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Root MR2, seems more stable and smooth plus no reboots..
Makes no difference. The root process is the same either way you go. It's just a matter of which radio and which rom you will use.
Root and go to MR2 now, it doesn't make a difference if you wait or not.
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So I've rooted my phone already, I had updated to the .6 Sprint release and went back to .5 and used that method. My wife's Hero is still on 1.5. I'd like to be able to back up all of her apps before flashing a custom ROM.
My question, is there any drawback to rooting from 1.5 and then installing a custom ROM like Regaw's, or Fresh, or Nfinite's, or CM6? Am I able to do this without first running the .5 RUU? Will I need to manually upgrade the radio if I do this?
Sorry for all the questions, I know how to find all of these root methods, but not sure what method is best to make sure I get everything updated and running properly.
Thanks!
fallonjp said:
So I've rooted my phone already, I had updated to the .6 Sprint release and went back to .5 and used that method. My wife's Hero is still on 1.5. I'd like to be able to back up all of her apps before flashing a custom ROM.
My question, is there any drawback to rooting from 1.5 and then installing a custom ROM like Regaw's, or Fresh, or Nfinite's, or CM6? Am I able to do this without first running the .5 RUU? Will I need to manually upgrade the radio if I do this?
Sorry for all the questions, I know how to find all of these root methods, but not sure what method is best to make sure I get everything updated and running properly.
Thanks!
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You do not need to ruu at all unless you have to take your phone in for service under warranty.
No problems at all. Once you are rooted and have recovery installed you can flash away. Just remember to wipe EVERYTHING in between flashings. It will save u a ton of annoyances.
My opinion is go straight to CM6 it is amazingly fast and stable. Just in case you dont know the link to the IRC channel for CM6 here it is: http://webchat.bikcmp.com:9090/?channels=hero-cdma
Welcome to the HERO and be careful. Flashing is VERY addictive.
So far im loving the phone battery life seems to be better but I wont know till I get a full day charge and use.
Anyway I get this message to update my charge software and I am alittle hesitent to do so as i do not want to doom myself. The phone is currently running Baseband ED1 and Build Number ED2 Kernal [email protected]#1. The update wants to bring me to i510.EE4 which is 9.9meg. My question is I want to stay fairly stock right now on the rom but want to update and then root and do a nandroid backup. Ive read some of the threads and sorta have some confusing moments. Ive rooted everything from dellstreaks,thunderbolts,evos,nexuss4g,moments. So now i want to root my first sammy and do it right and be able to have stability. Ive watched some vids on youtube that seems straight forward just want your take on this whole Odin. I just want stock firmware updated with root for my goodies. What is a quick recommendation for my situation.
Edit: think i figured it out.
First time poster, running stock Android. I'd really like to keep my G2x but, even after a manual Gingerbread update, it is still unstable. The random reboots have stopped, but basically every 1-3 days it slows down to the point that I have to manually reboot it. Sometimes it freezes when I try to reboot and I have to pull the battery.
All things equal, I would rather not root my phone. I'd be perfectly happy to keep stock software if my phone were stable. BUT, I am willing to root if it means I can have a stable build. I don't care about constant upgrades, bells and whistles, etc. I just want my phone to work without me worrying about it.
What do you think is my best option? Should I just try to return the phone and hope for a more stable replacement with Gingerbread pre-installed? Or should I root it? I am fairly competent technically but have never tried rooting a phone. If I root, then a few questions:
1) What rom should I put on the phone? Like I said, I am looking most for stability and functionality. Battery life is important too. I don't care about overclocking or any of that jazz.
2) If I root it, can I go back to stock?
3) Does it void my warranty if I root it?
Thanks for your help.
This is probably the easiest phone to root and install clockwork recovery, seriously you should root it as it definetly helps and you can always go back to stock.
Check out tgagunmans nvflash tool for the latest 5.0.2.0 recovery. Oneclick root is as easy as connecting your g2x to PC and clicking root on oneclick LOL
As for roms I would reccommend faux's aosp 1.3.1 nexus rom or cyanogenmod 7.1 stable to start with as they are both great on battery life and excellent performing.
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bjk81 said:
First time poster, running stock Android. I'd really like to keep my G2x but, even after a manual Gingerbread update, it is still unstable. The random reboots have stopped, but basically every 1-3 days it slows down to the point that I have to manually reboot it. Sometimes it freezes when I try to reboot and I have to pull the battery.
All things equal, I would rather not root my phone. I'd be perfectly happy to keep stock software if my phone were stable. BUT, I am willing to root if it means I can have a stable build. I don't care about constant upgrades, bells and whistles, etc. I just want my phone to work without me worrying about it.
What do you think is my best option? Should I just try to return the phone and hope for a more stable replacement with Gingerbread pre-installed? Or should I root it? I am fairly competent technically but have never tried rooting a phone. If I root, then a few questions:
1) What rom should I put on the phone? Like I said, I am looking most for stability and functionality. Battery life is important too. I don't care about overclocking or any of that jazz.
2) If I root it, can I go back to stock?
3) Does it void my warranty if I root it?
Thanks for your help.
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If return, what other phone do you have in mind? Depends on what you paid for this G2X. sensation is not a bad choice or wait for the samsung GSII
Root.
Its easy..fast..and reversible!
I run stock kernal with weapong2x and its stable and gets decent battery life.
Here is my experience:
I have always been the type of person to put roms on their phones. Every since I had my OG droid and the bootloader was unlocked my accident. I've have had nothing but good experiences from ROMs.
I had the HTC Sensation originally (never had the g2x until 3 weeks ago) and found that after modding it still was a slow phone. The screen was nice, but thats about it.
I Rom'd the g2x first with eagleblood, now im running MIUI and am in love. Super stable, no issues, works better than you would expect. The Devs on this site have made it ridiculously easy to root and mod this phone. It is very hard to ruin this phone when modding. Especially if you read the instructions.
Root it
I rooted the G2x and am running latest CM Nightly ROM on it. Very stable – no reboots yet – and fairly good with battery life (I can get through a day pretty easily even with streaming music over 4g and using Navigation). The G2x also offers tethering and becomes a Wifi hotspot, which helps a lot for my job. So far a rooted G2x has been great for me, and using ROM Manager app after rooting keeps things easy.
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d12unk13astard said:
This is probably the easiest phone to root and install clockwork recovery, seriously you should root it as it definetly helps and you can always go back to stock.
Check out tgagunmans nvflash tool for the latest 5.0.2.0 recovery. Oneclick root is as easy as connecting your g2x to PC and clicking root on oneclick LOL
As for roms I would reccommend faux's aosp 1.3.1 nexus rom or cyanogenmod 7.1 stable to start with as they are both great on battery life and excellent performing.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
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Is One-Click working for G2x? I tried it last week and it would not root the phone, leading me to use tgagunmans' method I could be wrong, tho.
Cool, thanks for the advice. Is there a backup tool so I can keep my programs and settings, or do I have to reinstall everything after rooting and installing new rom?
Titanium Backup. Settings -> Batch -> backup apps w/data.
Hey buddy flash this root zip in cwm and your done easy as hell u could also unroot it too if had too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255214
But is it now too late to return to Gingerbread original.Because i cant find anything on the HTC site directing to firmware updates.
And another question is it still possible to root your sensation when you have flashed to ICS 4.0
If you flash it the fully official way, assuming you didn't unlock bootloader and get S-Off: Not possible through normal means. Only if you can get S-Off there are some risky tricks to downgrade which I personally wouldn't prefer. About rooting a fully stock ICS. According to some, the most recent SuperUser versions are working.
How does the stock version feels in comparison to GB?
It just feels smother, I did had to wait for it to settle down but now its working fine.
being on a rooted phone i didn't want to wait and do all sorts of changes to get the ota working so i flashed ardh. It's my first custom rom untill now i have been using stock roms.
Glad to hear it's an improvement.
Okay, I have gotten my phone rooted, and am ready for a new ROM, but I am running into a roadblock- most ROMs seem to need you to be S-OFF to work. :-( Since half the threads still assume you can't root an S-ON Doubleshot, there isn't much discussion of which ROMs are appropriate.
Any suggestions of stable, mature ROMs that will work on an S-ON Doubleshot of these specifications?
hboot 1.45.0013
S-ON
Unlocked Bootloader
ClockworkMod Recovery working
Rooted
My specifics:
Currently running a slightly-cleaned-up version of stock, don't remember which link (sorry). I borked my base install, so until I find a true stock ROM or backup, staying with stock and just cleaning it up isn't an option.
Other than the fact that I prefer Go Launcher Ex to Sense, I really didn't mind the stock ROM. I suspect that I will enjoy greater speed with a new ROM, but my main concern is stability. I don't have a backup phone, so this one needs to work very well. I wouldn't mind some of the improvements in ICS, but I don't know how many of my preferred apps have updated for it, so sticking with GB seems safer.
I do want the Play Store rather than Google Market, which seems to be an issue for no reason I can find (even on the stock before I started all of this I had trouble getting it to update). Other than that, I just want stuff to work properly. I am willing and able to be a good error reporter, but I would prefer not to need that capability on a day-to-day basis.
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Obviously, I will keep poking around on my own, but I figured asking publicly would be a good thing for others with the same limitation.
Try Bulletproof, I have been running it for a long time now, and I have found that everything works, and has way less issues than the stock rom. Just make sure you flash the kernel through fastboot before flashing the rom through recovery. Follow the directions in this thread. You can use any of our roms with this method, just gotta flash the kernel through fastboot first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1508556
Edit: I know this works, because my boyfriend had to get an insurance replacement, and it had the new hboot. So my boyfriend is on the same hboot as you, unlocked, and S-on. He had me do this for him, because he kept having alot of random reboots on stock.
Bulletproof vs. MikTouch
Thanks very much for the suggestion! Haven't read up on Bulletproof yet- will go to that thread next.
Have you tried MikTouch? I am basically reading the ROM threads that look likely, and it seems to be the more-updated version of Bulletproof. Long thread, and I'm just now getting near the end, but it seems likely to be okay. Not sure if it sounds better or not, just wondering if you had compared, or just like Bulletproof enough to want to stick with it.
I have tried alot of the ICS roms, and always found something that didn't work right. I have heard good things about Miktouch, but I haven't tried it, because it just seemed so similar to Bulletproof, and I haven't had any issues with Bulletproof yet. When I do change roms it will be to an ICS rom, but so far none of them are quite where I need them yet. I see that fantastic progress is being made with CM9 though, so that is what rom I have my eye one once all the wrinkles are ironed out.
CM9 Alpha 4 works perfectly for me, but other people have reported bugs.
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CM9 Alpha 4 works perfectly for me, but other people have reported bugs.
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Cm9 and MikTouch are my dailys, just cause I won't run a year old shipped ROM.
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Firefairy said:
Thanks very much for the suggestion! Haven't read up on Bulletproof yet- will go to that thread next.
Have you tried MikTouch? I am basically reading the ROM threads that look likely, and it seems to be the more-updated version of Bulletproof. Long thread, and I'm just now getting near the end, but it seems likely to be okay. Not sure if it sounds better or not, just wondering if you had compared, or just like Bulletproof enough to want to stick with it.
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I run the MikTouch 0.7 ROM with the Genius and other patches, and Strapped's 1.7GHz kernel. I have the phone running at 1.5GHz max, 192Mhz min and the smartassv2 governor. I'm getting a day+half normal usage on the stock original HTC battery! The ROM/Kernel combo is very smooth, and it has all the benefits of the latest 1.63.531.2 HTC ROM (which was a very nice improvement over the previous releases). I like a stock-based ROM simply because this phone is my ONLY phone, I need it to be rock-solid stable and everything to work as it should without any surprises or stand-on-your-head-with-finger-in-ear to get it to work.