Can someone please take the trouble to come out with a guide for dummies like me who find the idea of tweaking their universal appealing, but have no experience in hackning PPC's? I am ignorant but adventurous, and feel that there are more like me, perhaps too embarrassed to ask!
HTC Universal hacking for dummies
Sorry for the missing "U" in the subject of the previus post. Just thought the subject should be clear!
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im looking for a beginners tutorial to rom's. i dont know much about it at all and its hard to piece it together from all the posts. is there sort of a good all in one tutorial to get me started so i can begin looking for info on more advanced topics that may be useful? thanks in advance, sorry to be "that guy"
ok, thanks
install it? Wow, you want a simple answer to an incoherent question. Yeah, good luck with that one.
Edit: If you mean while cooking a rom, well then, simple answer is READ. There are plenty of tutorials posted for your benefit.
Sorry yes200, but the only simple and quick answer is "after a lot of reading, understanding and a lot of work". Converting a CAB into a package is simple in theory, but (IMHO) quite complex in practice and dotted with pitfalls. It's a bit like driving a car - complex but easy to do when you know how, but a bugger to do when you're learning!
Why has the original question been removed? Now the thread makes no sense.
Trust me, it made no sense with the original question in place. It was something ambiguous like, 'how do I install packages?"
So I am considering rooting my phone, and I have been poking around and noticed all of the "essential" rooting threads are ages old, I have had my evo 4g for a week, and coming from a noob considering rooting I have a few questions (secondly im sure most of my questions just involve digging, but I am the kind of learner who needs to see everything in one or two places, not 20 or 30 different ones) so here goes my questions...
1. Why should I root, what are the advantages
2. What is the difference between deoxed and odexed
3. what is the step by step guide to rooting (im running snow leopard, but can get access to windows, would prefer to do it in snow leopard)
4. What are roms, kernals...other lingo and definations I need to or should know before rooting
5. what does rooting disable
and 6. Whats the coolest thing i can do once I am rooted
A special thanks to any one willing to take there time and explain these items to me rather then link me to another thread.
you seem like you haven't done any research what so ever.
What OS did you come from?
Yeah, it's kind of important to be willing to read a LOT. Or you probably shouldn't even bother. If you don't wanna read and really examine, then I would just stay stock. Evo is a fine phone stock.
'What's the 'coolest'thing you can do?'
(Aside from reading), I would say, that would be up to you what's coolest.
ROM is read only memory. Kernel, as I understand it, is the resource your ROM relies on to run, and greatly impacts battery life, and various functionalities. And allows for overclocking/undervolting, etc.
Root would disable/disallow you from accepting OTAs directly from Sprint
Kornsaq said:
you seem like you haven't done any research what so ever.
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I have done some reading on it, just as i said everything is spread out, and I have a very difficult time combining stuff from different areas, I am currently using osx, and all of the noob rooting instructions im able to find need files to be modified in windows/linux (osx is unix based)
Read the sticky thread at the top of this Q&A forum. The thread is called "Common misconceptions and useful information." ricsim included some really good pointers at the top of the thread and I have my own contributions at the bottom of the thread. I know you'll probably be a little annoyed by the fact that you have to find your own answers but it's critical that you learn what you're doing to your phone and why. Unless you do you'll turn into the next user who gets flamed for posting something similar to "OMG WHRE r Da GOOGLKE appzzzz" or anything resembling that.
What I'm trying to say is the rest of us learned by researching and we have faith that you can too.
Good luck.
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Read the sticky thread at the top of this Q&A forum. The thread is called "Common misconceptions and useful information." ricsim included some really good pointers at the top of the thread and I have my own contributions at the bottom of the thread. I know you'll probably be a little annoyed by the fact that you have to find your own answers but it's critical that you learn what you're doing to your phone and why. Unless you do you'll turn into the next user who gets flamed for posting something similar to "OMG WHRE r Da GOOGLKE appzzzz" or anything resembling that.
What I'm trying to say is the rest of us learned by researching and we have faith that you can too.
Good luck.
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Since i posted this, I have been doing some clicking around, and im very very slowly understanding stuff, i will read through the mentioned thread, and the reason im asking these questions is an attempt to help me understand some more of this, i really dont want to risk bricking my phone (however low the risk is) with out knowing what im doing
Could somebody who knows the terminology update the Acronyms section? There's a lot that I've run across in the forums that aren't there or in the Glossary. Just take a quick look through and add what's missing, then nOOBs like me don't have to ask as much.
Also, might I ask that the wiki possess more on general programming and coding for android and other moblie OS? I like just learning how it works, but I've found little on that. How do you develop a ROM, what's the programming basics...that sort of thing. And if you know of a place on the web that already does that let me know.
I'm loving the info on the site otherwise. I haven't posted much, but I've read a bunch.
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Could somebody who knows the terminology update the Acronyms section? There's a lot that I've run across in the forums that aren't there or in the Glossary. Just take a quick look through and add what's missing, then nOOBs like me don't have to ask as much.
Also, might I ask that the wiki possess more on general programming and coding for android and other moblie OS? I like just learning how it works, but I've found little on that. How do you develop a ROM, what's the programming basics...that sort of thing. And if you know of a place on the web that already does that let me know.
I'm loving the info on the site otherwise. I haven't posted much, but I've read a bunch.
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There are a lot of Acronyms, probably a lot I don't know as I'm a Microsoft only guy , but unless you let us know which ones you're struggling with we can't help you.
Perhaps those that you come across, you can ask for on it's talk page.
Thanks,
Dave
Hi there everyone,
Firstly, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum, it was a toss-up between General and Q&A but general seemed to fit to me. Also, I have searched the forum (and Google) for threads/sites on how to cook my own ROM but they all seemed slightly outdated or irrelevant, aimed towards WM7 handsets etc...
Anyway
I'm hoping to learn how to theme and become a Dev and make my own ROMs etc, so I'm here asking for any Advice, Tips, Guides etc.
I'm unsure on how I should start, where to start and what I should be doing exactly. I'm only interested in creating a ROM for the HOX, stock at first so I don't have to fiddle with too much and then I can hopefully progress and learn and move forward from there.
I thank you all in advance for your patience, time and knowledge, long live XDA!
Thanks,
T-L-H