given the suggestion of trying a different recovery by myself and another member here.......

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3
[General Questions and Answers] bizlly:
hi! in a noob with android stuff and got this problem:

i bought a tablet named: wink connect 3g (

http://www.wink-zone.com/product/tableta-wink-connect-3g-7/ ) and installed some programs but now everytime i try to install something i gives me error that there is not sufficient space to install althou there is a lot. sometimes clearing cache works but not always. someone told me that i should repartition but i havent found a tutorial for my device and im afraid that i will brick it. update doesnt connect . any advice for me? thanks
[General Questions and Answers] mislave90:
custom room sierra s1

Are there any custom ROMs for gigabyte Gsmart sierra s1 ?
[General Questions and Answers] WebDoc5050:
new to roms

I have just gotten a Droid 3. Yes I know I am behind the times. I have it rooted, safestrap 3.05 installed, Titanium Backup (Pro), Rom Manager Premium (CWM), and Rom Tool Box Pro. It has taken awhile for me to track working APKs down. I currently have Minimoto v1.7 installed and running nicely. Now here is the question since Hash-of-Code does not seem to be working on anymore ROMs for the Droid3 and no one else seems to be either, is there anyone that might still have a nice set of ROMs that they would be willing to share? I expect to upgrade to a better Droid, but still an older one. (eBay is great for this). My thanks to all here at XDA.
[General Questions and Answers] Frecciablu(2):
Please some1 know how to change status bar color from root folder?

Manually, no other app.

If know any topic that talk bout redirect me to it.

Please reply with quote
[General Questions and Answers] AzrulHisyam:
I search Google and XDA but no luck

I'm looking for Asus Zenfone 4 Custom rom

I find some but not like it an official type Rom

Guide me if i missing something

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Try this one

http://lollipop-roms.com/gigabyte-gsmart-sierra-s1-custom-roms/22543.html
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
Can anyone help me with this information please?

Appreciated! :good:

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
You should be able to just flash update zip. No need to reflsh gapps.

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
I think you didn't got my question... I'm asking what procedure I should do, following the clean

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] jimbomodder:
After clean flash new ROM and then gapps, wipe cache n dalvik then reboot

Sent from my GT-I9195
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
And after?

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
After flashing and rebooting you go through setup wizard just like you did the first time you ever used the phone, you sign in to your Google account and the rest of setup then you're done, you can start using the phone as normal, but if you are talking about a stock official firmware update instead of a custom ROM then you will have to flash it through stock recovery, stock updates won't flash through custom recovery.

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3
[General Questions and Answers] teoesdios:
Hi, I have some help needed and didn't know where exactly post my questions.

I'm cooking a ROM for the Samsung S3 Mini (GT-I8189) and I'm a little lost.

I've seen that you can "update" to 5.0 or at least to look as Lollipop, but all the roms I get are 4.1.2 or at least 4.2. Is there a way to "mod" the whole ROM to install all together? Also, I've seen most of the ones I got already cooked, need the google services AFTER. Also, is there a way to put it inside the ROM before cooking it, so when you install it, it installs all in 1 shot?

No need to do the complicated explanation of HOW-TO in the reply, just direct me to the posts (if they exists).

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] H4RSH1T:
I need to install pa gapps package on my g355h there are few apks I don't wanna install from Stock package. Can you tell me how to edit the flash able zip file content because there are more than 10 apks I don't wanna install from stock package.

Any help would be appreciated. :)
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Not trying to prove you wrong or anything but I have flashed stock update using TWRP on my brother's phone once.

I guess it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
[General Questions and Answers] xenreon:
1. Extract the zip and you'll get 2 folders system and meta-inf

2. Enter system/app and system/priv-app(if present

3. Delete the apks you don't want

4. After that select the meta-inf and system and compress in standard level

5. Flash and enjoy !!! :D
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
I think you didn't get what I asked... I only asked about the exact procedure to install the update flashable zip of titanium backup, after the device reboots from flashing the ROM and GApps...

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
I read your first post and from what I understood, you created a batch restore zip using titanium backup so that you could restore all your apps+data after you install a custom ROM but you're confused whether to flash the backup zip first or set up the Google account.

Am I correct?

I've never used this titanium's feature before but if the backup zip is flashable then you can flash it right after you flash the ROM and gapps directly from recovery without restarting your device and setting up the Google account in it.

Although I'm not sure if you should do it or not, if it were to be the same ROM then there would be no problem but I know that you shouldn't restore data from a NANDroid backup to a different ROM which it did not belong to originally as it could result in bugs and other issues on your new ROM due to the conflicts between the data of the old ROM(present due to restore) and the data of the new ROM.

But as I said since I've not used batch restore feature of titanium backup myself, I can't tell if it's okay do to that or not.
[General Questions and Answers] Hgneto:
Yeah that's exactly what I wanted to know, if for example, I should set up the Google account first or not...

Hope someone with experience in titanium backup area can help me..

Thanks!

Sent from my LG-D855
[General Questions and Answers] User17745:
Yea, I think someone will reply soon.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
There are special cases for all the "you can't do" things when it comes to android, but it is always best to treat those things as if they can't be done and its always best to inform users of those things so that they don't walk into a mistake if they try it. I've done more than a few things that "can't be done" but I still take those things as "can't be done" because under normal circumstances they can't be done.

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3

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If you are talking about trying to reapply things that you used Titanium backup to backup what you wanted to keep before flashing a new ROM then you should be able to use Titanium Backup to restore it after rebooting and setting up phone after flashing, when it boots to system use TB to put everything back.

If you mean that you made a flashable zip with TB then as stated you flash it in recovery after flashing ROM and Gapps, after you have all three flashed reboot and setup your phone and check to see if everything flashed correctly.

Tapa'd in ice from my Ice Cold lollipop'd S3