I wanted to look into the possibility of recovering old/expired snapchats, and I was wondering if any of you have knowledge of this. If you do, do you mind giving me instructions on how to do it?
My phone is currently not rooted, but if need be, I will root it.
Thanks!
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Hello!
Not a long ago I've bought Motorola Xoom WiFi.
Right now I want to root it and install Clockwordmod Recovery. I've found some articles about it only few things I don't understand.
Do I need to unlock it first or I can do it later? If I need to unlock it first, how can I backup data? Because it says if I'll unlock it it will wipe all data. How can I back it up and do recovery then.
Please, can somebody give me some advice about it? Also, I want to root it too and I've found the article about it too. But I don't understand, what I need to do first, then, etc?
Please, can you give me advice, how to do it step-by-step?
Please?
Thank you!
This thread tells you how to Unlock and Root the US WiFi/3g Xoom.
Unlock first, then you can Root it. As far as I know, you have to do one before the other, you have to Unlock before you can Root and modify things. As far as backing data up, what do you need backed up? I don't think you'll be able to back things up. For things like Contacts/Email and such, I use my Gmail, and everything else I just set back up.
Back up any documents on the SD card and Internal Memory to your PC BEFORE doing anything, that way you can easily put things back as needed. It's never bad to have a copy to fall back to just in case something goes wrong.
antila said:
Hello!
Not a long ago I've bought Motorola Xoom WiFi.
Right now I want to root it and install Clockwordmod Recovery. I've found some articles about it only few things I don't understand.
Do I need to unlock it first or I can do it later? If I need to unlock it first, how can I backup data? Because it says if I'll unlock it it will wipe all data. How can I back it up and do recovery then.
Please, can somebody give me some advice about it? Also, I want to root it too and I've found the article about it too. But I don't understand, what I need to do first, then, etc?
Please, can you give me advice, how to do it step-by-step?
Please?
Thank you!
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This its why the first thing you should do when you buy a xoom is unlock it. You have to unlock to root, and doing so wipes it clean. You can't really backup, except what the above poster said. You can unlock and not root, but you can not root without unlock.
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I just had a quick questions about rooting.
I rooted my phone with motorchopper and things have been working great. Got rid of all the bloatware I didn't need as well as gave my device a quick clean. I've had little to no signs of lag(made in Korea). I'm new to the whole customization route. This is my first smartphone and I couldn't be happier with it
1. I rooted my phone successfully, however, I have heard somewhere else that the device needed to be bootloader unlocked before it is rooted. Now, motochopper, allowed it to find an exploit in the device. Is this, in any way, harmful for the phone if it finds an exploit? Most likely not, just curious. Dumb question
2. Does the device need to be bootloader unlocked before I am able to flash a custom recovery, ROM ect.? If the device turns out to be bootloader unlocked later on and released can I flash custom recoveries, make backups and use most tools successfully through ROM Manager? Or would it be best to do it through Odin and do things manually? Where would I be able to find essential files? Is odin specified for a specific device? Just curious
3.What ROM's would you recommend. Cynogenmod? I just want something that is lightweight, stable and functions well throughout the device. Where would be a good source to find good roms?
4. If the device is already rooted can I just start flashing custom recoveries, ROMs ect? Or would someone need to release an unlocked bootloader? How does unlocking the bootloader work? What are ways to do it? Flashing a file or doing something else. Idk..just curious I may be wrong.
I just want to know some good methods to make sure I don't brick this device. Of course backing up and recovering would do well. I've heard clockworkmod is one of the best custom recoveries you can use.
Thanks, in advance, for you help.
Hi everyone,
I'm brand new to the world of androids (just got a galaxy S4 for verizon) and I'm looking to root it and do...other cool things with it. However, I really have no idea where to start. I'm thinking to follow the following guide to root my phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2290798
Then what's next? What I want to is to be able to optimize my battery, get rid of junk apps first. Then maybe have some widget button that can toggle wifi/4g easily? Not really sure what to do after rooting, but I want to have an understanding of what to do after following that guide. I don't know how if I'm supposed to install a ROM after, a CWM (not really sure what that is) etc. Are there any step-by-step guides of what to do after following that rooting guide I linked above? I'd appreciate any help guys!!
I would just get it rooted so you can kill ads and other basics and read up on the various possibilities. Check all the stickies in each section and go through those tutorials of which there are many. You don't need to read every word just get yourself an idea of what is possible. Once you have an idea of what you can do you are going to have a better idea of what you want to do.
Your link 404ed for me so I'm not sure which way you were going with that. IMO for a beginner starting with chainfires autoroot is probably your easiest most foolproof way to root. An alternative is to install a pre rooted stock rom as those are starting to show up now. The threads for each have detailed installation instructions
It can wait for a bit but if you are going to stick with Android and are the type that plays with roms I would highly recomment getting titanium backup. The pay version is more useful so I would cough up, once you figure out how much easier it makes swapping roms you wont regret spending that ching. Also consider getting a root file application. I use root explorer but there are other options that work well.
Okay so I just have a few questions about rooting my phone before I do it, since I saw the root here that works for the most recent OTA update.
1) If someone happens with my phone (either bricking it from rooting or something inconsequential) will they not replace my phone due to it being rooted?
2) If they won't replace it due to being rooted (if it wasn't bricking), is there an easy way to unroot the phone?
3) I can't tell from the instructions, but I'm pretty sure some others have said that it might require you to restore factory settings, does this one require that?
4) The thread says that it is now impossible to unlock the bootloader, does this also mean that you can't use a custom ROM? How exactly do you add a ROM?
Sorry for all the questions, I've never rooted an android device before, and I don't have the time or energy to go running around Google/forums trying to find these answers.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: yes I know i've already asked 2 of these questions, but I'm a stupid poop who needs validation.
wholocked10 said:
Okay so I just have a few questions about rooting my phone before I do it, since I saw the root here that works for the most recent OTA update.
1) If someone happens with my phone (either bricking it from rooting or something inconsequential) will they not replace my phone due to it being rooted?
2) If they won't replace it due to being rooted (if it wasn't bricking), is there an easy way to unroot the phone?
3) I can't tell from the instructions, but I'm pretty sure some others have said that it might require you to restore factory settings, does this one require that?
4) The thread says that it is now impossible to unlock the bootloader, does this also mean that you can't use a custom ROM? How exactly do you add a ROM?
Sorry for all the questions, I've never rooted an android device before, and I don't have the time or energy to go running around Google/forums trying to find these answers.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: yes I know i've already asked 2 of these questions, but I'm a stupid poop who needs validation.
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first, rooting your voids the warranty, so technically, they (either VZW or Motorola) are not obligated to replace it. that being said, you can always play dumb and say that you accepted some OTA install, and now the phone won't boot up. usually, VZW will try to restore the phone, and if not, they'll replace it - no worries.
2.) I believe there is an unroot method, but I have not explored this. try doing a search on this forum for "unroot razr m"
3.) restore factory settings could unroot - check the threads
4.) you can still install a custom ROM, but you'll need to install Safestrap first. however, the custom ROMs available for SS are out-dated, and I don't think that any devs will be providing any going forward. however, I would not be too discouraged by this, as the phone is very solid stock. so rooting is the key to remove the bloatware to help increase battery life, increase performance, and reduce excess data usage.
hope this helps.
Firstly, I apologise for the noob question - I'm finding it difficult to make sense of what is required for rooting this device.
I've tried one-click root, which failed, and that's what has brought me here. I think the best first question to ask (as its a requirement for me) is that with all the options out there - will my phone need to be wiped to perform this rooting? I can't lose the data that's on it.
I keep seeing mentions of using a different ROM, which suggests it might be wiped completely.
If not, and it can be rooted without wiping it, can anyone point me at the best/latest guide for doing this?
TL;DR I just need to root this device to allow a particular app to work - I don't need/want anything else.
Thanks in advance