In the past I've been formatting any card via my pc prior to putting it in my phone. But being the 3d is dual core and the card being class 10 I was wondering if it was best to do it in the phone or does it really matter?
Or does it even need to be formatted at all?
You can just put it in the phone and it will format it automatically for you, unless you need to copy over the contents of your old card to it, then you can format it on your PC and then copy the data over to it.
spencer88 said:
You can just put it in the phone and it will format it automatically for you, unless you need to copy over the contents of your old card to it, then you can format it on your PC and then copy the data over to it.
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Thanks. I will let the phone do the formatting then. I was just under assumption that formatting through pc would be better for it.
aznmode said:
Thanks. I will let the phone do the formatting then. I was just under assumption that formatting through pc would be better for it.
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install this on your PC it works really good in my opinion.its made specifically for microsd cards.
http://db.tt/vL1LahQ
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install this on your PC it works really good in my opinion.its made specifically for microsd cards.
http://db.tt/vL1LahQ
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Hello, I have been planning on doing the same thing and before I open a random zip file (sorry, don't mean to offend), could you tell me what the program does?
skelotic said:
Hello, I have been planning on doing the same thing and before I open a random zip file (sorry, don't mean to offend), could you tell me what the program does?
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its just a sdformatter for your PC, you can also google microSD formatter and find it that way.
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steal25 said:
install this on your PC it works really good in my opinion.its made specifically for microsd cards.
http://db.tt/vL1LahQ
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Oh man I saw this too late. I've already copied over 29gb of stuff from my old card to this new one. Dang it. It took about an hour an half which isn't too bad but I have to think it over if I wanna redo this. Anyway I will keep that file handy incase I see some issue with the card that might require reformatting.
How does this differ from default PC formatting?
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i have a problem i dont have any of my pictures or videos anymore what can i do PLZ HELP !!!!!!!!!! and yes they were on my mem card
im using a droid eris
Try taking your sdcard out and putting it back in again.
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i have a problem i dont have any of my pictures or videos anymore what can i do PLZ HELP !!!!!!!!!! and yes they were on my mem card
im using a droid eris
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Download a free gallery app from the market and see if your pictures show up with that. If not you can always access them with a file manager like Linda Manager. The pictures should be in /sdcard/DCIM/100 Media.
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all the pictures and videos that were on my memory card arent there at all even tryed that app. i looked all over my sd card nothing at all and can i use my backup from when i didnt have a rom and will that make them show up just wondering
rufftouch said:
all the pictures and videos that were on my memory card arent there at all even tryed that app. i looked all over my sd card nothing at all and can i use my backup from when i didnt have a rom and will that make them show up just wondering
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Have you formatted or partitioned the sd card lately?
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no i havent but i did do a wipe when i put the rom on could that have done it
No, that only wipes the phone's data.
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No, that only wipes the phone's data.
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unless u wipe ext as well (assuming ur on app2sd)
I know that when you have apps2sd on a 2.1 Rom and then flash to a froyo one, it'll tell you to reformat your SD to fat32 with no partitions. You said you didn't have apps2sd tho, so that's kinda troubling. When you mount your phone to your computer does the SD come up?
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ive mentioned this on another thread but this has happened to my eris once a few weeks ago and twice on an old samsung non android about a year ago and if it gets deleted either a.) an application wrote over it (?) or 1 of 2 things a verizon employee told me that it could be the sd card getting too hot that it wipes it or theres a short in a power cord somewhere that could have caused it thats why i sync pix to my computer every time i use it lol
ok thats just great FML
So the moto devices put the external SD card under mnt/sdcard-ext as everyone here knows. I'm wondering if there is any method to:
1. Have apps like rhapsody use the external card for downloading music
2. Remap using external for things like Gameloft games data
I am rooted and I've been looking at solutions - alsso know that non stock will allow for changing mount points completely, but not quite there yet.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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cubexg said:
So the moto devices put the external SD card under mnt/sdcard-ext as everyone here knows. I'm wondering if there is any method to:
1. Have apps like rhapsody use the external card for downloading music
2. Remap using external for things like Gameloft games data
I am rooted and I've been looking at solutions - alsso know that non stock will allow for changing mount points completely, but not quite there yet.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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cool. Did some Googling and see what it is. Can you point me in the right direction for the photon? If its someplace here I'll search around for it (just say so and I'll drop it). Its late and this after dealing with my two year old and 12 week old today - a bit out of it.
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Switch the vold.fstab around.
Make sure your permissions are set right
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cool. Did some Googling and see what it is. Can you point me in the right direction for the photon? If its someplace here I'll search around for it (just say so and I'll drop it). Its late and this after dealing with my two year old and 12 week old today - a bit out of it.
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OK. I see what to do to swap. Rather then swapping it, is there a "better" mount point for the external so that programs like rhapsody would use it properly? I assume using a bind command from shell would be enough to get the Gameloft games moved.... right? Or do most people simply swap internal with external?
Thanks.
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I'm curious too, been wondering this for a while but never thought to ask on here.
Is there a step by step guide for doing this or is it going to be too complicated for someone not familiar with coding.? I would love to accomplish this.
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vold.fstab is located in the system/etc folder. You must be rooted to see it. You can change where the mount point is for the external SD card. How to do it is pretty straightforward based on reading the file and Googling. My question is specific to how 'mother's devices deal with the external card and how software like amazon mp3, rhapsody, etc store data to the external SD and how remapping the external SD on the photon would best allow those apps to use the microSD successfully.
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Guess joker wasn't much help huh lol? Someone should write a guide on how to do this instead of whatever the hell joker wrote and said nothing else. Thanks!
Super busy give me a few hours and ill post something
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Guess joker wasn't much help huh lol? Someone should write a guide on how to do this instead of whatever the hell joker wrote and said nothing else. Thanks!
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Well that would be something the app developers would have to do. The vold.fstab trick is to trick everything in to thinking their switched. Not really a permanent solution. Try contacting the app devs and give as much info as possible including mount points
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vold.fstab is located in the system/etc folder. You must be rooted to see it. You can change where the mount point is for the external SD card. How to do it is pretty straightforward based on reading the file and Googling. My question is specific to how 'mother's devices deal with the external card and how software like amazon mp3, rhapsody, etc store data to the external SD and how remapping the external SD on the photon would best allow those apps to use the microSD successfully.
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Super busy give me a few hours and ill post something
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Sweet, can't wait cause I really want this. Thanks for taking the time to do this for us.
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Well that would be something the app developers would have to do. The vold.fstab trick is to trick everything in to thinking their switched. Not really a permanent solution. Try contacting the app devs and give as much info as possible including mount points
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Is there one mount point that is used more often then others?
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Is there one mount point that is used more often then others?
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Apparently Im real tired and I managed to read this kinda aloud... My wife just looked at me and said yes, there is definitely one mount point here that is used more often.
schollianmj said:
Apparently Im real tired and I managed to read this kinda aloud... My wife just looked at me and said yes, there is definitely one mount point here that is used more often.
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Lol question is was she actually talking about sdcards lol jk
To get slightly back on topic , I was wondering if someone could spell out exactly how to do aa 'junction' (this would be the windows term for it) where you have an invisible link for the OS to follow from one place to the next. So instead of modifing the root files,instead running an app that manages it or a script at boot that would allow it. Again - on stock firmware if that matters.
Mnt/sdcard/gameloft redirected to mnt/sdcard-ext/gameloft
Make sense?
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[MOD](recommended)Team Infernal Presents l Swap sdcard & Is Now Reversable l All Roms
This is a flashable zip i made for you to mount the microsd as /mnt/sdcard and the internal sdcard of this phone as /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
Instructions:
Just flash it
Requirements:
HtcDev unlock
Custom recovery
Ps: I also posted this in general before because my thank meter was on 0 so i couldnt post in development
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Nice thanks for this all we need is root now I'm so tired of not being able to use my SD card for anything but media
If the root method you are helping me with works you can just place the vold.fstab on system/etc yourself, glad to be helping
Linch89 said:
Nice thanks for this all we need is root now I'm so tired of not being able to use my SD card for anything but media
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What do you mean? I can use my SD card for everything >.> Unrooted and still locked.
Method320 said:
What do you mean? I can use my SD card for everything >.> Unrooted and still locked.
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you can use it for everything once we get root
jose51197 said:
you can use it for everything once we get root
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As I stated, I can already use it for everything and Im still not rooted and still locked. I can move downloaded files to it, I can easily access anything on the SD card.
oh yes sir you can ''use'' it but all apps are automatically installed to the ''sd card'' (internal hard drive)
will reflashing undo the swap?
Good question for those wondering this mod (I guess its a mod) works
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Good question for those wondering this mod (I guess its a mod) works
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i looked at the code, but i'm not enough of a linux guy to tell
Flashing the original vold.fstab will reverse this. So, yes, reflashing will undo it.
As soon i finish exams ill make a flashable zip to reverse it
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As soon as i finish exams i will make a flashable zip to undo this
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This mod is wonderful. I like knowing that if my phone's internal memory fails (or if I accidentally wipe it), I can just pop out my SD card because it has all my important data. For me, one of the benefits of most Android phones over the iPhone is the removable memory! And only about half of the apps I use were able to default to using the external card when the internal one was present and mounted first. Switching them solves that.
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This mod is wonderful. I like knowing that if my phone's internal memory fails (or if I accidentally wipe it), I can just pop out my SD card because it has all my important data. For me, one of the benefits of most Android phones over the iPhone is the removable memory! And only about half of the apps I use were able to default to using the external card when the internal one was present and mounted first. Switching them solves that.
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The idea came up since we only have 4.5gb for ourselves with this you can have up to 64gb, if only we could spread the word
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I think this will be one thing I change when I start over. Probably poor idea to try making the switch now. Thank you!
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homers1 said:
I think this will be one thing I change when I start over. Probably poor idea to try making the switch now. Thank you!
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You can always copy everything from internal sd to microsd and everything will be fine no need to start over
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As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
brent372 said:
As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
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Hmmm this is nothing related to lag i really mean it, lag associated with sdcard is usually using swap
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brent372 said:
As anybody using this noticed any lag? I am guessing a class 10 card would be recommended.
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Not necessarily. Coming from the Nook Tablet forums, this has been an issue that has been debated for some time. When you want to write quickly to a card you are better off with a higher class. However, if you need to read from a card, i.e. running an app or a whole OS, or booting off of into a recovery, higher rated cards don't mean faster read rates. Some lower class cards have a higher read rate. There is a discussion about this in the Nook Color forums and is hit on sometimes in the Nook Tab forums, sorry I don't have a link though.
IMHO Sandisk class 4 have the highest performance for reading from. This may not apply though, once you go to a bigger cards; 16G or 32G - I've only had personal experience with 4G cards.
I got a 64g class 10 SD card for Xmas and want to move my apps to my SD. I've tried apps2sd from the play store (all of them) and it says something isn't supported or recognized (something along those lines). I did the mod with script manager swapping the internal and external storages which essentially gave me 60 gigs of internal and 10 gigs external but the gallery, camera and a few other things were sort of borked.
I was talking with a buddy that said apps2sd worked for him with his 32g class 10.
I have less then a gig of storage left on my internal just from apps (my music, pics etc are on my external).
Is this a 64g SD card thing or am I doing something wrong?
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Your friend is lying, most likely. That or its not apps2sd.
Not that you need that anyway. You need something to move the associated data, like DirectoryBind. Moving little piddly apps under /data/app isn't going to do much for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
adrynalyne said:
Your friend is lying, most likely. That or its not apps2sd.
Not that you need that anyway. You need something to move the associated data, like DirectoryBind. Moving little piddly apps under /data/app isn't going to do much for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Awesome! Thank you very much! :good:
Edit. Just read that thread and yeah its Gameloft type of games hogging my storage. Thanks again!
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I got a 64g class 10 SD card for Xmas and want to move my apps to my SD. I've tried apps2sd from the play store (all of them) and it says something isn't supported or recognized (something along those lines). I did the mod with script manager swapping the internal and external storages which essentially gave me 60 gigs of internal and 10 gigs external but the gallery, camera and a few other things were sort of borked.
I was talking with a buddy that said apps2sd worked for him with his 32g class 10.
I have less then a gig of storage left on my internal just from apps (my music, pics etc are on my external).
Is this a 64g SD card thing or am I doing something wrong?
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Check out the mod under android development that swaps the internal storage with microSD, so essentially your 64gb sd would be swapped with your 16gb internal, and all apps would go to sd by themselves.
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Haloman800 said:
Check out the mod under android development that swaps the internal storage with microSD, so essentially your 64gb sd would be swapped with your 16gb internal, and all apps would go to sd by themselves.
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Read what you quoted for the reason he isnt doing that...
adrynalyne said:
Read what you quoted for the reason he isnt doing that...
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Yeah... already did that and its a little buggy ATM.
Edit. Also if you go with that mod you kinda gotta stick with it.
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chefdave12118 said:
Yeah... already did that and its a little buggy ATM.
Edit. Also if you go with that mod you kinda gotta stick with it.
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BIG DISCLAIMER: DID WORK AROUND REQUIRES A KERNEL WITH INIT.D SUPPORT. GO GET PERSEUS HERE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35458451
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In this dropbox are two SD Card Swaps. One is for a card formatted in exFat and one for Fat32.
If you use TWRP you'll be fine with the exFat one because your card is most likely exFat already. If you want to use CWM go get a program that will format your SD card into Fat 32 and flash the Fat 32 zip.
NEXT DISCLAIMER: In the event that radios are leaked you may want to remove the swap before flashing. It will most likely screw something up. You can remove the swap by going into the etc folder, clicking on init.d and removing the file that is named similarly to the zip file
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Rebel908 said:
BIG DISCLAIMER: DID WORK AROUND REQUIRES A KERNEL WITH INIT.D SUPPORT. GO GET PERSEUS HERE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35458451
http://db.tt/dGKp7Ljo
In this dropbox are two SD Card Swaps. One is for a card formatted in exFat and one for Fat32.
If you use TWRP you'll be fine with the exFat one because your card is most likely exFat already. If you want to use CWM go get a program that will format your SD card into Fat 32 and flash the Fat 32 zip.
NEXT DISCLAIMER: In the event that radios are leaked you may want to remove the swap before flashing. It will most likely screw something up. You can remove the swap by going into the etc folder, clicking on init.d and removing the file that is named similarly to the zip file
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Really?
You are the second person to literally not read this thread.
The OP DOES NOT WANT TO DO THE CARD SWAP.
You even quoted a post from him saying why he didn't want to.
Hey guys!
I'm starting a new thread because I been wondering if any Xda developers have found a solution for the new update jellybean 4.3. I been searching day and night to see if any one as successfully found a solution for this product problem. If anyone knows any method on unlocking the bootloader will be helpful. I seen Adam and he's XDA teams been working on some projects but I'm not sure if it's for the I605 ver. 4.3 note2.
you can pay 75 dollars to mobiletech for them to downgrade it for you. The remove the emmc chip and reflash it.... I might be testing a method soon but it seems kinda risky. You have to short a small resistor.
Can you elaborate on the resistor part?
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Jorden7491 said:
Can you elaborate on the resistor part?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2690033 its this method. It forces a bootloader flash but hasnt been tested to downgrade. I currently dont have a micro sd to sd adapter for my laptop atm.. so idk how im gonna put the img on my sd.
What's your address maybe we can help each other out and mail you one
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roflcoptersoisoi said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2690033 its this method. It forces a bootloader flash but hasnt been tested to downgrade. I currently dont have a micro sd to sd adapter for my laptop atm.. so idk how im gonna put the img on my sd.
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roflcoptersoisoi- just an idea.... do you think it might work if you put your sd card in another phone and then hook that phone into your computer to connect it as a usb mass storage device? Maybe that would let you access the external sd card through the computer and use win32diskimager to write the image to the external sd card.
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mattnmag said:
roflcoptersoisoi- just an idea.... do you think it might work if you put your sd card in another phone and then hook that phone into your computer to connect it as a usb mass storage device? Maybe that would let you access the external sd card through the computer and use win32diskimager to write the image to the external sd card.
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Tried that it wont show up
roflcoptersoisoi said:
Tried that it wont show up
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So win32diskimager would not recognize the sd card when you had the phone connected your computer? Darn. I was hoping that might work. Oh well, at least it was worth a try. I hope you figure something else out. Sounds like you might have to just go buy a cheap SD adapter.... or take Jorden up on the offer .
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mattnmag said:
So win32diskimager would not recognize the sd card when you had the phone connected your computer? Darn. I was hoping that might work. Oh well, at least it was worth a try. I hope you figure something else out. Sounds like you might have to just go buy a cheap SD adapter.... or take Jorden up on the offer .
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were working on that atm. XD. Im testing safestrap till then .
Well anything I can do to hack the bootloader on the 4.3 we need to come up with a way
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Jorden7491 said:
Well anything I can do to hack the bootloader on the 4.3 we need to come up with a way
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we got safestrap to boot roms atm. But you are limited to 4.3 touchwiz roms... So this still needs to be tested as we can use kit kat roms and future stuff that comes out
roflcoptersoisoi said:
we got safestrap to boot roms atm. But you are limited to 4.3 touchwiz roms... So this still needs to be tested as we can use kit kat roms and future stuff that comes out
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I would be happy flashing TW ROMs. Are you at the point where you can share what you have, or need someone to try it out?
Your bootloader is locked but there is a work around on xda where you can run your rom virtually and still keep stock rom just be careful about how you do this because you might brick your phone
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roflcoptersoisoi said:
were working on that atm. XD. Im testing safestrap till then .
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:fingers-crossed: have u had any success with safestrap on the new ota update?