Captivate: detailed descriptions - Captivate Android Development

Hi guys,
Excuse my ignorance but I would like to know how exactly this phone works. For example I know that there are few parts that compose the full OS of the phone. There is a kernel, there is a CSC and there are some other parts which compose the phone's functionality.
I don't know if I made myself understood but if I did and you know about a thread or something I would be glad to read it all. I just need the directions as at this moment I have no idea how to search for it, I don't know what words to use.
Thanks a lot and, again, excuse me if I created a double post.
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You might be better off asking this in the Q&A thread, this is development and your not likely to get a response.

I think this might be what you are looking for:
http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html

Perfect!
Thanks a lot guys.
Now all is clear

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[Q] Interested in Learning to Dev

I'm very interested in Learning how to Dev. ROMs for my Samsung Epic. This is all new to me but i catch on quick. Where do i start? Ive already been researching and learning Java and C Programming. But where do i start? Is there some king of kitchen already setup with links for me to download what i need? Any help would be awesome.
Thanks in Advance
This are the links I'm using to learn how to do so.. Hope they help.
ROM Cooking:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697938
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551711
Compiling AOSP:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704561
General:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667298
Also this forum is the place to go to for (android) ROM developing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=613
Use the search button! You will be amazed at the plethora of info that will pop up on XDA and the internet! This question should be in general also. You are not developing anything. This is just a general question!
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STFU with search button bull****!
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sleepy8594 said:
STFU with search button bull****!
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STFU with telling people to STFU. Also no one needs to know what device you sent your post from.
GG
LOL............
tyl3rdurden said:
This are the links I'm using to learn how to do so.. Hope they help.
ROM Cooking:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697938
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551711
Compiling AOSP:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704561
General:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667298
Also this forum is the place to go to for (android) ROM developing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=613
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Thank you! I've been wondering the same thing. I've searched XDA, but it turned out I was looking in the wrong places. God this site's changed since the Kaiser days.
No problem. Glad I could help Looking forward to your potential ROM.

Fascinate Beginner's Guide / FAQ

Hello everyone. I haven't been able to maintain this beginners' guide, but I highly recommend the following two threads:
Droidstyle's guide has anything and everything you need to get rooted:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
User jawman27 has put together a glossary to help new users understand rooting terminology:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513143
Enjoy.
Nice job!!
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Great writeup I wish there was something like this around back when I was a noob. I like how you explained what everything meant... Good job man...
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Thanks for this. I've been debating whether or not I should root my Fascinate and this just may give me the confidence to give it a try!
Nice job!
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Methinks this deserves a sticky
It's Well worth it jiggaman it gets addicting, im sure hooked on this phone haha
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Will this work for the Samsung mesmerise from us cellular?
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/ta/ said:
Will this work for the Samsung mesmerise from us cellular?
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No, this is strictly for the Fascinate, I don't really know the specifics but the mesmerize is different, I think theres a separate forum for that phone.
Great job Bawb3. I wish there was also something like this for stock app preferred replacements/alternatives all grouped together. For example, Dolphin instead of the default browser, debinged browser, replacement SMS clients, and 'must-have' apps for post rooting. Something like that, maybe to go hand in hand with this guide, to get newbies started. I would do it myself but I'm still a newbie. Wishful thinking, but mainly I just wanted to say thanks!
eeshuz said:
Great job Bawb3. I wish there was also something like this for stock app preferred replacements/alternatives all grouped together. For example, Dolphin instead of the default browser, debinged browser, replacement SMS clients, and 'must-have' apps for post rooting. Something like that, maybe to go hand in hand with this guide, to get newbies started. I would do it myself but I'm still a newbie. Wishful thinking, but mainly I just wanted to say thanks!
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Maybe thats something I could put together in the future, for now I'm just trying to help the new people, and maybe reduce the clutter of simple question threads that this guide could help weed out.
P.s. thanks for all the compliments everyone!
Great
Great guide, it took me about two days of digging to understand all of this and you put it in one nice package.
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Great guide, it took me about two days of digging to understand all of this and you put it in one nice package.
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Thanks
Yeah, kinda why I tried to put everything together in one guide. It's hard to cover everything, but theres plenty of other guides for different things floating around.
Thank you for this beginner's guide. I'm new to flashing and rooting but following your instructions and links, I now have a sweet android phone I can call my own.
Running JT super-clean and Stupid Fast overclocked with upgraded DJ05
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losdonoso said:
Thank you for this beginner's guide. I'm new to flashing and rooting but following your instructions and links, I now have a sweet android phone I can call my own.
Running JT super-clean and Stupid Fast overclocked with upgraded DJ05
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Glad I could help!
I'll try and keep this updated when we make progress with asop and gingerbread as well.
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Thank you SO much! I think this has been one of THE BEST guides I have seen thus far.. It explains pretty much EVERY in great common language. Now if only I can get past my current roadblock so I can actually continue through all of these steps :/ but when I do, I'm coming back to this thread for reference!
Thank you!
This guide is great! Thank you, it sure helped me to have a better understanding of root, roms, and kernel's.
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Thank you.
One suggestion, maybe host the root file on your post or offer up a mirror link. Registering for another forum is no biggie, but I'd rather not since I'm more comfortable here on XDA.
AdoptedDeV said:
Thank you.
One suggestion, maybe host the root file on your post or offer up a mirror link. Registering for another forum is no biggie, but I'd rather not since I'm more comfortable here on XDA.
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Good idea, I had forgotten that you had to register there. I'll get to it when I can, been slightly busy, thanks!
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Someone answer [email protected]!

What can you do with a ROOTED sph-100? SPRINT Galaxy Tab
Whatever you want! My key root moves were to get rid of Sprint activation nagging and bloatware, and to use Titanium Backup effectively.
Install gtalk 1.3 apk with video (See themes and app folder.)
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get some p!ss!es with me home lol
you definitely dont know what "roots" mean
read some thing and you'll know by yourself
Kosh! Why is it you always have to be Mr pretentious? You are starting to work on everyone's nerves.
This forum is to help each other, not to look down on newbies.
Come on guys,,just click the link below and you will understand what kosh trying to say,,
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?deskto...e.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA&v=JmvCpR45LKA&gl=US
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smaragdhk said:
Kosh! Why is it you always have to be Mr pretentious? You are starting to work on everyone's nerves.
This forum is to help each other, not to look down on newbies.
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i don't mean anything to the OP to take it by the opposite way
all i said is : how in earth he doesn't know root means ? if he doesn't know means he shouldn't go for it right
he must read and read and do some more read and then he'll know the answer by himself .... or at least search , because this question answered for many many times ago
cheers bud , no hard feelings keep it up
naimmkassim said:
Come on guys,,just click the link below and you will understand what kosh trying to say,,
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?deskto...e.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA&v=JmvCpR45LKA&gl=US
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i believe you meant this
nope i didn't
btw i'm going to pm u now
Before rooting I suggest reading..............
FAR more important........
Also, thread titles like this will not lead to getting a good response from the community.
DO NOT make demands.
Please use titles descriptive of your problem and use the Q&A section for questions.

How Do I get ICS on My Mytouch 4g?

Well I Just rooted my mytouch 4g and i was wondering how do i get the best Ice cream sandwich install on my phone
There's only one rom and its the one in the dev section. Flash it and read before posting. Also, if you ask about the camera I may have to kill you.
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I wouldn't recommend an ics rom yet unless you have no need for a camera our video camera. I don't believe flash is working right either. I may be wrong about that though. I would suggest unity, Cm7, our miui for rooms to try out until a solid release of ics is available.
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Ok Whats a good complete fast rom and is there a tut on how to flash one
nyamd20 said:
Ok Whats a good complete fast rom and is there a tut on how to flash one
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... use the search button??
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nyamd20 said:
Ok Whats a good complete fast rom and is there a tut on how to flash one
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How did you manage to get root, but don't know how to flash a rom?...its stickied in the development thread somewhere
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I suggested roms in the post I have you. YouTube how to flash a rom.
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You're all wrong.
Its in aisle 5,next to the neopolitan.
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Wow, no wonder everyone is leaving this forum. You people are rude, obnoxious and bitter. Where would you all be if no one helped you?
Actually,the response weren't bad.
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4Orr said:
Wow, no wonder everyone is leaving this forum. You people are rude, obnoxious and bitter. Where would you all be if no one helped you?
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I believe most of those who are now answering questions, actually could read and search and weren't lazy enough to skip those parts.
And "everyone is leaving this forum" is a bland, non-backed-up-by-anything, and most probably wrong assumption.
4Orr said:
Wow, no wonder everyone is leaving this forum. You people are rude, obnoxious and bitter. Where would you all be if no one helped you?
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Hey go visit the Desire HD to forums, or the Samsung Galaxy S forums.
We are NICE compared to them... trust me, i know.
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Above the butter pecan
sunlaw2 said:
You're all wrong.
Its in aisle 5,next to the neopolitan.
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alot of people just like getting spoon fed.
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This forum is a resource, not a help line..you don't call up the folks at wikipedia and go "quick, i have a report due, tell me what happened in ww2!"
They did the research to help narrow your information search to a single forum, the last you can do is understand that unless you are developing new applications or roms or working on a brand new device that your question has already been asked and the onus is on you to actually read the encyclopedia and to write your own report..no one is going to write your report for you, especially not the editors of the encyclopedia..it is gracious that some of these questions even get replies, even if they are flaming you for asking without searching..imo fwiw
luna_c666 said:
This forum is a resource, not a help line..you don't call up the folks at wikipedia and go "quick, i have a report due, tell me what happened in ww2!"
They did the research to help narrow your information search to a single forum, the last you can do is understand that unless you are developing new applications or roms or working on a brand new device that your question has already been asked and the onus is on you to actually read the encyclopedia and to write your own report..no one is going to write your report for you, especially not the editors of the encyclopedia..it is gracious that some of these questions even get replies, even if they are flaming you for asking without searching..imo fwiw
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SPOKEN!
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
........Death before dishonor........
Well, all of you guys are right, but...This is also the Q&A section. Just sayin...Lol
luna_c666 said:
This forum is a resource, not a help line..you don't call up the folks at wikipedia and go "quick, i have a report due, tell me what happened in ww2!"
They did the research to help narrow your information search to a single forum, the last you can do is understand that unless you are developing new applications or roms or working on a brand new device that your question has already been asked and the onus is on you to actually read the encyclopedia and to write your own report..no one is going to write your report for you, especially not the editors of the encyclopedia..it is gracious that some of these questions even get replies, even if they are flaming you for asking without searching..imo fwiw
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Amen.
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
Well, all of you guys are right, but...This is also the Q&A section. Just sayin...Lol
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Yes, but not for the same questions to be posted and answered over aand over. Cluttering the forum. That's what the search functions is there for. For when you have already exhausted all your search resources and found nothing, then you ask for help.
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coupetastic-droid said:
Yes, but not for the same questions to be posted and answered over aand over. Cluttering the forum. That's what the search functions is there for. For when you have already exhausted all your search resources and found nothing, then you ask for help.
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At least SAY 'I've looked everywhere! Can you point me to an answer for...' Even if you haven't looked, at least pretend to know how to use a search bar..these things have been around for over a decade lmao you might get help for a dumb question and not get flamed if you at least lie and say you searched
Also, no one likes dumb people or dumb questions, it isn't a trait unique to developers on xda, even though I've encountered my share of smart asses, the fount of knowledge here far exceeds any petty squabble i might get into..if something like that makes you leave the site then it's more your loss than xda's, you are really only useful to the community if you can debug or develop, they are doing us a favor by letting us muggles into their world of fairy dust and unicorns lmao

Got MK2 rooted using VRoot... However..

Phone root is perfect. Removed Chinese superuser . Now, is there a recovery that I can use to flash a custom ROM? I tried flashing CWM and TWRP, but the phone still boots to stock recovery...Is there even a ROM that will work with this damn MK2 firmware?
Rickala said:
Phone root is perfect. Removed Chinese superuser . Now, is there a recovery that I can use to flash a custom ROM? I tried flashing CWM and TWRP, but the phone still boots to stock recovery...Is there even a ROM that will work with this damn MK2 firmware?
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I dont know if the method of MF3 works. I could not flash custom roms by that recovery except some TW roms when I used MF3.
Rickala said:
Phone root is perfect. Removed Chinese superuser . Now, is there a recovery that I can use to flash a custom ROM? I tried flashing CWM and TWRP, but the phone still boots to stock recovery...Is there even a ROM that will work with this damn MK2 firmware?
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no.
Why is it that people don't do some reading? There is plenty of information about this in the forum already. I wish they would ban people for not following the rules and at least minimally trying to find things out. Did you even read the rules before you signed up?
Scott - give it a rest.
All of your comments are the same..... "look it up"
This site is NOT the easiest to locate information on. Finding information here is references to references to pages that at 128 pages deep with a blurb to look at another thread.
"Yeah but thats my point, if people read and did not ask questions because the answers are already..."... well its a little too late unless XDA has some users with AUTHORING capabilities to clean up the forums.
To Rickala..... I dont believe a custom rom is available at this moment, but I would keep an eye on the development section of this forum. Get Titanium Backup and freeze all of the ATT stuff, the stock rom isnt that bad
Good luck buddy
atari800 said:
Scott - give it a rest.
All of your comments are the same..... "look it up"
This site is NOT the easiest to locate information on. Finding information here is references to references to pages that at 128 pages deep with a blurb to look at another thread.
"Yeah but thats my point, if people read and did not ask questions because the answers are already..."... well its a little too late unless XDA has some users with AUTHORING capabilities to clean up the forums.
To Rickala..... I dont believe a custom rom is available at this moment, but I would keep an eye on the development section of this forum. Get Titanium Backup and freeze all of the ATT stuff, the stock rom isnt that bad
Good luck buddy
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Stop being part of the problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=263
scott14719 said:
Stop being part of the problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=263
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You can tell that our friend Scott here is very unhappy with is life.. Why else would he have a problem with helping others? Smdh. lol
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troybklyn said:
You can tell that our friend Scott here is very unhappy with is life.. Why else would he have a problem with helping others? Smdh. lol
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Find a "social network" site for you comments.
For "you" comments??? Oh, ok.. That explains it! lol. You're the one who needs help and is not gettin' it. I feel your pain ??
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troybklyn said:
You can tell that our friend Scott here is very unhappy with is life.. Why else would he have a problem with helping others? Smdh. lol
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Dude why are you trying to talk on Scott about a typo? You got freaking typos yourself. With “is" life? Come on seriously guy? Give it a rest! He's enforcing xda rules. So don't talk about peoples grammer or misspelled words when you can't even do it yourself. so stfu!
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Dude why are you trying to talk on Scott about a typo? You got freaking typos yourself. With “is" life? Come on seriously guy? Give it a rest! He's enforcing xda rules. So don't talk about peoples grammer or misspelled words when you can't even do it yourself. so stfu!
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Oh, ok. So Scott has fans too, huh. lol.
At any rate, there's a difference with "Enforcing XDA's rules" and being outright nasty and rude about it! But of course you wouldn't know anything about that cause you're just as miserable as your "girlfriend" Scott ? Go fetch a life dude! Oh, and please make sure it's a happy one this time! ????
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Questions and Help issues go in Q&A and Help section
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Posting questions without searching
I am not siding with (or against) anyone here, but to be 100% fair, the search function here is seriously lacking at times.
Example: In the Accessories section, a few days ago I was looking at a page of threads including one whose title was "Spigen Slim Armor View."
When I searched, from that page, for the word "Spigen," it returned a nothing found result.
OK, it NOW works correctly, but for a while there it absolutely did not.
Of course on the other hand, how can you miss it when a half dozen threads on the page clearly reflect terms related to what your question is about?
The bottom line is, people are generally lazy and will post things like "I'm new here so don't flame me, but I don't have time to read through hundreds of posts to find the answer, so I will just ask you all a really basic question that has been asked dozens of times."
nunjabusiness said:
I am not siding with (or against) anyone here, but to be 100% fair, the search function here is seriously lacking at times.
Example: In the Accessories section, a few days ago I was looking at a page of threads including one whose title was "Spigen Slim Armor View."
When I searched, from that page, for the word "Spigen," it returned a nothing found result.
OK, it NOW works correctly, but for a while there it absolutely did not.
Of course on the other hand, how can you miss it...
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@nunjabusiness
I've found a Google search with the site: parameter is a good alternative.
ie: "Spigen Slim Armor View site:forum.XDAdevelopers.com"
It doesn't help with bad Grammer, spelling, punctuation or attitude, but it does return better results than the native search.
Give it a go.
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scott14719 said:
Stop being part of the problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=263
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Scott -
Did you read the rules?
Lets analyze this:
Why is it that people don't do some reading? There is plenty of information about this in the forum already. I wish they would ban people for not following the rules and at least minimally trying to find things out. Did you even read the rules before you signed up?
1. Search before posting.
.... If the OP found this forum, he must have done some type of searching, no? I mean if no search was performed he would had asked same question in the Droid Bionic forum
2. Member conduct.
2.1 Language: XDA is a worldwide community. As a result, what may be OK to say in your part of the world, may not be OK elsewhere. Please consider who is reading what you write and don't use profanity, sexually explicit language, rudeness or swearing. Conversely, while reading posts from other members, remember that the word you find offensive may not be offensive to the writer. Tolerance is a two-way street.
...I would think the majority of people would consider "I wish they would ban people for not following the rules and at least minimally trying to find things out" rude
10. Help others if you can.
If you see posts from others where you can help out, please do so. This place exists because people are helping each other, and even if you are relatively new to the matter, there's probably quite a few people with less experience than you, who could benefit from what you've learned. Don't be shy.
...I cannot spot 1 single item in your paragraph that even touches item #10
Rickala - let us know how your search turns out, good luck
Take care everybody
Dont really care about scott or any stupid commets posted..here is my thing pretaining to the OP. If rooted MK2 send links with screenshots validating that you have aquired root..othwrwise tjis post needs to be deleted Ill have to inform XDA
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r1tesh said:
Dont really care about scott or any stupid commets posted..here is my thing pretaining to the OP. If rooted MK2 send links with screenshots validating that you have aquired root..othwrwise tjis post needs to be deleted Ill have to inform XDA
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Stop trolling. Your reply is useless and added nothing to the discussion (as have a couple of the others in this thread). It has already been widely reported that MK2 is root-able by both the V-root method and SuperSU survival modes. So there is no need for the OP to make screenshots.
Not trolling at actually. But isnt tje point of XDA to provide resources when making a statement root is available, steps one takes to get root so others can have it. Right? You should have camr back with a better response rather than saying root is available since you sre keen on providing links to "Rules"... to sum up soome posy credible resources gaining root.. YA???m that woukd be the humane approach....YA?
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Here let me start playing the game of posting stuff that is dewmed illegal by xda...this vroot mwthod ia illegal... here is a bunch of stuff on vroot...GARBAGE..YAWN.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2530613
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I think you should close this thread its useless and too much flaming. Enough said just close it.
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r1tesh said:
Not trolling at actually. But isnt tje point of XDA to provide resources when making a statement root is available, steps one takes to get root so others can have it. Right? You should have camr back with a better response rather than saying root is available since you sre keen on providing links to "Rules"... to sum up soome posy credible resources gaining root.. YA???m that woukd be the humane approach....YA?
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Here let me start playing the game of posting stuff that is dewmed illegal by xda...this vroot mwthod ia illegal... here is a bunch of stuff on vroot...GARBAGE..YAWN.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2530613
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Vroot or Kingo was NOT declared illegal by XDA. Warnings were posted that it seems to collect information during the rooting process deemed unneeded for rooting so we do not allow direct links at this time. Use at your own risk and discussion is allowed.
Now as there is no more useful content being added to this thread other than bickering
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