[GUIDE] Flashing Your First HD2 Clockwork Mod Android Rom [For Newbs]

parmar.saab · May 3, 2011

I flashed a ROM that required CWR and added a 1024 MB partition on my SD card via CWR. Now I'm switching back to an older ROM that doesn't require CWR and hence, I formatted my SD card via my PC but I didn't get the 1024 MB space added back to the card. The free space still shows to be around 13 GB and change, where it should be 14 GB and change (for a 16 GB card). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Zimaia · May 3, 2011

sdaddy said:
I flashed a ROM that required CWR and added a 1024 MB partition on my SD card via CWR. Now I'm switching back to an older ROM that doesn't require CWR and hence, I formatted my SD card via my PC but I didn't get the 1024 MB space added back to the card. The free space still shows to be around 13 GB and change, where it should be 14 GB and change (for a 16 GB card). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Windows can't see ext partitions so you must format you sdcard using other app

try this one, MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2, it's free
google it!!

Then delete the ext partition and resize the fat32 to full space.

mskip · May 4, 2011

sdaddy said:
I flashed a ROM that required CWR and added a 1024 MB partition on my SD card via CWR. Now I'm switching back to an older ROM that doesn't require CWR and hence, I formatted my SD card via my PC but I didn't get the 1024 MB space added back to the card. The free space still shows to be around 13 GB and change, where it should be 14 GB and change (for a 16 GB card). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Use SD Formatter 3 to format your micro sd card.

In the program goto 'Option' then change 'Format Size Adjustment' to ON. That will give you back the full size of the storage card.

Mark.

Fishawy · May 10, 2011

Dear Mark,

Your guides are always the most organized self-explanatory ones out there, your answers are always helpful, and your attitude in offering assistance is truly appreciated by us, the Leo community members.

Thank you & apologies for the off-topic post.

Cheers!
Fishawy

mskip · May 11, 2011

Fishawy said:
Dear Mark,

Your guides are always the most organized self-explanatory ones out there, your answers are always helpful, and your attitude in offering assistance is truly appreciated by us, the Leo community members.

Thank you & apologies for the off-topic post.

Cheers!
Fishawy

Thank you for your very kind words but I dont do anything special I just try my best to help whoever needs it

Ohh and I dont mind at all that its off-topic lol

Mark.

vua777 · May 11, 2011

thanks for the big guide,
bookmarked for future

Dunc001 · May 11, 2011

Hi Mark, I wonder if you could indulge me with answers to a few CWM noob questions please. I finally jumped to NAND and have been running Hyperdroid CM7 which uses 150MB with 1GB Ext3 on SD. I get that if I now want to flash say a Sense 3 ROM I need to reflash CWM with a larger partition but...

1. However do I then also need to use the CMW Wipe Dalvik Cache option before flashing the new zip as this is in my Ext partition?

2. Also, what happens with all of the apps that are on Ext through A2SD? Do they automatically reappear on the new ROM after flash or do I still need to use Titanium to backup apps/data and restore after flash?

3. Is it in any way advisable to Task29/MAGLDR/CWM before each new flash to an entirely new ROM (not just an update to newer version of current) - ie moving CM7 to Sense? Similarly is it necessary at any time to wiper and reformat my SD card?

Sorry for all the questions - can write widgets in LUA for CHT but not a clue (yet

) about much to do with Android!

mskip · May 11, 2011

Dunc001 said:
Hi Mark, I wonder if you could indulge me with answers to a few CWM noob questions please. I finally jumped to NAND and have been running Hyperdroid CM7 which uses 150MB with 1GB Ext3 on SD. I get that if I now want to flash say a Sense 3 ROM I need to reflash CWM with a larger partition but...

1. However do I then also need to use the CMW Wipe Dalvik Cache option before flashing the new zip as this is in my Ext partition?

2. Also, what happens with all of the apps that are on Ext through A2SD? Do they automatically reappear on the new ROM after flash or do I still need to use Titanium to backup apps/data and restore after flash?

3. Is it in any way advisable to Task29/MAGLDR/CWM before each new flash to an entirely new ROM (not just an update to newer version of current) - ie moving CM7 to Sense? Similarly is it necessary at any time to wiper and reformat my SD card?

Sorry for all the questions - can write widgets in LUA for CHT but not a clue (yet ) about much to do with Android!

Hey

1. Before flashing a new Rom all you need to do is a wipe (wipe data/factory reset) as it will format all neccessary parts including any external partitions you set up for A2SD. A wipe is always recomended before flashing a new Rom.

2. Im not exactly sure what happens if you dont format the external partition before flashing a new Rom but if you are flashing a brand new Rom I would recomend you do what I do which is use Titanium Backup to backup your apps and then restore them after the flash.

3. In my opinion performing a Wipe via CWM is just as good as a Task29, even better in some respects as a wipe will format your A2SD partition where as Task29 will only format the phones internal NAND partition.

Formatting the SD Card is a good idea if you are starting to have problems that you cant explain. One good format should usually be enough for the life span of the card if you use the SD Formatter v3 program that I mentioned a few posts ago.

Hope all this has helped to explain things a bit

Mark.

Dunc001 · May 11, 2011

Thanks for the reply Mark. Can I just say I find you one of the most helpful people here on XDA, having followed many of your tutorials and explanations over the last couple of years - we're really lucky to have guys like you here to keep us all right

I didn't realise what the Wipe option in Recovery actually did! So it actually clears the Ext partition contents too?

mskip · May 12, 2011

Dunc001 said:
Thanks for the reply Mark. Can I just say I find you one of the most helpful people here on XDA, having followed many of your tutorials and explanations over the last couple of years - we're really lucky to have guys like you here to keep us all right

I didn't realise what the Wipe option in Recovery actually did! So it actually clears the Ext partition contents too?

Yes of course you can say that and im very touched by your kind words. Knowing people appreciate what I do is what keeps me coming back here every day

I just made a Backup, Wipe and Restore via CWM to double check everything and make sure it all worked as I explained lol. All 3 stages completed perfectly.

Backup will backup your boot, recovery image, system, data, .android_secure, cache and sd-ext (A2SD Partition).

Wipe will format /data, /cache, /sd-ext and /sdcard/.android_secure.

Restore will restore the the complete backup or if you select Advance Restore then you can restore selected parts.

So to answer your question (in a long winded way), yes a wipe will format the external partition.

Mark.

Dunc001 · May 13, 2011

Since I posted yesterday I found a problem and am not sure what I'm doing wrong? I decided I'd try a Sense 3 build so I used the Backup option in CWM to backup my CM7 Hyperdroid stuff, then back into CWM and followed your Wipe instructions. Then back into MAGLDR>USB Flasher and flashed the new CWM partition layout required for Sense 3 build. Then flashed Sense 3 through CWM and played about for a while, got really p***ed off with it hanging all the time so gave up...

Back into USB Flasher and reflashed the 150Mb CWM layout. But here's the thing (finally!) - CWM full restore of the Hyperdroid backup I took, restored fine but when I then clicked Reboot after the restore MAGLDR gave me a Kernel error and took me straight to the MAGLDR menu rather than just booting the phone. I tried a couple of times to CWM Restore but got the same result both times. Then I tried flashing the original Hyperdroid zip through CWM - all OK and booted fine, so then tried the Restore again and back to the same problem.

Am I missing something about CWM Restore? I thought it backed up EVERYTHING so you could just flash back to where you were before you tried something else/messed up your phone/etc?

mskip · May 13, 2011

Dunc001 said:
Since I posted yesterday I found a problem and am not sure what I'm doing wrong? I decided I'd try a Sense 3 build so I used the Backup option in CWM to backup my CM7 Hyperdroid stuff, then back into CWM and followed your Wipe instructions. Then back into MAGLDR>USB Flasher and flashed the new CWM partition layout required for Sense 3 build. Then flashed Sense 3 through CWM and played about for a while, got really p***ed off with it hanging all the time so gave up...

Back into USB Flasher and reflashed the 150Mb CWM layout. But here's the thing (finally!) - CWM full restore of the Hyperdroid backup I took, restored fine but when I then clicked Reboot after the restore MAGLDR gave me a Kernel error and took me straight to the MAGLDR menu rather than just booting the phone. I tried a couple of times to CWM Restore but got the same result both times. Then I tried flashing the original Hyperdroid zip through CWM - all OK and booted fine, so then tried the Restore again and back to the same problem.

Am I missing something about CWM Restore? I thought it backed up EVERYTHING so you could just flash back to where you were before you tried something else/messed up your phone/etc?

As far as im aware you did everything correctly and it should have restored without any problems. Did the backup process go through without any error messages? All I can think of is that something went wrong with the process or that flashing CWM partitions does something to 'break' the restore.

If you have time to experiment then you could try flashing a NAND Android version, then go into CWM and back it up. Wipe and restore to check the backup worked and then try retoring your previous backup. If the newer backup works and the older one doesnt then I would say there was a problem with the original backup.

You could also try flashing a new CWM partition and see if the backups will still restore.

Let me know how it goes.

Mark.

neverFollow · May 16, 2011

Dunc001 said:
...Back into USB Flasher and reflashed the 150Mb CWM layout. But here's the thing (finally!) - CWM full restore of the Hyperdroid backup I took, restored fine but when I then clicked Reboot after the restore MAGLDR gave me a Kernel error and took me straight to the MAGLDR menu rather than just booting the phone. I tried a couple of times to CWM Restore but got the same result both times. Then I tried flashing the original Hyperdroid zip through CWM - all OK and booted fine, so then tried the Restore again and back to the same problem...

Same here... I even tried the following:

1. Flash CWR partition from scratch
2. Install ROM via CWR (phone boots OK)
3. Then, boot into Recovery and do full backup
4. Then, boot into Recovery and do full restore
5. Phone won't boot anymore

Used to work with ROMs couple of weeks back, really annoying. Using My Backup now to restore settings, call logs etc.

sweetdoc · May 17, 2011

data image

hi mark.
i was using dl desire 4XX on sd card, till yesterday when i switched cwm rom dl desire 5X using your instructions. i have data image of the previous rom. is there a way i can use that image on the latter rom. forgive me for being naive.

Matchpoint · Jun 7, 2011

Thanks to all

Salutations, this is the first time I write in the forum, translated by google I read for years, but as no English, did not dare to write.
I need from here, to thank all those who do us easier life selflessly.
My most sincere congratulations on such wonderful work.

mskip · Jun 17, 2011

Matchpoint said:
Salutations, this is the first time I write in the forum, translated by google I read for years, but as no English, did not dare to write.
I need from here, to thank all those who do us easier life selflessly.
My most sincere congratulations on such wonderful work.

You're welcome im glad you found it useful

Mark.

daz990 · Jun 18, 2011

Hi Mark, Appreciate the guides there bob on, but i am having an issue.

I have flashed magldr then cwm and then the 250mb recovery
I then put a miui clk zip folder on root of sd along with an intriz.gz file and a zImage
I followed procedure to install a zip from sd card.

Now when phone boots up it goes to boot from nand and then i get this error: -

nand kernel open failed (in red letters)

I'm stuck and I know it will be something simple but i'm well and truly stuck.

Thanks in advance.

Edit : Sorted didn't have a bloody kernel *continuous punching of my own head*

cheers

mskip · Jun 18, 2011

daz990 said:
Hi Mark, Appreciate the guides there bob on, but i am having an issue.

I have flashed magldr then cwm and then the 250mb recovery
I then put a miui clk zip folder on root of sd along with an intriz.gz file and a zImage
I followed procedure to install a zip from sd card.

Now when phone boots up it goes to boot from nand and then i get this error: -

nand kernel open failed (in red letters)

I'm stuck and I know it will be something simple but i'm well and truly stuck.

Thanks in advance.

Edit : Sorted didn't have a bloody kernel *continuous punching of my own head*

cheers

Well at least you figured it out by yourself lol

Mark.

MarkAtHome · Jun 22, 2011

I had similar problems when I chose Restore.

I found that if you select Advanced Restore (I think that is what it is called), rather than Restore, after the failed boot, you can select individual parts of your backed up ROM.

I would try the first option (system?), and if that doesn't do it, additionally try the second; anything after that won't solve the problem.

mskip · Jun 23, 2011

MarkAtHome said:
I had similar problems when I chose Restore.

I found that if you select Advanced Restore (I think that is what it is called), rather than Restore, after the failed boot, you can select individual parts of your backed up ROM.

I would try the first option (system?), and if that doesn't do it, additionally try the second; anything after that won't solve the problem.

Hey mate

Did you ever get used to Android or still using WinMo?

Mark.

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