Thinking about unlocking.
With no Xposed working for 7.1 is it even worth unlocking and rooting?
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lowvolt1 said:
Thinking about unlocking.
With no Xposed working for 7.1 is it even worth unlocking and rooting?
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To answer your question, yes.
Is this the wrong forum for this post? Also yes
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joetheshmo said:
To answer your question, yes.
Is this the wrong forum for this post? Also yes
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Thank you for the first answer.
Could have done without the smart ass ad-libbing. If you're an admin or moderator you could simply move it. Or better yet. Politely instruct me on where it would better be suited.
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lowvolt1 said:
Thinking about unlocking.
With no Xposed working for 7.1 is it even worth unlocking and rooting?
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lowvolt1 said:
Thank you for the first answer.
Could have done without the smart ass ad-libbing. If you're an admin or moderator you could simply move it. Or better yet. Politely instruct me on where it would better be suited.
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Maybe think of reading the Forum Rules on posting, nevertheless moved here out of the Development Section.
Done and Done...
Even without xposed, there are so many things to do with unlocked and rooted phone.
lowvolt1 said:
Thinking about unlocking.
With no Xposed working for 7.1 is it even worth unlocking and rooting?
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That's a tough question without knowing how long you've had the device, are you locked and unrooted now, do you use Android Pay and most of all what do you need or expect to gain from unlocking and root? Personally, I'd just leave the oem unlock toggle enabled and stick with a locked bl on stock rom, at least for a while. If you can't stand it or just need to mess around then unlock and flash. Just not enough info to make an informed suggestion, however.
Personally, it's worth it just for ad-blocking alone. I also am a fan of being able to use Titanium Backup. It's so nice setting up scheduled cloud backups of apps so that you know if anything ever happened to your device you'd still have all your data. But if you're at all interested in tinkering with your device I'd say it's worth doing.
lowvolt1 said:
Thinking about unlocking.
With no Xposed working for 7.1 is it even worth unlocking and rooting?
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It depends on if you are wanting to do something that requires it to be unlocked. If all you want to use is Exposed, and given that it's not running on 7.1, then I would say no. You need to give us more to go on.
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Is all you need to guarantee the success of a warranty to unroot the phone after rooting it (and flashing a ROM)? Some friends tell me that running an app called Triangle away is needed and also locking bootloader is also required. Is this true, and if so, would there be anything else I'd need to do if I rooted my phone and wanted to claim it back? Sorry but If you can't root and claim back your phone, it seems like an extremely risky move to make..
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Is all you need to guarantee the success of a warranty to unroot the phone after rooting it (and flashing a ROM)? Some friends tell me that running an app called Triangle away is needed and also locking bootloader is also required. Is this true, and if so, would there be anything else I'd need to do if I rooted my phone and wanted to claim it back? Sorry but If you can't root and claim back your phone, it seems like an extremely risky move to make..
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If you want to claim your warranty/unroot completely after unlocking bootloader and rooting then watch this video for complete guide ....
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serioushelpinneed said:
Is all you need to guarantee the success of a warranty to unroot the phone after rooting it (and flashing a ROM)? Some friends tell me that running an app called Triangle away is needed and also locking bootloader is also required. Is this true, and if so, would there be anything else I'd need to do if I rooted my phone and wanted to claim it back? Sorry but If you can't root and claim back your phone, it seems like an extremely risky move to make..
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Triangle Away is for Samsung devices bro. Look here to return to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701.
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Triangle Away is for Samsung devices bro. Look here to return to stock http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701.
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I am not a smart man. So all I need to do is follow the guide then I'd be ready?
Thanks!
serioushelpinneed said:
I am not a smart man. So all I need to do is follow the guide then I'd be ready?
Thanks!
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Yes, basicaly you have to flash the latest 4.4.2 factory image and after that relock the bootloader and reset the tampered flag. Read the OP of the link serveral times so you understand what to do. You will also need adb (android-sdk platform-tools) for this if you haven`t installed it allready.
Link for adb download http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r22.3-windows.zip and here is a link to set it up on your pc http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-set-up-android-adb-and-fastboot-on-windows-tutorial/. Good luck
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Yes, basicaly you have to flash the latest 4.4.2 factory image and after that relock the bootloader and reset the tampered flag. Read the OP of the link serveral times so you understand what to do. You will also need adb (android-sdk platform-tools) for this if you haven`t installed it allready.
and here is a link to set it up on your pc Good luck
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A million thanks friend!
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A million thanks friend!
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Welcome bro, thats whats XDA is all about
serioushelpinneed said:
I am not a smart man.
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Asking questions about what you don't understand rather than jumping into the unknown makes you a smart man in my book.
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Asking questions about what you don't understand rather than jumping into the unknown makes you a smart man in my book.
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Wise words
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how long before someone figures out how to root this phone? I can't buy it unless it's rooted. thanks!
youphone said:
how long before someone figures out how to root this phone? I can't buy it unless it's rooted. thanks!
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I think the real question is how long before someone finds a software exploit that allows S-Off.
I honestly think we have a long, long wait, if we ever see it.
Just my opinion.
Mike02z said:
I think the real question is how long before someone finds a software exploit that allows S-Off.
I honestly think we have a long, long wait, if we ever see it.
Just my opinion.
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I think I read somewhere that it will be nearly impossible to root this phone....
GPE or developer's edition isn't for Verizon, so I guess this means no HTC One M8 for me.
It's never nearly impossible to root
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Who knows. Silly question.
Hopefully someone will
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Im pretty content with stock ATM. Actually enjoying blinkfeed now and sense 6 ain't too shabby. That being said I'd love a good rom like viper.
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Im pretty content with stock ATM. Actually enjoying blinkfeed now and sense 6 ain't too shabby. That being said I'd love a good rom like viper.
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I sent the Viper team a System dump the day of release. Once we have a method of unlock, I doubt Verizon support will be far behind. (And I'll be beta testing it...)
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I'm kind of wondering how long it will take and if it will get done? I'm coming from the Note3, which had terrible developer support because of the boot loader, and I don't want the same thing to happen here. I paid full retail, but I'm thinking of returning;
I feel like two days in if we don't have root yet, this thing is going to be tough to crack.
Every other phone I had, had root pretty much in the first day.
I'm not sure what to do.
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PhilPan said:
I'm kind of wondering how long it will take and if it will get done? I'm coming from the Note3, which had terrible developer support because of the boot loader, and I don't want the same thing to happen here. I paid full retail, but I'm thinking of returning;
I feel like two days in if we don't have root yet, this thing is going to be tough to crack.
Every other phone I had, had root pretty much in the first day.
I'm not sure what to do.
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Are you kidding? Two days for a phone chipset that had like 10 iterations of security? I will bet that no one will get a root exploit unless it comes in the form of s-off because its silly to have root without s-off on HTC phones. Beups,jcase or whoever is working on the phone likely have root exploits already (and they always save one or two for a rainy day) and are not going to release it on it's own. Be patient, stop asking for ETAs.
How is root only different on HTC devices vs other OEMs?
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Crooke356 said:
How is root only different on HTC devices vs other OEMs?
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I'd like to be know too. Coming from Samsung Note2
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Androider4Life said:
I'd like to be know too. Coming from Samsung Note2
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Well for one root only won't allow us an insecure kernel to be flashed. That means /system write protection will still be in place.
Unlock allows you to flash custom recovery and kernels.
S-off let's you do all (even firmware downgrades)
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Well for one root only won't allow us an insecure kernel to be flashed. That means /system write protection will still be in place.
Unlock allows you to flash custom recovery and kernels.
S-off let's you do all (even firmware downgrades)
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So then what is "root only" able to do? Especially the type we know have available that only roots after a minute after a reboot so that first minute on reboot you are not rooted. Makes me think rooted apps/tweaks won't work right since after boot they can't go into effect since root hasn't kicked in yet???
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So then what is "root only" able to do? Especially the type we know have available that only roots after a minute after a reboot so that first minute on reboot you are not rooted. Makes me think rooted apps/tweaks won't work right since after boot they can't go into effect since root hasn't kicked in yet???
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A lot won't work right. Write protection will revert most changes back after a reboot. Root can be effective for some changes that don't need to persist a reboot. Just all depends on what you use root for. Non-system app data back-up/restore is a good example.
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dottat said:
A lot won't work right. Write protection will revert most changes back after a reboot. Root can be effective for some changes that don't need to persist a reboot. Just all depends on what you use root for. Non-system app data back-up/restore is a good example.
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So basically anything that needs root at startup won't work. So basically this method of root is only good to maybe copy internal files to external sd card bypassing that kit Kat crap?
deeznuts said:
So basically anything that needs root at startup won't work. So basically this method of root is only good to maybe copy internal files to external sd card bypassing that kit Kat crap?
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Until we figure out a method to disable write protection that's pretty much gonna be it. Write protection on this phone is just as much a pain in the ass as it was on the one and one max.
It will happen though. That's the only thing we know for certain.
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Until we figure out a method to disable write protection that's pretty much gonna be it. Write protection on this phone is just as much a pain in the ass as it was on the one and one max.
It will happen though. That's the only thing we know for certain.
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Ok. Thank you for explaining. I was always spoiled before and HTC devices I had were simple s-Off or everything but s-Off so could still do just about anything. Just gotta be patient but honestly surprised how fast we got this temp root only already! In sure the development will start kicking in.
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Ok. Thank you for explaining. I was always spoiled before and HTC devices I had were simple s-Off or everything but s-Off so could still do just about anything. Just gotta be patient but honestly surprised how fast we got this temp root only already! In sure the development will start kicking in.
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The biggest hurdle for us is the fact we cannot even use HTC dev to boot loader unlock. That's why we now have to wait to get a working s-off method. Its only a matter of time.
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I'd think you should be able to HTCdev unlock the bootloader and do what I did on my old EVO 3D which was to flash the boot.img separately through fastboot. What am I saying though? It's been a while since I have had a HTC device besides my sister's media-only EVO running CM7.
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yattaro said:
I'd think you should be able to HTCdev unlock the bootloader and do what I did on my old EVO 3D which was to flash the boot.img separately through fastboot. What am I saying though? It's been a while since I have had a HTC device besides my sister's media-only EVO running CM7.
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My Adaway works again now...when you haven't seen an AD in an app in years they are HUGELY annoying....
and I was able to move my app data from my DNA to the M8 from MyBackup Pro..so there are some huge perks with this root.
And conversely being able to back up APK + DATA and your sense home screen layouts will come in handy when the inevitable S-OFF comes and we need to wipe our devices
Hey guys, I just rooted my HTC one m8 on 4.4.4 and I cannot get the supersu binaries to update. Am I still able to unlock with sunshine without updating the binaries? I do have root, root checker verifies that I do.
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Hey guys, I just rooted my HTC one m8 on 4.4.4 and I cannot get the supersu binaries to update. Am I still able to unlock with sunshine without updating the binaries? I do have root, root checker verifies that I do.
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@jcase actually states this very thing in his post. Run sunshine already and get it over with!
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dottat said:
@jcase actually states this very thing in his post. Run sunshine already and get it over with!
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Ah, that makes sense. I guess I didn't see that part. I saw that droidmodderx was able to update his binaries. I am just hesitant to purchase sunshine because I was planning on getting the note 4 soon, but seeing as how expensive it is I will probably wait.
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Ah, that makes sense. I guess I didn't see that part. I saw that droidmodderx was able to update his binaries. I am just hesitant to purchase sunshine because I was planning on getting the note 4 soon, but seeing as how expensive it is I will probably wait.
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If you are on the fence consider this to be an investment. Sell your phone s-off and on a stock Rom on swappa.com. most people will consider that $25 you paid in their price. Most people meaning XdA users.
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If you are on the fence consider this to be an investment. Sell your phone s-off and on a stock Rom on swappa.com. most people will consider that $25 you paid in their price. Most people meaning XdA users.
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I didn't even consider that, thanks! I will do it once I get the chance after I am done with finals lol. Any rom you recommend?
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I didn't even consider that, thanks! I will do it once I get the chance after I am done with finals lol. Any rom you recommend?
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Personally I run stock with xposed framework + modules.
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dottat said:
Personally I run stock with xposed framework + modules.
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Are you able to use regular battery saver, and not extreme?
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Are you able to use regular battery saver, and not extreme?
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Once rooted, regular power saver mode Is easily unlocked on stock Rom with sqlite editor and a very simple database edit.
Well from what I'm seeing around here, xposed still needs to be installed via bootloader. That being said, ATT G4 does not have an unlocked bootloader as of yet. So... has anyone got it working? I would really love to have this back. I have been looking everywhere for these fixes, but looks as though we wont get it any time soon. I'm still thanking all of those peeps that work so hard of all of this stuff for us. Keep up the good work. We all enjoy this stuff.
If you get a rooted system image loaded, I used flashfire to flash xposed, does NOT need unlocked bootloader. The thread with how to do it is somewhere in the G4 section.
Oh kewl. U thought I read that flashfire needs an unlocked bootloader
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Oh kewl. U thought I read that flashfire needs an unlocked bootloader
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Flashfire only needs root, bootloader can remain locked
Yeah my first time dealing with this. Got it all working now.
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if i root and unlock my bootloader, will i be able to set it all back to stock without tmobile knowing? sorry if this question has been asked before, just wanna be cautious thanks in advance!
ztotherad said:
if i root and unlock my bootloader, will i be able to set it all back to stock without tmobile knowing? sorry if this question has been asked before, just wanna be cautious thanks in advance!
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Yes. There is an MSM Tool in the guides section of the 7 Pro forums of XDA. there are actually 3, but you're looking for the one to revert back to stock T-Mobile firmware.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...obile-one-plus-7-pro-msm-tool-revert-t3936528
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stmims1124 said:
Yes. There is an MSM Tool in the guides section of the 7 Pro forums of XDA. there are actually 3, but you're looking for the one to revert back to stock T-Mobile firmware.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...obile-one-plus-7-pro-msm-tool-revert-t3936528
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yeah I've been keeping my eye on that ever since i decided that i was going to get this phone lol. i just wasn't sure if it was possible to turn the phone back in without them knowing I've tampered with the phone.
Yep, it's possible to go back to stock. But I've been with T-Mobile for years and have turned in every phone I've had rooted with twrp installed. They've never given me any issues.
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ztotherad said:
yeah I've been keeping my eye on that ever since i decided that i was going to get this phone lol. i just wasn't sure if it was possible to turn the phone back in without them knowing I've tampered with the phone.
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If I recall correctly, it'll even relock the bootloader, though you could just relock it yourself before using the tool to make sure. There's no flags tripped or anything like Samsung's Knox counter.
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Yep, it's possible to go back to stock. But I've been with T-Mobile for years and have turned in every phone I've had rooted with twrp installed. They've never given me any issues.
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I've done this with at least 4 phones and never had an issue either.
No one seems to care/know if the phone is unlocked and/or rooted...
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Yep, it's possible to go back to stock. But I've been with T-Mobile for years and have turned in every phone I've had rooted with twrp installed. They've never given me any issues.
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If I recall correctly, it'll even relock the bootloader, though you could just relock it yourself before using the tool to make sure. There's no flags tripped or anything like Samsung's Knox counter.
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I've done this with at least 4 phones and never had an issue either.
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No one seems to care/know if the phone is unlocked and/or rooted...
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thanks guys! will definitely be looking into getting this thing unlocked and and at least install a kernel on it because why the hell not? lol
Now that's the XDA spirit! Cheers