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Well I had to make a trade from tmobile to sprint.... My vibrant was the best, running Team Whiskeys NeroV4 with a 1.4ghz Kernal. Glad I got a keyboard now though, at least. So it seems like it is more difficult to root n what not with the epic. Is that true??? Just by reading a few posts on rooting still has me holdin off a bit on rooting. I downloaded 2.5.5 one click and ima do this. Just nervous.
I soft bricked my vibrant like 3 times. Is this phone difficult to hard brick as well? How do u boot into recovery? Any rom recommendations? I support #Never Again.
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Well I had to make a trade from tmobile to sprint.... My vibrant was the best, running Team Whiskeys NeroV4 with a 1.4ghz Kernal. Glad I got a keyboard now though, at least. So it seems like it is more difficult to root n what not with the epic. Is that true??? Just by reading a few posts on rooting still has me holdin off a bit on rooting. I downloaded 2.5.5 one click and ima do this. Just nervous.
I soft bricked my vibrant like 3 times. Is this phone difficult to hard brick as well? How do u boot into recovery? Any rom recommendations? I support #Never Again.
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The one click root is awesome. Recovery mode is volume down, camera and power. Feel free to PM me if you have questions. I was in the same boat as you. Nervous.
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Well I had to make a trade from tmobile to sprint.... My vibrant was the best, running Team Whiskeys NeroV4 with a 1.4ghz Kernal. Glad I got a keyboard now though, at least. So it seems like it is more difficult to root n what not with the epic. Is that true??? Just by reading a few posts on rooting still has me holdin off a bit on rooting. I downloaded 2.5.5 one click and ima do this. Just nervous.
I soft bricked my vibrant like 3 times. Is this phone difficult to hard brick as well? How do u boot into recovery? Any rom recommendations? I support #Never Again.
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Also in my opinion the phone is extremely difficult to brick. I'm using ViperRom. It's pretty awesome. ViperRom has it's own website, Ticket system and WIKI as well
The one click is simple man. Just click the batch file and watch it root in front of your eyes.
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It is really easy to root. I have found it difficult to brick, as I have done many things you are not supposed to.
Probably not, but it sure seems like the forums got real quiet the last few days. Just sayin....
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Probably not, but it sure seems like the forums got real quiet the last few days. Just sayin....
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got to agree. does seem a bit quiet. i am keeping both (well, the inc goes to the daughter but i will keep tweaking it for her) so i want the devs to keep working on the inc.
It's probably temporary, the Inc community will last for a while.
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Recently (as in a few days ago) coming from an Eris, which was 'end-of-life' in the middle of last year, and then received Gingerbread almost instantaneously after it was released to the public thanks to our fine devs here at XDA, I highly doubt the DInc will die out any time soon. This phone has way too much potential.
I expert it do die down in time, but the CM machine will keep chugging. Honestly, so long as Cyanogen has a DInc ROM, I'll be content. I use launcher pro, and prefer stock android over anything else, so not having new versions of sense isn't a big deal to me. Sometimes I like to jump on the MIUI train, but I always end up back with Cyanogen. They always support their phones so well, I imagine development for cm will continue long past the DInc's shelf-life.
I think even if it does dwindle, it will only be minor. As long as we have CM and a good maintaner we should always have something new and better to throw on our phones. The only thing is I've always wanted to see AOSP roms with tv-out but I see very little future in anyone dev that now that interest in it has died down.
I have been tryin z roms lately with very good success, and their cameras are the bomb. Aosp is nice an smooth, but i like the option to switch atound alot, plus cm camera just isnt that good. Im runnin miui gb now, with zero issues, kinda shox me for a first release just how good this rom is. I would love to see gb sense though just to have it.
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Only for a while guys go check out the specs on the Incredible S on engagdet
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Only for a while guys go check out the specs on the Incredible S on engagdet
Not gonna lie, that phone looked sharp.
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The devs have shifted focus to the Thunderbolt to give it a jump start in the root and rom arena. After this happens I'm sure we'll seen new stuff for the DInc again. Shoot! Someone will probably port the TB ROM to DInc.
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The devs have shifted focus to the Thunderbolt to give it a jump start in the root and rom arena. After this happens I'm sure we'll seen new stuff for the DInc again. Shoot! Someone will probably port the TB ROM to DInc.
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That rom has been leaked, figure it would have been ported by now.
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I can't speak for all developers but I myself will be returning to work on the Inc as soon as the major crap is done with the Thunderbolt such as CWM and CM 7. I'll still be here but not full time just yet.
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The devs have shifted focus to the Thunderbolt to give it a jump start in the root and rom arena. After this happens I'm sure we'll seen new stuff for the DInc again. Shoot! Someone will probably port the TB ROM to DInc.
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I just don't see the rom being much better granted the new Sense might be cool to look at.
DINC // CM7 RC2 // SLAYHER#9
I may be completely wrong in saying this but i think the tb is actually going to increase the amount of dev on the dinc. When you look at the evo and dinc there are roms that run on both. From what ive heard of the tb its basically a evo just a lil bit better. So as soon as a good way is made for easy transfer of rom from tb to dinc or to evo we will have more options on the dinc. Plus as soon as the problems are sorted out of how to get tb roms and code to run on the dinc we will be getting more updates to stock releases.
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I can't speak for all developers but I myself will be returning to work on the Inc as soon as the major crap is done with the Thunderbolt such as CWM and CM 7. I'll still be here but not full time just yet.
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Good to know you have our back.
I had an Iphone 4, didn't like iOS so I decided to go check out the thunderbolt, I was less than impressed. No 4g around me, and I didn't want to pay $100 on top of giving my iphone 4 back. So I picked up an incredible, and couldn't be happier. Its such a solid phone. Perfect size.
I personally cannot wait until people start (hopefully) coming back to the Inc, it's been dead here lately, more than usual anyway.
Don't want to see the Inc die.
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I personally cannot wait until people start (hopefully) coming back to the Inc, it's been dead here lately, more than usual anyway.
Don't want to see the Inc die.
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Yes it has, no new roms, no ipdates, only cm nightlies, and all forums slow. Its too bad, this phone still has alot to offer. But hell, when i gey new toysi play with them more also, so i cant blame thosr wjo got thetb
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Yes it has, no new roms, no ipdates, only cm nightlies, and all forums slow. Its too bad, this phone still has alot to offer. But hell, when i gey new toysi play with them more also, so i cant blame thosr wjo got thetb
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Makes sense, I watch the EVO forums still rock, Nexus One forums will always be rocking, and with the Inc being such a close relative, just surprised activity has fallen off a little.
Yeah, im just hopin tgings start pickin up soon. There are alot of roms that could be ported, but nothing as of lately.
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Out of my own personal curiosity, is there anyone else like my that hasnt done a single thing to their phone yet (no root, no roms) and are just waiting? I was wondering if im the only one left lol. (bought the phone on launch day btw)
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Out of my own personal curiosity, is there anyone else like my that hasnt done a single thing to their phone yet (no root, no roms) and are just waiting? I was wondering if im the only one left lol. (bought the phone on launch day btw)
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I'm still waiting for an exploit to the stock rom.
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I haven't done anything yet either. Too busy playing with this thing!
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I'm still waiting for an exploit to the stock rom.
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Exploit for the stock rom?
Have had mine since Wednesday I believe, have not done anything to it, although I have no prior experience rooting/modding phones.
I find myself wanting to be able to change little things and I'm not sure if rooting would let me be able to do these things? Stuff like turning off camera shutter sound (I think I've seen articles about this and rooting is required). Also changing vibration pattern? Like having vibrate pattern specific for new email, vibrate pattern specific for new text, etc?
I too am waiting. I haven't been disappointed or eager to change much of anything that would require root access. I am content as of now.
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Nothing done here. I'm happy with it.
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I couldn't take out any more I did the deed a few hours ago and have no regrets I think its stable now with incredible performance.
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Out of my own personal curiosity, is there anyone else like my that hasnt done a single thing to their phone yet (no root, no roms) and are just waiting? I was wondering if im the only one left lol. (bought the phone on launch day btw)
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Haven't had the need to root this bad boy yet. I get 10-15 hours out of it with moderate to heavy use the signal for me is better than my evo and you can uninstall the bloat without root.
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Seems like we should almost be done waiting. Only thing I changed was TW to ADW.
I didnt do anything yet
Kinda cause i here all about these super annoying bugs that appear when u root
Plus my computer is brocken
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I'm still stock, unrooted, etc.
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I didnt do anything yet
Kinda cause i here all about these super annoying bugs that appear when u root
Plus my computer is brocken
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Yeah dood, dem Brocken computerz I heard is the WORST (hehe). But in all srsness, im just waiting a LITTLE longer until the features in roms flesh out a little bit, seeing as how theyre still new and all. Im very tempted to get that 1.6Ghz kernel and all, but this phone is so darn close to perfect as it is. I almost dont want to de-virginize the thing XDD
Nothing yet, waiting for some siik roms.
However, I can't wait ...biggest deal maker for me is the ability to control volume of everything individually ...I.e. Alarm high, notifications low, ringer mid...and waiting for AOSP roms
What are people waiting for?
The root is available.
Running a completely stock rom + stock recovery + stock kernel +su binary/apk.
Works great.
I been addicted to flashing since the evo days n had this phone since day one. Love this phone n i dont really see the point of rooting this bad boy because its a sick device on stock.
Just waiting fOr this lost of signal drama and all this bugs are reporting from flashing this custom kernel n for more roms to come out. N maybe after ill root this bad boy.
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I haven't done anything either yet. Just waiting for a simple method to root the stock rom.
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Im very tempted to get that 1.6Ghz kernel and all, but this phone is so darn close to perfect as it is. I almost dont want to de-virginize the thing XDD
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Haha same here... This thing flies already ! Anything more would be sweet, sweet overkill to the other phones.
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I root every phone I get as soon as I can because of two must have apps:
roam control and AdFree.
And now I'm overclocked and running 5700 in quadrant. lol...LOVE IT!
I haven't rooted mine yet but i plan too sometime this week!
Just asking because I see no advantage, maybe I am missing something. I feel like some don't flash because they are afraid of bricking there phone. While I guess technically you can brick your phone I assume we all have sprint. They will replace your phone for free or at most you pay 35 dollars. Do not be afraid greatness. Once you flash and theme your phone you will never look back. Touchwiz is a -5 on a scale of 1 to 10 compared to ics.
This phone stock is ugly and Samsung has horrible design taste. When you see this phone on display it looks retarded. Worst wallpapers ever people don't even know this phone is a good phone. I see people playing with a photon more. If were not for rooms and themes I would of sold this phone. Just look at the stock dialer its horrible.
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So you are judging it by the wallpaper? You don't have to use touch wiz if you aren't rooted. There are plenty of launchers like go launcher, launcher pro, adw. Some ppl use the phone just for that reason they don't care about all the extra stuff. And some sprint reps who are smart and know that your device is rooted they won't touch it. There have been plenty of ppl here with they problem
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I ran stock for a while. Personally, it doesn't matter to me how the launcher looks. It just has to be very functional with everything I use often easy to get to. I can do that with touchwiz. I flashed Calkulins ROM because I could do that better.
On my Epic mobile phone.
I'm on stock because I've never rooted before and I'm waiting for ICS
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I'm on stock because I've never rooted before and I'm waiting for ICS
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So when ics comes you will root or just upgrade the from Samsung. And to me rooting is the hardest part flashing rooms and themes is super easy.
I can understand why its confusing kinda. But once rooted everything else is just booting into recovery and installing a zip.
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I was running the stock rom with root for a while. There really aren't that many advantages to a custom rom. Samsung did a great job with TouchWiz. I mean I prefer ADW, but TouchWiz adds a lot of functionality to stock Android. I really didn't have a reason to switch. Then I got bored and started flashing custom roms. If I wasn't a flash-addict, I would have stayed. TW isn't as bad as everyone says it is.
I went back to stock because after rooting and flashing Roms I found that I clocked out on the rest of the world reading xda all the time in anticipation for new updates. "woke up" 2 months later and didn't know where the time went lol
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So you are judging it by the wallpaper? You don't have to use touch wiz if you aren't rooted. There are plenty of launchers like go launcher, launcher pro, adw. Some ppl use the phone just for that reason they don't care about all the extra stuff. And some sprint reps who are smart and know that your device is rooted they won't touch it. There have been plenty of ppl here with they problem
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Some reps are indeed smart enough to immediately recognize a rooted phone. However, they should still assist you with issues. I do all the time
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So you are judging it by the wallpaper? You don't have to use touch wiz if you aren't rooted. There are plenty of launchers like go launcher, launcher pro, adw. Some ppl use the phone just for that reason they don't care about all the extra stuff. And some sprint reps who are smart and know that your device is rooted they won't touch it. There have been plenty of ppl here with they problem
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No I'm not judging by wallpaper I'm saying stock and on display it doesn't look appealing. Part of it is the wallpaper Samsung has on there stock. I can see why somebody who knows nothing about phones will overlook this.
I don't understand how you can't swap out your phone for the same phone. You are a customer and the phone is not even a year old. Sprint will replace your phone if you don't take no for answer. Your paying sprint x amount of dollars a month. Sometimes I replace a phone just because I drop it and it has a tiny scratch. At the most they make me pay 35 dollars which you can have refunded if you call account services. If your in Miami and you can't replace a phone please pm me I will help you for free.
Sprint works for you and unless they like losing customers I don't think a little phone replacement will come between them.
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Yeah, people play with the Photon more in the store because Moto Blur is so beautiful, lol.
Many people dont get in to root cuz they dont want to read how to. Someone told me the hardest step is read, not click start in odin.
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Stocl Rom here...no need to flash and have issues with roms not working properly...yes...80% of all users who are rooted and have flashed are posting questions or problems with these custom roms...I would rather not deal with that crap just for a pretty launcher, icons etc...Ill wail for ICS.
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My phone has yet to be rooted. I'm looking and waiting for that break out rom that's either a ICS or the official ICS update. I've root many phone but right now I don't see any real reason to root. The last phone I had was the e3d and I rooted that because it had so many roms. Every Tom on the GS2 pretty much look all the same IMO which is a stock looking rom. I need variety.
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Flash your phone and find out lol to be honest because stock sucks (and not talking about tw) im saying hiccups and firmware for sure. And if samsung is going to release the new versions to the devs and not to sprint customers then the only way to take advantage is to root and do ourselves
I'm on stock..
I'm in a rooted and debloated stock ROM. Why? Because it's perfect. It's not like the EVO 4G days where you had to flash a custom ROM to get the most out of your phone, the stock ROM on this thing just screams!
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Stock and rooted. I would never put a custom rom. I used to always try them out on my og epic and they always had some sort of bug. EK02 has been good to me and I actually like Touchwiz. And if I get bored of it I can just switch to the stock Android launcher or download a new one from the market.... To each his own if you like custom roms good for you however don't try to knock us that like stock rom.
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I ran a stock Rom for a while with root for a while with mine. I just recently (3 days) put a Rom on my phone, mainly did it so i can tether, and a few other things. I mainly play with kernels personally.
But like metalhead stated, this phone is awesome out of the box. And Im in complete agreement about the evo statement, though it was a great phone you had to change everything to really make it perform.
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I test my own modifications on my phone, and sometimes leave them.. but I despise themeing and I always use touchwiz...
any modifications done to my phone are purely functional..
Yeah, I "played" around with the photon for a few minutes and the only thing that really stood out to me was...Holy S&%$ this thing is laggy ,laughed at the EVO3D,looked at the IP4S..couldn't find the screen So the GS2 was a no brainer. Touchwiz isn't bad...but that's my opinion. Everyone has different tastes. The phone is fast the screen is big the camera is good so I'm still holding off on rooting for now as I really don't see any need to..for me anyways.
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I used my upgrade from my Nexus S 4g and decided to come over the the S2 on Sprint. I intend to play with this phone till my wife upgrade is in August which she will take the S2 in hopes that I will get the S3 by then.
Been reading up on these posts on here and I think I got it but wanted to make sure.
1. I need to Odin to get root with el29?
2. Never flash, wipe, reset data in ICS CWM?
3. Is it me or are there no Kernels like AirKernel for this phone?
4. I plan to go with CNA as I had on my Nexus. Love that rom anything you would like to share about this rom?
Any advice on the questions would be great and to be honest I really only post here and there but I'm always on here. Been here since the release of the Evo 4G.
Thanks.
Thanks and it awesome to be a part of the S2 community. WOW.
Really feels welcome here......
You're sure to get help now, getting all pissy that someone didn't help you at 5:30 on a Sunday morning. Good luck
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Wow, congrats to the E4GT community. You just enrolled another winner to the team.
How come no one rolled out the red carpet within the first few hours of this thread?
Glad I moved onto another phone, you guys really suck here
OP, you should get a GN. After my first post there, I was sent a 4 course meal from my favorite restaurant.
xda same as always...
Stoked to be here though.
Sort of asking for help, those are things that I've read up on. Just kind of a ice breaker more then anything.
Welcome to the party and congrats on the new phone.
The only question I can answer is #1, which is yes, to get an easy start just Odin sfhub's one-click EL29 for root, then read, read, read in the development section for all the goodies available.
Happy flashing and remember, if you brick your phone it's all on you.
1. I rooted just fine without Odin.
2. Yes it's also recommended you do that with most roms overall to avoid technical difficulties later on.
3. Idk what airkernel is, but there seems to be a limited choice if kernels for ginger.
4. CNA? Don't think I've seen a ROM called that around here but what do I know? I'm just a newbie...
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I left my photon to be here .. I hope not to be let down... Cause the hospitality over there was great! I love everybody there!
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I left my photon to be here .. I hope not to be let down... Cause the hospitality over there was great! I love everybody there!
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You just have to have thicker skin over here, people may seem a little harsh at times (me included) but at the core of their comments you typically find the truth you needed. If you read around enough you'll see there are a lot of good people in this community. I'd suggest you start with the thread below to see what I mean.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572184
Most important of all, just follow the #1 rule of thumb for the internet, don't take things personally and you'll be just fine.
Oh, also, don't expect anyone here to a)kiss your butt (well maybe iSaint j/k lol), b)hold your hand or c)pat you on your wee little noggin when you f*ck up because you didn't read and ended up bricking your phone. That is all.
Everybody moved to the Evo One. This place is a ghost town now.
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1. I rooted just fine without Odin.
2. Yes it's also recommended you do that with most roms overall to avoid technical difficulties later on.
3. Idk what airkernel is, but there seems to be a limited choice if kernels for ginger.
4. CNA? Don't think I've seen a ROM called that around here but what do I know? I'm just a newbie...
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CNA is the Codename ROM.
**Enjoy the phone jcarlm
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I left my photon to be here .. I hope not to be let down... Cause the hospitality over there was great! I love everybody there!
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Normally I'm nice, but being pissy while asking for help rubs me the wrong way.... Not like when iSaint rubs me
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Coming from a Evo then a Nexus S 4G I can't believe the trouble ones has to go through flashing roms that are ICS.
Odin is easy so that is nice but still. Seems like a lot of effort.
This phone is sweet. I just got to wait till I actually have time from work, kids and family so I can sit down and root this think and flash away.
Excited.
I can honestly say if it weren't for Odin and sfhub's one-click goodies I would probably still just be an observer on this forum. But he made it easy and then I learned to flash recovery and in doing so was able to start flashing Calkulin's custom ROMs. Although that's as far as I've gotten for now it's a long way from where I began and I'm excited for what's around the corner.
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Coming from a Evo then a Nexus S 4G I can't believe the trouble ones has to go through flashing roms that are ICS.
Odin is easy so that is nice but still. Seems like a lot of effort.
This phone is sweet. I just got to wait till I actually have time from work, kids and family so I can sit down and root this think and flash away.
Excited.
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Once the source is released and official ota's are out im sure all the kinks will be ironed out. Development for ICS is still early for this phone. Using Odin isnt that bad, you can still flash a rom in about five minutes.
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Coming from a Evo then a Nexus S 4G I can't believe the trouble ones has to go through flashing roms that are ICS.
Odin is easy so that is nice but still. Seems like a lot of effort.
This phone is sweet. I just got to wait till I actually have time from work, kids and family so I can sit down and root this think and flash away.
Excited.
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It may seem a bit overwhelming at first but it really is incredibly easy. Just make sure your CWM is stock (just flash CM7 or GB Miui), and then you should have no issues flashing ICS.
mobile Odin is your friend guys. as quick as a reboot.
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And no there aren't any kernels like Air, Matrix, Trinity on this phone but you will BD happy with stock or the repack
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