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[Q] Flashing Nexus S Rom

Hello! This is my first post on XDA, so feel free to berate me for this question.
I am a rooted Vivow user (dinc 2), and I have been DYING for ICS so I am very tempted to load the AOSP Nexus S ROM. The only reason I haven't, is because I haven't found what the effects are of flashing the wrong ROM. I have only found that flashing the wrong radio, bricks the phone.
So the question is:
What would be the effect of loading a Nexus S ROM on a Dinc 2?

Well, the effects would probably be a blank or boot looping screen.
There are several factors as to why that wouldn't work.. although you wouldn't have to worry about flashing a wrong radio.. for reasons that I hope are obvious.
First of all.. All ROM's come with a kernel, which is VERY device specific. Even if the SoC's are the same between two phones there are a plethora of other bits that have to be specific to kernel as well. (ex.. camera/radio/screen).
That's just one part of the hurdle.
Another would be the difference of Partition tables and Bootloader ties between HTC and Samsung Devices.
All in all to make a short answer.. It WOULD NOT WORK. period.
I would advise against it strongly.

it wont work, for reasons mentioned above

You can't flash between the Inc s and the Inc 2, and they are nearly identical. If those don't work, roms from the nexus would never work without some heavy porting work.
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repilce said:
There are several factors as to why that wouldn't work.. although you wouldn't have to worry about flashing a wrong radio.. .
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i want to flash Incredible S Radio on my Incredible 2
i managed to install Incredible S Rom Sense 3.5 on my Inc 2, Booted and working Perfet , But there is No GSM Signal
Does Flashing wrong Radie Brick the Phone or Not ????
Please PM me if Possible , thanks

[Q] Partitions

I'm coming from a Sprint GSII where the kernal and recovery are on the same partition, which was very confusing when flashing ROM's and it would overwrite the recovery.
Is the recovery on a partition all by itself on this phone?

spencer88 said:
I'm coming from a Sprint GSII where the kernal and recovery are on the same partition, which was very confusing when flashing ROM's and it would overwrite the recovery.
Is the recovery on a partition all by itself on this phone?
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Yes, and most Android devices follow the Android standard by making the recovery partition and the boot kernel partitions separate.
Not sure why the GSII still used that design as I first saw it used on the Samsung Moment, 2 yrs ago and it was very frustrating to deal with as a developer and user.
Hopefully Samsung stays away from that poor model and follows the Android standard other manufacturers such as HTC and Google devices such as the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus use.
Hope that helps!

joeykrim said:
Yes, and most Android devices follow the Android standard by making the recovery partition and the boot kernel partitions separate.
Not sure why the GSII still used that design as I first saw it used on the Samsung Moment, 2 yrs ago and it was very frustrating to deal with as a developer and user.
Hopefully Samsung stays away from that poor model and follows the Android standard other manufacturers such as HTC and Google devices such as the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus use.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for the reply and the clarification. Yeah coming from the EVO and the EVO 3D, that confused the hell out of me when I first went to flashing things. It was so weird I just stopped flashing things and just went to a stock, rooted ROM. Such a poor setup for such an amazing piece of hardware. I'm glad to know that this phone is set up properly.

Is it impossible to root the 4.04 international as well?

I have read that its impossible to root the AT&T version, but is it possible to do so with the international one?
Because my friend is having a problem that when he is trying to get the token from the phone, nothing happens. Is this a fault on his side, or is this part of the 4.04 breakage?

http://onexroot.com/one-x-root/root-any-htc-one-x-windowsmaclinuxattinternationalone-click-method/
That should work for the ATT One X

Rooting can be easily done, just install a custom ROM.
There are many 'stock based ROMs' so you don't even know your on a custom rom.
I've never tried to root a completely stock OS with locked BL on my HOX, so no idea about that.
If you want root, you'll want CWM, if you want that - then you'll want tweaks/performance boost - so, it all eventually leads you to a custom ROM anyway.
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chrisjcks said:
Rooting can be easily done, just install a custom ROM.
There are many 'stock based ROMs' so you don't even know your on a custom rom.
I've never tried to root a completely stock OS with locked BL on my HOX, so no idea about that.
If you want root, you'll want CWM, if you want that - then you'll want tweaks/performance boost - so, it all eventually leads you to a custom ROM anyway.
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my apologies, i meant the bootloader unlocking through htcdev
My friend has the stock international HOX , on 4.04 . When he tries to get the token for htcdev, nothing happens. This kind of surprised me, and i don't know what to suggest

HTCDev has been a bit flaky recently; it definitely does work for the international One X (unless they upgraded hboot in the 2.17 update and somehow broke it, but I haven't seen anyone else mention that). I would say just keep trying, unless they're getting a specific error returned in which case that might give a clue.

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HTCDev has been a bit flaky recently; it definitely does work for the international One X (unless they upgraded hboot in the 2.19 update and somehow broke it, but I haven't seen anyone else mention that). I would say just keep trying, unless they're getting a specific error returned in which case that might give a clue.
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2.19? I'm still stuck on 1.29. F$&k HTC! I'm selling my phone and never buying from HTC or any Taiwanese company ever again, or even speaking to a Taiwanese person, I'm gonna get a black marker and erase it from my atlas. How can they do this to me? I'm just gonna commit suicide now, and in my note I'm gonna blame HTC, see how they like that!
Edit: Wow, glad you fixed the number bro, you just saved me.

BenPope said:
Edit: Wow, glad you fixed the number bro, you just saved me.
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Haha aye, typing too fast. Couldn't be having that on my conscience.

Htc dev site was down yesterday, got that report from spanish users that were trying to unlocked their devices.
I do not know cause I m an elevate, dont use that anymore. I live in the upper part of the flat.
Just keep my unlock code bin in my fastboot folder and a copy in dropbox.
And I dont know If all hox variant use the same web. Users that reported that site was down...use tegra hox
Enviado desde mi HTC One X

[Q] IMEI locked on Orange can i still root it.?

today i tried to get my contract phone unlocked from orange with an online shop, ive just had it for going on 2 years & the contracts nearly over BUT the guy emailed me back saying it had been rejected the only thing i can think of is that i recently sent it back for repair & now found this on their site.
"The handset to be unlocked must have been registered to an Orange account in their name for a minimum of three months"
even though my 2 year contract is just about up the replacement phone they sent me out will have a new IMEI number due to them swapping it over so in theory ive not had it 3 months..
So my question is will rooting this phone make it so i can then put in another sim card from another network.? or will it make no difference as i don't want to risk bricking it if its not going to work.?
many thanks for any advice given.

BaRoN30s said:
today i tried to get my contract phone unlocked from orange with an online shop, ive just had it for going on 2 years & the contracts nearly over BUT the guy emailed me back saying it had been rejected the only thing i can think of is that i recently sent it back for repair & now found this on their site.
"The handset to be unlocked must have been registered to an Orange account in their name for a minimum of three months"
even though my 2 year contract is just about up the replacement phone they sent me out will have a new IMEI number due to them swapping it over so in theory ive not had it 3 months..
So my question is will rooting this phone make it so i can then put in another sim card from another network.? or will it make no difference as i don't want to risk bricking it if its not going to work.?
many thanks for any advice given.
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Yes. The hack kit sim unlocks your device. However, not all sim unlock devices work with all Sims. There are certain Sims that are carrier locked.
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:good: Thank you. if there's a 50/50 chance of it working I will give it a go
all I need now is to find details of the hack kit sim that will work with my phone.
HTC Desire HD
Android 2.3.5
Sense 3.0
build number 3.13.61.5

im not having much luck so far..
ive found a few threads on here about rooting via Advanced Ace Hack Kit but when I click on the link to download the files im getting this. Nothing to see here, move along
great start NOT
can anyone point me to where it can be downloaded from.
thank you. :good:

It's linked in the OP of the Ace Think Tank thread in my signature.

BaRoN30s said:
im not having much luck so far..
ive found a few threads on here about rooting via Advanced Ace Hack Kit but when I click on the link to download the files im getting this. Nothing to see here, move along
great start NOT
can anyone point me to where it can be downloaded from.
thank you. :good:
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tau.shadowchild.nl
Find it there
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Great stuff, thanks very much guys for your help im now running the Tesco sim on my orange HD phone..
I did have some problems when trying to do the root via windows 8 & 7
win 8 wouldn't even take the drivers so that was end of that and win 7 it kept on failing when it came to downgrading my phone
So gave the Ubuntu cd boot a go & after working out how to use Ubuntu it worked fine.. :laugh: :good:
only downer now is im running the old style of HTC again
Android V 2.3.3
Sense 2.1
Baseband 12.56.60.25U
Build 2.50.405.2
is there no upgrade back to sense 3.0 and android 2.3.5 like I was running before.?
thanks again.

BaRoN30s said:
:good:
Great stuff, thanks very much guys for your help im now running the Tesco sim on my orange HD phone..
I did have some problems when trying to do the root via windows 8 & 7
win 8 wouldn't even take the drivers so that was end of that and win 7 it kept on failing when it came to downgrading my phone
So gave the Ubuntu cd boot a go & after working out how to use Ubuntu it worked fine.. :laugh: :good:
only downer now is im running the old style of HTC again
Android V 2.3.3
Sense 2.1
Baseband 12.56.60.25U
Build 2.50.405.2
is there no upgrade back to sense 3.0 and android 2.3.5 like I was running before.?
thanks again.
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You can flash any custom rom or stock ruu that you like now. Windows 8 is not working with HTC drivers...

im guessing when you say "stock ruu" that will take me back to the newer version..?
can I just do a upgrade on the phone or will it block it again..?
if not where do I get the stock upgrade from.?
many thanks again

BaRoN30s said:
im guessing when you say "stock ruu" that will take me back to the newer version..?
can I just do a upgrade on the phone or will it block it again..?
if not where do I get the stock upgrade from.?
many thanks again
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Once you are S-OFF, flashing a,ruu won't revert back that.
Go to the development section and see a custom ROM you like.
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Cannot install Sense 7

Hello! I have the standard M9, got it last year at launch. Rooted it and have been using roms ever since, no problems.
Then a few months ago when the AOSP roms started coming out I installed. Now my wifi drops out randomly, tried reinstalling, tried different roms and tried everything.
So I figured it had to be AOSP and wanted to try out sense again, but when I install a Sense-based ROM the phone won't boot, goes directly to the bootloader (white screen), anyone know what might be happening?

You must return the phone back to official status. There are plenty of threads on this subject.
If you think manufacturers are going to allow people to mess with root then return the phone because they broke it doing so, think again.
You should have understood beforehand that once rooted it's a pita to go back to stock but I guess that you are like most others that break it first and ask later..
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shivadow said:
You must return the phone back to official status. There are plenty of threads on this subject.
If you think manufacturers are going to allow people to mess with root then return the phone because they broke it doing so, think again.
You should have understood beforehand that once rooted it's a pita to go back to stock but I guess that you are like most others that break it first and ask later..
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You misunderstood, I mean a sense-based ROM not the original one, a custom one.
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Oh right, like a deodexed version..
In that case you must make sure you are on the same firmware as the rom is designed for. Cm13 needs marshmallow, cm12 needs lollipop etc. Beyond that you've borked something.
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shivadow said:
Oh right, like a deodexed version..
In that case you must make sure you are on the same firmware as the rom is designed for. Cm13 needs marshmallow, cm12 needs lollipop etc. Beyond that you've borked something.
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But as of the firmware, are no firmware packages flashable, or do you need to do it through a computer, because that part always confuses me and can't quiet find a good tutorial...
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