My pulse is sloooow

[Guest havfunky]

Okay, so i'm new here.

I have a T-Mobile Pulse. Its as it was from the shop, but i did update it from the t-mobile website with the december update.

The phone is slooooooow at everything. I've heard that you can install a custom rom and it'll be faster. I want to do this but i do not have a clue how.

Is there a FULL step-by-step guide (for someone that doesn't know anything about updating a phone) on how to make my phone run a lot smoother? The guides i've seen seem to have large gaps missing in them- probably assuming that i know what to do when i don't.

Also, should i back up what is on there currently, and if so, how?

Thanks for any help.

Sef

[Guest Bice]

Okay, so i'm new here.

I have a T-Mobile Pulse. Its as it was from the shop, but i did update it from the t-mobile website with the december update.

The phone is slooooooow at everything. I've heard that you can install a custom rom and it'll be faster. I want to do this but i do not have a clue how.

Is there a FULL step-by-step guide (for someone that doesn't know anything about updating a phone) on how to make my phone run a lot smoother? The guides i've seen seem to have large gaps missing in them- probably assuming that i know what to do when i don't.

Also, should i back up what is on there currently, and if so, how?

Thanks for any help.

Sef

Hello!

I followed these instructions. You can find them at the bottom of the page. If you don't need your currently datas, you don't have to back up, but it's recommended. You should install Taskkiller too. With this application, you can kill those applications, what you don't use, so your phone will have more free memory and will be faster. I recommend that, you should turn off autosync too.

[Guest Mohit Singhal]

I followed the below mentioned steps:

- Installed Superboot,it is a boot.img that when flashed, will root your device the first time you boot

Use this link http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...t-a-custom-rom/

- Installed Recovery Image. Use this link

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...on-your-device/

- Install 'Quick Boot' from the Android market

- Partitioned the SD card (create a EXT2/3/4 (3 or 4 recommended) partition as your second partition to use. You must NOT have a swap partition on your SD, or it will refuse to mount.)

- Downloaded the Custom ROM from this link

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...online-kitchen/

- Copy the zip file to your SD card

- Open Quick Boot to to enter recovery mode,give allow. Phone will restart in recovery mode.

- Select 'nandroid backup' from the menu to do a backup

- Select 'Flash zip from sdcard' and apply the main ROM

Wait.. after 5-10 mins it will boot with the new firmware. :)

Cheers

Matrix

[Guest havfunky]

Hello!

I followed these instructions. You can find them at the bottom of the page. If you don't need your currently datas, you don't have to back up, but it's recommended. You should install Taskkiller too. With this application, you can kill those applications, what you don't use, so your phone will have more free memory and will be faster. I recommend that, you should turn off autosync too.

What 'modaco image' do i need? and where do i get it?

do i need to 'root' my phone(whatever that means?!)?

thanks!

[Guest Mohit Singhal]

For partitioning the SD -

- Open Quick boot, select Recovery Mode, allow, phone will reboot.

- You can do the partioning from here itself, follow the instructions from this link

http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-t...ndroid-apps2sd/

Note: Only create two partitions FAT32 and ext2(can be coverted to ext4 later).

No swap partition required.

Cheers

Matrix

Edited March 24, 2010 by Mohit Singhal

[Guest havfunky]

For partitioning the SD -

- Open Quick boot, select Recovery Mode, allow, phone will reboot.

- You can do the partioning from here itself, follow the instructions from this link

http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-t...ndroid-apps2sd/

Note: Only create two partitions FAT32 and ext2(can be coverted to ext4 later).

No swap partition required.

Cheers

Matrix

Look, i know i must sound like a complete tit, but i havent a clue what any of you are talking about!

You are assuming that i know what you are talking about. This is the problem that I (and i imagine a lot of other people out there who have no experience of this) am having- i know NOTHING about modifying the software on a mobile phone. all i want is a full guide to how to do it. i dont want to have to trawl the entire internet because links to files dont work, and people making assumptions that i know what 'Quick Boot' is, etc. I dont. Surely there HAS to be some full step by step guide out there that works. This is so frustrating!

Somebody please point me in the right direction!

Thanks

sef

[Guest le_lutin]

Look, i know i must sound like a complete tit, but i havent a clue what any of you are talking about!

You are assuming that i know what you are talking about. This is the problem that I (and i imagine a lot of other people out there who have no experience of this) am having- i know NOTHING about modifying the software on a mobile phone. all i want is a full guide to how to do it. i dont want to have to trawl the entire internet because links to files dont work, and people making assumptions that i know what 'Quick Boot' is, etc. I dont. Surely there HAS to be some full step by step guide out there that works. This is so frustrating!

Somebody please point me in the right direction!

Thanks

sef

There is no step-by-step guide. You just have to read up on all the things mentioned above.

[Guest ZsZso]

Hehe, it was the same with me... "what's this? what's that? ... where to start?"

Please keep in mind that I'm just a newbie in this "business" :).

Let's see...

U need a Custom ROM.

As a matter of fact there's a nice step-by-step guide in the http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...online-kitchen/ topic ... anyway, here's a more detailed version:

1. Installing the December Update.

I believe that there's no difficulty in updating your phone with the december update. It's required for the Custom ROM, so install it. (check the Installing the December Update part of the first post in that topic)

2. After you've installed this update, you should update your recovery image.

It'll change your recovery menu. It's a nice menu which can be called like this:

Turn off the phone. Hold END, and MENU buttons, and press POWER button.

The original menu is lame ;). With this recovery image you can back up your phone, partition your SD card, and so on (later..).

How to install it? Check this topic: http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...on-your-device/ (How to install - Mac, Linux and OSX).

3. Partition your SD card, so apps could be installed on your SD instead of internal memory. EVERYTHING WILL BE REMOVED FROM YOUR SD CARD SO BE SURE TO BACK IT UP BEFORE THIS OPERATION!!!

3.1. Start up the phone in recovery mode (Turn off the phone. Hold END, and MENU buttons, and press POWER button.)

3.2. Use the Partition sdcard option (set the SWAP size to 0 MB!)

4. Do a nandroid backup

Stay in the recovery mode, and back up your with the "nandroid backup" option (it makes you easy to return to your original ROM with stock december update)

5. Download and extract the Custom ROM.

You have to decide between Vanilla and T-Mobile version.

Vanilla could be found here: http://loadbalancing.modaco.com/url=mf/?s6qqurd4i2w36zs

T-Mobile could be downloaded from here: http://loadbalancing.modaco.com/url=mf/?b9bhnsua37tf7dx

Download one of these and copy it to your SD card's root folder (u need to extract it)

6. Install the Custom ROM

In recovery mode, choose "Flash zip from sdcard".

Good Luck!

UI: Please feel free to correct me, if I was wrong in anything.

[Guest Mohit Singhal]

Look, i know i must sound like a complete tit, but i havent a clue what any of you are talking about!

You are assuming that i know what you are talking about. This is the problem that I (and i imagine a lot of other people out there who have no experience of this) am having- i know NOTHING about modifying the software on a mobile phone. all i want is a full guide to how to do it. i dont want to have to trawl the entire internet because links to files dont work, and people making assumptions that i know what 'Quick Boot' is, etc. I dont. Surely there HAS to be some full step by step guide out there that works. This is so frustrating!

Somebody please point me in the right direction!

Thanks

sef

no offense but that was rude, anyways there is no spoon feeding guide (dats wht i will call it).

My suggestion will be once you start the process which I have mentioned earlier you will automatically start understanding things.

Cheers

Matrix

[Guest Daz555]

Surely there HAS to be some full step by step guide out there that works. This is so frustrating!

Blimey mate. How easy do you want it:

Step One.

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...on-your-device/

Step Two (two choices depending on whether you want vanilla Android or T-Mobile skinned Android)

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...online-kitchen/ or

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...online-kitchen/

Handily enough Step Two directs you to Step One in case you happened to jump in at the wrong place.

I came on here a couple of months back with zero Android knowledge - those two threads were all I needed to get Paul's custom ROM running on my Pulse.

Edited March 24, 2010 by Daz555

[Guest -Wii-]

Blimey mate. How easy do you want it:

Step One.

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...on-your-device/

Step Two (two choices depending on whether you want vanilla Android or T-Mobile skinned Android)

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...online-kitchen/ or

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...online-kitchen/

Handily enough Step Two directs you to Step One in case you happened to jump in at the wrong place.

I came on here a couple of months back with zero Android knowledge - those two threads were all I needed to get Paul's custom ROM running on my Pulse.

I've Just got round to doing it, I've been a bit busy of late and needed my phone in working order so couldn't risk it, it really wasn't that hard as you say.

[Guest forcom]

Thank you, now it works on my new tmobile phone ;)