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Alrighty, Krylon and I have worked out the minor details and im headed to the post office to ship him my 4G first thing tomorrow(wed) morning. Please be patient and let nature take its course. Stop trying to flash the Vibrant CWM on the 4G, it will not work. You run the risk of doin' some srs bsnz to your shiny new handset flashing a cwm or sd fix that is not made for your phone. You will all have your Custom firmware fix soon.
If you feel a compulsion to donate to Krylon or myself, go nuts, i wont stop you!
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Alrighty, Krylon and I have worked out the minor details and im headed to the post office to ship him my 4G first thing tomorrow(wed) morning. Please be patient and let nature take its course. Stop trying to flash the Vibrant CWM on the 4G, it will not work. You run the risk of doin' some srs bsnz to your shiny new handset flashing a cwm or sd fix that is not made for your phone. You will all have your Custom firmware fix soon.
If you feel a compulsion to donate to Krylon or myself, go nuts, i wont stop you!
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Thanks for lending krylon your device. Way to take one for the team.
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Ya you the man. Coming from the vibrant I almost feel like I've lost something.
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Thanks for lending krylon your device. Way to take one for the team.
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right, for sure. Thanks for being a team player, we need some custom roms on this biooottttchhhh!!!!
Thanks Dude, Glad to see someone willing to send out their device so we can get CWM up and running.
Can't wait for it great job
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awesome news!
Great news
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this is good news but it kinda sucks I have been in salt lake for the past week and offered to drop my 4g off in person.... oh well better late than never.
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this is good news but it kinda sucks I have been in salt lake for the past week and offered to drop my 4g off in person.... oh well better late than never.
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The planets weren't lined up. ;-) in do time.
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mavictb said:
this is good news but it kinda sucks I have been in salt lake for the past week and offered to drop my 4g off in person.... oh well better late than never.
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I had to take some time off bud. Personal issues came up and couldn't have done anything with the 4G in hand during that time.
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I had to take some time off bud. Personal issues came up and couldn't have done anything with the 4G in hand during that time.
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No worries. Just appreciate all your hard work and dedication. I feel like I'm waiting for a great ROM to be released from Team Whiskey when I used to have my Vibrant. lol. At least I don't have to read through hundreds of pages like before.
Hey guys, crappy news. With whats happening in Japan im on a 45 day underway and i don't have time to send my phone off at the moment. We have to go hang by the coast and make sure nobody tries to take advantage of Japans situation. Wish my carrier group luck and if no-one has taken my place by the time i get back into Norfolk ill send my phone then.
Sorry guys, but the situation in Japan takes a bit of priority at the moment.
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Hey guys, crappy news. With whats happening in Japan im on a 45 day underway and i don't have time to send my phone off at the moment. We have to go hang by the coast and make sure nobody tries to take advantage of Japans situation. Wish my carrier group luck and if no-one has taken my place by the time i get back into Norfolk ill send my phone then.
Sorry guys, but the situation in Japan takes a bit of priority at the moment.
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Wow, that blows. Guess we can hang til then unless someone else wants to slide a phone over to Krylon.
spockmeat said:
Hey guys, crappy news. With whats happening in Japan im on a 45 day underway and i don't have time to send my phone off at the moment. We have to go hang by the coast and make sure nobody tries to take advantage of Japans situation. Wish my carrier group luck and if no-one has taken my place by the time i get back into Norfolk ill send my phone then.
Sorry guys, but the situation in Japan takes a bit of priority at the moment.
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Bummer, thought it was already on its way.
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krylon360 said:
I had to take some time off bud. Personal issues came up and couldn't have done anything with the 4G in hand during that time.
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I understand no worries... just wanted to help in some way and buy you beer lol.
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I hope luckyduck69 would be willing to still send a phone over to krylon.
Krylon can you please respond to luckyduck's PM?
I've already been in touch with him. He's picking up a 2nd one today and sending me one....well that was the plan anyway. Waiting on a response.
Krylon, I know you haven't taken a look at the phone yet but Im new to the samsung world and curious about the differences from my G1. From another post I gather that the final product for installing/using CWM will involve a zip that is flashed from the standard recovery that replaces the standard recovery with CWM and then reboots? Is that what you think will end up doing to get CWM working? If so what about these phones require such a work around? I've tried doing some googleing but i get a lot of false positives in my results.
Thanks in advance for any answers and all the other work you do.
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Krylon, I know you haven't taken a look at the phone yet but Im new to the samsung world and curious about the differences from my G1. From another post I gather that the final product for installing/using CWM will involve a zip that is flashed from the standard recovery that replaces the standard recovery with CWM and then reboots? Is that what you think will end up doing to get CWM working? If so what about these phones require such a work around? I've tried doing some googleing but i get a lot of false positives in my results.
Thanks in advance for any answers and all the other work you do.
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the kernel isn't a standard kernel. It uses a initramfs. which has recovery built into it. This is what makes it different.
Greetings everyone!
I've been doing massive 'net research on rooting my MT4G, and the one site that kept popping up was this one. So, I read the 'what to do..' thread and will discover my chipset and such later (my place of employment is (barely) on a 2G network). I've had my phone for 13 mos now without too many problems, running Go Launcher as opposed to Sense, and the Go sms.
Looks like I have some reading to do here, and hopefully with 13 mos or so with this phone I'll be able to lend some advice back.
One thing that troubles me is that in the last few months, I've noticed an increase in the 'Recovered from an abnormal reset' messages. I haven't read everything yet, but if anyone can lend an idea on this one, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks,
Skeebs
Welcome. Thanks for doing research. I'm not sure what to tell you about the "recovered from abnormal restart" message. A factory reset might be what you need. Ideas anyone?
You're probably right on the factory reset. I've been pondering that one for a while, and have just been a little lazy about it. Then again I might hold off until I'm decided on whether to root or not, which won't take long either.
That's understandable. One thing you may want to do is root, and then use something like Titanium Backup to backup any important program data you have like gamesaves, settings, etc. Remember though that the more you restore, the better chance you have of causing the problem, or even a new one, all over again.
I like this guy. He doesn't ask stupid questions and uses the thanks button.
And take it from someone who did the HTC unlocking update to unlock your bootloader... PLEASE dont go that route.. if you choose to root, do it with the methods here, they are far too simple, something I realized only after i did the HTC official unlocking method. Use this site for everything you do to ur phone..
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Thanks for the advice and nice comments! I learned a long time ago when seeking knowledge on a forum such as this, it pays to do a little reading before posting and pay a little respect to those whom assist.
I'm going to follow your advice this weekend, first rooting, then backing up and then the factory reset. I plan on following the guides and resources here to a tee and will let you all know how it goes. Thanks again!
Good luck all of us are here to help if you need it don't hesitate to ask.
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And this, people, is how a thread should look!
Oh joy, anyone want to guess which chip I have? Should this be a stop sign or should I trust my generally above average skills to pull this off?
It's never easy, is it....
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Oh joy, anyone want to guess which chip I have? Should this be a stop sign or should I trust my generally above average skills to pull this off?
It's never easy, is it....
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Ouch u now have a 75-25% chance if u have insurance call n trade it in
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Oh joy, anyone want to guess which chip I have? Should this be a stop sign or should I trust my generally above average skills to pull this off?
It's never easy, is it....
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My wife and I both have the "bad" emmc. Both are rooted. Both are over a year old. Both work. Your chance of bricking early is statistically higher. But I wouldn't worry about it. I've rooted 3 MT4G's using gfree. None have had issues.
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Oh joy, anyone want to guess which chip I have? Should this be a stop sign or should I trust my generally above average skills to pull this off?
It's never easy, is it....
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I have the bad one as well, Ive flashed at least 10 roms in the last couple weeks...but ive always been a risk taker...also, there are others that are more knowledgeable than i am, that believe the "bad chip" is overrated. I don't know either way..
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I guess the good news is that I still carry the insurance. If something goes terribly wrong, I could always have the wife back the Camry over it....
Not to mention, if this chip was going to fail, I tend to think it would have already. I worked outside every day last year in an extremely brutal heatwave, streaming music, quick recharging in a hot black truck, etc. I've pushed this thing further than I thought it could go and it hasn't failed yet (save the battery, I had to replace it after the summer).
The rewards outway the risks, so I shall drive on. Thanks for your feedback!
I kinda have that excited tingly feeling that I had before I built my first pc back in the late 90's...
Awesome thead guys! I had almost forgotten what it's like to have a respectful exchange of posts! Feels nice
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I also had a Mt4g with the "bad chip" there is some truth to the name. After probably 30 flashes she had enough and just stopped booting. However I am very hard on my phones. So pick a ROM you like and stick with it and you'll be fine.
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Hi, so jimbridgman and I have been working on the Boot Loader unlock stuff, and may have an idea. It seems to easy to be true but is worth a shot.
Now, this means we need someone to test it. Here is what we are asking for:
1. at least 1 person to test, we will not need more than 1 person for this initially, but if it fails we will likely need more so feel free to volunteer anyways and we can renegotiate the terms for a later test
2. you must have access to a computer with fastboot and be familiar with how to use it.
3. You must be familiar with how to get yourself out of a general softbrick, such as a bootloop.
4. You will be paid 20% or $150 of the bootloader unlock bounty (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837363), whichever is lower if and only if this method of unlocking succeeds.
5. If this fails, which it most likely will, You will almost definitely be HARD BRICKED. That means you now own an expensive paper weight. That said you will likely be able to get a replacement through AT&T if you are with them so make sure you know your options.
6. You must be on ICS or Be willing and know how to upgrade to it.
7. Your phone must be a U.S. AT&T model
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You must also fully understand that we do not take responsibility for what happens to your phone and we are well aware that it will likely brick. you CANNOT hold us or anyone else responsible if you are unable to restore or get a replacement.
That said we will do our best to help you unbrick if possible, but it likely will not be.
Please reply here if you are interested and Jim or I will PM you with more info. feel free to ask any questions you have here as well.
I'm in. PM me in you need to, I have nothing to lose, and (hopefully) everything to gain! :good:
Thanks lkrasner!
So this will test to see if we are even able to use that BL we found, just so that everyone has an inkling of what we are doing.
If your still looking for volunteers Im in
I have fastboot on both windows and ubuntu
I have recovered from many soft bricks
I am willing to sacrafice my phone if I need to
I've got to do a bit of charging - didn't realize I let my phone power off with no juice, so I'll report back in about an hour or so... Sorry.
Edit: I will PM Jim and lkrasner my results. Stay tuned guys.
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I'm down. PM me if it's still on the table. You might know me better as Gonz013 from IRC, or the guy with the unrootable phone...
lkrasner said:
Hi, so jimbridgman and I have been working on the Boot Loader unlock stuff, and may have an idea. It seems to easy to be true but is worth a shot.
Now, this means we need someone to test it. Here is what we are asking for:
You must also fully understand that we do not take responsibility for what happens to your phone and we are well aware that it will likely brick. you CANNOT hold us or anyone else responsible if you are unable to restore or get a replacement.
That said we will do our best to help you unbrick if possible, but it likely will not be.
Please reply here if you are interested and Jim or I will PM you with more info. feel free to ask any questions you have here as well.
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Good luck gentleman....may the gods be with you.
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Tuned in here .....
Godspeed gentlemen...and good luck.
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I'll try it if you need another tester.
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Thanks guys. We are still tweaking. We did a test run today and it did not brick nor unlock. So... back to the drawing board.
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I'm in when y'all are done with tweaking. Building a Linux server for my daughter's school. It's going too good I have to have some excitement over the weekend.
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Can you tell us what you tried or a simplified run down?
mind sharing the details & result?
Without getting too involved in details, basically the awesome developers here made up a flashable .zip using the NS Bootloader. Flashed fine, no brick, but as Jim mentioned above, still locked. Also, as mentioned by Jim, he and the other guys are still tweaking things, so please... EVERYONE... stay patient and don't start getting all worked up just yet. I'll leave the rest of the updates to him, lkrasner, alteredlikeness, and/or cogeary.
And guys, please don't explode this thread with asking for updates, when they come, you will be informed as soon as they are discovered. Just stay calm, patient, and keep fingers and toes crossed...
Thanks for letting us know what's going on. I'm just an info junkie. Its all for the bigger picture. Plus when I talk about it with people like my pops who's been using Linux and embedded systems since the beginning I can give a little run down. Who knows maybe a fresh idea might pop out. Again thanks for the update and all the work.
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Once you have flashed have you tried doing the fastboot commands to attempt to retrieve the device id and unlock keys that are needed for the Moto unlock bootloader site? Maybe the NS Bootloader is locked but has the ability to be unlocked via this site. Just a thought.
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Once you have flashed have you tried doing the fastboot commands to attempt to retrieve the device id and unlock keys that are needed for the Moto unlock bootloader site? Maybe the NS Bootloader is locked but has the ability to be unlocked via this site. Just a thought.
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I was thinking the same thing.
I am no expert, but that seems highly unlikely. considering that moto doesn't support unlocking our device, and it is their web site you need to get the codes from.
Hi I just tried to unlock bootloader on htcdev.com on my Rogers htc one x; and got confused not even half way through; despite majoring in computer science at university.
I know, I know, I am a shame to the internetz.
Can anyone install a custom rom for me in the Toronto area?
I will bring with me either a 6 pack beer or 3 tall cans, your pick.
However if you try to lure me into a sketchy alleyway or I feel that you are up to no good, I will have to call it off and run away.
So yea, if you are willing to install a custom rom for me for some beer, then please do.
** or if you could let me know if there's an easier way to unlock bootloader, I could probably do it myself!
Wont get any easier than this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672284
mediumsteak said:
Hi I just tried to unlock bootloader on htcdev.com on my Rogers htc one x; and got confused not even half way through; despite majoring in computer science at university.
I know, I know, I am a shame to the internetz.
Can anyone install a custom rom for me in the Toronto area?
I will bring with me either a 6 pack beer or 3 tall cans, your pick.
However if you try to lure me into a sketchy alleyway or I feel that you are up to no good, I will have to call it off and run away.
So yea, if you are willing to install a custom rom for me for some beer, then please do.
** or if you could let me know if there's an easier way to unlock bootloader, I could probably do it myself!
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I wouldn't pay somebody to put a ROM on your phone, or you'll have to pay somebody every time you want to update it. You aren't going to want to sick with the same ROM for the next 2 years. Spend some time reading the forum and follow the instructions and you should be fine.
Where in Toronto are you? If you're close enough, I'll do it for fun. Shoot me a pm, I'll teach you too on the process.
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Agree to the previous responses. Just start reading, and figure out the process. We all had to fumble through as n00bs and learn from scratch. Any knowledge you gain will not only help any future mods on this phone, but also on any phones you get in the future. You don't want to have to get people to root every phone you buy.
I understand that the process and terminology can be intimidating for a beginner. But its really not that hard once you put in some time and effort. If you were smart enough to be computer science major, you can certainly handle it. It just takes some reading, and being able to follow instructions carefully.
It's probably like the whole "riding a bike" thing. Once you know, you know forever. It's just a matter of muddling through on our own that first time out, with all the inherent risks of bricking and public shame - OR recruiting some local talent to show you the ropes the first time out. Like dad jogging next to you after he took your training wheels off.
So with all that, I thought about asking this same question in Long Island NY. But the only ROM I'd really consider would be CleanROM based on 2.20 - but there's that pesky linkify issue and the tethering problems I've read about. So I guess I don't need the assist.
Unless someone's giving a Nandroid 101 seminar nearby...
The most confusing part for me when unlocking from htcdev was using android SDK. I'm a big noob like you too man, I didn't know anything about it when I got my phone 2 weeks ago and spent atleast a week reading stuff before I even tried anything.
Maybe try youtube-ing some android SDK videos to get an idea how it works.
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I keep reading the title of this post as Tomato soup...
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I keep reading the title of this post as Tomato soup...
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LOL ME 2
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Hi I've just received a new tablet , I know its not the best on the market but I have faith that it could be good.
I've followed a few threads on this forum with out having an account, and found the information to be very helpful with my late lg gt540 and my htc desire.
now as you can see at the bottom of this post I've got a DLR_MID. it has no name on the box apart from mid and nothing on the tablet itself, so finding a rom is somewhat fustrating. as the base rom has caused me a few issues i would prefer cmx or similar, with full root as well.
What information would a chef need from me to create a beautiful and tasty maserpiece. Also so advice from someone on one of the issues caused by the rom would be greatly appreciated and I'll go more into that now.
My tablwt has 2 internal storage bays showing up. 1 is listed as internal storage the other as internal sd. When I first got the tablet the sd was registering as 4Gb. I used the intwrnal a2sd function of the rom to move some apps. Without any warning the tablet reset,all the apps were gone but I'm left with only 1.71Gb. I plugged it into my pc to see what would show up there and still got the same 1.71Gb. I factory reset to whole device and still the same. I xould really do with some help with this please.
If you need more info please ask. I will do all it takes from my side to resolve both issues (with some advice with being a noob to tablets)
Kind regards to all
P.s. if I have posted in the wrong area I do apologise as I am new to the forum and haven't really figured the layout properly yet.
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Is there someone that could help me please. I don't want to sound pushy, but some help no matter how small would do me the greatest of good. I'm almost at my wits end with both my issues here.
Thanks in advanced
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First thing you will need is to know if the bootloader is unlocked and if kernel sources are available. Normally the answer to both is no when dealing with no name devices.
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How would one go about find such info out? If you couldgive directions, I will be able to provide the information you require. That's if it would be you that would need the info.
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How would one go about find such info out? If you couldgive directions, I will be able to provide the information you require. That's if it would be you that would need the info.
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Well first thing I would do is find the OEM and then look at the site and get as much info I could about the device.
Sadly purchased through ebay, I have made countless amounts of contacts with the seller to no avail. I can only assume they only understand money transfer, not language.
I have also made a number of attempts to google, all of which have turned up nothing. There seems to be a small house in the bambo forest making tablets out of panda poo and bambo leaves.
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