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hi guys I am a developer from X10/Arc/Play/etc Forums... I just ordered the HTC Flyer as the 300$ price was just too tempting to miss out
i will be getting the device soon (in a few weeks)... it will be a 16GB Wifi only version...
i have mostly used worked on Sony Ericsson devices (Snapdragons S1/S2)... i saw that there are some custom kernels for this device... i am very interested in developing kernels for this device... i have worked on QSD8x50 and MSM7x30/MSM8255 kernels... since this device is MSM8255T i was inclined to buy it
so i wanted to know how do things move in the HTC world basically i would be HIGHLY obliged if anyone can give me a run down of a few basic things that i need to know abt this device... how are firmwares handled, bootloader locking/unlocking, how does one flash the kernels, recovery (stock/custom), stock firmware flashing, basebands available, PC based tools available for this device, etc, etc...
if someone can guide me to the relevant How-To threads/links...
any help is highly appreciated...
thank you...
OK I'm not a dev really, but know a lot about the Flyer.
Bootloader unlocking does allow you to flash custom recoveries and what not so you can unlock and flash one of the flyer recoveries. Process is fairly easy, go to htcdev.com. Locking is just a simple fastboot command
recovery stock is kinda crappy, does about nothing. custom recoveries can be flashed with either (unofficial) S-OFF or HTC (Official) unlock. keep in mind though, that you cannot flashing things to system in fastboot (which is like a boot loader which you can run commands in) but can through recovery
You need HTC Bootloader drivers for the fastboot commands btw
sorry this was a bit confusing.
p.s: btw thnx in advance if you ever dev anything for this device, the most "breakthrough" mod for this device so far is a 200 MHz over clock.
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OK I'm not a dev really, but know a lot about the Flyer.
Bootloader unlocking does allow you to flash custom recoveries and what not so you can unlock and flash one of the flyer recoveries. Process is fairly easy, go to htcdev.com. Locking is just a simple fastboot command
recovery stock is kinda crappy, does about nothing. custom recoveries can be flashed with either (unofficial) S-OFF or HTC (Official) unlock. keep in mind though, that you cannot flashing things to system in fastboot (which is like a boot loader which you can run commands in) but can through recovery
You need HTC Bootloader drivers for the fastboot commands btw
sorry this was a bit confusing.
p.s: btw thnx in advance if you ever dev anything for this device, the most "breakthrough" mod for this device so far is a 200 MHz over clock.
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Oh thanks... so that sorts out the bootloader query... the wifi version is also unlockable right?
How abt other stuff? How we flash stock firmware? Which other modes does the device support (other than recovery / fastboot)? What are these RUU files? What is goldcard (read abt it in some thread)?
The chip on this device can easily handle 1.9Ghz+ overclocks (though such high speeds are not recommended for daily use)... other than that I was checking the kernel sources posted by HTC, and saw that USB-OTG is enabled in kernel... so have u guys checked if it works?
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DooMLoRD said:
Oh thanks... so that sorts out the bootloader query... the wifi version is also unlockable right?
How abt other stuff? How we flash stock firmware? Which other modes does the device support (other than recovery / fastboot)? What are these RUU files? What is goldcard (read abt it in some thread)?
The chip on this device can easily handle 1.9Ghz+ overclocks (though such high speeds are not recommended for daily use)... other than that I was checking the kernel sources posted by HTC, and saw that USB-OTG is enabled in kernel... so have u guys checked if it works?
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WiFi is what I have, and yes it is unlock able. Stock firmware is flashed by running an RUU, which is a program you run on your computer (Windows) which restores the firmware. The latest for the WiFi version of the Flyer is here.
The only modes I know are recovery and boot loader mode/fastboot mode. You can run commands and flash recoveries (if HTC Unlock) or system, data, recovery, radio, etc (if S-OFF).
Gold cards are a specially formatted sd card that when you enter the boot loader with the sd card inside, it flashes the zip on it, which does the same thing as an RUU except that the zip is on the device.
It's great that the Flyer can run 1.9 GHz OC, I will look forward to it if you decide to release it.
I was never a kernel expert, and don't have anything to try USB Host with, although I would assume it works because the code is there.
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WiFi is what I have, and yes it is unlock able. Stock firmware is flashed by running an RUU, which is a program you run on your computer (Windows) which restores the firmware. The latest for the WiFi version of the Flyer is here.
The only modes I know are recovery and boot loader mode/fastboot mode. You can run commands and flash recoveries (if HTC Unlock) or system, data, recovery, radio, etc (if S-OFF).
Gold cards are a specially formatted sd card that when you enter the boot loader with the sd card inside, it flashes the zip on it, which does the same thing as an RUU except that the zip is on the device.
It's great that the Flyer can run 1.9 GHz OC, I will look forward to it if you decide to release it.
I was never a kernel expert, and don't have anything to try USB Host with, although I would assume it works because the code is there.
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thanks for the info... highly appreciate the help
i have the kernel (zImage) ready... using ramdisk from the FlyRom... now i just need the correct mkbootimg arguments
DooMLoRD said:
thanks for the info... highly appreciate the help
i have the kernel (zImage) ready... using ramdisk from the FlyRom... now i just need the correct mkbootimg arguments
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sure. so you have the oc kernel ready and only need to adjust the mkbootimg args?
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sure. so you have the oc kernel ready and only need to adjust the mkbootimg args?
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Implementing the O/C will be easy... first I need to know if the device will even boot
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Implementing the O/C will be easy... first I need to know if the device will even boot
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Awesome. When is your Flyer arriving?
Thanks for all the dev work that you will do.
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Awesome. When is your Flyer arriving?
Thanks for all the dev work that you will do.
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Well my htc flyer will be arriving in a few weeks (6-9)
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Well my htc flyer will be arriving in a few weeks (6-9)
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Awesome!
10 Char
Welcome to the flyer forum! I have followed your great work in the x10 forum and I'm happy to see you here! :-D
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Welcome to the flyer forum will be greatly appreciated need more devs around here.
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Some folks with the Honeycomb beta have had success with USB host OTG.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1082909
hey guys
I ordered a evo 3d today and it will be in my hands in about 2-3 days and I need something like a tutorial or something other to get some informations about bootloader, recovery, root (especially that method, what is NOT using the htc unlocker website mode), also what are quite good roms to flash and some info about overclocking the phone, but this is not sooooo necessary, I just want have it rooted with recovery and some mods...
it would be very nice, if someone could help me
ps: sorry for my bad english, but I'm polish/german.....also sorry for this noobie questions thanks in advice
Read, read, read. Best advice ever.
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Ubuntu_Man said:
hey guys
I ordered a evo 3d today and it will be in my hands in about 2-3 days and I need something like a tutorial or something other to get some informations about bootloader, recovery, root (especially that method, what is NOT using the htc unlocker website mode), also what are quite good roms to flash and some info about overclocking the phone, but this is not sooooo necessary, I just want have it rooted with recovery and some mods...
it would be very nice, if someone could help me
ps: sorry for my bad english, but I'm polish/german.....also sorry for this noobie questions thanks in advice
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look in the "rollup sticky" thread over in the Development forum. Video tutorials and write-ups and links to drivers etc. are all in there.
This should be all you need to root, flash a recovery and install su. Follow the directions exactly and you wont have any issues. Works for me although I use TWRP 2.0.
Should note, Im a cdma user.
ok, thank you very much, I post it here if I have some more questions
Ok, Since three days I have root with cwm on my phone, the next thing would be what rom is good? Want to flash a custom Rom but I like the original sense htc style and just want to overclock and have some more options in the menus...would be nice if someone could tell me
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If your just getting the phone now, chances are its gonna have hboot 1.5. So you'd have to use the HTC method.
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If your just getting the phone now, chances are its gonna have hboot 1.5. So you'd have to use the HTC method.
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YA Hboot1.5 your stuck with HTC method use CWM for recovery alot of folks had issues with TWRP 2.0 not flashing right and dirty flashes.
Themes won't flash right along with other things.
Twrp 2.0 works perfectly for me. Only one version of clockwork will stick...so I use twrp, I like the touch based recovery. And I've had no issues making nands or restoring them. This coming from years of using clockwork. Just gotta adapt.
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Hello! I ve already wrote that I have the phone and have root on it with cwm...I very already rooted it, so next thing would be a good Rom with overclock functionality
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I have s-off, what can i do now. Was it only to get the *locked* back?
One big deal for a lot of people is that you will be able to make and restore nandroid backups without having to seperately go into hboot and flash the kernel (boot.img) for what you're restoring.
Also people want to be able to download and flash roms in a single file and installation process. Once devs begin packaging them for s off, you won't do the old two file method of rom in recovery followed by PH98IMG.zip in hboot.
Everything will be included in recovery.
And to me the big deal is that you can flash the latest ice cream sandwich radio firmware by flashing the RUU, and whenever you want you can how back to the gingerbread radio firmware and gingerbread roms. As opposed go how its always been where once you upgraded there was no going back for radio firmware.
Also people will tell you that's the reason that we don't have a lot more developers on our device is because of s off. I personally think that's wishful thinking, and the user base is a reason a lot of devs walked away, but I'm passing along the information since its posted constantly that once s off is achieved there will be a line of devs a half mile long begging to get to the rezound.
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CharliesTheMan said:
One big deal for a lot of people is that you will be able to make and restore nandroid backups without having to seperately go into hboot and flash the kernel (boot.img) for what you're restoring.
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Quick question, Charlie. I came from the Dinc and am used to backup/restore including the kernels. If I were to do a backup right now(already did), after being s-off, will it include the kernel? Or, does something in the process need to be modified before the kernel is included in the backup? I have a feeling it will be included right off the bat, but just curious.
You can flash one of the awesome splash screens in my thread in the theme section
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trickster2369 said:
Quick question, Charlie. I came from the Dinc and am used to backup/restore including the kernels. If I were to do a backup right now(already did), after being s-off, will it include the kernel? Or, does something in the process need to be modified before the kernel is included in the backup? I have a feeling it will be included right off the bat, but just curious.
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Backups done by amon ra included the kernel you just couldn't restore it without con's nandroid helper. So when you go to backup and it lets you select what to backup, make sure boot has an x next to it.
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nosympathy said:
Backups done by amon ra included the kernel you just couldn't restore it without con's nandroid helper. So when you go to backup and it lets you select what to backup, make sure boot has an x next to it.
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Thank you. That's what I didn't have to do on the Dinc, because I used CWM. I'll make sure to have this checked in Amon Ra. Although, I think it's checked by default.
No sympathy is correct, I actually meant to add that and I forgot because I was try to wrap up the book I wrote in that post.
He and gadget have posted boot animations as well as I believe the other guy was Andybones.
I've flashed two of no sympathys splash screens I believe as well as the bamf splash screen I'm running now.
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Does S-Off mean we have a better chance of getting RIL working on AOSP possibly? I think I kept reading that AOSP wasn't ever going to be possibly until we got S-Off.
Also how the hell did we get S-Off? Did HTC release it, or did someone find a bootleg way to get S-Off with their own research? I was on XDA like a day or two ago before S-Off was ever mentioned then all the sudden we have it.
Meticode said:
Does S-Off mean we have a better chance of getting RIL working on AOSP possibly? I think I kept reading that AOSP wasn't ever going to be possibly until we got S-Off.
Also how the hell did we get S-Off? Did HTC release it, or did someone find a bootleg way to get S-Off with their own research? I was on XDA like a day or two ago before S-Off was ever mentioned then all the sudden we have it.
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Some guys advocate that AOSP devs will flock back to the rezound if we have s off.
We got s off because some developers from a completely different device put in a crapload of time and effort in order to figure out the exploit and then test it on our devices.
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CharliesTheMan said:
Some guys advocate that AOSP devs will flock back to the rezound if we have s off.
We got s off because some developers from a completely different device put in a crapload of time and effort in order to figure out the exploit and then test it on our devices.
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*bow* hats off to those developers then.
CharliesTheMan said:
Some guys advocate that AOSP devs will flock back to the rezound if we have s off.
We got s off because some developers from a completely different device put in a crapload of time and effort in order to figure out the exploit and then test it on our devices.
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The flock of new developers may be wishful thinking honestly. But I'm thankful to the guys who figured this exploit out. Genius
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One big deal for a lot of people is that you will be able to make and restore nandroid backups without having to seperately go into hboot and flash the kernel (boot.img) for what you're restoring.
Also people want to be able to download and flash roms in a single file and installation process. Once devs begin packaging them for s off, you won't do the old two file method of rom in recovery followed by PH98IMG.zip in hboot.
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This is my main reason. My Rezound loves the radios and Incredikernel. So I did a mixture of the 3, s-0ff, ics firmware, & Ineffabilis. Also just re-packed a GB rom that included kernel boot.img flashing and it worked BEAUTIFULLY. No PH98IMG flashing done at all.
Also, can always go back to Rezrom Ex 3.4 via nandroid without issue.
Does anyone know if we will be able to get the mount points changed for sdcard and sdcard2? I know recovery reads the actual sdcard, but for apps backing up data, it all goes to the internal "sdcard". More than once have I gotten in a rush and forgot to backup my internal sdcard. just hoping we can get that changed around.
Someone should know this
Is there anything to gain with supercid on this device?
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Will the process get any easier for s off I am a noob with this s off and roms in general for the rezound because I have yet to flash a new rom on
This phone it came with clean rom 3.7(bought on swappa) and I have no clue what some ppl are taking I came from a tbolt easy to flash rooms so was the razor but I'm just so lost with this phone
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knights665 said:
Will the process get any easier for s off I am a noob with this s off and roms in general for the rezound because I have yet to flash a new rom on
This phone it came with clean rom 3.7(bought on swappa) and I have no clue what some ppl are taking I came from a tbolt easy to flash rooms so was the razor but I'm just so lost with this phone
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the process now is easy. takes hardly any time. the wire trick isnt bad at all took me twice to get it with paper clip is all
knights665 said:
Will the process get any easier for s off I am a noob with this s off and roms in general for the rezound because I have yet to flash a new rom on
This phone it came with clean rom 3.7(bought on swappa) and I have no clue what some ppl are taking I came from a tbolt easy to flash rooms so was the razor but I'm just so lost with this phone
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This process is DEAD SIMPLE ... Just time consuming if you can't get the "wire Trick" timing down.
All devices are different. All I can suggest is READ ... READ ... READ
Since you don't really even know what you want to do ... S-Off can wait. Then maybe a different s-off process may be available when you DO need it. I doubt it will be "easier" though.
luke1333 said:
the process now is easy. takes hardly any time. the wire trick isnt bad at all took me twice to get it with paper clip is all
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Alright I may give it a try but I hope someone comes up with a YouTube tutorial of the whole process ...I dont want to insult devs saying its to hard because I know how hard they worked and I appreciate it ..I'm just confused lol
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CharliesTheMan said:
One big deal for a lot of people is that you will be able to make and restore nandroid backups without having to seperately go into hboot and flash the kernel (boot.img) for what you're restoring.
Also people want to be able to download and flash roms in a single file and installation process. Once devs begin packaging them for s off, you won't do the old two file method of rom in recovery followed by PH98IMG.zip in hboot.
Everything will be included in recovery.
And to me the big deal is that you can flash the latest ice cream sandwich radio firmware by flashing the RUU, and whenever you want you can how back to the gingerbread radio firmware and gingerbread roms. As opposed go how its always been where once you upgraded there was no going back for radio firmware.
Also people will tell you that's the reason that we don't have a lot more developers on our device is because of s off. I personally think that's wishful thinking, and the user base is a reason a lot of devs walked away, but I'm passing along the information since its posted constantly that once s off is achieved there will be a line of devs a half mile long begging to get to the rezound.
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Wow it's been a long time since I was last s-off...until now! But surely they haven't managed being able to flash a rom and a new hboot along with a radio all in recovery?
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Is EXT4 recovery compatible now with our S-Off rezounds?
I have done some research as to how I would go about rooting this phone but I'm a little confused to say the least. Let me first say that I am on a mac and the first phone I rooted was Inspire. This was also the last phone I rooted because of how complicated it was. My main question is does unlocking the bootloader mean that the phone is rooted and I can just install a rom? If so how would I install a rom after unlocking the bootloader? Is there anything else I should be doing? As I said I'm very unsure how to go about this so any information is appreciated. Thanks.
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No. All unlocking the bootloader does is remove security protection on certain partitions. After you unlock the bootloader, you need to flash a custom recovery from fastboot. Once you have a custom recovery, you can use it to either flash a rooted update.zip or a rooted custom rom.
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As a person who bricked allot of phones learning, if you don't you don't understand how the process works or understand how to do it, I would leave your phone alone. The benefits you gain from rooting wouldn't benefit you much. If you skip a step or do something wrong you will end up with a nice paper weight. Not trying to discourage you, it is your phone after all.
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As a person who bricked allot of phones learning, if you don't you don't understand how the process works or understand how to do it, I would leave your phone alone. The benefits you gain from rooting wouldn't benefit you much. If you skip a step or do something wrong you will end up with a nice paper weight. Not trying to discourage you, it is your phone after all.
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It is really quite difficult to brick an HTC phone that doesn't have S-OFF. As long as the bootloader is there, there is always a path to restore the phone's functionality.
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No. All unlocking the bootloader does is remove security protection on certain partitions. After you unlock the bootloader, you need to flash a custom recovery from fastboot. Once you have a custom recovery, you can use it to either flash a rooted update.zip or a rooted custom rom.
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I'm hoping to find a step by step guide to walk me through exactly how I would go about this. For example I know I have to flash a rom but what rom should I be flashing? Now I know this is a matter of option but I guess I'm asking what has the least amount of bugs, best stability/battery life, etc. I know you need a kernel but is that something that gets installed when I flash a rom or does that need to be done separately. The main reason for doing this is customization, battery life and actually getting updates the os. Again any input is appreciated.
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I'm hoping to find a step by step guide to walk me through exactly how I would go about this. For example I know I have to flash a rom but what rom should I be flashing? Now I know this is a matter of option but I guess I'm asking what has the least amount of bugs, best stability/battery life, etc. I know you need a kernel but is that something that gets installed when I flash a rom or does that need to be done separately. The main reason for doing this is customization, battery life and actually getting updates the os. Again any input is appreciated.
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Maybe there is a tutorial in android dev. I'm not sure tho. The which rom is the best question is kinda frowned on here, i've seen mods close threads for it. It's just asking to start a flame war.
The kernel is also known as the boot.img. you will find it inside the rom.zip for any custom rom. Untill we have S-Off it cannot be flashed with the rest of the rom in recovery. You need to extract it and flash it from fastboot using the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img".
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Maybe there is a tutorial in android dev. I'm not sure tho. The which rom is the best question is kinda frowned on here, i've seen mods close threads for it. It's just asking to start a flame war.
The kernel is also known as the boot.img. you will find it inside the rom.zip for any custom rom. Untill we have S-Off it cannot be flashed with the rest of the rom in recovery. You need to extract it and flash it from fastboot using the command "fastboot flash boot boot.img".
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I apologize I wasn't trying to start anything. I just really don't have any idea as to which rom would suit my needs best so I was just looking for advice/opinions from people who are more knowledgeable then me.
Now you said I would need to extract the kernel, is the kernel in a zip file with the rom that after extracted I would both flash separately? I believe fastboot is the screen with the solid black background and the yellow text with options is that correct? "fastboot flash boot boot.img" is that a option I would select or is that a command I need enter? Sorry for all of the questions I just want to be clear on exactly what I need to do as I don't want to make my phone unusable.
I've been having interest issues so the only access I have is my phone. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next couple of days so I can check out the development section for a tutorial on rooting.
Again thanks everyone for the help so far.
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I apologize I wasn't trying to start anything. I just really don't have any idea as to which rom would suit my needs best so I was just looking for advice/opinions from people who are more knowledgeable then me.
Now you said I would need to extract the kernel, is the kernel in a zip file with the rom that after extracted I would both flash separately? I believe fastboot is the screen with the solid black background and the yellow text with options is that correct? "fastboot flash boot boot.img" is that a option I would select or is that a command I need enter? Sorry for all of the questions I just want to be clear on exactly what I need to do as I don't want to make my phone unusable.
I've been having interest issues so the only access I have is my phone. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next couple of days so I can check out the development section for a tutorial on rooting.
Again thanks everyone for the help so far.
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So is there any tutorial out there for mac users?
I've been searching with no luck. Everyone is using the one click windows tool
mrbro0ks said:
I have done some research as to how I would go about rooting this phone but I'm a little confused to say the least. Let me first say that I am on a mac and the first phone I rooted was Inspire. This was also the last phone I rooted because of how complicated it was. My main question is does unlocking the bootloader mean that the phone is rooted and I can just install a rom? If so how would I install a rom after unlocking the bootloader? Is there anything else I should be doing? As I said I'm very unsure how to go about this so any information is appreciated. Thanks.
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This should do it. The toolkit makes it very simple to unlock,root and install custom ROMs on your device. The second link provides an in-detail tutorial.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994961 ----Toolkit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2066390 ----Tutorial
I know that there are many threads available on xda but behind making this thread my moto is to provide a proper way to do s-off.
i am going to share images for this,
bcoz i saw many threads on s-off and many new guys asking that how to do wire trick,
so make it easy i m going to share this,
plz remove it if any MOD has problem with this thread
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1st image I had copied from unlimited.io and 2nd one created by me.
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shubham211995 said:
I know that there are many threads available on xda but behind making this thread my moto is to provide a proper way to do s-off.
i am going to share images for this,
bcoz i saw many threads on s-off and many new guys asking that how to do wire trick,
so make it easy i m going to share this,
plz remove it if any MOD has problem with this thread
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Thanks Brother Thats What I Want. Ummmaaaah
Is wire trick in any way dangerous ?
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Asxxad said:
Is wire trick in any way dangerous ?
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There is no such thing as a "safe" flash of any firmware on any device. There are always risks. Check out the amaze unbricking project thread in the dev section and you'll see what can happen if not careful or if something goes haywire.
You only need s-off if you're either not on a T-Mobile US model or if the ROM you're flashing is based on a non-T-Mobile US ROM (like ViperAmaze). If you try a sourced based ROM (like CM, evervolv, or PACman) as long as you already had ICS and more importantly, the latest radio for ICS beforehand no need for s-off either.
Regardless if you remain s-on, you need 4ext recovery with smart flash enabled (other recoveries won't work) and an understanding of adb in case the kernel doesn't flash in update. If kernel doesn't flash you'll softbrick, but can rescue by flashing kernel with adb from your computer.
Generally, having s-off makes flashing a lot easier and gives you more options, but at the risk of possible low-level corruption to important partitions like the radio or imei data should a bad flash occur.
I hope this helps clarify things.
Thank you, that was helpful ..
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