Finally took the time to redo what I did wrong the first time around. I realized that I never properly got Apps2sd working. So I was running out of space on my phone and it was getting bogged down a lot because it didn’t have available memory to run smoothly.
This was my main source of help on the rooting
Here’s the basic run down to get a sure thing:
- Make sure phone is not plugged into USB
- Turn off phone
- Turn on phone in recovery (Hold Power + Home at same time)
- Phone loads with simple green menu
- Go to Wipe >
* wipe data/factory reset
* wipe dalvik-cache
* wipe sd:ext partition
* wipe battery stats
* wipe rotate settings
(important for things to load right, especially if you had a custom ROM before) - Go to Partition > Partition SD card (Swap = 0, Ext = 512MB, FAT32 = Remaining)
- Plug phone into computer via USB cable
- Go to USB-MS Toggle > Enable
- On PC: Drag your ROM .zip file on to SD card *
- On PC: If you want Live Wallpapers – drag that file on to SD card as well **
- On Phone: Disable USB
- Flash .zip from SD
- Reboot phone
- Before you do anything else – Press Menu > Settings > Manage Applications > HTC Sense > Clear Data (This gets the clock to show up on the home screen)
- Go to town on downloading apps and happiness
* Find a ROM that automatically enables Apps2sd if the SD card is partitioned.
* I use DamageControl 2.09.01 – Stable and fast 2.1 rom, especially when running apps from the SD card
Read the info page on XDA Developers Forum
I have been downloading apps for a month now without any problems with this method. Plenty of apps, all moving to sd card just fine.
@bratt “wipe data/factory reset” essentially is clearing what is set as the default settings. So that way when you flash a new ROM, it creates a new “default” that way you can make additions and modifications to the ROM and have a stable default to reset to.
@brattt Yes, sorry I wasn’t more clear on that, by “wipe all categories” I meant go through each of those that you listed and wipe them. A ‘fresh start’ if you will.
I will edit the list to show this.
Data/Factory Reset is not the same thing. It seems like it could be, but it’s more like Revert to Default. Because it’s not clearing/wiping things, it’s setting them back to their original state with the carrier settings (Sprint, Verizon, etc). So this could un-root your phone.
I’m happy to try to help more if you need it. Let me know if it ends up working for you.
when i go to the green screen, i don’t have wipe all categories, i have wipe–>
*wipe data/factory reset
*wipe dalvik-cache
*wipe sd:ext partition
*wipe battery stats
*wipe rotate settings
is data/factory reset the same thing? i had tried that before but it didn’t seem to work and it was a nightmare to fix.
thanks!
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