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How To: Load a Custom ROM on the T-Mobile G2 / HTC Vision

November 30, 2010 in Android How To's, Featured, How To's, HTC G2 How To's, Video

I. Before You Begin

1. This method is for flashing a custom recovery image and custom ROM.

2. You MUST have done our How To Temp Root and the How To Perm Root / S-OFF procedures for the G2 BEFORE coming to this procedure.

II. Flash a Custom Recovery Image

1. Once you have done the above to procedures, open the Market on your phone and search for ROM Manager (Free).

2. Install it.

3. Open the ROM Manager app and click Menu, then Settings and turn ON Delete Recovery.

4. Click Back and then select Flash Recovery.

5. Choose your phone model and then let it flash the recovery.

6. Click Reboot Recovery and you should be put into the custom recovery image screen. If so, you are all set.

*If you get a phone with a red ! symbol when you reboot into recovery that means it didn’t stick. So just take out the battery and put it back in then turn the phone on and repeat steps 3-6 over and over until you get a black screen with green writing on it instead of the ! screen.

III. Flash a Custom ROM

1. Head to our ROMs section and choose your specific phone. Then click on one of the ROMs and select which one you want. Download it and save it to your computer.

2. Once it is saved, plug in your phone via USB cable and mount the SD card so we can save files to the sd card.

3. Copy the ROM’s .zip file over to the root of the sd card (NOT in any folders on the sd card, just on the root of the card) (do NOT extract it, leave it as a .zip).

4. In the custom recovery screen, select Nandroid then Backup and backup your current ROM.

5. Then select Wipe Data.

6. Then select Apply .zip from sd card and choose the ROM you downloaded earlier.

7. Once it is done flashing, click reboot system. Once it reboots, you are all set. Enjoy!

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69 responses to How To: Load a Custom ROM on the T-Mobile G2 / HTC Vision

  1. xtwo said on January 29, 2011

    You are the man…….Well done!!

  2. Thedoorsfan1 said on January 29, 2011

    how can i revert back to the stock theme?

  3. nalgas al aire said on January 30, 2011

    how times tries does it take to work….i keep getting the ! sign everytime i go into reboot recovery

  4. nalgas al aire said on January 30, 2011

    how times tries does it take to work….i keep getting the ! sign everytime i go into reboot recovery

  5. Gorgihow2000 said on February 5, 2011

    i did temp root and perm root but when try to flash the custom recovery image i get an error occurred while flashing your recovery . i checked i have su permission . any help is most welcomed

  6. Frederick said on February 7, 2011

    I show S-OFF, i uncheck the temp root on boot in visionary and click ‘attempt perm root’, it automatically rebooted. now when i go to terminal emulator and type su, i get the message “must be suid to work properly”. Then I go to Rom Manager and check “erase recovery”, then when i click “flash clockworkmod recovery” and select my phone (G2), i get this message:

    “an error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands!”

    Can you tell me what I need to do at this point? I tried reinstalling Rom manager, but same. I tried rebooting, but same.

  7. Alex said on February 7, 2011

    is there a way to get the newer 2.2.6 market?

    Thanks!

  8. jared said on February 11, 2011

    i did everything and it worked but my t-mobile network wouldnt connect anyone know how to fix this

  9. Bon said on February 20, 2011

    hey i just installed a new rom on my G2 and now i cant play any videos, what do i do?

  10. Nicke said on February 20, 2011

    DAAAVVEEE! your the man i just have a question… lets say i want to switch roms from cm7 to the sense rom (modaco) how would i do this cause ppl are saying not to wipe cache your second time around and others saying you have to… i figured if anyone would know it would be you

  11. Vincent Pursley said on February 21, 2011

    i have done evrything corectly i think but when i got to reboot it just stays on the cyanogen mod start up screen with the blue anfriod guy please help im so lost

  12. ManuelR said on February 22, 2011

    I’m currently on Modaco rom but want to flash a different rom how do I flash the new rom??

  13. Anonymous said on March 9, 2011

    this is so awesome, and helpful thank you

  14. Mitchell Hunter said on March 12, 2011

    I successfully temp and perm rooted phone. Thanks alot btw!

    Problem I am having now is, after I successfully Flashed ClockworkMod Recovery (I also made sure I had gone to setting and click Erase Recovery), when i got to Reboot into Recovery is freezes on the HTC logo and does nothing at all. Help would greatly appreciated so that I may flash the Rom I selected of your site!!!

    Love yours work every thing up to now worked perfectly!

  15. mh646 said on March 19, 2011

    the red exclamation keeps coming out!

  16. Rajeshn2006 said on March 27, 2011

    Thanks …. followed the steps to a T and got my G2 rooted and Running Gingerbread…..

  17. Rollinhigh83 said on April 7, 2011

    just letting you know i did everything right and i can’t get the s-off, giving it up after 10 tries..

  18. Geo Carranza said on April 12, 2011

    thnks for the help. How do I change roms? LIke im using one rom and i want to change it to another one. DO i just follow step 3?

  19. Anonymous said on April 18, 2011

    hi ,
    when i choose reboot into recovery image it turns off it shows the htc for a little bit, turns off, then shows the htc logo again then it does the g2 and then to the normal phone unlock
    i dont know what to do
    please help mee
    greatly appreciated

  20. Cristaly Cruzs said on April 22, 2011

    I was wondering if you root people’s phone for them. If so how do I get in touch with you so I can have mine done (I have a G2 as well) thanks

  21. Cristaly Cruzs said on April 22, 2011

    I was wondering if you root people’s phone for them. If so how do I get in touch with you so I can have mine done (I have a G2 as well) thanks

  22. Torticho said on April 24, 2011

    I loaded CM7 and its great. the only problem is that navication is not working. It opens but never finds gps signal. Yes I activated the use of GPS satellites.

    • Torticho said on April 24, 2011

      upssss I was trying to say Navigation instead of navication. Sorry To much sangria.

  23. bob said on May 1, 2011

    Error cant flash recovery keeps showing up. Unlockr should i find a different recovery image? I looked into rom managers file and i believe it is there. What should i do?

  24. Wendy said on May 31, 2011

    i tried to flash clockworkmod recovery> and it flashed it in like two seconds. then when it tries to reboot i get nothing but a white htc screen. I left it on and it doesn’t do anything unless i take out the battery. what do i do to make this right? anyone? and please hurry!

    • TheUnlockr said on May 31, 2011

      Make sure you did the How To Temp Root procedure and then the How To Perm Root procedure. Then come to this one. If you have an issue getting the recovery to stick just read the * section under Section II.

  25. Kyle Kaulfers said on August 4, 2011

    My phone doesnt have android market or any stock apps anymore, what have i possibly done wrong? I dont have gmail and i reseted my phone and still dont have anything. some one help

    • David Cogen said on August 4, 2011

      You probably load a Cyanogen ROM. Simply go to where you downloaded the ROM and look for a “Google Apps” or “Gapps” .zip file, you need to flash that separately in recovery after flashing the ROM. If that doesn’t work, just flash a different ROM.

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