I was playing around with smanager killing time in between basketball games and some how un-rooted my phone. Well, I know how. I tried to run the 3g turbo script with out bothering to prep my phone, per the guide (flashed to 4.2.2 since last time I ran the script), or even bothered to see if the script would work on 4.2.2. I know, Stupid!
Anyways, thought I ask for some advice, this time, on how to re-root while still on 4.2.2. The how to's are pretty old. Was thinking maybe I can reflash su. Currently o v3.3 but it is showing that the binary are not found. It won't let me tap for update. Or maybe I dirty flash the rom again (which has broken gapps the last two times)
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Mod.. could you move this to Q&A. Didn't realize I was in the general section. Thanks
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Hi:
I found this forum via another (android forums) and I have a few questions, ones I asked there but wasn't settled with the answer.
I have an eris 1.5 i want to root. I got the android sdk & installed it no problem, i have the PB00IMG zip, as well as the recovery zip, all in one root script 0 3, eris15rooted, eris21official-root as well as Aloysius_204-signed and DVanilla2fast.
I've followed all the steps laid out but stop just short of rooting because some things i'm just not clear on.
it's 1.5 now, i'd like to root it & remain at 1.5 and try it out for a bit. but from what i read on the other forum it seems that if i do root it I must upgrade to 2.1, is this true ?
So lets say I do go to 2.1. Do i need to install 2.1 & then dvanilla2fast or aloysius on top of that or are they in themselves someones special custom 2.1 versions and i need only install them ?
And relying on the knowledge here, how do i know i have the latest versions of the files needed AND what is the best and/or most recommended install ? because i see there are various 2.1's floating around.
thanks for your patience
i guess this is not a heavily traveled forum
DISCLAIMER:
I'm not an expert at any of this.. just sharing what i have learned.
2.1 is great, I don't look back at 1.5 at ALL.
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To go to 2.1 root you have everything you need.
the B00IMG zip, as well as the recovery zip, then the all in one root script.
From there load up the eris21official-root.zip
Setup your google account, any other e-mails etc..
then reboot your phone into recovery mode. (Vol up + power)
Go to Backup/Restore > Backup NAND
That's your base point as to what you compare all other roms to.
To go back to it: Just do a Factory Data wipe and a Davlik wipe.
Then Restore the NAND backup.
Every time you try out a new rom, or go back to an old via nandroid backup.. you need to wipe the Factory data and Davlik.
Play around.. you'll get it
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Actually this is a very active forum, and full of knowledge, these guys know their stuff, I think if you had checked the development section you would have got a quicker response.....but welcome to the forum.....and know that if you have a problem, most likely someone here knows a fix for it, or will help find a fix....
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Just be sure to use the search function before asking simple questions. The odds that someone else already asked your question are pretty good, and the devs don't like repeating themselves and would rather spend time making fun new stuff.
The only way I know of to OBTAIN root is to do the 2.1 Upgrage. However, there is a 2.1 -> 1.5 root thread in the development section.
So i waited for Verizon to do and OTA update for my Droid Eris beause i didn't want to take the chance of rooting it. However i'm tired of the little lag i get with this phone and i want to overclock it, too bad i need to root it. So i have a few questions.
1. What roms will work my Droid Eris. (I know they're everywhere but some people say they don't work, bugged, etc. Which one is the most dependent)
2. Is there a video guide anywhere that can show me how to root. (Again i know there's guides but i prefer a visual guide if I'm gonna take the risk of bricking my phone)
3. If anyone has overclocked their Droid Eris what is a safe GHZ and what ap works the best with this?
4. I've been reading that i will most likely have to downgrade my Droid Eris to 1.5 stock from 2.1 OTA update. Is there a way to do such a thing. There is a guide but it says something like it doesn't work anymore, unless im reading it wrong.
5. Just a question i've been wondering since recently, When could i be expecting a Froyo Rom if at all.
Yes, i know these are noob questions but i just recently got a Droid Eris and i want to take full advantage of this device. Thank you for your time reading this and Thank you again if you respond nicely and don't call me a noob.
1. Any of the ROMs. Choosing one is a matter of personal preference. The two I've been using lately are EvilEris 3.0 and CyanogenELB 2.5 (ErisLightningBolt). EvilEris is a Sense rom and looks a lot like the standard HTC OS you're used to. CyanogenELB is based off the standard android sources. CyanogenELB takes a little extra work to get it really workable (adding the google apps and installing the MMS fix with for 2.5) but it's pretty darn good.
2.Video: youtube.com/watch?v=_brg2NbBmx8 Can't post links but you can copy and paste. Any guide for 1.5 will work with 2.1 OTA.
3. Overclocking is dependent on your phone. Numerous reports say staying at or below 768MHz is safe for all phones. Just about everyone uses SetCPU which you can find in the Market for pay or on this forum for free.
4. You do NOT have to downgrade to root. Use the same 1.5 procedure to root a 2.1 OTA phone.
5. Read the KaosFroyo thread. It's a work in progress and loads, but doesn't function as a phone. He's busy with work, so kaos will work on it when time allows.
Thank you so much, Just helped me out alot. I really hope this goes well and i don't have that lag anymore(Extremely annoying). Thank you, seriously
So i have EvilEris on my phone now, works great and everything however i want to try the CyanogenELB 2.5 rom but I'm not sure what i have to download from the site...pretty noobish i guess. The thing im trying to say is a the download site he gives theres about 7 files and im not exactly sure what to download. I don't wanna flash the wrong thing and brick my phone. If you could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
dl CyanogenELB2.5.zip, CyanogenELB-GoogleApps-v2.zip, CyanogenELB-MMS-fix.zip, 5MPcamera.zip, and ClearVM.zip.
flash CyanogenELB2.5.zip and then flash CyanogenELB-GoogleApps-v2.zip (do NOT reboot in between those 2 flashes).
then, reboot phone... after you setup (google account, etc), shutdown and then flash the CyanogenELB-MMS-fix.zip, the 5MPcamera.zip, and ClearVM.zip (no need to reboot in between those either). then restart again.
should be good to go from there
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dl CyanogenELB2.5.zip, CyanogenELB-GoogleApps-v2.zip, CyanogenELB-MMS-fix.zip, 5MPcamera.zip, and ClearVM.zip.
flash CyanogenELB2.5.zip and then flash CyanogenELB-GoogleApps-v2.zip (do NOT reboot in between those 2 flashes).
then, reboot phone... after you setup (google account, etc), shutdown and then flash the CyanogenELB-MMS-fix.zip, the 5MPcamera.zip, and ClearVM.zip (no need to reboot in between those either). then restart again.
should be good to go from there
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MMS doesn't work with the installed SMS app; the dev's notes say "must use Handcent".
Also, I can't get the IME_mod keyboard to do anything but FC ... do you have the same result?
Thanks Tenzo it works and everything but i think im gonna go back to EvilEris since i get a lag every now and then for some reason and sometimes it just reboots on itself. Thanks for the help though
Ok, so I've tried to do my own research and have come up with very little. It took me about a year to figure out what rooting actually meant and did. So I rooted my SGS vibrant and flashed a bionix rom (i think). It says "bionix shut down sequence initiated" or something like that when I turn it off (any ideas on what it is or how I can find out). I really have no idea what version it is. I also would like to put a new rom on my phone but am scared ill screw it up. I watched a youtube video that told me how to do it the first time I flashed anything. It works with a few random screw ups but KILLS my battery. I would really like for someone who knows more than me to explain what a nandroid backup is and how to do one. What the clockwork rom manager can help me do. What the one click lag fix did. Why my computer won't read the storage things on the phone when connected to the phone anymore. What is this odin thing. What is a kernel. will I still get the ota updates without the stock rom. Where did my stock rom go when I pushed backup before I flashed this rom in the rom manager app. Did I actually wipe all the original data from the phone. Why can't I restore boot animation with one click lag fix(it says somethings not found... Did I wipe/delete it?). What is an apk and sdk(or skd)? What is a voodoo lag fix. How many times can you flash beer something goes wrong. I'm really new to ALL of this and have had no help really when I've asked a lot of people who apparently know more than I. ANY help from ANYONE who knows ANYTHING would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Almost all of those questions can be answered by reading the Tips and Tricks or Noob Guide threads. Those two threads have given me all the info I've ever needed for the Vibrant.
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Ok, so I've tried to do my own research and have come up with very little. It took me about a year to figure out what rooting actually meant and did. So I rooted my SGS vibrant and flashed a bionix rom (i think). It says "bionix shut down sequence initiated" or something like that when I turn it off (any ideas on what it is or how I can find out). I really have no idea what version it is. I also would like to put a new rom on my phone but am scared ill screw it up. I watched a youtube video that told me how to do it the first time I flashed anything. It works with a few random screw ups but KILLS my battery. I would really like for someone who knows more than me to explain what a nandroid backup is and how to do one. What the clockwork rom manager can help me do. What the one click lag fix did. Why my computer won't read the storage things on the phone when connected to the phone anymore. What is this odin thing. What is a kernel. will I still get the ota updates without the stock rom. Where did my stock rom go when I pushed backup before I flashed this rom in the rom manager app. Did I actually wipe all the original data from the phone. Why can't I restore boot animation with one click lag fix(it says somethings not found... Did I wipe/delete it?). What is an apk and sdk(or skd)? I'm really new to ALL of this and have had no help really when I've asked a lot of people who apparently know more than I. ANY help from ANYONE who knows ANYTHING would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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Theres a lot of questions in there so I'll just bite off a few at first. Before that, have you taken a look at the vibrant bible thread in the dev forum? It covers a lot of the basic ' how tos '.
Firstly, you can possibly see what version of bionix you are running by looking under settings - about phone - build number. now might be a good time for you to odin back to stock and start fresh. Odin is a program that runs on your pc and can safely install a rom on top of any lag fix you may have enabled. You can read about using odin to go back to stock in the vibrant bible thread I mentioned earlier. Once you go back to stock you can receive ota updates from tmo if that's what you want or you can reroot and flash another custom rom. If you choose to flash another rom I would recommend reading every post on that rom's thread so you can learn from other's experiences. I would also recommend you keep reading the bible thread, theres a ton of good info there.
Good luck.
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willcwells said:
Almost all of those questions can be answered by reading the Tips and Tricks or Noob Guide threads. Those two threads have given me all the info I've ever needed for the Vibrant.
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Dude, THAT is why I do those stickies, thank you! So glad it helped man!
That was really helpful, thank you and I will be looking into this more little by little. But I also have 2 very specific questions:
1. Is it possible to turn an htc windows phone into an android phone?
2. will I lose everything if I push the flash clockwork recovery in the rom manager app? I haven't done it yet but everything I've read has told me to do it the first time. I have the bionix rom running and don't remember flashing the clockwork recovery thing EVER. have I messed up or can I just do it whenever? And is it true thats how you make a nandroid backup because thats what I've read.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out, and being patient with me. You guys are the reason I love android. Thank you from your very lost, slowly learning, new friend.
Human.debris420 said:
1. Is it possible to turn an htc windows phone into an androids phone?
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Depends on the phone, many do have android roms available. Just look up whatever windows phone you have in the forum section and if there has been some android development there will most likely be a section in the thread devoted just to android development.
You need to odin back and start from new
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Hi, This topic should have been a reply to the AiO one on the development board but since the board software thinks I'm too new to post to developments forums I'm forced to create a new topic here on General, So I'm really sorry if I did something wrong (Guess what, I'm new!)
So, I wanted to upgrade my Tablet S to a pre-rooted ICS while I had a 3.2.1r2.
I rooted it, did all the steps to have a working custom_update.zip,while flashing the custom_update thing, text warned me that I was flashing the pre-rooted, init.d'ed, whatever custom rom, so I though it was all going to be fine..
Then I discovered that Superuser wasn't there, neither was busybox and basically root in general was gone, while the "rescure-backdoor" wasn't.
Checking the topics I discovered that my best solution was to downgrade to 3.2.1r2 and do the whole thing again.
So that's what I did, I wiped the whole system and Honeycomb started without problem, except that it turns back to not-really-pre-rooted ICS the next time I reboot.
This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that I need to reboot the tablet some times to get root, and I need root to decrypt and prepare the custom update.
So, what am I doing wrong? I searched here and there and didn't find a solution yet .
Sometimes you need to do a factory reset or else it flips back to ICS from HC. I haven't always had to do it; I'm not sure what the contributing factor is there. Essentially there are two system partitions (system0 and system1) and the bootloader makes a decision on which one to boot based on unknown criteria. It can be a bit quirky after downgrading, but a factory reset seems to clear it up.
SOLVED.. but how?
I knew that, I wiped everything each time I reverted to 3.2.1, maybe I forgot to mention that.
But it didn't directly boot to ICS, it did boot to Honeycomb, THEN the next time I boot I'm back to ICS again.
I did manage to stop this, however.. how? I don't know, something like the 4/5th time I re-flashed it worked.
Hamcha said:
I knew that, I wiped everything each time I reverted to 3.2.1, maybe I forgot to mention that.
But it didn't directly boot to ICS, it did boot to Honeycomb, THEN the next time I boot I'm back to ICS again.
I did manage to stop this, however.. how? I don't know, something like the 4/5th time I re-flashed it worked.
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Wipe before first boot of 3.2.1 is VERY IMPORTANT.
Downgrade step-by-step is described in AiO thread in FAQ section.
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So I have an old SPH L710 that received its last OTA update before June 2014. Its 4.4.2. I've since moved on to another phone and this S3 is strictly for WiFi at home. No service provider. I'm a tech nerd building and repairing computers for the last 25 years so naturally learning how to gain root access and tweak got my attention. I've been a XDA lurker since 2012 BTW and have learned a lot just by reading. Today I need help that I can't seem to find by reading.
About a month ago I thought it would be fun to root my S3. Towelrooted, flashed Super SU, removed Knox and updated binary. Then I flashed Busy Box. All went very smooth and off I went to play and learn by reading these awesome forums.
After a couple a couple if weeks I decided to try some custom ROMs. I installed Odin on my laptop and TWRP on my SD card. Flashing TWRP via Odin went fine. Then I tried several ROMs that are specifically for my device. I wanted to try some of the Lollipop or Marshmallow ROMs. I followed the instructions exactly as I should, but I couldn't get any of them to work. Every ROM I tried put me in a boot loop. I was seeing unusual text in TWRP like, couldn't mount data and md5 not found while they were in the process of flashing.
So I decided to look for some older ROMs and found SlimKat 4.4.4
Followed the instructions and flashed ROM with Gapps usingTWRP and it worked! I don't understand why I can't flash newer ROMs on this phone. Is there something I've overlooked or is there additional files I need to flash first?
Sorry for the long post. Its late and I really want to try a newer ROM. SlimKat is awesome. My battery lasts MUCH longer and system is zippy. The only thing I don't like is Superuser is included with the ROM. Super SU is what I prefer, but unfortunately I'm stuck with it I until I find a solution to successfully flash a more up to date ROM.