Froyo + LCR on Liquid E Ferrari

[Guest Elixile]

Hey guys,

Today, I won an Acer Liquid E Ferrari Edition. Being a BlackBerry user for so long, I figured I'd give it a go.

I love Android. It's an absolute massive experience compared to BB but I'm not particularly thrilled about having a full Ferrari Theme on the phone. Also It came preloaded with so many useless applications that I can't uninstall.

I'm looking to have a clean fresh format of the device but I can't seem to find a guide that works. It's been all of today and I'm absolutely frustrated. At some point, I even started getting Trojan alerts.

I'd like to get your support on where I can get a stable good OS (2.1 or 2.2 whatever you recommend) that I can install on the system. Since I've hardly done this before as well, if there's a step by step guide for noobs like me on the entire process from formatting to re-installing, I would highly appreciate it.

Thank you very much!

Joe

Edited October 22, 2010 by Elixile

[Guest gwilo]

First welcome to the club.

You will have to root (unlock) the phone to get ride of the useless Apps.

See this thread

http://android.modaco.com/content/acer-liq...easy-installer/

read through the last 5 pages and look for when they talk about the Ferrari Edition as it is different than the regular & E models.

As for adding a new ROM see this thread

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php...tom-firmware%29

It is based on info from here but put in a nice clean package (2 months of posts combined)

Also I am not sure if the BIN & ROM from the Liquid & E will work on the Ferrari

The main upgraded ROM can be found & look at threads starting with [ROM] on the first 2 or 3 pages

http://android.modaco.com/content/acer-liq...-rom-froyo-1-0/

http://android.modaco.com/content/acer-liq...pshot-koudelka/

http://android.modaco.com/content/acer-liq...nogenmod-6-1-0/

http://android.modaco.com/content/acer-liq...uid-10-15-v0-4/

http://android.modaco.com/content/acer-liq...-8-2-2-rebirth/

Edited October 21, 2010 by gwilo

[Guest Elixile]

Thanks a lot Gwilo.

Step 1 complete. I can confirm that 2.2 Froyo from the Howardforums link you posted worked beautifully on the Liquid E Ferrari.

Now to try and get some RoMs Running. Will post an update if I succeed and getting LCR-F running.

[Guest Elixile]

Hiya again,

Everything works fine except when I try go into Recovery mode. Here's what I get.

Partition Checksum

splash1:chksum =8ba9da08 OK

boot:chksum =f093e339 OK

recovery:chksum a61f36f9 !=002152b0 **fail**

system:chksum =0436808a OK

=======

<<FAIL>>

Any idea? I used the Malez file which was tagged specifically for the Acer Liquid Ferrari and installed it manually as per the HOW-TOs.

Cheers,

Joe

[Guest Dona']

Is your phone connected via USB when trying to go in recovery ? If it is disconnect it.

[Guest Andy__P]

Did you install the recovery before or after you flashed the bin?

If you flash a bin you have to install recovery again.

[Guest Elixile]

Did you install the recovery before or after you flashed the bin?

If you flash a bin you have to install recovery again.

After I flashed.

Is your phone connected via USB when trying to go in recovery ? If it is disconnect it.

Wierd. It's refusing to go in completely. Get the feeling I messed up. Going to start all over again. Will post findings later. :P

[Guest Andy__P]

try installing recovery again!

[Guest Elixile]

Woohoo! I started the process all over again and now running LCR on the Liquid E Ferrari.

I will do a full bug test and submit it to the LCR team. Gotta say though, the battery is suffering horribly. :D

Thanks a lot to all of you for the support here. Much love from Dubai. :P

[Guest Harness]

The battery will get raped at first, keep an eye on Settings->About->Battery and you'll see what's using so much battery. Wifi tends to kill the battery pretty good. I can get a full 7am-10pm day out of my device now, just took a little tweaking. Also, after a full battery drain, leave the device off and charge it fully overnight. That'll help, don't know why it does, just does.

Glad you're enjoying the new device and android :P

Harness.