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Cookie 'Energy' style
"This is the best ROM version and the way Sense should have been designed by HTC" I couldn't agree more!!
NRGZ28 I would like to personally thank you sir for such an amazing ROM. As well, I would like to thank all the people who make the process of tweaking, hacking, or whatever possible for the HD2.
I am in the U.S. and when I bought the phone around the first of July I was very excited to see this things capability. Three hours later and several freezes, which only poppin the battery out the back would solve the issue, I was not a happy camper. Everything about the phone did not seem like it fit and the OS from M$ seemed more than lackluster. I could go on... but do not need too!!
If you are on the fence about flashing or whatever to your HD2, do not waste time pondering your warranty (well maybe a little). Spend the time and read all the stickies and posts on this site and go for it. You will be amazed!
P.S. Now that I realize how amazing this forum/site is I will be donating for the work of others. It is more than worth it. Thanks again!

Welcome to XDA buddy, that's a refreshing post to read.

gearkyle11 said:
Cookie 'Energy' style
"This is the best ROM version and the way Sense should have been designed by HTC" I couldn't agree more!!
NRGZ28 I would like to personally thank you sir for such an amazing ROM. As well, I would like to thank all the people who make the process of tweaking, hacking, or whatever possible for the HD2.
I am in the U.S. and when I bought the phone around the first of July I was very excited to see this things capability. Three hours later and several freezes, which only poppin the battery out the back would solve the issue, I was not a happy camper. Everything about the phone did not seem like it fit and the OS from M$ seemed more than lackluster. I could go on... but do not need too!!
If you are on the fence about flashing or whatever to your HD2, do not waste time pondering your warranty (well maybe a little). Spend the time and read all the stickies and posts on this site and go for it. You will be amazed!
P.S. Now that I realize how amazing this forum/site is I will be donating for the work of others. It is more than worth it. Thanks again!
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Yep, so you basically discovered that the stock ROMs blows and freezes constantly, while custom ROMs (most of them anyway) don't freeze as often and are generally faster/better Welcome to the world of custom ROMs

[OFFTOPIC][DISCUSSION] Your first hacking experience!

XDA Developers is a great place for people who want to put their phone to the max a.k.a HACKING!
I'm pretty sure a lot of people have hacked their phone before; rooting, download scripts, kernels, roms etc. So the purpose of this thread made is to share your hacking experience; how you started it, how did it go, what was the first thing you hacked inside your phone, did it work,did you screw up your phone etc. You should also state why you hacked and was it worth the hack. Also, another purpose of this thread is to encourage people to not be scared of hacking and try hacking their phones. (although is really up to you!)
So I shall start mine, right now!
So, after getting good results in my exam, my parents gifted me a Samsung Galaxy S Plus I9001 last year. It was one of the best smartphones I ever had(only had one....). So, the place where I bought the phone, the salesman said the phone had 1+3 years warranty. So, at that point I said to myself; I'm not going to modify,hack or install unnecessary stuff in my phone (to preserve my warranty).
Boy, was I WRONG! After I had 6 months with the phone, had a lot of apps installed and my phone began to slow down. I deleted apps by apps and still my phone was super slow. I realised, 4 years is too damn long to preserve. So, the first hack I did was rooting my phone. The reason I did that because there's this app called Screencast required me to root the phone in order to use my phone.
Of course, I was scared to hack my phone. So, I did a thorough research and go on with rooting. With enough balls and courage, I tried it. After following all the correct procedure. So, all goes down to my phone. Will it reboot or not? That's the question. So, I waited. And wait. And wait. THEN SUDDENLY, BAM! PHONE WORKS! I was so happy, there are a lot of apps that required root.
A few months later, I was a bit daring and tried to install a ROM this time (cause my friend using ICS on his S2, felt totally jealous . Also GB sucks, no offense). Opened Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Dev page. BAM! Roms, and roms and a hell load of roms! I tried the most safest ICS ROM, Acro86's ICS CM9 ROM. Again, was scared to tried, but then again my warranty is a done deal. So I went for it. BOY IT WAS FREAKING WORTH IT. Didn't really know my phone could run ICS/JB. Phone really smooth, lots of apps I used before now is smooth. It was really worth the shot.
Long story short, You SHOULD try hacking, because you can get all the awesome stuff in your phone. I say you should try hacking because it is a load of fun!
Now, I'm currently using hypnos17's BioHazard V5 with TWRP recovery. Really nice and smooth.
So, now. What is your first hacking experience? Please share it to everyone! This thread may help a lot of people people out there! :victory: :fingers-crossed:
Acro86 CM9 ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650615
Hypnos17 Biohazard ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917906
TWRP Recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694617
Credits to the guys who made these roms! :highfive:

Nice story! Mine-
When I first got the SGS it was already a bit old, the SIII was already on the market. I heard about people upgrading their Android to something better than what the cellular company gives you, and I knew I wanted to do it. I knew nothing about it, so I went to my brother in law who also has an SGS.
He rooted my phone and installed the latest nightly version of CM9 at the time. After a while my friend also learned how to do it, so I tried CM10, CM9 again (a stable version), switched to Slim Bean, etc. One time my phone didn't boot after a flash and I thought it died, but in the end I managed to get back into CWM.
I don't think I'm going to try anymore roms (just update my Slim), because it's way too much work every time and I don't have the energy for that... So unless I find what I'm looking for in a rom (a good and fast rom, that looks like Samsung's, and one that syncs the Facebook friends with the contacts without having to use a third-party app)., I'm not going to change it again.

Sooo I have been sweating, crying and celebrating

Wanted to post how my last 24 hours went. It was a little crazy and included a soft-bricked htc one (unlocked), one Mac, one Windows and one Ubuntu (the ubuntu finally did it). The purpose of this post is manly to engage in a conversation with you guys, hopefully get one or two good advice and provide the contributors of guides with a little insight in to the mind of a man with very little actual knowledge on these android system tweaks but keen intrest to mess up my own phone ( : hopefully you will enjoy this.. If not scroll down to the bottom to watch one of the most treasured videos of all time.
So I live in Iceland. A nation of 300.000 people.
The morning was beautiful and I had a day off so about 6am GMT I went online to see if HTC had released it version of 5.0 lollipop for my device, the htc one (m7). I have been checking regularly for it as I am somewhat exited to get it and stick it in the face of my mates who all have Galaxy S4 or 5, apart from the occasional iphone.
While searching various terms like android lollipop htc one m7 I always got the same articles on how htc is promising to release the lolli sometime soon. some said nonsense about 2 quarter of the year, februar/mars ish or the 90days from offical google release. Did not seem to get new news on the release date.
Until I brilliantly made google run the search results from newsest to oldest.
Well whola, there is this custom rom called the Maximum HD 50.0 or something that promises me the goods I have been waiting for. Imagine me sitting there, with nothing but free time today, thinking I'm gonna hook this up in a couple of hours : ) : ) : ) well I did somehow manage to upgrade my galaxy s2 to jeally bean all on my own a couple of years ago.
Sooooo I scroll quickly over the requirements, firmware ? ah I'll do it later. S-off, whats this s-off? well you have to admit it does not sound all that important. Unlock? YES I can do that. And this TWRP? I have no clue. But this has 5.0.2, sense 6, EYE and all the goodiegoodies. So lets proceed.
htcdev.com got my phone unlocked check, TWRP turns out to be easy, check, something superuser jibberis, check, S-off compleatly ignored, check. and firmware is only recomennded so I'm thinking I'll do it later and what do you know... Maximus HD 50 is installing through aroma or what it was called. Do this do that a little wipe and a little format. installation 100% glory is coming, THIS IS SPARTA or maximus or leonidas or whatever. Anyways I reboot phone and there is absolutly no rom. whut? It just loads into TWRP again and again and again.
Now i'm getting kinda nervous. this phone cost me 75.000 $isk$ ( I know looks like alot compared to the what 7-900 Dollash in the US)and I have heard of the infamous brick thanks to all the disclaimers: "NO RESPONSIBILITY" "BRICK MAY HAPPEN" "WARRANTY VOIDED". So I start by calling the company that sold me this phone I very very much wanted. now remember I live in Iceland. Reykjavík capital counts about 70.000 people I think. well mabye 130.000 idk.
ME "good morning, bought the htc one from you and tried to install a custom mod. it's stuck in recovery now with no rom or system boot possible. any ideas on how to fix this or the name of a shop that can repair this'"
Shop owner "Well I got nothing, try the only other store that sells it. they have a repairshop"
ME "okey will try" *thinking I have little hope at the repairshop*
Calling repairshop....
ME "get the best android guy there on the phone"
Repairshop "I'm it, whats your problem?"
proceed to explain my problem again
Repairshop "I have no idea what you are talking about"
ME "do you even own an android device?"
Repairshop "Yes but I don't play with it, this is not a toy."
ME " so what do you do there"
Repairshop " get faulty phones with warranty and send them to Poland for repair"
By that time I'm thinking I'm royally out of luck and this is turning out to be waaaaaaaay much loooooooonger than expected no one is intrested in this so I'm ending this quickly now.
5, 6 or 7 hours of googling, installing Android SDK, reading about fastboot, adb, sideline, looking for stock rom (is this impossible to find or am I idiot, I was getting the feeling I was) doing all this on three different OS's and terminals. And I end up finally getting a .zip to open in TWRP and run succsessfully SO now I have a laggy Android 4.4.3 google play edition and no lollipop. All for nothing I liked my kitkat sense 6.0 better. But dam I was happy when that phone booted up. I looked at it like it was my first born. sure a laggy build but now atleast I have the chance of working all this out. BTW thanks to the genius bigxie that provided me with the .zip that worked and to all other geniuses that post gudies for us apes that know nothing (imagine the look on jon snow's face if he was holding a htc one beauty in his hands)
I am leaving very much out of this story. Took me an extra hour on the phone/computer to write this so if someone deletes this thread because im a stupid noob. please replay if you have questions, hints, useful reading material (like a 30page book on this stuff) or, if you want to be most helpful show me the doors to the glory of a good s-off custom rom for my baby.

Cyanidem for klte?

CyanideL was extremely feature rich and stable& possibly one of the best roms I I've used and had a strong following before development stopped. CyanidM is back in action but so far there is no support for the klte. They're have been intermittent builds for the Sprint S5 but I was hoping a developer would step up and bring this awesome rom back to our community. I know there is alot oof work involved in becoming a maintainer but we have some awsome devs and I would gladly make a 25$ donation to compensate for the work to be able to use this rom again.

Bump
Bumping hoping to get attention for this rom. It's already built for the sprint gs5 it shouldn't be too much work to build it for the other variants.

killablack said:
Bumping hoping to get attention for this rom. It's already built for the sprint gs5 it shouldn't be too much work to build it for the other variants.
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and i thought i knew most roms... While this can serve as a bump, I'm hoping to spark a mini exchange of experiences with roms.
After trying every single rom there was out there for the s5 (and gotta say, most were), i settled for aicp, for stability and usefulness, not just your regular dice hanging from your rear view mirror... I will gladly donate as soon as i get back on my feet, and while I'm at it let me say thanks to all the devs worldwide, since theyre the real reason android is what it is, wouldn't have it any other way. Consider my use of my phone as a taxi, patrol car, or delivery vehicle, while your phones resemble more a household vehicle. It wouldn't be possible to that degree without ppl such as @Rovo69, @Chainfire, and countless others including the TWRP guys, the teams and individuals behind all things (custom) roms, and the micro G guy, although i can't remember out of the top of my head just now.
Lol seriously veered off track there, pardon me.
Anyways, back to the topic at hand, can you tell me a bit about this rom you speak of?
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Of course i could just google it up, but in this case i don't want a review from a, most likely, wether for good or bad, biased article. Rather just ask a user who seems to want to keep it alive, know what i mean?
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@killablack, the following is a suggestion for you to start asking about the possibilities and/or possible consequences, it is not an advice to actually go ahead and do what i once did.
Another thing, i can kill an Android and revive it, but only if i kill it. I didn't go to school for this or had a tutor sitting next to me, i simply learned everything i know, which is not much because there's always something new to learn, scouring thru xda... Didn't even ask questions, just good old search and research, trial and error, BUT, I'm not a developer, so i could be hinting you blow up your device while meaning no harm.
I had an s4 before the s5 came out, it was a cdma phone, namely, none other but sprint, one of the world's most difficult phone to uicc unlock... I don't know if you're from the United states, so I'll tell you a bit about them. The phones are not, i'm assuming, difficult as in, take it to a shop and pay and voila! But as in the carrier coming up with a million reasons as to why they (sprint) shouldn't, couldn't, or wouldn't do it for you, going as far as telling the customer that their phones are not unlockable, even if they wanted to, which is, of course, a big fat lie... AND, if you are one of the few who do get "your way" with them, you better drop everything and go buy a lotto lol jk, it will only be for overseas use, not domestic. (if you're from Europe, then you know how the European carriers (supposedly) don't lock the customer (and phone) down). Welcome to America the land of the free.
I neither tried to go thru them nor used a shop, since it was a personal goal to do it myself and the path to learning. Well, eventually, i achieved it, and "turned" it into a gsm phone. At this point, i flashed a custom rom, don't remember which one, but it would be something like you describe: a rom running in the "same" device, different carrier, but now we would be looking for the "other way around" version, with the difference that these (yours and mine) are kltes... Not jfltesprs... Needless to say, everything was right on the money, except that you would get "H" instead of 4G or even LTE (post-device flashing-unlocking issue, not a rom bug)
what could you add to this endeavor of mine, or what do you think our stance should be on trying something similar? since nowadays, i assume, google has changed a few things here and there under the hood since i did this i just told you about.

Android 10 Release

Anyone seen this update yet?
https://www.gizchina.com/2020/03/13/motorola-moto-z4-gets-android-10-update-its-last-major-update/

Unfortunately, not - even although I have retail version.
I hope somebody who is getting it will backup the downloaded OTA image and will share it here.

I haven't gotten it either & I'm on Retail Z4 USA

Retail Z4 here, haven't seen the update yet

i have unlocked phone from best buy, i do not have update yet. wanting to play around with phone, made some roms for my old phones, bought this phone with intent on doing the same, hoping after this rolls out that all our dev fun can begin i bet there will be some twrp work after 10 rolls out

I suppose it will last approx. 2 weeks till definite roll-out. Why? I was the first one who got the December uprade patch (which completely messed up all my system). Nobody else said he had it - only me. Everybody was waiting, till finally, approx. 2 weeks later, everybody got it.
I think, this time, it's the same. Moto selects a few devices for pre-testing an upgrade before fully rolling it out. Obviously, by coincidence, because this time, I'm not among the lucky ones.
These are only some ideas from my part as I can not imagine that this time, it's fake news again, because this time there already exists a concrete software version number.

My phone is from Best Buy Unlocked as well. Still stuck at PPFS29-105-75-4.

No yet!

Finaly! I got the update

Yeeeaaahhh, it's there!!!
//Edit: @airecomprimido, you were first - took too long to upload my screenshot ?

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Just got prompted to install Android 10 but I don't have Wi-Fi so I will have to wait till Starbucks reopens.

here is mine

Installed...

I have reestarted the phone like 4 times, and takes to much time! The reestart is very slow, please try to comment the improves and issues of this updare

I really like it. Full dark theme, accent colour settings, status bar icons, more and better navigation modes, ... Great! And I have the impression that it's much more smooth than Pie.

Try to reestart and battery my friend!

I don't care about restart time because I don't reboot my device quite often. But battery life is one of the most important things ever. Will keep an eye on that - have to observe that for some days.

downloading now hope that means some twrp soon

I got the update, but it won't install with my magisk setup- does anyone have the full download archive? Wish Moto had a download site for firmware