Since I'm stuck on Windows 8.1 Blue preview I'm unable to use fastboot, so I've done a bit of googling.
I found this utility from the HTC One forums which apparently works for Qualcomm devices only, so surely it should work for us?
Anyway I'll go and test it and will report back, but I just wanted to say, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP FASTBOOT/ADB WORKING, DON'T UPDATE TO WINDOWS BLUE
EDIT: I've read further and it seems like the mmcblk0p for the utility may be different for the Desire X. I'll check it out.
I asked for some more information on the thread you found and will see if it's possible making this working for our device.
cheers mate, it sure would make life a lot easier for noobs.... and those fallen into the Windows 8.1 trap
Nopes,
doesnt work. just tried.
I'm pretty sure you'd need s-off to flash kernels from recovery
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BatEarsJoe said:
I'm pretty sure you'd need s-off to flash kernels from recovery
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Yes, you are right.
Actually there is some write protection rights which do not let anything run from recovery partition to write on boot partition. However, it is not completely related to S-OFF.
However, My bro had HTC explorer low end phone. It had S-ON and still they could flash boot img from recovery without any issues.
HTC is unpredictable these days.
But why does it work for HTC One then?
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But why does it work for HTC One then?
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must be an exploit. Or HTC are licking the feet of their prime flagship customers. Thats actually quite unfair why they make strange decisions.
Sense lite, removing HTC swipe, JB 4.1.1 STILL, and many shady decisions are the reason why they dont have many more years as a big company. Shame. They were the pioneers and now the chasing pack.
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must be an exploit. Or HTC are licking the feet of their prime flagship customers. Thats actually quite unfair why they make strange decisions.
Sense lite, removing HTC swipe, JB 4.1.1 STILL, and many shady decisions are the reason why they dont have many more years as a big company. Shame. They were the pioneers and now the chasing pack.
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This. There not the same company they used to be and after the experiences with the last two phones I'll be switching permanently to a Sony Flagship device when I get the chance
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This. There not the same company they used to be and after the experiences with the last two phones I'll be switching permanently to a Sony Flagship device when I get the chance
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My remaining days are limited with the Desire X, I'm buying a Nexus 4 in the next month. But I will still help with testing and everything. This will allow my Desire X to be a full testing device and I don't need to worry about bricking
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So I got s-off last night and since then I've flashed like three or four different ROMS. Every single one I try, my phone will boot and then reboot for no apparent reason. I can be in a menu or get an email or text message when it happens and I can't figure out why it's doing this. Anybody have any ideas?
Old firmware patch
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Run an ics ruu and update firmware. Running ics on gb firmware doesnt work. Or flash old firmware patch as mentioned above.
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Will do, thanks. I wish HTC, Motorola and Samsung phones were as easy to flash and install ROMS, kernels, etc. as Nexus devices are.
That's because the nexus bootloader is not locked I believe the gs3 has a locked bootloader though.
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Will do, thanks. I wish HTC, Motorola and Samsung phones were as easy to flash and install ROMS, kernels, etc. as Nexus devices are.
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Nexus devices are made by HTC and Samsung so there's a little conflict there
I believe that if you are going to root/unlock... ect then you should be required to learn the phone, yes nexus devices are easy to root and flash custom roms but this makes it easier for issues to arise in the long run. Learning basic adb commands and fastboot can be a life saver.
Plus Nexus devices can be boring, i love options and AOSP can only be changed so much. Every rom will have similarities
When you have a HTC phone with sense you typically get MIUI, AOSP, and future sense roms/ports.and this is a crackflashers dream
The Rezound being one of the oddballs due to ril issues. once this is figured out for this phone and future phones then i believe HTC should be the way everyone goes
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That's because the nexus bootloader is not locked I believe the gs3 has a locked bootloader though.
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they are releasing an unlocked version for verizon through samung developer very soon so we dont have to deal with vzw and all their crap.
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they are releasing an unlocked version for verizon through samung developer very soon so we dont have to deal with vzw and all their crap.
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That's good to know so someday when apple kills htc, I have a semi-decent brand to consider for another phone.
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I finally upgraded to one of the ginormous phones after fighting it for so long. I just couldn't take the "out of memory" errors anymore on my Aria. So now that I have the HTC One X, I'd like to sell my mint-condition Aria. It's got CWM and CyanogenMod 7.0.3, but like I said, with hardly any apps on it, it's constantly out of memory.
So my question is what should I do with this Aria before I list it on Craigslist?
Official HTC Android 2.2
Fresh CM7
Other?
Plain ol' stock Aria's are selling for $100-$125 here in LA. Should I add a premium price for having it rooted and custom ROM installed?
In my experience, having a rooted phone with a custom ROM had actually lessened interest in phones I've sold. I would go full stock, unrooted, stock recovery also. You never know when someone will want to do a factory reset, and if I understand correctly, this causes problems for rooted phones. The people that know how and are interested in rooting will do it anyway, the rest will be perfectly happy with it in stock form.
Good point. Thanks.
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I finally upgraded to one of the ginormous phones after fighting it for so long. I just couldn't take the "out of memory" errors anymore on my Aria. So now that I have the HTC One X, I'd like to sell my mint-condition Aria. It's got CWM and CyanogenMod 7.0.3, but like I said, with hardly any apps on it, it's constantly out of memory.
So my question is what should I do with this Aria before I list it on Craigslist?
Official HTC Android 2.2
Fresh CM7
Other?
Plain ol' stock Aria's are selling for $100-$125 here in LA. Should I add a premium price for having it rooted and custom ROM installed?
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ohhh man. I hope your One X is on 1.85 or you will be very, very sad.. (AT&T im assuming)
Unfortunately not... 2.2. Hopefully they'll break it though.
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I finally upgraded to one of the ginormous phones after fighting it for so long. I just couldn't take the "out of memory" errors anymore on my Aria. So now that I have the HTC One X, I'd like to sell my mint-condition Aria. It's got CWM and CyanogenMod 7.0.3, but like I said, with hardly any apps on it, it's constantly out of memory.
So my question is what should I do with this Aria before I list it on Craigslist?
Official HTC Android 2.2
Fresh CM7
Other?
Plain ol' stock Aria's are selling for $100-$125 here in LA. Should I add a premium price for having it rooted and custom ROM installed?
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I'd go with rooted 2.3.5 liberty S rom. I'd delete some stock apps and overclocked the core. Then i'd sell it. But that's just me
Stock ROM I would pay less if the Phone's ROM is customed.
I'd just leave it on a stock looking ROM.
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Dude... Jealous of your rooted One X!
stock with automatic transmission
My guess is you would have better luck for resale with stock ROM.
I base this on the experience of selling a nearly new car. I have always been a fan of manual transmissions and to this day that's all we have in the garage. About 20 years ago I was assigned overseas and had to sell a nearly new Mazda 626 with a stick. I got few calls, all of whom had overlooked "manual transmission" in the ad and backed out immediately when they realized it. I ended up selling it back to the dealer at a big loss.
Only five percent or so of automobiles on the road today have manuals. I imagine custom ROM users are a similarly small minority.
Even though the experience is better, even though my own technophobe wife loves her Aria running CM7 nightly, a random buyer--who probably will drive up with an automatic--would be more likely to buy with the stock ROM.
PS: By mentioning a car sale 20 years ago, I've probably identified myself as part of an even smaller minority: old people who run with a custom nightly
Here's what you should do. Root it, install custom recovery, boot loader should be unlocked after using unrevoked. Then flash Liberated FR008, so it will look stock, but they can read up on root and take it from there if they care enough
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absolutelygrim said:
Here's what you should do. Root it, install custom recovery, boot loader should be unlocked after using unrevoked. Then flash Liberated FR008, so it will look stock, but they can read up on root and take it from there if they care enough
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This is well and good until they decide to factory reset within the ROM for whatever reason. I'm not sure if that is disabled in Liberated FR008 or not, but better safe than sorry IMO.
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This is well and good until they decide to factory reset within the ROM for whatever reason. I'm not sure if that is disabled in Liberated FR008 or not, but better safe than sorry IMO.
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All a factory reset does is wipe /data and /cache
Root is in /system/xbin
Could you elaborate on problems that would arise?
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All a factory reset does is wipe /data and /cache
Root is in /system/xbin
Could you elaborate on problems that would arise?
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I can tell you that once I tried to wipe data from the ROM itself (not CWM Recover) and it hosed the phone. I couldn't boot to anything.
This was when I first got my Aria and didn't know much about rooting Android devices.
I would restore Stock and sell it. If the buyer asks about any techie-stuff like "is it rooted?" you could root it, load CWM Recovery, and ask if he'd like a custom ROM on it. You could even ask for a little extra $$ for the effort... Just a thought.
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I can tell you that once I tried to wipe data from the ROM itself (not CWM Recover) and it hosed the phone. I couldn't boot to anything.
This was when I first got my Aria and didn't know much about rooting Android devices.
I would restore Stock and sell it. If the buyer asks about any techie-stuff like "is it rooted?" you could root it, load CWM Recovery, and ask if he'd like a custom ROM on it. You could even ask for a little extra $$ for the effort... Just a thought.
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Ok thanks, I've never tried it so I didn't know.
You were wanting a one x (at&t) right? they just found root for 2.20 if you are still interested.
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You were wanting a one x (at&t) right? they just found root for 2.20 if you are still interested.
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Today?! Awesome, I've been checking daily but haven't heard yet... off to look now!
Do you guy's think the ONE X or X+ users will ever see S-OFF?
I'm thinking of buying the one x+ but the only thing putting me off is no S-OFF as i've heard you can't flash roms on the go therefore meaning that if you flash a rom and leave your house and if something goes wrong you can't even restore a nandroid backup?
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Do you guy's think the ONE X or X+ users will ever see S-OFF?
I'm thinking of buying the one x+ but the only thing putting me off is no S-OFF as i've heard you can't flash roms on the go therefore meaning that if you flash a rom and leave your house and if something goes wrong you can't even restore a nandroid backup?
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Why did you make 2 threads about the same thing several hours apart? STOP CLUTTERING THE BOARDS WITH USELESS THINGS. If no one responds to your post people probably don't care. It doesn't mean make another one.
You heard wrong, that's all completely rubbish, nand backups work fine and installing roms works as normal.
Having s-on would probably save you from a brick in most cases.
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You heard wrong, that's all completely rubbish, nand backups work fine and installing roms works as normal.
Having s-on would probably save you from a brick in most cases.
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Yeah, you can flash ROMs, but you have the flash to boot.img separately via the commandline. A real pain in the ass if you want to switch ROMs frequently.
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Yeah, you can flash ROMs, but you have the flash to boot.img separately via the commandline. A real pain in the ass if you want to switch ROMs frequently.
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No it's not 99.9% of the roms out there use either stock kernel or a modified stock kernel, so most roms will work with another roms boot.img
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It`s possible http://www.pdacenter.ru/novosti/s-off-dlja-novykh-modelejj-htc/
It cost about 80 usd in Russia. I`ll try to do it in a few month
FYI the endeavour is the HOX not the HOX+. But im sure it's possible with tools like SETool/LGTool too. But these methods cost a small fortune.
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Good day guys, I have noticed that a s-off solution for the desire x has not been achieved as of yet and seems to getting the way of this phone being ignored and at the bottom of the pecking order regarding a s-off solution.
I thought it might help you guys who want and is desperate for s-off on the desire x to make a request to moonshine as there is this email address to requesting a request for s-off asking to leave make and details for a request for s-off. ...email to with make and hboot version..etc to:-
[email protected]
I believe that moonshine as done a fantastic job in making the moonshine for s-off on devices but the more folk that request s-off for this device we stand a better chance of a solution
thanks for time reading
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Good day guys, I have noticed that a s-off solution for the desire x has not been achieved as of yet and seems to getting the way of this phone being ignored and at the bottom of the pecking order regarding a s-off solution.
I thought it might help you guys who want and is desperate for s-off on the desire x to make a request to moonshine as there is this email address to requesting a request for s-off asking to leave make and details for a request for s-off. ...email to with make and hboot version..etc to:-
[email protected]
I believe that moonshine as done a fantastic job in making the moonshine for s-off on devices but the more folk that request s-off for this device we stand a better chance of a solution
thanks for time reading
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Many Dx users Have already messaged the moonshine team, and i imagine If their inbox starts getting flooded with s-off requests they will start to mark them as spam, we will get s-off when à member of such à team gets our device.
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BatEarsJoe said:
Many Dx users Have already messaged the moonshine team, and i imagine If their inbox starts getting flooded with s-off requests they will start to mark them as spam, we will get s-off when à member of such à team gets our device.
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oddly enough not that many of the devs/modders/fixers seem to want it, it would be good to have and probably help us quite a bit but until we get the higher up ones pushing doubt we will get a solution and only the guy who made the elegancia rom ever tried and he bricked his device then never got another one probably got something better with more devs personally my next phone will be researched more and definatly not another htc
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oddly enough not that many of the devs/modders/fixers seem to want it, it would be good to have and probably help us quite a bit but until we get the higher up ones pushing doubt we will get a solution and only the guy who made the elegancia rom ever tried and he bricked his device then never got another one probably got something better with more devs personally my next phone will be researched more and definatly not another htc
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haha yeah same for me, HTC's just not what it used to be
yea true well i dont know what they used to be like 2nd android phone and 1st htc here but while the phone itself is alright its the guys at htc that let it down, by the way have you heard of the xtc clip that can make gold cards for htc phones ? thinking of getting one but if theres another way to do so that would be great, if i get one and it works ill post it so others can use it, pity all the resellers are on the other side of the world
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Why not just create a gold card?
oddoneout said:
Why not just create a gold card?
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yea thinking of that where to get the info
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if that works awesome but as of yet we have one of the few htc phone very few people care about
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Sir I have a xtc clip and can confirm at present there is no solution to s-off the dx with the xtc clip, and even though it does make gold cards the gold card method will no longer work with the dx.. just a case of us all holding tight and hope someone will come along with a solution I'm affraid.
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bugger was hoping there would be a way but seems htc wants to limit what we can do with our phones well thats just great hopefully someone will buy my phone then all respect for htc just went out the window
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waiting for S-Off on HBoot 1.56 HTC One M7 thanks
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waiting for S-Off on HBoot 1.56 HTC One M7 thanks
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I'm sorry, wrong forum (HTC Desire X here only).
I just wanted to say hi. I can't wait to start ****ing with this phone. In coming from an lgog so I'm doing my research since I haven't owned an HTC device in a long time n it's a different world from Samsung b lg that I'm used to
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Hi. Welcome. Best phone ever. Probably my favorite android based phone or phone in general that I've ever used. And I go through some phones. Your gonna love it.
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MY phone will be delivered tomorrow.. I cant wait to play with it.. iam so excited.
gmac1990 said:
Hi. Welcome. Best phone ever. Probably my favorite android based phone or phone in general that I've ever used. And I go through some phones. Your gonna love it.
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MY phone will be delivered tomorrow.. I cant wait to play with it.. iam so excited.
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there is a couple things I miss from my lgog. The lgog IPS screen is much better. I also liked having an external sd card. I've been busy lately but when I get some free time I can't edit to dive into the kernel source n see what I can really make this phone do
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Always good to see another great person coming into the fold. Just got my phone today.
I have the og pro and this device and I like the slcd3 better. As for the phone, I would s off immediately and throw a custom rom on.
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xartic12 said:
I have the og pro and this device and I like the slcd3 better. As for the phone, I would s off immediately and throw a custom rom on.
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See I like colors better and with faux gamma control I was able to make the colors more vibrant n make the screen pop. As far as s-off that's a plan since I'm a dev. I haven't decided on a Rom yet but most likely anything aosp as I prefer to play with aosp source. My goal is to port my kernel for the lgog to the one.
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I'm using cm10.2 and I love it. I get around 34-40 hours out of a charge with decent usage, 3.5-4 hours of screen time.
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xartic12 said:
I'm using cm10.2 and I love it. I get around 34-40 hours out of a charge with decent usage, 3.5-4 hours of screen time.
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I'm still trying to figure out how roms n kernels work on a HTC device. I've never had an HTC device. I'm unlocked, rooted, s-off, newest twrp, hboot 1.44. I'm still on stock 4.1.2. Before taking the jump to aosp do I need to do anything?
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MysteryEmotionz said:
I'm still trying to figure out how roms n kernels work on a HTC device. I've never had an HTC device. I'm unlocked, rooted, s-off, newest twrp, hboot 1.44. I'm still on stock 4.1.2. Before taking the jump to aosp do I need to do anything?
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You said you were a dev. Lol
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MysteryEmotionz said:
I'm still trying to figure out how roms n kernels work on a HTC device. I've never had an HTC device. I'm unlocked, rooted, s-off, newest twrp, hboot 1.44. I'm still on stock 4.1.2. Before taking the jump to aosp do I need to do anything?
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Hahaha.
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xcrazydx said:
You said you were a dev. Lol
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For LG and Samsung. I've never worked on a HTC device. HTC is it's own beast. My first android device was the HTC evo on Sprint . That was my only HTC device. I've ever owned. I remember then certain it needed certain hboots n radio's. For certain roms. especially when it came to aosp. With Samsung and LG all you have to do is unlock the bootloader and have a recovery.
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For LG and Samsung. I've never worked on a HTC device. HTC is it's own beast. My first android device was the HTC evo on Sprint . That was my only HTC device. I've ever owned. I remember then certain it needed certain hboots n radio's. For certain roms. especially when it came to aosp. With Samsung and LG all you have to do is unlock the bootloader and have a recovery.
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Yeah, I'm very familiar with Samsung. Just read through the guides and do a little googling. This is also my first HTC device. It's not too difficult to figure out.
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Yeah, I'm very familiar with Samsung. Just read through the guides and do a little googling. This is also my first HTC device. It's not too difficult to figure out.
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No it's not. Like I said I'm already rooted, bootloader unlocked and s-off. I had some people recommend supercid so I'm currently looking into that. Idk if anything else Is required for pa 3.99. I'm hoping I have some time this weekend to start on a kernel. Allot of the changes I made to the kernel for the lgog are universal for the s4 snapdragon cpu. I can't wait to see how the m7 reacts to this changes
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Welcome. This is probably the coolest phone I've ever owned. Cm 10.2 is where the fun is...
I got my phone today. loving it.. I want to use stock, before i jump on rooting.
What is the latest Android version on this? right now its showing 4.1.2.
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I got my phone today. loving it.. I want to use stock, before i jump on rooting.
What is the latest Android version on this? right now its showing 4.1.2.
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If you're going to be keeping it stock then that's the latest version.
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If you're going to be keeping it stock then that's the latest version.
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Thanks for prompt response. I will use stock for 1 or 2 weeks, then I will goback to my flashing spree..
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Thanks for prompt response. I will use stock for 1 or 2 weeks, then I will goback to my flashing spree..
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If I were you I'd wait until the 4.3 ota hits. Based on all the near final leaks recently, I'd say it very well could be only 1 or 2 weeks away.
That's what I'm doing anyway, that way ill have updated firmware without needing to s-off, but then again s-off might not be possible for a while on the new hboot.
So maybe don't wait if you want s-off right away haha.
beamed from space.
Glad to see you here, ME. I loved your kernel, and stock based rom, over on the LGOG. Can't wait to see your work on the HTC One!
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