I got a Rogers X10a yesterday, it's running R2BA020. I see people around here talking about debranding... I'm just confused as to what it will do SPECIFICALLY. I'm currently hating on the dumb SE GUI and how it doesn't look or feel like Android at all (I'm used to using a G1 w/ CM 6.0 froyo).
Will debranding it give me just the standard Android look and feel? I'm just really not sure.
Nope, it won't. Not for now at least. The damn bootloader is not craked as of yet. For now, all debranding will to is remove your carrier's logo.
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Ahh damn, I'll just hold out for that glorious day. I've got a couple friends who recently finished their degrees in computer science. I'll dangle the ransom thread in their faces and see if they wanna help the effort.
Rooting will allow me to delete all the bull**** bloatware right? Like that Moxier mail, sync, messaging etc?
Yes, rooting will allow you to uninstall stuff. You will need Titanium Backup from the market though.
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Seen a few things else where but not much about the X2. Does this new GingerMaster that the news is calling malware actually root 2.3.3? And if so does it work on the Droid X2. I was reading over the gingerbreak blog and he claims 2.3.3 is breakable with this but I thought the only way to root the X2 with 2.3.3 is to sbf to 2.2 and then use the P3 pre-root update. Anyone have any insight on this?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/231600086
Here is a news story I came across today and what prompted the questions.
If im reading the article correctly it isn't a program to root the phone, its a program coded onto a fake app that roots your phone without you knowing it, then allows 3rd party to access root functions on your device, all without you knowing. That said, if it does root 2.3.3 successfully in the background, someone should be able to rewrite the malware into a user initiated root method
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I was thinking there would have to be a way if this thing can break 2.3.3 to jsut take out the part that grants root. It sounds like they are using this and then loading other apps behind not that it is part of the break. They mention GingerBreak which I know currently doesn't work on the X2 but perhaps this is a slightly modified version that if pulled out at least the exploit could be repackaged and tested by a credible dev.
Now that we are on the same page Tim I wish I knew where to get this I would go looking for it and tear it apart myself. Sorry about basically repeating what ou said i was going to add the new reply but had to get up from my desk and didn't check the thread when i came back
Cool find, going to find it and rip it apart to see what's up. Lot of people will benefit from it. I doubt I am the only one looking at it. Bet we will see a root soon, even if it doesn't matter much on this device. I know the Incredible 2 would love this.
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http://www.cs.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/GingerMaster/
Top google result for GingerMaster is this research article but they mention it was found in April. I think information week was just a few months behind or someone took ginger break and finally incorporated it into malware. I will also bee looking over as much as i can on this.
I have the Exploid Code from 7/15 appears to be the latest. The more i read from the researcher it appears this is all it carries perhaps the article is wrong in mentioning 2.3.3. Everything I am finding appears to point back that this is not a working root for 2.3.3 but rather anything less than the 2.3.3
My $0.02 news anchors are retarded when it comes to technology and video games.
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My $0.02 news anchors are retarded when it comes to technology and video games.
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And you just paid your check with that 2 cents because I agree. Unfortunate, but I agree. Clearly, obviously, if something WERE to exist to this extent someone on XDA would have hyped it and released it already.
No need for this anymore the D3 exploit works. Love my X2 even more now.
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My Galaxy s2 arrives Monday. Coming from a blackberry curve 8900 haha
I am definitely a noob to the whole rooting and flashing or whatever.
I had a one question that i hope someone can answer.
1) So i know the phone comes loaded with a bunch of bloatware from AT&T, and comes running all kinds of applications and processes that eats the battery, and i was wondering if there was a way to completely remove all of that stuff? I don't have the phone yet, but i think i want to keep the TouchWiz 4.0. (or what are your thoughts on TouchWiz?- should i keep or not)
I would like to have a clean install of Gingerbread with TouchWiz 4.0(maybe) minus all of the AT&T crap. Just a basic fresh "clean" install.
I don't think i want to run CM7 or some other ROM.. i think i just want to stick with the original stock android release since its my first android phone.
can someone give me some advice or lead me into the right direction with a thread link?
I really would appreciate your help and advice.
Root it get titanium backup from the market. It will let you freeze apps without removing them. They won't start up or be in your app drawer, but you can thaw them if you change your mind.
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Root it get titanium backup from the market. It will let you freeze apps without removing them. They won't start up or be in your app drawer, but you can thaw them if you change your mind.
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what will this do to my phone if i do this method?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
If I understand correct. It will do What you want. Just read the thread and understand exactly how and what it does.
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Ok, you need to play with the phone without messing with it. You really should get used to the phone first because you don't know what you want or what you like.
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I understand. I do however know that i want to get rid of the AT&T bloatware and remove all those services that eat up battery.
To be honost the bloatware on the sgs2 isn't bad at all man. I've rooted mine and i'm still running the stock rom with entropy's kernel overclocked at 1.4ghz and undervolted -25mV. I'm getting 15-20hrs of batt. life with medium usage.
Also, half the bloatware can be uninstalled traditionally. For whatever reason they were nice enough to let us remove some of it which is good for people like you and I.
you will be pleasantly surprised with the battery life on this phone even with all the "bloatware" that is supposedly eating away at resources and battery, this is more hype than reality. And titanium backup is not the holy grail that some people say it is... And now Samsung let's you build folders where you can hide away those apps. Also check out launcher pro to completely hide them. What ever you do, give yourself some time with this phone before you do anything.
I just picked up one of these for 199.99 at office depot.
I notce a ton of roms but I haven't seen a root access thread. Is there something different that I'm simply not seeing? Am I just having to install nvflash and all is good to go? (I had a g2x so I kinda recall that procedure bbut iirc I had to root first)
Sorry if this sound stupid to ask I'm used to rooting then flashing.
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ha! nevermind, i got CM7 on it no problem...i didnt realize there was no unroot process! pretty cool. screen sucks on this thing but it seems to be pretty smooth overall tho.
I waited and waited. Thought about rooting and using a ROM before the official ICS update came from AT&T but just decided to wait. Finally got the update via Kies, excited like a school girl. Initially it was a cool new bit of scenery, and as the OS settled in with me, i found myself disappointed and wanting my gingy back. I've been upgrade for a couple months now i think, and had plenty of time to try to get used to it.
I am finding lots of things that just plain suck.
1 - Text message notification audible alert discontinues after awhile (unknown amount of time), only resolution I've found is to reboot the phone. This sucks because just out of nowhere my text notification tone stops. Everything else like ringtone etc is fine. This is a dealbreaker for me almost. This worked fine on Ginerbread.
2 - new Swype software gives me problems when the word suggestion feature stops working completely. Swype is hard to do without word suggestions at times. Only solution i've found is again, reboot the phone. This sucks. I know, don't use swype, but i WANT to use it. It worked perfectly on Gingerbread.
3 - the widget for Google Voice is super tiny now, and i don't see a way of making it bigger. It's approximately the size of 4 icons, whereas before on Gingerbread it was huge and you could easily read/see your voicemails. Maybe i'm missing something on how to change the widget size, but i see no way of doing it.
4 - my News and Weather widget, which i used for weather and news all the time, since my original Galaxy S, does not display any weather information anymore. Just says "No Weather Information". this worked fine on Gingerbread. I guess different phone OS makes widgets work differently. I just want mine to work as expected. News still comes through fine though.
5 - Unlocking the screen seems more difficult now, usually takes me a couple tries, whereas it seemed really smooth and awesome before the update
6 - Power Saving widget is huge now, takes up half of one screen, whereas before it was just 1 row and you could scroll across. Why make it bigger and take up more room with no additional functionality?
After listing all this out, i'm trying to think of the things i LIKE about ICS update, and i can only think of one, which is the data monitoring/limiting which is kind of a cool feature. I doesn't seem any faster really than before. So overall, i honestly was happier with Gingerbread. 6 things that i find that suck versus one thing i like.
Maybe this is me being picky, but as excited as I was to get ICS, i'm equally disappointed in the upgrade. My wife uses a Galaxy Note and it is available for her phone now, and I told her don't bother with the upgrade.
Anyone have any advice??? experience the same problems? I know i could root, install a custom rom etc, but i really like the touchwiz stuff from samsung and i was really happy with just the stock gingerbread OS, even with all the bloatware, i just disregard all that junk.
I'm having the same problem with text notification I just notice that I get a text it would sound but just about an hour ago it just stopped I would get a text and nothing ringtones works and everyrhing but I think is a ics bug maybe it would get fixed in the new update 4.0.4
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I'm having the same problem with text notification I just notice that I get a text it would sound but just about an hour ago it just stopped I would get a text and nothing ringtones works and everyrhing but I think is a ics bug maybe it would get fixed in the new update 4.0.4
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There won't be a 4.0.4 I can almost guarantee it
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Never had the texting problem but I'm definately always having to swipe the lockscreen a couple times to unlock it.
News and weather widget works fine here too.
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I think this was my problem with the notifications not making any sound maybe its the same thing un-check the top look at the photo ^^ I unchecked it and now it gives me sound when I get text
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at&t sucks. bottom line.
Advice, if you want to stick with touchjizz, run a custom one, there are plenty that *should* have those issues taken care of.
But the widget size issue, thats just looks, with a different launcher can change size of widgets.
Lol I called this one. A bunch of people upgrade to stock ICS. Then they complain and want to switch back, mess it up, and start new threads. Hopefully they all learned their lesson about carrier upgrades . I mean even I tried it, just to see what it looked like and how it functioned. Then again I knew how to get back to a custom Rom Before I did it. It's actually not too bad, but there were just too many bugs and battery life was too bad for my taste.
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No problems here. Do a factory reset. Your on warranty don't be scared.
j510 said:
No problems here. Do a factory reset. Your on warranty don't be scared.
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Stop telling people to do that, they could brick their phones
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Thank you for this useful reply/input and picture... I'll give it a try.
slim1991 said:
I think this was my problem with the notifications not making any sound maybe its the same thing un-check the top look at the photo ^^ I unchecked it and now it gives me sound when I get text
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Nick281051 said:
Stop telling people to do that, they could brick their phones
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Were all under warranty. If it does brick Samsung could realize this is very serious and fix it sooner
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Were all under warranty. If it does brick Samsung could realize this is very serious and fix it sooner
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Doesn't matter. Don't encourage people to do something that could brick their phone. Do it to your own not others
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i upgraded to ICS when it got released used for a week and back to GB...GB is smooth then that crappy ICS
Im having alot of these problems plus my samsung keypad freezes and crashes browser freezes
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Doesn't matter. Don't encourage people to do something that could brick their phone. Do it to your own not others
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Did it to my own and my cousins already. No brick + no issues .
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Did it to my own and my cousins already. No brick + no issues .
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It isn't 100% on all phones it seems to be random but instead of posting something VERY VERY risky for people not so inclined to troll the forums and find out about the risks of certain actions why not shut up or post what you think will work then link them to a topic showing what bad could happen. You just seem like you want people to brick and make more topics about how they tried to reset and bricked. You also need to think of Google searches that link to this topic and they read it and see you said reset and they do it. It isn't just xda its anyone with the internet don't lead people to a possible brick
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There won't be a 4.0.4 I can almost guarantee it
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Yes there will. Nfc will get enabled
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Yes there will. Nfc will get enabled
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And where are you getting this information?
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johnny_1437 said:
i upgraded to ICS when it got released used for a week and back to GB...GB is smooth then that crappy ICS
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how? what steps did you take and where can i find the download link to gingerbread? did you use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
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how? what steps did you take and where can i find the download link to gingerbread? did you use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
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The only way to go "back" to Gingerbread is to flash UCKH7 straight stock or one of the Gingerbread stock plus root packages in Entropy512's thread. So yes, use that, or one of my guides.
Just got a G2, coming from a tweaked-out Gnex. Totally in the honeymoon phase, but I gotta say, this is a killer phone.
So, before I spend a whole lot of time on this, how much of the LG VZW crapware can be removed?
If you can't remove those apps, do you folks Disable them, or just end up living alongside them?
Thanks in advance!
-bk
Root the phone and remove with Titanium Backup
Did you search for g2 debloat? Seems like this topic has a couple dedicated threads already.
My SOP is to freeze and then test for a few days before uninstalling. I use Titanium and/or Root Explorer.
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animere said:
Root the phone and remove with Titanium Backup
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Yup - well aware of the rooting route. For now, I want to stay stock, but see if I can improve that a bit.
cggorman said:
Did you search for g2 debloat? Seems like this topic has a couple dedicated threads already.
My SOP is to freeze and then test for a few days before uninstalling. I use Titanium and/or Root Explorer.
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I haven't searched for that, but I will now. Thanks!
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Here's an excellent thread on this topic...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46220890
Should have looked around first. Thanks for the reminder!
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I haven't searched for that, but I will now. Thanks!
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Here's an excellent thread on this topic...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46220890
Should have looked around first. Thanks for the reminder!
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I initially had luck rooting and using root explorer to remove the apk's in the system folder. However, a lot of the custom roms come with the bloatware stripped off by default. That might be a way to go as well.
xstewiegriffinx said:
I initially had luck rooting and using root explorer to remove the apk's in the system folder. However, a lot of the custom roms come with the bloatware stripped off by default. That might be a way to go as well.
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Yes - well aware of this. I've been a flash-a-holic for way too long on my GNex.
I am enjoying the notion of staying stock on the G2 - at least for a while. After being a "Pure Google Experience" dude for so long, it's refreshing to see so many creative ideas that some of the LG apps offer.
I'll probably just "Disable" some of the more obnoxious apps via the stock App Mgr for now.
The stock ROM even allows us to hide apps in the drawer without disable. The flexibility LG built into the stock ROM is impressive.
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Yea I disabled. After a few days I just went in with root Explorer and deleted all of the Amazon and Verizon stuff. No biggie.
The stock Rom is slick though. I've never been on a stock from this long in my life. It feels like AOKP but with a ton of extra features. I miss center clock, but it doesn't warrant losing all the other really cool features.
Actually the AOKP team is taking note and trying to port lots of stuff over to AOKP. So what's that tell you about the awesomeness of this phone?
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