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It seems alot of people are getting confused with rooting of the phones, and what they need to do, and it mostly seems like people from other phones, and well the obviously new person. I just want to help with his, as some of the threads are getting and I can see it being tough to follow a 40 page thread.
It seems to me alot of the confusion seems to come from the fact of the lack of locked bootloader, along with using ODIN to flash. I'm quessing everyone from HTC phones is used to a multi step process in regards to flashing root, as you have to load a hacked bootloader, turn soff etc.
If you have a stock ed2 charge. All you need to do is run jt's root/voodoo/cwm kernel found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092114
ffd173 in post 108 has some nice instructions on it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14080378&postcount=108
The stock rooted roms you are seeing are (root stock ed1, root stock ed2) you can consider a rooted basic backup. Do not use CWM either the one from jt's kernel, or rom manager for backup and restore until a recongized dev says its okay. Use titanium backup for your backups and restores. It has been recommended a few times to not even touch ROM Manager yet, based on the way it is written to work vs what is here and how it is written
***one thing to note is that if you install a kernel using the voodoo lag fix, you must disable it prior to flashing back to any sort of stock based kernal/rom or any non kernel with the lag fix.
I am semi new with this as well coming from HTC phones, and only having this for this being my 3rd day. If I missed something in here or made a mistake please let me know and I can adjust and maintain this....havent had much sleep for a while and its getting to me
***one thing to note is that the kernel has now the voodoo lag fix such as these stock roms, you have to disable to voodoo lag fix.
Not sure what youre saying here. Are you saying that you have to disable the voodoo lag fix to install root stock ed1 or ed2?
Updated it. My apologizes.
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.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
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
hey guys. Long story short, i had my first captivate for almost more than a year, rooted it and had all the fun with it. Then, the screen cracked, i used my insurance and got a new captivate. But, after 3 months of being super busy... I figured id rather just send the new (unrooted, uncracked) captivate back, get my refund, and go back to using my old captivate, that is already rooted has all my contacts and so on. Now....as i said its been quite a while, so i am definitely rusty. First question is that i remember that since i was rooted i was able to download apk files and install them onto my phone when it waas plugged into my pc. I definitely remember using a program and having to restart the phone and apply changes or something like that. But, i don't remember the name of the program nor how i am actually suppose to do it. Also if someone can point me in the right direction and tell me what update and what not i am supposed to be on. My captivate is just rooted with a lag fix i believe. Yet, its still really slow and laggy, even overclocked... So im hoping that the new updates will be more efficient; in being fast without taking up all my battery. in my "about phone" it reads:
firmware: 2.1 update 1
kernel version 2.6.29
[email protected]#voodoo_lagfix_3.0_v1.10
Build number: ECLAIR
sorry for being so ignorant. Its just that it has been a while, and i don't want to start off my current rooting experience on the wrong foot.
are you referring to "quickboot" for easy rebooting? you may also want to look into Autokiller memory to help kill the junk. I also used ryan's OCLF.
I like you ran a rooted captivate for the longest time. it worked decently but then I tried to go to Gingerbread. MISTAKE. it was laggy bad and very unstable (Used Cezar's ROM). I didnt like it. Flashed back to the 2.2 rom (supposedly stock) and it was terrible compared to how it was. lots of lag and just overall... YUCK.
so yesterday I got the guts to flash a custom rom. I was mad at the phone so I flipped thru several flavors and ended up putting the Phoenix Ultimate (JS7) on it. HOLY S**t Balls mom!!! it was super fast, extremely responsive and worked like a dream. took me a little while to do it, (I had to flash to 2.1 (you are there), root it, cyanogenmod, then Phoenix) but it is SOOOO worth it. super fast now. my wife is asking me to do hers...ugh...
also, all the animations, graphics and just in general. it feels like I got a brand new phone. I could not be happier
thanks for the reply. Haha sounds like you have an iphone status phone now that's what im shooting for; something fast and reliable. Im going to wait and see what the majority of people like on they're captivates. So i am waiting on standby until i know exactly what and how to do it. And no, the program i believe was only on my computer. i would plug in my phone, drop in the apk file.,remove the phone, and do that recovery mode reboot thing on my phone so that the application i just dropped in installs. Sorry if what im saying doesn't make sense like I've said its been a while -.-
the program you are thinking of is the sideload wonder machine
and yes you are on a very outdated version of android, 2.1 (eclair) there has been an official update to 2.2 (froyo) and also many leaks of 2.3.x(gingerbread) but nothing officially from at&t since froyo.
noone can really tell you what you will like best, you will have to do what the rest of us do and read, read, read, then read a bit more, flash a few to try and pick what you like the best....
thank you! it was SWM.
NOW
what is MIUI, cm7 and pinnacle? custom flashes or something? i am also running my current root with launcher pro. Most of everyone on this thread seem happy with their setup as far as smoothness,responsiveness, and battery life go, which is exactly what i want!
MIUI/CM7 are AOSP versions if 2.3.x,aka gingerbread. Pinnacle is a leaked version of Gingerbread, made for the captivate by Samsung.
so gingerbread is the way to go? or rather should i say 2.3.. how hard is it for me to upgrade to 2.3 i noticed that some apps aren't even available to me in the market on 2.1. but still i want the features that 2.3 has. Besides just updating to a version of gingerbread, what are the other common things people do for anti-lag/responsiveness, while still being conservative on the battery aspect.Thanks for all the help so far guys!!!
I wasn't pleased with the gingerbread as of yet. It will get better I'm sure of it. Try out one of the 2.2 based roms as they are the most stable at this point.
Sent from my Phoenix JS7 run Samsung Captivate
so what do i do? Just get one of the 2.2's that a developer on here made? that way it has pre made fixes and stuff like lagfix already in it correct? how do i go about installing that and from where?
This thread is the best start.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=887525
after looking that over, I followed this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364
and had chosen the Phoenix ROM.
thannks but im still comopletly clueless. What exactly is it that i have to do. I know where to find the .zip rom files, but what is a kernel to a ROM? I really dont get it. does the ROM include the build like 2.2 or 2.3 or what not?
just out of curiosity, do you have AT&T captivate or rogers?
what is Rogers?
Yes. I have AT&T samsung captivate
Rogers is a rom version. You are on stock but rooted. The second link has very easy step by step instructions. The rom u get will have all u need including the kernel and modems
1. Back up ur data with titanium backup. If u don't have it, check market.
2. Flash ur phone with Odin
3. One the flash is done to stock do a master clear with Odin (your phone is on, plugged in and USB debugging)
4. Install the root per directions
5. Copy clockwork and the rom. Of ur choice to ur internal zip
6. Install the clockwork recovery (you run it twice back to back)
7. Run the new rom install with clockwork
I. Phone boots to new rom.
First time it takes about an hour. MAKE SURE YOU READ THE DIRCTIONS IN MY PREVIOUS POST.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
^^Rogers isn't a ROM version. It's a Canadian cell service provider...
thanks for clearing that up. Had no idea what Rogers was lol. Ok so, i guess i just download and install a ROM of my liking? that will also update me to froyo or 2.3 as well? any recommedations as for as ROMS go?
I stand corrected. The rom will upgrade you to what it is based on. The one I use is froyo based. There are gingerbread roms too. Mosaic seems to be a popular one as was Phoenix that I am running. Best advice.. go read those threads. Look at screenshots they have and the user feedback
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Personally, I'm a huge fan of DesignGears' roms. I'd suggest you go with something like Cognition 5v2. Its 2.3.3, very stable, very fast, and, since you've only used stocks rom up 'til now, it'll be very familiar (minus all the bloatware). He's also got a step by step guide on how to install the rom. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127578
i was trying to get to use that ROM^^ buuut i had to go to rooted 2.3 first. used this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127249&page=31
then i hit a problem, i posted on that thread as well still waiting for a response. idk what happened to my phone...this is my post on that thread "ok so i did this and i hit a problem. I got up to the red fish, i turned off the phone to get it into download mode again. and i did, Placed the kernelKF1.tar file in the pda slot and hit start on odin my phone reboots and right after the AT&t logo my screen goes crazy. it looks as if my screen is tripping on acid... and it just keep looping att logo then that. What should i do? i need the files on my phone atleast its not completly bricked"
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i am currently running cleanrom 5.0 and flashed the ktoonz kernal kt747 and needed help with the KTweaker app that was installed with it, im a noob with roms, kernels,etc.., ive been learning a lot and fell confident flashing and all but can anyone help me with the settings in the KTweaker app, im mainly looking for battery performance and this kernel was reccomended but after 1 day of running it my battery performance was horriable, thank you in advance for any help.
I'm on cleanROM 5.0 also. I tried the other kernals but ended up flashing the rom over again and kept the default kernal as I am getting great battery and performance. 14 hours and 19 minutes at 20% battery, with 4 hours of screen on time. If this helps any. I know you were asking about ktoons but thought I would give you this.
thanks i liked the battery performance on cr5 just fine, just was trying to get a little more, and like i said im still a noob can i dirty flash the cr5 or do i have to clear everything like when i first flashed rom?
All I wiped was both the caches and flashed the roms again. All my apps stayed. Everything works like a charm.
I want to flash this to my rooted but stock
I want to flash this to my rooted but stock phone... I have not changed recovery because I want the updates.... Is there a way to do this where I will continue to recieve ota updates.... totally updated at this point to jellybean... I kept having problems with roms and am sick of messing around with them.
Side note how is your reception after the last update .... mine pretty much sucks.
Thank you
russianlul said:
I want to flash this to my rooted but stock phone... I have not changed recovery because I want the updates.... Is there a way to do this where I will continue to recieve ota updates.... totally updated at this point to jellybean... I kept having problems with roms and am sick of messing around with them.
Side note how is your reception after the last update .... mine pretty much sucks.
Thank you
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No you cant. And for the reception part there is nothing you can do other then flashing a ICS radio with odin but then I think your ota will fail too. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-of...zon-sgs3-sch-i535-odin-or-recovery-flashable/
If you wanna flash a JB leaked radio (besides K3) then you will have to rock a custom recovery
I'm currently on a custom kernel and rom for 4.3 but I'm having terrible battery life and I'm tired of flashing new roms to get the same result. As for some of my friends that have a verizon S3 phone, they get better battery life and don't have all the problems that I continue to have.
Is there a way to go back to complete stock and let my phone do the OTA update and not have to worry about this phone anymore?
I know I must sound crazy for wanting my phone to go back to normal, but I'm tired of having all the problems and trying to find new roms to have them fail on me, even though everyone else seems to be having good luck with them.
So again I'm a Verizon S3 on 4.3, Baseband VRUCML1. Ktoonz kernel on CleanRom 8