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Hey guys,
Great forums here, lots of awesome stuff going on and the development community is kicking!
I recently got rid of my iPhone (couldn't stand Job's arrogance anymore) and decided to go with the cost effective route of MetroPCS. When I found Android phones could be flashed to work with it, I was quite excited. I found a phone and someone to do the flashing on Craigslist (actually a local phone shop that does it).
He flashed my phone and loaded Evil Eris onto it. I wasn't under the impression that if he put this rom on, I was going to have issues, like no voicemail notification or softkey leds. Going into this, I was pretty unaware of all the different rom choices, and the effects they have on the phone, and I still kind of am. So I have a few questions, because I've been reading about Ivans and kind of want to try it out, but want to make sure I've covered all my bases.
1. I am still unaware of the exclusivity or co-dependence that "flashing" a phone and changing a rom have with one another. He flashed my phone to work with Metro, and upload the Evil Eris rom. Main question is - if I wipe and load Ivans, do I lose the ability to use Metro? Or is it simply an issue of loading up my Metro APN (i think thats right) settings once I've loaded the new rom?
2. Nandroid backup - I made one the other day. If I go in, try another rom, and screw something up, I am under the impression that I could restore that backup and my phone be working like I never left it, including MetroPCS settings, correct?
3. Can anyone suggest a good program to backup and restore carrier specific settings, so that if I load a new rom I can quickly port settings over? Does something like this exist?
4. Finally, if all of this has been answered somewhere where I didn't find, feel free to send me to those links!
Thanks in advance, everyone! Looking forward to getting to know my new phone better!
anyone able to help me out? or point me in the right direction?
I also want to make sure I posted this in the right place, not sure if it needs to be in the Eris specific forum.
I really hope you've found help already. But if not, I THINK the app called "APN Backup & Restore" is the app you're looking for.
I thought I would go ahead and make a general thread for the Cricket Huawei Ascend until something more concrete comes along. My apologies to the Mods if the word “Official " is not approved. I just want a section where people can post anything and everything about thier Android Ascends since, well, as we all know, XDA rocks and people are more inclined to look here first then any other development website!
So, post up folks! There are a few of us who have these phones and are pretty well versed when it comes to the ins and outs! I will post up some small write ups and what you can do to get a little extra bang for the buck in the speed department of things and I am sure a lot of others have valuable and up to date information!
I’ll start by posting what I have said about this phone in another thread.
Rooting this phone and removing some of the pre-installed apps and files is a must.
z4 root works great with this phone. Nothing towards Superoneclick but lets face it, its way to complicated for the average user and even then, it's hard to get working. z4 root is a total win in this case, I have managed to delete half the junk the phone came with and have noticed a slight performance boost although it's not much to brag about with a 600Mhz processor. A custom kernel is almost a must as well. I can not play non market games, it's slow if you try to multitask and is all around slow coming from an expert Droid user.
Lastly, the Swipe keyboard. Who ever would want to use that! What a slow nightmare it is to try to type with Swipe in my opinion, I deleted it. The stock keyboard is not much better. Get " Better Keyboard ", it's not nearly as laggy and it can actually keep up with fast texting.
BUT, there is a bright side to all the cons ( almost all the cons )
Rooting, deleting junk and downloading Better Keyboard makes this phone an awesome entry level phone that can hold it's own with the mid range phones. It's no Evo by any means, but, it's a step closer to becoming an affordable real “smart phone ".
The ability to overclock would make it 100% indeed a smart phone and more then capable of holding it's own vs. $300+ phones. It's a project phone, you get what you pay for but, if you have a little time and patience, you too can own a get Android device with no contract, low monthly payments and hours of entertainment from the Android platform. I, am sold on this phone. I have owned other Android type phones and I can honestly say, this phone can be some competition.
Sure it has a poor quality LCD screen and can be buggy out of the box, but like I said, a little patience and determination is what makes this phone enjoyable. And, after all, it's not like it needs constant maintenance. Just a few steps to take out of the box and your set. For $150, I can't complain now that my phone is working like an Android phone should work.
Phone runs a lot smoother without all the provider apps.
Rooted M860 selfinflicted1
I'm working on getting this phone deodexed, if there is anyone else with this phone that has some technical ability or experience with odex files, let me know, that way this can go a lot easier and quicker... If not, I'll figure it out myself...
If i knew how to deodex maybe i could help? Teach me?
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Awesome a thread for the m860. I've been messing around with this phone for past couple days. I have mine rooted and all the bloatware removed. I wish someone would come out with some custom roms already for this phone. This is only my 2nd Android phone ever. The first one was the htc hero, which i could do whatever i want with it and it worked great on cricket.
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joenathane said:
I'm working on getting this phone deodexed, if there is anyone else with this phone that has some technical ability or experience with odex files, let me know, that way this can go a lot easier and quicker... If not, I'll figure it out myself...
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I’m not to much into the real tech end of things when it comes to programming and such, sorry I can not be much help. If there is a project or anything I can do to help out, let me know.
xlarkascendingx said:
If i knew how to deodex maybe i could help? Teach me?
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I'm using this tool here http://www.droidforums.net/forum/xeudoxus/47283-release-xultimate.html
but I'm running in to some issues, it's only a matter of time before I get it figured out, lot of reading and experimenting to do...
Ben's said:
I’m not to much into the real tech end of things when it comes to programming and such, sorry I can not be much help. If there is a project or anything I can do to help out, let me know.
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I'll let you know, I'm almost finished with the theme, I just need to make the text readable in a couple of places, namely the system clock and the menus that pop up when you press the menu button...
ALSO I wanted to remind everyone, if you haven't done so already, "everyone should request support for the Ascend for the clockworkmod rom manager, that would be the real first step to getting some real modding done on the Ascend, I nearly bricked my phone a few times working on that theme, I had to reflash my phone back to stock 3 times.... which really sucks. Contact page is here for clockworkmod http://www.clockworkmod.com/contact and here is the contact email address [email protected]"
With the clockwork mod it would be very trivial to experiment with the phone, because if you/I mess up the phone wouldn't need to be flashed back to factory just flashed back to just before it was messed up, which would be awesome....
joenathane said:
I'll let you know, I'm almost finished with the theme, I just need to make the text readable in a couple of places, namely the system clock and the menus that pop up when you press the menu button...
ALSO I wanted to remind everyone, if you haven't done so already, "everyone should request support for the Ascend for the clockworkmod rom manager, that would be the real first step to getting some real modding done on the Ascend, I nearly bricked my phone a few times working on that theme, I had to reflash my phone back to stock 3 times.... which really sucks. Contact page is here for clockworkmod http://www.clockworkmod.com/contact and here is the contact email address [email protected]"
With the clockwork mod it would be very trivial to experiment with the phone, because if you/I mess up the phone wouldn't need to be flashed back to factory just flashed back to just before it was messed up, which would be awesome....
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My e-mail has been fired away! Like I said, any help or support I can give would be my pleasure.
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I'll let you... <snip>
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Sent! Hopefully we get a response!
As for clockworkmod i don't think koush will consider it... :-\ because i been trying to contact him for the past two months and no answer... he even came out with a guide to do it ourselves or to send him one of our androids for a built. I mean i could understand the guy he must have other important matters to attend to but if he want it to he can make it in two days with his kind of expertise. I think were gonna have to port ourselves a flash recovery and sent it to him so he can make it official.
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Here is that guide for porting a flash recovery, hope that someone can figure it out cuz i have no idea what the guide says lol
http://bit.ly/9PQclY
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Those instructions aren't very detailed, they seem to assume that you've done an android build before...
He says he will do it if we loan him a phone, but I can't be without my phone for a week. The Ascend is cheap enough($109.99 on crickets website, it may have to be activated to get that price, but it's $150 in stores), I propose that we all donate a bit of money and purchase one to send to koush, the clockwork dude. It wouldn't take many people to donate for us to be able to do this...
I setup a paypal button for it
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ASD4X4W4ANV3Q
As far as when he is done with the phone, I'm up for suggestions as far as what to do with it, we could sell it and then return as much money as possible back to the donors... However if I had an extra device to mess around with I would definitely use it to learn how to make custom roms, I would use it to try to port 2.3 over to our phone. Other than that I'm up for ideas...
We have an opportunity here to make some great things happen with our phone, let us not forsake this moment!!!!
If you think this is a good idea, either link back to this post or post the paypal link with the explanation to other Ascend forums or threads...
I'm down to donate $30... I will keep everyone updated as far as how much money gets donated...
Could anyone tell me how to ROOT Huawai U8150 Android 2.2?
Could anyone tell me how to ROOT Huawai U8150 Android 2.2?
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Could anyone tell me how to ROOT Huawai U8150 Android 2.2?
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Try Z4Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
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is there a guide to partitioning the sd card and installing all apps there?
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is there a guide to partitioning the sd card and installing all apps there?
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unless something has changed that feature is not available on Android 2.1 only 2.2 and up.
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has anyone else had problems and had to re root. Seems like once or twice now i have had to re root to solve download prblems. And i still cant download from the market. Any suggestions?
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I don't know about this being on the marketplace but z4root did the trick version 1.3
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ok i figured it out. Its cuz i removed gtalk service apps. They are linked some how. Can any one post a link to find the gtalk apk files. Would there be any other ways to get these files back? NEED HELP !!!
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Hey y'all.... just got the E FUN Next2 (Android 1.5 eReader) that doesn't even have the real Android Market on there. I'd like to just simply wipe it and put a vanilla install of Android 2.1 or 2.2 whichever is fine with me. However, I can't find anyone out there who's even tried to root this bloody thing. Y'all have any helpful hints or could even point me in the right direction? Here is are the specs for the eReader http://www.nextbookusa.com/productdetail.asp?product_id=1
HELP ME, OBEWON! HELP ME!
Hey, i also just got one, I have been basically searching for the same thing you have with no luck.
I have asked at nextbookusa if they planned on having any sort of update for a newer version of droid and they said not anytime soon.
So i would like to find a way to install droid like you or im thinking of returning it for a dif one.
I second that request!
Got an E FUN Next2 as a gift and I can't leave well enough alone.
Android 1.5 just isn't cutting it! HELP!
Lets go people, thought you all would right on top of this...
I have a programming background and I'd be willing to help if I knew where to start at least.
No headway. Need help!
Ok, since this if my first Android device (received as a gift), I'm not going to give up on it! I've been reading, here on XDA and other forums, and found a ton of other information, but nothing seems to pretain to the Next2.
Found a bit of hope on a thread following the Next3 on androidtablets.net (I'm still a low level forum user, so not outside links yet.) Unfortunately, I tried running the generic root tool Universal Androot with no success (still no root access).
I'm also having trouble due to the fact that the pad has no PHYSICAL home, back, settings, etc buttons. It seems to negate a lot of the basic rooting applications out there.
I realize this tablet isn't the most amazing and spectacular device available, but it has some potential, and I'd like to see what it can do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The more and more I mess with this Next2 the more I figured I got what I paid for. The is a great unit for reading books and minor bs apps..Most of the apps will install but won't work...And most of the apps that are available are bs and have no use...lol This site is usually hot on new gadgets and help the common folk out...Please figure out how to turn this KIA into a Hyundai...lol
So you can root this with Universal Androot 1.6.2 Beta 5. This gives you perm or temp root access. I haven't seen a rom for the device though. I really want to get rid off the the extra os junk.
has anybody had anyluck with the next2?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988740&page=110
So lets begin with, I have recently bought an SGS I5000 (March 25th). It has since then been working magnificent, until about 4 or 5 hours ago (lagging, force closing, and all that horrid stuff imaginable). I did indeed root via SuperOneClick and have successfully increased the performance. Linpack: 16+ (nearly eighteen at one point) and Benchmark (Antutu): 2,500 slighty above the HTC desire (including overclock; tegrak and (task killing, and freeing up as much space possible etc.). I have NOT however, flashed any kernels or ROMS. Mainly due to the fact that being this is my first official XDA forum post, I have not researched it nor have little to no knowledge of how to. Getting back to the matter at hand. My question(s) to you fellow androidians is: Is there a better way to root my phone using a different root tool? How do I get ROM manager to work? Is applanet worth the (lack) of expense? What is a "shell" root and how do I get it to work? (this part is a bit confusing because the box always pops up saying I have a temp. ADB root, and that I should reboot my phone to get rid of it. Well the problem in that area is that I need root to reboot my phone (even then it still fails to reboot using superuser) and standard reseting also fails miserably. How do I get most of my rooted apps to work? ( I've gotten the standard lagfix:v1+ to work ONE single time and then I turned it off, and it has not worked since and even before then due to not enough free space it tells me). Even though when I check my freespace I have more than enough. So it tell's me, and I was just wondering if anyone has any spare time to help me out? Now the MAIN question is! What can I do (in all general aspects of the android community) to get the ABSOLUTE best out of my mesmerize? Sincerely, David! SGS I5000 (froyo 2.2.2)
Alright you're going to have to be more clear and explain specifically whats going on...First off, did you successfully root the phone or not? If SuperOneClick successfully rooted your phone, then its rooted, thats it. There's no to be messing around in adb.
Sorry your post really is just confusing, I'm simply having a hard time deciding what your situation is.
Secondly, ROM Manager will not work on the Mesmerize, period.
Lastly, I don't know what applanet has to do with anything (it doesn't even require a rooted phone) but FYI, this is not the place to discuss pirating software (which is applanet's primary use). So, just keep that kind of jazz to yourself.
Nvm buddy, figured it out :7 thanks for the reply though! And as for the "blackmarket" apk. I have not used it, but seeing the reply you gave me about it told me everything I needed to know sorry for the confusion, I've had this thing for a month and this is the only time I've needed help, but I've got it worked out now.
No problemo man. Glad you got it up and running.
Hi, All--
I've been scouring the web for almost 24 hours before asking this question (because I know how much forum-regulars hate duplicate posts that have already been addressed), but I can't seem to find anything specific to my case.
I rooted my AT&T Note II using CWD and flashed Android Revolution HD. Everything worked fine. The ROM is sleek and elegant and packed with functionality. Unfortunately, my phone no longer recognizes the SIM card. At no point have I been able to make a phone call or send a text message since the phone has been rooted. In addition, it seems to shut down randomly. It may be worth mentioning that I rooted the phone using a Mac, but I don't think that affected too much.
Since then, I've been looking to possibly wipe the phone, re-root the phone, or un-root the phone and install AT&T's stock firmware (which seems to not exist yet), but none of these options have worked particularly well. I even wiped the phone then attempted to flash a different ROM (I tried Paranoid Android) but was greeted with multiple "Installation Aborted" messages in CWM.
This http://www.andromods.com/unroot-locking/how-to-restore-samsung-galaxy-note-2-to-stock-rom-firmware-with-odin.html went online yesterday and purports access to stock AT&T firmware for the Note II. Unfortunately, I can't confirm this because I can't run Odin on my Mac.
I found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992303&highlight=wipe here on the forums, which seems like a promising way to unroot an AT&T Note II, but when I tried to run TWRP, I kept getting "Installation Aborted" messages as well.
Can anyone help?
Thanks, mods, for moving my thread to the appropriate forum.
Is bumping a thread considered rude here? If so, please forgive my impatience--I've never used an Android phone before a few days ago, and I'm kind of thrilled to finally get to play with my phone.
coreysusername said:
Thanks, mods, for moving my thread to the appropriate forum.
Is bumping a thread considered rude here? If so, please forgive my impatience--I've never used an Android phone before a few days ago, and I'm kind of thrilled to finally get to play with my phone.
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Any headway here? The same exact thing happened to me!!!!