Best way to ensure a clean rom install?

[ckamc]

So I was in the middle of switch around away from UD10 to the lastest Cyanogenmod.

Now the first time I set everything up to try apps2sd and found how unstable it was.

tried doing a clean re-install but kept running into glicthes.

wiped and only had nandroid backups left at the time so wiped to one.

jumped back into clockworksmod and did an update.zip to NexTheme Droid v2

now its power cycling.

Everything looks like a mix of one of my old backgrounds instead of the one shown in the rom page but icons are layed out like stock and apps were missing.

whats the best way for me to have a themed Cyanogen?

[bL33d]

use clockwork recovery instead of sprecovery and go in to partition menu then format boot,data,system and cache then install the rom thats what i do everytime.

[ckamc]

Would having your SD card still formatted to possibly accept apps2sd possibly still allow it to mess up the stability of a rom?

[bL33d]

i wouldent think so

[BlacknTan]

Would having your SD card still formatted to possibly accept apps2sd possibly still allow it to mess up the stability of a rom?

It may. Cyanogen may be reading apps off of your SD card. I switched over from UD10 too and I had a lot of force closes because of the apps on my apps2sd partition. I'll walk you through how to fix it.

1. Restore a backup of a working ROM

2. Boot up your Droid, mount the sdcard, and backup anything important from off of your sdcard on to your computer. (Note.. MAKE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR NANDROID FOLDER JUST IN CASE)

3. Turn off APPS2SD (if you have it on), Download Rom Manager from the market and pay for the premium version (it's worth it).

4. Click on the Rom Manager icon, and then click on Flash ClockworkMod Recovery

5. Click on Partition SD card in the Rom Manager menu and let Rom Manager repartition the card and format your data.

6. Backup your current rom just in case.

7. download NexRom-5.0.6.2 from here (NOT NexThemeV2.0... that's just the theme files), reboot into recovery and apply the update. (no need to rename it to update.zip if you're using clockwork).

edit: re-reading your OP, the problem also could be that you tried flashing the theme file and not the whole ROM. I'd format the sdcard just in case though... at the least format the sd-ext partition.

[dub8420]

use clockwork recovery instead of sprecovery and go in to partition menu then format boot,data,system and cache then install the rom thats what i do everytime.

Mine says cannot bedone with a column of no's and then a wipe partion in the middle of each option. Do that?

[BlacknTan]

use clockwork recovery instead of sprecovery and go in to partition menu then format boot,data,system and cache then install the rom thats what i do everytime.

Mine says cannot bedone with a column of no's and then a wipe partion in the middle of each option. Do that?

Yes. Wipe it.

[cooltool]

use clockwork recovery instead of sprecovery and go in to partition menu then format boot,data,system and cache then install the rom thats what i do everytime.

Is there a difference between wiping Data and Cache during a ROM install than to go into partition menu and formatting there?

[Droids]

use clockwork recovery instead of sprecovery and go in to partition menu then format boot,data,system and cache then install the rom thats what i do everytime.

Is there a difference between wiping Data and Cache during a ROM install than to go into partition menu and formatting there?

No, no difference. When you pick a ROM from the manager and choose to wipe data and cache, The phone will reboot, wipe those 2 partitions, and apply the new rom automatically. It's good enough most times, but I've a little better luck when I just download the rom to the phone, then boot manually to Clockwork recovery, and wipe all 4 partitions, then install the rom and then any other updates like Google Apps, etc. and reboot.

I also went with apps2sd when I installed 5.0.6.1 and when I upgraded to 6.2 I didn't do any wiping at all. All my apps and data were there and working fine. I then applied some smoke glass for the theme and all is well. For me, apps2sd works flawlessly, and if you are moving from one cm rom to a minor update to that rom, there is no need to wipe data and cache.

[ckamc]

only problem I have is I am negative in my bank account so I cant get premiumk version til monday.

Tried switching to a completely different rom (chevy 3.1) and I STILL get the same issue. OS being completely unstable if I try to use wifi or "making it work hard" on 3g.

I am about ready to chuck this phone out the window because I never had a problem with UD stuff... but I wanted to use the respectable rom so I switched.

... and its been down hill since apps2sd

I am considering unrooting and seeing if the problems still continue... and if they do I might just try and FRU the phone out 4 times before november to try and get into the next qwerty android release *like LG*