I am having a hard time finding bad boyz or another stock ROM for HTC A9.
Is there any available?
No. There's nothing for us. There's stuff for the GSM versions, but nothing for CDMA. I don't know enough to be confident of making our own device tree and porting a ROM without possibly bricking my phone.. Might be a good summer project though.
On the flip side I guess we did get an OTA to Nougat, while ATT is stuck on 1.27..
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I currently own the Sony Ericson Xperia x10a and tbh with the work of a few devs here at XDA have turned that phone into something extrodinary even though they still havnt managed to crack the bootloader. Mine runs on Android 2.3 and is blazing fast and beats even the Nexus 2.2 on Quadrant Scores.. I run a Linpak of 41 MFLOPS.
My question to the HTC guys is this. Apparently RoM development and debranding / rooting of HTC phones seem to be more indepth then what i am used to. SE has a flash tool that will Root / Flash any custom rom with the easiest of ease lol. Along with xrecovery its extremely simple.
Overall I guess I am wondering if this phone is worth it. How hard will it be to cook up roms and tweek boot.log files to speed this phone up. Is the processor over clockable or is it not completely rooted yet. Do you think HTC and ATT will actualy continue to update the software on this phone or will it fall to the wayside like soo many other ATT phones have.
It is gonna take some reading and browsing to understand how HTC phones work compared to SE but I think I can do it, just curiouse to know if its gonna be worth the trouble.
If ATT decides not to update this phone beyond Froyo then you will still have CyanogenMod7 with Gingerbread.
This phone has been out for less than a week. Source hasn't dropped yet.
HTC phones are quite popular with developers and HTC doesn't discourage development like Sony and Motorola seem to.
I moved to the Inspire from the Captivate for this very reason.
Since this phone is identical in almost every way to the European Desire HD, once we get Kernel Source, porting stuff from that phone to this one will be trivial.
One Click Root hasn't been found yet, but I'm not sure it exists on any 2.2.1 Android device.(I could be wrong about that I haven't investigated it).
To sum up, this is a great phone to get if you are into tweaking and custom roms.
Hey gunny. Super one click works on some 2.2.1 phones with the psneuter exploit.
And to the op the Inspire is an amazing phone. There's no one click root but its not terribly difficult to root and in the coming weeks I'm sure well see some amazing stuff come down the pipeline.
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Hey there folks!
I'm a MotoMan myself (mostly by fate, not choice). I had a Droid 1 which I loved dearly, and now I'm rocking a Droid X that feels like a new phone every day thanks to CyanogenMod nightlies.
Now, thanks to Motorola's dickery, the Droid X only recently received CyanogenMod (bootloaders are awful). But as I said now that it's around, things are like night and day. Not quite as awesome as my Droid 1 since there are still no custom kernels, however I'm still a happy camper.
A few days ago however my sister bought herself a Droid Charge to lock in a 2-yr contract of $30/month LTE. Naturally, I immediately snatched it and began ROM'ing the sucker into oblivion. It's great! I love how easy it is to flash this puppy. You either use Odin, which is relatively painless... CWR, which I already spend most of my time in on my DX/Nook Color.... or the Samsung utility, which is no different than RSDlite for Motorola phones! All familiar, painless territory. And it seems like you can get some pretty customized ROMs rockin'!
So, uh... why no CyanogenMod? It seems like a lot of Samsung phones are lacking the CyanogenModz. Is there a piece of the puzzle I'm missing? Has Samsung installed something devious like a bootloader preventing it? What's going on here?
thank!
Cyanogen mods are mostly RUU mods. HTC in fact. I coming from TMO have used dozens and release a few Cyanogen custom roms. Realistically, the team releases code for phones that they can easily acquire. HTC phones are GSM phones and can be bought anywhere for about 100 bucks. VZW and Sprint phones are CDMA phones that are a lil harder to obtain and need a contract with the company. Easier to get GSM phones because you can unlock them for whatever global service you want to use them on.
The team is easy to get in touch with, but you will probably need to get a fan base together on a certain device and send to them, to get them to be able to write the code for. Hope this makes sense.
Barny Style.
GSM = Easy to get, easy to sale, no company crap to deal with
CDMA = Company needs to turn on, hard for resale since you need a clean esn. Harder to acquire.
I'm not a dev, but I think CyanogenMod uses AOSP as a base, not RUUs. It certainly looks a lot more like stock Android on my HTC Incredible than it does Sense.
That said, the point about CDMA phones being less widely available and used than GSM phones is probably a valid one, as CDMA is primarily a US thing. There is a CM port for a few Samsung Galaxy S phones.
The issue is that Samsung uses stuff that is not compatible with most of the stock CM code, and a lot of hacking needs to be done to get anything simple working. I know that there are a few Samsung phones in the pipeline for CM7 support now, but it took months of work, and there are still several bugs that need worked out. The biggest issue is primarily just that Samsung releases as little source as they have to, and trying to reverse engineer their binary files that are needed is difficult to do as well. However, I do think that there will be AOSP based ROMs for the Charge after r2doesinc starts working on it.
As far as I know they could be working on a Droid Charge port:
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?631-WIP-CM7-for-Droid-Charge
Plus there's more than a few posts in that thread of people saying they'd send in phones for them to dev on. I've never used CM (just got my charge after a first-generation iPhone), but it looks slick as all getout. GummyCHARGED is the closest rom to it as far as I can tell.
So My Vibrant finally got CM7.1 running on it! Most everything works and it runs pretty smooth. But honestly, I feel burned. I was thinking this whole process would take a month or two, it took almost a year. And while I don't fault the crazy hard working guys at CMSGS(who seriously worked their butts off getting me this far), I've learned that community development can be unexpected.
So this time around, I am not going to jump ship without know that the phone I am about to buy runs CM7. I am eyeing a dual core phone, a qHD display, support for the 1700Mhz band, and, of course, support for CM7.1.
Hell of a tall order isn't it? The closest thing I can think of is the G2x which only has an unofficial CM7.1 port and no qHD display. There is also the Sensation, but, with the whole locked bootloader, the CM team does not seem too hot on getting a Sensation port for Cm7 out any time soon.
I am willing to pay sticker and order out of country if I have to, but first I need to find a phone! So any suggestions, something under the radar that I have missed?
AlphaRevX isn't far away for the Sensation for S-OFF, I believe. I'm sure someone will port CM7 to it
That was sorta what I was hoping for, but I am not sure how it will take. Community support for the evo3d/sensation has not really grown like it did for the SGS lines and definitely not like some of the more big name htc phones (like the desire Z and HD2)
I worry that someone will start an unofficial port and when they get bored, just give up on it. Unlike devices that have official CM support, which see continued support long after the device stopped being exciting (Like the droid1).
In any case, it looks like I am just going to have to wait it out and get a phone after it stops being cutting edge.
This is why T-Mo needs the SGS II...
Easy Choice
Its very easy choice there is only one Phone = Galaxy S2
Hi,
Basically I'm friendly with the rooting and tinkering side of Android (ROM's, OC, Flashing etc..) on Samsung devices, however I have a friend who is new to Android and really caring about what phone you have (previously had a Blackberry:/), since I got him into phones and how they work and stuff, hes decided to buy a HTC One S. After seeing my rooted S3 and all the cool stuff I've done, he really wants to do this on his One S. I offered to do it for him and look into things, however the whole HTC way of things is really alien to me. I hear things about how its impossible to root and flash ROMs as its carrier locked its impossible to unlock its bootloader and stuff. So I was basically going to ask (sorry if already asked on the forum just don't have much time to do it) how can I root his HTC One S, locked on Vodafone UK, so he can flash custom ROMs and OC and stuff? If it's even possible..
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Hello Slim ROM fans. I've got a tough choice to make. I currently have a Galaxy S3 (i747m) which is running Slim LP 5.1.1 beautifully. I love this ROM. I recently flashed the S3 back to the stock touchwiz and instantly missed the Slim ROM. It has become a major factor in the purchase of my next phone.
Anyways, my contract has expired and I figure that since I am going to keep the same plan that my last contract had, I might as well resign and get a cheap / free upgrade to a new phone. My biggest problem is which phone to pick...and most importantly, make sure there is a Slim LP ROM for it...or at least in the works. I have tried Slim Kat and Bean but I prefer LP. Also, installing Kat or Bean is difficult now because any new phone comes pre-loaded with the latest bootloaders which apparently will not boot the older versions of Android, so I'm pretty much stuck with Slim LP....not that I mind tho. So here are my choices.
Galaxy S4 (i337m)
Galaxy S5 (not sure which model exactly, but its from Fido so Canadian version Im sure)
LG G3 (D852)
Sony Xperia M4 Aqua (unknown model)
So what do you all think? I am biased towards the Samsungs for the better contrast screens (super AMOLED) and extra buttons so keep that in mind.
Wow, no thoughts on this eh?
Nexus line maybe a good line to follow
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You have to be careful when buying a carrier branded phone because they often come with locked bootloaders which can be difficult to unlock, if an exploit even exists. You're best bet is pay the extra money and get a dev edition device that has an easily unlockable bootloader.
Interesting post and way to choose your next phone.
But I totally understand.
The last couple phones I chose, the Slim was no longer being developed for.
And with Slim being my favorite base ROM, upon which several other VERY cool ROM's are based, it meant my phones were very limited in ROM choices.
After some [very] quick research, it seems Slim has been on the down-low for awhile now and may still not be developing much until after Marshmallow hits.
So, as mentioned above, a Nexus device is likely your best bet.
And if you're not on T-Mobile or Sprint, then totally forget about Samsung. Because AT&T and Verizon Samsung are totally screwed with the locked bootloaders.
One phone to keep an eye on is the relatively new unlocked (for all carriers) Motorola Moto X Pure 5.7" device.
As of yet, there are no ROM's. But development for prior generations appears to have been pretty decent. And this phone will have an unlocked bootloader on all carriers.