Hi there,
I just got a XT910 and this forum seems to be covering only for the brand new version on it, and could not find a forum here about my device so I kinda feel canned as this website have been very useful for me for my HTC a while ago
All I want to do is to be able to back up my GB as I really like this version of it, its indeed really neat. I'm keen to install ICS but only if I can make it to work out a dual boot situation at some point as BMM wont install (see my other thread).
So yeah if anyone can help either way by giving me an address for a friendly XT910 forum or some article that could help me acheve what I want to do that would be ace!!
Thanks in advance.
VonZ
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This is a xt910 forum.
We have the xt912 as well because it is basically the same phone... Just different battery. All the roms you see here also work on your phone.
Now on to your question.
GB and ICS multiboot is NOT possible. Once you are on ics you can't go back to GB. It's due to our locked bootloader.
That being said: ics and now jellybean are much better than GB. I really would advise you to upgrade but that's just my opinion.
Welcome to the forum. Thread moved, please make sure you post all questions here in Q&A in future.
Thanks
AvRS
Thanks fellows and sorry about the mispost,
So dual if dual boot is only possible between JB and ICS what is the point having a dual boot
I have seen many videos showing Android 4.x.x, had it installed on my HTC a few times and always curled back to 2.x.x mainly because of the graphic interface that I personally find horrid. The Motorola graphic designers really did a good job on this GB and it's quiet fast too.
If you have anything that would make me change my mind toward the new Android, feel free to let me know..
Saying that, if I choose to keep my original OS but would like to be able to perform backups, I'm not sure how to achieve this as Clockwork Recovery does not seem to be working straight away.
Any help welcome>>
VonZ
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I am no expert, I simply enjoy rooting pretty much everything I have relating to technology. Now, the Razr is an amazing phone, and BECAUSE its an amazing phone, I decided NOT to root it until a way to Unbrick became available. Well, that day came (A droidrzr dot come link), so of course, I rooted my Razr and installed the only rom I saw available for the VZW version. Here's the dilemma:
I am in no way making demands or trying to offend anyone, I simply have a question: Are there more ROMS coming out for the RAZR? I have seen all of the mods in these forums, I just have no need for them. I ask because the day my Evo 3D became 'rootable', about 4 or 5 ROMS rolled out right pretty much within hours, and while we DO have a custom ROM for the RAZR, umm...that's it. I appreciate the ROM, I have it installed, but supposedly the big deal was that there was no way to recover from an unbricked RAZR, and now there is, yet there's really no activity in the DEV section aside from people arguing about the locked bootloader.
Maybe I'm just ignorant and the fastboot files don't provide any help at all. I'll attribute that to what I said at the beginning, that I'm not an expert. I was just hoping someone could clarify because I literally check this forum twice a day hoping to see [ROM] at the beginning of a post and [CDMA] right next to it.
Thank you beforehand for any help or clarification!
invikto said:
I am no expert, I simply enjoy rooting pretty much everything I have relating to technology. Now, the Razr is an amazing phone, and BECAUSE its an amazing phone, I decided NOT to root it until a way to Unbrick became available. Well, that day came (A droidrzr dot come link), so of course, I rooted my Razr and installed the only rom I saw available for the VZW version. Here's the dilemma:
I am in no way making demands or trying to offend anyone, I simply have a question: Are there more ROMS coming out for the RAZR? I have seen all of the mods in these forums, I just have no need for them. I ask because the day my Evo 3D became 'rootable', about 4 or 5 ROMS rolled out right pretty much within hours, and while we DO have a custom ROM for the RAZR, umm...that's it. I appreciate the ROM, I have it installed, but supposedly the big deal was that there was no way to recover from an unbricked RAZR, and now there is, yet there's really no activity in the DEV section aside from people arguing about the locked bootloader.
Maybe I'm just ignorant and the fastboot files don't provide any help at all. I'll attribute that to what I said at the beginning, that I'm not an expert. I was just hoping someone could clarify because I literally check this forum twice a day hoping to see [ROM] at the beginning of a post and [CDMA] right next to it.
Thank you beforehand for any help or clarification!
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easy answer
there's no real need of completely modded roms, and roms wich went out, are more optimization roms...
and... ics is on the way, think is a little useless, start thinking of making entire projects on gingerbread, knowing in a month we are going on a really different android version
True, true...but wasn't the ICS source/code already released? Or does it depend from device to device?
So I just got a LG revolution for free as a replacement for my Droid X until I can upgrade. and So far I really dig this phone. I miss my 8mp Camera a bit, but that sacrifice is well worth the faster CPU, and the myriad of other improvements and performance boots over the Droid X.
ANYWAYS. So I am not new to rooting or using ROMs, did it all the time on my DX and D2G. But I haven't had a chance to check out whats out there for the Revolution. So i was hoping someone could point me in a good direction of where i can find the tools i need to root this phone (can i use 4zroot ?) and the how to on it, as well as some custom themes and roms, etc etc. I would really appreciate the help.
Thanks in advance for anyone that does help me out. This site has always been good at that, and that's why i keep coming back and contributing when i can.
Cant use z4. What version of android is it on? Please check your phones forum for root method.
This needs to be moved to the LG Revolution forum.
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Hi Everyone,
I know may be you don't like my thread's name, It is my opinion and I want to know your opinion.
The reason why I'm asking this, simply because I rooted my Razr XT910 to ICS and I really regret. You will tell me , unroot, sure I can do. But I want to pass my experience and to everyone cannot wait to root his Razr.
Ok my reasons are as follows:
1- If you are not very careful you simply can lose your phone
2-After rooting from 2.3.6 on Razr XT910 to ICS 4.0.4 and after the tension because of my mistake and was going to lose my Razr, I found the ICS very basic not much to add to UI. Meaning no widgets like contacts favourites and many others so simply you have to keep installing apps either free or buying not like the original 2.3.6.
3- Not fast as expected
4- No enough support for the Razr XT910 very minimal. Everything is for Droid Razr XT912. I did a mistake by installing a rom for Droid Razr and it blocked my phone and I had to use RSD to install SBF.
5- Themes are very poor
Again guys this is a personal opinion, just wanted to share it with you and to think twice before rooting you Razr XT910
My ROM is Razr-AOKP-GSM-J.Y.Daddy
BTW, I tried Eternity project for Razr XT910 and I got Installation aborted message and again no help in its thread how to overcome the issue
There is more to rooting a phone then just install roms.
Some programs need root to give all the benefits they have, like Rootbrowser, System tuner Pro and SetCPU.
With a rooted phone I can set my cpu level during day, work hours and night.
I can freeze and unfreeze bloatware, make backups and optimize my phone as I like to with or without a rom.
That's why I got it rooted.
Mataraty said:
There is more to rooting a phone then just install roms.
Some programs need root to give all the benefits they have, like Rootbrowser, System tuner Pro and SetCPU.
With a rooted phone I can set my cpu level during day, work hours and night.
I can freeze and unfreeze bloatware, make backups and optimize my phone as I like to with or without a rom.
That's why I got it rooted.
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Great thanks for sharing. To add more benefits for everybody why don't you add more explanations on how to do these things.
The current ICS roms are built for GB kernel.. Pretty impressive really..
Also wrong section
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FrAsErTaG said:
The current ICS roms are built for GB kernel.. Pretty impressive really..
Also wrong section
Sent from my XT910 using XDA
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First of all, thanks for your help earlier you saved my phone from crashing.
Second, I thought the development section is the proper one to discuss rooting matter. Or what do you think?
In addition, how many stable roms are out there for XT910 same like yours. Please mention some.
Thanks
flupo2000 said:
First of all, thanks for your help earlier you saved my phone from crashing.
Second, I thought the development section is the proper one to discuss rooting matter. Or what do you think?
In addition, how many stable roms are out there for XT910 same like yours. Please mention some.
Thanks
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No, that belongs in the General section. If you want to discuss a rooting that you did in the Development section, then you would comment on the thread where you received your information for the ROM you chose to place on your phone. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344531
....Wow, just wow. *palm to forehead*
@flupo: You have a rogers razr, I'm guessing, which is why you can't get the leak. Give it time, you'll get real ics. Really can't believe you felt the need to make a thread about this lol.
I have the Rogers Razr as well and I'm running J Daddy's custom CM9. Works very well as a daily driver. I don't have a need for bluetooth and I can live without the video recording function. All users understand that these builds are in development and do not provide all the functions flawlessly. So your only options are to wait for an official build from Motorola or hope that somehow a bootloader bypass/unlock comes around that will allow us to use the kernel+radio from the Chinese/European ICS and have a ROM that is more streamlined than the current development builds.
Rooting is not the same as installing a ROM. Updating from GB to ICS is installing a new ROM which has absolutely nothing to do with "Root" in most situations.
Root is the Linux way of saying Admin Account. With "root" access to a phone, you literally have permission to do anything you want, install anything you want, remove anything you want, and run anything even if it requires permissions that are normally rejected on a unrooted phone.
Apps that require root that I use on a regular basis: TitaniumBackup, AdFree, Terminal Emulator, WiFi Tether, and ES File Explorer. There are many others. None of these have anything to do with installing ICS or not.
Your thread title is misleading and it is in the wrong forum. Developers create threads in the Development section, only. You can reply to one of their threads if appropriate, but to create a new discussion on something it should be in General.
You should read through a lot more threads, ask questions in the general section, and generally understand a lot more before you start trying to modify your phone like this. That should be the warning you tell people. People shouldn't just jump in and start modifying their phone's OS until they know what OS, Root, ROM, and a bunch of other terms mean and what they do.
Lol.I have a galaxy nexus i root the day i got it,i also have a Droid razr maxx that I haven't root yet.Thanks for this thread I'm diff not going to root now.
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Wrong section.
Root 'n rool!
lol
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Dont tell people not to root when your not knowledgable on this stuff
Ohh Canadians, Canadians.....
pedrotorresfilho said:
Wrong section.
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Wrong topic :-D
Everyone remember that guy in class that would stand up in the front of class and tell everyone not to do something because it was "wrong?" even though he didn't even know why himself?
This thread actually happened...
this thread was brought to you by an educational system somewhere on THIS planet. We're sorry.
Lmfao^^^^^^
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Read carefully and thoroughly and you won't have a problem. Rush in and flash the first file you find and you'll quickly end up with a brick. Getting the most out of any device requires an investment time-wise, and if you're not prepared to make that investment you shouldn't be flashing anything.
Sent from my Motorola Electrify
Thanks for sharing
Obviously from most of your comments, I did a mistake by making such a question in this section. Sorry about that but I thought it is the right one where people read about rooting.
Second, These are my previous smartphone list which I did rooting for all of them and it went fine with no crashes:
HTC Tytn 2
Sony Ericson Experia
HTC Touch Pro
HTC Diamond 1 and 2
HTC HD
HTC HD2
HTC Desire
So may be from the above you can see guys that I have some experience in rooting and I read a lot about it.
The reason for my thread was to raise the issue that there is no enough support for the great Razr especially XT910. As per Motorola support team whom I discussed with, the upgrade from GB to ICS is in the planing phase and might take about another 3-4 months.
Any how I tried to do that to see if I can solve the issue for having ICS on XT910 or not before selling it and go back to HTC with HTC One X.
Last, it will be great to have a professional forum that has talented people respect each other not like the respectable person whom said "ohh Canadians Canadians"
Everyone of those phones you listed are HTC devices including the Sony Ericson.
That's probably why you stuffed up because this is not a HTC device. Not to mention the majority are native windows mobile phones..
Do you know some one named planetone?
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Hi everyone,
Im new to this site and i want to tell you al that i love it.
I cant stop reading and thats exactly the problem.
Because i do read that much i cant so the threes trough the forest anymore.
Im searching for the right rom to use on my galaxy ace s5380i.
Im looking for a rom that will help me speed up my ace.
So wich rom can i use the best??????
At the moment i use JB v3.0.3 but i am not really satisfied with it. (its rather slow)
Im thinking to switch to cyanogenmod because i believe im able to tweak my CPU. (correct me if im wrong)
At the moment this option isnt able to work on JB.
So basicly i want to know wich rom is the fastest???and with wich roms can i tweak my CPU etc.???
I hope that i wright everything correctly because im from Holland and i hope anyone can help me.
Greets Sanamy
Sanamy said:
Hi everyone,
Im new to this site and i want to tell you al that i love it.
I cant stop reading and thats exactly the problem.
Because i do read that much i cant so the threes trough the forest anymore.
Im searching for the right rom to use on my galaxy ace s5380i.
Im looking for a rom that will help me speed up my ace.
So wich rom can i use the best??????
At the moment i use JB v3.0.3 but i am not really satisfied with it. (its rather slow)
Im thinking to switch to cyanogenmod because i believe im able to tweak my CPU. (correct me if im wrong)
At the moment this option isnt able to work on JB.
So basicly i want to know wich rom is the fastest???and with wich roms can i tweak my CPU etc.???
I hope that i wright everything correctly because im from Holland and i hope anyone can help me.
Greets Sanamy
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First thing, please post problems in Q&A section. Second thing, there is no best rom in XDA. If you want a rom that suits you then test different roms, there is a massive collection of them! Thirdly, Jelly Blast is a banned rom and Jelly Bean based roms for this phone don't exist. Fourth Thing, To tweak CPU a custom Kernal is needed. I can see it is your first time and hopefully you will learn!
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@Sanamy , "Best Rom" threads are frowned upon a XDA. Why? Because what is good for some people, may not be good for you.
Also, best rom threads cause arguments between loyal users of specific roms, and basically have absolutely nothing to do with development, which is what XDA is all about. Not to mention it's just another thread that clogs up the "search" feature.
My advice on making your choice;
1) Read the OP and the last 10 pages of the ROM thread. You'll get an understanding of how the latest release is running.
2) Determine your needs. If you're looking for a gaming rom, then you'll probably want a kernel that's OC'd CPU and GPU.
3) Try a few different ROMs. All devices are NOT the same, and behave differently with different ROMs.
Above all, READ and UNDERSTAND the flashing requirements until you know them well, and understand what you're getting into. Don't be afraid to ask a specific "n00b" question. Most of the folks are here to help, although you will get a couple of "bad apples" who prefer you use the search feature before asking (this is of course, the proper way).
And to some of you "Old Hands", and you know who you are, don;t be so harsh. You also were new to XDA at one time, and probably posted the same (Do I really need to research and post some of your "n00b" posts when you first joined?)
To the other user that actually helped, thanks.
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I have the motorola atrix 4g currently has android 2.3.6 carrier ATT. Normally I could really care less about eye candy etc, but I find the final build att put out to be a little buggy.
All the mods I have found on this forum and another are just over welming. All I want is a stable rom that will run efficiently and allow me to completely get rid of moto blur. I am technically savy, but have little experience with roms on phones. So any youtube links and how to you think would be a help to me I would greatly appreciate.
That's a very subjective opinion, and this kind of threads aren't allowed by the rules.
The advice is the same as always been: go to esch rom thread, read, read and read. Then make a choice, if you don't like the result, either go back to you backup or try another one.
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andresrivas said:
That's a very subjective opinion, and this kind of threads aren't allowed by the rules.
The advice is the same as always been: go to esch rom thread, read, read and read. Then make a choice, if you don't like the result, either go back to you backup or try another one.
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Ok, maybe I am missing something on the forum. When I goto the developers forum I seem some rom here and there posted. Is there an easier way to get a list of all the stable roms developed for this device so I can just read through each one? Searching been a bigger part of the issue.
zephar said:
I have the motorola atrix 4g currently has android 2.3.6 carrier ATT. Normally I could really care less about eye candy etc, but I find the final build att put out to be a little buggy.
All the mods I have found on this forum and another are just over welming. All I want is a stable rom that will run efficiently and allow me to completely get rid of moto blur. I am technically savy, but have little experience with roms on phones. So any youtube links and how to you think would be a help to me I would greatly appreciate.
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@andresrivas is correct. this thread, at least the first post, smells of a "what is the best ROM" kind of thread. that kind is banned on xda, which is what he was referring to. In order to completely get rid of motoblur, you need to go to a custom ROM (Paranoid, AOKP, and CyanogenMod are the more common ones).
Your first step would be to read the how to unlock, root, and flash a custom recovery, and then do it. if you already are, then you can skip that part.
Next is to decide what Android version you want to be on, GB (2.3 series), ICS (4.0.4), or JB (4.1-4.3). From there, you really are on your own as far as what ROM you pick.
Thread closed, each of us have their own choices and preferences on choosing ROM. So try for yourself you will find many..