I'm new to rooting and just rooted my Droid 2 Global and have no idea what to do next. Where do I find roms? What are the best ones? And how can I get rid of some of this junk moto has on here?
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I'm sorta new to this too. I rooted with Z4Root. I'd recommend going to the market and downloading Root Uninstaller. That helped me get rid of all the stupid crap verizon put on there, like Blockbuster, Kindle, CityID, etc.
Another thing you could do is look up "root" in the market. It will show you all the apps that require root access.
Becareful though, just like your home computer, uninstalling some software may have unintended consequences. Hope that helps.
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I'm sorta new to this too. I rooted with Z4Root. I'd recommend going to the market and downloading Root Uninstaller. That helped me get rid of all the stupid crap verizon put on there, like Blockbuster, Kindle, CityID, etc.
Another thing you could do is look up "root" in the market. It will show you all the apps that require root access.
Becareful though, just like your home computer, uninstalling some software may have unintended consequences. Hope that helps.
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Thanks a lot. Has anything you uninstalled caused you problems?
Not yet. But I only uninstalled the factory installed extra stuff. I noticed a slight pickup in speed and battery life (although it could just all be in my head... LOL). Let me know if you do anything else cool. Im still trying to build up enough balls to actually start flashing roms.
marcort said:
I'm sorta new to this too. I rooted with Z4Root. I'd recommend going to the market and downloading Root Uninstaller. That helped me get rid of all the stupid crap verizon put on there, like Blockbuster, Kindle, CityID, etc.
Another thing you could do is look up "root" in the market. It will show you all the apps that require root access.
Becareful though, just like your home computer, uninstalling some software may have unintended consequences. Hope that helps.
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This is a bad idea, don't do it.
When you delete the bloatware that comes on the phone, you make your phone unable to receive OTA updates from Verizon. This includes any future updates to Android version 2.3 (Gingerbread). The updates run as a patch, they check for all of the system data to be present. This includes pre-installed apps like blockbuster, amazon, etc. If ALL of the system data isn't present, the patch can't run.
Instead, you should use Titanium Backup to freeze these programs. It does the same thing, but instead of removing the files, it changes their extension, so that they can't run. It has the same effect, but when you want an update, you just unfreeze your programs, update, and then refreeze them. It also lets you make backups of your apps and app data.
If you don't want to pay for TiBu, you can always manually change all the filenames from cityID.apk to cityID.bak, etc etc. This does the same thing, for free, but is more involved and less beginner friendly.
Do what ever you want......if you want to go back to stock to get offical ota updates just search for the sbf file and your all good. Just know what your doing before you do it. If you delete bloatware it will effect ota updates. But flash the sbf with rsd lite and you'll be fine
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You could do that, yes. But freezing bloatware is more efficient. Flashing an SBF is more time intensive, and has a higher chance (not high, mind you, but highER) of not working correctly. Also, TiBU has the added benefit of being a backup utility that's easy to use and very functional and stable.
Ok.
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Well I guess that shows how much of a dummy I am with this stuff. I ended up reinstalling the stuff I removed from the market and unrooting because I had to send the phone back. It had a really weird charging issue that was present when I bought it. Im on the new one now. (Rooted to try and fix the charging issue. It didnt work). I haven't rooted the new phone yet. Im reading through all the forums to try and gain a little better understanding of how to do this stuff without wrecking my phone or missing out on updates. Thanks for all the good info! I wont be screwing around with bloatware so soon this time.
Definitly do not go the uninstall route on the Blur stuff.
Freezing is better!
As for ROMs there is only one ROM that I know of and it is Fission.
Get the ROM manager here at XDA and flashing it is a snap. It even has the Stock Droid in the manager so you can easily go back to stock when needed.
The stock rom in the rom manger still has root, busybox and is deodexed. If sent back with these programs on it will void your warranty. So if you ever need to send back sbf 1st to be safe. The .sbf takes like 15 minutes. Maybe two minutes more then flashing a ROM. So I really don't get how flashing a .sbf is difficult. And it actually is the safest due to the locked bootlader and the drivers usually never fail if running Windows 32 bit.
so i'm assuming that all of the other "popular" ROM's (liberty, rubix, apex, etc.) that say they are for the DX and D2 wont work on the D2G? I've installed many ROM's on my D2G and all of them get stuck on airplane mode and wont unlock. I end up having to restore and revert back to stock...
Yep, pretty lame that all these devs havent taken numerous peoples' offers to test out d2g ports of the d2 roms. i mean i have no idea how to port it myself but theres people saying "if you try it, ill test it" and still no devs take anyone up on the offer.
So does ne one think that we are going to get ne roms ported over to us from the dx or the d2 cuz I was lookin forward to flashing liberty to my D2G so can some1 pm if they got ne idea or if they kno when we can expect a new rom
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Hey Guys- I just rooted and installed Fission ROM on my D2G- WHEW!! My wife (the IT pro) and I rooted this past Sunday evening. We used Z4ROOT- this part was fairly easy. Then we spent the next 6 hours- with no luck whatsoever- trying to install a custom ROM. We finally found out that there aren't many out for the D2G just yet.
We finally found Fission ROM, but could not get it installed. You must have a bootstrap program to install the rom. I found this out by accident. Finally installed Fission on Tuesday night. Only used for a few hours, but so far so good.
BTW- there are several bloatware freezers on the market. I had read not to remove it, so I froze it. App Freezer for Root seems to be working fine.
Be careful, and good luck!
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We finally found Fission ROM, but could not get it installed. You must have a bootstrap program to install the rom. I found this out by accident. Finally installed Fission on Tuesday night. Only used for a few hours, but so far so good.
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There are instructions with everything you need to know (including koush's bootstrap) provided by team defuse on their website. The entire process shouldn't take more than 30 minutes tops.
And you can delete anything you want now that there is the D2 global SBF for recovery. Just make sure you know how to use it before things go awry so you don't panic and flood the forums with questions that have already been answered.
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pfallin said:
so i'm assuming that all of the other "popular" ROM's (liberty, rubix, apex, etc.) that say they are for the DX and D2 wont work on the D2G? I've installed many ROM's on my D2G and all of them get stuck on airplane mode and wont unlock. I end up having to restore and revert back to stock...
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how do you revert back to stock. yes i made a backup.
How do you get the OTA Update? I mean, you have to be on Verizon to get it, right? What if you unlocked the phone and use it outside the US with a different sim card from some other carrier? Can you still get the update? Please help.
And, if somehow I can find this precious update, then if I change my rom to Fission, I won't get updates anymore, right? Then what is the point of getting new roms? I'll have to be checking for newer roms with newer updates from Verizon all the time? Is this the idea?
Thank you,
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How do you get the OTA Update? I mean, you have to be on Verizon to get it, right? What if you unlocked the phone and use it outside the US with a different sim card from some other carrier? Can you still get the update? Please help.
And, if somehow I can find this precious update, then if I change my rom to Fission, I won't get updates anymore, right? Then what is the point of getting new roms? I'll have to be checking for newer roms with newer updates from Verizon all the time? Is this the idea?
Thank you,
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Yes, you can get the update, no matter you are not on Verizon network. But update will not be 'pushed' to you, you have to go to system/about phone/system updates. Phone will check for update and let you know if one is available. If you are already running 2.4.330, you will get prompt no update is available. If you are on 2.4.29 - you must get the prompt update is available and will be downloaded.
Update will work only if you are using stock firmware (for me it worked fine no matter I had rooted the phone, you must make sure there are no 'frozen' apps before update is applied, or it will fail to install). On Fission, it will not show/work. Many users, including myself, have reported update does not seem to be adding anything benneficial to users on GSM/UMTS networks. On some networks (in Canada and Australia so far) update causes the phone to become unreliable when it comes to keeping connection to the cellular network. Another user (in Germany) reports no problems using the updated firmware. I suspect this is related to frequencies - in Canada and Australia we use bands that overlap with US bands which as we all know have some software restrictions imposed by the phone. In Europe (Germany, Greece) you guys use 2100Mhz.
Again - update addresses some CDMA issues, I find absolutely no different with/without the update in terms of battery life or call quality. (I am on Rogers Canada - GSM/HSPA 850/1900.)
How can I bring my Droid X2 from Verizon back to how it was when I got it from the store??
I rooted my phone using MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe "pete's motorolla tools"
I removed bookmarks and I removed two or three verizon stock apk like Blockbuster and Slacker. Also allowed super user permission for apps like barnicle wifi tether and a screenshot program. I have done nothing else.
I recently got the request to upgrade to 1.3.380.MB870.Verizon.en.US but I can not upgrade.
Attempt #1
I factory reset the hard way. Hold power plus volume down... The phone boots back up and I still have Superuser icon showing but everything else is different. I realized at that time I would have to unroot but I could not remember which program I used to root my phone.
Attempt #2
I ended up installing gingerbreak and used the unroot uption on that program to unroot my phone. It said successful. I tried to install the update and it failed. I factory reset the phone and it failed. IDK why but I attempted to root the phone again using gingerbreak after that... but gingerbreak would not root my phone again, it just sat there doing nothing for an hour and 30 minutes.
Attempt #2
I searched more and found the program I originally used. I loaded it up and clicked the unroot option. It unrooted my phone sucessfully. I attempted to upgrade and it failed again!
Attempt #3
I ran the temporary root that came with MotorolaOneClickRoot.exe . Thinking maybe gingerbreak messed up some files and I needed to restore them for the unroot to work properly. The temporary root was not what I had used the first time so I'm thinking maybe I should have done the permanant root... I then unrooted the phone again. After that, I factory reset again and attempted to upgrade the phone. Still fails.
I havn't removed or modified any sytem folders. I simply deleted bookmarks and Blockbuster and other useless stock apps. I've unrooted and factory reset but blockbuster and the stock applications never come back...
I can't upgrade my phone and I need some help. I can't remember what came with the phone by default so IDK how to manually set it back. Please, how can I resolve this? How can I bring my phone back to how it was when I got it from the store??
I want that ugrade.
Notherwise fully aware if we have a forum for your device but if we do....head in over to that place and look fir the "stock ROM" for your device.
First thing is first....you need ti remove root...not familiar with device so don't know is stock Rom will restore root.
Another option is to go to the first thread on this forum and ask Samuel.....he might be able to help.
Cheers and good luck mate
I don't want to restore the root. Honestly I never really used the super user features for anything other than screenshots.
I have no roms or anything. This is just 2.3.3 with the root enabled. I did lurk around and find a link to VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8.sbf but I'm not sure if that is what I need to do? Will an SBF restore my phone and applications so I can upgrade again?
Update to my previous post. I searched around like I should have in the first place.
I used RSDLite 5.3 to flash my phone to VRZ_MB870_DTN-14.8.sbf. Which was android 2.2.2
I was then able to update the phone to version 2.3.3 and then finally 2.3.4 official OSA over wifi.
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I'm new here, I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. My apologies if not.
I have a rooted Verizon Droid 4 running Gingerbread. I had busybox installed to root it, and I configured it using the Droid utility on OS X some months ago. I used Titanium Backup (with root) to freeze the bloatware.
Fast forward to a couple days ago, when Verizon pushed the ICS update to it's phones. I downloaded it and ran it, and it reported "update failed", then I smacked myself in the head and remembered that I didn't un-root the phone.
So I disabled root via busybox, and then retried the update. It downloaded and ran, and now it gets stuck at the Droid animation screen (the one after the "M" "Dual Core" screen).
I'm thinking it's because I did not unfreeze those apps through Titanium?
In any case, I've tried restoring it to Gingerbread (219) (VRZ_XT894_6.5.1-167_DR4-1_M1-219_1FF_01.xml), and it fails on step 6/18 (cdt.bin).
I understand that you can't flash back to Gingerbread from Ice Cream Sandwich, but I'm not sure if ICS ever went all the way through.
Right now I'm downloading the ICS fastboot files (I've been attempting all these restorations via RSD Lite on a mac pro with bootcamp, and a factory cable that I made from the instructions on here (what a pain in the ass that soldering was)).
Does anyone have any advice on what to do to return my phone to stock? I can't get it to do anything.
Many, many thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help. I've been tearing my hair out over this for the last 3 days.
lol man thank god us Samsung people have Odin...
Is there a stock ICS image out yet?
Can you get into recovery or just bootloader?
I don't think this would have been hard to find if you had looked, but here's where you should be asking your questions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1503
Actually, you'll likely be able to find a thread detailing how to return to stock anyway. The problem is that, as you guessed, you didn't unfreeze those stock apps and processes before taking the update.
I hope you're able to restore to GB as ICS isn't perfect yet because of VZ's tweaking and I don't think it's worthwhile unless you're going to a custom Rom. At least now you know how to handle things in the future, though I wouldn't recommend taking updates until they've been out for a bit and problems have been dealt with.
I am on stock 4.1.2, VRBMB1. I am rooted, unlocked and with TWRP recovery. I have used Titanium to freeze SDM 1.0.
I am considering going to VRBMF1. I don't know how to safely get there. I also don't know what improvements might come with the OTA to MF1. Should I just hang out with VRBMB1 until the rumored update to 4.3 arrives? I would like to be in the position to return to what I have now (just in case), or be able to move to 4.3 if, and when, it come out. How do I proceed? Thanks
I have the same question... subscribed!
Is there a rooted/unlocked update file, or do I just run the VZ update and use Voodoo rootkeeper to restore root (or Casual unlock again, if needed)? Or dirty-flash one of the rooted/unlocked stock ROMs (and then the firmwares)?
So many ways to get there, just looking for the safest... I figure the VZ update might be best.
So, I finally bit the bullet. I backed up all kinds of things before running, but it seems I didn't need to. I unfroze SDM, and then checked for updates. It downloaded and then rebooted to install. Since CWM was installed, it tried to perform the update, gave a few errors, but I let it go anyway. After the main install was done, CWM asked me if I want to let the updater install a new (stock) recovery - I said no. Then it said that I may have lost root, so do I want CWM to fix it - I said yes. Then I cleared the cache (just in case) and rebooted. The phone booted up, said it completed the upgrade, and then dropped me back into the rooted OS. Pretty cool.
SDM did complain to say that the updated "didn't happen" but the phone shows the new MF1 version, and a few new apps as well. So, obviously, the update happened... and I didn't lose root or recovery. Damn nice...
I wonder if TWRP does the same things (disable the stock recovery and restoring root)...?
EDIT: Reading the TWRP page says that they don't support nor recommend applying a stock ROM update.
Secondly, I found that while my phone was working fine, when I tried to get into recovery, it popped up the unauthorized software error. Meh. I used the Casual rooting tool to reroot, apply the insecure aboot, and then reapply CWM... and I'm back to normal now. Not a big deal, but still more steps than I thought I needed above!
Need some answers/help...
I was stock, rooted on 8.0....saw a pop-up box yesterday about OTA, didn't think much about since I thought being rooted wouldn't allow the OTA. Have seen the occasional pop-up over maybe the last couple weeks, but I don't normally restart my phone unless it starts to lag or freeze up/run slow. A restart usually fixed that. Was perfectly happy staying on 8.0. I did a shutdown on my phone this evening, and when I restarted it, bam, I'm unrooted on 10 now, specifically, QP1A.190711.020
The phone was bought from Google, unlocked in Oct 2017. I immediately unlocked bootloader and rooted at that time and have been running stock 8.0 since. TWRP and Magisk were used following instructions from the thread here on the forum.
No data was lost after the restart today and 10 seems to be running ok. I did download some data and pictures through my USB-c onto a flashdrive and it did seem to drain my battery FAST while doing it.
What I'd like to know now is how to get root back. I wouldn't mind staying on 10, but if I re-root, will another OTA break my root again? I haven't tried to do a shutdown and a restart again to see what would happen because I'm afraid my phone will brick.
I'm kind of a noob at this, and I don't always understand when you all get technical, but I can follow step-by-step instructions.
First off, how did an OTA actually get through, update and unroot my phone?
And second, can someone point me to step-by-step instructions to re-root my phone on 10, and how do I keep it from happening again?
Thanks for looking and I'd be very appreciative if someone could help me out.
Thank you.
Jim
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Same here.
I've got a retail (NON-Verizon) rooted, stock OG Pixel with 8.1 and I've been ignoring the nag to update to 10.
My wife has a retail (NON-Verizon) Pixel 2 that was also stock, rooted 8.1 except she just took the update and asked me about it later.
Both were done with TWRP and Magisk, albeit differing versions.
She's now unrooted at QP1A.191005.007.A1
TWRP v3.2.1-0-walleye is installed.
EDIT: TWRP seems to have been nuked by the OTA upgrade.
I just tried to reboot into TWRP recovery and it's gone.
Magisk Manager app version 5.4.0 (57) + "Latest Magisk Version: v16.0" (I'm pretty sure I rooted via v14.5(1456) though) are present.
"Update Magisk Manager" is nagging about updating /installing MagiskManager-v5.8.2
Root Checker Basic v6.4.6 is also installed.
I'm scared to death to update Magisk or attempt root without some guidance from you fine folks here.
Until then, I'll start having her backup everything she wants to keep in case things go sideways.
I didn't think I was the only one this happened to.
Ok...noticed another issue.
I had Titanium Backup Pro installed. I had several apps frozen before the forced upgrade to 10. Guess what? Those apps are listed as disabled in the app list with no button for re-enabling them. Titanium Backup Pro no longer works because I lost root with the forced update to 10, so I can't unfreeze with Titanium Backup.
Is there any way to unfreeze those apps without re-rooting? Not too sure I even want to attempt to root again.
Also, I haven't shutdown or restarted since the forced update. S3NTYN3L, so you're saying you didn't have any issues restarting/rebooting? Other than TWRP being gone, no other issues?
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S3NTYN3L, so you're saying you didn't have any issues restarting/rebooting? Other than TWRP being gone, no other issues?
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Correct.
As for "other issues", none that I, or she, have noticed.
Still breathlessly waiting to hear about how I go about re-rooting without data loss.