Ebay phone, custom rom

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Ok so i cracked my HD2 screen last month.... .... anyway it was stock windows mobile and i hacked and slashed it myself to put android into nand. I'm quite familiar with how that works....

I bought a used inspire 4G off ebay and it already came loaded with cleardroid 1.3.1. It's my first android phone ever so i'm not really familiar with all the hacking and slashing stuff. I'm assuming a couple of things must have already been done to it since its running a custom rom but i'm not sure whats in it.

I looked at the Advanced Ace Hack Kit thread and it says not to run it if i have S-off or have a custom rom........ so... where do i stand, how do i check whats been done to it.

You have a custom recovery and are all set to install your own ROMs. If Clockworkmod is not installed download the app from Market. Flash the latest recovery and have fun installing ROMs. S-off is good to go. The old owner had to do it to install the ROM that is currently on it.

You're good, bro. Previous user made it easier on you. No need for Ace Hack Kit or anything. Go download ROM Manager and flash ClockworkMod Recovery. If you like ClearDroid, keep it. If not, go download "Absolution" or "CM7.1" for stock and put it on your SD card, go into Clockwork, select Install Zip from SDcard, find the .zip for Absolution or CM, let it do it's work, and ta-da, you've got AOSP Android.

Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

Or you could just go with MIUI.

Best rom IMO.

Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G using XDA App

There's also a stock, rooted gingerbread rom (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1192372) and if you're looking for a good sense rom that works well and isn't really modded, check out android revolution.

cheers and welcome to the community

Originally Posted by calc

Ok so i cracked my HD2 screen last month.... .... anyway it was stock windows mobile and i hacked and slashed it myself to put android into nand. I'm quite familiar with how that works....

I bought a used inspire 4G off ebay and it already came loaded with cleardroid 1.3.1. It's my first android phone ever so i'm not really familiar with all the hacking and slashing stuff. I'm assuming a couple of things must have already been done to it since its running a custom rom but i'm not sure whats in it.

I looked at the Advanced Ace Hack Kit thread and it says not to run it if i have S-off or have a custom rom........ so... where do i stand, how do i check whats been done to it.

Before you do Any flashing, I would do yourself a favor and read read and search the forums for any helpful tips. Check out 4ext recovery themes by cwhitney24 over in the absolution thread way better than rom manger. Always make a backup and remember to wipe front to back. Wipe data cache and dalvic cache when switching roms

Thanks for the tips i went ahead and flashed mike1986. ROM....

I was accustomed to using Sense 3.5 on my HD2 but 3.0 isn't too far off and the ROM is great.

A couple of things I noticed:

in hardware it says bluetooth 3.0 but i know the phone doesn't have that, I'm assuming it hasn't actually been upgraded to 3.0.

I only have about 1GB of ROM space after flash, searched around and appears this is normal...couldn't really get a solid answer as to where the other 3GB vanished to.

Hopefully this time around the gorilla glass + otterbox will take a better beating than my poor HD2....

Originally Posted by calc

Thanks for the tips i went ahead and flashed mike1986. ROM....

I was accustomed to using Sense 3.5 on my HD2 but 3.0 isn't too far off and the ROM is great.

A couple of things I noticed:

in hardware it says bluetooth 3.0 but i know the phone doesn't have that, I'm assuming it hasn't actually been upgraded to 3.0.

I only have about 1GB of ROM space after flash, searched around and appears this is normal...couldn't really get a solid answer as to where the other 3GB vanished to.

Hopefully this time around the gorilla glass + otterbox will take a better beating than my poor HD2....

You only have 3gb of space on your phone really. Its due to how the phone is formatted. There are tons of threads about this. And sense Roma ate big so no surprise that it takes up so much space. Enjoy

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Uhh.. seems like I'm having problems flashing a new radio.

I flashed mike's new Android Revolution HD 6.2.0 ROM just fine but he recommends 12.65.60.29_26.14.04.28_M radio.

I downloaded the zip on his thread and followed the directions but it failed ! I currently have 12.56.60.25P_26.10.04.03_M radio.

Originally Posted by calc

Uhh.. seems like I'm having problems flashing a new radio.

I flashed mike's new Android Revolution HD 6.2.0 ROM just fine but he recommends 12.65.60.29_26.14.04.28_M radio.

I downloaded the zip on his thread and followed the directions but it failed ! I currently have 12.56.60.25P_26.10.04.03_M radio.

Did you try to flash it in recovery?