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sd rom development? ??

I use to own a hd2 which is a windows phone was able to boot up android rom from SD ... is it possible to do the same with a file manager on g2x soo that we are able to play with different Tom's without having to root the phone? For people who doesnt own a computer to root I know it's easy with the one click root... but its impossible to root without a computer :/ .

The mytouch 4g is the only phone I know of that can be rooted without a PC. And no root means no custom ROMs.

I was able to root through an app in the market with my Vibrant until they made it illegal.

nraudigy2 said:
I was able to root through an app in the market with my Vibrant until they made it illegal.
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It's illegal to make rooting illegal.
There was a ruling on that late last year or earlier this year.
It is completely legal to modify your phone software but you run the risk of voiding the warranty.

It's not "illegal" in the "legal" sense - it's a violation of Google's rules to have an app that can root your phone on the market.

Visionary is the only way to root without a computer and that was used for the myTouch 4G and G2x
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EmceeGeek said:
Visionary is the only way to root without a computer and that was used for the myTouch 4G and G2x
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U mean the regular g2 right
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greengoldmello said:
U mean the regular g2 right
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Visionary was used for devices with HTC's nand lock on devices with the second gen snapdragons like the MT4G, G2, and DHD (not so sure about any other devices).

The Nook Color had something similar. It's bootloader was built to load a rom off of the SD card if one would exist. So you could load Clockwork Mod and root without a PC (less downloading and setting up the microSD cards).
You'd waste less time focusing finding a PC to let you root the phone then trying to find a PC-Less-Root-Method since I don't think any exist.

Huawei Ascend root

I am planning on rooting my GFs Huawei Ascend with this guide:
http://androidforums.com/ascend-all...-step-rooting-instructions-huawei-ascend.html
Now I already have a rooted Evo 4G and I know with that there are risks of bricking. Are there any risks of bricking by doing the steps in that guide? (Cricket version) I plan to freeze all the apps they recommended as well. Or is there any better way to root this?

Use Gingerbreak.apk to root it.

Is there any link for it on XDA? Also why would I use that? Please explain

DRatJr said:
I am planning on rooting my GFs Huawei Ascend with this guide:
http://androidforums.com/ascend-all...-step-rooting-instructions-huawei-ascend.html
Now I already have a rooted Evo 4G and I know with that there are risks of bricking. Are there any risks of bricking by doing the steps in that guide? (Cricket version) I plan to freeze all the apps they recommended as well. Or is there any better way to root this?
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there is hardly a chance of bricking your phone by rooting. and i think z4root is the way to go (its easy to use, gets you rooted in under a minute)

What about superoneclick? I was reading it in the thread. It enables third party apps too. I haven't read about any deleted SD cards with z4 though. But I have with soc and Gingerbreak
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DRatJr said:
What about superoneclick? I was reading it in the thread. It enables third party apps too. I haven't read about any deleted SD cards with z4 though. But I have with soc and Gingerbreak
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well all rooting methods do the same thing: they get you rooted. its just that some are easier to do than the others and some work on certain android versions. i recommended z4root because all you have to do is open the app and hit permanent root. for superoneclick, you need to connect your phone to the computer, enable usb debugging, etc (its not much of a hassle, but why not just root on your phone?)
and heres the link for gingerbreak:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044765

Will it enable third party apps like SOC will? and I don't mind doing the extra work, I had to use the long ass method for my evo

Hi guys I'm have been in all ascrnd forum asking why if I'm runnin cyanogenmod7 why I cannot install cm7.2 can somebody help me please
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DRatJr said:
Will it enable third party apps like SOC will? and I don't mind doing the extra work, I had to use the long ass method for my evo
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what is soc?
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Super One Click

what do you mean by enable third party apps? are you talking about installing apps from unknown sources (installing apps not from the market)? if so, then yes. you can do that as long as you're rooted
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Yea and her phone has that option to do so. I guess I will just use Z4 and freeze the apps I can that are safe, and then maybe put a ROM on it, probably not though. Also, is there any chance of data on phone (SDCARD / Contacts) being deleted? I saw in the GB thread or maybe SOC that SD CARD can sometimes get formatted.

DRatJr said:
Yea and her phone has that option to do so. I guess I will just use Z4 and freeze the apps I can that are safe, and then maybe put a ROM on it, probably not though. Also, is there any chance of data on phone (SDCARD / Contacts) being deleted? I saw in the GB thread or maybe SOC that SD CARD can sometimes get formatted.
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i think its safe to use z4root. nothing was deleted when I used it
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Okay thanks. You have really been a big help. I'll hit the thanks for ya

DRatJr said:
Okay thanks. You have really been a big help. I'll hit the thanks for ya
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glad i was able to help you

Rooting a no name device?

So I have a android tablet, one of those cheap crap tablets from the 2011 tablet craze. Its called a skytech primer pocket. I want to root it to remove stock garbage they included on it. So how would I do this considering that its a device that isn't really known?
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i GOT LOTS OF WAYS FOR ANY ANDROID DEVICE
One click root tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736271
And also Z4root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
And Also Super one click http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
Now on every android device what ever it was it Must have a boot loadre
So power off your device and hold down volume down then power button
if not volume up and power button and if you were lucky it will be in English or you can see a chinese translator
I ve been able to access my friends tablet boot loader but it was Chinese in the boot loader there might be things to help
Any way the program up there in the link it is universal so it should root your device
of course i can,t use it cuz iam on HTC EVO 3D
If i helped please Kick the thanks button for me

ananjaser1211 said:
One click root tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736271
And also Z4root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953
And Also Super one click http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682
Now on every android device what ever it was it Must have a boot loadre
So power off your device and hold down volume down then power button
if not volume up and power button and if you were lucky it will be in English or you can see a chinese translator
I ve been able to access my friends tablet boot loader but it was Chinese in the boot loader there might be things to help
Any way the program up there in the link it is universal so it should root your device
of course i can,t use it cuz iam on HTC EVO 3D
If i helped please Kick the thanks button for me
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Ok so i tried to get z4 installed but it wouldnt install.

brokenAndroid93 said:
Ok so i tried to get z4 installed but it wouldnt install.
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Then boo hoo it won't work, try super one click and unlock root as well. z4root is an older method anyways
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gagdude said:
Then boo hoo it won't work
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it really is too much to ask for someone not to be rude for no reason no matter where you go.
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Ill just see if skytech has the drivers.
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Don't say z4root won't work, it never works unless you're on eclair. I'm saying you can't make a post simply stating something doesn't install on this forum, you gotta at least say "when I try to install it says 'application not installed'" or the like.
Like I said before, you shouldn't expect it to work anyways, so why make a post saying it won't work? Don't tell me how was I supposed to know that, because googling z4root will yield you some results from 2 or 3 years ago.
I also suggested you try unlock root and superoneclick, because the poster before you said to try superoneclick as well and my translation of your post was that you chose to ignore that suggestion.
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gagdude said:
Don't say z4root won't work, it never works unless you're on eclair. I'm saying you can't make a post simply stating something doesn't install on this forum, you gotta at least say "when I try to install it says 'application not installed'" or the like.
Like I said before, you shouldn't expect it to work anyways, so why make a post saying it won't work? Don't tell me how was I supposed to know that, because googling z4root will yield you some results from 2 or 3 years ago.
I also suggested you try unlock root and superoneclick, because the poster before you said to try superoneclick as well and my translation of your post was that you chose to ignore that suggestion.
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Hold up, first of all I didnt know this wasnt going to work, I was told to check it out yesterday and it said it supposedly would work on froyo. But its all OK, ill just TRY to get the drivers and do Super one click.
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brokenAndroid93 said:
Hold up, first of all I didnt know this wasnt going to work, I was told to check it out yesterday and it said it supposedly would work on froyo. But its all OK, ill just TRY to get the drivers and do Super one click.
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Ick sorry I didn't mean to be rude the first time and I get pissed easily thanks to my hot head. Let's make up and forget I ever acted like an ass.
I did forget SoC and unlock root require drivers (Duh, it needs to connect to the computer :banghead: ) but either one should definitely work.
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gagdude said:
Ick sorry I didn't mean to be rude the first time and I get pissed easily thanks to my hot head. Let's make up and forget I ever acted like an ass.
I did forget SoC and unlock root require drivers (Duh, it needs to connect to the computer :banghead: ) but either one should definitely work.
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its ok, I got a bad temper myself so it happens to all of us.
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Are you running 2.3.4?
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Well myself i know that z4root have like 70% Not working
cuz i saw some people use it and make it to work
just google for a fix use xda
and btw i post the 2 other programs cuz maybe they work my friend has Tried the superone click and it worked on his galasy s1 i9003
so hope you could root that thing
it is all about googling

Android311 said:
Are you running 2.3.4?
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2.2
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gagdude said:
Don't say z4root won't work, it never works unless you're on eclair. I'm saying you can't make a post simply stating something doesn't install on this forum, you gotta at least say "when I try to install it says 'application not installed'" or the like.
Like I said before, you shouldn't expect it to work anyways, so why make a post saying it won't work? Don't tell me how was I supposed to know that, because googling z4root will yield you some results from 2 or 3 years ago.
I also suggested you try unlock root and superoneclick, because the poster before you said to try superoneclick as well and my translation of your post was that you chose to ignore that suggestion.
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thanks for replaying
btw i was almost sure z4 wont work
cuz when i first bought my htc evo 3d
i started to search for easy ways to do and failed
so boom went to hard ways
and then i become an expert in evo 3d
first thing was hard to me l0l unlocking the bootloader hehe
then i moved on
it was hard as hell
and some times i get errors and stay hourse on google trying to figure out how to fix them
so then i started my channel to let the people know what i know
some day i flashed a kernal for cdma on a gsm phone
phone won,t boot and i kep trying and trying but i finaly i found and created a video about how to fix it(how to flash boot img)
And finaly guys i knew that easy ways are bad
they are easy cuz the don,t do well
Hard work always give results
easy ways don,t
every time you wan,t to post a question make sure to have full details
like we all do in xda(iam new)
paste your full details please :laugh:

ananjaser1211 said:
Well myself i know that z4root have like 70% Not working
cuz i saw some people use it and make it to work
just google for a fix use xda
and btw i post the 2 other programs cuz maybe they work my friend has Tried the superone click and it worked on his galasy s1 i9003
so hope you could root that thing
it is all about googling
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yea just gotta get the drivers and hopefully itll work lol.
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[Q] To root or not to root..thats the question!

Hey guys,
since more than a month i am using the xperia active from Sony Ericsson and i ve still guarantee on it.
It s an awesome smartphone, but sometimes the RAM is overloaded and it starts to lag.
Then the battery works for just a day, because of the background-apps, then i ve to charge it again... really annoying
Thats why i want to root my smartphone. Actually i ve ICS(4.0.4) on it (before it was 2.3 or sth.) and i would like to keep it, but on it i want superuser rights. Therefore i found "zergrush" from doomlord, but in other threads i just read thats for Android 2.2/2.3 ...
Is it possible to root my phone without loosing my guarantee (to make root "nearly" unseen after unroot, in case of warranty) on that device?
(sorry for my bad english, i hope you understood my situation and give me some answers )
greetings Red :angel:

You can try rooting using Doomlords method for ICS
Flash a stock kernel of 4.0.3
Root it using Doomlords kit
PS its a batch file
Flash back 4.0.4 kernel
Done !!!
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---------- Post added at 08:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:10 PM ----------
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678690
[ROOT][FTF][locked/unlocked]Neo/Neo V Official 4.0.4 ICS 4.1.B.0.431; 4.1.B.0.587
This is for Neo
But yours is also similar phone so might work
Try at your own risk
I am not responsible for any damage....
So read a few threads beforehand !
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Noo, dont root. Youll get stuck in fastboot and spend $12 on repairs!
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Whether you're going to root it or not is up to u. However, if u do root and u want to make it unseen or unroot, flashing an official stock rom removes the root data.
i read a thread that made a few things clear, i cant remember who posted it (sorry) but it just said that if they cant prove that u rooting your phone is the cause of whatever wrnt rong with your phone, they will still have to fix it under the warranty.
I also never heard of anyone messing up their android as a result of rooting.
Im not saying jump into it and root your android, be careful as we are always warned that their are risks onvolved and developers knows best
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OptimusLove said:
Noo, dont root. Youll get stuck in fastboot and spend $12 on repairs!
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No man.... if you read well before doing nothing like that would happen...
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carlyle69 said:
Whether you're going to root it or not is up to u. However, if u do root and u want to make it unseen or unroot, flashing an official stock rom removes the root data.
i read a thread that made a few things clear, i cant remember who posted it (sorry) but it just said that if they cant prove that u rooting your phone is the cause of whatever wrnt rong with your phone, they will still have to fix it under the warranty.
I also never heard of anyone messing up their android as a result of rooting.
Im not saying jump into it and root your android, be careful as we are always warned that their are risks onvolved and developers knows best
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Very nicely explained mate....
Good
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For sure root it´s the best option for anyone that like to customize the system.

You should try superoneclick its a program which basically roots your your phone for you, gives you superuser and there shouldn't be drastic changes to your OS either
google it and download then go to youtube and follow a tutorial such as youtubeDOTcom/watch?v=lD4_wAj1WIY (sorry cant post links yet)
As for warranties I'm not sure but this is the safest and easiest method I'm aware of
but you should probably make sure it works on your phone and make a backup before you try it

[Q] how to and what to do?

okay my aunt has an
AT&T LG Phoenix P-505 phone with Android 2.2 on it (Here is the phone)
i was thinking of putting JellyBean on it from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811325
BUT i dont know what i need or what to do for this phone............... PLEASE help with step-by-step of how to........ i would like everything to be on the Micro SD-card (like the Nook color can be), if it can't be than thats fine!. like i said i am in need of a step-by-step how to
Please & Thanks

A step by step guide will be unlikely. Making a rom comes from experience and knowledge. It will take alot of work to get that done on your aunts phone. Honestly i don't think its worth it, there is so much involved in trying to develop a rom for a phone. I would just experiment with the phone, do some theming and become use to how the phone works and functions, remember...its all experience
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okay.............
well can someone help me make a back-up of the phone, then help me understand how to change it to the CM10? from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811325

Is your phone rooted?
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Android311 said:
Is your phone rooted?
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No
i don't know how to or where to get the stuff to do it, i found a little guide(HERE) and where you download the CM10 rom from is here same for its "source" of the info on there..... but it nor here tells me or helps point me to where i can get ClockworkMod Recovery installed to be able to root it(dont know if thats needed or not)...... so thats why im looking for help
my aunts phone has a mind of its own.... removes photos, music, contact and so-on when ever it wants turned on & turned off, but if i was to root it with cm10 i know it would fix it all(the phone has been used by many ppl in her family that have messed it up)

Well
Root your phone by this method
http://www.lg-phones.org/how-to-root-lg-phoenix.html
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thanks for the info
what are the downfalls/cons of rooting this?(im the type of person who likes to know what the outcome can become)

Advantages
1)You can install a custom ROM
2) You can upgrade or downgrade your phone
3)You can link apps to SD or make a part of your SD card internal memory
4)Performance will be better than stock ROM
Disadvantages
1)You can Soft brick your phone
But you can also unbrick by some methods (This will happen if you don't follow instructions carefully )
2) You can hard brick your phone
(You will have to buy another phone or replace your motherboard)
3)You void your warranty by rooting.
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Anyways, to add on to the advantages: with root this phone will become more awesome :thumbup:
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allenwalker1998 said:
Anyways, to add on to the advantages: with root this phone will become more awesome :thumbup:
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Yeah it becomes uber cool
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Thank you, this has been a lot of help to me
there is only 1 other thing that is needed to be known then it will time to decide for them lol...............
Can they still make & receive Phone calls and text messages? After its rooted?

AACThaKid said:
Can they still make & receive Phone calls and text messages? After its rooted?
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any one know?

AACThaKid said:
Can they still make & receive Phone calls and text messages? After its rooted?
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Of course the phone still remains a phone after rooting....

pmvyas said:
Of course the phone still remains a phone after rooting....
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i hope your right lol........
thanks

AACThaKid said:
i hope your right lol........
thanks
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Of course !
You'll like it after flashing custom ROMS which have more features than the stock OS you have.
Enjoy rooting & upgrading your phone....