Hello all,
My name is Mike and I'm new to XDA forums. My question may seem a bit random and I'll ask it at the risk of sounding like an idiot. Is my Nexus One rooted?
I purchased my first unlocked N1 on January 5th and lost it on April 25. (Some one is potentially happy somewhere.) I don't typically lose expensive play things but this night involved copious amounts of alcohol.
I digress. Upon receiving my replacement N1 (replaced through ADH/Loss insurance), I noticed a large unlocked padlock icon on the boot screen with the multi-colored X. This icon was not present on my first N1. Additionally, I thought it strange that the following apps were pre-installed on my device: AnySoft Keyboard, DevTools, Spare Parts, Super User Permissions, Terminal Emulator. Also, my track ball glowed different colors depending on the type of notification.
Previously in the About Phone section of Settings, I was able to check for updates but with my new N1 it's not an option. My phone info goes as follows:
Firmware Version: 2.1update1
Kernel Version: 2.6.33-cyanogenmod
Mod Version: CyanogenMod-5.0.4.1-N1
I'm familiar with rooting but never planned on doing it to my own device. I follow tech blogs religiously so when word of Froyo (Android 2.2) OTA updates came out, I figured I should know whether I'd receive it automatically or have to force it on like I did prior to losing my phone with multi-touch.
So after my short story I ask, is my N1 rooted or is the norm (Mod & Kernel Versions)? If it is, I'll start researching ways to take it back to stock form for the OTA update. If it's not, I will feel like more of an idiot.
Yes, it's rooted.
And it's running a custom mod (CyanogenMod).
its rooted
by replacement do u mean u bought it from google or ebay
Wow, It was actually sent to me from Assurion, my insurance provider. I should've mentioned that earlier.
I thought so. Thanks for the quick, speedy responses guys.
So, it looks like I'm now apart of the modding community because I like what I've seen, especially the trackball notifications. Thanks for the warm introduction.
It's not the latest version of CyanogenMod, so if you like it and want to keep using it, I'd recommend updating it. You can download cmupdater in the market.
Are you not slightly miffed that they've clearly sent you a used phone with possible warranty issues?
Actually Rusty, I am.
I have a busy day today but tomorrow will likely be an epic day as far as phone conversations with customer service goes. What bothers me is that I figured something was amiss with the phone at the initial un-boxing but I chalked it up to me forcing 2.1 on my original Nexus and possibly not receiving the full update. It's been two weeks. Hopefully, they don't assume I performed the root.
I find it amusing that the very people that would void my warranty/insurance claim if I performed the rooting myself sent me a rooted phone. However, I'm also happy that because of this "mishap" I'm free to explore the worlds of modding without concern for warranty voids.
Today, I will figure out the best approach for resolving this issue with customer service (T-Mo, Asurion, HTC...whoever). I'll keep you posted.
So I called T-Mo and Asurion and they have no idea what "rooted" meant. They assumed I was mispronouncing refurbished. Whatever the case, I had them notate the account and I recorded their info.
Once again thanks for your help. I've already updated to Froyo as of a few minutes ago. Life is good.
Gold L29 - yay!
OK, I'm an Android phone snob. Chronic flasher, thought I'd only buy Nexus devices. Pixel XL not good enough for me. As much of a Google fan I am, that device is not an upgrade and looks like an iPhone. I'm keeping my Nexus 6, have Verizon grandfathered unlimited data, the Mate 8 will be a new play phone for me and wanted something flashy (LOL) with a BIG screen. I bought a pretty crystal butterfly grip/stand which will look so cool with the gold. Looks like a great device.
Was waiting for the Mate 9, but couldn't wait any more and seems the 9 isn't a huge upgrade from the 8. Processor looks better but I think I'll be happy with the 8, then wait for the 10 hoping that they make a little improvement with the screen resolution (I know it's not a huge difference to the eye, but still...).
I'm excited to unlock and root this thing, looks like the guides are pretty strong. Reading a lot on the ROM/tool options. Haven't unlocked bootloader on a device or rooted for 2 years since my N6....should be interesting. Not a large amount of development but I think I'll be happy here and will have a new hobby.
Welcome aboard!
Welcome to Huawei Mate 8 club
darbylonia said:
Gold L29 - yay!
OK, I'm an Android phone snob. Chronic flasher, thought I'd only buy Nexus devices. Pixel XL not good enough for me. As much of a Google fan I am, that device is not an upgrade and looks like an iPhone. I'm keeping my Nexus 6, have Verizon grandfathered unlimited data, the Mate 8 will be a new play phone for me and wanted something flashy (LOL) with a BIG screen. I bought a pretty crystal butterfly grip/stand which will look so cool with the gold. Looks like a great device.
Was waiting for the Mate 9, but couldn't wait any more and seems the 9 isn't a huge upgrade from the 8. Processor looks better but I think I'll be happy with the 8, then wait for the 10 hoping that they make a little improvement with the screen resolution (I know it's not a huge difference to the eye, but still...).
I'm excited to unlock and root this thing, looks like the guides are pretty strong. Reading a lot on the ROM/tool options. Haven't unlocked bootloader on a device or rooted for 2 years since my N6....should be interesting. Not a large amount of development but I think I'll be happy here and will have a new hobby.
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Hi,
I can sense the happiness in your writing I feel the same too. Just purchased Huawei Mate 8 NXT-AL10 few days back. As soon I received my phone, I updated it to Android Nougat and the results are outstanding.
Phone is so much better. Battery life is fantastic. I already crossed 10 hour mark (screen on time) twice so far easily. Features are all working. I was bit sad not to find "double tap to wake up" by default even though I found few apps on google play store which fulfill this requirement. I was pleasantly surprised to find Call recording available even without root. Fingerprint feature is new for me, my previous phones didn't have it so I am really enjoying this feature. Camera is good too. Overall, Huawei did a brilliant job with this phone. There are so many reasons to smile with this phone. It is perfect in every way.
Huawei Mate 9 seems to have a better processor, GPU and camera. At the moment, it is expensive for me but I hope I am able to purchase it in coming months . I love Android phones, tablets and high performance laptops. I used to flash a lot with Samsung phones and tablets few earlier but I reduced it significantly over the years. And at the moment I am just having loads of fun with Mate 8 with Nougat I am sure you will have plenty of fun too once you update to Nougat. I highly recommend updating to Nougat to everyone. It is really awesome on this phone.
Cheers!
Sam
Samavb said:
Hi,
I can sense the happiness in your writing I feel the same too. Just purchased Huawei Mate 8 NXT-AL10 few days back. As soon I received my phone, I updated it to Android Nougat and the results are outstanding.
Phone is so much better. Battery life is fantastic. I already crossed 10 hour mark (screen on time) twice so far easily. Features are all working. I was bit sad not to find "double tap to wake up" by default even though I found few apps on google play store which fulfill this requirement. I was pleasantly surprised to find Call recording available even without root. Fingerprint feature is new for me, my previous phones didn't have it so I am really enjoying this feature. Camera is good too. Overall, Huawei did a brilliant job with this phone. There are so many reasons to smile with this phone. It is perfect in every way.
Huawei Mate 9 seems to have a better processor, GPU and camera. At the moment, it is expensive for me but I hope I am able to purchase it in coming months . I love Android phones, tablets and high performance laptops. I used to flash a lot with Samsung phones and tablets few earlier but I reduced it significantly over the years. And at the moment I am just having loads of fun with Mate 8 with Nougat I am sure you will have plenty of fun too once you update to Nougat. I highly recommend updating to Nougat to everyone. It is really awesome on this phone.
Cheers!
Sam
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Thanks Sam - I'l take a look at Nougat update. I won't get it until Monday so I'll just keep reading until then! Super excited.
Just got my Mate 8! Ready to mod the hell out of it! [goes back to reading forum].
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Samavb said:
Hi,
I can sense the happiness in your writing I feel the same too. Just purchased Huawei Mate 8 NXT-AL10 few days back. As soon I received my phone, I updated it to Android Nougat and the results are outstanding.
Phone is so much better. Battery life is fantastic. I already crossed 10 hour mark (screen on time) twice so far easily. Features are all working. I was bit sad not to find "double tap to wake up" by default even though I found few apps on google play store which fulfill this requirement. I was pleasantly surprised to find Call recording available even without root. Fingerprint feature is new for me, my previous phones didn't have it so I am really enjoying this feature. Camera is good too. Overall, Huawei did a brilliant job with this phone. There are so many reasons to smile with this phone. It is perfect in every way.
Huawei Mate 9 seems to have a better processor, GPU and camera. At the moment, it is expensive for me but I hope I am able to purchase it in coming months . I love Android phones, tablets and high performance laptops. I used to flash a lot with Samsung phones and tablets few earlier but I reduced it significantly over the years. And at the moment I am just having loads of fun with Mate 8 with Nougat I am sure you will have plenty of fun too once you update to Nougat. I highly recommend updating to Nougat to everyone. It is really awesome on this phone.
Cheers!
Sam
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There is B562 for NXT-L29C432? I have B520 but has too many bugs
Thestarki said:
There is B562 for NXT-L29C432? I have B520 but has too many bugs
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Hi,
You are right. There are bugs.
I have NXT-AL10 there are two more updates after B562. B573 and B575. They are slightly ok. I don't know what is the equivalent version of that for your model L29.But you might find minor improvements in the updates.
Can you take a screenshot of settings-> account e-mail>"add account" page?
Thanks,
Cheers,
Sam
So I spent several hours today with my Mate 8 unlocking bootloader and rooting. It was a little tricky, primarily with drivers issues - every device is different with unlocking/rooting. The whole DC unlocker and reading bootloader code - what fun!
So now I have a Mate 8 with unlocked bootloader and rooted...now what to do? Now I'm researching the different ROM options, nougat, etc. It still seems tricky with the encryption thing and the builds/versions thing and isn't as straight forward!
Back...to the boards.... LOL.
Love the device -- glad I got this thing.
just bought one a few hours ago today. replaced my (absolutely ****e battery life) 6P guess I know which board I will be on all night long tonight
hanifh said:
just bought one a few hours ago today. replaced my (absolutely ****e battery life) 6P guess I know which board I will be on all night long tonight
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If you're going to unlock and root it, give a shout if you run into any problems. I made it through but a few hiccups along the way.
Now the decision is what ROM to do!!!
It can get a bit tough especially with the bootloader code stuff. I recently did it myself and flashed it to L29c636b211 from c636b320 both stock and its running incredibly smooth and fast. Battery life is very solid as well.
hanifh said:
just bought one a few hours ago today. replaced my (absolutely ****e battery life) 6P guess I know which board I will be on all night long tonight
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sharkonland said:
It can get a bit tough especially with the bootloader code stuff. I recently did it myself and flashed it to L29c636b211 from c636b320 both stock and its running incredibly smooth and fast. Battery life is very solid as well.
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Feel so embarrassed, the part on the bootloader code reading that got me what I thought I was all set when clicking Unlock OEM in developers settings and thought I didn't need to call in to change to manufacturer mode, but after a couple hours I realized I needed to do that! I'm glad though that I didn't wait the 14 days to get the code - seriously my impatience is worse than the $4.
If anyone has opinions on what ROM to flash please share. After the unlocking and rooting I'm ok with setting with a rooted stock Mate 8, but I'll get restless soon..... LOL.
darbylonia said:
Feel so embarrassed, the part on the bootloader code reading that got me what I thought I was all set when clicking Unlock OEM in developers settings and thought I didn't need to call in to change to manufacturer mode, but after a couple hours I realized I needed to do that! I'm glad though that I didn't wait the 14 days to get the code - seriously my impatience is worse than the $4.
If anyone has opinions on what ROM to flash please share. After the unlocking and rooting I'm ok with setting with a rooted stock Mate 8, but I'll get restless soon..... LOL.
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i don't know why but i just got a feeling that you are flashoholic just like me, i was ok with stock rooted rom, but i needed to try something else, to change things a bit, so i had to flash nougat, and after that i found my self wanting to root, and i did it, so i am on rooted nougat Rom, i am so glad i did it, but still want more Lol
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i don't know why but i just got a feeling that you are flashoholic just like me, i was ok with stock rooted rom, but i needed to try something else, to change things a bit, so i had to flash nougat, and after that i found my self wanting to root, and i did it, so i am on rooted nougat Rom, i am so glad i did it, but still want more Lol
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How did you get to nougat ROM? I am on l29. I am not clear how to get to any ROM given encryption and different builds and what you have to flash back to. Lol.
darbylonia said:
How did you get to nougat ROM? I am on l29. I am not clear how to get to any ROM given encryption and different builds and what you have to flash back to. Lol.
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well i'm on L09 but the diference is just the model files everything else must be identical, the steps i followed are the following: 1- install twrp in your current emui version which i guess in your case should be 4.0 2- download the nougat Rom and the data file for your model and put it on your sd card 3-flash the rom first and then the data file (so far you are still encrypted but as you are using the sd card to flash the files then twrp is able to see them) 4- after you flash both of the files you will boot to nougat and can complete the initial settup process 5- now to get root (optional) you can flash twrp for nougat using fastboot and then the recommended supersu, the thread to do that is located somewhere in the development forum if i am not mistaken.... i know it was quite lenghthy but those are the steps i followed.
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well i'm on L09 but the diference is just the model files everything else must be identical, the steps i followed are the following: 1- install twrp in your current emui version which i guess in your case should be 4.0 2- download the nougat Rom and the data file for your model and put it on your sd card 3-flash the rom first and then the data file (so far you are still encrypted but as you are using the sd card to flash the files then twrp is able to see them) 4- after you flash both of the files you will boot to nougat and can complete the initial settup process 5- now to get root (optional) you can flash twrp for nougat using fastboot and then the recommended supersu, the thread to do that is located somewhere in the development forum if i am not mistaken.... i know it was quite lenghthy but those are the steps i followed.
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Thanks - very helpful! Helps me to understand the steps better.
I'm still reading about the ROM options - KangVIP, Twisted, Nougat...to see what I want to try first. :silly:
Keep us posted on what rom you try. Im also looking into nougat roms but have read so far they are not fully stable yet. My current rom, b211, runs perfect for me so i dont want to run into issues with essentially beta builds.
Doe anyone have a tutorial on how I can roll the Elate back to Lollipop? I have unlocked it with fasboot but thats as far as I got...any help would be really appreciated, dont know where else to look.
If you just unlocked the bootloader, then the phone should still have stock Nougat, so there's nothing to roll back to. And this phone never had Lollipop - not sure where that idea came from.
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Doe anyone have a tutorial on how I can roll the Elate back to Lollipop? I have unlocked it with fasboot but thats as far as I got...any help would be really appreciated, dont know where else to look.
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Doe anyone have a tutorial on how I can roll the Elate back to Lollipop? I have unlocked it with fasboot but thats as far as I got...any help would be really appreciated, dont know where else to look.
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Could I ask,why move back to lollipop..? I can understand aversion to change, but not much has changed from nougat to lollipop that's not arguably much better. App permissions are quite a bit tightened up, which can break old crappy apps.. For example, airplane mode and other radio settings can no longer be changed by any app, and requires root permissions past kitkat. It's slightly more annoying for me to set up automated tasks to change those settings, but I'd much rather go through that hassle than leave all settings unprotected..
Fwiw, I wouldn't get your hopes up.. 18 months after the first ascend was released, we still have not received the proper source files to create custom roms, and it's becoming increasingly less likely we ever will. In your case, these files would need to be available and there would need to be a developer willing to compile lollipop, a version many years outdated, when most will be attempting to port oreo and newer versions.
Perhaps if we knew why you need lollipop,we could help with a workaround, though likely you won't have much luck until someone gets twrp working..
Essentially this is to be a dedicated device for flying a DJI Phantom drone and their app is more stable on lollipop whisch is why I wanted to change it. I have been doing some research but coming up short so either I just use it as is or if it gets bad I'll just get a used more popular device. Thank you for be feedback.
If you need real-time control of something, I don't know if I could recommend this device. With a few governor tweaks this phone can be pretty zippy, but emui is about as janky as oem roms work.
If you want a dedicated device that you aren't planning on bloating up.. look around for a used galaxy s4 or s5, or an s3 even (any older phone with a snapdragon 800 series, really). They can be had for pretty dang cheap, and a 4-5 year old flagship will prove much faster than even a brand new low end device - especially if you are looking for something with lollipop.
I have an s8 that was delivered as a replacement phone with r16nw.g950usqs3cre2 build number, patch date of may 1st. I have a second phone with the same build number and patch date that was not sent to me as a replacement phone. Reason I say this is someone apparently thinks you cant get them both ways like that. The build numbers weren't always the same, they change with updates. Also people say no way to root my phone, others say total opposite. I don't mean to snub anyone, I just think people should spend a little bit more time verifying what they're saying. I've heard some say the bootloader is unnecessary for rooting purposes anyways. And so now the solution is down to if its nougat? Geez. Look at this from my perspective? It began that my S8 could be rooted, and actually was briefly. I also unsoft bricked it without usb cord. Then I could be rooted, but only with pc. Then it was exnyos only. Then it was no oreo, then no lvl 3 bootloader. I had half the apps telling me I was rooted and the other half was not. Wasn't planning on getting this deep, but I guess it's time to go finish that computer engineering degree! I ran super su and magisk at same time. DONT DO THAT!!! Otherwise, I've tried everything. Good luck all!
Hi,
I bought a Note 4 to replace my smashed note3 ( thanks!!!! ex gf :- ( ), well ran 6.0.1 but speaker was fried IR only worked 1 inch from tv ir sensor , kept randomly rebooting at less than 20% battery life. bluetooth was sketchy on multiple connections to say the least. SO complained got replacement, well replacement sent is note4 just like the last one brand new open box old stock I mean fully clean phone! But this one is the N910T the 1st one shipped was N910T3 (with a bunch of problems).
I choose the "T" because my old one was a note3 was a N900U that really did not work well on the internet side of things i.e. no 4g I am on metro by t-mobile so A T-Mobile phone would be the way to go to get fast internet.
Baseband N910Tuvu1cog2
build # lmy47x.N910tuvu2dok2 snapdragon 805 2.65ghz according to cpu-z
I need some advice, I would like to upgrade my phone to something cool, i.e. But something that will keep most features intact.
While I could live without fingerprint, I really would like to keep IR and the pen stuff intact (i.e. would like to keep scribbling notes) but most importantly I would like to keep the 4glte intact.
Also I need some hints on how to make this fail safe, I don't know much about phone flashing, the last things I flashed were a nook and a psp phat.
Anybody got a good tutorial for a noob possibly on how to back the current firmware up incase it bricks .
Also what do I need to know about the firmwares out there, which ones could you recommend that will be t-mobile/metroPCS compatible. how do I root this thing at least to do the upgrades. and how can I disable root (and should I?) once flashed so root does not leave a back door open for any tom, **** and harry to hack my phone ;- ).
Would be nice to really come into the year 2018 with this phone i.e. Pie , I mean this old flagship phone still puts some of the mid priced phones to shame :- ). But I would need a rom that would work with my phone which t-mobile doesn't even have a MM version out :- (
ANy help would be appriciated, especially where I can read up with some concise info on the upgrade and rescue processes.
Because there is simply too much info out there to really sift through
terramir
I can't even play words with friends, there is not even a version in the play store for 5.11 anymore
terramir