hi guys,
im one of the many who is awaiting root.
was thinking that when i was using a hd2, android could be loaded off the sd card using haret. it could be run off nand as well, but the option of running it off the sd was available and worked quite well. i use to run it dual boot and used whichever one was more convenient for any given task in hand.
is it not possible to run a ROM off the sd card on a evo 4g?
regards,
asmd.
asmd6230 said:
hi guys,
im one of the many who is awaiting root.
was thinking that when i was using a hd2, android could be loaded off the sd card using haret. it could be run off nand as well, but the option of running it off the sd was available and worked quite well. i use to run it dual boot and used whichever one was more convenient for any given task in hand.
is it not possible to run a ROM off the sd card on a evo 4g?
regards,
asmd.
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When you say dual boot you are referring to WM6 + Android, right? When I did the same on the Touch and the Touch Pro I believe the first step was to unlock the phone. Not a bad idea though, if they can run Android on the iPod Touch why not another Android phone? I have an idle 4GB Class 10 that would work great.
Update: Searched and found a thread in the Eris forum, seems like you have to have a custom recovery installed to do it, at least for this one:
Android multi-boot on Droid Eris
It certainly could be done if someone wanted to take the time to develop the right bootloader for it. But honestly, I don't think there's enough interest. At least nobody who has the skills to do it appears to have the interest.
The epic has dual boot support makes you wonder why the Evo doesn't.
it would be great for people that want to be able to update their prl and data profile but use aosp since that functionality isn't in aosp roms yet
thank you for this
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Hi All,
2 quick questions. thanks in advance for any help
1) let's say i wanted to upgrade to a bigger sd card for more storage, could i just copy over everything to the new sd card and reboot the phone and all is well and good, even with android 2.2's built in apps2sd? or would any of my apps that are installed to sd get messed up?
2) i haven't yet rooted my g2 but i'm going to soon. i rooted my g1 in the past. i've been reading some of the guides and whatnot to get ready, but one thing i was concerned about is being able to un-root completely to stock in case i ever need to do a warranty thing. do i actually have to back up anything, or can i just download the stock image like alot of tutorials seem to say? will it all be exactly the same after going thru the process of unrooting?
thanks!
Dave
I have the same question with the SD card.
As far as the second question goes I don't think you have to worry about it to much. Most t mobile staff are not anal about it. Just don't have it booting up to cm lol
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Hello everyone , i was symbian user and used to helloox the phone an do alot of stuff to the phone , but now when i tried to hack (or you guys call it root) the phone then i come across words i dont get , well i want to root my phone and get some things i want to have like make installations directly on the card , get good scores in quadrant (i get 1025) but i want better numbers but still use the htc sense on my phone please help me i dont get this whole thing here , thanks in advance and sorry if this is a wrong thread , i have desire v2.2 , just turned android a week ago and love it
Everything you need to do is here -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
Dont attempt it unless you understand it do lots of reading.
If you want better quadrant scores use photoshop (or paint).
The rooting process is pretty well explained in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814381
From that point on try searching, it's all been mentioned before.
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Hello everyone , i was symbian user and used to helloox the phone an do alot of stuff to the phone , but now when i tried to hack (or you guys call it root) the phone then i come across words i dont get , well i want to root my phone and get some things i want to have like make installations directly on the card , get good scores in quadrant (i get 1025) but i want better numbers but still use the htc sense on my phone please help me i dont get this whole thing here , thanks in advance and sorry if this is a wrong thread , i have desire v2.2 , just turned android a week ago and love it
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If you want a nice ROM with Sense I can recommend the LeeDroid ROMs as speedy and stable.
What i found was that Sense was fun for a while but I ended up putting new launchers over the top anyway ....
If you dont mind losing Sense and fancy Gingerbread ROM then im currently using Ginger Villain. Its very impressive and very stable
Redux ROm for the Win
When I got my first Desire, I left it at stock and was still impressed with everything it could do. After a while I decided to root it as I was curious about all of the ROMs available.
I played with various ROMs like LeeDroid, Oxygen, GingerVillain and accidentally stumbled across one called Redux.
I put it on and have not changed since (actually I tried the Villain_au rom for 1/2 an hour, then restored Redux).
My advice would be to root your device, create a Nandroid backup via the recovery boot, then experiment with the various ROMs until you are happy with one. All of the info you need is available through this site, you just need to read a bit.
A word of advice, for the most part, perform a full wipe of the phone with each new ROM. It makes things easier and less things "break".
When you have rooted your phone, make "Titanium Backup" your new friend along with SMS backup tools.
I know enough to be dangerous in terms of rooting and ROMs now, and everything I have learnt so far came from this site.
Hope this helps.
OK, your new to Android.
Actually Desire is also my first Android phone and I have been using it for about 8 months.
What I did until now is first to get use with my phone with its original condition during the first month and also learning if there are more things I could do with my phone, here I found out what is and how to root my Desire.
After about a month, I decided to root my phone because I had problems with the very limited memory for apps installation.
I was confuse which ROM should I use after rooting since I also want better and new ROMs...someone told me about the LeeDroid and I also agreed to use it since LeeDroid is quite similar to the stock ROM but of course with additional functionalities.
Than the flashing-virus got me...and...I flashed many ROMs (RCmixHD, DeFrost, MIUI, RCs Z, etc.) until I decided to settle with BaadNewz 1.3 (now InsertCoin 2.0.1).
S-Off and other more advance things got picked up on the way till now.
All of the knowledge about my Desire came from this incredible Forum and its members...so..search, read and ask to people here...
Here is a start from me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
alright i have decided to install oxygen rom cuz its simple and fast and very good as told by the droid guys here , im waiting for my 32gb card to arrive and then install the rom (for partition of 4gb for internal memory) , thanks everyone now the mods can lock this thread
Its not adviced to use ext partition bigger than 1.5gb (market problems)... you would never used it anyways...
1GB is absolutely enough for ext3/4 partition... you can install apps on SD card anyway. ;-)
yea most advanced users and devs would recommend 1gig was the perfect amount of room. anything more then 1.5 gigs will give you issues
alright thanks guys for the advice , today i will go through the reading and understanding stuff then apply it tomorrow
i have orange phone and there are two orange roms to downgrade me phone (unroved says its too new to root) one is orange ch-fr and other is orange ch . which one should i use
Just use orange ch
First off, yep, I used the search but nothing did quite match the question I have...
Now, one of the main reasons I want to root my phone for, is, that I don't have (even nearly) enough space for the apps I want to use.
1. I saw a ROM floating around here which is enabling the complete installation of applications to the sd card, is this possible with every ROM or just with this specific one?
And:
2 .On the current stock ROM there already is an App2SD function, but I haven't got enough space anyway, does this improve with root access?
The second reason I want to root my Desire is, that I'd like to have 2.3 instead of 2.2, because of some features that were added.
One, actually minor but anyway, more reason for rooting for me is, that I can have a different theme (I'm getting bored of the stock one...)
3. Are this and the first one enough reasons to root your phone? Is it worth it?
Then, some more general questions about rooting:
4. I saw a few tutorials out there, which are "noob proved", is it really that simple? (I'm not complete idiot in terms of technical things, but I haven't got much expirience with android...)
5. I also saw that it is possible to "brick" your device, does this just happen when you do something completly wrong, or is it just random? How "high" is the chance of bricking your device?
6. After you rooted your device, can you "switch" ROMs quite easily or is it a kind of harder process each time?
7. Im not soo familiar with android, as I mentioned before, so, does android write the SMS and so on to the SIM card or are they saved internal? Are they getting lost while rooting?
And now over to some more personal questions:
8. What application or advantage did you root your phone for?
9. Which root apps are really making it worth rooting?
I'd be really thankfull if you could help me with this, and I appreciate each answer!
Best regards
P.S.: Sorry for my kinda bad english, but I'm not quite often using it....
1. You are talking about a feature named a2sd. If a rom supports it, it will be listed in its feature list. To use it, you have to follow the given instructions for partitioning sd card for a2sd in the roms corresponding thread.
2. That's not a2sd, it's the "froyo-style app2sd". The difference is, with the froyo one you can only move the application to sd card if the developer programmed the app for it. With a2sd, all apps you install will be automatically moved to a special partition on your sd card, namely sd-ext. You don't have and must not do anything.
You can already download gingerbread from htcdev.com:
http://htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads
3. Rooting gives you many advantages. Most important things are you can backup your apps/settings and your rom, and you can flash custom roms.
4. Of course they are. That's why they named like this.
5. If you follow all guides carefully and don't do something silly, imho the chance the phone bricks is not higher than an untouched stops working.
6. It's very easy. You do it from recovery, where you can backup your previous rom.
7. Yep, but you have to it with an extra program like sms backup & restore:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&feature=search_result
8. Flash custom roms, backup and restore apps/rom -> better and so awesome desire experience.
9. Most important one is imho titanium backup:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup&feature=search_result
i recently rooted and then unrooted and then rooted and s-off my desire trust me reading the instructions makes its sound more difficult than it is. just read carefully dont take shortcuts and ull be ok.
i rooted as i ran low on space also i like the fact i can delete system apps as i dnt use them.
you can use themes.
there are roms with data2sd or data2whatever, better than app2sd.
just read thru ask some questions of people.they will help u out. boobkmark the pages u want to use i always forget and then can never find the advice again!!!
once ur rooted used unrevoked for that. you can swap roms like there ur socks!! i and many others on here im sure swapped roms hourly let alone daily , u need to see which one fits u the best.
this is just what i no from my very limited experience others on here are much more in the know!
good luck
Use this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084
If you follow it exactly you should not brick your phone
Switching roms is easy as long as you read the requirements for each rom, which are usually found within the first two posts on the rom thread
If you use cyanogenmod rom you can use the s2e app from market to move apps to your sd card, imho this is a very easy way to implement app2sd, I'm using this, I have heaps of apps installed and still have plenty of space left
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Read some noob guides you need more knowledge
Thank you very much for the answers!
I downloaded all of the files needed and backed up SMS and contact information and tomorrow I'll root my phone (got more time and patience....).
Just one more quick question: I bought my phone unbranded (on Amazon), so I don't need to make a "gold card", am I right?
Nascor said:
Thank you very much for the answers!
I downloaded all of the files needed and backed up SMS and contact information and tomorrow I'll root my phone (got more time and patience....).
Just one more quick question: I bought my phone unbranded (on Amazon), so I don't need to make a "gold card", am I right?
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You are right. But if I were you, I would made one even so, just in case.
Ok I am sure this has been posted here many times. The OS for the wildfire s is one big piece of crap to say the least. I want to install a custom OS that will allow me to put apps and games on the sd card instead of the internal memory. I would just like to be in full control of the OS of which I am not now. What is the simplest and best way to achieve this. I have read several things but not exactly sure what to do. I would like to know what the best software to use that also has a good tutorial for it as well. My wife has had this htc wildfire for just over a month and the internal storage full has been on for weeks. This must be one of the most poorly designed phones I have ever seen. It has all kinds of crap on the phone that my wife will never use. I was also curious as to what software would be could to view the internal memory of the phone with my pc, or can you even do this with the standard OS installed on the phone. I would greatly appreciate any helpful input concerning my questions and thank you kindly.
gottuhaveit said:
Ok I am sure this has been posted here many times. The OS for the wildfire s is one big piece of crap to say the least. I want to install a custom OS that will allow me to put apps and games on the sd card instead of the internal memory. I would just like to be in full control of the OS of which I am not now. What is the simplest and best way to achieve this. I have read several things but not exactly sure what to do. I would like to know what the best software to use that also has a good tutorial for it as well. My wife has had this htc wildfire for just over a month and the internal storage full has been on for weeks. This must be one of the most poorly designed phones I have ever seen. It has all kinds of crap on the phone that my wife will never use. I was also curious as to what software would be could to view the internal memory of the phone with my pc, or can you even do this with the standard OS installed on the phone. I would greatly appreciate any helpful input concerning my questions and thank you kindly.
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Read the index thread...All you need to know is there.
I suggest the following topics:
-XTC Clip your phone if it's GSM
-How to S-OFF CDMA phones
-How to root your phone and install custom Clockwork recovery
-Using DATA2SD, DATA2WHATEVER, APPS2SD, or my favorite LINKS2SD
-How to custom partition your internal memory
-Installing CM7.2 Nightly builds
That should get you going.
Thank you very much sir. Looks like I have quite a bit of reading ahead of me before I will be attempting anything. LOL
d33ps1x said:
Read the index thread...All you need to know is there.
I suggest the following topics:
-XTC Clip your phone if it's GSM
-How to S-OFF CDMA phones
-How to root your phone and install custom Clockwork recovery
-Using DATA2SD, DATA2WHATEVER, APPS2SD, or my favorite LINKS2SD
-How to custom partition your internal memory
-Installing CM7.2 Nightly builds
That should get you going.
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Hi,
I wanted to ask you how it is possible to do the custom partition of the internal memory. I did with my ZTE Blade but now I would like to do it aslo with Wildfire S but I did not find any tutorial how to do it with this phone. Could you please send me the link how to do it or to post a tutorial? I was trying to find it but either Im blind or its just nowhere.
Thank you
My previous phone was an HTC sensation 4G. I've rooted and installed ParanoidKANGdroid on my new SGS3. here are some questions that arose
1. Are there firmware/radio/dish files for the SGS3? I remember mucking around with those on the HTC Sensation.
2. I used the Snapdragon toolkit to root the phone, I'm assuming it S-OFFed my phone, gave my phone SuperCID, and root in one step. I'm just kinda surprised how easy it was on the SGS3 as compared to the HTC sensation. Want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
3. I enjoy flashing/testing custom kernels. Especially ones that overclock, undervolt, and provide a wide variety of governors. With the Paranoid KANGdroid ROM it appears there are only two custom kernels I can use KT747 and d2-tmo. Any kernels I'm missing out on that work with PARANOID KANGdroid. Are there any apps that undervolt kernels across the board for SGS3? I had an app like this on my previous phone.
4. Now for my newbie question. I have an SD card in the phone's slot under the back case. Settings -> storage recognized it and shows the space, however when I connect the phone to my MacBook Air, Linux laptop, or Windows 7 desktop, NONE of them see the "external" SD, they all pick up the internal storage just fine. Any suggestions or help on this one?
GreatSudoku said:
My previous phone was an HTC sensation 4G. I've rooted and installed ParanoidKANGdroid on my new SGS3. here are some questions that arose
1. Are there firmware/radio/dish files for the SGS3? I remember mucking around with those on the HTC Sensation.
2. I used the Snapdragon toolkit to root the phone, I'm assuming it S-OFFed my phone, gave my phone SuperCID, and root in one step. I'm just kinda surprised how easy it was on the SGS3 as compared to the HTC sensation. Want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
3. I enjoy flashing/testing custom kernels. Especially ones that overclock, undervolt, and provide a wide variety of governors. With the Paranoid KANGdroid ROM it appears there are only two custom kernels I can use KT747 and d2-tmo. Any kernels I'm missing out on that work with PARANOID KANGdroid. Are there any apps that undervolt kernels across the board for SGS3? I had an app like this on my previous phone.
4. Now for my newbie question. I have an SD card in the phone's slot under the back case. Settings -> storage recognized it and shows the space, however when I connect the phone to my MacBook Air, Linux laptop, or Windows 7 desktop, NONE of them see the "external" SD, they all pick up the internal storage just fine. Any suggestions or help on this one?
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1) Yes, look in the forums. use the search.
2) There is no such thing as S-OFF
3) Yes, look in the forums. use the search.
4) Format the card and install the USB drives from the samsung website
Regards,
GreatSudoku said:
My previous phone was an HTC sensation 4G. I've rooted and installed ParanoidKANGdroid on my new SGS3. here are some questions that arose
1. Are there firmware/radio/dish files for the SGS3? I remember mucking around with those on the HTC Sensation.
2. I used the Snapdragon toolkit to root the phone, I'm assuming it S-OFFed my phone, gave my phone SuperCID, and root in one step. I'm just kinda surprised how easy it was on the SGS3 as compared to the HTC sensation. Want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
3. I enjoy flashing/testing custom kernels. Especially ones that overclock, undervolt, and provide a wide variety of governors. With the Paranoid KANGdroid ROM it appears there are only two custom kernels I can use KT747 and d2-tmo. Any kernels I'm missing out on that work with PARANOID KANGdroid. Are there any apps that undervolt kernels across the board for SGS3? I had an app like this on my previous phone.
4. Now for my newbie question. I have an SD card in the phone's slot under the back case. Settings -> storage recognized it and shows the space, however when I connect the phone to my MacBook Air, Linux laptop, or Windows 7 desktop, NONE of them see the "external" SD, they all pick up the internal storage just fine. Any suggestions or help on this one?
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All the radios are here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880987
All the firmware is here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
And here is everything else.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682
The best Rom (in my opinion) is here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804260
Lock thread solutions found, haha. Good job people, did what I came to do.
Root and sim unlock all at the same time is an HTC thing. No S-Off in Samsung's world.
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