I am currently running KaosFroyo v39 with Amon_RA recovery. Phone is rooted and I am comfortable with flashing basics and Nandroid backup/restore.
For the last 25 plus years of doing IT development work (in a multi user environment), there were production machines and development machines.
I have had my Droid Eris phone 12 plus months and was on schedule to aggressively play with development knowing that if I somehow managed to brick my phone I was eligible for an early upgrade. I may upgrade if only as a cheap way to get additional used phone for development work. (I can get a buy one get one free Droid Incredible for my wife and myself for not much more than one used Droid Eris off craigslist.)
Am I being overly paranoid? With all the documentation available how often does someone truely brick a Droid Eris?
I have not yet installed the Android SDK and the emulator. Since a phone or smart phone isn't a multi-user platform (compared to a enterprise server) is there really a need for a spare phone to use for development? Does the functionality of the Android Emulator serve as a development phone?
Your feedback is appreciated in advance. Thanks.
I actually bricked my first eris with a little whimsical flashing. However with unlocked SPL it only took me 3 minutes to fix a nearly identical issue on my second eris. With a S-off bootloader, they're nearly un-soft-brickable. The only bricking issue that's 'common' that an engineering bootloader won't help with is the ClockWork issue, and it seems a fix may have been found (bftbo and another, can't remember the tag, sorry). So barring hardware failure and bricking while flashing the bootloader, I think you'd have to try pretty hard.
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Hello all.
I have been looking through the forums most of the day trying to make sense of rooting and roms and all that, and I think I have a handle on what this is all about - obviously I need to try and see first. But I have somewhat of a dilemma on my hands that I would use the advice of others on.
I currently have an iPhone on ATT and love the phone but hate the service. Verizon is the only thing that works well around here (ive tried friends phones) and I know I want something of the Android family if I am going to have to lay down the iPhone (which is getting easier given the flop I think iOS4 is). So, I bought a Droid Eris.
Problem: It is waaay to slow. I have owned it 5 days and Sense UI has Force Closed 7 or more times. I get a better experience by Advanced Task Killing everything, but that seems like a bad deal to have to do on a new phone. I would like to root and rom the phone with something like Official 1.0 Alpha from ivanmmj, but I am still within my first 30 days with Verizon and can take the phone back if it is stock. I am afraid that if I root and rom it that the VZW sales mafia will reject me if I still try to take it back. I also am not confident in my ability to root/rom correctly, or reverse it if necessary.
Question: Should I try to OC the phone with a better ROM and pray it gets snappier or should I go get a different phone? The only other thing they have in the store that would suit me is a Palm Pre Plus (non Android, I know), otherwise I am waiting for the Incredible (4+ weeks) or the Droid X (wish I knew what Motoblur worked like). Opinions?
Rooting is easy as hell, coming from never having done anything like it.
You can unroot easily and it's untraceable.
You should get a different phone, honestly. I love my Eris, and overclocking makes it snappy and quick but it just can not compete with something like the incredible or the droid X. The incredible is WELL worth the wait.
Before you get too distraught over what to do, you should first check to see whether the phone is even rootable. 5 days old, phone from VZW? A lot of new phones coming from VZW recently are not rootable.
Chances are it has the 1.49.0000 S-ON bootloader on it, in which case, the point is moot. (No rooting an Eris with the 1.49.0000 S-ON bootloader at the moment. This is the same bootloader as was used with the "leak" V1, V2, V3 ROMs).
You can check by powering off your phone and then starting it up by pressing and holding the Send+End/Power buttons at the same time.
HBOOT version is in the 2nd line.
(Turn your phone off with a battery pull at that point).
bftb0
It says 1.47.0000 in the HBOOT line, so I am supposing it is rootable?
If it is, I wouldn't mind trying a root, rom, & OC if I can get a proper guide on how to reverse it back to stock. Don't want VZW to think I muckied up their phone should I try to return it.
I really like what I see with the Droid X. I'd even be willing to pay for it today, but waiting until July 15 or later is going to kill me. I recently got some new contracts for my business and not getting phone calls on my ATT iPhone is not a great way to treat a new client.
ATT is a joke.
The Droid X is a beast phone, I'd love to have one.
Go to the developers part of this Eris forum and there's a sticky with all of the guides and ROM's you'll need.
Have always appreciated those who have taken the time out to figure out how to root any particular OS. Way bound me, but I've contributed to those who can, But it seams to be getting harder and harder with all the newest OS, ie KitKat 4,4 coming out. Read Pc mag came out with a article, which I cant post due to being a new user, explaining how KitKat is aimed at shutting down the rooting prossecces.
I pretty much buy a phone that at least can be rooted, not much into changing out the rom. so whats next totally locked phones. I have the Droid Maxx. Pretty much bought it for the large battery. Had the Note 3 for three days, but call quality was in the toilet , especially with a blue tooth..Seams just when I get a phone and get it all rooted and set up the way I like it, theirs a upgrade and it destroys the root or you get bent pushing the ask later option on the ota update to avoid the upgrade. Will it be possible to have KitKat rooted on the Droid Maxx, or wait and see
Greetings all,
I had a Razr Maxx HD for about two years. loved it. Then one day the date and time stopped syncing. I spent weeks trying to fix it, scouring the internet and tried every possible fix I could find; from fiddling with airplane mode, soft/hard resets, replaced the screen (found several people who claimed this fixed the problem) and I even went so far as to flash a Verizon ROM onto the phone I grabbed from the net. (VZW_XT926_4.1.2_9.8.1Q_62_VQW_MR-2_VQW_CFC.xml)
I've been using a backup phone for a while now but would really like my razr back. I have nothing to lose at this point so I'm willing to try anything. Assuming this is a software glitch and not a hardware problem, I would like to completely wipe out the phone. Like EVERYTHING. I don't need anyone to hold my hand but would appreciate it if someone could post some resources that I can read through/follow. Googling the topic brings up alot of info on unlocking and rooting. I feel like those are things I might want to do on a healthy phone that I just want more control over. I want to do the equivalent to my phone of what I'm familiar with on a PC. (format HDD/creating partitions/loading OS) Don't know if this is even possible with a cell phone.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: so my understanding of a Kernel is that it manages communications between the hardware and software. I have wondered if something went wonky with that and if I can flash a basic android kernel/OS onto my phone to see if it fixes the problem. Forgive me if I'm not using terminology right.
I feel super awkward and a bit embarrassed to ask this question, but I'm asking for help from this community (see last 2 or paragraphs for ask if you want to skip the boring details) and I think I need to explain briefly why to define my ultimate goal and why I even have to ask rather than sift through searches and assemble the steps/versions I need, etc.
My 22 year old daughter died recently (unexpectedly). I obviously want to preserve everything I can of hers, but I'm not firing on all cylinders mentally. I was able take her ThinkPad and virtualize it to my ESX system and also yank and clone the physical drive for safe keeping. But even doing that took me a while (which it shouldn't, that's kind of what I do for a living - I should be able to do that in my sleep, but it took 3 days and a lot of screaming). I was able to access her google accounts, facebook accounts, etc. and preserve a ton of stuff from there.
Ultimately while I would want to do with her phone the same thing I did to her notebook - preserve it virtually so I could examine it without fear of changing/modifying anything, but I don't think the product exists that allows me to virtualize an existing Android phone with apps and everything intact into a PC environment. I think I could install a whole new Android emulator in Windows, but that's not probably what I want.
I had just given her a Samsung S5 SM-G900T running on Ting for her birthday about 2 weeks before she died. It was unlocked but unrooted, it's rare that I would do nothing to the phone prior to giving it to her - but I pretty much just turned it on and handed it over with no custom ROM or anything - mostly because I was pressed for time the day of her party and it was shipped late.
When I got it back from the police a few say ago (they held it for 2 months) and charged it and turned it on 2 days ago, it upgraded from Lollipop to Marshmallow 6.0.1 (baseband is PE1), which was apparently pending. I don't know if that complicates things. It pissed me off, though. I have copied off local photos off and videos and already took control of her Google and Facebook accounts as I mentioned.
My slightly confused brain tells me normally I might install TWRP or CWM and make a NAND backup and copy it off someplace and at least have a restorable copy of her phone. I haven't done much of this sort of thing with phones for a year or two, I don't know what's changed in the latest OS versions and beides, plus I sort of "lose it" a bit, especially going through her personal things.
I'm not an idiot, I'm just not all here, yet. I'm asking if someone can please give me steps to safely preserve an image of her phone (IE, install TWRP or CWM using specific version xxx, etc., using Odin version xxx, etc.) - If I can virtualize it, too, I'd love to know what product does that, but again, I don't think I can.
I don't know why I feel the need to do these things, I just do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bump. Somebody please help this fellow. This is too important for me to try advising him, I don't know enough.
So even though half my brain is addled, I did some more research and found out a few interesting things, should anyone care to try this. I found there are a couple of open source tools built for android forensics:
Open Source Android Forensics Toolkit
https://sourceforge.net/projects/osaftoolkit/
Santoku
https://santoku-linux.com/about-santoku/
And there are commercial products, , like NowSecureForensics, some (if not most) built on the toolkits I just mentioned. Another is the painfully ironically named (for me, anyway) Autopsy.
This interesting website verified (to me anyway) that rooting the phone and changing access is still fundamentally sound forensically:
http://freeandroidforensics.blogspot.com
And it confirmed there is no way (yet) to truly "virtualize" the phone entirely (unless you are the manufacturer and you have some proprietary software).
For a "live" example virtually, the best you can do is install an Android emulator and restore an ADB backup of an app. This obviously may or may not work if the app is very hardware dependent. But for a simple program it might work fine.
So in addition to rooting my daughter's S5, installing TWRP, and backing it up, I also got my daughter's HTC One M7 to finally power up, and I rooted it and installed TWRP for backup purposes as well. Many of the forensic tools I mentioned will then report from the standard TWRP backups, with no risk to changing the phone. Some want to look at the phone themselves, even offering to root them, which I find more risky.
I haven't found any one tool to fully provide what I need, you need a Windows PC, a Linux PC (or VM), one or more toolsets (each comprised of other toolsets) and then a lot of time/will to really piece together things. I haven't completed the examinations - even typing is harder now for some reason, but should anyone else need this sort of thing (hopefully for different reasons than mine), the above info is a good start.
So I just got a OnePlus 7 Pro after having used Nexus/Pixels for the last 8-9 years. The T-Mobile splash screen on boot convinced me immediately I needed to unlock that bootloader and get to flashing.
Long story short, having been out of the loop for a few years at least I managed to royally screw up the process and hard bricked my phone bad.
Having the MsmDownloadTool let me unbrick it within the hour and if similar tools are available for other phones has me really interested in using T-Mobile's JumpOnDemand program to try out a wide variety of phones this year, but only if I can safely root them, **** up, and return them to their original vanilla/locked state, so can anyone tell me if the current state of things would allow this?
Would love a tool that would unlock OPPO phones bootloaders.