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Hey, I literaly just craeted this account so call me a noob if you will. Now, the closest thing to rooting was jailbreaking for me so I'm not a complete nub at computers. Anyways, I wanna temproot but since visionary was taken from the market, idk what version (ex. R13) to use. Will the version matter with the ota update? Cause I REALLY REALLY don't wanna screw up my g2 as I just got it today via amazon wireless. And also, is there any free WIRELESS TETHERING as in not usb or pda net, but as a hotspot without tmo charging (I have unlim date) any help appreciated! thanks!
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just install visionary.apk using the manual install method, you can use adb to push it to your sd card or use the much easier approach and stick it on your sd card via usb connection then open it with a file browser of your choice on the phone. There is also a wifi tether/bluetooth tether app that has been around for a while that you can find more info on here http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
Best of luck!
just a side note: I don't know if tmobile is actually charging for this tether service. I was never informed of a charge for it besides the hype on these forums and have been using the OTA (over the air) update that included it and have seen no change in my billing.
Welcome to android!
In the do not post non-development related questions in the appropriate forum. Since you're new and all I'll let it slide without getting too mad. I'll put this as simple as it gets.
1. DOWNLOAD this file onto your computer.
2.Hook up your USB calble, pull down the notification bar, select usb storage, and hit mount.
3. Open up your computer's download folder and find the apk (app) you just downloaded, and drag it onto the root of your sdcard.
4. Unmount storage and unplug USB.
5. Hit home button, then go to menu -> settings -> applications -> check unknown sources (to install from sdcard), then go to development -> check USB debugging
5. Go to your market and download a file manager. There's a lot of choices in there, so I recommend maybe astro or linda file managers.
5. Open your file manager, open your sdcard folder (it might default to there), navigate to where the app is and select it.
6. It will ask wether you want to install. Select yes of course and let it do its thing.
7. Open the visionary app itself, and hit Temproot now. It will take a minute.
8. You should be rooted now! If you want to install the tether app, just do the same thing again with the link dietotherhythm provided. Put app on sdcard, open file manager, install, tether. You will be asked for SU permissions on the tether app, just select remember and okay (you'll see what i mean when you open the app). I suggest you look at some of the guides on how to set up ADB and such, and when you're familiar enough you do the permaroot and install one of the custom roms (cyanogen is amazing, sense has a different UI, etc). GL lol
Ok thanks so much! I haven't been on android since my g1 a year ago. Anyways, will the ota have any effect on overclocking? Because i ve read that the kernal and stuf are different, needing a new script or something. Or can I just download set cpu and am I good to go? Also does this temproot have any chance of bricking my phone? Thanks again for your help!
PS: and at dietotherythm, are you not being charged for the wireless hotspot feature in the settings?
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Temp root is safe. Do NOT perm root with visionary, there is a chance of bricking with that. When your ready to perm root use rage via the sticky on here.
As far as oc, you just need to use the module for the OTA kernel. Run the script, then use setcpu. Once your perm root, you have much more oc/uv/ov options.
Ok thanks! But with temprooting, do I need to unroot before I turn my phone off or is it ok to just turn it off and reroot when I turn it back on? And can I use z4 root from the market?
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Don't know about this z4 of which you speak.. I'm already rooted. (I actually used Visionary but had done a manual temp root so mine sort of had a combination of methods used. LOL)
As for your other question, NO you don't have to unroot before rebooting/powering down you phone. You just shut it off like normal and when it reboots, root is gone until you temp root again.
So I am rooted and running the latest skyraider. I removed friendstream and the widget from my phone a while ago. I also still have the facebook still synced to my phone. I have been researching this a lot and still haven't figured out what I need to do. What I can tell is i have this constant sync icon in my notification status bar practically all the time. When I go into accounts & sync nothing in there is actually syncing. I can click on "cancel sync" and the sync icon will go away for a few minutes then it is right back there again a little while later. When I go into accounts, running services there is "Facebooksyncstreamservice" at the bottom which when I click it to stop it brings me directly to the accounts and sync settings menu. I click cancel sync and again it stops for only a short period of time.
After reading a lot on the internet and forums it seems like if you are using FB on your phone you should also keep friendstream installed as well otherwise you could get this constant sync icon which I seem to be receiving as a result of removing friendstream.
So i found the friendstream apk on line and downloaded it to the computer to install on my phone. Hooked up the phone via the usb cable installed the apk to my sd card then tried to install it via OI file manager. Says it begins to install then just aborts the install and says "File not installed" or something to that nature.
I have also read that you can only install this by using adb push which I have no idea how to do. I have searched but have come up empty with a step by step guide at using adb push method.
I have also found another write up where someone describes using root explorer to move the apk to the system>app folder then install through there which results in the same "File not installed" message once completed.
Basically I have no other recourse but to turn to the infinite knowledge base of XDA to possibly ask for help on either 1. finding a way to deactivate this constant sync icon or 2. reinstall the friendstream apk which I believe will stop this constant sync icon (fingers crossed).
Any help would be appreciated and thank you in advance for anyone that can offer some help or incite. If anyone is going to respond to this thread with negative comments and remarks, please refrain as I am only looking for assistance and not useless time wasting comments. Thanks
Any ideas here??
I am also very interested in the outcome of this question, I have done the same deed as you but on a stock thunderbolt rom. If you find out any ways to fix this please do inform me.
Take the friendstream apk and use root explorer to move it to the /system/app folder. Then long press on it and give it the same pernissions as the other apks rw-r--r-- and then long press the file again and change the owner and group to root. Do not try to install it just reboot the phone and it will install it self. You should also restore the widget the same way.
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Take the friendstream apk and use root explorer to move it to the /system/app folder. Then long press on it and give it the same pernissions as the other apks rw-r--r-- and then long press the file again and change the owner and group to root. Do not try to install it just reboot the phone and it will install it self. You should also restore the widget the same way.
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Thanks for this, I just used one of my CWM's and ran TiBu to restore everything bc I had a little time on my hands, but this would have been much easier and less time consuming!
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I'm not sure if this is possible as ICS has no built in file manager, but is there anywhere I can put an apk file that it would be accessible without one? Specifically I want to be able to open an apk to install a file manager as the first thing I do after flashing a rom, to avoid needing to go through the market.
I thought maybe I could leave it in sdcard/download but it seems like the downloads program is blind to anything in that folder that wasn't officially "downloaded". (I suppose I could upload one to my dropbox and download it via the browser, if there are no viable options). Also made a few stabs at getting the gallery program to show one but it seems to filter out anything that's not a picture or video.
Any ideas for places to stick an apk and get one of the stock programs to let me open it?
maybe email it to yourself?
but you would have to log into the email app to do that
but there isnt really anyway to access the file without a file explorer
Open your favourite rom zip, add your apk to /system/app, save the zip, push that zip to the phone, flash.
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maybe email it to yourself?
but you would have to log into the email app to do that
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Yeah in general I'm trying to cut out the step of signing into anything and just restoring my apps from a backup before I need to cancel automatic restore functions (which I do want on and running once I do my own initial run of things).
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Open your favourite rom zip, add your apk to /system/app, save the zip, push that zip to the phone, flash.
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I'm guessing this comes with the consequence of raising any apk added in this manner to system app level? Not that I distrust the apps I'd have in mind for this to do anything malicious themselves, but is there any danger of opening security holes by elevating apps not designed to be system apps?
What I've done many times is just enabling Air Plane as soon as I can after flashing a ROM. That's way I can install any apk I want.
Hope it helps.
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What I've done many times is just enabling Air Plane as soon as I can after flashing a ROM. That's way I can install any apk I want.
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Hmm but then what is your method for getting to that apk? If you do it over wifi that seems to defeat the point, no?
Personally I've found that it works just fine to uncheck the boxes for recovery syncing during the setup process, and then just re-enabling them later in settings. (Alternately, not signing into my google account at all until I've performed a backup). That way even if I end up signing into the market to download a recovery app, it doesn't automatically try to re-download everything else on its own.
I'm starting to think that my dropbox solution will be the cleanest, as it'll be a simple step of opening the browser and downloading a single apk every time at the same link.
I bet that the inclusion of a basic file explorer will be one of those headline items in a future android release. A nice basic functionality that the bloggers can rehash to death before anything actually hits.
Download the file manager apk over wifi and install the APK via download manager.
I do it all the time with Chinese android tablets with no market access.
Or Bluetooth it from another device.
Or just use the market
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Hmm but then what is your method for getting to that apk? If you do it over wifi that seems to defeat the point, no?
Personally I've found that it works just fine to uncheck the boxes for recovery syncing during the setup process, and then just re-enabling them later in settings. (Alternately, not signing into my google account at all until I've performed a backup). That way even if I end up signing into the market to download a recovery app, it doesn't automatically try to re-download everything else on its own.
I'm starting to think that my dropbox solution will be the cleanest, as it'll be a simple step of opening the browser and downloading a single apk every time at the same link.
I bet that the inclusion of a basic file explorer will be one of those headline items in a future android release. A nice basic functionality that the bloggers can rehash to death before anything actually hits.
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Transfer by USB from my laptop.
Is there a way to do that in which the device will launch the apk you move over? When I copy files over usb, it only ever puts them into whatever directory, and I need a file explorer to interact with them on the phone. And then I'm back to square one, as far as this particular task is concerned (once things are up and running I just use the LAN option in ES file explorer and it's as convenient as could be).
you have the apk in your computer right?
connect the phone to pc, and use adb to install
'adb install <apk_file_name.apk>'
Ah. I haven't used adb since I first unlocked/rooted a few months ago. Guess it probably pays to be a little familiar with those tools; they don't even occur to me when problem solving these days.
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Ah. I haven't used adb since I first unlocked/rooted a few months ago. Guess it probably pays to be a little familiar with those tools; they don't even occur to me when problem solving these days.
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mark thread as solved then, if that solved it
Well a completely in-phone solution would still be nice, but I guess if there were any of those they'd have come up by now.
I'll probably use abd if I'm actively working at my computer and a dropbox download otherwise.
I am attempting to install clockwork mod on my Samsung galaxy s3 and want to know if the Samsung Galaxy s3 (metroPCS) in the setup is the right install for model number SGH-I747M. Im asking this because when rooting my phone i used the wrong Samsung root and ending up bricking my phone. I then went to a store where they do that kind of stuff and got them to recover and install root for me. Im still running on stock firmware thou. Wondering also if im fine with stock firmware 4.1.2, but would stock firmware limit me in any way for root apps?
Termal emulator the java enabler scripted for dolphin doesn't work for me. Also someone link me to that muiltitouch scripted.
DroidSailAPP2SD sometimes when i have it guided to install to SD card it says insignificant space for some apps. I deleted the cache for playstore like i read on another post and i think that worked maybe.
when i click on install to sd card it just brings me to the app info page. Is that normal or is there soppost to be some sort of progress bar.
If I install on sd card and take out the card will the apps be disabled or will it crash?
Just installed ADfree didn't seem to get rid of adds on tetris. Maybe i have to set it up some how?
Rom toolbox seems like, a all around program. Worth the full version?
uninstaller app worked wonderfull.
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I went in the dolphin settings and checked and there is a flash box i picked it. I think it has flash now. haven’t checked. The forum i must of read was prob old and they added it in a newer update.
I really think apps are not installing on SD card. I looked under clockwork mod and theirs an option to partition the SD card for installation of apps. Like I said I press the install to SD card and it goes to app info page on a different app. I don't see any transferring bar or anything. Next time i gotta see how much memory i have to compare.
Is that what I was I soppost to do? I still haven’t installed clockwork mod im afraid of it being a different version still.
i don't think Droidsail is doing anything. I select the file then click on move selected app and it asks me for root access and when it does it goes to the app info page. No progress bat or anything.
I found another app called foldermount witch I think makes a directory on your sd card with the app. looks like it works. looking at the folder it seems that it just copys the app. When i check how big the app folder is it's the same size both on the sd card and internal. Apps are located at Android/data right?
I need a answer for the clockworkmod asap.
I found another thread about Mounts2sd.It requires me to make a SD-EXT partion do i do this by enabling the cache-move the cache partion to data or sd-ext. going to read the thread thouly
Hello,
I have had my HTC One M8 for a while now but I wasn't really happy with the soundquality while playing through my headphones, so I looked for ways to improve it. I found a few methods and finally decided to give it a try. These methods require a root so yesterday I have rooted my phone for the first time. Unfortunately I am experiencing some problems now.
The rooting process went without too much trouble. I used hasoon2000's toolkit and have TWRP version 2.7.0.2 installed as recovery and used it to install the provided SuperSU, which didn't work at first. On the forums I found a newer version and installed that one, updated it and got it to work.
Now this is where I think I messed up: I read somewhere that when rooted, you are able to delete pre-installed apps from the phone. I downloaded SD maid and deleted Kid Mode, Zoe and 7digital. When I deleted Kid Mode I got an error saying it has crashed. I tapped away the error but from this point I couldn't go back to my homescreen anymore because my launcher kept crashing (com.htc.launcher crashed). I rebooted the phone and the launcher worked again, but the phone still seemed to be buggy.
After this I tried to install the snapdragon audio+ (this was my first choice for an equalizer). I downloaded the apk and moved it to the system folder using ES file manager. I installed but when I tried to use it (through settings in google play music app) my phone would crash. I uninstalled it and tried again, but when I tried to move the apk to the system map like before, my phone would crash everytime. I then found out the file I used doesn't work for lollipop so I figured that's what caused the crashes.
My next move was to try and install viper4android. I downloaded it from the Play Store and opened it. It told me it needed an installation of BusyBox so I downloaded that too. But when I opened the BusyBox app and clicked install my phone would crash again. After some searching I found that the HTC One M8 requires BusyBox to be flashed manually so I downloaded the file but when I tried to load it onto my phone I noticed this wasn't possible anymore.
Now when I connect my phone to my PC the PC recognizes it, but when I open the map in Windows Explorer it only shows three maps; .showme, _nero_sync and Ringtones. I know there should be more as they were there before. It also shows my phone's capacity as a total of 10GB (shouldn't this be 16GB?). Also when I try to connect it with Sync Manager it gives me an error everytime I reconnect the phone; Device unavailable. Please reconnect your device [4].
I have tried to reset the phone through settings, wipe with TWRP and fix permissions with TWRP. I also tried reinstalling Sync Manager and the drivers on my PC. What I'm thinking now is I maybe have done something wrong in the ES file explorer that would make the folders unaccessible.
My phone is running stock android 5.0.1 and my PC Windows 7 64-bit.
I hope someone can help me, Thanks.
P.S: Sorry for the long post, I figured I'd give as much info as possible.
@Steef076 First update recovery to the latest one (2.8.6.0)
Second if you go and delete vital or integrated parts of the stock rom you will get a lot of bugs. Third, viper4android requires to write system and you can't write system with the stock kernel, you need an unsecured kernel or unsecure it yourself.
10GB is right since 6 is eaten by android. At this point I would just revert to a backup or install any custom rom around here. Most are close to stock and with no bloatware and come with root. You can even clean them further using a tool called ROM Cleaner. It will most likely solve all your problems
Did the deleted system apps reappear after reboot, or do they remain "uninstalled"? If the system is write protected like TempestZ states, any deleted system apps should reappear after a reboot.
Revert your nandroid to restore the system apps. And you didn't make a nandroid, you really should before making any system modifications for the very reason that it allows you to revert if you run into problems.
Another good practice, is if you don't know what effect deleting a system app will have (such as "safe to delete" lists that can sometimes be found on XDA) you should first freeze the app with Titanium Backup. If freezing doesn't cause any issues, then go ahead and delete. If you do have issues, just unfreeze the app.
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Now when I connect my phone to my PC the PC recognizes it, but when I open the map in Windows Explorer it only shows three maps; .showme, _nero_sync and Ringtones. I know there should be more as they were there before. It also shows my phone's capacity as a total of 10GB (shouldn't this be 16GB?). Also when I try to connect it with Sync Manager it gives me an error everytime I reconnect the phone; Device unavailable. Please reconnect your device [4].
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No, Windows will never show 16 GB. It only shows "internal storage" partition, or the user accessible portion of the storage. A good chunk is reserved for the OS.
Does what is shown in Windows differ from what is shown in ES if you browse to internal storage?
Thanks for the replies. @TempestZ @redpoint73
First of all I managed to update twrp to 2.8.6.0 using adb/fastboot.
To answer your question @redpoint73 the system apps I had deleted indeed reappeared after reboot. Also I didn't make a nandroid before I deleted the files, as I did not even know this was possible. Now I have made a nandroid of my stock ROM that is working decently, except for the TV app keeps crashing (I'm not opening it) and the connection to the PC is not working properly (not sure if this is ROM based?). I have noticed when the phone is in recovery I CAN see the folders through windows explorer. HTC sync manager still doesn't find it though. I am working on finding a proper stock ROM or maybe flash a custom one to see if that will fix it.
I understand now that the OS is taking up the storage space. The space windows is showing is the same as ES file manager so I guess this is fine.
HTC Sync is a hot mess. It often causes more troubles than it solves.
One thing you can try (to see if it fixes the USB connectivity) is uninstall HTC Sync and all HTC drivers. Than connect the phone. Don't let it install HTC Sync. Go to Windows Device Manager, find the device. Then pick the option to manually select the drivers, and pick the generic "Android MTP device" (or something to that effect) drivers.
This doesn't work for everyone. But it worked for me to be able to "see" the internal storage of my M8 on my home PC (Win 7). Annoyingly, it seems to vary from one PC to another. My work laptop (also Win 7) works fine with HTC Sync.
Steef076 said:
So if I understand correctly, 'version-main' is the same as 'firmware' and 'software number' (found in settings)? If so, my current firmware seems to be 4.19.114.2.
Now, what you're saying is I should do an OTA but this isn't possible because I have a custom recovery right?
Also, when I want to flash stock rom and stock recovery or do a nand don't I need the files that fit my cidnum? How would your file work for me?
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If yours already on 4.19.114.2 then no need to do OTA as that the latest.
and my backup will bring back your device back to stock as you first bought it when restore with a full wipe.
Try to solve your problem first, only when you really need the backup then only I will upload ... let me know
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If yours already on 4.19.114.2 then no need to do OTA as that the latest.
and my backup will bring back your device back to stock as you first bought it when restore with a full wipe.
Try to solve your problem first, only when you really need the backup then only I will upload ... let me know
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Hello, sorry for the late reply.
I have decided to give a custom ROM a try. I now have ARHD 41.0 installed and it seems this took care of my problems. All the maps are showing in windows explorer and HTC sync manager is connecting properly with my phone again. Also no more crashing apps. Your backup would still be of much use for me as I am not sure I want to stick with a custom ROM and therefore would like to have a stock ROM backup.
Thanks in advance.