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Roms for the SCH-I815

I haven't seen anything for the Verizon LTE version of the SGT 7.7.. Anyone developing for it at all? I am only a week into owning this tab and starting to regret it. Honeycomb is BS.
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I'll probably work on porting the CM9 rom to the i815 at some point, but right now it is too unstable and there are plenty of other things that I need to fix (the only reason why I added a P6800 port was because most of the needed changes were done by aorth for the P6200).

locerra said:
I'll probably work on porting the CM9 rom to the i815 at some point, but right now it is too unstable and there are plenty of other things that I need to fix (the only reason why I added a P6800 port was because most of the needed changes were done by aorth for the P6200).
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My hero. Patiently awaits.
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I would be happy with just an ICS leak!!!
HC stinks!
There are leaks for everything else... Rezound, Razr, Galaxy Note... why not for this tab?

I wondered that too. There also isn't an official stock firmware listed in the dev forum T_____T

Would someone mind posting the build.prop from the stock rom (as an attachment to your post would be great, so it is easy to download).

Here ya go!

Anyone know if there is an equivalent to Sprint's RDF pages for Verizon? Or Samsung? I know with the Samsung Epic 4g Touch we all watched this page for updates. Any ideas?

I would much rather run a buggy ICS leak than HC.

Mr. Monkey said:
Anyone know if there is an equivalent to Sprint's RDF pages for Verizon? Or Samsung? I know with the Samsung Epic 4g Touch we all watched this page for updates. Any ideas?
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http://www.samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00046233&fm_seq=49033# is about all I could come up with and it doesn't mention ICS or any future updates.

Does anyone have a stock odin flashable ROM? I f****d mine up it seems, the current OTA update will not install :-(
So I guess it would be best to go all the way back to stock and then retry the OTA ...

ROMS
Anybody started to develope custom ROM for SCH-I815 without Facebook, my Verizon, Social HUB and any kind of ****s like that. I need a custom ROM

yavor1912 said:
Anybody started to develope custom ROM for SCH-I815 without Facebook, my Verizon, Social HUB and any kind of ****s like that. I need a custom ROM
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Root device and use titanium backup to remove something you want.

haovh_85 said:
Root device and use titanium backup to remove something you want.
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No!!!
Freeze the bloat, don't remove it (yet). As long as there is not even a factory image to restore the tab in case of screw ups!! If you delete an app and the next OTA update comes out, it will fail, because it won't find the deleted app and therefore abort the entire update!!
:-(
Someone needs to find the Odin flashable factory ROM at least, better would be an ICS leak like on all the other phones and tablets...

ICS leaks all over the place for phones, but tabs.... nowhere to be found.
;[

Do any of you guys have Linux or cygwin installed? Much easier to do in Linux but cygwin will work. You can make your own Odin image very easily.
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nitroglycerine33 said:
Do any of you guys have Linux or cygwin installed? Much easier to do in Linux but cygwin will work. You can make your own Odin image very easily.
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Yes I do have a full Linux at hand! How do you make an Odin flashable from an installed ROM? Say for example I take my table and do a full factory wipe, clear all caches etc, only leave root intact. How can I then pull the entire state into an odin flashable that will basically clone my tablet exactly the way it is? I could do that and publish the file, so that the community finally has a backup ROM in case someone accidentally hoses their tablet !!

I'd like to help with this effort in any way possible. Very fluent in Linux with access to many servers. Need some guidance on just what needs to be done.
--tr

nitroglycerine33 said:
Do any of you guys have Linux or cygwin installed? Much easier to do in Linux but cygwin will work. You can make your own Odin image very easily.
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Hi
Very eager to learn. I have Linux etc. How do I create an ODIN flashable ROM from either a running tablet (a clone) or from a CWM backup?
THANKS!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1082288

US ICS OTA file?

Could someone post up the US ICS OTA file? I don't see it available on Lenevo's download site yet: http://download.lenovo.com/slates/think/tablet1/

It is on the Lenovo FTP
ftp://slatesftp:[email protected]/ThinkPadTablet_A310_03_0069_0130_US.zip

mandrsn1 said:
It is on the Lenovo FTP
ftp://slatesftp:[email protected]/ThinkPadTablet_A310_03_0069_0130_US.zip
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upload it if you have it please the link is down now
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ker2gsr said:
upload it if you have it please the link is down now
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That link is still working for me. I don't have a service i can upload to right now.

mandrsn1 said:
That link is still working for me. I don't have a service i can upload to right now.
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from your tablet or PC? no dropbox?
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ker2gsr said:
upload it if you have it please the link is down now
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Here a dropbox till its on the http:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11001249/ThinkPadTablet_A310_03_0069_0130_US.zip

US needs two update files if going the FTP site download route.....~A310~(291M) and ~A400~(4.9M).

eldata said:
US needs two update files if going the FTP site download route.....~A310~(291M) and ~A400~(4.9M).
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I was able to download both from the FTP here: ftp://slatesftp:[email protected]/slates/think/tablet1/
Now the question I am wondering is... Is it worth it? Potentially sacrificing root and CWR? I have been running 0.0.7.3 CM9 build for many months now and am curious to what you all think.
Pros/Cons? I've heard battery life is terrible, which is odd because I feel like I have good battery life on the CM9 Port. Also... Is root completely gone? Does OTA Rootkeeper help? My biggest concern (I'd probably even lose root if it is fixed), does the pen work as advertised? Or is the infamous 'pen wonk' bug still present?
Pen wonk = writing notes for ~10-15 minutes, pen is suddenly not responsive. Sleep/waking the device fixes it usually. This has been present in every stock Honeycomb build as well as all the CM9 Port builds so I am very curious if this is fixed because I believe it is a hardware issue (Lenovo please prove me wrong). Any info would be much appreciated.

obscure.detour said:
Now the question I am wondering is... Is it worth it? Potentially sacrificing root and CWR? I have been running 0.0.7.3 CM9 build for many months now and am curious to what you all think.
Pros/Cons? I've heard battery life is terrible, which is odd because I feel like I have good battery life on the CM9 Port. Also... Is root completely gone? Does OTA Rootkeeper help? My biggest concern (I'd probably even lose root if it is fixed), does the pen work as advertised? Or is the infamous 'pen wonk' bug still present?
Pen wonk = writing notes for ~10-15 minutes, pen is suddenly not responsive. Sleep/waking the device fixes it usually. This has been present in every stock Honeycomb build as well as all the CM9 Port builds so I am very curious if this is fixed because I believe it is a hardware issue (Lenovo please prove me wrong). Any info would be much appreciated.
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I was able to go from a rooted, CWM'd device (US 64GB) to a fully rooted device without CWM.
After a few painful steps to get an old busybox file restored and stock recovery enabled, the upgrade process was very simple and so far it is working very well with ICS. There hasn't been enough time to judge battery life yet....
Make sure you follow the instructions that other's have posted about using RootKeeper. That is the only thing I needed to use to restore root perfectly.

armondole said:
After a few painful steps to get an old busybox file restored and stock recovery enabled, the upgrade process was very simple and so far it is working very well with ICS.
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I updated with CWR rather than reverting to stock recovery. Everything worked fine. However, it did get rid of the stock recovery.

armondole said:
I was able to go from a rooted, CWM'd device (US 64GB) to a fully rooted device without CWM.
After a few painful steps to get an old busybox file restored and stock recovery enabled, the upgrade process was very simple and so far it is working very well with ICS. There hasn't been enough time to judge battery life yet....
Make sure you follow the instructions that other's have posted about using RootKeeper. That is the only thing I needed to use to restore root perfectly.
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That is good news about the ability to keep root. At least in keeping root, we should theoretically be able to restore CWR.
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I updated with CWR rather than reverting to stock recovery. Everything worked fine. However, it did get rid of the stock recovery.
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How were you able to update using CWR?

obscure.detour said:
That is good news about the ability to keep root. At least in keeping root, we should theoretically be able to restore CWR.
How were you able to update using CWR?
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I commented out the lines of the update script that checked for "indigo" in build.prop.

so you're now on official ISC with Root AND CWM ??
it's a great news !

quyTam said:
so you're now on official ISC with Root AND CWM ??
it's a great news !
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No, when ICS installed, it got rid of CWM.

mandrsn1 said:
I commented out the lines of the update script that checked for "indigo" in build.prop.
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Do you mind posting how you did the whole install process? Thanks.

bigsnack said:
Do you mind posting how you did the whole install process? Thanks.
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I did not have CWR to start.
I downloaded the update through the "update" menu on the device.
Update failed due to gps.conf being modified.
Reverted to what I thought was old gps.conf, update still failed.
Install CWR
Try update through CWR
Still fail, due to indigo being required in build.prop (this error is caused by CWR)
Commented out the Indigo lines in the update-script in the update
Flashed again
Still failed for gps.conf.
Commented out each line in update-script mentioning gps.conf
flashed again, it worked.

I take you flashed 310 first then 400?
Where is the script located?

bigsnack said:
I take you flashed 310 first then 400?
Where is the script located?
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The update-script is in the META-INF/com/google/android folder in the zip. a # sign will comment out any line.

Do I put the number sign in the front?

bigsnack said:
Do I put the number sign in the front?
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Here is the file i used
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8479005/updater-script

Root and CWM for Galaxy Note 10.1 WiFi?

Has anyone been able to root and install CWM on the WiFi model yet?

airbillion said:
Has anyone been able to root and install CWM on the WiFi model yet?
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It didn't even hit the market until today, and most people are at work.
It'll take a day or two, but it'll come. I may be purchasing tonight (not guaranteed), and I'll start work on CM10 - with CWM coming first.
Doing it PROPERLY will take a few days especially since I have a visitor coming this weekend.

Entropy512 said:
It didn't even hit the market until today, and most people are at work.
It'll take a day or two, but it'll come. I may be purchasing tonight (not guaranteed), and I'll start work on CM10 - with CWM coming first.
Doing it PROPERLY will take a few days especially since I have a visitor coming this weekend.
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Make root work first if its faster then making both clockwork and root work unless they are done at the same time And doesnt take longer then one or the other
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Entropy512 said:
It didn't even hit the market until today, and most people are at work.
It'll take a day or two, but it'll come. I may be purchasing tonight (not guaranteed), and I'll start work on CM10 - with CWM coming first.
Doing it PROPERLY will take a few days especially since I have a visitor coming this weekend.
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Sounds good! Look forward to it. Glad to know you are getting this too!

airbillion said:
Has anyone been able to root and install CWM on the WiFi model yet?
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CWM root method for GT-N8000 is 100% compatible with wifi version, just confirmed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831152

Right now my focus will be, for N8013:
Do system dump of all system content with read permissions (this is almost everything, but missing a few files)
Root the system dump, package as Odin/Heimdall-flashable
Flash rooted dump
Use rooted dump to obtain a dump of all partitions (this enables obtaining a raw stock image of recovery and kernel - The Euro devices already have firmware packages available, US devices often have to dump stock firmware from devices.)
From there, the kernel work starts
I'll be picking up my device tonight, assuming that it doesn't sell out.

what about the n8010 version.
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walidbang said:
what about the n8010 version.
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I haven't tried on n8010 but it seems like all Galaxy Note 10.1s share the same partitions unlike Tab 10.1, so it should work fine too.

Entropy512 said:
Right now my focus will be, for N8013:
Do system dump of all system content with read permissions (this is almost everything, but missing a few files)
Root the system dump, package as Odin/Heimdall-flashable
Flash rooted dump
Use rooted dump to obtain a dump of all partitions (this enables obtaining a raw stock image of recovery and kernel - The Euro devices already have firmware packages available, US devices often have to dump stock firmware from devices.)
From there, the kernel work starts
I'll be picking up my device tonight, assuming that it doesn't sell out.
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Outstanding news you'll be picking one up... mine should arrive tomorrow.

zedomax said:
I haven't tried on n8010 but it seems like all Galaxy Note 10.1s share the same partitions unlike Tab 10.1, so it should work fine too.
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thanks for the info. but do you know the difference between them?
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VZW 7.7 ics approved!!

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/10/05/verizon-approves-ice-cream-sandwich-update-for-galaxy-tab-7-7/

asenduk said:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/10/05/verizon-approves-ice-cream-sandwich-update-for-galaxy-tab-7-7/
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Frankly, I never thought that I would see this day. If I'm rooted, do I need to unroot to get update? Anyone know? Is there a download?

Unbelievable. Better (real) late than never.

Unbelievable indeed. And just in time. I have about 11 days left before I need to return my tablet to verizon for refund. I can hold out to see if this update improves things enough.
Can someone make a debloated ROM of this ? Will developers make use of this to improve the terrible performance of CM9/CM10 type builds?

I pray to god this kills most of the lag. So much lag on hc.
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How about CWM users?
Run Odin to flash the update (and, perhaps, lose root temporarily) or try reverting to stock using Electron73's method and hope for the best?

TonyBigs said:
How about CWM users?
Run Odin to flash the update (and, perhaps, lose root temporarily) or try reverting to stock using Electron73's method and hope for the best?
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Good question. I plan on trying to use the stock nandroid in this section to get back to stock rom and flashing back to stock recovery and unrooting, and hoping it comes in.
Unless someone can make an odin ??

Dang it, came to XDA to post this!
This is one of the signs of the apocalypse!
(Now where's Jelly Bean! Yeah right!)

About fkin time. My only concern is : With the tab 2 7.0 on Verizon having a locked boot loader, does this update bring the same? I know I will wait until others update to see.
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Electron73's nandroid does leave behind "Superuser". I also think that "Uno" and "Dead Space" .apk's need to be in "preinstall'.

Nice Just got the Tab yesterday and ICS is ready any day now. This update is really needed. My Nexus 7 is so much faster than gt. I hope the speed has more to do with the OS than the Chip

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Electron73's nandroid does leave behind "Superuser". I also think that "Uno" and "Dead Space" .apk's need to be in "preload'.
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I have a nandroid that's before the FD01 update, I could restore it and then wipe data/factory reset it . It will leave superuser behind, but ginger break works to unroot it. I don't really have a place to upload it tho. But I have used that nandroid more than once to test out making an Odin flashable system image (which I have yet to succeed at)
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ice0901 said:
Nice Just got the Tab yesterday and ICS is ready any day now. This update is really needed. My Nexus 7 is so much faster than gt. I hope the speed has more to do with the OS than the Chip
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Oh yeah. Those of us who have been using Locerra's CWM 9 & 10 or Paranoid Android have noticed lots faster speeds, bootup, general usage, internet, etc. I hope Samsung/Verizon do not ruin the ICS for this update.

I have run into a problem restoring to stock. I forgot to make a nandroid backup of my original stock, so I am using the one posted in the i815 thread in the general form.
I unzipped the .7z file and it has a folder with the date in it.
I placed this folder with the files inside on my SDcard AND my internal SDcard under
\clockworkmod\backups\2012-05-06.22.48.58\**
(the actual files are in the 2012 folder, not a folder in a folder)
And I am getting the error:
can not open directory, no files found etc.
What am I doing wrong here? Wrong version CWM maybe?
Update: I flashed an older CWM (5.0.2.7) from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470896 and same error:
Couldn't open directory.
No files found.
The files are there!!
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Gilbot said:
I have a nandroid that's before the FD01 update, I could restore it and then wipe data/factory reset it . It will leave superuser behind, but ginger break works to unroot it. I don't really have a place to upload it tho. But I have used that nandroid more than once to test out making an Odin flashable system image (which I have yet to succeed at)
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I suppose you could make a torrent?
Hopefully someone will chime in and offer to host your nandroid.
I have downloaded the nandroid from the beginning of this thread and I cannot get cwm to recognize it.

I barely use my gt 7.7 and it hurts because I have the monthly subscription... My nexus 7 is insanely smooth running stock...it is literally night and day between the 2. I had a transformer prime with ics and it was not as smooth as my nexus 7. However, anything beats honey comb.. as much as I used to like the cereal, the OS turned me off with the horrendous lag. I think ICS will run better on 7.7, but I doubt u will get the same smoothness as your N7
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I assume that someone will need to extract the updated radios from ics update, for cm10 users to flash. Then the developers fix cm10 to talk to them before we could get working data? Just asking to be sure I understand what future may bring.
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ice0901 said:
Nice Just got the Tab yesterday and ICS is ready any day now. This update is really needed. My Nexus 7 is so much faster than gt. I hope the speed has more to do with the OS than the Chip
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I barely use my gt 7.7 and it hurts because I have the monthly subscription... My nexus 7 is insanely smooth running stock...it is literally night and day between the 2. I had a transformer prime with ics and it was not as smooth as my nexus 7. However, anything beats honey comb.. as much as I used to like the cereal, the OS turned me off with the horrendous lag. I think ICS will run better on 7.7, but I doubt u will get the same smoothness as your N7
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I have to agree the N7 stock makes the 7.7 look broke as a joke. I have tried CM9 and CM10 on my i815 and the N7 blows it away in smoothness

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I barely use my gt 7.7 and it hurts because I have the monthly subscription... My nexus 7 is insanely smooth running stock...it is literally night and day between the 2. I had a transformer prime with ics and it was not as smooth as my nexus 7. However, anything beats honey comb.. as much as I used to like the cereal, the OS turned me off with the horrendous lag. I think ICS will run better on 7.7, but I doubt u will get the same smoothness as your N7
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I will settle for near nexus. I need data and I doubt the rumors of a 3g nexus are trure. If I here more about a 3g nexus before my return window is up then this will be returned. I love the colors and higher brightness but the nexus is very good and getting support from xda,app developers and google
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okashira said:
I have to agree the N7 stock makes the 7.7 look broke as a joke. I have tried CM9 and CM10 on my i815 and the N7 blows it away in smoothness
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Locerra's recent CM10 build is ****ing awesome.
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okashira said:
I have run into a problem restoring to stock. I forgot to make a nandroid backup of my original stock, so I am using the one posted in the i815 thread in the general form.
I unzipped the .7z file and it has a folder with the date in it.
I placed this folder with the files inside on my SDcard AND my internal SDcard under
\clockworkmod\backups\2012-05-06.22.48.58\**
(the actual files are in the 2012 folder, not a folder in a folder)
And I am getting the error:
can not open directory, no files found etc.
What am I doing wrong here? Wrong version CWM maybe?
Update: I flashed an older CWM (5.0.2.7) from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470896 and same error:
Couldn't open directory.
No files found.
The files are there!!
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I suppose you could make a torrent?
Hopefully someone will chime in and offer to host your nandroid.
I have downloaded the nandroid from the beginning of this thread and I cannot get cwm to recognize it.
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I'll try to get it up tonight.
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[Q] New g2 (vs980) user. Feel me in!

Okay im coming from 2 awesome years as a gnex user to the g2, which so far i LOVE! I bought it used and it was on latest ota so i rooted using the latest ioroot and flashed twrp using freegee and i want to mess around with roms but i keep seeing things talking about Loki this and that and brick here and there. So i would like to know what steps are needed to flash Mallidus rom since im liking stock for now and all of this talk is foreign to me being a nexus user ..everything was easy on it..

ANTLAY said:
Okay im coming from 2 awesome years as a gnex user to the g2, which so far i LOVE! I bought it used and it was on latest ota so i rooted using the latest ioroot and flashed twrp using freegee and i want to mess around with roms but i keep seeing things talking about Loki this and that and brick here and there. So i would like to know what steps are needed to flash Mallidus rom since im liking stock for now and all of this talk is foreign to me being a nexus user ..everything was easy on it..
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Just root and install Xposed installer, that is all
Modules I use:

Any help for hotspot hack if I stay stock?
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If you flashed a proper lokified recovery everything is pretty much the same as the gnex. Format system, data, and cache. Then flash whatever rom you want. It's also a good idea to backup your EFS partition. There is a flashable zip in the development section that will make a zip of those partitions.
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**** Ripple said:
If you flashed a proper lokified recovery everything is pretty much the same as the gnex. Format system, data, and cache. Then flash whatever rom you want. It's also a good idea to backup your EFS partition. There is a flashable zip in the development section that will make a zip of those partitions.
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According to that there should be a option in my version of twrp, I think it was like 2.6.3.3 also there is a option in freegee to backup efs. .in quick terms what exactly is it for and place it on pc for a just in case?
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Also you mentioned "properly lokified recovery" how can I confirm this?
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What ever you dont whipe internal data
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mchlbenner said:
What ever you dont whipe internal data
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Lol thanks
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ANTLAY said:
Any help for hotspot hack if I stay stock?
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Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45868740 .
Also, I've gone back and forth a lot between stock recovery and custom. I have had some poor luck flashing some mods. I am currently running rooted with stock recovery and don't miss a thing. I use g2 xposed for tweaks and have added a number of mods manually (hotspot, lg browser that works in qslide, split window). For mods that flash in recovery i have had a lot of success opening the zip, reading the update script and performing the actions manually (for split window i downloaded an app for build.prop modding). No regrets. I also found that i can perform the factory reset and don't lose any of the permanent mods I made (i.e. non g2 xposed mods). Didn't even lose root (superuser app in system\app).
I've noticed a lot of former gnex users jumped to the g2 (myself included). Must be that 2 year upgrade cycle. I loved (and still have) my gnex, but this phone blows it out of the water (the screen alone... amoled what?).
Good luck and enjoy!
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Thanks for the info, and I feel you on the love for the gnex but man it just has nothing on this phone...at all really, although I will say it spoiled me in the flashing dept,I don't think I ever checked a single md5 the whole time I had it. I never used xposed on the gnex so forgive me..but what would be something I'd want to possibly change through the g2 xposed module?
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Also is it safe (if I ever decided to) reboot into twrp and wipe cache/dalvik on stock rom?
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ANTLAY said:
Also is it safe (if I ever decided to) reboot into twrp and wipe cache/dalvik on stock rom?
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It's safe. A few times i ended up with the persistent "android is upgrading" message on every boot, but I'm pretty sure that was more from the mods i was trying. Really bad luck with flashing, can't tell you how many times i perform the Verizon return to stock procedure. Thought i actually bricked it once, but saved it. You are right about the gnex, unbrickable. I kept it as my insurance in case I ever actually brick this (they even have a fully functioning kitkat for it free of graphics glitches).
As far as g2 xposed, it can modify most anything you could want to, not to mention there are other mods for the xposed framework. I also never knew about it before my g2. You can modify the nav bar (height, # buttons, assign buttons, color, glow, get rid of it), modify the status bar (hide system icons, prevent certain notifications, change time/date format) and many other things. Costs $1 for all the features (worth it), free for some. A new version was just uploaded to the play store today. If you just install it, it will walk you through getting the xposed framework.
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The first part of your post alone makes me want to leave it alone, lol I'll probably do the hotspot mod and be done for the time being, lol
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ANTLAY said:
The first part of your post alone makes me want to leave it alone, lol I'll probably do the hotspot mod and be done for the time being, lol
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Yeah, reading it again it does sound pretty bad. Just so you know, i was trying to keep with the stock os (not even a custom rom based on the stock os). I think you are fine if the very first thing you flash is a custom rom.
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I came from a long line of Nexus devices and the stock rom is awesome FWIW.
Just root and install Xposed G2 Settings. Change the DPI from 480 > 400 too. Much better.

im taking the leap to g2 tomorrow from my current gnex i still didnt quiet understand this "lokified" term. so lokified is a kernel/rom that we can flash ? is there anything called unlockified or nonlockified ? im a little lost, plz assist me if its not so much trouble

shriom_manerker said:
im taking the leap to g2 tomorrow from my current gnex i still didnt quiet understand this "lokified" term. so lokified is a kernel/rom that we can flash ? is there anything called unlockified or nonlockified ? im a little lost, plz assist me if its not so much trouble
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Loki is just the hack used to root I think. Its a script that does the work on your device. I think we need Loki enabled recoveries that can use and utilize the script.
I came from a Galaxy Nexus too. Its a tad different, since you root first, then install recovery. Root requires running a bat file from your PC where it copies the Loki script. Recovery is downloaded and flashed with FreeGee from the Play Store.
But honestly, like I said before, the stock ROM is pretty amazing. Gots lots of bells and whistles no found on AOSP ROMs. If I flashed anything it would be a Flex ROM only because its like Stock+.
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Loki is just the hack used to root I think. Its a script that does the work on your device. I think we need Loki enabled recoveries that can use and utilize the script.
I came from a Galaxy Nexus too. Its a tad different, since you root first, then install recovery. Root requires running a bat file from your PC where it copies the Loki script. Recovery is downloaded and flashed with FreeGee from the Play Store.
But honestly, like I said before, the stock ROM is pretty amazing. Gots lots of bells and whistles no found on AOSP ROMs. If I flashed anything it would be a Flex ROM only because its like Stock+.
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oh good to have people from gnex here , thanks for the explanation. so basically after we root a script (loki thing) is stored in the phone somewhere which allows flashing of roms ! correct? , seems like i gotta read up. post any links if possible im going through the general section and the d802 section as well

You new guys coming over (that's funny, I haven't had the phone a week yet) need to give the stock ROM a chance. Run it rooted so you've got the access and capabilities, install G2 Xposed at a minimum, and go from there. I came from a Rezound I had running CleanRom and pretty heavily tweaked to my liking. The ONLY things I've done to my G2 since getting it on Sunday were to Root, Selectively Debloat, Install G2 Xposed and tweak, and install Apex Launcher because I like having the multipage scrollable lower dock, and if you use G2 Xposed to shorten the height of the navbar, you get an unsightly gap between the navbar and dock unless you use a different than stock launcher.
Doing all the above, the ONLY thing I've lost is the stock pinch out to show the desktop feature. Not a big loss. I had to install screen locker and set double tap in Apex to lock the screen so it still functions exactly as knock off, and knock on was unaffected.
I see absolutely no reason to install a custom rom unless you absolutely MUST have Kit Kat. Most of the aftermarket ROM's I've seen have a "what doesn't work" list. I'd rather have it all work.