I have had my evo for about 6 months. About a month ago I noticed none of my computers were able to recognize my phone any longer. I decided to just use FTP for transferring files. the other day however, my wall charger stopped working. I now have to wiggle it around until its in just the right spot to charge. My phone is rooted with custom rom etc. What should I do about this? Take it to sprint or mail it to HTC?
This is not damage from anything I have done, so I really don't want to pay $100
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Either place you'll get a refurb.
Good thing about htc is that youll get your housing back, just a new board. You can either throw a stockish rom on there or unroot it. Its a matter of opinion on which should be done.
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Will both charge me 100$ most likely? A friend told me HTC might not charge me.
I can just flash a stock rom without having to unroot? I also have a custom bootsplash.
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Thanks for the reply
Will both charge me 100$ most likely? A friend told me HTC might not charge me.
I can just flash a stock rom without having to unroot? I also have a custom bootsplash.
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I just did mine with HTC for free because I didn't think i would get a refurb. sprint will also be free if you have tep.
I would advise fully unrooting for HTC.
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Same problem, seems to happen to quite a few people. I don't feel like wasting my time sending it in, and just use a wall battery charger, along with 2 Anker 1700 batteries, so I always have one charged at all times, its easy to switch the new when when needed. I like it much better than having to have the phone connected to a charger, I never worry about that now. Two Anker 1700, and two stock OEM batteries, and Ankers seem to get quite a few more hours of life, amazing boost for such a cheap price for two batteries and a external battery wall charger.
What would be the easiest way to unroot in your opinion? I don't remember the method I used to get root.
That's a great idea about the batteries and external charger. I will definitely keep that as an option. Thanks.
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What would be the easiest way to unroot in your opinion? I don't remember the method I used to get root.
That's a great idea about the batteries and external charger. I will definitely keep that as an option. Thanks.
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Your unroot method depends on the method you used to root. If you go to the bootloader and it says revolutionary at the top and you have hboot 6.16 then you s-offed with revolutionary. If you have s-off with hboot 2.16 or lower you used unrevoked
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Your unroot method depends on the method you used to root. If you go to the bootloader and it says revolutionary at the top and you have hboot 6.16 then you s-offed with revolutionary. If you have s-off with hboot 2.16 or lower you used unrevoked
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It looks like I used unrevoked as my hboot is lower than 2.16. Should I follow this guide? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151733
Or is their a more up to date method?
I had the same issue. I went with the spare battery and wall charger route myself. seemed easier than unrooting and using insurance. being this way for 6 months now, and its really not an inconvenience. just gotta change the battery once a day.
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It looks like I used unrevoked as my hboot is lower than 2.16. Should I follow this guide? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151733
Or is their a more up to date method?
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Yeah just download and flash the s on tool zip in recovery and download the PC36IMG.zip to the root of your sd card and then boot into the bootloader and let it update that PC36IMG.zip
Reboot and then power off and back on while holding volume down and check to make sure your s on. That should be it.
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If i was you I would just flash stock ROM that's ill I have ever done, no questions asked. That's at the sprint store
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I went with external charger and extra battery. Seems to be working great. Thanks for the awesome help and info everyone.
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Ive switched from a rooted eris to my wifes old incredible. I really miss root but the usb Port on the incredible is trashed. Any way to one click root without having the phone connected to a comp?
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I'm 99% sure the only was is to use unrevoked.com which needs a computer.
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Dang. Oh well that's what i get for letting a five year old use my phone
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There's a few one click root apps that claim they work on all droids. Give one a try.
Try visionary
Then use rom.manager to flash a recovery and use unrevoked forever to get s off
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Try visionary
Then use rom.manager to flash a recovery and use unrevoked forever to get s off
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UnrEVOked requires USB still does it not?
How are you charging? Do you alternate two batteries in a charger then switch them?
There's some videos on youtube and also a site that sells parts for the incredible (sorry, can't find it today), like display & digitizer, that clearly show removing all parts (major assemblies) from the dinc. I think it might be possible to kludge a new usb port from wherever the traces met the old one.
Were pins broken off, or gum shoved in or worse? Just curious. I'd be trying to rip it apart to fix it
I'll look for the site that had the parts and let you know if you're interested. Found it once, so must be able to find it again. Displays were cheaper than I'd have thought.
Thanks for the help, yeah i just alternate batteries. Got an extended battery so im not switching out every five minutes. Ill take a look for replacement parts, but if you find a link that would be great. Basically the pins just got mashed in
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UnrEVOked requires USB still does it not?
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Unrevoked forever is just a flash zip once you get a.custom.recovery
So there needs to be a way to transfer the zip to the SD, other than that it should work
I have no idea tho, but it seems plausible
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So if i could figure out how to get a custom recovery, i could just copy the unrevoked zip file to my sd card by taking it out of my phone and plugging into my comp
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http://www.globaldirectparts.com/HTC-Droid-Incredible-Replacement-Repair-Parts-s/6283.htm
hachamacha said:
How are you charging? Do you alternate two batteries in a charger then switch them?
There's some videos on youtube and also a site that sells parts for the incredible (sorry, can't find it today), like display & digitizer, that clearly show removing all parts (major assemblies) from the dinc. I think it might be possible to kludge a new usb port from wherever the traces met the old one.
Were pins broken off, or gum shoved in or worse? Just curious. I'd be trying to rip it apart to fix it
I'll look for the site that had the parts and let you know if you're interested. Found it once, so must be able to find it again. Displays were cheaper than I'd have thought.
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http://www.globaldirectparts.com/HTC-Droid-Incredible-Replacement-Repair-Parts-s/6283.htm
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Cool. OEM HTC Verizon Droid Incredible Charging Port seems like the thing to get when it's back in stock. I think any of the microUSB on-board sockets could be hacked to fit but if they've got this one here, seems like a go.
Thanks -
This may be a stupid question, but do you think these are "snap in"parts or do i need to bust out the soldering iron?
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This may be a stupid question, but do you think these are "snap in"parts or do i need to bust out the soldering iron?
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Check this one out::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbNdqyjR_M0
It's for the EVO but I'm sure it's all similar enough. I can't really imagine that the USB port isn't soldered but I've not taken mine apart. You could contact that guy that put up the youtube video and ask him for details.
It sounds fairly doable given a fine point soldering iron and some time. He makes it sound like the combination of poor battery life , multiple usages all the time of the USB port will eventually cause it to separate from the main-board, so maybe this thing is actually reusable. I don't know how or where it separates.
I noticed the Metal Sense skin was for some reason omitted from the DInc2. Does anyone have a Metal.apk that works?
nope but if found can u attach the apk.
prolly one of the cleanest SenseZ skins ive seen.
Hopefully someone with an IS can be kind to extract and post the Metal.apk from /system/app
I have one if you guys want it
You guys get rooted and I will build you a rooted stock rom
http://db.tt/NsR9ZiG
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You guys get rooted and I will build you a rooted stock rom
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I can only hope. I've used your ROM's, top notch. My Incredible's USB port just quit working today. Took it to VZW, and of course. Out of warranty. So I have to buy something else at full price. Lucky for me, my friend got an Incredible 2, brand new condition with a 32GB SD card. Said he'd sell it to me for $400. So I may be joining you guys over here soon .
Thank you so much!
Hopefully we can get a permanent root for Inc2 soon. I replaced my first Incredible with an Inc2, and I love this phone. Now all we need is root and some good roms
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I can only hope. I've used your ROM's, top notch. My Incredible's USB port just quit working today. Took it to VZW, and of course. Out of warranty. So I have to buy something else at full price. Lucky for me, my friend got an Incredible 2, brand new condition with a 32GB SD card. Said he'd sell it to me for $400. So I may be joining you guys over here soon .
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hate to see you leave brett
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hate to see you leave brett
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I'll probably still be here, until I can afford a replacement. Figures that the USB port would stop working (besides charging) just a week after the one year warranty expired. Which means I'm stuck being stock. I ran the RUU and S-ON to take it to Verizon for a replacement. Forgetting it was just out of warranty. And now I can't root, can't run Unrevoked. Sure, I can temp root with Z4root. But where's the fun in that? No ROM's etc. This sucks .
But, once I have the funds. I think I'll just jump here to the INC 2. The thunderbolt is HUGE, and there's no 4G here anyway. At least until the end of the year or 2012. By then I'll actually have an upgrade anyway. Hopefully we'll see a permanent root, either here or for the Incredible S.
So htc just bought a Dinc 2 and I'm itching to root it, I know there's a temp root for it, but since its been such as long ass time since I've rooted my Dinc OG, I forgot what to do. So I have three annoying questions, one: how do I temp root it and/or where can I find this info, two: is there an eta for a perm root and if so, anybody working on ROMS, and three, help lol
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I'll probably still be here, until I can afford a replacement. Figures that the USB port would stop working (besides charging) just a week after the one year warranty expired. Which means I'm stuck being stock. I ran the RUU and S-ON to take it to Verizon for a replacement. Forgetting it was just out of warranty. And now I can't root, can't run Unrevoked. Sure, I can temp root with Z4root. But where's the fun in that? No ROM's etc. This sucks .
But, once I have the funds. I think I'll just jump here to the INC 2. The thunderbolt is HUGE, and there's no 4G here anyway. At least until the end of the year or 2012. By then I'll actually have an upgrade anyway. Hopefully we'll see a permanent root, either here or for the Incredible S.
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Brett havebyou tried a different cord my wife will only charge with her cord but if I use mine and get it just right I can get it to work...
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Brett havebyou tried a different cord my wife will only charge with her cord but if I use mine and get it just right I can get it to work...
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Yeah, its the same cord I was using. I've used different cords, different computers. Took it into VZW with their confirmed working ones. Didn't matter. Even hboot doesn't recognize it. Usually it would say "HBOOT USB PLUG". So, something hardware related. At least it charges. I'm considering just keeping it as is. Unfortunately I can't root now either. Permanently that is. So it'll just stay stock. At least we know we can expect Gingerbread for it OTA.
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how do I temp root it and/or where can I find this infol
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068544
That thread will help
Are there any more skins out there?
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Yes. I sent you a PM.
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Sorry i'm late to this thread. I just got my incredible 2 this morning from asurion. I previously had an OG incredible rooted. I was hoping someone could please post a working link for the metal skin, useable on an unrooted inc2. Please and thanks in advance
Pat,
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Sorry i'm late to this thread. I just got my incredible 2 this morning from asurion. I previously had an OG incredible rooted. I was hoping someone could please post a working link for the metal skin, useable on an unrooted inc2. Please and thanks in advance
Pat,
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X2 BUMP! pretty please?
Hi,
Where can I get this sense metal skin?
Is there a download link?
A working link is at the top of this section..has all the themes
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I have been having major signal issues with my inc2 (leaked RUU installed) so I called and have a warranty replacement on the way
I am curious if anyone has gotten a warranty replacement in the last week, and WHICH software was installed on it? I am banking on 2.2 still being ont here so i can S-off the phone....please let me know if you know....
thanks!
It will b 2.3.3....I'm coming from a fascinate and my dinc2 will b here Friday....expecting 2.3.3
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you think they have actually taken the time to take EVERY single refurb and update them instead of just NOT doing it and having the phone force the update upon activation?
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you think they have actually taken the time to take EVERY single refurb and update them instead of just NOT doing it and having the phone force the update upon activation?
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That's the point of a refurb though, to be brand new so to speak. so it will 9/10 be updated software.
I got my fascinate to inc2 switch with a refurbished on wed last week and it came with 2.2. Just a fyi.
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It is a mixed bag with refurbished versions. I currently have a little screen separation going on but I am dealing with it because I don't want to lose root or get stuck in Verizon refurbish hell.
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Replacement phones are 80% of the time broke and fixed get insurance 100% new
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Replacement phones are 80% of the time broke and fixed get insurance 100% new
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You are right about the broke part, not so much with the fix.
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I have to say my refurbs have been fine. for both inc1 and inc2
If I get a new one from insurance would that still be 2.2 or will it be updated?
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If I get a new one from insurance would that still be 2.2 or will it be updated?
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no one can say for sure.
Mines left yesterday, should be getting it Thursday or Friday, so i hope it still have 2.2. I too think it's a roll of the dice, because they would literally have to replace ALL the phones, it would be better to just let the user update it, but we will see.
This was an issue back when I had the Eris, and I needed a refurb, and the same thing, I tried asking before they sent it out and they said that it's most likely going to be sent with the updated software, if it a refurb..
I have to ask. I see so many people on here saying they got the DInc 2 from a Fascinate (Same thing I'm doing now) so I'm sure you are all familiar with the Fascinate. How come there isnt anything like the stock ODIN files that can be used on a Fascinate?
Because Samsung and HTC have totally different ways of debugging/developing and use different tools. The Eris is the same way, with S-OFF and all that jazz with the bootloader. IMO the Odin App made recovering from meltdowns and updating things like the radio VERY easy which was nice. But for some reason this simplicity also led to MORE bricks as all it took for a while to brick your phone was to hit the dreaded phone button instead of the "PDA" button in Odin...
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I have to ask. I see so many people on here saying they got the DInc 2 from a Fascinate (Same thing I'm doing now) so I'm sure you are all familiar with the Fascinate. How come there isnt anything like the stock ODIN files that can be used on a Fascinate?
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I already miss Odin. It was so ridiculously easy to do anything with it. You didn't even need to root to flash a custom rom. Just Odin CWM, boot directly into it, and flash the rom. And very easy to go back to stock and not leave a trace of root. Unlike the current inability to go back to S-On...
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I already miss Odin. It was so ridiculously easy to do anything with it. You didn't even need to root to flash a custom rom. Just Odin CWM, boot directly into it, and flash the rom. And very easy to go back to stock and not leave a trace of root. Unlike the current inability to go back to S-On...
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100% agree. Someone needs to dev a way to do that for this phone.
It says
Your phone is using more current than the charger can supply.
It happened out of nowhere too. Its weird. Any suggestions. I've tried reverting back to old Rome I had backed up. No luck. I've also tried a 3rd party extended battery. No luck there either. I originally rooted with the revolutionary root tool. How can I unroot and go to stock in case I need to have Verizon look at it ?
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Tried different charger?
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Tried my wall charger. Car charger and USB cord. Same result. Maybe my charging port is going out ?
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Tried my wall charger. Car charger and USB cord. Same result. Maybe my charging port is going out ?
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That could possibly be it. It seems the charging port was built poorly
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I just held down the USB cord down with my hand and was able to charge the phone without the message popping up. Now I just need help unrooting. It seems there are two ways of unrooting depending on the way u originally rooted. I rooted with the revolutionary tool and can't find out how to unroot. I could only find instructions on how to unroot if u rooted using alpha revx
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I just held down the USB cord down with my hand and was able to charge the phone without the message popping up. Now I just need help unrooting. It seems there are two ways of unrooting depending on the way u originally rooted. I rooted with the revolutionary tool and can't find out how to unroot. I could only find instructions on how to unroot if u rooted using alpha revx
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Works the same way, I believe.
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Works the same way, I believe.
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it is the same way, you just need to flash the stock hboot and thats it.
also seems like the usb ports on these phones are constantly goning out it's happened twice to me on brand new dinc 2's
So I got back to the stock 2.2.1 Rom with s off by following the alpha revx unroot procedure. I want able to change my hboot though. Tomorrow I'm gonna see if I can get a replacement. Wish me luck lol
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you can change hboot by flashing cwm and root files to the phone then using adb over wifi and use the unroot guide then update to gb, i did it 2 days ago
While trying to flash the new rcmix3d rom I encountered an error while trying to flash it. Someone came to the conclusion that it was the hboot version I was using and recommended I upgrade it.
I took the advice and upgraded hboot to the latest 2.16, flashed the rom and finally gave me no error. The rom booted up but I realized while trying to get rid of bloatware after every reboot it would all come back.
Checked Hboot and apparently I lost my s-off, which I didn't know was gonna happen. So now I'm back to s-on, still have my ra 2.3 recovery, and apps are still able to establish root within the rom.
Problem is I want to get my s-off back but from what I've read you have to have ur phone connected and use adb but the usb port of my evo broke a while ago. Is there any other way I can get s-off back? How about using adb wireless? Any help is appreciated.
That's pretty wierd... but no you will need to use the USB cable. The computer needs to be able to reboot your phone to boot loader and a few other things so the wireless adb won't work since the rom isn't booted up during 75% of the root process. Best bet would be either be trying to wiggle your USB cord in your phone till it connects and re-root or run an ruu from your SD and get back to 100% stock and take it to sprint for a replacement. Since your USB port is considered a manufacturer defect they will give you a refurb for $35. I would know since my evo bit the dust on Christmas and got a refurb yesterday.
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That's pretty wierd... but no you will need to use the USB cable. The computer needs to be able to reboot your phone to boot loader and a few other things so the wireless adb won't work since the rom isn't booted up during 75% of the root process. Best bet would be either be trying to wiggle your USB cord in your phone till it connects and re-root or run an ruu from your SD and get back to 100% stock and take it to sprint for a replacement. Since your USB port is considered a manufacturer defect they will give you a refurb for $35. I would know since my evo bit the dust on Christmas and got a refurb yesterday.
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I'm curious what did you tell then when you went in with a phone that had bad blocks?
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That's pretty wierd... but no you will need to use the USB cable. The computer needs to be able to reboot your phone to boot loader and a few other things so the wireless adb won't work since the rom isn't booted up during 75% of the root process. Best bet would be either be trying to wiggle your USB cord in your phone till it connects and re-root or run an ruu from your SD and get back to 100% stock and take it to sprint for a replacement. Since your USB port is considered a manufacturer defect they will give you a refurb for $35. I would know since my evo bit the dust on Christmas and got a refurb yesterday.
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My usb port is just completely broken it just moves around everywhere. I actually tried going in to a sprint store about my usb port and they completely just told me to file an insurance claim even though I said it was considered a manufacture defect. I might try again though, you've given me a little bit of hope. lol
Can anyone tell me what benefits do I lose by having s-on? Looks like I'm stuck like this so I'd like to know what ill lose. I know now I can't get rid of bloatware with titanium backup and that sucks and I can't update Su binary anymore, but what else?
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Can anyone tell me what benefits do I lose by having s-on? Looks like I'm stuck like this so I'd like to know what ill lose. I know now I can't get rid of bloatware with titanium backup and that sucks and I can't update Su binary anymore, but what else?
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Flashing splash screens recoveries and some roms
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Flashing splash screens recoveries and some roms
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That's worse than I thought...so if I at one point wanted to switch to twrp I wouldn't be able to? I mean I have ra 2.3 right now and I'm quite satisfied so I don't think ill be trying to switch. Not being able to flash some roms is really a big let down. I need to get this USB port fixed.
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That's worse than I thought...so if I at one point wanted to switch to twrp I wouldn't be able to? I mean I have ra 2.3 right now and I'm quite satisfied so I don't think ill be trying to switch. Not being able to flash some roms is really a big let down. I need to get this USB port fixed.
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Yea you wouldn't be able to switch. And some roms might not flash
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