hi guys,i have the i9300t,and because of that extra t my phone has to wait for all the official updates a hell of alot longer than the other versions. ive never rooted my phone before or installed custom software,ive been looking into it recently because so far jellybean on my device sucks and i would prefer something better. i like the look of android 4.2 and someone suggested cyanogenmod 10.1. i was wondering if anyone is using it as a daily driver and if so,is it worth it,what bugs are there etc. also if i was to root and install new software,and there was a hardware issue or something that i could send away for warranty,is it possible to unroot and make it look like it never happened so that the tech center dosent refuse warranty?
im guessing all these questions are answered elsewhere and are probably very simply answered but im new to all this and with threads that are sometimes 100+ pages long,its not something that i want to go searching for.
also sorry if this is in the wrong section,if it is please move it or notify me i would be happy to move it
Thanks in advance
You can always unroot, just install Triangle Away, which resets your flash counter (aka how many times have you flashed unofficial firmware i think). Applies for hw issues too, just do that and you're good. I use cm10.1 on my nexus 7 and it's great, but look out for the issues. Correct me if I am wrong
hmm those issues arent too bad,nothing that would impact day to day use. mainly jellybean official sucks really bad,laggy widgets,sometimes unpredictable behaviour accross device (just earlier i recieved a txt from a friend and when i opened the txt it then swapped over to another contacts conversation). ive had all my contacts multiply upon upgrading and had to manually go through and fix them all. occasional non responsiveness etc. i just want stock android and i dont want to have to buy a new phone. so i guess rooting is my way to go.
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Hey everyone, I like a lot of others have been getting a lot of dropped calls and my gps takes forever to lock on so I'm looking to get my fascinate replaced, hopefully with another phone. However, I'm currently running the newest version of MIUI right now so my question is, do I need to flash back to stock before I make the call? I'm wondering because I know they make you do all sorts of stuff with your phone like updating and whatnot and I'm not sure how my phone is going to react or what's going to show up to the techs I'm speaking with.
If so, what do I need to flash back to? Did they release a new update? Could someone maybe link something that can show me how to get it back to stock?
Last question and kind of a big one is that the phone is physically damaged... However, It's been that way for over a year and the problems have only come up recently. Do I have a shot?
A little bit of reseach goes along way...this topic has been beat to death. You don't need to flash back to stock until the phone is to be sent in! The official verizon Ed05 is the latest build and is in the development section.
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I went to stock ed05 and was put through a factory reset, software update check, and she even had me go through dial codes to change things which I'm not sure would work while on MIUI. Worst case scenario, make a nandroid of MIUI and flash back after the call. Just make sure to flash a mtd rom prior to restoring
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Anything for the cracked screen problem? Like I said earlier the screen has been cracked for a VERY long time and the problems just emerged with the Ed04 update.
You don't have to flash until you send it back but personally, I would before I called. Only because they are going to ask you to try a few things and will probably ask what build you were on. Who knows, going stock may solve your call issues.
Don't know what to say about the broken screen. That's not covered under warranty but missed calls would be. Maybe you could stop by a store and ask them rather than having a tech note your account.
I am certain that by now (over) half of the (normal) Archos G9 users really only want one thing and NOBODY (including Archos) seems to care at all about doing it!
Very few need/want 'rooted' firmware (not to mention it wastes valuable memory space because the original Archos firmware is still leftover).
What MOST of us actually want (and in many cases need) is a simple way to just remove the totally idiotic restriction that Archos has put in their firmware that prevents us from ever installing an older firmware version (that is KNOWN to work correctly on our specific device).
At one point, somewhere during the problems with the 4.0.x firmware releases Archos did actually provide a way for users to go back to 3.2.80. WHY they have not provided us with a way to go back from the the 4.0.2x (worthless garbage) firmware releases to older firmware that we KNOW actually works makes no sense at all. Seems like they just hope you will be stupid enough to by a newer Archos model (something I sure will never ever do with that kind of idiot way of dealing with us users).
It's bad enough that Archos does not care at all about us users, but... there are some really sharp and smart people here on XDA that SHOULD be able to hack around things. Yet, it seems like none of them have any interest in doing so. WHY???
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55mls said:
It's bad enough that Archos does not care at all about us users, but... there are some really sharp and smart people here on XDA that SHOULD be able to hack around things. Yet, it seems like none of them have any interest in doing so. WHY???
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Because the most likely result would be a bricked tablet. It is not an easy thing to do and people who could do this are not wanting to use older firmware. Not that I'm one of the sharp and smart people but I think archos has keys you would need and they don't release them to the public.
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Because the most likely result would be a bricked tablet.
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At this point I would be happy to brick my 101 G9 since it's of absolutely no use to me now anymore without having to install SDE and rooted 4.0.7 firmware (I've come close to bricking it a few times with all the various rooted/custom/alternative firmwares and other crazy things I've tried myself already). In other words, if NOBODY ELSE finds a way... I'll just keep trying things myself until it either works or ends up bricked. Not like it really matters now to me now anymore
It is not an easy thing to do and people who could do this are not wanting to use older firmware.
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Although I'm no expert on things, I actually think that it really is NOT all that hard to do (if anybody that actually knows what they are doing would care to do it). I think you are dead on with how all the so-called 'developers' simply only care about whatever the next thing they can do instead of about actually fixing anything with the actual Archos firmware. Seems rather foolish to me though when they could actually PROVE how good they are by actually doing something instead of just adding all kinds of extra fluff (most of which can be downloaded/installed from Google Play for anyone with a stock rooted ROM if they really wanted that junk).
Not that I'm one of the sharp and smart people but I think archos has keys you would need and they don't release them to the public.
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And that brings us right back to my original question... WHY? By now, Archos has already totally ruined their reputation. They've gone out of their way to totally trash as many G9 tablets as they could, then hoped people would just buy their newer devices... and NONE of their newer devices actually work right either. So, WHY would a company want to continue running their reputation down the toilet when they COULD actually do something that MIGHT actually improve it?
In other words, the one single thing that Archos COULD have done for us G9 users was to provide a way to install whatever older 'official' firmware version that we KNOW actually did work on our devices? So, again we're right back to WHY had Archos not done what us G9 users actually need/want instead of locking us into crap we NEVER WANTED?
I suppose I COULD live with rooted stock 4.0.7 if I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO, but...
Installing SDE and the kernel files for rooted firmware use up some RAM space. And, with only 512MB to start with, well every single bit (pun intended) alters the capabilities and performance of the device. Heck, just going from official Archos 3.2.80 to official 4.0.7 already was at a cost of both RAM and system memory space.
On top of that, installing a 'rooted' firmware always uses up even more of the system flash memory. Depending which ROM, that ranges from 300MB to 500MB. When you only have an 8GB device, that really only ever had a little over about 6GB of usable flash left with official Archos firmware...
Well, when installing a 'rooted' ROM, that uses up more space for the ROM on top of the space that the original Archos firmware. And, that's the part that really bugs me!!! I had already been suckered into that the device had 8GB of Flash, then found out only really had about 6GB of "usable" memory, then had to install SDE and a 'rooted' ROM to ever get it to work right again ending up with only about 5GB of flash in the end (even deleting the leftover archos.ext4.backup file does not get back to what the device originally had).
Now, if somebody could tell me how to remove/delete ALL of the supposed 'official' Archos firmware so that I would actually have what I originally would have with the 'official' Archos firmware... well, I MIGHT just be happy enough to live with it (even though it DO NOT WANT 'root').
Anyway, I just don't care anymore!!! I simply want ALL TRACES of that horrible crappy Archos official 4.0.2x firmware TOTALLY REMOVED from my device!!! I'd prefer that it be totally reset to something close to whatever it came with (maybe something like 3.2.79) and then be able to upgrade to whatever higher firmware I want from there.
Oh, wait a minute, there ARE companies that actually do repair/refurbish these G9 tablets and CAN reset them... so, it would cut into their profit making if anybody else ever told us how they do it. Sure, now I get it... paid $250, now pay another $200 to get it to work again. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll totally brick this thing and throw it into the garbage before paying to have it fixed now anymore. Damn LiThion batteries only last 2 years before the drop way down in usage, and I'm already coming up on a year and a half since this piece of Archos crap came out. Now I get it, just throw it away and NEVER buy another Archos procduct again!!!
I called up Archos today and had a stock answer when I asked about this.
I didn't give up and they have passed the issue to the tech department. (my hopes aren't high) however the bloke I spoke to said he hadn't had any calls or feedback regarding this.
he suggested formatting then loading up the older firmware, after instructing me how to download older firmwares by copying link then pasting, then editing build number for firmware I wanted.
I told him that Archos doesn't allow for this and everyone else does, so it isn't software from google but from archos that is blocking the install.
he took my number and said I would get a callback....
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he took my number and said I would get a callback....
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Welcome to a group of thousands that will very likely never get any response back from Archos!
Pretty clear that is not going to happen simply because of the totally idiot instructions that gave you. Seems like EVERYBODY ELSE except the people at Archos already KNOWS FOR A FACT that you can not install any older firmware version. Why they ever told you to even try to do that is just pure stupidity on there part.
Of course, if they actually do call you back an provide any USEFUL information I'm all ears, but I don't expect anything from Archos on this matter at all now anymore, or they WOULD have already told us how to do it. After all, it was about 3 months before they got around to putting out 4.0.28... and even then the screwed it up and there are actually 3 different versions of 4.0.28 they put out (am I the ONLY one that caught that and actually cares about it?... Seems surdu_petru has NOT bothered to update his rooted ROMS to the last of what Archos put out).
Really sick of Archos trying to con people over and over and over and over and over and over (am I repeating myself of is Archos?).
Okay. My boss gave me his tablet to fix and he noticed the touchscreen did not work after the ICS update in August 2012 and he missed his warranty by 3 weeks. I have been using these forums for all my phones since my HTC: HD2. I'm obviously not SUPER active and I know everyone wants you READ READ READ before making new threads. But I know how to research, flash, and apply fixes.
I used adb to push the mxt1386_fixer.zip the sdcard and I flashed it. The touchscreen remains in the same state.
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I read about the A1 Kernal learning that the fix was also incorporated in it and it also didn't work. I have read and read and read for over a month and nothing I flash helps. It seems that when this model updated to ICS, the problem occurred. I am currently about to downgrade to 3.2 Honeycomb as a last ditch effort because my boss is just going to put it in a drawer.
NOW. Sometimes, the touchscreen works in the home, task manager button area. but what can you do with that? Not a damn thing. There has to be something that can fix this. A lot of people simply got a replacement and I hate to recommend that he needs to just sell it for parts. I never ask for anything. [because I find the answers myself] but I need help for once.
I put CM 4.0.0.4 on it and flashed all I can find. HELP!
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Okay. My boss gave me his tablet to fix and he noticed the touchscreen did not work after the ICS update in August 2012 and he missed his warranty by 3 weeks. I have been using these forums for all my phones since my HTC: HD2. I'm obviously not SUPER active and I know everyone wants you READ READ READ before making new threads. But I know how to research, flash, and apply fixes.
I used adb to push the mxt1386_fixer.zip the sdcard and I flashed it. The touchscreen remains in the same state.
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I read about the A1 Kernal learning that the fix was also incorporated in it and it also didn't work. I have read and read and read for over a month and nothing I flash helps. It seems that when this model updated to ICS, the problem occurred. I am currently about to downgrade to 3.2 Honeycomb as a last ditch effort because my boss is just going to put it in a drawer.
NOW. Sometimes, the touchscreen works in the home, task manager button area. but what can you do with that? Not a damn thing. There has to be something that can fix this. A lot of people simply got a replacement and I hate to recommend that he needs to just sell it for parts. I never ask for anything. [because I find the answers myself] but I need help for once.
I put CM 4.0.0.4 on it and flashed all I can find. HELP!
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Downgrade proves ZERO touchscreen abilities. Upgrading again.
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Downgrade proves ZERO touchscreen abilities. Upgrading again.
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4.0.4 provides the best touchscreen capabilities this thing will allow and I realized the touchscreen immediately reacts to my touch on the left and right sides only. the middle is shot. Thought if I could install TouchScreenTune, I could mayyyyyyyyyybe help re-calibrate the dead area and aid this issue. But I think it's done. Because the screen is only dead in the middle, it may just need a new screen and digitizer. With this tablet being very old news now, I doubt it's worth it.
If you can open it, you may need to check if the digitizer is properly connected. What you are describing sounds like a case I came across once here which the owner solved when he opened it and discovered that the connection had somehow shifted and by simply reconnecting the digitizer more firmly, the problem was solved.
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It was the digitizer strip the whole time. The whole left side was hanging out of the port. I gave the tablet back to my boss for christmas. He was happy and although he didn't pay me a dime, I was glad to finally fix it. So thank you!
First, I apologize if this ins't the right area but it seems like a General question.
I recently bought a Kindle Fire HDX 7" and have had it about a week now. With all the Amazon Bloat and lack of Google apps I need more out of it. I am not a beginner with flashing roms and such, my HTC One is Rooted, CyanogenModed, and has a boot loader, anyways...
I have spent the last couple days reading up on the ways to do it on the HDX 7 and heard many warnings and bricks of this device, but some of the posts are a little bit older. I can't really tell which method of Rooting/Flashing is the safest out of all the different ones. My current OS version is 13.3.2.1. Using the Safestrap looks pretty easy and from what I understand is that even if you do brick it you can recover the original?
My question is... Is it any safer to flash a Rom lately (due to the updating problems?), and how safe is just rooting it for the time being? Also, what method/tools would you suggest to use? I don't like the FireOS and would like to get it close the a standard Android and/or CyanogenMod.
Thanks for your time.
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First, I apologize if this ins't the right area but it seems like a General question.
I recently bought a Kindle Fire HDX 7" and have had it about a week now. With all the Amazon Bloat and lack of Google apps I need more out of it. I am not a beginner with flashing roms and such, my HTC One is Rooted, CyanogenModed, and has a boot loader, anyways...
I have spent the last couple days reading up on the ways to do it on the HDX 7 and heard many warnings and bricks of this device, but some of the posts are a little bit older. I can't really tell which method of Rooting/Flashing is the safest out of all the different ones. My current OS version is 13.3.2.1. Using the Safestrap looks pretty easy and from what I understand is that even if you do brick it you can recover the original?
My question is... Is it any safer to flash a Rom lately (due to the updating problems?), and how safe is just rooting it for the time being? Also, what method/tools would you suggest to use? I don't like the FireOS and would like to get it close the a standard Android and/or CyanogenMod.
Thanks for your time.
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actually you came just in time and have the right firmware and place go to the development section and start reading we now have a brand new recovery that bypasses the security on our bootloader. I would advise reading reading these threads thoroughly. And your particular software is rootable with the existing utilities we have in the development section also. There has been a lot of development very recent keep in mind they are first version may be buggy but the utility .94 can get you rooted and safe from updates until you can do more research. And get your new recovery in place.
Thanks, by what you said I am guessing the internal workings haven't been figured out quite yet. I will head over to the development boards and see if I can find. Sadly I updated to FireOS 4.5 not knowing that there wasn't software to to roll back for versions above 1X but read that I can call Amazon and have it rolled back so no worries.
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Thanks, by what you said I am guessing the internal workings haven't been figured out quite yet. I will head over to the development boards and see if I can find. Sadly I updated to FireOS 4.5 not knowing that there wasn't software to to roll back for versions above 1X but read that I can call Amazon and have it rolled back so no worries.
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they have shut that opportunity down I believe it was probably getting abused. And I believe they were only able to roll back from 4. 1. 1 from now on
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they have shut that opportunity down I believe it was probably getting abused. And I believe they were only able to roll back from 4. 1. 1 from now on
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I actually just got it rolled back, I read that people saying it doesn't happen anymore, but the very nice tech lady down graded me from 4.5.1 to 13.3.2.7. She stayed on the phone until it was completly reset. =) Now I should be able to root it easily with towelroot.
I was being pretty damn charming to her though, lol
I'm sure they don't want to and won't do it most of the time, but I is still 100% possible on their end, it's just wether they want to or not. I had a pretty decent story too, not just 'its slow and buggy'
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I actually just got it rolled back, I read that people saying it doesn't happen anymore, but the very nice tech lady down graded me from 4.5.1 to 13.3.2.7. She stayed on the phone until it was completly reset. =) Now I should be able to root it easily with towelroot.
I was being pretty damn charming to her though, lol
I'm sure they don't want to and won't do it most of the time, but I is still 100% possible on their end, it's just wether they want to or not. I had a pretty decent story too, not just 'its slow and buggy'
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after rolling back a couple of them it helps if you say that it was on version 3 then you updated to the latest one then make up some plausable combination of symptoms for example the one i went with is that my device restarts alone every 20 minutes or so and almost no apps work and then proceed to say that you were happy with how it was before it was updated
EDIT:also to note that i have yet to have them refuse me a single time through chat
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after rolling back a couple of them it helps if you say that it was on version 3 then you updated to the latest one then make up some plausable combination of symptoms for example the one i went with is that my device restarts alone every 20 minutes or so and almost no apps work and then proceed to say that you were happy with how it was before it was updated
EDIT:also to note that i have yet to have them refuse me a single time through chat
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I have just been reading about several people that have been rejected and why. There is a rumor that they gave it to their developers only and their technicians will go through your device logs and decide whether or not it is appropriate. Again rumor. I do not need roll back at least so far I have stuck with the old software all year...I just hate having to mess with trying to keep the OTA blocked. I just want them to take me off the ota push servers.
Hi, I've got an INTEX Aqua Prime 3G smartphone. At first everything seemed to be fine, but two weeks after buying it popup ads started to show up and apps began to install themselves (Activitys and such......). As I've read, it seems the rom comes with malware itself, so it's not like I fked it up, it was already a mess from the beginning....
Things are: I rooted the phone cause I thought maybe I could get rid of the system apps that were provoking this. I deleted a lot of apps just to keep having the same problems with popup ads and self-installed apps. It does not go away.....
So I thought I could install a new ROM. Here comes the problem... I can't seem to find any rom for this phone (along with any info... it's like it doesn't exist for some reason).
Could I install a rom which is designed for other smartphone but with the same processor as mine? I'm just super confused, super tired and I don't know what else to do with all this.
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Hi, I've got an INTEX Aqua Prime 3G smartphone. At first everything seemed to be fine, but two weeks after buying it popup ads started to show up and apps began to install themselves (Activitys and such......). As I've read, it seems the rom comes with malware itself, so it's not like I fked it up, it was already a mess from the beginning....
Things are: I rooted the phone cause I thought maybe I could get rid of the system apps that were provoking this. I deleted a lot of apps just to keep having the same problems with popup ads and self-installed apps. It does not go away.....
So I thought I could install a new ROM. Here comes the problem... I can't seem to find any rom for this phone (along with any info... it's like it doesn't exist for some reason).
Could I install a rom which is designed for other smartphone but with the same processor as mine? I'm just super confused, super tired and I don't know what else to do with all this.
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Looks like you're not the only one - https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/firmware-intex-aqua-prime-3g-android-5-1-t3606082 But, did you see this - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7w76584pbOY
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Looks like you're not the only one - https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/firmware-intex-aqua-prime-3g-android-5-1-t3606082 But, did you see this - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7w76584pbOY
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Thank you so much por replying. I've seen the video but my problem is not about not knowing how to flash it. There are no roms for my phone it seems.... so I was wondering if I could install one that it's not made specifically for it... also I can't risk bricking it as it's the only phone I have, so I just really don't know what to do
It seems like I lost the money
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Thank you so much por replying. I've seen the video but my problem is not about not knowing how to flash it. There are no roms for my phone it seems.... so I was wondering if I could install one that it's not made specifically for it... also I can't risk bricking it as it's the only phone I have, so I just really don't know what to do
It seems like I lost the money
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Don't think so. Probably a slim chance to be able to port, but you still need system files from your rom, and a custom rom from a phone with same resolution and cpu. Might be a chance, (I don't know how much you messed up your /system, but maybe still have the files you need)... Search Google for 'port rom xda'...