Coming from Captivate, flashing questions

[p4ranoid4ndroid]

Sorry if this should be in a different thread. Not trying to get flamed. So I am coming from a captivate and am just wondering how is flashing stuff on the inspire different from the captivate? Typically most of my flashing was just done thru CWM on the captivate itself or thru ODIN. I know ODIN doesnt exist for the inspire, but what differences can I expect coming into? how do I get to recovery or download? Any answers on how the flashing experience is different would be much appreciated

 

[gunnyman]

Once you've rooted it's pretty much the same as captivate install rom manager and install Rom with cwm recovery. There isn't a need to flash back to stock. Just clear data and cache.

Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

 

[matt_b]

yup, clockwork mod makes life a hell of a lot easier.

 

[bkeaver]

And this restore a heck of a lot better than the captivate did. I don't even use titanium backup anymore. All my txt messages and apps automatically restores including wallpaper

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[p4ranoid4ndroid]

Thanks guys, my only question is how to get CWM on this phone after root. Im assuming its thru a kernel?

 

[gunnyman]

same way you do it on the captivate get rom manager from the market. Install CWM Recovery.

There's no need for special recoveries like on the captivate as there's no lagfix craziness to deal with. HTC uses Android/Linux standard file systems

 

[p4ranoid4ndroid]

same way you do it on the captivate get rom manager from the market. Install CWM Recovery.

There's no need for special recoveries like on the captivate as there's no lagfix craziness to deal with. HTC uses Android/Linux standard file systems

Lol, kinda forgot thats all that needed to be done to get CWM. Too much stress with the captivate.

 

[gunnyman]

Yeah I had to retrain my brain as well.

 

[h_22_accord]

Lol, kinda forgot thats all that needed to be done to get CWM. Too much stress with the captivate.

Totally agree, ill never get samsung again. I would probably flash a different rom on my captivate every other day to find out which one had what bugs and what didnt work correctly, lol. The Inspire is a lot harder to root then the captivate, but is well worth it when you do, for one roms are higher quality and all 100% working, even cm7 rc1. There is no download mode for inspire, you can manually boot into bootloader mode and from there you can enter CWM Recovery.

 

[p4ranoid4ndroid]

So i looked at the HTC hack kit, are there any better instructions for rooting? just didnt see anything laid out in that thread.

Another question for yall: On the captivate when wifi was active the 3g symbol would disappear. This doesnt happen on my inspire. Does that mean hspa is still running while im connected to wifi? Battery drain is my issue with this

 

[gunnyman]

there's a readme in the hack kit. Very easy to follow

 

[h_22_accord]

There is youtube two part video walkthrough, thats what i used. I learn easier if i can see it happening.

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[hololight]

On the vibrant (captivate) a bad kernel or Rom could mean boot loop and no hope of getting into clockwork and we would have to use odin. This doesn't happen on the inspire?

Sent from my Inspire '4g'.

 

[h_22_accord]

ive had boot loop happen twice so far and both times i manually went into boot loader and went to CWM recovery and wiped data and reflashed then everything was fine. The one time i reflashed and still got boot loop i just restored back up and then flashed and was good to go. I made a backup right after i rooted so i wouldnt have to do it again, i suggest you do the same just to be safe.

 

[Corriewf]

And this restore a heck of a lot better than the captivate did. I don't even use titanium backup anymore. All my txt messages and apps automatically restores including wallpaper

Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

Not to hijack, but what do you mean? How do you restore all your apps etc without titanium?

 

[p4ranoid4ndroid]

Not to hijack, but what do you mean? How do you restore all your apps etc without titanium?

lol dont mind the hijacking. the more questions asked the better.

 

[h_22_accord]

the market auto restores your apps when you sign in with your google account, i cant really explain how it does this, but it sure is nice.

 

[gunnyman]

when you check back up my settings when you sign into google for teh first time, it starts keeping a list of market apps you've installed and restores them if you do a factory reset. doesn't seem to catch all of mine all the time though.

 

[ask_j]

still have some questions regarding Flash

I read the rooting thread as well as saw the video, what I could understand is that in captivate we were rooting and then upgrading the ROM.
But here we are rooting and the downgrading.. Are we loosing any functionality? Its little difficult to understand..

can someone pls help?

 

[gunnyman]

You are actually downgrading the ROM then rooting THAT. After you have root, and have clockwork mod recovery installed you can install any rooted rom you like. There are a few to choose from in the Dev section.
The current Android release on the Inspire hasn't been "cracked" yet so you need to downgrade to get root.