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I was watching a YouTube vid and someone said that you do not need to root the Magic in order to put the Hero Rom on the phone.
I just got my unlocked (AT&T) Rogers Magic and I was wondering if this is indeed correct?
I wonder that to, please someone give us an answer
foxman01 said:
I wonder that to, please someone give us an answer
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It is my understanding that it is the rom that is rooted. Not the device.
So if you flash a Hero rom that has been rooted then you will have root. If you flash a rom (such as the original you should have backed up will nandroid) that hasn't been rooted then you will not have root.
Hope that helps
P.s some one correct me if I am wrong, that is how it has worked for me.
A better question would be why wouldn't you want to root? No, really. If your going through the trouble of flashing why not root? If you don't you can't get paid apps on the Rogers Magic, not sure on other brands but the Rogers phone does not allow paid apps stock. I had to root and install market enabler to buy apps. It just makes sense if our going that far anyway.
Clinton
ClintonH said:
A better question would be why wouldn't you want to root? No, really. If your going through the trouble of flashing why not root? If you don't you can't get paid apps on the Rogers Magic, not sure on other brands but the Rogers phone does not allow paid apps stock. I had to root and install market enabler to buy apps. It just makes sense if our going that far anyway.
Clinton
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Good point. I went ahead and attempted to root, but at the point where I'm at fastboot mode and "fastboot boot recovery.img" instead of just saying "downloading" it just says "waiting for device". Any thoughts about what that means? The update.zip is on my sd card and the image is in my tools directory.
Are you sure your usb drivers installed properly? What OS are you running? If it's XP some people have had trouble getting the drivers to play nice, I didn't have any problems but some have. Here's the guide I used, about as easy as it gets. Just make sure the first steps work before moving on is about all i can say I'm brand new to this as well. Hope that helps you some.
Clinton
ClintonH said:
Are you sure your usb drivers installed properly? What OS are you running? If it's XP some people have had trouble getting the drivers to play nice, I didn't have any problems but some have. Here's the guide I used, about as easy as it gets. Just make sure the first steps work before moving on is about all i can say I'm brand new to this as well. Hope that helps you some.
Clinton
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Thanks, it turned out to be the missing drivers. Got it all sorted out. Hero 1.4 is awesome!
Newb question
Hi.
I'm winmo user. Planning to buy HTC Magic next week. So i'm now advance reading topics about Android, HTC Magic in particular.
My questions are, 1) what is ROOT? and 2) how to install apps? I've seen files with .apk extension.
Thanks in advance.
second_east said:
Hi.
I'm winmo user. Planning to buy HTC Magic next week. So i'm now advance reading topics about Android, HTC Magic in particular.
My questions are, 1) what is ROOT? and 2) how to install apps? I've seen files with .apk extension.
Thanks in advance.
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Rooting is pretty much the equivalent of "jailbreaking" an ipod touch. It alows you to gain access that wouldn't otherwise be available from the vanilla google os. (ie tethering, running and storing apps from sd card, moving various caches from the browser and other apps to the sd to save space...etc)
What do you mean about installing apps? There is an app store the "android market" where you can search from many apps and just seamlessly install them to your phone (or sd card if you root).
hi, does anyone know how to install the better keyboard (htc-ime) on a rogers branded, non-rooted htc magic? i have read the other thread in this forum that discusses installing the keyboard on the t-mo mytouch3g but it will not work on my rogers version. any help would be appreciated.
hondaguy said:
hi, does anyone know how to install the better keyboard (htc-ime) on a rogers branded, non-rooted htc magic? i have read the other thread in this forum that discusses installing the keyboard on the t-mo mytouch3g but it will not work on my rogers version. any help would be appreciated.
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So you tried to install with Linda file manager as well as Appsmanager and it failed? Why not just root and install would be easy? You can always go back if you do a nandroid backup.
Clinton
Yes, I tried both apps and followed the steps carefully.
The reason I have not rooted yet is because I know from past experience that once you flash the rom you are constantly looking for a better rom, lol! I do want to flash to the hero rom, though
LOL. Tell me about it And yes, I also have a Rogers branded non-rooted phone. I think I'm done playing with the original android, but I'm scared to root just for the same addiction reasons . Ah well. Here's to dedicating hours of wasted time...
P.S. Does rooting open up the paid apps market? And how does the market work? Is it a pre-registered card/google checkout? Or is it a cost thats supposed to get added to your bill? In which case it wouldn't work on Rogers anyways.
Once rooted you install market enabler and you have access to everything in the market. Paid apps are through cc not in your mothly bill.
Clinton
HTC IME Keyboard on the HTC Magic (Rogers)
So, did anyone find out how to install the HTC IME keyboard on the Rogers branded HTC Magic (without rooting the phone!)?
JackTheMan18 said:
So, did anyone find out how to install the HTC IME keyboard on the Rogers branded HTC Magic (without rooting the phone!)?
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Not sure if anyone has had any luck. But if your looking for a really good VKB you should try this one out.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-menny-android-anysoftkeyboard-zzx.aspx
Clinton
Hello I would like to buy this phone because it looks pretty.
I was doing some research and found that att blocked custom apps, so I wonder is there a way around this? I have never had a droid only Windows Mobile. Would I be able to upgrade to 2.2 and newer ones in the future?
That is all, thank you all and have a nice day.
you can root your phone then do i side loader mode to use all the apps u want
TheChemist187 said:
Hello I would like to buy this phone because it looks pretty.
I was doing some research and found that att blocked custom apps, so I wonder is there a way around this? I have never had a droid only Windows Mobile. Would I be able to upgrade to 2.2 and newer ones in the future?
That is all, thank you all and have a nice day.
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You don't need to do anything special to sideload apps. Just download the android sdk from developer.android.com and use the 'adb' tool to install the programs with the 'adb install <filename>' command. The new version of HTC Sync also lets you install 3rd party non-market apps with a nice graphical interface.
The Aria will get an official 2.2 update in the future. If you don't want to wait for it, you can root the phone, then flash the custom 2.2 rom that's floating around. I have not checked on the progress of it recently, but to my knowledge, it isn't fully functional yet (wifi not work properly).
Alright guys thanks for your help. I just ordered it of Amazon for 50.00 bucks.
Hi,
i got some problem. I accidentally installed the Chinese Froyo on my Wildfire. The problem now is: i got only the HTC Marketplace, not the Android marketplace. How do i gett access to Android Marketplace?
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Erunestaron
if you pray at nights when it is full moon, in the morning you will see android market installed.
a simple no would be nice... i just thought there exists a way to install it manually
Root?
Erunestaron said:
Hi,
i got some problem. I accidentally installed the Chinese Froyo on my Wildfire. The problem now is: i got only the HTC Marketplace, not the Android marketplace. How do i gett access to Android Marketplace?
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Erunestaron
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Erunestaron, do you have root? If so, you should be able to do this easily by just installing the google apps via recovery. I'm not sure if they're the same across all models, but if they are, and you can't find them, let me know, I have the froyo ones for the incredible.
You should be able to install gapps from the recovery. Don't know where or even if they exist for that ROM, check out the site where you got the ROM and look around for gapps or something
Hello, I'm a noob here as you can tell. xD
I've been trying to root my phone in order to install the app2sd and other 3rd party apps and root apps
.apk but since att phones can't install 3rd party apps, I can't manage to install the Androot app.
How can i bypass this?
Is there a simple way?
hey! i was in your spot not too long ago (about being a n00b.)
the easiest thing you can do is:
1) go to the android central sideload wonder machine. (google it)
2) install universal androot.apk (again, google is your best friend! )
3) Follow the steps. Install with superusser!
If you need more help, PM me.
Remember, if i helped you, PLEASE click thanks.
SWM doesn't seem to work
it doesnt detect my phone!
My PC either when I plug the phone in, even when I installed recent drivers from the MOTO website.
What am I able to todo?
UPDATE**
Found the problem, the USB cable I was using was chage only
didn't transfer data >_<
Haha, are we good now?
rockstarar said:
hey! i was in your spot not too long ago (about being a n00b.)
the easiest thing you can do is:
1) go to the android central sideload wonder machine. (google it)
2) install universal androot.apk (again, google is your best friend! )
3) Follow the steps. Install with superusser!
If you need more help, PM me.
Remember, if i helped you, PLEASE click thanks.
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Thanks for this resource!
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No problem
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
I rooted the flipout using the file from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14253085&postcount=2
which is this attachment:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=489694&d=1295035181
I believe it's an older version of SuperOneClick that works OK with android 2.1 that flipout has
I had problems using SuperOneClick, so I did it using an older version of UniversalAndroot which I used for my other phone. You download it straight to your phone by accessing this link tinyurl.com/urooted.
how do you UNroot a device?
I though that by restoring to factory defaults the root would be gone but i was wrong!
can any one help me in rooting motorola CHARM
can we root motorola charm using super one click