Hey Everyone,
I am just trying to learn the in's and out's of flashing custom rom's on android phones. I have been doing some reading and some people state
As long as the custom rom has been developed for your phone, you can flash the firmware, then flash the baseband version for your phone, maybe plugin a few APN settings and you should be good to go.
I am wondering if there is some truth to this? Just because it sounds too good to be true.
Thanks!
kurrupt said:
Hey Everyone,
I am just trying to learn the in's and out's of flashing custom rom's on android phones. I have been doing some reading and some people state
As long as the custom rom has been developed for your phone, you can flash the firmware, then flash the baseband version for your phone, maybe plugin a few APN settings and you should be good to go.
I am wondering if there is some truth to this? Just because it sounds too good to be true.
Thanks!
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yes as long as it has been made for your phone you can flash it
dirtbikerr450 said:
yes as long as it has been made for your phone you can flash it
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kurrupt said:
Great! Thanks very much. My next goal is to see what the difference between the Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830D and the GT-S5830.
Good ol' google has litterly, no information. any result for the GT-S5830D brings up info for the GT-S5830 which makes me think they are similar? and the firmwares should work?
I know for sure that the GT-S5830i is quite different. its clearly stated.
Wondering if anyone knows about the mystery "D"?
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Well i decided to take a risk and flash a ROM that says its for a GT-S5830 on the GT-5830D and it worked perfectly. No issues. I ended up flashing The Myth rom.
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i want new phone unlocked because my g1 is slow but i was curious if there was a way to know if the chinese android phone is flashable and using which rom? and which is a good phone to buy ...
bumpppppp/
It hasn't even been 3 hours, there's no need for a bump. Also I don't think those cheap knockoffs can be flashed but it's possible. First you have to root it though which is probably possible with one of the "one-click root" apps. Actually flashing one is a bit more involved because of hardware differences. Next time just get the real phone instead of a knockoff, save yourself some headache and heartache at not being able to do everything you want.
i actually have a g1 thank you very much handsome
Well then take out the "next time"s from my previous post and I stick by it. Knockoffs generally aren't that great. Getting the real version from a store is better, even craigslist or ebay.
I rooted my galaxy note replica with bin4ry it worked perfectly as for flashing i have flashed a few things but to flash a rom it would be harder because i have found out i would have to port the custom rom to work with my device.
iphear said:
i want new phone unlocked because my g1 is slow but i was curious if there was a way to know if the chinese android phone is flashable and using which rom? and which is a good phone to buy ...
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What did I miss? Why the assumption that the OP is talking about a "cheap knock-off". Maybe he means a Huawei, or ZTE or something.
Rooting android from China
Ok, i don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but i'm desperate. I want to flash my phone that i recently bought in China, but i'm getting no where. The problem is that i can't find recovery mod that will work on my phone. If someone have any idea what recovery mod should i try, please suggest it to me.
I'm using Samsung Galaxy Style Duos I-8262D.
Sveta92gb said:
Ok, i don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but i'm desperate. I want to flash my phone that i recently bought in China, but i'm getting no where. The problem is that i can't find recovery mod that will work on my phone. If someone have any idea what recovery mod should i try, please suggest it to me.
I'm using Samsung Galaxy Style Duos I-8262D.
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It will depend on the device you have. You should search xda for your device name, but if it is a cloned device, you may not be able to find anything, because some clones are not well supported.
Hello, I am virtually a complete noob when it comes to rooting aphone or tablet. I have a StraightTalk Samsung Galaxy Proclaim
Hardware version S720c.01
Model # SCH-S720C
Fimware 2.3,6
Basebrand version S720C.01 VFBO7
Kernel version 2.635.7-FB07-CL972632
Build #SCH-S720C.FB07
I was wondering if this phone is root-able, and if anyone has some noob-friendly directions on how to do this.
Any phone is rootable, you just have to manually root it yourself which will be difficult. Look up "how to root a phone via adb" and you should get what you're looking for
Work Smarter, Not Harder
Sparx639 said:
Any phone is rootable, you just have to manually root it yourself which will be difficult. Look up "how to root a phone via adb" and you should get what you're looking for
Work Smarter, Not Harder
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Thank you for your reply Sparx639, I will look this up and try to post my results time permitting. Happy New Year to you and yours , Daltroll
daltroll said:
Thank you for your reply Sparx639, I will look this up and try to post my results time permitting. Happy New Year to you and yours , Daltroll
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Happy new years man and good luck, my cousin has this phone and I was thinking about trying it for him but I didn't want to ruin it
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Any results on this? My gf has a proclaim that she is always complaining about being slow. I thought if I could root it we would have more options available. Haven't seen much on this phone though.
aujbman said:
Any results on this? My gf has a proclaim that she is always complaining about being slow. I thought if I could root it we would have more options available. Haven't seen much on this phone though.
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There is a root method somewhere, but you will have to flash a custom kernel and then flash the stock kernel back over it.
Sparx639
Sparx639 said:
There is a root method somewhere, but you will have to flash a custom kernel and then flash the stock kernel back over it.
Sparx639
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Yeah, think I came across that. Just haven't seen any custom roms or anything for it.
Hey guys, have a generic CDMA sch-r760 and m looking for a custom kernel that includes cwm. I'm trying to get a recovery installed on this device in order to flash custom ROMs. Could really use the help because I know these phones don't get tackled much. I'm doing this for my cousin because I rooted his phone in high hopes I could upgrade him to jellybean like I did with a Samsung captivate last night. Any help?
coltlacey1 said:
Hey guys, have a generic CDMA sch-r760 and m looking for a custom kernel that includes cwm. I'm trying to get a recovery installed on this device in order to flash custom ROMs. Could really use the help because I know these phones don't get tackled much. I'm doing this for my cousin because I rooted his phone in high hopes I could upgrade him to jellybean like I did with a Samsung captivate last night. Any help?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928566
jasonc331 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928566
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Yea, that is still a dead thread. Well, dead due to the fact that everyone is talking to themselves and development is occurring.
Do I need one of those "vanilla" developer phones if I'm to install a custom ROM on my Note 3? As far as I know, nope. You can root any Android phone.
I'm fairly sure that I can ClockWorkMod + install custom ROM on a phone I purchase in a shop. But I just want to make sure .
Thank you in advance .
You are joking, right ?
If not, yes.
Sent from my N9005
axonn said:
Do I need one of those "vanilla" developer phones if I'm to install a custom ROM on my Note 3? As far as I know, nope. You can root any Android phone.
I'm fairly sure that I can ClockWorkMod + install custom ROM on a phone I purchase in a shop. But I just want to make sure .
Thank you in advance .
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You need to READ a lot!!! Really, you will surely make something wrong...READ!
dragoncius said:
You need to READ a lot!!! Really, you will surely make something wrong...READ!
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Although my question seemed that of a noob, I can assure you I am not. My first rooted phone was HTC Tytn2 which I rooted using Duty's ROM's which I found here back in 2008. So no worries . Now I have a rooted SG2. I know all the procedures, safety steps and so on.
The reason I asked such a dumb question was that I had a 1% uncertainty regarding this, which I was unwilling to risk on.
As far as I know, the so-called dev-phones are simply loaded with a vanilla version of Android, no Samsung bloatware.
Anyway, thank you guys for calming my fears .
axonn said:
Although my question seemed that of a noob, I can assure you I am not. My first rooted phone was HTC Tytn2 which I rooted using Duty's ROM's which I found here back in 2008. So no worries . Now I have a rooted SG2. I know all the procedures, safety steps and so on.
The reason I asked such a dumb question was that I had a 1% uncertainty regarding this, which I was unwilling to risk on.
As far as I know, the so-called dev-phones are simply loaded with a vanilla version of Android, no Samsung bloatware.
Anyway, thank you guys for calming my fears .
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There´s only one Google Edition phone in Samsung, the S4. Still, you can get a "normal" S4 and still flash it like crazy.
dragoncius said:
There´s only one Google Edition phone in Samsung, the S4. Still, you can get a "normal" S4 and still flash it like crazy.
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Flash it like crazy. I like the sound of that! *grin*
I was just wondering if it was at all possible to port a rom from the note 2 to the gs3 because last I herd they are basically the same phones, ones just bigger. The reason why is because they have a lot of 4.4.2 touchwiz based roms that I sure would like to run on my galaxy. Now if this is possible would it be easy and wise to use a tool such as the Rom-porting tool found somewhere on these forums? Any and all advice is appreciated and I hope i'm not way off base here. Thanks!
Speedy712 said:
I was just wondering if it was at all possible to port a rom from the note 2 to the gs3 because last I herd they are basically the same phones, ones just bigger. The reason why is because they have a lot of 4.4.2 touchwiz based roms that I sure would like to run on my galaxy. Now if this is possible would it be easy and wise to use a tool such as the Rom-porting tool found somewhere on these forums? Any and all advice is appreciated and I hope i'm not way off base here. Thanks!
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the easy thing is porting from sprint or at&t s3 or the same board device(US S3 VARIANT)
mohammad.afaneh said:
the easy thing is porting from sprint or at&t s3 or the same board device(US S3 VARIANT)
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OK, yeah that makes sense. But is it still possible, even if it's not in the way I described?
Speedy712 said:
OK, yeah that makes sense. But is it still possible, even if it's not in the way I described?
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nothing impossible but porting rom like TW from different device need a hard work and maybe patch the kernel that we cant as locked bootloader.
you can try by replace /app /framework /priv-app worst case is bootloop use port guides iam not a good porter.