Related
Hi there,
I'm very new to Android and the rooting procedure. Basically, I switched from an iPhone to an HTC Inspire 4G after 4 years.
I'm going to try and root my phone tonight, and also unlock it and put HTC Sense 3.0 on it, but one thing I have been unable to find is a stable ROM for Android 2.3 that is as close to the stock version as possible. It may be right under my nose, but I haven't had any luck. If anyone could provide a download link, or a URL that points to where I could find one, that would be very much appreciated! Thanks!
Best one for HTC sense 3 is CoreDroid. My opinion.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
elijahpr said:
Hi there,
I'm very new to Android and the rooting procedure. Basically, I switched from an iPhone to an HTC Inspire 4G after 4 years.
I'm going to try and root my phone tonight, and also unlock it and put HTC Sense 3.0 on it, but one thing I have been unable to find is a stable ROM for Android 2.3 that is as close to the stock version as possible. It may be right under my nose, but I haven't had any luck. If anyone could provide a download link, or a URL that points to where I could find one, that would be very much appreciated! Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It might be best for you to not jump right into rooting your phone. Spend some time seeing how your phone works out of the box and what you might want to change. During that time spend time on this forum just reading and gathering knowledge. The more you read, the more answers you will already have.
Just my suggestion.
Sent from Uranus using my HTC Inspire 4G!
I really like the new sense 3.0 functions that are ported on the coredroid 6.5. P.S. It might be better to root before you get all your apps setup and installed like I did. Then I had no way of backing up since I had no root access and had to setup everything from scratch again.
Thanks for all the help guys.
darkside, I've actually had to phone for about a month now. Funny you mention using it and seeing what I'd want to change, cause one of the first things I did after a week of usage was make a small list of just those things haha.
In addition to unlocking the Inspire, and putting Sense 3.0 and 2.3 on it, the only other thing I really want to do is get all of that annoying AT&T bloatware off. That, and find something that can fix the battery life. I have no idea how to do either, so I think I will take everyone's advice and do some more reading before attempting this.
I'm using MIUI and its doing excellent for me.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
darkside1904 said:
It might be best for you to not jump right into rooting your phone. Spend some time seeing how your phone works out of the box and what you might want to change. During that time spend time on this forum just reading and gathering knowledge. The more you read, the more answers you will already have.
Just my suggestion.
Sent from Uranus using my HTC Inspire 4G!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
Excellent advice.
You really, really, really should have a baseline by which to judge subsequent roms you flash.
Otherwise, you'll never have a full sense of what's working better or worse than something else.
Inspired Ace 1.0.1¦ XDA Premium
XAviierG said:
I'm using MIUI and its doing excellent for me.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you using the MIUI Rom here in the US on AT&T....and do you have any problems with apps in the app market? I want to find a decent GB rom but it seems like most are geared more toward the UK.
For example I'm using ClearDroid, I do a search in the market for the "Xfinity TV" app. It shows right up...I jump on LeeDroids rom, and no "Xfinity TV" app to be found.....And thats with installing Morelocale2 before setting up my google account. Obvioiusly I could care less about the app....it just makes me wonder what other apps are hidden from my view.
S.Reno9 said:
Are you using the MIUI Rom here in the US on AT&T....and do you have any problems with apps in the app market? I want to find a decent GB rom but it seems like most are geared more toward the UK.
For example I'm using ClearDroid, I do a search in the market for the "Xfinity TV" app. It shows right up...I jump on LeeDroids rom, and no "Xfinity TV" app to be found.....And thats with installing Morelocale2 before setting up my google account. Obvioiusly I could care less about the app....it just makes me wonder what other apps are hidden from my view.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The us version on att and its FLAWLESS AMAZING!
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Best thing to do is try some out and see what you like.
i tell you who has the answer to all yer problems..
this guy is my flippin hero! gtg465x!
he's built a 2.3 rom that was meant to feel like a stock update for the inspire 4g on att.. no craziness, great battery life, completely stable.. soon as i get some jack i'm gonna pay this guy i'm so tickled with it.
get that, and lay seo's sense 3.0 stuff on top = orgasmic
this is the rom you need:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057060
XAviierG said:
I'm using MIUI and its doing excellent for me.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1 big time. Using MIUI on AT&T, works great! It's too smooth not to use.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
SmittyRN said:
+1 big time. Using MIUI on AT&T, works great! It's too smooth not to use.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Couldn't say it better myself
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1066978
Well, finally rooted my Inspire and settled on the RCMix3D ROM for HTC Sense 3.0 and Gingerbread. Thanks everyone!
the ice cream sandwhich SDK is currently out on android sdk website. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
anyone start toying with it yet?
if so how'd you like it?
discuss
I am on too slow of a connection to download and mess with it but just from reading the notes it looks like the press conference REALLY left a lot of important features unmentioned. Another thing I found odd was that there was zero mention of the "one OS to rule them all." I would have thought Google would make a bigger deal about this being a unifying version of the OS.
I just tried it and I must say it rocks.
I really like the browser
I just feel that they could have been a bit more creative with the home launcher since it kinda reminds me of adw, but other than that everything rocks
mathkid95 said:
I just tried it and I must say it rocks.
I really like the browser
I just feel that they could have been a bit more creative with the home launcher since it kinda reminds me of adw, but other than that everything rocks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
and what do you mean, you just tired it?? :ninja:
???
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
mathkid95 said:
???
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
he's taken one too many punches to the face during his career
Lol
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
haha, I re-read what you wrote then realized I sounded like a complete moron.
so my previous statement will remain invalid.
how long do you estimate before we start seeing some work here in the forums?
Work on ics??
Prolly not for a while until someone gets a hold of a system dump or something
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
SDK boring...
Can we just use the SDK directly in the phone? lol
Hehehehehe would require a lot of work
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Can't wait for the Matr1x kernel IF ICS comes to our phone.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App
Lol ill definitely still support it even if I switch to the prime
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Awesome. Thanks as always mathkid.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App
So, if someone could just port it to our phone
are you really worrying, if ICS will be available for the NS?! or did i miss something?
no worries, mates, as far as i have read the statements of google, ICS will definitely come for the NS! of course they have to bring it, i'd buy an f*ing iphone, if my not even 1 year old developer phone was no longer supported! (ok, it was a bluff, i'd never buy that brick, but i'd be really pissed! )
the last thing i read about it was, that they first of all work on the NS-rollout...though i don't think, that it will happen before the galaxy nexus is published...
Edit: "Google Android Chief Andy Rubin stated that Ice Cream Sandwich is on schedule to roll out “a couple of week after” the Galaxy Nexus arrives in the marketplace." -> that may take some time, maybe a christmas present?
treUse said:
So, if someone could just port it to our phone
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It has to come out for ANY phone before that can happen. Besides we will be the second phone to get it so i'm imagining we will have an official before there is ever a port, so just settle down :
With the announcement of webOS moving to a open source platform, am I the only one wishing for a port of webOS to the Charges' hardware? Sure its not the most powerful phone or neither does it have the strongest developer base, but I'm still hoping for it one day. This is coming from a person who had a Palm Pre Plus prior to my D'Charge, so therefore I'm very familiar with the way webOS works and I still today miss it the fluidity of the platform. So let me know, am I alone?
In theory, I suppose it could be done, as WebOS is also Linux based. However, it would take a LOT of work-I think the time put into such a project would not equal the number of people who would want to use it.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium
+1 I'd love to see that, but CM7 and/or ICS comes first!
I think most people would rather see ICS ported first...
imnuts said:
I think most people would rather see ICS ported first...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
In all honesty I would like to see ICS before I would like to see WebOS, but I feel like these ports would be coming from different teams. From one corner their will be developers working to get ICS to all non-nexus devices and in the other corner their will be people working to get WebOS on android devices and once its done here it will be picked up by other developers and tweaked to work on the particular device they're developing for.
imnuts said:
I think most people would rather see ICS ported first...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is it true your working on ics now?
Gears Of War 3!
GT = SAVAG3K1D911
Like the OP I too am a webOS convert. WebOS definitely has its strong point over Android ( no tomatos please ). But until HP gets their act together and decides on a reliable direction webOS has no chance or future.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk
Call me crazy but I would also like to see a wp7 port as well. I'm really liking the look of it and all the wp7 apps in our market don't do a good enough job of recreating it, unless you dish out some money.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
Lockett said:
Call me crazy but I would also like to see a wp7 port as well. I'm really liking the look of it and all the wp7 apps in our market don't do a good enough job of recreating it, unless you dish out some money.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wp7 isn't open source
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk
Lockett said:
Call me crazy but I would also like to see a wp7 port as well. I'm really liking the look of it and all the wp7 apps in our market don't do a good enough job of recreating it, unless you dish out some money.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
WP7 is impossible. One, it's closed source. Two, it's not Linux based, unlike webOS and Android.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium
Yea, I knew it was going to be impossible. They did manage to dual boot Android and WP7 on the HD2. One can dream though, right? Lol
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
Lockett said:
Yea, I knew it was going to be impossible. They did manage to dual boot Android and WP7 on the HD2. One can dream though, right? Lol
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you can port other version of windows phone on devices that ship with it, but not on ones that dont
unless you like getting sued my MS
i think on this device priority is some form of working aosp anyway, not webos
starbuckk said:
Like the OP I too am a webOS convert. WebOS definitely has its strong point over Android ( no tomatos please ). But until HP gets their act together and decides on a reliable direction webOS has no chance or future.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I guess we'll have to wait and see, I even dusted off the old Pre Plus today and played with it for awhile and when I went back to my D'Charge I kept catching myself swiping up to get out of my email.
g.davis17 said:
In all honesty I would like to see ICS before I would like to see WebOS, but I feel like these ports would be coming from different teams. From one corner their will be developers working to get ICS to all non-nexus devices and in the other corner their will be people working to get WebOS on android devices and once its done here it will be picked up by other developers and tweaked to work on the particular device they're developing for.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
just not enough developers over here...HTC is big in the development department...they have lots of development going on over there, not so much for our Samsung. Then again we got sicker screens and thinner devices..
g.davis17 said:
I guess we'll have to wait and see, I even dusted off the old Pre Plus today and played with it for awhile and when I went back to my D'Charge I kept catching myself swiping up to get out of my email.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Indeed. I still try to swipe delete emails and text messages.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk
With the release of Isis (the open-source webOS browser), is there any chance of it being ported to the Charge, or Android in general?
Also webOS. I would love to have webOS on this phone.
not going to happen
drewcam888 said:
not going to happen
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
why not?
Well it is possible but a dev would have to take an interest in it and considering this phone has kinda died out with the exception of a few that's not likely to happen
sent from my chargecrack
WebOS is going to be outdated soon.
Would would either like to see a HTC Sense ROM, or would like to help? Currently I don't have the files, but xxxsuperseriesxxx and Scott have agreed to help.
Any response is welcomed
Thanks,
Magnetboard
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
HTC Sense Rom? Bring it on!
magnetboard said:
Would would either like to see a HTC Sense ROM, or would like to help? Currently I don't have the files, but xxxsuperseriesxxx and Scott have agreed to help.
Any response is welcomed
Thanks,
Magnetboard
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would love to see an HTC Sense ROM ported to the Infuse! Sadly I don't think I would be of much help on the developing side, I wouldn't mind being a tester if you ever happen to need one though.
Sweet, thanks. Once I have time, I'll start working on it. And as far as testing, you'll be the first one
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
If its no problem I'd like to join @some_shyguy with testing it
Sent from my Samsung Infuse running CM10.1
Yeah, that's fine. Although the ROM will work for the most part, please expect major problems with it, since it is a port of a port.
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
Thats not really a problem. If you don't mind my asking, what version of Android will it be running?
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
IIRC, it will be running 2.3.6/2.3.7. I do believe that it uses CM7 as a base, so expect those issues as well as other
But we already got much faster smoother and more stable jellybean!
I don't see why would you want old sense UI
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
That's not the point. I just wanted to know if there was interest in it.
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
It's harder then you think....
First you got to find an HTC device with a similar (preferably same) chipset...which is rare since most htcs run qualacom hardware
A while back I did find a device with pretty much the same chipset that should be useable...gotta see if I still have its ruu (ruu is HTC official Rom release...actually stands for Rom update utility)
You then gotta extract the ruu contents (requires both windows and linux...)
Then you need to build the infuse kernel from source changing the bootclasspath in the init.rc and other stuff relating to sense instead of touchwiz
I'm not saying its impossible...and its still something I would like to do...but unfortuantly I just don't have the time to really do anything anymore due to school and work...and I recently got into league haha...so when I'm not working or at school I'm either with friends or playing league...but usually I'm at work or school. Oh yeah my infuse also got stolen...so no device to work with anymore (damn car fishers)
That's the basics...theres a few tutorials on how to port sense to no sense devices that can help you...just google how to port sense
Anyways, good luck...thus reply was mainly.to let you know what your in for and what kind of computer setup your gonna need (dual booting linux/windows)
Edit oh yeah...pretty sure the device I had found had an ics 4.0.4 stock Rom...at least for Iraq users...but English should still be an option in that Rom and if its not we can always add it in...anyways ill let you know later if I can find the ruu/device for you to work with
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Not to be mean, but I've got the hard part covered. There's a sense port for the captivate that rums on top of cm. I'm not saying that its going to be super simple, its also not going to be as hard as you described.
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
I think were talking about similar but different things...
I think your talking about taking an sense Rom that's already been ported to a non sense device and then porting that port to us
I'm talking about taking an official HTC sense release, extracting the contents for a flashable zip and porting that
Regardless either way requires kernel work as the init.rc needs to be edited -which is an easy task for those who can work with source
Anyways, goodluck the more options the better...there will definitely be people wanting this as its unique for the infuse
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Yeah, if I wouldn't have owned a captivate, I wouldn't know about all of this, and I wouldn't even attempt this. And yes, I'm talking about a port of a port. I'm by no means a dev, but I'm slowly learning, and I thank you for your help.
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
Since I've never seen a captivate port for us...here's a sense Rom for the galaxy s...galaxy s is the device we port most of our Roms for
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1593939
Idk how that compares stability wise as it seems to have some fairly big bugs (WiFi) anyways...that's just another option
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
I looked at that, but the website is down, so I can't download it or even have a look at the ROM itself
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda app-developers app
Anyone down this yet? I will if ya want
Sent from my SGH-I997 using Tapatalk 2
Any development hear anything in the works for this?
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda app-developers app
Didn't we have a *nix loader available for us a year or two ago? Though I remembered seeing posts on that, but the links were dead by the time I decided to kill my phone.
Keep an eye on this.
THIS
Ubuntu stated that the OS works better on multi-core devices. We can still try to see if it works...
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
Seeing what it did to some of the nexus 4 peoples phone I think it's a crap shot and very risky. There is a git that just got his nexus two days ago and already bricked out from flashing a alpha build of Ubuntu mobile.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
Yeah I messed around with it yesterday on my galaxy nexus. It's still in the very beginning of alpha stages in my opinion.
But there were allot of people having trouble going back to android afterwards on the galaxy nexus forums but no bricks. It's a cool idea but I think it needs some time to mature like android did.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
Since Ubuntu is using CM as source I'd say it's possible. They seem to be optimizing it towards duel core(possibly quad by the time it's fully released) devices though. So why it should be portable to this phone the experience may be less the stellar. Think of running a new PC game on a three year old PC and you get the idea.
hechoen said:
Since Ubuntu is using CM as source I'd say it's possible. They seem to be optimizing it towards duel core(possibly quad by the time it's fully released) devices though. So why it should be portable to this phone the experience may be less the stellar. Think of running a new PC game on a three year old PC and you get the idea.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Challenge accepted
*takes out old IBM* haha
Beastmode said:
Challenge accepted
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I hear it builds just like CM. A guy is building it for the Rocket as we speak. Or trying to. It's still so early in the development phase that even getting it to boot will be a challenge in and of itself. But you know the deal. You build it I'll log it. I'll have to look into what package would be needed to log it. lol
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
since they use cm as a base I don't see why it wouldn't since Erik got cm10.1 to work on this device.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
Colear_Bear said:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
since they use cm as a base I don't see why it wouldn't since Erik got cm10.1 to work on this device.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That link looks strangely familiar. Maybe cause I posted it yesterday. lol See post 3.
I saw that on the galaxy nexus forums today I never looked at your link. oops
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
The biggest hurdle from what I seen posted is the transition of VM between android and Ubuntu. For the most part I think the issues with building and actually getting it to boot is the different Vm the two OS's use.
I wanna post the link just to say that I didn't see it on this thread twice already but here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
. It looks intricate but it's not really different from porting a new rom . I can't wait to tinker with this...
Looks like somebody ported it the the original galaxy s
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162534
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda app-developers app
They seem to have some things sorted out for the SGS i9000 :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices/galaxysmtd
Although it looks pretty cool, the only thing I use Ubuntu for is for Eclipse and I wouldn't program Java in a phone. If it's on a Nexus 7 (other tablets too) then OK, but why would anyone want Ubuntu on their phones? Serious, not hating.
Being able to run both Ubuntu apps and Android would be fun.