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I rooted the MT3G with ease. And the flashing of Roms and stuff is easy for Mt3g. But it seems hard for the Vibrant. I don't use abd or anything cause frankly. I don't know how. Can you guys maybe give me suggestions?
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Read, understand, experiment. Ppl only get their troubles or "panic" because they dont have anything setup & dont know how to get them selves out it. If you dont want to learn our try to use the tools that are available then just wait till the one-click ROMS or CM comes out.
If you want to take the time to learn then I would suggest to head over to the vibrant "bible".
Easiest way is just to down load one click lag fix from market there is a root option there. Or it really was easy this oas my first android phone. Download the update filter put it in the internal sd and rebooted using hold vol + vol- and power. And installed from there no problem.
Just check out the stickied thread about vibrant tips and tricks
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There is also a "One Click Lag Fix" that you can download here, it takes like 20 seconds to root this phone, you shouldn't be scared
chris279m said:
I rooted the MT3G with ease. And the flashing of Roms and stuff is easy for Mt3g. But it seems hard for the Vibrant. I don't use abd or anything cause frankly. I don't know how. Can you guys maybe give me suggestions?
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I wondered about rooting too at first, but as it turns out it's very easy. I've read several comments on how easy it is to root the Vibrant compared to Android phones back in the olden days.
And if you want to flash a neat ROM, go check out Bionix.
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782027
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I wondered about rooting too at first, but as it turns out it's very easy. I've read several comments on how easy it is to root the Vibrant compared to Android phones back in the olden days.
And if you want to flash a neat ROM, go check out Bionix.
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782027
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+1 on the Bionix!!
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+1 on the Bionix!!
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I thought I saw you over there!
Im rooted with one click lag fix. Now i need to flash Rom without bricking. And i used the one click root & lag fix that was on the market.
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Im rooted with one click lag fix. Now i need to flash Rom without bricking. And i used the one click root & lag fix that was on the market.
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I just got this phone 2 days ago (my first smartphone ever!) and I've flashed it probably 6 or 7 times now...
Important advice: Right now, once you've installed Clockwork ROM Manager, make a backup of your ROM! I really wish I'd done this, just a near-stock, untouched backup (yes every thread post starts with "make a backup!" but I was stupid)
Now for some encouragement: If I, with zero knowledge of Android/rooting/ROMs/build.prop files/Clockwork/adb/Odin before Sunday at 4 pm, managed to F with this phone as much as I have and not even come close to bricking it, you'll be *golden* just flashing it with a well-known ROM.
Flashing ROMs is super easy with Clockwork. It's like... 3 or 4 clicks easy.
Right now I'm running Bionix and really enjoying it. You might check it out while we all wait for Cyanogenmod to come out for Vibrant.
TL;DR: I've been pushing files, flashing broken ROMs, all sorts of fun stuff and my phone is still pluggin' away. I wouldn't worry too much about bricking. Just read the threads, search the Googles, and ask for help if you get really stuck. And backup.
Make sure you check out Eugene323's stuff as well. He puts out some incredible work.
chris279m said:
I rooted the MT3G with ease. And the flashing of Roms and stuff is easy for Mt3g. But it seems hard for the Vibrant. I don't use abd or anything cause frankly. I don't know how. Can you guys maybe give me suggestions?
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I had more problems with my MT3G than I did with this phone. It took a day to root and rom the MT3G since I have the one with the head phone jack (stupid gold card crap).
Do what everyone has suggested. DL the One Click Lag Fix and touch the option to root. I'm running the Bionix 1.3 and it's good.
I dont know if you guys feel the same, but I just have an urge to mess up with my phone so much, install themes, play around with roms, change settings, find out about hidden settings, anything that makes me feel that I can, just for the heck of being able to do it, and I want more and more!! what about you? do yo feel the same way? are we weird or what?
No, we're human. Don't ask Steve Jobs about customizing, it doesn't compute.
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yes very much
My name is Mark, and I'm a phone junkie.
lol, phone junkie, nice term for our sickness, jejejejeje
Yes, I suffer from this as well. I actually still flash ROMs on my Droid, just because I miss being able to do so. It's one of the few things I miss about my Droid. I hope we see Voodoo tonight or tomorrow so I have something to play around with.
Count me in with this group.
I may reactivate my incredible just to flash stuff.
Fascinate oc1.4 for now
Lmao, I'm the same way. I got this phone last friday, but I haven't rooted yet since there isn't much yet to toy with for it. I'm going nuts. I have an inactive droid and my wife is using my incredible. I flashed roms on those phones almost daily. I've got a serious case of withdraws.
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Lmao, I'm the same way. I got this phone last friday, but I haven't rooted yet since there isn't much yet to toy with for it. I'm going nuts. I have an inactive droid and my wife is using my incredible. I flashed roms on those phones almost daily. I've got a serious case of withdraws.
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Sounds exactly like me hah. I had to go ahead and root just for CW though. Good piece of mind.
Such is life. Some people tinker with stuff. Hardware, software. We always want faster, speedier, etc
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until you brick it... and dont enough money to get a new one then it really blows.. But i guess its worth it
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Lmao, I'm the same way. I got this phone last friday, but I haven't rooted yet since there isn't much yet to toy with for it. I'm going nuts. I have an inactive droid and my wife is using my incredible. I flashed roms on those phones almost daily. I've got a serious case of withdraws.
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We are such sick people, needing to flash stuff on our phones
I was like that with my droid eris I never backed it up or anything I was a risk taker
Till I bricked 2 of them... But luckly I lied to verizon and just said my screen wont turn on and they sent new one
I too have this disease the only difference between me and you guys is that I can quit anytime I want to. i just dont want to. OK?!?!?
But really I miss the daily ROMs maybe we could make some placebo ROMs you know they wouldn't really change anything but they would be there for those of us that just need to flash something lol
I too am a junkie when it comes to this stuff. I came from droid 1 and even with it inactive I flash stuff over wifi nonstop since we don't have much on the fascinate yet. It's an addiction!
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The cool thing about android is that you can't really brick a phone cause you always have resources like RSD, and Odin at your disposal. Now when you do brick its because its your fault, you did something stupid and deserve a bricked phone. Its your fault cause you did something stupid and deserve a bricked phone. Sorry had to say that twice cause it was worth repeating.
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yeah, is kind of scary when somwthing goes wrong and the phone wont boot, or is stuck in the boot screen, your heart starts to accelerate, your mind starts to work really hard, and when you fix it and you see your home screen again, you feel like some kind of power, or realization that a stupod phone wont beat you
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Hi. I'm ksizzle9. I'm addicted to my android phone. I have a problem
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I lose a lot of productive hours at work tinkering on my phones. Throw me in the same boat with the other guys that keep updating their Droids just to get their fix.
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ok, 1st off i'm used to my Evo4G so i know very little about the Photon...yet. So my question is, right now as it stands, if i get the Photon I can root it & run all the root apps & functions & still have 4G, but from the bits i read, if I unlocked the bootloader as well, Ill lose 4G, can sumone clear this up for me?
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ok, 1st off i'm used to my Evo4G so i know very little about the Photon...yet. So my question is, right now as it stands, if i get the Photon I can root it & run all the root apps & functions & still have 4G, but from the bits i read, if I unlocked the bootloader as well, Ill lose 4G, can sumone clear this up for me?
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You are correct. But you can unlock the bootloader and then lock it back up. So its like this:
Root and Unlock Bootloader
Install CWM
Install one of the only two ROMS we currently have
re-lock bootloader
Install bootstrap recovery
install updates to whichever ROM you want through bootstrap
Enjoy custom ROM with locked bootloader and 4g love
It is really just an extra step until we get the kernel source code. This is an absolute great phone and we have great people in this forum to help you out. There are quite a few guides on how to do all of this, if you want to PM me I can help you one on one get it done if need be. Other than that, hope to see you around these parts
-DJ
So could i just wait for an easier method or do you not think there will be one
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Addictedtothegreenguy said:
So could i just wait for an easier method or do you not think there will be one
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I don't know, I find it pretty easy to do, and I'm not very good at adb stuff. I believe there is a one click root tool also and it only takes like 3 minutes to unlock the bootloader.
So I think the whole thing is pretty easy myself. Up to you really.
-DJ
One thing I want to ask.
This is what is keeping me from even rooting. how do I unroot? In case I return this phone?
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hayabusa1300cc said:
One thing I want to ask.
This is what is keeping me from even rooting. how do I unroot? In case I return this phone?
.: sent from Planet Photon:.
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Just flash the original sbf file through rsd lite.
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Djspinister said:
You are correct. But you can unlock the bootloader and then lock it back up. So its like this:
Root and Unlock Bootloader
Install CWM
Install one of the only two ROMS we currently have
re-lock bootloader
Install bootstrap recovery
install updates to whichever ROM you want through bootstrap
Enjoy custom ROM with locked bootloader and 4g love
It is really just an extra step until we get the kernel source code. This is an absolute great phone and we have great people in this forum to help you out. There are quite a few guides on how to do all of this, if you want to PM me I can help you one on one get it done if need be. Other than that, hope to see you around these parts
-DJ
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Thanks man, really appreciate it. I been wanting to get one & try see how i like it but i'm so used to being fully rooted, unlocked bootloader & all & running custom roms & didn't know much about it yet so I was unsure & that played a big part. But again, thanks alot!
Djspinister said:
I don't know, I find it pretty easy to do, and I'm not very good at adb stuff. I believe there is a one click root tool also and it only takes like 3 minutes to unlock the bootloader.
So I think the whole thing is pretty easy myself. Up to you really.
-DJ
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I just dont want to bork my phone ive had pretty good luck with my Og evo, epic, nexus s, and E3D this just seems a bit more scary never had to deal with a bootstrap
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Addictedtothegreenguy said:
I just dont want to bork my phone ive had pretty good luck with my Og evo, epic, nexus s, and E3D this just seems a bit more scary never had to deal with a bootstrap
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I had an ogEvo as well and new to the whole bootstrap but most of this stuff just sounds complex. Really isn't a huge deal once you get your feet wet. I had the same reservations when getting the ogEVO but over time ended up doing about everything to it. Never borked it once.
Addictedtothegreenguy said:
I just dont want to bork my phone ive had pretty good luck with my Og evo, epic, nexus s, and E3D this just seems a bit more scary never had to deal with a bootstrap
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Yea, it really isn't that bad, a bootstrap is more harmless than a real recovery actually. Its just like installing an app from the market really.
And on the borking the android phones. I think this is extremely hard to do because I had an OgEvo and I don't think I could have bricked that if I tried. I think Android is some of the most user friendliest software out there in my opinion. I even thought I bricked my Photon the other day, but I didn't, you always just find out it's user error 99% of the time!
At least for me it is. lol
As for the root/unlock process with the photon, I think it is very easy once you run through it a couple times. I may make a video so people aren't so scared to try it out.
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Ok can you lot give me a few good reasons to root my transformer prime and install a new ROM. I've been looking at some of the ROMs and they all look kinda.... **** lol no offence. they just look to much like the prime unrooted but with a few changed to colour really :/
i rooted my SGS2 and installed the muiu ROM i think its called and thats great i llove it. it looks different and that's what i want
someone prove me wrong please
Do you want full control over your device? The ability to get rid of the asus crapware and run your own things? I too rooted my SGS2 after about a week of owning it and haven't regretted it.
With root you can install adblockers, backup tools (proper ones), overclocking
If you're technically minded and want to get the most out of your money then root, if you don't want to risk damaging your Aluminium piece of sexy then don't.
otispowell said:
Ok can you lot give me a few good reasons to root my transformer prime and install a new ROM. I've been looking at some of the ROMs and they all look kinda.... **** lol no offence. they just look to much like the prime unrooted but with a few changed to colour really :/
i rooted my SGS2 and installed the muiu ROM i think its called and thats great i llove it. it looks different and that's what i want
someone prove me wrong please
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Aokp is gone but that was the best.
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Rooting is definitely the way to go, doesnt affect your ability to get ota's and what not, if you want to unlock i say wait a lil bit longer to find out when or if ASUS is going to release nvflash to us, granted it definitely looks promising giving Gary Key's latest update.
That said if you want to unlock you can still get AOKP from jermaine just not from here, whether he is still supporting the rom is an entirely different question
hmmmmm ok i dont know i suppose i could just get root access and keep it as stock then. im going to have to find out how to root this now sigh lol research.. i'll look it in about 3 hours lol
I would highly suggest you root it since if any things happen you can just factory default the tablet and it'll be unrooted
So there's really nothing to loss rooting it
Just make sure after you root your device you backup the root so you don't loss it after you update the prime
lol you lost me after backing up my root. =/
i just tried to use sparkyroot but it doesnt seem to be working. im going to look at other methods.
dont think i can root it can i im currently on 9.4.2.21
Check the general thread, there is a way to downgrade and then root it without unlocking.
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jdeoxys said:
Aokp is gone but that was the best.
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gone from xda, don't make assumptions like that
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Check the general thread, there is a way to downgrade and then root it without unlocking.
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i dont want to downgrade if possible. i'll just wait a while and see what comes. =]
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Coming from an s3 I am wondering if this may be true. Toolkit to unlock and root. Then a Odin image to revert to stock if needed
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My 2 cents, for what it's worth. Toolkits should be banned from Android. They just allow people to do stuff that is well over their head, and when they fail, the user has an "OH ****" moment and quite possibly, makes things worse trying to recover. You should learn how to do it manually so you know what you're doing, and doing anything manually also forces you to learn a few things in the process that can save you later.
Also, we already have a method back to stock, so I'm not sure why that's still needed.
imnuts said:
My 2 cents, for what it's worth. Toolkits should be banned from Android. They just allow people to do stuff that is well over their head, and when they fail, the user has an "OH ****" moment and quite possibly, makes things worse trying to recover. You should learn how to do it manually so you know what you're doing, and doing anything manually also forces you to learn a few things in the process that can save you later.
Also, we already have a method back to stock, so I'm not sure why that's still needed.
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Words of wisdom right there!
^ Yup learn it please save me from reading 25 pages of people asking for help on simple mods
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Lol....toolkits and the people that develop them rock!!!!
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imnuts said:
My 2 cents, for what it's worth. Toolkits should be banned from Android. They just allow people to do stuff that is well over their head, and when they fail, the user has an "OH ****" moment and quite possibly, makes things worse trying to recover. You should learn how to do it manually so you know what you're doing, and doing anything manually also forces you to learn a few things in the process that can save you later.
Also, we already have a method back to stock, so I'm not sure why that's still needed.
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This is a really good point.
When I rooted my Thunderbolt, I tried using a toolkit, and it didn't work. I was stuck halfway through the root process with no way back and no idea how to continue.
As it turned out, the download wasn't quite perfect, one of the images I was flashing to get s-off was corrupt. The toolkit never checked. I damn near bricked my phone because I was a noob and used a toolkit.
My advice is, don't do it, not for your first time. Once you understand how to recover if the toolkit fails, then you can use one. But not before.
I rooted my HTC Eris before there was a one click root/unlock app. Imagine a noob who knows nothing about Android setting up SDK and flashing images with adb. This was before you could find noob friendly guides and asking questions almost always got you flamed. I had no idea what I was doing. Once I finally rooted and unlocked I flashed a rom that boot looped. My first ever XDA post was "HELP!! Am I Bricked??".
Moral of the story, I did it the hard way and learned a little along the way. I've rooted/modded every device I've owned since.
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Yep I don't think youre broke in yet unless you've went through a few minute to an hour of sweating bullets thinking you now own a 700 dollar paper weight. First time I rooted was the original adb push method with the bolt. I skipped a step and fouled it up but recovered by just figuring it out. (Mainly cause I didn't want to get flamed) anyway. Always wanting the simple way out is not always the best. Besides it doesn't get a whole lot easier than using casual. Took like 15 minutes and 8 of that was waiting on the first flash. Its literally 3 steps. It would be that with a toolkit.
I know how to do it. Just that doing it over and over again is time cosuming
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G1 took my virginity and then the droid ... both of those phones made me cringe at times lol
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ihavenewnike said:
I know how to do it. Just that doing it over and over again is time cosuming
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Doing it via a toolkit isn't going to save any significant amount of time as you would still need to have the images downloaded and then flash them, both of which are going to be the two longest parts of the process. There also shouldn't be a reason to ever have to unlock again as there are stock restore packages that will retain the unlock status of the phone.
imnuts said:
My 2 cents, for what it's worth. Toolkits should be banned from Android. They just allow people to do stuff that is well over their head, and when they fail, the user has an "OH ****" moment and quite possibly, makes things worse trying to recover. You should learn how to do it manually so you know what you're doing, and doing anything manually also forces you to learn a few things in the process that can save you later.
Also, we already have a method back to stock, so I'm not sure why that's still needed.
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Well said! I used one click methods on my OG Evo when I was a noob and was constantly scared to death every time I got in a boot loop and other scary things for a begginer. I agree! Learn from the bottom up even if its just rooting, unlocking, flashing and backing up.
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Well it would still be nice to have one. I know how to do it personally, but like the galaxy s3 we had the rooting toolkit and the app to unlock. It is a luxury nice to have. Hopefully omeone will make one
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Aint nothing wrong with having a toolkit.As long as ppl check the MD5 they will be fine. I learned to use both ways when i had my thunderbolt and to be honest it is much easier to have the toolkit.Yes should should know how to root / unroot manually. Yes there should be an easy way for those that decide to use the toolkit.Obviosly using both ways you still have ppl that are always asking the same questionie.. Help i bricked my phone or How to do this or that. but guess what thats what makes this forum great. you have options to do it either way.It also makes the person or persons who do the toolkit get thanked!!!! lol well thats all im gonna say about that!
imnuts said:
My 2 cents, for what it's worth. Toolkits should be banned from Android. They just allow people to do stuff that is well over their head, and when they fail, the user has an "OH ****" moment and quite possibly, makes things worse trying to recover. You should learn how to do it manually so you know what you're doing, and doing anything manually also forces you to learn a few things in the process that can save you later.
Also, we already have a method back to stock, so I'm not sure why that's still needed.
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Just because a person chooses an easy method doesn't mean they don't know or can't learn the actual method, and just because s person can follow step by step instructions doesn't mean they actually learned anything.
The first time I rooted an Android device I did it using the command line on my phone, no PC needed.
The second time I used z4root.
we now have a root tool kit... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050297
droidstyle said:
we now have a root tool kit... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050297
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Hellz ya... but no camera..... guess we can call it give and take huh... I do use my camera and supposedly it exploit is only for rooted phones.. if im wrong please let me know but thats what ive read on android authority.
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Aint nothing wrong with having a toolkit.As long as ppl check the MD5 they will be fine. I learned to use both ways when i had my thunderbolt and to be honest it is much easier to have the toolkit.Yes should should know how to root / unroot manually. Yes there should be an easy way for those that decide to use the toolkit.Obviosly using both ways you still have ppl that are always asking the same questionie.. Help i bricked my phone or How to do this or that. but guess what thats what makes this forum great. you have options to do it either way.It also makes the person or persons who do the toolkit get thanked!!!! lol well thats all im gonna say about that!
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I can agree to this. My wife's tbolt crapped out on her. It's easier to have a toolkit to quickly get the new device unlocked/rooted so I could restore her backup img on the new phone.
Having never used a toolkit for any phone, I can likely root or restore any phone I have just as fast as the toolkit could for someone. You learn how to do everything manually, and you will learn that in most cases, it's easier to do it that way. Also, the toolkit wouldn't work properly anyway as it would need to be able to execute Odin, select a tar, and then flash it. While you could get an application to do this, it would require other pre-requisites to do so. My opinion is that everyone should just stop being lazy, suck it up, and deal with the methods available, and if you can't do that, then learn to love stock. There is nothing hard about rooting, unlocking, reverting to stock, or anything else that I've seen yet.
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Hellz ya... but no camera..... guess we can call it give and take huh... I do use my camera and supposedly it exploit is only for rooted phones.. if im wrong please let me know but thats what ive read on android authority.
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read the post...camera is only broke on the s3 using that method.