Would anyone with a European XT910 on the new leaked ICS update be able to upload a system dump for developers with other XT910/XT912 devices? It would be greatly appreciated.
Sure, will do when I get home tonight, assuming no-one beats me to it.
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Ill try dumping it if I flash it again.
emm i'm sorry for the noob question
how to dump system files from unrooted phone?
my phone is updated from the hospital (motorola's service center :">)
[65.1.21.xt910.AsiaRetail.en.03]
and i cant do nandroid backup
(my phone is not rooted, razr bootstrap cant do anything)
thank you
I've pulled my /system. Nova Launcher is in there too, and a fair few apps were frozen when I did it, was too lazy to revert and I figure the people who'll benefit from this won't care anyway. Uploading now.
depth_charge said:
emm i'm sorry for the noob question
how to dump system files from unrooted phone?
my phone is updated from the hospital (motorola's service center :">)
[65.1.21.xt910.AsiaRetail.en.03]
and i cant do nandroid backup
(my phone is not rooted, razr bootstrap cant do anything)
thank you
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Enable USB debugging, install Java and the Android SDK, then run "ADB pull /system" from the command line. Don't need root to do it. You'll need a bit of a crash course in using ADB if you haven't before, though - an hour or so trawling Google ought to do it.
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I've pulled my /system. Nova Launcher is in there too, and a fair few apps were frozen when I did it, was too lazy to revert and I figure the people who'll benefit from this won't care anyway. Uploading now.
Enable USB debugging, install Java and the Android SDK, then run "ADB pull /system" from the command line. Don't need root to do it. You'll need a bit of a crash course in using ADB if you haven't before, though - an hour or so trawling Google ought to do it.
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Shouldn't be in the system folder anyway, thats a data thing. Thank you onslaught
mattlgroff said:
Shouldn't be in the system folder anyway, thats a data thing. Thank you onslaught
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Nova Launcher needs to be in /system to access ICS widgets.
Took me a while to find a bitlocker that accepts files over 300MB. This should do it. http://www.uploading.to/8e75ajn5bcsd
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Nova Launcher needs to be in /system to access ICS widgets.
Took me a while to find a bitlocker that accepts files over 300MB. This should do it. http://www.uploading.to/8e75ajn5bcsd
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Thank you much
No trouble, always happy to do what little I can. Have been keeping a close eye on the Ic3RAZR dev work, hopefully there's some helpful libs & such in here.
The GSM ICS OTA is very alpha and highly unstable, even though everything 'works', it does so to varying degrees and tends to freeze and/or reboot frequently. From what I've read, dhacker & hashcode's progress on Ic3RAZR is already more stable.
Be nice to get more of the snazzy-looking CDMA ROMs ported to the GSM RAZR at some point.
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No trouble, always happy to do what little I can. Have been keeping a close eye on the Ic3RAZR dev work, hopefully there's some helpful libs & such in here.
The GSM ICS OTA is very alpha and highly unstable, even though everything 'works', it does so to varying degrees and tends to freeze and/or reboot frequently. From what I've read, dhacker & hashcode's progress on Ic3RAZR is already more stable.
Be nice to get more of the snazzy-looking CDMA ROMs ported to the GSM RAZR at some point.
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It is BETA
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It is BETA
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I guess Moto's definitions of usability differ from my own. I did find the shipped 2.3.5 en.EU firmware to be the buggiest officially released ROM I've ever used (What with all the overheating, mediaserver loops, and phone FC's when rebooting with wifi turned on), so there's precedent. Heh.
That said, I'm really excited about what a more stable and developed ICS upgrade will bring. Moto have certainly put more effort in than Samsung have been, there's heaps of new functionality in there rather than just being the same thing with a different version number. Adds to the ICS experience rather than detracting, for the most part.
And FINALLY, there's a stock 1x1 calendar widget that blends in with app icons.
Did you know that the Razr was supposed to be shipped with ICS and unlockable bootloader?
That's why moto has been so fast to adapt blur... In reality they weren't fast at all!
And well if I can give my two cents.. Huawei devices and some other unknown oems have already got ICS officially..... :/
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kholk said:
Did you know that the Razr was supposed to be shipped with ICS and unlockable bootloader?
That's why moto has been so fast to adapt blur... In reality they weren't fast at all!
And well if I can give my two cents.. Huawei devices and some other unknown oems have already got ICS officially..... :/
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Interesting! Suspected that might be the case, since the Gingerbread build is so similar to the Droid 3/Bionic, and most of the changes they've made have been very ICS-inspired - camera on the lockscreen, dismissable notifications, et cetera.
Really is a strange device, last minute decision to launch a GSM 'variant' and all.
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System Recovery to requires you to have a WALL CHARGER being plugged into the computer will not work
www.bandbinnovations.com/xda/DX2/Bootstrap_signed.apk
This is a chinese update.zip I would not flash it unless you know chinese but it gives devs a good base and gives us a good start as we dont have to worry about signing the updates now
www.bandbinnovations.com/xda/DX2/update_signed.zip
Great news
Its still a lil too advanced for me to use yet, but the ball is rolling fast now. Has there been any word on the potential stable speed of the tegra when overclocked. My incredible was never stable beyond stock.
I did it it, and it was way easier than I thought it was going to be. Not going to bother with the chinese rom though. I haven't heard anyone say it was any better than stock, so why bother.
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Its still a lil too advanced for me to use yet, but the ball is rolling fast now. Has there been any word on the potential stable speed of the tegra when overclocked. My incredible was never stable beyond stock.
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Eh, not rolling tooo fast, its rolling the same its been for the past week, people are just over hyping everything TOO MUCH, and that rom is practically an update.zip but Chinese (from what i gathered i may be wrong)
Im thinking of trying the chinese rom this weekend to see if I can muddle though the settings and change it to english. I dont read or speak, much less write, chinese. If anybody can tell me that this can or cant be done, let me know before I spend to much time on it... Please....
TIA
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Im thinking of trying the chinese rom this weekend to see if I can muddle though the settings and change it to english. I dont read or speak, much less write, chinese. If anybody can tell me that this can or cant be done, let me know before I spend to much time on it... Please....
TIA
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I got curious and decided to start looking at the files in the zip (one-by-one). So far, each file that I have opened is in English. Since the SBF does work, I'm wondering what would it hurt to at least give it a try and if it all comes up in Mandarin, then I can simply clean everything off and go back to how things were before. I'm not a dev, and I don't pretend like I could be one or know what I'm doing. I know how to flash, sbf and most importantly - ask for help when there's something I don't understand. I haven't seen anything (in the files I've viewed so far) that would lead me to believe that this is anything other than a normal ROM that the Chinese just happen to have.
If anyone else has any thoughts on this matter, please share. My curiosity may just be in overdrive and i've been hungering so long for a ROM that this might just be desperation and a case of huberus of the worst magnitude. I welcome all learned comments/suggestions on the matter.
Thanks in advance family.
If you erase data prior to flashing the rom, when you reboot, it will be at the initial android activation screen. It will be in chinese, but you can simply click the icon in the bottom right hand corner and change to english. Only problems I've ran into so far using this method is that the paid is that paid market doesn't seem to work. But with the new market available, you may just be able to install it over top and bring back full functionality.
Once I return home im going to make an all night attempt st conjuring something up based on this rom, I'll post it if I accomplish anything.
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If you erase data prior to flashing the rom, when you reboot, it will be at the initial android activation screen. It will be in chinese, but you can simply click the icon in the bottom right hand corner and change to english. Only problems I've ran into so far using this method is that the paid is that paid market doesn't seem to work. But with the new market available, you may just be able to install it over top and bring back full functionality.
Once I return home im going to make an all night attempt st conjuring something up based on this rom, I'll post it if I accomplish anything.
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Now that is some MAJOR information that I needed to know. Thank you so very much. I will most definitely be trying this tonight when I get home from work. I feel like a kid with a new toy....is that bad? Oh well, can't help myself. Have to tinker. It will be interesting to see what happens during the next step of the test - seeing if it has the same problems as the stock version (rebooting when it wants to, powering itself off while in the charging dock, etc.) We won't even discuss Quadrant speeds or overclocking yet. I think that's the stuff I will leave to you experts. I'm a major novice who is a pseudo adrenaline junkie when it comes to my phone. I'm like Tim Allen wanting it to have "more power, grunt grunt'.
I'll stop being silly now and rather I will thank you again for the heads-up...it is greatly appreciated.
This is exactly the info I was looking for. I am not a dev either. I just know enough to get myself in trouble and then get out of it, most of the time..... I do believe we can just replace the market and if that is so that will be awesome. the next thing we are going to have to figure out is if and how we remove the chinese bloat.
About the issues affecting the stock ROM we have at the moment, from my understanding, the chinese one is basically the same. So the same issues may still exist...
I will attempt this tonight after work and a backup so that I can wipe and sbf to start from scratch...
Its great to see interest and attempts at advancing our current state of affairs, even if the progress is minimal. Progress is PROGRESS people!!!!
TIA
So I just flashed the Chinese ROM.... I did what c21johnson said and switched it to English using the bottom right hand button... After that its pretty much the same as usual, log in, configure VZW and Google access and then you get to the default moto blur crap that came with the phone... Some bloat has been removed, but again as has been stated previously some has been added... Two apps that are in Chinese that cant be uninstalled... Aside from that its all the same... I am restoring back to the backup I did before flashing the Chinese ROM as it is absolutely nothing special.....
Has anyone tried to overclock the chinese room? I heard its the same as original rom, but since its a custom kernal, it might be able to be overclocked.
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Has anyone tried to overclock the chinese room? I heard its the same as original rom, but since its a custom kernal, it might be able to be overclocked.
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Does it really have a custom kernel?
If it does then we should be mining Chinese forums to figure out how because someone would have had to sign it with our locked bootloader. I bet its stock.
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Does it really have a custom kernel?
If it does then we should be mining Chinese forums to figure out how because someone would have had to sign it with our locked bootloader. I bet its stock.
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No custom kernel and cannot be overclocked. Still searching into a method to overclock this beast.
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This works great!
I've even recovered from a brick using the SBF and a nandroid recovery from the System Recovery on this. So when are we going to start seeing some ROMs?
Has anyone been successful in using this on a Motorola Milestone X2? I created this thread and skwoodwiva was extremely helpful in trying to help me out but it seems I still can't figure out what I might be doing wrong:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20295079#
Umm, someone needs to explain more about this. It doesn't seem to be anything that isn't already out for us, just it's in Chinese. I see no reason to use this or even have it posted here at all unless you can unlock the bootloader...has anyone tried that yet? I won't hold my breath on this btw.
I fail to see how this is different...our current recovery requires being plugged into a wall, why use this instead?
An oldie but goodie thread This is where our bootstrap came from...
That makes much more sense...I didn't look at the thread date, thanks mastafunk
New way to use this apk
Many thanks to Tenfar for the apk. This is the same but it is not installed form your file manager it is flashed with recovery mode already enabled.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426062
It writes to /preinstall , /system/bin and /data (just as the recovery mode-ON apk does) BUT NOT to /data/data (as the apk relies on). Also charge mode is not available as it needs to be recovery enabled in order to save "you" on a bad rom flash or data data wipe.
Why use it? You may ask:
With this you can now safely do a data wipe and still reboot into cwr by just flashing this as the last step before "reboot system now" it will save you from SBFing if anything keeps you from booting.
System Recovery to requires you to have a WALL CHARGER being plugged into the computer will not work
www.bandbinnovations.com/xda/DX2/Bootstrap_signed.apk<--- This Link Is BROKEN Please Fix...
EDIT: As per the request of Mr. Clown to maintain GPL compliance, this rom utilizes the stock kernel for the Motorola DROID X2.
After finalizing the stability testing of the Affinity Alpha ROM, I'm proud to announce the release of the first beta.
Now before there are any misconceptions or hate towards this ROM, I would like to make a few things clear.
This is NOT an original piece of work. I didn't build this from scratch nor will I pretend I did. However, what I did do is assemble a working foundation to start building off of, making it possible to release more substantial updates and make this an almost blur-free experience.
Regarding the controversy surrounding c21johnson's MinimalX ROM:
Although it may be true that he based his release off of the Chinese DX2 ROM, which itself is the cause of the "moto input method" keyboard that doesn't work and not the result of him "adding a last minute feature that was taken out right before release and all traces weren't removed" (I'm paraphrasing), he did put a good deal of time into building his adaptation and making sure it was stable, and we should all give him credit where it is due.
My ROM is also based off of the CHS DX2 ROM and I would like to acknowledge both that development team and c21johnson's work which helped me understand how to begin and develop this project.
With this current release, not a whole lot has been done yet. However, most of the bloat has been removed, the Blur launcher has been replaced with Launcher2, and there has been some style modifications.
In the future releases, this is what I plan to accomplish:
Full AOSP (This is about 25% done so far. I am currently dealing with some compatibility issue with the contacts, messaging and calendar apps.)
Rework the install process to actually format the system and preinstall folders for installing the rom, rather than just deleting each app manually.
CPU Frequency Scaling built in
Once I know app development a little better, I will release a toolbox similar to Liberty's to make edits, install themes, etc.
I'm sure more will come up along the way, but those are my highest priorities.
To install this ROM, you MUST be on an unmodified stock install. I tried installing over the stock ROM with a couple of system files missing and it ended up needing an SBF flash.
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If you have a nandroid backup of the unmodified stock (except root and recovery) you can restore back and flash this ROM rather than SBFing.
1.) Download the ROM
2.) Place the ROM on your SD Card (internal or external is fine)
3.) Boot into Recovery (you need the bootstrap app to get to the correct recovery - www.bandbinnovations.com/xda/DX2/Bootstrap_signed.apk)
4.) Wipe DATA and Cache (VERY IMPORTANT!!)
5.) Install zip from SD Card (internal or external)
6.) Select the ROM and install it.
7.) Reboot
It should start up pretty quick, but if you are sitting around for more than 5 minutes on the boot logo or boot animation, you may have followed a step wrong.
IMPORTANT POST-INSTALL NOTE:
After installing and reaching the setup screen, skip the setup steps and get to the home screen. Then access the settings, go to language and keyboard and set either swype or multi-touch keyboard as your device.
If you enjoy what I've done so far, I appreciate donations. I spent about 20 hours in the past few days and had to do about 15 SBF flashes to get this to a stable point, and I will continue to put this amount of time on a regular basis. I'm really broke right now and I cant even afford a beer. Won't somebody buy me a beer or two, or six please!?!?!
Click here to donate!
Here are your Mirrors:
Mirror 1: http://bit.ly/q5Y3mc
Mirror 2: http://bit.ly/pLR61l
I Have attached the screen previews of the ROM's current look and feel.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy. Please use this topic to discuss any bugs you find and use the other topic for development discussion.
Sweet! I'll be installing after I SBF from my soft brick!
Gamma 3.0 didn't like me...
I want to be the first to respond and congratulate you on your work. It looks really nice and refined.
Edit: mist beat me to the first post. But still, congrats. Im glad someone else is developing, takes a massive loss off my shoulders.
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c21johnson said:
I want to be the first to respond and congratulate you on your work. It looks really nice and refined.
Edit: mist beat me to the first post. But still, congrats. Im glad someone else is developing, takes a massive loss off my shoulders.
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Thanks for the kind words. I'll admit that a lot of this is still way over my head, but I am really starting to understand and enjoy this.
I am following your development as well and I do love what you have so far. Keep up the great work!
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Saint-
Doing a full SBF then I'm going to install. Have you tested any of the current themes floating around on this? Really liking funkencool's new update...
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Saint-
Doing a full SBF then I'm going to install. Have you tested any of the current themes floating around on this? Really liking funkencool's new update...
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Unfortunately I haven't. If you wanted to test any of them out and they work, I'll edit my post to let others know.
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Thanks for all the hard work! Glad to have another rom to test out and flash.... I was fiending like a crackhead in the desert!!! I just want to ask, does exchange work??? Really need it for work as we run Exchange 2010 and all the market apps only support 2007..........
Solid so far. Will report back once I test some themes, but I'm definitely liking your stock look for now.
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Thanks for all the hard work! Glad to have another rom to test out and flash.... I was fiending like a crackhead in the desert!!! I just want to ask, does exchange work??? Really need it for work as we run Exchange 2010 and all the market apps only support 2007..........
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All of the needed system files for exchange were included, but I didn't have an exchange account to test it with.
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Just had a random reboot when applying an ADW theme. After is restarted, it told me to connect to charger - red light and all.
UPDATE: Won't charge past 5%
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All of the needed system files for exchange were included, but I didn't have an exchange account to test it with.
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Corporate Sync works like a charm...
mistawolfe said:
Just had a random reboot when applying an ADW theme. After is restarted, it told me to connect to charger - red light and all.
UPDATE: Won't charge past 5%
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Did you install adw first or try to theme the launcher on the rom?
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All of the needed system files for exchange were included, but I didn't have an exchange account to test it with.
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Flashed the ROM and set everything up... Can confirm that exchange is working thank you!!! Loving the 200+ MB RAM available!!!! This thing is sooooooo fast!!!!!!!
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Did you install adw first or try to theme the launcher on the rom?
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Installed ADW first then tried to theme.
Rebooted twice and now my charge issue is gone. This thing is nice. Anybody running Zeppelin's script?
Sorry I am new to the X2 Rom world. This rom is only 24MBs. Is this right?
Great Job on the rom everything looks good so far
Yeah I am not sure what we are doing here either. I just dumped /system and was about to debloat and deodex. Why are the only ROMs posted 25mb? Is there a reason we aren't dumping the entire ROM complete with libs and bins etc?
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Yeah I am not sure what we are doing here either. I just dumped /system and was about to debloat and deodex. Why are the only ROMs posted 25mb? Is there a reason we aren't dumping the entire ROM complete with libs and bins etc?
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This rom most likely does the same thing that MinX did which was delete all of the bloat and other pre-installed stuff then re-installs a small amount of files. This would be the reason you do not have to debloat yourself.
Is anybody using the supercharger script on this? I'm wondering if it's necessary. 200 mb+ of RAM? That is amazing...
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Yeah I am not sure what we are doing here either. I just dumped /system and was about to debloat and deodex. Why are the only ROMs posted 25mb? Is there a reason we aren't dumping the entire ROM complete with libs and bins etc?
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The fellas who have decided to get the ball rolling on the ROMs don't appear to have much experience. They are tired of waiting amd are doing what they can to help development forge ahead.
I should mention that they both know more than I do. Glad to see you here though. I enjoyed using your dark ROMs on my Fascinate.
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I'm computer saavy but not Android. If I follow the steps to root....will the phone be totally cool after the process? I'd like to uninstall some Verizon bloat. Are there some must do's after rooting? Is there a noticeable performance gain after eliminating the bloat?
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I'm computer saavy but not Android. If I follow the steps to root....will the phone be totally cool after the process? I'd like to uninstall some Verizon bloat. Are there some must do's after rooting? Is there a noticeable performance gain after eliminating the bloat?
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Rooting is a must; and removing the bloat is great, but installing a custom ROM is better performance wise.
Try a couple ROMs and find what one you like best. I use Liberty because I find it to be the fastest.
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I'm computer saavy but not Android. If I follow the steps to root....will the phone be totally cool after the process? I'd like to uninstall some Verizon bloat. Are there some must do's after rooting? Is there a noticeable performance gain after eliminating the bloat?
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Sorry bout the thanks..hit the button by accident. As for rooting, if you follow the directions correctly, you SHOULD be ok" but there's always a chance you can have a problem. That's why the directions state at your own risk. And yes you will notice your phone will run considerably faster once you debloat the Verizon crapware. Also installing roms such as nitros eclipse or Kejars31's liberty will also improve the phones performance. Im using liberty & its pretty quick, but both are great. Hope that helps you out
I haven't used Liberty, so I can't vouch for it. But Eclipse is a great rom to try. The devs remove most bloatware, as well as the Blur skin, unless something is necessary in almost all roms. Both of these things, as well as some performance scripts and other built in modifications make a significant difference. Just be sure you have the correct version of android running before flashing, and just to be on the safe side, be sure to download RSD Lite and the correct SBF for 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 whichever you choose.
If you want a ROM, I'd suggest Molten, fastest I've seen!
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I'm currently using Eclipse and the V6 script and let me tell you, it is now the phone it should have been stock. Rooting and flashing ROMs are a must for this device, and as long as you follow directions and are crystal clear on what they tell you to do, there is little to no risk involved. I was in your position when I got my X1, and after I installed the Apex ROM, there was no chance I'd ever use stock again. Good luck my friend!
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Make sure you follow all of the directions and read up anytime you have a question. I have learned much and more from all the people around here and their informative posts. It is intimidating at first to root, install recovery then install a ROM but once you've done it it is really awesome.
I want to try Liberty on my rooted X2 but cannot find it anywhere. I've searched, but may have missed it. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance for your help.
Romans8vs1 said:
I want to try Liberty on my rooted X2 but cannot find it anywhere. I've searched, but may have missed it. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance for your help.
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Liberty:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/7699-rom-libertyx2-3-rc1-time-for-the-eagle-to-once-again-take-flight/
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I'm computer saavy but not Android. If I follow the steps to root....will the phone be totally cool after the process? I'd like to uninstall some Verizon bloat. Are there some must do's after rooting? Is there a noticeable performance gain after eliminating the bloat?
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I am currently stock rooted. And yes removing g bloat will free up some ram and u should notice some difference in performance.
But I recommend freezing before removing since there is a lot of apps that are interdependent on each other so u need to be careful what u remove.
most of the roms on here will remove the junk for u anyways.
Just make a nandroid of stock after u root and install our bootstrap so u can always go back to stock if u would like or need to.
If u r just looking to remove apps like kindle amazon blockbuster etc.. u will be fine. Feel free to ask any questions (u can also private message me if ud like) and ill do my best to help ya out that's what this forum is for
Thank you!
And don't worry about the 2.3.4 but anymore, Nitro has fixed it and it should be gone with his next release!
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Besides for the debloating/freezing and flashing roms that other posters have mentioned, one of the best things I like about rooting is being able to use an app titled Keyboard Manager. It is only available to root users, but it allows you to set keyboards based on orientation. For example, I use swype in portrait and blur keyboard in landscape.
Its the little things...
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Its the little things...
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Its not like you unlock a world of free apps and instantly become a Android Guru, you just get those few things that you wanted before and always said "I really wish I could change that" well its making open source even more open.
Keep reading the xda forums and you will learn alot. I started by using the "one click root," freezing bloat wear, and then started experimenting with Roms to squeeze all the free memory and performance I can out of my x2. Like you I am a computer tech head, but didn't know much about android. The knowledge comes fast though.
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GibsA750 said:
Besides for the debloating/freezing and flashing roms that other posters have mentioned, one of the best things I like about rooting is being able to use an app titled Keyboard Manager. It is only available to root users, but it allows you to set keyboards based on orientation. For example, I use swype in portrait and blur keyboard in landscape.
Its the little things...
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that's a tasty little tidbit there, I like swipe but never turned it on because I really only liked it in portrait, hence, I really now do all my typing in landscape.
definitely root your phone. and definitely do what some of the others stated like getting a sbf and using rsd lite. im running eclipse if it means anything. havent tried liberty yet. didnt like alien or atrix port so much.
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YES! Rooting is the way to go. I just installed CM7 and absolutely love it. Phone works great - no Verizon bloat and battery life seems good. Phone is extremely fast and stable. Go to the "CM7" posts to learn how to update your phone to CM7. Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442803
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YES! Rooting is the way to go. I just installed CM7 and absolutely love it. Phone works great - no Verizon bloat and battery life seems good. Phone is extremely fast and stable. Go to the "CM7" posts to learn how to update your phone to CM7. Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442803
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I second that statement. I've tried Liberty and Eclipse, and no disrespect to those developers at all, but AOSP is the way to go and CM7 is the first AOSP ROM available for the DX2. I was afraid I made the wrong choice for a phone because I root and flash ROMs on my phones, but CM7 on the DX2 has made me feel much better. Try it! You'll love it!
Where did the .sbf go?
I've found several dead links for the "VRZ_MB870_4.5.1A-DTN-117-15_1FF_01.sbf.gz
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Someone at androidforums said they found a working one at droidx forums, but I haven't found it my self. I asked if he would post a link. Guess we'll see.
Edit: I found what I was looking for. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317707
Leaked OTA update from QA servers, found via project Cheesecake (YUMMM!) -- Thanks to ztotherad for the heads up that he may have found something, that's what started our chase!
Bootloader still locked. Battery bug still exists. If after flashing, it asks you to proceed to another (smaller) update (it shouldn't), don't do it. Consider yourself warned.
Flash over stock 2.3.4. Won't work with custom roms! Do not try!
Nothing really dramatic has changed, really, I'm just posting this for devs and whatnot to get their roms updated and such, but everyone else is welcome to install.
After install, you will need to root with zergRush. Now, I'm not sure if you can flash this in ClockworkMod Recovery, I haven't tried. Your best bet would be to throw this on the sd card, rename it UPDATE.zip and then boot into stock recovery and flash.
Changelog (not my change log)
Code:
1.3.412:
Based on 2.3.5 framework
Lockscreen dramatically optimized
Couple kernel changes (no idea what)
System is overall SLIGHTLY snappier compared to 2.3.4
MD5: 1632F1C83DF81F95BD42699CF80BBDB6
Download Here
--Miss the pulldown toggles? Mastafunk was very generous to post flashable pulldown toggle mods for 2.3.5. CLICK HERE.
Join us in the Droid X2 IRC channel! http://webchat.freenode.net/
Channel is #dx2
Thanks man!
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Awesome. THX!
Sweet!
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Still no battery fix.... grrrreeeeat
I wonder if upgrading the kernel will mess things up with existing ROMs.
Will avoid for now until we know exactly what this does.
You posted to a different rooting tool. Does this mean Pete's Motorola Rooting Tools won't work? Sounds like what they did was cover up that exploit then and that's probably what this update is.
I've got to on the "SLIGHTLY" snappier quip in the change log. I'll stay on 2.3.4 with the Liberty ROM.
But thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the heads up regarding this 2.3.5. I will pass on this for now too since my phone is working well with the Liberty ROM and I see no real reason to go to 2.3.5 if the battery bug is still there.
Maybe if that updated the camera app to the same one that the bionic uses or did some super speed tweaks, but i don't see that as being the case.
I will download it to keep at the ready, just in case.
With a leak ota for 2.3.5 its getting more and more likely that this phone will get ics. The razr which runs 2.3.5 will be getting it so some hope is there. Im hoping that the music issue is cured with this although I doubt it. It just seems to be a bug that will plague the x2 until its dead.
Thanks will be putting this on my phone.
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Leaked OTA update from QA servers, found from project Cheesecake (YUMMM!)
Bootloader still locked. Battery bug still exists. If after flashing, it asks you to proceed to another (smaller) update (it shouldn't), don't do it. Consider yourself warned.=QUOTE]
What makes you think the smaller ud is suspect?
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skwoodwiva said:
0vermind said:
Leaked OTA update from QA servers, found from project Cheesecake (YUMMM!)
Bootloader still locked. Battery bug still exists. If after flashing, it asks you to proceed to another (smaller) update (it shouldn't), don't do it. Consider yourself warned.=QUOTE]
What makes you think the smaller ud is suspect?
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I think in IRC he mentioned it makes u go.to a lower build number and it ads a couple bloatware apps. So its kinda pointless I guess
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Just flashed the update via stock recovery, everything seems normal
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I think in IRC he mentioned it makes u go.to a lower build number and it ads a couple bloatware apps. So its kinda pointless I guess
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Yeah, it's a reverse package, that takes you from 1.3.412 to 1.3.409 and adds a couple bloatware apps and binary files.. worthless. One of the added apps is only for moto engineers, so you can't even use it (Bug2Go).
lmao.. seems everytime I go to release an update, we get one of these
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I wonder if upgrading the kernel will mess things up with existing ROMs.
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It shouldn't. This is only a very minor update from what we see and the kernel version barely budged.
Thanks for this, but i usually don't update to Android unless a number of ROMs are building off of it so I know it's okay.
A quick question, does this battery bug (I'm assuming the jumping after restarting is the bug) exist on a stock unrooted phone as well? I cannot tell because there's no percentage, but does the reboot/battery jump happen on stock as well on the X2?
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Thanks for this, but i usually don't update to Android unless a number of ROMs are building off of it so I know it's okay.
A quick question, does this battery bug (I'm assuming the jumping after restarting is the bug) exist on a stock unrooted phone as well? I cannot tell because there's no percentage, but does the reboot/battery jump happen on stock as well on the X2?
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I think it's across the board. Even my buddies ATRIX does it on 2.3.4 stock. He can be in the red and reboot and it will be 50% again.
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Meticode said:
Thanks for this, but i usually don't update to Android unless a number of ROMs are building off of it so I know it's okay.
A quick question, does this battery bug (I'm assuming the jumping after restarting is the bug) exist on a stock unrooted phone as well? I cannot tell because there's no percentage, but does the reboot/battery jump happen on stock as well on the X2?
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Yes....its not exclusive to rooted...
Its 2.3.4 bug
Feels allot faster then 2.3.4 .. Flashed in system recovery, acted strange @ end just faded to black when it was done. Waited a bit and pulled battery, Came back up fine.
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Feels allot faster then 2.3.4 .. Flashed in system recovery, acted strange @ end just faded to black when it was done. Waited a bit and pulled battery, Came back up fine.
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Hmmm... I'm getting curious.
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Any word on whether or not HTC/Verizon will be sending out an OTA update containing sense 5 to our Dna?
I want sense 5, but I'm not looking to root since I think flashing roms contributed to some of the problems I had with my old phone.
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Cremacious said:
Any word on whether or not HTC/Verizon will be sending out an OTA update containing sense 5 to our Dna?
I want sense 5, but I'm not looking to root since I think flashing roms contributed to some of the problems I had with my old phone.
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Probably later in the year, like Q3 or Q4
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Probably later in the year, like Q3 or Q4
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Yep, if that fast , but even if they do it won't be as good as any of the sense 5 roms we currently have.
But @op, what issues do you think root causes. Having root only fixes problems( wakelock, no menu button, persistent notifications, etc), not causes them.
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If you have root or S-OFF someone who wanted to collect your personal information with physical access to the device could simply boot into recovery or fastboot and save a nandroid backup of the device to an external flash drive, then access the partitions on a computer. once you have s-off unless you fully encrypt the data partition, your data is unsecured.
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If you have root or S-OFF someone who wanted to collect your personal information with physical access to the device could simply boot into recovery or fastboot and save a nandroid backup of the device to an external flash drive, then access the partitions on a computer. once you have s-off unless you fully encrypt the data partition, your data is unsecured.
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I could just take someones phone and root it and then do the same. If someone really wants your data there is always a way to get it.
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If you have root or S-OFF someone who wanted to collect your personal information with physical access to the device could simply boot into recovery or fastboot and save a nandroid backup of the device to an external flash drive, then access the partitions on a computer. once you have s-off unless you fully encrypt the data partition, your data is unsecured.
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2 things.
1, unless you are a spy and have state secrets on your phone, why would anyone do that.
2, that wouldn't even work on my phone, and many others. My recovery doesn't have otg support and my phone has face unlock, so there would be no way for someone to get the nandroid off my phone.
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I could just take someones phone and root it and then do the same. If someone really wants your data there is always a way to get it.
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no you couldn't, HTC developed the unlock code to erase everything when you are going from a lock to an unlocked state.
This article says we're getting it in a few weeks.
http://www.pc-tablet.com/21710-htc-...droid-422-jelly-bean-sense-50-update-release/
Cremacious if you would like to further discuss root or anything, feel free to send me a PM. I understand your concern and I know where you're coming from, and I might have some info that could be useful. Would love to talk more through Gtalk or PM.
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You would think that with HTC not doing too well that they would try and up their reputation and push updates quickly as they could, or at least that what I would do to bring in customers if I ran a business. I'm pretty happy with the current version of Sense, but the new look of Sense 5 looks great to me. The design of the icons and UI is a big improvement.
The problem I had with my old phone is that the call quality dropped by a huge amount on anything other than stock. I tried to flash multiple radios to try and fix it and it didn't help. Roms also tended to lag for me a lot, which is probably something on my end, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to fix it.
Its going to be one HECK of a download 900+ MB.
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Its going to be one HECK of a download 900+ MB.
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ota's are patch roms generally....they only add whats new to the existing rom and firmware (even going from one version of android to another; in this case 4.1.1 to 4.2.2)
if you look at an otapackage you'll see a lot of "p" files that just the patch
id guess the ota will be somewhere in the range of 400-600 mbs, and it silently downloads in the background over a period of time as well....so its not like you are prompted to download and install the ota and then have to sit around for awhile
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ota's are patch roms generally....they only add whats new to the existing rom and firmware (even going from one version of android to another; in this case 4.1.1 to 4.2.2)
if you look at an otapackage you'll see a lot of "p" files that just the patch
id guess the ota will be somewhere in the range of 400-600 mbs, and it silently downloads in the background over a period of time as well....so its not like you are prompted to download and install the ota and then have to sit around for awhile
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Ya but we all know that as soon as the download is available most of us will be hitting the check for download button repeatedly.. but still a decent size download.
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You would think that with HTC not doing too well that they would try and up their reputation and push updates quickly as they could, or at least that what I would do to bring in customers if I ran a business. I'm pretty happy with the current version of Sense, but the new look of Sense 5 looks great to me. The design of the icons and UI is a big improvement.
The problem I had with my old phone is that the call quality dropped by a huge amount on anything other than stock. I tried to flash multiple radios to try and fix it and it didn't help. Roms also tended to lag for me a lot, which is probably something on my end, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to fix it.
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It's not HTC's decision as to when ota's come out for our phone, it's Verizon's.
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I have a feeling it won't be an Ota but an update you need to be connected to htc sync to download. Like how Samsung pushed JB to the s2 through Kies
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