Hello, i am new to anything regarding android as I have been broke for a very long time. I am no longer in that situation and finally went out and bought my first smart devices and I have been furious at them ever since. I am a PC user, have been for decades, I can do damn near anything I want on it and was of the (Incorrect) assumption that these things worked in a similar fashion. Obviously they don't. I have, in the process of trying to root and grant superuser rights to two seperate tablets from verizon running lollipop and ruined them. I want a device that works like a computer: I can download and run whatever I want, change whatever i want, and at the end of the day if I screw up the OS or it gets demolished by a virus, reinstall the OS myself WITHOUT unlocking bootloaders/hacking/rooting/jailbreaking, etc. As I said I have already bricked two tablets trying to get these stupid devices to work like the PCs I was told they were when they first showed up on the market. I am a hair's width away from swearing off smart devices for good and sticking with just my PC and my old flip phone since I won't be using a smart phone for anything other than calls and text at that point. So if anyone can point me in the direction of a company that makes smart devices without any sort of restrictions (like EVERYBODY does with PCs) OR at the very least a company that makes it stupid proof easy to do I would be most appreciative.
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Okay so I hope I'm posting in a suitable area (I was debating to post here or in the Questions and Answers section). I don't usually use forums much but I try to be as respectful as I can as not to upset anyone or waste anybody's time. I'll put the important info in bold in case you don't want to read all the details. Getting to the point, I've looked several times on google and youtube but I never get a clear answer to this and I've watched dozens of youtube videos about the basics of rooting and what you should and are supposed to and not supposed to do however I still can't get an answer. I have a Samsung Galaxy Go Prime at least that's what all of my manuals say but after searching about rooting I've come to find that it's either closer related or the same as a more popular Samsung Galaxy Go phone. I've rooted it using the King Root app twice now because every time I turn the phone off it does the "seandroid enforcing" boot loop thing and both times I've restored the stock ROM, as I've heard it called, using Odin and used King Root to root it again. Now maybe I'm just an idiot but I don't think it should be doing that, or am I wrong, or am I doing something wrong?. I used to use an Iphone and I know that jailbreaking could be tethered and untethered, however I'm not sure if it is the same with android and rooting (or for that matter exactly what rooting does) as I have just recently switched. If anyone could find a youtube video explaining all of this too me that would be really helpful as all the ones I have come across while trying to find a solution are either really outdated or sharing knowledge about a particular type of phone. I will admit that I don't know very much about rooting because all sources I've tried to learn from either didn't explain anything or did not explain it well enough. The original intent for rooting my phone was to make use of my SD card, considering that the internal storage is only 8gb and the phone outright refuses to use my 32gb microSD for anything. I manually moved all of my files to my SD using the stock "My files" app on the phone and it didn't clear up much space. After rooting it I tried to use an app called "Link2SD" which unfortunately only moves part of an app to my SD and not the entire app, so if anyone knows a better solution to this problem as well that would be a great help. Thanks for any and all information and assistance, I really appreciate you and your time. :good:
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Hi - I am new to this site and it's my first post. I am a newbie in RE: rooting Android devices. I have jailbroken iPhone's in the past but it seems that rooting is a bit more involved. Long story short, I have a lot of mobile electronics that require a rooted Android device now and I am at a loss as far as what to get and how to root. I have a few out of contract phones on the Verizon network but none are Android. I need a newer phone that has the Miracast (or cast screen) capabilities with preferably a removable battery, microSD card slot, and a microUSB connection. I went to the root section and not too many of the "newer" phones were listed. I did see the HTC 10 was listed with videos explaining all the steps and then read further in the thread to see that Verizon has somehow hidden the Bootloader (or something to that effect) and it can't be rooted at this time.
Long story short, does anyone know of a phone from Verizon that supports Miracast (or cast screen) and that can be rooted today? If not, I may have to look for an unlocked phone.
Again, I'm a newbie and unfortunately need a lot of guidance at this point but hopefully someday I will be able to assist others as I do on other forums for other things.
Any help or direction would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi - I am new to this site and it's my first post. I am a newbie in RE: rooting Android devices. I have jailbroken iPhone's in the past but it seems that rooting is a bit more involved. Long story short, I have a lot of mobile electronics that require a rooted Android device now and I am at a loss as far as what to get and how to root. I have a few out of contract phones on the Verizon network but none are Android. I need a newer phone that has the Miracast (or cast screen) capabilities with preferably a removable battery, microSD card slot, and a microUSB connection. I went to the root section and not too many of the "newer" phones were listed. I did see the HTC 10 was listed with videos explaining all the steps and then read further in the thread to see that Verizon has somehow hidden the Bootloader (or something to that effect) and it can't be rooted at this time.
Long story short, does anyone know of a phone from Verizon that supports Miracast (or cast screen) and that can be rooted today? If not, I may have to look for an unlocked phone.
Again, I'm a newbie and unfortunately need a lot of guidance at this point but hopefully someday I will be able to assist others as I do on other forums for other things.
Any help or direction would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks. I could offer a specific device (LG V10 for example) but don't see any info regarding rooting that model (unless it's too new). Ok, I'll ask over in the other forum.
Thanks again.
So one of my friends has a tablet that he got in prison and he was telling me that it has WiFI but its just disabled. I started telling him about the things I've done with android devices and told him I could take a look at it for him and see if I could maybe get a custom ROM on it or something. But man this thing sure seems locked down. Only has one physical button on it which is the power button so I havent even figured out if I can get it into the recovery. The only ports on it is a headphone jack, media output port (mini hdmi?), mini usb, and a DC power port. I mean just from looking at it I dont think there is much you can do but he did tell me that later iPads, the same ones, were given WiFi access. Besides that he told me people were getting in trouble because they were able to get porn on their tablets. So what Im wondering is there anything I can do to even attempt to get in this thing? Any way to get into recovery? Any tools for the PC I can use to get in? I was reading online and saw one person make a post, basically the same question I have, and one guy commented if he could get a ROM dump he could try playing around with that. Not even sure what a ROM dump is but is there a way to do that? Idk I've search all over the web and cant find any info. Maybe if I could find out if this tablet is the same hardware wise as another maybe that would be a good starting point? Idk what do you guys think?
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Hi!
It has recently come to my attention that all och my devices somehow has been hacked. Also people in my surrounding, ex. family and friends devices seems to have been compromised! The devices affected includes, but is not limited to, Samsung galaxy s4, s5, s6, s6 edge plus, nexus 6P, Sony Xperia Z1 compact, Apple iphone 6 etc. Some of the devices was rooted, other were completely stock.
The attacker have somehow gained full control of the phones and used them to listen to coversations, download files, track via GPS etc etc..
My question now is How could this happen?
I am fairly concerned about my privacy in normal cases so I am absolutely sure that they haven't had physical access to my phone. And it seems far fetched that they would have gotten access to all of the phones that have been compromised without getting caught even once!
Now all of my devices are newly flashed and formatted, do you think that the malware they use could have survive that?
I managed to get a logcat from one of the devices before I re-flashed it. Do you think there could be any traces of the malware or the attacker in there? If you think so I will gladly post the logcat for you to see!
If you miss some information or need to know anything else, feel free to ask and I will answer as soon as I can!
Thank you!
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There is no forum for your device. Try posting your question in the forum linked below.
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The experts there may be able to help. Good luck.
I'll add that if you are certain no one has physically had your phone then it may be someone that knows all of you, this can be done by simply sending a picture/attachment via MMS or email, all that is required is for you to open the pic/attachment and the can access your device. It stands to reason that someone in the circle of all the members with effected devices. Is there anyone that they all know in common? Are they all using certain apps? Find the common thread between everyone and you may narrow down the source.
Reflashing them all with stock firmware should fix them if you want easy solutions. If you have any that don't have stock firmware available you'll have to root those devices to find and remove any malicious software.
Hello everyone, I'm a newbie here at xda developers, and perhaps a newbie as well in the (more technical) android world. I've had had two android devices that died on me this past four years. This time around, I want to see if I can still bring my latest device back to life, that's why I've been googling everything in relation with the issue of my phone: stuck logo. Now, like in windows, there might be something like freshly installed android os, even it's just a stock one. And there is, but the problem, I haven't tried flashing before, I have done factory reset though this time around, since my phone won't boot, it's not an option. Besides, as far as my research goes, issues like this require full overhaul of the OS, replace it with a new one.
Now, my agony: I'm already confused with lots of information regarding flashing custom ROMS, or, what I need right now, a stock rom for my phone. BTW, this is a local brand from Philippines, Cherry Mobile H340. Now, I don't have my volume keys working since they are grounded. Is there a way wherein I can install a new stock OS for my phone via the usage of PC and USB data cable only? I don't want to spend another 12 dollars for this phone, if this is something I can still fix without having to spend for a technician even if it takes time, I'll gladly do it.
All responses are highly appreciated, but please, don't make fun of a newbie. Like telling something that won't work then I end up bricking my precious device . P.S. I will accept all corrections regarding my statement above, grammar fixes are also appreciated if there are any .
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