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Hey all, I talked to koush and he said he was ok with me porting his Droid2/X/Pro bootstrap to the motorola bravo.
Basically it will work the same way as on those devices, you load the bootstrap app on the phone, and reboot into recovery. the phone reboots and clockwork mod then loads and you can install .zip's (like the gb keyboard, etc) do nandroids, install rom's etc.
you cant install custom kernels because of the locked bootloaders on these devices, this is the only drawback.
I am going to need some testers and even better if someone could get me the SBF file for this phone that would be so awesome. Its gotta be easy to find, its been out for a while and its an old software 2.1-update1 that i think is the same since release. Please let me know!
if you want to follow my work or help my github is :
https ://git hub.com/bandroidx - put the space back between git and hub i cant post links either
This should work with 2.2 so even if it drops soon, that is a ok. That wont make this project any less important, we need a way to get a custom recovery booted no matter what.
Update 2/19/11 - I hope to have a testable version done by the end of my long weekend (have off monday) will need testers very soon so keep in touch if your serious about testing. Anything I release will be a confirmed working on atleast 1 device (my gf's) build hopefully.
4-20-11: In final development, release imminent.
Ok i am almost ready for testers. You will need android sdk tools w/ adb and your phone must be rooted.
I need to finalize a few things, a sbf would really help, doesnt someone work for at&t and can get this?
Sent you a PM, but I can't tell if it actually was delivered. Please let me know if you got it. I am interested in testing my Bravo, but naturally, have some reservations. Thanks.
i am so limited by this 10 post thing, hopefully i get out of it fast.
i am trying to test it on a bravo emulation i got going in the simulator too, its being problematic but my gf has a real bravo for me to test on
an sbf would be nice, anyone?
i am asking some people for a sbf, maybe i can see about making a system only sbf like they did for the dx, that might work too.
MODERATOR please approve me so i can post in dev forums! argh!
I have talked to some people about an SBF and havent found anything yet. Someone must work for at&t or moto and can get this, all their stores have it probably to reflash phones.
But until then I need someone who is willing to risk bricking their phone because they are sending it back for warranty work. Yes it could void your warranty but I have never heard of this, we bricked a **** ton of droid x's before we had an sbf and had no problems.
Even better would be someone who is sending it to insurance to rpelace it because of a broken screen or something, that would be a great test unit.
So ask around, find someone for me, I should have a working test very soon.
bandroidx said:
I have talked to some people about an SBF and havent found anything yet. Someone must work for at&t or moto and can get this, all their stores have it probably to reflash phones.
But until then I need someone who is willing to risk bricking their phone because they are sending it back for warranty work. Yes it could void your warranty but I have never heard of this, we bricked a **** ton of droid x's before we had an sbf and had no problems.
Even better would be someone who is sending it to insurance to rpelace it because of a broken screen or something, that would be a great test unit.
So ask around, find someone for me, I should have a working test very soon.
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P3Droid seems to be really good at getting his hands on leaked Motorola files. I've asked if he could get a Bravo SBF but was ignored. Since you are actually doing something productive, maybe he would be more apt to respond to you.
bandroidx said:
Ok i am almost ready for testers. You will need android sdk tools w/ adb and your phone must be rooted.
I need to finalize a few things, a sbf would really help, doesnt someone work for at&t and can get this?
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Ok, I am willing and able to aid you in any way I can with my bravo. it is rooted and ready to go. I do work for AT&T but only in sales and customer service, so I don't have hands on access to the .sbf for the phone. But if you know of any means for me to get it or request it, i.e. the rout or channel I should attempt to get it, that would be great. Thanks so much for your effort in this and let me know if there is anything I can do.
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P3Droid seems to be really good at getting his hands on leaked Motorola files. I've asked if he could get a Bravo SBF but was ignored. Since you are actually doing something productive, maybe he would be more apt to respond to you.
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Thanks its a good idea, as I already tried it
He cant get it, he only gets vzw.
his reply "@bandroidx I doubt it, no connects outside of VZW/Moto"
if you want to follow me on twitter i am @bandroidx
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Ok, I am willing and able to aid you in any way I can with my bravo. it is rooted and ready to go. I do work for AT&T but only in sales and customer service, so I don't have hands on access to the .sbf for the phone. But if you know of any means for me to get it or request it, i.e. the rout or channel I should attempt to get it, that would be great. Thanks so much for your effort in this and let me know if there is anything I can do.
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Thanks, I am not sure how At&t is but with verizon they have tech support in the stores so someone can bring a bricked phone in and get it fixed (or replaced) while they wait, etc. Does AT&T work the same way? In that case, you could contact someone at the store and get it with a good story to the tech guys. they usually are underpaid and younger kids at vzw and will easily obey any request from corporate imo. I am fairly sure this how most sbf's get out, unless its from like an inside engineering dept or from the manfucaturer themselves but those are problably more rare.
Thanks a million if you can get this that would be great. Otherwise i think we need to hope for someone with a broken screen ,etc that is getting a replacement. I would not want to brick someones perfectly good phone with no way to recover. It happens, even with the best testing and coding.
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Thanks, I am not sure how At&t is but with verizon they have tech support in the stores so someone can bring a bricked phone in and get it fixed (or replaced) while they wait, etc. Does AT&T work the same way? In that case, you could contact someone at the store and get it with a good story to the tech guys. they usually are underpaid and younger kids at vzw and will easily obey any request from corporate imo. I am fairly sure this how most sbf's get out, unless its from like an inside engineering dept or from the manfucaturer themselves but those problably more rare.
Thanks a million if you can get this that would be great. Otherwise i think we need to hope for someone with a broken screen ,etc that is getting a replacement. I would not want to brick someones perfectly good phone with no way to recover. It happens, even with the best testing and coding.
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I think I know a way to get it. Now att does warranty exchanges is they send you a new or refurbished device and you send the broken one back to them when you get it. However, there is one store in my state that doubles as a warranty device exchange center. Basically if you don't want to wait on your device in the mail you can get it replaced there. I think that would be the only store that would have the files. I just need to think of a good excuse for them to put it on a flash drive for me or to email it to me. I think they would be more about to do it if they new I worked for att and I had a good enough excuse. I'll let ya know what I can find out.
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I think I know a way to get it. Now att does warranty exchanges is they send you a new or refurbished device and you send the broken one back to them when you get it. However, there is one store in my state that doubles as a warranty device exchange center. Basically if you don't want to wait on your device in the mail you can get it replaced there. I think that would be the only store that would have the files. I just need to think of a good excuse for them to put it on a flash drive for me or to email it to me. I think they would be more about to do it if they new I worked for att and I had a good enough excuse. I'll let ya know what I can find out.
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Awesome let me know, that is def. a good idea. On a phone that has been out for so long and the SBF is for released software so even though they dont let them go out in the wild openly, they are quite available. [mbm] was surprised that its not out yet for a phone released that long.
Some other good news just incase, i talekd to p3droid again and explained what i was doing in better detail and he is going to try to find this for us. He said he will shake the tree and see what falls out or something to that effect. But its at&t and not vzw, so def. still try to get it if you can without getting fired!
Just never admit you want it to release it or that you released it. I will help you release it to cover you and insulate you further if you want. I will load it up on my french seed box
Ok good news people, I have made great progress on this and hope to have a testable copy ready as soon as this weekend! If i can spend enough time to work out a few things then I could have it ready to test sunday or monday. I am working out ways to test it as safely as possible.
Tenfar who ported CWM to the Defy is helping me on the project, we have found the phones are more alike on the inside than anything else, so his help has been invaluable and thanks to him this is really looking to be something that will work out.
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Ok good news people, I have made great progress on this and hope to have a testable copy ready as soon as this weekend! If i can spend enough time to work out a few things then I could have it ready to test sunday or monday. I am working out ways to test it as safely as possible.
Tenfar who ported CWM to the Defy is helping me on the project, we have found the phones are more alike on the inside than anything else, so his help has been invaluable and thanks to him this is really looking to be something that will work out.
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If you have a system SBF to test at some point, please let me know. I'll be happy to test it for you.
bandroidx said:
Ok good news people, I have made great progress on this and hope to have a testable copy ready as soon as this weekend! If i can spend enough time to work out a few things then I could have it ready to test sunday or monday. I am working out ways to test it as safely as possible.
Tenfar who ported CWM to the Defy is helping me on the project, we have found the phones are more alike on the inside than anything else, so his help has been invaluable and thanks to him this is really looking to be something that will work out.
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bandroidx, was just checking in to see if you got my PM. I actually sent two because after I sent each one it said I had 0 sent messages. If not I'll shoot ya an email. Thanks.
Yes i got your pm and just replied.
I have a testable apk but it hasnt been tested yet. I am unable test it on the emulator but am working on other ways to test it.
the good news is i built the whole thing with help from the guy who ported CWM to the defy which is very similar and he thinks it looks good.
basically waiting on a sbf or someone with a device going back for replacement that can boot into the os and run an app (broken scren probably would be good)
OK i have the recovery ready to testi it will be first come first serve for testers. I will be back online around 10pm EST monday night to find some testers. send me your gtalk around then if your interedted.
bandroidx
CWM port to Moto Bravo
I too work at At&t and have an able and willing Bravo to put on the line for the sake of testing, if you still need help, I did use the CW for my Aria, so I have a little experience with it. Good luck, and I hope you guys get this thing going. I'm ready to throw Cyanogenmod on this baby!
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I too work at At&t and have an able and willing Bravo to put on the line for the sake of testing, if you still need help, I did use the CW for my Aria, so I have a little experience with it. Good luck, and I hope you guys get this thing going. I'm ready to throw Cyanogenmod on this baby!
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I have a testable copy that is using code confirmed working on the defy so should be good.
If you want to try it, there is some risk of bricking or needing sbf (which we dont have) but it should be recoverable in most scenarios because of the way the hijack works, all you need is a rooted phone.
if someone goes wrong it should go back to normal on next reboot.
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I have a testable copy that is using code confirmed working on the defy so should be good.
If you want to try it, there is some risk of bricking or needing sbf (which we dont have) but it should be recoverable in most scenarios because of the way the hijack works, all you need is a rooted phone.
if someone goes wrong it should go back to normal on next reboot.
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Hi , I have a bricked Moto Bravo, that is boot looping
So...
I'll be happy to test the sbf and report back
got a link for DL ?
downloaded to pc, but didnt install it yet. anyone else got this or know what it is?
Please clairify, where did the update come from and how big is the file? Helper as in the Motorola Help app?
Guessing by the lack of response to this, it must be unicorn like the Droid X fiasco.
Is it gingerbread?
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i turned on my laptop and about 10 minutes after it being on, a box popped up and said it had an update. it was from motorola and it was with the motohelper. size,
i dunno, its an update. as far as time, today, right before my first post.
Unicorn, no.
MotoX fiasco, i have no clue as i dont troll on that forum. guess someone else will get this sometime and enlighten us all. i am not skilled enough to tear this thing down and disect it. Im surely not gonna install it and risk some bloatware and upgrade that cant be undone. time will tell
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i turned on my laptop and about 10 minutes after it being on, a box popped up and said it had an update. it was from motorola and it was with the motohelper. size,
i dunno, its an update. as far as time, today, right before my first post.
Unicorn, no.
MotoX fiasco, i have no clue as i dont troll on that forum. guess someone else will get this sometime and enlighten us all. i am not skilled enough to tear this thing down and disect it. Im surely not gonna install it and risk some bloatware and upgrade that cant be undone. time will tell
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Just installed motohelp. No updates pushed to me. What you probably got were driver updates. I suggest looking at what version of motohelp you have prior to installing anything new.
Probably right. I never have used it.
Everyone can stand down! LOL
I just got it. It is nothing but a motohelp update for the desktop motohelp application. I managed to recreate it. I received the popup as well.
Lets close this thread.....
Agreed. Atleast I'm not crazy
Alright so my problem started on Thursday morning when I got the update...got excited and tried to update but like most of us....failed. So I got to work and found out that I needed all the .apks and excited me decided to delete the system apps but never back them up. So I got the system apps from a thread on here....Deleted the duplicate app folder and I started to get a whole mess of FC's. So I said *SH!T* and it went down hill from there...lucky enough this forum was here. Downloaded an update.zip with the EMEA Update...Flashed that and I lost Wifi,So all Up Friday trying to fix this...Did POSSIBLY everything I could DD'd A Bunch of System,Flexrom, and boots.....So I said...F it....Going to Staples to Buy a new since my 14 days are up at BB...WORD OF ADVICE....READ THESE THREADS FIRST .....The Jerk in me wants to return the Non-Wifi Acer to Staples to get my money back but I just don't want anything to come back on me....Hmmmmm
What do you guys think would be the best Idea...Keep the Non-Wifi a500 or go Purchase a New one and Switch-a-roo?
EDIT: Thanks to this Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1101859 I successfully fixed my a500 and I just ordered a New a500 on Best Buy but I was able to cancel it....I'm SOOOO THANKFUL FOR THIS FORUM!!!! Lol
Honestly...when rooting and changing things, we all assume the risks. I personally think it would be wrong to defraud a store due to hacking gone bad.
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Honestly...when rooting and changing things, we all assume the risks. I personally think it would be wrong to defraud a store due to hacking gone bad.
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If we get good support by Acer there is no need to make things like that, but there is no way to get back to stock
btw, BB return iconia to acer, BB will not lost a dollar if you dont want your tablet anymore, because there is a satisfaction guarantee
to set up wifi u need to replace new wifi modules(which came with system.img) to that what u have in your flexrom.img/update.zip
that problem was already been discussed in several threads
As a last resort you could always look to the truth.
If you have decided to be honest and not to defraud them and buy new tab all well and good.
But you have another option.
Be honest! Take it to them and tell them what you done, you never know, I am sure they know this has happened before with returns, and at least you are being straight with them.
They just might respect that and change it for you, after all it is no cost to them and once returned to factory they can put it right again.
Good luck...
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to set up wifi u need to replace new wifi modules(which came with system.img) to that what u have in your flexrom.img/update.zip
that problem was already been discussed in several threads
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Believe me I tried and before I head to the store I'm gonna try again....
I'm using the update.zip from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097224
My thing is...I tried to use the Chinese update like most of us have and I can never get it to Flash it constantly gives me the Android error at Recovery,so if somebody wants to help with that then I would appreciate it.
ryanb0225 said:
Believe me I tried and before I head to the store I'm gonna try again....
I'm using the update.zip from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097224
My thing is...I tried to use the Chinese update like most of us have and I can never get it to Flash it constantly gives me the Android error at Recovery,so if somebody wants to help with that then I would appreciate it.
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My guess is that your Chinese update.zip is corrupted. Try downloading it again. It should be around 349MB and you should be able to unzip it and examine the contents. The extracted folder should be around 465 MB.
Ok I need a link to that Chinese Update I guess becuz I decided against that switch thing, but I tried to load that update from the thread again today but now at the boot up I'm getting a Check-Sum failure...Don't get me wrong the root thing is easy but once I tried to do the whole Terminal thing...It's New to Me...So could somebody give me a Chinese Update link and so some step by step of things I need and to do in order to fix my possibly Bricked a500 I would Greatly appreciate it.....as in help I mean help with the Kernal Modules and img. @_motley can you show me what u did exactly in order to get your device back to Stock...
Giving in again...lol Contacted Acer....sending it in for Repair....Can't exchange at BB since it's over 14 days.
Bring it back to bestbuy I had mine for 30 days they exchanged it with no problem got home an did the update poc
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Bring it back to bestbuy I had mine for 30 days they exchanged it with no problem got home an did the update poc
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....Going to try this today, If it works....I THANK YOU lol
I had the same problem as OP described. Tried every possible way, no dice. Brought to BB for the Geek squad to look it. Long and before, I SH** myself as i am ONE friggin day over the 30 day exchange/replace policy...God dammit...I have to give credit for my local Geek squad as the tech spent a good 30 mins going round calling ppl and checking on all things (XDA and Androidcentral) for remedies. I'd told him I had done EVERYTHING that were listed on the boards and still no dice.
The manager didn't bulged so he wasn't able to swap nothing for me. Got the Acer repair number and address, guess I'll be calling them Tuesday morning for some needed RMA. He had told me there might be EEPROM problem...Personally I don't think so, I think I just screwed up during one of the process.
I have two more days to dig deeper into the interweb to see if I can revive this bad boy...LOL...
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Alright so my problem started on Thursday morning when I got the update...got excited and tried to update but like most of us....failed. So I got to work and found out that I needed all the .apks and excited me decided to delete the system apps but never back them up. So I got the system apps from a thread on here....Deleted the duplicate app folder and I started to get a whole mess of FC's. So I said *SH!T* and it went down hill from there...lucky enough this forum was here. Downloaded an update.zip with the EMEA Update...Flashed that and I lost Wifi,So all Up Friday trying to fix this...Did POSSIBLY everything I could DD'd A Bunch of System,Flexrom, and boots.....So I said...F it....Going to Staples to Buy a new since my 14 days are up at BB...WORD OF ADVICE....READ THESE THREADS FIRST .....The Jerk in me wants to return the Non-Wifi Acer to Staples to get my money back but I just don't want anything to come back on me....Hmmmmm
What do you guys think would be the best Idea...Keep the Non-Wifi a500 or go Purchase a New one and Switch-a-roo?
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Ya. That sounds like fraud. Plus many here took the risks to unload or change software or even root knowing that an update was just around the corner. We all take chances when we root new products. Anyway seems those that rooted had more problems with getting the update than those who took a wait and see approach. That is at least how I am reading it.
I just had the 5 vibe green light bug. Tried battery pull. No dice. I have hboot, so I'm trying a PB31IMG.zip to see if that helps, but if not, I'll see you on the inc2. My upgrade is on 8/19. Crossing fingers.
Yep, it's dead. I did the PB31IMG.zip and same problem. Any advice would be awesome.
I have a crappy flip phone for 20 days. Thanks to incubus26jc, JoelZ9614, newtoroot, wildstang, wdfowty, and the CM team for being the most awesome devs anyone could hope for. My Inc2 will probably be 2.3 already whenever I get it, so I won't have root. Even if it came with 2.2, I wouldn't root it. I'm not gonna let another phone die. Thanks again for an awesome few months. Agalychnis out.
Oh man. I'm sorry to hear your Inc died, bro. The 5 vibe is a nasty sucker. Have fun with your new toy when you get it though.
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AgalychnisCallidryas said:
Yep, it's dead. I did the PB31IMG.zip and same problem. Any advice would be awesome.
I have a crappy flip phone for 20 days. Thanks to incubus26jc, JoelZ9614, newtoroot, wildstang, wdfowty, and the CM team for being the most awesome devs anyone could hope for. My Inc2 will probably be 2.3 already whenever I get it, so I won't have root. Even if it came with 2.2, I wouldn't root it. I'm not gonna let another phone die. Thanks again for an awesome few months. Agalychnis out.
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dont give up just yet your last hope http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14440621
I got it booted!!!! Next step!! Thanks a bunch. Just for this. Even if it doesn't work. That helped!
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I got it booted!!!! Next step!! Thanks a bunch. Just for this. Even if it doesn't work. That helped!
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No problem just follow the steps wouldnt want to lose an awesome user like you
It's 1:30 am and I don't wanna screw anything up. I'll try tomorrow. If you're on gtalk tomorrow, when I am, that will help greatly. Thanks again. Night.
I can't figure this out at all. I see no fastboot tool, and I have never used adb. I'm pretty much screwed. I'm on a mac. I really need a step by step. That guide is not clear at all.
Probably getting a new phone today. Most likely droid 3 or inc2.
Just wait until the SGS2 comes out, don't settle for one of those.
1. Download the android-sdk and install it to the root of your hard drive
2. go into androidsdk/android-sdk/ and find platform tools and open it as a command window
3. run the adb commands (in the command window) to fix sdcard
4. now that your sdcard is working put the to files on your sdcard to fix the usb
5.Use temporary root if you lost root and run the adb commands to fix usb
6.and then just root with unrevoked....
I tried that Joel. It didnt work. Thanks anyway. Think mine was just dead. Already upgraded to the inc2 and loving it. I have NO regrets. Thanks for being so awesome. I won't root this but I'll stick around XDA. And to whoever said to wait for GS2, I like HTC better. Thanks again!
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AgalychnisCallidryas said:
I tried that Joel. It didnt work. Thanks anyway. Think mine was just dead. Already upgraded to the inc2 and loving it. I have NO regrets. Thanks for being so awesome. I won't root this but I'll stick around XDA. And to whoever said to wait for GS2, I like HTC better. Thanks again!
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Tried it again and still won't work. Command windows aren't working, droid won't listen to any commands I do get to go through. I'm assuming it's dead. Anyway, I have a week away at camp tomorrow, so that was the rush to get the new phone. I LOVE it! When I get back, I'll keep trying. Like I said, I won't be rooting my Inc2 even if I can, but I'm not leaving XDA. If I magically save my phone, I'll keep it, but won't reactivate it, just keep it as a multimedia/crackromflashing device. Thanks again, dude.
alright probably its because mac works differently than windows
Yeah. Do you have any plans to move to a different phone?
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Tried it again and still won't work. Command windows aren't working, droid won't listen to any commands I do get to go through. I'm assuming it's dead. Anyway, I have a week away at camp tomorrow, so that was the rush to get the new phone. I LOVE it! When I get back, I'll keep trying. Like I said, I won't be rooting my Inc2 even if I can, but I'm not leaving XDA. If I magically save my phone, I'll keep it, but won't reactivate it, just keep it as a multimedia/crackromflashing device. Thanks again, dude.
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It's a shame you couldn't get it to work. Have fun with your Inc2!
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Yeah. Do you have any plans to move to a different phone?
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yea im thinking about getting evo 3d [for a dev phone without service or anything since i already cooked and released a stable rom for them] but like a phone to use [ill dev for it to lol] im thinking about getting a thunderbolt or inc2 [i dont like either of them a lot but theyre the only ones avaliable so ill have to settle but i dont like them because its really going to be hell making custom roms for them because of their world capabilites and 4glte] so id just like a simple good htc phone with 3g from htc lol
If anybody wants to buy me a new phone that would be sweet, lol
Would for sure love to get ahold of a TB or INC2.
She's up and running.
http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-featuring-qualcomm-snapdragon-600-processor-gets-rooted-successfully
If not let me know what you need devs and ill be happy to assist when i get my s4 tomorrow.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-featuring-qualcomm-snapdragon-600-processor-gets-rooted-successfully
If not let me know what you need devs and ill be happy to assist when i get my s4 tomorrow.
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Agreed...I have my S4 in hand now and am happy to help...need root and need a wifi tethering option that works. PM me and let me know if you need log files or what...
Agreed, we all need to pitch in. Weird as im not seeing any devs yet?
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http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-featuring-qualcomm-snapdragon-600-processor-gets-rooted-successfully
If not let me know what you need devs and ill be happy to assist when i get my s4 tomorrow.
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I was going to try this, but I got worried that I would brick my new phone when I saw the firmware is different. Chainfire's method uses XXUAMD2 firmware. My Build Number is JDQ39.I337UCUAMDB. It is close, but not the same.
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I was going to try this, but I got worried that I would brick my new phone when I saw the firmware is different. Chainfire's method uses XXUAMD2 firmware. My Build Number is JDQ39.I337UCUAMDB. It is close, but not the same.
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Yeah i saw that to. Someone on android central insisted it would work. Thats why i posted it here.
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Yeah i saw that to. Someone on android central insisted it would work. Thats why i posted it here.
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they want someone stupid to try it out instead of them and report their success or failure first lol
im sure most people dont even have this phone yet because its not out. Mine does not arrive till tommorow
I thoiught I saw a post in the Development thread that this method does not work - I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure that is the case, unfortunately. I have faith that Chainfire of someone will get us rooted soon enough - (hell, I don't even have my S4 yet - won't arrive until tomorrow
But - Unless I had seen someone else had successfully rooted using any method, I do not think I would even think about being the first one to try it. lol
How long before the AT&T source code is released? We should be able to get a work around once we have that.
This will be my first Android phone that didn't have root before it was released, and I've bought nearly all of them on release date, taken it home, and rooted it before doing anything! I won't be selling my SIII right away since it looks like I'll be using it until we get a successful root out of this sucker....
Getting mine on Saturday if all goes to plans, willing to help test as well! I have 60 days to return it if it breaks, hahah
KryptosXLayer2 said:
This will be my first Android phone that didn't have root before it was released, and I've bought nearly all of them on release date, taken it home, and rooted it before doing anything! I won't be selling my SIII right away since it looks like I'll be using it until we get a successful root out of this sucker....
Getting mine on Saturday if all goes to plans, willing to help test as well! I have 60 days to return it if it breaks, hahah
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Yea i can't officially switch till root. S4 just arrived. Will see if I can get some root on here.
Just got mine an hour ago. Apparently, thanks to AT&T, the bootloader is locked, which could complicate the root method considerably