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ATRIX 2 dev tools

Just wondering if anybody saw this. Here's a link for everybody to check out.
http://community.developer.motorola...-2-development-resources-available/td-p/19569
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tylercarter said:
Just wondering if anybody saw this. Here's a link for everybody to check out.
http://community.developer.motorola...-2-development-resources-available/td-p/19569
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Yeah, unfortunately it is not the source code yet, just the parts for the emulator and pieces needed for Devs to write apps specifically for the Atrix2.
I wish there was more there for us to use to get this thing cracked open. Hopefully we can get a ROM developer to jump in here soon and help us collect what they need to get started on ROM development. Although we will need someone like Th3ory who is not afraid of making ROMs for devices with locked bootloaders, because I have a feeling it will be after ICS before we have an unlocked bootloader.

An emulator as in a full emulation of our phone? So if one were to try to develop a ROM for this thing could that be used to test rather than risking a brick?

jimbridgman said:
Yeah, unfortunately it is not the source code yet, just the parts for the emulator and pieces needed for Devs to write apps specifically for the Atrix2.
I wish there was more there for us to use to get this thing cracked open. Hopefully we can get a ROM developer to jump in here soon and help us collect what they need to get started on ROM development. Although we will need someone like Th3ory who is not afraid of making ROMs for devices with locked bootloaders, because I have a feeling it will be after ICS before we have an unlocked bootloader.
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Jim I'm curious. What recovery are you using? Bionic bootstrapper? And is it safe yet? I've read on it a little. Is it one of those things where unless your a bit of a dev not to try it?
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@PeteSeiler2010:
Yes this could be used to test a Developed ROM, however until we get a hold of some kind of code for this thing, there can't be too much development of ROMs and such, unless someone knows something I don't. And "code" can be anything from an fxz to the released source code for the Atrix 2 build.
@tylercarter:
For a "Recovery" this is the one you want, link below. And yes it is not 100% yet, but it does what we need it to right now, the only issue is if you crash, you can't get back to it on boot, you have to use the bootstrap to boot into it, from your app drawer. This is again something that can be done after a bootloader unlock. This will allow back up and restores though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346977
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I use the emulator for a lot of the work I have been doing to see what will happen, without risking a screwup on my phone directly. Then once I have tested it out there, on the phone it goes. You can even test apps from the market as well, just to see. It is really for app developers, to do their testing of the apps they build, but we can also do something similar for our "hacking".

Thanks for info Jim, I am going to download it and check it out and see if there is anything I do with it.
Also, Jim, have you done many restores on your phone? I have been hesitant to try one...its just so risky without the sbf.

PeteSeiler2010 said:
Thanks for info Jim, I am going to download it and check it out and see if there is anything I do with it.
Also, Jim, have you done many restores on your phone? I have been hesitant to try one...its just so risky without the sbf.
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Not a FULL restore, but there are others who have tried one of the updates in the bootloader unlock forum, that have been able to restore back to before the update successfully.
I have restored files, and even directories, but not the whole thing yet.

[ROM][PORT]ParanoidAndroid F.F.S V1/CM10-Unofficial V1 [1/8/2012]

This time, I must really thank RandomBlame for setting aside the problem between me and him, and now allowing me to port things faster. Without a doubt, Thank him and me TOGETHER! PA1.9.7 will be up in an hour's time. So give me some time to work on it
COPIED FROM OLD THREAD
This is a port from the MyTouch 4G/Desire S forums so there may be several bugs included :/
This port can be done thanks to cnote74(Port/Kernel), 0.0(Port) , RandomBlame(BASE), hdorius(Support till the end ), blindndumb(Guidance) , ...Awesome...(AwesomeBeatsv3) and PA/CM10.
Changelogs for v1.9.7 : http://www.blindndumb.com/2012/08/rom-aug-08-paranoidandroid-v197a.html [all give a thanks to blindndumb/cnote74 too ]
ParanoidAndroid:
Flashing Instructions
1. Make Sure You're On The Latest CWM Or 4EXT Recovery
2. Make A Backup
3. Full wipe
4. Flash ROM ×http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?49v6oil31aqy25t×<-V1.9.2
xhttp://paranoidandroid-ace.googlecode.com/files/PARANOIDANDROID_ACE_v1.9.5.zipx [direct download link] <-1.9.5b
(Somehow I gotten 3 upload links while focusing on one o.o ) <- All 3 are 1.9.7 Links removed. Too much error.
Haven't test it yet so might as well upload first then edit.
5. Flash Gapps ×http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zipx If it doesn't work try going to http://www.blindndumb.com/p/paranoid...downloads.html and download the paranoidandroid jellybean gapps. [ Thanks blindndumb =) ]
6. Reboot and Enjoy
New update will be up in around 5-10hours time. Have school work to do before i start updating :/
PA v1.9.7 Bugs: Can't mount SDCard to computer. Trying to find an alternative way.Links Going up in 1/2 hour's time.
CM10:
Flashing Instructions
1. Make Sure You're On The Latest CWM Or 4EXT Recovery
2. Make A Backup
3. Full wipe
4. Flash ROM ×http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vhm9l0sjn92bt74×
5. Flash Gapps ×http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zipx
6. Reboot and Enjoy
BUGS :
Backlight problems/ Screen-off illumination problems.
Apps force closes/causing hot reboots
If there is any bugs please leave me a logcat through pm or if you know specifically whats the problem leave me a pm too
Sorry guys, due to phone breaking down and exams coming up, I will not have the time to do all this till my exams are over. At the moment darkunesu will take over all the work.

totally agree with u , ANDROID IS AN OPEN SOURCE OS,
any way thnx for your great job

Good to see you got it all up and running. Ill give it a shot again... Hope it all works out in the end mate.

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Xda is filling up with those types of personalities.
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I totally agree.
miffymiffy said:
Good to see you got it all up and running. Ill give it a shot again... Hope it all works out in the end mate.
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And if he closes it down again I'll just fight my way through by porting all sorts of CM10 over

Clearly you are still confused between 'open source' & 'openly kang' .
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lululala said:
Clearly you are still confused between 'open source' & 'openly kang' .
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I know what it means so you don't need to teach me about it. But android is open source hence should be shared among everybody.

So... anyone tested it yet? able to boot?

simahu said:
I know what it means so you don't need to teach me about it. But android is open source hence should be shared among everybody.
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Randomblame's kernel source code is freely available for you to download and build. There's nothing more 'open source' than that. Extracting a compiled kernel from someone's ROM without permission and put it into your own ROM is clearly not.
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nice work will try,Thanks

lululala said:
Randomblame's kernel source code is freely available for you to download and build. There's nothing more 'open source' than that. Extracting a compiled kernel from someone's ROM without permission and put it into your own ROM is clearly not.
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I know but I took it without permission as I did not know how to compile a kernel. Now that someone is helping me out then I will not touch his anymore. Will do my own cm10 port about a few days time.

What up with the link; I have to sign up for mediafire now??

I think you should remove mentions of the other dev in your OP.

simahu said:
I know but I took it without permission as I did not know how to compile a kernel.
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I think you're missing the whole point of what asking permission in this scenario is all about.

iggdawg said:
I think you're missing the whole point of what asking permission in this scenario is all about.
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I did ask him in the first place but he totally disagree with it. What's wrong with using a ROM in the first place when it is meant to be shared among other peoples? Why are people getting selfish nowadays? Even if he spent 100 over hours with that ROM, whats wrong sharing a kernel? Not like he bought the whole CM10 down, so it should be shared among people.

RoxRedEye said:
What up with the link; I have to sign up for mediafire now??
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I've accidentally added a X in it hence the link is not working. Try it now.

gtalum said:
I think you should remove mentions of the other dev in your OP.
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Why? They helped me out in the first place. So I should thank them by putting their names in the thread.

simahu said:
Why? They helped me out in the first place. So I should thank them by putting their names in the thread.
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I'm only thinking of one of the dev's in particular, not mentioned as thanks. I'm guessing he won't want to be associated with your ROM.
Friendly advice, take it or leave it.

simahu said:
I did ask him in the first place but he totally disagree with it. What's wrong with using a ROM in the first place when it is meant to be shared among other peoples? Why are people getting selfish nowadays? Even if he spent 100 over hours with that ROM, whats wrong sharing a kernel? Not like he bought the whole CM10 down, so it should be shared among people.
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If you went and did it anyways, why did you ask in the first place?
It is being shared. You can get the source. If you don't know how to compile it, you should learn. Not steal. Instead you're getting upset at him not doing the work for you. kind of not cool. If you really want to push out your own ROMs so bad, learn how to do the legwork in the first place.

iggdawg said:
If you went and did it anyways, why did you ask in the first place?
It is being shared. You can get the source. If you don't know how to compile it, you should learn. Not steal. Instead you're getting upset at him not doing the work for you. kind of not cool. If you really want to push out your own ROMs so bad, learn how to do the legwork in the first place.
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If you think it is very easy to do compiling of stuffs when you have a computer which has only 512mb of ram, not even reaching 1ghz single core, show me that you can do it. And if you think it is very easy everything from the basics, go try it yourself. If you can't even produce a ROM, don't come teach me what to do. I was rushing my work to show to everybody that the v1.9.2a update would work perfectly but indeed I had broken the rules by taking RandomBlame's kernel without permission. Till then if you can't produce a ROM, do not teach me what to do. I managed to get this phone , which was already like 2 years old from my family, and my whole family is not that rich. We can't even afford a 'normal' PC like most people had nowadays, and had to live our lives with mostly second hand stuffs. When I got this phone, I was totally shocked how the HTC Sense made the phone laggy for me, hence I went into modding my phone, trying to build Chinese Custom ROMs into this development forum, and seeing people able to appreciate my work makes me happy. Now my family is even having difficulties saving money up for my school fees that I have to pay.
So if your life is not like mine DO NOT TALK LIKE YOU ARE THE BOSS OF THE FORUM. -End Of Speech-

[COMMUNITY PROJECT] [DEV] New Android Emulator for Testing/Developing Custom Roms

I know the SDK has AVD, but it's outdated and extremely slow. You can install custom roms on it but only older ones because its based on the yaffs2 filesystem and most current roms use EXT4. I had high hopes for bluestacks too but its locked down pretty tight and I don't see us being able to flash roms to it anytime soon. We have emulators for pretty much everything else, something like this shouldn't be too hard if we work at it. Dynamic recompilation seems to be the best way to go, but feel free to give input if you feel otherwise.
I guess our starting point should be here: http://fms.komkon.org/EMUL8/HOWTO.html
The man who wrote the guide above is some high-end developer that builds emulators for Android, but he seems to be pretty knowledgeable. He has an email you can contact him if you need help with a specific thing: [email protected].
As they come in, I'll list all the information regarding developments in this project in the post below.

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Wow! Looks an excellent project for Devs
I have few questions
1. Will be there a possibility to define and emulate specific devices?
2. How ROMs are flashed, the emulator will have a recovery too?
3. How many of you are working on it?

varun.chitre15 said:
Wow! Looks an excellent project for Devs
I have few questions
1. Will be there a possibility to define and emulate specific devices?
2. How ROMs are flashed, the emulator will have a recovery too?
3. How many of you are working on it?
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1.) One of the goals would be hardware and kernel emulation, I would imagine they could be set as variables where you could input your own kernel and we could make some predefined hardware options for you to choose from. It would be hard but I think it could be done.
2.) I don't exactly know, but seeing as that's how we already do it we could try. Early alphas would probably be more of a "kitchen" where your menu is in the terminal and you manually put your files in the respective folders.
3.) Just me at the moment, I haven't found anyone to help. I haven't really made too much progress either, right now I'm decompiling AVD to figure out how it runs.

If this works, it would be a lifesaver. I say we should PM you any predefined device settings we want, and have a drop down list that automatically sets it. And to emulate recovery I don't see happening like on our devices, but maybe some of the wipe features, and flashing over a current rom? Also anything you need for help I can do, just ask. I'm good at design, and UI, just can't create it myself. And can you possible make it cross platform? Because I switch between windows and Linux.
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evodev said:
If this works, it would be a lifesaver. I say we should PM you any predefined device settings we want, and have a drop down list that automatically sets it. And to emulate recovery I don't see happening like on our devices, but maybe some of the wipe features, and flashing over a current rom? Also anything you need for help I can do, just ask. I'm good at design, and UI, just can't create it myself. And can you possible make it cross platform? Because I switch between windows and Linux.
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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 right now, so it's going to be Linux at first but once its stable enough the plan is to make it cross-platform. And I do need help, I need all the help I can get! Hence community project haha.

flapflip22 said:
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 right now, so it's going to be Linux at first but once its stable enough the plan is to make it cross-platform. And I do need help, I need all the help I can get! Hence community project haha.
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I can live with Linux at first. And I know, but I mean any help a non-coder can give. I will at least test it, and give some device specifics, but anything else that I can really do?
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evodev said:
I can live with Linux at first. And I know, but I mean any help a non-coder can give. I will at least test it, and give some device specifics, but anything else that I can really do?
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Either way, I appreciate the help! Ill PM you if I need a tester and you should pop in every once in awhile to see how things are coming along. I'm not going to lie, this is harder than I thought it was but it seems do-able the more I study AVD.
I'm thinking we might be able to change the filesystem on AVD to run EXT3/EXT4 and get it to run a little smoother and build it to run without eclipse, then modify it to fit our needs.

That's sound good. And anyone who would get the most use of it would be fine with a terminal based one right now, and you can work on a GUI later unless someone else helps you soon. I'll keep checking as this comes along, hopefully it won't take too long to get a preview working.
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I am too up for testing!
You can use Qt for GUI, its easy.
Its based on C++ and hence is very fast than other GUI libraries.

varun.chitre15 said:
I am too up for testing!
You can use Qt for GUI, its easy.
Its based on C++ and hence is very fast than other GUI libraries.
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Any chance you would know how to use it and can help him?
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evodev said:
Any chance you would know how to use it and can help him?
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Yes I can
You can see my tool in my signature. It is based on Qt

varun.chitre15 said:
Yes I can
You can see my tool in my signature. It is based on Qt
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That's good. And your sig isn't showing up in the tapatalk app.
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I feel pretty confident in this project, I'm going through Androids source code starting with 1.5

I've been thinking this over, it would be much easier to add EXT3 and EXT4 support to AVD and tweak it for speed. Im working on it now, ill try to get an early alpha out as soon as I can put it together.

flapflip22 said:
I've been thinking this over, it would be much easier to add EXT3 and EXT4 support to AVD and tweak it for speed. Im working on it now, ill try to get an early alpha out as soon as I can put it together.
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Great
Do lemme know if you need any help with GUI

Originally Posted by flapflip22
I've been thinking this over, it would be much easier to add EXT3 and EXT4 support to AVD and tweak it for speed. Im working on it now, ill try to get an early alpha out as soon as I can put it together.
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Great
Do lemme know if you need any help with GUI
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Will do!

I'm not asking for an eta or anything, but have you got anything working yet, or still looking at the code? I really want to try this out soon.
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What is the status?

Optimus 4X_LS Port for the S3?

Can someone or has this been ported to the s3 yet? It would be pretty amazing.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27873486

I would, but i haven't the slightest idea how to

Neverendingxsin said:
I would, but i haven't the slightest idea how to
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From my understanding, you have to swap out the patches and it's specific to your device and ROM. I took a look at one of the patcher tools, but it was just a bunch of confusion to me until I can actually sit down and take a look without having to rush. Think you could take a look as well? Greatly appreciated :victory:

STVERDI said:
From my understanding, you have to swap out the patches and it's specific to your device and ROM. I took a look at one of the patcher tools, but it was just a bunch of confusion to me until I can actually sit down and take a look without having to rush. Think you could take a look as well? Greatly appreciated :victory:
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Yeah ill take a look my issue is that for weeks now my laptop has been pissy and won't run java correctly >.<
Alright looks like im gonna need to get an extra desktop PC setup and running ubuntu definitely won't be happening tonight. Sadly my laptop just can't handle this stuff anymore.

Neverendingxsin said:
Yeah ill take a look my issue is that for weeks now my laptop has been pissy and won't run java correctly >.<
Alright looks like im gonna need to get an extra desktop PC setup and running ubuntu definitely won't be happening tonight. Sadly my laptop just can't handle this stuff anymore.
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Well, let me know if you figure anything out when you get everything up and running. I'm definitely going to be sitting down tonight and looking into it, I'll report back if I find anything!

I just found this quote in the post; "For all who keep on asking your answers can be found in this thread just search. To use the patch you need your rom's source code then run the patch command on linux and patch your source add the resources and compile. There is no flash zip morphs or anything flash able because AOSP roms are not the same it will be hard to make a flash able zip for all and this is the development section if you don't know what to do then search, read and read some more instead of these consider requests that wouldn't happen. You have to do see stuff yourself something" ... so my question now is, where is the source code for LS RC5(seeing that you run it as well).

STVERDI said:
Well, let me know if you figure anything out when you get everything up and running. I'm definitely going to be sitting down tonight and looking into it, I'll report back if I find anything!
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Hopefully i can get one setup this weekend, gotta convince my dad to let me setup everything on one of his desktop computers. I'd rather mess around with it using Ubuntu and not windows, but that's just personal preference
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I just found this quote in the post; "For all who keep on asking your answers can be found in this thread just search. To use the patch you need your rom's source code then run the patch command on linux and patch your source add the resources and compile. There is no flash zip morphs or anything flash able because AOSP roms are not the same it will be hard to make a flash able zip for all and this is the development section if you don't know what to do then search, read and read some more instead of these consider requests that wouldn't happen. You have to do see stuff yourself something" ... so my question now is, where is the source code for LS RC5(seeing that you run it as well).
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LS RC5 is based off of CM10, so it would be the cyanogen mod 10 source code, which is android 4.1.2 source

Neverendingxsin said:
Hopefully i can get one setup this weekend, gotta convince my dad to let me setup everything on one of his desktop computers. I'd rather mess around with it using Ubuntu and not windows, but that's just personal preference
LS RC5 is based off of CM10, so it would be the cyanogen mod 10 source code, which is android 4.1.2 source
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Could you possibly give me a link on where to find that?

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Could you possibly give me a link on where to find that?
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This tutorial should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762641

Are we ever getting root(update) we have root new thread coming soon

Wondering about root doesn't seem we are getting much development on our u11 life

twinnfamous said:
Wondering about root doesn't seem we are getting much development on our u11 life
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Wondering the same thing or maybe it take time to get us root...it was easy to unlock bootloader for me no problem...but twrp is a no good on T-Mobile U Life[emoji22] as of right now for me anyway
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The lack of releases at this time is probably related to this phone being less than ten days old.

iamxaq said:
The lack of releases at this time is probably related to this phone being less than ten days old.
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Exactly haha. Not sure why people are jumping the gun on development for this phone already. My Moto g5 plus took longer than this from its initial release to get development going. And now that phone is very active in the community.
Anyway, point is, just give it some time like this guy said. The phone isn't exactly a flagship anyway. And the Android one version hasn't even been released here yet.

dpryor88 said:
Exactly haha. Not sure why people are jumping the gun on development for this phone already. My Moto g5 plus took longer than this from its initial release to get development going. And now that phone is very active in the community.
Anyway, point is, just give it some time like this guy said. The phone isn't exactly a flagship anyway. And the Android one version hasn't even been released here yet.
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thanks for the comments. how long have you been in the developer scene with HTC. Also nobody is jumping the gun. We aren't allowed to go to devs and ask for eta's so I just made this thread so they may see and hopefully give some love to this phone. All I need is root and a recovery I can do the rest.

Look on the bright side, pixel 2 been out for a month. And even we are slow on development. You'll get root and probably a few roms, it will take time though.
Also the fact that bootloader is unlockable when phone cost less than $400 is kinda big deal

twinnfamous said:
thanks for the comments. how long have you been in the developer scene with HTC. Also nobody is jumping the gun. We aren't allowed to go to devs and ask for eta's so I just made this thread so they may see and hopefully give some love to this phone. All I need is root and a recovery I can do the rest.
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I could ask you the same question. If you've been in it so long yourself, why don't you figure this problem out yourself? Hah.

dpryor88 said:
I could ask you the same question. If you've been in it so long yourself, why don't you figure this problem out yourself? Hah.
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Very well put. I only usually get the flagship HTC phones but this time I chose this since it was T-Mobile specific. And I waited to long to get u11 so using this till next HTC flagship comes. I look forward to seeing you around.

HTC phones from my experience don't take too long to get root. They average about a month or so. Keep in mind my last HTC was the EVO LTE.

You don't need a custom recovery for root.
You can use Magisk to patch a stock boot.img for your device (for example, one found here) and flash the patched image via fastboot. Then you're rooted, and you didn't even need TWRP.
I won't be purchasing this device, so unfortunately I can't build a TWRP for it (that and I'm retiring in 8 posts). If someone else wants to pursue building it, I'm willing to offer minimal assistance.

Captain_Throwback said:
You don't need a custom recovery for root.
You can use Magisk to patch a stock boot.img for your device (for example, one found here and flash the patched image via fastboot. Then you're rooted, and you didn't even need TWRP.
I won't be purchasing this device, so unfortunately I can't build a TWRP for it (that and I'm retiring in 8 posts). If someone else wants to pursue building it, I'm willing to offer minimal assistance.
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Thanks so much for the info. I'm on to something now. About building it what can I use as a pre-built kernel or will I have to wait for source to drop? Sorry for using your last posts to help us

twinnfamous said:
Thanks so much for the info. I'm on to something now. About building it what can I use as a pre-built kernel or will I have to wait for source to drop? Sorry for using your last posts to help us
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There's a thread on xda about building TWRP. I've never built TWRP before, but I know about using build environments and whatnot. Google "how to build TWRP" I believe haha, as simple as it sounds it should come up in the top few results.
Anyway, I think you and I should help each other out here like you said. I'm using an older imac since I sold my old PC. It only has 4gb ram, but I'm going to install Ubuntu tomorrow on the Mac as a partition, and then hopefully I can get a build environment going quickly and start work.
What are you doing so far? Are you able to build too? Or maybe we can both research and bounce ideas off each other while I try it out. Whatever you prefer. Just PM me I guess.

dpryor88 said:
There's a thread on xda about building TWRP. I've never built TWRP before, but I know about using build environments and whatnot. Google "how to build TWRP" I believe haha, as simple as it sounds it should come up in the top few results.
Anyway, I think you and I should help each other out here like you said. I'm using an older imac since I sold my old PC. It only has 4gb ram, but I'm going to install Ubuntu tomorrow on the Mac as a partition, and then hopefully I can get a build environment going quickly and start work.
What are you doing so far? Are you able to build too? Or maybe we can both research and bounce ideas off each other while I try it out. Whatever you prefer. Just PM me I guess.
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I can build I have a great machine and all ready downloaded the source. The only difference in building twrp for a new device is we have to make our own files from scratch. And it would be nice if we had an ruu to restore back from if things don't go well during testing. We can figure it out. Help is always good more people trying different things usually gets results faster.

twinnfamous said:
I can build I have a great machine and all ready downloaded the source. The only difference in building twrp for a new device is we have to make our own files from scratch. And it would be nice if we had an ruu to restore back from if things don't go well during testing. We can figure it out. Help is always good more people trying different things usually gets results faster.
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I read somewhere about an emulator sorta program for testing your TWRP build without messing up your device.

twinnfamous said:
I can build I have a great machine and all ready downloaded the source. The only difference in building twrp for a new device is we have to make our own files from scratch. And it would be nice if we had an ruu to restore back from if things don't go well during testing. We can figure it out. Help is always good more people trying different things usually gets results faster.
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Did you try that magisk rooting (without TWRP) method? I haven't tried it yet.
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Captain_Throwback said:
You don't need a custom recovery for root.
You can use Magisk to patch a stock boot.img for your device (for example, one found here) and flash the patched image via fastboot. Then you're rooted, and you didn't even need TWRP.
I won't be purchasing this device, so unfortunately I can't build a TWRP for it (that and I'm retiring in 8 posts). If someone else wants to pursue building it, I'm willing to offer minimal assistance.
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Happen to know where there may be stock boot.img files for the Life that are free? I don't want to pay for a membership on that site you linked..

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Did you try that magisk rooting (without TWRP) method? I haven't tried it yet.
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Happen to know where there may be stock boot.img files for the Life that are free? I don't want to pay for a membership on that site you linked..
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that's gonna be the hard part. Finding a boot.Img for T-Mobile version. There's no links to software anywhere that I've seen. We may be stuck waiting for an update just to get the files we need

twinnfamous said:
that's gonna be the hard part. Finding a boot.Img for T-Mobile version. There's no links to software anywhere that I've seen. We may be stuck waiting for an update just to get the files we need
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Yeah I think we're at a road block right now

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Yeah I think we're at a road block right now
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I'm not giving up I'm still gonna try whatever I can on my end.
Hopefully something good or I'll end up with a bricked device till ruu comes

I would love to eventually see a ROM that gives the T-Mobile variant a similar appeal as the Android One version. I bought the U11 Life as a backup to my Pixel 2 (and to benefit from T-Mobile's Carrier Freedom promo, as well) and I was very surprised as to how much I actually enjoyed using the phone!
Brought me back to the days when I had the One M7.

Just so everyone is aware...... Once you unlock your bootloader you can then go super CID, once you are super CID you can flash ANY GSM boot.img , so there is no roadblock on that end. The roadblock is no custom recovery, if we had a custom recovery then we are open to a world of wonders and amazement. So get to work......