want to go back to stock

[furbearingmammal]

Boot into recovery (power phone down, press and hold X on the keyboard and don't let go, power phone up, once the recovery screen appears release X). If the recovery screen has a triangle and a big ! then it's stock and we'll have to start over getting a custom recovery on there. If you get an Andy with a bunch of menus, just scroll down using either the volume keys or the D-pad to backup/restore. Make a simple Nandroid backup. Once it's done you'll have the backup. Reboot into the OS and we'll proceed from there.

 

[pesky]

Ok, got it.

 

[furbearingmammal]

Okay, now that we have our apps backed up and a Nandroid backup, the next step is to decide if you want to keep your texts or not. If you do, there are several programs on the Market that do a better job that Ti used to (don't know about the latest version). If you don't care about losing them then the next step is to download the ROM and app pack (I will provide links, just tell me if you want CM6 or CM7), and put them on your SD card. I'm going to recommend that you upgrade to RZRecovery at this point, but it's far from mandatory, simply for the ease of flashing the ROM/App pack, and the fact that the recovery is an update AND an upgrade to SPRecovery.

 

[pesky]

I don't care about backing my texts up. I will try out CM6, where do I get RZRecovery?

 

[furbearingmammal]

http://www.rzroms.com/droid/recovery/RZR-2.0.1/RZR-2.0.1-update.zip

Rename that update.zip, put it on the root of your SD card, reboot into recovery. Now, Install> Allow update.zip installation> Install update.zip (deprecated). When you reboot you'll have a recovery that looks like this.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/ra...-based-update-zips-battery-charging-more.html

The colors are changed from screen to screen only because it allows custom colors. It also has a flashlight app built in, it charges from recovery, won't flash if your battery is too low, restores clockwork as well as sprecovery backups, is oveclocked for faster backups and restores, etc. etc. etc. It's just awesome.

 

[furbearingmammal]

http://mirror.teamdouche.net/get/update-cm-6.1.2-Droid-signed.zip

That's the ROM. The app pack is here:

http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-hdpi-20101114-signed.zip

Once you have RZRecovery on your phone we'll get those flashed, so let me know when you have RZRecovery flashed and those on your SD card. I'll talk you through the ROMing process.

 

[pesky]

do I need to unzip it or just rename it and place on the root?
*nevermind, it is installing the update now.

 

[pesky]

it says no such file or directory installation aborted

 

[furbearingmammal]

If SPR gives you that error then either the file isn't on the root or it's named something other than update.zip -- so if you have Astro, boot into the OS and rename the file update.zip. Make sure it's not Update.zip, update .zip, update.zip.zip, or update. The .zip has to be there and it has to be in all lower-case letters.

 

[pesky]

how do I make sure it is on the root? It is named correctly.

 

[furbearingmammal]

The root is where you see all the folders. If it's in a folder then it's not in the right place.

 

[pesky]

ok, its in the right place.
I tried again and now it says E:update.zip install blocked Installation aborted
*there is a status bar that continues to go at the bottom of the screen though

 

[furbearingmammal]

You didn't allow before you installed. You have to allow update.zip installation before you install update.zip (deprecated).

Maybe the first time you hit the install ROM option.

 

[pesky]

It is telling me there is no such file or directory installation aborted
*should it be a winrar filetype or do I put it into is own folder?

 

[furbearingmammal]

How did you verify that the file was named correctly? Did you rename it update.zip in Astro? I've had to do that.