I shouldnt have signed up as dodgerid, dumbass would have been more appropriate.
Got my son an x5a/x6d multitouch, g-sensor 215/4gb ,for christmas, loves it but upset with being unable to play divx, I said I would have a look at upgrading it to froyo as it's more likely for a player to come along working.
Have been at it about 44 hours (thats solid till 6am and that sort of thing.)
Started out by downloading Rom Manager and trying to install clockworkmod recovery, rom manager wanted me to select from a list of phones so that was out of the window.
I did however install an older version from the lower down menu option but did not think it had taken due to being unable to start it in recovery mode. So this led me to using adb to install it.
Had a good fight with the computer for hours trying to get the adb working to no avail, noticed in *one* thread someone mentioned PdaNet so I gave a try and instantly *Bingo adb up and running perfectly, so got the recovery flashed on using the adb.
(I had rooted by now.)
Manged to manually after a bit of trying, get it to load recovery as Rom Manager not doing so.
Couldnt select from the menu so reset and tried again and it worked.
Did a backup to sdcard, reset data etc, clicked advanced (you may sware at me now) and cleared devleric or whatever the option is and batt stats.
Already had put the froyo update (correct one) on sdcard as update.zip, so fired it up to update, all went fine, when finished hit hard reset, and *hmmm hanging on the penguin ???
Oh sugar i thought and went for recovery mode, got it in to recovery mode and no touch functionality, could not select options.
Headbutted table a couple of times and started researching fwdn blah blah.
Finally after many hours managed to get right pressing combination to work to get it into fwdn. Having realised that touch must be working if got into that mode tried recovery again, but no touch functionality again.
So Started up the fwdn again, reflashed with Pandawill g11 image that stated right for x5a gsensor and was same original #157, seemed to go on fine. When all had finished rebooted and reset, and guess what !
Flashed up with "Gpad" the android had done a runner, the screen went black and stayed there, so reset again with same result, tried without the usb, the second i pulled the usb lead out it powered off - ugg.
I can get the device connected to computer with adb driver but device not found, am unable to get fwdn playing again. Device manager no longer calls it *Android Eclair* and now simply calls it *Android* have tried every key combination with usb in with usb out, have shorted the switch contacts to force usb host / fwdn but no joy, simply cannot get it connected to reflash no matter what I try.
Please, please tell me it is not finished, tell me you have done this too and this is how to fix it.
There is only so long i can lie to my son lol.
(Feel free to call me names.)
Got my son an x5a/x6d multitouch, g-sensor 215/4gb ,for christmas, loves it but upset with being unable to play divx, I said I would have a look at upgrading it to froyo as it's more likely for a player to come along working.
Have been at it about 44 hours (thats solid till 6am and that sort of thing.)
Started out by downloading Rom Manager and trying to install clockworkmod recovery, rom manager wanted me to select from a list of phones so that was out of the window.
I did however install an older version from the lower down menu option but did not think it had taken due to being unable to start it in recovery mode. So this led me to using adb to install it.
Had a good fight with the computer for hours trying to get the adb working to no avail, noticed in *one* thread someone mentioned PdaNet so I gave a try and instantly *Bingo adb up and running perfectly, so got the recovery flashed on using the adb.
(I had rooted by now.)
Manged to manually after a bit of trying, get it to load recovery as Rom Manager not doing so.
Couldnt select from the menu so reset and tried again and it worked.
Did a backup to sdcard, reset data etc, clicked advanced (you may sware at me now) and cleared devleric or whatever the option is and batt stats.
Already had put the froyo update (correct one) on sdcard as update.zip, so fired it up to update, all went fine, when finished hit hard reset, and *hmmm hanging on the penguin ???
Oh sugar i thought and went for recovery mode, got it in to recovery mode and no touch functionality, could not select options.
Headbutted table a couple of times and started researching fwdn blah blah.
Finally after many hours managed to get right pressing combination to work to get it into fwdn. Having realised that touch must be working if got into that mode tried recovery again, but no touch functionality again.
So Started up the fwdn again, reflashed with Pandawill g11 image that stated right for x5a gsensor and was same original #157, seemed to go on fine. When all had finished rebooted and reset, and guess what !
Flashed up with "Gpad" the android had done a runner, the screen went black and stayed there, so reset again with same result, tried without the usb, the second i pulled the usb lead out it powered off - ugg.
I can get the device connected to computer with adb driver but device not found, am unable to get fwdn playing again. Device manager no longer calls it *Android Eclair* and now simply calls it *Android* have tried every key combination with usb in with usb out, have shorted the switch contacts to force usb host / fwdn but no joy, simply cannot get it connected to reflash no matter what I try.
Please, please tell me it is not finished, tell me you have done this too and this is how to fix it.
There is only so long i can lie to my son lol.
(Feel free to call me names.)