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Today I decided to update my Aria AT&T to Froyo, however i have some questions prior doing this:

1. How can I back-up all my data that I have on my phone?
2. Can I fully de-brand my Aria AT&T phone? How? Link?
3. If I debrand it, will I be able to use updates directly from HTC for "naturally" debranded arias?
4. Which Froyo works best? Is there an 100% working one?

I understand that search button is my friend, but unfortunately it is very difficult for me to follow all the info found on this website, especially when english is not my mother language. Please excuse my newbeeness

Originally Posted by fealloy

Today I decided to update my Aria AT&T to Froyo, however i have some questions prior doing this:

1. How can I back-up all my data that I have on my phone?
2. Can I fully de-brand my Aria AT&T phone? How? Link?
3. If I debrand it, will I be able to use updates directly from HTC for "naturally" debranded arias?
4. Which Froyo works best? Is there an 100% working one?

I understand that search button is my friend, but unfortunately it is very difficult for me to follow all the info found on this website, especially when english is not my mother language. Please excuse my newbeeness

1. Once you have rooted your Aria, boot into ClockworkMod and perform a full 'nandroid' backup of your current rooted system. You can use this as a restore point in your ROM flashing adventures. But as far as retaining your current data when you flash a new ROM you are more than likely going to have to reinstall all your apps on the new ROM. For your contents, you can sync them to your Google account and when you load a new ROM and enter your Google account during setup you can resync your contacts.
2. The Liberated Series of ROM are HTC Sense ROMs with all of the AT&T bloat ware removed. You can get either the Eclair 2.1 version (Liberated R012) or the Froyo 2.2 version (Liberated FR008).
3. As long as you have a rooted phone, there really isn't any advantage to getting an official HTC OTA update. In fact, chances are when you take an OTA update from HTC, you will lose root. Best advice is to wait a few hours and let the devs come out with a rooted, flashable version of the HTC update to preserve your rooted environment.
4. Personally I prefer CyanogenMod 6.1.1 for my Froyo ROM of choice. I have also tried Liberated FR008 and it retains the HTC Sense interface. Best advice is to try them and see which one you like best.

Originally Posted by fealloy

Today I decided to update my Aria AT&T to Froyo, however i have some questions prior doing this:

1. How can I back-up all my data that I have on my phone?
2. Can I fully de-brand my Aria AT&T phone? How? Link?
3. If I debrand it, will I be able to use updates directly from HTC for "naturally" debranded arias?
4. Which Froyo works best? Is there an 100% working one?

I understand that search button is my friend, but unfortunately it is very difficult for me to follow all the info found on this website, especially when english is not my mother language. Please excuse my newbeeness

Let me sympathze with you... i have been there.

So let me try to explain a little and there are some videos to help

The first thing you will probably want to do is 'root' your phone - by doing this you are invalidating your warrenty - but heck - who cares - what you want is a phone that runs the latest OS right and provides you all the goodies that ATT keeps you from......

Check out these links
http://theunlockr.com/2010/08/02/how...evoked-method/
and
http://theunlockr.com/2010/08/02/how...-the-htc-aria/

they might help

ClockworkMod is what most people use , it provides you the ability to
perform a back up (nandroid) as well as
install Custom MODs (the reason you are here isnt it?)

I would suspect you would want the latest MODs - to do you should look to the forums - as they change every so often.

The good thing is - with the MODs and ClockworkMod - changing these ROMs are fairly simple. Just download the ROM (zip) , copy it to your SD card on the phone (use USB) - then boot your phone (turn off , ON in a special way ) into Clockwork MOD, Wipe the Caches, install from SD (find the ROM you put on there)
bingo - new Mod.

If you like the HTC Sense flavor - then currently - you will probably want:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819715

If you dont need or want HTC Sense and want something different - try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821642
(dont forget the google addons too)

They are both excellent ROMs - and would recommend you try both at sometime and decide yourself - and yes - they are both very stable.

As for the HTC Over The Air version - I wouldnt install it - period.

We seriously need someone to devote a sticky thread for all of this.. Like a ROM Bible if you will.. It would help out tremendously.

Edit:

Looks like Notatreofan has one, but it needs severely updated.

Thank you guys for your responses.

I managed to root my Aria and CM6-6.1.1-Liberty works fine.
However, when I install Liberated Aria Froyo Series FR008 I get the following message on my start up screen:
"Sorry! The application settings (process com.android. settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." "Force close"

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Originally Posted by fealloy

Thank you guys for your responses.

I managed to root my Aria and CM6-6.1.1-Liberty works fine.
However, when I install Liberated Aria Froyo Series FR008 I get the following message on my start up screen:
"Sorry! The application settings (process com.android. settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." "Force close"

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

When you switch between CM 6 and Liberated ROM you need to make sure that you do a "wipe data/factory reset", "wipe cache partition" and advanced -> "Wipe Dalvik Cache" before you flash the ROM.

Also make sure that when you boot into clockwork your phone is NOT connected to your computer. Having USB connected when starting up clockwork makes funny things happen... well actually, not so funny. =)

Well, I was only doing "wipe data/factory reset", i guess this is the problem. Now i ll have to clear some data to try it again, only 52mb left from the sd...

Now it is time to do a search for a nice theme, and get the radio working. In regards to the radio, I downloaded some apps however they all work with the web, not the transmitter

Originally Posted by tpbklake

When you switch between CM 6 and Liberated ROM you need to make sure that you do a "wipe data/factory reset", "wipe cache partition" and advanced -> "Wipe Dalvik Cache" before you flash the ROM.

Originally Posted by 911jason

Also make sure that when you boot into clockwork your phone is NOT connected to your computer. Having USB connected when starting up clockwork makes funny things happen... well actually, not so funny. =)

I followed both advices but still no luck, the Liberated Aria Froyo is still not working
When I turn on the device and immediately after I unlock the screen, I get the following message:
Sorry! The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Any more guesses?

Originally Posted by fealloy

I followed both advices but still no luck, the Liberated Aria Froyo is still not working
When I turn on the device and immediately after I unlock the screen, I get the following message:
Sorry! The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

Any more guesses?

Have you downloaded a new copy of the Liberated FR008 and tried flashing that? It sounds like either the ROM zip file is corrupt when you flash it onto the phone or the wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache and dalvik cache is not working correctly.