[Guide] How to install roms on over stock rom (not compromising space), via ss.

[dooku77]

So does this remove the safety net we set up at the beginning of setting up ss? Sorry ss is all new to me.

 

[hctimin]

After doing what OP mentioned, SS does disappear, but I just re-installed it after moving Beans to the stock slot.

Knox was still 0x0 and root was still maintained for me.

 

[Brandonrz]

After doing what OP mentioned, SS does disappear, but I just re-installed it after moving Beans to the stock slot.

Knox was still 0x0 and root was still maintained for me.

Are you talking about the app or the recovery?

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[toddnbrown]

nice writeup, worked flawlessly for me. One question, when sbreen pushes out OTA updates to Hyperdrive, will there be any issues flashing that on top of HD in the stock slot?

 

[hctimin]

Are you talking about the app or the recovery?

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The app and Hashcode's SS splash screen disappeared. Wasn't a big deal as I just re-installed it and was back in business.

 

[Mr. Toad]

Do you have to delete the ROM Slot before restoring it to the main slot? I did not delete it and am getting a failure when restoring the ROM. My MD5 Sums are good. I have flashed many roms on unlocked bootloaders. This is my first time using something like SS since my Droid 2 days. Afraid to boot into the main slot now if it is corrupted.

Anyone know if I do boot to that will I still get the SS splash screen?

 

[Brandonrz]

Do you have to delete the ROM Slot before restoring it to the main slot? I did not delete it and am getting a failure when restoring the ROM. My MD5 Sums are good. I have flashed many roms on unlocked bootloaders. This is my first time using something like SS since my Droid 2 days. Afraid to boot into the main slot now if it is corrupted.

Anyone know if I do boot to that will I still get the SS splash screen?

I don't know, I would think it would hurt. It may be a bad backup or try rebooting recovery, mounting all of the partitions, deleting the virtual rom slot, and try again . If that doesn't work just try a new backup. And make sure your running the most recent safestrap build.

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[Mr. Toad]

I don't know, I would think it would hurt. It may be a bad backup or try rebooting recovery, mounting all of the partitions, deleting the virtual rom slot, and try again . If that doesn't work just try a new backup. And make sure your running the most recent safestrap build.

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Yeah, Well like an idiot I answered my own question. You do not get a splash screen when the main ROM slot is bad. Glad I had the ODIN files downloaded already just in case.

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I unbricked with ODIN without wiping. Rooted via Kingo. Installed SS. Flashed the new SuperSU and Found my slots still there. That was good. I will try to flash the stock slot again tomorrow.

 

[jmorton10]

]I unbricked with ODIN without wiping. Rooted via Kingo. Installed SS. Flashed the new SuperSU and Found my slots still there. That was good. I will try to flash the stock slot again tomorrow.

I had mine setup with the stock ROM (although it was highly debloated and customized) in the stock slot and Beans in ROM slot 1.

I had purchased mine the day it came out so it had the old m9 firmware. At this point, I made a nandroid of both the stock and the Beans setup to my 64 gig card.

The ROM was MUCH too customized (apps deleted etc.) to even attempt to do the OTA update so I downloaded the full mj9 tar image from crack flashers & flashed that with Odin. That obviously left it with no root, so I rooted with Kingo.

I then installed the latest safestrap and reinstalled the TWRP recovery. When I booted into recovery, I had to re-create the ROM 1 slot, so I did that & then restored the Beans nandroid BU to that slot. That setup runs absolutely perfect, I have the new firmware/modem etc. and I still have a virgin copy of the stock mj7 ROM in the stock slot that I could fall back on if anything bad happens.

I thought about deleting the stock slot, but I figured I will leave that intact to accept further firmware updates etc.etc.

I still have over 2 gigs of free space with 97 apps installed so there is no real reason to delete it anyway at the present time.

 

[Brandonrz]

I had mine setup with the stock ROM (although it was highly debloated and customized) in the stock slot and Beans in ROM slot 1.

I had purchased mine the day it came out so it had the old m9 firmware. At this point, I made a nandroid of both the stock and the Beans setup to my 64 gig card.

The ROM was MUCH too customized (apps deleted etc.) to even attempt to do the OTA update so I downloaded the full mj9 tar image from crack flashers & flashed that with Odin. That obviously left it with no root, so I rooted with Kingo.

I then installed the latest safestrap and reinstalled the TWRP recovery. When I booted into recovery, I had to re-create the ROM 1 slot, so I did that & then restored the Beans nandroid BU to that slot. That setup runs absolutely perfect, I have the new firmware/modem etc. and I still have a virgin copy of the stock mj7 ROM in the stock slot that I could fall back on if anything bad happens.

I thought about deleting the stock slot, but I figured I will leave that intact to accept further firmware updates etc.etc.

I still have over 2 gigs of free space with 97 apps installed so there is no real reason to delete it anyway at the present time.

You can't delete the stock slot. And if you were planning of just running Rom-slot-1 and deleting the stock (impossible). Why don't you just flash over stock so you can utilize all of the storage, and you wanted to delete it. I created a tutorial in general to flash over stock.

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[jmorton10]

You can't delete the stock slot. And if you were planning of just running Rom-slot-1 and deleting the stock (impossible).

Yea, I worded that wrong.

I realize you can't delete the stock slot.

 

[Mr. Toad]

I tried again. It worked without a problem. I did delete the ROM slot this time. Thanks.

 

[Deekayy]

So after reading this.. You delete rom-slot1 and restore the backed up rom-slot1 into the stock ROM? Does it overwrite stockrom files or delete prior before restoring onto stock slot?

 

[Brandonrz]

So after reading this.. You delete rom-slot1 and restore the backed up rom-slot1 into the stock ROM? Does it overwrite stockrom files or delete prior before restoring onto stock slot?

Yep, if you read the commands while restoring its saying "deleting system, deleting DATA" ect... But to be safe I still wripe all of the partitions except internal storage (that's were my rom and backups are).

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[Deekayy]

Yep, if you read the commands while restoring its saying "deleting system, deleting DATA" ect... But to be safe I still wripe all of the partitions except internal storage (that's were my rom and backups are).

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Alright, thanks!

 

[Tomsgt]

Heres a video I made on this topic as well please put it the OP if you think it will help
http://youtu.be/S_Fyd2HOOxQ

 

[Brandonrz]

Heres a video I made on this topic as well please put it the OP if you think it will help
http://youtu.be/S_Fyd2HOOxQ

I sent you a pm.

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[Menardo]

If i have Hyperdrive installed over stock like you showed. If i want to update to the newest Hyperdrive do i just perform the same steps with the updated rom?!

 

[Menardo]

If i have Hyperdrive installed over stock like you showed. If i want to update to the newest Hyperdrive do i just perform the same steps with the updated rom?!

Just wanted to confirm it worked...

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[kalani91]

when I tried to backup the rom I put in slot 1, it said backup failed " unable to mount internal storage, unable to mount external SD. Do I need to mount them first?