Discouraged and need help installing ROM

[joezek]

Ok, I'm getting pretty frustrated since nothing seems to work and all my searches are unbelievably full of way too many results with no answers.

I have a DX and simply want a step by step guide to changing the ROM. I don't know why but it's friking impossible to find a thread telling me how to do so. I just wasted no less than 3 hours searching with all kinds of detours misleading me into every wrong dead end you can imagine.

So far I've successfully rooted the phone. I supposedly installed clockwork mod, however it will not boot into the clockwork mod bootloader. I've searched the Koush website endlessly for instructions and can't find them. I have superuser setup and it says ROM manager and Titanium backup are both allowed.

I've downloaded the Liberty ROM onto the phone and it shows it to me in the ROM manager, but will not reboot into the loader. Instead it just keeps skipping that and going into a normal reboot. I'm about to throw it out the window.

 

[KHeeney5]

Here you go.

You can read through it all and decide where you need to start.

Good luck! Let me know if you need help.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...droid-x-root-guide-post-questions-inside.html

 

[spaz33g]

The problem is Rom manager is essentially useless on your phone. You need to pick up a copy of the droid x bootstrapper either in the marketplace or from koush's website and use that to get access to clockwork mod recovery.

tappin and a talkin

 

[joezek]

thanks for your advice, I installed the bootstrap. We'll see how I do now.

 

[spaz33g]

Once you have the bootstrapper hit bootstrap recovery to get access to cm recovery. After that its mostly self explanatory but if you have any questions don't hesitate to post em here.

tappin and a talkin

 

[joezek]

any suggestions for using the USB cable to keep it charging while updating ROM?

 

[spaz33g]

It won't charge while its in recovery so have it charged to at least like 80% before you start.

tappin and a talkin

 

[joezek]

all done, but all my apps are missing

 

[spaz33g]

That's what happens when you do a data wipe. If you didn't back up your apps with titanium then after you open the market for the first time your apps will start do download again.

tappin and a talkin

 

[joezek]

I tried the market but nothing has happened. The only app it shows me in market is the bootstrap I paid for. I'm trying to remember which ones I had and download them all again....getting there. Seems faster, maybe all in my head.

 

[MrKleen]

All your apps should simply reload shortly after you load your new rom. It is all automatic and if it's not you don't have your settings correct.

 

[joezek]

I need some coaching with saving my apps too. Apparently I can't seem to find any setting for backing them up. I had the Droid Incredible and rooted it, and experimented with different ROMs and every time the apps reinstalled themselves. This time I don't know what I did differently. I've even exchanged my phone with a warranty replacement (DINC) and that time all the apps installed by themselves. I've tried looking at the sync menu and can't seem to find anything there either. I thought that when I powered up the phone for the very first time, and it asked me to type in my google account number, then it logged into market and begins downloading previous apps...?

Isn't Google supposed to have all that stored on my account?

 

[MrKleen]

In your settings menu under privacy do you have "back up my data" and "automatic restore" checked?

 

[forever29]

Are you still on the 2.2.320 system version?

Sent from my X. HUUU!!!

 

[joezek]

It no longer says the system version in the "About Phone" menu. But it used to be 2.3.40.

"Back up my data" and "automatic restore" are both checked.