I wish we could root this phone. For a phone that only costs $20 new at Family Dollar it runs rather well and looks like a nice phone out of box, and has Android 5. But I've been following threads for a long time and still nobody has figured out why this can't be rooted?
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I am new to personal mobile app development and starting from basics of getting a phone first. I had got a cheap used LG G2 for development, but accidentally broke the screen and repairing it is costly more than the phone, so I am looking for another cheap phone which I can use to test my apps. My app is a sensor based (accelerometer) app, so I would need a device to test it.
Does ZTE Maven work for developing apps? Has anyone used it for testing their apps? I was browsing through this forum last night and I found the phone has some rooting issues.
It's difficult to root and so far no one has come up with a solution yet
tee31 said:
It's difficult to root and so far no one has come up with a solution yet
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Oh ok. I bought it last night for cheap $30 and after coming home I read about the rooting issues on it so didn't open the box. I found a used Nexus 7 tab in a good deal today so will mostly get that for my app development. Thanks!
No problem and that's a good tab you got there... I just got a galaxy six and I'm going to see what I can do with it
So I've had this phone for a while now and I'm fairly happy with it. Other than the fact it acts a bit weird with the college wifi. I'm pretty sure we didn't buy any warranty for it, so whatever it might of had when I got it about a year ago is probably about to expire. Anyway, I'm knew to the rooting scene and I would like to know if it would be worth it for me personally to root my phone. It is a Samsung Galaxy S4 from Verizon, it says the model number is SCH-I545 and is running on version 5.0.1. At first I kind of just wanted to root the phone just to play modded games on it, stuff without leaderboards mostly. But then I saw somewhere that you could extend the battery life with a different kernel or something, and that is definitely something I could use. So... any words of advice or suggestions for me? I appreciate it.
I would say rooting is worth it especially on an older phone. Rooting is really just getting access to the root directory of the phone. If you want to run custom firmware I recommend this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3132555
Our s4 has a locked bootloader so our options are a little limited but I like this devs work. Remember to do a lot of reading first and welcome to the community!
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So I've had this phone for a while now and I'm fairly happy with it. Other than the fact it acts a bit weird with the college wifi. I'm pretty sure we didn't buy any warranty for it, so whatever it might of had when I got it about a year ago is probably about to expire. Anyway, I'm knew to the rooting scene and I would like to know if it would be worth it for me personally to root my phone. It is a Samsung Galaxy S4 from Verizon, it says the model number is SCH-I545 and is running on version 5.0.1. At first I kind of just wanted to root the phone just to play modded games on it, stuff without leaderboards mostly. But then I saw somewhere that you could extend the battery life with a different kernel or something, and that is definitely something I could use. So... any words of advice or suggestions for me? I appreciate it.
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I'm new as well to rooting... although in the PC world, I've always been an admin. I think that the biggest reason to root is to have control of what you've bought! Deleting the apps you don't want, and getting the updates. I understand that via rooting you can overclock your CPU (which for gaming would probably be a good thing).
I haven't had great luck in a successful root for my Verizon S4 but I'll keep trying. So much of a different 'language' of what you're doing over a PC world. Just takes time.
Best of luck!
Hi all,
I'm new here and as green as it gets with all forms of computing.
I recently used "One Click Root" (which turned out to be 5000 clicks, customer support and a bit of money) to root my Galaxy S6 and got them to install LineageOS on it as well, and I really like it.
My motivation was that I am old and grumpy, and hated Google pestering/prompting me continuously on a device I paid for outright. I strongly dislike their tactics, and preferred to go this way and update my now unsupported device, rather than buy a new one and have them all over me possibly even more.
I then went on to find that rooting (which has an unfortunate double meaning in my native Australian slang) is quite the hobby, and I'm interested in having a dabble just for the hell of it. So I have bought a clean second hand Nexus 5X, which is supposedly the "noob friendly" place to start.
It's not like I haven't studied every post and article, and I've tried a couple of packages, but have gone almost nowhere with it. I've managed to get the bootloader unlocked via the Nexus Root Toolkit, and it seems I've got TWRP on there as well, but an older version. I don't know if it's rooted, but the NRT root phase seemed to fail each time, so probably not.
I am hoping some kind soul would take me under their wing and really walk me through this in absolute basics of computing, let alone rooting. I would very much appreciate it, as I'm very interested in learning this/something new.
It may well test your patience... To put it into perspective, I've only just learned how to open a command window etc. I'm not joking about step by step, I'll need to be told were to put drivers when I download them, the lot. There is a possibility I'm too computer illiterate for this forum, but if someone will try to help me through I'll pay attention and be patient.
I would just like to root the phone, and install LineageOS. On my S6 I have used FDroid/Yalp to install the few apps I use.
Thank you in advance for anyone who would like to help me out.
Didn't feel a lot of love there, but I guess there was call for a collective sigh with another noob asking to be walked with hand held through the process, step by step.
Good news for me is that I actually did it, and my Nexus 5X is now running LineageOS 15.1, with no gapps installed at all.
I did try it with gapps, but the "Big G" just got straight up to their old tricks, demanding I do this and that, so I reinstalled without it. I must say the phone works really slickly with this ROM, and it's just such a cleaner screen. I really like it. I'm also surprised at what a good device the 5X is, considering I'd never heard of one before and thought it was all about Samsung Galaxy's.
I'm 50yo and not a huge apps person, and at this stage I'm only running F-Droid/Yalp, Spotify, AccuBattery, Protonmail and Line. Interestingly they all work without gapps on my S6/LOS 14.1, but Line keeps stopping on my Nexus 5X running LOS 15.1.
I'm feeling all keen now, and am scouting around for a few more cheap devices to play with.
So... Really new here (made my account literally 1 hour ago), even though I've been experimenting with Androids for a few years. And after a few projects I'm kinda out of ideas of what would be a fun project that would utilize a couple of rooted phones, or a rooted tablet! What would you guys suggest? I'm really into Ethical Hacking both on a PC and mobile and what I would really like to see is to take out all of my devices' abilities to exploit security. Any ideas?
Right. I'm sorry to have to post this up but I'm out of options and time.
Before I shell out £500+ on a new premium phone which I normally do every few years I thought I'd try and re use my old phone as I'm now old and hate spending money.
I've replaced some tired parts from my old g5 and it's looking good again.
It's running Android 8.0 which I believe was the last official update for it?
I'd like to get android 10 on it as I'm a big vanilla Google fan and my research led me to lineage18?
Read a few posts, installed ADB/fastboot on my Windows 10 laptop. Got lost, watched some videos, got confused and then frustrated and I'm now at the point where I advertise the phone on eBay and uninstall the stuff on my laptop and just buy a new phone.
The problem is I'm a 40 year old father with 2 babies and **** all time. It takes me ages to get my head round stuff and when I've only got 10 mins before one of them wakes in an evening I'm back to square one and even more pissed off I don't understand it.
Sorry for the sympathy hunting rant, but really would prefer to chuck someone some cash to get this done. The stubbornness in me wants to succeed though. So anyone who wants some £££ speak up. Anyone who can also link up specific instructions would also be appreciated. Remember, I don't understand jargon, abbreviations and I haven't used a pc properly in 5 years and where I was once pretty good at building my own gaming pc I'm now a full time consumer who needs spoon feeding instructions like a toddler (Apple iPhone user) because I'm so impatient.
One video I found which had the most detail in for setting up the install and then putting it on your phone assumed I'd done it before. Which should explain my problem better. I need my hand held, I need to be able to pause and repeat. Don't tell me to "open the command prompt" then move onto the next task because I'll spend 40 minutes googling how to do that. Heck I'd even consider allowing someone to remotely connect to my laptop to do it while I watch.
I hope this post isn't too pathetic, I really like this phone and have had it since it was released, but will understand if it seems too much work.
I really am looking forward to the day my kids are old enough to entertain themselves and I can think straight for more than 5 minutes at a time
Thanks in advance
@theblueflash you don't say which phone exactly you've got.
For H850 you can get unlock codes from LG easily.
I know (and did on three H850) how to unlock the bootloader (kind of BIOS like on PCs).
Without ADB and Fastboot you can't do it so you gotta find someone.
Mine is running now on Android 11.
I attach 2 files which are not up-to-date but describe very good what to do.
There is not more to do exept take a newer TWRP and (if root needed) Magisk instead of SuperSU.
But it will take longer than 5 minutes.