[EVO 4G Android Development] 1BadHEMI:
You know, after catching up on last nights posts, I see the SAME questions being asked over and over again. Its like a broken record. Sorry to come off strong, but really!

I have been playing with 4.5 final for a little while now (:D) (no, not just from when Mik posted it last night), and I can tell you, this is 1 solid ROM. I have tried everything trying to get it to break, but it ain't happening. With that said, let me explain...

1 - READ the 1st 4 posts in this thread! There is valuable information in those 1st 4 posts that will make your life, and of course, ours, much easier!

2 - MikFroYo comes with Dark Tremors A2SD, and by default, if you have the stock 8GB card, you have to do NOTHING with the ROM. You are set and ready to go. If you have a faster class 6 and above speed card, and wish to run your apps from the card, read Mitch's guide from start to beginning, follow the ONSCREEN directions, and you are set! DO NOT USE THE FROYO VERSION OF APPS2SD FROM THE MARKET!!! IT IS NOT THE SAME!!! DO NOT USE ANY UTILITY TO MOVE YOUR APPS TO SD, AS IT WILL BORK THE BUILT IN VERSION. Listen, in my many attempts to get 4.5 to bork, I even had my 7 year old son install MikFroYo from scratch, starting with formatting the card, following Mitch's guide, and installing the ROM and other zips. He had NO PROBLEM. Follow directions!

3 - YOU MUST CLEAR YOU CACHE AND DALVIK-CACHE's from the start BEFORE flashing the ROM! Not doing this to save yourself some time, is actually gonna cost you MORE of a headache, and then repeated questions in the thread, because YOU DID NOT FOLLOW DIRECTIONS! SIMPLE!

4 - I have found that from 4.5 Beta Test up, you can flash mutliple zips in the same Recovery session. For an example, here is how I would go about setting up and flashing the current 4.5 ROM:

* Before starting this, make sure you have both the HTC USB drivers and the unRevoked USB drivers installed and working. Perform a NANDbackup just in case (make sure to backup the ext3 if you are running it)...

- Copy all of my current cards contents to PC

- Format the SD Card using SDFORMATER

- Reboot into Recovery

- Wipe ALL userdata/factory reset

- Wipe DALVIK-CACHE

* If setting up a ext3 partition do the following, if not skip this part:

- Partition sdcard

I personally choose a 64mb swap file

I personally choose a 1024mb ext3 partition, 512mb will work fine

When it is done partitioning the card, select SD:ext2 to ext3

Let it do its thing, then select Return

When this is finished, select USB-MS Toggle, copy your files back to your card, then press POWER to turn USB-MS off

- Select Flash zip from sdcard, select your MikFroYo zip file, let it flash

- Select your kernal and flash it

- If you are changing the system font, select it and flash it

- I also flash my Gingerbread keyboard, and Titanium Backup at this point

- When you are done, Reboot the system

* This 1st boot can take some time, so be patient. If you get stuck at either the white HTC screen or the MikFroYo boot animation and its been anywhere from 5-10 minutes, pull the battery and restart your phone. It should boot fine (I have never had this happen on any of the MikFroYo builds, go figure?)

- Once your phone is up, sign into your Google account, set up you mailboxes, etc.

-Using Adb, I type a2sd nocache to move my Dalvik back to /data/ (if you are using your stock card, don't worry about this step)

- If you are going to flash 1 of the new colored themes, reboot into recovery, make sure you WIPE your cache AND dalvik-cache, then flash the colored theme of your choice. Reboot the system when you are done.

- If you are going to use Calkulin's Remove Sense script, make sure your download your Launcher of choice BEFORE running the script, select it, and tell it to use it by default. Then reboot into recovery, run the script, and reboot the system. If you want to use the new colored batteries and icons, make sure you flash the color of your choice BEFORE running this script. My personal experience was the system felt really weird flashing this after running Calkulin's script.

- If you are restoring from Titanium, make sure you DON'T restore the system data as it will cause problems.

Like I said, this ROM is pretty bullet proof, and everything that I have tried works as advertised. If you follow the directions that have been laid out for you, its a no brainer. In fact, its so easy, a caveman could do it! :p

I know this thread gets a LOT of posts, and sometimes the search feature blows chunks, but if you READ the 1st 4 posts, the answers and guides are there.

Anyhow, I'll get off my rock for now. Another EXCELLENT ROM Mik!