[Guide] How to Backup, Restore & Install ROMs on The Thunderbolt

[mikeblade82]

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thanks for the help i got to work

 

[Ohleo]

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Do i have to wipe before I restore? Sorry if this has been answered

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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Do i have to wipe before I restore? Sorry if this has been answered

Yes... make a nandroid backup of your current stock rom... backup any apps and info you need with Titanium or Mybackup. Then flash the custom rom, which requires you to wipe the phones data and two caches. After the new rom is installed... restore your apps and info with Titanium/Mybackup.

The nandroid backup is used in case you need to go back to a working rom if something ever goes wrong. Same goes for flashing different custom roms.. make nandroid backups and you can flash back to whatever rom you wish to. You can make as many nandroids as you want. They all get saved to the sd card... wiping the phone does not erase the sd card by the way, so don't worry about losing anything stored on it.

 

[Dojam]

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Please help. I'm sort off a nOOb... I has gone thru the D1, DInc and now the Thunderbolt. I have root all of them but never have try a different ROM. I have been reading and so far I understand how to flash a new ROM and the Radio. I'm leaning toward flash CM7. However I'm confused with the kernell. Do I need to download and flash a new kernell or does it come with the ROM? If I need to get a kernell, which one should I get and how is flash it? Sorry if this has been answered before...

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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Please help. I'm sort off a nOOb... I has gone thru the D1, DInc and now the Thunderbolt. I have root all of them but never have try a different ROM. I have been reading and so far I understand how to flash a new ROM and the Radio. I'm leaning toward flash CM7. However I'm confused with the kernell. Do I need to download and flash a new kernell or does it come with the ROM? If I need to get a kernell, which one should I get and how is flash it? Sorry if this has been answered before...

ROMs come with the kernel but they can be changed if you want. You flash them same way as a ROM except you only need to wipe the cache partition and dalvik... No need to wipe data. Kernels can be found at the end of the guide under the TB Official ROM and Kernel listing. I never used CM7 but you will also need to download something called Gapps.

 

[Dojam]

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Thanks for the info. So there is no need to change the zip file name and is flash in Recovery? I saw something posted about the Gapps which I guess mean Google Applications, correct me if I'm wrong... How do you flash the Gapps? Radios always have to have the name changed and flash at HBoot?

 

[Bakafish]

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quick question: if i want to flash a new rom will i lose all my pictures?

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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quick question: if i want to flash a new rom will i lose all my pictures?

Nope.... Anything thats stored on the SD Card will not be touched.

 

[swieder]

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I just did my first ROM and Radio install, upgrading from the stock ROM to NonS3ns3v2. Everything went cleanly except I lost root privledges. Originally I used CMD line and ADB to root my phone. Can I use auto-root now? Will my custom ROM still be in tack?

Thanks for any realtime help.

 

[fatboy97]

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I just did my first ROM and Radio install, upgrading from the stock ROM to NonS3ns3v2. Everything went cleanly except I lost root privledges. Originally I used CMD line and ADB to root my phone. Can I use auto-root now? Will my custom ROM still be in tack?

Thanks for any realtime help.

How do you know you lost root privileged??? To check for sure you should power off... then boot up in hBoot by holding down the Volume Down button, while holding that down, press and hold the Power button also, hold them both down for at least 10 seconds, then let go of the Power button, then the Volume Down button... on the top line it should be S-Off for security off... if it says S-On then you are not rooted.

If you have S-Off, then I'm thinking maybe it's just you don't have the SuperUser app loaded on your device.

If you have S-On, then you are not rooted... you could use auto-root, but you don't just loose root. If you do need to use auto-root, you might have to flash the ROM again... but let's see where you are on the hBoot screen.

 

[swieder]

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How do you know you lost root privileged??? To check for sure you should power off... then boot up in hBoot by holding down the Volume Down button, while holding that down, press and hold the Power button also, hold them both down for at least 10 seconds, then let go of the Power button, then the Volume Down button... on the top line it should be S-Off for security off... if it says S-On then you are not rooted.

If you have S-Off, then I'm thinking maybe it's just you don't have the SuperUser app loaded on your device.

If you have S-On, then you are not rooted... you could use auto-root, but you don't just loose root. If you do need to use auto-root, you might have to flash the ROM again... but let's see where you are on the hBoot screen.

When I tried to run Titanium Pro it said that I was not root. I ran auto-root before I got your response and am not back to factory ROM. I will rerun the ROM and radio updates and check hBoot and the SU app before going any further. Thanks.

EDIT: Reapplied the custom ROM. Saw that I have S-OFF when I got back into hBoot. Now updating the radio and rebooting. Will run the SU app next.

EDIT2: Everything went the same as before. hBoot report S-ff. However, Titanium is complaining that my phone is not rooted so I can not restore my data. Very odd.

EDIT3: Removed/Reinstall Titanium and now it works. I guess the SU app did not see Titanium installed.

 

[jamesh111]

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I want to try the CM7 ROM and I am still at the stock thunderbolt ROM. do I need to download new radios and if I do what order do I flash the radio then the ROM? or does the zip file contain all the needed radios and other files. I read the list of availible roms for the thunderbolt and it listed the radios by themselves.

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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I want to try the CM7 ROM and I am still at the stock thunderbolt ROM. do I need to download new radios and if I do what order do I flash the radio then the ROM? or does the zip file contain all the needed radios and other files. I read the list of availible roms for the thunderbolt and it listed the radios by themselves.

It doesn't matter which you flash first. ROMs go through ROM Manager... Radios go through hboot/bootloader. For CM7... You will also need something called gapps to use CM7. I've never tried CM7 so I can't really help too much with the ROMs details but if you look at member Fatboys signature a few posts back you will see a link for ROMs and radios. You need a Gingerbread radio. The latest one is 2.11...
Give me a minute and I'll pull up the links for you.

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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[ROM/KERNEL/RADIO List] The Official Thunderbolt ROM's List v3.0 - [09/11/2011]
Go to the info for CyanogenMod 7... It has all the info you need including the latest gapps download.

For Radios... 2.11.605.0 is the latest radio... Last one on the list. You need to download the CDMA and LTE. Flash one at a time through hboot. Instructions are on the first page of this guide.

Here is the radios you need: [RADIO] HTC Thunderbolt Radios [PG05IMG.zip] (Updated: 23 Aug 2011) - xda-developers

 

[jamesh111]

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I have been reading in some other forums that the ROM manager has been creating issues and people are recommending not using it. Have any input on the issues they talk speak of?

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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I have been reading in some other forums that the ROM manager has been creating issues and people are recommending not using it. Have any input on the issues they talk speak of?

That is true... the app is okay to use, you need it to install CWM Recovery onto the phone. Don't use ROM Managers "install rom from sd card" option. In ROM Manager, use the option to "boot into recovery" and then manually clear data/caches and flash the ROM through ClockworkMod Recovery. Everything is explained in the guide on the first page... if you need any help or have questions, feel free to ask.

 

[Bakafish]

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ive been having problems with my head phones with inline mic. im running bamf remix 1.7. I can hear through the earphone but my mic isnt working. ive tried a couple of different headphones and mic combinations but no luck. Do you think rooting could have caused this? Before i rooted i used a knock off ipod headphones i bought off the street and it worked fine. But now im having problems. im debating if i should try another set of headphones or just flashing another rom and seeing what happens. But i dont really feel like dl all my apps again... any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

[pnoozi]

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I want to go from CM7 RC 1.7 to 1.8. How important is it to wipe user data/factory reset in CWM? Can I just wipe cache/dalvik and be OK? I made a Titanium backup on my SD card of all apps and user data.

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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ive been having problems with my head phones with inline mic. im running bamf remix 1.7. I can hear through the earphone but my mic isnt working. ive tried a couple of different headphones and mic combinations but no luck. Do you think rooting could have caused this? Before i rooted i used a knock off ipod headphones i bought off the street and it worked fine. But now im having problems. im debating if i should try another set of headphones or just flashing another rom and seeing what happens. But i dont really feel like dl all my apps again... any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

I doubt its the ROM.... if anything, those cheap headphones could have caused some damage. I learned the hardway when I had to replace my phone due to a cheap charger I bought off of ebay.

Edit: you might want to also check the threads for mic problems with that ROM. I don't remember off hand if that rom was having any bugs like that... I never had any problems that I can remember. Its been a while since I've used that rom.

 

[Cyber Warrior]

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I want to go from CM7 RC 1.7 to 1.8. How important is it to wipe user data/factory reset in CWM? Can I just wipe cache/dalvik and be OK? I made a Titanium backup on my SD card of all apps and user data.

On my old phone.. a DroidX.. I would upgrade versions of the same ROM with only wiping the caches with no problem. On this phone, I haven't attempted it... I always do full wipes even when upgrading versions. I like having a clean install... the developers recommend it and you have the comfort of not worrying about something going wrong. Use MyBackup Pro for Root Users... its a little more simple to use and makes restoring the phone much easier. I use MyBackup for backing up and restoring apps and only use Titanium for freezing and deleting apps. I find that combo of the two apps works best. Takes me about 20 minutes to restore my phone from a full wipe.

Its really not that bad... the more you get use to wiping and restoring the phone the quicker and more accustomed you become at setting things back up. I was lazy in the past with only wiping the caches but I recommend doing a full wipe.