HOW TO FLASH A ROM WITH AMON-RA AND A BROKEN TRACKBALL

Ok, so I'm kind of a noob with a lot of things but I'm a quick learner so I figured out how to flash a rom with a broken trackball.
The only method I know to flash a ROM (prior to this) is via Amon-RA system recovery.
My trackball recently broke... somehow between a wipe and a flash. It had been hard to get it to scroll to wipe and then when I tried to flash, it wouldn't work at all. I based this off of erisuser1's (over at androidforum.com) post but modified it to work on OS X. (no, not a crApple fanboy, but my personal laptop is a macbook).

His post is here:
http://android forums.com/eris-all-things-root/163423-flashing-rom-trackball-not-working.html#post1495912


This is for OS X... check his link for Windows.
1)
Get the android SDK if you don't have it. Put it in your home folder (or C drive for Windows).
So for me, it's pedrosarsama/android-sdk (i shortened the name of the directory for ease)
*For OS X users it is important to put it in the home folder to avoid having to type in lengthy directory names

2)
Open terminal

3) Update your APIs and what have you so that your SDK is completely up to date.
To do this, in terminal type <android update sdk>
The result will be:

This will open the SDK's GUI to the exact place you need it to be



Click "Accept All" then "Install"

4)
Wait a little while for everything to update. If you're on top of your SDK and you don't need anything to update, proceed.

5)
Close the GUI and return to Terminal

6)
Get your phone, reboot it into Amon-RA (that's volume-down +power if your phone is off, or else reboot into recovery if that option is available), and connect it via USB to your computer.

7)
From terminal, start an adb shell which is pretty easy in OS X


the whole line looks like this:


input the following code for a backup:

the result should be

at this point, I would remove my back cover then press the trackball (only feature that works for it) to reboot by phone... as soon as the screen goes off (not black, but OFF), pull the battery. insert batter, boot into recovery once again; restart terminal while your phone is off and once it's on again, start another adb shell.

9)
Wipe your data using:

wait a while.
go drink some coffee, smoke a cigarette if you're so inclined. Maybe even walk your dogs.
(this is what I did)

Then, reboot, battery pull, etc... as in step 8 and boot into recovery once again.

10)
Flash the ROM using this code
insert the name of your rom for romname. make sure it's spelled EXACTLY as on the SD card and make sure it is in the SD card's root directory.
At this point, I was experiencing trouble because of spaces in the ROM's name so I had to pop my SD into a reader and renamed it without spaces.

Once again, wait. (I repeated the above sequence... coffee, cigarette, dogs)

11)Reboot your phone, and VOILA!

Wow what a great tuto! Although someone that has no in depth computer knowledge would probably be completely lost! LOL

only if the phone isn't rooted; otherwise, he'll be paying the full cost.

the best bet is to unroot then get the replacement phone. idk if it can be done via this method. i know nothing about unrooting but Sik has a tutorial about it somewhere on here. you might want to check if it can work with this. that's my plan; i might just be content to use this to update my ROM because that's the only use I ever had for the trackball once i stopped playing tower defense games on my phone

I'm not sure my parents got the warranty, and my families upgrading thing is whacked out. I need to talk to them, the VZW site should tell me right? ha. I don't deal much with the plan/bill/warranty of my phone so I'm kinda going on assumptions.


Yea, if and when I find out about my warranty I will unroot and do so, I actually use the trackball quite a bit; for things like scrolling through text, it makes it miles easier to go to a specific place in a text with it.


I'm gunna flash 8.0 cause I want the full black theme. I will let you know how it goes. Either way, it WILL happen! ha

The link to the Windows one isn't working for me..

Also, I haven't figured out how to restore from a nand backup... if someone can figure that out, i'd name my firstborn son after you
(an aside: I dig the new smileys!)

Make sure you are using a recovery for the same rom you made the backup with. Also make sure you are using the same recovery program that you made the backup with.

Just go into recovery and select backup/restore option.

If you are using clockwork, i know one of their versions had an issue with that. Download the latest version.

Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt...

i havent yet...but im not having problems with the trackball issue. ill have to do so in time, just in case if my trackball does stop working