Tried flashing a theme, Droid in boot loop?

[easye]

Let me know where I went wrong..

-Downloaded "TruBlue_BBv0.6.2" on Pc
-Mounted Droid and placed .zip file on SD card
-Unmounted
-Backed up current ROM with ClockworkMod
-ROM Manager > Install ROM from SD > "TruBlue_BBv0.6.2"
-Did NOT clear cache
-Phone reboots, appears to be going fine
-Following "M" logo, droid gets stuck trying to load the white "DROID" Not sure why it showed this because the boot animation for BuglessBeast is the Droid X eye, I just assumed it'd be blue in this them

Restored with no problem, but why didn't the theme take?

 

[easye]

please? someone?

 

[UltraDroid]

Let me know where I went wrong..

-Downloaded "TruBlue_BBv0.6.2" on Pc
-Mounted Droid and placed .zip file on SD card
-Unmounted
-Backed up current ROM with ClockworkMod
-ROM Manager > Install ROM from SD > "TruBlue_BBv0.6.2"
-Did NOT clear cache
-Phone reboots, appears to be going fine
-Following "M" logo, droid gets stuck trying to load the white "DROID" Not sure why it showed this because the boot animation for BuglessBeast is the Droid X eye, I just assumed it'd be blue in this them

Restored with no problem, but why didn't the theme take?

The culprit may be Rom Manager itself. That's a weird program, and while I have it on all three of my phones, I rarely use the thing, since it has a habit of not doing what you told it to do. Try using RM to boot you into CW Recovery, then use Recovery itself to install the theme. I *never* use RM to do the actual install, on any of my phones, preferring to chose what I want to do from the recovery program and eliminating the middle man.

Another possibility is to go ahead and clear the cache - that may have been a factor in your problem.

-Mike

 

[huskerkate]

Did you install the rom first, and then the theme over the rom, without wiping?? If so, then maybe you just got a corrupt download of the theme file. Redownload it, and try flashing again.

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[easye]

Let me know where I went wrong..

-Downloaded "TruBlue_BBv0.6.2" on Pc
-Mounted Droid and placed .zip file on SD card
-Unmounted
-Backed up current ROM with ClockworkMod
-ROM Manager > Install ROM from SD > "TruBlue_BBv0.6.2"
-Did NOT clear cache
-Phone reboots, appears to be going fine
-Following "M" logo, droid gets stuck trying to load the white "DROID" Not sure why it showed this because the boot animation for BuglessBeast is the Droid X eye, I just assumed it'd be blue in this them

Restored with no problem, but why didn't the theme take?

The culprit may be Rom Manager itself. That's a weird program, and while I have it on all three of my phones, I rarely use the thing, since it has a habit of not doing what you told it to do. Try using RM to boot you into CW Recovery, then use Recovery itself to install the theme. I *never* use RM to do the actual install, on any of my phones, preferring to chose what I want to do from the recovery program and eliminating the middle man.

Another possibility is to go ahead and clear the cache - that may have been a factor in your problem.

-Mike

I have noticed some weirdness with RM (the loading ring is always going when I have it open and many of the free ROMs dont appea). So boot into clockwork recovery, then select install and the theme will be there?


EDIT: Tried this method, same result. It reads that the install was successful, but when I reboot it just barely flickers at that DROID animation. I guess it must be a corrupted download? Or is there a major step I'm not doing...

Did you install the rom first, and then the theme over the rom, without wiping?? If so, then maybe you just got a corrupt download of the theme file. Redownload it, and try flashing again.

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Yes, I installed BB then tried to install the theme over it. I'll give it another shot. I'll admit I got pretty scared when I got that boot loop screen, but its pretty simple to fix.

 

[titans1]

start all over from scratch. redownload. rename update.zip clear cache and datawipe 3 times. then install

 

[easye]

start all over from scratch. redownload. rename update.zip clear cache and datawipe 3 times. then install

I'll give this a shot. Any reason I can't use Dropbox to get the file onto my SD, rather than USB?

 

[wricks]

You didn't mention the ROM you are running. If you are running Pete's latest (v.6.2.1 or the ver. with the easter egg) then I don't believe a theme for v6.2 will function correctly.

 

[easye]

You didn't mention the ROM you are running. If you are running Pete's latest (v.6.2.1 or the ver. with the easter egg) then I don't believe a theme for v6.2 will function correctly.

My mistake. I'm running Bugless Beast 6.2.1, which I believe is the newest stable build of the ROM.

 

[wricks]

You didn't mention the ROM you are running. If you are running Pete's latest (v.6.2.1 or the ver. with the easter egg) then I don't believe a theme for v6.2 will function correctly.

My mistake. I'm running Bugless Beast 6.2.1, which I believe is the newest stable build of the ROM.

I believe that may be the issue. I think Pete some framework changes that make older themes incompatable.