I haven't seen this addressed, so please forgive if I've overlooked the thread.
Does unlocking the bootloader via their tool provide root access? That is, will unlocking the boot loader be sufficient to give apps like Titanium Backup and ES File Explorer root access, or do I have to flash a custom ROM?
What are the side effects of unlocking? The Motorola page implies the phone may detonate or give you cancer or the like. I don't much care about DRMed media, so as long as the rest of the device's functionality works that's all I care about.
Thanks for any insight.
As far as I know (and i was confused as well), unlocking the bootloader does not mean the phone is rooted, it just ALLOWS for root or installing custom ROMs to be done more easily.
Does rooting with shabbypenguin's method modify the existing rom or does it install a new one? I can't tell from the instructions and I want to be sure I'm not going to erase my phone before I do it.
sdlvx said:
Does rooting with shabbypenguin's method modify the existing rom or does it install a new one? I can't tell from the instructions and I want to be sure I'm not going to erase my phone before I do it.
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It installs the root files into /system/ when you flash the .zip in his CWM.
sdlvx said:
Does rooting with shabbypenguin's method modify the existing rom or does it install a new one? I can't tell from the instructions and I want to be sure I'm not going to erase my phone before I do it.
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Hope you've already unlocked the bootloader, that process will wipe the phone. Rooting it will not.
For the current root method, you need to first unlock the bootloader, then flash a custom recovery with fastboot. Once you have that recovery in place, you can flash the su binary to have root in the system partition.
root will not bring anyside effects unless you install something that will, watch out for unknown SU requests
only side effect of root is losing the full use of some apps and total lose of some as well, taking in mind that some app developers block root users in one fashion or another
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only side effect of root is losing the full use of some apps and total lose of some as well, taking in mind that some app developers block root users in one fashion or another
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Spleef, still alive ? good to see you back. hopefully you're getting a Q ? so far I haven't seen any side effects of unlocking/rooting. not like the original photon where we lost 4G. but then again, we don't have LTE here in orlando, so don't know if that's gone. :laugh:
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Spleef, still alive ? good to see you back. hopefully you're getting a Q ? so far I haven't seen any side effects of unlocking/rooting. not like the original photon where we lost 4G. but then again, we don't have LTE here in orlando, so don't know if that's gone. :laugh:
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what up bud, fully alive and living just extremely tired from work and kids, i
went to get a q but my sprint store and the nearest best buy they were out (could have back ordered but I didn't), was looking at getting a s3 instead but with all the apple vs samsung crap I decided to wait a little while......maybe price will drop, on the q.. next friday ill have another good check to buy a q if they are in stock,for now I'm lurking and trying to learn everything I can about the q hoping when I get it I can start cranking some roms out for it...
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what up bud, fully alive and living just extremely tired from work and kids, i
went to get a q but my sprint store and the nearest best buy they were out (could have back ordered but I didn't), was looking at getting a s3 instead but with all the apple vs samsung crap I decided to wait a little while......maybe price will drop, on the q.. next friday ill have another good check to buy a q if they are in stock,for now I'm lurking and trying to learn everything I can about the q hoping when I get it I can start cranking some roms out for it...
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please do. if they dont get someone else in here soon doing stuff they are gunan think im awesome and capable of doing stuff.
set the standards low and everyone gets excited when i make a wallpaper
Dood, you are going to love the Q. If you have a Sams club near you, I've heard they have them there for like $75. It's in one of these forums... I hope you come over to the Q and bring your awesome skills with you...
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please do. if they dont get someone else in here soon doing stuff they are gunan think im awesome and capable of doing stuff.
set the standards low and everyone gets excited when i make a wallpaper
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Damn, you can make wallpapers? Can you make one for me?
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Damn, you can make wallpapers? Can you make one for me?
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I got this one Shabby! Here ya go falln
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Ooh, that's nice... got just the place for it beside my flashlight app.
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Thinking my sarcasm may have been missed in my op, didn't expect a wallpaper fellas, just enjoying the banter.
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fallnSaint said:
Ooh, that's nice... got just the place for it beside my flashlight app.
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Thinking my sarcasm may have been missed in my op, didn't expect a wallpaper fellas, just enjoying the banter.
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I caught it, I was just playing around with a solid black jpg
Shabby did say set the bar low XD
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I caught it, I was just playing around with a solid black jpg
Shabby did say set the bar low XD
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Nice... didn't realize how low that bar went...:banghead:...
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FASTBOOT availability
Anyone know where to get FASTBOOT without using mediafire or one of the other servers? I am at work with proxy restrictions...
richyoung said:
Anyone know where to get FASTBOOT without using mediafire or one of the other servers? I am at work with proxy restrictions...
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Fastboot? You get that with adb... Which you should never download from mediafire!!
If you just want fastboot by itself, see this page.
spleef said:
what up bud, fully alive and living just extremely tired from work and kids, i
went to get a q but my sprint store and the nearest best buy they were out (could have back ordered but I didn't), was looking at getting a s3 instead but with all the apple vs samsung crap I decided to wait a little while......maybe price will drop, on the q.. next friday ill have another good check to buy a q if they are in stock,for now I'm lurking and trying to learn everything I can about the q hoping when I get it I can start cranking some roms out for it...
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If you didn't grab your Q yet...you can order it online through Sprint and get it for free!! The offer is ending soon though! I just got mine for free and look forward to unlocking and stuff! LOL
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Ive seen today that the atrix has root, I also seen that the post was made by alot of you cappy owners hero designgears. Just wondering how many are leaving? I will be sticking by htc's side. I hated my captivate for the couple weeks I had it when it was launched, such a cheap device, and was to easy for some processes and involved no work. The Inspire is where its at in my mind for now, dual core or not this ***** flys and does work for me.
Nope HTC > than Motorola as far as dev community is concerned. I'm happy with my purchase and could have pre-ordered the Atrix for the same money I was looking at for this phone.
Sticking with HTC. I believe the grass is greener here. ;-)
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I'm staying I just wish root was easier. I run into problems every time.
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Root is actually pretty easy on this phone. I must admit that I have rooted alot of phones and this one did give me some grief mostly with the gold card cause it works diff for everyone but with the help of irc channel it was a walk in the park. Plus you get to freshen up on adb skills
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Root is actually pretty easy on this phone. I must admit that I have rooted alot of phones and this one did give me some grief mostly with the gold card cause it works diff for everyone but with the help of irc channel it was a walk in the park. Plus you get to freshen up on adb skills
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Went on irc last night and we can't figure out why mine fails. It hangs at the fastboot and doesn't do anything
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I had that issue on one my SD cards as well. I've tried three micro ad cards and always get the *Model ID* failure
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It has root, but they still don't know if the boot loader is locked. If it is, there will be no way to install custom roms. as far as I know nobody has cracked their bootloader encryption.
As far as fastboot not working, did you hit the power button to switch to h boot to loss the image? On the SD card I had to use the instructions to get my image then I used the utility to write the image and had no problems. @gunny ya I am curious on that as well. Bootloader controls their destiny. I still feel like I have the upper hand with HTC. To much development. Soon we will have sense, aosp, and miui. Doesn't get much better
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As far as fastboot not working, did you hit the power button to switch to h boot to loss the image? On the SD card I had to use the instructions to get my image then I used the utility to write the image and had no problems. @gunny ya I am curious on that as well. Bootloader controls their destiny. I still feel like I have the upper hand with HTC. To much development. Soon we will have sense, aosp, and miui. Doesn't get much better
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Yep switched to hboot and it freezes. Doesn't scan the card or anything.
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just few images about root
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It has root, but they still don't know if the boot loader is locked. If it is, there will be no way to install custom roms. as far as I know nobody has cracked their bootloader encryption.
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Engadget's review said the bootloader was locked.
JaysFreaky said:
Engadget's review said the bootloader was locked.
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Well there you go. Locked bootloader = HTC for the win.
Screw Atrix. There is a reason that we didn't wait on the Atrix.
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I'm staying. Mostly because I'm exhausted. My next phone will have NFC.
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Moto=No go
HTC is the only thing I will buy
I just got my inspire today, but I may actually need a FFC, (I know right, who "needs" one, but as it turns out my work is thinking about requiring us to have them on our work phones).
I may pick one up as a toy. Not with the stupid laptop dock though.
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Screw Atrix. There is a reason that we didn't wait on the Atrix.
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Yes... it's because we're gadget geeks and have the attention span of a 2 year old! I got the Inspire because I couldn't wait until March 6th (the original Atrix release date) to dump my POS Craptivate.
My biggest complaint with the Inspire: No HDMI out... but I figured I'll be staring at a 4.3" screen much more often than hooking up a 4" screen phone to a TV. Also I hate where they placed the micro-usb port on the Atrix.
it just has stuff i dont need, hence finger print scanner, an outrageous priced dock. If I buy anything moto it will be the xoom
Alright, I have used almost every Team Acid rom out there and I want to help raver out as much as I can with MIUI and potentially CM7/CM9 so I want to form a team of sorts (more so a coalition) to get working on a kernel while dhundven is busy with life and racer is working on fixing the MIUI bugs.
While I personally have no experience with devving of any kind I'm sure if a bunch of us put our heads together, we can get this done!
So who's in?
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I'll give it a shot if i have a spare time.
i know how to theme
and i know a little bit about script
I'm very familiar about html.
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Im willing to help others...
Feel free to pm and ask a question...
*just don't flame if I get something wrong sometimes, I'm only a HUMAN NOT AN ANDROID :-D
Oh btw.. Hit thanks if I helped
how about sending a request to drhonk?
try posting this in the general section im sure people have had this phone before and changed or something, maybe we can get a dev from another section?
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how about sending a request to drhonk?
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I might. He left for the amaze a while ago
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I'm up for the challenge. I'm going to look at bhudvens kernel tomorrow to see what I'm getting myself into. I'll also get us a sourceforge set up tomorrow night for sharing and tracking. I have knowledge of c and c++. Free time on the other hand not much.
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hampsterblade said:
I'm up for the challenge. I'm going to look at bhudvens kernel tomorrow to see what I'm getting myself into. I'll also get us a sourceforge set up tomorrow night for sharing and tracking. I have knowledge of c and c++. Free time on the other hand not much.
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Ive got some free time as well, if you wouldn't mind helping me learn c and c++ I could get cracking too
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hehe....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468387
Read how it is going for these guys.
lumin30 said:
hehe....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468387
Read how it is going for these guys.
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Lumin, leave my threads alone. Everytime I post something you troll on it.
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Lumin, leave my threads alone. Everytime I post something you troll on it.
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I hardly think that was a troll. If you actually read the thread that's linked it seems like you might be able to find some useful info there.
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I hardly think that was a troll. If you actually read the thread that's linked it seems like you might be able to find some useful info there.
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+1.
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hechoen said:
I hardly think that was a troll. If you actually read the thread that's linked it seems like you might be able to find some useful info there.
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Its not that specific comment, and yeah that was kind of a troll, its the fact that he has commented on my guide that I am working on to help new users saying that its pointless and that I should just tell people to read the wiki and now hes bagging on the work that we haven't even started.
Just because one person or team has failed or had issues doesn't mean we all will
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I don't know about you guys building a kernel, it sounds like a lot of work and time which i dont really have much
Im better off theme my own phone..
Use the other guys that has unbrickable (just to be sure) to flash your homebrewn kernel before I'll flash it in my device.
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I don't know about you guys building a kernel, it sounds like a lot of work and time which i dont really have much
Im better off theme my own phone..
Use the other guys that has unbrickable (just to be sure) to flash your homebrewn kernel before I'll flash it in my device.
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im gonna check for testers after we actually get the ball rolling
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im gonna check for testers after we actually get the ball rolling
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Don't look for a tester yet...
First you need a kernel dev...
Or just use bhudvens
- be sure to ask for permissions
hmm hard to find kernel dev now a days, maybe try in Wallgreens or Walmart
LMFAO!!!
thats why i said "after we actually get the ball rolling"...
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thats why i said "after we actually get the ball rolling"...
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rolls ball down hill lol...
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rolls ball down hill lol...
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Lmao woohoo we ready to test
Thank's aren't asked for but appreciated
Before actual dev recruitment and working, I would ask myself what are we expecting this kernel to have, once we have our goals set we will be able to explore and gather some knowledge in the right direction.
Such goals should be :
1. Much stronger WiFi reception (I know it is possible).
2. Direct line call recording. (was available at Froyo, but blocked by Sami).
3. Kernel without the need of System mounting as RW (like SMS Kj6 Beta 3.1 is).
4. MIUI nightly builds compatible kernel (I have no idea how and what).
5. TV out support (MIUI ususally doesn't support this functionality).
etc.
So who wants to see CWM FB edition?
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Guide and downloads coming later today.
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Not gonna lie.. Regardless of its shortcomings its still a pretty sexy phone.
tsdeaton said:
So it is coming unlocked out of the box. And its so freakin neat! Rep came in today with this and even gave us photon Q flashlights! Lol
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It comes with an unlocked bootloader? Have you checked AP Fastboot?
And you are sure you didn't have to go through a process asking if you wanted to void your warranty? It seems strange to ship with a voided phone
ICS, I see? Are the specs superior to the current Photon?
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ICS, I see? Are the specs superior to the current Photon?
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Specs are here: http://www.motorola.com/us/consumer...,pd.html?selectedTab=tab-2&cgid=mobile-phones
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It comes with an unlocked bootloader? Have you checked AP Fastboot?
And you are sure you didn't have to go through a process asking if you wanted to void your warranty? It seems strange to ship with a voided phone
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Nothing worked on the phone besides the launcher. The slide up notifications per icon was badass. But it had no network service or WiFi. Not even a play store. Had a bunch of apps but they were dummy icons. He said it was for development purposes and show. It was extremely smooth though. I asked about the boot loader and he said yes to being unlocked. He was quick to answer and said that it is the first Motorola device to ever ship with an unlockable boot loader. He said it would be kinda similar to the gnexs. There will be an easy to access option out of the box to unlock the boot loader.
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He also gave me a statistics speech about why they have ignored bootloader unlock claims in the past but I don't remember. I was playing with the phone lol. But I'll ask again when he comes around next month. Had something to do with percentage and how we the people asking for the unlocked boot loader are only a 1%
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ICS, I see? Are the specs superior to the current Photon?
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Its android 4.0.3 I checked. And the quick tap easter egg is there too lol
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not going to lie I MISS my keyboard from my epic and after watching the videos Motorola has on youtube about smartactions and the such I really want this phone its so close to stock its ridiculous I dont even need to download a new launcher to cover up the horrific blur dock bar
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Nothing about release date?
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Nothing about release date?
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Supposedly August 19th
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If you can get information on the bootloader unlock process that'd be awesome. The Atrix HD has an option but doesn't say a code. If the Photon Q shows the code for you when you run 'fastboot oem unlock' then I think it would mean hard work to get the Atrix HD unlocked.
Price??
Is there any mention of the price for photon Q?
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Is there any mention of the price for photon Q?
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Just like any new high end device most likely $199 on contract
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Thanks for sharing this - still surprised that the phone is marketed with business users, as subjectively put... in mind - being that the battery is fixed, what options have you heard for individuals needing more power for voice calls on the go?
I loved the previous one which I still use - mainly for it's swappable batteries for continuous voice calls - not everyone has the chance to be by a power source to charge (e.g. wall / car). There are external power packs as I mentioned in another post; (either by solar or pre-charged that plug into the microusb).
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Thanks for sharing this - still surprised that the phone is marketed with business users, as subjectively put... in mind - being that the battery is fixed, what options have you heard for individuals needing more power for voice calls on the go?
I loved the previous one which I still use - mainly for it's swappable batteries for continuous voice calls - not everyone has the chance to be by a power source to charge (e.g. wall / car). There are external power packs as I mentioned in another post; (either by solar or pre-charged that plug into the microusb).
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They can market it as a business phone but I love the new features and I know most other consumers would. Of course smartactions and the new swipe feature for notifications on icons. He said the RAZR already has smart actions. Why hasn't anyone ported that feature yet?!
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whats the model number?
need to keep an eye out for the kernel source ya know?
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whats the model number?
need to keep an eye out for the kernel source ya know?
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oh damn! i didnt even think of looking. he was in the store for about half an hour talking to us about it. i spent most my time testing out the keyboard and messing around with the new UI. which btw on the 19th, 20th at the latest i hope to see this new launcher ported to other devices! trust me, everyone will love it! they took features from jellybean and pimped them up for ics on the q
our store should get them by this friday. if so then ill get the model number for you then. and whatever else you need. and sense the bootloader is unlocked it should be fairly easy for me to extract an image from it to post here before the 19th
actually.. we would probably get the demo phone before the actual phones.. which should be in the next few days. demo phones are no different than the real thing. they come to us with a demo video app preinstalled. we have factory reset our demo phones before and used them as a store phone. could someone point me in the right direction of getting an image from this phone? **safely**. dont want to **** the phone up and get fired lol
ive never tried with dump_image but i would imagine that might work. ideally we could root it and grab the images that we need then unroot it easily enough. once it launches and the tool comes out i could put out the CWM and have people unlock to root
This tool will now be on our phones if you update. It sounds like they may be able to see if a person Is rooted. And other security issues might arise What are your thought
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Don't update, simple as that. That's what i think
Nobody with root should be installing ota anyways.
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This tool will now be on our phones if you update. It sounds like they may be able to see if a person Is rooted. And other security issues might arise What are your thought
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I only installed the radio. I highly doubt they'll be able to just connect whenever they want. You'll have to accept the request cause that would be some form of invasion of privacy but I still dont like the fact that they tried to force it on the phone. A big FU to Verizon for that one
Tap'n
ihavenewnike said:
This tool will now be on our phones if you update. It sounds like they may be able to see if a person Is rooted. And other security issues might arise What are your thought
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They can not just search your phone. When you call in if they need to use it, they ask your permission and before it is initiated you have to enter a code to grant access.
Having said that, don't take an ota if you're rooted
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I always thought about how celeb nude cell phone pictures get leaked by some nerd at the cell phone company digging though their phones lol
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As soon as I saw this on my fiance's stock phone, I said "No way, no chance I'm going to update my rooted phone." Like others have said, if you're rooted, you shouldn't be taking the update. If you updated your rooted phone and ran into issues, these post have warn you already.
To my understanding, it was on our phones when we first got them. I've called into Verizon to troubleshoot a signal issue and the computer and technician both asked me to let the use it. I have always declined. My brothers Droid Razr Maxx also has this.
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What are your thought
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My thought is to use cwm to banish the update to cache limbo, where I can pick it apart at my liesure and choose what (if anything) I want from it before filing the update as a whole with my S3 data.
I miss the days when people wanted an ota to hit so we could pick it apart for new software, anymore it seems most people are afraid of it...
Remote Diagnostic is a really really old news. I have this on my Charge and I rooted the hell out of it with many many custom roms and kernels. I flash like 1000 times and when I need to exchange, I just flash back to stock and they gave me a new one. In short, it's nothing people, it just being used to fix your phone remotely, of course, before you give them permission to look around, you have to roll it back to stock first.
This was on my old Razr Maxx. As stated, you have to allow it for Verizon to use it.
And with it, Verizon was able to see how Flash video was broken on my phone after the ICS update.
kintwofan said:
They can not just search your phone. When you call in if they need to use it, they ask your permission and before it is initiated you have to enter a code to grant access.
Having said that, don't take an ota if you're rooted
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Ur way off
I called about my coverage and was told I was rooted..I wasn't even talking to tech support
Get ur facts strait before u mislead more noobs like yourself
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lucidvtec said:
Ur way off
I called about my coverage and was told I was rooted..I wasn't even talking to tech support
Get ur facts strait before u mislead more noobs like yourself
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There's no way cause everytime I ever called I've been rooted and they never said anything so dont come in here flaming people. You need to chill out
Tap'n
lucidvtec said:
Ur way off
I called about my coverage and was told I was rooted..I wasn't even talking to tech support
Get ur facts strait before u mislead more noobs like yourself
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People were saying this BEFORE this update apparently Samsung has a root checker on these phones. My Droid charge had the same remote diagnostics. They can only use it if you enter the code. So you need to know what you're taking about before you start flaming. By the way how exactly am I noob?
By the way read previous post of people who have used it AFTER being asked to.
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What exactly will a tech be able to trouble shoot? All they know how to do is reset your phone.
ihavenewnike said:
This tool will now be on our phones if you update. It sounds like they may be able to see if a person Is rooted. And other security issues might arise What are your thought
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All of the major telecoms have had entire floors in their office buildings full of NSA employees and government snooping equipment for years now. Root is the least of your worries.
https://www.eff.org/nsa/faq
From my post in another thread. This is your only hope against the evils of remote diagnostics:
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xyrcncp said:
From my post in another thread. This is your only hope against the evils of remote diagnostics:
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Cool where can I buy one .. I feel them closing in
s3 driving an S4
xyrcncp said:
From my post in another thread. This is your only hope against the evils of remote diagnostics:
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Thanks for that ... was the best laugh I've had all day!!
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xyrcncp said:
From my post in another thread. This is your only hope against the evils of remote diagnostics:
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Careful, apple might sue... due to you infringing upon their external antenna patent.
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Superuser by Clockworkmod :good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zDB2B-Wa8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.superuser
Manual installation with the recovery zip:
Recommended if you are having installation issues or are not rooted
http://download.clockworkmod.com/superuser/superuser.zip
APK download:
http://download.clockworkmod.com/apks/Superuser.apk
I'm still trying to figure out why there is more than one? App ask for root, you approve or deny this time or for all times, done...
ShhImSleeping said:
I'm still trying to figure out why there is more than one? App ask for root, you approve or deny this time or for all times, done...
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You seriously didn't read the app description did you? Don't even deny it bro.
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salas2324 said:
You seriously didn't read the app description did you? Don't even deny it bro.
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Nope, read it, it's cool where he's coming from, but I couldn't care less. If superuser was such a security risk, I doubt cyanogen would still be using it, and about every single rom out there uses supersu (also get regular updates), so I'm sure if there was a security flaw, it'd be known by now, and he updates regularly enough I'm sure it'd get patched if it was, just like koush's.
I like Supersu, it gets regular updates, chainfire seems intelligent from reading some of his forum posts, and tons of roms are using it without security breaches due to it. Not everything closed source is bad, some people just put a lot of work into their app and don't want to just give it away (unless that was the intention, ex linux). Could it probably be made better with open source? Sure, but giving up your source also brings kangers (think anthrax kernel). I love open source, I love seeing others code to see how they went about something, it's an art and there will always be someone smarter than you to learn from, but I also can appreciate people's decision to keep their programs closed source after spending so many hours on computer science labs to make a simple command line shopping cart and it annoys me when people classify someones work insecure solely because they don't give the source code. Plus some people do this as their living and make money off it, how much money do you think someone will make if they give away their code? Sure there will be donators, but most likely someone will build the program and distribute it for free.
Everyone's opinion is different, I tried to state mine in a brief way that didn't attack anyone earlier but you decided to call me out and go all "bro" on me so now you know where I'm coming from.
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Nope, read it, it's cool where he's coming from, but I could care less.
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"I could care less"
Since when was having more options such a bad thing?
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Team Kernelizers; Kernel tweaking at its finest.
Danno131313 said:
"I could care less"
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Yes, as in it's not going to persuade me to go download the app.
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Yes, as in it's not going to persuade me to go download the app.
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I think he was just pointing out your mistake that way too many people make. "Couldn't" care less is what you should have said.
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Ah didn't catch that, I corrected it, thanks.
having more options is great. although superSU is incorporated in more leak packages and roms already.
cwm should have made this along time ago.
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Danno131313 said:
"I could care less"
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No... Its I "couldn't"
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squidder said:
No... Its I "couldn't"
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I mentioned I fixed this around 4 posts ago..
ShhImSleeping said:
I mentioned I fixed this around 4 posts ago..
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I didn't quote your post...
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squidder said:
I didn't quote your post...
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My bad, I thought he was just pointing out where my error was, so when I saw you quote it, I thought you were doing the same except adding in the correction... didn't occur to me he was trying to correct it and failed, so I apologize.
And zero sh!ts were given this day...
WoW you girls should get a room?:laugh:
I was just giving a heads-up FYI for those that
may need it (some seem to be having Issue's
with the other 2 lately).
Plus It's getting great reviews,its open source,
its free and released by a great developer.
So whats the problem
This is a developers site after all so please
cool-it with the hissy:silly: fits.
ImgBurn said:
WoW you girls should get a room?:laugh:
I was just giving a heads-up FYI for those that
may need it (some seem to be having Issue's
with the other 2 lately).
Plus It's getting great reviews,its open source,
its free and released by a great developer.
So whats the problem
This is a developers site after all so please
cool-it with the hissy:silly: fits.
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I agree totally,
I use this app for two reasons. It's open source and is made by one of the best developers ever! He also developed thus other little thing called CWM!
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I highly doubt that this is the place for immature ppl to be arguing with each other. This is a forum ppl get your head out of your asses and delete this nonsense its unnecessary. Xda created this to help ppl out and you guys are clearly disrespecting them. I read a post earlier in this thread about ppl posting the sane questions over and over again and disrespecting rom makers now I see what he's talking about. Everybody needs to grow up this isn't the place for this..write a private message
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ImgBurn said:
WoW you girls should get a room?:laugh:
I was just giving a heads-up FYI for those that
may need it (some seem to be having Issue's
with the other 2 lately).
Plus It's getting great reviews,its open source,
its free and released by a great developer.
So whats the problem
This is a developers site after all so please
cool-it with the hissy:silly: fits.
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A Big ++1:good: