Is there anything i need to know to minimize the shock of the adjustment? I'm just curious because the TB was epically developed for, rezound seems to be at a much younger place in the regard. Are there any other things i need to keep in mind?
you wont have much of a problem at all i feel... i had a Dinc and once u understand that u need to use amon ra recovery and the difference of using hboot to flash kernels i think u will be fine
So, if I am understanding the situation correctly, The three main things are:
Amon Ra is our recovery,
htc DEV to unlock is necessary (ie, your warranty is void)
Kernel through hboot (for now).
Just came over from a galaxy nexus myself but everything yojoe mentioned covered my initial confusion. The kernel through hboot really threw me off at first as in the past I had only ever used it for radio updates. As for dev scene, I came from an official google phone so I expected less development but as you stated it's really early for this phone anyways. Already though I'm loving the Sense based ICS roms (running cleanrom pro, personally) and Cyanogenmod 9 has made much progress if you are a fan (though no working ril yet).
Well i think everything will pick up for the rezound once the official ICS drops (devs can take it apart to learn how stuff works) and once S-Off is released.
I just left the tbolt for the rezound. The hardest thing to get used to (and its not that hard to get used to) is flashing the kernels. Other than that, this phone slaughters the tbolt.
I started with the evo 4g, which is a great phone. (Has the biggest dev following out of all of the phones i've had, thats the biggest thing I miss about the 4g)..then to the evo 3d, very nice phone, just not as many devs.
Then to the tbolt, very nice phone...but a major step back after having the 3d for awhile.
Now I have the rezound...hands down best phone I've ever had.
1 thing to remember though, from what I have seen you don't want to upgrade to the ICS ruu....I almost did this to run some of the newer roms (the ones without the patch for gb) But I have someone strongly advise me against this due to people having issues with the ruu, then wanting to downgrade back to gb. But you can't downgrade back to gb after upgrading to the ICS leak.
Just do some research and you'll figure it out.
I always wait a week or so after getting a new phone and let it run stock so I can see what it is like before I root it. But thats just me.
I'm actually glad I read this, as I was thinking about flashing the leak, and I hadn't seen that yet. I just flashed nils with the patch, so I don't want to be stuck on the leak if there isn't a way to downgrade yet.
OP, I went from the Tbolt to the bionic and now the rezound. So far I really like the rezound. Although I have only been using it for 2 days now, I do really like it. It seems like the main thing that is a "shock" to learn, so to speak, is the flashing for kernals compared to the Tbolt. But the trade off it ICS, which you couldn't daily on the Tbolt, or the Bionic. The bionic had a working RIL, but since you can't flash kernals there was no hardware acceleration or anything.
The locks on motorola devices is why i chose to stay with HTC. the TB was my first phone, but i think it was an awesome phone, just poorly supported by Verizon. My usb port is coming undone so i got a unused, new in box ReZound on ebay for 200 bucks (lucky auction). Lets just hope it doesn't have any issues hardware wise. Really cant wait to get the chance to run AOKP on this bad boy.
The previous posts sum up the differences well. The hardware on the Rezound is a huge improvement. I flashed the leaked ruu and have had not problems, but most of the ICS roms now have patches so you don't have to.
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So I ran over my OG Evo this morning after it fell out of my jacket pocket while I was getting into my car.
Asurion is sending me a 3D as a replacement and while I'm jazzed about the better performance potential, I'm seeing all kinds of horror about rooting it with the 1.5 hboot.
I'm running Mik 2.61 and was heading to Mik 3 this weekend. So i'm hoping to find a ROM that's got similar performance and battery life. I'm also wondering the best way to not lose all my data (gaming, mms/sms, etc) since I've never had to swap phones like this. My last full backup with TBPro was yesterday afteroon so I'm guessing I'll lose anything after that.
So any help with the swap of data and recommendations on a killer ROM would be welcomed!
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So I ran over my OG Evo this morning after it fell out of my jacket pocket while I was getting into my car.
Asurion is sending me a 3D as a replacement and while I'm jazzed about the better performance potential, I'm seeing all kinds of horror about rooting it with the 1.5 hboot.
I'm running Mik 2.61 and was heading to Mik 3 this weekend. So i'm hoping to find a ROM that's got similar performance and battery life. I'm also wondering the best way to not lose all my data (gaming, mms/sms, etc) since I've never had to swap phones like this. My last full backup with TBPro was yesterday afteroon so I'm guessing I'll lose anything after that.
So any help with the swap of data and recommendations on a killer ROM would be welcomed!
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Hboot 1.5 isn't all that bad, you just have to read a little to get everything working. There are plenty of tutorials an recommendations that will help you be a flashaholic on 1.5.
In my personal opinion (which means absolutely nothing in the real world), stock on the 3D destroys MikG. In no way am I saying that Mik is bad. In fact, if Mik had a ROM for the 3D, I'd most likely be on it. It's what I was running on the OG as well.
With that said, there are a ton of wonderful ROMs here. Olympus is getting great reviews and it's fairly user friendly. I'm personally running a Nocturnal ROM (that gets no love cause it's basically stock with Zeus mod) that I think its amazing.
Your gonna love the 3D, just root that bad boy and do some testing, your bound to find something you like.
And yes, in terms of the data for your apps, the last backup will have to do. Just don't attempt to restore system backups. That might screw something up.
Thanks - so can I just copy the backup file from my old SD card to the new card, push installs of apps from web to phone including TBPro, then use TBPro to restore app data?
My whole reason for rooting my OG was to get rid of the bloat, then I n00bed and tried to download the GB OTA, bricked, lost root, waited fro Revolutionary to get root back, went from stock to CM7, to Synergy, to Mik...
I guess I'm not fully understanding the 3D still being S-ON and having root ... or am I still n00bing with that comment?? LOL.
They did the same to me mine came with hboot 1.4 and was brand new not refurb. this was about 2 weeks ago cross your fingers!
I lnow how good mik roms are I remeber when I had my incredible but for the evo 3d I would reccomend Olympos titan Hd it the vest on performance and battery life_!
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Same thing happened to me man. My Evo fell out of my lap when I was getting out of my car, straight onto the driveway. I was also planning on moving from MikG 2.6 to 3.0, I had it on my sdcard lol. So I waited till Asurion said I was getting a 3D, and I finished the claim.
I was also pretty confused about the rooting with 1.5 hboot like I had but you just have to follow directions to the word.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821
That is the guide I used to root mine, but I failed the first time when it came to like step 12 when your Evo will ask you if you want to unlock it. My problem was I didn't have the HTC drivers installed, so make sure you do that. The only limitation with this method is that you can't flash kernels through recovery, because the boot partition is still locked. You have to download and app called flash image GUI (available in the market for 99 cents) and use that to either search a rom zip and extract the kernel info, or just pick a kernel zip by itself. This will apply the kernel, wipe dalvik and cache, and then reboot your device. Do this before you flash the rom you want to run. And make sure you do a nandroid of your stock rom first before anything.
As far as roms go, I recommend Myn's Warm 2.3. Very snappy, looks great, and very stable unlike some other roms I've tried. I used Myn's 2.2 on the OG Evo back before MikG came out. The dev community here isn't as big as the Evo's but there are some great devs here, I'm sure you'll warm up to it quick like I did.
I recently switched from a Droid X (running CM9) to the Rezound, and I am loving it so far. I have read all the stickies on unlocking, rooting, and installing ROMs, and it is very different on this device. I understand the general idea, but I have a few questions...
For one, I am accustomed to being able to SBF back to factory if anything went wrong with my DX. I realize that there is no SBF process for a "bricked" Rezound, and that there are ways to fix your device if something goes wrong. I am wondering if there is a way to actually brick a Rezound beyond repair by just flashing ROMs and kernels. And if this does happen, has anyone had trouble getting a new device from Verizon after using HTCdev to unlock their device? I realize that it may void parts of the warranty, but I was just wondering if anyone has actually been denied a replacement device because of this.
My last question is, does Chrome work on ICS ROMs on the Rezound? I've looked through a lot of threads for the different ROMs in the development section, but I have not even seen it mentioned. On my Tab 10.1 (also CM9) and some other devices I have played with, you could just change the build number in the build.prop to fix Chrome if it didn't work with a ROM. Does this work for the Rezound?
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I recently switched from a Droid X (running CM9) to the Rezound, and I am loving it so far. I have read all the stickies on unlocking, rooting, and installing ROMs, and it is very different on this device. I understand the general idea, but I have a few questions...
For one, I am accustomed to being able to SBF back to factory if anything went wrong with my DX. I realize that there is no SBF process for a "bricked" Rezound, and that there are ways to fix your device if something goes wrong. I am wondering if there is a way to actually brick a Rezound beyond repair by just flashing ROMs and kernels. And if this does happen, has anyone had trouble getting a new device from Verizon after using HTCdev to unlock their device? I realize that it may void parts of the warranty, but I was just wondering if anyone has actually been denied a replacement device because of this.
My last question is, does Chrome work on ICS ROMs on the Rezound? I've looked through a lot of threads for the different ROMs in the development section, but I have not even seen it mentioned. On my Tab 10.1 (also CM9) and some other devices I have played with, you could just change the build number in the build.prop to fix Chrome if it didn't work with a ROM. Does this work for the Rezound?
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Bricking is pretty tough on this phone. I haven't heard of full on bricking yet.
Also haven't heard of a warranty being voided just for flashing ROM's, at least for HTC.
There is a Chrome APK in the Themes forum. Sideload it as the very first thing you do once you flash an ICS rom. After that you are golden.
Good Luck.
Anyone know when ICS is out for Motorola Razr?
What? You aren't going to find to many people in this forum that actually care about an ICS release for the Razr.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=motorola+razr+ics+release
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Anyone know when ICS is out for Motorola Razr?
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Try here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1361
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I recently switched from a Droid X (running CM9) to the Rezound, and I am loving it so far. I have read all the stickies on unlocking, rooting, and installing ROMs, and it is very different on this device. I understand the general idea, but I have a few questions...
For one, I am accustomed to being able to SBF back to factory if anything went wrong with my DX. I realize that there is no SBF process for a "bricked" Rezound, and that there are ways to fix your device if something goes wrong. I am wondering if there is a way to actually brick a Rezound beyond repair by just flashing ROMs and kernels. And if this does happen, has anyone had trouble getting a new device from Verizon after using HTCdev to unlock their device? I realize that it may void parts of the warranty, but I was just wondering if anyone has actually been denied a replacement device because of this.
My last question is, does Chrome work on ICS ROMs on the Rezound? I've looked through a lot of threads for the different ROMs in the development section, but I have not even seen it mentioned. On my Tab 10.1 (also CM9) and some other devices I have played with, you could just change the build number in the build.prop to fix Chrome if it didn't work with a ROM. Does this work for the Rezound?
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I am a almost 3 year Motorola user using that root/flashing/sbf process. I haven't went back to unrooting yet on my Rezound, but I can tell you it's a little more difficult to get rooted than the original Motorola Droid and the Motorola Droid X2 (which is what i upgraded from).
First you have unlock the bootloader. I did it the slow way step-by-step through HTCDev.com becuase the noob method wasn't working for me. After you get the files you need from the SDK Android app it's pretty much easy from there to unlock the bastard.
Flashing new roms is pretty similiar, but there's a hitch. Usually when you flash a ROM you have to flash a kernal that is compabitable with the ROM. Which means you have to do it in the bootloader instead of in Recovery. The only time you don't have to do this is when the ROM has a built in kernal (boot.img) and it almost flashes it for you automatically.
I'm very happy with my upgrade from the X2, but then again the original X had a lot more variety as far as development. The X2 wasn't very popular even though for a short while it was the best specced pure 3G device on Verizon when 4G LTE came out.
I've tried a couple ICS ROMs and for the most part they're pretty damn stable with a few bugs in them. Personally I like ROMs very polished with literally almost no bugs so I'm sticking with GB ROMs until something pretty polished comes out. I will be totally happy with my Rezound if we get a full or pretty close to a full AOSP ROM released under Ice Cream Sandwich.
If you have any other questions private message me. I've owned the Rezound for about a week now and have been happy with it.
Chrome shows in the market for ics running rezounds, no need to side load.
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I read a reply in a thread which explained that the current ICS leak runs the CPU full speed, instead of scaling it, whenever the screen is on. This was the member's explanation for why some people notice their phones running hotter than on GB.
Is this true? And to the extent that it is true, is it true of the preceding leaks as well? I guess what I'm wondering is whether this is something that HTC might be hoping to resolve before going live with an OTA.
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I read a reply in a thread which explained that the current ICS leak runs the CPU full speed, instead of scaling it, whenever the screen is on. This was the member's explanation for why some people notice their phones running hotter than on GB.
Is this true? And to the extent that it is true, is it true of the preceding leaks as well? I guess what I'm wondering is whether this is something that HTC might be hoping to resolve before going live with an OTA.
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Your guess is as good as mine and I too read that same reply. I've been trying to figure this out since the leak came out. Some people aren't having any problems and some people are having all sorts of problems. I haven't been in the Rezound thread long but I'm not new to flashing and I've been going back on forth on doing the leak or waiting for either the source for kernel help or the official ota. I was thinking maybe it was "noob" mistakes but from alot of the posts it seems that experienced flashers are having problems as well. Scott has a kernel thread in the Dev section if you wish to follow that, if you aren't already. I know that all phones are created equal and there are some built better than others. So far I've been pretty fortunate in my phones. I've never had to take a phone in for repair that I didn't eff up myself.... Obviously, I'd like to think by the time we get the official ota all things will be resolved but you never know. When I had my Evo 3D it took the latest ota to solve alot of battery issues that we had. I know I don't answer your question but I too have similar ones myself. Be well.
The current leak/kernel that is having problems is part of a release candidate, we can only hope HTC resolves it before the update is finalized. I wouldn't be surprised if another leak/release candidate shows up in the near future, each one has fixed more issues found in the earlier leaks.
jjwalter--
If I was in your shoes I would not take the leak. My phone is worse than bricked.
I can put the .11 GB kernel back on the phone with my old software, but the WIFI doesn't seem to work with the ICS radio firmware, and the thing's running hotter than ever.
I had no heat or battery life issues on the current GB -- all my problems began when I flashed the .22 leak. And as long as I'm stuck with these radios I don't think they'll get better. Your mileage may vary, but if it was up to me I wouldn't get in that car again.
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djwalter--
If I was in your shoes I would not take the leak. My phone is worse than bricked.
I can put the .11 GB kernel back on the phone with my old software, but the WIFI doesn't seem to work with the ICS radio firmware, and the thing's running hotter than ever.
I had no heat or battery life issues on the current GB -- all my problems began when I flashed the .22 leak. And as long as I'm stuck with these radios I don't think they'll get better. Your mileage may vary, but if it was up to me I wouldn't get in that car again.
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Thanks for the heads up. From past flashing experience I have never seen a leak with a radio and firmware update. It's usually just a rom. With a leak this close I'm sure the ota isn't too far off and I'll just keep hanging around and root and flash once that drops. Thanks again.
I know if I were HTC/Verizon/ATT/Motorola... I'd be leaking any new builds right here on XDA. You couldn't find a better group of knowledgeable testers anywhere. In my mind, these leaks are on purpose, and I'd also guess there will be future releases that fix the issues the group here has found.
im running the latest leaked version and i have no heat problems whatsoever. i play hd games, on youtube for hours, etc...hottest its gotten was 120 degrees thats it. im running stock. as far as im concerned GB is dead to me
My phone doesn't get hot playing games on the leak, but you put that mofo to stream some music and it about burns through my pants in class, and then half my extended battery is gone. It is definately due to the scaling issue
Yea I see a lot of people saying they have heat and reboot issue but they are the same people asking newb questions if ya wipe everything, check the md5, flash the ruu, and do it right you will not have problems 99% of the time. Don't be afraid to update just because a couple user experience problems its not like some guy in his mom's basement made this leak its a leak from google got out god knows how but still built with their algorithm, software, and knowledgeable engineers. I would update sense 3.6 is way better than 3.5 and ics has a lot more backup options and a better user experience. I recommend you do just make sure to do a backup before you do so you can revert back if need be.
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What are the across the board issues with ics at the moment on the rezound? I'm thinking about coming from the bionic/thunderbolt, no Ril and hardware acceleration, etc.
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What are the across the board issues with ics at the moment on the rezound? I'm thinking about coming from the bionic/thunderbolt, no Ril and hardware acceleration, etc.
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There aren't any for me. Runs perfectly on my phone. Everything works the way it should.
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There aren't any for me. Runs perfectly on my phone. Everything works the way it should.
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Yep, I'm with ^ Everything is running top notch for me as well.
What are the bluetooth issues mentioned in the ics rom threads? I saw it said there was one known issue, but didn't specify.
I'm on the fence here guys and need some either reassurance or confirmation of my fears/concerns.
Let me start by saying i'm borderline pissed off that I pay for a Sprint contract and yet VM is getting ICS possibly far before Sprints EVO 3d...This is a large driving force behind wanting to root.
So anyways here are my concerns..
-It's a VM build...does this cause adverse affects?? Lower priority?? ETC??
-I Roam most of the time and use a custom PRL. Is this possible with the ICS ROMS??
-I want EVERYTHING to work still...I do not want to comprimise things not working for ICS. I'm not including app incompatibility here...more or less saying everything working that would work if we had an official ICS release.
Additional questions..not really concerns..
-Is there any roms currently with Sense 4.0 that are fully functional as This would be nice considering we'll never see it officially.
-Can I get better performance??
Lastly, If I do decide to root where do I start...I see tutorials but they say from hboot such and such etc..however I have no idea what I have on my phone to know what tutorial to use...I just got it 2 months ago, and i've fully OTA updated it. I came from an optimus v to sprint evo 3d...I had my optimus rooted and had custom roms on it.
I say Root, but I always root my phones.
You need to find out what hboot you are on, take back cover off, remove battery, put battery back in, cover back on, then hold power and down volume rocker. You will get to a white screen and it will tell you which hboot you have. Since you say you have OTA updated, you are likely on 1.5.
You should go through the downgrade process to get you on 1.4 which will allow full s-off and be the simplest route for flashing firmware/ROM's.
I have been using the VM ICS leaks since they came out and the Dev's did their
thing on them and I haven't had anything not work. I am using MeanROM ICS and Mike keeps it updated pretty regularly.
Whatever you do, do not install the VM firmware file you may see posted. It is unnecessary and will likely cause issues.
There are no ROM's that have fully working Sense 4.0 + ICS + all other items(3D Wimax).
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-I want EVERYTHING to work still...I do not want to comprimise things not working for ICS.
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If you want EVERYTHING to work, do NOT go with an ICS rom at this time.
They are still working on all the bugs. Camera issues. 3D issues.
3D is important to me. That's why I bought this phone. Some videos won't play in 3D, some 3D games won't work in ICS and 3D you tube videos will not work in ICS. (at least that is the last I read).
I'm staying with GB for now until I'm sure all the bugs are worked out and everything works. It may never happen.
I feel the same way. I don't want to compromise anything for ICS.
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If you want EVERYTHING to work, do NOT go with an ICS rom at this time.
They are still working on all the bugs. Camera issues. 3D issues.
3D is important to me. That's why I bought this phone. Some videos won't play in 3D, some 3D games won't work in ICS and 3D you tube videos will not work in ICS. (at least that is the last I read).
I'm staying with GB for now until I'm sure all the bugs are worked out and everything works. It may never happen.
I feel the same way. I don't want to compromise anything for ICS.
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I do recommend you root. The custom roms beat the snot out of the stock.
As long as you use a Sense based ics Rom, everything works. I take 3d pics and video and just watched a 3d YouTube video just to check.
While they are not yet as refined as the Gb roms, everything works.
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Two biggest benefits of rooting regardless of the phone:
1) Full system backups in recovery.
2) The ability to remove all carrier crapware.
Now, there are several other benefits, such as upgrading to more updated ROMs that will eventually not be available for this phone (it will never officially receive Android 5.0 or Sense 4.0).
As for fully functional, I'm running the Booster Shot port with Sense 3.6. Silky smooth and fully functional, including 3D.
If you choose to root, fully read and understand the process so you don't brick your phone. Get your HBOOT versions (mentioned in a previous post in this thread) and root accordingly.
Definitely boost in performance even if you don't go with ICS. I compared my rooted 3d with my roomates 3d and my 3d runs so much faster it seems like it isn't even the same phone.
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I would recommend root, since you have a lot of options to choose different ROMs.
No Sense 4.0 ROM is working correctly. There are issues with 3d and with call drops, what is more important I think Anyway, most ROMs using Sense 3.6 run ok.
I also have the benefit of having daily contact with my rooted evo vs my girlfriends not rooted evo... Mine phone is way faster at everything.... Even before I went to meanrom ics....
The difference is night vs day...
If you really want to see the performance of your phone, the way it should be most definetly Root it.
I haven't done it myself but I'm 100% positive google will find you a list of benefits from obtaining root...
And btw even tho its a little weird and in beta my favorite thing about ics is google chrome... It's just an awesome phone browser, just what stands out in my mind atm.. ask me tomorrow and ill prolly say something different.
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If your on the fence, don't do it. If your going to commit to modding your phone, you have to know 100% what you're up against. For most, that's bricking your phone in a certain way so you can downgrade it. Than getting the hboot down through a tool in a LINUX distro. Than going through ruu than using revolutionary. And lastly flashing a recovery. It's not difficult
As long as you know what you are up against.
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My two cents:
Root it.
Backup your stock system, flash an ICS rom. If you don't like it, simply restore back to the original setting. You can still add tweaks and goodies not available to the non-rooted.
The beauty of being rooted is it's yours, totally yours, too make how you want it.
Root, root, root!
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another vote for root.
zcink said:
If you want EVERYTHING to work, do NOT go with an ICS rom at this time.
They are still working on all the bugs. Camera issues. 3D issues.
3D is important to me. That's why I bought this phone. Some videos won't play in 3D, some 3D games won't work in ICS and 3D you tube videos will not work in ICS. (at least that is the last I read).
I'm staying with GB for now until I'm sure all the bugs are worked out and everything works. It may never happen.
I feel the same way. I don't want to compromise anything for ICS.
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What are you talking about? 3D works fully and smoothly (Even better than Gingerbread)
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exactly...every sense based rom is fully functional with 3d also...this is a one way street to root....root...backup your rom...flash...any chance you don't like you can always return to your previous state...unrooted...since there are no drawbacks except the fact that you have to setup all over again at a new rom, can't see a reason not to....with these guys here after all it's child play to root and to reverse it so no worries...
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What are you talking about? 3D works fully and smoothly (Even better than Gingerbread)
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I think you are correct on Sprint roms, however that's not what I'm reading on GSM roms. I'm constantly reading and paying attention to the bugs people complain about.
When I'm confident that everything works, I will definitely flash a ICS rom.
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OP's original question to root or not to root. That is the question.
I say YES! Root by all means. Because he is on Sprint CDMA network. Lots of good roms there. By all means root and enjoy the phone.
Absolutely!
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I think you are correct on Sprint roms, however that's not what I'm reading on GSM roms. I'm constantly reading and paying attention to the bugs people complain about.
When I'm confident that everything works, I will definitely flash a ICS rom.
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OP's original question to root or not to root. That is the question.
I say YES! Root by all means. Because he is on Sprint CDMA network. Lots of good roms there. By all means root and enjoy the phone.
Absolutely!
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Yeah, I guess you're right. I'm only on sprint roms.
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Thanks for all the replies, I'm still debating this though mainly because i'm wondering if there would be benifit to waiting till the official spring ics comes and then letting devs release some roms based on that one instead of the virgin mobile one.
I'm thinking then we could flash the sprint firmware and possibly that updated firmware would be a plus, to performance.
Also...I see that I would likely have to downgrade to Hboot 1.4. Is there a performance/feature hit in doing so?
I guess its not really a question of if I do it anymore but when...before or after official sprint ics OTA.
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Also...I see that I would likely have to downgrade to Hboot 1.4. Is there a performance/feature hit in doing so?
I guess its not really a question of if I do it anymore but when...before or after official sprint ics OTA.
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No performance hit as far as I can tell. With the custom roms, my performance has vastly improved.
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Ok, so I just checked and I'm on hboot 1.5. Fully stock, fully updated as stated. Can someone point me to the threads and steps I need to take to do this?
Edit: I'm only asking for verification on steps/threads to use as I do not want to mess up and use an outdated tutorial or something and f up my phone. I just want to take every precaution to ensure I do not end up with a brick, and I follow the exact steps Needed for my situation. Not trying to make anyone angry that I'm asking for something I could search for...I just trust you guys to point me to where i need to be more than i do myself searching the correct tutorial for my situation.
Also when on the optimus v i used clockwork mod recovery...I'm assuming this isn't the recovery to use for this phone? And also this five minute wait to edit my post is frustrationg >< lol.
All you need to do is go into the development threads and read. I'm 59 years old for Christ sake, and figured out how to root my phone by reading the first few "stickied" posts. Took all of 15 minutes to get hboot 1.5 removed and hboot 1.4 with s-off installed.
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Well yeah, Not to flame you but the amount of time you've been thinking about doing it and getting advise if you should or not, I would think you'd be doing some reading on how to do it.
If you get stuck, there's plenty of people to help you out.
Just make sure you know enough first so you are confident in doing it.
I finally got my Incredible 4G LTE to S_off. I flashed recovery to TWRP then tried to flash CM 11 Nightly for Fireball. The flash failed with the message "error updating updater binary in zip file". Fixes suggested included installing a dffferent recovery. I didn't want to do that so installed CM 10.2.1. That worked and it is running but the radio signal indicator was showing a low to no signal. I found this thread that indicates that is cosmetic and that the signal is as strong as before. I haven't noticed any issues with the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485091
has anyone seen this? Is it fixed in a later version of CM?
Have you tried any other ROMs besides CM?
Not yet. CM on this phone isn't yet 24 hrs old. I probably will live with it at least for the next few days since I am on call this weekend. The phone seems to work just fine otherwise.
Do you have any recommendations for a new ROM ? I am fairly new to Android, and very new to rooting in general. I see the team viper ROMs are discontinued. I also see this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933539
which is a mod of the stock ROM and of course I could in theory restore the stock ROM that I backed up.
crokett said:
Not yet. CM on this phone isn't yet 24 hrs old. I probably will live with it at least for the next few days since I am on call this weekend. The phone seems to work just fine otherwise.
Do you have any recommendations for a new ROM ? I am fairly new to Android, and very new to rooting in general. I see the team viper ROMs are discontinued. I also see this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1933539
which is a mod of the stock ROM and of course I could in theory restore the stock ROM that I backed up.
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While the ViperLTE ROM isn't supported anymore, it still works great. I have been using 2.2.0 (with the Infernal4.1 Kernel) as my daily driver for well over a year. The customizations over stock are great, and the Infernal Kernal adds Swipe2Wake. But, I like HTC Sense. CM is a better choice if you don't particularly care for Sense.
Unfortunately, this phone was the bastard, left-handed, red-headed step-child, thrice removed Verzion castoff that received very little support from Verizon and HTC. The launch was jacked-up, Verizon nixed the HTC Dev unlock for this phone, and root took a long while. As a result, there are not a lot of ROMs or support for it. I am very thankful to the small community that was able to achieve the unlock, s-off and the few ROMs, Kernels and recoveries that we do have.
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Unfortunately, this phone was the bastard, left-handed, red-headed step-child, thrice removed Verzion castoff that received very little support from Verizon and HTC. The launch was jacked-up, Verizon nixed the HTC Dev unlock for this phone, and root took a long while. As a result, there are not a lot of ROMs or support for it. I am very thankful to the small community that was able to achieve the unlock, s-off and the few ROMs, Kernels and recoveries that we do have.
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Yeah, I am learning that as I go. However the phone was free, and I was in a slightly better spot than most cause if I bricked it I could always fall back to my iPhone if I had to. Besides, I learned a lot in the last 10 days. for now at least I will stick with CM and see what happens. It works here around my house, and I am not planning to far this weekend. Next week if I decide to I can try something else.
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Yeah, I am learning that as I go. However the phone was free, and I was in a slightly better spot than most cause if I bricked it I could always fall back to my iPhone if I had to. Besides, I learned a lot in the last 10 days. for now at least I will stick with CM and see what happens. It works here around my house, and I am not planning to far this weekend. Next week if I decide to I can try something else.
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Good price I bought mine on day of release, and I am still quite happy with it. I have not seen anything out there yet that has a nice small form factor that would be worth changing to. Plus, I still have an unlimited data plan and I'm not inclined to give that up anytime soon. I would be more likely to pick up another "new" Dinc4 at this point if something were to happen to this one.
Well I have built PacRom and LiquidSmooth for this so feel free to give them a go. They both have working data so if you're looking for a stock Google then you should try it if you're S-OFF
Thanks for these 2 new options!!!!!!