Does anybody know if u download a rom via skyfire and its on your sd card can u flash it to your phone
I've done it before. Takes awhile for initial download, and some acrobatics with Astro, but it works.Does anybody know if u download a rom via skyfire and its on your sd card can u flash it to your phone
It does not need to be in the root of your card, at least not with all recoveries. I keep all mine in /recovery/roms/{rom name}/.
Putting it in root just makes it easier to get to it, especially when you are flashing via ADB where you have to type in the location.
Doing it all from the phone is completely doable, but...
You still need a computer to flash the recovery the first time (or at least root, as far as I know), after that you can flash recoveries from inside the phone (quite easily actually).
You need to install the proper flash_image to /system/bin with an emulator before you can flash the recovery(Gingerbreak doesn't)You can do a permanent root with gingerbreak 1.2.0 and then flash the recovery via terminal emulator. its a lot easier
I always download ROMs directly to my phone. Saves the chance of a dirty load from pc.
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if you think about it. you want the faster CPU of the PC to handle organizing the packets of the file transfer and to organize it as a complete file once its downloaded.
the phone with a slower cpu and flash memory has more chance of introducing errors to the finished file.
I only mention this becuase for the most part, downloads on my PC have worked fine.
and roms and other large files downloaded through the phone seem to have a lot more errors and end up corrupt more often. maybes its my phone? but its still something ive noticed and feel should be pointed out.
edit* on multiple sd cards as well, not just one bad one. I have movie files and mp3s constantly end up with errors that make them play strangely or not at all sometimes