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Recovery 1.52 - 1.6x? How?

I have searched for the last 30 mins and can't seem to find what the latest recovery image is, or how to upgrade my phone to it.
I want to get the image that allows the use of ext4 to test out the latest Fresh toast and can't seem to find it.
Anyone got a link or a quick how to?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4898505&postcount=1
Every version including 1.6.2 and instructions in that link.

Bielinsk said:
I have searched for the last 30 mins and can't seem to find what the latest recovery image is, or how to upgrade my phone to it.
I want to get the image that allows the use of ext4 to test out the latest Fresh toast and can't seem to find it.
Anyone got a link or a quick how to?
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copy the .img file to your SD card
unmount the sd card from the PC
open CMD
type
abd shell
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery_filename.img
reboot.

danknee said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4898505&postcount=1
Every version including 1.6.2 and instructions in that link.
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adb shell
su
cd /sdcard/
flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.6.2.img
reboot

Jus10o said:
adb shell
su
cd /sdcard/
flash_image recovery recovery-RA-heroc-v1.6.2.img
reboot
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Beat me to it. Yeah, just do that. Keep in mind you need to put it on the root of your SD before that.

Thanks all, got it.

I'm trying to update my recovery using the steps above but I keep getting " 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." o_0
Edit: Nevermind, I got it.

How to flash zips?

Is there a way on the Vibrant to flash *.zip files like on the Nexus One? For example, I have a Mobile Defense as System App *.zip file that on the N1 I flash from the Recovery menu. Is this possible on the Vibrant? How else can I install System Apps?

it will be posible to flash .zip files in recovery once we get a custom recovery. there is a guy working on porting clockwork as we speak so it souldnt be too long before we can flash roms and kernals and other .zip stuff

hah2110 said:
Is there a way on the Vibrant to flash *.zip files like on the Nexus One? For example, I have a Mobile Defense as System App *.zip file that on the N1 I flash from the Recovery menu. Is this possible on the Vibrant? How else can I install System Apps?
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You can only use the .zip flash function on the phone to manipulate some files. If you wanted to add a completely new rom you must use Odin. The clockwork recovery being done is still in it's very basic stage where nothing is working. So it's impossible to tell if they will get it to work especially since the bootloader is completely different from all other android phones.

Why not just inzip it on your computer and move the apk to your sd and install it that way?
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spigatelli said:
Why not just inzip it on your computer and move the apk to your sd and install it that way?
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Cause then it wouldn't be a system app. He could just use adb to push the file though.

Tried to push the file but I can't do adb remount. It says no such file or directory. What am I doing wrong?

Anyone??????

Your probably pushing the file to the wrong place.. Do you have the Samsung drivers and SDK installed?

DAKIDD236 said:
Your probably pushing the file to the wrong place.. Do you have the Samsung drivers and SDK installed?
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Yes, because every other command works. Also, if you look, I am getting the error when not even trying to push. I am trying to do ADB REMOUNT.

hah2110 said:
Yes, because every other command works. Also, if you look, I am getting the error when not even trying to push. I am trying to do ADB REMOUNT.
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Samsung devices use a different code to remount. Try this
mount -o rw,remount /dev/st9 /system
This is ripped from the behold 2 so you might have to play with the directories

yeah, if anyone can figure out what the mount directories are from /dev/ it would be great. i'm trying to push my ringtones so that they dont show up in media scanner. seems like a simple trick, but when remount wont work and we dont know the mount directory, its harder than it seems.

psychoace said:
Samsung devices use a different code to remount. Try this
mount -o rw,remount /dev/st9 /system
This is ripped from the behold 2 so you might have to play with the directories
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Operation not permitted

hah2110 said:
Operation not permitted
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Do you have root?
If so then it might just be because we don't know what mounting block to use.

we do know what mounting block to use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=729976

Bricked Phone?

Ok I got A Problem. Went to flash a new rom after backing my current one up with rom manager everything went fine till I went to flash it and now it says
E: Failure at line 7 symlink dumpstate SYSTEM:bin/dumpcrash
I dont have a working phone. Tried several different roms and nothing.
what do I need to do??

can u boot in to recovery mode " vol up + power button " ? and dont use Clockworkmod recovery as its known to have issues with the eris.
use the other recovery.
Thanks T.A.

Yes I can Boot into recovery thats it.
How do I go about Flashing a New Recovery Manager

Topaz is right.... Amon_RA FTW !

How do I install that now though. I have been searching through forums looking cant find a step by step
Forgot to say I was a Leaker before they found the method.
would this work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725096&highlight=Flash+Amon's+recovery

metzy75 said:
How do I install that now though. I have been searching through forums looking cant find a step by step
Forgot to say I was a Leaker before they found the method.
would this work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725096&highlight=Flash+Amon's+recovery
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might work, I imagine you could also try this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725047
this gives you the S-OFF bootloader and Amon_RA for recovery
you might wait to see if others weight in on the best approach here.

Already turned S-OFF the only reason I have clock work is because my noobie ass used rom manager for convience

metzy75 said:
Already turned S-OFF the only reason I have clock work is because my noobie ass used rom manager for convience
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"noobie ass" is funny.
jcase's approach in your link is probably all you need then

Phones about to get thrown at the wall. Nothing is working, do the adb push moves file fine then couple commands down it says not there

metzy75 said:
Phones about to get thrown at the wall. Nothing is working, do the adb push moves file fine then couple commands down it says not there
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if you do
adb devices
does its show a device HTCxxxxxxxxxx (some alphanumeric)?

Do this
Code:
adb push recovery.img /data/local/
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/recovery.img
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/flash_image
adb shell /data/local/flash_image recovery /data/local/recovery.img
adb reboot recovery
try this in fastboot ( SEND + POWER )
not sure u can push files into /data/local/
hopefully it will work and if not and all fails.
put a rom on sd card and boot into recovery and hopefully clockworkmod recovery will flash it.

Yep, really have no idea what to do. I run the commands in what you gave me and the stupid thing says file its there when i use root command to navigate there its right there. idk whats going on.

TopazAaron said:
Do this
Code:
adb push recovery.img /data/local/
adb push flash_image /data/local/
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/recovery.img
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/flash_image
adb shell /data/local/flash_image recovery /data/local/recovery.img
adb reboot recovery
try this in fastboot ( SEND + POWER )
not sure u can push files into /data/local/
hopefully it will work and if not and all fails.
put a rom on sd card and boot into recovery and hopefully clockworkmod recovery will flash it.
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doesn't show its connected, I have fastboot USB showing on the eris
tried flashing many roms no good same error

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651669
May help in that it includes the Amon_RA file and offers a different approach...
good luck

have you ever heard of the jitterbug?

Sjflowerhorn said:
have you ever heard of the jitterbug?
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Idk what a jitter bug has to do with this. But I got the recovery changed but nothing still flashes.
Got to line 8 instead of line 7
says cant chown/mod /system/bin
(no such file or directory
E: failure at line 8
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 07550

Sjflowerhorn said:
have you ever heard of the jitterbug?
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holy crap... i almost fell outta my chair!!!! LOL (i used to tell this lady at work all the time.... you NEED a jitterbug!!!).
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in any case...
metzy75... you said you backed up (a NAND backup i'm assuming)... are you able to restore your backup? or same failure? different message?

metzy75 said:
Idk what a jitter bug has to do with this. But I got the recovery changed but nothing still flashes.
Got to line 8 instead of line 7
says cant chown/mod /system/bin
(no such file or directory
E: failure at line 8
set_perm_recursive 0 2000 07550
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what ROM are you trying to flash?

zach.xtr said:
what ROM are you trying to flash?
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Just Official eris one that came with that all in one zip. and plain jane as wwell
Plain Jane fails at line 7 and offical eris line 8

tenzomonk said:
holy crap... i almost fell outta my chair!!!! LOL (i used to tell this lady at work all the time.... you NEED a jitterbug!!!).
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in any case...
metzy75... you said you backed up (a NAND backup i'm assuming)... are you able to restore your backup? or same failure? different message?
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Backups all failed.

[Q] Help!!! I think my device is bricked...

Hello everyone.... i really think i bricked my device and i would love for someone to help me... i Have been searching the forum since yesterday morning and i cant seem to find anything that works... well first off i am rooted (s-off) i used the gfree method because setting up adb wasnt going to well for some reason... but im stuck in bootloop mode or whatever and when i hold down power and the vol down button it recognizes the pd15dimg.zip file but when i do the update i get an error check out the first pic below... then when i put it in recovery mode i get another error check out 2nd pic... then when i to to load the pd15dimg.zip manually from the choose zip file directly from the root of the sd card i get another error check out third pic... as u can see im on cwm 3.0.2.4 and the rom i was originally using i dont remember the name but it was gingerbread...can someone plz help?? any help will be appreciated. thnx

I had this same issue 3 weeks ago. But I wasnt getting those partition errors with the PD15dimg.zip. I would first suggest downloading another one to make sure the one you got wasnt corrupted. But before I figured out to do the pd15dimg trick, the nice fellas over on Cyanogenmods Shoutbox were helping me out with a different method. You have the engineering bootloader, which is great news for you. I did not. Do you have a nandroid backup on your SD that you can copy over to your computer?

i didnt do a nandroid back up but i did a back up threw the rom manager i had... is that useful?

curlz187 said:
i didnt do a nandroid back up but i did a back up threw the rom manager i had... is that useful?
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Hmm. Maybe, I'm not sure what that backs up, do you know what folder that went into? Find it and post whats in there

the folder is on the root of my sd card... its call clockworkmod... i click that then i see two folders one of which is named back ups. i click that and it has tsome some files in it such as android_secure.img boot.img cache.img data.img nandroid.md5 recovery.img and system.img

curlz187 said:
the folder is on the root of my sd card... its call clockworkmod... i click that then i see two folders one of which is named back ups. i click that and it has tsome some files in it such as android_secure.img boot.img cache.img data.img nandroid.md5 recovery.img and system.img
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Perfect! Alright, PM now and I'll help you with the rest alright?

Ok just did it

does anyone else have any insight on this subject?

Once you get fail-pu you can't do anything as you need to send it back they have to replace the motherboard. Fail PU means failed partition update at this point once its corrupted you can't reformat it since we are using SLC-EUDA low level format which is 1 time.

TmpUsr said:
Once you get fail-pu you can't do anything as you need to send it back they have to replace the motherboard. Fail PU means failed partition update at this point once its corrupted you can't reformat it since we are using SLC-EUDA low level format which is 1 time.
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the original file i used was corruted JDV28 sent me another file and it starts the update but idk how long its suppose to take because its been updating for bout 15 mins now

Well PD15IMG.zip can be corrupted and even if you get a good radio/rom image and verify it the problem you will run in to is when you try to write to the partition. Fail PU means failed partition update where you can't write radio, recovery and system. I was leaning on to gfree but I need another phone to fully hack it as I was massing with the emmc block last time but atm I don't have any other phones. Best solution is soon as you see the errors on recovery you should push and manually flash recovery partition and replace it.

TmpUsr said:
Well PD15IMG.zip can be corrupted and even if you get a good radio/rom image and verify it the problem you will run in to is when you try to write to the partition. Fail PU means failed partition update where you can't write radio, recovery and system. I was leaning on to gfree but I need another phone to fully hack it as I was massing with the emmc block last time but atm I don't have any other phones. Best solution is soon as you see the errors on recovery you should push and manually flash recovery partition and replace it.
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how do i do that?

Terminal said:
su [hit enter]
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system [hit enter]
cp /sdcard/flash_image /system/bin [hit enter]
flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img [hit enter]
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adb said:
adb devices [hit enter]
adb push boot.img /data/local/boot.img [hit enter]
adb shell [hit enter]
su [hit enter]
flash_image boot /data/local/boot.img [hit enter]
rm rm /data/local/boot.img [hit enter]
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Like I said depends on how deep the issue is you can't revert it. But try it anyways. You will need image which you can get from dev section.

im not connected threw adb had problems setting it up b4... but after i did the update now my screen only turns black? idk what happened it was updating i leave for a min now it seems unusable

I had the same issue, couldn't recover it so I sent it back.
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partitioning issues most likely = game over unless your running the engineering boot. thats the bottom line i think with everyone thats running into these issues..

[Q] EVGA Tegra Note 7 root?

EDIT:
Go here to root your Tegra Note 7: https://github.com/linux-shield/shield-root/blob/master/README.md (thanks to CampGareth for finding the link).
I have tested this, it works with no bloatware, only installs SuperSu.
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Hey guys, I got my new Tegra Note 7 last night and I've been trying to get it rooted, but I keep running into trouble.
First of all, I DO NOT want to use some shady Chinese software that installs a bunch of bloat on both my tablet and PC just to get SuperSu going, I've tried that method and had to reset the tablet to get rid of all the crap it installs (and it didn't even seem to root anyway).
Now I'm trying the manual method from here: http://pan.baidu.com/wap/link?uk=3073396937&shareid=3129426036&third=0
Which, again, is Chinese but at least I can see what it's doing since I'm issuing ADB commands, and supposedly it has worked for others on this forum.
Now, I get to step 3 on the included PDF which says to boot an insecure bootloader image with "fastboot boot tegranote_insecure_boot.img", I do this and the tablet screen flashes a few times and reboots to android.
I get to the next step which says to open an adb shell, and do "/sbin/rootsh +p" to get a temp root shell, and this is where I get stuck. Instead of getting a root shell I get the message "/system/bin/sh: /sbin/rootsh: not found". Does anyone have suggestions?
By the way we really need a Tegra Note 7 subforum here at XDA, if the mods could add it that would be great.

dark42 said:
Hey guys, I got my new Tegra Note 7 last night and I've been trying to get it rooted, but I keep running into trouble.
First of all, I DO NOT want to use some shady Chinese software that installs a bunch of bloat on both my tablet and PC just to get SuperSu going, I've tried that method and had to reset the tablet to get rid of all the crap it installs (and it didn't even seem to root anyway).
Now I'm trying the manual method from here: http://pan.baidu.com/wap/link?uk=3073396937&shareid=3129426036&third=0
Which, again, is Chinese but at least I can see what it's doing since I'm issuing ADB commands, and supposedly it has worked for others on this forum.
Now, I get to step 3 on the included PDF which says to boot an insecure bootloader image with "fastboot boot tegranote_insecure_boot.img", I do this and the tablet screen flashes a few times and reboots to android.
I get to the next step which says to open an adb shell, and do "/sbin/rootsh +p" to get a temp root shell, and this is where I get stuck. Instead of getting a root shell I get the message "/system/bin/sh: /sbin/rootsh: not found". Does anyone have suggestions?
By the way we really need a Tegra Note 7 subforum here at XDA, if the mods could add it that would be great.
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I would recommend the following procedure:
1. Download the root_tool_v2.zip attached to this post
2. Unzip the contents the root_tool_v2.zip to a directory
3. Run the following commands from your ADB and Fastboot directory:
Code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot boot tegranote_insecure_v2.img
4. Once your device finishes booting the insecure boot.img (Your device's screen will blink several times and then boot into Android) run the following commands:
Code:
adb shell
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
exit
adb push su /system/xbin/su
adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
adb shell
chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
chmod 644 /system/app/Superuser.apk
mount -o remount,ro /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
exit
adb reboot
5. You should now have Superuser installed and have root access.
What I did was I modified the boot.img provided to be insecure and use an insecure adbd binary to allow a root shell when booted from which can then be used to setup Superuser and su binary access. Let me know how this goes for you and if you have any questions .

Wow, thanks for the help! Unfortunately your attachment seems to be corrupt, I can't decompress the archive. I'm using 7-zip btw. The forum says your attachment is 7.19MB but when downloaded it's only 160KB.
If you can re-upload it I will give it a go.

a reup of the file would be much appreciated! :good:
PS
i have a batch file to expedite the process.

dark42 said:
Wow, thanks for the help! Unfortunately your attachment seems to be corrupt, I can't decompress the archive. I'm using 7-zip btw. The forum says your attachment is 7.19MB but when downloaded it's only 160KB.
If you can re-upload it I will give it a go.
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dergezero said:
a reup of the file would be much appreciated! :good:
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i have a batch file to expedite the process.
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Re-uploaded the file for you guys let me know how it goes for you .

Awesome your new package downloaded fine.
However I'm still not getting root, I got to step 4 and when I open an adb shell I don't have permissions to do the next command.
The exact error message:
[email protected]:/ mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
mount: Operation not permitted
So I guess the insecure boot image didn't work right. I should mention that I am using the latest Tegra Note firmware, I don't know if that makes a difference though. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help so far.

do you guys have a copy of the drivers for the tablet? mine only seems to work for storage.
update: got drivers working.

dergezero said:
do you guys have a copy of the drivers for the tablet? mine only seems to work for storage.
update: got drivers working.
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I used Universal Naked Driver 0.73, I just manually installed the driver for the Nvidia Shield, thinking it would work, and it does!
Does shimp208's root image work for you, dergezero?

dark42 said:
I used Universal Naked Driver 0.73, I just manually installed the driver for the Nvidia Shield, thinking it would work, and it does!
Does shimp208's root image work for you, dergezero?
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no, it just reboots. neither is working. im going to see if any one can give us a dump of their img that already works to be rooted. i tried that Chinese method and its really annoying and i dont get root on any computer i try it on.

Hey guys I am in the process of creating a new boot image that uses a different method for gaining root access and will upload that once I finish it.

shimp208 said:
Hey guys I am in the process of creating a new boot image that uses a different method for gaining root access and will upload that once I finish it.
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:good: Awesome man, good luck! Eager to try it when you post it! :fingers-crossed:

dark42 said:
:good: Awesome man, good luck! Eager to try it when you post it! :fingers-crossed:
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I agree, with the amount of malware that is in the chinese root tools, it makes me nervous to use the one the OP posted.
Brew

I wonder if someone would be able to port Clockworkmod Recovery to the TN7 eventually. The bootloader on this device is factory unlocked so it should be simple enough. Unfortunately I'm not a good enough programmer to get this done.
If we had Clockworkmod then rooting would be as easy as flashing the SuperSU .zip from the SD.

I have updated my original post with the rooting instructions to include a new insecure boot method follow the same instructions as before just use the new boot.img I uploaded to that post. Credit to teknoraver for the insecure adbd binary.

shimp208 said:
I have updated my original post with the rooting instructions to include a new insecure boot method follow the same instructions as before just use the new boot.img I uploaded to that post. Credit to teknoraver for the insecure adbd binary.
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I tried your V2 image, still getting permission errors when doing "mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system", what am I doing wrong?

dark42 said:
I tried your V2 image, still getting permission errors when doing "mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system", what am I doing wrong?
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When you boot the image and then type ADB shell do you get a root shell ([email protected]:/ #) or just a regular shell ([email protected]:/ $)?

Amazing
Nice to see you working on a different method of root... I am sorry to those who feel that the method I posted is getting negative reviews just wanted to throw something out there for people... however, I do feel much better with Shrimp208 working on a better root method I really wish we could get a forum going..

I used the Chinese root tool and all seems fine on my Tegra note
Sent from my TegraNote-P1640 using Tapatalk

shimp208 said:
When you boot the image and then type ADB shell do you get a root shell ([email protected]:/ #) or just a regular shell ([email protected]:/ $)?
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Just a regular shell with $. Doesn't look like I get temp root permissions after running the tegranote_insecure_v2.img.
If it matters, I'm on the latest Stock ROM (4.2.2/JDQ39.13155_268.1942) and I'm using Universal Naked Driver 0.73 for the Shield, which works with this device. Maybe I need to use a different driver?

Toyeboy said:
I used the Chinese root tool and all seems fine on my Tegra note
Sent from my TegraNote-P1640 using Tapatalk
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yeah it works but you dont really know what was installed on ur phone or on your pc. 3 apps are installed on your phone and a few reg changes on ur pc can be detrimental. and its all bloatware