ARCHIVED: [DEAD ROM] ThundeROM V1.8.3 4/5/2011

[ccrs8]

I feel like I've posted a bunch in this thread about things that are not 100% specific to ThundeROM, and I apologize for that. Now that I'm back in my phone, I noticed something that is ThundeROM related. A new version of Gmail came out yesterday (although I noticed that the androidcentral homepage shows that the update has been pulled from the market). Anyway, the update restored the gmail notification icon back to it's white-ish M on top of black instead of the red M on top of white, making it difficult to see on ThundeROM's notification bar at the top. Any way to get the easier-to-see notification icon back?

 

[gschuck]

I've been able to get it in to emergency mode in the past, but the screen had said so. It turns out that I was able to get it in to emergency mode again today, but was having driver issues and the screen was unresponsive. I also have the added, unrelated issue of only having access to Windows at work where ports are blocked and installation is somewhat restricted. A few days ago I had to use a friend's computer to use the LG installer to get me to VC. Up until then, I could use Ubuntu without problem to do all of this fun phone stuff. Anyway, thanks to another post and more patience than I usually display, I was able to get my phone back up and running. I think I'm going to have to set up my computer here at home to dual boot in to XP so I can more easily recover from all this phone fiddling.

By the way, I found using the corner of my computer chasis or my chin to be the best way to hit the power button once everything else is in place in order to get in to Emergency mode.

Thanks everyone for all your help, and hopefully I can help people out in the future the same way.

ccrs8, what's the plan now? Never ever shut the phone off again? That's my current plan even though I was able to do a battery pull/boot to recovery last time I shut down. I fear I would not share your same perseverance.

Other than that, TR1.7 has been running fine. I had an issue where the default notification was no longer set. This caused messaging (stock and Handcent) to throw null pointer errors if you tried to change/assign a ringtone. Resetting the default notification from the system sound setting fixed this. I assume it had something to do with the TR moving sounds off of the sdcard so that the phone would ring when plugged in.

My sdcard has stayed mounted all day, btw. Woohoo!

 

[ccrs8]

ccrs8, what's the plan now? Never ever shut the phone off again? That's my current plan even though I was able to do a battery pull/boot to recovery last time I shut down. I fear I would not share your same perseverance.

Heh...maybe. I have a business trip coming up in a week. Normally I'd shut the phone down during the flights, but I guess I'll be using "airplane mode" for its intended purpose instead. I am usually around power adapters so under normal conditions I can leave my phone on at all times. Quickbooting in to recovery and then booting from recovery back to ThundeROM seems to work, so if I ever need to restart my phone for any reason, that's the path I'll be going. My first immediate need to shut the phone down completely will be in a few weeks when I go on a four day backpacking trip. There is minimal coverage and no power, so I'll need to turn it off and only turn it on in emergencies. Hopefully I can work something out by then.

I just changed recovery from CWM to thunderc, so maybe that has something to do with it. My wife is away all weekend, so she'll never know if I spend the entire weekend trying to find the specific pattern of battery pulls and plug/unplugging that predicably recovers from the LG logo issue. If I can find one, I'll feel a lot better about continuing to fiddle with the phone. Other folks have reported that they have the same final product (ThundeROM 1.7, VC baseband) and can shut down completely and then turn back on without problem, so with enough patience and a reasonable level of confidence that I won't end up with a permanent brick, I think I can eventually get a working product on my phone.

Anyway, step 1 is to buy more beer, and step 2 is to swallow my pride and install Windows on my computer so I can use the LG installer if needed. Then I'm off to the races. It seems like a lot of work just to get a working phone, but I love this little phone and really enjoy showing up folks with their iph*#@s, so I'm going to get it working.

 

[skeletonbones]

Hey this question has been posted 2 or 3 times since the 1.7 release, but I'm still lost, I feel like there wasn't a strait answer or something. I don't know, I just sat down and read through like 65 pages of forum, so maybe it all just blended together, lol. But my phone is running (or at least SAYS it's running) VC - which I don't remember ever updating to, I'm pretty sure I used a patch when I was running LEGO rom to shut up the prompt - but when I flash 1.7, I don't have 3g service, which I get an erros about, and attempting to update the profile/PRL causes it to reboot.

I've been working on this for the better part of 7 hours, and I'm STUMPED. At this point, I'd be really happy to hear that there WAS a definite answer and I'm just an idiot, hahaha.

Thanks guys

 

[thegta98]

Hey this question has been posted 2 or 3 times since the 1.7 release, but I'm still lost, I feel like there wasn't a strait answer or something. I don't know, I just sat down and read through like 65 pages of forum, so maybe it all just blended together, lol. But my phone is running (or at least SAYS it's running) VC - which I don't remember ever updating to, I'm pretty sure I used a patch when I was running LEGO rom to shut up the prompt - but when I flash 1.7, I don't have 3g service, which I get an erros about, and attempting to update the profile/PRL causes it to reboot.

I've been working on this for the better part of 7 hours, and I'm STUMPED. At this point, I'd be really happy to hear that there WAS a definite answer and I'm just an idiot, hahaha.

Thanks guys

Well you just wanted to hear it so, "YOU BIG DUMMY" - Redfox,

but if you will recovery, wipe your system/factory restore.

It should clear you of any 3G non connectivity. (If you fix one you might be fixing the other.)

I was playing with my phone and I managed to somehow shut 3G off and I did alot of flashing, and toying... So I'm sure after I jumped a brick wall of flashs and that fixed it for me, it should get you out of a mud puddle.

 

[ruinevil]

Hey this question has been posted 2 or 3 times since the 1.7 release, but I'm still lost, I feel like there wasn't a strait answer or something. I don't know, I just sat down and read through like 65 pages of forum, so maybe it all just blended together, lol. But my phone is running (or at least SAYS it's running) VC - which I don't remember ever updating to, I'm pretty sure I used a patch when I was running LEGO rom to shut up the prompt - but when I flash 1.7, I don't have 3g service, which I get an erros about, and attempting to update the profile/PRL causes it to reboot.

I've been working on this for the better part of 7 hours, and I'm STUMPED. At this point, I'd be really happy to hear that there WAS a definite answer and I'm just an idiot, hahaha.

Thanks guys

1) Nandroid restore the last fully working backup (phone and data)
2) Run B2CAppSetup.exe - LG updater with phone attached via usb
3) Install update - will take 30 minutes or so -> wait for it to say its complete
4) Update PRL + Profile
5) Install Thunderom as per first posts.

Also after the first page... all the Thunderom 1.7 relevant discussion starts at 160.

 

[thegta98]

1) Nandroid restore the last fully working backup (phone and data)
2) Run B2CAppSetup.exe - LG updater with phone attached via usb
3) Install update - will take 30 minutes or so -> wait for it to say its complete
4) Update PRL + Profile
5) Install Thunderom as per first posts.

Also after the first page... all the Thunderom 1.7 relevant discussion starts at 160.

DO what he say's... if the wipe doesn't work. Which I believe it will... not 100% on that.

 

[jeffreynothing43]

I feel like I've posted a bunch in this thread about things that are not 100% specific to ThundeROM, and I apologize for that. Now that I'm back in my phone, I noticed something that is ThundeROM related. A new version of Gmail came out yesterday (although I noticed that the androidcentral homepage shows that the update has been pulled from the market). Anyway, the update restored the gmail notification icon back to it's white-ish M on top of black instead of the red M on top of white, making it difficult to see on ThundeROM's notification bar at the top. Any way to get the easier-to-see notification icon back?

I've noticed this to and just went back to the previous version of Gmail and adjusted it to not update automatically...it would be cool for a permanent fix though.

 

[CarrieK]

Heh...maybe. I have a business trip coming up in a week. Normally I'd shut the phone down during the flights, but I guess I'll be using "airplane mode" for its intended purpose instead. I am usually around power adapters so under normal conditions I can leave my phone on at all times. Quickbooting in to recovery and then booting from recovery back to ThundeROM seems to work, so if I ever need to restart my phone for any reason, that's the path I'll be going. My first immediate need to shut the phone down completely will be in a few weeks when I go on a four day backpacking trip. There is minimal coverage and no power, so I'll need to turn it off and only turn it on in emergencies. Hopefully I can work something out by then.

I just changed recovery from CWM to thunderc, so maybe that has something to do with it. My wife is away all weekend, so she'll never know if I spend the entire weekend trying to find the specific pattern of battery pulls and plug/unplugging that predicably recovers from the LG logo issue. If I can find one, I'll feel a lot better about continuing to fiddle with the phone. Other folks have reported that they have the same final product (ThundeROM 1.7, VC baseband) and can shut down completely and then turn back on without problem, so hwith enough patience and a reasonable level of confidence that I won't end up with a permanent brick, I think I can eventually get a working product on my phone.

Anyway, step 1 is to buy more beer, and step 2 is to swallow my pride and install Windows on my computer so I can use the LG installer if needed. Then I'm off to the races. It seems like a lot of work just to get a working phone, but I love this little phone and really enjoy showing up folks with their iph*#@s, so I'm going to get it working.

I am so glad to see that you got some help and at least aren't totally bricked.

 

[jeffreynothing43]

Anyway, step 1 is to buy more beer, and step 2 is to swallow my pride and install Windows on my computer so I can use the LG installer if needed. Then I'm off to the races. It seems like a lot of work just to get a working phone, but I love this little phone and really enjoy showing up folks with their iph*#@s, so I'm going to get it working.

Hey dude...just curious, and sorry if this is annoying...but what method did you use? I didn't catch your initial posts about this.

 

[ccrs8]

Hey dude...just curious, and sorry if this is annoying...but what method did you use? I didn't catch your initial posts about this.

It's not much of a method, as that would indicate that it is some sort of documented procedure. My main goal is to get the battery charging icon to show up - once that shows up, I can hit the power button and the LG logo will give way to android. A few posts back it was suggested that I leave the battery out of the equation and just try to plug the phone in to power without it in an attempt to get an error message telling me to insert a battery. A dozen or so attempts at this gave me the error, and then I put in the battery and got the battery charging icon. Then I could hit the power button and boot in to Android. I don't know if this is reproducible consistently enough to be considered a "method" but it's what I'll try again next.

 

[tmeader]

Dear cc0n01,

I love you. Seriously.

Sincerely,
ccrs8

EDIT: I had tried series of having the plug in before and after inserting the battery and giving certain amount of time between each activity, but I didn't realize that the phone is supposed to give a warning about no battery. I removed the battery and then plugged and unplugged my phone in a bunch of times, not messing with the removed battery at all. The first dozen times or so the button lights went on and that was it, but on approximately the 13th time the insert battery message popped up. I put in the battery, and the LG logo went up for a few seconds and then came the glorious battery charging icon. I love that icon. Pressing power took me to the LG logo, then the "android" splash screen, and then THUNDEROM.

Wow, this needs to be stickied by itself. I was having the exact same problem after turning my phone off completely about 20 minutes ago. Taking the battery out, then unplugging and plugging it in about 6 times, the "Insert Battery" message came up. Put it in, then pressed power.... phone rebooted fine. Wonder if this will actually turn out to be a (ridiculous) wide-spread quick fix for the VC "LG Logo hang" issue. Hope so.

 

[ccrs8]

Wow, this needs to be stickied by itself. I was having the exact same problem after turning my phone off completely about 20 minutes ago. Taking the battery out, then unplugging and plugging it in about 6 times, the "Insert Battery" message came up. Put it in, then pressed power.... phone rebooted fine. Wonder if this will actually turn out to be a (ridiculous) wide-spread quick fix for the VC "LG Logo hang" issue. Hope so.

It worked for this guy as well:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=646026#post646026

 

[skeletonbones]

Alright, same problem, new questions -
LG updater. As far as I can find, there isn't a Mac-friendly version, which is a bummer, because that's all I've got to work on. Also, not a single one of my Nandroid backups is anywhere on my SD card, so I have no way to back up now. Not sure how I managed to do that.
I'm starting to feel a bit boned. The only thing I can think to try now is to unroot using the instructions in the unroot thread, update OTA, and then re-root. As much fun as that sounds, can anyone think of any other ideas before I go through with it?

 

[trippingjimmies]

@ Everyone-For all that want the button layout that wakes the screen when pressing any button flash the zip attached to post #2,sorry took me so long.

Is there a zip to undo this if it was applied? Thanks for all you do!

 

[skeletonbones]

AH! Alright I just found my backups and an old ThundeROM 1.6.2 version. I think I can figure it out from here, Thanks guys, sorry for taking up your time!

ThundeROM RULEZ, or I wouldn't spend so much time trying to get it up and running again!

 

[jstntp]

Is there a zip to undo this if it was applied? Thanks for all you do!

Make a Nandroid backup (just in case) and wipe cache and dalvik, but not data, then reflash TR1.7 again, it will revert back to the way it was. And you don't lose any info or apps. I did this yesterday and it worked for me. I had issues with the screen not coming on sometimes with the zip applied. Have had no issues since.

 

[mike9670]

Did something happen with the colored notification icons for gmail,mail and sms that was in 1.6.2?

I miss the colored notification icons, any way to get them back in 1.7?

 

[ccrs8]

Did something happen with the colored notification icons for gmail,mail and sms that was in 1.6.2?

I miss the colored notification icons, any way to get them back in 1.7?

I think 1.7 actually did come with the red M on white envelope gmail icon that was in 1.6, but days after 1.7's release, there was a new version of gmail on the market that, when installed, replaced the notification icon with a dark, harder to see icon. At least I think that's what happened. I just sent myself a text message, and the icon is different than 1.6.2 but still quite easy to see.

 

[mike9670]

oops, playing aroudn with ADW themes I lost the nice new icons that came with 1.7. Is there a way to get those back?